Strategies for enhancing jointness during modernization of Common Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination systems

(a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall— (1) develop two strategies, one for the 2-year period beginning on that date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and one for a long-term period, for the use by the Department of Defense of the Distributed Common Ground System (referred to in this section as the system), or any successor system, that each include input from the military departments, the combatant commands, and the joint commands with regard to such system, including— (A) new requirements that the system is intended to satisfy; (B) any planned investment or divestment; (C) a justification for the plan of any military department to replace service-managed components of the system, including a description of how the plan will enhance processing, exploitation, and dissemination capability; and (D) an explanation of how proposed changes to the architecture of the system will improve the functionality or interoperability of the system; and (2) submit to the appropriate congressional committees a copy of the strategies developed pursuant to paragraph (1). (b) Appropriate congressional committees defined In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— (1) the congressional intelligence committees; (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (3) the Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.