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 124 STAT. 2683 PUBLIC LAW 111–259—OCT. 7, 2010 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: ‘‘(1) BUDGET YEAR.—The term ‘budget year’ means the next fiscal year for which the President is required to submit to Congress a budget pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. ‘‘(2) INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATE; MAJOR SYSTEM.—The terms ‘independent cost estimate’ and ‘major system’ have the meaning given those terms in section 506A(e).’’. (b) APPLICABILITY DATE.—The first Future Year Intelligence Plan and Long-term Budget Projection required to be submitted under subsection (a) and (b) of section 506G of the National Security Act of 1947, as added by subsection (a), shall be submitted to the congressional intelligence committees at the time that the Presi- dent submits to Congress the budget for fiscal year 2012 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (1) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in the first section of that Act, as amended by section 324 of this Act, is further amended by inserting after the items relating to section 506F, as added by section 324(b), the fol- lowing new item: ‘‘Sec. 506G. Future budget projections.’’. (2) REPEAL OF DUPLICATIVE PROVISION.—Section 8104 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 (50 U.S.C. 415a–3; Public Law 111–118; 123 Stat. 3451) is repealed. SEC. 326. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM FUNDED ACQUISI- TIONS. Subsection (n) of section 102A of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403–1) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(4)(A) In addition to the authority referred to in paragraph (1), the Director of National Intelligence may authorize the head of an element of the intelligence community to exercise an acquisi- tion authority referred to in section 3 or 8(a) of the Central Intel- ligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 403c and 403j(a)) for an acquisition by such element that is more than 50 percent funded under the National Intelligence Program. ‘‘(B) The head of an element of the intelligence community may not exercise an authority referred to in subparagraph (A) until— ‘‘(i) the head of such element (without delegation) submits to the Director of National Intelligence a written request that includes— ‘‘(I) a description of such authority requested to be exercised; ‘‘(II) an explanation of the need for such authority, including an explanation of the reasons that other authori- ties are insufficient; and ‘‘(III) a certification that the mission of such element would be— ‘‘(aa) impaired if such authority is not exercised; or ‘‘(bb) significantly and measurably enhanced if such authority is exercised; and 50 USC 415a–9 note.