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oped by a military department or defense agency for a 
major defense acquisition program are independent and 
whether their independence or lack thereof affects their 
ability to generate reliable cost estimates. 
SEC. 103. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR THE JOINT 
CAPABILITIES INTEGRATION AND DEVELOP-
MENT SYSTEM. 
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR PROGRAM.—The Secretary of 
Defense shall ensure that the Department of Defense de-
velops and implements a program to manage performance 
in establishing joint military requirements pursuant to 
section 181 of title 10, United States Code. 
(b) LEADERS.—The Secretary of Defense shall des-
ignate an officer identified or designated as a joint quali-
fied officer to serve as leader of a joint effort to develop 
the performance management program required by sub-
section (a). The Secretary shall also designate an officer 
from each Armed Force to serve as leader of the effort 
within the Armed Force concerned. Officers designated 
pursuant to this section shall have the seniority and au-
thority necessary to oversee and direct all personnel en-
gaged in establishing joint military requirements within 
the Joint Staff or within the Armed Force concerned. 
(c) MATTERS COVERED.—The program developed 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall: 
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(1) Measure the following in relation to each 
joint military requirement: 
(A) The time a requirements document 
takes to receive validation through the require-
ments process. 
(B) The quality of cost information associ-
ated with the requirement and the extent to 
which cost information was considered during 
the requirements process. 
(C) The extent to which the requirements 
process established a meaningful level of pri-
ority for the requirement. 
(D) The extent to which the requirements 
process considered trade-offs between cost, 
schedule, and performance objectives. 
(E) 
The 
quality 
of 
information 
on 
sustainment associated with the requirement 
and the extent to which sustainment informa-
tion was considered during the requirements 
process. 
(F) Such other matters as the Secretary 
shall determine appropriate. 
(2) Achieve, to the maximum extent practicable, 
the following outcomes in the requirements process: 
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(A) Timeliness in delivering capability to 
the warfighter. 
(B) Mechanisms for controlling require-
ments creep. 
(C) Responsiveness to fact-of-life changes 
occurring after the approval of a requirements 
document, including changes to the threat envi-
ronment, the emergence of new capabilities, or 
changes in the resources estimated to procure 
or sustain a capability. 
(D) The development of the personnel 
skills, capacity, and training needed for an ef-
fective and efficient requirements process. 
(E) Such other outcomes as the Secretary 
shall determine appropriate. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION.—The program required by 
subsection (a) shall be developed and initially implemented 
not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act and shall apply to requirements documents enter-
ing the requirements process after the date of initial im-
plementation. 
(e) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the initial implementation of the program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the steps taken to develop 
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and implement the performance management program for 
joint military requirements. The report shall address the 
measures specified in subsection (c)(1). 
(f) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 4 years after the 
initial implementation of the program required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the effectiveness of the 
program for joint military requirements in achieving the 
outcomes specified in subsection (c)(2). 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) REQUIREMENTS PROCESS.—The term ‘‘re-
quirements process’’ means the Joint Capabilities 
Integration and Development System (JCIDS) proc-
ess or any successor to such process established by 
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to support 
the statutory responsibility of the Joint Require-
ments Oversight Council in advising the Chairman 
and the Secretary of Defense in identifying, assess-
ing, and validating joint military capability needs, 
with their associated operational performance cri-
teria, in order to successfully execute missions. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS
DOCUMENT.—The term 
‘‘requirements document’’ means a document pro-
duced in the requirements process that is provided 
for an acquisition program to guide the subsequent 
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development, production, and testing of the program 
and that— 
(A) justifies the need for a materiel ap-
proach, or an approach that is a combination of 
materiel and non-materiel, to satisfy one or 
more specific capability gaps; 
(B) details the information necessary to 
develop an increment of militarily useful, 
logistically supportable, and technically mature 
capability, including key performance param-
eters; or 
(C) identifies production attributes re-
quired for a single increment of a program. 
(3) REQUIREMENTS
CREEP.—The term ‘‘re-
quirements creep’’ means the addition of new tech-
nical or operational specifications after a require-
ments document is approved. 
(h) DISCRETIONARY IMPLEMENTATION AFTER 5 
YEARS.—After the date that is 5 years after the initial 
implementation of the performance management program 
under this section, the requirement to implement a pro-
gram under this section shall be at the discretion of the 
Secretary of Defense. 
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