Bridging Operational Objectives and Support for Transition program

(a) Bridging Operational Objectives and Support for Transition program (1) Establishment In meeting the responsibilities of the Defense Innovation Unit under section 4127(d) of title 10, United States Code, the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit shall establish a program (to be known as the Bridging Operational Objectives and Support for Transition program) to accelerate the adoption or integration of commercial technologies into programs of record of the Department of Defense. (2) Program execution Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Director shall issue guidance on the BOOST program, including guidance to do the following: (A) Enable a customer seeking a technology solution for a challenge or requirement in a program of record of the Department of Defense to request assistance under the BOOST program with identifying and adopting or integrating such a solution into such program. (B) Establish requirements for the Defense Innovation Unit to— (i) conduct a review of commercial technologies pursuant to a request described in subparagraph (A) with respect to a challenge or requirement of a program of record of the Department to identify commercial technology that may address such challenge or requirement; (ii) provide to the customer that made such request the findings of such review, including any commercial technologies so identified; and (iii) at the request of such customer after providing such findings to such customer, conduct development, experimentation, or integration activities in coordination with such customer to support or enable the adoption or integration of any commercial technology so identified into such program of record. (C) Establish criteria for terminating assistance under the BOOST program for a customer or with respect to a commercial technology. (3) Support to other programs The Director shall ensure the BOOST program works with and in support of— (A) the program established under section 4061(a) of title 10, United States Code; (B) other organizations of the Department of Defense responsible for accelerating the adoption and integration of technology in systems or programs of the Department; (C) the Small Business Innovation Research Program; (D) the Small Business Technology Transfer Program; and (E) the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (as described in the Department of Defense Directive 5000.71 titled Rapid Fulfillment of Combatant Commander Urgent Operational Needs (August 24, 2012)). (4) Funding Subject to the availability of appropriations, amounts authorized to be appropriated the Defense Innovation Unit for research, development, test, and evaluation for a fiscal year may be used for such fiscal year to carry out the BOOST program. (5) Sunset The authorities and requirements under this subsection shall expire on December 31, 2030. (b) Reporting Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and the Director, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the effectiveness of the BOOST program in accelerating the adoption or integration of commercial technologies into programs of record of the Department of Defense, including— (1) a summary description of customers and technologies adopted or integrated into such programs of record based on assistance provided under the BOOST program; (2) recommendations of the Secretary to improve the BOOST program; and (3) a recommendation whether to continue or terminate the BOOST program. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) The term BOOST program means the program established under subsection (a)(1). (2) The term customer means a program manager or program executive officer of the Department of Defense that has primary responsibility for fielding the system or systems acquired. (3) The term Director means the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit. (4) The term program executive officer has the meaning given such term in section 1737(a) of title 10, United States Code. (5) The terms Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program have the meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 9(e) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)).