Nontraditional defense contractor commercial solutions opening

Section 3458 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (j) Nontraditional vehicle (1) The Secretary of Defense shall establish not fewer than 5 consortia to conduct prototype projects and follow-on production under the authority of section 4022 of this title for each systems command and each portfolio acquisition executive. (2) The preferred model for developing and producing operational military capabilities using the consortia 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 Instruction 5000.2. (3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the number of consortia established by the Secretary of Defense..