DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TEST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CENTER.

SEC. 231. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TEST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CENTER. (a) Establishment.–(1) Subchapter I of chapter 8 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 196. Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center “(a) Establishment as Department of Defense Field Activity.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish within the Department of Defense under section 191 of this title a Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘Center’). The Secretary shall designate the Center as a Department of Defense Field Activity. “(b) Director and Deputy Director.—(1) At the head of the Center shall be a Director, selected by the Secretary from among commissioned officers of the armed forces on active duty. The Director, while so serving, holds the grade of lieutenant general or, in the case of an officer of the Navy, vice admiral. “(2) There shall be a Deputy Director of the Center, selected by the Secretary from among senior civilian officers and employees of the Department of Defense who have substantial experience in the field of test and evaluation. The Deputy Director shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Director when the Director is disabled or the position of Director is vacant. “(c) Duties of Director.—The Director shall have the following duties: “(1) To review and provide oversight of proposed Department of Defense budgets and expenditures for— “(A) the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Major Range and Test Facility Base of the Department of Defense; and “(B) all other test and evaluation facilities and resources within and outside of the Department of Defense. “(2) To complete and maintain the strategic plan required by subsection (d). “(3) To review proposed budgets under subsection (e) and submit reports and certifications required by such subsection. “(4) To administer the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program and the program of the Department of Defense for test and evaluation science and technology. “(d) Strategic Plan for Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Resources.—(1) Not less often than once every two fiscal years, the Director, in coordination with the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Secretaries of the military departments, and the heads of Defense Agencies with test and evaluation 116 STAT. 2488responsibilities, shall complete a strategic plan reflecting the needs of the Department of Defense with respect to test and evaluation facilities and resources. Each such strategic plan shall cover the period of ten fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year in which the plan is submitted under paragraph (3). The strategic plan shall be based on a comprehensive review of the test and evaluation requirements of the Department and the adequacy of the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department to meet those requirements. “(2) The strategic plan shall include the following: “(A) An assessment of the test and evaluation requirements of the Department for the period covered by the plan. “(B) An identification of performance measures associated with the successful achievement of test and evaluation objectives for the period covered by the plan. “(C) An assessment of the test and evaluation facilities and resources that will be needed to meet such requirements and satisfy such performance measures. “(D) An assessment of the current state of the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department. “(E) An itemization of acquisitions, upgrades, and improvements necessary to ensure that the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department are adequate to meet such requirements and satisfy such performance measures. “(F) An assessment of the budgetary resources necessary to implement such acquisitions, upgrades, and improvements. “(3) Upon completing a strategic plan under paragraph (1), the Director shall submit to the Secretary of Defense a report on that plan. The report shall include the plan and a description of the review on which the plan is based. –(4) Not later than 60 days after the date on which the report is submitted under paragraph (3), the Secretary of Defense snail transmit to the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the report, together with any comments with respect to the report that the Secretary considers appropriate. “(e) Certification of Budgets.—(1) The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), shall require that the Secretary of each military department, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, and the head of each Defense Agency with test and evaluation responsibilities transmit such Secretary’s, Director’s, or head’s proposed budget for test and evaluation activities for a fiscal year to the Director of the Center for review under paragraph (2) before submitting such proposed budget to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). “(2)(A) The Director of the Center shall review each proposed budget transmitted under paragraph (1) and shall, not later than January 31 of the year preceding the fiscal year for which such budgets are proposed, submit to the Secretary of Defense a report containing the comments of the Director with respect to all such proposed budgets, together with the certification of the Director as to whether such proposed budgets are adequate. “(B) The Director shall also submit, together with such report and such certification, an additional certification as to whether such proposed budgets provide balanced support for such strategic plan.116 STAT. 2489 “(3) The Secretary of Defense shall, not later than March 31 of the year preceding the fiscal year for which such budgets are proposed, submit to Congress a report on those proposed budgets which the Director has not certified under paragraph (2)(A) to be adequate. The report shall include the following matters: “(A) A discussion of the actions that the Secretary proposes to take, together with any recommended legislation that the Secretary considers appropriate, to address the inadequacy of the proposed budgets. “(B) Any additional comments that the Secretary considers appropriate regarding the inadequacy of the proposed budgets. “(f) Supervision of Director by Under Secretary.—The Director of the Center shall be subject to the supervision of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. The Director shall report directly to the Under Secretary, without the interposition of any other supervising official. “(g) Administrative Support of Center.—The Secretary of Defense shall provide the Director with administrative support adequate for carrying out the Director’s responsibilities under this section. The Secretary shall provide the support out of the headquarters activities of the Department or any other activities that the Secretary considers appropriate. “(h) Definition.—In this section, the term ‘Major Range and Test Facility Base’ means the test and evaluation facilities and resources that are designated by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation as facilities and resources comprising the Major Range and Test Facility Base.”. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: “196. Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center. ”. (b) First Strategic Plan.—The first strategic plan required to be completed under subsection (d)(1) of section 196 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall be completed not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Administration of CTEIP and DOD T&E S&T Programs.—The duty of the Director of the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center to administer the programs specified in subsection (c)(4) of section 196 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall take effect, and such programs shall be placed under control of such Director, upon the beginning of the first fiscal year that begins after the report on the first strategic plan referred to subsection (b) is transmitted to the congressional committees required by subsection (d)(4) of such section 196.