Sec. 226. ACTIVITIES ON IDENTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCED PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AGAINST BLAST INJURY
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## SEC. 226 ACTIVITIES ON IDENTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCED PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AGAINST BLAST INJURY **[**[10 U.S.C. 2302 note](/us/usc/t10/s2302)**]** ###
(a)Activities Required During calendar year 2019, the Secretary of the Army shall, in consultation with the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, carry out a set of activities to identify and develop personal equipment to provide enhanced protection against injuries caused by blasts in combat and training. ###
(b)Activities ####
(1)Continuous evaluation process For purposes of the activities required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall establish a process to continuously solicit from government, industry, academia, and other appropriate entities personal protective equipment that is ready for testing and evaluation in order to identify and evaluate equipment or clothing that is more effective in protecting members of the Armed Forces from the harmful effects of blast injuries, including traumatic brain injuries, and would be suitable for expedited procurement and fielding. ####
(2)Goals The goals of the activities shall include: #####
(A)Development of streamlined requirements for procurement of personal protective equipment. #####
(B)Appropriate testing of personal protective equipment prior to procurement and fielding. #####
(C)Development of expedited mechanisms for deployment of effective personal protective equipment. #####
(D)Identification of areas of research in which increased investment has the potential to improve the quality of personal protective equipment and the capability of the industrial base to produce such equipment. #####
(E)Such other goals as the Secretary considers appropriate. ####
(3)Partnerships for certain assessments As part of the activities, the Secretary should continue to establish partnerships with appropriate academic institutions for purposes of assessing the following: #####
(A)The ability of various forms of personal protective equipment to protect against common blast injuries, including traumatic brain injuries. #####
(B)The value of real-time data analytics to track the effectiveness of various forms of personal protective equipment to protect against common blast injuries, including traumatic brain injuries. #####
(C)The availability of commercially available off-the-shelf items (as defined in section 104 of title 41, United States Code) that may serve as personal protective technology to protect against traumatic brain injury resulting from blasts. #####
(D)The extent to which the equipment determined through the assessment to be most effective to protect against common blast injuries is readily modifiable for different body types and to provide lightweight material options to enhance maneuverability. ###
(c)Authorities In carrying out activities under subsection (a), the Secretary may use any authority as follows: ####
(1)Experimental procurement authority under section 2373 of title 10, United States Code. ####
(2)Other transactions authority under section 2371 and 2371b of title 10, United States Code. ####
(3)Authority to award technology prizes under section 2374a of title 10, United States Code. ####
(4)Authority under the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program under section 2359b of title 10, United States Code. ####
(5)Any other authority on acquisition, technology transfer, and personnel management that the Secretary considers appropriate. ###
(d)Certain Treatment of Activities Any activities under this section shall be deemed to have been through the use of competitive procedures for the purposes of section 2304 of title 10, United States Code. ###
(e)On-going Assessment Following Activities After the completion of activities under subsection (a), the Secretary shall, on an on-going basis, do the following: ####
(1)Evaluate the extent to which personal protective equipment identified through the activities would— #####
(A)enhance survivability of personnel from blasts in combat and training; and #####
(B)enhance prevention of brain damage, and reduction of any resultant chronic brain dysfunction, from blasts in combat and training. ####
(2)In the case of personal protective equipment so identified that would provide enhancements as described in paragraph (1), estimate the costs that would be incurred to procure such enhanced personal protective equipment, and develop a schedule for the procurement of such equipment. ####
(3)Estimate the potential health care cost savings that would occur from expanded use of personal protective equipment described in paragraph (2). ###
(f)Report Not later than December 1, 2019, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the activities under subsection
(a)as of the date of the report. ###
(g)Funding Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2019 by this Act for research, development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the funding tables in division D, $10,000,000 may be used to carry out this section.
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