Sec. 872. Key advanced system development industry days
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Not later than March 1, 2023, and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of each of the military departments and the Commanders of the United States Special Operations Command and the United States Cyber Command shall ensure that each such department and Command conducts an industry day— to raise awareness within the private sector of— key advanced system development areas; and capability needs and existing and potential requirements related to the key advanced system development areas; and to raise awareness within such departments and Commands of potential material solutions for capability needs and existing and potential requirements related to key advanced system development areas.
The chief of each of the armed forces residing in a military department and the Commanders of the United States Special Operations Command and the United States Cyber Command shall have primary responsibility for the following tasks at the industry days required under subsection
(a)for each key advanced system development area: Identifying related or potentially related existing, planned, or potential military requirements, including urgent and emergent operational needs. Identifying and describing related or potentially related capability needs or gaps in warfighting mission areas. Identifying and describing related or potentially related capability needs or gaps in non-warfighting support areas. Identifying and describing related or potentially related exercise, demonstration, or experimentation opportunities. Each service acquisition executive and the acquisition executives of the United States Special Operations Command and the United States Cyber Command shall have primary responsibility for the following tasks at the industry days required under subsection
(a)for each key advanced system development area: Identifying and describing related or potentially related existing, planned, or potential acquisition plans and strategies. Identifying and describing related or potentially related existing, planned, or potential funding opportunities, including— broad agency announcements; requests for information; funding opportunity announcements; special program announcements; requests for proposals; requests for quotes; special notices; transactions pursuant to sections 4002, 4003, and 4004 of title 10, United States Code; unsolicited proposals; and other methods. The industry days required under subsection
(a)shall seek to maximize industry and government participation, while minimizing cost to the maximum extent practicable, by— being held at the unclassified security level with classified portions only as necessary; being publicly accessible through teleconference or other virtual means; and having supporting materials posted on a publicly accessible website. In this section: The terms military departments , armed forces , and service acquisition executive have the meanings given the terms in section 101 of title 10, United States Code. The term key advanced system development area means the following: For the Department of the Navy— unmanned surface vessels; unmanned underwater vessels; unmanned deployable mobile ocean systems; unmanned deployable fixed ocean systems; and autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. For the Department of the Air Force, autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. For the Department of the Army, autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. For the United States Special Operations Command, autonomous unmanned aircraft systems. For the United States Cyber Command, cybersecurity situational awareness systems.