Sec. 876. Nontraditional and small disruptive innovation prototyping program
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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a pilot program for nontraditional contractors and small business concerns to design, develop, and demonstrate innovative prototype military platforms of significant scope for the purpose of demonstrating new capabilities that could provide alternatives to existing acquisition programs and assets. The Secretary shall establish the pilot program within the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and within the United States Special Operations Command.
There is authorized to be made available $250,000,000 out of the Rapid Prototype Fund established under section 804(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 ( Public Law 114–92 ; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) to carry out the pilot program. The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees, concurrent with the budget for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2018, as submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a plan to fund and execute the pilot program in future years.
The plan submitted under paragraph
(1)shall consider maximizing use of— Broad Agency Announcements or other merit-based selection procedures; the Department of Defense Acquisition Challenge Program authorized under section 2359b of title 10, United States Code; the Foreign Comparative Test Program; projects carried out under the Rapid Innovation Program and Phase III Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR)and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR)projects; and flexible acquisition authorities under procedures developed under sections 804 and 805 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 ( Public Law 114–92 ). The Secretary of Defense shall allocate up to $50,000,000 on a fixed price contractual basis for fiscal year 2017 or pursuant to the plan submitted under subsection
(c)for the demonstration pursuant to the pilot program of the following capabilities: Swarming of multiple unmanned air vehicles. Unmanned, modular fixed-wing aircraft that can be rapidly adapted to multiple missions and serve as a fifth generation weapons augmentation platform. Vertical take off and landing tiltrotor aircraft. Integration of a directed energy weapon on an air, sea, or ground platform. Swarming of multiple unmanned underwater vehicles. Commercial small synthetic aperture radar
(SAR)satellites with on-board machine learning for automated, real-time feature extraction and predictive analytics. Active protection system to defend against rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles. Other systems as designated by the Secretary. In this section: The term nontraditional contractor has the meaning given the term in section 2302(9) of title 10, United States Code. The term small business concern has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ). The authority under this section expires at the close of September 30, 2026.
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