Sec. 889. UNIFIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

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## SEC. 889 UNIFIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES ###

(a)Business Case Analysis Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Chief Management Officer, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall jointly complete a business case analysis to determine the most effective and efficient way to procure and deploy common information technology services. ###

(b)Elements The business case analysis required by subsection

(a)shall include an assessment of whether the Department of Defense should— ####

(1)either— #####

(A)acquire a unified set of commercially provided common or enterprise information technology services, including such services as messaging, collaboration, directory, security, and content delivery; or #####

(B)allow the military departments and other components of the Department to acquire such services separately; ####

(2)either— #####

(A)acquire such services from a single provider that bundles all of the services; or #####

(B)require that each common service be independently defined and use open standards to enable continuous adoption of best commercial technology; and ####

(3)enable availability of multiple versions of each type of service and application to enable choice and competition while supporting interoperability where necessary.