Section 4424 - Mechanisms to speed deployment of successful weapon system component or technology prototypes(a) SELECTION OF PROTOTYPE PROJECT FOR PRODUCTION AND RAPID FIELDING.-A weapon system component or technology prototype project may be selected by the service acquisition executive of the military department concerned for a follow-on production contract or other transaction without the use of competitive procedures, notwithstanding the requirements of sections 3201 through 3205 of this title, if-(1) the follow-on production project addresses a high priority warfighter need or reduces the costs of a weapon system;(2) competitive procedures were used for the selection of parties for participation in the original prototype project;(3) the participants in the original prototype project successfully completed the requirements of the project; and(4) a prototype of the system to be procured was demonstrated in a relevant environment.(b) SPECIAL TRANSFER AUTHORITY.-(1) The Secretary of a military department may, as specified in advance by appropriations Acts, transfer funds that remain available for obligation in procurement appropriation accounts of the military department to fund the low-rate initial production of the rapid fielding project until required funding for full-rate production can be submitted and approved through the regular budget process of the Department of Defense.(2) The funds transferred under this subsection to fund the low-rate initial production of a rapid fielding project shall be for a period not to exceed two years, the amount for such period may not exceed $50,000,000, and the special transfer authority provided in this subsection may not be used more than once to fund procurement of a particular new or upgraded system.(3) The special transfer authority provided in this subsection is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense.Added Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title VIII, §806(a)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2259, §2447d; renumbered §4424 and amended Pub. L. 116-283, div. A, title XVIII, §1851(c)(1), (4), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4272, 4273.EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2021- Pub. L. 116-283, §1851(c)(1), renumbered section 2447d of this title as this section.Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116-283, §1851(c)(4), substituted "sections 3201 through 3205" for "section 2304" in introductory provisions.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2021 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 116-283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116-283, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATESection effective Jan. 1, 2017, see section 806(a)(2) of Pub. L. 114-328, set out as a note under section 4421 of this title.
- congressional defense committees
- The term "congressional defense committees" means-(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
- service acquisition executive
- The term "service acquisition executive" means the civilian official within a military department who is designated as the service acquisition executive for purposes of regulations and procedures providing for a service acquisition executive for that military department.