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 98 STAT. 2610

PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984 PLANS FOR MANAGEMENT OF TECHNICAL DATA AND COMPUTER CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENTS

10 USC 139 note.

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SEC. 1252. (a)(1) Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall develop a plan for an improved system for the management of technical data relating to any major system of the Department of Defense. At a minimum, the management plan shall address procedures for— (A) indexing, storing, and updating items of technical data in a system; (B) developing, to the maximum extent practicable, a centralized system to identify the repository within the department responsible for technical data relating to an item and the extent of the data on file in that repository with respect to that item; and (C) assuring that those parties otherwise entitled to receive technical data will have timely access to complete and current technical data. (2) Not later than 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete implementation of the management plan required to be developed by paragraph (1). (3) Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall transmit to Congress a report evaluating the plan developed by the Secretary of Defense under paragraph (1). (b) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall transmit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a plan to improve substantially the computer capability of each of the military departments and of the Etefense Logistics Agency to store and access rapidly data that is needed for the efficient procurement of supplies. The plan shall provide for a computer data base that includes price and procurement history, item identification, sources of supply, and other relevant information. The plan shall specify a schedule for the implementation of the improvements, the projected cost of implementation of the improvements, and such other recommendations as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate to accomplish the improvements. REPORT ON USE OF INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATES FOR MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS

97 Stat. 683. 10 USC 139c ^°^-

SEC. 1253. Not later than May 1, 1985, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the continued use of independent cost estimates in the planning, programing, budgeting, and selection process for major defense acquisition programs in the Department of Defense. Such report shall be a follow-on to the report required by section 1203(c) of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 (Public Law 98-94; 10 U.S.C. 1039 note), and shall include an overall assessment of the extent to which such estimates were adopted by the Department of Defense in making decisions on the fiscal year 1986 budget and a general explanation of why such estimates might have been modified or rejected. The Secretary shall also include in the report a statement as to whether adequate personnel and financial resources have been allocated at all levels of the Department of Defense to those organizations or

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