Sec. 892. Pilot program on the use of budget transfer authority for Army research to aid in technology transition
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Upon determination by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary of Defense may transfer amounts of authorizations made available in Research and Development, Army, line 090A, between any covered authorization or combination of covered authorizations for the purposes of procuring or otherwise rapidly transitioning new technologies at the direction of the Assistant Secretary.
Amounts of authorizations so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. The total amount of authorizations that the Secretary of Defense may transfer under the authority of subsection
(a)for each procurement or other transition activity may not exceed $10,000,000. Amounts transferred pursuant to the authority under subsection
(a)shall not be subject to and shall not count towards the limitation under subsection (a)(2) of such section 1001. A transfer made from one account to another under the authority of subsection
(a)shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized for the account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to the amount transferred. In this section, the term covered authorization means an authorization made available for fiscal year 2024 for— Aircraft Procurement, Army; Missile Procurement, Army; Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army; Procurement of Ammunition, Army; Other Procurement, Army; and Operation and Maintenance, Army.