Sec. 219. Open radio access network 5G acquisition acceleration and transition plans
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Research, in coordination with and under the oversight of the Chief Information Officer, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, shall each develop and submit to the congressional defense committees an unclassified three-year transition plan for fifth generation information and communications technology
(5G)infrastructure for their respective military department. The transition plans identified under paragraph
(1)shall include— an operational needs assessment that identifies the highest priority areas where fifth generation information and communications technologies should be deployed; an investment plan that includes funding estimates, by fiscal year and appropriation account, to accelerate the maturation, acquisition, and deployment of fifth generation information and communications capabilities that use the open radio access network approach on Department of Defense facilities and systems; metrics and reporting mechanisms to drive progress towards the three-year transition goal; identification and designation of a single point of contact at each installation, and within each of the services to facilitate the deployment of fifth generation information and communications technologies; planned efforts to streamline the real estate, contracting, and communications policies and processes to field wireless infrastructure that has resulted in a lengthy approval processes for industry to provide on-air wireless coverage on an installation; identification of other areas of concern that require investment to support the transition to fifth generation information and communications technology that uses the open radio access network approach; and such other matters as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. Not later than 150 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and after all of the plans required by subsection (a)(1) have been submitted in accordance with such subsection, the cross-functional team established pursuant to section 224(c)(1) of the William M.
(Mac)Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 ( Public Law 116–283 ; 10 U.S.C. 4571 note) shall assess such plans and provide the congressional defense committees with a briefing on the findings of the cross functional team with respect to such assessment. The briefing provided under paragraph
(1)shall include the following: Recommendations to further accelerate the deployment of fifth-generation information and communications technologies that use the open radio access network approach across the Department of Defense. Recommendations to standardize and streamline the real estate, contracting, and communications policies and processes to field wireless infrastructure on an installation. An engagement plan for Department participants in international wireless standards setting bodies. Such other matters as the cross functional team described in paragraph
(1)considers appropriate. In this section the term open radio access network approach means an approach to networking that uses a disaggregated or virtualized radio access network and core in which components can be provided by different vendors and interoperate through open protocols and interfaces, including those protocols and interfaces utilizing the Open Radio Access Network (commonly known as Open RAN ’) approach.
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