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 PUBLIC LAW 100-180—DEC. 4, 1987

101 STAT. 1057

SEC. 226. PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENT OF ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW

The Secretary of Defense may not deploy any anti-ballistic missile system unless such deployment is specifically authorized by law srfter the date of the e n a c t m e n t of this Act. SEC. 227. ESTABLISHMENT OF A FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER TO SUPPORT THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE PROGRAM

10 USC 2431 note.

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(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Department of Defense requires technical support for issues of system integration related to the Strategic Defense Initiative program. (2) The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, after assessing a l t e r n a t i v e types of organizations for the provision of such technical support to the Strategic Defense Initiative program (including Government organizations, profit and nonprofit entities (including existing federally funded research and development centers), a new division w i t h i n a n existing federally funded r e s e a r c h and development center, a new federally funded r e s e a r c h and development center, colleges and universities, and p r i v a t e nonprofit laboratories), determined that a new federally funded r e s e a r c h and development center (hereinafter in t h i s section referred to a s a n "FFRDC") would be the type of organization most a p p r o p r i a t e for the provision of such technical support to the Strategic Defense Initiative program.

(3) In providing such technical support to the SDI program, the new FFRDC should provide critical evaluation and rigorous and objective analysis of technologies, systems, and architectures that are candidates for use in the SDI program. (4) Competitive selection of a contractor to establish and operate such an FFRDC to support the Strategic Defense Initiative program is one way to enhance the prospects for independent and objective evaluation of system integration issues within the Strategic Defense Initiative program. (b) AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT FOR FFRDC.—The Secretary of Defense, using funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for the Strategic Defense Initiative program, may enter into a contract to provide for the establishment and operation of a federally funded research and development center to provide independent and objective technical support to the Strategic Defense Initiative program. Such a contract may not be awarded before October 1, 1989. (c) CONTRACT AWARD REQUIREMENTS. ^ !) A contract under subsection (b) shall be awarded using competitive procedures which emphasize cost considerations. (2) The Secretary of Defense shall solicit proposals for such contract from existing federally funded research and development centers, from universities, from commercial entities, and from appropriate new organizations and shall make maximum efforts to obtain more than one proposal for such contract. (3) The Secretary shall submit the three best contract proposals (as determined by the Secretary), together with a copy of the proposed sponsoring agreement for the new FFRDC, for review by three persons designated by the Defense Science Board from a list of six or more persons submitted by the National Academy of Sciences. The persons performing the review—

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