PUBLIC LAW 107-107—DEC. 28, 2001 115 STAT. 1067 (b) NAVY-MARINE CORPS INTRANET MANAGER.— Such section is further amended by inserting after subsection (d), as added by subsection (a)(2) of this section, the following new subsection: "(e) ASSIGNMENT OF NAVY-MARINE CORPS INTRANET MAN- AGER. —The Secretary of the Navy shall assign an employee of the Department of the Navy to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program whose sole responsibility will be to oversee and direct the program. The employee so assigned may not also be the program executive officer.". (c) DEFINITIONS.— Subsection (i) of such section, as redesignated by subsection (a)( 1) of this section, is amended— (1) by striking "NAVY-MARINE CORPS INTRANET CONTRACT DEFINED.—" and inserting "DEFINITIONS. — (1)"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(2) In this section, the term 'assumption of responsibility', with respect to a work station, means the point at which the contractor team under the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract assumes operational control of, and responsibility for, the existing information infrastructure and systems of a work station, in order to prepare for ultimate transition of the work station to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.". SEC. 363. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY AND REPORT OF NATIONAL GUARD DISTRIBUTIVE TRAINING TECHNOLOGY PROJECT. (a) STUDY REQUIRED. — The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of the Distributive Training Technology Project of the National Guard. The study shall examine— (1) current requirements of the National Guard for interconnection of networks of the Distributive Training Technology Project with other networks, including networks of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other Federal, State, and local emergency preparedness and response agencies; and (2) future requirements of the National Guard for interconnection of networks of the Project with other networks, including those Federal and State agencies having disaster response functions. (b) ELEMENTS OF STUDY. — For both the current requirements identified under subsection (a)(1) and future requirements identified under subsection (a)(2), the study shall examine the following: (1) Appropriate connections between the Project and other networks. (2) Means of protecting the Project from outside intrusion. (3) Impediments to interconnectivity, including the extent to which national security concerns affect interconnectivity and the technological capability of the Department of Defense to impede interconnectivity, as well as other concerns or limitations that affect interconnectivity. (4) Means of improving interconnectivity. (c) REPORT. —Not later than 270 days after the date of the Deadline, enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the study conducted under subsection (a). The report shall describe the results of the study and shall include any recommendations that the Comptroller General considers appropriate in light of the study.
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