Sec. 110.
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No Federal funds may be obligated for any pilot or demonstration program that uses more than 5 full time equivalents or costs in excess of $1,000,000 until 30 days after the Secretary of Homeland Secretary provides the following to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives for such program: Objectives that are well-defined and measurable; An assessment methodology that details— the type and source of assessment data; the methods for and frequency of collecting such data; and how such data will be analyzed;
An implementation plan, including milestones, a cost estimate, and schedule, including an end date; and A signed interagency agreement or memorandum of agreement for any pilot or demonstration program involving the participation of more than one Department of Homeland Security component or that of an entity not part of such Department. Not later than 30 days after the date of completion of a pilot or demonstration program, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide a report to Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives detailing lessons learned, actual costs, and any planned expansion or continuation of the pilot or demonstration program.
For the purposes of this section, a pilot or demonstration program is a policy implementation, study, demonstration, experimental program, or trial that is a small-scale, short-term experiment conducted in order to evaluate feasibility, duration, costs, or adverse events, and improve upon the design of an effort prior to implementation of a larger scale effort.