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Appendix B
Section 252, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2001 {Public Law ~ 06-398)
SEC. 252. AIR FORCE SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY PLANNING.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REVIEW. The Secretary of
the Air Force shall conduct a review of the long-term chal-
lenges and short-term objectives of the Air Force science
and technology programs. The Secretary shall complete the
review not later than one year after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
(b) MATTERS TO BE REVIEWED. The review shall
include the following:
(1) An assessment of the budgetary resources that
are being used for fiscal year 2001 for addressing the
long-term challenges and the short-term objectives of the
Air Force science and technology programs.
(2) The budgetary resources that are necessary to
address those challenges and objectives adequately.
(3) A course of action for each projected or ongo-
ing Air Force science and technology program that does
not address either the long-term challenges or the short-
term objectives.
(4) The matters required under subsection (c)~5) and
(d)~6~.
(c) LONG-TERM CHALLENGES. (1) The Secretary
of the Air Force shall establish an integrated product team to
identify high-risk, high-payoff challenges that will provide a
long-term focus and motivation for the Air Force science
and technology programs over the next 20 to 50 years follow-
ing the enactment of this Act. The integrated product team
shall include representatives of the Office of Scientific
Research and personnel from the Air Force Research Labo-
ratory.
(2) The team shall solicit views from the entire Air Force
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science and technology community on the matters under
consideration by the team.
(3) The team-
(A) shall select for consideration science and tech-
nology challenges that involve-
(i) compelling requirements of the Air Force;
(ii) high-risk, high-payoff areas of exploration; and
(iii) very difficult, but probably achievable,
results; and
(B) should not select a linear extension of any on-
going Air Force science and technology program for con-
sideration as a science and technology challenge under
subparagraph (A).
(4) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Science, Technology, and Engineering shall designate a tech-
nical coordinator and a management coordinator for each
science and technology challenge identified pursuant to this
subsection. Each technical coordinator shall have sufficient
expertise in fields related to the challenge to be able to iden-
tify other experts in such fields and to affirm the credibility
of the challenge. The coordinator for a science and technol-
ogy challenge shall conduct workshops within the relevant
scientific and technological community to obtain suggestions
for possible approaches to addressing the challenge and to
identify ongoing work that addresses the challenge, deficien-
cies in current work relating to the challenge, and promising
areas of research.
(5) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of the Air
Force shall review the science and technology challenges
identified pursuant to this subsection and, for each such chal-
lenge, at a minimum-
(A) consider the results of the workshops conducted
pursuant to paragraph (4~; and
(B) identify any work not currently funded by the
Air Force that should be performed to meet the challenge.
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APPENDIX B
(d) SHORT-TERM OBJECTIVES. (1) The Secretary
of the Air Force shall establish a task force to identify short-
term technological objectives of the Air Force science and
technology programs. The task force shall be chaired by the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science,
Technology, and Engineering and shall include representa-
tives of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the specified
combatant commands of the Air Force.
(2) The task force shall solicit views from the entire Air
Force requirements community, user community, and acqui-
sition community.
(3) The task force shall select for consideration short-term
objectives that involve-
(A) compelling requirements of the Air Force;
(B) support in the user community; and
(C) likely attainment of the desired benefits within
a five-year period.
(4) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Science, Technology, and Engineering shall establish an in-
tegrated product team for each short-term objective identi-
fied pursuant to this sub-section. Each integrated product
team shall include representatives of the requirements com-
munity, the user community, and the science and technology
community with relevant expertise.
(5) The integrated product team for a short-term objective
shall be responsible for
(A) identifying, defining, and prioritizing the en-
abling capabilities that are necessary for achieving the
objective;
(B) identifying deficiencies in the enabling capa-
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bilities that must be addressed if the short-term objective
is to be achieved; and
(C) working with the Air Force science and tech-
nology community to identify science and technology
projects and programs that should be undertaken to elimi-
nate each deficiency in an enabling capability.
(6) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of the Air
Force shall review the short-term science and technology
objectives identified pursuant to this subsection and, for each
such objective, at a minimum-
(A) consider the work of the integrated product
team conducted pursuant to paragraph (5); and
(B) identify the science and technology work of the
Air Force that should be undertaken to eliminate each
deficiency in enabling capabilities that is identified by
the integrated product team pursuant to subparagraph (B)
of that paragraph.
(e) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW. (1) Not
later than 90 days after the Secretary of the Air Force com-
pletes the review required by subsection (a), the Comptroller
General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of
the review. The report shall include the Comptroller General's
assessment regarding the extent to which the review was
conducted in compliance with the requirements of this section.
(2) Immediately upon completing the review required by
subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall notify the
Comptroller General of the completion of the review. For
the purposes of paragraph (1), the date of the notification
shall be considered the date of the completion of the review.
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