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 100 STAT. 1783-133

PUBLIC LAW 99-500—OCT. 18, 1986

Disadvantaged Business Utilization shall be responsible to, and report directly to, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition". (e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT FOR ARMED FORCES POLICY COUNCIL

MEMBERSHIP.—Section 171(a) of title 10, United States Code is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (11) as paragraphs e.' (4), (5), (6), (7), (9), (10), (11), (12), and (13), respectively; •i (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paraJ9 graph (3): is' "(3) the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition;"; and (3) by striking out paragraph (7) (as so redesignated) and iv inserting in lieu thereof the following: .B "(7) the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; if "(8) the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition;". SEC. 904. ENHANCED PROGRAM STABILITY FOR MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS

(a) PROGRAM STABILITY.—(1) Chapter 144 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 2434 (as redesignated by section 101(a) of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-433)) the following new section: . - • '

"§ 2435. Enhanced program stability

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"(a) BASELINE DESCRIPTION REQUIREMENT.—(1) The Secretary of a

military department shall establish a baseline description for a major defense acquisition program under the jurisdiction of such Secretary— "(A) before such program enters full-scale engineering development; and "(B) before such program enters full-rate production. "(2) A baseline description required under paragraph (1) shall include the following: o: "(A) In the case of the full-scale development stage— y "(i) a description of the performance goals for the weapons system to be acquired under the program; '<:'}; "(ii) a description of the technical characteristics and . •' ' configuration of such system; .; "(iii) total development costs for such stage by fiscal year; .' • and "(iv) the schedule of development milestones. "(B) In the case of the production stage— "(i) a description of the performance of the weapons - . system to be acquired under the program; "(ii) a description of the technical characteristics and ' • configuration of such system; "(iii) number of end items by fiscal year; ,., "(iv) the schedule of development milestones; "(v) testing; ^,., •...., v\^,^,r"(vi) initial training; ? m^ iji- • "(vii) initial provisioning; and "(viii) total procurement costs for such stage (including the cost of all elements included in the baseline description) by fiscal year, which may not exceed the amount of the 5,f: 7, independent cost estimate for that program submitted to Hrjii:., the Secretary of Defense under section 2434 of this title.

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