INDEPENDENT COST ANALYSIS.

SEC. 704. INDEPENDENT COST ANALYSIS. Section 301 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 2459g) is amended—(1) by striking “Phase B” in subsection (a) and inserting “implementation”;(2) by striking “$150,000,000” and inserting “$250,000,000”;(3) by striking “Chief Financial Officer” each place it appears in subsection (a) and inserting “Administrator”;(4) by inserting “and consider” in subsection (a) after “shall conduct”; and(5) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:“(b) Implementation Defined.—In this section, the term ‘implementation’ means all activity in the life cycle of a project after preliminary design, independent assessment of the preliminary design, and approval to proceed into implementation, including critical design, development, certification, launch, operations, disposal of assets, and, for technology programs, development, testing, analysis, and communication of the results.”.