DEDICATED AMOUNTS FOR IMPLEMENTING OR EVALUATING NAVY SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY PROPOSALS UNDER DEFENSE ACQUISITION CHALLENGE PROGRAM.

SEC. 215. DEDICATED AMOUNTS FOR IMPLEMENTING OR EVALUATING NAVY SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY PROPOSALS UNDER DEFENSE ACQUISITION CHALLENGE PROGRAM.(a) Amounts Required.—Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 201(4) for research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, $4,000,000 may be available to implement or evaluate challenge proposals specified in subsection (b).(b) Challenge Proposals Covered.—A challenge proposal referred to in subsection (a) is a proposal under the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program established by section 2359b of title 10, United States Code, that relates to technology directly contributing to combat systems and open architecture design for Navy ship platforms.