Sec. 1614. Acquisition plan for re-designed Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle
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It is the sense of Congress that— the existing models of the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system are prototype designs that were developed and deployed without robust and rigorous acquisition practices; consequently, the deployed models of the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle have experienced flight test failures since 2010, and have not demonstrated the degree of reliability, robustness, cost-effectiveness, or performance that are desirable; the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system needs to be re-designed to improve substantially its performance and reliability; and in order to avoid repeating the problems with the designs of the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle, the Department of Defense should follow a robust and rigorous acquisition plan for the design, development, and testing of the re-designed Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle.
The Secretary of Defense shall develop a robust acquisition plan for the re-design of the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system that includes rigorous elements for system engineering, design, integration, development, testing, and evaluation. The objectives of the acquisition plan required by subsection
(b)shall be to ensure that the re-designed Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle is operationally effective, reliable, producible, cost-effective, maintainable, and testable. The acquisition plan required by subsection
(b)shall be subject to approval by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. Prior to operational deployment of the re-designed Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle, the Secretary shall ensure that it has demonstrated, through successful, operationally realistic flight testing, a high probability of working in an operationally effective manner and that it has the ability to accomplish its intended mission. Not later than 60 days after the date on which the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics approves of the acquisition plan under subsection (d), the Director of the Missile Defense Agency shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report describing the acquisition plan and the manner in which it will meet the objectives described in subsection (c).