; 10 U.S.C. 4061 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) The Secretary of Defense may waive the priority established pursuant to paragraph (1) for up to two solicitations for proposals per fiscal year. . 142. Requirement to develop and implement policies to establish the datalink strategy of the Department of Defense (a) Policies required (1) In general The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement policies to establish the unified datalink strategy of the Department of Defense (in this section referred to as the strategy ). (2) Elements The policies required by paragraph (1) shall include the following: (A) The designation of an organization that will act as the lead coordinator of datalink activities across the entire Department of Defense. (B) Prioritization and coordination across services of the strategy within the requirements generation process of the Department. (C) The use of a common standardized datalink network or transport protocol that ensures interoperability between independently developed datalinks, regardless of physical medium used, and ensures mesh routing. The Secretary of Defense shall consider the use of a subset of Internet Protocol. (D) A programmatic decoupling of the physical method used to transmit data, the network or transport protocols used in the transmission and reception of data, and the applications used to process and use data. (E) The coordination of weapon systems executing the same mission types across services of the strategy, including through the use of a common set of datalink waveforms. The Secretary shall evaluate the use of redundant datalinks for line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight information exchange for each weapon systems platform. (F) Coordination between the Department and the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) to leverage any efficiencies and overlap with existing datalink waveforms of the intelligence community. (G) Methods to support the rapid