OBJECTIVE FOR INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING OF TEST AND EVALUATION FACILITIES.

SEC. 232. OBJECTIVE FOR INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING OF TEST AND EVALUATION FACILITIES. (a) Funding Objective.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish the objective of ensuring that, by fiscal year 2006— (1) the institutional and overhead costs of a facility or resource of a military department or Defense Agency that is within the Major Range and Test Facility Base are fully funded through the major test and evaluation investment accounts of the military department or Defense Agency, the account of the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program of 116 STAT. 2490the Department of Defense, and other appropriate accounts of the military department or Defense Agency; and (2) the charge to an element of the Department of Defense for a use by that element of such a facility or resource for testing under a particular program is not more than the amount equal to the direct costs of such use by that element. (b) Definitions.—In this section: (1) 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 term “institutional and overhead costs”, with respect to a facility or resource within the Major Range Test and Facility Base— (A) means the costs of maintaining, operating, upgrading, and modernizing the facility or resource; and (B) does not include any incremental cost of operating the facility or resource that is attributable to the use of the facility or resource for testing under a particular program. (3) The term “direct costs”, with respect to a facility or resource within the Major Range and Test Facility Base, means those costs that are directly attributable to the use of the facility or resource for testing under a particular program, over and above the institutional and overhead costs with respect to the facility or resource.