10 U.S.C. § 223a — Ballistic missile defense programs: procurement

(a) Budget Justification Materials. Each year, when the Secretary of Defense submits budget materials to Congress for the Department of Defense (as part of the President's budget), the Secretary must give specific information for every ballistic missile defense system element that the Missile Defense Agency is planning to produce and field. For each element, the Secretary must state: (1) how much the planned production facilities can actually produce; (2) when that element could first be ready for use; and (3) when responsibility for buying that element is expected to move from the Missile Defense Agency's Director to the Secretary of a military department. (b) Future-Years Defense Program. Every year, the Secretary of Defense must include, in the future-years defense program sent to Congress under section 221, an estimate of how much money is needed to procure each ballistic missile defense system element, plus an explanation of the reasoning behind that estimate. (c) Performance Criteria. The Director of the Missile Defense Agency must include, in the performance criteria set for each planned phase of developing the missile defense system and its parts, a description of how effective that phase is meant to be against the capabilities of foreign adversaries.