Sec. 501. Review of structure of the budget and appropriations for funding of defense acquisition programs
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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a comprehensive review of the appropriation account, budget line item, and program element structure for the budget of the Department of Defense, with the objectives of— identifying cases in which management of a program or system has been made more difficult due to the program or system having been subdivided into multiple budget line items or program elements; identifying cases in which the budget line items or program elements for multiple programs or systems intended to provide a common set of capabilities, missions, or functions could be combined into a single budget line item or a single program element; identifying steps that could be taken to address the cases identified under paragraphs
(1)and
(2)including a cross-walk of the existing budget structure to the new structure; alignment, to the maximum extent possible, of budget line items or program elements to portfolio acquisition executives or similar portfolio managers; and removal of appropriation titles for research, development, test and evaluation; procurement; and operation and maintenance, and reorganization based on military service and major capability and activity areas as recommended by the final report of the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report providing the results of the review under subsection (a), together with the Secretary’s plan for any changes to be made within the Department of Defense resulting from the review and such recommendations for legislative action as the Secretary considers appropriate as a result of the review.