Sec. 315. Nontraditional defense contractor commercial solutions opening
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Section 3458 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary of Defense shall establish consortia to conduct prototype projects and follow-on production under the authority of section 4022 of this title for each systems command and each portfolio acquisition executive. Of the consortia established pursuant to paragraph (1), the membership of the consortia shall be limited to nontraditional defense contractors (as defined in section 3014 of this title). The preferred model for developing and producing operational military capabilities using the consortia in paragraph
(1)shall be the urgent capability acquisition, middle tier of acquisition, software acquisition, or services acquisition pathways of the Department of Defense Adaptive Acquisition Framework described in Department of Defense Instruction 5000.2. .