Sec. 220. RESTRUCTURING OF THE DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND SYSTEM OF THE ARMY
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## SEC. 220 RESTRUCTURING OF THE DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND SYSTEM OF THE ARMY **[**[10 U.S.C. 3013 note](/us/usc/t10/s3013)**]** ###
(a)In General Not later that April 1, 2017, the Secretary of the Army shall restructure versions of the distributed common ground system of the Army after Increment 1— ####
(1)by discontinuing development of new software code, excluding the configuration and testing of system interfaces to commercial, open source, and existing Government off the shelf
(GOTS)software, of any component of the system for which there is commercial, open source, or Government off the shelf software that is capable of fulfilling at least 80 percent of the system requirements applicable to such component; and ####
(2)by conducting a review of the acquisition strategy of the program to ensure that procurement of commercial software is the preferred method of meeting program requirements for major system components. ###
(b)Limitation The Secretary of the Army shall not award any contract for the development of new component software capability for the distributed common ground system of the Army if such a capability is already a commercial item or open source, except for configuration of capabilities that are incidental to and necessary for the proper functioning of the system. ###
(c)Report Required ####
(1)Requirement Not later than March 1, 2018, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, in consultation with the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the Increment 2 of the distributed common ground system of the Army. ####
(2)Elements of report The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include, at a minimum, the following: #####
(A)The overall assessment of the system and each individual major component of the system. #####
(B)The status of alignment with the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC-ITE). #####
(C)The ease of use of Increment 2 as compared with Increment 1 for operators in deployed environments. #####
(D)The extent to which a common, synchronized view of all system data is globally available to all system users, at all times. #####
(E)The level of maturity of the technologies underlying core system components and application programming interfaces. #####
(F)The extent to which program operators can move data seamlessly between different components of the system.
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