HIGH ALTITUDE ENDURANCE UNMANNED VEHICLE PROGRAM.

SEC. 216. HIGH ALTITUDE ENDURANCE UNMANNED VEHICLE PROGRAM. (a) Limitation on Total Cost of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration.—The total amount obligated or expended 111 STAT. 1660for advanced concept technology demonstration under the High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Vehicle Program for fiscal year 1998 through fiscal year 2003 may not exceed $476,826,000. (b) Limitation on Procurement.—The Secretary of Defense may not procure any high altitude endurance unmanned vehicles, other than the currently planned vehicles, until the completion of the testing identified in phase II of the test and demonstration plan for the advanced concept technology demonstration for the vehicles. (c) Limitation on Proceeding.—The High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Vehicle Program may not proceed beyond advanced concept technology demonstration until the Secretary of Defense— (1) provides to Congress a firm unit cost (referred to in this section as the “fly away cost”) for each of the currently planned vehicles; and (2) certifies to Congress the military suitability and the worth of each such vehicle. (d) GAO Review.—(1) The Comptroller General shall review the High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Vehicle Program for purposes of determining whether the average fly away cost for each vehicle is within the cost goal under the program of $10,000,000. (2) The Secretary of Defense and the prime contractors under the High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Vehicle Program shall provide the Comptroller General with such information on the program as the Comptroller considers necessary to make the determination under paragraph (1). (e) Currently Planned Vehicles.—In this section, the term “currently planned vehicles” means the four Dark Star air vehicles and the five Global Hawk air vehicles that have been approved for procurement by the Secretary of Defense as of the elate of the enactment of this Act.