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TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

Subtitle G—Other Matters

P. L. 114-

House Conference Report. 114-270

(a) Flexible limitation on development period.—Section 2445b of title 10, United States Code is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and

(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:

“(d) Time-certain development.—If an adjustment or revision under subsection (c) for a major automated information system that is not a national security system provides for a period in excess of five years from the time of program initiation to the time of a full deployment decision, the documents submitted under subsection (a) shall include a written determination by the senior Department of Defense official responsible for the program justifying the need for the longer period.”.

(b) Repeal of inconsistent requirement.—Section 2445c(c)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting “; or”;

(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking “; or” and inserting a period; and

(3) by striking subparagraph (D).

The House bill contained no similar provision.

The House recedes with a technical amendment.

Senate Report 114-49 to accompany S. 1376 as it was reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Development period for Department of Defense information technology systems (sec. 875)

The committee recommends a provision that would amend section 2445b of title 10, United States Code, to modify requirements applicable to a major automated information system program that fails to achieve a full deployment decision within 5 years after the initiation of the program. These systems are intended to primarily use commercially available software and computer systems and the Department of Defense (DOD) has policies in place to change business practices so that commercial solutions can meet the needs for DOD business systems. As such, the committee believes that in most cases, these programs should have very limited developmental risk and as such can be managed as ``time-certain'' development efforts. The provision would require that any failure to achieve a full deployment decision within five years would trigger a written determination from the Department of Defense that a longer period of time is needed for the effort.