Modifications to commercial solutions openings

Section 3458 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) Authority The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may acquire commercial products, commercial services, and nondevelopmental items through a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a general solicitation and the peer review, technical review, or operational review (as appropriate) of such proposals, and may issue, without further justification, follow-on contract awards or agreements, including sole source awards or agreements, to the recipient.; (2) by redesignating subsection (c), (d), and (e) as subsections (d), (e), and (h), respectively; (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection: (c) Sole-Source follow-On The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may issue, without further justification, follow-on contract awards or agreements, including sole source awards or agreements, to a recipient competitively selected under subsection (a).; (4) in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), as redesignated by paragraph (2) of this section, by striking the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment or the relevant service acquisition executive and inserting the head of the contracting activity (or the head of the contracting activity's designated delegate); (5) in subsection (e), as so redesignated— (A) by striking (1); and (B) by striking paragraph (2); and (6) by inserting after such subsection, as so redesignated, the following new subsection: (f) Nontraditional vehicle (1) The Secretary of Defense shall establish an open topic and enduring general solicitation described in subsection (a) for each systems command, science and technology reinvention laboratory, and portfolio acquisition executive. (2) The preferred model for developing and producing operational military capabilities using general solicitations in paragraph (1) shall be the urgent capability acquisition, middle tier of acquisition, software acquisition, or services acquisition pathways of the Department of Defense Adaptive Acquisition Framework described in Department of Defense Instructions 5000.85 and 5000.2..