Sec. 1698. Limitation and business case analysis regarding ammonium perchlorate
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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, shall conduct a business case analysis regarding the options of the Federal Government to ensure a robust domestic industrial base to supply ammonium perchlorate for use in solid rocket motors. Such analysis should include assessments of the near and long-term costs, program impacts, opportunities for competition, opportunities for redundant or complementary capabilities, and national security implications of— continuing to rely on one domestic provider; supporting development of a second domestic source; procuring ammonium perchlorate as Government-furnished material and providing it to all necessary programs; and such other options as the Secretary determines appropriate.
The analysis under subsection
(a)shall, at minimum, include— an estimate of all associated costs, including development, procurement, and qualification costs, as applicable; an assessment of options, under various scenarios, for the quantity of ammonium perchlorate that would be required by the Department of Defense; and the assessment of the Secretary of how the requirements for ammonium perchlorate of other Federal agencies impact the requirements of the Department of Defense. The Secretary shall submit the business case analysis required by subsection
(a)to the Comptroller General of the United States and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives by March 1, 2018, along with any views of the Secretary. The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a review of the report submitted by the Secretary under subsection
(c)and, not later than 30 days after receiving such report, provide a briefing on such review to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for the development or construction of a new source for ammonium perchlorate until 45 days after the date on which the report under subsection
(c)is submitted to the Comptroller General and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation under subsection
(e)if the Secretary— determines such waiver to be in the national security interest of the United States; and submits written notification of such determination to the congressional defense committees and waits 15 days.