SEC. 215. LIMITATION ON SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND 
DEMONSTRATION OF MANNED GROUND VEHI-
CLES 
UNDER 
ARMORED 
SYSTEMS 
MOD-
ERNIZATION PROGRAM. 
Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in sec-
tion 201 for the Armored Systems Modernization program, 
no funds may be obligated for systems development and 
demonstration of manned ground vehicles until the objective 
requirements for those vehicles with respect to lethality and 
survivability have been met and demonstrated in a relevant 
environment to be at least equal to the lethality and surviv-
ability for the manned ground vehicles to be replaced by 
those vehicles. 
SEC. 216. TESTING OF INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 BY 
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 331 of the Ronald W. 
Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2005 (Public Law 108—375; 118 Stat. 1850) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 
(e); 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(d) TESTING AND EVALUATION BY NAVAL RESEARCH 
LABORATORY.—In each of fiscal years 2006 through 2008,
the Secretary of Defense shall carry out subsection (c) 
through the Naval Research Laboratory.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated) by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) For each of fiscal years 2006 through 2008, the 
Secretary of Defense shall, not later than the end of that 
fiscal year, submit to the congressional defense committees 
a report on the testing and evaluation carried out pursuant 
to subsection (d).’’. 
(b) FUNDING.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(2), $10,000,000 shall be available in 
program element 63727D8Z only to carry out section 331 
of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2005. 
SEC. 217. PROGRAM TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP NEXT-GEN-
ERATION NUCLEAR SUBMARINE. 
(a) PROGRAM REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the Navy 
shall carry out a program to design and develop a class 
of nuclear submarines that will serve as a successor to the 
Virginia class of nuclear submarines. 
(b) OBJECTIVE.—The objective of the program required 
by subsection (a) is to develop, for procurement beginning 
with fiscal year 2014, a nuclear submarine that meets or 
exceeds the warfighting capability of a submarine of the
Virginia class at a cost dramatically lower than the cost 
of a submarine of the Virginia class. 
(c) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Navy 
shall include, with the defense budget justification 
materials submitted in support of the President’s 
budget for fiscal year 2007 submitted to Congress 
under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a 
report on the program required by subsection (a). 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report shall include— 
(A) an outline of the management approach 
to be used in carrying out the program; 
(B) the goals for the program; and 
(C) a schedule for the program. 
SEC. 218. EXTENSION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO 
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR NAVAL 
MINE COUNTERMEASURES PROGRAMS. 
Section 216 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102–190; 105 
Stat. 1317), as most recently amended by section 212 of 
the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 2003 (Public Law 107–314; 116 Stat. 2480), is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2011’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(1) by inserting after ‘‘Sec-
retary of Defense’’ the following: ‘‘, and the Secretary 
of Defense has forwarded to the congressional defense 
committees,’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)(2) by inserting before the 
semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘and, in so certi-
fying, shall ensure that the budget meets the require-
ments of section 2437 of title 10, United States Code’’; 
and 
(4) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following new subsection (c): 
‘‘(c) 
NOTIFICATION
OF
CERTAIN
PROPOSED 
CHANGES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to a fiscal year, 
the Secretary may not carry out any change to the 
naval mine countermeasures master plan or the budg-
et resources for mine countermeasures with respect to 
that fiscal year until after the Under Secretary of De-
fense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics sub-
mits to the congressional defense committees a notifi-
cation of the proposed change. Such notification shall 
describe the nature of the proposed change and the ef-
fect of the proposed change on the naval mine coun-
termeasures program or related programs with respect 
to that fiscal year.
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) does not apply 
to a change if both— 
‘‘(A) the amount of the change is below the 
applicable reprogramming threshold; and 
‘‘(B) the effect of the change does not affect 
the validity of the decision to certify.’’. 
SEC. 219. SINGLE JOINT REQUIREMENT FOR HEAVY LIFT 
ROTORCRAFT. 
(a) JOINT REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of the Army 
and the Secretary of the Navy shall develop a single joint 
requirement for a next-generation heavy lift rotorcraft for 
the Army and the Marine Corps. 
(b) APPROVAL BY JROC REQUIRED.—The Secretary 
of Defense may not authorize a new program start for the 
next-generation heavy lift rotocraft until the single joint re-
quirement required by subsection (a) has been approved by 
the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. 
SEC. 220. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TAC-
TICAL RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS. 
(a) INTERIM TACTICAL RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.— 
The Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) assess the immediate requirements of the 
military departments for tactical radio communica-
tions systems; and
(2) ensure that the military departments rapidly 
acquire tactical radio communications systems uti-
lizing existing technology or mature systems readily 
available in the commercial marketplace. 
(b) JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM.— 
(1) MILESTONE
B.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall apply Department of Defense Instruction 5000.2 
to the Joint Tactical Radio System in a manner that 
does not permit the Milestone B entrance require-
ments to be waived. 
(2) MANAGEMENT OF FUNDS.—The head of the 
single joint program office designated under section 
213 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136; 117 Stat. 
1416) shall manage and control all research and de-
velopment funds for the entire Joint Tactical Radio 
System, including all waveform development. 
(c) REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION REQUIRED.—Not 
later than February 14, 2006, the Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report on the implementation of this section.
SEC. 221. LIMITATION ON SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND 
DEMONSTRATION OF PERSONNEL RECOVERY 
VEHICLE. 
None of the amounts made available pursuant to the 
authorization of appropriations in section 201 for systems 
development and demonstration of the Personnel Recovery 
Vehicle may be obligated until 30 days after the Secretary 
of Defense submits to the congressional defense committees 
each of the following: 
(1) The Secretary’s certification that the require-
ments and schedule for the Personnel Recovery Vehicle 
have been validated by the Under Secretary of Defense 
for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. 
(2) The Secretary’s certification that all tech-
nologies required to meet the requirements (as vali-
dated under paragraph (1)) for the Personnel Recov-
ery Vehicle are mature and demonstrated in a rel-
evant environment. 
(3) The Secretary’s certification that no other 
aircraft, and no other modification of an aircraft, in 
the inventory of the Department of Defense can meet 
the requirements (as validated under paragraph (1)) 
for the Personnel Recovery Vehicle. 
(4) A statement setting forth the independent 
cost estimate and manpower estimate (as required by
section 2434 of title 10, United States Code) for the 
Personnel Recovery Vehicle. 
SEC. 222. SEPARATE PROGRAM ELEMENT REQUIRED FOR 
EACH 
SIGNIFICANT 
RESEARCH, 
DEVELOP-
MENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION PROJECT. 
(a) PROGRAM ELEMENTS SPECIFIED.—The Secretary 
of Defense shall ensure that a project is assigned a separate, 
dedicated program element if— 
(1) the project is carried out or proposed to be 
carried out using amounts for research, development, 
test, and evaluation activities; and 
(2) the estimated expenditures and proposed ap-
propriations for that project in the future-years de-
fense program are $100,000,000 or more. 
(b) DISPLAY
IN
BUDGET
JUSTIFICATION
MATE-
RIALS.—In the budget justification materials submitted to 
Congress in support of the Department of Defense budget 
for any fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the 
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code), the amount requested for research, development, test, 
and evaluation activities shall be set forth in a manner that 
complies with subsection (a). 
(c) NOT APPLICABLE TO MISSILE DEFENSE.—This 
section does not apply to the Missile Defense Agency.
SEC. 223. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PHASE 
III ACCELERATION PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) PILOT PROGRAM TO EXPAND ROLE OF SMALL 
BUSINESS CONCERNS IN DEFENSE ACQUISITION.— 
(1) PILOT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall designate the Secretary of a military depart-
ment to carry out a pilot program, to be known as 
the ‘‘Small Business Innovation Research Phase III 
Acceleration Pilot Program’’ to expand the role of 
small business concerns in the defense acquisition 
process by designating certain Department of Defense 
research or research and development projects for ac-
celerated transition under the Small Business Innova-
tion Research Program (in this section referred to as 
the SBIR program), as defined in section 9(e)(4) of 
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)(4)). 
(2) ACCELERATED TRANSITION.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘accelerated transition’’ means the expedi-
tious transfer under existing authority from the sec-
ond phase of the SBIR program (as described in sec-
tion 9(e)(4)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(e)(4)(B))) to the third phase, in which applica-
tions of research or research and development projects 
are funded (as described in section 9(e)(4)(C)(i) of 
such Act).
(b) DESIGNATION OF PROJECTS FOR ACCELERATED 
TRANSITION.—For each of fiscal years 2006 through 2008, 
the Secretary designated under subsection (a)(1) shall des-
ignate for accelerated transition under the pilot program 
under this section at least 10 research or research and devel-
opment projects for which funds have been provided by that 
Secretary through a second phase award under the SBIR 
program. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2008, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional de-
fense committees a report which contains the following: 
(1) The name of each research or research and 
development project designated for accelerated transi-
tion under subsection (b). 
(2) The rationale behind the selection of each 
such project. 
(3) A recommendation as to whether the pilot 
program under this section should be extended. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘research’’ 
or ‘‘research and development’’ has the same meaning as 
in section 9(e)(5) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(e)(5)).
SEC. 224. REVISED REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO SUBMIS-
SION OF JOINT WARFIGHTING SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY PLAN. 
(a) BIENNIAL SUBMITTAL.—Section 270 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Pub-
lic Law 104–201; 10 U.S.C. 2501 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘ANNUAL’’ in the section head-
ing and inserting ‘‘BIENNIAL’’ ; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘(a) ANNUAL PLAN REQUIRED.— 
On March 1 of each year’’ and inserting ‘‘Not later 
than March 1 of each even-numbered year,’’. 
(b) REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR INCLUSION OF 
TECHNOLOGY
AREA
REVIEW
AND
ASSESSMENT
SUM-
MARIES.—Subsection (b) of such section is repealed. 
SEC. 225. SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIAL BASE IMPROVEMENT 
PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVA-
TIVE SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, PROC-
ESSES, AND FACILITIES. 
(a) PROGRAM FOR UNITED STATES PRIVATE SHIP-
YARDS.—The Secretary of the Navy shall establish a pro-
gram under which the Secretary shall provide funds, in 
such amounts as are made available to carry out this pro-
gram— 
(1) to qualified applicants to facilitate the devel-
opment of innovative design and production tech-
nologies and processes for naval vessels and the devel-
opment of modernized shipbuilding infrastructure; 
and 
(2) to private shipyards to facilitate their acqui-
sition of such technologies, processes, and infrastruc-
ture. 
(b) PURPOSES OF PROGRAM.—The purposes of the pro-
gram referred to in subsection (a) are— 
(1) to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of 
the construction of naval vessels for the United States; 
(2) to enhance the quality of naval vessel construction; 
and 
(3) to promote the international competitiveness of 
United States shipyards for the construction of commercial 
ships and naval ships intended for sale to foreign govern-
ments. 
(c) APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT FUNDING.—An 
entity requesting assistance under the program referred to 
in subsection (a) to develop new design or production tech-
nologies or processes for naval vessels or to improve ship-
building infrastructure shall submit to the Secretary of the 
Navy an application that describes the proposal of the enti-
ty and provides evidence of its capability to develop one 
or more of the following: 
(1) Numerically controlled machine tools, robots, 
automated process control equipment, computerized