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636(b)(2)(D)) is amended by striking ‘‘Upon receipt of such
certification, the Administration may’’ and inserting ‘‘Not
later than 30 days after the date of receipt of such certifi-
cation by a Governor of a State, the Administration shall
respond in writing to that Governor on its determination
and the reasons therefore, and may’’.
(d) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 45 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the
Small Business Administration shall promulgate final rules
to carry out this section and the amendments made by this
section.
SEC. 853. RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFIER TECHNOLOGY.
(a) SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY.—As part of imple-
menting its requirement that contractors use radio fre-
quency identifier technology, the Secretary of Defense shall
develop and implement a strategy to educate the small busi-
ness community regarding radio frequency identifier tech-
nology requirements, compliance, standards, and opportu-
nities.
(b) REPORTING.—Not later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit a report to the Committee on Small Business and
Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Armed Services of
the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representa-
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tives detailing the status of the efforts by the Secretary of
Defense to establish requirements for radio frequency identi-
fier technology used in Department of Defense contracting,
including—
(1) standardization of the data required to be re-
ported by such technology;
(2) standardization of the manufacturing quality
required for such technology; and
(3) the status of the efforts of the Secretary of
Defense to develop and implement a strategy to edu-
cate the small business community, as required by
section (a).
SEC. 854. ENSURING TRANSPARENCY IN FEDERAL CON-
TRACTING.
(a) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION ON FEDERAL CON-
TRACTOR PENALTIES AND VIOLATIONS.—
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall maintain a
publicly-available website that provides information
on instances in which major contractors have been
fined, paid penalties or restitution, settled, plead
guilty to, or had judgments entered against them in
connection with allegations of improper conduct. The
website shall be updated not less than once a year.
(2) For the purpose of this subsection, a major
contractor is a contractor that receive at least
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$100,000,000 in Federal contracts in the most recent
fiscal year for which data are available.
(b) REPORT ON FEDERAL SOLE SOURCE CONTRACTS
RELATED TO IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION.—
(1) REPORT
REQUIRED.—Not later than 120
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy shall
submit to Congress a report on all sole source con-
tracts in excess of $2,000,000 entered into by execu-
tive agencies in connection with Iraq reconstruction
from January 1, 2003, through the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
(2) CONTENT.—The report submitted under
paragraph (1) shall include the following information
with respect to each such contract:
(A) The date the contract was awarded.
(B) The contract number.
(C) The name of the contractor.
(D) The amount awarded.
(E) A brief description of the work to be
performed under the contract.
(3) EXECUTIVE AGENCY DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the meaning
given such term in section 4 of the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403).
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SEC. 855. TERMINATION OF PROGRAM.
Section 711(c) of the Small Business Competitive
Demonstration Program Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 644 note)
is amended by inserting after ‘‘January 1, 1989’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, and shall terminate on the date of enactment of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2006’’.
SEC. 856. MODIFICATION OF LIMITED ACQUISITION AU-
THORITY FOR THE COMMANDER OF THE
UNITED STATES JOINT FORCES COMMAND.
(a) SCOPE OF AUTHORITY.—Subsection (a) of section
167a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking
and ‘‘and acquire’’ and inserting ‘‘, acquire, and sustain’’.
(b) INAPPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN SYSTEMS FUNDED
WITH OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FUNDS.—Subsection
(d) of such section is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the
end;
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(3) the total expenditure for operation and
maintenance is estimated to be $2,000,000 or more.’’.
(c) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.—Subsection (f) of such
section is amended—