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(4) The designated official or organization shall provide oversight and coordination of the efforts within the Department of Defense to prevent or mitigate corrosion during—

(A) the design, acquisition, and maintenance of military equipment; and

(B) the design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure.

(5) The designated official or organization shall monitor acquisition practices within the Department of Defense

(A) to ensure that the use of corrosion prevention technologies and the application of corrosion prevention treatments are fully considered during research and development in the acquisition process; and

(B) to ensure that, to the extent determined appropriate for each acquisition program, such technologies and treatments are incorporated into that program, particularly during the engineering and design phases of the acquisition process.

(c) LONG-TERM STRATEGY.-(1) The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a long-term strategy to reduce corrosion and the effects of corrosion on the military equipment and infrastructure of the Department of Defense.

(2) The strategy under paragraph (1) shall include the following:

(A) Expansion of the emphasis on corrosion prevention and mitigation within the Department of Defense to include coverage of infrastructure.

(B) Application uniformly throughout the Department of Defense of requirements and criteria for the testing and certification of new corrosion-prevention technologies for equipment and infrastructure with similar characteristics, similar missions, or similar operating environments.

(C) Implementation of programs, including supporting databases, to ensure that a focused and coordinated approach is taken throughout the Department of Defense to collect, review, validate, and distribute information on proven methods and products that are relevant to the prevention of corrosion of military equipment and infrastructure.

(D) Establishment of a coordinated research and development program for the prevention and mitigation of corrosion for new and existing military equipment and infrastructure that includes a plan to transition new corrosion prevention technologies into operational systems.

(3) The strategy shall include, for the matters specified in paragraph (2), the following:

(A) Policy guidance.

(B) Performance measures and milestones.

(C) An assessment of the necessary personnel and funding necessary to accomplish the long-term strategy.

(d) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:

(1) The term "corrosion" means the deterioration of a material or its properties due to a reaction of that material with its chemical environment.

(2) The term "military equipment" includes all weapon systems, weapon platforms, vehicles, and munitions of the Department of Defense, and the components of such items.

(3) The term "infrastructure" includes all buildings, structures, airfields, port facilities, surface and subterranean utility systems, heating and cooling systems, fuel tanks, pavements, and bridges.

(Added P.L. 107-314, § 1067(a)(1), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2657.)

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SUBCHAPTER I-MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES, PROHIBITIONS, AND LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS

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§ 2249. Prohibition on use of funds for documenting economic or employment impact of certain acquisition programs

No funds appropriated by the Congress may be obligated or expended to assist any contractor of the Department of Defense in preparing any material, report, lists, or analysis with respect to the actual or projected economic or employment impact in a particular State or congressional district of an acquisition program for which all research, development, testing, and evaluation has not been completed.

(Added as § 2247 by P.L. 103-355, § 7202(a)(1), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3379; redesignated as § 2249 by P.L. 104-106, § 4321(b)(2)(A), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 672.)

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CHAPTER 137-PROCUREMENT GENERALLY 1

Repealed.]

Definitions.

Simplified acquisition threshold.

Implementation of simplified acquisition procedures.
Implementation of electronic commerce capability.
Major system: definitional threshold amounts.
Applicability of chapter.

Repealed.]

Contracts: competition requirements.

Task and delivery order contracts: general authority.
Task order contracts: advisory and assistance services.
Task and delivery order contracts: orders.

Task and delivery order contracts: definitions.

Contracts: prohibition on competition between Department of Defense and
small businesses and certain other entities.

Contracts: planning, solicitation, evaluation, and award procedures.
Design-build selection procedures.

Kinds of contracts.

Cost or pricing data: truth in negotiations.

Multiyear contracts: acquisition of property.
Multiyear contracts: acquisition of services.
Contract financing.

Buy-to-budget acquisition: end items.

Allocation of appropriations.

Determinations and decisions.

Assignment and delegation of procurement functions and responsibilities.
Remission of liquidated damages.

Examination of records of contractor.

Laws inapplicable to agencies named in section 2303 of this title.

Law inapplicable to the procurement of automatic data processing equipment and services for certain defense purposes.

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Contract goal for small disadvantaged businesses and certain institutions of higher education.

Credit for Indian contracting in meeting certain subcontracting goals for small disadvantaged businesses and certain institutions of higher education.

Allowable costs under defense contracts.

Restructuring costs.

Undefinitized contractual actions: restrictions.

Contracts: consideration of national security objectives.

1 In addition to the procurement provisions set forth by this chapter and chapters 140, 141, 144, and other provisions of title 10, numerous provisions of law applicable to procurement by the agencies named in section 2303(a) of this title are found in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, the Small Business Act, and other laws. Also, various limitations and requirements relating to defense procurement are included in annual Department of Defense Appropriations Acts and annual National Defense Authorization Acts. Provisions of such laws that are of general and continuing applicability are set forth in the committee print publication of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives captioned "Laws Relating to Federal Procurement".

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Release of technical data under Freedom of Information Act: recovery of
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Procurement of services: management structure.
Procurement of services: tracking of purchases.

Procurement of services: contracts for professional and technical services.
Share-in-savings contracts.

[§ 2301. Repealed. P.L. 103–355, § 1501(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3296]

§ 2302. Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) The term "head of an agency" means the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(2) The term "competitive procedures" means procedures under which the head of an agency enters into contract pursuant to full and open competition. Such term also includes(A) procurement of architectural or engineering services conducted in accordance with chapter 11 of title 40;

(B) the competitive selection for award of basic research proposals resulting from a general solicitation and the peer review or scientific review (as appropriate) of such proposals;

*(C) the procedures established by the Administrator of General Services for the multiple award schedule program of the General Services Administration if—

(i) participation in the program has been open to all responsible sources; and

(ii) orders and contracts under such program reIsult in the lowest overall cost alternative to meet the needs of the United States;

(D) procurements conducted in furtherance of section 15 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644) as long as all responsible business concerns that are entitled to submit offers for such procurement are permitted to compete; and

(E) a competitive selection of research proposals resulting from a general solicitation and peer review or scientific review (as appropriate) solicited pursuant to section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638).

(3) The following terms have the meanings provided such terms in section 4 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403):

(A) The term "procurement".

(B) The term "procurement system".

(C) The term "standards".

(D) The term "full and open competition".

(E) The term "responsible source".

(F) The term "item".

(G) The term "item of supply".

(H) The term "supplies".

(I) The term "commercial item".

(J) The term "nondevelopmental item".

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