Sec. 1622. Limitation on availability of funds relating to advanced extremely high frequency program
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for research, development, test, and evaluation, Air Force, for protected tactical enterprise (PE 1206760F), protected tactical service (PE 1206761F), or protected satellite communication services (PE 1206855F) for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM
(EES)system, may be obligated or expended on a final request for proposals, other than evolution of the AEHF program of record until the date on which the reports required under subsection
(b)are submitted to the congressional defense committees. The Commanders of STRATCOM and NORTHCOM jointly certifies a protected satcom system other than the AEHF program of record or an evolution of the same will meet all applicable requirements for Nuclear Command and Control and continuity of government, and all other functions related to protected communications of the National Command Authority and the Combatant Commands, to include operational forces in a peer-near-peer jamming environment; The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff submits the validated military requirement for resilience and mission assurance, and the criteria to measure and evaluate the same, of each and any alternative to an evolved advanced extremely high frequency program; how each alternative affects deterrence and full spectrum warfighting, warfighter requirements and relative costs, including with respect to ground station and user terminals; the assessed order of battle of adversaries; and the required capabilities of the broader space security and defense enterprise; The Secretary of the Air Force submits a detailed plan for the ground control system and all user terminals developed and acquired by the Air Force will be synchronized through development and deployment to meet all applicable requirements for Nuclear Command and Control and continuity of government, and other functions related to protected communications of the National Command Authority and the Combatant Commands; and The Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff completes an assessment concerning the impact of developing and fielding all the waveforms and terminals required to utilize the proposed alternative systems to the AEHF program of record or an evolution of the same. The limitation in paragraph
(a)shall not apply to efforts to examine and develop technology insertion opportunities for the satellite communications programs of record. Nothing in this section may be construed as delaying the request for proposals for the Enhanced Advanced Extremely High Frequency (E-AEHF) program.