US Congress Senate Bill 1694 (Prior Session Legislation)

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October 12 2011 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Pending: Senate Armed Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Defense Cost-Type Contracting Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to modify Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition regulations to prohibit the DOD from entering into cost-type contracts for the production of certain major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs). Amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 to expand the conditions required to be met before the Milestone Decision Authority may authorize a cost-type contract for development of certain MDAPs. Requires such conditions to include additional written determinations that: (1) all reasonable efforts have been made to define the requirements sufficiently to allow for the use of a fixed-price contract for such development; and (2) the DOD, despite these efforts, cannot define requirements sufficiently to allow for the use of such a fixed-price contract. Requires the Secretary, at least 30 days before issuing a solicitation for the development of an MDAP, to submit to Congress a notice of the proposed award including the written determinations required under such Act and the reasons supporting the determinations.

Defense Cost-Type Contracting Reform Act of 2011

Sen McCain, John

Sen Ayotte, Kelly

Sen Graham, Lindsey

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-10-12	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN01694:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1694is/pdf/BILLS-112s1694is.pdf