Sec. 1608. COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS PATHFINDER PROGRAM
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## SEC. 1608 COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS PATHFINDER PROGRAM ###
(a)Report Not later than March 1, 2018, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report that includes the views and plans of the Secretary with respect to using the transaction authority provided by section 2371 of title 10, United States Code, to acquire from commercial providers a portion of the satellite bandwidth, ground services, and advanced services for the pathfinder program. ###
(b)Definition In this section, the term “pathfinder program” means the commercial satellite communications programs of the Air Force designed to demonstrate the feasibility of new, alternative acquisition and procurement models for commercial satellite communications.