ELECTRONIC COMBAT SYSTEMS TESTING.

SEC. 220. ELECTRONIC COMBAT SYSTEMS TESTING. (a) Detailed Test and Evaluation Before Initial Low-Rate Production.—The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that any electronic combat system and any command, control, and communications countermeasure system is authorized to proceed into the low-rate initial production stage only upon the completion of an appropriate, rigorous, and structured test and evaluation regime. Such a regime shall include testing and evaluation at each of the following types of facilities: computer simulation and modeling facilities, measurement facilities, system integration laboratories, simulated threat hardware-in-the-loop test facilities, installed system test facilities, and open air ranges. (b) Timely Test and Evaluation Required.—The Secretary shall ensure that test and evaluation of a system as required by subsection (a) is conducted sufficiently early in the development phase to allow— 107 STAT. 1590 (1) a correction-of-deficiency plan to be developed and in place for deficiencies identified by the testing before the system proceeds into low-rate initial production; and (2) the deficiencies identified by test and evaluation to be corrected before the system proceeds beyond low-rate initial production. (c) Annual Report on Compliance.—The Secretary of Defense shall include in the annual Department of Defense Electronic Warfare Plan report a description of compliance with this section during the preceding year. Such a report shall include a description of the test and evaluation process applied to each system, the results of that process, and the adequacy of test and evaluation resources to carry out that process. (d) Funds used for Testing.—The costs of the testing necessary to carry out this section with respect to any system shall be paid from funds available for that system. (e) Applicability.—The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to any ACAT I level electronic combat system milestone I program and to any command, control, and communications countermeasure system milestone I program that is initiated after the date of the enactment of this Act.