BRIEFING BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL AND LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS PENDING COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENT FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES REGARDING POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS.

SEC. 1050. BRIEFING BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL AND LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS PENDING COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENT FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES REGARDING POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS. (a) Briefing Requirement.—Not later than March 31, 2022, the Comptroller General of the United States shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the status of the ongoing efforts of the Comptroller General with respect to the effectiveness of each of the following: (1) Department of Defense programming and planning for the nuclear enterprise. (2) Department of Defense processes for identifying the relevance of legacy military systems. (3) Defense weapon system acquisition and contracting. (b) Limitation on Availability of Funds.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2022 for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for travel expenses, not more than 90 percent may be obligated or expended before the date on which the Secretary of Defense has entered into agreements for the conduct of the independent reviews required under section 1753 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116-92; 133 Stat. 1852).