APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN ELECTRONIC COMBAT SYSTEMS TESTING REQUIREMENTS.

SEC. 214. APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN ELECTRONIC COMBAT SYSTEMS TESTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) Covered Systems.— Subsection (a) of section 220 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103–160; 107 Stat. 1589) is amended— (1) by inserting “ACAT I level integrated or stand-alone” before “electronic combat system”; and (2) by inserting “ACAT I level integrated or stand-alone” before “command, control, and communications countermeasure system”. (b) Applicability.— Subsection (e) of section 220 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 108 STAT. 2693 “(e) Applicability.— The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to an ACAT I level integrated or stand-alone electronic combat system and to an ACAT I level integrated or stand-alone command, control, and communications countermeasure system that has not entered engineering and manufacturing development as of September 1, 1994”. (c) Waiver.— Section 220 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(f) Waiver Authority.— (1) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to a system in any case in which the Secretary determines that a waiver is necessary in the interests of national security. “(2) Whenever the Secretary proposes to make such a waiver, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a notice of the proposed waiver and the reasons for the waiver. The waiver may then be made only after the expiration of the 30-day period that begins on the date on which the notice is submitted to Congress.”.