[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2139 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2139

To provide for expedited procurement for experimental purposes, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2025

  Mr. Sheehy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for expedited procurement for experimental purposes, 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 ``Procurement Reform for Immediate 
Military Equipment Act'' or the ``PRIME Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO PROCUREMENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES.

    Section 4023 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``ordnance, signal, 
        chemical activity, transportation, energy, medical, space 
        flight, telecommunications, and aeronautical supplies, 
        including parts and accessories, and designs thereof,'' and 
        inserting ``demonstrations, prototypes, products, supplies, 
        parts, accessories, auxiliary services, and design for defense-
        related articles'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by inserting ``or modified'' after ``may be 
                made''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``prototyping,'' after ``greater 
                than necessary for''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Follow-On Production Contracts or Transactions.--Purchases 
under this section may allow for follow-on production contracts or 
transactions without the use of competitive procedures or further 
justification, even if explicit notification was not provided, if a 
combatant command submits a written determination that the purchased 
item successfully completed the experiment and intends to field the 
item.''.
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