Sec. 211. Designation and activities of senior officials for critical technology areas supportive of the National Defense Strategy
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The Under Secretary for Research and Engineering shall designate a set of senior officials to coordinate research and engineering in such technology areas as the Under Secretary considers critical for the support of the National Defense Strategy. The duties of the senior officials designated under subsection
(a)shall include, within their respective technology areas— developing and continuously updating research and technology development roadmaps, associated funding strategies, and associated technology transition strategies to ensure effective and efficient development of new capabilities and operational use of appropriate technologies; annual assessments of workforce, infrastructure, and industrial base capabilities and capacity to support the roadmaps developed under paragraph
(1)and the goals of the National Defense Strategy; reviewing the relevant research and engineering budgets of appropriate organizations within the Department of Defense, including the military services, and advising the Under Secretary on— the consistency of the budgets with the roadmaps developed under paragraph (1); any technical and programmatic risks to achieving the research and technology development goals of the National Defense Strategy; and projects and activities with unwanted or inefficient duplication, including with other government agencies and the commercial sector, lack of appropriate coordination with relevant organizations, or inappropriate alignment with organizational missions and capabilities; coordinating research and engineering activities of the Department with appropriate international, interagency, and private sector organizations; and tasking the appropriate intelligence agencies to develop a direct comparison between the capabilities of the United States and the capabilities of adversaries of the United States. Not later than December 1, 2021, and not later than December 1 of each year thereafter until December 1, 2025, the Under Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report of successful examples of research and engineering activities that have— achieved significant technical progress; transitioned to formal acquisition programs; transitioned into operational use; or transferred for further commercial development or commercial sales. Each report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in a publicly releasable format, but may include a classified annex. The Service Acquisition Executive for each military services and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency shall each identify senior officials to ensure coordination of appropriate research and engineering activities with each of the senior officials designated under subsection (a).