Sec. 233. Pilot program for the enhancement of the laboratories and test and evaluation centers of the Department of Defense
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The Assistant Secretaries shall jointly carry out a pilot program to demonstrate methods for the more effective development of research, development, test, and evaluation functions. The Assistant Secretaries shall jointly select not more than one laboratory and one test and evaluation center from each of the military services to participate in the pilot program under subsection (a). Subject to paragraph (2), the director of a laboratory or test and evaluation center selected under subsection
(b)shall propose and implement alternative and innovative methods of rapid project delivery, support, experimentation, prototyping, and partnership with universities and private sector entities to— generate greater value and efficiencies in research and development activities per dollar of cost; and enable more rapid deployment of warfighter capabilities. The director shall implement each method proposed under paragraph
(1)unless such method is disapproved by the Assistant Secretary concerned. Until the termination of the pilot program under subsection (f), the director of a laboratory or test and evaluation center selected under subsection
(b)may waive any restriction or departmental instruction that would affect the implementation of a method proposed under subsection (c), unless such implementation would be prohibited by Federal law. Each laboratory or test and evaluation center selected under subsection
(b)shall participate in the pilot program under subsection
(a)for a period of not fewer than six years beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The pilot program under subsection
(a)shall terminate on the date determined appropriate by the Secretary of Defense that is on or after the end of the six-year period described in subsection (e). In this section, the term Assistant Secretary means— the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, with respect to a working capital fund institution of the Air Force; the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, with respect to a working capital fund institution of the Army; and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, with respect to a working capital fund institution of the Navy.