Sec. 212. Department of Defense technology offset program to build and maintain the military technological superiority of the United States
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish a technology offset program to build and maintain the military technological superiority of the United States by— accelerating the fielding of offset technologies that would help counter technological advantages of potential adversaries of the United States, including directed energy, low-cost, high-speed munitions, autonomous systems, undersea warfare, cyber technology, and intelligence data analytics, developed using Department of Defense research funding and accelerating the commercialization of such technologies; and developing and implementing new policies and acquisition and business practices.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue guidelines for the operation of the program, including— criteria for an application for funding by a military department, defense agency, or a combatant command; the purposes for which such a department, agency, or command may apply for funds and appropriate requirements for technology development or commercialization to be supported using program funds; the priorities, if any, to be provided to field or commercialize offset technologies developed by certain types of Department research funding; and criteria for evaluation of an application for funding or changes to policies or acquisition and business practices by a department, agency, or command for purposes of the program.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with such officials and third-party experts as the Secretary considers appropriate, shall develop a directed energy strategy to ensure that the United States directed energy technologies are being developed and deployed at an accelerated pace. The strategy required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: A technology roadmap for directed energy that can be used to manage and assess investments and policies of the Department in this high priority technology area. Proposals for legislative and administrative action to improve the ability of the Department to develop and deploy technologies and capabilities consistent with the directed energy strategy. An approach to program management that is designed to accelerate operational prototyping of directed energy technologies and develop cost-effective, real-world military applications for such technologies. Not less frequently than once every 2 years, the Secretary shall revise the strategy required by paragraph (1). Not later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary completes the development of the strategy required by paragraph
(1)and not later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary completes a revision to such strategy under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a copy of such strategy. The strategy submitted under subparagraph
(A)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. Under the program, the Secretary shall, not less frequently than annually, solicit from the heads of the military departments, the defense agencies, and the combatant commands applications for funding to be used to enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or other transaction agreements entered into pursuant to section 845 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( Public Law 103–160 ; 10 U.S.C. 2371 note) with appropriate entities for the fielding or commercialization of technologies. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to require any official of the Department of Defense to provide funding under this section to any earmark as defined pursuant to House Rule XXI, clause 9, or any congressionally directed spending item as defined pursuant to Senate Rule XLIV, paragraph 5. Subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide for fiscal year 2016, not more than $400,000,000 may be used for any such fiscal year for the program established under subsection (a). Of this amount, not more than $200,000,000 may be used for activities in the field of directed energy. The Secretary may transfer funds available for the program to the research, development, test, and evaluation accounts of a military department, defense agency, or a combatant command pursuant to an application, or any part of an application, that the Secretary determines would support the purposes of the program. The transfer authority provided in this subsection is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense. The authority to carry out a program under this section shall terminate on September 30, 2020. Any amounts made available for the program that remain available for obligation on the date the program terminates may be transferred under subsection
(e)during the 180-day period beginning on the date of the termination of the program.
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Department of Defense technology offset program to build and maintain the military technological superiority of the United States
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