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SEC. 155. REQUIREMENT TO SET F–35 AIRCRAFT INITIAL OPERATIONAL 
CAPABILITY DATES. 
(a) F–35A.—Not later than June 1, 2013, the Secretary of 
the Air Force shall— 
(1) establish the initial operational capability date for the 
F–35A aircraft; and 
(2) submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
on the details of such initial operational capability. 
(b) F–35B AND F–35C.—Not later than June 1, 2013, the Sec-
retary of the Navy shall— 
(1) establish the initial operational capability dates for 
the F–35B and F–35C aircraft; and 
(2) submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
on the details of such initial operational capabilities for both 
variants. 
SEC. 156. SHALLOW WATER COMBAT SUBMERSIBLE PROGRAM. 
(a) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, in coordination 
with the Commander of the United States Special Operations Com-
mand, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
setting forth the following: 
(1) A description of all efforts under the Shallow Water 
Combat Submersible program and the United States Special 
Operations Command to improve the accuracy of the tracking 
of the schedule and costs of the program. 
(2) The revised timeline for the initial and full operational 
capability of the Shallow Water Combat Submersible, including 
details outlining and justifying the revised baseline to the pro-
gram. 
(3) Current cost estimates to meet the basis of issue 
requirement under the program. 
(4) An assessment of existing program risk through the 
completion of operational testing. 
(b) SUBSEQUENT REPORTS.— 
(1) QUARTERLY
REPORTS
REQUIRED.—The Assistant Sec-
retary, in coordination with the Commander of the United 
States Special Operations Command, shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees on a quarterly basis updates 
on the schedule and cost performance of the contractor of the 
Shallow Water Combat Submersible program, including metrics 
from the earned value management system. 
(2) SUNSET.—The requirement in paragraph (1) shall cease 
on the date the Shallow Water Combat Submersible has com-
pleted operational testing and has been found to be operation-
ally effective and operationally suitable. 
SEC. 157. REQUIREMENT THAT TACTICAL MANNED INTELLIGENCE, 
SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AND 
UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES USE SPECIFIED STANDARD 
DATA LINK. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall take such 
steps as necessary to ensure that (except as specified in subsection 
(c)) all covered aircraft of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and 
Air Force are equipped and configured so that—
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(1) the data link used by those vehicles is the Department 
of Defense standard tactical manned intelligence, surveillance, 
and reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle data 
link known as the Common Data Link or a data link that 
uses waveform capable of transmitting and receiving Internet 
Protocol communications; and 
(2) with respect to unmanned aerial vehicles, such vehicles 
use data formats consistent with the architectural standard 
known as STANAG 4586 that was developed to facilitate multi-
national interoperability among NATO member nations. 
(b) SOLICITATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that 
any solicitation issued for a Common Data Link described in sub-
section (a), regardless of whether the solicitation is issued by a 
military department or a contractor with respect to a subcontract— 
(1) conforms to a Department of Defense specification 
standard, including interfaces and waveforms, existing as of 
the date of the solicitation; and 
(2) does not include any proprietary or undocumented wave-
forms or control interfaces or data interfaces as a requirement 
or criterion for evaluation. 
(c) WAIVER.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
Technology, and Logistics may waive the applicability of this section 
to any covered aircraft if the Under Secretary determines, and 
certifies to the congressional defense committees, that— 
(1) it would be technologically infeasible or economically 
unacceptable to apply this section to such aircraft; or 
(2) such aircraft is under a special access program that 
is not considered a major defense acquisition program. 
(d) COVERED AIRCRAFT DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘covered aircraft’’ means— 
(1) tactical manned intelligence, surveillance, and recon-
naissance aircraft; and 
(2) unmanned aerial vehicles. 
(e) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 141 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 
Stat. 3163) is repealed. 
SEC. 158. STUDY ON SMALL ARMS AND SMALL-CALIBER AMMUNITION 
CAPABILITIES. 
(a) STUDY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
enter into a contract with a federally funded research and 
development center to conduct a study on the requirements 
analysis and determination processes and capabilities of the 
Department of Defense with respect to small arms and small- 
caliber ammunition that carries out each of the following: 
(A) A comparative evaluation of the current military 
small arms in use by the Armed Forces, including general 
purpose and special operations forces, and select military 
equivalent commercial candidates not necessarily in use 
militarily but currently available. 
(B) A comparative evaluation of the standard small- 
caliber ammunition of the Department with other small- 
caliber ammunition alternatives.
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(C) An assessment of the current plans of the Depart-
ment to modernize the small arms and small-caliber 
ammunition capabilities of the Department. 
(D) An assessment of the requirements analysis and 
determination processes of the Department for small arms 
and small-caliber ammunition. 
(2) FACTORS TO CONSIDER.—The study required under para-
graph (1) shall take into consideration the following factors: 
(A) Current and future operating environments, as 
specified or referred to in strategic guidance and planning 
documents of the Department. 
(B) Capability gaps identified in small arms and small- 
caliber ammunition capabilities based assessments of the 
Department. 
(C) Actions taken by the Secretary to address capability 
gaps identified in any such capabilities based assessments. 
(D) Findings from studies of the Department of Defense 
Small Arms and Small-Caliber Ammunition defense sup-
port team and actions taken by the Secretary in response 
to such findings. 
(E) Findings from the assessment required by section 
143 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 10 U.S.C. 
2304 note) and actions taken by the Secretary in response 
to such findings. 
(F) Modifications and improvements recently applied 
to small arms and small-caliber ammunition of the Armed 
Forces, including general purpose and special operations 
forces, as well as the potential for continued modification 
and improvement. 
(G) Impacts to the small arms production industrial 
base and small-caliber ammunition industrial base, if any, 
associated with changes from current U.S. or NATO 
standard caliber weapons or ammunition sizes. 
(H) Total life cycle costs of each small arms system 
and small-caliber ammunition, including incremental 
increases in cost for industrial facilitization or small arms 
and ammunition procurement, if any, associated with 
changes described in subparagraph (G). 
(I) Any other factor the federally funded research and 
development center considers appropriate. 
(3) ACCESS TO INFORMATION.—The Secretary shall ensure 
that the federally funded research and development center 
conducting the study under paragraph (1) has access to all 
necessary data, records, analyses, personnel, and other 
resources necessary to complete the study. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than September 30, 2013, the 
Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees 
a report containing the results of the study conducted under 
subsection (a)(1), together with the comments of the Secretary 
on the findings contained in the study. 
(2) CLASSIFIED ANNEX.—The report shall be in unclassified 
form, but may contain a classified annex. 
(c) SMALL ARMS DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘small 
arms’’ means weapons assigned to and operated by an individual
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member of the Armed Forces, including handguns, rifles and car-
bines (including sniper and designated marksman weapons), sub- 
machine guns, and light-machine guns. 
TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, 
TEST, AND EVALUATION 
Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations 
Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations 
Sec. 211. Next-generation long-range strike bomber aircraft nuclear certification re-
quirement. 
Sec. 212. Extension of limitation on availability of funds for Unmanned Carrier- 
launched Surveillance and Strike system program. 
Sec. 213. Limitation on availability of funds for milestone A activities for an Army 
medium range multi-purpose vertical takeoff and landing unmanned 
aircraft system. 
Sec. 214. Use of funds for conventional prompt global strike program. 
Sec. 215. Next Generation Foundry for the Defense Microelectronics Activity. 
Sec. 216. Advanced rotorcraft initiative. 
Subtitle C—Missile Defense Programs 
Sec. 221. Prohibition on the use of funds for the MEADS program. 
Sec. 222. Availability of funds for Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program. 
Sec. 223. Authority for relocation of certain Aegis weapon system assets between 
and within the DDG–51 class destroyer and Aegis Ashore programs in 
order to meet mission requirements. 
Sec. 224. Evaluation of alternatives for the precision tracking space system. 
Sec. 225. Next generation Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle. 
Sec. 226. Modernization of the Patriot air and missile defense system. 
Sec. 227. Evaluation and environmental impact assessment of potential future mis-
sile defense sites in the United States. 
Sec. 228. Homeland ballistic missile defense. 
Sec. 229. Regional ballistic missile defense. 
Sec. 230. NATO contributions to missile defense in Europe. 
Sec. 231. Report on test plan for the ground-based midcourse defense system. 
Sec. 232. Sense of Congress on missile defense. 
Sec. 233. Sense of Congress on the submittal to Congress of the homeland defense 
hedging policy and strategy report of the Secretary of Defense. 
Subtitle D—Reports 
Sec. 241. Mission packages for the Littoral Combat Ship. 
Sec. 242. Study on electronic warfare capabilities of the Marine Corps. 
Sec. 243. Conditional requirement for report on amphibious assault vehicles for the 
Marine Corps. 
Sec. 244. Report on cyber and information technology research investments of the 
Air Force. 
Sec. 245. National Research Council review of defense science and technical grad-
uate education needs. 
Subtitle E—Other Matters 
Sec. 251. Eligibility for Department of Defense laboratories to enter into edu-
cational partnerships with educational institutions in territories and 
possessions of the United States. 
Sec. 252. Regional advanced technology clusters. 
Sec. 253. Sense of Congress on increasing the cost-effectiveness of training exer-
cises for members of the Armed Forces.