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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2943 (PAP) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 111

Sec. 111. Distributed Common Ground System-Army

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The Secretary of the Army shall take such actions as may be necessary to improve training for operators of the Distributed Common Ground System–Army (DCGS–A) and their leaders, at division level and below tactical units, with equipment that was current as of the day before the date of the enactment of this Act. The Secretary shall rapidly identify and field a capability for fixed and deployable multi-source ground processing systems for units described in subsection (a). In meeting the requirement in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall procure a commercially available off the shelf, non-developmental capability that— meets essential tactical operational requirements for processing, analyzing and displaying intelligence information; is substantially easier for personnel in tactical units to use than the Distributed Common Ground System–Army; and requires less training than the Distributed Common Ground System–Army.
The Secretary may not award any contract for the design, development, procurement, or operation and maintenance of any data architecture, data integration, cloud capability, data analysis, or data visualization and workflow capabilities, including various warfighting function-related tools under or contributing to any increment of the Distributed Common Ground System–Army, for tactical units described in subsection
(a)unless the contract— is awarded not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act; is awarded using procedures relating to the acquisition of commercial items pursuant to part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR 12.000 et seq.); includes firm fixed-price procedures; and provides that the technology to be procured through the contract will— begin initial fielding rapidly after the contract award; achieve Initial Operating Capability
(IOC)within nine months of the contract award; and achieve Full Operating Capability
(FOC)within 18 months of the contract award.
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