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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 273 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend chapter 303 of title 10, United States Code, to require the Sec- |
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| 6 | 6 | | retary of each military department to identify promising research pro- |
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| 7 | 7 | | grams of the Small Business Innovation Research Program or Small |
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| 8 | 8 | | Business Technology Transfer Program for inclusion in the future budg- |
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| 9 | 9 | | ets and plans of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY11, 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. C |
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| 13 | 13 | | ALVERTintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Committee on Armed Services |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend chapter 303 of title 10, United States Code, |
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| 17 | 17 | | to require the Secretary of each military department |
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| 18 | 18 | | to identify promising research programs of the Small |
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| 19 | 19 | | Business Innovation Research Program or Small Busi- |
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| 20 | 20 | | ness Technology Transfer Program for inclusion in the |
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| 21 | 21 | | future budgets and plans of the Department of Defense, |
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| 22 | 22 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DOD Entrepreneurial 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Innovation Act’’. 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION PROJECT DES-1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | IGNATIONS. 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (a) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | NGENERAL.— 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) D |
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| 36 | 36 | | ESIGNATING CERTAIN SBIR AND STTR 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | PROGRAMS AS ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | PROJECTS.—Chapter 303 of title 10, United States 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Code, is amended by inserting after section 4062 the 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | following new section: 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘§ 4063. Entrepreneurial Innovation Project designa-9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | tions 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 44 | 44 | | NGENERAL.—During the first fiscal year be-11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ginning after the date of the enactment of this section, 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and during each subsequent fiscal year, each Secretary 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | concerned, in consultation with the each chief of an armed 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | force under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned, 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | shall designate not less than five eligible programs as En-16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | trepreneurial Innovation Projects. 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(b) A |
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| 52 | 52 | | PPLICATION.—An eligible program seeking 18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | designation as an Entrepreneurial Innovation Project 19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | under this section shall submit to the Secretary concerned 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | an application at such time, in such manner, and con-21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | taining such information as the Secretary concerned deter-22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | mines appropriate. 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(c) D |
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| 59 | 59 | | ESIGNATIONCRITERIA.—In making designa-24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | tions under subsection (a), the Secretary concerned shall 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | consider— 26 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(1) the potential of the eligible program to— 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(A) advance the national security capa-2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | bilities of the United States; 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(B) provide new technologies or proc-4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | esses, or new applications of existing tech-5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | nologies, that will enable new alternatives to ex-6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | isting programs; and 7 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(C) provide future cost savings; 8 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ‘‘(2) whether an advisory panel has rec-9 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ommended the eligible program for designation; and 10 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(3) such other criteria that the Secretary con-11 |
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| 76 | 76 | | cerned determines to be appropriate. 12 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘(d) D |
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| 78 | 78 | | ESIGNATIONBENEFITS.— 13 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(1) F |
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| 80 | 80 | | UTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM IN -14 |
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| 81 | 81 | | CLUSION.—With respect to each designated pro-15 |
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| 82 | 82 | | gram, the Secretary of Defense shall include in the 16 |
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| 83 | 83 | | next future-years defense program the estimated ex-17 |
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| 84 | 84 | | penditures of such designated program. In the pre-18 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ceding sentence, the term ‘next future-years defense 19 |
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| 86 | 86 | | program’ means the future-years defense program 20 |
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| 87 | 87 | | submitted to Congress under section 221 of this title 21 |
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| 88 | 88 | | after the date on which such designated program is 22 |
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| 89 | 89 | | designated under subsection (a). 23 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(2) P |
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| 91 | 91 | | ROGRAMMING PROPOSAL .—Each des-24 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ignated program shall be included by the Secretary 25 |
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| 96 | 96 | | concerned under a separate heading in any program-1 |
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| 97 | 97 | | ming proposals submitted to the Secretary of De-2 |
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| 98 | 98 | | fense. 3 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ‘‘(3) PPBE |
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| 100 | 100 | | COMPONENT.—Each designated 4 |
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| 101 | 101 | | program shall be considered by the Secretary con-5 |
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| 102 | 102 | | cerned as an integral part of the planning, program-6 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ming, budgeting, and execution process of the De-7 |
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| 104 | 104 | | partment of Defense. 8 |
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| 105 | 105 | | ‘‘(e) E |
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| 106 | 106 | | NTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION ADVISORY 9 |
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| 108 | 108 | | ANELS.— 10 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(1) E |
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| 110 | 110 | | STABLISHMENT.—For each military de-11 |
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| 111 | 111 | | partment, the Secretary concerned shall establish an 12 |
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| 112 | 112 | | advisory panel that, starting in the first fiscal year 13 |
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| 113 | 113 | | beginning after the date of the enactment of this 14 |
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| 114 | 114 | | section, and in each subsequent fiscal year, shall 15 |
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| 115 | 115 | | identify and recommend to the Secretary concerned 16 |
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| 116 | 116 | | for designation under subsection (a) eligible pro-17 |
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| 117 | 117 | | grams based on the criteria described in subsection 18 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (c)(1). 19 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ‘‘(2) M |
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| 120 | 120 | | EMBERSHIP.— 20 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(A) C |
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| 122 | 122 | | OMPOSITION.— 21 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 124 | 124 | | N GENERAL.—Each advisory 22 |
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| 125 | 125 | | panel shall be composed of four members 23 |
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| 126 | 126 | | appointed by the Secretary concerned and 24 |
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| 127 | 127 | | one member appointed by the chief of the 25 |
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| 131 | 131 | | relevant armed force under the jurisdiction 1 |
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| 132 | 132 | | of the Secretary concerned. 2 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(ii) S |
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| 134 | 134 | | ECRETARY CONCERNED AP -3 |
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| 135 | 135 | | POINTMENTS.—The Secretary concerned 4 |
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| 136 | 136 | | shall appoint members to the advisory 5 |
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| 137 | 137 | | panel as follows: 6 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ‘‘(I) Three members who— 7 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ‘‘(aa) have experience with 8 |
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| 140 | 140 | | private sector entrepreneurial in-9 |
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| 141 | 141 | | novation, including development 10 |
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| 142 | 142 | | and implementation of such inno-11 |
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| 143 | 143 | | vations into well established mar-12 |
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| 144 | 144 | | kets; and 13 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ‘‘(bb) are not employed by 14 |
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| 146 | 146 | | the Federal Government. 15 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ‘‘(II) One member who is in the 16 |
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| 148 | 148 | | Senior Executive Service in the acqui-17 |
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| 149 | 149 | | sition workforce (as defined in section 18 |
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| 150 | 150 | | 1705 of this title) of the relevant mili-19 |
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| 151 | 151 | | tary department. 20 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(iii) S |
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| 153 | 153 | | ERVICE CHIEF APPOINT -21 |
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| 154 | 154 | | MENT.—The chief of an armed force under 22 |
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| 155 | 155 | | the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned 23 |
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| 156 | 156 | | shall appoint to the advisory panel one 24 |
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| 160 | 160 | | member who is a member of such armed 1 |
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| 161 | 161 | | forces. 2 |
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| 162 | 162 | | ‘‘(B) T |
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| 163 | 163 | | ERMS.— 3 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ‘‘(i) P |
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| 165 | 165 | | RIVATE SECTOR MEMBERS .— 4 |
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| 166 | 166 | | Members described in subparagraph 5 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (A)(ii)(I) shall serve for a term of three 6 |
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| 168 | 168 | | years, except that of the members first ap-7 |
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| 169 | 169 | | pointed— 8 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(I) one shall serve a term of one 9 |
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| 171 | 171 | | year; 10 |
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| 172 | 172 | | ‘‘(II) one shall serve a term of 11 |
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| 173 | 173 | | two years; and 12 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(III) one shall serve a term of 13 |
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| 175 | 175 | | three years. 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | ‘‘(ii) F |
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| 177 | 177 | | EDERAL GOVERNMENT EM -15 |
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| 178 | 178 | | PLOYEES.—Members described in clause 16 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (ii)(II) or (iii) of subparagraph (A) shall 17 |
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| 180 | 180 | | serve for a term of two years, except that 18 |
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| 181 | 181 | | the first member appointed under subpara-19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | graph (A)(iii) shall serve for a term of one 20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | year. 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | ‘‘(C) C |
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| 185 | 185 | | HAIR.—The chair for each advisory 22 |
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| 186 | 186 | | panel shall be as follows: 23 |
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| 187 | 187 | | ‘‘(i) For the first year of operation of 24 |
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| 188 | 188 | | each such advisory panel, and every other 25 |
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| 192 | 192 | | year thereafter, the member appointed 1 |
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| 193 | 193 | | under subparagraph (A)(iii). 2 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(ii) For the second year of operation 3 |
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| 195 | 195 | | of each such advisory panel, and every 4 |
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| 196 | 196 | | other year thereafter, the member ap-5 |
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| 197 | 197 | | pointed under subparagraph (A)(ii)(II). 6 |
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| 198 | 198 | | ‘‘(D) V |
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| 199 | 199 | | ACANCIES.—A vacancy in an advi-7 |
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| 200 | 200 | | sory panel shall be filled in the same manner as 8 |
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| 201 | 201 | | the original appointment. 9 |
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| 202 | 202 | | ‘‘(E) C |
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| 203 | 203 | | ONFLICT OF INTEREST .—Members 10 |
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| 204 | 204 | | and staff of each advisory panel shall disclose 11 |
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| 205 | 205 | | to the relevant Secretary concerned, and such 12 |
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| 206 | 206 | | Secretary concerned shall mitigate to the extent 13 |
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| 207 | 207 | | practicable, any professional or organizational 14 |
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| 208 | 208 | | conflict of interest of such members or staff 15 |
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| 209 | 209 | | arising from service on the advisory panel. 16 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ‘‘(F) C |
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| 211 | 211 | | OMPENSATION.— 17 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ‘‘(i) P |
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| 213 | 213 | | RIVATE SECTOR MEMBER COM -18 |
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| 214 | 214 | | PENSATION.—Except as provided in clause 19 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (ii), members of an advisory panel, and the 20 |
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| 216 | 216 | | support staff of such members, shall be 21 |
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| 217 | 217 | | compensated at a rate determined reason-22 |
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| 218 | 218 | | able by the Secretary concerned and shall 23 |
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| 219 | 219 | | be reimbursed in accordance with section 24 |
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| 220 | 220 | | 5703 of title 5 for reasonable travel costs 25 |
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| 225 | 225 | | as members of an advisory panel. 2 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ‘‘(ii) P |
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| 227 | 227 | | ROHIBITION ON COMPENSATION 3 |
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| 228 | 228 | | OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES .—Members of an 4 |
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| 229 | 229 | | advisory panel who are full-time officers or 5 |
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| 230 | 230 | | employees of the United States or Mem-6 |
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| 231 | 231 | | bers of Congress may not receive addi-7 |
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| 232 | 232 | | tional pay, allowances, or benefits by rea-8 |
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| 233 | 233 | | son of their service on an advisory panel. 9 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(3) S |
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| 235 | 235 | | ELECTION PROCESS.— 10 |
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| 236 | 236 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 237 | 237 | | NITIAL SELECTION.—Each advisory 11 |
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| 238 | 238 | | panel shall select not less than ten eligible pro-12 |
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| 239 | 239 | | grams that have submitted an application under 13 |
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| 240 | 240 | | subsection (b). 14 |
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| 241 | 241 | | ‘‘(B) P |
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| 242 | 242 | | ROGRAM PLANS.— 15 |
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| 243 | 243 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 244 | 244 | | N GENERAL.—Each eligible pro-16 |
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| 245 | 245 | | gram selected under subparagraph (A) 17 |
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| 246 | 246 | | may submit to the advisory panel that se-18 |
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| 247 | 247 | | lected such eligible program a program 19 |
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| 248 | 248 | | plan containing the five-year goals, execu-20 |
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| 249 | 249 | | tion plans, schedules, and funding needs of 21 |
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| 250 | 250 | | such eligible program. 22 |
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| 251 | 251 | | ‘‘(ii) S |
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| 252 | 252 | | UPPORT.—Each Secretary con-23 |
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| 253 | 253 | | cerned shall, to the greatest extent prac-24 |
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| 254 | 254 | | ticable, provide eligible programs selected 25 |
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| 258 | 258 | | under subparagraph (A) with access to in-1 |
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| 259 | 259 | | formation to support the development of 2 |
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| 260 | 260 | | the program plans described in clause (i). 3 |
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| 261 | 261 | | ‘‘(C) F |
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| 262 | 262 | | INAL SELECTION.—Each advisory 4 |
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| 263 | 263 | | panel shall recommend to the Secretary con-5 |
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| 264 | 264 | | cerned for designation under subsection (a) not 6 |
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| 265 | 265 | | less than five eligible programs that submitted 7 |
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| 266 | 266 | | a program plan under subparagraph (B) to 8 |
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| 267 | 267 | | such advisory panel. If there are less than five 9 |
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| 268 | 268 | | such eligible programs, such advisory panel may 10 |
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| 269 | 269 | | recommend to the Secretary concerned for des-11 |
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| 270 | 270 | | ignation under subsection (a) less than five 12 |
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| 271 | 271 | | such eligible programs. 13 |
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| 272 | 272 | | ‘‘(4) A |
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| 273 | 273 | | DMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL SUP -14 |
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| 274 | 274 | | PORT.—The Secretary concerned shall provide the 15 |
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| 275 | 275 | | relevant advisory panel with such administrative 16 |
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| 276 | 276 | | support, staff, and technical assistance as the Sec-17 |
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| 277 | 277 | | retary concerned determines necessary for such advi-18 |
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| 278 | 278 | | sory panel to carry out it duties. 19 |
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| 279 | 279 | | ‘‘(5) F |
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| 280 | 280 | | UNDING.—The Secretary of Defense may 20 |
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| 281 | 281 | | use amounts available from the Department of De-21 |
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| 282 | 282 | | fense Acquisition Workforce Development Account 22 |
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| 283 | 283 | | established under section 1705 of this title to sup-23 |
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| 284 | 284 | | port the activities of advisory panels. 24 |
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| 288 | 288 | | ‘‘(6) INAPPLICABILITY OF FACA .—Chapter 10 1 |
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| 289 | 289 | | of title 5 shall not apply to the advisory panels es-2 |
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| 290 | 290 | | tablished under this subsection. 3 |
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| 291 | 291 | | ‘‘(f) R |
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| 292 | 292 | | EVOCATION OF DESIGNATION.—If the Sec-4 |
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| 293 | 293 | | retary concerned determines that a designated program 5 |
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| 294 | 294 | | cannot reasonably meet the objectives of such designated 6 |
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| 295 | 295 | | program in the relevant programming proposal referred 7 |
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| 296 | 296 | | to in subsection (d)(2) or such objectives are irrelevant, 8 |
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| 297 | 297 | | such Secretary concerned may revoke the designation. 9 |
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| 299 | 299 | | EPORT TOCONGRESS.—The Secretary of De-10 |
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| 300 | 300 | | fense shall submit to Congress an annual report describing 11 |
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| 301 | 301 | | each designated program and the progress each designated 12 |
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| 302 | 302 | | program has made toward achieving the objectives of the 13 |
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| 303 | 303 | | designated program. 14 |
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| 304 | 304 | | ‘‘(h) D |
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| 305 | 305 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 15 |
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| 306 | 306 | | ‘‘(1) A |
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| 307 | 307 | | DVISORY PANEL.—The term ‘advisory 16 |
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| 308 | 308 | | panel’ means an advisory panel established under 17 |
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| 309 | 309 | | subsection (e)(1). 18 |
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| 310 | 310 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 311 | 311 | | ESIGNATED PROGRAM .—The term ‘des-19 |
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| 312 | 312 | | ignated program’ means an eligible program that 20 |
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| 313 | 313 | | has been designated as an Entrepreneurial Innova-21 |
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| 314 | 314 | | tion Project under this section. 22 |
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| 315 | 315 | | ‘‘(3) E |
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| 316 | 316 | | LIGIBLE PROGRAM.—The term ‘eligible 23 |
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| 317 | 317 | | program’ means work performed pursuant to a 24 |
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| 322 | 322 | | tion 9(r)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 1 |
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| 323 | 323 | | 638(r)(2))).’’. 2 |
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| 324 | 324 | | (2) C |
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| 325 | 325 | | LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The table of sec-3 |
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| 326 | 326 | | tions at the beginning of chapter 303 of title 10, 4 |
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| 327 | 327 | | United States Code, is amended by striking the item 5 |
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| 328 | 328 | | relating to section 4063 and inserting after the item 6 |
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| 329 | 329 | | relating to section 4062 the following new item: 7 |
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| 330 | 330 | | ‘‘4063. Entrepreneurial Innovation Project designations.’’. |
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| 331 | 331 | | (b) ESTABLISHMENT DEADLINE.—Not later than 8 |
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| 332 | 332 | | 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 9 |
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| 333 | 333 | | Secretaries of each military department shall establish the 10 |
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| 334 | 334 | | advisory panels described in section 4063(e) of title 10, 11 |
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| 335 | 335 | | United States Code, as added by subsection (a). 12 |
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