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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 2670 (EAS) — 117 HR 2670 EAS: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 · Sec. 804

Sec. 804. Pilot program for the use of innovative intellectual property strategies

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As soon as practicable, the Secretary of each military department shall designate one acquisition program within their service and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall designate one acquisition program within the Department of Defense Agencies and Field Activities for the use of innovative intellectual property strategies in order to acquire the necessary technical data rights required for the operations and maintenance of that system. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives with a detailed plan to implement the requirements of this section.
Upon selection of the programs to be covered by this section and until the termination of this authority, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall provide an annual report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the effectiveness of the pilot program in acquiring the data necessary to support timely, cost-effective maintenance and sustainment of the system and any recommendations for the applicability of lessons learned from this pilot program to future acquisition programs.
In this section: The terms Department of Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of title 10, United States Code. The term innovative intellectual property strategies includes the following: The use of an escrow account to verify and hold intellectual property data. The use of royalties or licenses. Other innovative strategies to acquire the necessary level of intellectual property and data rights to support the operations, maintenance, installation, and training
(OMIT)of the selected program. The authority to initiate a program under this section shall terminate on December 31, 2028.
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