ENERGETICS PLAN.

SEC. 253. ENERGETICS PLAN. (a) Plan Required.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall, in coordination with the technical directors at defense laboratories and such other officials as the Under Secretary considers appropriate, develop an energetics research and development plan to ensure a long-term multi-domain research, development, prototyping, and experimentation effort that— (1) maintains United States technological superiority in energetics technology critical to national security; (2) efficiently develops new energetics technologies and transitions them into operational use, as appropriate; (3) maintains a robust industrial base and workforce to support Department of Defense requirements for energetic materials; and (4) assesses the feasibility and advisability of establishing a program office— (A) to coordinate energetics research; and (B) to ensure a robust and sustained energetics material enterprise. (b) Briefing.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary shall brief the congressional defense committees on the plan developed under subsection (a).