; (2) personal protective equipment; or (3) knowledge-based training or logistics services in contingency operations or other operations outside the United States, including in Afghanistan or Iraq. (d) Reporting Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for three years, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the number of instances in which lowest price technically acceptable source selection criteria is used for a contract exceeding $2,000,000, including an explanation of how the situations listed in subsection (b) were considered in making a determination to use lowest price technically acceptable source selection criteria. (e) Definitions In this section: (1) Executive agency The term executive agency has the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 40, United States Code, except that the term does not include the Department of Defense. (2) Contingency operation The term contingency operation has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 10, United States Code. (3) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.