The Administrator, acting through the Director, shall, as appropriate, seek to use procedures, processes, and policies for collecting cost data and making that data accessible that are similar to the procedures, processes, and policies used by the Defense Cost Analysis Resource Center of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation of the Department of Defense for those purposes.
The Administrator shall ensure that the Director has sufficient numbers of personnel who have competence in technical matters, budgetary matters, cost estimation, technology readiness analysis, and other appropriate matters to carry out the functions required by this section.
The Director shall submit to Congress at or about the time that the budget of the President is submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2018, a report that includes the following:
Nothing in this section shall be construed to require duplicate reviews or cost estimates for major atomic energy defense acquisition programs by the Administration or other elements of the Department of Energy.
In this section:
The term "Administration", with respect to any authority, duty, or responsibility provided by this section, does not include the Office of Naval Reactors.
The term "major atomic energy defense acquisition program" means an atomic energy defense acquisition program of the Administration-
The term "performance baseline", with respect to a major atomic energy defense acquisition program, means the key parameters with respect to performance, scope, cost, and schedule for the project budget of the program.
50 U.S.C. § 2411
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2019-Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 116-92 inserted "The Director shall report directly to the Administrator." at end. 2018-Subsecs. (h), (i). Pub. L. 115-232, §3113(a)(1), (2), added subsec. (h) and redesignated former subsec. (h) as (i). Subsec. (i)(2). Pub. L. 115-232, §3113(a)(3), struck out subpar. (A) designation and heading "In general", substituted "The term" for "Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term", redesignated cls. (i) and (ii) as subpars. (A) and (B), respectively, realigned margins, and struck out former subpar. (B). Prior to amendment, text of subpar. (B) read as follows: "The term 'major atomic energy defense acquisition program' does not include a project covered by Department of Energy Order 413.3 (or a successor order) for the acquisition of capital assets for atomic energy defense activities." 2014-Subsec. (h)(1) to (3). Pub. L. 113-291 added par. (1) and redesignated former pars. (1) and (2) as (2) and (3), respectively.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2018 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 115-232, div. C, title XXXI, §3113(b), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2290, provided that: "The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on the date that is 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 13, 2018]."
- 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.
- national security laboratory
- The term "national security laboratory" means any of the following:(A) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.(B) Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore, California.(C) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.