Sec. 817. Clarification of authority of the Department of Defense to carry out certain prototype projects
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(f)of section 4022 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: A transaction entered into under this section for a prototype project shall provide for the award of a follow-on production contract or transaction to the participants in the transaction. A transaction includes all individual prototype subprojects awarded under the transaction to a consortium of United States industry and academic institutions. A follow-on production contract or transaction provided for in a transaction under paragraph
(1)may be awarded to the participants in the transaction without the use of competitive procedures, notwithstanding the requirements of chapter 221 of this title and even if explicit notification was not listed within the request for proposal for the transaction if— competitive procedures were used for the selection of parties for participation in the transaction; and the participants in the transaction successfully completed the prototype project provided for in the transaction. .