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 110 STAT. 236 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 (c) FUNDING LIMITATION. — Funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may not be expended for research, development, test, and evaluation or procurement of interim precision-guided munitions after April 15, 1996, unless the Secretary of Defense has submitted the report under subsection (b). (d) INTERIM PRECISION-GUIDED MUNITION DEFINED.— For purposes of subsection (c), a precision-guided munition is an interim precision-guided munition if the munition is being procured in fiscal year 1996, but funding is not proposed for additional procurement of the munition in the fiscal years after fiscal year 1996 that are covered by the future years defense program submitted to Congress in 1995 under section 221(a) of title 10, United States Code. 10 USC 113 note. SEC. 262. REVIEW OF C^I BY NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. (a) REVIEW BY NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall request the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive review of current and planned service and defense-wide programs for command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C^I) with a special focus on cross-service and inter-service issues. (b) MATTERS TO BE ASSESSED IN REVIEW.— The review shall address the following: (1) The match between the capabilities provided by current service and defense-wide C'^I programs and the actual needs of users of these programs. (2) The interoperability of service and defense-wide C^^I systems that are planned to be operational in the future. (3) The need for an overall defense-wide architecture for C4I. (4) Proposed strategies for ensuring that future C^I acquisitions are compatible and interoperable with an overall architecture. (5) Technological and administrative aspects of the C^I modernization effort to determine the soundness of the underly- ing plan and the extent to which it is consistent with concepts for joint military operations in the future. (c) TWO-YEAR PERIOD FOR CONDUCTING REVIEW.— The review shall be conducted over the two-year period beginning on the date on which the National Research Council and the Secretary of Defense enter into a contract or other agreement for the conduct of the review. (d) REPORTS.— (1) In the contract or other agreement for the conduct of the review, the Secretary of Defense shall provide that the National Research Council shall submit to the Department of Defense and Congress interim reports and progress updates on a regular basis as the review proceeds. A final report on the review shall set forth the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Council for defense-wide and service C'^I programs and shall be submitted to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of Defense. (2) To the maximum degree possible, the final report shall be submitted in unclassified form with classified annexes as necessary.

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