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 99 STAT. 690

PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985 "(C) The head of a defense agency acquiring a bill of labor referred to in subparagraph (A) shall provide for the maintenance of the information relating to standard hours of work content included under subparagraph (B) and shall review such information to determine changes in measured work content as work progresses under the contract to which the bill of labor relates. "(3) A defense agency that is responsible for the acquisition of major manufactured end items under a covered contract shall cause to be recorded the proposed and negotiated bills of material used by the prime contractor and each associate contractor under the contract in manufacturing the item and of material used by each such contractor in performing routine testing relating to the item. The bill of material used by any such contractor shall reflect such contractor's computation of the material required for manufacturing parts and subassemblies for the end item and for routine testing of such parts and subassemblies. The costs set out in the bill of material shall be expressed in current dollars and shall be maintained and received in a manner similar to the manner provided for bills of labor in paragraph (2)(C). "(4) A defense agency that is responsible for the acquisition of property (including major manufactured end items) or services under a covered contract shall cause to be recorded incurred costs under the contract in the same manner as the defense agency categorizes and records proposed and negotiated costs, including grouping the costs as provided under paragraph (1). "(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a contractor from submitting a request for payment or reimbursement for any bill of labor or any bill of material developed pursuant to an approved system of cost principles and procedures. "(2) Nothing in this section shall require the submission of the information to be submitted under this section if the contractor does not maintain such information on the date of the enactment of this section.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: "2406. Cost and price management.".

10 USC 2304

SEC. 918. CONTRACTED ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES (a) ACCOUNTING PROCEDURE.—(1) The Secretary of Defense

shall require that there be established within each military department an accounting procedure to aid in the identification and control of expenditures for services identified as contracted advisory and assistance services. (2) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing the accounting procedure established in accordance with paragraph (1) and the implementation of that procedure in each military department. (b) REGULATIONS TO IDENTIFY CONTRACTED ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES.—(1) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations which

specifically describe— (A) what services the Department of Defense considers to be contracted advisory and assistance services; and

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