CHAPTER 143-PRODUCTION BY MILITARY AGENCIES Sec. 2421. 2422. 2423. 2424. Plantations and farms: operation, maintenance, and improvement. Procurement of supplies and services from exchange stores outside the § 2421. Plantations and farms: operation, maintenance, and improvement (a) Appropriations for the subsistence of members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps are available for expenditures necessary in the operation, maintenance, and improvement of any plantation or farm, outside the United States and under the jurisdiction of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, for furnishing fresh fruits and vegetables to the armed forces. However, no land may be acquired under this subsection. (b) Fruits and vegetables produced under subsection (a) that are over the amount furnished or sold to the armed forces or to civilians serving with the armed forces may be sold only outside the United States. (c) Of the persons employed by the United States under subsection (a), only nationals of the United States are entitled to the benefits provided by laws relating to the employment, work, compensation, or other benefits of civilian employees of the United States. (d) A plantation or farm covered by subsection (a) shall be operated, maintained, and improved by a private contractor or lessee, so far as practicable. Before using members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, the Secretary_concerned must make a reasonable effort to make a contract or lease with a person in civil life for his services for that operation, maintenance, or improvement, on terms advantageous to the United States. A determination by the Secretary as to the reasonableness of effort to make a contract or lease, and as to the advantageous nature of its terms, is final. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 138.) § 2422. Bakery and dairy products: procurement outside the United States (a) The Secretary of Defense may authorize any element of the Department of Defense that procures bakery and dairy products for use by the armed forces outside the United States to procure any products described in subsection (b) through the use of procedures other than competitive procedures. (b) The products referred to in subsection (a) are bakery or dairy products produced by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in a facility outside the United States that began operating before July 1, 1986. (Added P.L. 99–661, § 321(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3851.) § 2423. Laundry and dry cleaning services: procurement from facilities operated by the Navy Resale and Services Support Office (a) AUTHORITY.-The Secretary of Defense may authorize an element of the Department of Defense to enter into a contract (through the use of procedures other than competitive procedures) with a laundry and dry cleaning facility operated by the Navy Resale and Services Support Office to procure laundry and dry cleaning services for the armed forces outside the United States. (b) APPLICATION.-Subsection (a) shall apply only with respect to a laundry and dry cleaning facility of the Navy Resale and Services Support Office that began operating before October 1, 1989. (Added P.L. 101-189, § 323(a), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1414.) § 2424. Procurement of supplies and services from exchange stores outside the United States (a) AUTHORITY.-The Secretary of Defense may authorize an element of the Department of Defense to enter into a contract (through the use of procedures other than competitive procedures) with an exchange store operated under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a military department outside the United States to procure supplies or services for use by the armed forces outside the United States. (b) LIMITATIONS.—(1) A contract may not be entered into under subsection (a) in an amount in excess of $50,000. (2) Supplies provided under a contract entered into under subsection (a) shall be provided from the stocks of the exchange store on hand as of the date the contract is entered into with that exchange store. (3) A contract entered into with an exchange store under subsection (a) may not provide for the procurement of services not regularly provided by that exchange store. (c) EXCEPTION.-Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) do not apply to contracts for the procurement of soft drinks that are manufactured in the United States. The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations the standards and procedures for determining whether a particular beverage is a soft drink and whether the beyerage was manufactured in the United States. (Added P.L. 101-189, §324(a), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1414; amended P.L. 103-355, §3066, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3337; P.L. 104-106, § 4321(b)(17), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 673.) Sec. 2430. 2431. 2432. 2433. 2434. 2435. CHAPTER 144-MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS Major defense acquisition program defined. Weapons development and procurement schedules. Selected Acquisition Reports. Unit cost reports. Independent cost estimates; operational manpower requirements. [2436-2439. Repealed.] 2440. Technology and Industrial Base Plans. § 2430. Major defense acquisition program defined 1 (a) In this chapter, the term "major defense acquisition program" means a Department of Defense acquisition program that is not a highly sensitive classified program (as determined by the Secretary of Defense) and (1) that is designated by the Secretary of Defense as a major defense acquisition program; or (2) that is estimated by the Secretary of Defense to require an eventual total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation of more than $300,000,000 (based on fiscal year 1990 constant dollars) or an eventual total expenditure for procurement of more than $1,800,000,000 (based on fiscal year 1990 constant dollars.) (b) The Secretary of Defense may adjust the amounts (and the base fiscal year) provided in subsection (a)(2) on the basis of Department of Defense escalation rates. An adjustment under this subsection shall be effective after the Secretary transmits a written notification of the adjustment to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. (Added P.L. 100-26, § 7(b)(2), April 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 279; amended P.L. 102-484, § 817(b), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2455; P.L. 104-106, § 1502(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 502; P.L. 106-65, § 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.) § 2431. Weapons development and procurement schedules 2 (a) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress each calendar year, not later than 45 days after the President submits the 1 For provisions relating to the defense acquisition pilot program, see section 809 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (P.L. 101-510) and section 5064 of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (P.L. 103–355). 2 Section 117 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989 (P.L. 100-456; 10 U.S.C. 2431 note), provides: SEC. 117. MANAGEMENT OF CERTAIN DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PROGRAMS (a) STRETCHOUT IMPACT STATEMENT.-The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress, at the same time the budget for any fiscal year is submitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a statement of what the effect would be during the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted of the stretchout of a major defense acquisition program if either of the following applies with respect to that program: budget to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, budget justification documents regarding development and procurement schedules for each weapon system for which fund authorization is required by section 114(a) of this title, and for which any funds for procurement are requested in that budget. The documents shall include data on operational testing and evaluation for each weapon system for which funds for procurement are requested (other than funds requested only for the procurement of units for operational testing and evaluation, or long lead-time items, or both). A weapon system shall also be included in the annual documents required under this subsection in each year thereafter until procurement of that system has been completed or terminated, or the Secretary of Defense certifies, in writing, that such inclusion would not serve any useful purpose and gives his reasons therefor. (b) Any documents required to be submitted under subsection (a) shall include detailed and summarized information with respect to each weapon system covered and shall specifically include each of the following: (1) The development schedule, including estimated annual costs until development is completed. (2) The planned procurement schedule, including the best estimate of the Secretary of Defense of the annual costs and units to be procured until procurement is completed. (3) To the extent required by the second sentence of subsection (a), the result of all operational testing and evaluation up to the time of the submission of the documents, or, if operational testing and evaluation has not been conducted, a statement of the reasons therefor and the results of such other testing and evaluation as has been conducted. (4)(A) The most efficient production rate, the most efficient acquisition rate, and the minimum sustaining rate, consistent with the program priority established for such weapon system by the Secretary concerned. (B) In this paragraph: (i) The term "most efficient production rate" means the maximum rate for each budget year at which the weapon system can be produced with existing or planned plant capacity and tooling, with one shift a day running for eight hours a day and five days a week. (1) The final year of procurement scheduled for the program at the time the statement is submitted is more than two years later than the final year of procurement for the program as specified in the most recent annual Selected Acquisition Report for that program. (2) The proposed quantity for that fiscal year is less than 90 percent of the procurement quantity proposed for the same fiscal year in the most recent annual Selected Acquisition Report for that program. (b) CHANGES IN CERTAIN COSTS TO BE INCLUDED.-A statement under subsection (a) with respect to a major defense acquisition program shall contain in total program cost for the system being procured under the program compared to the program specified in the most recent annual Selected Acquisition Report for that program. [(c) Repealed] (d) LIMITATIONS.-(1) Subsection (a) shall apply only for major defense acquisition programs for which procurement is proposed at a rate of six or more units per year. (2) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the total procurement quantity has been increased, compared to the program specified in the most recent annual Selection Acquisition Report for that program, and subsection (a)(2) does not apply. (e) REPORT ON ESTABLISHING MAXIMUM PRODUCTION RATES.-[Omitted]. (f) DEFINITION.-For purposes of this section, the term "major defense acquisition program" has the meaning given that term in section 2430 of title 10, United States Code. (ii) The term "minimum sustaining rate" means the production rate for each budget year that is necessary to keep production lines open while maintaining a base of responsive vendors and suppliers. (c) In the case of any weapon system for which procurement funds have not been previously requested and for which funds are first requested by the President in any fiscal year after the Budget for that fiscal year has been submitted to Congress, the same documentation requirements shall be applicable to that system in the same manner and to the same extent as if funds had been requested for that system in that budget. (Added as § 139 P.L. 93-155, § 803(a), Nov. 16, 1973, 87 Stat. 614; amended P.L. 94-106, § 805, Oct. 7, 1975, 89 Stat. 538; P.L. 96-513, §511(5), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2920; P.L. 97-86, § 909(c), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 1120; P.L. 97-258, §3(b)(1), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1063; P.L. 98-525, § 1405(3), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2621; transferred, and renumbered as § 2431, and amended P.L. 99-433, § 110(d)(12), (g)(6), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1003, 1004; amended P.L. 101– 510, §§ 1301(13), 1484(f)(3), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1668, 1717; P.L. 103–355, § 3001, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3327; P.L. 104-106, § 4321(b)(18), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 673.) § 2432. Selected Acquisition Reports (a) In this section: (1) The term "program acquisition unit cost”, with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means the amount equal to (A) the total cost for development and procurement of, and system-specific military construction for, the acquisition program, divided by (B) the number of fully-configured end items to be produced for the acquisition program. (2) The term "procurement unit cost", with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means the amount equal to (A) the total of all funds programmed to be available for obligation for procurement for the program, divided by (B) the number of fully-configured end items to be procured. (3) The term "major contract", with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means each of the six largest prime, associate, or Government-furnished equipment contracts under the program that is in excess of $40,000,000 and that is not a firm, fixed price contract. (4) The term "full life-cycle cost", with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means all costs of development, procurement, military construction, and operations and support, without regard to funding source or management control. (b)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress at the end of each fiscal-year quarter a report on current major defense acquisition programs. Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), each such report shall include a status report on each defense acquisition program that at the end of such quarter is a major defense acquisition program. Reports under this section shall be known as Selected Acquisition Reports. (2) A status report on a major defense acquisition program need not be included in the Selected Acquisition Report for the second, third, or fourth quarter of a fiscal year if such a report was included in, a previous Selected Acquisition Report for that fiscal year and during the period since that report there has been (A) less than a 15 percent increase in program acquisition unit cost and current procurement unit cost; and |