To modify the requirements for reports on program to award prizes for advanced technology achievements.

1. Adds SEC. 244. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR REPORTS ON PROGRAM TO AWARD PRIZES FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ACHIEVEMENTS at the end of subtitle E of title II

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   In S. 1042 · Placed on Calendar Senate

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   Inserted: SEC. 244. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR REPORTS ON PROGRAM TO AWARD PRIZES FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ACHIEVEMENTS.

   Inserted: Subsection (e) of section 2374a of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

   Inserted: "(e) Annual Report.--(1) Not later than March 1 each year, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the activities undertaken by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the preceding year under the authority of this section.

   Inserted: "(2) The report for a year under this subsection shall include the following:

   Inserted: "(A) The results of consultations between the Director and officials of the military departments regarding the areas of research, technology development, or prototype development for which prizes would be awarded under the program under this section.

   Inserted: "(B) A description of the proposed goals of the competitions established under the program, including the areas of research, technology development, or prototype development to be promoted by such competitions and the relationship of such areas to the military missions of the Department.

   Inserted: "(C) The total amount of cash prizes awarded under the program, including a description of the manner in which the amounts of cash prizes awarded and claimed were allocated among the accounts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for recording as obligations and expenditures.

   Inserted: "(D) The methods used for the solicitation and evaluation of submissions under the program, together with an assessment of the effectiveness of such methods.

   Inserted: "(E) A description of the resources, including personnel and funding, used in the execution of the program, together with a detailed description of the activities for which such resources were used.

   Inserted: "(F) A description of any plans to transition the technologies or prototypes developed as a result of the program into acquisition programs of the Department.

   Inserted: "(G) For each competition under the program, a statement of the reasons why the competition was a preferable means of promoting basic, advanced, or applied research, technology development, or prototype development projects to other means of promoting such projects, including contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions.".

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   At the end of subtitle E of title II, add the following:

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