Sec. 353. DESIGNATION AND LIMITATION ON OBLIGATION AND EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR THE MIGRATION OF ARMY ENTERPRISE EMAIL SERVICES

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## SEC. 353 DESIGNATION AND LIMITATION ON OBLIGATION AND EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR THE MIGRATION OF ARMY ENTERPRISE EMAIL SERVICES ###

(a)Designation The Secretary of the Army shall designate the effort to consolidate its enterprise email services a formal acquisition program with the Army acquisition executive as the milestone decision authority. The Secretary of the Army may not delegate the authority under this subsection. ###

(b)Limitation None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2012 for procurement or operation and maintenance for the migration to enterprise email services by the Department of the Army may be obligated or expended until the date that is 30 days after the date on which the Secretary of Army submits to the congressional defense committees a report on the acquisition strategy for the acquisition program designated under subsection (a), including certification that existing and planned efforts for the program comply with all existing regulations pertaining to competition. The report shall include each of the following: ####

(1)A description of the formal acquisition oversight body established. ####

(2)An assessment by the acquisition oversight body of the sufficiency and completeness of the current validated requirements and analysis of alternatives. ####

(3)In any instances where the validated requirements or analysis of alternatives has been determined to be insufficient, a plan for remediation. ####

(4)An assessment by the Army Audit Agency to determine the cost savings and cost avoidance expected from each of the alternatives to be considered. ####

(5)An assessment of the technical challenges to implementing the selected approach, including a security assessment. ####

(6)A certification by the Secretary of the Army that the selected approach for moving forward is in the best technical and financial interests of the Army and provides for the maximum amount of competition possible in accordance with section 2302(3)(D) of title 10, United States Code. ####

(7)A detailed accounting of the funding expended by the program as of the date of the enactment of this Act, as well as an estimate of the funding needed to complete the selected approach. ###

(c)Report by Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on Department of Defense plans for enterprise email. Such report shall include— ####

(1)an assessment of how the migration of the Army’s email system to the Defense Information Services Agency fits within the Department’s strategic information technology plans; ####

(2)a description of how the Chief Information Officer is addressing the email capabilities of the other military departments, including plans for consolidating the email services of the other military departments; and ####

(3)a description of the degree to which fair and open competition will be or has been used to modernize the existing infrastructure to which the Army is migrating its email services, including a roadmap detailing when elements of the architecture will be upgraded over time.