Sec. 236. Study on costs associated with underperforming software and information technology
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The Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into a contract with a federally funded research and development center to conduct an independent study on the impacts, and challenges associated with the use of software and information technology, including potential solutions to such challenges. The independent study conducted under subsection
(a)shall include the following: A survey of members of the Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of a Secretary of a military department to identify the most important software and information technology challenges that result in lost working hours, including an estimate of the number and cost of lost working hours for each military department, the impact of each challenge on retention, and the negative impact to any mission. A summary of the policy or technical challenges that limit the ability of each Secretary of a military department to implement needed software and information technology reforms, based on interviews conducted with individuals who serve as chief information officer (or an equivalent position) in a military department. Recommendations to address the challenges described in paragraph
(1)and improve the processes through which the Secretary provides software and information technology Departmentwide. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, a federally funded research and development center described in subsection
(a)shall submit to the Secretary of Defense and the congressional defense committees a report on any independent study conducted under this section. In this section, the term software and information technology does not include embedded software and information technology used for weapon systems.