MANAGEMENT OF NAVY MINE COUNTERMEASURES PROGRAMS.

SEC. 216. MANAGEMENT OF NAVY MINE COUNTERMEASURES PROGRAMS. (a) Responsibility.—Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the Director, Defense Research and Engineering shall have the primary responsibility for developing and testing naval mine countermeasures systems during fiscal years 1993 through 1997. (b) Waiver Authority.—The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement in subsection (a) with respect to any fiscal year if, not later than June 1 of the calendar year in which that fiscal year begins, the Secretary certifies to the congressional defense committees that— (1) the Secretary of the Navy, in consultation with the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, has submitted to the Secretary of Defense an updated mine countermeasures master plan that identifies— (A) technologies having promising potential for use for improving mine countermeasures; and (B) programs for advancing those technologies into production; (2) the budget submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for that fiscal year and the multiyear defense program submitted to Congress in connection with that budget pursuant to section 114a of title 10, United States Code, propose sufficient resources for executing the updated mine countermeasures master plan; and (3) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has determined that the budget resources for mine countermeasures and the updated mine countermeasures master plan are sufficient.