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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 5618 (Introduced in Senate) — To promote defense innovation, and for other purposes. · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the or Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act . FoRGED Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 101. Repeals of existing law to streamline the defense acquisition process. Sec. 102. Modifications to current defense acquisition requirements. Sec. 103. Automatic sunset for future statutory reporting requirements. TITLE II—Defense acquisition roles, responsibilities, and organizations Sec. 201.
Transition of program executive officer role to portfolio acquisition executive. Sec. 202. Amendments to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. Sec. 203. Matters relating to the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation. Sec. 204. Establishment of Joint Requirements and Programming Board. Sec. 205. Capstone requirements. TITLE III—Rapid acquisition and commercial contracting Sec. 301. Milestone A. Sec. 302. Modification to acquisition strategy. Sec. 303. Exemptions for nontraditional defense contractors.
Sec. 304. Modifications to treatment of certain products and services as commercial products and commercial services. Sec. 305. Modification to nontraditional defense contractor definitions. Sec. 306. Alternative capability based pricing. Sec. 307. Modifications to certain procurement thresholds. Sec. 308. Modifications to commercial solutions openings. Sec. 309. Modifications to other transactions. Sec. 310. Modifications to commercial product and commercial service determinations by Department of Defense.
Sec. 311. Commercially acceptable transaction and payment methods. Sec. 312. Transparency and accountability of contract awards. Sec. 313. Limitation on required flowdown of contract clauses to subcontractors providing commercial products or commercial services. Sec. 314. Modifications to relationship of other provisions of law to procurement of commercial products and commercial services. Sec. 315. Nontraditional defense contractor commercial solutions opening. Sec. 316. Program management office competition.
Sec. 317. Middle tier of acquisition for rapid prototyping and rapid fielding. Sec. 318. Revision and codification of software acquisition pathways. Sec. 319. Modifications to steps to identify and address potential unfair competitive advantage of technical advisors to acquisition officials. Sec. 320. Modifications to procurement for experimental purposes. Sec. 321. Consumption-based solutions. TITLE IV—Promotion of competition in the defense industrial base Sec. 401. Program for enhancing secondary sources and supply chain management for the Department of Defense.
Sec. 402. Administration of the industrial expansion program. TITLE V—Defense budgeting processes Sec. 501. Review of structure of the budget and appropriations for funding of defense acquisition programs. Sec. 502. Modifications to the Defense Modernization Account. Sec. 503. Amendments and repeals to budgetary requirements for defense acquisition.
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