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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 4638 (Reported in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 808

Sec. 808. Autonomous system acquisition pathways

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The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, acquisition programs of the Department of Defense for autonomous unmanned aerial systems utilize separate, parallel acquisition pathways for hardware and software. The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the acquisition decision authority, with respect to the acquisition of autonomous unmanned aerial systems and to the maximum extent practicable— utilize the appropriate software acquisition and development pathway as created under section 800 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ; 10 U.S.C. 4571 note); reduce duplicative, overlapping, and unnecessary documentation for the parallel acquisition pathways and manage the pathways as a single acquisition program; include requirements for containerization of software and an architecture enabling microservices; and for the acquisition of both hardware and software components of such programs, adhere to the commercial preference requirements established in section 3453 of title 10, United States Code.
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