S.Amdt. 2534

1. Adds SEC. 935. REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS, PROCESSING, AND DISSEMINATION SYSTEMS at the end of subtitle C of title IX

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   In S. 1197 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

   Inserted: SEC. 935. REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS, PROCESSING, AND DISSEMINATION SYSTEMS.

   Inserted: (a) Project Codes for Budget Submissions.--In the budget transmitted by the President to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year, each module within the distributed common ground system program shall be set forth as a separate project code within the program element line with supporting justification for each project code within the program element descriptive summary provided to Congress.

   Inserted: (b) Report on Capabilities.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--Not later than March 1, 2014, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the distributed common ground system program.

   Inserted: (2) Contents.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall include the following:

   Inserted: (A) An assessment of the capability of the program, as currently available to users, to meet current operational and program requirements.

   Inserted: (B) An evaluation of the capability of commercial-off-the-shelf software that meets open architecture standards to meet data fusion, analysis, processing, and dissemination requirements, including the capability of those tools to meet program requirements.

   Inserted: (C) An assessment of total lifecycle costs for each program and commercial-off-the-shelf alternatives, including the methodology utilized to arrive at such costs.

   Inserted: (c) Requirement for Competition.--Full and open competition shall be used to the maximum extent practicable to procure or develop any data fusion, analysis, processing, and dissemination products or cloud computing services of any module covered by subsection (a).

   Inserted: (d) Report on Adoption of Intelligence Community Information Systems by Army.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--Not later than March1, 2014, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the interoperability of Army information systems with intelligence community information technology standards.

   Inserted: (2) Contents.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall include, at a minimum, the following:

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   Inserted: (A) An assessment of the ability of current information systems of the Army to meet intelligence community requirements.

   Inserted: (B) A list of current requirements for inclusion in systems of the Army designed to interface with intelligence community systems, including the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise.

   Inserted: (C) Identification of the official responsible for determining any requirement or standard for any major function of the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise-Army system.

   Inserted: (D) Definitions, as adopted and utilized by the Army for--

   Inserted: (i) "open architecture standards"; and

   Inserted: (ii) "intelligence community standards".

   Inserted: (e) Updated Acquisition Strategy Required.--No later than March 1, 2014, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall submit to the congressional defense committees an updated acquisition strategy for the program described in subsection (a).

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   At the end of subtitle C of title IX, add the following:

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