Sec. 247. Directed Energy Roadmap and Activity Funding Report
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Not later than June 1, 2025, and not later than June 1 of each year thereafter through 2031, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the legislative research agencies a report that describes the plans and objectives of the Department of Defense with respect to the directed energy roadmap of the Department for the next 10 years and the associated funding profile through the Future Years Defense Program
(FYDP)for directed energy systems at all classification levels, including funding needed for development, delivery, integration on platforms, and system sustainment. A report submitted pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall be known as the Directed Energy Roadmap and Activity Funding Report . Each report submitted pursuant to subsection
(a)shall cover the following: The funding and investments of the Department relating to directed energy weapon capabilities, including any funding or investments with respect to the procurement, research, development, test and evaluation, and operation and maintenance of offensive and defensive directed energy weapons. An assessment of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) of the threat environment that drives requirements for directed energy investments by the Department. The strategic vision of the Department with respect to directed energy. A description of the operational context for directed energy weapons. A description of the approach of the Department to matters relating to directed energy weapons. A roadmap for research, development, testing, evaluation, deployment, operation, and maintenance of directed energy weapons by the Department that covers the following: Aspects to achieve military dominance. Operational experience. Delivery of new capabilities. Tactical and strategic missions with proven, advanced, and aspirational technologies. Deployed directed energy weapon systems to date. Technology and transition focus areas. Science and technology focus areas. Previous fiscal year activities. Prototyping and fielding by each military department and Department component. Collaboration on directed energy technologies and capabilities with allies and partners of the United States. Industrial base challenges, including workforce challenges and critical path items in the supply chain. Department governance. Recommendations to accelerate fielding. Each report submitted pursuant to subsection
(a)shall— include cost data for the fiscal year and future years defense program on the directed energy capabilities of the Department, including vehicles, developmental and operational testing, sensors, command and control architectures, infrastructure, testing infrastructure, software, workforce, training, ranges, integration costs, and such other items as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate; to the extent applicable, for each item included in the report, identify whether such item relates to an offensive or defensive directed energy capability; with respect to any research and development activities covered by the report, identify— the program element for the activity; the name of the entity that is carrying out the activity; and the purpose of the activity; and to the extent applicable, with respect to any developmental ground and flight testing and operational test and evaluation activities covered by the report, identify— the program element for the activity; the name of the entity that is carrying out the activity; and the purpose of the activity. Each report submitted under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in— an unclassified form that may be made available to the public; and an unclassified form that may include a classified annex. In this section, the term legislative research agencies includes the following: The Congressional Research Services. The Congressional Budget Office. The Governmental Accountability Office.
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