Sec. 216. Sustainment or replacement of Blue Devil Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance System
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The Secretary of the Air Force may procure the existing Blue Devil 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems (in this section referred to as Blue Devil 1 aircraft system ). If the Secretary elects not to procure Blue Devil 1 aircraft systems under subsection (a), the Secretary shall, not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth a plan to replace the capability provided by the Blue Devil 1 aircraft system with a comparable or improved capability that effectively combines wide-area motion imagery
(WAMI)and near-vertical direction finding
(NVDF)on the same airborne platform to enable detection, identification, and immediate precision location of targets through signals intelligence in order to permit tracking of targets through the motion imaging system. If the Secretary elects to replace the Blue Devil 1 aircraft system, the Secretary shall— coordinate with the Commander of the United States Special Operations Command to ensure that the replacement program for the Blue Devil 1 aircraft system meets the operational needs of the United States Special Operations Command; coordinate with the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to transfer to the Air Force the technology developed under the Wide-Area Network Detection program for operational integration of wide-area motion imagery and near-vertical direction finding data for effective target detection, identification, and tracking for incorporation, as practical and appropriate, into the replacement program for the Blue Devil 1 aircraft system; and make available, to all companies that the Secretary determines are credible potential competitors for the future provision of near-vertical direction finding capabilities to the Air Force, the Blue Moon near-vertical direction finding technology, including hardware, software, algorithms, and drawings developed by a federally funded research and development center. In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.