Sec. 148. BRIEFING ON ACQUISITION STRATEGY FOR GROUND MOBILITY VEHICLE
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## SEC. 148 BRIEFING ON ACQUISITION STRATEGY FOR GROUND MOBILITY VEHICLE ###
(a)Briefing Required Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, in consultation with the Secretary of the Army, shall provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees on the acquisition strategy for the Ground Mobility Vehicle for use with the Global Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division. ###
(b)Elements The briefing under subsection
(a)shall include an assessment of the following: ####
(1)The feasability of acquiring the Ground Mobility Vehicle— #####
(A)as a commercially available off-the-shelf item (as such term is defined in section 104 of title 41, United States Code); or #####
(B)as a modified version of such an item. ####
(2)Whether acquiring the Ground Mobility Vehicle in a manner described in paragraph
(1)would satisfy the requirements of the program and reduce the life-cycle cost of the program. ####
(3)Whether the acquisition strategy for the Ground Mobility Vehicle meets the focus areas specified in the most recent version of the Better Buying Power initiative of the Secretary of Defense. ####
(4)Whether including an active safety system in the Ground Mobility Vehicle, such as the electronic stability control system used on the joint light tactical vehicle, would reduce the risk of vehicle rollover.