§4253 Major Defense Acquisition Programs: Submissions to Congress on Milestone C

Summary

After approving Milestone C for a major defense acquisition program, the milestone decision authority must send a short report to the congressional defense committees, and to the congressional intelligence committees for intelligence programs, within 15 days. The report must give the military department’s cost and schedule estimates (dollar amounts for program acquisition unit cost, average procurement unit cost, and total life‑cycle cost, and planned dates for initial operational test and evaluation and for initial operational capability), the independent cost and any independent schedule estimates required under section 3221(b)(6) with the same dollar amounts and dates, a summary of production, manufacturing, and fielding risks, and an assessment of whether the developmental test and evaluation done so far is sufficient, including use of automated data analytics or modeling and simulation. If any congressional defense committee or, for intelligence matters, a congressional intelligence committee asks, the milestone decision authority must provide more information or the underlying documents for the report, including the independent cost and schedule estimates and the independent technical risk assessments. “Congressional intelligence committees” means the committees defined in section 437(c) of this title.