§ 6161. Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation

• (a)
  • (1) At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on each covered hardware project. The reports shall be known as Selected Acquisition Reports for the covered hardware project concerned.
  • (2) The information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for a fiscal year for a covered hardware project shall be the information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for such fiscal year for a major defense acquisition program under section 4351 or any successor system, expressed in terms of the covered hardware project.
• (b) In this section, the term “covered hardware project” means a project carried out under the defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development program that—
  • (1) is focused on the production and deployment of hardware, including with respect to the development and deployment of satellites or satellite payloads; and
  • (2) exceeds $500,000,000 in total program cost over the course of five years.