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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 · Sec. 1649

Sec. 1649. INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF NUCLEAR COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

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## SEC. 1649 INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF NUCLEAR COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ###
(a)Review Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to conduct a review of the current plans, policies, and programs of the nuclear command, control, and communications system of the Department of Defense, and such plans, policies, and programs that are planned for the 10- and 30-year periods following such date of enactment. ###
(b)Matters Included The review under subsection
(a)shall include a review of each of the following: ####
(1)The plans, policies, and programs described in such subsection. ####
(2)The operational, organizational, programmatic, and acquisition challenges and risks with respect to— #####
(A)maintaining the existing nuclear command, control, and communications system; and #####
(B)the nuclear command, control, and communications system to be fielded during the 10-year period following the date of the enactment of this Act. ####
(3)Emerging technologies and how such technologies may be applied to the next generation of the nuclear command, control, and communications system during the 30-year period following the date of the enactment of this Act to ensure— #####
(A)the survivability of the system; and #####
(B)the capability of the system with respect to— ######
(i)decisionmaking; ######
(ii)situation monitoring; ######
(iii)planning; ######
(iv)force direction; and ######
(v)force management. ####
(4)The security and surety of the nuclear command, control, and communications system. ####
(5)Threats to the nuclear command, control, and communications system that may occur and the ability to detect and mitigate such threats during the 10- and 30-year periods following the date of the enactment of this Act. ###
(c)Briefing Not later than September 1, 2022, the federally funded research and development center that conducts the review under subsection
(a)shall provide the congressional defense committees an interim briefing on the review under subsection (a). ###
(d)Report Not later than March 1, 2023, the federally funded research and development center that conducts the review under subsection
(a)shall submit to the Secretary and the congressional defense committees a report containing the review under such subsection.
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