§4252. Major defense acquisition programs: factors to be considered before Milestone B approval — Inbound Citations

Citations to 10 U.S.C. § 4252 as a whole

• 10 U.S.C. § 3104(b)(2)(C)

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  (C) concur that appropriate trade-offs among cost, schedule, technical feasibility, and performance objectives have been made to ensure that the program is affordable when considering the per unit cost and the total life-cycle cost before Milestone B approval is granted under section 4252 of this title; and
• 10 U.S.C. § 3221(b)(6)(A)(i)

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  (i) any decision to grant milestone approval pursuant to section 4252 of this title;
• 10 U.S.C. § 4202(a)(2)(C)

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  (C) The cost estimate referred to in section 4252(a)(1)(C) of this title.
• 10 U.S.C. § 4272(a)

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  (a) With respect to a major defense acquisition program, the Secretary of Defense shall conduct or approve independent technical risk assessments before any decision to grant Milestone B approval for the program pursuant to section 4252 of this title, any decision to enter into low-rate initial production or full-rate production, or at any other time considered appropriate by the Secretary, that includes the identification of any critical technologies or manufacturing processes that have not been successfully demonstrated in a relevant environment.
• 10 U.S.C. § 4377(a)(2)

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  (2) rescind the most recent Milestone approval for the program and withdraw any associated certification under section 4251 or 4252 of this title;
• 10 U.S.C. § 4402(e)

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  (e) A major defense acquisition program may not receive Milestone B approval under section 4252 of this title until the milestone decision authority determines in writing—

  (1) in the case of a program that uses a modular open system approach, that—

  (A) the program incorporates clearly defined major system interfaces between the major system platform and major system components, between major system components, and between major system platforms;

  (B) such major system interfaces are consistent with the the¹ requirements of section 4401(a) of this title; and

  (C) the Government has arranged to obtain appropriate and necessary intellectual property rights with respect to such major system interfaces upon completion of the development of the major system platform; or

  (2) in the case of a program that does not use a modular open system approach, that the use of a modular open system approach is not practicable.