; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph (2): (2) Annual status report Not later than January 1 of each year during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 and ending on the completion of the study under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a status report on the study. . VIII Acquisition policy, acquisition management, and related matters A Contracting and acquisition provisions 801. Pilot program on intellectual property evaluation for acquisition programs (a) Pilot program Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may jointly carry out a pilot program to assess mechanisms to evaluate intellectual property, such as technical data deliverables and associated license rights, including commercially available intellectual property valuation analysis and techniques, in acquisition programs for which they are responsible to better understand the benefits associated with these techniques on— (1) the development of cost-effective intellectual property strategies, and (2) assessment and management of the value and costs of intellectual property during acquisition and sustainment activities (including source selection evaluation factors) throughout the acquisition lifecycle for any acquisition program selected by the Secretary concerned. (b) Activities Activities carried out under the pilot program may include the following: (1) Establishing a team of Department of Defense and private sector subject matter experts to identify, to the maximum extent practicable at each milestone for a selected acquisition programs, intellectual property evaluation techniques to obtain quantitative and qualitative analysis related to the value of intellectual property during the procurement, production and deployment, and operations and support phases