Sec. 222. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND SYSTEM OF THE ARMY

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## SEC. 222 LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND SYSTEM OF THE ARMY ###

(a)Limitation Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2016 for research, development, test, and evaluation, Army, for the distributed common ground system of the Army, not more than 75 percent may be obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Army— ####

(1)conducts a review of the program planning for the distributed common ground system of the Army; and ####

(2)submits to the appropriate congressional committees the report required by subsection (b)(1). ###

(b)Report ####

(1)In general The Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the review of the distributed common ground system of the Army conducted under subsection (a)(1). ####

(2)Matters Included The report under paragraph

(1)shall include the following: #####

(A)A review of the segmentation of Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system program of the Army into discrete software components with the associated requirements of each component. #####

(B)Identification of each component of Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system of the Army for which commercial software exists that is capable of fulfilling most or all of the system requirements for each such component. #####

(C)A cost analysis of each such commercial software that compares performance with projected cost. #####

(D)Determination of the degree to which commercial software solutions are compliant with the standards required by the framework and guidance for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise, the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise, and the Joint Information Environment. #####

(E)Identification of each component of Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system of the Army that the Secretary determines may be acquired through competitive means. #####

(F)An acquisition plan for Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system of the Army that prioritizes the acquisition of commercial software components, including a data integration layer, in time to meet the projected deployment schedule for Increment 2. #####

(G)A review of the timetable for the distributed common ground system program of the Army in order to determine whether there is a practical, executable acquisition strategy, including the use of operational capability demonstrations, that could lead to an initial operating capability of Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system of the Army prior to fiscal year 2017. ###

(c)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####

(1)the congressional defense committees; and ####

(2)the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.