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10 U.S.C. § 4001 — Research and development projects

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10 U.S.C. § 4001 — Research and development projects

**(a) Authority.—** The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department may engage in basic research, applied research, advanced research, and development projects that— (1) are necessary to the responsibilities of such Secretary’s department in the field of research and development; and (2) either— (A) relate to weapon systems and other military needs; or (B) are of potential interest to the Department of Defense. **(b) Authorized Means.—** The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department may perform research and development projects— (1) by contract, cooperative agreement, or grant, in accordance with chapter 63 of title 31; (2) through one or more military departments; (3) by using employees and consultants of the Department of Defense; (4) by mutual agreement with the head of any other department or agency of the Federal Government; (5) by transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants) entered into pursuant to section 4021 or 4022 of this title; or (6) by purchases through procurement for experimental purposes pursuant to [section 4023 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4023&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Requirement of Potential Department of Defense Interest.—** Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense or to a military department may not be used to finance any research project or study unless the project or study is, in the opinion of the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of that military department, respectively, of potential interest to the Department of Defense or to such military department, respectively. **(d) Additional Provisions Applicable to Cooperative Agreements.—** Additional authorities, conditions, and requiremen

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10 U.S.C. § 2223 — Information technology: additional responsibilities of Chief Information Officers

**(a) Additional Responsibilities of Chief Information Officer of Department of Defense.—** In addition to the responsibilities provided for in chapter 35 of title 44 and in [section 11315 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section11315&num=0&edition=prelim), the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense shall— (1) review and provide recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on Department of Defense budget requests for information technology and national security systems; (2) ensure the interoperability of information technology and national security systems throughout the Department of Defense; (3) ensure that information technology and national security systems standards that will apply throughout the Department of Defense are prescribed; (4) provide for the elimination of duplicate information technology and national security systems within and between the military departments and Defense Agencies; and (5) maintain a consolidated inventory of Department of Defense mission critical and mission essential information systems, identify interfaces between those systems and other information systems, and develop and maintain contingency plans for responding to a disruption in the operation of any of those information systems. **(b) Additional Responsibilities of Chief Information Officer of Military Departments.—** In addition to the responsibilities provided for in chapter 35 of title 44 and in [section 11315 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section11315&num=0&edition=prelim), the Chief Information Officer of a military department, with respect to the military department concerned, shall— (1) review budget requests for all information technology and nation

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15 U.S.C. § 3710a — Cooperative research and development agreements

**(a) General authority** Each Federal agency may permit the director of any of its Government-operated Federal laboratories, and, to the extent provided in an agency-approved joint work statement or, if permitted by the agency, in an agency-approved annual strategic plan, the director of any of its Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories— (1) to enter into cooperative research and development agreements on behalf of such agency (subject to subsection (c) of this section) with other Federal agencies; units of State, local, or territorial government; industrial organizations (including corporations, partnerships, and limited partnerships, and industrial development organizations); public and private foundations; nonprofit organizations (including universities); or other persons (including licensees of inventions owned by the Federal agency); and (2) to negotiate licensing agreements under [section 207 of title 35](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title35-section207&num=0&edition=prelim), or under other authorities (in the case of a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory, subject to subsection (c) of this section) for inventions made or other intellectual property developed at the laboratory and other inventions or other intellectual property that may be voluntarily assigned to the Government. **(b) Enumerated authority** (1) Under an agreement entered into pursuant to subsection (a)(1), the laboratory may grant, or agree to grant in advance, to a collaborating party patent licenses or assignments, or options thereto, in any invention made in whole or in part by a laboratory employee under the agreement, or, subject to [section 209 of title 35](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title35-section

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10 U.S.C. § 111 — Executive department

**(a)** The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States. **(b)** The Department is composed of the following: (1) The Office of the Secretary of Defense. (2) The Joint Chiefs of Staff. (3) The Joint Staff. (4) The Defense Agencies. (5) Department of Defense Field Activities. (6) The Department of the Army. (7) The Department of the Navy. (8) The Department of the Air Force. (9) The unified and specified combatant commands. (10) Such other offices, agencies, activities, and commands as may be established or designated by law or by the President. (11) All offices, agencies, activities, and commands under the control or supervision of any element named in paragraphs (1) through (10). **(c)** If the President establishes or designates an office, agency, activity, or command in the Department of Defense of a kind other than those described in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection (b), the President shall notify Congress not later than 60 days thereafter.

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10 U.S.C. § 4022 — Authority of the Department of Defense to carry out certain prototype projects

**(a) Authority.—** (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, the Secretary of a military department, or any other official designated by the Secretary of Defense may, under the authority of [section 4021 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4021&num=0&edition=prelim), carry out prototype projects that are directly relevant to enhancing the mission effectiveness of personnel of the Department of Defense or improving platforms, systems, components, or materials proposed to be acquired or developed by the Department of Defense, or to improvement of platforms, systems, components, or materials in use by the armed forces. (2) The authority of this section— (A) may be exercised for a transaction for a prototype project that is expected to cost the Department of Defense in excess of $100,000,000 but not in excess of $500,000,000 (including all options) only upon a written determination by the head of the contracting activity, or, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, or the Missile Defense Agency, the director of the agency that— (i) the requirements of subsection (d) will be met; and (ii) the use of the authority of this section is essential to promoting the success of the prototype project; (B) may be exercised for a transaction for a prototype project that is expected to cost the Department of Defense in excess of $500,000,000 (including all options) only if— (i) the senior procurement executive for the agency as designated for the purpose of [section 1702(c) of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section1702/c&num=0&ed

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10 U.S.C. § 3603 — Software acquisition pathways

**(a) Software Acquisition and Development Pathways.—** The Secretary of Defense shall establish pathways as described under subsection (b) to provide for the efficient and effective acquisition, development, integration, and timely delivery of software and covered hardware. **(b) Pathways.—** The Secretary of Defense may establish as many pathways under this section as the Secretary determines appropriate and shall establish the following pathways: (1) **Applications.—** — The applications pathway shall provide for the use of rapid development and implementation of applications and other software or software improvements operated by the Department of Defense, which may include applications and associated procurement of covered hardware (including modifications of a type not customarily available in the commercial marketplace to meet Department requirements), commercially available cloud computing platforms, and other nondevelopmental items. (2) **Embedded systems.—** — The embedded systems pathway shall provide for the rapid development and insertion of upgrades and improvements for software and covered hardware embedded in weapon systems and other hardware systems unique to the Department of Defense. **(c) Requirements for Pathways.—** A pathway established under this section shall provide for the use of proven technologies and solutions to continuously engineer and deliver capabilities for software and covered hardware. **(d) Considerations for Use of Authority.—** In using the authority under this section, the Secretary shall consider how such use will— (1) initiate the engineering of new software capabilities quickly and, if applicable, the integration of such capabilities into covered hardware; (2) demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of such capabil

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10 U.S.C. § 4121 — Science and technology reinvention laboratories: authority and designation

**(a) In General.—** (1) The Secretary of Defense may carry out personnel demonstration projects at Department of Defense laboratories designated by the Secretary as Department of Defense science and technology reinvention laboratories. (2) (A) Each personnel demonstration project carried out under the authority of paragraph (1) shall be generally similar in nature to the China Lake demonstration project. (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the China Lake demonstration project is the demonstration project that is authorized by section 6 of the Civil Service Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1983 (Public Law 98–224) to be continued at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. (3) If the Secretary carries out a demonstration project at a laboratory pursuant to paragraph (1), [section 4703 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4703&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply to the demonstration project, except that— (A) subsection (d) of such section 4703 shall not apply to the demonstration project; (B) the authority of the Secretary to carry out the demonstration project is that which is provided in paragraph (1) rather than the authority which is provided in such section 4703; and (C) the Secretary shall exercise the authorities granted to the Office of Personnel Management under such section 4703 through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (who shall place an emphasis in the exercise of such authorities on enhancing efficient operations of the laboratory and who may, in exercising such authorities, request administrative support from science and technology reinvention laboratories to review, research, and adjudicate per

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10 U.S.C. § 2371 — Renumbered § 4021]

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10 U.S.C. § 4801 — Definitions

In this subpart: (1) The term “national technology and industrial base” means the persons and organizations that are engaged in research, development, production, integration, services, or information technology activities conducted within the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. (2) The term “dual-use” with respect to products, services, standards, processes, or acquisition practices, means products, services, standards, processes, or acquisition practices, respectively, that are capable of meeting requirements for military and nonmilitary applications. (3) The term “dual-use critical technology” means a critical technology that has military applications and nonmilitary applications. (4) The term “technology and industrial base sector” means a group of public or private persons and organizations that engage in, or are capable of engaging in, similar research, development, production, integration, services, or information technology activities. (5) The terms “Federal laboratory” and “laboratory” have the meaning given the term “laboratory” in section 12(d)(2) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ([15 U.S.C. 3710a(d)(2)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3710a/d/2&num=0&edition=prelim)), except that such terms include a federally funded research and development center sponsored by a Federal agency. (6) The term “critical technology” means a technology that is— (A) a national critical technology; or (B) a defense critical technology. (7) The term “national critical technology” means a technology that appears on the list of national critical technologies contained in the most recent biennial report on national critical technolo

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10 U.S.C. § 2358 — Renumbered § 4001]

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42 U.S.C. § 15801 — National Laboratory Jobs ACCESS Program

**(a) In general** On or after the date that is 180 days after December 20, 2019, the Secretary may establish a program, to be known as the “Department of Energy National Lab Jobs ACCESS Program”, under which the Secretary may award, on a competitive basis, 5-year grants to eligible entities described in subsection (c) for the Federal share of the costs of pre-apprenticeship programs and apprenticeship programs described in subsection (b). **(b) Pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs described** A pre-apprenticeship program or apprenticeship program described in this subsection is a pre-apprenticeship program or apprenticeship program that— (1) leads to recognized postsecondary credentials for secondary school and postsecondary students; (2) is focused on skills and qualifications needed, as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the directors of the National Laboratories, to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of traditional and emerging technician positions (including machinists and cybersecurity technicians) at the National Laboratories and covered facilities of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (3) is established in consultation with a National Laboratory or covered facility of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (4) is registered with and approved by the Secretary of Labor or a State apprenticeship agency; and (5) ensures that participants in the pre-apprenticeship program or apprenticeship program do not displace paid employees. **(c) Eligible entities described** An eligible entity described in this subsection is a workforce intermediary or an eligible sponsor of a pre-apprenticeship program or apprenticeship program that— (1) demonstrates experience in implementing and providing career planning and career pathways

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