PUBLIC LAW 99-661—NOV. 14, 1986
100 STAT. 3915
"(5) The manager of a defense enterprise program shall be authorized staff positions for a technical staff, including experts in business management, contracting, auditing, engineering, testing, and logistics. "(d) APPLICABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS.—(1) Except as specified
by the senior procurement executive of the military department concerned, a defense enterprise program shall not be subject to any regulation, policy, directive, or administrative rule or guideline relating to the acquisition activities of the Department of Defense other than the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Department of Defense supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. "(2) Paragraph (1) shall not be construed to limit or modify the application of Federal legislation relating to the acquisition activities of the Department of Defense. "(3) In this subsection the term 'Federal Acquisition Regulation' has the meaning given such term in section 2320(a)(4) of this title.". 10 USC 2320. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding after the item relating to section 2435 (as added by section 904) the following new item: "2436. Defense enterprise programs.".
(b) The Secretary of each military department shall designate for 10 USC 2436 fiscal year 1988 not less than three defense acquisition programs ^^o^under the jurisdiction of the Secretary to participate in the program described in section 2436(a) of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)(1)). SEC. 906. MILESTONE AUTHORIZATION PROGRAMS
OF
DEFENSE
ENTERPRISE
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Chapter 144 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 2436 (as inserted by section 905) the following new section: "§ 2437. Defense enterprise programs: milestone authorization
10 USC 2437.
"(a) DESIGNATION OF PARTICIPATING PROGRAMS.—(1) The Secretary
of Defense may designate defense enterprise programs in each military department (as designated by the Secretary of the military department under section 2436 of this title) to be considered for milestone authorization under subsection (b). "(2) The Secretary may designate a defense enterprise program under paragraph (1) only if the program— "(A) is ready to proceed into the full-scale engineering development stage or the full-rate production stage; or "(B) is in either of such stages. "(b) SUBMISSION OF BASELINE DESCRIPTIONS.—Not later than the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date that a defense enterprise program is designated under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall— "(1) in the case of a program that is subject to section 2435(a) of this title, submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Ante, p. 3913. Senate and House of Representatives the baseline description , __,i for the program required to be submitted under such section; , "(2) in the case of a program that is not subject to such section—
"(A) establish a baseline description that meets the requirements of such section; and
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