Sec. 842. Risk reduction in major defense acquisition programs
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The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the acquisition strategy developed pursuant to section 2431a of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 841, for each major defense acquisition program for which development activities are required includes the following elements: A comprehensive approach to continuously identifying and addressing risk (including technical, cost, and schedule risk) beginning at program initiation and continuing until the start of full rate production as a means to improve programmatic decision making and appropriately minimize and manage program concurrency.
Documentation of the major sources of risk identified and the approach to retiring that risk. The comprehensive approach to identifying and addressing risk for purposes of subsection (a)(1) shall include some combination of the following elements as appropriate for the item or system being acquired: Development planning. Systems engineering. Integrated developmental and operational testing. Preliminary and critical design reviews and technical reviews. Prototyping (including prototyping at the system or subsystem level and competitive prototyping, where appropriate).
Modeling and simulation. Technology demonstrations and technology off ramps. Manufacturability and industrial base availability. Multiple design approaches. Alternative, lower risk reduced performance designs. Schedule and funding margins for or specific risks. Independent risk element assessments by outside subject matter experts. Program phasing to address high risk areas as early as possible. To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the economical use of available financial resources, the milestone decision authority for each major defense acquisition program shall ensure that the acquisition strategy for the program provides for— the production of competitive prototypes at the system or subsystem level before Milestone B approval; or if the production of competitive prototypes is not practicable, the production of single prototypes at the system or subsystem level.
Section 203 of the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–23 ; 10 U.S.C. 2430 note) is repealed.
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