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[CITE: 10USC2374a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                  CHAPTER 139--RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 2374a. Prizes for advanced technology achievements

    (a) Authority.--The Secretary of Defense, acting through the 
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, may carry out 
a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding 
achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research, technology 
development, and prototype development that have the potential for 
application to the performance of the military missions of the 
Department of Defense.
    (b) Competition Requirements.--The program under subsection (a) 
shall use a competitive process for the selection of recipients of cash 
prizes. The process shall include the widely-advertised solicitation of 
submissions of research results, technology developments, and 
prototypes.
    (c) Limitations.--(1) The total amount made available for award of 
cash prizes in a fiscal year may not exceed $10,000,000.
    (2) No prize competition may result in the award of more than 
$1,000,000 in cash prizes without the approval of the Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
    (d) Relationship to Other Authority.--The program under subsection 
(a) may be carried out in conjunction with or in addition to the 
exercise of any other authority of the Director to acquire, support, or 
stimulate basic, advanced and applied research, technology development, 
or prototype projects.
    (e) Annual Report.--Promptly after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives a report on the administration of the 
program for that fiscal year. The report shall include the following:
        (1) The military applications of the research, technology, or 
    prototypes for which prizes were awarded.
        (2) The total amount of the prizes awarded.
        (3) The methods used for solicitation and evaluation of 
    submissions, together with an assessment of the effectiveness of 
    those methods.

    (f) Period of Authority.--The authority to award prizes under 
subsection (a) shall terminate at the end of September 30, 2003.

(Added Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title II, Sec. 244(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 
Stat. 552.)
