STANDOFF AIR-TO-SURFACE MUNITIONS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION.

SEC. 223. STANDOFF AIR-TO-SURFACE MUNITIONS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION. (a) In General.—(1) Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 201, up to $2,000,000 of the amount for the Navy and up to $2,000,000 of the amount for the Air Force may be used for the conduct of a demonstration of nondevelopmental technology that would enable the use of a single adaptor kit for munitions described in paragraph (2) in order to give those munitions a standoff, near-precision guided capability. (2) Paragraph (1) applies to unguided, in-inventory munitions of the class of 1,000 pounds and below. (b) Request for Information.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall issue a request for information for nondevelopmental munitions adaptor kits for the purpose described in subsection (a). (c) Contractor Selection.—Not later than 30 days after the closing date of the request for information under subsection (b), the Secretary of the Navy shall determine whether any of the responses received have sufficient technical merit to justify the conduct of a technology demonstration. If the Secretary determines that the conduct of such a technology demonstration is justified, the Secretary shall select the single most promising technology offered, if applicable, for that demonstration. (d) Technology Demonstration.—If the Secretary determines under subsection (c) that a technology demonstration is warranted, the Secretary shall require the contractor selected to complete a suitable nondevelopmental item demonstration of the contractor’s adaptor kit proposal. (e) Report.—If a contractor is selected in accordance with subsection (c) and a demonstration is accomplished in accordance with subsection (d), the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report detailing the results and costs of the demonstration and the applicability of the technology demonstrated in providing the Armed Forces with an inexpensive solution to providing near-precision guided munition capability to in-inventory munitions.