Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation

The Director shall be the responsible for the following activities relating to cost estimation: The Director shall submit in writing to the Administrator the following: The Director shall be responsible for the following activities relating to program evaluation: The Administrator, acting through the Director, shall, as appropriate, seek to use procedures, processes, and policies for collecting cost data and making that data accessible that are similar to the procedures, processes, and policies used by the Defense Cost Analysis Resource Center of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation of the Department of Defense for those purposes. The Administrator shall ensure that the Director has sufficient numbers of personnel who have competence in technical matters, budgetary matters, cost estimation, technology readiness analysis, and other appropriate matters to carry out the functions required by this section. The Director shall submit to Congress at or about the time that the budget of the President is submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2018, a report that includes the following: Nothing in this section shall be construed to require duplicate reviews or cost estimates for major atomic energy defense acquisition programs by the Administration or other elements of the Department of Energy. In this section: The term “Administration”, with respect to any authority, duty, or responsibility provided by this section, does not include the Office of Naval Reactors. The term “major atomic energy defense acquisition program” means an atomic energy defense acquisition program of the Administration— The term “performance baseline”, with respect to a major atomic energy defense acquisition program, means the key parameters with respect to performance, scope, cost, and schedule for the project budget of the program.