Sec. 1627. Authority to use operation and maintenance funds for cyber operations-peculiar capability development projects
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The Secretary of Defense and each Secretary concerned may obligate and expend not more than $3,000,000 of amounts authorized to be appropriated for operation and maintenance in each of fiscal years 2020 through 2022 to carry out cyber operations-peculiar capability development projects. For each development project initiated under the authority provided for in subsection (a), the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command shall certify to the congressional defense committees that each project is determined to be cyber operations-peculiar.
Not later than 15 days after exercising the authority provided for in subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense committees of such exercise. Not later than December 31 of each year through 2022, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on expenditures made pursuant to the authority provided for in subsection (a). Each such report shall include a full description and evaluation of each of the cyber operations-peculiar capability development projects that is the subject of each such expenditure, definitions and standards for cyber operations-peculiar requirements, transition plans, and any other matters the Secretary determines relevant.