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SEC. 104. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SERV-
ICES. 
(a) PROCESS REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall ensure that each military department establishes a 
process for identifying, assessing, and approving require-
ments for the acquisition of services, and that com-
manders of unified combatant commands and other offi-
cers identified or designated as joint qualified officers have 
an opportunity to participate in the process of each mili-
tary department to provide input on joint requirements 
for the acquisition of services. 
(b) GUIDANCE AND PLAN REQUIRED.—The Chief of 
Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the 
Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Commandant of 
the Marine Corps shall— 
(1) issue and maintain guidance relating to 
each process established under subsection (a); and 
(2) develop a plan to implement each process 
established under subsection (a). 
(c) MATTERS REQUIRED IN GUIDANCE.—The guid-
ance issued under subsection (b) shall establish, in relation 
to a process for identifying, assessing, and approving re-
quirements for the acquisition of services, the following: 
(1) Organization of such process. 
(2) The level of command responsibility re-
quired for identifying and validating requirements 
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for the acquisition of services in accordance with the 
categories established under section 2330(a)(1)(C) 
of title 10, United States Code. 
(3) The composition of billets necessary to oper-
ate such process. 
(4) The training required for personnel engaged 
in such process. 
(5) The relationship between doctrine and such 
process. 
(6) Methods of obtaining input on joint require-
ments for the acquisition of services. 
(7) Procedures for coordinating with the acqui-
sition process. 
(8) Considerations relating to opportunities for 
strategic sourcing. 
(d) MATTERS
REQUIRED
IN
IMPLEMENTATION 
PLAN.—Each plan required under subsection (b) shall 
provide for initial implementation of a process for identi-
fying, assessing, and approving requirements for the ac-
quisition of services not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and shall provide for full im-
plementation of such process at the earliest date prac-
ticable. 
(e) CONSISTENCY WITH JOINT GUIDANCE.—When-
ever, at any time, guidance is issued by the Chairman of 
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the Joint Chiefs of Staff relating to requirements for the 
acquisition of services, each process established under sub-
section (a) shall be revised in accordance with such joint 
guidance. 
(f) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘requirements for the 
acquisition of services’’ means objectives to be achieved 
through acquisitions primarily involving the procurement 
of services. 
SEC. 105. JOINT EVALUATION TASK FORCES. 
(a) TASK FORCES REQUIRED.—For each joint mili-
tary requirement involving a materiel solution for which 
the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Coun-
cil is the validation authority, the Chairman shall des-
ignate a commander of a unified combatant command to 
provide a joint evaluation task force to participate in such 
materiel solution. Such task force shall— 
(1) come from a military unit or units des-
ignated by the combatant commander concerned; 
(2) be selected based on the relevance of such 
materiel solution to the mission of the unit; and 
(3) participate consistent with its operational 
obligations. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—A task force provided pur-
suant to subsection (a) shall, for the materiel solution con-
cerned— 
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