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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 742

Unit cost report.

PUBLIC LAW 97-252—SEPT. 8, 1982 "(3) 'Procurement program* means a program for which funds for procurement are authorized to be appropriated in a fiscal year. "(b) The program manager for a defense acquisition program that as of the end of a fiscal-year quarter is a major defense acquisition rogram (other than a program not required to be included in the elected Acquisition Report for that quarter under section 139a(b)(3) of this title) shall, not more than 7 days after the end of that quarter, submit to the Secretary concerned a written report on the unit costs of the program. The program manager shall include in each such unit cost report the following information with respect to the program (as of the last day of the quarter for which the report is made): "(1) The program acquisition unit cost. "(2) In the case of a procurement program, the procurement unit cost. "(3) Any cost variance or schedule variance in a major contract under the program since the baseline Selected Acquisition Report was submitted. (4) Any changes from program schedule milestones or program performances reflected in the baseline Selected Acquisition Report that sire known, expected, or anticipated by the program manager. "(c)(1) If the program manager of a major defense acquisition program for which a unit cost report has previously been submitted under subsection (b) determines at any time during a fiscal-year quarter that there is reasonable cause to believe— "(A) that the program acquisition unit cost for the program has increased by more than 15 percent over the program acquisition unit cost for the program as shown in the baseline Selected Acquisition Report; "(B) in the case of a major defense acquisition program that is a procurement program, that the current procurement unit cost for the program has increased by more than 15 percent over the procurement unit cost for the program as reflected in the baseline Selected Acquisition Report; or "(C) that cost variances or schedule variances of a major contract under the program have resulted in an increase in the cost of the contract of at least 15 percent over the cost of the contract as of the time the contract was made; and if a unit cost report indicating an increase of such percentage or more has not previously been submitted to the Secretary concerned during the current fiscal year (other than the unit cost report under subsection (b) for the last quarter of the preceding fiscal year), then the program msmager shall immediately submit to the Secretary concerned a unit cost report containing the information, determined as of the date of the report, required under subsection (b). "(2) If in any fiscal year the program manager for a major defense acquisition program has submitted to the Secretary concerned a unit cost report (other than the unit cost report under subsection (b) for the last quarter of the preceding fiscal year) indicating an increase of 15 percent or more in a category described in clauses (A) through (C) of paragraph (1) and subsequently determines that there is reasonable cause to believe— "(A) that the current program acquisition unit cost of the program has increased by more than 5 percent over the current program acquisition unit cost as shown in the most recent

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Ante, p. 739. Information.