116 STAT. 2488 PUBLIC LAW 107-314—DEC. 2, 2002 Reports. Deadline. Reports. Deadline. Reports. responsibilities, shall complete a strategic plan reflecting the needs of the Department of Defense with respect to test and evaluation facilities and resources. Each such strategic plan shall cover the period of ten fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year in which the plan is submitted under paragraph (3). The strategic plan shall be based on a comprehensive review of the test and evaluation requirements of the Department and the adequacy of the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department to meet those requirements. "(2) The strategic plan shall include the following: "(A) An assessment of the test and evaluation requirements of the Department for the period covered by the plan. "(B) An identification of performance measures associated with the successful achievement of test and evaluation objectives for the period covered by the plan. "(C) An assessment of the test and evaluation facilities and resources that will be needed to meet such requirements and satisfy such performance measures. "(D) An assessment of the current state of the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department. "(E) An itemization of acquisitions, upgrades, and improvements necessary to ensure that the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Department are adequate to meet such requirements and satisfy such performance measures. "(F) An assessment of the budgetary resources necessary to implement such acquisitions, upgrades, and improvements. "(3) Upon completing a strategic plan under paragraph (1), the Director shall submit to the Secretary of Defense a report on that plan. The report shall include the plan and a description of the review on which the plan is based. "(4) Not later than 60 days after the date on which the report is submitted under paragraph (3), the Secretary of Defense shall transmit to the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the report, together with any comments with respect to the report that the Secretary considers appropriate. "(e) CERTIFICATION OF BUDGETS.—(1) The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), shall require that the Secretary of each military department, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, and the head of each Defense Agency with test and evaluation responsibilities transmit such Secretary's, Director's, or head's proposed budget for test and evaluation activities for a fiscal year to the Director of the Center for review under paragraph (2) before submitting such proposed budget to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). "(2)(A) The Director of the Center shall review each proposed budget transmitted under paragraph (1) and shall, not later than January 31 of the year preceding the fiscal year for which such budgets are proposed, submit to the Secretary of Defense a report containing the comments of the Director with respect to all such proposed budgets, together with the certification of the Director as to whether such proposed budgets are adequate. "(B) The Director shall also submit, together with such report and such certification, an additional certification as to whether such proposed budgets provide balanced support for such strategic plan.
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