Sec. 828. Defense Acquisition Challenge Program amendments
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Paragraph
(2)of subsection
(a)of section 2359b of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking or system and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting the following: system, or system-of-systems level of an existing Department of Defense acquisition program, or to address any broader functional challenge to Department of Defense missions that may not fall within an acquisition program, that would result in improvements in performance, affordability, manufacturability, or operational capability of that acquisition program or function. . Such section is further amended— by redesignating subsections
(j)and
(k)as subsections
(k)and (l), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(i)the following new subsection: The use of general solicitation competitive procedures established under subsection
(c)shall be considered to be the use of competitive procedures for purposes of chapter 137 of this title. . Such section is further amended in paragraph
(5)of subsection (l), as redesignated by subsection (b)(1) of this subsection, by striking 2016 and inserting 2021 . Such section is further amended— in subsection (c)(3), by inserting or functions after acquisition programs ; in subsection (c)(4)(A)— by striking and at the end of clause (i); by striking the period at the end of clause
(ii)and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new clause: any functional challenges of importance to Department of Defense missions. ; in subsection (c)(5), by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: Whether the challenge proposal is likely to result in improvements to any functional challenges of importance to Department of Defense missions, and whether the proposal could be implemented rapidly, at an acceptable cost, and without unacceptable disruption to such missions. ; and in subsection (c)(5)(B) and in subsection (e)(1), by striking or system and inserting system, or system-of-systems .