When Congress Gets Back in Sept the NDAA should move quickly through Conference and send the Bill to POTUS for a signature well before October 1...There's a 55% this could be germane to our predicament......

Innovation and emerging technologies

Policy upkeep. Over the last several years, Congress has directed policy and organizational changes at DOD that aim to improve the department’s ability to develop pathbreaking technologies and to transition them rapidly into acquisition programs. The House proposes requiring that DOD establish a “process” to ensure its policies relating to emerging technologies are continuously updated as those technologies develop. A separate House provision would require DOD to report to Congress on its efforts to improve “innovation investments and management.” The report would address such broad matters as how DOD assesses whether innovation is “incremental” or “disruptive,” and how it includes “acquisition stakeholders” in technology development programs.

Quantum information science. The House and Senate bills both include provisions affirming the DOD QIS program authorized in last year’s NDAA should coordinate with entities established under the National Quantum Initiative Act. The House further backs the creation of an “innovation center” that would aim to accelerate Air Force QIS R&D by providing an environment for collaboration with industry and academia. Notably, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York, is currently establishing a “Quantum Hub” in partnership with the State University of New York that will be part of the IBM Q Network.

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2019/national-defense-authorization-act-fiscal-year-2020-house-and-senate-proposals