LIVE-FIRE SURVIVABILITY TESTING OF F–22 AIRCRAFT.

SEC. 215. LIVE-FIRE SURVIVABILITY TESTING OF F–22 AIRCRAFT. (a) Authority for Retroactive Waiver.— The Secretary of Defense may, in accordance with section 2366(c) of title 10, United States Code, waive for the F–22 aircraft program the survivability tests required by that section, notwithstanding that such program has entered engineering and manufacturing development. (b) Alternative Survivability Test Requirements.— If the Secretary of Defense submits in accordance with section 2366(c)(1) of title 10, United States Code, a certification that live-fire testing of the F–22 aircraft would be unreasonably expensive and impractical, the Secretary shall require that components and subsystems critical to the survivability of the F–22 aircraft be subjected to live-fire testing under an alternative live-fire testing program that, by reason of the number of such components and subsystems tested and the realism of the threat environments under which the components and subsystems are tested, will yield test results that provide a sufficient basis for drawing meaningful conclusions about the survivability of F—22 aircraft. (c) Funding.— The funds required to carry out any alternative live-fire testing of the F–22 aircraft system shall be made available from amounts appropriated for the F–22 program.