Sec. 1013. Revision of sustainment key performance parameters for shipbuilding programs
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall update the policy for the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System to ensure that the guidance for setting sustainment key performance parameters for shipbuilding programs accounts for all factors that could affect the operational availability and materiel availability of a ship. Such changes shall include— changing the definition of operational availability as it applies to ships so that such definition applies according to mission area and includes all equipment failures that affect the ability of a ship to perform primary missions; and changing the definition of materiel availability as is it applies to ships so that such definition takes into account all factors that could result in a ship being unavailable for operations, including unplanned maintenance, unplanned losses, and training.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to congressional defense committees a report on the plan of the Secretary to— incorporate the sustainment key performance parameters revised under subsection
(a)into the requirement documents of new and ongoing shipbuilding programs; and establish a process for translating such sustainment key performance parameters into specific contract requirements for systems engineering and ship design. Not later than one year after the Secretary of Defense submits the report required under subsection (b), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees an assessment of such report that includes an evaluation of— the sustainment key performance parameters for Department of Defense shipbuilding programs; how shipbuilding programs translate sustainment key performance parameters into contract requirements for systems engineering and ship design activities; and any other matter the Comptroller General determines appropriate.