Sec. 903. Modification of responsibilities of Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
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(d)of section 139a of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (5)— by striking , ensuring and inserting and ensuring ; and by striking , and assessing and all that follows through economy ; and in paragraph (8), by inserting after defense resources the following: , including the standardization of analytical methodologies and the establishment and maintenance of a centralized knowledge repository of physical attributes or other data for modeling and simulation purposes . Such section is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: Not later than February 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Director shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on activities to conduct strategic and operational analysis under paragraphs (2), (3), (6), (7), and
(8)of subsection
(d)that includes— a review of strategic portfolio reviews completed in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report and a description of such reviews planned for the fiscal year that begins after submission of the report; a review of analyses of alternatives completed in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report and a description of such analyses planned for the fiscal year that begins after submission of the report; and a review of defense program projections completed in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report and a description of such projections planned for the fiscal year that begins after submission of the report. Each report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in classified form, but shall include an unclassified summary. Not later than 15 days after submission of each report required by paragraph (1), the Director shall brief the congressional defense committees on the contents of the report. . Such section is further amended by adding after subsection (e), as added by subsection (b), the following new subsection: Not later than June 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall— establish a team, to be known as the Program Evaluation Competitive Analysis Cell , to critically assess the analytical methodologies, assumptions, and data used in key strategic and operational analyses conducted by the Director; and ensure that the team has a sufficient number of personnel to carry out the duties of the team. The Program Evaluation Competitive Analysis Cell shall be independent of the Director and shall report only to the Secretary of Defense. . The Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall establish a pilot program on alternative analysis. The Director shall establish, under the pilot program established under paragraph (1), three analytical groups, focused on programmatic analysis in the following: Year 1 of the future-years defense program under section 221 of title 10, United States Code. Years 2 through 5 of the future-years defense program. Years outside the future-years defense program. The pilot program established under paragraph
(1)shall run at least one strategic portfolio review or equivalent analytical effort per year. Not later than May 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall— establish the Analysis Working Group in the Department of Defense; and ensure that the Analysis Working Group possesses sufficient full-time equivalent support personnel to carry out the duties of the Group. The Analysis Working Group shall be composed of representatives of the following components of the Department of Defense: The Office of the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation. The Directorate for Joint Force Development
(J7)of the Joint Staff. The Directorate for Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment
(J8)of the Joint Staff. The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. The Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office. The Office of the Chief Information Officer. The United States Indo-Pacific Command. The United States European Command. The Analysis Working Group shall— establish clear priorities and standards to focus analysts on decision support; improve transparency of methodologies, tools, and tradecraft across the analytic community, including testing and validation for new or emerging methodologies, tools, and tradecraft; improve quality of and expand access to data, including evaluation of new data sets, or application of existing data sets in new or novel ways; evolve the methodologies, tools, and tradecraft methods and tools used in strategic analysis; resolve classified access and infrastructure challenges; foster a workforce and organizations that are innovative, creative, and provide high-quality strategic decision support; and conduct such other tasks as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with the requirements of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces to establish military requirements, performance requirements, and joint performance requirements, or the requirement of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council to validate such requirements under section 181 of title 10, United States Code.