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 120 STAT. 2110

PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006

(4) The report entitled ‘‘Report to Congress on Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for fiscal year 2007’’, submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Navy pursuant to section 231 of title 10, United States Code— (A) identifies future naval force structure requirements indexed to Department of Defense fiscal year 2020 threat assessments and compliant with the Fiscal Year 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review and, with respect to the attack submarine force, identifies a need for the Navy to maintain a fleet of not less than 48 attack submarines; and (B) projects that the attack submarine force will fall below 48 vessels between 2020 and 2032. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—In light of the findings in subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should take all reasonable effort to accelerate the construction of Virginia Class submarines to maintain the attack submarine force structure at not less than 48 submarines and (if the number of attack submarines should fall below 48), to minimize the period the attack submarine force remains below 48 vessels. 10 USC 2302 note. Regulations.

VerDate 14-DEC-2004

SEC. 130. QUALITY CONTROL IN PROCUREMENT OF SHIP CRITICAL SAFETY ITEMS AND RELATED SERVICES.

(a) QUALITY CONTROL POLICY.—The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations a quality control policy for the procurement of the following: (1) Ship critical safety items. (2) Modifications, repair, and overhaul of ship critical safety items. (b) ELEMENTS.—The policy required under subsection (a) shall include requirements as follows: (1) That the head of the design control activity for ship critical safety items establish processes to identify and manage the procurement, modification, repair, and overhaul of such items. (2) That the head of the contracting activity for a ship critical safety item enter into a contract for the procurement, modification, repair, or overhaul of such item only with a source on a qualified manufacturers list or a source approved by the design control activity in accordance with section 2319 of title 10, United States Code (as amended by subsection (d)). (3) That the ship critical safety items delivered, and the services performed with respect to such items, meet all technical and quality requirements specified by the design control activity. (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘ship critical safety item’’ and ‘‘design control activity’’ have the meanings given such terms in subsection (g) of section 2319 of title 10, United States Code (as so amended). (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 2319 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting ‘‘or ship critical safety item’’ after ‘‘aviation critical safety item’’; and (2) in subsection (g)— (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);

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