[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2455 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2455

   To require the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress annual 
 reports on the unfunded priorities of the Department of Defense-wide 
 research, development, test, and evaluation activities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 20, 2023

Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mr. Manchin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress annual 
 reports on the unfunded priorities of the Department of Defense-wide 
 research, development, test, and evaluation activities, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation Unmet Needs Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNFUNDED PRIORITIES FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, 
              TEST, AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 9 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 222d the following new section:
``Sec. 222e. Unfunded priorities for research, development, test, and 
              evaluation activities
    ``(a) Annual Report.--Not later than 10 days after the date on 
which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is submitted to 
Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, the Secretary of Defense 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the 
unfunded priorities of the Department of Defense-wide research, 
development, test, and evaluation activities.
    ``(b) Contents.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection (c), 
        each report submitted under subsection (a) shall specify, for 
        each unfunded priority covered by such report, the following:
                    ``(A) A summary description of such priority, 
                including the objectives to be achieved if such 
                priority is funded (whether in whole or in part).
                    ``(B) The additional amount of funds recommended in 
                connection with the objectives under subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) Account information with respect to such 
                priority, including the following (as applicable):
                            ``(i) Line Item Number (LIN) for applicable 
                        procurement accounts.
                            ``(ii) Program Element (PE) number for 
                        applicable research, development, test, and 
                        evaluation accounts.
            ``(2) Prioritization of priorities.--The report under 
        subsection (a) shall present the unfunded priorities covered by 
        such report in order of urgency of priority.
    ``(c) Exclusion of Priorities Covered in Other Reports.--The report 
submitted under subsection (a) shall not include unfunded priorities or 
requirements covered in reports submitted under--
            ``(1) section 222a or 222b; or
            ``(2) section 2806 of the National Defense Authorization 
        Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 10 U.S.C. 222a 
        note).
    ``(d) Unfunded Priority Defined.--In this section, the term 
`unfunded priority', in the case of a fiscal year, means a program, 
activity, or mission requirement, that--
            ``(1) is not funded in the budget of the President for the 
        fiscal year as submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 
        of title 31; and
            ``(2) would have been recommended for funding through that 
        budget if--
                    ``(A) additional resources had been available for 
                the budget to fund the program, activity, or mission 
                requirement; or
                    ``(B) the program, activity, or mission requirement 
                has emerged since the budget was formulated.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 9 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 222d the following new item:

``222e. Annual report on unfunded priorities for research, development, 
                            test, and evaluation activities.''.
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