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" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115TH CONGRESS

2d Session 

REPORT

115–??? 

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 

R E P O R T 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

ON

H.R. 5515 

together with 

ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS 

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] 

MAY 15, 2018.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 
U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 

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" ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115TH CONGRESS

2d Session 

REPORT

2018

115–??? 

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 

R E P O R T 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

ON

H.R. 5515 

together with 

ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS 

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] 

MAY 15, 2018.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
(II) 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES 

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

WILLIAM M. ‘‘MAC’’ THORNBERRY, Texas, Chairman 

WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina 

JOE WILSON, South Carolina 

FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey 

ROB BISHOP, Utah 

MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio 

MIKE ROGERS, Alabama 

BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania 

K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas 

DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado 

ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia 

DUNCAN HUNTER, California 

MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado 

VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri 

AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia 

MO BROOKS, Alabama 

PAUL COOK, California 

BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio 

BRADLEY BYRNE, Alabama 

SAM GRAVES, Missouri 

ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York 

MARTHA MCSALLY, Arizona 

STEPHEN KNIGHT, California 

STEVE RUSSELL, Oklahoma 

SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee 

RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana 

TRENT KELLY, Mississippi 

MIKE GALLAGHER, Wisconsin 

MATT GAETZ, Florida 

DON BACON, Nebraska 

JIM BANKS, Indiana 

LIZ CHENEY, Wyoming 

JODY B. HICE, Georgia 

PAUL MITCHELL, Michigan 

ADAM SMITH, Washington 

ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania 

SUSAN A. DAVIS, California 

JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island 

RICK LARSEN, Washington 

JIM COOPER, Tennessee 

MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam 

JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut 

NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts 

JOHN GARAMENDI, California 

JACKIE SPEIER, California 

MARC A. VEASEY, Texas 

TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii 

BETO O’ROURKE, Texas 

DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey 

RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona 

SETH MOULTON, Massachusetts 

COLLEEN HANABUSA, Hawaii 

CAROL SHEA–PORTER, New Hampshire 

JACKY ROSEN, Nevada 

A. DONALD MCEACHIN, Virginia 

SALUD O. CARBAJAL, California 

ANTHONY G. BROWN, Maryland 

STEPHANIE N. MURPHY, Florida 

RO KHANNA, California 

TOM O’HALLERAN, Arizona 

THOMAS R. SUOZZI, New York 

JIMMY PANETTA, California 

JEN STEWART, Staff Director 
(III) 

C O N T E N T S 

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Purpose of the Legislation ...................................................................................... 000 

Rationale for the Committee Bill ........................................................................... 000 

Hearings ................................................................................................................... 000

Committee Position ................................................................................................. 000 

Explanation of the Committee Amendments ........................................................ 000 

Relationship of Authorization to Appropriations .................................................. 000 

Summary of Discretionary Authorizations in the Bill .......................................... 000 

Budget Authority Implication ................................................................................. 000 

DIVISION A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS ................. 000 

TITLE I—PROCUREMENT ................................................................................... 000 

Aircraft Procurement, Army ............................................................................ 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Apache attack helicopters ......................................................................... 000 

Light utility helicopter .............................................................................. 000 

Report on efforts to reduce operational and maintenance costs for 

CH–47 ..................................................................................................... 000 

Unmanned aerial system units for Army National Guard .................... 000 

Missile Procurement, Army ............................................................................. 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Stinger missile modernization program .................................................. 000 

Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army .................. 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Armored brigade combat team modernization ........................................ 000 

M240 medium machine gun modernization ............................................ 000 

M3E1 Carl Gustaf weapon system .......................................................... 000 

Paladin Integrated Management ............................................................. 000 

Stryker upgrades ....................................................................................... 000 

Procurement of Ammunition, Army ................................................................ 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

M58 MICLIC .............................................................................................. 000 

Other Procurement, Army ............................................................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

CREW electronic counter-measure systems ............................................ 000 

Enhanced rapid airfield construction capability ..................................... 000 

Mine resistant ambush protected vehicle sustainment .......................... 000 

Tactical Communication and Protective Systems (TCAPS) authorization .......................................................................................................... 000 

Tactical network modernization ............................................................... 000 

Tactical wheeled vehicle industrial base sustainment ........................... 000 

Aircraft Procurement, Navy ............................................................................ 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Current and future anti-submarine warfare system study ................... 000 

Long-range naval carrier aviation ........................................................... 000 

MQ–4 .......................................................................................................... 000 

Navy Reserve F/A–18 aircraft .................................................................. 000 

Weapons Procurement, Navy ........................................................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Advanced Low Cost Munition Ordnance ................................................. 000 

Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy ................................................................ 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Frigate ........................................................................................................ 000 

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier service life extension ................................. 000 

Other Procurement, Navy ................................................................................ 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer radar backfit ........................................... 000 

MH–60R dipping sonar upgrades ............................................................ 000 

SPY–6 inherent capabilities ..................................................................... 000 

Surface ship torpedo defense .................................................................... 000 

Procurement, Marine Corps ............................................................................. 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Indoor Simulated Markmanship Trainers .............................................. 000 

Rapid acquisition of Rifle Integrated Controller ..................................... 000 

Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ...................................................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

A–10 replacement wings ........................................................................... 000 

Air Force enlisted pilot implementation initiatives ................................ 000 

B–2 secure communication modernization plan ..................................... 000 

C–130H modernization efforts ................................................................. 000 

C–130H propulsion systems upgrade ...................................................... 000 

Compass Call transition plan ................................................................... 000 

F–15C Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System ......... 000 

F–35 autonomic logistics information system ......................................... 000 

F–35 canopy transparencies ..................................................................... 000 

F–35 sustainment affordability ................................................................ 000 

Future sustainment of remotely piloted aircraft tactical intelligence 

and strike capabilities ........................................................................... 000 

OA–X light attack aircraft program ........................................................ 000 

Production adjustment for KC–46A air refueling aircraft ..................... 000 

RQ–4 Global Hawk and EQ–4 battlefield airborne communications 

node aircraft ........................................................................................... 000 

Total Force C–17 Fleet Management Plan .............................................. 000 

Total Force KC–135R net centric operations and battlespace awareness ......................................................................................................... 000 

U–2 ............................................................................................................. 000 

Missile Procurement, Air Force ....................................................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

AIM–120 production rate .......................................................................... 000 

Other Procurement, Air Force ......................................................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Deployable Air Base Systems ................................................................... 000 

Procurement, Defense-Wide ............................................................................. 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Common Analytical Laboratory System .................................................. 000 

Multi-Domain Command and Control ..................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations ................................................. 000 

Section 101—Authorization of Appropriations ........................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Army Programs ............................................................................ 000 

Section 111—National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment Report ............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 112—Limitation on Availability of Funds for M27 Infantry 

Automatic Rifle Program .......................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Navy Programs ............................................................................ 000 

Section 121—Increase in Number of Operational Aircraft Carriers of 

the Navy ..................................................................................................... 000 

Section 122—Procurement Authority for Ford Class Aircraft Carrier 

Program ...................................................................................................... 000 

Section 123—Full Ship Shock Trial for Ford Class Aircraft Carrier ........ 000 

Section 124—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Amphibious Vessels 000 

Section 125—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Standard Missile6 .................................................................................................................. 000 

Section 126—Multiyear Procurement Authority for E–2D Aircraft ......... 000 

Section 127—Multiyear Procurement Authority for F/A–18E/F Aircraft 

and EA–18G Aircraft ................................................................................ 000 

Section 128—Modifications to F/A–18 Aircraft to Mitigate Physiological 

Episodes ..................................................................................................... 000 

Section 129—Frigate Class Ship Program .................................................. 000 

Section 130—Limitation on Procurement of Economic Order Quantities 

for Virginia Class Submarine Program ................................................... 000 

Section 131—Limitation on Use of Funds for DDG–51 Destroyers .......... 000 

Subtitle D—Air Force Programs ..................................................................... 000 
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Section 141—Inventory Requirement for Air Refueling Tanker Aircraft; 

Limitation on Retirement of KC–10A Aircraft ....................................... 000 

Section 142—Limitation on Use of Funds for KC–46A Aircraft Pending 

Submittal of Certification ......................................................................... 000 

Section 143—Retirement Date for VC–25A Aircraft .................................. 000 

Section 144—Contract for Logistics Support for VC–25B Aircraft ........... 000 

Section 145—Multiyear Procurement Authority for C–130J Aircraft ...... 000 

Section 146—Removal of Waiting Period for Limitation on Availability 

of Funds for EC–130H Compass Call Recapitalization Program .......... 000 

Section 147—Findings and Sense of Congress Regarding KC–46 Aerial 

Refueling Tankers ..................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle E—Defense-Wide, Joint, and Multiservice Matters ........................ 000 

Section 151—Buy-to-Budget Acquisition of F–35 Aircraft ........................ 000 

Section 152—Certification on Inclusion of Technology to Minimize 

Physiological Episodes in Certain Aircraft .............................................. 000 

TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION .......... 000 

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army ................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Accelerated integration to counter emerging threats ............................. 000 

Assured Position, Navigation and Timing ............................................... 000 

Targeted Soldier Borne Sensor efforts ..................................................... 000 

Computational molecular modeling and simulation for material development .................................................................................................... 000 

Future digital munitions and integration ............................................... 000 

Future Vertical Lift ................................................................................... 000 

Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers .. 000 

High energy laser systems integration laboratory ................................. 000 

Improved Turbine Engine Program ......................................................... 000 

Initial Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense capability ........................... 000 

Iron Dome experimentation and assessment for short-range air defense ........................................................................................................ 000 

Lightweight metal matrix composite technology for combat and tactical vehicles ........................................................................................... 000 

M119 105mm self-propelled artillery system technology ....................... 000 

Mobile camouflage system ........................................................................ 000 

Personal Protective Equipment advance technology development ........ 000 

Shoot-on-the-Move experimentation for short range air defense systems ........................................................................................................ 000 

Soldier power and composite armor development .................................. 000 

Squad multipurpose equipment transport .............................................. 000 

Supercavitating ammunition technology ................................................. 000 

Third Generation Forward-Looking Infrared development ................... 000 

Transport telemedicine system ................................................................ 000 

Urban warfare training ............................................................................ 000 

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Navy .................................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Academic partnerships for undersea unmanned warfare research ....... 000 

Artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies in Navy unmanned systems ..................................................................................... 000 

Briefing for the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the House 

Committee on Armed Services on US Navy’s efforts to expand 

carrier air wing long-range strike capability ....................................... 000 

Briefing on Navy support for research into autonomous systems ......... 000 

Briefing on ongoing engine noise reduction efforts ................................ 000 

Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services ........................ 000 

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program ....................... 000 

Directed energy and non-lethal weapons technology policy and guidance ......................................................................................................... 000 

E2–D Advanced Hawkeye Identification Friend or Foe ......................... 000 

Joint Air-to-Ground Missile for fixed wing aircraft (JAGM–F) integration .......................................................................................................... 000 

Marine Corps Group 5-class unmanned aircraft development .............. 000 

Maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities 

demonstration ........................................................................................ 000 

Naval underwater test ranges .................................................................. 000 

MQ–25 Unmanned Carrier Aviation program ........................................ 000 

Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal recovery operations ....................... 000 
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Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network ............................................ 000 

Navy Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare prototyping ............................. 000 

Ocular Interruption System ..................................................................... 000 

Passive rocket propelled grenade armor protection technology ............ 000 

Small Business Innovation Research—Automated Test and Retest 

Program .................................................................................................. 000 

TH–57 follow-on training system ............................................................. 000 

U.S. Navy MH–60R helicopter antisubmarine warfare and aircraft 

health monitoring .................................................................................. 000 

Warfighter safety and performance ......................................................... 000 

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force ............................. 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Academic and industrial partnerships for aerospace materials ............ 000 

Academic partnerships for modeling, design, and analysis of unmanned air platforms ............................................................................ 000 

Advanced engine development program .................................................. 000 

Advanced pilot training program ............................................................. 000 

Advanced radar threat system emitters .................................................. 000 

Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generators ............................................. 000 

Aerospace composite structures manufacturing ..................................... 000 

Air Force test and evaluation support ..................................................... 000 

Air Operations Center software modernization utilizing agile development software processes ........................................................................ 000 

Autonomous life support system .............................................................. 000 

Education and outreach for anti-tampering and cybersecurity research ...................................................................................................... 000 

F–15 ALQ–128 electronic warfare warning set ...................................... 000 

F–35 follow-on development ..................................................................... 000 

Metals Affordability Initiative .................................................................. 000 

Passive ground-based imaging of space objects ...................................... 000 

Precision metrology tools .......................................................................... 000 

Recapitalization of Battle-Management, Command and Control, and 

associated intelligence capabilities in support of ground forces ........ 000 

Reusable hypersonic vehicle structure development .............................. 000 

Robust aircraft electrical power and thermal management systems .... 000 

Secure-live-virtual-constructive advanced training environment .......... 000 

Small diameter bomb II cost reduction initiative ................................... 000 

Technology Transition Program ............................................................... 000 

Wide-area motion imagery intelligence capability .................................. 000 

Wind energy development radar mitigation efforts ................................ 000 

Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide ..................... 000 

Items of Special Interest .............................................................................. 000 

Advanced ceramic capabilities .................................................................. 000 

Antitoxin to combat botulinum toxin ....................................................... 000 

Autonomous capabilities ........................................................................... 000 

Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program ................................ 000 

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive standoff detection ..................................................................................................... 000 

Common data environment for modeling and simulation ...................... 000 

Contraband cellular devices ..................................................................... 000 

Counter small tactical unmanned air systems ....................................... 000 

Counter-unmanned aerial system threat detection ................................ 000 

Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection ................................................ 000 

Fielding of radiation detection devices .................................................... 000 

Future uses of synthetic biology .............................................................. 000 

Historically black colleges and universities, and minority serving institutions ................................................................................................. 000 

Innovative installation capabilities .......................................................... 000 

Joint Regional Security Stacks ................................................................ 000 

Joint threat warning system .................................................................... 000 

Military Free Fall School .......................................................................... 000 

Minerva Research Initiative ..................................................................... 000 

National Hypersonics Initiative ............................................................... 000 

National lab integration in defense innovation hubs ............................. 000 

Non-lethal directed energy technologies .................................................. 000 

Protect DIB critical technologies .............................................................. 000 

Rapidly deployable radar system ............................................................. 000 
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Report on DoD target and threat systems .............................................. 000 

Research to enhance the understanding of adversarial influence operations ...................................................................................................... 000 

Use of authority for transactions other than contracts and grants 

by the Department of Defense .............................................................. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations ................................................. 000 

Section 201—Authorization of Appropriations ........................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations ............ 000 

Section 211—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Prototype 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 212—Extension of Directed Energy Prototype Authority ............ 000 

Section 213—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for the Weather Common Component Program ......................................................................... 000 

Section 214—Limitation Pending Certification on the Joint Surveillance 

Target Attack Radar System Recapitalization Program ........................ 000 

Section 215—Limitation on Availability of Funds for F–35 Continuous 

Capability Development and Delivery ..................................................... 000 

Section 216—Limitation on Availability of Funds Pending Report on 

Agile Software Development and Software Operations ......................... 000 

Section 217—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Certain High Energy Laser Advanced Technology ............................................................. 000 

Section 218—Plan for Elimination or Transfer of the Strategic Capabilities Office of the Department of Defense ................................................ 000 

Section 219—National Security Science and Technology Strategy ........... 000 

Section 220—Modification of CVN–73 to Support Fielding of MQ–25 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ......................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Reports and Other Matters ......................................................... 000 

Section 221—Report on Survivability of Air Defense Artillery ................. 000 

Section 222—Report on T–45 Aircraft Physiological Episode Mitigation 

Actions ........................................................................................................ 000 

Section 223—Report on Efforts of the Air Force to Mitigate Physiological Episodes Affecting Aircraft Crewmembers .................................. 000 

Section 224—Briefing on Use of Quantum Sciences for Military Applications and Other Purposes ...................................................................... 000 

Section 225—Report on Defense Innovation Unit Experimental .............. 000 

TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ................................................ 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Logistics and Sustainment Issues ................................................................... 000 

Briefing on Rapidly Deployable Structures ................................................ 000 

Corrosion Prevention for Improved Air Force Readiness .......................... 000 

Innovative Engine Sustainment Wash-Down Management Program ...... 000 

Leveraging Technology to Improve Equipment Readiness ........................ 000 

Life Cycle Costs of Major Defense Acquisition Programs .......................... 000 

Management of Navy Legacy F/A–18 Aircraft ........................................... 000 

Navy Next-Generation Small Arms Weapons Training and Readiness 

Requirements ............................................................................................. 000 

Navy Ship Maintenance and Repair ........................................................... 000 

Supply of Aviation Parts and Spares .......................................................... 000 

Readiness Issues ............................................................................................... 000 

Additive Manufacturing in Depot Facilities ............................................... 000 

Adversary Air Training ................................................................................ 000 

Army Soldier and Squad Virtual Trainer ................................................... 000 

Assessment of Navy Standard Workweek .................................................. 000 

Availability and Sufficiency of Training Ranges to Conduct Training 

against Near-Peer Adversaries ................................................................ 000 

Briefing on Security Forces Assistance Brigade Location Plan ................ 000 

CONUS Training Facilities .......................................................................... 000 

Entry Control Facility Technology .............................................................. 000 

Foreign Language Readiness ....................................................................... 000 

Forward Deployed Naval Force Ship Maintenance and Repair Capacity 000 

Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment Training ............................... 000 

Information Operations ................................................................................ 000 

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training Solution Enhancements .......... 000 

Military Working Dog Capacity and Facilities ........................................... 000 

Modeling and Simulation for Training, Exercises, and Joint Planning ... 000 
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Modernization and Integration of Major Range and Test Facilities 

Bases .......................................................................................................... 000 

Surface Fleet Live Fire Training ................................................................. 000 

Universal Camouflage Inventory and Overdye Technology ...................... 000 

Other Matters ................................................................................................... 000 

Air Refueling Capability and Capacity ....................................................... 000 

Disposition of Excess Military Ground Vehicles ........................................ 000 

Fluorine-Free Fire Fighting Foam .............................................................. 000 

Improving Water Security and Efficiency on Installations ....................... 000 

Joint Navy-Coast Guard Arctic Strategy .................................................... 000 

Meeting Readiness Requirements Efficiently ............................................. 000 

Motorcycle Safety Training .......................................................................... 000 

Open-Air Disposal of Munitions and Munition Constituents .................... 000 

Physical Security at U.S. Shipyards ........................................................... 000 

Quality of Life at Remote Sites ................................................................... 000 

Regional Biosecurity Plan ............................................................................ 000 

Review of Household Good Weight Allowances .......................................... 000 

Review of Mandatory Training Required by Law ...................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations ................................................. 000 

Section 301—Authorization of Appropriations ........................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Energy and Environment ............................................................ 000 

Section 311—Inclusion of Consideration of Energy and Climate Resiliency Efforts in Master Plans for Major Military Installations ............. 000 

Section 312—Use of Proceeds from Sales of Electrical Energy Derived 

from Geothermal Resources for Projects at Military Installations 

Where Resources Are Located .................................................................. 000 

Section 313—Extension of Authorized Periods of Permitted Incidental 

Takings of Marine Mammals in the Course of Specified Activities 

by Department of Defense ........................................................................ 000 

Section 314—State Management and Conservation of Species ................ 000 

Subtitle C—Logistics and Sustainment .......................................................... 000 

Section 321—Examination of Naval Vessels .............................................. 000 

Section 322—Overhaul and Repair of Naval Vessels in Foreign Shipyards ........................................................................................................... 000 

Section 323—Limitation on Length of Overseas Forward Deployment 

of Naval Vessels ........................................................................................ 000 

Section 324—Temporary Modification of Workload Carryover Formula . 000 

Section 325—Limitation on Use of Funds for Implementation of Elements of Master Plan for Redevelopment of Former Ship Repair 

Facility in Guam ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 326—Business Case Analysis for Proposed Relocation of J85 

Engine Regional Repair Center ................................................................ 000 

Section 327—Army Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Center of 

Excellence ................................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle D—Reports ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 331—Matters for Inclusion in Quarterly Reports on Personnel 

and Unit Readiness ................................................................................... 000 

Section 332—Annual Comptroller General Reviews of Readiness of 

Armed Forces to Conduct Full Spectrum Operations ............................ 000 

Section 333—Surface Warfare Training Improvement .............................. 000 

Section 334—Report on Optimizing Surface Navy Vessel Inspections 

and Crew Certifications ............................................................................ 000 

Subtitle E—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 341—Coast Guard Representation on Explosive Safety Board ... 000 

Section 342—Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and 

Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield Designation .......................................... 000 

Section 343—Sense of Congress Regarding Critical Minerals .................. 000 

TITLE IV—MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS ............................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Active Forces ................................................................................ 000 

Section 401—End Strengths for Active Forces ........................................... 000 

Section 402—Revisions in Permanent Active Duty End Strength Minimum Levels .............................................................................................. 000 

Subtitle B—Reserve Forces ............................................................................. 000 

Section 411—End Strengths for Selected Reserve ..................................... 000 
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Section 412—End Strengths for Reserves on Active Duty in Support 

of the Reserves ........................................................................................... 000 

Section 413—End Strengths for Military Technicians (Dual Status) ....... 000 

Section 414—Maximum Number of Reserve Personnel Authorized To 

Be on Active Duty for Operational Support ............................................ 000 

Subtitle C—Authorization of Appropriations ................................................. 000 

Section 421—Military Personnel ................................................................. 000 

TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY ..................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Active Military Service of the Korean Constabulary ................................. 000 

Best Practices for Prevention and Response to Sexual Assault ................ 000 

Briefing on Commissioning Production of Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps .................................................................................................... 000 

Briefing on Credentialing Programs ........................................................... 000 

Briefing on Department of Defense Inspector General Processing 

Times .......................................................................................................... 000 

Comptroller General Report on Active Duty Female Retention ............... 000 

Deconflicting Reserve Component and Expeditionary Civilian Deployments to Provide Adequate Dwell Time .................................................. 000 

Federal Wildland Firefighting Education in the Transition Assistance 

Program (TAP) ........................................................................................... 000 

Foreign Area Officer Personnel Training and Career Management ......... 000 

Foster and Adoptive Military Families ....................................................... 000 

Implicit Bias Training .................................................................................. 000 

Incorporating Consideration of Advanced Technologies into Professional 

Military Education .................................................................................... 000 

Interagency Recruitment Cooperation Efforts ............................................ 000 

Joint Professional Military Education and Professional Military Education Curricula ......................................................................................... 000 

Military Academy Preparatory School Class Enrollment .......................... 000 

Report on Certain Victims’ Rights in Connection with Prosecution of 

Sex-Related Offenses ................................................................................. 000 

Report on Legal Training for Commanders ................................................ 000 

Report on Processes for Federal Recognition of Promotion of Commissioned National Guard Officers ................................................................ 000 

U.S. Air Force Pilot Staff Requirements Validation .................................. 000 

U.S. Special Operations Command Preservation of the Force and Families Program Contract Support ................................................................ 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Regular Component Management .............................................. 000 

Section 501—Expansion of Authority to Award Constructive Service 

Credit for Advanced Education, Experience, or Training, upon Original Appointment as a Commissioned Officer .......................................... 000 

Section 502—Surface Warfare Officers Career Paths ................................ 000 

Section 503—Authority of Selection Boards to Recommend Officers of 

Particular Merit Be Placed at the Top of the Promotion List ............... 000 

Section 504—Deferred Deployment for Members Who Give Birth ........... 000 

Section 505—Codification of Lowered Grade for Retired Officers or 

Persons Who Committed Misconduct in a Lower Grade ........................ 000 

Section 506—Retention of Military Technicians Who Lose Dual Status 

under Certain Circumstances ................................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Reserve Component Management .............................................. 000 

Section 511—Placement of National Guard Military Technicians (Dual 

Status) in the Competitive Service .......................................................... 000 

Section 512—Authorized Strength and Distribution in Grade ................. 000 

Section 513—National Guard Promotion Accountability ........................... 000 

Section 514—Extension of Authority for Pilot Program on Use of Retired Senior Enlisted Members of the Army National Guard as Army 

National Guard Recruiters ....................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—General Service Authorities and Correction of Military 

Records ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 521—Enlistments Vital to the National Interest .......................... 000 

Section 522—Statement of Benefits ............................................................ 000 

Section 523—Modification to Forms of Support That May Be Accepted 

in Support of the Mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ................................................................................................................. 000 

Section 524—Correction of Military Records Website ............................... 000 
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Section 525—Modification of DD Form 214 to Include Email Addresses 000 

Section 526—Public Availability of Reports Related to Senior Leader 

Misconduct ................................................................................................. 000 

Section 527—Appointment and Training of Personnel to Staff the 

Board of Corrections for Military and Naval Records ............................ 000 

Subtitle D—Military Justice ............................................................................ 000 

Section 531—Minimum Confinement Period Required for Conviction 

of Certain Sex-Related Offenses Committed by Members of the 

Armed Forces ............................................................................................. 000 

Section 532—Punitive Article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice 

on Domestic Violence ................................................................................ 000 

Section 533—Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces ..................... 000 

Section 534—Modification of Military Rules of Evidence to Exclude 

Admissibility of General Military Character toward Probability of 

Innocence in Any Offense Not Strictly Related to Performance of 

Military Duties .......................................................................................... 000 

Section 535—Improved Crime Reporting .................................................... 000 

Section 536—Oversight of Registered Sex Offender Management Program ........................................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle E—Other Legal Matters .................................................................... 000 

Section 541—Security Clearance Reinvestigation of Certain Personnel 

Who Commit Certain Offenses ................................................................. 000 

Section 542—Consideration of Application for Transfer for a Student 

of a Military Service Academy Who Is the Victim of a Sexual Assault 

or Related Offense ..................................................................................... 000 

Section 543—Standardization of Policies Related to Expedited Transfer 

in Cases of Sexual Assault ....................................................................... 000 

Section 544—Development of Oversight Plan for Implementation of 

Department of Defense Harassment Prevention and Response Policy . 000 

Section 545—Development of Resource Guides Regarding Sexual Assault for the Military Service Academies ................................................ 000 

Section 546—Report on Victims in MCIO Reports .................................... 000 

Subtitle F—Member Education, Training, Resilience, and Transition ........ 000 

Section 551—Permanent Career Intermission Program ........................... 000 

Section 552—Improvements to Transition Assistance Program ............... 000 

Section 553—Employment and Compensation of Civilian Faculty Members at the Joint Special Operations University .................................... 000 

Section 554—Program to Assist Members of the Armed Forces in Obtaining Professional Credentials .............................................................. 000 

Section 555—Extension of Pilot Program to Assist Members in Obtaining Post-Service Employment ................................................................... 000 

Section 556—Direct Employment Pilot Program for Members of the 

Reserve Components and Veterans ......................................................... 000 

Section 557—Extended Duration of Availability of Military OneSource 

Program Services for Members of the Armed Forces upon their Separation or Retirement ................................................................................. 000 

Section 558—Comptroller General Briefing and Report on Permanent 

Employment Assistance Centers .............................................................. 000 

Section 559—Activities to Increase Awareness of Apprenticeship Programs .......................................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle G—Defense Dependents’ Education and Military Family Readiness Matters .............................................................................................. 000 

Section 561—Enhancement and Clarification of Family Support Services for Family Members of Members of Special Operations Forces ..... 000 

Section 562—Additional Matters for Assessment and Report on Childcare Services of the Department of Defense ........................................... 000 

Section 563—Continued Assistance to Schools with Significant Numbers of Military Dependent Students ...................................................... 000 

Section 564—Department of Defense Education Activity Misconduct 

Database .................................................................................................... 000 

Section 565—Report on Assessment of Frequency of Permanent 

Changes of Station of Members of the Armed Forces on Employment 

among Military Spouses ........................................................................... 000 

Subtitle H—Decorations and Awards ............................................................. 000 

Section 571—Limitations on Authority to Revoke Certain Military 

Decorations Awarded to Members of the Armed Forces ........................ 000 
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Section 572—Authorization for Award of Expeditionary Medal to Certain Marines for Actions on June 8, 1995 ............................................... 000 

Subtitle I—Miscellaneous Reports and Other Matters ................................. 000 

Section 581—Public Availability of Top-Line Numbers of Deployed 

Members of the Armed Forces ................................................................. 000 

Section 582—Criteria for Interment at Arlington National Cemetery ..... 000 

Section 583—Report on General and Flag Officer Costs ........................... 000 

Section 584—Report on Outside Employment of Senior Personnel .......... 000 

Section 585—Limitation on Use of Funds Pending Submittal of Report 

on Army Marketing and Advertising Program ....................................... 000 

TITLE VI—COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL BENEFITS .......... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Availability of Alcohol at Military Commissary Stores ............................. 000 

Examination of Flexible/Noncontinuous Maternity Leave ........................ 000 

Imminent Danger Pay Adjudication Process .............................................. 000 

Small Business Purchasing Contracts for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 

for the Defense Commissary Agency (‘‘DeCA’’) ....................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Pay and Allowances ..................................................................... 000 

Section 601—Prompt Review of Request for Imminent Danger Pay ........ 000 

Section 602—Application of Basic Allowance for Housing to Members 

of the Uniformed Services in the Virgin Islands .................................... 000 

Section 603—Mandatory Increase in Insurance Coverage under Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance for Members Deployed to Combat 

Theaters of Operation ............................................................................... 000 

Section 604—Military Housing Privatization Initiative ............................ 000 

Section 605—Per Diem Allowance Policies ................................................. 000 

Subtitle B—Bonuses and Special Incentive Pays .......................................... 000 

Section 611—One-Year Extension of Certain Expiring Bonus and Special Pay Authorities ................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 621—Expansions of Installation Benefits to Surviving Spouses, 

Dependent Children, and Other Next of Kin .......................................... 000 

Section 622—Transportation on Military Aircraft on a Space-Available 

Basis for Disabled Veterans with a Service-Connected, Permanent 

Disability Rated as Total .......................................................................... 000 

Section 623—Extension of Parking Expenses Allowance to Civilian Employees at Recruiting Facilities ................................................................ 000 

Section 624—Advisory Boards Regarding Military Commissaries and 

Exchanges .................................................................................................. 000 

Section 625—Study and Report on Development of a Single Defense 

Resale System ............................................................................................ 000 

TITLE VII—HEALTH CARE PROVISIONS ......................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Advanced Pain Management Fellows Program .......................................... 000 

Athletic Trainers ........................................................................................... 000 

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) ................................................. 000 

Comprehensive Women’s Health for Active Duty ...................................... 000 

Department of Defense Action Plan for Countering Infectious Diseases . 000 

Diabetes Prevention Program ...................................................................... 000 

Direct Report Language on National Guard Mental Health ..................... 000 

Exceptional Family Member Program ........................................................ 000 

GAO Audit of TRICARE ............................................................................... 000 

Global Health Engagement Organization Consolidation ........................... 000 

Improving Delivery of Mental Health Services .......................................... 000 

Improving Health Care Choices for Severely Injured Service Members .. 000 

Joint Advanced Orthopedic Surgical Training ........................................... 000 

Mental Health Care in the Military Health System .................................. 000 

Military Entrance Processing Command Physical Examination Model ... 000 

Military Nurse Work Experience ................................................................. 000 

Military Nutrition and Diet Planning ......................................................... 000 

Mitigating Work Place Violence in Military Treatment Facilities ........... 000 

Orthotics for New Recruits .......................................................................... 000 

Periodic Health Assessment Analysis ......................................................... 000 

Podiatric Surgeons in the Military .............................................................. 000 

Podiatry in the Military ............................................................................... 000 
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Study on CT Angiography and Fractional Flow Reserve Computed Tomography in the Military Health System ............................................... 000 

Support for Global Health Security Agenda and Briefing on Joint Staff 

Recommendations ...................................................................................... 000 

Therapeutic Service Dog Training Program for Service Members ........... 000 

TRICARE Managed Care Support Contractor Reporting .......................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—TRICARE and Other Health Care Benefits .............................. 000 

Section 701—TRICARE Medicare Advantage Demonstration Program .. 000 

Section 702—Pilot Program on Treatment of Members of the Armed 

Forces for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Related to Military Sexual 

Trauma ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 703—Pilot Program on Cryopreservation and Storage ................ 000 

Subtitle B—Health Care Administration ....................................................... 000 

Section 711—Transition of Administration by Defense Health Agency 

of Military Medical Treatment Facilities ................................................ 000 

Section 712—Sharing Information with State Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 713—Improvement to Notification to Congress of Hospitalization of Combat-Wounded Members of the Armed Forces ...................... 000 

Section 714—Improvements to Trauma Center Partnerships .................. 000 

Section 715—Wounded Warrior Policy Review .......................................... 000 

Section 716—Joint Force Medical Capabilities Development and Standardization ................................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Reports and Other Matters ......................................................... 000 

Section 721—Establishment of Triservice Dental Research Program ...... 000 

Section 722—Increasing the Number of Appointed Directors of the 

Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine ............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 723—Extension of Authority for Joint Department of DefenseDepartment of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration 

Fund ........................................................................................................... 000 

Section 724—Inclusion of Gambling Disorder in Health Assessments 

and Related Research Efforts of the Department of Defense ................ 000 

Section 725—Medical Simulation Technology and Live Tissue Training 

within the Department of Defense ........................................................... 000 

Section 726—Limitation on Changes to Federal Emergency Services 

Certification Levels of the Air Force ........................................................ 000 

Section 727—Strategic Medical Research Plan .......................................... 000 

Section 728—Independent Evaluation of Mental Health Care ................. 000 

Section 729—Study on Reimbursement Rates for Mental Health Care 

Providers under TRICARE Prime and TRICARE Select in the East 

and West Regions of the TRICARE Program ......................................... 000 

TITLE VIII—ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND 

RELATED MATTERS ...................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Assessment of Acquisition Workforce .......................................................... 000 

Briefing on Athletic Footwear for New Recruits ........................................ 000 

Comptroller General Report on the Issuance of Regulations in the 

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement ............................ 000 

Contract Incentives for Superior Supplier Performance ............................ 000 

Core Logistics Capability ............................................................................. 000 

Data Rights Impact to Sustainment ........................................................... 000 

Domestic Samarium Cobalt Magnet Manufacturing ................................. 000 

Ensuring Availability of Beryllium ............................................................. 000 

Final Activities of and Archiving of Records for Advisory Panel on 

Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations ............................ 000 

Installation of Command, Control, Communication and Computer Systems ............................................................................................................ 000 

Mandatory Arbitration Briefing ................................................................... 000 

Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program ........................................ 000 

National Defense Stockpile .......................................................................... 000 

Navy Build-to-Print Cost Savings ............................................................... 000 

One Hundred Percent Employee-Owned Contractors ................................ 000 

Report on REE-Bearing Waste Recycling ................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 
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Subtitle A—Streamlining of Defense Acquisition Statutes and Regulations ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 800—Effective Dates; Coordination of Amendments .................... 000 

Part I—Consolidation of Defense Acquisition Statutes in New Part V 

of Subtitle A of Title 10, United States Code .......................................... 000 

Section 801—Framework for New Part V of Subtitle A ............................ 000 

Part II—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitles B, C, and 

D to Provide Room for New Part V of Subtitle A ................................... 000 

Section 806—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle D 

of Title 10, United States Code—Air Force ............................................. 000 

Section 807—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle C 

of Title 10, United States Code—Navy and Marine Corps .................... 000 

Section 808—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle B 

of Title 10, United States Code—Army ................................................... 000 

Section 809—Cross References to Redesignated Sections and Chapters . 000 

Part III—Repeals of Certain Provisions of Defense Acquisition Law ........ 000 

Section 811—Amendment to and Repeal of Statutory Requirements 

for Certain Positions or Offices in the Department of Defense ............. 000 

Section 812—Repeal of Certain Defense Acquisition Laws ....................... 000 

Section 813—Repeal of Certain Department of Defense Reporting Requirements ................................................................................................. 000 

Subtitle B—Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, 

and Limitations ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 821—Contract Goal for the AbilityOne Program .......................... 000 

Section 822—Increased Micro-Purchase Threshold Applicable to Department of Defense Procurements ......................................................... 000 

Section 823—Preference for Offerors Employing Veterans ....................... 000 

Section 824—Revision of Requirement to Submit Information on Services Contracts to Congress ........................................................................ 000 

Section 825—Data Collection and Inventory for Services Contracts ........ 000 

Section 826—Competition Requirements for Purchases from Federal 

Prison Industries ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 827—Requirement for a Fair and Reasonable Price for Technical Data Before Development or Production of Major Weapon Systems ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 828—Revisions in Authority Relating to Program Cost Targets 

and Fielding Targets for Major Defense Acquisition Programs ............ 000 

Section 829—Revision of Timeline for Use of the Rapid Fielding Pathway for Acquisition Programs .................................................................. 000 

Section 830—Clarification of Services Contracting Definitions ................ 000 

Subtitle C—Provisions Relating to Commercial Items .................................. 000 

Section 831—Revision of Definition of Commercial Item for Purposes 

of Federal Acquisition Statutes ................................................................ 000 

Section 832—Definition of Subcontract ....................................................... 000 

Section 833—Limitation on Applicability to Department of Defense 

Commercial Contracts of Certain Provisions of Law and Certain Executive Orders and Regulations ............................................................... 000 

Section 834—Modifications to Procurement through Commercial ECommerce Portals ..................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle D—Industrial Base Matters .............................................................. 000 

Section 841—Requirement That Certain Ship Components Be Manufactured in the National Technology and Industrial Base ......................... 000 

Section 842—Report on Domestic Sourcing of Specific Components for 

All Naval Vessels ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 843—Removal of National Interest Determination Requirements for Certain Entities ........................................................................ 000 

Section 844—Pilot Program to Test Machine-Vision Technologies to 

Determine the Authenticity and Security of Microelectronic Parts 

in Weapon Systems ................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle E—Small Business Matters .............................................................. 000 

Section 851—Department of Defense Small Business Strategy ............... 000 

Section 852—Prompt Payments of Small Business Contractors .............. 000 

Section 853—Increased Participation in the Small Business Administration Microloan Program ....................................................................... 000 

Section 854—Amendments to Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program ...................... 000 

Section 855—Construction Contract Administration ................................. 000 
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Section 856—Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Coordinator ........................................................................................................... 000 

Section 857—Amendments to the Small Business Investment Act of 

1958 ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 858—Consolidated Budget Justification for the Department of 

Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small 

Business Technology Transfer Program .................................................. 000 

Section 859—Funding for Procurement Technical Assistance Program .. 000 

Section 860—Exemption of Certain Contracts from the Periodic Inflation Adjustments to the Acquisition-Related Dollar Threshold ............ 000 

Subtitle F—Other Matters ............................................................................... 000 

Section 871—Additional Requirements for Negotiations for Noncommercial Computer Software ...................................................................... 000 

Section 872—Removal of Requirement for Risk and Sensitivity Analysis 

of Baseline Estimates in Selected Acquisition Reports .......................... 000 

Section 873—Prohibition on Acquisition of Sensitive Materials from 

Non-Allied Foreign Nations ...................................................................... 000 

Section 874—Transfer or Possession of Defense Items for National Defense Purposes ........................................................................................... 000 

Section 875—Expedited Hiring Authority for Shortage Category Positions in the Acquisition Workforce ........................................................... 000 

Section 876—Extension of Prohibition on Providing Funds to the 

Enemy ........................................................................................................ 000 

Section 877—Repeal of Certain Determinations Required for Grants 

of Exceptions to Cost or Pricing Data Certification Requirements 

and Waivers of Cost Accounting Standards ............................................ 000 

Section 878—Reporting on Projects Performed through Transactions 

Other Than Contracts, Cooperative Agreements, and Grants .............. 000 

Section 879—Standardization of Formatting and Public Accessibility 

of Department of Defense Reports to Congress ...................................... 000 

Section 880—Defending United States Government Communications .... 000 

TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................ 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Organization and Management of the Department of Defense 

Generally .................................................................................................... 000 

Section 901—Authority of Secretary of Defense to Determine Command 

and Control Relationships ........................................................................ 000 

Section 902—Civilian Personnel Management ........................................... 000 

Section 903—Performance of Civilian Functions by Military Personnel . 000 

Section 904—Roles of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under 

Secretary of Defense for Intelligence ....................................................... 000 

Section 905—Designation of Navy Commanders ....................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Comprehensive Pentagon Bureaucracy Reform and Reduction .............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 911—Authorities and Responsibilities of the Chief Management 

Officer of the Department of Defense ...................................................... 000 

Section 912—Authorities and Responsibilities of the Inspector General 

of the Department of Defense .................................................................. 000 

Section 913—Transition of Certain Defense Agencies and Department 

of Defense Field Activities ........................................................................ 000 

Section 914—Actions to Increase the Efficiency and Transparency of 

the Defense Logistics Agency ................................................................... 000 

Section 915—Review of Functions of Defense Contract Audit Agency 

and Defense Contract Management Agency ........................................... 000 

Section 916—Streamlining of Defense Finance and Accounting Services .............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 917—Reduction in Number of Chief Information Officers in 

the Senior Executive Service .................................................................... 000 

Section 918—General Provisions ................................................................. 000 

Subtitle C—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 921—Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Policy and 

Oversight Council ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 922—Limitation on Transfer of the Chemical, Biological, and 

Radiological Defense Division of the Navy .............................................. 000 

TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS ..................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 
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Counter-Drug Activities ................................................................................... 000 

Colombian Security and the U.S.-Colombian Partnership ........................ 000 

DOD Support to Combating the Opioid Epidemic ..................................... 000 

United States-Mexico Security Cooperation ............................................... 000 

Other Matters ................................................................................................... 000 

Assessment of Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Involuntary 

Mobilization Plans to Support Special Operations Activities ................ 000 

Briefing on Ukrainian Special Operations Forces Training ...................... 000 

Civil Support Team Information Management System ............................. 000 

Close Combat Lethality Task Force ............................................................ 000 

Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Authority for United States Facilities and Assets ........................................................................................... 000 

Counterterrorism Effectiveness Research ................................................... 000 

Development and Procurement of Combat Equipment and Clothing 

for Female Servicemembers in Combat Occupations ............................. 000 

Foreign Currency Fluctuation Account ....................................................... 000 

Friendly Force Identification in Close Air Support .................................... 000 

Genetic and Medical Information Security ................................................. 000 

MQ–9 Enterprise Supporting Air Combat Command and Air Force 

Special Operations Command Activities ................................................. 000 

National Guard Access to Department of Defense Owned Unmanned 

Aircraft Systems ........................................................................................ 000 

Preparedness of U.S. Forces to Counter North Korean Chemical and 

Biological Weapons .................................................................................... 000 

Report on NORTHCOM Response to Hurricane Maria ............................. 000 

Review of National Guard Capabilities in Support of Incident Awareness and Assessment Mission Operations ............................................... 000 

Senior Civilian or Military Leaders in Charge of Audit and Financial 

Management .............................................................................................. 000 

Soo Locks ....................................................................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Financial Matters ........................................................................ 000 

Section 1001—General Transfer Authority ................................................ 000 

Section 1002—Expertise in Audit Remediation ......................................... 000 

Section 1003—Authority to transfer funds to Director of National Intelligence for CAPNET .................................................................................. 000 

Section 1004—Independent Public Accountant Audit of Financial Systems of the Department of Defense ......................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Counterdrug Activities ................................................................ 000 

Section 1011—Department of Defense Support for Combating Opioid 

Trafficking and Abuse ............................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Naval Vessels and Shipyards ...................................................... 000 

Section 1021—Inclusion of Operation and Sustainment Costs in Annual 

Naval Vessel Construction Plans ............................................................. 000 

Section 1022—Purchase of Vessels Using Funds in National Defense 

Sealift Fund ............................................................................................... 000 

Section 1023—Purchase of Vessels Built in Foreign Shipyards with 

Funds in National Defense Sealift Fund ................................................. 000 

Section 1024—Technical Corrections and Clarifications to Chapter 633 

of Title 10, United States Code, and Other Provisions of Law Regarding Naval Vessels ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 1025—Retention of Navy Hospital Ship Capability ..................... 000 

Subtitle D—Counterterrorism ......................................................................... 000 

Section 1031—Definition of Sensitive Military Operation ........................ 000 

Section 1032—Prohibition on Use of Funds for Transfer or Release 

of Individuals Detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 

Bay, Cuba, to the United States .............................................................. 000 

Section 1033—Prohibition on Use of Funds to Construct or Modify 

Facilities in the United States to House Detainees Transferred from 

United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .......................... 000 

Section 1034—Prohibition on Use of Funds for Transfer or Release 

of Individuals Detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 

Bay, Cuba, to Certain Countries .............................................................. 000 

Subtitle E—Miscellaneous Authorities and Limitations ............................... 000 

Section 1041—Notification on the Provision of Defense Sensitive Support ............................................................................................................. 000 
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Section 1042—Coordinating United States Response to Malign Foreign 

Influence Operations and Campaigns ..................................................... 000 

Section 1043—Workforce Issues for Military Realignments in the Pacific ............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 1044—Mitigation of Operational Risks Posed to Certain Military Aircraft by Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Equipment ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1045—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Unmanned Surface Vehicles .............................................................................................. 000 

Section 1046—Program for Department of Defense Controlled Unclassified Information in the Hands of Industry .............................................. 000 

Section 1047—Protection of Emerging and Foundational Technologies .. 000 

Subtitle F—Studies and Reports ..................................................................... 000 

Section 1051—Additional Matter for Inclusion in Annual Report on 

Civilian Casualties in Connection with United States Military Operations .......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1052—Department of Defense Review and Assessment on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ........................ 000 

Section 1053—Report on Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure .......... 000 

Section 1054—Report on Proposed Consolidation of Department of Defense Global Messaging and Counter Messaging Capabilities .............. 000 

Section 1055—Comprehensive Review of Professionalism and Ethics 

Programs for Special Operations Forces ................................................. 000 

Section 1056—Munitions Assessments and Future-Years Defense Program Requirements ................................................................................... 000 

Section 1057—Report on Establishment of Army Futures Command ..... 000 

Section 1058—Assessment of Department of Defense Electromagnetic 

Spectrum Warfare Enterprise .................................................................. 000 

Section 1059—Report on Support for Non-Contiguous States and Territories in the Event of Threats and Incidents .......................................... 000 

Section 1060—Report on Low-Boom Flight Demonstration ...................... 000 

Section 1061—Report on Cyber-Enabled Information Operations ........... 000 

Subtitle G—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 1071—Technical, Conforming, and Clerical Amendments ........... 000 

Section 1072—Principal Advisor on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction ..................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1073—Receipt of Firearm or Ammunition .................................... 000 

Section 1074—Federal Charter for Spirit of America ................................ 000 

Section 1075—Transfer of Aircraft to Other Departments ....................... 000 

Section 1076—Reauthorization of National Aviation Heritage Area ....... 000 

Section 1077—Recognition of America’s Veterans ..................................... 000 

Section 1078—National Commission on Military Aviation Safety ........... 000 

Section 1079—Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support ..... 000 

Section 1080—Sense of Congress on Adversary Air Capabilities ............. 000 

Section 1081—Sense of Congress Regarding Organic Attack Aviator 

Training Capability ................................................................................... 000 

Section 1082—Sense of Congress on the Legacy, Contributions, and 

Sacrifices of American Indian and Alaska Natives in the Armed 

Forces ......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1083—Amateur Radio Parity .......................................................... 000 

Section 1084—Sense of Congress Regarding the International Borders 

of the United States .................................................................................. 000 

Section 1085—Program to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of World 

War II ......................................................................................................... 000 

TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL MATTERS ................................................. 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Civilian Talent Recruitment ........................................................................ 000 

Direct Hiring Authority ................................................................................ 000 

Presidential Management Fellows Program ............................................... 000 

Recruitment and Hiring of Navy Astronomers ........................................... 000 

Workplace Flexibility for Federal Civilians ................................................ 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 1101—Direct Hire Authority for the Department of Defense 

for Certain Competitive Service Positions .............................................. 000 

Section 1102—Modification of Direct Hire Authority for the Department of Defense for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates . 000 
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Section 1103—Extension of Overtime Rate Authority for Department 

of the Navy Employees Performing Work Aboard or Dockside in 

Support of the Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Forward Deployed 

in Japan ..................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1104—One-Year Extension and Expansion of Authority to 

Waive Annual Limitation on Premium Pay and Aggregate Limitation 

on Pay for Federal Civilian Employees Working Overseas ................... 000 

Section 1105—Appointment of Retired Members of the Armed Forces 

to Positions in or under the Department of Defense .............................. 000 

Section 1106—Extension of Authority to Conduct Telework Travel Expenses Test Programs ............................................................................... 000 

Section 1107—Personnel Demonstration Projects ..................................... 000 

Section 1108—Expanded Flexibility in Selecting Candidates from Referral Lists ...................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1109—Temporary and Term Appointments in the Competitive 

Service ........................................................................................................ 000 

TITLE XII—MATTERS RELATING TO FOREIGN NATIONS .......................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Carrier Presence in the Middle East ........................................................... 000 

Casualty Evacuation in U.S. Africa Command Area of Operations ......... 000 

Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa ................................................ 000 

Coordinating Efforts to Counter the Malign Activities of the People’s 

Republic of China and the Russian Federation Across Combatant 

Commands ................................................................................................. 000 

Department of Defense Inspector General Audit of Foreign Military 

Sales ........................................................................................................... 000 

Foreign Military Sales .................................................................................. 000 

Improved Coordination of Activities in Africa with International Partners ............................................................................................................. 000 

International Armaments Cooperation ....................................................... 000 

Multilateral Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula ................................... 000 

Naval Mine Countermeasure Capability in the U.S. Central Command’s 

Area of Operations .................................................................................... 000 

Non-Standard Acquisition in Foreign Military Sales ................................ 000 

Report on New START Treaty ..................................................................... 000 

Report on U.S. Casualty Estimates for Armed Conflict with North 

Korea .......................................................................................................... 000 

Security and Stability in Venezuela ............................................................ 000 

Support to Syrian Women ............................................................................ 000 

Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Support to the Afghan National Defense and 

Security Forces .......................................................................................... 000 

Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) ........................... 000 

U.S. Military Education and Training Locations ....................................... 000 

Western Hemisphere Region Report on Strategy to Increase Engagement with Region ...................................................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Assistance and Training .............................................................. 000 

Section 1201—Report on the Use of Security Cooperation Authorities ... 000 

Section 1202—Clarification of Authority to Waive Certain Expenses 

for Activities of the Regional Centers for Security Studies ................... 000 

Section 1203—NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence ... 000 

Section 1204—NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence .. 000 

Section 1205—Participation in and Support of the Inter-American Defense College .............................................................................................. 000 

Section 1206—Increase in Cost Limitation for Small Scale Construction 

Related to Security Cooperation .............................................................. 000 

Section 1207—Report on Security Cooperation with Haiti ....................... 000 

Section 1208—Review and Report on Processes and Procedures Used 

to Carry Out Section 362 of Title 10, United States Code ..................... 000 

Subtitle B—Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Pakistan ........................ 000 

Section 1211—Extension of Authority to Transfer Defense Articles and 

Provide Defense Services to the Military and Security Forces of Afghanistan ................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1212—Extension of Authority for Reimbursement of Certain 

Coalition Nations for Support Provided to United States Military 

Operations .................................................................................................. 000 
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Section 1213—Extension and Modification of Commanders’ Emergency 

Response Program ..................................................................................... 000 

Section 1214—Report on Assistance to Pakistan ....................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Matters Relating to Syria, Iraq, and Iran ................................. 000 

Section 1221—Extension and Modification of Authority to Provide Assistance to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ........................ 000 

Section 1222—Extension of Authority to Provide Assistance to the Vetted Syrian Opposition ............................................................................... 000 

Section 1223—Extension and Modification of Authority to Support Operations and Activities of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq ... 000 

Section 1224—Sense of Congress on Ballistic Missile Cooperation to 

Counter Iran .............................................................................................. 000 

Section 1225—Strategy to Counter Destabilizing Activities of Iran ........ 000 

Section 1226—Report on Compliance of Iran under the Chemical Weapons Convention .......................................................................................... 000 

Section 1227—Report on Potential Release of Chemical Weapons or 

Chemical Weapons Precursors from Barzeh Research and Development Center and Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage and 

Bunker Facilities in Homs Province of Syria .......................................... 000 

Section 1228—Report on Cooperation between Iran and the Russian 

Federation .................................................................................................. 000 

Subtitle D—Matters Relating to the Russian Federation ............................. 000 

Section 1231—Prohibition on Availability of Funds Relating to Sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea .................................... 000 

Section 1232—Limitation on Availability of Funds Relating to Implementation of the Open Skies Treaty ........................................................ 000 

Section 1233—Comprehensive Response to the Russian Federation’s 

Material Breach of the INF Treaty .......................................................... 000 

Section 1234—Modification and Extension of Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative ............................................................................................ 000 

Section 1235—Statement of Policy on United States Military Investment in Europe .......................................................................................... 000 

Section 1236—Imposition of Sanctions with Respect to Certain Persons 

Providing Sophisticated Goods, Services, or Technologies for Use in 

the Production of Major Defense Equipment or Advanced Conventional Weapons .......................................................................................... 000 

Section 1237—Extension of Limitation on Military Cooperation between 

the United States and the Russian Federation ...................................... 000 

Section 1238—Sense of Congress regarding Russia’s Violations of the 

Chemical Weapons Convention ................................................................ 000 

Section 1239—United States Actions regarding Material Breach of INF 

Treaty by the Russian Federation ........................................................... 000 

Section 1240—Limitation on Availability of Funds to Extend the Implementation of the New START Treaty ...................................................... 000 

Subtitle E—Matters Relating to the Indo-Pacific Region ............................. 000 

Section 1251—Support for Indo-Pacific Stability Initiative ...................... 000 

Section 1252—United States Strategy on China ........................................ 000 

Section 1253—Strengthening Taiwan’s Force Readiness .......................... 000 

Section 1254—Modification, Redesignation, and Extension of Southeast 

Asia Maritime Security Initiative ............................................................ 000 

Section 1255—Missile Defense Exercises in the Indo-Pacific Region 

with United States Regional Allies and Partners .................................. 000 

Section 1256—Quadrilateral Cooperation and Exercise ............................ 000 

Section 1257—Name of United States Indo-Pacific Command ................. 000 

Section 1258—Requirement for Critical Languages and Expertise in 

Chinese, Korean, and Russian ................................................................. 000 

Section 1259—Modification of Report Required under Enhancing Defense and Security Cooperation with India ............................................. 000 

Section 1260—Statement of Policy on Naval Vessel Transfers to Japan . 000 

Section 1261—Report and Public Notification on China’s Military, Maritime, and Air Activities in the Indo-Pacific Region ............................... 000 

Section 1262—Senior Defense Engagement with Taiwan ......................... 000 

Section 1263—Limitation on Use of Funds to Reduce the Total Number 

of Members of the Armed Forces on Active Duty Who Are Deployed 

to the Republic of Korea ........................................................................... 000 

Section 1264—Enhancing Missile Defense Cooperation with Partners ... 000 

Subtitle F—Other Matters ............................................................................... 000 
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Section 1271—Report on Status of the United States Relationship with 

the Republic of Turkey .............................................................................. 000 

Section 1272—Sense of Congress on Unity of Gulf Cooperation Council 

Member Countries ..................................................................................... 000 

Section 1273—Report on United States Government Police Training 

and Equipping Programs for Mexico ....................................................... 000 

Section 1274—Authority to Increase Engagement and Military-to-Military Cooperation with Western Balkans Countries ............................... 000 

Section 1275—Technical Corrections Relating to Defense Security Cooperation Statutory Reorganization ......................................................... 000 

Section 1276—United States-Israel Countering Unmanned Aerial Systems Cooperation ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 1277—Three-Year Extension of Authorization of Non-Conventional Assisted Recovery Capabilities ...................................................... 000 

Section 1278—Revision of Statutory References to Former NATO Support Organizations and Related NATO Agreements .............................. 000 

Section 1279—Sense of the Congress Concerning Military-to-Military 

Dialogues .................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1280—Modifications to Global Engagement Center ..................... 000 

Section 1281—Report on Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreements .. 000 

Section 1282—Prohibition on Provision of Weapons and Other Forms 

of Support to Certain Organizations ........................................................ 000 

Section 1283—Certification and Authority to Terminate Funding for 

Academic Research Relating to Foreign Talent Programs .................... 000 

Section 1284—Sense of Congress on Support for Georgia ......................... 000 

Section 1285—Sense of Congress on Support for Estonia, Latvia, and 

Lithuania ................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1286—Report on United States Strategy in Yemen ..................... 000 

Section 1287—Report on Hizballah ............................................................. 000 

TITLE XIII—COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ....................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Future of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program .............................. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 1301—Funding Allocations ............................................................. 000 

Section 1302—Specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction Funds ...... 000 

TITLE XIV—OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS ........................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Military Programs ........................................................................ 000 

Section 1401—Working Capital Funds ....................................................... 000 

Section 1402—Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense .... 000 

Section 1403—Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, DefenseWide ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1404—Defense Inspector General .................................................. 000 

Section 1405—Defense Health Program ..................................................... 000 

Section 1406—National Defense Sealift Fund ............................................ 000 

Subtitle B—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 1411—Authority for Transfer of Funds to Joint Department 

of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for Captain James A. Lovell Health Care Center, Illinois ............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 1412—Authorization of Appropriations for Armed Forces Retirement Home ........................................................................................... 000 

Section 1413—Quarterly Briefing on Progress of Chemical Demilitarization Program .................................................................................... 000 

TITLE XV—AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 

OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS ............................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Cargo Inspections to Counter Vehicle Borne IED Threats ........................ 000 

National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment Account ................. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations ................................................. 000 

Section 1501—Purpose of Certain Authorizations of Appropriations ....... 000 

Section 1502—Procurement ......................................................................... 000 

Section 1503—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation .................. 000 

Section 1504—Operation and Maintenance ................................................ 000 

Section 1505—Military Personnel ............................................................... 000 

Section 1506—Working Capital Funds ....................................................... 000 
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Section 1507—Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, DefenseWide ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1508—Defense Inspector General .................................................. 000 

Section 1509—Defense Health Program ..................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Financial Matters ........................................................................ 000 

Section 1511—Treatment as Additional Authorizations ........................... 000 

Section 1512—Special Transfer Authority .................................................. 000 

Subtitle C—Limitations, Reports, and Other Matters .................................. 000 

Section 1521—Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ..................................... 000 

Section 1522—Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Fund ................................ 000 

TITLE XVI—STRATEGIC PROGRAMS, CYBER, AND INTELLIGENCE 

MATTERS ......................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Space Activities ................................................................................................. 000 

Briefing on Deployed Satellite Communications Terminals ...................... 000 

Briefing on Supply Chain for In-Space Propulsion Thrusters .................. 000 

Commercial Satellite Imagery ..................................................................... 000 

Commercial Space Situational Awareness Capabilities ............................ 000 

Criteria for Launch Service Agreement Down-Select ................................ 000 

GPS Backup Demonstration ........................................................................ 000 

Launch Support and Infrastructure Modernization ................................... 000 

Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Mission Enhancement ................................. 000 

Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Satellites ........................ 000 

Plan for Use of Allied Launch Services in Case of Emergency Need ....... 000 

Portable Satellite Data Receiver Status ..................................................... 000 

Rapid Satellite Capability Reconstitution ................................................... 000 

Satellite Communications ............................................................................ 000 

Space Flag Exercise and Responsive Launch ............................................. 000 

Use of Commercial Items in Follow-On Wideband Communications System .............................................................................................................. 000 

Missile Defense Programs ................................................................................ 000 

Airborne Tracking and Targeting System .................................................. 000 

Cruise Missile Threat to Hawaii ................................................................. 000 

Cybersecurity of Ballistic Missile Defense System .................................... 000 

Hypersonic Defense ...................................................................................... 000 

Maintenance of Patriot Batteries ................................................................ 000 

Options to Supplement Missile Defense of Hawaii .................................... 000 

Patriot Interceptor Inventory ....................................................................... 000 

Protection of Ballistic Missile Defense System Components ..................... 000 

Standard Missile-3 Testing and Reliability ................................................ 000 

Warfighter Procedures for Responding to and Releasing Information 

Regarding an Inbound Ballistic Missile Threat ...................................... 000 

Nuclear Forces .................................................................................................. 000 

Air Force Global Strike Command and Nuclear Deterrence Institute ..... 000 

B83–1 Nuclear Gravity Bomb ...................................................................... 000 

Comptroller General Review of Plans to Swap B61 Bombs in Europe .... 000 

Nuclear Survivability and Hostile Environments Testing ........................ 000 

Perimeter Security at NATO Nuclear Bases .............................................. 000 

Plutonium Pit Production and Reuse .......................................................... 000 

Tonopah Test Range Land Use Agreement ................................................ 000 

Cyber-Related Matters ..................................................................................... 000 

Addressing Readiness Deficiencies through the Hacking for Defense 

Innovation Education Program ................................................................ 000 

Comptroller General Review of Current Military Cyber Operations ....... 000 

Comptroller General Review of Information Operations Strategy ........... 000 

Cyber Scholarship Program ......................................................................... 000 

Information Security Continuous Monitoring and Comply-to-Connect 

Implementation ......................................................................................... 000 

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure ..................................................... 000 

Mitigation of Autonomous Systems ............................................................. 000 

Network Protection ....................................................................................... 000 

Operational Cyber Testing of Weapons Systems ....................................... 000 

Plan to Enhance Coordination with Universities and Industry on Cyber 

Education ................................................................................................... 000 

Securing Personally Identifiable Information ............................................ 000 

Threat Cyberspace Operations .................................................................... 000 

Intelligence Matters ......................................................................................... 000 
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Foundational Intelligence Analysis Modernization .................................... 000 

Insider Threat Detection and User Activity Monitoring ........................... 000 

Insider Threat Risk Model Validation ........................................................ 000 

Intelligence Combat Support Agencies ....................................................... 000 

Intelligence Support to Cyber Operations .................................................. 000 

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Careers in Defense Intelligence ......................................................................................................... 000 

Security and Intelligence Role in Export Control ...................................... 000 

Security Clearance Background Investigation Reciprocity ........................ 000 

Strengthening Oversight of the Military Intelligence Program Budget ... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Space Activities ............................................................................ 000 

Section 1601—Improvements to Acquisition System, Personnel, and Organization of Space Forces ....................................................................... 000 

Section 1602—Rapid, Responsive, and Reliable Space Launch ................ 000 

Section 1603—Provision of Space Situational Awareness Services and 

Information ................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1604—Budget Assessments for National Security Space Programs .......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1605—Enhancement of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing 

Capacity ..................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1606—Use of Small- and Medium-Size Buses for Strategic and 

Tactical Satellite Payloads ....................................................................... 000 

Section 1607—Designation of Component of Department of Defense 

Responsible for Coordination of Modernization Efforts Relating to 

Military-Code Capable GPS Receiver Cards ........................................... 000 

Section 1608—Designation of Component of Department of Defense 

Responsible for Coordination of Hosted Payload Information ............... 000 

Section 1609—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Joint Space Operations Center Mission System .............................................................. 000 

Section 1610—Evaluation and Enhanced Security of Supply Chain for 

Protected Satellite Communications Programs and Overhead Persistent Infrared Systems ........................................................................... 000 

Section 1611—Report on Protected Satellite Communications ................. 000 

Section 1612—Plan on Space Warfighting Readiness ............................... 000 

Section 1613—Study on Space-Based Radio Frequency Mapping ............ 000 

Section 1614—Plan to Provide Persistent Weather Imagery for United 

States Central Command ......................................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Defense Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities ......... 000 

Section 1621—Role of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence ......... 000 

Section 1622—Security Clearance for Dual Nationals .............................. 000 

Section 1623—Department of Defense Counterintelligence Polygraph 

Program ...................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1624—Defense Intelligence Business Management Systems ...... 000 

Section 1625—Modification to Annual Briefing on the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Requirements of the Combatant Commands ......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1626—Prohibition on the Availability of Funds for Department 

of Defense Assuming Background Investigation Mission for the Federal Government ........................................................................................ 000 

Subtitle C—Cyberspace-Related Matters ....................................................... 000 

Section 1631—Amendments to Pilot Program Regarding Cyber Vulnerabilities of Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure .................... 000 

Section 1632—Budget Display for Cyber Vulnerability Evaluations and 

Mitigation Activities for Major Weapon Systems of the Department 

of Defense ................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1633—Transfer of Responsibility for the Department of Defense 

Information Network to United States Cyber Command ...................... 000 

Section 1634—Pilot Program Authority to Enhance Cybersecurity and 

Resiliency of Critical Infrastructure ........................................................ 000 

Section 1635—Pilot Program on Regional Cyber Security Training Center for the Army National Guard ............................................................. 000 

Section 1636—Procedures and Reporting Requirement on Cybersecurity 

Breaches and Loss of Personally Identifiable Information .................... 000 

Section 1637—Cyber Institutes at the Senior Military Colleges .............. 000 

Section 1638—Study and Report on Reserve Component Cyber Civil 

Support Teams .......................................................................................... 000 
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Subtitle D—Nuclear Forces ............................................................................. 000 

Section 1641—Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Nuclear Weapons Council .................................................... 000 

Section 1642—Long-Range Standoff Weapon Requirements .................... 000 

Section 1643—Acceleration of Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent Program and Long-Range Standoff Weapon Program ................................. 000 

Section 1644—Procurement Authority for Certain Parts of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fuzes .................................................................. 000 

Section 1645—Prohibition on Reduction of the Intercontinental Ballistic 

Missiles of the United States ................................................................... 000 

Section 1646—Extension of Prohibition on Availability of Funds for 

Mobile Variant of Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent Missile .............. 000 

Section 1647—Independent Study on Nuclear Weapons Launch-UnderAttack Option ............................................................................................ 000 

Section 1648—Extension of Annual Report on the Plan for the Nuclear 

Weapons Stockpile, Nuclear Weapons Complex, Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems, and Nuclear Weapons Command and Control System 000 

Section 1649—Sense of Congress on Nuclear Posture of the United 

States .......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1650—Sense of Congress on Extended Nuclear Deterrence in 

the Indo-Pacific Region ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle E—Missile Defense Programs ........................................................... 000 

Section 1661—Development of Persistent Space-Based Sensor Architecture ............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 1662—Boost Phase Ballistic Missile Defense ................................ 000 

Section 1663—Improvements to Research and Development and Acquisition Processes of Missile Defense Agency ............................................. 000 

Section 1664—Layered Defense of the United States Homeland ............. 000 

Section 1665—Testing of Redesigned Kill Vehicle Prior to Production .... 000 

Section 1666—Requirements for Ballistic Missile Defense Capable 

Ships ........................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1667—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Standard Missile3 Block IB Missiles .................................................................................... 000 

Section 1668—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Army Lower 

Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor ....................................................... 000 

Section 1669—Missile Defense Radar in Hawaii ....................................... 000 

Section 1670—Reports on Unfunded Priorities of the Missile Defense 

Agency ........................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1671—Report on Ballistic Missile Defense .................................... 000 

Section 1672—Sense of Congress on Missile and Rocket Defense Cooperation between the United States and Israel .................................... 000 

Subtitle F—Other Matters ............................................................................... 000 

Section 1681—Extension of Commission to Assess the Threat to the 

United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks and Similar 

Events ......................................................................................................... 000 

Section 1682—Procurement of Ammonium Perchlorate and Other 

Chemicals for Use in Solid Rocket Motors .............................................. 000 

Section 1683—Conventional Prompt Global Strike Hypersonic Capabilities .............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 1684—Report Regarding Industrial Base for Large Solid Rocket 

Motors ........................................................................................................ 000 

Section 1685—National Intelligence Estimate with Respect to Russian 

and Chinese Interference in Democratic Countries ............................... 000 

DIVISION B—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS ................... 000 

PURPOSE ............................................................................................................. 000 

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND FAMILY HOUSING OVERVIEW ......... 000 

Section 2001—Short Title ............................................................................ 000 

Section 2002—Expiration of Authorizations and Amounts Required To 

Be Specified by Law .................................................................................. 000 

Section 2003—Effective Date ....................................................................... 000 

TITLE XXI—ARMY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ............................................. 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2101—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 
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Section 2102—Family Housing .................................................................... 000 

Section 2103—Authorization of Appropriations, Army .............................. 000 

Section 2104—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2015 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

TITLE XXII—NAVY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ............................................ 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

Aegis Ashore Poland Austere Housing ........................................................ 000 

Infrastructure in Support of Submarine Training and Operational Requirements ................................................................................................. 000 

Public Shipyard Infrastructure .................................................................... 000 

Red Hill Bulk Underground Fuel Storage Facility .................................... 000 

Tijuana Sewage Runoff ................................................................................. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2201—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2202—Family Housing .................................................................... 000 

Section 2203—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units ............. 000 

Section 2204—Authorization of Appropriations, Navy .............................. 000 

TITLE XXIII—AIR FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ................................ 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

Infrastructure Investments in Support of Research and Development 

Contracts .................................................................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2301—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2302—Family Housing .................................................................... 000 

Section 2303—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units ............. 000 

Section 2304—Authorization of Appropriations, Air Force ....................... 000 

Section 2305—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Phased 

Project Authorized in Fiscal Years 2015, 2016, and 2017 ..................... 000 

Section 2306—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal 

Year 2017 Project ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 2307—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal 

Year 2018 Project ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 2308—Additional Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 

2019 Projects .............................................................................................. 000 

Section 2309—Additional Authority to Carry Out Project at Travis 

Air Force Base, California, in Fiscal Year 2019 ..................................... 000 

TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION .............. 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2401—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land Acquisition Projects ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 2402—Authorized Energy Conservation Projects ......................... 000 

Section 2403—Authorization of Appropriations, Defense Agencies .......... 000 

Section 2404—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2015 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

TITLE XXV—INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS .................................................... 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Facilities and Infrastructure for U.S. Military Personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization Host Nation Bases ....................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program ........................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2501—Authorized NATO Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2502—Authorization of Appropriations, NATO ............................ 000 

Subtitle B—Host Country In-Kind Contributions ......................................... 000 

Section 2511—Republic of Korea Funded Construction Projects .............. 000 

TITLE XXVI—GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES ........................ 000 
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SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Project Authorizations and Authorization of Appropriations ... 000 

Section 2601—Authorized Army National Guard Construction and 

Land Acquisition Projects ......................................................................... 000 

Section 2602—Authorized Army Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition Projects ............................................................................................ 000 

Section 2603—Authorized Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve 

Construction and Land Acquisition Projects ........................................... 000 

Section 2604—Authorized Air National Guard Construction and Land 

Acquisition Projects ................................................................................... 000 

Section 2605—Authorized Air Force Reserve Construction and Land 

Acquisition Projects ................................................................................... 000 

Section 2606—Authorization of Appropriations, National Guard and 

Reserve ....................................................................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 2611—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal 

Year 2016 Project ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 2612—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal 

Year 2018 Project ...................................................................................... 000 

Section 2613—Additional Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 

2019 Project ............................................................................................... 000 

TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES ............ 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2701—Authorization of Appropriations for Base Realignment 

and Closure Activities Funded through Department of Defense Base 

Closure Account ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 2702—Additional Authority to Realign or Close Certain Military Installations ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 2703—Prohibition on Conducting Additional Base Realignment 

and Closure (BRAC) Round ...................................................................... 000 

TITLE XXVIII—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION GENERAL PROVISIONS ....... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Allied Pilot Training on Advanced Pilot Trainer ....................................... 000 

Comptroller General Review of Utilities Privatization .............................. 000 

Core Sampling at Joint Base San Antonio ................................................. 000 

Department of Defense Lands Leases in Hawaii ....................................... 000 

Incremental Funding of Military Construction Projects ............................ 000 

Naval Academy Dairy Farm ........................................................................ 000 

Operational Energy Technologies ................................................................ 000 

Privatization of On-Base Lodging ................................................................ 000 

Relocation of Defense Non-Tactical Generator and Rail Equipment Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah .................................................................. 000 

Wireless Communications on Base .............................................................. 000 

Yucca Mountain ............................................................................................ 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing 000 

Section 2801—Commercial Construction Standards for Facilities on 

Leased Property ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 2802—Extension of Temporary, Limited Authority to Use Operation and Maintenance Funds for Construction Projects Outside the 

United States ............................................................................................. 000 

Section 2803—Small Business Set-Aside for Contracts for Architectural 

and Engineering Services and Construction Design .............................. 000 

Section 2804—Authority to Obtain Architectural and Engineering Services and Construction Design for Defense Laboratory Modernization 

Program ...................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2805—Repeal of Limitation on Certain Guam Project ................. 000 

Section 2806—Enhancing Force Protection and Safety on Military Installations ................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2807—Limitation on Use of Funds for Acquisition of Furnished 

Energy for New Medical Center in Germany ......................................... 000 
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Section 2808—Treatment of Leases of Non-Excess Property Entered 

into with Insured Depository Institutions ............................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Real Property and Facilities Administration ............................. 000 

Section 2811—Optional Participation in Collection of Information on 

Unutilized and Underutilized Military Installation Properties Available for Homeless Assistance ................................................................... 000 

Section 2812—Force Structure Plans and Infrastructure Capabilities 

Necessary to Support the Force Structure .............................................. 000 

Section 2813—Retrofitting Existing Windows in Military Family Housing Units To Be Equipped with Fall Prevention Devices ...................... 000 

Section 2814—Updating Prohibition on Use of Certain Assessment of 

Public Schools on Department of Defense Installations to Supersede 

Funding of Certain Projects ..................................................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Land Conveyances ....................................................................... 000 

Section 2821—Authority for Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction 

over Certain Lands, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 

Twentynine Palms, California, and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, 

Arizona ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2822—Public Inventory of Guam Land Parcels for Transfer 

to Government of Guam ........................................................................... 000 

Section 2823—Land Conveyance, Naval Academy Dairy Farm, Gambrills, Maryland ......................................................................................... 000 

Section 2824—Technical Correction of Description of Limestone Hills 

Training Area Land Withdrawal and Reservation, Montana ................ 000 

Section 2825—Land Conveyance, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Rich 

County, Utah ............................................................................................. 000 

Subtitle D—Military Land Withdrawals ........................................................ 000 

Section 2831—Indefinite Duration of Certain Military Land Withdrawals and Reservations and Improved Management of Withdrawn 

and Reserved Lands .................................................................................. 000 

Section 2832—Designation of Potential Wilderness Area ......................... 000 

Subtitle E—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 2841—Defense Community Infrastructure Program .................... 000 

Section 2842—Restrictions on Use of Funds for Development of Public 

Infrastructure in Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands ........... 000 

Section 2843—Study and Report on Coleman Bridge, York River, Virginia ............................................................................................................ 000 

Section 2844—Certifications Required Prior to Transfer of Certain Veterans Memorial Object .............................................................................. 000 

TITLE XXIX—OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ..................................................................................................... 000 

SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Explanation of Funding Adjustments ......................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 2901—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2902—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2903—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects ....................................................................................................... 000 

Section 2904—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land Acquisition Projects ....................................................................................... 000 

Section 2905—Authorization of Appropriations ......................................... 000 

Section 2906—Restrictions on Use of Funds for Planning and Design 

Costs of European Deterrence Initiative Projects ................................... 000 

DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS ...................................... 000 

TITLE XXXI—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS .............................................................................................................. 000 

OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................... 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

National Nuclear Security Administration .................................................... 000 

Overview ........................................................................................................ 000 

Weapons Activities ........................................................................................ 000 

Defense Nuclear Security and related construction projects ................. 000 

Directed Stockpile Work ........................................................................... 000 
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Domestic uranium ..................................................................................... 000 

Fusion technology pathways ..................................................................... 000 

Inertial Confinement Fusion .................................................................... 000 

Infrastructure ............................................................................................ 000 

Lithium and tritium .................................................................................. 000 

Report on IW–1 and W78 replacement .................................................... 000 

Secure transportation asset and Mobile Guardian Transporter ........... 000 

Streamlined and innovative approaches to non-nuclear construction 

projects .................................................................................................... 000 

Weapons Activities and the Future Years Nuclear Security Program . 000 

Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation ............................................................... 000 

Future nuclear proliferation challenges .................................................. 000 

Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response program .................. 000 

Naval Reactors .............................................................................................. 000 

Naval Reactors program ........................................................................... 000 

Federal Salaries and Expenses .................................................................... 000 

Management and operating contracts for national security laboratories ....................................................................................................... 000 

Security clearance investigations for the nuclear security enterprise .. 000 

Environmental and Other Defense Activities ................................................ 000 

Overview ........................................................................................................ 000 

Defense Environmental Cleanup ................................................................. 000 

Briefings on vapor events at Hanford Site .............................................. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—National Security Programs and Authorizations ...................... 000 

Section 3101—National Nuclear Security Administration ........................ 000 

Section 3102—Defense Environmental Cleanup ........................................ 000 

Section 3103—Other Defense Activities ...................................................... 000 

Section 3104—Nuclear Energy .................................................................... 000 

Subtitle B—Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations ........... 000 

Section 3111—Security Clearance for Dual Nationals Employed by National Nuclear Security Agency ................................................................ 000 

Section 3112—Department of Energy Counterintelligence Polygraph 

Program ...................................................................................................... 000 

Section 3113—Extension of Enhanced Procurement Authority to Manage Supply Chain Risk .............................................................................. 000 

Section 3114—Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons ............................................... 000 

Section 3115—Use of Funds for Construction and Project Support Activities Relating to MOX Facility ............................................................. 000 

Section 3116—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Programs in 

Russian Federation ................................................................................... 000 

Section 3117—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Research and 

Development of Advanced Naval Nuclear Fuel System Based on LowEnriched Uranium .................................................................................... 000 

Section 3118—Limitation on Availability of Funds Relating to Submission of Annual Reports on Unfunded Priorities ...................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Reports .......................................................................................... 000 

Section 3121—Notification Regarding Release of Contamination at 

Hanford Site .............................................................................................. 000 

Subtitle D—Other Matters .............................................................................. 000 

Section 3131—Inclusion of Capital Assets Acquisition Projects in Activities by Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation ............. 000 

Section 3132—Whistleblower Protections ................................................... 000 

TITLE XXXII—DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD ............. 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 3201—Authorization ........................................................................ 000 

TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES ........................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Section 3401—Authorization of Appropriations ......................................... 000 

TITLE XXXV—MARITIME MATTERS ................................................................. 000 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST ...................................................................... 000 

Maritime Security Program ......................................................................... 000 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ............................................................................. 000 

Subtitle A—Maritime Administration ............................................................ 000 

Section 3501—Authorization of the Maritime Administration ................. 000 

Section 3502—Compliance by Ready Reserve Fleet Vessels with SOLAS 

Lifeboats and Fire Suppression Requirements ....................................... 000 
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Section 3503—Maritime Administration National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program .................................................................................. 000 

Section 3504—Permanent Authority of Secretary of Transportation to 

Issue Vessel War Risk Insurance ............................................................. 000 

Section 3505—Use of State Maritime Academy Training Vessels ............ 000 

Subtitle B—Coast Guard ................................................................................. 000 

Section 3521—Alignment with Department of Defense and Sea Services 

Authorities ................................................................................................. 000 

Section 3522—Preliminary Development and Demonstration .................. 000 

Section 3523—Contract Termination .......................................................... 000 

Section 3524—Reimbursement for Travel Expenses ................................. 000 

Section 3525—Capital Investment Plan ..................................................... 000 

Section 3526—Major Acquisition Program Risk Assessment .................... 000 

Section 3527—Marine Safety Implementation Status ............................... 000 

Section 3528—Retirement of Vice Commandant ........................................ 000 

Section 3529—Large Commercial Yacht Code ........................................... 000 

Subtitle C—Coast Guard and Shipping Technical Corrections .................... 000 

Chapter 1—Coast Guard ................................................................................ 000 

Section 3531—Commandant Defined .......................................................... 000 

Section 3532—Training Course on Workings of Congress ........................ 000 

Section 3533—Miscellaneous ....................................................................... 000 

Section 3534—Department of Defense Consultation ................................. 000 

Section 3535—Repeal ................................................................................... 000 

Section 3536—Mission Need Statement ..................................................... 000 

Section 3537—Continuation on Active Duty .............................................. 000 

Section 3538—System Acquisition Authorization ...................................... 000 

Section 3539—Inventory of Real Property .................................................. 000 

Chapter 2—Maritime Transportation ........................................................... 000 

Section 3541—Definitions ............................................................................ 000 

Section 3542—Authority to Exempt Vessels .............................................. 000 

Section 3543—Passenger Vessels ................................................................ 000 

Section 3544—Tank Vessels ......................................................................... 000 

Section 3545—Grounds for Denial or Revocation ...................................... 000 

Section 3546—Miscellaneous Corrections to Title 46, U.S.C. ................... 000 

Section 3547—Miscellaneous Corrections to Oil Pollution Act of 1990 .... 000 

Section 3548—Miscellaneous Corrections ................................................... 000 

DIVISION D—FUNDING TABLES ....................................................................... 000 

Section 4001—Authorization of Amounts in Funding Tables ................... 000 

Summary of National Defense Authorizations for Fiscal Year 2019 ........ 000 

National Defense Budget Authority Implication ........................................ 000 

TITLE XLI—PROCUREMENT .............................................................................. 000 

Section 4101—Procurement ......................................................................... 000 

Section 4102—Procurement for Overseas Contingency Operations ......... 000 

TITLE XLII—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION ..... 000 

Section 4201—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation .................. 000 

Section 4202—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation for Overseas Contingency Operations ................................................................... 000 

TITLE XLIII—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ........................................... 000 

Section 4301—Operation and Maintenance ................................................ 000 

Section 4302—Operation and Maintenance for Overseas Contingency 

Operations .................................................................................................. 000 

TITLE XLIV—MILITARY PERSONNEL .............................................................. 000 

Section 4401—Military Personnel ............................................................... 000 

Section 4402—Military Personnel for Overseas Contingency Operations ............................................................................................................ 000 

TITLE XLV—OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS .......................................................... 000 

Section 4501—Other Authorizations ........................................................... 000 

Section 4502—Other Authorizations for Overseas Contingency Operations ............................................................................................................ 000 

TITLE XLVI—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION ....................................................... 000 

Section 4601—Military Construction .......................................................... 000 

Section 4602—Military Construction for Overseas Contingency Operations ............................................................................................................ 000 

TITLE XLVII—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS .............................................................................................................. 000 

Section 4701—Department of Energy National Security Programs ......... 000 
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Department of Defense Authorization Request ..................................................... 000 

Communications from Other Committees ............................................................. 000 

Congressional Budget Office Estimate ................................................................... 000 

Statement Required by the Congressional Budget Act ........................................ 000 

Committee Cost Estimate ....................................................................................... 000 

Advisory of Earmarks .............................................................................................. 000 

Oversight Findings .................................................................................................. 000 

General Performance Goals and Objectives .......................................................... 000 

Statement of Federal Mandates ............................................................................. 000 

Federal Advisory Committee Statement ................................................................ 000 

Applicability to the Legislative Branch ................................................................. 000 

Duplication of Federal Programs ............................................................................ 000 

Disclosure of Directed Rule Makings ..................................................................... 000 

Committee Votes ...................................................................................................... 000 

Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 000 

Additional Views ...................................................................................................... 000 

Dissenting Views ..................................................................................................... 000 
115TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 115– 

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2019 

MAY --, 2018.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 

Union and ordered to be printed 

Mr. THORNBERRY, from the Committee on Armed Services, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

together with 

ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS 

[To accompany H.R. 5515] 

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] 

The Committee on Armed Services, to whom was referred the bill 

(H.R. 5515) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for 

military activities of the Department of Defense and for military 

construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends that 

the bill as amended do pass. 

The amendments are as follows: 

The amendment strikes all after the enacting clause of the bill 

and inserts a new text which appears in italic type in the reported 

bill. 

The title of the bill is amended to reflect the amendment to the 

text of the bill. 


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PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION

The bill would: (1) authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for 

procurement and for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E); (2) 

authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for operation and maintenance (O&M) 

and for working capital funds; (3) authorize for fiscal year 2019 the personnel 

strength for each Active Duty component of the military departments, and the 

personnel strength for the Selected Reserve for each Reserve Component of the 

Armed Forces; (4) modify various elements of compensation for military personnel 

and impose certain requirements and limitations on personnel actions in the 

defense establishment; (5) authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military 

construction and family housing; (6) authorize appropriations for Overseas 

Contingency Operations; (7) authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for the 

Department of Energy national security programs; and (8) authorize appropriations 

for fiscal year 2019 for the Maritime Administration.

RATIONALE FOR THE COMMITTEE BILL

H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, is 

a key mechanism through which Congress fulfills one of its primary responsibilities 

as mandated in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States, which 

grants Congress the power to provide for the common defense, to raise and support 

an Army, to provide and maintain a Navy, and to make rules for the government 

and regulation of the land and naval forces. Rule X of the House of Representatives 

provides the House Committee on Armed Services with jurisdiction over the 

Department of Defense generally and over the military application of nuclear 

energy. The committee bill includes findings and recommendations resulting from 

its oversight activities, conducted through hearings, briefings, and roundtable 

discussions with Department of Defense and Department of Energy civilian and 

military officials, intelligence analysts, outside experts, and industry 

representatives, and it is informed by institutional experience.

The committee believes that America’s military faces strategic challenges, 

including the re-emergence of strategic competitors such as the Russian Federation 

and the People's Republic of China; threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran 

and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; and those posed by the Islamic 

State of Iraq and the Levant, al-Qaida, and other terrorist groups. H.R. 5515 

adheres to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, and it provides the Department of 

Defense and the Department of Energy with important policy authorities to speed 

decision making and improve agility, while restoring readiness and increasing 

capabilities and capacities. 

National Defense Strategy

H.R. 5515 builds on the National Defense Strategy’s recognition of longterm strategic competition. It empowers the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 

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to develop, implement, and integrate Department of Defense activities across all 

geographic regions and military functions and domains, and to lead the integration 

of Department of Defense activities across the interagency of the Federal 

Government. 

With respect to Russia, the bill maintains the long-standing prohibition of 

military-to-military cooperation with Russia; it maintains the prohibition of U.S. 

Government recognition of the illegal occupation of Crimea; it funds the President’s 

request of $250.0 million for assistance to Ukraine, including for lethal defensive 

items; and, it funds the President’s request for $6.3 billion for the European Defense 

Initiative (EDI) to further reinforce the U.S. presence in Europe, and it moves the 

EDI-request for the Army Pre-positioned Stock United Set to the base budget. 

With respect to the whole-of-society plans of the Chinese Community Party 

of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the bill directs the creation of a whole-ofgovernment strategy to confront these plans; it improves security cooperation to 

counter the PRC’s rising influence in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other regions; and, 

it improves Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities by expanding joint training, foreign 

military sales, the use of security cooperation authorities, and senior-level militaryto-military engagement initiatives. 

H.R. 5515 also continues the committee’s efforts to reorganize the U.S. 

Government’s efforts with respect to malign foreign influence operations and 

campaigns by directing the President to designate an official on the staff of the 

National Security Council to coordinate a whole-of-government response to these

operations and campaigns. 

Impacts on Military Preparedness

The committee is particularly concerned by the state of military readiness. 

In 2017, nearly four times as many members of the military died in training 

accidents as were killed in combat. In all, 21 service members died in combat while 

80 died as a result of non-combat, training-related accidents. This spring alone, 25 

were killed in military aviation mishaps. In 2017, there were a total of 60 Class-A 

aviation mishaps across the services.

These mishaps are not limited to military aviation. This past summer, the 

Navy lost 17 Sailors in separate collisions involving the USS John S. McCain and 

the USS Fitzgerald. 

H.R. 5515 makes it a top priority of the Department of Defense to increase 

training of the Joint Force to promote readiness. The funding will allow the Army 

to conduct 20 Combat Training Center rotations in fiscal year 2019, including 4 

rotations for the Army National Guard, doubling the number of Brigade Combat 

Teams sent to the Center. It will authorize funding for the Army to hold two 

Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) culminating training events a year, 

enhancing the Army’s combat capability and capacity. The funding in the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 enables the Marine Corps to 

continue maximizing the capacity of their full-spectrum collective training exercises 

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to help restore the capability of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. H.R. 5515 

includes increased funding for equipment maintenance, spare parts, and training to 

rebuild readiness for ships, aircraft squadrons, and ground units. 

The proposal fully supports the President’s budget request of $2.8 billion for 

the procurement of spare airplane parts for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

And it also provides $21.8 billion for equipment maintenance and $3.7 billion for 

spare parts; this represents an increase of $927.9 million over the Fiscal Year 2018 

Omnibus. 

H.R. 5515 also takes specific steps to restore and rebuild the readiness of 

the U.S. Navy. It directs the Navy to provide clear chains of command for 

operations, for building readiness, and for shipyard maintenance. It would limit the 

time a Navy vessel is forward deployed to more than 10 years, and it would increase 

the number of Navy vessels authorized for construction. It accelerates construction 

of the fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier, authorizes two additional Littoral Combat 

Ships, and supports two additional Virginia-class attack submarines in fiscal years 

2022 and 2023. 

 

Reforming the Department of Defense: Promoting Efficiency, Effectiveness, and 

Agility

 

The FY16, FY17 and FY18 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs) 

included several reforms to the Department of Defense, including reforms to the 

Department’s acquisition processes and to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

H.R. 5515 focuses on the defense agencies and field activities (DAFAs) that 

are not part of a military service and do not report directly to the Secretary of 

Defense. It empowers the newly-created Department of Defense Chief Management 

Officer (CMO) to eliminate redundancy and cross enterprise activities (e.g., 

logistics, civilian resource management, real property management, and services 

contracting). It also requires the CMO to review and assess the function of each 

DAFA to validate its usefulness to the Joint Force or to recommend its elimination 

or transformation.

HEARINGS

Committee consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2019 results from posture and budget-related hearings that began on 

February 14, 2018, and that were completed on April 19, 2018. The full committee 

conducted 9 hearings and the 6 subcommittees conducted a total of 23 sessions 

during this time period. Additionally, over the past year, the committee conducted 

numerous policy and program oversight hearings, including hearings in support of 

its reform initiatives, to inform its development of the legislative proposals 

contained in this Act.

COMMITTEE POSITION

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On May 9, 2018, the Committee on Armed Services held a markup session 

to consider H.R. 5515. The committee ordered the bill H.R. 5515, as amended, 

favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a recorded vote of 60-1, a 

quorum being present. 

EXPLANATION OF THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS

The committee adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute during 

the consideration of H.R. 5515. The title of the bill is amended to reflect the 

amendment to the text of the bill. The remainder of the report discusses the bill, as 

amended.

RELATIONSHIP OF AUTHORIZATION TO APPROPRIATIONS

The bill does not provide budget authority. This bill authorizes 

appropriations; subsequent appropriations acts will provide budget authority. 

However, the committee strives to adhere to the recommendations as issued by the 

Committee on the Budget as it relates to the jurisdiction of this committee.

The bill addresses the following categories in the Department of Defense 

budget: procurement; research, development, test, and evaluation; operation and 

maintenance; military personnel; working capital funds; and military construction 

and family housing. The bill also addresses the Armed Forces Retirement Home, 

Department of Energy National Security Programs, the Naval Petroleum Reserve,

and the Maritime Administration.

Active Duty and Reserve personnel strengths authorized in this bill and 

legislation affecting compensation for military personnel determine the remaining 

appropriation requirements of the Department of Defense. However, this bill does 

not provide authorization of specific dollar amounts for military personnel.

SUMMARY OF DISCRETIONARY AUTHORIZATIONS IN THE BILL

The President requested discretionary budget authority of $708.1 billion for 

programs within the jurisdiction of the committee for fiscal year 2019. Of this 

amount, $617.1 billion was requested for “base” Department of Defense programs, 

$69.0 billion was requested for Overseas Contingency Operations requirements 

covering the entire fiscal year, $21.8 billion was requested for Department of 

Energy national security programs and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety 

Board, and $0.2 billion was requested for defense-related activities associated with 

the Maritime Administration.

The committee recommends an overall discretionary authorization of 

$708.1 billion in fiscal year 2019. The committee authorization is a $16.0 billion 

increase above the levels provided for in the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91). 

The table preceding the detailed program adjustments in division D of this 

report summarizes the committee’s recommended discretionary authorizations by 

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appropriation account for fiscal year 2019 and compares these amounts to the 

President’s request. 

BUDGET AUTHORITY IMPLICATION

The President’s total request for the national defense budget function (050) 

in fiscal year 2019 is $725.5 billion, as estimated by the Congressional Budget 

Office. In addition to funding for programs addressed in this bill, the total 050 

request includes discretionary funding for national defense programs not in the 

committee’s jurisdiction, discretionary funding for programs that do not require 

additional authorization in fiscal year 2019, and mandatory programs.

The table preceding the detailed program adjustments in division D of this 

report details changes to the budget request for all aspects of the national defense 

budget function. 

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DIVISION A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

TITLE I—PROCUREMENT

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

Apache attack helicopters

The committee understands the Army’s current aviation modernization and 

equipping strategy that resulted from the Army’s Aviation Restructure Initiative 

currently resources the Army National Guard (ARNG) to retain 4 attack 

reconnaissance battalions for a total of 72 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. The 

committee notes that these ARNG attack reconnaissance battalions would be 

equipped with 18 AH-64 attack helicopters as compared to the Active Component 

battalions that are equipped with 24 AH-64 attack helicopters. The committee is 

aware the ARNG is no longer solely the strategic reserve of the past, but also an 

operational force, and provides significant capability through rotational support to 

combatant commanders. The committee believes that given the current global 

threat environment, reliance on ARNG capabilities is expected to increase. 

Therefore, the committee believes that all 4 ARNG attack reconnaissance 

battalions should be equipped with 24 AH-64 attack helicopters, the same as Active 

Component battalions, in order to improve overall readiness and compatibility 

between the ARNG and Active Component. The committee encourages the 

Secretary of the Army to plan, program, and budget for 24 additional AH-64 attack 

helicopters to address ARNG requirements across the Future Years Defense 

Program.

Light utility helicopter

The budget request included $6.4 million for utility helicopter modifications 

to the UH-60 Black Hawk and the UH-72A Lakota helicopters, but contained no 

funding for UH-72A life-cycle sustainment and product improvements. The UH-72A 

Lakota helicopter provides general aviation support for aviation units in the Active 

and Reserve Components. The committee supports the requirement to conduct midlife sustainment and product improvement activities for the UH-72A, and includes 

funding to conduct the analysis, engineering, certification, and risk reduction 

activities necessary to update the UH-72A Life Cycle Support Plan. The committee 

also recognizes that the UH-72A was initially fielded without aircraft survivability 

equipment, which could potentially limit the Active Component and Army National 

Guard’s utilization of the UH-72A platform. As reflected in Division D of this Act, 

the committee recommends additional funding for the National Guard and Reserve 

Component Equipment Account (NGREA). The committee understands that while 

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no requirements have been formally identified for UH-72A Lakota ballistic armor or 

aircraft survivability equipment by the National Guard Bureau, should a 

requirement be put forth, the committee expects the Army National Guard to utilize 

NGREA funds.

The committee recommends $16.4 million, an increase of $10.0 million, in 

utility helicopter modifications for UH-72A life-cycle sustainment and product 

improvements. Further, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide 

a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 8, 2019, on the 

Army's long-term sustainment strategy for the UH-72A Lakota helicopter fleet. 

Report on efforts to reduce operational and maintenance costs for CH-47

The committee is aware the Army has recently validated a new 

specification for an improved thermal-acoustic blanket for CH-47 helicopters, which 

does not appear to be reflected in the logistics and material databases and support 

system. By greatly improving capabilities over current blankets, including dry/wet 

weight, air permeability, thermal and acoustic insulation, and durability the Army 

has developed a cost-effective way to significantly reduce operational and 

maintenance costs for the heavy lift fleet. The committee commends the Army for 

this effort, and directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the Armed 

Services Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate no later than 

September 28, 2018 detailing plans to outfit all current and future CH-47s with this 

enhanced capability and the status of the material and logistics supply chain's 

incorporation of this new specification. The briefing should include a schedule for 

fielding blankets for the current fleet and the status of inserting the new 

specification into CH-47 block II production.

Unmanned aerial system units for Army National Guard

The committee understands the Army’s current fielding plan for MQ-1C 

Gray Eagle units includes Active Duty combat aviation brigades and intelligence 

units, and that at present no systems are planned for fielding to the Army National 

Guard. However, the committee notes that there are many missions involving 

military support to civilian authorities for which the MQ-1C Gray Eagle could 

contribute, including wildfire response, search and rescue, border security, counternarcotics, and communications support during emergencies. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by March 1, 2019, on the potential utility, feasibility, 

and cost of establishing MQ-1C Gray Eagle units in the Army National Guard. The 

briefing shall include, at a minimum, a detailed analysis of the resources needed to 

create a minimum of two Gray Eagle companies in the Army National Guard, and 

an analysis of how such units could provide support to civilian authorities for 

domestic emergencies.

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MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

Stinger missile modernization program

The committee supports the Army’s accelerated strategy to restore capacity 

and capability in Short-Range Air Defense (SHORAD) teams, to include 

reconstituting man-portable air defense teams using Stinger missiles to counter 

current and emerging threats from fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, and 

unmanned air systems (UAS). However, the committee has significant concerns 

regarding the adequacy of the Army’s Stinger missile inventory, as well as the 

resiliency of the associated industrial base that produces key components, including 

those required for the Stinger missile seeker.

The committee recognizes the requirement for Stinger missiles will likely 

increase as a result of increased demand for SHORAD capability. The Army’s 

current acquisition strategy does not include any new production of Stinger 

missiles, and instead implements a service life extension program (SLEP) for 

existing Stinger missiles. The committee notes that the last new Stinger missile 

was produced in 2001, and that missiles expire annually due to attrition and decay. 

While the Stinger SLEP program does extend the missile life by 10 years and 

improves counter-UAS capability by adding a proximity fuze, the current SLEP 

program will not mitigate the decline in Stinger missile inventory. Further, the 

Stinger SLEP program does not address the capability of the Stinger guidance 

section, electronics or seeker. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by December 3, 2018, on the Stinger 

Modernization Program. The briefing should address the Army’s strategy to 

mitigate the decline of the Stinger missile inventory, to include required funding, 

maintenance of the Stinger industrial base, and modernization of the Stinger 

program in the out-years. 

PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

Armored brigade combat team modernization

In the committee report accompanying the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (H. Rept. 115-200), the committee expressed concerns 

about the stability of armored brigade combat team (ABCT) modernization funding 

in fiscal year 2018 and beyond, noting that the Army was currently modernizing 

one ABCT every 2 years at best. Furthermore, in H. Rept. 115-200 the committee 

encouraged the Army to fully modernize at least one ABCT per year, and the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) 

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authorized the additional funding necessary to modernize one complete ABCT. The 

committee is encouraged by the Army’s increased investment for ABCT 

modernization in the budget request. 

Given this increased investment for ABCT modernization, the committee 

believes the Army should examine the cost benefits of using multiyear procurement 

contracts for combat vehicle platforms comprising ABCTs. However, the committee 

is also aware the Army has concerns over the loss of fiscal flexibility that occurs 

when it commits to a multiyear contract. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 3, 2018, on the 

results of a cost-benefit analysis comparing a traditional 5-year multiyear contract 

for ABCT platforms with an alternative 3-year multiyear contract with 2 successive 

single-year options.

In addition, the committee is concerned that the Army’s current 

nomenclature for a critical part of the ABCT, the M1 Abrams tank, has become so 

complicated that it fails to communicate the importance of the Army’s planned 

upgrades for the tank. Specifically, the committee is concerned that Army’s use of 

“M1A1 situational awareness,” “M1A2 system enhancement program version 3,” 

and “M1A2 system enhancement program version 4” to refer to Army upgrade 

programs for the M1 Abrams tank fails to clearly and concisely convey the 

significant capability upgrades resident in these efforts. The committee encourages 

the Army to change, as soon as possible, to clearer M1 Abrams upgrade program 

descriptions such as the “M1A3” and “M1A4” to more efficiently describe these 

programs. The committee believes that such a change does not require any 

additional testing or funding.

M240 medium machine gun modernization

 The committee is concerned the Army may be assuming too much risk in 

the small arms industrial base with respect to the family of M240 medium machine 

guns. Current funding profiles could lead to a potential production line shutdown. 

The shutdown of existing production lines would create significant operational 

impacts if requirements increase. The committee notes that the budget request 

included $2.1 million for M240 production; however, no funding is projected for new 

production in fiscal year 2020 or fiscal year 2021. The committee encourages the 

Army to closely monitor this critical industrial base and work with the original 

equipment manufacturer to develop courses of action to ensure the production line 

remains viable and capable of supporting potential increased requirements. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives by September 28, 

2018. This briefing shall include, at a minimum:

(1) the projected service life of the current M240 inventory; 

(2) the Army’s plan and schedule to replace the current M240 inventory 

either with newer M240 models or an entirely new system; 

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(3) how the Army will address increased requirements caused by increases 

in end strength and combat formations; 

(4) relevant cost analysis for restarting the M240 production line after a 

period of dormancy; and 

(5) a description of interaction and communication with the original 

equipment manufacturer regarding capacity challenges and minimum sustaining 

production rates. 

Additionally, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide an 

advisability and feasibility study to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

September 28, 2018, on transitioning the existing fleet of M240B medium machine 

guns to the lighter-weight M240L configuration. This assessment shall include the 

estimated costs associated with this transition and using current inventories of 

M240Bs.

M3E1 Carl Gustaf weapon system

The committee understands the M3E1 Carl Gustaf is the Army’s current 

platform for addressing the Army's multi-role anti-armor anti-personnel weapon 

system requirement. The committee notes that the Army is implementing a directed 

requirement signed in January 2017 to expand the fielding of lightweight Carl 

Gustaf systems to infantry and scout platoons in its infantry brigade combat teams 

and Stryker brigade combat teams. 

The committee notes, however, that the Army does not have plans or 

funding for a precision-guided round for the Carl Gustaf that will provide pinpoint, 

multitarget engagement capability at substantially extended ranges. The committee 

is aware of an emerging U.S. Special Operations Command requirement for a 

Guided Carl Gustaf Munition and encourages the Army to accelerate development 

and production of a precision-guided round for the Carl Gustaf weapon system.

Paladin Integrated Management

The base budget request included $351.8 million for 30 M109A7 Paladin 

Integrated Management (PIM) self-propelled howitzers. The M109A7 PIM program 

modernizes the legacy M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzer and M992A2 Field 

Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle.

The committee has worked closely with the Army to stabilize production for 

combat vehicle programs and armored brigade combat team modernization in order 

to maintain overmatch against near-peer and peer strategic competitors. As such, 

the committee is concerned that the Army’s budget request for the Paladin 

Integrated Management program does not adequately fund the current production 

contract. The committee notes that the Army has decreased planned PIM funding in 

fiscal year 2019 by approximately $237.0 million and that this funding decrease has 

resulted in a loss of 24 vehicle sets below the original 60 sets authorized under the 

contract. Furthermore, the committee understands the Army plans to increase 

production back to 60 sets per year beginning in fiscal year 2020. The committee 

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believes this variance from planned and contracted funding amounts could cause 

significant disruptions to the PIM supply chain. The committee encourages the 

Army to maintain funding for PIM consistent with the 60 vehicles sets per year 

included in its current production contract. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $426.8 million, an increase of $75.0 

million, to increase production for the M109A7 PIM program.

Stryker upgrades

The budget request contained $21.9 million for the procurement of three 

conversions of Stryker flat-bottom hull vehicles to the Double V-Hull (DVH) 

configuration with Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) 1 upgrades resulting in a 

Stryker DVHA1 vehicle to be fielded in Stryker brigade combat teams (SBCTs). The 

budget request also contained $287.5 million for Stryker vehicle modifications to 

resolve reliability, lethality, safety, operational, and performance degradation 

issues in Stryker vehicles. 

The committee understands the Stryker DVHA1 ECP addresses mobility 

and electrical power degradation issues resulting from over 10 years supporting 

overseas contingency combat operations, as well as other improvements in network 

capability intended to provide the platform for future evolution of the fleet. The 

committee notes that the Chief of Staff of the Army just recently completed an 

assessment of Stryker program priorities and directed that all six remaining SBCTs 

convert to the Stryker DVHA1 configuration. The committee supports this directed 

requirement, and believes the conversion would provide SBCTs with a more 

survivable vehicle, as well as regain the mobility and automotive performance lost 

due to the additional weight of the existing survivability upgrades. To facilitate and 

support this effort in fiscal year 2019, the committee notes the Army has requested 

realignment of $149.3 million from the Stryker modification budget request, and 

also has identified new unfunded requirements for Stryker upgrades. 

The committee recommends an additional $188.8 million to accelerate 

Stryker DVHA1 upgrades for SBCTs. The committee also recommends the 

realignment of $149.3 million from the Stryker modification budget request for 

Stryker DVHA1 upgrades. The committee recommends a total of $360.0 million, a 

total increase of $337.3 million, for Stryker DVHA1 upgrades.

PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

M58 MICLIC

The committee has continuing interest in the Department of Defense’s 

plans to modify and upgrade the M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC). This 

antiquated system has been employed by the United States Marine Corps and U.S. 

Army since the Vietnam-era. Since the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism, 

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enemy mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have been used to counter 

U.S. ground mobility assets. The past 17 years of conflict, coupled with recent 

trends indicate that these types of defensive tactics and techniques will be used in 

future engagements. While the enemy continues to adapt, the M58 MICLIC costs 

$83.6K per system and has not seen any significant upgrade in capability since its 

introduction.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than February 1, 

2019, on the Army's plan for upgrading or replacing the M58 MICLIC. The briefing 

should include:

(1) A description of current MICLIC employment statistics and mission 

requirements 

(2) An overview of a plan and timeline to upgrade the current system or 

field a newer variant

(3) The costs associated with the research, development, test, and 

evaluation of a new system

(4) Any employment or effectiveness shortfalls with the current M58 

system.

OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

CREW electronic counter-measure systems

The budget request contained $42.7 million for the procurement of counter 

radio controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIED) electronics warfare (CREW) 

family of electronic counter measure (ECM) systems to protect dismounted soldiers, 

fixed-sites, and tactical and combat vehicles. The committee supports this program 

and notes that the United States Marine Corps and United States Special 

Operations Command are currently procuring the same family of systems. The 

committee is aware that the Army has two Program Executive Offices (PEOs) 

responsible for developing and procuring ground-based mounted and dismounted 

CREW and ECM systems. The committee notes that PEO Ammunition procures 

these systems specifically for Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units and 

that PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (IEW&S) for all other Army 

organizational units. The committee needs to be assured that these PEOs are 

coordinating effectively on materiel solutions and are engaged in mutually 

supporting activities regarding CREW ECM systems.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by August 30, 2018, on the Army's efforts to 

coordinate and synchronize the requirements process, rapid acquisition efforts, and 

programs of record of PEO IEW&S and PEO Ammunition related to CREW ECM 

systems.

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Enhanced rapid airfield construction capability

The budget request included $0.9 million for enhanced rapid airfield 

construction capability (ERACC) equipment. 

The committee understands ERACC equipment provides the joint 

commander with the capability enhancement to rapidly construct new airfields and 

runways, and to upgrade existing facilities to meet joint task force requests. The 

committee notes this request specifically provides for the procurement, installation, 

and fielding of equipment in support of ERACC Type II mission requirements. The 

committee understands ERACC Type II mission equipment consists of a grade 

control system that includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) and laser leveling 

system that is installed on a dozer, grader, scraper and Deployable Universal 

Combat Earthmover. The committee notes the laser leveling systems allow for 

precision survey planning with three-dimensional software. The committee 

understands this system would significantly reduce operational time required for 

heavy construction missions, and result in fewer machines required to complete 

missions, as well as fuel savings. The committee believes there are emerging 

requirements for additional ERACC Type II capability.

The committee recommends $8.4 million, an increase of $7.5 million, to 

accelerate the competitive modernization of ERACC equipment.

Mine resistant ambush protected vehicle sustainment

The committee commends the military services for retaining the most 

capable mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles to meet military 

operational and training needs, as well as standardizing the fleet to improve longterm sustainment. The committee notes the Army has an enduring requirement of 

8,222 MRAP vehicles, and that MRAP vehicles continue to be a critical high 

demand force protection asset for overseas contingency operations in the U.S. 

Central Command's area of responsibility. The committee also notes that since the 

military services finalized the enduring requirements for MRAP vehicles, the 

military services face an increasingly complex and significantly worse global threat 

environment. 

In this environment, the committee believes demand for MRAP vehicles 

could increase. Additionally, MRAP vehicles may be needed to fulfill emerging 

requirements that may not have been fully considered as part of the Army's longterm tactical wheeled vehicle modernization strategy, such as requirements for key 

leader or command and control vehicles. The committee notes with concern that the 

Army's budget request contained no funding for MRAP vehicle modifications or 

improvements for the existing inventory of MRAP vehicles. The committee 

encourages the Army to take necessary steps to ensure the MRAP vehicle industrial 

base remains viable.

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with the Secretary of the Army, to 

provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 14, 

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2018, that details the Army's long-term strategy for planning, programming, and 

budgeting for long-term sustainment, research and development, and procurement 

of MRAP vehicle platforms. 

Tactical Communication and Protective Systems (TCAPS) authorization

The House Armed Services Committee is aware that service members are 

routinely exposed to extreme loud noises that can damage their hearing. The 

committee further notes that technologies are available that integrate advanced 

hearing protection into tactical radio headsets, significantly improving 

communications ability as well as overall situational awareness. The committee is 

concerned, however, that disparity in the procurement and fielding schedules of 

these components is leading to inefficiencies that unnecessarily undermine 

readiness and could jeopardize the long-term health of service members. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination 

with the Director of the Soldier Lethality Cross-Functional Team pilot as well as 

the appropriate program executive offices, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by September 1, 2018 on potential courses of action 

to mitigate the aforementioned disparity.

Tactical network modernization

The committee understands the Army’s new tactical network modernization 

strategy is designed to enable the Army to “fight tonight,” while also actively 

seeking next-generation solutions to stay ahead of potential adversaries. The 

committee notes this strategy would fix the existing programs that are necessary to 

fulfill the most critical operational shortfalls, while pivoting to a new acquisition 

methodology that fosters rapid insertion of new technology. In the report required 

by section 112 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 

(Public Law 115-91), the Army stated that “the Army will continually evaluate 

available solutions, including those that may not have originally been designed for 

military application, using operational units to demonstrate, experiment with, and 

test them in the field. The Army will then 'adapt and buy' the best of the tested 

solutions to meet unique military challenges.” Consistent with this new tactical 

network modernization strategy, the committee expects the Director of the Army’s 

Network Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence cross-functional 

team pilot to test and consider readily available, non-developmental tactical 

communications technologies that deliver the improved performance in voice, video, 

and data dissemination at the squad and individual soldier level.

Tactical wheeled vehicle industrial base sustainment

The committee is aware that the Army’s Future Years Defense Program 

(FYDP) projections for the family of medium tactical vehicles (FMTVs) and the 

family of heavy tactical vehicles (FHTVs) Recapitalization program in the budget 

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request are significantly lower than corresponding fiscal year 2018 FYDP 

projections. The committee is concerned that a drastic, unexpected decrease in 

FYDP procurement projections for these critical vehicle programs could have 

significant impacts to the medium and heavy tactical wheeled vehicle defense 

industrial base. The committee notes with concern that this could put at risk the 

TWV industrial base’s ability to provide surge capacity in an emergency. The 

committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to develop procurement plans for 

tactical wheeled vehicles and corresponding recapitalization programs that do not 

place unreasonable pressure on the tactical wheeled vehicle industrial base, nor 

undermine its capacity for surge production.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 30, 2018, on the Army’s current 

acquisition strategy and sustainment strategy for FMTVs and FHTVs. The briefing 

should also include potential courses of action to minimize impacts to the industrial 

base, as well as ways to maintain surge capacity across the FYDP.

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY

Items of Special Interest

Current and future anti-submarine warfare system study

Preceding the Navy Department's MH-60R Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) in 

Fiscal Year 20, advances in anti-submarine warfare systems manufactured in the 

U.S. warrant a review. The committee is encouraged by advances in dipping sonar 

utilizing low frequency detection and beam-forming technologies, allowing multiple 

boundary interactions, and interoperability with shipboard sonars and sonobuoys 

adding greatly enhanced protection to the carrier battle group. Moreover, these 

advances in technology are derived from U.S. sources, vice foreign technologies.

Additionally, the committee is concerned that the current MH-60R antisubmarine warfare system, Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS), that serves as 

the primary ASW sensor in the Carrier Strike Group, has a component failure rate 

that has depleted the spares inventory, impacting deployed and nondeployed 

readiness including the ability to support concurrent MH-60R deployments.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit a 

report to the House Armed Services Committee by March 1, 2019 on the current 

operability and readiness issues of ALFS system and the potential utilization of 

existing, advanced U.S. technologies to upgrade the MH-60R fleet’s anti-submarine 

warfare system.

Long-range naval carrier aviation

The committee notes that section 1067 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92) directed the Secretary 

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of Defense to provide three independent studies of alternative future fleet platform 

architectures for the Navy in the 2030 timeframe.

 The committee further notes that the three studies concur as to the need for an 

enhanced carrier-based unmanned long-range strike capability beyond current 

plans and programs. The committee remains concerned that while the MQ-25 

program leverages Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike 

requirements justification, the most recent documentation sent to industry did not 

include precision strike capability as a requirement. The committee believes that 

the Navy may be unnecessarily excluding a critical capability and precluding future 

growth in a platform that will likely be integrated into the carrier air wing for the 

next 30 years. 

 Therefore, the committee encourages the Navy to develop an unmanned 

anti-access penetrating long-range strike capability from the aircraft carrier, in 

addition to the current focus on the MQ-25A.

MQ-4 

The budget request contained $577.8 million for procurement of three MQ4C unmanned aircraft. The committee understands the MQ-4C will be a forwarddeployed, land-based, autonomously operated system that provides a persistent 

maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability using a 

multi-sensor mission payload. The MQ-4C's unique combination of long endurance 

and advanced sensors will support combatant commanders and provide a common 

operational picture of the maritime environment. 

The committee supports the budget request of $577.8 million for 

procurement of three MQ-4C aircraft. However, how, when, and what quantity of 

MQ-4C aircraft will be integrated into the Department of Defense's ISR Global 

Force Management Allocation Process (GFMAP) for airborne ISR aircraft is still 

unclear. Therefore, the committee also directs the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 

Staff (CJCS), in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than October 15, 2018, that 

details the strategy and plan to integrate MQ-4C into the CJCS ISR GFMAP 

process. At a minimum, the briefing should illustrate the methodology that will be 

used to determine the quantity of MQ-4C aircraft involved in the process, the 

scheduling start date, the type of aircraft capability, and the capacity of intelligence 

discipline capability the MQ-4C will provide to the combatant commanders.

Navy Reserve F/A-18 aircraft

The committee remains concerned about the health and readiness of the 

Navy Reserve combat air fleet. The committee is aware that the Navy Reserve 

tactical aviation squadrons provide critical adversary support and strike fighter 

weapons training to Active Duty forces, and must maintain a high mobilization 

readiness level as the sole strategic reserve available to the Department of the 

Navy. The committee understands that the Navy Reserve currently operates 33 

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legacy F/A-18A+ aircraft that are currently shared between two squadrons. The 

committee notes that with an average airframe age of 31 years and aircraft systems 

that are no longer compatible with today’s carrier air wing, the Navy Reserve 

aircraft are increasingly less capable than the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft 

used by the Navy’s Active Duty fleet. The committee believes that this situation 

could affect the ability of the two Navy Reserve squadrons to meet requirements for 

advanced strike employment, and the capability to simulate current advanced 

threat aircraft. The committee also believes that the legacy F/A-18A+ aircraft needs 

to be recapitalized with next-generation capability in order to provide realistic 

threat-representative training for naval aviators and to maintain operational 

readiness that provides a relevant and deployable reserve to the Active Duty air 

wings. 

Accordingly, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy, in 

coordination with the Chief of the Navy Reserve, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services not later than December 4, 2018, on its updated 

plans to recapitalize the Navy Reserve combat air fleet. 

WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY

Items of Special Interest

Advanced Low Cost Munition Ordnance

The committee continues to support development of the Advanced Low Cost 

Munition Ordnance (ALaMO), a guided 57 mm projectile, to counter the growing 

threats posed by small boat swarms, unmanned aerial systems, and other emerging 

threats. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by August 30, 2018, on 

accelerating development of ALaMO’s capabilities to address threats posed by 

unmanned aerial systems. The briefing should also include, but not be limited to, an 

evaluation of the current funding profile of this program across the Future Years 

Defense Program, as well as potential courses of action to accelerate or streamline 

the current program strategy.

SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY

Items of Special Interest

Frigate

The committee is aware that the Navy awarded five contracts for 

conceptual design for its new guided missile frigate program, FFG(X), with multiple 

shipbuilders currently developing their respective designs to compete for a detail 

design and construction contract award planned for September 2020. This pursuit 

represents a significant shift from the Navy's previous plans to award a contract in 

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fiscal year 2018 for a frigate derived from minor modifications to a Littoral Combat 

Ship (LCS) design. The FFG(X) program intends to leverage the proposed 

capabilities of the previous frigate plans and expand upon them to create a more 

lethal and survivable ship to meet the Small Surface Combatant (SSC) 

requirement. Toward that end, the committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy 

to emphasize concepts of risk reduction, commonality with existing platform 

equipment, and reduced acquisition and life cycle and sustainment costs to provide 

a best value solution for this critical platform. FFG(X) represents a significant 

investment, with the Navy's fiscal year 2019 long-range shipbuilding plan 

estimating over $5.5 billion through fiscal year 2023 for the first 6 frigates, and a 

total of 20 frigates planned through fiscal year 2030.

Since 2005, the Comptroller General of the United States has reported 

extensively on the LCS program, the predecessor small surface combatant. 

Considering the lessons learned during the LCS program, the committee directs the 

Comptroller General of the United States conduct a review of the FFG(X) program 

and provide a report to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019. The 

report shall include, at a minimum, analysis on the following:

(1) conceptual design plans and activities to support the advancement of 

multiple ship designs for a full and open competition in fiscal year 2020; 

(2) activities to establish requirements and system specifications, and to 

develop the program’s overall acquisition approach, including cost and schedule 

estimates, as well as a test strategy; and

(3) plans for the detail design and construction award contract, to include a 

review of the implications of a potential request by the Navy for a block buy award.

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier service life extension

In December 2016, the Secretary of the Navy determined that a 355-ship 

Navy is required to support force structure demands. A part of this force structure 

requirement is a power projection requirement of 12 aircraft carriers. With the 

delivery of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) in 2023, the Navy will reach their 12 

aircraft carrier goal but will quickly lose this overall capacity with the programmed 

retirement of USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in fiscal year 2023.

The committee believes that there are several options to retain required 

aircraft carrier force structure to include accelerating construction of the Ford-class 

carriers. Additionally, the committee believes that service life extension options 

may be available for USS Nimitz. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of 

the Navy to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by March 

1, 2019, on options that exist to extend the service life of USS Nimitz, to include the 

extension of major components. Additionally, such a briefing should include cost 

estimates and major modernization components.

OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY

Items of Special Interest

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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer radar backfit

The committee notes that Navy witnesses have provided testimony to the 

committee and indicated their recommendation to extend the service life of the 

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for 45 years. Navy notes that expansion of the 

service life will allow Navy to reach the 355-ship Navy by 2036 or 2037. The 

committee supports retention of destroyers beyond their current service life but 

notes that such support is contingent on providing a comprehensive modernization 

plan for the entirety of the in-service destroyers. As part of this overall 

modernization of the destroyer fleet, the committee believes that it is essential the 

Navy develop a next generation maritime radar system for in service Arleigh Burke 

class destroyers to address existing and emerging gaps in integrated air and missile 

defense. The committee understands that the Secretary of the Navy is still 

developing its strategy for how to pursue this capability. The committee further 

recognizes that the recent decision to perform a class wide service life extension 

program (SLEP) on all in service destroyers could have an impact on the timing of a 

radar backfit program. The committee believes that it would be premature to make 

any decisions regarding specific radars until the Secretary has completed a 

comprehensive threat and capabilities based assessment of what will be required for 

a new radar for in service destroyers. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of the Navy to brief the House Armed Services Committee on the details 

of their DDG-51 radar backfit strategy once an overall modernization strategy has 

been completed.

MH-60R dipping sonar upgrades

The committee notes numerous advancements in anti-submarine warfare 

systems preceding the Department of the Navy’s MH-60R Mid-Life Upgrade in 

fiscal years 2020 through 2023. Specifically, the committee is encouraged by 

advances in dipping sonar utilizing low frequency detection and beam-forming 

technologies, allowing multiple boundary interaction and interoperability with 

shipboard sonars and sonobuoys to expand the lethality of Navy forces. The 

committee is concerned that the current MH-60R anti-submarine warfare system, 

the airborne low frequency sonar that serves as the primary anti-submarine 

warfare sensor in the carrier strike group, has a high component failure rate. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the 

potential use of existing advanced technologies to upgrade the MH-60R fleet. If 

available manufactured systems meet or exceed current legacy technologies 

reliability or capability, then the Department of the Navy is encouraged to conduct 

a full and open competition for MH-60R dipping sonar upgrades, repairs, and 

replacements as part of the fleet sustainment of these capabilities.

SPY-6 inherent capabilities

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The committee is aware that next generation AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile 

Defense Radars will soon be entering the fleet. As the SPY-6 family of radars begin 

to deploy and better protect our service members and allies, the committee is also 

aware that capabilities beyond those designed for nominal radar operations may 

exist. To provide the committee a better understanding of the full range of 

capabilities resident in SPY-6(V) radar modular assembly (RMA) based radars, the 

committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing to the House 

Armed Services Committee on a plan that will exploit the inherent capabilities of 

SPY-6(V) within 90 days from the enactment of this Act.

Surface ship torpedo defense

The evolving challenges and tensions in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region 

underscore the ongoing requirement for a surface ship torpedo defense (SSTD) 

capability for the Navy’s high-value units. The committee understands that the 

Chief of Naval Operations highlighted this requirement in a 2010 urgent 

operational need statement and that since that time, potential regional adversaries 

have continued to improve their submarine and torpedo capabilities. Despite this 

increasing threat to Navy carrier strike groups and surface platforms, and the 

continued SSTD testing success and program maturation, the budget request and 

the Future Years Defense Program inadequately support currently deployed 

systems and cancel further development of this SSTD capability. 

The committee is concerned that this decision is based on the need to 

balance several years of inadequate funding resources across a range of priorities 

and that this budgetary dynamic is forcing decisions that put at risk the readiness 

and security of U.S. naval and Marine forces without adequate alternative plans to 

mitigate that threat. As raised in previous communications with Navy officials, the 

committee also has concerns that the Navy has distributed various SSTD program 

responsibilities among various Navy resource sponsors, which has led to a lack of 

determined support for efficient program execution and a lack of focused leadership.

In light of these concerns, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy 

to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by October 1, 2018, 

that includes, but is not limited to, the following: an assessment of the current and 

foreseeable torpedo threats facing high-value units and the Navy's plan to 

adequately protect them, a description of the requirements for SSTD, an 

assessment of the development program concerning each of the SSTD capability 

elements, the plan to consolidate responsibility of the SSTD program, and the plan 

to manage and sustain currently fielded SSTD systems.

PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS

Items of Special Interest

Indoor Simulated Markmanship Trainers 

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The budget request contained $52.0 million for Marine Corps Training 

Devices. Of this amount, $2.7 million was requested for Indoor Simulated 

Marksmanship Trainers (ISMTs). 

The ISMT system is a three-dimensional simulation-based trainer for 

indoor use, capable of instructing in basic and advanced marksmanship, shoot/noshoot judgment, combat marksmanship, and weapons employment tactics. The 

committee recognizes the value of this training system for remedial and virtual 

instruction to augment live fire upon simulated targets. The committee notes the 

ISMT systems are used both within the continental United States (CONUS) and 

outside CONUS. The committee also recognizes the value of this capability in that it 

would allow for rapid generation of new training scenarios, thus adding new 

capability quickly and efficiently to meet the training demands resulting from 

doctrinal and/or mission requirement changes. The committee encourages the 

Marine Corps to continue to work with the industrial base to improve and upgrade 

components for the Training Device portfolio.

The committee recommends $2.7 million, the full amount in the budget 

request, for the ISMT system.

Rapid acquisition of Rifle Integrated Controller

The committee understands the Marine Corps is currently evaluating a 

rifle accessory control unit (RACU) through a two-phase process that should result 

in fielding capability improvements in the operational performance and closecombat lethality of individual marines. The committee understands the RACU will 

be fully integrated with current Marine Corps weapons and communication devices 

and will be evaluated for operational utility at the unit level. The committee 

recognizes the challenges that exist for an individual marine to operate separate 

situational awareness, communications, target designators, thermal sights, and 

other battle management devices. The committee notes the RACU system would 

consolidate these disparate capabilities into one unified capability. The committee is 

encouraged by the initial feedback regarding the performance of the RACU during 

the phase 1 evaluation. The committee understands the phase 2 evaluation should 

conclude by the end of fiscal year 2018. 

The committee expects the Marine Corps to expeditiously complete the 

phase 2 evaluation and, subject to a successful evaluation, expects the capability to 

result in a validated requirement. The committee encourages the Commandant of 

the Marine Corps to consider a rapid acquisition strategy to accelerate the fielding 

and procurement of the RACU utilizing existing acquisition reform authorities.

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

Items of Special Interest

A-10 replacement wings

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The base budget request contained $98.7 million for A-10 aircraft 

modifications, of which $79.2 million was included for the A-10 wing replacement 

program. The committee notes that increases for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 will 

enable the Department of the Air Force to begin a second wing replacement 

program for an additional 110 A-10 replacement wings.

The committee continues to believe that sustainment of the 281-aircraft A10 fleet helps to meet Air Force fighter aircraft capacity requirements. The 

committee notes that A-10 force structure consists of five Air Reserve Component 

and four Active Duty squadrons, and that any fewer than nine squadrons will not 

meet future combatant commander demand for A-10 aircraft. Consequently, 

subsequent to the test and evaluation of the F-35A and A-10C required by section 

134 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 

114-328), the Department should not take any action to reduce the number of A-10 

squadrons. Accordingly, the committee believes the Department of the Air Force 

should accelerate the A-10 wing replacement program. 

The committee recommends $163.7 million in the base budget for A-10 

modifications, an increase of $65.0 million for the A-10 wing replacement program. 

The committee also notes that multiyear contracting strategies have 

resulted in more efficient and cost effective acquisition programs, and believes such 

a strategy could also result in cost savings for the A-10 wing replacement program. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than February 15, 2019, on 

Department of the Air Force plans to utilize a multiyear contracting strategy to 

procure A-10 replacement wings. 

Additionally, the committee notes that exercising the option to deliver the 

remaining 110 wings on the contract that expired in September 2016 could have 

resulted in cost savings compared to current plans to contract separately for a 

second wing replacement program. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary 

of the Air Force to provide a report to the House Committee on Armed Services, not 

later than February 15, 2019, on the cost of the additional 110 A-10 replacement 

wings using a second contract compared to the cost of exercising the option to 

procure the 110 A-10 replacement wings on the original contract.

Air Force enlisted pilot implementation initiatives

The committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services not later than March 4, 2019, on the plan 

to implement the enlisted pilot aircrew requirements of Section 1052 of the FY17 

NDAA for the MQ-9 enterprise of the Active, Guard, and Reserve components of the 

Air Force. Furthermore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to 

submit a report to the congressional defense committees not later than April 1, 

2019, on the costs, benefits, and feasibility of authorizing enlisted Airmen or 

Warrant Officers as pilots, navigators, or weapon systems operators on all Air Force 

aircraft or rotorcraft platforms. The report should also assess and explain any policy 

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or guidance impediments that would preclude enlisted Airmen or Warrant Officers 

from serving as pilots, navigators, or weapon systems operators.

B-2 secure communication modernization plan

The committee notes that the Air Force released its "Bomber Vector" in 

conjunction with its fiscal year 2019 President's budget request which outlines the 

future of the B-1, B-2, B-52, and B-21 bomber fleets. According to this document, 

during development and production of the B-21, the Air Force will sustain the B-2 

bomber to assure no gaps in bomber force availability. In addition to availability, 

the committee is concerned that the B-2 bomber fleet must keep pace with the 

threat level and have no gaps in capability during the transition. This is critical as 

competitor nations increasingly field anti-access and area denial weapon systems 

that impede and degrade the Air Force's ability to hold any target at risk around 

the globe.

 The committee is aware that, as noted in the Department of Defense fiscal year 

2019 budget request, “modern communications are key enablers for the B-2 in the 

anti-access/area denial battle-space and directly enhance lethality and force 

multiplication.” The committee is concerned that the Department terminated the 

Extremely High Frequency Satellite Communications program, which provided twoway, high-bandwidth, secure, survivable, strategic communication in anti-access 

and area denial environments. In its place, the Air Force has chosen to rely on the 

Common Very-Low-Frequency Receiver (CVR), which is to provide the B-2 with 

receive-only, secure, survivable communications.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 28, 2019, on the B2 secure communications modernization plan. This briefing should include the 

following:

(1) the impact of the Air Force's decision to downgrade B-2 communications 

capabilities on the ability of the B-2 to perform its critical strike missions in antiaccess/area denial environments;

(2) recommend solutions that would enable automated transfer of data to 

the B-2 and enable the aircraft to operate in a networked fashion with other 

elements for the long-range strike family of systems and other Air Force and Joint 

systems; and

(3) provide estimated modernization costs and timelines, and consider 

opportunities to exploit capabilities developed for other programs.

C-130H modernization efforts

The committee notes that the C-130H aircraft that are flown primarily by 

the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve continue to provide critical tactical 

airlift capabilities and will continue to support this mission for years to come. The 

committee further notes that in order to sustain mission capability and 

effectiveness, various sustainment and improvement initiatives are currently 

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underway. The committee supports all of these initiatives however, it does recognize 

that shortfalls still remain. Specifically, the C-130H Avionics Modernization 

Program (AMP) addresses cockpit modernization needs of the aircraft however; the 

AMP program does not include the flight engineers control panel, which is a key 

component of the cockpit. Failure to upgrade the flight engineer control panel could 

leave the C-130H fleet with continued obsolescence issues post AMP. If the Air 

Force were to decide to upgrade this equipment at a later date, they will have 

missed the efficiencies of conducting those upgrades concurrent with the AMP 

upgrades. Therefore, the committee encourages the Air Force to explore the 

possibility of upgrading the C-130H flight engineer overhead control panel using 

readily available off the shelf technology. Furthermore, if the Air Force determines 

that these upgrades are necessary, they should make every effort to upgrade the 

aircraft in parallel with the AMP program in order to minimize disruption to the 

operation of the C-130H fleet and mission.

C-130H propulsion systems upgrade

The budget request contained $22.1 million for procurement of C-130 

modifications but no funds for C-130H propulsion systems upgrades.

The committee continues to support the upgrade of C-130H/LC-130H 

aircraft with the T56 3.5 engine enhancement and NP2000 8-bladed propeller. The 

committee notes that the Air National Guard (ANG) completed testing of the T56 

3.5 engine enhancement and reported results that exceeded expectations for fuel 

savings and performance. The committee understands that the ANG expects to 

issue a full test report in the summer of 2018, to be followed by a business case 

analysis for upgrading the entire fleet of C-130H/LC-130H aircraft. Additionally, 

the committee is aware that fiscal year 2016 and 2017 propulsion upgrade funds 

have been put on contract. The committee expects the Air Force to include the 

necessary funds to accelerate C-130H/LC-130H upgrades in future base budgets. 

 The committee recommends $129.0 million for the C-130H/LC-130H 

propulsion systems upgrade program.

Compass Call transition plan

The committee supports the Air Force's efforts to recapitalize the aging EC130H Compass Call fleet with the more capable EC-37 type aircraft. The committee 

notes that the Air Force must first comply with the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) and the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) before it can carry on 

with the transition plan. The Air Force requested $108.1 million for fiscal year 2019 

for one EC-37. The committee is concerned that the Air Force plan to procure one 

aircraft per year over 10 years in order to recapitalize this fleet is not the most 

efficient way to move the capability to the field quickly, and may put the Compass 

Call mission at unacceptable risk of mission failure.

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Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the 

Compass Call transition plan. This plan should include: 

(1) courses of action to accelerate the recapitalization of the EC-130H fleet 

and Baseline 4 development and deployment for incoming EC-37 aircraft;

(2) attendant timelines for each course of action;

(3) cost estimates for each course of action;

(4) recommended course of action and a plan to manage both fleets while 

supporting combatant commander requirements; and

(5) an assessment of the potential for future cooperative development and 

procurement of EC-37B Compass Call aircraft by the Royal Air Force of the United 

Kingdom and the Royal Australian Air Force in a way the leverages the best 

practices of the RC-135 cooperative program arrangement with the Royal Air Force 

of the United Kingdom.

F-15C Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System

The budget request contained $147.7 million for procurement of the F-15 

Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) for the F-15E, 

but included no funds for procurement of F-15C EPAWSS kits. The F-15 EPAWSS 

provides radar warning, geo-location, situational awareness, and self-protection 

solutions to detect and defeat surface and airborne threats in contested 

environments. 

The committee notes that the budget request includes $137.1 million to 

continue execution of the engineering, manufacturing and development phase for F15 C and E aircraft, which includes delivering test assets, development test 

activities, and continued acquisition support for Milestone C. The committee also 

notes that the budget request includes $147.7 million to initiate procurement of F15E EPAWSS kits, but believes that procurement of F-15C EPAWSS kits is critical 

to ensure the F-15C’s survivability on a modern battlefield in the air superiority 

mission. 

Consequently, the committee recommends $214.9 million for F-15 EPAWSS 

procurement, an increase of $67.2 million for procurement of four F-15C EPAWSS 

kits. The committee expects that the Department of the Air Force will execute the 

F-15 EPAWSS procurement upgrade program for the planned 217 F-15Es and 196 

F-15Cs.

F-35 autonomic logistics information system

The F-35 Lightning II is the Department of Defense`s largest acquisition 

program, which will eventually deliver 2,443 F-35 aircraft to the Departments of 

the Navy and Air Force. The committee believes that the F-35 will form the 

backbone of U.S. air combat superiority for decades to come, replacing or 

complementing the legacy tactical fighter fleets of the Air Force, Navy, and Marine 

Corps with a dominant, multi-role, fifth-generation aircraft capable of projecting 

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U.S. power and deterring potential adversaries. The committee notes that for the F35 program’s international partners and foreign military sales customers who are 

participating in the program, the F-35 will become a cornerstone for future coalition 

operations. The committee believes that the F-35 will help to close a crucial 

capability gap that will enhance the strength of our security alliances. The 

committee, therefore, continues its strong support of this essential aircraft 

development and procurement program.

Consistent with its support of the F-35 program and oversight 

responsibilities, the committee notes that at a hearing held by the House 

Committee on Armed Services’ Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces on 

March 7, 2018, the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force witnesses all expressed a 

concern about the autonomic logistics information system (ALIS). The Air Force 

witness testified that the ALIS is currently labor-intensive for maintainers and 

support personnel, negatively affecting flight line operations and workforce 

development. During a subcommittee visit to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in April 

2018, subcommittee members met with Air Force F-35 maintenance personnel who 

reported that they are still very disappointed in the autonomic logistics information 

system, and continue to have to use manual workarounds that take time and effort, 

resulting in lower aircraft availability and mission capable rates. Given these 

ongoing problems, the committee will continue to conduct a detailed review of the 

ALIS program. 

F-35 canopy transparencies

The F-35 canopy transparency is the transparent enclosure over the cockpit 

of the F-35 aircraft. The committee notes that the F-35 program uses a sole-source 

contract to procure F-35 canopy transparencies.

The committee understands that the F-22 program uses a two-source 

acquisition strategy for canopy transparencies, and that competition from that 

acquisition strategy has resulted in a more secure supply chain, increased 

innovation, longer product service life, and lower operating costs. Accordingly, the 

committee believes a two-source acquisition strategy for F-35 canopy transparencies 

could provide similar benefits.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than December 14, 

2018, on the costs, benefits, analysis, and schedule impacts of the F-35 program 

using a two-source acquisition strategy for F-35 canopy transparencies.

F-35 sustainment affordability

At a hearing held by the House Committee on Armed Services’ 

Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces on March 7, 2018, the witnesses all 

expressed a concern about current operations and sustainment costs and testified 

that those costs would need to be reduced by over 30 percent to make the F-35 

operationally affordable. At that hearing, the Air Force witness testified that if 

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projected overall costs for the F-35 are not reduced, the Air Force would not be able 

to afford its planned procurement of 1,763 aircraft. While the F-35 program is

currently procuring early production lots of F-35 aircraft, the committee believes 

opportunities exist to take actions that would reduce future F-35 operations and 

sustainment costs.

Accordingly, the committee strongly urges the Secretary of the Air Force 

and the Secretary of the Navy, in concert with the F-35 Joint Program Office, to 

undertake the necessary actions to reduce F-35 sustainment costs. The committee 

believes that those actions should include, but not be limited to, addressing spare 

part shortages, addressing technical data requirements, accelerating both land- and 

sea-based intermediate maintenance capabilities, and modernization of the 

autonomic logistics information system.

Additionally, the committee believes that increased F-35 production rates 

and larger F-35 economies of scale could also help lower unit procurement and 

sustainment costs. Moreover, the committee also believes that advances in potential 

adversary aircraft and surface-to-air missile defense systems necessitate a combat 

fighter force with a higher percentage of fifth generation aircraft. Accordingly, the 

committee strongly encourages the Department to increase future F-35 production 

rates. 

Future sustainment of remotely piloted aircraft tactical intelligence and strike 

capabilities

The budget request contained $946.6 million for procurement of 29 MQ-9A 

aircraft. 

The committee recognizes that the Air Force has a 380 total aircraft 

inventory (TAI) requirement for MQ-9A aircraft, and is also using a current metric 

of 40,000 hours for the MQ-9A airframe service-life determination, an increase of 

20,000 hours beyond the validated airframe service-life metric. The committee is 

also waiting to receive a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) from the Air Force, required by 

section 137 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 

Law 115-91), comparing continued procurement of MQ-9A Block 5 aircraft versus a 

transition to procurement of MQ-9B aircraft that is still in prototype development 

by the aircraft manufacturer. The committee understands that the Air Force could 

forgo the option of continued Block 5 upgrades to existing MQ-9A aircraft, and could 

pursue an option to participate in development and procurement of the MQ-9B 

aircraft, but the committee still lacks the required information to make an informed 

determination as to which effort the Air Force should pursue. The committee is also 

concerned by the Air Force's attempt this year to categorize MQ-9A aircraft that 

reach their airframe service-life limit as "combat-loss attrition" to justify additional 

aircraft procurement using Overseas Contingency Operations resources, when past 

practice has been to categorize combat-loss attrition only as those aircraft that are 

destroyed or damaged beyond repair due to hostile engagement by adversaries or 

aircraft accidents. The committee is also concerned by the Air Force's irregular 

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procurement quantity of aircraft outlined in the Future Years Defense Program 

(FYDP) and assesses that a more stable profile is needed. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $796.6 million, a decrease of $149.9 

million and quantity of 7 aircraft, for a total procurement of 22 MQ-9A in fiscal year 

2019. This decrease will minimize any waste of resources should the 

aforementioned Air Force CBA favor procuring MQ-9B instead of continuing MQ-9A 

Block 5 procurement, and also provide a more stable quantity procurement profile 

during the FYDP without harming TAI goals. The committee also expects the 

Secretary of the Air Force to adjust the future strategy for sustainment of remotely 

piloted aircraft tactical intelligence and strike capabilities if the CBA determines it 

best to procure MQ-9B aircraft instead of MQ-9A Block 5 aircraft.

OA-X light attack aircraft program

The budget request contained no funds for the OA-X light attack aircraft 

program. The committee understands that the Department of the Air Force intends 

to include funding for the OA-X light attack aircraft program in fiscal year 2020.

The committee believes that a light attack fighter aircraft is a continuing 

and exigent need to conduct close air support, counterinsurgency, armed 

reconnaissance, and other combat operations in more permissive threat 

environments. The committee further believes that procurement of light attack 

aircraft would increase the number of cockpits available to season Air Force pilots, 

thereby providing improvement to current pilot personnel shortfalls. Additionally, 

the committee notes that the Air Force Chief of Staff has stated, "A light attack 

aircraft would not only provide relief to our 4th and 5th generation aircraft, but also 

bolster our interoperability so we can more effectively employ airpower as an 

international team." 

Accordingly, the committee encourages the Department of the Air Force to 

accelerate the OA-X light attack program.

Additionally, to ensure the Department of the Air Force procures a low-cost 

aircraft that will provide cost efficiency along with quality capability, the committee 

encourages the Department to use a best value, rather than a lowest price 

technically acceptable, criteria for its source selection decision.

Production adjustment for KC-46A air refueling aircraft

The budget request contained $2.56 billion for the procurement of 15 KC46A air refueling tankers.

The committee notes that the KC-46A program costs remain stable, but the 

delivery schedule may be further delayed. Currently, the Air Force is reporting 

three category one deficiencies including two for the remote vision system (RVS) 

and one for the center-line drogue system (CDS). The Government Accountability 

Office (GAO) observed in its latest report, GAO-18-353, that the program updated 

its delivery schedule in 2017 to allow the defense contractor to delay delivery of the 

first 18 fully capable aircraft by 14 months. This delay moved the delivery date from 

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August 2017 to October 2018. According to a schedule risk assessment and GAO's 

analysis, if risk is not mitigated, deliveries could be delayed further to May 2019, 21 

months from the originally scheduled delivery. The continued delays are set to 

cause a backup of unaccepted aircraft awaiting the completion of contractual test 

and documentation requirements. The defense manufacturer believes that it will 

meet the current delivery schedule and that it has taken appropriate steps to 

address all category one deficiencies by improving the RVS visual display and finetuning CDS software to reduce the number of unintended refueling disconnects. 

Given the latest Air Force schedule risk assessment, the committee believes the 

Secretary of the Air Force could use the variation in quantity provision in the 

contract to reduce the procurement by three aircraft in fiscal year 2019 without 

impacting the out-year per unit cost of each aircraft. The committee believes that 

the three additional aircraft funded in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 

(Public Law 115-141) could be awarded in fiscal year 2019 to help mitigate any 

production line impact. Elsewhere in this bill, funds have been limited for the 

procurement of three additional KC-46A aircraft until certain conditions are met. 

Lastly, the committee believes that it is warranted to reduce funds for interim 

contractor support concurrent with the late delivery of aircraft. The committee 

intends to provide strict oversight of this issue and review timelines to compliance 

to ensure reductions are aligned with ongoing decisions to accept aircraft.

The committee recommends $2.06 billion, a decrease of $499.0 million, for 

the procurement of 12 KC-46A air refueling tankers and $50.0 million for interim 

contractor support.

RQ-4 Global Hawk and EQ-4 battlefield airborne communications node aircraft

The budget request contained $23.7 million for RQ-4 Global Hawk and EQ4 modifications, but contained no funding for additional EQ-4 aircraft.

The committee recognizes that the both the RQ-4 and EQ-4 provide critical 

warfighting capabilities in communications relay and high-altitude intelligence, 

surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission areas for combatant commanders 

(COCOM). The committee is also satisfied that the EQ-4 has transitioned to a 

formal Air Force program of record. However, the committee is concerned that the 

current communication architecture for operating the RQ-4 is antiquated, difficult 

to maintain, and limits the Air Force's ability to fully use the system to meet 

COCOM demands for increased capacity and capability. The committee also 

believes that insufficient capacity exists for the robust communications capability 

the EQ-4 provides to COCOMs, and that based on current quantity of mission 

support taskings, the EQ-4 fleet of aircraft could reach service-life limits quicker 

than anticipated, creating an unmitigated capability gap. The committee supports 

any Air Force plan to initiate development of the RQ-4 Communication System 

Modernization Program (CSMP) in fiscal year 2020 to meet combatant commander 

requirements for expanded airborne communications relay and ISR, as well as 

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establish a pathway to more quickly meet emerging high-altitude, long-endurance 

ISR and communications requirements.

Therefore, the committee recommends $128.7 million, an increase of $105.0 

million, for procurement of one additional EQ-4 aircraft and associated 

modifications. The committee also directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit a 

report to the congressional defense committees, not later than February 5, 2019, on 

the RQ-4 CSMP acquisition strategy. The report should include an updated RQ-4 

CSMP acquisition strategy, including a program schedule and budget requirements 

for development, testing, and fielding of the capability, and a description of how the 

Air Force is balancing the resources required for CSMP with other efforts to 

increase RQ-4 sensor capabilities over this same time period.

Total Force C-17 Fleet Management Plan

The committee notes that the Air Force must carefully manage the life cycle 

of each of its 222 C-17 strategic airlift aircraft assigned to the Regular, Reserve, and 

Air National Guard Components from an enterprise point of view in order to extract 

the maximum amount of utility from this limited resource. The committee is also 

aware that the Air Force is unable to meet its current requirement for strategic 

airlift as outlined by the fiscal year 2013 Mobility Capability Requirements Study 

(MCRS). Furthermore, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 

(Public Law 115-91) directed the Secretary of Defense to carry out a new MCRS. 

This study is to take into account attrition for the first time, which is likely to result 

in a higher requirement for strategic airlift. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the 

Total Force C-17 Fleet Management Plan. This briefing should include: 

(1) a table and timeline that shows when C-17s will be retired by tail 

number;

(2) various courses of action that could be pursued and the impact to 

meeting the strategic airlift requirements; 

(3) limitation or impediments to controlling the retirement timeline of C-17 

aircraft; and 

(4) legislative relief that could enable better management of the fleet 

through retirement.

Total Force KC-135R net centric operations and battlespace awareness

The committee is aware that all three Air Force components of the Total 

Force (Regular, Air National Guard, and Reserve) operate the KC-135 Stratotanker, 

which is Air Mobility Command’s primary air refueling platform. The KC-135 

provides approximately 87 percent of air refueling support to U.S., allied, and 

coalition military aircraft. 

The committee believes that upgrades to KC-135 defensive systems, 

including tactical data link technologies, situational awareness displays that bring 

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real-time threat information, and secure radio capability, greatly enhance KC-135 

air refueling, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation missions. These systems are 

meant to protect the aircraft during takeoff, landing, and refueling flight regimes. 

Also, the systems offer protection during normal refueling flight operations against 

both infrared and radar-guided air-to-air missiles. Furthermore, the committee 

believes that upgrades to the KC-135 Real-Time Information in the Cockpit (RTIC) 

system would enhance network capability and provide a common processing and 

display platform resulting in consolidated situational awareness. 

 As reflected in division D of this Act, the committee recommends additional 

funding for the National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account. The committee 

expects the Secretary of the Air Force to consider using these funds to modernize 

the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve with RTIC and self-protection 

commercial off-the-shelf solutions through a competitive process.

U-2 

The budget request contained $106.9 million in PE 34260F for the airborne 

signals intelligence (SIGINT) enterprise and $70.6 million in PE 35202F for U-2 

sensor development, but contained insufficient funding to develop a single-pod 

SIGINT capability or accelerate electro-optical and infrared sensor upgrades. 

The committee supports the Air Force’s renewed commitment to the U-2 

program reflected in the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2019, and the 

Future Years Defense Program. To ensure the combat capability needed to stay 

ahead of emerging threats, the committee supports accelerating U-2 modernization 

and sustainment efforts. The planned efforts have the potential to provide a 

substantial leap in intelligence capability to the warfighter over the upcoming 

years. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $109.9 million in PE 34260F, an 

increase of $3.0 million, for single-pod SIGINT development, and recommends $87.6 

million in PE 35202F, an increase of $17.0 million, to accelerate electro-optical and 

infrared sensor upgrades. The committee also recommends elsewhere in this Act an 

increase of $38.0 million to refurbish and restore U-2 tail number 80-1099 to 

combat-ready status, and to provide increased high-altitude intelligence, 

surveillance, and reconnaissance capacity to the combatant commanders. 

MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

Items of Special Interest

AIM-120 production rate

The budget request contained $552.7 million for procurement of 363 AIM120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM).

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The committee notes that this request is 294 fewer AMRAAM missiles than 

were projected for fiscal year 2019 in last year's budget request. The committee 

notes further that additional stocks of the most modern version of the AMRAAM 

missile is a top priority of numerous combatant commands. While the committee 

understands that this production rate drop is due to significant delays with the 

form, fit, function refresh plan to address obsolescence issues, it is concerned that 

the Air Force is also limiting production quantities of other AMRAAM models sold 

via foreign military sales (FMS). The committee believes that production of 

additional FMS variants may help mitigate risk to the supplier base and overall 

production capacity for the weapon. Therefore, the committee encourages the 

Secretary of Defense to ensure that the AMRAAM production line is kept at or near 

full capacity whenever possible, either by increasing production to fill U.S. military 

requirements or by supplementing production for the U.S. military with higher 

FMS production.

The committee recommends $552.7 million, the full amount requested, for 

AIM-120 AMRAAM procurement.

OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

Items of Special Interest

Deployable Air Base Systems

Given increasing threats, the committee supports efforts to enhance U.S., 

allied, and partner airbase resiliency in the Indo-Pacific region. The committee is 

especially supportive of the logistics and resiliency investments identified by the 

Commander of U.S. Pacific Command’s (PACOM) critical investments list as well as 

the forward air base resiliency requirements as identified on PACOM’s integrated 

priority list. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, no later than December 1, 

2018, on potential courses of action, to include rapid acquisition strategies to 

rapidly procure Deployable Air Base Systems in order to address identified PACOM 

capability gaps.

PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE

Items of Special Interest

Common Analytical Laboratory System

The budget request contained $48.3 million for the Common Analytical 

Laboratory System (CALS), a tool to enable detection and identification of chemical, 

biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats. CALS provides 

analytical lab capabilities in the field, allowing field commanders to make faster 

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and more informed response decisions, minimizing the effects of CBRNE threats. 

The committee recommends $48.3 million, the amount requested, for the Common 

Analytical Laboratory System.

Multi-Domain Command and Control

The committee understands the Department of the Air Force and 

Department of the Navy are undertaking efforts to create robust Multi-Domain 

Command and Control (MDC2) capabilities. The committee supports each 

Department's plans to ensure MDC2 program efforts are leveraging rapid 

experimentation and fielding of forward-deployed modular mission Systems for 

resilient communications and high-performance computing resources for the MDC2 

mission.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force and the 

Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services by September 1, 2018, that explains future funding and any other 

requirements to achieve rapid experimentation and fielding of MDC2 capabilities to 

the warfighter.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 101—Authorization of Appropriations

This section would authorize appropriations for procurement at the levels 

identified in section 4101 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—ARMY PROGRAMS

Section 111—National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment Report

This section would modify the annual National Guard and Reserve 

Component Equipment report, as required by section 10541 of title 10, United 

States Code, to include an assessment by the Chief of Staff of the Army and the 

Chief of the National Guard Bureau regarding modernization equipment parity 

between the active component, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.

Section 112—Limitation on Availability of Funds for M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle 

Program

This section would limit the obligation or expenditure of 20 percent of the 

funds for the Marine Corps M27 infantry automatic rifle program until the 

Commandant of the Marine Corps provides an assessment of the Marine Corps 

views on the Army's Small Arms Ammunition Configuration Study, and whether 

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the outcomes of this study are informing future small arms procurement for the 

Marine Corps. The assessment shall also include details regarding the Marine 

Corps near- and long-term small arms modernization strategy.

SUBTITLE C—NAVY PROGRAMS

Section 121—Increase in Number of Operational Aircraft Carriers of the Navy

This section would provide the sense of Congress as to aircraft carrier force 

structure. Additionally, this section would modify section 5062 of title 10, United 

States Code, by increasing the required aircraft carrier force structure from 11 to 12 

operational aircraft carriers by September 30, 2022.

Section 122—Procurement Authority for Ford Class Aircraft Carrier Program

This section would authorize the construction of one Ford class aircraft 

carrier designated CVN-81. 

Section 123—Full Ship Shock Trial for Ford Class Aircraft Carrier

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to incorporate full 

ship shock trial results into the construction of the Ford class aircraft carrier 

designated CVN-81.

Section 124—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Amphibious Vessels

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a 

multiyear procurement for five San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships 

with a Flight II configuration.

Section 125—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Standard Missile-6 

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enter into one or 

more multiyear contracts for 625 Standard Missile-6 missiles beginning in fiscal 

year 2019, in accordance with section 2306b of title 10, United States Code.

Section 126—Multiyear Procurement Authority for E-2D Aircraft

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enter into one or 

more multiyear contracts for up to 24 E-2D aircraft beginning in fiscal year 2019, in 

accordance with section 2306b of title 10, United States Code.

Section 127—Multiyear Procurement Authority for F/A–18E/F Aircraft and EA–18G 

Aircraft

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Subject to section 2306b of title 10, United States Code, this section would 

authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enter into one or more multiyear contracts, 

beginning with the fiscal year 2019 program year, for the procurement of F/A–18E/F 

aircraft and EA–18G aircraft.

Section 128—Modifications to F/A–18 Aircraft to Mitigate Physiological Episodes

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to modify the F/A-18 

aircraft to reduce the occurrence of, and mitigate the risk posed by, physiological 

episodes affecting crewmembers of the aircraft, and require the Secretary to include 

certain minimum modifications, and submit to the congressional defense 

committees a written update on the status of all modifications to the F/A–18 aircraft 

carried out pursuant to this section not later than February 1, 2019, and annually 

thereafter through February 1, 2021.

Section 129—Frigate Class Ship Program

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to procure technical 

data rights to any acquired frigate class vessel. Additionally, this section would 

require the Secretary to recompete the frigate class procurement not later than the 

award of the 10th frigate using the acquired technical data rights.

Section 130—Limitation on Procurement of Economic Order Quantities for Virginia 

Class Submarine Program

 This section would modify section 124 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) and prohibit the 

Secretary of the Navy from entering into economic order quantity contracts for the 

Virginia-class submarine program until the Secretary certifies that such funding 

shall be used to enter into economic order quantities for 12 Virginia-class 

submarines. 

Section 131—Limitation on Use of Funds for DDG-51 Destroyers

This section would limit expenditures of Shipbuilding and Conversion, 

Navy, for DDG-51 destroyers until the Secretary of the Navy submits a report as to 

incorporating degaussing standards into the destroyer program.

SUBTITLE D—AIR FORCE PROGRAMS

Section 141—Inventory Requirement for Air Refueling Tanker Aircraft; Limitation 

on Retirement of KC-10A Aircraft

 This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to increase the 

current air refueling tanker fleet from 457 to 479 primary assigned aircraft before it 

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can begin to retire KC-10A aircraft. The Air Force shall maintain 479 total tanker 

aircraft thereafter, unless adjusted by the fiscal year 2018 "Mobility Capability and 

Requirements Study."

Section 142—Limitation on Use of Funds for KC-46A Aircraft Pending Submittal of 

Certification 

This section would limit the funds authorized to be appropriated to procure 

three KC-46A aircraft until the Secretary of the Air Force certifies that both 

supplemental and military type certifications have been approved and that the first 

aircraft has been accepted by the Air Force. 

Section 143—Retirement Date for VC-25A Aircraft

 This section would fix the retirement date for the purposes of this statute as it 

applies to the two Air Force VC-25A aircraft as not later than December 31, 2025.

Section 144—Contract for Logistics Support for VC-25B Aircraft

This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure that the 

VC-25B contract for logistics support complies with part 17.204(e) of the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation and also complies with section 2304 of title 10, United 

States Code, with regard to open competition.

Section 145—Multiyear Procurement Authority for C-130J Aircraft

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into one 

or more multiyear contracts for up to 52 C-130J aircraft beginning in fiscal year 

2019, in accordance with section 2306b of title 10, United States Code.

Section 146—Removal of Waiting Period for Limitation on Availability of Funds for 

EC-130H Compass Call Recapitalization Program

This section would strike the 30-day waiting period imposed on EC-130H 

funds by section 135(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91). 

Section 147—Findings and Sense of Congress Regarding KC-46 Aerial Refueling

Tankers

This section would express the sense of Congress in support of industry and 

Air Force ensuring that the first KC-46A tanker is delivered in fiscal year 2018.

SUBTITLE E—DEFENSE-WIDE, JOINT, AND MULTISERVICE MATTERS

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Section 151—Buy-to-Budget Acquisition of F-35 Aircraft

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense, subject to section 

2308 of title 10, United States Code, to procure a higher quantity of F-35 aircraft 

than authorized by this Act if such additional procurement does not require 

additional funds.

Section 152—Certification on Inclusion of Technology to Minimize Physiological 

Episodes in Certain Aircraft

This section would require that not later than 15 days before entering into 

a contract for the procurement of a covered aircraft, the Secretary concerned would 

submit to the congressional defense committees a written statement certifying that 

the aircraft to be procured under a contract would include the most recent 

technological advancements necessary to minimize the impact of physiological 

episodes on aircraft crewmembers. 

TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, ARMY

Items of Special Interest

Accelerated integration to counter emerging threats

The Committee supports the accelerated integration capability to counter 

emerging threats being initiated by the Program Executive Office, Missiles and 

Space. The Army is developing a government-owned capability to provide cyberrobust networked weapon systems designed to operate within rapidly evolving 

threat timelines.

The Committee understands this is being accomplished through a unique 

approach to adapt and respond to real-time threats, dramatically accelerating the 

timeline to employ resilience in networked weapon systems.

The Committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to 

the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives by March 1, 

2019, on the status of progress being made through this accelerated program.

Assured Position, Navigation and Timing

In response to global peer threats and demands from combatant 

commanders, the committee last year expressed its concern that the Army was not 

moving fast enough to field Assured Position Navigation and Timing (APNT) 

solutions. APNT solutions are required because of the reliance of military vehicles, 

communications and weapons systems on precise position, navigation and timing. 

The committee understands that strategic high-end competitors possess the 

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capability to disrupt systems that depend on GPS which could pose an unacceptable 

level of risk to U.S. operations in GPS-denied environments. The committee notes 

the Army has stood up a Cross Functional Team (CFT) pilot to rapidly assess 

material development solutions to address the APNT mission area and perceived 

capability gaps.

In response to Section 236 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 

Fiscal Year 2018, the Army submitted a report to the congressional defense 

committees dated March 30th, 2018 that described its approach to test various 

systems at White Sands Missile Range in the 3rd Quarter of Fiscal Year 2018. The 

Army's report further described fielding both the A kits and B kits of a Quick 

Reaction Capability to specific units starting in the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 

2019. The committee understands that this testing is ongoing.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the 

Director of the Army's APNT CFT pilot, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by September 1, 2018 that outlines potential courses 

of action to begin immediate procurement of these systems, subject to successful 

test and evaluations.

Targeted Soldier Borne Sensor efforts

The committee is encouraged by the Army’s efforts to field the new Soldier 

Borne Sensor (SBS) capability to the warfighter and is encouraged by the Army’s 

recognition of this capability requirement at the squad level. The committee 

understands the additional visual and situational awareness provided by the sensor 

to the warfighter will improve the survivability and lethality of the force. The 

committee also notes that a capability to operate within high-threat and GPSdenied areas, including but not limited to indoors and within tunnels, is currently 

available with SBS technologies under evaluation. However, the committee 

understands there are concerns regarding the current generation of thermal sensors 

associated with ongoing SBS technology evaluations. Specifically, the committee 

understands that current thermal sensors reportedly do not provide sufficient 

resolution to meet desired performance objectives. The committee encourages the 

Secretary of the Army to focus development efforts to accelerate technology 

development of electro-optic and infrared sensors that could be carried by the SBS.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 28, 2018, on current 

development efforts to address and resolve concerns regarding electro-optic and 

infrared sensor capabilities within the SBS platform. This briefing shall also 

include a detailed analysis of the electro-optic and infrared sensor technologies 

under evaluation and a plan for addressing the SBS requirement.

Computational molecular modeling and simulation for material development

The committee is aware the use of modeling and simulation during 

development of materials and other technologies may result in cost savings and 

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other benefits, such as enhanced lethality and survivability. The committee 

understands that computational molecular modeling and simulation results 

subsequently tested using cold spray synthesis and mechanical testing have 

resulted in new repair techniques for armor, helmets, and other personal protective 

equipment. The committee, therefore, encourages the Army Research Lab to 

continue the utilization of computational molecular research for material 

development. 

Future digital munitions and integration

The committee recognizes the importance for the Army to retain lethality 

overmatch within its aviation portfolio. The committee continues to support the 

Army’s Future Vertical Lift and Joint Multi-Role technology demonstration 

initiatives. However, the committee is concerned about the Army’s ability to 

mitigate Apache helicopter and Grey Eagle Unmanned Aerial System munitions 

and launcher obsolescence limitations for the foreseeable future. The committee 

believes existing and emerging threats are key factors to ensuring lethality 

overmatch. As digital aviation-launched munitions evolve, the need for the Army to 

retain flexibility in aircraft to munitions integration is critical to ensuring Army 

Aviation platforms retain a decisive edge. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 15, 

2018, on the following:

(1) all requirements, acquisition program plans, and developmental 

initiatives that address the modernization strategy for all aviation platform 

munitions and launchers beyond currently fielded systems; and

(2) recommendations on the utility for any development efforts that would 

modernize aviation launchers and munitions.

Future Vertical Lift

The committee understands that dedicated investment in incremental 

rotorcraft upgrades has kept America’s current vertical lift aviation capabilities 

viable, and will continue to enable the fleet to bridge capability gaps through the 

near term. The committee believes that as more dangerous threats emerge at an 

accelerated pace in the mid-term, unwavering investment in advanced future 

disruptive technologies like Future Vertical Lift (FVL) will enable rotorcraft 

aviation to retain overmatch through significant capability improvements in reach, 

speed, protection, and lethality. 

The committee notes that the Army leads the Department of Defense’s 

rotorcraft technology portfolio, which needs additional research and development 

funding to regain America’s world leadership in rotorcraft innovation. Because of 

America’s eroding lead in rotorcraft capability, the committee encourages the 

Department to explore opportunities to accelerate the FVL program in order to 

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meet national security challenges. The committee expects the Department to 

maximize full and open competition in doing so. 

The committee believes that fiscal years 2019 and 2020 are pivotal years for 

the FVL modernization efforts, as critical technology demonstrations provide 

essential evidence during the completion of the FVL analysis of alternatives, and 

the Army uses this data and analysis to inform its path forward. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by December 3, 2018, on the outcome of the analysis 

of alternatives and on any other analysis utilized in deciding the Army’s priority of 

rotorcraft investment for FVL prior to the release of a request for proposal.

Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers

The committee is aware of the work being done by the Army's Warfighter 

Technology directorate in improving the protection, survivability, mobility, and 

combat effectiveness of the Army. The committee is also aware of Harnessing 

Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers (HEROES), an ongoing 

joint research and development initiative involving both academia and industry. 

The committee understands that the HEROES initiative accelerates research and 

innovation through integration of intellectual assets and research facilities, such as 

those at Natick Laboratory and others. The committee believes programs like 

HEROES provide benefit to research in areas of advanced ballistic polymers for 

body armor, fibers to make uniforms more fire resistant, and lightweight structures 

for advanced shelters that provide tangible benefits to the warfighter. Therefore, 

the committee encourages the Army to continue to support such programs. 

High energy laser systems integration laboratory

The committee has continuing interest in the Army’s research, 

development, and testing of high energy laser weapons systems. The committee is 

aware of the Army’s efforts to develop a high energy laser system integration 

laboratory in order to provide an interactive means to conduct warfighter 

assessments and develop the tactics, techniques, and procedures required to employ 

this technology. The committee recognizes this integration will be critical in 

bridging the gap from developmental technology to operational capability, while 

mitigating risk and ensuring warfighter utility. The committee encourages the 

Army to continue to mature the high energy laser system integration lab, as well as 

the benefit these activities provide to the research, development, and testing of 

directed energy weapons.

Improved Turbine Engine Program

The Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) is a competitive acquisition 

program designed to develop a more fuel efficient and powerful engine to upgrade 

and enhance the performance and operational readiness of the current Black Hawk 

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and Apache helicopter fleets. This new engine will increase operational capabilities 

in high altitudes and hot conditions while reducing operating and support costs. The 

committee has supported significant Army investments into competitive technology 

development programs for turbine engines over the past decade. During this time, 

the Army has made significant progress in maturing technologies that will lower 

ITEP programmatic risk with the goal of improving warfighting capabilities. In 

addition, the committee has encouraged the Army to prioritize maintenance and 

sustainment costs for ITEP to ensure the continued affordability of the program.

The committee also acknowledges the benefits of improved fuel efficiencies 

through lower specific fuel consumption that the ITEP will bring to the battlefield. 

This program represents a cost-effective approach to modernizing Army aviation 

and the committee continues to encourage the Army to pursue opportunities to 

accelerate the fielding of this capability. The committee recognizes 2019 as a crucial 

year for the program with Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD) source 

selection slated for first quarter fiscal year 2019. Given the positive progress of this 

critical program, the committee is fully funding ITEP in fiscal year 2019 and 

encourages the Army to robustly fund ITEP in the EMD phase of the program.

Initial Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense capability

The committee is aware that the Army’s critical capability gap for Air and 

Missile Defense remains protecting maneuvering forces. The committee 

understands that Army maneuver formations require short range air defense 

(SHORAD) and counter-UAS (CUAS) capabilities that can cover a wide range of air 

threats to include: unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), rotary wing (RW), fixed wing 

(FW), and rockets artillery and mortars (RAM). As such, the committee understands 

the Army is pursuing cross-domain, multi-dimensional solutions that can address 

these threats as part of a maneuver short-range air defense and indirect fires 

protection capability. The committee encourages the Army to consider areas where 

commonality exists between current CUAS and SHORAD mission platforms and 

technologies. 

The committee understands the Army has formalized a directed 

requirement to initiate integration and procurement of an initial Maneuver-Short 

Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) capability on a Stryker combat vehicle. The IMSHORAD directed requirement requires capability to counter threats posed by 

UAS, RW, FW, and RAM, as well as address an emerging operational need in 

support of Operation Atlantic Resolve to provide air and missile defense protection 

of Stryker and Armored Brigade Combat Teams. The committee understands the 

acquisition strategy to support this directed requirement is still being developed. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 14, 2018, on the Army's 

accelerated acquisition strategy for the IM-SHORAD initiative, as well as identify 

requirements that are similar to both the SHORAD and CUAS missions. The 

briefing should also address capabilities currently under development or already 

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fielded that could simultaneously address the CUAS and M-SHORAD mission 

areas.

Iron Dome experimentation and assessment for short-range air defense

The budget request included $38.0 million in PE 64020A for cross 

functional team (CFT) advanced development and prototyping. 

The committee understands the Army established six CFT pilots to 

examine how the Army could leverage existing resources and accelerate getting 

needed capability to the warfighter. The Army’s critical capability gap for Air and 

Missile Defense (AMD) remains protecting the maneuvering force and is aware the 

AMD CFT pilot is focused on accelerating delivery of a maneuver short-range air 

defense (SHORAD) capability. The committee commends the AMD CFT for getting 

an approved directed requirement for an interim-maneuver SHORAD capability 

that accelerated the original schedule by 5 years. The committee notes the AMD 

CFT is also reviewing other AMD capability gaps for the protection of fixed and 

semi-fixed sites. The committee expects the AMD CFT to immediately address 

capability gaps in the areas of indirect fire protection capability and AMD. 

Since 2011, Congress has provided over $1.5 billion for the procurement of 

Iron Dome batteries for the State of Israel, a system with demonstrated capability 

against a wide-range of threats. There is value in experimenting with the Iron 

Dome system through demonstrations to assess operational suitability for the fixed 

and semi-fixed site AMD mission, and M-SHORAD missions. Such demonstrations 

will evaluate challenges associated with integration of the Iron Dome command and 

control system with the existing AMD C2 system and sensors.

The committee recommends $68.0 million, an increase of $30.0 million, in 

PE 64020A to support the acquisition of Iron Dome hardware and associated 

integration activities, for the operational demonstration of the Iron Dome system 

against a range of threats to evaluate issues associated with the following: 

(1) integrating the Iron Dome launcher into a U.S. Army AMD architecture 

for complimentary support of fixed, semi-fixed, and M-SHORAD operations; 

(2) re-designing the Iron Dome launcher to be compatible with the Indirect 

Fire Protection Capability Multi-Mission Launcher; and 

(3) potential options for accelerating development of the Skyhunter missile. 

Further, the committee directs the Director of the AMD CFT to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by April 2, 2019, on the Army's 

plans for this experiment and demonstration. If warranted by the demonstration 

results, the committee directs the Director of the AMD CFT to provide a follow-on 

briefing on the advisability and feasibility of rapidly transitioning Iron Dome 

hardware for immediate use, with budgetary recommendations and schedules for 

accelerated procurement of additional systems.

Lightweight metal matrix composite technology for combat and tactical vehicles

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In the committee report (H. Rept. 115-200) accompanying the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, the committee recognized the 

versatility and broad application that Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) Technology 

provides for the Armed Forces by reducing the weight of parts by 50 percent and 

increasing their service life by three to four times that of traditional steel parts. The 

committee understands the U.S. Army Tank and Automotive Research, 

Development, and Engineering Command (TARDEC) is currently evaluating 

technologies that can reduce vehicle weight, reduce fuel consumption, increase 

payload capacity, and extend service life of combat and tactical vehicles, and that 

MMC technology is part of this ongoing evaluation. The committee supports these 

efforts and recommends the U.S. Army TARDEC continue to test MMC technology,

develop and field components that can reduce vehicle weight, reduce fuel 

consumption, increase payload capacity, and extend service life.

M119 105mm self-propelled artillery system technology

The committee understands the Army is examining the operational benefits 

of procuring a self-propelled 105mm howitzer in order to address existing capability 

gaps for infantry brigade combat teams (IBCTs) indirect fires capabilities. The 

committee understands that recent demonstrations as part of the Army’s Maneuver 

and Fires Integration Experiment at Fort Sill produced positive results. The 

committee supports continued demonstrations of this capability and is aware of a 

potential future demonstration under consideration by the 18th Airborne Corps. 

The committee understands the demonstrated system incorporated artillery soft 

recoil technology with existing 105mm artillery systems and then integrated these 

technologies onto an existing light tactical vehicle. The committee expects the 

outcomes from these demonstrations to inform future operational requirements and 

procurement strategies. 

 The committee believes this capability could enable the Army to achieve 

significant improvements in combat capability and lethality through only a modest 

reinvestment of funding for current or future planned M119 105mm howitzer 

modifications. Further, the committee also believes a light, self-propelled 105mm 

artillery system could substantially improve the deterrence posture of the U.S. 

Army and allied armies in Europe that may face sophisticated, quick-fire counterbattery systems. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the 

Directors of the Long-Range Precision Fires and Soldier Lethality cross-functional 

teams, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

December 14, 2018, on the advisability and feasibility of rapidly accelerating the 

testing, evaluation, and procurement of a self-propelled 105mm howitzer to address 

the indirect fire capability gaps in IBCTs. The briefing shall include feedback and 

results from recent demonstrations of self-propelled 105mm howitzer technology, 

specifically the demonstration that occurred as part of the Army’s Maneuver and 

Fires Integration Experiment at Fort Sill. 

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Mobile camouflage system

The committee notes the longstanding success of our allied partner nations 

who employ mobile camouflage systems on their combat vehicles, especially within 

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European theater. These relatively 

inexpensive camouflage net systems provide enhanced signature management 

protection, reduce heat and temperature inside and around combat vehicles, and 

yield fuel savings without interfering with the operation of the vehicles. Army 

commanders have expressed an immediate operational need for mobile camouflage 

systems, in particular woodland, desert, and Arctic variants. The committee is 

aware of the Army’s ongoing operational testing of mobile camouflage systems at 

the National Training Center, and encourages further acceleration of those efforts. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 28, 2018, that outlines the 

mobile camouflage system test results and the Army’s plan and timeline to fund the 

accelerated development and fielding of these systems to the warfighter.

Personal Protective Equipment advance technology development

The budget request contained $18.0 million in PE 63827A for soldier 

systems-advanced development.

The committee recognizes advancements the military services have made in 

researching and developing materials for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). 

The committee notes that this work has steadily reduced the weight of and 

increased ballistic protection for items like helmets, body armor, and protective 

undergarments designed for the men and women of the Armed Forces. The 

committee understands, based on the views of senior defense laboratory scientists, 

that further research on current materials, such as ceramics and Kevlar, are 

experiencing diminishing returns. The committee supports further research on 

advanced materials like high molecular weight polyethylene film and new and 

harder ceramics like boron suboxide.

Therefore, the committee recommends $28.0 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 63827A for PPE advanced materials research.

Shoot-on-the-Move experimentation for short range air defense systems

The budget request contained $61.1 million in PE 63313A for Missile and 

Rocket Advanced Technology, to include investment in missile components enabling 

detection and full kinematic capabilities to develop shoot-on-the-move capability for 

future short range air defense (SHORAD).

The committee is aware the Army is currently pursuing a near-term 

maneuver short range air defense (M-SHORAD) capability; however, the near-term 

solution will not include a shoot-on-the-move capability. The committee 

understands the capability to shoot-on-the-move would potentially be considered as 

a future capability requirement as part of follow-on M-SHORAD increments. The 

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committee believes that the development and demonstration of a shoot-on-the-move 

capability could enable future combat formations to be protected from modern and 

advanced air and missile delivered fires while maneuvering, and enable continuous 

force protection during offensive operations.

The committee recommends $71.1 million, an increase of $10.0 million, in 

PE 63313A to accelerate the development and potential demonstration of shoot-onthe-move capability for M-SHORAD platforms and associated systems. 

Soldier power and composite armor development

The budget request contained $28.6 million in PE 62105A for Materials 

Technology research. 

The committee understands that soldier power and composite armor 

technology development is critical to meeting the increased power demands of 

soldiers' equipment, while reducing weight. The committee recognizes that 

conformal wearable battery technology provides a lightweight, flexible power 

solution that offers greater mobility and flexibility than current capabilities, while 

streamlining the various battery types and sizes carried by the soldiers. The 

committee notes these capabilities provide soldiers with expeditionary power, as 

well as multiple power management alternatives that are all designed for combat 

operations in austere environments and can be tailored to any mission. The 

committee supports these programs and believes that they will help to reduce the 

soldiers' combat carrying load, while meeting the future demands of an increased 

power burden as well as maximizing survivability and protection. The committee 

encourages the Army to continue to work with the industrial base to improve and 

upgrade components in the soldier power and composite armor portfolio to 

potentially reduce weight and cost, as well as to improve overall performance. 

The committee recommends $29.6 million, an increase of $1.0 million, in PE 

62105A for Materials Technology research. 

Squad multipurpose equipment transport

The committee understands the Army is conducting a 12-month technology 

demonstration leading to a capabilities production document and eventual 

procurement of a squad multipurpose equipment transport system (SMET). The 

SMET is an unmanned ground vehicle that will transport equipment for specific 

missions, resupply, and extended operations, thereby reducing soldier load and 

increasing squad mobility. The committee supports the Army’s use of other 

transaction authority to achieve a rapid start to this effort, and encourages the 

Army to seek additional ways to expedite acquisition of this critical capability. 

The committee directs the Army’s Program Executive Officer for Combat 

Support and Combat Service Support to provide a briefing to the House Committee 

on Armed Services by November 30, 2018, that includes: 

(1) options to accelerate this acquisition strategy; 

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(2) courses of action to ensure the delivered system meets all key 

performance parameters; 

(3) findings and analysis from the user evaluations conducted by two 

brigade combat teams; and 

(4) an assessment of each variant’s reliance on generators versus batteries, 

power generation capabilities, noise signatures, abilities to adapt to additional 

systems such as flail and mine rollers, dual stretchers, backhoe and loader kits, as 

well as any other capabilities considered to be essential by the program executive 

officer.

Supercavitating ammunition technology

In the committee report accompanying the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (H. Rept. 115-200), the committee noted that 

supercavitating ammunition can be used in various operational environments, 

including air-to-air, water-to-water, air-to-water, and water-to-air, and that this 

technology could potentially address critical mission capability gaps for the

warfighter. The committee also directed the U.S. Army Program Executive Officer 

(PEO) for Ammunition, who acts as the single manager of all conventional 

ammunition, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services on 

the current status of supercavitating ammunition technology across the 

Department ammunition enterprise. The briefing acknowledged that the entire 

ammunition enterprise of the Department of Defense recognizes the value of 

supercavitating ammunition, and indicated that several efforts are underway to 

evaluate its performance. The committee notes that this technology is currently in 

use by the Department of the Navy and that other organizations in the Department 

of Defense are evaluating supercavitating small caliber ammunition. The committee 

is pleased that the Department of Defense is continuing to evaluate the 

performance of this technology and remains supportive of these efforts. 

Therefore, the committee directs the PEO for Ammunition, in coordination 

with all relevant Department of Defense agencies, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by September 14, 2018, on all current test and 

evaluation activity currently ongoing and planned for supercavitating ammunition 

technology. 

Third Generation Forward-Looking Infrared development

The committee is aware of a growing parity in U.S. Army sights and 

sensors against current and emerging threats, particularly when it comes to combat 

vehicle platforms. The committee is concerned that the Third Generation ForwardLooking Infrared (FLIR) development program is proceeding at too slow of a pace to 

ensure it will enter production as an integrated system in the next Abrams tank 

and Bradley Fighting Vehicle upgrades. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by March 15, 2019, on the 

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Army’s plans to synchronize the Third Generation FLIR program with the M1A2 

SEP V4 Abrams Upgrade and M2A5 Bradley Fighting Vehicle upgrade. The 

briefing should also include potential courses of action for, and costs associated 

with, the acceleration of Third Generation FLIR development. 

Transport telemedicine system

The committee is aware that the Department of Defense is developing 

capabilities that would provide telemedicine and remote physiological monitoring 

for casualty care of deployed forces. The committee recognizes that such 

telemedicine capabilities can provide useful reachback support for complex injuries, 

especially for sensitive organs where combat medics and surgeons may not have indepth specialty training. The committee encourages the Department to continue to 

experiment with and examine ways to use emerging telemedicine capabilities to 

allow for consultation with specialty subject matter experts to provide soldiers on 

the battlefield with access to high-quality care for complex and difficult injuries. 

Additionally, the committee supports the idea of partnering with subject matter 

experts in order to provide direct, real-time consultation between geographically 

dispersed military and civilian medical personnel; this would support complex 

diagnostic and surgical problems, as well as allow conferencing for complicated, but 

less urgent, patient management decisions and virtualized training and continuing 

medical education.

Urban warfare training

The committee has continuing interest in the Department of Defense's 

ability to prepare for and operate in complex, densely populated urban terrain. 

Recent trends reflect that the future of global violence is urban, and that the next 

war will likely be fought in densely populated cities. The committee is supportive of 

the Department’s ongoing efforts, but remains concerned with the lack of Army 

prioritization and resourcing to address these challenges. The committee is 

particularly concerned with the Army’s lack of realistic training sites that reflect 

the scale and density of real-world urban operating environments. The committee 

believes the Army should more aggressively prepare for urban warfare and explore 

the construction of an urban warfare training center that focuses on basic and 

advanced skills to fight, survive, and win in urban operating environments. This 

training should address the challenges associated with vertical, subterranean, and 

dense urban terrain, and the inclusion and integration of joint and interagency 

enablers. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than February 1, 

2019, on the Army's plan for urban warfare training. The report should include: 

(1) a description of urban warfare training requirements; 

(2) an overview of a plan and timeline to integrate urban warfare training 

within the Army; 

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(3) an identification of costs associated with an urban warfare training 

program; 

(4) a feasibility study on the construction of an urban warfare training 

center; 

(5) feasibility of utilizing existing private facilities and contracting training 

iterations until a final DOD facility can be constructed;

(6) any critical technology, maneuver, or mobility shortfalls associated with 

operating in a dense urban environment; and 

(7) force design impacts or considerations within the Army.

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, NAVY

Items of Special Interest

Academic partnerships for undersea unmanned warfare research

The budget request contained $58.0 million in PE 62747N for undersea 

warfare applied research. 

The committee supports the Navy’s efforts to develop the next generation of 

nuclear submarines and other undersea systems and capabilities. Specifically, the 

committee supports research, development, testing, and demonstration of maritime 

robotic systems that may be used for security and surveillance, inspection and 

survey, munitions retrieval, and environmental monitoring. 

 The committee understands that there are additional opportunities to enhance 

development of the next generation submarines and maritime robotics technology in 

the areas of autonomy, adaptive decision making, docking, 3-D imaging, energy 

technologies such as marine and hydrokinetic convertors, and data transfer. The 

committee believes that university-based research and innovation centered on the 

development of maritime robotic technology and other capabilities required for 

advanced undersea warfare will be essential in maintaining the Navy's competitive 

advantage. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $78.0 million, an increase of $20.0 

million, in PE 62747N. Elsewhere in this title, the committee notes the importance 

of partnerships with academia to advance unmanned platforms and systems in 

order to maintain a competitive war fighting advantage. 

Artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies in Navy unmanned systems

The committee has continuing interest in the Navy’s ability to leverage 

artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision in exploitation and 

analysis. The committee also recognizes the increasing amounts of imagery and 

other sensor data that Navy unmanned undersea and unmanned surface vessels 

generate, and the demand this creates for additional processing, exploitation, 

management, and dissemination of information. The committee recommends the 

Navy synchronize their efforts with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 

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and ensure that unmanned undersea and unmanned surface vessel computer vision 

and artificial intelligence requirements are incorporated into Project Maven and 

other Department of Defense research and development programs. The committee 

supports the Department’s initiatives to leverage commercial technology and 

innovative solutions to rapidly address current Department challenges, and believes 

the Navy can benefit from similar capabilities.

Briefing for the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on 

Armed Services on US Navy's efforts to expand carrier air wing long-range strike 

capability

The committee notes that the aircraft carrier air wing has been optimized 

for striking power and sortie generation and believes that it may not be configured 

to support the long-range strike required by current and future threat systems. 

While the introduction of the F-35C will significantly expand stealth capabilities, 

the F-35C could require increased range to address necessary targets. The 

committee believes that several options could be used to address this issue to 

include developing a stealth tanker capability, improved engine technology or to 

develop and procure a strike capability that is purposely built to strike at increased 

range. The committee further notes that the Navy previously desired to 

significantly increase the carrier air wing range with the development of the A-12 

aircraft. The committee understands that the A-12 would have included a 5,000-

pound internal carriage payload, stealth, and a range of 800 nautical miles. While 

the committee believes that requirements to support this capability remain relevant 

and the technology available, the development of the A-12 aircraft was mired in 

acquisition challenges that eventually resulted in the cancellation of the program. 

While the committee further believes that the Department of Defense has 

successfully developed a suite of long-range intelligence, surveillance and 

reconnaissance capabilities, the committee also believes that it is vital that the 

Navy develop a carrier-based long-range strike capability.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the Senate Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on 

Armed Services by January 25, 2019, on options to expand the strike range of a 

carrier air wing in a contested environment, including manned and unmanned 

capabilities, and, Department of the Navy capabilities it plans to pursue in the Next 

Generation Air Dominance capability.

Briefing on Navy support for research into autonomous systems

The committee is aware of the Robotarium, a laboratory hosted at the 

Georgia Institute of Technology, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), 

where researchers conduct experiments with interconnected, heterogeneous 

unmanned ground and aerial systems. The committee is supportive of competitively 

awarded grant programs that enhance academia's ability to conduct complex 

experiments with autonomous systems. As the role of autonomous systems in 

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operations is expected to grow, the Committee believes it will be increasingly 

important for ONR to continue to fund initiatives that prepare future engineers to 

conduct cutting edge research in this discipline, especially with different classes of 

autonomous systems including unmanned underwater vehicles, unmanned surface 

vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles operating simultaneously across multiple 

domains. Therefore, the committee directs the Director of ONR to brief the House 

Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on initiatives that enhance the 

ability of academia to conduct complex experiments with autonomous systems.

Briefing on ongoing engine noise reduction efforts

The Committee continues to support ongoing efforts to reduce engine noise 

from the F-414 engine on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and E/A-18 G Growler. 

Attachments, known as chevrons, could reduce the noise associated with 

operations of these aircraft. A reduction in engine noise would benefit sailors 

working in close proximity to the aircraft, particularly on the carrier deck, and 

communities near installations home to these squadrons.

Having received the briefing required by the House Report to the Fiscal 

Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, the committee is aware that the 

Navy may be requesting authority to reprogram Fiscal Year 2018 funding in order 

to engineer, manufacture, proof and test redesigned chevrons. The Committee 

supports such a request, provided the funding source is a program with 

unexecutable funds.

The Committee is aware that these funds would be used to develop an 

improved chevron design which could achieve significant noise reduction at full 

military power. The committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to brief the House 

Committee on Armed Services no later than September 30, 2018 on engineering 

plans for Fiscal Year 2018 and 2019 and potential applications of chevron designs to 

additional aircraft.

Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services

The committee acknowledges the Navy’s efforts to modernize the functions 

of its existing command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence 

network systems through Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services 

(CANES) installation. The committee recognizes that, through CANES, the Navy 

seeks to build a more responsive and adaptable information technology platform by 

creating a common computing environment that will increase capabilities, address 

cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and lower sustainment costs across the fleet. 

Therefore, the committee continues to support full deployment of CANES, as 

scheduled, to ensure the Navy’s networking environment remains adequately 

equipped for information warfare.

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program

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The budget request contained $119.4 million in PE 61103N for University 

Research Initiatives. 

The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), 

administered by the Office of Naval Research, provides academic institutions 

conducting research for the Department of Defense the ability to acquire the 

necessary infrastructure to support high-quality research. Additionally, the 

instrumentation developed and acquired through the DURIP process ensures that 

the next generation of scientists and engineers are trained with cutting-edge 

capabilities for the defense science and technology workforce. The committee 

understands there is additional opportunity for the Navy to facilitate research in an 

area of interest to the Navy through the DURIP program.

Therefore, the committee recommends $129.4 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 61103N, to support the acquisition of infrastructure required by 

universities to conduct cutting-edge Navy research. 

Directed energy and non-lethal weapons technology policy and guidance

The budget request contained $27.6 million in PE 63851M for Joint NonLethal Weapons testing. 

The committee continues to support the Department of Defense's efforts to 

develop non-lethal technologies as a materiel solution to provide military 

commanders with a non-lethal capability to protect military bases, security 

perimeters, and other secured spaces. The committee acknowledges the importance 

of these technologies as a force multiplier that gives service members more options, 

and minimizes civilian casualties and collateral damage. Recent development 

efforts of High Power Radio Frequency directed energy technologies have advanced 

these weapons to a maturity that can be used globally by the military services and 

combatant commands to stop vehicles, vessels, and other systems. The committee is 

concerned that the lack of policy, strategy, and guidance for employment of these 

non-lethal weapons has limited the potential benefits of deploying these 

technologies for use more broadly across the combatant commands. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on the 

future strategy for non-lethal weapons, including development of appropriate policy 

and guidance for employment. The briefing should also describe the current 

organizational structure of the non-lethal weapons program and consider the 

assignment of a joint proponent for non-lethal weapons who would be responsible 

for coordinating command requirements, facilitating policy development, and 

setting conditions for further integration of these capabilities. 

The committee recommends $32.6 million, an increase of $5.0 million, in PE 

63851M for the Non-Lethal Weapons program.

E2-D Advanced Hawkeye Identification Friend or Foe

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The budget request contained $223.6 million for the E-2D Advanced 

Hawkeye program.

 The committee notes that the E-2D Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) 

Interrogation System has certain limitations at long range. These limitations affect 

the ability of the crewmembers to identify threats at range, reducing critical time to 

react. The committee also notes that applying meta-materials to the E-2D IFF 

system may improve the E-2D IFF range detection and overall ability of the fleet to 

react against distant threats.

The committee recommends $225.6 million, an increase of $2.0 million, for 

the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program.

Joint Air-to-Ground Missile for fixed wing aircraft (JAGM-F) integration

The committee notes the Department of the Navy, with the eventual 

retirement of the Maverick missile has similar requirements as the Air Force for 

Joint Air-to-Ground Fixed (JAGM-F) missile on its AV-8B Harrier, F/A-18C/D/E/F 

Hornet, and F-35B/C aircraft. JAGM-F is an improvement to the Army’s JAGM 

which will allow the missile to be eject-launched from fixed-wing aircraft to 

eliminate time sensitive moving targets and high value covered/sheltered and 

armored targets. The committee understands JAGM-F will be able to combat 

adverse weather, low visibility and austere communication environments on land 

and at sea while engaging multiple targets near simultaneously in multiple 

engagement modes. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 8, 2019 that 

provides potential options for accelerating Navy and Marine Corps efforts with 

respect to integrating JAGM on fixed-wing aircraft.

Marine Corps Group 5-class unmanned aircraft development

The budget request contained $25.3 million in PE 34240M for development 

of advanced tactical unmanned aircraft system capabilities. 

The committee understands that the Marine Corps plans to develop a 

medium- to large-sized, long-range, medium-altitude, multi-mission, unmanned 

aircraft system that can persist and survive in an anti-access, area-denial 

contingency environment. The committee is also aware of multiple capabilities and 

platforms across joint-service portfolios that could likely mitigate, if not eliminate, 

the capability gaps and shortfalls identified in the Marine Corps' Initial Capabilities 

Document, from August 10, 2016, "Marine Air Ground Task Force Unmanned 

Aircraft System Expeditionary Capabilities." The committee believes the Marine 

Corps underestimates the required communications, data link, launch, mission 

execution, and recovery infrastructure, or the human capital resources required to 

train, operate, maintain, and sustain such a system. The Marine Corps also 

underestimates the necessary human capital resources required to meet current 

deployment-to-dwell policy and guidance issued by the Secretary of Defense.

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Therefore, the committee recommends $10.3 million, a decrease of $15.0 

million, in PE 34240M for development of advanced tactical unmanned aircraft 

system capabilities. The committee also directs the Chairman of the Joint 

Requirements Oversight Council to provide a briefing to the House Committee on 

Armed Services, not later than February 5, 2019, that assesses all existing or future 

joint-service capabilities that are similar in nature to the Marine Corps' planned 

system, and includes a detailed explanation for why each of those joint-service 

capabilities could not mitigate or fulfill the gaps or shortfalls identified by the 

Marine Corps. The committee also directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than February 5, 

2019, that explains the acquisition and funding strategy of the Marine Corps to 

affordably develop and field an unmanned capability of this nature, and the 

personnel, funding, infrastructure, and mission-execution resources that would be 

needed to viably sustain and support this capability.

Maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities demonstration

The budget request contained no funding for the MS-177A maritime 

enhanced sensor demonstration program.

The committee notes that the Navy has the opportunity to leverage a 

$300.0 million Air Force investment in the MS-177A sensor, which is meant to 

improve maritime target detection and long-range imaging. This investment could 

significantly reduce procurement costs and expedite fielding. The committee is 

aware that U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) identified the MS-177A in its fiscal 

year 2018 integrated priority list for consideration. The committee believes that 

having an organic Navy MS-177A demonstration in the PACOM area of 

responsibility could help the Navy to assess the full range of anti-surface unit 

warfare and anti-submarine warfare capabilities. In addition, the MS-177A would 

help gather needed intelligence against threats in the PACOM strategic 

environment. The MS-117A would improve the Navy organic capability to conduct 

standoff anti-surface unit warfare intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and 

long-range positive identification of targets. 

The committee recommends $23.5 million for the MS-177A maritime 

enhanced sensor demonstration program.

Naval underwater test ranges

The committee has continuing interest in the Department of Defense’s plan 

to redevelop and modernize the Barking Sands Tactical Underwater Range 

(BARSTUR). The committee report (H. Rept. 114-577) accompanying the 

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017, directed the Navy to submit a 

report to the congressional defense committees on the plan to redevelop and 

modernize BARSTUR. The report was submitted on October 13, 2017. The report 

provided by the Navy noted that BARSTUR is an invaluable asset to numerous 

Hawaii-based and transiting subsurface, surface, and aviation platforms. The 

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committee notes the underwater range is used extensively to conduct submarine 

sonar, fire control, and weapons technical and operational evaluations, and serves a 

critical role in hosting the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, 

Rim of the Pacific. This exercise serves as a means of promoting stability in the 

region and represents a unique training opportunity to foster and sustain 

cooperative relationships that are necessary for ensuring the safety of sea lines of 

communication and security in the Pacific Ocean. The committee remains concerned 

about the readiness and operational status of the Barking Sands Tactical 

Underwater Range and its ability to support critical training and exercises. The 

committee encourages the Navy to aggressively sustain the modernization timeline, 

begin the program requirement and acquisition process, and support a competitive 

source selection and contract award to achieve operational capability in fiscal year 

2026.

MQ-25 Unmanned Carrier Aviation program

The budget request contained $718.9 million for the MQ-25 Unmanned 

Carrier Aviation program.

The committee supports the Navy's efforts to develop and field a carrierbased unmanned aerial system to provide refueling as well as intelligence, 

surveillance, and reconnaissance support to the fleet. The committee notes that the 

Chief of Naval Operations intends to accelerate this program by 2 years in order to 

provide this capability by 2026. To date, the Navy has provided insufficient air 

vehicle justification. Budget documents state that $598.78 million will go to Air 

Segment Primary Hardware Development with very little further justification or 

cost estimates. 

The committee recommends a decrease of $116.9 million, for a total of 

$602.0 million, to procure one test article for the MQ-25 Unmanned Carrier 

Aviation program.

Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal recovery operations

Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) forces require a safe, effective, 

and supportable means to conduct Raise, Tow, and Beach (RTB) operations. These 

operations entail attaching suitable lifting mechanisms to the item of interest on 

the sea bed (e.g., threat items, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), salvage items), 

actuating the lifting mechanism to raise the item to the sea surface, and securing 

and/or transporting the item of interest to a safe environment for subsequent 

action. The committee notes that Navy desired to employ the MK V Ordnance 

Recovery Air Bag (ORCA), a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) lift bag with similar 

lift capacity to legacy requirements. However, the ORCA system was never 

transitioned to a program of record that could replace the Mod 1 because the system 

experienced numerous material and design shortcomings making its continued use 

unacceptable without significant design modifications. Last year, Navy reassessed 

this issue and determined that the EOD Lift Balloon capability should be provided 

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by the MK 2 MOD 2 Flotation Bladder Assembly. The committee notes that 

comparable capabilities exist to support this requirement including a developmental 

lift balloon and an automated tow coupling actuation system currently in limited 

use by EOD. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

brief to the House Armed Services Committee by October 1, 2018 that provides a 

comparison of the current program of record with other developmental efforts.

Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network

The committee acknowledges the Defense Information System Agency’s 

current role in providing network management and security to the Navy’s networks. 

The committee is also aware that the Navy has sought commercial sector input for 

modernizing its information technology services through the Navy Next Generation 

Enterprise Network. The committee recognizes that employing advanced 

commercial network capabilities for end-to-end network connectivity can promote 

rapid innovation, lead to cost efficiencies, and enhance security capabilities. 

Therefore, the committee encourages the Department of Defense, where practicable, 

to take advantage of commercial-off-the-shelf capabilities for supporting, securing, 

and modernizing its networks. 

Navy Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare prototyping

The committee understands that the Navy plans to begin a Deployables 

Program of Record (PoR) in fiscal year 2020 which intends to address operational 

gaps in wide area undersea surveillance. The committee commends the Navy for 

conducting a robust prototyping program as a part of Theater Anti-Submarine 

Warfare (TASW) efforts since fiscal year 2015, which will inform future 

requirements and will produce valuable technical and operational information 

regarding the fielding and employment of deployables capabilities. However, the 

committee is also aware that under the current fiscal year 2020 start timeline, 

tested production units from the Deployable System of Systems Project effort will 

not be operationally available until late 2022. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of the Navy to brief the House Committee on Armed Services by August 

30, 2018 as to a plan to maximize the capabilities that have been achieved from 

current prototyping efforts as well as how the Secretary intends to mitigate the 

operational gaps that could result because of the Deployables PoR fielding schedule.

Ocular Interruption System

The Committee is aware the Marine Corps' new Ocular Interruption 

System, which will replace the current decades-old system, represents a materiel 

solution providing personnel a single, non-lethal hail and warning capability 

applicable across the range of military operations where the objective is to minimize 

civilian casualties and limit collateral damage. The Committee is concerned with 

the budget request's proposed reduction of the Marine Corps Approved Acquisition 

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Objective (AAO) requirement of 1,758 units from the previously stated goal of 1,848 

units, and the delay of Full Operational Capability (FOC) until the fourth quarter of 

fiscal year 2020. The Committee is further concerned that the AAO requirement 

and the FOC timeline may have been altered without an associated change in 

requirements. Therefore, the Committee directs the Commandant of the Marine 

Corps to provide a briefing, not later than September 1, 2018, to the House Armed 

Services Committee on a plan to potentially fulfill its original AAO requirement of 

1,848 units. This briefing shall include to planned delivery order schedule, pricing 

per unit, and fielding schedule.

Passive rocket propelled grenade armor protection technology

The committee notes there have been significant improvements in passive 

rocket propelled grenade (RPG) armor protection over legacy RPG armor systems, 

which are heavy and cumbersome, and present form, fit, and function constraints, 

particularly for Marine Corps ground combat tactical vehicle fleets operating in 

expeditionary environments. The committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy 

to consider lightweight RPG armor solutions that provide protection against RPG 

attacks while maintaining the ability to fold flat against the vehicle to allow for 

rapid deployment and transport from amphibious ships and aircraft. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the 

testing, evaluation, and integration of lightweight, textile, and flexible RPG armor 

solutions that provide protection against RPG attacks, while maintaining the ability 

to fold flat against the vehicle to allow for rapid deployment and transport from 

amphibious ships and aircraft.

Small Business Innovation Research—Automated Test and Retest Program

The committee recognizes the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 

program is a valuable tool to engage small business and provide a pathway for 

innovators to conduct business with the Department of Defense. The National 

Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-81), Section 5001, also known as 

the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011, mandates that agencies, to the 

greatest extent practicable, shall issue Phase III awards to the SBIR award 

recipients that developed the technology. The committee is aware that the 

technology developed for the Automated Test and Retest Program has demonstrated 

success that has led to an enterprise-wide approach, and offers cost savings over 

current efforts. The committee encourages the Navy to continue to support SBIR 

award recipients to the greatest extent practicable for any Phase III awards 

associated with the Automated Test and Retest Program.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy, no later than 31 

January 2019, to provide to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 

Representatives, a briefing on the Automated Test and Retest Program. The 

briefing should include an overview of SBIR award recipients associated with this 

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program, the Navy's methodology and process for considering SBIR Phase III 

awards, and a plan detailing how the Navy's Automated Test and Retest program 

will comply with the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 for future contract 

awards.

TH-57 follow-on training system

The budget request contained no funds in PE 63208N for the TH-57 followon training system program. 

The committee notes that the Department of the Navy procured the TH57B and TH-57C helicopters used to train Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and 

foreign military partners between November 1981 and December 1985. The 

committee further notes that budget justification materials submitted with the 

budget request for fiscal year 2019 describe the TH-57 training system as 

experiencing obsolescence, diminishing manufacturing sources and material 

shortages, and increasingly expensive operating costs relating to aging aircraft 

issues. The committee understands that this situation results in potential pilot 

training shortfalls that will have a negative impact on readiness.

Accordingly, the committee believes the Department of the Navy should 

accelerate the program to procure a follow-on system to replace the TH-57B and 

TH-57C helicopters. The committee recommends $1.0 million in PE 63208N for this 

purpose.

U.S. Navy MH-60R helicopter antisubmarine warfare and aircraft health 

monitoring

The committee understands the U.S Navy operates a fleet of Antisubmarine 

Warfare (ASW) equipped MH-60R helicopters. The committee notes the MH-60R is 

fitted with advanced mission systems and sensors that are capable of detecting and 

engaging modern submarines in littoral and open ocean scenarios. However, the 

committee understands that the current ASW sonobuoy receiver is heavy and 

limited to its specific mission of receiving and transmitting data to and from U.S 

Navy sonobuoy fields for analysis through acoustic processors.

The committee is aware that new Size Weight and Power (SWaP) receiver 

technology currently being used on the DDG-51 that could provide the Navy with 

enhanced capability while also reducing weight on the MH-60R by over forty 

pounds. Additionally, the committee understands that the new receiver has the 

capability to integrate a Next Generation Health Monitoring System (NGHMS), 

which has the potential to replace the current HUMS system on the aircraft, saving 

an additional fifty pounds of critical weight. The committee is also aware the U.S. 

Army is currently conducting demonstrations of NGHMS on the UH-72 Lakota light 

utility helicopter.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Navy, or his designee, to provide 

a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by September 28, 2018 that 

provides operational details of the DDG-51 SWaP receiver to include capabilities, 

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any challenges associated with integration with NGHMS and subsequently onto the 

MH-60R platform. The briefing should also include a notional plan for testing this 

technology as well as a notional acquisition strategy.

Warfighter safety and performance

The budget request contained $56.2 million in PE 62236N for Warfighter 

Sustainment Applied Research. 

The committee notes that this program has been instrumental in 

technology efforts to improve warfighter safety, prevent occupational injury in 

hazardous, deployed areas, and minimize the effects of extreme environments. The 

committee believes additional research focused on the safety, performance, and 

resilience of Navy divers can further reduce risk during dangerous missions in 

adverse conditions. Research areas that warrant additional focus include studies on 

decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity, optimization of diver performance, and 

assessment of the impact of thermal stress. This research can also illuminate 

human performance characteristics and technologies that have implications across 

a much larger set of mission-relevant performance calculations.

The committee recommends $56.2 million, the amount requested, in PE 

62236N for Warfighter Sustainment Applied Research.

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE

Items of Special Interest

Academic and industrial partnerships for aerospace materials

The budget request contained $42.0 million in PE 63680F for the 

manufacturing technology program. 

The Air Force has been studying materials for advanced aerospace needs to 

enhance lethality and survivability in accordance with the 2018 National Defense 

Strategy. The committee understands developing and manufacturing advanced 

materials can be challenging, and that opportunity may exist for the Air Force 

Research Laboratory to leverage existing relationships, and form new partnerships, 

with higher education and industrial partners in the Manufacturing Technology 

Program to better understand these challenges. Specifically, the committee believes 

greater leveraging of software and simulation tools to assess new machining, 

composite manufacturing, casting, and additive manufacturing technologies being 

developed by original equipment manufacturers, will ultimately improve advanced 

material development and manufacturing. 

 Therefore, the committee recommends $47.0, an increase of $5.0 million, in 

PE 63680F to develop advanced materials and increase advanced materials 

manufacturing through academic and industrial partnerships to better support 

aerospace needs.

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Academic partnerships for modeling, design, and analysis of unmanned air 

platforms

The budget request contained $190.9 million in PE 62203F for aerospace 

propulsion research and development. 

The committee is aware that the Air Force performs a wide range of 

advanced research and engineering in multi-disciplinary design for unmanned air 

platforms. Further, the committee recognizes that advanced modeling and design, 

as well as quicker comparative analyses, are beneficial to this effort. The committee 

believes that academia is well-suited to partner with the Air Force on modeling, 

design, and comparative analysis through the use of Educational Partnership 

Agreements, which are mutually beneficial agreements that may also enhance the 

Air Force's effort to recruit a diverse and educated workforce. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $195.9 million, an increase of $5.0 

million, in PE 62203F for Educational Partnership Agreements for unmanned 

platforms. 

Elsewhere in this title, the committee notes the importance of partnerships 

with academia to advance unmanned platforms and systems in order to maintain a 

competitive war fighting advantage. 

Advanced engine development program

The budget request contained $1.2 billion in PE 64858F for technology 

transition programs, of which $790.4 million was included for the advanced engine 

development project.

The advanced engine development project enables demonstration of 

advanced turbine engine prototypes. The committee notes that the main effort in 

this project is the adaptive engine transition program, which is maturing fuelefficient adaptive engine component technologies and reducing associated risk in 

preparation for next-generation propulsion system development for multiple combat 

aircraft applications. The committee understands that adaptive engine technology 

enables next generation combat aircraft capabilities by combining the efficiency of 

high-bypass turbofans used by commercial airlines with the performance demanded 

of military fighter engines. This technology has undergone initial development 

through the adaptive engine technology and adaptive engine technology 

demonstrator programs, which the committee has supported in past years. The 

committee believes that both legacy aircraft and future aircraft can benefit from 

this capability and technology. Therefore, the committee encourages the 

Department of the Air Force to continue to make the necessary investments in these 

critical technology demonstrations and engine developments to ensure operational 

capability is achieved at the earliest opportunity. 

The committee recommends $790.4 million, the full amount requested, in 

PE 64858F in order to continue the advanced engine development project, and 

further encourages the Department of Defense to consider early initiation of 

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development programs aimed at transitioning advanced engines into the field for 

both legacy and future combat weapon systems.

Advanced pilot training program

The budget request contained $265.5 million in PE 65223F for the advanced 

pilot training (APT) program. The APT program will replace the Air Education 

Training Command's aging T-38C fleet with new aircraft, a ground-based training 

system, a maintenance training system, and support infrastructure currently used 

in the fighter/bomber advanced Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training track, as 

well as in the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals program. 

The committee continues to view the APT program as a critical program to 

replace the aging T-38C aircraft in order to train student pilots in an advanced 

training aircraft so they can make a more effective transition to fifth-generation 

combat aircraft upon graduation from undergraduate pilot training. The committee 

notes that for fiscal year 2018, contract award had been planned for late 2017, and 

has now been delayed until the summer of 2018. If the delay in contract award 

extends beyond the summer of 2018, the committee expects the Secretary of the Air 

Force to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services within 30 

days of the delay announcement, detailing the reasons for further delay, impact on 

aircraft delivery, and efforts to mitigate the delay so that initial and full operational 

capability remains on schedule. 

The committee recommends $265.5 million, the full amount requested, in 

PE 64233F to continue the APT program. The committee also expects the Secretary 

of the Air Force to provide the briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services 

directed in the committee report (H. Rept. 115-200) accompanying the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, on potential options to accelerate 

the APT program, subsequent to contract award.

Advanced radar threat system emitters

The budget request contained $35.9 million in PE 64735F for Department 

of the Air Force combat training range development, of which $34.8 million was 

included for development of a family of advanced radar threat system (ARTS) 

emitters. The ARTS programs develop, design, build, and test threat system 

simulators based on advanced foreign-fielded surface-to-air missile (SAM) radar 

threat systems. ARTS will be used at Department of Defense training ranges for 

fourth- and fifth-generation aircrew training and tactics development to increase 

combat effectiveness and aircrew survivability by training aircrews to engage or 

defend against an advanced SAM threat before encountering it in actual combat to 

stress their tactics, techniques, and procedures.

The committee understands that ARTS radars would add modern, highfidelity threat training devices to the ranges that are capable of interacting with 

fifth-generation sensor-fusion technologies. During a visit to Hill Air Force Base, 

Utah, in April 2018, F-35A pilots briefed committee members that current training 

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ranges are not equipped with the threat radars necessary to provide the most 

effective training for F-35 pilots, and the committee believes that the ARTS emitter 

programs should be accelerated.

Accordingly, the committee recommends $62.9 million in PE 64735F for Air 

Force combat training range development, an increase of $27.0 million, to accelerate 

the ARTS emitter programs, and understands that this amount is executable in 

fiscal year 2019. 

Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generators

The Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator project develops and 

demonstrates core engine technologies to address the growing need for affordable 

small turbofans utilized in current and future missile and remotely piloted aircraft 

propulsion systems. The project develops and demonstrates technology to reduce 

cost of ownership by half while improving mission flexibility and fuel consumption 

to increase range. It will also pave the way for providing much needed competition 

where there currently is none. The committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force 

to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than 

February 15, 2019, on Department of the Air Force plans to fund technologies which 

lead to low cost, high performance turbofan engines of up to 1,200 pounds of thrust.

Aerospace composite structures manufacturing

The budget request contained $42.0 million in PE 63680F for the Air Force 

manufacturing technology program. Of this amount, $30.1 million was requested for 

advanced manufacturing technology, including agile manufacturing capabilities. 

The committee believes that manufacturing technology related to cost 

reduction for aerospace composite structures is a particularly important part of this 

overall effort. Specifically, the committee encourages work on production cost 

reduction methods, low-cost tooling, and agile manufacturing technologies to enable 

future Air Force unmanned systems requirements to be achieved at an affordable 

cost.

The committee recommends $42.0 million, the full amount requested, in PE 

63680F for the Air Force manufacturing technology program.

Air Force test and evaluation support

The budget request contained $692.8 million in PE 65807F for Department 

of the Air Force test and evaluation support. The committee notes that this amount 

is $14.5 million, or about 2 percent, higher than the budget request for fiscal year 

2018. The committee also notes that test facilities, capabilities, and resources 

operated through this program include wind tunnels, rocket and jet engine test 

cells, armament test ranges, civilian payroll, and contractor services.

In the committee report (H. Rept. 115-200) accompanying the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, the committee reported on a 

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briefing it received on a comprehensive assessment of Major Range and Test 

Facility Base needs and investments to meet the testing required for fifth- and 

sixth-generation aircraft and air armament, including hypersonic strike weapons. 

The committee noted that among its findings were that fifth- and sixth-generation 

aircraft and weapons introduce test and evaluation gaps, and that significant 

research and development and operations and support investments are required to 

fill those gaps. 

For fiscal year 2018, Department of the Air Force officials informed the 

committee that funding for test and evaluation support is about $30.0 million below 

its historical norms, and that this funding erosion has diminished the ability of the 

Air Force Test and Evaluation (T&E) enterprise to support T&E of next-generation 

capabilities in the near term. Since the budget request for fiscal year 2019 would 

only provide an inflation increase over the previous year, the committee believes 

that the budget request for fiscal year 2019 is also about $30.0 million below 

historical norms. 

Consequently, the committee recommends $724.7 million in PE 65807F for 

Air Force test and evaluation support, an increase of $31.9 million, to provide 

improved open-air range test capabilities on a timeline that supports the Air Force’s 

roles in the development of next-generation platforms and air armament, and 

addresses the growing range challenges. 

Air Operations Center software modernization utilizing agile development software 

processes

The budget request contained $106.1 million in PE 27410F for the Air and 

Space Operations Center (AOC), of which, $97.6 million is for development of 

applications and software for the AOC utilizing agile software development and 

operations (Ag DevOps) techniques.

The committee is disappointed in the past attempt to modernize and 

upgrade AOC capability through the AOC 10.2 program and the waste of fiscal 

resources that occurred as a result of AOC 10.2 program termination. The 

committee is concerned by the Air Force's lack of knowledge regarding contractual 

insights and cost data, the inability to explain cost-estimation tools and planning 

considerations necessary to formulate budgets, and how the Air Force values the 

goods and services received for the resources expended. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $79.6 million in PE 27410F, a 

decrease of $26.5 million, for development of applications and software for the AOC 

utilizing Ag DevOps techniques. The committee also includes a provision elsewhere 

in this title that would provide the Secretary of the Air Force 25 percent of 

authorized funding recommended until the Secretary provides a report to the 

congressional defense committees on software development cost-estimation tools 

needed to develop "should-cost" models, information regarding costs incurred to 

date for software development, and a sufficiency review of the report by the 

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Department of Defense Director, Defense Pricing and Acquisition Policy office prior 

to submitting the report to Congress.

Autonomous life support system

The budget request contained $36.5 million in PE 63456F for human 

effectiveness advanced technology development, but included no funds for an 

autonomous life support system (ALSS). An ALSS is a system in development that 

would monitor the physiologic state, respiratory profile, and environmental 

conditions of a pilot in a fighter or training aircraft. It automatically adjusts to the 

pilot’s physiologic demands, thereby diminishing the prospect that a pilot would be 

subjected to a physiological episode resulting from an inadequate supply of oxygen. 

 A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) report conducted 

by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, dated September 14, 2017, on F/A-18 

and EA-18 fleet physiological episodes, recommended the development of systems 

that would monitor a pilot’s physiologic state. The committee understands that the 

Air Force’s 711th Human Performance Wing is pursuing a cooperative research and 

development agreement with a contractor to develop an ALSS that includes 

capabilities for monitoring inhaled and exhaled gas. The committee further 

understands that the scope of funded work should also include the monitoring of 

pilot physiology for heart rate, pulse or tissue oxygenation, and estimated core 

temperature, and that an increase in funds for this purpose would accelerate the 

development of an ALSS. 

Consequently, the committee recommends $46.5 million, an increase of 

$10.0 million, in PE 63456F.

Education and outreach for anti-tampering and cybersecurity research

The committee recognizes the role that anti-tampering technology plays in 

safeguarding U.S. military weapon systems from theft, reverse engineering, and 

exploitation. The committee acknowledges and supports the Air Force’s highly 

focused efforts to grow technological advances in this area. Therefore, the committee 

encourages the Department of Defense to fully fund programs that support antitampering research and development. Furthermore, the committee encourages the 

Department to leverage talent from Historically Black Colleges and Universities 

(HBCUs) that have a proven track record of excellence in this particular field. The 

committee recognizes the vital contributions that HBCUs have made in supporting 

defense readiness and national security priorities through successful research 

initiatives.

F-15 ALQ-128 electronic warfare warning set

The budget request contained $192.9 million in PE 27134F for development 

of F-15 systems, but included no funds for development of the ALQ-128 electronic 

warfare warning set (EWWS). The ALQ-128 EWWS is a countermeasures receiver 

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used on the F-15C, D, and E aircraft. The ALQ-128, used in concert with other 

systems, provides active jamming against enemy radar threats.

The committee notes that with the fielding of upgraded active electronically 

scanned array radars on the F-15 fleet, the aircraft’s automatic electronic warfare 

warning countermeasures and active jamming capability was lost because the 

legacy ALQ-128 EWWS is not compatible with the new antennas and cannot be 

upgraded. The committee understands that an ALQ-128 development program to 

re-design the ALQ-128 would regain the lost warfighter capability to provide active 

jamming against enemy radar threats, and is necessary to provide an expandable 

and upgradeable system to meet mission requirements. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $242.9 million, an increase of $50.0 

million, in PE 27134F for development of the ALQ-128 EWWS.

F-35 follow-on development

The committee notes that the F-35 program has accomplished the final 

developmental test flight of the system development and demonstration (SDD) 

phase of the program on April 11, 2018. While the SDD required flight test is now 

complete, the committee further notes that flight testing continues in support of 

phased capability improvements and modernization of the F-35 air system in an 

effort formerly known as block four and now known as continuous capability 

development and delivery (C2D2). The C2D2 program will provide timely, 

affordable incremental warfighting capability improvements to maintain joint air 

dominance against evolving threats to the United States and its allies.

Section 224(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2017 (Public Law 114-328) directed the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees that contains the basic elements of an 

acquisition baseline for the F-35 block four program. However, the report delivered 

in January 2018 provided only an initial insight into the basic elements of the F-35 

C2D2 program. The committee understands that a complete report is planned to be 

submitted in March 2019, and believes that the basic elements of an acquisition 

baseline are vital to the ability of the committee to conduct its oversight 

responsibilities of a significant F-35 modernization budget. 

Therefore, elsewhere in this Act, the committee recommends a provision 

that would limit the obligation of funds for the F-35 C2D2 program until the 

Secretary of Defense submits the complete report required by section 224(b) of 

Public Law 114-328. 

The committee also notes that in its annual report on the F-35 program, the 

Director of Operational Test and Evaluation assessed that the F-35 C2D2 schedule 

was not executable due to insufficient test resources, including an inadequate 

number of test aircraft configured to conduct C2D2 test flight activity. Accordingly, 

the committee believes the Department should procure an additional six new test 

aircraft, two in each of the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C configuration, to support the 

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C2D2 program so that capability improvements and modernization can be more 

rapidly developed and procured to meet evolving threats.

Metals Affordability Initiative

The budget requested contained $37.9 million in PE 63112F for Advanced 

Materials for Weapons System. 

The committee recognizes the importance of this program in providing 

affordable materials and manufacturing technologies across the entire life-cycle of 

aerospace materials. Specifically, the Air Force Research Lab-managed Metals 

Affordability Initiative has reduced metallic aircraft component costs and 

accelerated the implementation and transfer of technologies across a wide range of 

aircraft platforms. The committee notes the value of this public-private partnership 

and the risk sharing model that has directly led to a nearly $2.4 billion return on 

the U.S. Government’s investment. The committee recommends the Secretary of the 

Air Force create a dedicated funding line for the Metals Affordability Initiative to 

show the Air Force's clear commitment to this program. 

The committee recommends $47.9 million, an increase of $10.0 million, in 

PE 63112F for Advanced Materials for Weapons System.

Passive ground-based imaging of space objects

The committee is aware of the progress with ground-based space imaging 

experiments being made by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Joint 

United States-United Kingdom Research Team. The committee recognizes the 

potential for high resolution imaging of geosynchronous satellites that also supports 

the AFRL Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education goals. The 

committee is also aware of positive initial test results and additional ground based 

experiments using full scale baseline separations of over 100 meters between the 

tracking telescopes. The committee recommends the AFRL continue ground-based 

space imaging experimentation with passive/unobtrusive optical amplitude 

interferometry imaging in combination with other surveillance systems for 

Department of Defense applications.

Precision metrology tools

 The budget request contained $125.3 million in PE 62102F for materials 

research and development. 

The committee recognizes that metrology, or the development of precise 

measurement tools, is an important aspect of materials research. As the ability to 

manipulate materials at the subatomic scale, and to generate new and novel 

materials from computational design, continues to advance, it will also require 

further development of precision measuring tools. The committee encourages the 

Air Force to explore new and innovative methods to develop and provision for these 

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tools, including through public-private partnerships to field and maintain cuttingedge metrology systems.

Therefore, the committee recommends $128.3 million, an increase of $3.0 

million, in PE 62102F to support the development of advanced, precision metrology 

tools. 

Recapitalization of Battle-Management, Command and Control, and associated 

intelligence capabilities in support of ground forces

The budget request contained no funds in PE 37581F for the Joint 

Surveillance Target and Attack Radar System (JSTARS) Recapitalization (Recap) 

program, and $14.9 million for research and development, and $9.9 million for 

procurement activities related to the legacy E-8C JSTARS program.

The committee is concerned and disagrees with the Air Force’s decision to 

terminate the JSTARS Recap program. While the committee understands the Air 

Force’s desire to transition to a new “family of systems” concept for providing 

intelligence to the Joint Force, it believes that the proposed plan involves significant 

risk in terms of technology development, integration, cost, and schedule, and 

therefore the termination of the JSTARS Recap program is unwarranted and will 

create a significant gap in overall ISR capability and capacity. While the Air Force 

claims to have accounted for such risks in its decision, the committee does not 

believe it is appropriate to accept these risks given the importance of this mission 

area to the Joint Force. In addition, the committee notes that the Air Force’s 

decision on the JSTARS Recap program directly contradicts numerous Department 

of Defense analyses, and senior-officials' testimony provided to Congress regarding 

requirements, capabilities, war-gaming, and affordability that justified the 

existence and execution of the JSTARS Recap program, as recently as part of the 

fiscal year 2018 budget request. 

Further, the committee is also concerned that the Air Force’s decision could 

impose an unacceptable level of risk to joint ground forces that will rely heavily 

upon JSTARS Recap to provide reliable, consistent, accurate, and highly integrated 

Battle-Management, Command and Control, and Ground Moving Target Indicator 

intelligence capabilities. Finally, the committee believes that the Air Force’s 

decision did not take into account the significantly improved capabilities and 

increased capacity that the JSTARS Recap aircraft, utilizing a modern aircraft 

design with fifth-generation radar technology and integrated software processing, is 

currently designed to bring to the battlefield as compared to the current fleet of 

legacy E-8C aircraft. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $623.0 million, an increase of $623.0 

million, in PE 37581F to fund the JSTARS Recap program’s continued development. 

The committee also includes a provision elsewhere in this title that addresses this 

program.

Reusable hypersonic vehicle structure development

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The budget request contained $130.5 million in PE 62201F, and $125.4 

million in PE 62102F for aerospace vehicle technologies and materials. The 

committee supports the Department of Defense’s efforts to accelerate the testing 

and development of hypersonic vehicles. The committee believes further investment 

in the development of economically efficient reusable hypersonic systems will 

extend national defense capabilities beyond the limits of expendable systems. 

Additional reusable hypersonic vehicle structure development and thermal 

protection system development is necessary to enable rapid global response to 

threats, and extend the survivability of platforms in highly contested environments. 

Further research focused on ceramic matrix components, fabrication, assembly, and 

full-scale component testing is necessary in order to meet the Air Force’s fiscal year 

2019 test bed vehicle operations goals. The committee recommends $140.5 million, 

an increase of $10.0 million, in PE 62201F and $135.34 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 62102F for aerospace vehicle technologies and materials, to 

accelerate the development of reusable and air-launched hypersonic vehicle 

structures.

Robust aircraft electrical power and thermal management systems

The budget request contained $115.5 million in PE 63216F and $190.9 

million in PE 62203F for the development and demonstration of electrical power, 

thermal management, and distribution for aerospace applications.

The committee recognizes the Air Force is highly focused on developing 

directed energy and laser weapons systems, both for self-protection and to provide 

offensive capability for future aircraft. In order to meet those goals, the Air Force 

will not just need a lasing system and optics with the size and weight to be 

incorporated into aircraft-sized systems, but it will also need an end-to-end power 

generation system that can meet all of these new power demands in addition to all 

of the other electrical and avionics subsystems on these aircraft. The committee 

encourages the Air Force to focus developmental work on the aerospace electrical 

power for lightweight and efficient power technologies needed for those future 

aircraft concepts.

Therefore, the committee recommends $125.5 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 63216F, and $195.9 million, an increase of $5.0 million, in PE 

62203F, to accelerate design, fabrication, and testing to support a light-weight, 

robust electrical power and thermal management system for future aircraft needs.

Secure-live-virtual-constructive advanced training environment

The budget request included $112.5 million in PE 62202F for Human 

Effectiveness Applied Research, a program element that includes learning and 

operational readiness. 

The committee notes that this project supports research on the application 

of cognitive science for performance improvement by enhancing training in missionrelevant environments. This includes advanced technology demonstrations for a 

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secure live-virtual-constructive advanced training environment and live-virtualconstructive cockpit technologies. The committee recognizes the important advances 

that have resulted from this particular technology demonstration since its inception 

in 2015, and looks forward to a joint services proof of concept demonstration, as well 

as accelerated encryption and waveform development. As the U.S. Air Force 

continues to seek ways to leverage cutting-edge technologies in realistic training 

and improve mission readiness, the committee is interested in ensuring the joint 

interoperability of this technology in fifth generation aircraft.

 The committee recommends $112.5 million, the full amount requested, in 

PE 62202F for Human Effectiveness Applied Research.

Small diameter bomb II cost reduction initiative

The committee understands the small diameter bomb increment II (SDB II) 

is a joint program between the Air Force and Navy. The SDB II can be used on 

every tactical fixed-wing aircraft platform and provides the warfighter the 

capability to attack mobile targets from stand-off ranges, through inclement 

weather and adverse conditions. The committee notes that since the award of the 

initial production contract the cost of an all up round (AUR) has increased largely 

as a result of lower-than-expected quantities of the tri-mode seeker that is currently 

used on SDB II for other precision guided munition programs. The committee is 

concerned that this could negatively impact potential planned procurement of SDB 

IIs in the out-years, and as a result could delay SDB II fielding when the program is 

scheduled to increase production. 

The committee encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to examine 

implementing potential cost reduction efforts to address rising AUR costs related to 

the tri-mode seeker at this early stage of SDB II production in order to maximize 

return on investment for the Department of Defense and the taxpayer. 

Technology Transition Program

The budget request contained $1.2 billion in PE 64858F for the Technology 

Transition Program. 

The committee commends the program’s efforts to accelerate and transition 

technologies and prototypes into acquisition programs of record and operational use. 

The committee notes a majority of the funds are allocated towards advanced engine 

development and prototyping, and is concerned that only $87.2 million is allocated 

for experimentation with other technologies. The investment in non-engine 

technologies is insufficient to address the critical technology and development 

required to transition systems-of-systems research, mixing low-tech and high-tech 

assets in a combat-effective framework, and scalable and additive manufacturing 

solutions.

The committee recommends an increase of $15.0 million in PE 64858F for 

non-engine technology experimentation and competitively awarded transition 

programs within the Technology Transition Program.

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Wide-area motion imagery intelligence capability

The budget request contained $175.3 million in PE 35206F for development 

of airborne reconnaissance systems, but contained no funding for continued 

development and modernization of wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) beyond lineof sight (BLOS) capabilities.

The committee notes that persistent, near real-time day and night WAMI 

capability is considered by operational commanders to be a critical BLOS 

intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability for numerous combat units. 

WAMI capability has been deployed in support of combat operations in the Islamic 

Republic of Afghanistan since 2010 and in the Republic of Iraq since 2015; however, 

despite the invaluable capability that WAMI provides, the Air Force has only been 

able to provide four steady-state unmanned aircraft system lines of WAMI

capability. The committee understands that 2 years ago, the Department of Defense 

validated a U.S. Central Command Joint Urgent Operational Need Statement that 

requires the further development and procurement of WAMI BLOS capabilities for 

forward-deployed operations. The committee notes that previous funding has 

resulted in preliminary multi-intelligence fusion capabilities, near-vertical-direction 

finding, and enhanced BLOS capabilities. However, a lack of fiscal year 2019 

funding will impede final delivery of these capabilities, and will prevent necessary 

sensor system upgrades to satisfy validated warfighter requirements. 

Accordingly, the committee recommends $186.1 million in PE 35206F, an 

increase of $10.8 million, for development of WAMI BLOS sensor improvements, 

and to continue processing and exploiting improvements that would enable 

automated multi-intelligence sensor fusion.

Wind energy development radar mitigation efforts

The budget request contained $6.3 million in PE 35114F for the Air Traffic

Control, Approach, and Landing System. 

The committee understands the growing importance of renewable energy as 

a national security imperative, in particular the rapid expansion of wind energy as 

an alternative energy source. The committee also recognizes the potential impact of 

wind energy development on the operational readiness, training activities, safety, 

and force protection of Department of Defense service members, aircraft, and 

installations. Given the expected increase in the U.S. wind energy development, 

mitigation approaches must be further developed and accelerated. 

The committee recommends that the U.S. Government and industry 

continue to evaluate the impacts of existing and planned wind energy developments 

in coordination with the Federal Interagency Wind Turbine Radar Impact 

Mitigation Working Group, and develop best practices for radar mitigation 

strategies. The committee is aware of an existing pilot program by the U.S. 

Transportation Command and Air Mobility Command to integrate gap-filler radar 

systems into their air traffic control operations to mitigate the impact of wind 

energy developments. This mitigation pilot program has reduced false target alerts 

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and improved the situational awareness of air traffic control operators and the 

safety of aircrew. The committee recommends additional analysis to assess the 

feasibility and development requirements associated with the integration, 

operation, and performance of gap-fill radars integrated into existing air traffic 

command and control systems. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than October 31, 

2018, on the status of the pilot mitigation project and strategy for developing gapfiller radar thresholds and requirements. 

Additionally, the committee recommends $8.8 million, an increase of $2.5 

million, in PE 35114F for the Air Traffic Control, Approach, and Landing System.

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE

Items of Special Interest

Advanced ceramic capabilities

The committee is interested in advancements in dual-use ceramic 

capabilities and production technologies. The committee is aware that recent 

advancements in smelting have significant overlap with ceramic production 

methods and could lower ceramic production costs. Advanced ceramic capabilities 

have demonstrated versatility in critical military applications, including composite 

armor for soldier and vehicle protection, and for use in advanced hypersonic vehicle 

development. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering, no later November 1, 2018, to provide to the Committee 

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a briefing on dual-use ceramic 

capabilities. The briefing should include an overview of advances in ceramic 

production processes and technologies, the benefits ceramic capabilities provides, 

and any forecasted adoption of ceramic capabilities into current weapon systems.

Antitoxin to combat botulinum toxin

Botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) is a highly potent toxin, as well as a 

medical therapy with numerous uses in neurophysiology. The Department of 

Defense is managing efforts to develop a vaccine against BoNT/A; however, the 

potential impact of BoNT/A vaccination on future benefits of the medical uses of 

BoNT/A is unknown. These benefits include treatment of post-traumatic stress 

disorder-associated migraines and amputation pain.

The committee understands that the Department is also pursuing a small 

molecule antitoxin drug to combat BoNT/A, which could be used by military 

personnel without impacting future use of medical therapies derived from BoNT/A. 

Therefore, the committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to continue its work 

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to develop a monoclonal antibody-based BoNT/A antitoxin drug through the Joint 

Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

Autonomous capabilities

Not later than April 1, 2019, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 

committee on Armed Services an assessment on the consequences of the 

international proliferation of autonomous weapons, including those utilizing 

artificial intelligence and machine learning, and a strategy for U.S. engagement in 

international discussions. In conducting such an assessment, the Secretary of 

Defense shall consider each of the following:

(1) An evaluation of the consequences of an arms race in autonomous 

weapons, cyber weapons, artificial intelligence and machine learning, both from the 

domestic and competitor point of views.

(2) An explanation of the of the concept of "appropriate human judgement" 

and how it differs from "meaningful human control". 

(3) An explanation of the U.S. strategy towards influencing how other 

nations approach autonomous weapons, including human judgement, national 

safety review processes, and stability concerns.

Further, the study should include an assessment of the current policy 

guidelines with respect to the role of autonomy in offensive and defensive 

cyberspace operations, and a discussion of how artificial intelligence and machine 

learning could impact current policy and doctrine. In conducting such an 

assessment, the Secretary of Defense shall evaluate the sufficiency of Department 

of Defense policies governing autonomy in cyberspace.

Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program

The budget request contained $258.7 million in PE 64940D8Z for the 

Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program (CTEIP). The committee notes 

that CTEIP has been used to fund the development of critically needed, highpriority test and evaluation capabilities for the Department of Defense. CTEIP has 

used a corporate approach to combine service and Department requirements to 

maximize opportunities for joint efforts and avoid unwarranted duplication of test 

capabilities. The committee recommends additional focus on developing a geospatial 

architecture to assist in the testing, analysis, and visualization of cyber and 

electronic warfare threat systems, and their impact in a radio frequency 

compromised environment. 

The committee encourages the Department to explore efforts to automate 

data collection and analysis capabilities, thereby reducing manual data entry and 

expediting the preparation of products and reports. The committee recommends 

$258.7 million, the amount requested, in PE 64940D8Z for the Central Test and 

Evaluation Investment Program.

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive standoff detection

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The committee is aware of the enduring challenge of detecting chemical, 

biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats from a safe 

distance. The committee is also aware of a new technology that may be capable of 

dynamic wavelength modulation of laser light with potential applications in 

multiple mission areas, including standoff detection of CBRNE threats. Given the 

use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic and the threat of CBRNE use 

in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sensors capable of standoff detection 

would provide early warning, thereby increasing timelines to prepare and respond 

to threats. Therefore, the committee encourages the Department of Defense to 

continue its efforts to develop standoff CBRNE detection.

Common data environment for modeling and simulation

The committee recognizes that common data environments can yield 

benefits, such as increased interoperability and strong modeling and simulation 

(M&S) capabilities. The committee supports continued funding for projects that 

provide critical Department of Defense-wide data services, such as the Army's 

Enterprise Data Services Common Data Production Environment. The committee is 

aware that in the committee report (S. Rept. 115-125) accompanying the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, the Senate Committee on Armed 

Services directed the Secretary of Defense to take actions to identify and address 

data collection, analysis, and sharing issues that limit robust M&S. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on the Department's findings 

from the directive in S. Rept. 115-125.

Contraband cellular devices

The committee is aware that the illegal use of cellular devices in Federal 

prisons is on the rise. The committee is also aware that new technologies, such as 

managed access systems, are being developed, tested, and deployed to detect the use 

of contraband cellular devices among Federal prison populations. The committee 

acknowledges that military correctional facilities are often plagued with the same 

ills that infiltrate Federal correctional facilities. Therefore, the committee 

encourages the Department of Defense to study the effectiveness of new 

technologies that detect contraband cellular devices to identify and prevent 

instances of such use in military correctional facilities. 

Counter small tactical unmanned air systems

The committee notes that Class I and II unmanned air systems (UAS), 

which in most cases are readily available commercial-off-the-shelf small and 

lightweight UAS, can be employed by state and non-state actors for use against U.S. 

military and civilian personnel. The committee understands that current maneuver 

short range air defense initiatives, as well as counter-UAS initiatives would address 

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fixed-wing, rotorcraft, and medium-to-large UAS platforms. The committee is 

concerned by the rapid proliferation of small UAS and believes the military services 

should examine all potential combined kinetic and non-kinetic options to 

immediately address this perceived capability gap in organic air defense for Army 

Maneuver Brigades.

The committee directs the Secretary of the Defense to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services by December 15, 2018 that provides an 

update on current Department of Defense programs to counter class I and II UAS.

The briefing shall include:

(a) The command responsible for developing and promulgating counterUAS performance requirements;

(b) A resource plan for developing and assessing potential material 

solutions for near-term and mid-term timeframes;

(c) How the Department of Defense intends to ensure that units at the 

battalion and below echelons will be capable of defeating single and swarming Class 

1 and II UAVs; and

(d) The procedures whereby technical assessments will be shared and 

coordinated with the other military services.

Counter-unmanned aerial system threat detection

The committee is interested in advancements in counter-unmanned aerial 

system (C-UAS) technology and the threat these systems pose to the Armed Forces.

The committee supports ongoing efforts by the U.S. Army and U.S. Special 

Operations Command to develop and employ unmanned aerial system (UAS) threat 

detection technology, and commends the services for recognizing the seriousness of 

the threat. In light of recent UAS attacks in the U.S. Central Command area of 

responsibility, the committee is concerned about the increased threat from 

unmanned aerial systems to forward operating bases and special operations forces 

personnel. The committee believes additional advancements in scalable C-UAS 

technologies are necessary to effectively detect, track, neutralize, and ensure the 

force protection and operational security of deployed service members.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by October 31, 2018, on the 

employment of C-UAS systems. The briefing should include an assessment of the 

UAS threat to the Armed Forces, a roadmap for C-UAS threat detection technology 

and capabilities, and the results of operational fielding of C-UAS systems.

Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection

The budget request contained $145.7 million in PE 64384BP for 

Contamination Avoidance (CA) Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD) 

within the Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program 

(CBDP). 

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The Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection (EMBD) program, an ongoing 

effort that began in fiscal year 2017, is included in CA EMD and will transition 

technology from the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integration 

Threat Recognition Advanced Technology Demonstration to a program of record for 

the U.S. Navy. EMBD will complete development, testing, integration, and 

production of a lower cost biological point detection system that will detect, collect, 

and identify biological warfare agent aerosols, and provide automated warning at a 

lower sustained cost. 

The committee recommends $145.7 million, the amount requested in PE 

64384BP, for CA EMD within the CBDP. 

Fielding of radiation detection devices

The committee is encouraged by the Army’s efforts to field additional 

radiation detection devices, and endorses the Army’s efforts in fiscal year 2019 to 

develop and field the next-generation Joint Personal Dosimeter–Individual (JPD-I), 

an individual dosimeter that includes immediate visual alert, measurement of 

radiation dose, and inclusion of a comprehensive record of radiation exposure over a 

soldier’s career. The committee encourages the Army to conduct a rigorous, fair, and 

open competition for this new system to ensure the best dosimeter is developed and 

selected. 

Future uses of synthetic biology

The committee is aware of recent advancements in synthetic biology, 

genomics, biotechnology, and related novel technologies that may enhance human 

performance and improve traditional approaches to healthcare. This includes 

enhancing human ability to perform through stressful and resource-limited 

environments, improving decision making, minimizing the time between disease 

identification and treatment, and augmenting human immune systems to defeat a 

variety of diseases, rather than depending on specific vaccines and therapeutics. 

The development of advanced biosensors to understand hypoxia is a current 

example of the type of human performance challenges that can be addressed 

through these advancements. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018, on how 

the Department of Defense may leverage these advancements, when appropriate, 

and in accordance with ethical standards, U.S. law, our nation's values, and 

Department of Defense policy, to enhance service members’ performance, increase 

lethality and survivability, and improve battlefield healthcare. The briefing should 

also identify opportunities, when appropriate and feasible, to facilitate the 

maturation of capabilities based on recent advancements.

Historically black colleges and universities, and minority serving institutions

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The budget request contained $30.4 million in PE 61228D8Z for research 

work with historically black colleges and universities, and minority serving 

institutions (HBCU/MI).

The committee recognizes the important role this program plays in bolstering the 

research capabilities and capacities at HBCU/MIs. Not only is such work important 

in meeting the defense research needs of the Department of Defense, but the 

committee also

believes it provides an added benefit by diversifying the supply of scientists, 

engineers, and researchers working on the Department of Defense's most 

challenging problems. 

Therefore, the committee recommends $40.4 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 61228D8Z for additional research between historically black colleges 

and universities, and minority serving institutions, as well as increased teaming 

opportunities between these institutions and other research universities with 

experience supporting the Department's unique requirements.

Innovative installation capabilities

The budget request contained $29.4 million in PE 63342D8W for the 

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx). 

DIUx supports the identification, development, and demonstration of gamechanging technologies to satisfy joint force priorities at a faster pace than the 

traditional Department of Defense planning, programming, budgeting, and 

execution process. As DIUx leverages partnerships with academic institutions, 

science and technology communities, and private industries, the committee 

recognizes the advantages that DIUx may provide to accelerate fielding of decisive 

technical capabilities and interoperability while mitigating operational risk to the 

warfighter and promoting affordability. 

The committee supports the objective of DIUx to maintain U.S. 

technological superiority across the range of military operations. The committee 

believes DIUx should also increase efforts to support technological superiority at 

Department installations by addressing critical technological needs. This may also 

include mitigation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified during the ongoing 

review of critical infrastructure being conducted by the Department as directed in 

section 1650 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public 

Law 114-328). 

Therefore, the committee recommends prioritizing critical technological 

needs at Department installations, and directs the Director of DIUx to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by October 1, 2018, on a plan to 

invest in the rapid insertion of innovative installation capabilities.

Joint Regional Security Stacks

The committee supports the Department of Defense's efforts to secure and 

simplify the Department's network environment through modernization. 

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Specifically, the committee supports continued use of the Joint Regional Security 

Stacks (JRSS) and the modernization, streamlining, and optimization of JRSS 

architecture to improve performance, reduce the Department’s attack surface, and 

eliminate outdated technical redundancy. The committee believes incorporation of

next-generation technology may further increase the Department’s cybersecurity 

posture and resiliency. Therefore, the committee encourages the Defense 

Information Systems Agency to make full use of next-generation packet brokers 

which reduce costs by employing active-failover features, reducing redundancy of 

cybersecurity tools, and implementing new technology that eliminates duplicate 

network traffic. 

Joint threat warning system

The committee recognizes that the Joint Threat Warning System (JTWS) 

provides credible threat warning and intelligence information to special operations 

forces (SOF). The committee notes that this program has been critical to enhancing 

the situational awareness of SOF elements by alerting them to threats to the force 

and illuminating targeting opportunities. The committee is concerned that the 

program does not include an air-variant precision high frequency band capability. 

This gap in coverage exposes SOF operators to unknown threats and decreases their 

situational awareness. The committee recommends U.S. Special Operations 

Command further explore collection capabilities that address this critical airvariant high frequency gap in coverage. 

Military Free Fall School

The committee is aware of the increased demand being placed on the U.S. 

Army’s Military Free Fall School (MFFS). The committee understands the increased 

student throughput is largely a result of the expanded population of U.S. Army 

Special Operations Command personnel who are required to attend MFFS. 

Consequently, the increased student throughput has resulted in shortfalls in 

resourcing, an over-reliance on contract personnel, and an increased risk to 

students and cadre. Therefore, the committee directs the Commander, U.S. Special 

Operations Command to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than October 15, 2018, on Special Operations Force Military Free 

Fall requirements, the funds expended, the expected cost of operating the MFFS 

across the Future Years Defense Program, and any change in the rate of MFFS 

safety incidents or injuries from fiscal years 2012 through 2018.

Minerva Research Initiative

The committee recognizes the valuable contributions the Minerva Research 

Initiative has had on social science research relevant to national security. This 

initiative has supported innovations in social science and translated important 

scientific discoveries in the field of counter-terrorism and counter-violent 

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extremism. The committee believes similar research examining our peer and nearpeer adversaries' growing influence and competitive advantage against the United 

States is necessary. According to the National Security Strategy of 2017, the 

People's Republic of China is reasserting its influence in order to deny the United 

States access in times of crisis and contest the Department of Defense’s ability to 

operate freely in decisive locations. The committee believes additional national 

security-related social science research dedicated towards the Russian Federation, 

China, the Islamic Republic of

Iran, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and their export of military 

and security technology, will help understand these nations' true intentions and 

develop and implement strategy aimed at countering their influence. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than November 16, 

2018, on the feasibility of expanding the Minerva Research Initiative to state actors, 

including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. The briefing should include the 

program's ability to provide substantive research addressing peer and near-peer 

adversary statecraft, to include, but not limited to, foreign influence, foreign 

investment, emerging technologies, and military exports.

National Hypersonics Initiative

The committee is aware of a National Hypersonics Initiative under 

development by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, in 

conjunction with the military services, defense labs, and the Defense Advanced 

Research Projects Agency. The committee recognizes the growing amount of 

resources and emphasis placed by the Department of Defense on the research and 

development of hypersonic vehicle technology. The committee supports the 

development of a National Hypersonics Initiative, and believes it is prudent and 

consistent with the roles and responsibilities granted to the Department’s Joint 

Hypersonics Transition Office as authorized in the National Defense Authorization 

Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-91). The committee is interested in any impact that the 

Treaty Between the United States of America and The Union of the Soviet Socialist 

Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range 

Missiles, signed in 1987 and commonly referred to as the INF Treaty, is having on 

the research and development of hypersonic vehicle technology. The committee 

understands there is concern that the INF treaty obligations may limit the 

Department of Defense's ability to flight-test and operationally employ hypersonic 

vehicles. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than September 15, 2018, on the status of the National 

Hypersonics Initiative and any impacts of the INF Treaty obligations on the 

research, development, prototyping, testing, or employment of hypersonic vehicle 

technology. 

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National lab integration in defense innovation hubs

The committee has continuing interest in the Department of Defense 

laboratories and engineering centers, their responsiveness to Department of 

Defense requirements, and maximizing their expertise and reach. The 

Department’s laboratories are integral to the Department's ability to retain 

capability in areas where the private sector has no commercial interest, and 

ensuring that commercial solutions are adapted for warfighter needs in a timely 

manner so that the United States remains dominant in the land, air, sea, space, and 

cyber domains. 

The committee recommends that the Department better enable laboratories 

and centers to embrace an open and innovative posture, while simultaneously 

becoming more active in the Department’s requirements process. The committee is 

aware of the Army Research Lab’s Open Campus project as an example of open 

innovation that encourages groundbreaking advances in basic and applied research 

areas through increased collaboration with the broader research enterprise. The 

committee believes that this serves as a model for laboratories to become more 

ingrained in the scientific and research communities, both locally and globally, and 

become a greater sensor for disruptive technologies that present opportunities or 

highlight vulnerabilities for the Department. Additionally, the committee 

recommends that the laboratories increase their presence in innovation hubs across 

the United States, like those established by the Defense Innovation Unit 

Experimental, and enhance existing relationships with the Strategic Capabilities 

Office and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than October 1, 2018, on the respective plan for further 

integrating the laboratories across defense and commercial innovation hubs, and 

maximizing their expertise and reach. The briefing should include a robust plan and 

timeline for increasing the Department’s laboratory joint presence in innovation 

hubs across the United States.

Non-lethal directed energy technologies

The committee continues to support the need to minimize collateral 

damage, pursue all available avenues to reduce civilian casualties, and prevent 

damage to infrastructure in engagements abroad. The use of non-lethal directed 

energy technologies provides many opportunities to do so. Some of these 

technologies have matured and are already employed by military service and 

combatant commands in the operational environment across the globe. These 

technologies have the capacity to stop ground vehicles, small vessels, and 

unmanned aerial vehicles from infringing upon protected spaces, or to deny access 

to secured facilities. The committee continues to encourage the Department of 

Defense to make greater efforts to use these technologies where appropriate. 

Elsewhere in this report, the need for concurrent policy development, sustained 

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integrated non-lethal directed energy technologies, and continued development of 

next-generation directed energy non-lethal technologies, like the Marine Corps' 

Ocular Interruption System, is addressed.

Protect DIB critical technologies

The committee recognizes the importance of safeguarding defense 

industrial base (DIB) critical technologies from cyber and economic actions 

conducted by our adversaries. The challenge in doing so is particularly acute as 

supply chains become increasingly globalized, as noted in the report published by 

the RAND Corporation entitled "U.S. Authorities and DoD Options for Protecting 

the Defense Industrial Base from Cyber Intrusions and Economic Enticement, 

Influence, and Control." The report calls attention to the difficulties in protecting 

DIB members with supply chains in foreign countries and the resulting risks to the 

integrity of various critical technologies and materials.

Therefore, the committee directs the Undersecretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering (R&E) to provide a briefing to the House Armed Services 

Committee no later than 1 March 2019 on activities and investments the 

Department is making with respect to foreign suppliers of critical technologies to 

national defense to ensure their integrity, including microelectronics.

Rapidly deployable radar system

The committee is aware of U.S. Special Operations Command’s efforts to 

accelerate development of an ultra-low power, rapidly deployable radar system. 

This modular technology can enhance radar situational awareness for special 

operations forces elements in austere environments. The committee notes the value 

of this technology and its relevance in current conflicts, particularly due to the 

persistent threat of adversary controlled, small unmanned aerial systems. The 

committee looks forward to the results of additional testing and encourages the 

integration of this ultra-low power, rapidly deployable radar with other counterunmanned aerial system efforts across the Department of Defense. 

Report on DoD target and threat systems

The Committee recognizes that military capabilities of adversary nations 

continue to improve over time thus challenging the ability of the United States 

military to project power and protect its national interests throughout the world. In 

order to ensure thorough and realistic testing and evaluation of defense weapons 

systems and effective operational unit training, it is imperative that DoD continues 

to develop and maintain a sufficient inventory of realistic targets and threat 

systems that accurately represent the capability of adversary nations. In support of 

that imperative, the Committee believes that the status and adequacy of target and 

threat systems programs need to be assessed.

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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a review of the Department's targets 

and threat systems in support of test and evaluation and training and shall identify 

recommended actions to address shortcomings in those systems in a final report.

The review, recommendations, and final report shall address, but not be 

limited to, the following:

(A) All airborne, seaborne, ground, and undersea targets and target control 

systems used to support open air test and evaluation and warfighter training 

exercises; 

(B) All real and simulated threat systems used to support open air test and 

evaluation and warfighter training exercises;

(C) The degree to which all of the above systems replicate both current and 

future threats;

(D) The adequacy of target and threat systems inventories to meet current 

and future test and evaluation and training requirements;

(E) The ability of the above systems to support effective testing and 

evaluation of future U.S. combat and weapon systems;

 (F) The ability of the above systems to support effective warfighter training 

against future threats.

Not later than one year after the date of enactment, the Secretary shall 

submit to the congressional defense committees a final report on the review and 

recommended actions to address all shortcomings in the abilities of DoD targets and 

threat systems to effectively support open air test and evaluation events and 

training exercises.

Research to enhance the understanding of adversarial influence operations

Manipulation of the global information environment by adversaries using 

both human and machine means poses a challenge to the viability of democratic 

institutions and social stability. The committee is aware of research conducted by 

the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technologies 

for high-fidelity simulation of online social behavior, while testing and measuring 

simulation accuracy and other research projects to better understand influence. For 

example, the Social-Cognitive Information Security research program uses modeling 

and simulation to examine how behavior is manipulated in a way that compromises 

cyber or social infrastructures. 

The committee is aware that the Secretary of Defense recently designated 

the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, to be the Joint Proponent for 

Military Information Support Operations (MISO), and to establish a global 

messaging/counter-messaging capability. The committee believes research 

conducted to enhance the understanding of the impact of adversarial manipulation 

of the global information environment may complement and inform information 

operation activities of the Department of Defense. Therefore, the committee 

encourages the Director of DARPA and the Commander, U.S. Special Operations 

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Command, to collaborate and provide for transition of appropriate research projects 

that enhance and complement MISO. 

Use of authority for transactions other than contracts and grants by the Department 

of Defense

The committee recognizes the need for agility and innovation in the 

procurement process. The committee believes that, when used appropriately, other 

transaction authority (OTA) of section 2371 of title 10, United States Code, can 

provide the necessary flexibility to give the Department of Defense a competitive 

edge in the commercial marketplace.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 

114-92) modified and made permanent the Department’s ability to carry out certain 

prototype projects using OTA. Further recognizing the benefits of OTA, section 867 

of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) 

required the Secretary of Defense to establish a preference for using other 

transactions (OTs) “in circumstances determined appropriate by the Secretary.”

The committee supports the Department’s continued use of OTA to rapidly 

explore cutting-edge technologies and reduce barriers to attract non-traditional 

defense contractors. The committee also acknowledges the Department’s guidance 

that OTs should be used appropriately by individuals possessing the requisite level 

of business acumen and judgment to operate in a “relatively unstructured 

environment.”

However, the committee is increasingly concerned by a perceived lack of 

transparency surrounding the use of OTA within the Department. The committee is 

particularly concerned by the limited details provided on the Defense Innovation 

Unit Experimental’s use of OTA to award a large-scale follow-on production 

contract for cloud services. While the Department significantly reduced the original 

award from $950.0 million to $65.0 million, and greatly limited the scope of the 

production agreement, the committee remains concerned about the Department’s 

failure to provide a comprehensive explanation for how such a large-scale award 

was made unbeknownst to senior Department officials, and why the award was 

later reduced. 

Therefore, the committee urges the Department to exercise greater 

prudence and transparency when employing OTA to prevent misuse and abuse. The 

committee also urges the Department to reiterate through established guidelines 

that OTA is not a means for circumventing appropriate use of the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation, and that full and open competition should be used to the 

maximum extent practicable to maintain a sense of integrity, fairness, and 

credibility in the Federal procurement process.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

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Section 201—Authorization of Appropriations

This section would authorize appropriations for research, development, 

test, and evaluation at the levels identified in section 4201 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS, RESTRICTIONS, AND LIMITATIONS

Section 211—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Prototype Projects

This section would make modifications to section 2371b of title 10, United 

States Code, regarding use of transactions other than contracts and grants for 

follow-on production.

Section 212—Extension of Directed Energy Prototype Authority

This section would extend the directed energy prototype authority provided 

for in section 219(c)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2017 (Public Law 114–328) through fiscal year 2019. 

Section 213—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for the Weather Common 

Component Program

This section would restrict funding for further development of 

meteorological situational awareness sensor programs for unmanned aircraft 

systems, and require the Secretary of the Air Force to submit a report to the 

congressional defense committees that describes requirements, existing 

technologies, current program efforts, testing and evaluation, and a fielding plan for 

capabilities associated with providing meteorological situational awareness to 

unmanned aircraft aircrews.

The committee notes that the Air Force office for Unmanned Aircraft 

Systems (UAS) Innovations and Integration under the Deputy Chief of Staff of the 

Air Force for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (HAF/A2) began an 

initiative in 2010 to develop an UAS sensor that could provide real-time 

meteorological situational awareness for UAS aircrews to increase mission 

effectiveness and mitigate reliance upon weather forecasting capabilities in 

geographic regions with limited or no weather services provided for flight 

operations. The effort culminated in 2015 and cost the Air Force $10.6 million. On 

October 30, 2015, the then-12th Air Force Commander, and now current Deputy 

Chief of Staff of the Air Force for Operations (HAF/A3), validated key global 

weather requirements for UAS operations, to include: increasing UAS situational 

awareness of current and predicted state of environmental phenomena to maximize 

mission effectiveness, efficiency, safety, resource protection, and risk management; 

relaying all onboard-UAS weather data and information, such as air temperature, 

humidity, wind speed and direction, turbulence, ice accretion, and weather radar in 

real-time; and increasing real-time, on-board weather collection capability to 

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provide pilot situational awareness and support Air Force forecast processes. 

However, the HAF/A2 sensor remains non-deployed, despite the Air National Guard 

Air Force Reserve Command Test Center finding the sensor and its associated 

software to be potentially operationally effective and suitable in a formal report 

published in January 2018. More concerning to the committee is that a separate 

development effort is being undertaken by HAF/A3 weather officials that appears to 

duplicate the technology. Thus, this section would restrict further funding for 

additional systems until the Air Force provides a report that will allow the 

committee to evaluate the need for additional capability. 

Section 214—Limitation Pending Certification on the Joint Surveillance Target 

Attack Radar System Recapitalization Program

This section would restrict obligation of funding for the Advanced BattleManagement System (ABMS) of Systems initiative of the Department of the Air 

Force, as well as a portion of the proposed divestment of legacy E-8C aircraft 

contained in the fiscal year 2019 budget request. The restriction would remain in 

effect until the Secretary of the Air Force certifies to the congressional defense 

committees that the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) 

Recapitalization (Recap) program, as submitted and described in the fiscal year 

2018 budget request, is proceeding unhindered with originally planned activities 

associated with engineering, manufacturing, and development; low-rate initial 

production; production; and initial contractor support. This section also would 

require the Comptroller General of the United States to provide a report to the 

congressional defense committees that assesses the acquisition strategy associated 

with ABMS, and would require the Secretary of the Air Force to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees that includes a strategy for accelerating the 

JSTARS Recap program, while also managing appropriately the legacy fleet of E-8C 

aircraft. This section would also authorize use of JSTARS Recap program funding to 

maintain the program office’s functionality.

Section 215—Limitation on Availability of Funds for F-35 Continuous Capability 

Development and Delivery

This section would limit the obligation or expenditure of 25 percent of the 

funds for the F-35 continuous capability development and delivery program until 15 

days after the Secretary of Defense provides the congressional defense committees a 

detailed cost estimate and baseline schedule for the program. This section does not 

apply to any funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act for the development of 

F-35 dual capable aircraft capability.

Section 216—Limitation on Availability of Funds Pending Report on Agile Software 

Development and Software Operations

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This section would temporarily restrict funding for software development 

efforts that use agile development and operations methodology until the Secretary 

of the Air Force provides a report to the congressional defense committees that 

describes the cost-estimation tools, the types of contracts, and the mitigation efforts 

to avoid duplicative development related to the strategy for modernizing and 

upgrading existing software at worldwide Air Force Air Operations Centers.

Section 217—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Certain High Energy Laser 

Advanced Technology

This section would limit the availability of 50 percent of the funds 

authorized to be appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal 

year 2019, until the Secretary of Defense provides the High Energy Laser logical 

roadmap and assessment to the congressional defense committees. 

Section 218—Plan for Elimination or Transfer of the Strategic Capabilities Office of 

the Department of Defense

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan to the 

congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, for the elimination or transfer 

of the functions of the Strategic Capabilities Office to another organization or 

element of the Department of Defense.

Section 219—National Security Science and Technology Strategy

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a National 

Security Science and Technology Strategy to prioritize Department of Defense 

science and technology efforts and investments. The Secretary of Defense would be 

required to submit the most recent version of the strategy to the congressional 

defense committees not later than February 4, 2019, and annually thereafter 

through December 31, 2021. 

Section 220—Modification of CVN-73 to Support Fielding of MQ-25 Unmanned 

Aerial Vehicle

This section would require the Navy to fund the modification of CVN-73 

during its refueling and overhaul period in support of future MQ-25 unmanned 

carrier aircraft operations.

SUBTITLE C—REPORTS AND OTHER MATTERS

Section 221—Report on Survivability of Air Defense Artillery

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to submit a report to 

the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives 

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by March 1, 2019, on efforts to improve Army Air Defense Artillery (ADA) 

survivability and require the Army to assess measures that could better enhance 

ADA defenses, both active and passive.

The committee is concerned that U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery units may 

lack required active and passive non-kinetic capabilities and training to maximize 

their level of survivability against sophisticated threats. The committee recognizes 

that ADA is a critical and increasingly important component of Joint Integrated Air 

and Missile Defense. The committee also supports continued modernization and 

expansion of ADA capability. 

Section 222—Report on T-45 Aircraft Physiological Episode Mitigation Actions

 This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, on modifications made to 

T–45 aircraft and associated ground equipment to mitigate the risk of physiological 

episodes among T–45 aircraft crewmembers, and would require the Secretary 

include certain elements in such report.

Section 223—Report on Efforts of the Air Force to Mitigate Physiological Episodes 

Affecting Aircraft Crewmembers

This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to submit a report 

to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, on all efforts of the Air 

Force to reduce the occurrence of, and mitigate the risk posed by, physiological 

episodes affecting crewmembers of covered aircraft and would require the inclusion 

of certain elements in such report. In this section, the term ‘‘covered aircraft’’ would 

mean F–35A aircraft of the Air Force, T–6A aircraft of the Air Force, and any other 

aircraft of the Air Force as determined by the Secretary of the Air Force.

Section 224—Briefing on Use of Quantum Sciences for Military Applications and 

Other Purposes

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide to the 

congressional defense committees a briefing and plan for using quantum sciences 

for military applications and other purposes.

Section 225—Report on Defense Innovation Unit Experimental

This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 

Engineering to submit a report to the congressional defense committees by May 1, 

2019, on the integration of Defense Innovation Unit Experimental into the broader 

Department of Defense research and engineering community, the unit's measures of 

effectiveness, the number and type of transitions, and the impacts of the unit's 

initiatives and investments on the Department.

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TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT ISSUES

Briefing on Rapidly Deployable Structures

 The committee is aware that the military services, including but not limited to 

the Air Force Civil Engineer Center at Tyndall Air Force Base, are testing and 

evaluating options that improve the deployability, safety, and energy efficiency of 

structures used by the Armed Forces in a variety of operational environments. Of 

particular interest is the use of such structures in remote areas, where access to 

reliable energy sources can be difficult and environmental conditions can be severe. 

As such efforts continue, the committee encourages the Department of Defense to 

allocate appropriate resources for the research, development, test, evaluation, and 

procurement of structures that leverage energy efficient and insulation 

technologies. 

 Toward that end, the committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Energy, Installations, and Environment to provide a briefing to the House Armed 

Services Committee, by September 28, 2018, on the Department of Defense’s efforts 

to leverage energy efficient technologies in deployed structures, particularly those 

capabilities that support operations in remote environments. This briefing shall 

include, a detailed assessment of recent tests and evaluations of such structures 

conducted by the military services, including but not limited to findings and 

analysis regarding thermal efficiency, energy generation and use, modularity, and 

other required capabilities; a description of key requirements, such as billeting, 

medical, command and control, and humanitarian and disaster relief, that could be 

addressed by these structures across the military services; and a plan to develop 

and promulgate guidance throughout the Department of Defense regarding energy 

efficient structures in operational environments.

Corrosion Prevention for Improved Air Force Readiness

The committee recognizes the importance of efforts to minimize corrosion, 

decrease aerodynamic drag, and reduce environmental and occupational risks in 

aircraft operations. These efforts include the application of alternative coatings 

applied to aircraft, such as powder-applied coatings, that increase durability while 

minimizing hazardous air pollutants and volatile organic compounds. In addition, 

the committee recognizes the importance of innovative technologies that can rapidly 

and efficiently remove coatings, such as advanced laser technologies, that enable 

the safe and efficient repair and sustainment of aircraft skin made of metal or 

composite materials. In addition to surface coatings, adhesives and sealants are 

critical to providing corrosion protection and structural strength. Lighter weight 

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sealants can reduce aircraft weight, extending operational range and reducing fuel 

consumption. Furthermore, advances are being made in screening technologies to 

reduce the amount of time required to validate a material’s performance and 

incorporate it into aircraft maintenance strategy. The committee supports 

additional efforts that incorporate a range of targeted solutions designed to 

minimize corrosion and meet Air Force needs for manned and unmanned aircraft. 

The committee encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to support 

those efforts that improve operational capability and reduce the cost and amount of 

time required to sustain these weapon systems.

Innovative Engine Sustainment Wash-Down Management Program

 The committee notes that aircraft flown by the United States Navy and United 

States Marine Corps often fly in corrosive or dusty environments. As a result, 

contaminants adhere to the turbine blades behind the combustion chamber and 

could adversely affect engine performance or operation. The committee believes the 

Department of the Navy should assess what additional operational or maintenance 

actions could be taken to further to improve fuel efficiency and aircraft availability 

rates in these corrosive and dusty environments. The committee understands the 

Navy and Marine Corps must be able to operate independently worldwide and that 

targeted investments in energy efficiency enhance combat capability and reduce 

need for logistics support. The committee understands that maintenance practices 

and technologies exist for aircraft engine sustainment, to include using "washdown" 

processes, that could potentially improve fuel efficiency, extend the servicelife of 

engine components and in turn, improve overall aviation readiness.

 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services by September 28, 2018 on the 

advisability and feasibility of the establishment of a pilot program led by the 

Commander, U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to test new technologies 

and best practices in operational energy and resiliency for engine sustainment 

which reduces maintenance costs, improves aircraft availability rates, and lowers 

aircraft fuel consumption rates.

Leveraging Technology to Improve Equipment Readiness

The committee notes that readiness is defined by the Department of 

Defense as “the ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned 

missions” and is supported by personnel, training, and equipment readiness. 

Increasing and sustaining equipment readiness relies on balancing modernization 

initiatives with ensuring the proper maintenance, utilization, and sustainment of 

existing weapon systems. The committee is aware of innovative maintenance 

technologies and practices that may help reduce costs and the time that equipment 

and weapon systems are down for maintenance, while helping to maximize lifespan 

and operational availability rates. A significant amount of data can be captured 

through embedding diagnostic sensors and collecting operator observations, 

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enabling predictive analytic software to proactively identify pending maintenance 

issues. The committee encourages the service secretaries to seek additional 

opportunities to leverage innovative technologies and maintenance practices, either 

as demonstration projects or by incorporating them into a fleet maintenance plan, to 

increase maintenance responsiveness and the operational availability of weapon 

systems.

Life Cycle Costs of Major Defense Acquisition Programs

 The committee notes that section 2340 note of title 10, United States Code, 

requires the Department of Defense to ensure competition throughout the life cycle 

of major defense acquisition programs and the acquisition strategy for each major 

defense acquisition program includes measures to ensure competition or the option 

of competition and adequate documentation of the rationale for selection.

 Furthermore, the committee notes that section 2340 note of title 10 requires 

whenever a decision regarding source of repair results in a plan to award a contract 

for performance of maintenance and sustainment of a major weapon system or 

subsystem of a major weapon system, the Department shall take actions to ensure 

that, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with statutory 

requirements, contracts for such maintenance and sustainment are awarded on a 

competitive basis and give full considerations to all sources.

 The committee is concerned about the life cycle costs of major defense 

acquisition programs and how the Department's implementation of section 2340 

note of title 10 is impacting these associated program costs.

 The committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not 

later than December 1, 2018, on the Department's implementation of section 2340 

note of title 10. Specifically, the briefing will include the strategy for each major 

defense acquisition program, the measures taken to ensure competition at both the 

contract and subcontract level, and the impact of these measures on the life cycle 

costs for each major defense acquisition program. Additionally, the briefing will 

include for each major defense acquisition program the consideration of competition 

throughout the maintenance and sustainment phases.

Management of Navy Legacy F/A-18 Aircraft

The committee is aware of the Department of the Navy's intent to divest 

legacy F/A-18 aircraft when the majority of the F/A-18 aircraft inventory remains 

non-flyable due to maintenance backlogs and availability of spare parts. Further, 

these aircraft experience high physiological event rates. Even so, the committee was 

encouraged by the Navy's decision to award an alternative-source contract for F/A–

18 A/B/C/D depot-level maintenance to reduce the backlog of legacy F/A–18 depotlevel maintenance. This contract, awarded in February 2016, can help improve 

overall aviation readiness rates. The committee is concerned, however, that the 

Navy’s plan for managing the life cycle of the fleet is not clear. 

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Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by November 30, 2018, on the 

Navy’s plans for the F/A-18 legacy fleet. The briefing should address the divestiture 

plan for the F/A-18 aircraft and the rationale for divestiture. For the aircraft 

remaining, the briefing should address the readiness recovery plans, including 

plans to fully utilize the alternative-source depot-level maintenance contract.

Navy Next-Generation Small Arms Weapons Training and Readiness Requirements

The committee is concerned that after 5 years, the Navy has not developed 

a comprehensive plan to address significant small arms training shortfalls 

identified following the 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting. The committee 

reiterated these concerns in the committee report (H. Rept. 114-537) accompanying 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. The report directed 

the Navy to evaluate innovative, non-program-of-record small arms and crew-served 

training systems to improve Navy security force and fleetwide small arms tactical 

and crew-served training. The committee is aware of next-generation synthetic 

small arms training systems that can provide consistent, metrics-based proof of 

live-fire transfer across warfighter skill levels for individual and crew-served 

training. Such systems, which reduce ammunition expenditure and training time, 

have been demonstrated by the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The 

committee believes that these systems can improve reaction time and decision 

making under stress, skills critical to determining hostile intent and making 

escalation of force decisions. Given the benefits of these next-generation systems, 

the committee is concerned that the Navy has continued to rely on legacy 

simulation systems built for other services, without consideration of unique Navy 

small arms training and readiness requirements.

Therefore, the committee directs the Commander of U.S. Fleet Forces 

Command to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not 

later than November 30, 2018, regarding a comprehensive plan to meet small arms 

training requirements, how next-generation synthetic small arms training systems 

will be integrated into the comprehensive plan, and the Navy’s acquisition strategy 

to support small arms training requirements.

Navy Ship Maintenance and Repair

The committee is aware that the Navy changed its contracting strategy for 

ship maintenance and repair in 2013, moving away from the system used since 

2004. Despite this change, the Navy continues to experience delays in completing 

ship availabilities, leading to a reduction in the time a ship’s crew has to prepare for 

deployment. The committee appreciates the need to control costs and to resolve all 

emergent maintenance issues when a ship is in a maintenance availability. 

However, the committee is not persuaded that the Navy’s current Multiple Award 

Contract, Multiple Order (MAC-MO) mechanism is always the best contracting 

approach. The committee has learned of delays in renegotiating contracts while 

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vessels sit idle in the yard, as well as third party planning contractors not obtaining 

long lead time materials when needed. The committee is aware that the 

Comptroller General of the United States looked at similar issues, described in 

Government Accountability Office report GAO-17-54, issued in 2016.

 To better understand what adjustments may be needed to make 

improvements to the Navy’s ship maintenance and repair process, the committee 

directs the Comptroller General to:

(1) compare the Navy’s execution of the MAC-MO strategy against the 

previous Multi-Ship, Multi-Option strategy, with particular emphasis on cost, lost 

operational days, and on-time completion;

(2) assess the effectiveness of third party planners in the MAC-MO 

strategy, including their performance in developing stable well-defined 

requirements during advance planning; 

(3) assess the adequacy of the Navy’s structure for contract oversight; 

(4) assess the stability and viability of the ship repair industrial base, 

including private industry’s capacity to recruit and retain critically skilled workers 

and maintain safe and efficient facilities; and

(5) assess advantages, disadvantages, or key differences between the MACMO and Multi-Ship, Multi-Option strategy depending on the location where the 

work will be performed.

The committee directs the Comptroller General to submit a report to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representative by 

March 1, 2019, on these matters and recommendations to improve the Navy’s 

contracting process.

Supply of Aviation Parts and Spares

 The committee is concerned by the rate of non-mission capable aircraft due 

to issues with supply of parts and spares. The committee is aware of numerous 

examples of aircraft that have been non-mission capable for several months waiting 

for the arrival of a part. Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services not later than September 30, 2018, on the 

Department's efforts to address issues associated with the availability and supply of 

aviation parts and spares. At minimum, the briefing should provide an update on 

the rate of non-mission capable aircraft due to supply, specific actions the 

Department is taking to decrease this rate, and commercial and industry bestpractices for maintenance and supply that may be adopted as part of an overall 

strategy to improve aircraft mission capability rates.

READINESS ISSUES

Additive Manufacturing in Depot Facilities

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The committee is encouraged by the progress that depots and arsenals in 

each military department are making in developing additive manufacturing 

capabilities. The committee understands that this capability allows depots to 

quickly manufacture parts that are no longer available from commercial suppliers, 

allowing rapid repair of essential operational equipment. However, there remains 

substantial room across each of the services to add more additive manufacturing 

capacity. Additionally, the committee has observed little commonality across the 

Department of Defense in addressing intellectual property issues associated with 

this process. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services not later than December 3, 2018, on a strategy 

to further integrate additive manufacturing capabilities into industrial facilities 

across the Department to speed parts production, return equipment to the force, 

and improve material readiness. The briefing should also address progress in 

resolving legal and patent questions around use of additive manufacturing.

Adversary Air Training

The committee notes that the budget request contained increased funds for 

the Air Force to provide more adversary air contracted support for Red Flag 

exercises, Warfighter Integration Center, and combat air force fighter formal 

training unit locations. The committee also notes that the budget request contained 

increased funds for the Navy to provide adversary air support at specialized schools 

including the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center. The committee supports these 

efforts to contract for adversary air training to aid aviation readiness recovery. 

Contract support will make more combat-coded pilots available for operational 

duties rather than adversary air training missions and reduce the number of 

training hours being placed on airframes. In acquiring contracted services for 

adversary air, the committee encourages the Secretary of the Air Force and the 

Secretary of the Navy to maximize competition and ensure the contracts provide

flexibility to adjust to emerging training requirements. Finally, the committee 

encourages the Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of the Navy to seek 

opportunities to coordinate adversary air requirements to reduce overall costs and 

maximize the support to aviation readiness recovery of both departments.

Army Soldier and Squad Virtual Trainer

The committee commends the Army's decision to replace its legacy small 

arms simulation trainer and call for fire trainer with an advanced Soldier and 

Squad Virtual Trainer (S/SVT) program to achieve next-generation synthetic small 

arms, call for fire, use of force, and close quarters combat training and readiness 

objectives. The committee believes continued improvement of these systems is 

essential to future success of small units on the battlefield. The committee believes 

the Army should consider key capabilities such as the use of biometrics, advanced 

human performance techniques, cognitive drills, and robust data collection to verify 

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soldier improvement. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to 

provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than 

December 3, 2018, that details the status of the Army's plan for S/SVT and how key 

capability and system requirements currently projected by the Army are being 

accounted for, and will be implemented, in the final S/SVT program in order to 

sustain readiness.

Assessment of Navy Standard Workweek

The committee notes that the Navy's Comprehensive Review identified 

fatigue and ineffective crew rest management in the four mishaps that occurred in 

the Western Pacific in 2017. As noted in the review, "if crewmembers are overly 

fatigued, mission accomplishment, performance, and safety are in jeopardy." The 

Comprehensive Review went on to recommend the Navy establish a comprehensive 

fatigue management policy, and a circadian ship and watch rotation for surface 

ships. 

The committee directs the Chief of Naval Operations to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 30, 2018, that 

identifies how Chief of Naval Operations Instructions, and other relevant policy 

documents, have been updated to implement the recommendations of the 

Comprehensive Review and address crew fatigue, watch rotations, and overall 

workload for crewmembers of surface ships.

Availability and Sufficiency of Training Ranges to Conduct Training against NearPeer Adversaries

To build and sustain full-spectrum combat readiness, the military services 

must train on ranges that replicate the capabilities of near-peer adversaries. Such 

training requires ranges with sizable land, sea, and air space to accommodate the 

tactics of modern systems and weapons. In addition, modern war demands 

extensive training on weapons employment and target identification, as potential 

adversaries possess complex air defenses and highly sophisticated electronic 

countermeasures. However, training ranges lack sufficient capability and capacity 

to support full-spectrum training requirements, including the replication of nearpeer adversaries’ capabilities. Further, because of the strategic significance of 

forward-deployed and rotational forces, building overseas training range 

capabilities is becoming more important to sustaining full-spectrum readiness.

The committee is concerned that the Department of Defense's training 

range infrastructure is not keeping up with the demand to support full-spectrum 

training requirements. Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of 

the United States to assess the following:

(1) the extent to which the Department of Defense has identified the 

current capacity of training range infrastructure to meet the military services’ 

demand for range access;

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(2) the extent to which the Department of Defense has evaluated the 

training range infrastructure to determine whether it is sufficient to conduct 

training against near-peer adversary capabilities; and

(3) the extent to which the Department of Defense has developed a 

comprehensive strategy and investment plan to improve the availability and 

sufficiency of training ranges to meet the Department’s training needs.

The committee further directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than February 1, 2019, on the 

findings of this review and to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees on a date agreed to at the time of the briefing.

Briefing on Security Forces Assistance Brigade Location Plan

 The committee recognizes that a future Security Forces Assistance Brigade 

(SFAB) construct should highly encourage an expansion of alliances and 

partnerships as called for in the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services, not later than January 1, 2019, on the strategic 

alignment decision matrix and installations plan for the fielding of the Security 

Forces Assistance Brigades. The plan shall include an assessment of the feasibility 

and advisability of stationing SFABs appropriately to address the requirements of 

the geographic combatant commands.

CONUS Training Facilities

In support of the Department of State's Anti-Terrorism-Assistance 

program, many commercial companies created state of the art CONUS training 

facilities that provided critical skills to deployable personnel. However, these 

CONUS training facilities are now being underutilized due to an increased tendency 

to conduct training OCONUS. These training facilities have successfully increased 

readiness and contributed to overall mission success through partnerships with 

programs such as U.S. Military Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands (APH) as well as U.S. 

Military Observer Group (USMOG). The committee is aware of the excess capacity 

available at these commercial training facilities and encourages the Department of 

Defense and Department of State to use them to further enhance anti-terrorism 

training. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretary of State, to provide a report by March 1, 2019 detailing the 

requirement for all services to conduct enhanced and critical skills training. In 

addition, this report should detail the feasibility of using CONUS facilities to 

conduct this antiterrorism training and identify any training backlogs and any 

facility infrastructure shortfalls that exist in order to accomplish this type of 

training.

Entry Control Facility Technology

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The committee remains concerned about the physical security of U.S. 

military facilities, both in the continental United States as well as abroad. Entry 

control points at such facilities are particularly vulnerable and require special 

attention and protection. The committee recognizes the need to continually assess 

new technology and develop enhanced entry control options in order to protect 

Department of Defense facilities against evolving adversarial technologies, such as 

drones and autonomous vehicles. The committee encourages the service secretaries 

to seek additional opportunities to leverage innovative technologies and research 

and development in order to enhance overall security, reduce military construction 

requirements, reduce annual operation and maintenance costs, increase joint 

interoperability, and protect valuable resources.

Foreign Language Readiness

The committee believes that a globally engaged military force requires an 

adequate number of personnel trained and proficient in foreign languages. The 

committee notes the significant number of personnel who attend the Defense 

Language Institute–Foreign Language Center, the John F. Kennedy Special 

Warfare Center and School, and other foreign language training programs each 

year, as well as the global allocation of linguists among the geographic combatant 

command areas of responsibility. The committee believes these institutions can be 

augmented by innovative online programs conducted as a traditional classroom, 

with a live instructor engaging a small student group. Such programs reduce the 

need for travel and have proven more effective than self-paced instruction. The 

committee also notes efforts by the Department of Defense to recruit and utilize 

native speakers of critical languages to support combatant command requirements. 

Despite the critical requirements for foreign language expertise in certain career 

fields, the committee is concerned that the overall foreign language readiness of the 

total force is not adequately documented and assessed. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel and Readiness to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than March 1, 2019, that assesses the foreign language readiness 

of the total force. The briefing shall address the required number of personnel 

trained and proficient in foreign languages, the current number of personnel 

trained and proficient in foreign languages, and the distribution of linguist 

personnel to the appropriate combatant commands; identify any gaps in foreign 

language readiness to include specific shortfalls in critical languages and 

mitigations to address those gaps; and assess the current foreign language training, 

education, and proficiency testing programs.

Forward Deployed Naval Force Ship Maintenance and Repair Capacity

The committee notes that since 2006, the Navy has doubled the number of 

surface ships assigned to overseas homeports, with more than 14 percent of the 

Navy's ships based at ports in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Italian Republic, the 

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Kingdom of Spain, and Japan. The committee also notes that combatant 

commander demand for naval presence drives the Navy to base ships at overseas 

ports. However, the extent to which the Navy has the capacity for ship maintenance 

and repairs overseas is not clear. 

To assess that capacity, the committee directs the Comptroller General of 

the United States to review the following:

(1) ship maintenance and repair capacity overseas in either U.S. ports or 

foreign repair yards;

(2) to what extent has the Navy identified and taken action to address its 

overseas maintenance requirements; 

(3) to what extent has the Navy identified the underlying causes of overseas 

maintenance overruns;

(4) mitigation options to address any maintenance shortfalls; and

(5) any other issues the Comptroller General determines appropriate with 

respect to forward deployed naval force ship maintenance and repair capacity.

The committee further directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than November 12, 2018, on 

the Comptroller General's preliminary findings and to submit a final report to the 

congressional defense committees on a date agreed to at the time of the briefing.

Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment Training

The committee notes that the Navy has used game-based learning concepts 

and immersive virtual shipboard environment (IVSE) training for select watch 

stations aboard Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The committee understands that

IVSE courses offer scalable solutions that have led to faster qualification and 

certification times, a higher degree of training proficiency, and increased knowledge 

retention. The committee notes that the Navy's Strategic Readiness Review 

recognized that the Navy must "foster a culture of learning and create the 

structures and processes that fully embrace this commitment" in order to restore 

readiness, yet the Navy has made little progress in adopting proven methods to 

cultivate the learning culture.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than September 28, 

2018, on the Navy's plans to improve training. The briefing should:

(1) identify training benefits and lessons learned from the Navy’s 

experience with game-based learning concepts and IVSE training for LCS watch 

stations;

(2) outline a plan, including associated timelines, for applying such training 

to Navy and Marine Corps training requirements across all naval surface ship 

platforms in alignment with the Chief of Naval Operations’ tenet of achieving highvelocity learning using 21st century technology;

(3) identify discrete mission areas where insufficient assets are available to 

provide traditional training to achieve full-spectrum readiness and where IVSE 

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would improve watch-station training, including training for new platform 

development programs, coastal riverine operations, and amphibious operations; and

(4) provide a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 

House of Representatives by March 1, 2019 on the advisability and feasibility of 

procuring, altering, or otherwise modifying the Navy's bridge simulators, including 

the Navigation, Seamanship, and Shiphandling Trainer, to enable high-fidelity 

physical representation of the different bridge layouts, characteristics, and 

operating environments of ships across the fleet.

Information Operations

The committee understands the growing importance of space and cyber 

operations in military operations and in another provision elsewhere in this Act 

directed the Secretary of Defense to report readiness to conduct operations in the 

space and cyber domains. The committee believes that information operations are 

similarly becoming a major factor in military planning and that operational skill in 

conducting information operations will be critical to future military success. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to assess the value of 

measuring and regularly reporting the readiness of the joint force to conduct 

information operations and report his recommendations to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by January 31, 

2019.

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training Solution Enhancements

The committee recognizes the important role that live training systems play 

as part of a comprehensive effort to improve readiness. The committee is aware the 

Army and Marine Corps are planning for the use of live, virtual, and constructive 

(LVC) simulation training systems that emphasize joint interoperability. However, 

the committee is concerned that despite recent progress advancing such LVC 

capabilities there remain challenges in both fielding and integrating live training 

devices with both individual and collective training objectives. Additional challenges 

occur when planned upgrades to new and existing vehicle platforms occur without 

the corresponding modifications to the training systems. The committee believes 

that the acquisition and fielding of training systems must be synchronized with the 

procurement, fielding, and modernization of weapon systems to ensure the services’ 

overall training objectives are supported in a coordinated and cost-effective manner. 

In addition, the committee encourages the military departments to ensure that new 

LVC training systems are interoperable with both the joint force infrastructure and 

the advanced training systems of key allied nations and coalition partners. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the 

Secretary of the Navy, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than December 3, 2018, on the plans of the Army and Marine 

Corps to utilize live training systems as part of readiness recovery and long-term 

training efforts. The briefing should address the plans and timelines for fielding live 

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training systems and synchronizing such efforts with the fielding or modernization 

of weapon systems and efforts to ensure such systems are interoperable with our 

military partners and allies.

Military Working Dog Capacity and Facilities

The committee is aware that military working dogs are a critical enabler to 

both facility and operational force security and that the operational need continues 

to grow. The committee is concerned about the average age of the military working 

dog population and the capacity to train and access new dogs and handlers to meet 

future requirements. Additionally, the committee notes that investments in military 

working dog facilities have not kept pace with the increased demand for military 

working dogs. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force, as the 

executive agent for the military working dog program, to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services not later than December 1, 2018, that 

addresses:

(1) the total current and future requirement for military working dogs, 

handlers, and instructors by mission capability;

(2) the total number of military working dogs and handlers currently 

available for operational tasking by mission capability; 

(3) an assessment of the condition and capacity of military working dog 

facilities to support current and future requirements, to include the ability to 

provide adequate medical care as well as meet mission training requirements; and

(4) an assessment of capability gaps and plans to mitigate these gaps, 

including programmed investments.

Modeling and Simulation for Training, Exercises, and Joint Planning

 The committee recognizes that the defense modeling and simulation 

technological and industrial base, including in academia, industry, and government, 

is an important national security asset. The committee appreciates that the 

Department of Defense continues to use modeling and simulation technologies 

across the spectrum of defense activities, including for training, exercises, and joint 

planning activities. The committee encourages the military services and the 

combatant commanders to maximize the use of modeling and simulation, including 

in service, joint, and combined exercises; in joint planning for theater operations

and contingencies that cannot be accurately planned for by other means; and in the 

development of options for senior leadership at the strategic level. 

The committee believes it is important for Congress to have a clearer 

understanding of the benefits and impacts of the Department's use of modeling and 

simulation. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

report to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than November 30, 

2018 on the effects of integrating modeling and simulation into the review and 

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development of operational plans, joint training and exercises, and high-priority 

security cooperation initiatives.

Modernization and Integration of Major Range and Test Facilities Bases

 The committee notes a lack of consistent policy and standardized processes 

within the Department of Defense to guide the Director of Operational Test and 

Evaluation and the Director of Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) in 

scheduling systems utilized by shared military test and training ranges. The 

committee is concerned that lack of standardization fails to optimize these vital 

resources nor accommodate joint force utilization. Therefore, the committee directs 

the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than January 23, 2019, on its plan to standardize major range 

and test facilities bases (MRTFB) scheduling. At a minimum, the briefing should:

 (1) identify processes to standardize and integrate current scheduling systems

between the joint users of MRTFB ranges and facilities;

 (2) identify process that efficiently integrates next generation aircraft avionics,

propulsion and weapons systems test and training;

 (3) optimizes use and capacity of training range land and airspace between

competing needs; and,

 (4) provide recommendations on metrics and methods which will ensure each

service has an equal opportunity to test and train on MRTFB.

Surface Fleet Live Fire Training

The committee recognizes the Navy's desire to increase fleet readiness 

training and exercise ship systems before deployment by including live-firing of 

missiles in pre-deployment training exercises. The committee also notes the Navy's 

Standard Missile-3 Block IA inventory is approaching the end of service life. 

Furthermore, the committee is aware that in lieu of demilitarization, the Navy 

intends to assess repurposing these missiles to conduct live-fire readiness training 

using shipboard ballistic missile defense systems. The committee encourages this 

initiative and directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services not later than November 5, 2018, on the Navy's 

progress in making SM-3 Block IA missiles approaching the end of their service life 

available for live-fire readiness training for ships and crews.

Universal Camouflage Inventory and Overdye Technology

The committee notes the Army’s transition from Universal Camouflage 

Pattern (UCP) to Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) for soldier uniforms and 

personal equipment, even though the Army possesses a substantial inventory of 

now obsolete UCP products. The committee is also aware of Program Executive 

Office Soldier's efforts to evaluate overdye technologies and processes. This 

evaluation could validate processes that could alter UCP printed products into a 

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color palette that blends with the new camouflage prints, allowing the Army to 

conserve resources by overdying UCP materials for use with OCP patterned 

equipment. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services not later than August 31, 2018, that includes 

any current efforts to repurpose and field UCP personal equipment, any evaluations 

of overdye technologies and processes, and a business case analysis of fielding these 

overdye technologies and processes.

OTHER MATTERS

Air Refueling Capability and Capacity

The committee notes that air refueling capability is a critical component of 

logistical capacity and that the Air National Guard fulfills the majority of air 

refueling requirements. The committee notes that section 144 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) required the 

Secretary of Defense to carry out a mobility capability and requirements study that 

includes an assessment of the air refueling tanker aircraft military requirement. 

Upon completion of the study, the committee is interested in how the Air Force will 

support the requirements for force structure and strategic laydown of aircraft 

necessary to implement the study. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than March 1, 2019, 

on how the Air Force will support the requirements for aerial refueling. At a 

minimum, the briefing shall include: 

(1) the current and future laydown plans for air refueling locations;

(2) an overview of air refueling operations per air refueling wing locations 

to include the number of sortie requests, the number of sorties fulfilled, and the 

locations or missions the sorties supported;

(3) fully mission capable and aircraft availability rates for all air refueling 

wings over the past 5 years;

(4) an assessment of how the Air National Guard force structure, across all 

States and territories, can be leveraged to support current and emerging air 

refueling requirements;

(5) a description of the long-term plan to maintain adequate refueling 

capability to meet current and emerging requirements;

(6) a review of manpower levels across the air refueling force, an 

identification of current and projected skill set gaps, and recommendations on how 

to address these gaps; and

(7) an overview of how the Air Force will determine the disposition of KC135 aircraft as they are replaced by arrival of KC-46 aircraft.

Disposition of Excess Military Ground Vehicles

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The committee notes that the Defense Logistics Agency's Disposition 

Services is responsible for disposing of excess property received from the military 

services. Excess military property is screened for reutilization within the 

Department of Defense; transfer to other Federal agencies; donation to State and 

local governments, or other qualified organizations; or sale to the general public. As 

part of the screening process, Disposition Services must assess demilitarization 

(DEMIL) requirements for the excess property to prevent unauthorized use or the 

compromise of national security. For ground vehicles, such DEMIL requirements 

can range from the removal of certain parts and components to the full mutilation 

and scrapping of the vehicle. The committee is aware of concerns that types of 

ground vehicles heretofore available for donation are now consigned to scrap. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with the Commander of the Defense 

Logistics Agency, to submit a report to the congressional defense committees by 

February 1, 2019, regarding the disposition of military ground vehicles. 

The report should include classes and types of Department of Defense 

military ground vehicles eligible to be considered in the donation and sale program 

and explanation of the DEMIL codes used in the determination process. 

Additionally, the report should outline the DEMIL code determination process for 

ground vehicles, whether applicable polices were followed when ground vehicles 

previously made available to State and local governments or civilian military 

museums have instead been scrapped, and steps taken to reevaluate current 

policies and practices. Finally, the report should include measures taken by the 

Disposal Services program to improve transparency so that State and local 

governments or civilian military museums have appropriate access to ground 

vehicles. 

Fluorine-Free Fire Fighting Foam

The committee is aware that the military departments are in the process of 

replacing legacy aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) with an AFFF that does not 

contain perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) compounds. In addition, the committee is 

aware the Department of Defense has undertaken research and development efforts 

related to fluorine-free AFFF. The committee encourages the Department to 

accelerate such efforts, to the extent possible. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment to 

provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than March 

1, 2019, on the progress made towards development and fielding of a fluorine-free 

AFFF that meets military requirements. At minimum, the briefing should 

summarize research and development initiatives on fluorine-free AFFF that have 

been funded by the Department of Defense to date, a summary of the current status 

and findings of such initiatives, and what additional research and development may 

be required prior to fielding a fluorine-free AFFF.

Improving Water Security and Efficiency on Installations

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Efficient facilities are critical for the support, redeployment, and operation 

of military forces. While some installations have done great work to improve water 

efficiency, the Committee is concerned that the military may not be maximizing

strategic use of water resources at all installations, and that this could be adding 

unnecessary costs that could be more effectively used elsewhere. Furthermore, 

water security is a vital component of installation readiness.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

report on innovative ways to reduce water use across installations in order to 

strengthen base readiness through improved water security, and to identify 

opportunities to replicate across installations some of the successful water-saving 

tactics already being deployed at some bases, such as planting more native species 

and increasing use of gray water systems. The report shall be submitted to the 

House Committee on Armed Services, not later than March 1, 2019.

 

Joint Navy-Coast Guard Arctic Strategy

 The Navy and the Coast Guard currently produce their own Arctic strategies. 

The Committee believes the absence of a joint strategy stands in contradiction to 

the Secretary of Defense's National Defense Strategy, calling for greater integration 

of a joint force and renewed attention on more traditional peer competitors, namely 

Russia and China. Therefore, the committee directs the Chief of Naval Operations 

and the Commandant of the Coast Guard to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure by September 30, 2018 that provides a framework for a joint strategy 

integrating all components of the Navy and Coast Guard Arctic mission sets and 

providing adequate vessel and aircraft resource allocation allowing for the United 

States to effectively advance security and commercial interests in the region. The 

briefing should take into consideration the Arctic's relevance in the Navy's 

configuration of a 355 vessel fleet and identify proper Navy and Coast Guard 

resource allocation to that effect.

Meeting Readiness Requirements Efficiently

 The House Armed Services Committee is concerned that the number of 

mandatory training and administrative requirements for Service members of the 

Department of Defense, and the burden that they maintain a multitude of different 

accounts on different systems to accomplish an array of administrative and training 

mandatory requirements especially for Reserve Component Service members, 

impedes their ability to efficiently achieve worldwide deployment readiness. The 

Committee is aware that, for example, the U.S. Navy Reserve maintains no fewer 

than ten different computer systems that service members must regularly use. 

 The Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation is directed to submit 

to the congressional defense committees a report by April 1, 2019, detailing the 

costs incurred by each military service to maintain each training and 

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administrative personnel system, particularly computerized systems, and options to 

consolidate these systems to save taxpayer money, reduce the burden on military 

members, and promote readiness.

Motorcycle Safety Training

The committee is aware that each of the armed services conducts 

motorcycle safety training before allowing service members to operate a motorcycle 

on base. The committee applauds this training and encourages the Department of 

Defense to continue. The committee has learned that nine States, including several 

with large military installations, have imposed unique training requirements that 

go beyond those contained in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 

compliant curriculum. The committee has also learned that the Air Force and 

Coast Guard adjust their training to meet unique State requirements, while the 

Departments of the Army and Navy do not, forcing soldiers, sailors, and marines to 

seek and pay for the added required training individually. The committee 

encourages the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to review the adequacy of 

motorcycle safety training in their respective military departments to ease the 

burden on soldiers, sailors, and marines. 

Open-Air Disposal of Munitions and Munition Constituents

The committee remains concerned about the Department of Defense's 

continued reliance on open burning and open detonation for the demilitarization of 

excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions by its industrial depots rather than 

using alternative contained technologies. While the committee recognizes the 

Department may have a need to retain some open burning and open detonation 

capability for explosive safety reasons, the committee is aware of the Department’s 

efforts to reduce its use of open burning and open detonation. Section 1421 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) 

directed the Secretary of the Army to enter into an arrangement with the Board on 

Army Science and Technology of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 

and Medicine to conduct a study of the conventional munitions demilitarization 

program of the Department of Defense. The intent of this study was to better 

understand the Department’s current procedures, its rationale for using open 

burning and open detonation, and the status and suitability of alternative 

technologies in use or under development to reduce the Department’s reliance on 

open burning and open detonation. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later than 90 days after 

the date on which the National Academy of Science releases its report, on the 

actions the Army intends to take in response to the National Academy of Science 

committee’s recommendations.

Physical Security at U.S. Shipyards

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The committee believes it is important to ensure the safety and security of 

personnel and Navy vessels undergoing maintenance in public and private shipyard 

facilities. While the security of the public shipyards is the responsibility of the 

Navy, the committee understands that private shipyards must meet specific 

requirements for physical security barriers, perimeter and waterfront access 

control, security forces, patrol craft, and other security measures while performing 

work on Navy vessels. The committee notes there are certain locations where 

private shipyards are near or adjacent to a Navy installation or to another shipyard 

performing work on Navy vessels. In such cases, each shipyard is required to 

individually meet the security requirements associated with a repair contract. The 

costs associated with these security requirements are ultimately passed back to the 

government through the cost of the repair contract. Therefore, the committee 

encourages the Secretary of the Navy to examine this issue and work with private 

shipyards to find opportunities to meet security requirements in a more 

collaborative and cost-effective way at shipyards that are near or adjacent to a Navy 

installation or another shipyard performing work on Navy vessels.

Quality of Life at Remote Sites

The committee notes that the Army and other military services operate 

several installations at isolated locations in the western United States. Some Army 

examples include Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada; 

and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. These remote locations are usually 

staffed with small populations, presenting financial solvency challenges for morale, 

welfare, and recreation (MWR) business activities of the Department of the Army. 

As a result, there are few MWR activities, shopping venues, or dining options on or 

near the installation to support the daily working population of military personnel, 

Federal civilian personnel, contract employees, and family members. The 

committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to review the quality of life 

support options for all those who work at such installations and develop a plan for 

improvement. 

Regional Biosecurity Plan

The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit to the Committees on Armed

Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, at the same time as the 

President submits the budget for a fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31, 

United States Code, a report describing the activities of the Department of Defense 

during the preceding fiscal year to implement the Regional Biosecurity Plan for 

Micronesia and Hawaii, which is a strategic plan led by the Department of Defense 

in collaboration with other Federal and non-Federal entities to prevent and control 

the introduction of invasive species in the United States Pacific region. The 

Department of Defense's report shall also include next steps and planned activities 

of the Department for further implementation of the plan, including estimates of 

additional funding to be used or needed for such next steps and planned activities.

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Review of Household Good Weight Allowances

The committee believes that service members should pursue intellectual 

development by reading thoughtful books related to the military profession. Indeed, 

the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each Service Chief maintains active 

professional reading lists to encourage military members to read as part of 

professional development. The committee further recognizes that a growing 

number of military families opt for home schooling as a means to provide stability to 

children’s education. The committee notes that the current household good 

movement weight allowance for military professional gear is 2,000 pounds for 

military members and 500 pounds for dependent spouses. Professional gear 

includes a range of items including books, uniforms, and technical equipment. The 

committee understands that Joint Travel Regulation 051304 modified the allowable 

weight credit computation for professional gear and definition of professional gear. 

The committee is concerned that the household good professional gear weight 

allowance and allowable weight credit computation is insufficient to support 

increasingly educated workforce and military families who homeschool; therefore, 

the committee directs the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command in 

coordination with the military departments and the Defense Travel Management 

Office to provide an briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later 

than August 31, 2018, on the household goods weight allowances. This briefing shall 

include, at a minimum:

 (1) A summary of the most recent assessment of weight allowance 

requirements 

 (2) Any changes to the household weight allowance for professional gear for

the previous ten years

 (3) A review of complaints from service members on professional gear weight 

allowances and actions taken to address these concerns

 (4) Any recommended policy changes and actions.

Review of Mandatory Training Required by Law

The committee is encouraged by recent initiatives across the military 

services to review and reduce mandatory administrative training requirements. 

Such mandates consume time and resources of operational unit leaders and troops 

and should only be required when necessary to improve the readiness of the force. 

This issue is especially acute in the Reserve Components, with limited training 

days. The committee recognizes that such requirements are generated from within 

the Department of Defense as well as through legislative mandates and statutes. 

The committee intends to review current military training mandates that arise from 

statute for possible repeal and would welcome the views of the Secretary of Defense. 

To that end, the committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to provide a list of 

any legal mandates to conduct training to the House Committee on Armed Services, 

accompanied by his recommendation of any that should be repealed.

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LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 301—Authorization of Appropriations

This section would authorize appropriations for operation and maintenance 

activities at the levels identified in section 4301 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Section 311—Inclusion of Consideration of Energy and Climate Resiliency Efforts in 

Master Plans for Major Military Installations

This section would amend section 2864 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require energy and climate resiliency efforts to be considered in installation master 

plans to ensure the ability to sustain mission-critical operations.

Section 312—Use of Proceeds from Sales of Electrical Energy Derived from 

Geothermal Resources for Projects at Military Installations Where Resources Are 

Located 

 This section would amend section 2916 of title 10, United States Code, to enable 

certain proceeds from the sale of electrical energy generated from a geothermal 

energy resource to be used for installation energy or water security projects at the 

military installation in which the geothermal energy resource is located.

Section 313—Extension of Authorized Periods of Permitted Incidental Takings of 

Marine Mammals in the Course of Specified Activities by Department of Defense

 This section would amend section 1371 of title 16, United States Code, to 

extend the period the Secretary of Interior may authorize the incidental taking of 

marine mammals by the Department of Defense from 5 years to 10 years if the 

Secretary finds that such takings will have a negligible impact on any marine 

mammal species.

Section 314—State Management and Conservation of Species

 This section would prohibit listing of the Greater Sage-Grouse and the Lesser 

Prairie-Chicken under the Endangered Species Act for a 10-year period. This 

section would also provide that the previous such listing of the American Burying 

Beetle may not be enforced or reinstated.

SUBTITLE C—LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT

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Section 321—Examination of Naval Vessels

This section would amend section 7304 of title 10, United States Code, to 

provide that examinations of naval vessels performed under the authority of that 

section after October 1, 2019, shall be conducted on a no notice basis. This section 

would also provide that reports detailing the results of such inspections be 

unclassified and available to the public.

Section 322—Overhaul and Repair of Naval Vessels in Foreign Shipyards

This section would amend section 7310 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require naval vessels that do not have a homeport be treated as being homeported 

in the United States or Guam with regard to repair and maintenance of those 

vessels. Additionally, this section would define the term voyage repair.

Section 323—Limitation on Length of Overseas Forward Deployment of Naval 

Vessels

This section would add a new section to chapter 633 of title 10, United 

States Code, that would require the Secretary of the Navy to limit the time a naval 

vessel is forward deployed overseas to 10 years. This section would permit the 

Secretary to waive the 10-year requirement for individual naval vessels with 

notification to the congressional defense committees. This section would further 

provide that all currently forward deployed naval ships which have exceeded 10 

years of service overseas shall have 3 years to return to a U.S. homeport. Finally, 

this section would require the Secretary to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on his rotation plan 

for forward deployed naval ships.

Section 324—Temporary Modification of Workload Carryover Formula

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to modify the workload 

carryover calculation formula for each military department depot or arsenal 

through September 30, 2021. These modifications would reflect the timing of 

enacted appropriations and the varying repair cycle times of the workload 

supported, and apply in addition to current Department of Defense carryover 

exemptions. 

Section 325—Limitation on Use of Funds for Implementation of Elements of Master 

Plan for Redevelopment of Former Ship Repair Facility in Guam

This section would provide that none of the funds authorized to be 

appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019 for the 

Navy, may be obligated or expended for any construction, alteration, repair, or 

development of the real property consisting of the Former Ship Repair Facility in 

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Guam unless such project directly supports depot-level ship maintenance 

capabilities, to include the mooring of a floating dry dock.

Section 326—Business Case Analysis for Proposed Relocation of J85 Engine 

Regional Repair Center

This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to prepare a 

business case analysis for the proposed relocation of the J85 Engine Regional 

Repair Center. This section would also withhold funding for the proposed relocation 

until 150 days after the Secretary of the Air Force has provided the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the 

business case analysis.

Section 327—Army Advanced and Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to establish a Center 

of Excellence on Advanced and Additive Manufacturing at an arsenal and authorize 

use of public-private partnerships and other transactional activity to facilitate the 

development of advanced and additive manufacturing techniques in support of 

Army industrial facilities.

SUBTITLE D—REPORTS

Section 331—Matters for Inclusion in Quarterly Reports on Personnel and Unit 

Readiness 

This section would amend section 482 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of Defense and each military service to report appropriate 

readiness metrics for cyber and space operations in the existing periodic reporting 

requirement. This section would further amend section 482 to require combatant 

commanders to assess their readiness to conduct operations in a multidomain 

battle, integrating ground, air, sea, space, and cyber forces.

Section 332—Annual Comptroller General Reviews of Readiness of Armed Forces to 

Conduct Full Spectrum Operations

This section would require the Comptroller General of the United States to 

assess the readiness of the Armed Forces in the warfighting domains of ground, sea,

air, space, and cyber annually through 2022. The assessment would be based on 

metrics established by the Secretary of Defense and validated by the Comptroller 

General, to allow the committee to assess readiness status over time. While the 

Comptroller General may submit classified reports, unclassified versions of the 

reports should also be provided.

The committee understands that military readiness is a result of a 

commander’s skillful integration of available military personnel, equipment, 

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supplies, and individual and collective training opportunities. The committee 

recognizes that readiness has suffered in all military services in recent years, driven 

by the erosive effects of the Budget Control Act and the unceasing demand for forces 

in various theaters of operation. The committee believes that the military services 

should demonstrate measurable readiness recovery with the additional 

appropriations made in fiscal year 2017, the additional appropriations made 

available in fiscal year 2018, as well as funding authorized for fiscal year 2019 in 

this Act.

Section 333—Surface Warfare Training Improvement

This section would express the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the 

Navy should establish an assessment process for surface warfare officers prior to 

operational tour assignments and that the Secretary should expand the 

International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping 

(STCW) qualification process for surface warfare officers and enlisted navigation 

watch team personnel to improve seamanship and navigation aboard Navy vessels. 

Further, this section would require the Secretary of the Navy to provide a report on 

surface warfare officer credentialing, training, and assessment to the congressional 

defense committees not later than March 1, 2019.

Section 334—Report on Optimizing Surface Navy Vessel Inspections and Crew 

Certifications

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to provide a report on 

optimizing surface navy vessel inspections and crew certifications to reduce 

redundancies and the burden of inspection type visits that ships undergo. Further, 

this section would require the Secretary of the Navy to provide an interim briefing 

to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 

Representatives not later than January 31, 2019, on matters to be included in the 

required report. 

The committee notes that following the collisions involving U.S. Navy ships 

in the western Pacific, the Navy conducted a comprehensive review of recent surface 

force incidents. The committee also notes that the Navy's "Comprehensive Review of 

Recent Surface Force Incidents" identified an overabundance of inspections, 

certifications, and that "ships can be subjected to as many as 238 separate 

inspection, certification, and assist visits in a 36 month period." The Navy's 

"Strategic Readiness Review" of these incidents further identified that there "has 

been a dramatic increase in the operating tempo of individual ships, and 

accompanying reductions in the time available to perform maintenance, training, 

and readiness certification." The "Strategic Readiness Review" went on to note that 

"sufficient time for training crews and maintaining ships is critical for restoring and 

monitoring readiness."

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Given the continued operational demand on the fleet, the committee 

believes that the Navy should reduce the burden of inspection type visits that ships 

undergo.

SUBTITLE E—OTHER MATTERS

Section 341—Coast Guard Representation on Explosive Safety Board

This section would amend section 172 of title 10, United States Code, to 

provide that an officer of the Coast Guard serve as a voting member of the explosive 

safety board.

Section 342—Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's 

Crossroads Battlefield Designation

This section would modify the boundary of the Shiloh National Military 

Park located in Tennessee and Mississippi, to establish Parker’s Crossroads 

Battlefield as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

Section 343—Sense of Congress Regarding Critical Minerals

This section would express the sense of Congress that aggregates, copper, 

molybendum, gold, zinc, nickel, lead, silver, and certain fertilizer compounds should 

be added to the "critical minerals list" ordered by Executive Order 13817.

TITLE IV—MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—ACTIVE FORCES

Section 401—End Strengths for Active Forces

This section would authorize the following end strengths for Active Duty 

personnel of the Armed Forces as of September 30, 2019: 

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Sec. 401. 

Service FY 2018 

Authorized 

FY 2019 Change from 

Request 

Committee 

Recommendation 

FY 2019 

Request 

FY 2018 

Authorized 

Army ............................................................................... 483,500 487,500 487,500 0 4,000 

Navy ................................................................................ 327,900 335,400 335,400 0 7,500 

USMC .............................................................................. 186,000 186,100 186,100 0 100 

Air Force ......................................................................... 325,100 329,100 329,100 0 4,000 

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Section 402—Revisions in Permanent Active Duty End Strength Minimum Levels

This section would establish new minimum Active Duty end strengths for 

the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force as of September 30, 2019. The 

committee recommends 487,500 as the minimum Active Duty end strength for the 

Army, 335,400 as the minimum Active Duty end strength for the Navy, 186,100 as 

the minimum Active Duty end strength for the Marine Corps, and 329,100 as the 

minimum Active Duty end strength for the Air Force.

SUBTITLE B—RESERVE FORCES

Section 411—End Strengths for Selected Reserve

This section would authorize the following end strengths for Selected 

Reserve personnel, including the end strength for Reserves on Active Duty in 

support of the Reserves, as of September 30, 2019:

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Service FY 2018 

Authorized 

FY 2019 Change from 

Request 

Committee 

Recommendation 

FY 2019 

Request 

FY 2018 

Authorized 

Army National Guard ...................................................... 343,500 343,500 343,500 0 0 

Army Reserve .................................................................. 199,500 199,500 199,500 0 0 

Navy Reserve .................................................................. 59,000 59,100 59,100 0 100 

Marine Corps Reserve .................................................... 38,500 38,500 38,500 0 0 

Air National Guard ......................................................... 106,600 107,100 107,100 0 500 

Air Force Reserve ........................................................... 69,800 70,000 70,000 0 200 

DOD Total .............................................................. 816,900 817,700 817,700 0 800 

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Section 412—End Strengths for Reserves on Active Duty in Support of the Reserves

This section would authorize the following end strengths for Reserves on 

Active Duty in support of the Reserves as of September 30, 2019:

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Sec. 412. 

Service FY 2018 

Authorized 

FY 2019 Change from 

Request 

Committee 

Recommendation 

FY 2019 

Request 

FY 2018 

Authorized 

Army National Guard ...................................................... 30,155 30,595 30,595 0 440 

Army Reserve .................................................................. 16,261 16,386 16,386 0 125 

Navy Reserve .................................................................. 10,101 10,110 10,110 0 9 

Marine Corps Reserve .................................................... 2,261 2,261 2,261 0 0 

Air National Guard ......................................................... 16,260 19,861 19,861 0 3,601 

Air Force Reserve ........................................................... 3,588 3,849 3,849 0 261 

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Section 413—End Strengths for Military Technicians (Dual Status)

This section would authorize the following end strengths for military 

technicians (dual status) as of September 30, 2019:

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Sec. 413. 

Service FY 2018 

Authorized 

FY 2019 Change from 

Request 

Committee 

Recommendation 

FY 2019 

Request 

FY 2018 

Authorized 

Army National Guard ...................................................... 22,294 22,294 22,294 0 0 

Army Reserve .................................................................. 6,492 7,495 6,492 -1,003 0 

Air National Guard ......................................................... 19,135 18,969 18,969 0 -166 

Air Force Reserve ........................................................... 8,880 9,908 8,880 -1,028 0 

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Section 414—Maximum Number of Reserve Personnel Authorized To Be on Active 

Duty for Operational Support

This section would authorize, as required by section 115(b) of title 10, 

United States Code, the maximum number of Reserve Component personnel who 

may be on Active Duty or full-time National Guard duty during fiscal year 2019 to 

provide operational support. The personnel authorized here do not count against 

the end strengths authorized by section 401 or section 412 of this Act unless the 

duration on Active Duty exceeds the limitations in section 115(b)(2) of title 10, 

United States Code.

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Sec. 414. 

Service FY 2018 

Authorized 

FY 2019 Change from 

Request 

Committee 

Recommendation 

FY 2019 

Request 

FY 2018 

Authorized 

Army National Guard ...................................................... 17,000 17,000 17,000 0 0 

Army Reserve .................................................................. 13,000 13,000 13,000 0 0 

Navy Reserve .................................................................. 6,200 6,200 6,200 0 0 

Marine Corps Reserve .................................................... 3,000 3,000 3,000 0 0 

Air National Guard ......................................................... 16,000 16,000 16,000 0 0 

Air Force Reserve ........................................................... 14,000 14,000 14,000 0 0 

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SUBTITLE C—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 421—Military Personnel

This section would authorize appropriations for military personnel at the 

levels identified in the funding table in section 4401 of division D of this Act.

TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Active Military Service of the Korean Constabulary

 The Committee acknowledges the service and sacrifice of the officers and men of 

the Korean Constabulary formed under the operational command of the United 

States Military Government in Korea following the end of the Second World War. 

Organized, trained, equipped, and led by the United States Army, the Korean 

Constabulary performed vital security missions on behalf of the United States in 

the interwar period and played a crucial role in the formation and defense of the 

Republic of Korea. Repeatedly called to defend their homeland against attacks and 

insurrection by Communist forces allied with the Korean People's Army and 

supported by the Soviet Union, the men of the Korean Constabulary fought with 

distinction in some of the earliest battles of the Cold War.

The Committee therefore requests the Secretary of Defense to review the 

eligibility of the officers and men of the Korean Constabulary for active military 

service from November 1945 to January 1949 under the provisions of Section 401 of 

Public Law 95-202, and report his findings to the House Armed Services Committee 

by March 1, 2019.

Best Practices for Prevention and Response to Sexual Assault

The committee commends the Department for its efforts to continuously 

improve methods to prevent and respond to sexual assault. The committee further 

commends the Air Force’s efforts to utilize evidenced based bystander intervention 

training previously shown to prevent and reduce power-based personal violence 

based on the premise that sexual violence can be measurably and systematically 

reduced within a community. The Air Force was additionally able to consolidate 

some of the required and annual briefings and shorten the amount of time they 

spent on training by focusing on quality over quantity. The committee directs the 

Department to report to the House Armed Services Committee no later than 

December 1, 2018 on current use of best practices for prevention and response to 

sexual assault; update on current research informed evaluation outcome criteria, 

and the feasibility of developing, and offering high quality, standardized, research 

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informed best practices for training and response that are shown to prevent sexual 

assaults across the services. 

Briefing on Commissioning Production of Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps

The committee is concerned about the number of Senior Reserve Officer 

Training Corps (ROTC) units that are not meeting established commissioning 

production requirements for each of the services. Therefore, the committee directs 

the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military 

services, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later 

than April 1, 2019, on the performance of the Senior Reserve Officer Training 

Corps. Such briefing shall describe each of the following:

(1) annual production requirement and production attainment for each 

ROTC host unit, to include a breakdown of demographics;

(2) listing of units that have not met the standards set forth in Department 

of Defense Instruction 1215.08, for the past 5 years; 

(3) listing of the units that did not meet the standard in the past 5 years 

that are now compliant; and

(4) list of units each service intends to disestablish or reduce in scope, but is 

not authorized to do so.

Briefing on Credentialing Programs

The Committee is supportive of policies which allow servicemembers to 

attain civilian credentials while on active duty. These programs ensure that 

servicemembers possess the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform 

their duties, and offer servicemembers the chance of better civilian employment 

upon separation from the military. 

However, not all credentialing programs are created equal, and the 

Department has acknowledged that few oversight mechanisms exist to protect 

servicemembers from aggressive marketing of credentialing programs of dubious 

rigor. The committee encourages the Department to work with partners in 

academia and industry to develop a tool that servicemembers could use to evaluate 

the quality of a credential based on its desirability in the civilian workforce.

In addition, the Committee is also aware that the Department does not 

have conclusive evidence that possessing civilian credentials help servicemembers 

find post-separation employment. Therefore, the Committee directs the Department 

to brief the House Committee on Armed Services no later than February 1, 2019 on 

collaborative efforts to develop quality standards for credentialing and licensure 

programs and a review of academic literature on the impact on employability of 

attaining a credential.

Briefing on Department of Defense Inspector General Processing Times

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The committee is concerned about the steady increase in processing times 

for Department of Defense Inspector General investigations into whistleblower 

reprisal and senior leader misconduct complaints. While the Department has 

conducted past studies into how best to reduce these processing times, and 

implemented efficiency measures, the problem persists. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than July 1, 2019, 

regarding steps the Department will take to reduce whistleblower reprisal and 

senior leader misconduct investigation processing times. The briefing shall include:

(1) a general timeline for a typical whistleblower reprisal and senior leader 

misconduct investigation, including identification of phases of the investigation that 

often require substantial time;

(2) whether changes to law or policy would improve the efficiency of these 

investigations; and

(3) whether additional funding, manning, or other resources would improve 

processing times.

Comptroller General Report on Active Duty Female Retention

The committee commends the Secretary of Defense for the briefing on 

Female Propensity to serve in the Armed Forces as requested in the House Report 

115-200. Inclusive and growth-oriented recruiting must also ensure that the best 

and brightest females are not only recruited but that they are retained in the 

Armed Forces once presented with career options. Building on Female Propensity to 

serve in the Armed Forces, the committee recommends the Department expand 

their examination of female recruitment to include retention. An analysis conducted 

for the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services finds that more 

women than men leave the military at various career points. Concerns persist that 

this attrition will result in a disproportionate impact to mission readiness if left 

unresolved. From an economic standpoint, when female employees leave, 

organizations must deal with higher recruiting costs, longer training times, and 

lower productivity. Therefore, not later December 1, 2018 the committee directs 

Comptroller General to submit a report containing the following components: (1) 

updated rates of promotion and attrition rates for women compared to other groups; 

(2) the reason for any differences in promotion and attrition; (3) recommendations 

to improve promotion and retention; (4) data and analysis to assist the committee in 

determining whether there are disparities in promotion and attrition rates; and (5) 

any other matters the commission believes are relevant to this issue.

Deconflicting Reserve Component and Expeditionary Civilian Deployments to 

Provide Adequate Dwell Time

The committee notes that according to DoDI 1235.12, Accessing the Reserve 

Components, issued June 7, 2016, "The RC provides an operational capability and 

strategic depth in support of the national defense strategy," and further that if the 

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mobilization-to-dwell ratio for a unit or a member of the RC is less than 1 to 4, 

Secretary of Defense approval is required. In addition, the Department of Defense 

has an expeditionary workforce that includes defense civilian personnel who also 

deploy in support of contingency operations and may also be members of the 

Reserve Components. The committee is concerned that if the Reserve Components 

order a member to active duty who is employed as a defense civilian, the defense 

agency or military department may not count the member's previous recent 

deployment as an RC member when calculating the mobilization-to-dwell ratio. This 

lack of awareness by the Reserve Components of a civilian employee's deployment, 

or alternatively by the military departments or defense agencies about a Reserve 

Component member's expeditionary civilian deployment may lead to a lack of 

sufficient dwell time, with an impact on civilian personnel or RC retention.

Therefore, in order to determine the scope of the problem of deconflicting 

Reserve Component and expeditionary civilian deployments for the purpose of 

providing adequate dwell time, the Secretary of Defense is directed to provide a 

report to the congressional defense committees by Feb. 15, 2019, as to whether the 

Reserve Components or the defense agencies and military departments have 

mechanisms in place to track and account for deployments of defense civilians who 

are also Reservists; to establish to scale of this problem; and to make 

recommendations to the committee for procedures to make it possible for the 

Reserve Components, and the defense agencies and military departments, to fully 

account for the service of civilian employees in contingency operations, whether in 

the RC or as expeditionary civilians.

Federal Wildland Firefighting Education in the Transition Assistance Program 

(TAP)

The Committee continues to look for ways to strengthen the Transition 

Assistance Program (TAP) program to match opportunities in the federal workforce 

with the unique skillset of transitioning service members. The Committee 

acknowledges that skills honed during military service including logistics, risk 

mitigation, emergency medicine and response, team communications, equipment 

maintenance, resource accountability, and leadership in support of mission are 

directly transferrable to wildland firefighting. While the committee is aware that 

the Department of Defense, DHS, and DOL collaborate with other agencies to 

include information and education about civil service opportunities in the federal 

workforce, the committee believes transitioning service members would benefit from 

bolstered TAP program education on wildland firefighting careers at agencies 

including the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. In addition, 

the Committee encourages DOD to pursue strategic partnerships and collaborations 

with non-profit organizations that connect veterans with volunteer disaster relief 

opportunities as part of TAP. The Committee notes precedent for collaboration with 

agencies including USDA that provide education on career pathways in agriculture 

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and seeks to build on similar successful models of interagency partnerships to meet 

the nation’s workforce needs. 

Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to brief the 

House Committee on Armed Services no later than December 31, 2018 on current 

and potential interagency efforts in the TAP program related to wildland 

firefighting career pathways and opportunities in the federal government.

Foreign Area Officer Personnel Training and Career Management

The committee notes that the Department of Defense and the military 

services have developed a corps of foreign area officers and regional affairs 

strategists and implemented personnel policies to improve their education and 

training requirements. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2017 (Public Law 114-328) required the Secretary to oversee the development and 

management of a professional workforce supporting security cooperation programs 

and activities of the Department. The committee is concerned with the 

implementation of this requirement as well as the services' career management of 

these officers. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 15, 2018, on the 

implementation of the Security Cooperation Workforce Development Program 

(SCWDP) required by section 384 of title 10, United States Code, and the service 

career management plan for foreign area officers. Elements of the briefing shall 

include:

(1) how the Department of Defense SCWDP relates to the foreign area 

officer programs of the services; 

(2) how the foreign area officer programs of the services will benefit from 

the Department of Defense SCWDP; 

(3) how the Secretary of each military department is adapting their foreign 

area officer program to the National Security Strategy and National Defense 

Strategy; 

(4) what developmental opportunities the Secretary concerned provides for 

foreign area officers at each grade to prepare them for positions of greater 

responsibility; 

(5) how the Secretary concerned provides promotion opportunities for 

foreign area officers to serve through General/Flag Officer ranks, and how these 

compare to other promotion opportunities and rates across the services; 

(6) ways that the Secretary has coordinated efforts throughout the joint 

force to achieve the synergies of best practices across the security cooperation 

enterprise; 

(7) the steps each service is taking to incorporate the elements required 

under the scope of the final guidance of the SCWDP, as required under section 

384(e)(3) of title 10, United States Code, into the career management of foreign area 

officers, and the relevant challenges; and

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(8) the steps the Department is taking to evaluate disparate training 

provided by services and Defense Intelligence Agency, and whether elements of 

such training should be provided to all Department of Defense personnel posted to 

embassies overseas.

Foster and Adoptive Military Families 

The committee is aware that military families face unique challenges as 

adoptive and foster families, including, but not limited to, varying jurisdictional 

standards and support services between states and countries. The committee also 

notes that it is critical to the well-being of the child that all adoptions are 

permanent, and that additional information is needed to promote successful 

adoptions for military families.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

report to the House Armed Services Committee not later than 1 March 2019, 

describing the barriers and challenges faced by military families to fostering or 

adopting. The report should include, if applicable, jurisdictional differences between 

states and between countries; access to information; pre-placement training; and 

post-placement support services; and causes and/or risks for disruptions or 

dissolutions of military family adoptions. The report should also include what preand post-placement support services are currently available for military families 

fostering and adopting; the feasibility of establishing additional necessary support 

services; and recommendations for implementing additional pre- and postplacement services. The report should also include any recommendations from the 

Secretary to address any barriers and challenges faced by military families to 

fostering and adopting.

Implicit Bias Training

The Committee commends the Marine Corps for recognizing the importance 

of implicit bias and incorporating unconscious bias training when preparing for 

women joining combat units. Unconscious biases, sometimes called implicit biases, 

are a set of automatic preferences so ingrained in people’s brains that they often do 

not realize they have them. Implicit or unconscious bias disproportionately impacts 

racial/ethnic minorities and women. Comprehensive bias training is research 

informed and addresses implicit/unconscious biases. The Marine Corps, civilian 

educational institutions, and the technology and business private sectors have 

addressed this by including both implicit and explicit bias training. Therefore, the 

committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to study the feasibility of expanding 

its current training to include research-informed training addressing implicit bias. 

Incorporating Consideration of Advanced Technologies into Professional Military 

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The Committee understands that a return to great power competition 

represents a key security challenge for the United States in the evolving global 

threat environment. The rapid development of new technologies in fields including 

anti-access and area denial weapons, cyber-warfare and electronic warfare, 

information systems, and other asymmetric fields threatens the U.S. military’s 

historical overwhelming advantage in conventional warfare. Furthermore, the 

Committee is aware that these technologies are increasingly commercial and 

therefore available to both state and non-state actors.

The Committee notes that, with this threat in mind, the Department of 

Defense is investing heavily in technology to enable continued American military 

supremacy in an environment characterized by “rapid technological advancements 

and the changing character of war,” per the National Defense Strategy (NDS). The 

Committee is also aware that these areas for investment include advanced 

computing, “big data” analytics, artificial intelligence, autonomy, robotics, directed 

energy, hypersonics, and biotechnology.

The Committee notes that effective implementation of the NDS require not 

just research, development and fielding of these advanced technologies, but also the 

integration of these technologies into tactical, operational and strategic thought, 

planning, and training. The Committee is also aware that experimentation and 

exploration of these technologies is currently occurring in proof of concept programs, 

exercises, and in operational deployments.

The Committee believes, however, that fully integrating advanced 

technologies into military strategy, operations, and tactics requires a 

comprehensive approach to considering the impact of these technologies at all levels 

of decision-making. The Committee is aware of the key role professional military 

education (PME) programs play in educating military leadership and providing 

them the conceptual framework for decision-making. The Committee commends the 

efforts of the Department of Defense to align functions to support the goals of the 

NDS and look for ways to improve lethality. However, it is unclear how decision 

making under this new strategy is being included in PME education materials.

 The Committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense to brief the House 

Committee on Armed Services on potential ways in which the Department of 

Defense can appropriately integrate consideration of next generation technologies 

into professional military education programs for military officers and enlisted 

personnel. This brief should include consideration of the appropriate PME schools, 

institutions or levels; address the feasibility of expanding civilian enrollment at 

PME institutions in order to expose military leaders to relevant commercial 

technology leaders; determine the extent to which these technological developments 

may require changes to existing warfighting doctrine or operational plans; and 

identify any relevant opportunities for improvement to the service-level or joint 

PME programs, as well as any other topics the Secretary deems appropriate, and 

should be delivered to the Committee by December 1, 2018.

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The committee notes that the current and future recruiting environment for 

military service is and will continue to be difficult with a population that has a 

lower propensity to serve, a recruit pool that is less qualified, and an economy that 

is robust. In this environment, the competition for this small pool of recruits will be 

fierce within the Department of Defense between the services, as well as with other 

Government agencies. Cooperation between Government agencies with regard to 

recruits will be critical going forward, especially those recruits with a propensity to 

serve but who might not be physically qualified for one service or the other.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on 

interagency cooperation with regard to recruiting for military and other 

Government agency service. Elements of the briefing shall include the following: 

(1) an assessment by the Secretary of the value of cross-Government agency 

recruitment and how that would affect Department of Defense recruitment efforts; 

(2) what policies the Secretary could put in place in cooperation with other 

agencies to assist with future recruitment needs;

(3) what current coordination is being conducted with other agencies to 

assist when recruiting for the Department of Defense or other agencies; and

(4) what recommendations the Secretary would make on interagency 

recruiting cooperation.

Joint Professional Military Education and Professional Military Education 

Curricula

The committee believes that quality Professional Military Education (PME) 

and Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) are integral to developing 

tomorrow’s strategic leaders. The military services provide PME at their respective 

staff and war colleges in order to educate service members in their core 

competencies according to service needs. The JPME program places emphasis on 

preparing leaders to conduct operations as a joint force in complex operating 

environments. Currently, JPME is provided at multiple sites across the country, 

including the services’ staff and war colleges and the National Defense University. 

The committee remains concerned that the quality and effectiveness of the

faculty and curricula at JPME and PME institutions, particularly senior-service 

colleges, can vary based on service tradition, school location, and faculty. In 

addition, the committee is concerned that certain important subject areas may be 

excluded from the curricula because of time constraints. 

The committee supports the ongoing efforts of the Chairman of the Joint 

Chiefs of Staff and the Secretaries of the Military Departments to evaluate and 

improve the quality of the education provided at JPME and PME institutions. As a 

part of this evaluation, the committee encourages the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 

of Staff and the Secretaries of the Military Departments to consider whether JPME 

and PME curricula include exposure to whole-of-government education, including 

enrolling students from other Federal departments and agencies, hiring faculty 

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from other Federal departments and agencies, and providing courses and programs 

designed to reinforce the importance of whole of government.

Military Academy Preparatory School Class Enrollment

The committee notes that the mission of the military academies' 

preparatory schools is to motivate, prepare, and evaluate selected candidates in an 

academic, military, moral, and physical environment in order to perform 

successfully at the military academy. The preparatory school achieves this mission 

by qualifying cadet candidates for academy appointments, and developing in those 

students a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence that enables them to 

succeed in a military academy’s demanding environment. Admission to a 

preparatory school is competitive, with selections made by selection boards. The 

boards select both enlisted Active Duty and civilian applicants who have applied for 

admission to an academy, but were not selected for direct entry.

The committee is concerned that the average military academy preparatory 

school class consists of only approximately 25 percent prior-enlisted service 

members. The committee believes that this percentage is extremely low, and that 

the services should focus their outreach efforts for attendance to the preparatory 

schools on the qualified enlisted force who has already exhibited propensity to 

serve. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretaries of the Air Force, the Army 

and the Navy to develop individual service plans with the goal of increasing the 

enrollment of enlisted service members at each of the Service Academy Preparatory 

Schools. The Secretaries concerned shall also provide briefings to the Committee on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives by February 1, 2019, on the new 

outreach plan and their recommendations for increased enlisted member 

enrollment. 

Report on Certain Victims' Rights in Connection with Prosecution of Sex-Related 

Offenses

The committee is concerned about the implementation of section 534 of the 

Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291), which enhances victims’ rights in connection 

with the prosecution of certain sex-related offenses. Specifically, the committee is 

interested in how the Department of Defense has implemented the requirement 

that victims be consulted in order to solicit their preference whether the covered 

offenses should be prosecuted by court-martial or in a civilian court with 

jurisdiction over the offense. The committee notes that the annual Department of 

Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office report contains statistics 

on the number of cases prosecuted in civilian courts, but it is not evident from this 

data whether these civilian prosecutions were in accordance with the wishes of the 

victim or simply the only option for prosecution of the offenses.

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Therefore, the committee directs the Department of Defense Inspector 

General to submit a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 

the House of Representatives not later than April 1, 2019, on the results of a review 

of the Department of Defense and military departments’ processes for consulting 

victims in cases in which section 534 applies. The report shall include a description 

of who is responsible for consulting with the victim to determine the preference for 

prosecution; an analysis of whether the military services are complying with the 

notification requirement; the method used to record the victim’s preference and 

convey the information to the relevant authorities; and an analysis of whether the 

policy is applied consistently across the military services. 

Report on Legal Training for Commanders

The committee understands that U.S. military commanders are entrusted 

with a wide range of responsibilities that are necessary to carry out their 

designated missions. Many of these responsibilities involve interpretation of and 

compliance with legal requirements. While the committee understands that judge 

advocates and other legal professionals advise the commanders on many of these 

subjects, the committee is interested in the full extent and substance of the legal 

training that commanders receive on the legal authorities with which they have 

been entrusted.

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to submit a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 

the House of Representatives not later than September 1, 2019, on the following 

questions:

(1) What legal training do officers receive throughout their careers? Who is 

responsible for this training, and who certifies satisfactory completion? 

(2) What legal and ethics training do commanders receive prior to taking 

command? At what level of command are officers required to attend this training? 

What issues are covered during this training, and is the training tailored to the type 

of command the officer is assigned to? 

(3) To what extent and what type of training do commanders receive 

regarding the following topics: military justice; contract and fiscal law; 

administrative law; and international and operational law?

(4) To what extent are the military services complying with their legal 

training requirements for new commanders? 

(5) What resources are available to commanders to assist them in carrying 

out their legal responsibilities?

(6) What procedures are in place to receive feedback on the quality and 

relevance of the legal training provided to commanders? Is that feedback 

incorporated into periodic curriculum reviews?

Report on Processes for Federal Recognition of Promotion of Commissioned 

National Guard Officers

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The committee is concerned that delays in federal recognition of National 

Guard promotions may be increasing and that these lengthy delays result in 

National Guard officers being deployed and doing the work of the rank to which 

they are being promoted while receiving the pay of their current rank. The 

committee notes that such delays deprive National Guard members of the pay to 

which they are entitled, reduce their time in rank, and may pose retention problems 

by giving National Guard members an incentive to leave military service. 

Therefore the committee directs the Secretary of the Army and the 

Secretary of the Air Force to each undertake a comprehensive review of the policies 

and procedures of the Department of the Army and the Department Air Force, as 

applicable, for the Federal recognition of promotions of commissioned officers of the 

Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, as the case may be, and to 

report the results of this review to the congressional defense committees by 

December 1, 2018. The report shall:

(1) describe the average time between receipt by the military department 

concerned of scrolls (as defined in Department of Defense Instruction 1310.02) 

indicating the promotion of commissioned officers in the National Guard and their 

publication during the five-year period ending on the date of the House passage of 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019;

(2) describe and assess various approaches for streamlining the process by 

which the military department concerned approves Federal recognition scrolls, 

including through— 

 (A) additional automation;

 (B) reduction in required steps; or

 (C) delegation of authority to conduct required reviews; and

(3) make recommendations for legislative or administration action to 

implement an approach under paragraph (2) if the Secretary concerned considers 

such approach feasible, advisable, and appropriate.

U.S. Air Force Pilot Staff Requirements Validation

The committee remains concerned that the Air Force is having difficulty 

addressing a persistent pilot shortage. Pilots are vital to the readiness of the Air 

Force and these shortages may hamper its ability to carry out the 2018 National 

Defense Strategy, especially as it relates to retention and recruitment within the 

fighter pilot community. The committee notes that the Air Force provided written 

testimony to the committee on March 21, 2018, stating that the Air Force has a 

shortage of 1,812 pilots across all mission areas, with the most acute shortage being 

fighter pilots. The Air Force admits it is taking risk by under-filling its required 

pilot and rated staff officer billets. However, the committee is concerned about the 

current requirement for pilots in staff billets and the fact that the requirements for 

pilot skills in these positions have not been validated, nor the requirements 

reviewed, in many years. An assessment of this sort could result in a change in the 

overall number of required pilots on the staff. 

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 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to evaluate and 

validate every pilot or rated officer required staff billet across the Air Force and 

joint community enterprise, and to address the recommendations of the Comptroller 

General "Report on Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Reevaluate Fighter Pilot 

Workforce Requirements," (GAO-18-113), and to provide a report to the Committee

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives not later than December 7, 

2018, on the methodology and the results of the evaluation and validation as well as 

the implementation of the recommendations of the GAO Report.

U.S. Special Operations Command Preservation of the Force and Families Program 

Contract Support

The committee recognizes that U.S. special operations forces (SOF) and 

their families are under unique and continued stresses, including psychological, 

social, spiritual, and human performance strains. The committee commends the 

success of the Preservation of the Force and Family (POTFF) program. It has 

helped to alleviate the magnitude of these stresses and break the stigma of seeking 

necessary help. It has also decreased rehabilitation time following physical injuries. 

The committee understands U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) 

and component commands have engaged in dialogue with the military services on 

scaling portions of the program to the broader force. The committee supports this

dialogue and encourages the transition by SOCOM of resources and management 

for aspects of POTFF that are scaled to the military services, as well as a continual 

assessment of what remain as SOF-specific needs. 

However, with POTFF’s contract due to expire this fiscal year, the 

committee is concerned by the request for proposal submitted by SOCOM. It once 

again indicates a domineering focus on human performance, to the detriment of a 

distinct emphasis on mental, emotional, and behavioral health. The committee 

notes that of the $88.0 million for POTFF in the budget request for fiscal year 2019, 

only $13.0 million was to support the Psychological Performance Program to 

promote, maintain, and restore the psychological and behavioral health of SOF. 

With these concerns in mind, the committee directs the Commander of 

Special Operations Command, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to 

provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by September 14, 

2018, on the future of POTFF. The briefing shall include:

(1) how the command plans to balance the emphasis put on the four pillars 

of the program; 

(2) an analysis of mental and behavioral health program gaps, to include an 

in-depth look into POTFF's suicide-prevention programming; and 

 (3) how SOCOM will work with services to identify successful elements that 

can be transitioned to assist conventional forces and families.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—REGULAR COMPONENT MANAGEMENT

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Section 501—Expansion of Authority to Award Constructive Service Credit for 

Advanced Education, Experience, or Training, upon Original Appointment as a 

Commissioned Officer

This section would amend sections 533 and 12207 of title 10, United States 

Code, to permit the Secretaries of the military departments additional discretion to 

determine the grade of certain individuals receiving an original appointment as a 

regular or reserve commissioned officer.

Section 502—Surface Warfare Officers Career Paths

This section would amend chapter 602 of title 10, United States Code, by 

adding a new section that would require the Secretary of the Navy to establish two 

career paths for surface warfare officers. The Secretary would be required to 

establish one career path in ship engineering systems and another in ship 

operations and combat systems, not later than January 1, 2021.

Section 503—Authority of Selection Boards to Recommend Officers of Particular 

Merit Be Placed at the Top of the Promotion List

This section would amend sections 616, 618, and 624 of title 10, United

States Code, to allow officer promotion boards to recommend officers of particular 

merit be placed at the top of the promotion list, and to allow the Secretary of the 

military department concerned to re-order the promotion list accordingly.

Section 504—Deferred Deployment for Members Who Give Birth

This section would standardize new mother deployment deferral policy 

across the military services, to include the Coast Guard.

Section 505—Codification of Lowered Grade for Retired Officers or Persons Who 

Committed Misconduct in a Lower Grade

This section would amend section 1370 of title 10, United States Code, to 

clarify that the Secretary concerned has the authority to find that an officer who 

committed misconduct in a lower grade has not served satisfactorily in any grade 

equal to or higher than that lower grade.

Section 506—Retention of Military Technicians Who Lose Dual Status under 

Certain Circumstances

 This section would amend section 10216 of title 10, United States Code, to 

prevent dual-status military technicians who reach their time-in-service end date 

from losing their jobs due to separation from military service.

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SUBTITLE B—RESERVE COMPONENT MANAGEMENT

Section 511—Placement of National Guard Military Technicians (Dual Status) in 

the Competitive Service

This section would amend section 10508 of title 10, United States Code, to 

designate dual-status military technician positions that were converted to title 5 

civilian employees in the fiscal year 2017 and 2018 National Defense Authorization 

Acts as competitive, not excepted, service positions.

Section 512—Authorized Strength and Distribution in Grade

This section would amend section 12011(a) and section 12012(a) of title 10, 

United States Code, to increase the total number of available control grade 

positions, which includes O-4, O-5, O-6, E-8, and E-9, authorized for the Air 

National Guard. 

Section 513—National Guard Promotion Accountability

This section would amend section 14308(f) of title 10, United States Code, 

to allow a National Guard officer's date of rank to be backdated, after Federal 

recognition is granted, and would require the Secretaries concerned to report to the 

Congress when a promotion scroll exceeds 200 days between date received and its 

date of publication.

Section 514—Extension of Authority for Pilot Program on Use of Retired Senior 

Enlisted Members of the Army National Guard as Army National Guard Recruiters

This section would extend the authority of the pilot program on use of 

retired senior enlisted members of the Army National Guard as Army National 

Guard recruiters until 2021.

SUBTITLE C—GENERAL SERVICE AUTHORITIES AND CORRECTION OF MILITARY 

RECORDS

Section 521—Enlistments Vital to the National Interest

This section would modify section 504(b) of title 10, United States Code, to 

establish additional requirements for enlistments vital to the national interest.

Section 522—Statement of Benefits

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide Active Duty 

and Reserve service members an authoritative assessment of their earned GI Bill 

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benefits prior to separation, retirement, or release from Active Duty or 

demobilization. 

Section 523—Modification to Forms of Support That May Be Accepted in Support of 

the Mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

This section would modify the forms of support that may be accepted by the 

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to include public-private 

partnerships and the acceptance of gifts that facilitate the accounting of missing 

persons within the purview of the DPAA mission.

Section 524—Correction of Military Records Website

This section would amend section 1552(a)(5) of title 10, United States Code, 

to require the Secretary concerned to publish summaries, indexed by subject 

matter, of all decisions published on the board for correction of military records 

website of each military department.

Section 525—Modification of DD Form 214 to Include Email Addresses

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to modify the 

Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to include a 

specific block explicitly identified as the location in which a member of the Armed 

Forces may provide one or more email addresses by which the member may be 

contacted.

Section 526—Public Availability of Reports Related to Senior Leader Misconduct

This section would require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of 

the military departments to publish, on a public website, redacted reports of 

substantiated investigations of misconduct in which the subject of the investigation 

was an officer in the grade of O-7 and above, including officers who have been 

selected for promotion to O-7, or a civilian member of the Senior Executive Service.

Section 527—Appointment and Training of Personnel to Staff the Board of 

Corrections for Military and Naval Records

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 

the service secretaries and the joint chiefs, to provide for the appointment and 

training of qualified personnel to join the staff of the Boards of Correction for 

Military and Naval Records, and would authorize $3.0 million to carry out the 

training, to be taken from the Military Personnel Appropriations line.

SUBTITLE D—MILITARY JUSTICE

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Section 531—Minimum Confinement Period Required for Conviction of Certain SexRelated Offenses Committed by Members of the Armed Forces

This section would amend section 856(b)(1) of title 10, United States Code 

(article 56(b)(1) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), to require a minimum 

confinement period of 2 years for individuals convicted of certain sex-related 

offenses.

Section 532—Punitive Article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice on Domestic 

Violence 

This section would amend subchapter X of chapter 47 of title 10, United 

States Code (the Uniform Code of Military Justice), to add a new section 928a 

regarding domestic violence.

Section 533—Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and 

Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces

This section would amend section 546 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. 

"Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 

Law 113-291) to require the Department of Defense to provide information to the 

Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual 

Assault in the Armed Forces that the panel (by majority vote) deems necessary to 

carry out its duties.

Section 534—Modification of Military Rules of Evidence to Exclude Admissibility of 

General Military Character toward Probability of Innocence in Any Offense Not 

Strictly Related to Performance of Military Duties

This section would amend Rule 404(a) of the Military Rules of Evidence 

contained in the Manual for Courts-Martial to provide that the general military 

character of an accused is not admissible for the purpose of showing the probability 

of innocence of the accused unless the offense the individual is charged with is 

strictly and solely related to the performance of military duties.

Section 535—Improved Crime Reporting

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to establish a 

consolidated tracking process that provides the Department of Defense increased 

visibility on the military departments' required crime report submissions to the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Section 536—Oversight of Registered Sex Offender Management Program

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This section would require the Secretary of Defense to designate a single 

official or entity within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to serve as the official 

or entity with principal responsibility for providing oversight of the registered sex 

offender management program of the Department. 

SUBTITLE E—OTHER LEGAL MATTERS

Section 541—Security Clearance Reinvestigation of Certain Personnel Who Commit 

Certain Offenses

This section would amend section 1564 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a security clearance background 

reinvestigation under expedited procedures for flag officers and Senior Executive 

Service personnel employed by the Department of Defense convicted of sexual 

assault, sexual harassment, fraud against the United States, or other serious 

crimes.

Section 542—Consideration of Application for Transfer for a Student of a Military 

Service Academy Who Is the Victim of a Sexual Assault or Related Offense

This section would require the Secretary concerned to expedite the 

consideration and approval of an application for an inter-academy transfer 

submitted by a cadet of a military academy who has been the victim of sexual 

assault.

Section 543—Standardization of Policies Related to Expedited Transfer in Cases of 

Sexual Assault

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to standardize the 

expedited transfer procedures for service members who are the victim of sexual 

assault, regardless of whether their cases are handled by the Sexual Assault 

Prevention and Response Program or the Family Advocacy Program, and would 

require the Secretary to establish a transfer policy for service members whose 

dependent is the victim of sexual assault perpetrated by an unrelated service 

member. 

Section 544—Development of Oversight Plan for Implementation of Department of 

Defense Harassment Prevention and Response Policy

This section would require the Department of Defense to develop an 

oversight plan and provide a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the 

Senate and the House of Representatives for implementation of the Department of 

Defense Harassment Prevention and Response policy.

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Section 545—Development of Resource Guides Regarding Sexual Assault for the 

Military Service Academies

This section would require each Superintendent of a military service 

academy to develop and maintain a resource guide on sexual assault, and distribute 

the guide to all cadets and midshipmen at the academies.

Section 546—Report on Victims in MCIO Reports

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, through the Defense 

Advisory Committee on Investigations, Prosecutions, and Defense of Sexual Assault 

in the Armed Forces, to provide a report every 2 years on the frequency with which

victims of sexual offenses identified in military criminal investigative organization 

cases are accused of or punished for misconduct considered collateral to the 

investigation of sexual assault.

SUBTITLE F—MEMBER EDUCATION, TRAINING, RESILIENCE, AND TRANSITION

Section 551—Permanent Career Intermission Program

This section would amend chapter 40 of title 10, United States Code, by 

adding section 710 and removing all references to the program as a pilot program, 

making the Career Intermission Program a permanent authority.

Section 552—Improvements to Transition Assistance Program

This section would amend section 1142 of title 10, United States Code, to 

establish counseling pathways, require transmission of the Joint Service transcript, 

and allow transitioning service members to select a portion of the content covered 

during the transition assistance period of instruction.

Section 553—Employment and Compensation of Civilian Faculty Members at the 

Joint Special Operations University

This section would amend section 1595(c) of title 10, United States Code, to 

add the Joint Special Operations University to the list of covered institutions with 

authority to hire civilian faculty under title 10.

Section 554—Program to Assist Members of the Armed Forces in Obtaining 

Professional Credentials

This section would amend section 2015 of title 10, United States Code, to 

further assist members of the Armed Forces in obtaining professional credentials.

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Section 555—Extension of Pilot Program to Assist Members in Obtaining PostService Employment

 This section would amend section 555 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" 

McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-

291) to extend the authority for the pilot program under this section to September 

30, 2023.

Section 556—Direct Employment Pilot Program for Members of the Reserve 

Components and Veterans

This section would allow the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot 

program that provides enhanced job placement and employment assistance for 

members of the National Guard and Reserve.

Section 557—Extended Duration of Availability of Military OneSource Program 

Services for Members of the Armed Forces upon their Separation or Retirement

This section would extend the duration of availability of Military 

OneSource program services for members of the military departments and their 

immediate family members from 180 days following their separation or retirement 

to at least 1 year after their separation or retirement.

Section 558—Comptroller General Briefing and Report on Permanent Employment 

Assistance Centers

This section would require the Comptroller General of the United States to 

provide a briefing to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of 

Representatives, with a report to follow, on employment assistance required under 

law and related information regarding civilian employment certification.

Section 559—Activities to Increase Awareness of Apprenticeship Programs

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to include, as part of 

service members' transition counseling, information on apprenticeship programs 

and the use of veterans' benefits to pay for these programs.

SUBTITLE G—DEFENSE DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATION AND MILITARY FAMILY READINESS 

MATTERS

Section 561—Enhancement and Clarification of Family Support Services for Family 

Members of Members of Special Operations Forces

This section would amend section 1788a of title 10, United States Code, to 

provide greater flexibility to support the family requirements to tactical units by 

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increasing funds available for Major Force Program 11 from $5.0 million to $10.0 

million. This section would also define the term "family support services" to provide 

clarity and authorize proper expenditures of appropriated funds.

Section 562—Additional Matters for Assessment and Report on Childcare Services 

of the Department of Defense

This section would add additional issues for assessment related to military 

family childcare under section 575 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91).

Section 563—Continued Assistance to Schools with Significant Numbers of Military 

Dependent Students

This section would authorize $40.0 million for the purpose of providing 

assistance to local educational agencies with military dependent students and $10.0 

million for local educational agencies eligible to receive a payment for children with 

severe disabilities.

Section 564—Department of Defense Education Activity Misconduct Database

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to establish a 

comprehensive policy and database regarding juvenile misconduct occurring in 

Department of Defense Education Activity schools.

Section 565—Report on Assessment of Frequency of Permanent Changes of Station 

of Members of the Armed Forces on Employment among Military Spouses

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide a report on 

the impact that frequent permanent changes of station of service members have on 

military spouses.

SUBTITLE H—DECORATIONS AND AWARDS

Section 571—Limitations on Authority to Revoke Certain Military Decorations 

Awarded to Members of the Armed Forces

 This section would amend title 10, United States Code, to add a new section that 

restricts the President and service secretaries from revoking a military decoration 

after the actual award of the military decoration to the service member except 

under limited circumstances.

Section 572—Authorization for Award of Expeditionary Medal to Certain Marines 

for Actions on June 8, 1995

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 This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to award the Armed 

Forces Expeditionary Medal to a member or former member of the 24th Marine 

Expeditionary Unit for the mission to rescue Captain Scott O'Grady.

SUBTITLE I—MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS AND OTHER MATTERS

Section 581—Public Availability of Top-Line Numbers of Deployed Members of the 

Armed Forces

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to publicly make 

available the top-line numbers of members of the Armed Forces deployed for each 

country. 

The Secretary would be able to waive the requirement in the case of a 

sensitive military operation if he determines the public disclosure of such numbers 

could reasonably be expected to provide an operational military advantage to an 

adversary, or the members of the Armed Forces are deployed for less than 30 days.

Section 582—Criteria for Interment at Arlington National Cemetery

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to establish revised 

interment criteria for Arlington National Cemetery that preserve Arlington 

National Cemetery as an active burial ground well into the future.

Section 583—Report on General and Flag Officer Costs

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees on the costs of supporting general and flag 

officers.

Section 584—Report on Outside Employment of Senior Personnel

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to report on senior 

leader outside employment requests and activities.

Section 585—Limitation on Use of Funds Pending Submittal of Report on Army 

Marketing and Advertising Program

This section would limit the use of funds to not more than 60 percent of the 

amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act for the Army Marketing and 

Research Group for fiscal year 2019, used for advertising and marketing activities 

to be obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Army submits a report to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on 

recommendations of the Army Audit Agency’s audit of the Army’s Marketing and 

Advertising Program concerning contract oversight and return on investment. 

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TITLE VI—COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL BENEFITS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Availability of Alcohol at Military Commissary Stores 

The Committee notes the recent announcement made by the Department of 

Defense on the availability of beer and wine at military commissary stores in order 

to provide a similar shopping experience to commercial grocery stores.

In light of these measures, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense 

to conduct a study on the feasibility of expanding commissary alcohol sales to 

include the sale of distilled spirits. The study shall include a comparison of state 

and local laws that could impact the expansion of the sale of distilled spirits. The 

study shall also include an estimate on revenue and sales that could result from 

such an expansion. The Secretary shall provide a briefing to the Committee on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives on the detailed findings of the 

study no later than September 28, 2018.

Examination of Flexible/Noncontinuous Maternity Leave

The Committee commends the Department for granting up to 84 days for 

service members following child birth. Although current maternity and parental 

leave policies are a strong step in the right direction, more can be done to tailor 

leave to families’ unique situations. Continuing its work from 2015 and 2016, 

Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) examined 

issues and concerns surrounding pregnancy, the postpartum period, and 

parenthood. There is evidence to suggest that Service members’ ability to maintain 

work-life balance is one of the military’s top retention challenges, with service 

members expressing concern that a military career is incompatible with having a 

family. In its most recent report, DACOWITS recommends the Secretary of Defense 

consider allowing the Military Services to permit flexible (noncontinuous) use of 

maternity and parental leave if requested by the military parent(s). Allowing 

flexible (noncontinuous) use of maternity and parental leave is a strategy 

mentioned by DACOWITS and modeled by leading companies in the private sector. 

This is one potential way to support a servicemember after a child joins the 

member’s family. Noncontinuous leave, when requested, could help servicemembers 

better balance their unique family needs during critical junctures of their lives and, 

in turn, help support retention efforts. Therefore, not later than December 1, 2018 

the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a report assessing the 

feasibility of permitting flexible (noncontinuous) use of maternity leave.

Imminent Danger Pay Adjudication Process

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The committee acknowledges that servicemembers continue to serve in 

locations at daily risk of harm from hostile fire, explosions, or other hostile actions, 

and are thus entitled to Imminent Danger Pay. The committee understands that, 

regarding the locations and time periods for Imminent Danger Pay eligibility, the 

final adjudicating authority for the Department of Defense is the Under Secretary 

of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, who assesses requests submitted by 

geographic Combatant Commanders. The committee has received recent testimony 

that this request, adjudication, and approval process can span many months, during 

which servicemembers in harm’s way are not receiving Imminent Danger Pay. So 

that Congress may improve its oversight of the timeliness of Imminent Danger Pay 

review and approval, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel and Readiness to submit a report to the Committee on Armed Services of 

the House of Representatives, not later than August 31, 2018, listing, for the period 

2008-2018: 

(1) each request for Imminent Danger Pay made by a geographic 

Combatant Commander, including details on the underlying justification for 

Imminent Danger Pay; 

(2) the date of submission for each request; 

(3) the adjudication status and/or ultimate determination for each request; 

and,

(4) date of ultimate determination, where applicable.

Small Business Purchasing Contracts for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for the 

Defense Commissary Agency ("DeCA")

The Committee commends DeCA for its efforts to achieve cost savings and 

provide patrons with an improved shopping experience. DeCA strives to maintain a 

good record of including small businesses in its acquisition practices including the 

acquisition of fresh fruits and vegetables through utilizing small businesses. These 

small businesses are best positioned to provide quality and fresh produce because of 

their proximity to commissaries and have traditionally provided these products at 

competitive prices. As the transformation proceeds the Committee encourages 

DeCA to continue to utilize small businesses for the acquisition of quality fresh 

fruits and vegetables. Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to 

submit a report to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018 on 

the efforts to continue to utilize small businesses for fresh fruits and vegetables.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—PAY AND ALLOWANCES

Section 601—Prompt Review of Request for Imminent Danger Pay

This section would amend section 310 of title 37, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of Defense to issue a determination, within 90 days, when a 

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geographic combatant commander submits a request to add a location to the 

Imminent Danger Pay eligibility list.

Section 602—Application of Basic Allowance for Housing to Members of the 

Uniformed Services in the Virgin Islands

This section would amend section 403 of title 37, United States Code, to 

apply Basic Allowance for Housing to service members in the Virgin Islands.

Section 603—Mandatory Increase in Insurance Coverage under Servicemembers' 

Group Life Insurance for Members Deployed to Combat Theaters of Operation

This section would amend section 1967(a)(3) of title 38, United States Code, 

to mandate, in the case of a member who elects to not be insured under a 

Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance plan at the full $400,000 available, the 

member's insurance will automatically increase to $400,000 if they are deployed to 

a combat zone.

Section 604—Military Housing Privatization Initiative

This section would assure that the Basic Allowance for Housing reduction 

directed by section 403 of title 10, United States Code, would not take effect in fiscal 

year 2019, ensuring that the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) 

housing recapitalization efforts are not reduced. The committee remains concerned 

about the reduction in BAH and its effect on the recapitalization of these housing 

units. The committee believes that military families must be provided with on-base 

housing that is safe and periodically modernized. Additionally, this section would 

require the Secretary of Defense to present a plan to the Committees on Armed 

Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by December 1, 2018, to 

provide for a permanent financial solution to the long term MHPI recapitalization 

problem.

Section 605—Per Diem Allowance Policies

This section would halt implementation of the 2014 Department of Defense 

per diem policy, direct the Secretary of Defense to issue a report on options to 

reduce travel costs, and require notification of any subsequent changes to the per 

diem policies following the report.

SUBTITLE B—BONUSES AND SPECIAL INCENTIVE PAYS

Section 611—One-Year Extension of Certain Expiring Bonus and Special Pay 

Authorities

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This section would extend, through December 31, 2019, income replacement 

payments for Reserve Component members experiencing extended and frequent 

mobilization for Active Duty service; would extend two critical recruitment and 

retention incentive programs for Reserve Component health care professionals; 

would extend accession and retention incentives for nuclear-qualified officers; and 

would extend the consolidated special and incentive pay authorities added to 

subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, by the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181). Additionally, this 

section would extend the authority of the Secretary of Defense to prescribe a 

temporary increase in the rates of basic allowance for housing otherwise prescribed 

for a military housing area or a portion of a military housing area if the military 

housing area or portion thereof is located in an area covered by a declaration by the 

President that a major disaster exists.

SUBTITLE C—OTHER MATTERS

Section 621—Expansions of Installation Benefits to Surviving Spouses, Dependent 

Children, and Other Next of Kin

This section would amend section 1126 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of Defense to provide lifetime installation access to Gold Star 

spouses and their dependent children for the purposes of attending memorial 

services, visiting gravesites, and accessing survivor services to which they are 

already entitled. Additionally, this section would provide the Secretary discretion to 

provide similar access to other surviving family members and require access 

reciprocity between the military services, and would extend access to base 

commissaries, exchanges, and other recreation facilities for all remarried surviving 

military spouses for as long as they have surviving dependent children under their 

guardianship.

Section 622—Transportation on Military Aircraft on a Space-Available Basis for 

Disabled Veterans with a Service-Connected, Permanent Disability Rated as Total

This section would amend section 2641b of title 10, United States Code, to 

authorize space-available travel for disabled veterans with a service-connected, 

permanent disability rated as total.

Section 623—Extension of Parking Expenses Allowance to Civilian Employees at 

Recruiting Facilities

This section would amend section 481i of title 37, United States Code, to 

allow the Secretary of Defense to reimburse military and civilian employees of the 

Department of Defense for parking expenses at recruiting facilities.

Section 624—Advisory Boards Regarding Military Commissaries and Exchanges

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This section would require the Secretary of Defense to direct installation 

commanders to establish an advisory board to advise commanders regarding the 

interests of patrons and beneficiaries of military commissaries and exchanges.

Section 625—Study and Report on Development of a Single Defense Resale System

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study to 

determine the feasibility of consolidating the military resale entities into a single 

defense resale system and would prohibit the use of funds in fiscal year 2019 for any 

action on consolidation by the Secretary of Defense.

TITLE VII—HEALTH CARE PROVISIONS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Advanced Pain Management Fellows Program

The committee is aware of the importance of pain management health care 

providers across the Military Health System. More specifically, Certified Registered 

Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are qualified pain practitioners who work in various 

practice settings to treat patients suffering from a wide range of acute and chronic 

pain conditions. CRNA chronic pain management practitioners are able to minimize 

the use of opioids to address chronic pain through the use of a multimodal approach 

that includes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain mitigation strategies. 

Furthermore, the holistic approach that CRNA pain management practitioners 

employ when treating their chronic pain patients may reduce the reliance on opioids 

as a primary pain management modality, thus aiding in the reduction of potential 

adverse drug events related to opioids. The committee believes advanced pain 

management fellowship programs for CRNAs may enhance comprehensive pain 

management. The committee encourages the Secretary of Defense and the 

Secretaries of the military departments to consider advanced pain management 

fellowship programs for CRNAs as part of their respective long-term health 

education and training programs. 

Athletic Trainers

The Committee understands that athletic trainers provide invaluable 

services to many people and organizations. However, the Committee notes that 

athletic trainers are not included on the TRICARE authorized provider list. 

Therefore the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by 1 February 2019, that examines the 

potential uses of civilian athletic trainers within the TRICARE program, the 

reimbursement structure for athletic trainers for Medicare or other commensurate 

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federal health programs, and an assessment of credentialing organizations that 

may help facilitate a standardized accreditation process for athletic trainers.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

 The Committee commends the Department of Defense for focusing a significant 

amount of research on studying military relevant injuries related to traumatic brain 

injury (TBI). The Committee acknowledges the importance of this research but 

would also like to better understand the potential link between TBI and chronic 

traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a neurodegenerative disorder that 

involves the progressive accumulation of the protein tau in nerve cells within 

certain regions of the brain. As the tau protein accumulates, it disturbs function 

and appears to lead to symptoms seen in affected patients with multiple head 

trauma. In 2013, a senior Department of Defense official stated, “we are learning 

though the process of discovery the effects of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury 

and also how to prevent this issue of chronic traumatic encephalopathy”. Research 

on CTE has made significant advancements, but there are still gaps in research 

between TBI and CTE and understanding the status and progress of CTE efforts 

within the military is of critical importance. Therefore, the Committee directs the 

Secretary of Defense, in consultation with Secretaries of the military departments, 

to provide a report on CTE research in the military to the Committees on Armed 

Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later than 1 April 2019. 

This report shall include an assessment of the gaps between CTE and TBI research, 

current funding levels, ongoing research studies, CTE related initiatives to track 

and monitor service-members, and ongoing research efforts with the National 

Institutes of Health, executive agencies and civilian academic and research 

organizations.

Comprehensive Women’s Health for Active Duty

The committee recognizes that as the population of women in the military 

increases and more women seek additional opportunities in direct combat units and 

throughout the joint force, it is critical that women’s health is addressed 

comprehensively to optimize health and readiness. The committee notes the efforts 

of Navy Medicine with the establishment of the Women’s Health Clinical 

Community and the piloting of a comprehensive clinic at Naval Medical Center, San 

Diego, to address the complex needs of the Active Duty female population. Guided 

by feedback from clinical and non-clinical stakeholders and evidence-based 

research, the comprehensive women’s health clinic addresses women’s health in a 

patient-centered manner integrating perinatal, women’s health, mental health, and 

force readiness. As the Military Health System transitions military treatment 

facilities from the services to the Defense Health Agency, the committee encourages 

the inclusion of similar health clinics where appropriate to improve the readiness of 

women in the force.

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Department of Defense Action Plan for Countering Infectious Diseases

The committee acknowledges the important work across the Department of 

Defense in the areas of preventive medicine and infectious disease. The 2014 Ebola 

outbreak demonstrated the need for a prompt and efficient response to a highly 

infectious disease outbreak. It also demonstrated that in the future, the U.S. 

military may be expected to assume a primary role in responding to such crises. The 

likelihood of a future regional and global infectious disease crisis is high, and the 

lessons learned from the 2014 Ebola crisis are directly applicable to the next 

potential infectious disease outbreak. It is therefore critical that the Department of 

Defense consider lessons learned from previous outbreaks. In addition, the 

Department must take action to promote force health protection from emerging 

infectious diseases while preparing to support missions in areas of increased risk or 

military operations supporting international response within a future public health 

emergency. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of 

Health and Human Services, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on 

Armed Services not later than June 1, 2019, on the development of an action plan 

focused on efforts to counter emerging infectious disease threats. This briefing 

should identify capability gaps; actions taken to improve point-of-care diagnostics 

linked to disease surveillance and information-sharing networks; examine 

infectious disease emergency response teams; capabilities for medical evacuation of 

patients with high consequence infections; gaps in infection prevention and control 

standards; and research efforts focused on medical countermeasures.

Diabetes Prevention Program

The committee notes there are an estimated 30 million Americans with 

diabetes but only approximately 50,000 military members or their family members 

have the disease. However, the committee understands that the number of military 

beneficiaries with diabetes increases to more than 200,000 for retirees and their 

family members who are under the age of 65 and doubles to over 400,000 for those 

beneficiaries in the TRICARE for Life, Medicare-eligible population. If not treated, 

those with diabetes face higher risks of heart disease, kidney failure, limb 

amputations, and blindness. The committee is aware that Medicare expanded its 

diabetes prevention pilot program to provide coverage for all eligible at-risk 

beneficiaries with prediabetes who are aged 65 years or older, which has led to 

substantial health care savings as well as reducing the risk of patients developing 

type 2 diabetes. Given the detrimental health impact of diabetes as well as the 

increased costs incurred for direct treatment and comorbid medical complications of 

this disease, prevention programs addressing the vulnerability of at-risk TRICARE 

beneficiaries should be closely examined.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives not 

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later than March 1, 2019, that examines the feasibility of using a similar program 

for TRICARE beneficiaries to prevent diabetes, improve health, and reduce health 

care costs. 

Direct Report Language on National Guard Mental Health

The Committee remains concerned about the high rate of suicides in the 

reserve component and specifically, within the Army National Guard. The 

Committee is aware of numerous efforts by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau 

to increase access and resources for Guardsmen to receive behavioral health 

treatment and support. The Committee also supports the establishment of a more 

integrated and holistic approach to resilience and fitness across the National Guard 

to better assess and improve the operational readiness of Guardsmen by carrying 

out pilot programs as required. Therefore, the Committee directs the Chief of the 

National Guard Bureau to provide a report to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than 1 March 2019, on the effectiveness of National Guard 

Bureau behavioral health programs like resiliency, suicide prevention, and other 

mental health outreach efforts.

Exceptional Family Member Program

The committee notes the purpose of the Exceptional Family Member 

Program (EFMP) is to provide comprehensive and coordinated community support, 

housing, educational, medical, and personnel services worldwide to military families 

with children with special needs. The committee is concerned that with over 

100,000 families participating in the EFMP and inconsistent application of the 

Department of Defense policy across the services, there are families who are 

inadvertently disadvantaged by not having an individualized service plan. The 

committee is also concerned that the Department of Defense and military services 

lack the common performance measures and outcome metrics to assess assignment 

coordination and family support.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan 

consisting of common performance metrics for assignment coordination and family 

support, including best practices for performance measurement; a systematic 

process for evaluating the results of monitoring activities conducted by each of the 

military services program; and a review to determine the feasibility of creating 

interstate compacts as a requirement for schools supporting EFMP students. 

The committee further directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing 

to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives not later than 

March 1, 2019, on this plan. 

GAO Audit of TRICARE

The committee notes that during the 2018 transition of TRICARE managed 

care support contractors, many issues related to network adequacy arose, which 

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affected beneficiary access to care, specifically access to mental health services. 

There is evidence that mental health providers from the East and West regions 

received new contracts that include a proposed 30% discount off Civilian Health and

Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) rates. With the limited 

options and resources that TRICARE beneficiaries currently have, these discounts 

will further jeopardize the mental health of military members, veterans, and their 

families who rely on TRICARE for their basic needs.

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the U.S. 

Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study of the Defense Health 

Agency’s (DHA) oversight of the transition of TRICARE managed care support 

contractors for its TRICARE regions. The Comptroller General shall provide a 

report to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives by 

September 30, 2019 detailing the extent to which (i) DHA provided guidance and 

oversight to the outgoing and incoming managed care support contractors; (ii) there 

were any issues with health care delivery, and if so, the effect, if at all, DHA’s 

guidance and oversight during the transition period had on these issues as well as 

DHA’s resolutions for remediating any managed care support contractors’ 

deficiencies; and (iii) DHA has reviewed any lessons learned from prior transitions 

and incorporated them into the current transition.

Global Health Engagement Organization Consolidation

The committee recognizes the Department of Defense’s efforts to develop 

global health engagement (GHE) capabilities that have become an integral part of 

combatant command security cooperation initiatives. These activities are used to 

improve military health professional readiness and interoperability by providing 

important training opportunities and experiences in operational settings with 

partner nations. However, the committee is concerned that there is duplication of 

effort with the Defense Institute for Medical Operations. The Defense Institute for 

Medical Operations supports overseas train-the-trainer programs on topics such as 

disaster management, force health protection, health surveillance, and other areas 

of health practice. 

As part of the Uniformed Services University of Health Science (USUHS) 

mission to support military readiness, the Center for Global Health Engagement 

was established by the Department of Defense to provide an enterprise-wide hub for 

GHE to support the combatant commands with leadership and scholarship; 

strategic and operational support to the joint force; training and professional 

development; management of GHE-related research; and assessment, monitoring, 

and evaluation activities. The committee believes USUHS provides a vital nexus of 

education and training for the Military Health System and may serve as an 

important support platform that provides economies of scale related to training, 

education, campus locations, and infrastructure support. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than April 1, 2019, on 

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the feasibility of consolidating and integrating the capabilities of the Center for 

Global Health Engagement and the Defense Institute of Medical Operations into 

one organization. 

Improving Delivery of Mental Health Services

The committee acknowledges the efforts of the Department of Defense and 

the military services to diagnose and treat military members suffering from mental 

health disorders. The committee commends the Department for systems it has in 

place to ensure service members receive standard of care for disorders where 

clinical evidence has informed best practices for treatment. However, there is room 

for improvement: the MHS lacks an enterprise wide system to accurately and 

consistently track care, cost, and implementation of evidence based quality medical 

and behavioral health therapeutic services for mental health disorders. The

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the Committee 

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives not later than December 1, 2018 

on the following: (1) feasibility study for creating a formalized methodology for 

tracking, measuring, and reporting across the MHS to ensure delivery of cost 

effective, evidence based quality treatments; (2) data and analysis to assist the 

committee in determining whether there are challenges to implementing evidence 

based mental health treatments for military personnel; (3) recommendations for 

addressing the current translation of innovative biomarker and neuroimaging 

diagnostics and research findings into practice; (4) any other matters the Secretary 

of Defense believes are relevant to this issue.

Improving Health Care Choices for Severely Injured Service Members

The committee seeks to better serve severely disabled veterans who are 

entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII of the Social 

Security Act. The committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with 

the Secretary of Human Health Services and the Commissioner of Social Security, 

to report on the total number of individuals who are retired from the Armed 

Services under chapter 61 of title 10, United States Code; entitled to hospital 

insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act pursuant to 

receiving benefits for 24 months as described in subparagraph (A) or (C) of section 

226(b)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 426(b)(2)); and because of such entitlement, are no 

longer enrolled in TRICARE Prime or TRICARE Select (as those terms are defined 

in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code) under chapter 55 of title 10, United 

States Code. The committee further directs the Secretary to submit the results of 

the report to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018.

Joint Advanced Orthopedic Surgical Training

The committee is aware of the importance of limiting musculoskeletal 

injuries (MSKI), which on average result in 21,000 shoulder and knee arthroscopies 

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affecting service members per year. The committee also recognizes that military 

orthopedic surgeons may be challenged to participate in civilian training 

partnerships to maintain or learn specialized techniques needed to care for military 

beneficiaries due to operational missions. These training challenges may have a 

significant impact on both the readiness of military personnel and the costs 

associated with MSKI for the Department of Defense. The committee encourages 

the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments to consider 

joint advanced orthopedic surgical training partnerships as an integral component 

of their respective long-term health education and training programs. 

Mental Health Care in the Military Health System

The committee commends the Department of Defense and military services'

significant efforts over the past decade to aggressively improve treatment of 

traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic 

traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and other mental health issues. The committee 

also recognizes the importance of research and innovation being made in the 

treatment of brain disease and the need to improve collaboration between the 

Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of 

Veterans Affairs, and medical research translation offices at major universities. As 

the Military Health System transitions the operations of the military treatment 

facilities (MTF) from the military services to the Defense Health Agency, the 

committee notes this area of research and treatment needs aggressive oversight. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretaries of the military departments, to submit a report to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not 

later than April 1, 2019, on the plan for the Military Health System to provide 

mental health care services as part of the transition of the MTFs. This report shall 

include an assessment of how mental health care providers will be arranged within 

the command structure of the Defense Health Agency, how mental health care 

policy and processes will be managed within the Defense Health Agency to deliver 

mental health care services to members of the Armed Forces and covered 

beneficiaries; the ability of each service Surgeon General to maintain the readiness 

of the military health workforce to deliver mental health care services operationally 

in support of deployed forces. In addition, this report shall include a plan to 

accelerate innovation and delivery of treatments for TBI, CTE and PTSD to 

members of the Armed Forces and covered beneficiaries through improved 

coordination of behavioral health research and development efforts across the 

federal government, academic institutions, and industry; inclusion of evidencebased suicide prevention programs; promotion of acquisition strategies that utilize 

other transaction authorities to accelerate development and delivery of promising 

breakthrough therapies for TBI, CTE and PTSD; facilitation of public-private 

investment partnerships to pursue psychiatric and brain disease treatments; and 

plans to expeditiously field Food and Drug Administration--cleared pharmaceuticals 

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and medical devices that provide clinicians with therapeutics and tools for rapid, 

accurate assessments of traumatic brain injury and PTSD.

Military Entrance Processing Command Physical Examination Model

The committee acknowledges the critical mission U.S. Military Entrance 

Processing Command (MEPCOM) performs throughout the United States. An 

important component of the MEPCOM mission is ensuring prospective service 

members are provided a physical examination as part of the military accession 

process. However, the committee is concerned that MEPCOM is unable to ensure 

these physical examinations are provided in a timely manner. The committee 

directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Committee on 

Armed Services not later than January 15, 2019, that evaluates the commercially 

distributed physical examination model being used by the Department of Defense 

Medical Examination Board and explores the feasibility of the MEPCOM 

contracting for physical examination services.

Military Nurse Work Experience

The committee is aware that military nurses provide critical support across 

the Military Health System. However, national nursing shortages and vigorous 

salary and bonus competition for journey-level nurses has impacted the ability of 

the military to attract more experienced nurses to civil service. The inability to 

compete for nurses, coupled with restrictive Federal guidelines that dictate the 

hiring of new graduate nurses at considerably lower salaries than civilian 

counterparts, has in some instances created significant compensation disparity 

between military treatment facilities and hospitals in the local community. 

Additionally, a recent change to the Office of Personnel Management policy may 

limit applicant pools and adversely impact the ability of military treatment facilities 

to foster growth and development of current employees who have completed 

additional education and obtained further licensure. The committee encourages the 

Secretary of Defense to work with the Office of Personnel Management to consider 

new qualification and classification standards for military nurses.

Military Nutrition and Diet Planning

The committee understands that a significant number of Active Duty 

military can currently be considered obese. This likely leads to additional health 

care costs and loss of military readiness, with too many Active Duty soldiers, 

sailors, marines, and airmen unable to deploy due to illness or injury. To ensure 

that our military is ready to fight today and in the future, on February 14, 2018, the 

Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness issued policy guidance to 

the military services that states: “Service members who have been non-deployable 

for more than 12 consecutive months, for any reason, will be processed for 

administrative separation....” With this renewed emphasis on military personnel 

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policies necessary to provide a more ready and lethal force, the committee is 

concerned that the Department of Defense lacks a cohesive, science-based approach 

to diet and nutrition that supports that goal. It is incumbent upon the Department 

to ensure our service members are trained and resourced in ways that will allow 

them to perform duties necessary to remain in a full-duty and deployable status. 

Healthy food options are a key component of this effort.

The committee is aware that the Department has funded research on 

optimal nutritional approaches that promote performance and reduce illness, 

injury, and other health problems in order to ensure that deployable personnel are 

prepared for worldwide assignments. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services by January 15, 2019, detailing this 

research and its conclusions. The briefing should include, among other aspects, an 

overview of studies that focused on the usage of low carbohydrate diets, which show 

promising outcomes for physiological and performance factors key to warfighter 

readiness and effectiveness. Additionally, the briefing should discuss the use of 

standard dietary guidelines as defined by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for 

Americans, as well as any other available comparisons. The briefing should also 

include systemic factors that inhibit the delivery of food options other than those 

defined by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans to service members at 

Department of Defense dining facilities and other venues. Finally, this briefing 

should include the plan for a Department-wide approach to diet and nutrition that 

incorporates performance-based outcomes in support of warfighter readiness.

Mitigating Work Place Violence in Military Treatment Facilities 

The committee notes that the Department of Defense incorporated many of 

the recommendations into policy to address workplace violence following the 2009 

Ft. Hood shooting review. The committee is concerned that there are still gaps in 

the implementation of the policies with respect to establishing Threat Assessment 

Teams in Military Treatment Facilities. This is evident by the 2016 incident at Ft. 

Leavenworth hospital when an employee set his supervisor on fire. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Armed 

Service Committee no later than 1 March 2019 on the establishment of the Threat 

Assessment Teams at Military Treatment Facilities and the training provided to 

the members of the team.

Orthotics for New Recruits

Custom orthotics are offered to servicemembers in some circumstances with 

a referral from their primary care provider, however it is the understanding of the 

committee that there is currently not a uniform method for providing orthotics to 

servicemembers across the joint force. With over 70% of muscular-skeletal injuries 

affecting the lower extremities, higher priority must be placed on injury prevention, 

which will likely reduce the cost of treatment and increase force readiness. The 

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committee therefore directs the Secretaries of each service to seek advice from the 

orthopedic and podiatric consultants residing within each branch of the Armed 

Forces regarding the benefits of prescribing and dispensing custom orthotics to each 

new recruit upon entering the military, and follow up with a briefing to Congress no 

later than April 1, 2019.

Periodic Health Assessment Analysis

The committee notes the continued progress in reforming the Department 

of Defense Periodic Health Assessment (PHA). The Department implemented the 

new electronic PHA in February 2018. The new PHA is designed to accomplish 

multiple requirements and provide standardized health assessment data that can 

be analyzed and compared across all military services, as well as to national 

standards. The PHA includes a comprehensive health risk assessment using 

evidence-based diagnostic tools validated and recommended by the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention and clinical specialty leaders. This is a systematic 

collection and analysis of health-related information for use by service members, 

health care providers, and health care teams to identify and support beneficial 

health behaviors and mutually work to direct changes in potentially harmful health 

behaviors. The committee encourages the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries 

of the military departments to continue to reform the PHA and use predictive 

analytics to examine population health factors and trend analysis to better 

understand comprehensive health risk assessment and improve the readiness of the 

force.

Podiatric Surgeons in the Military

The committee is concerned that surgically advanced military podiatrists 

are not presented with the same administrative opportunities as surgeons and 

doctors of other medical disciplines, and have historically had few opportunities for 

positions of leadership across the military medical enterprise. Podiatric surgery, as 

a medical discipline in the Armed Forces, has evolved over the last several decades, 

including an additional 3-year surgical residency requirement for all military 

podiatric surgeons. Podiatrists have increasingly deployed to combat zones 

overseas, serving in a variety of ways to meet the surgical needs of our warfighters. 

Moreover, podiatric surgeons remain in the Medical Service Corps in the Army and 

Navy, and the Biomedical Science Corps in the Air Force. This alignment does not 

administratively suit the profession, and podiatric surgeons may serve more 

effectively when aligned with surgeons of other medical disciplines. Lastly, while 

Army Reserve surgeons receive a 90-day rotation exemption limiting their tour of 

duty in combat, Reserve podiatric surgeons are not eligible for this exemption. This 

creates challenges to recruiting the best podiatrists for military service, and is 

especially difficult for podiatrists serving in the Reserve component who are faced 

with the possibility of a long deployment with potentially adverse effects on their 

civilian practice. The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense, in 

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coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, to submit a report to 

the House Committee on Armed Services not later than April 1, 2019, on 

improvements that can be made to podiatry as a medical discipline within the 

Armed Services; how podiatry is aligned within each military branch; and what 

efforts are being made to provide additional clinical, command, training, and 

leadership opportunities to podiatrists across the joint force.

Podiatry in the Military

The committee is concerned that surgically advanced military podiatrists 

are not presented with the same advancement opportunities as surgeons and 

doctors of other medical disciplines, and have historically had few opportunities for 

positions of command across the military medical enterprise. Podiatry, as a medical 

discipline in the Armed Forces, has evolved over the last several decades, including 

an additional 3-year surgical residency requirement for all military podiatrists. 

Podiatrists have increasingly deployed to combat zones overseas, serving in a 

variety of ways to meet the surgical needs of our warfighters. Moreover, podiatrists 

remain in the Medical Service Corps in the Army and Navy, and the Biomedical 

Science Corps in the Air Force. This alignment often limits advancement and 

leadership opportunities in the civilian sector, and may put them at a disadvantage 

when compared to officers in the Medical Corps. Lastly, while surgeons of other 

disciplines receive a 90-day rotation exemption limiting their tour of duty in 

combat, podiatrists are not eligible for this exemption. This creates challenges to 

recruiting the best podiatrists for military service, and is especially difficult for 

podiatrists serving in the Reserve component who are faced with the possibility of a 

long deployment with potentially adverse effects on their civilian practice. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretaries of the military departments, to submit a report to the House 

Committee on Armed Services not later than April 1, 2019, on improvements that 

can be made to podiatry as a medical discipline within the Armed Services; how 

podiatry is aligned within each military branch; and what efforts are being made to 

provide additional clinical, command, training, and advancement opportunities to 

podiatrists across the joint force. 

Study on CT Angiography and Fractional Flow Reserve Computed Tomography in 

the Military Health System

The Committee is aware of the significant health and cost savings 

advantages of new technology for non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac artery disease 

through cardiac CT angiography (CTA) and fractional flow reserve computed 

tomography (FFRct). This FDA approved diagnostic device coupled with use of CTA 

as an initial testing strategy is recognized as part of a preferred pathway of care by 

the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, the American College of Cardiology, the 

American Heart Association, and the National Health Service in the United 

Kingdom. The committee directs the Director of the Defense Health Agency to 

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provide a report to the House Committee on Armed Services no later than March 1, 

2019, that reviews and assesses the clinical efficacy of this technology and how it 

may be incorporated throughout the Military Health System.

Support for Global Health Security Agenda and Briefing on Joint Staff 

Recommendations 

The Committee is supportive of the Department of Defense contributions to 

biosecurity and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The DoD possesses 

unique capabilities that contribute to interagency efforts to prevent, detect, and 

respond to outbreaks of infectious disease worldwide, as demonstrated by the 

response to Ebola in West Africa.

As the Ebola response required in excess of $600 million in DoD funding, 

the Committee is supportive of ensuring that the DoD learns lessons that can be 

applied to future pandemic prevention and response efforts. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than October 31, 2018 

on implementation of recommendations made by the Joint Staff in its 2016 analysis 

of Operation United Assistance. The briefing shall include, but not be limited to, the 

status of implementation of the following recommendations:

(A) Participate in or facilitate interagency meetings to synchronize the 

GHSA plans and activities. Support GHSA initiatives in partner countries.

(B) Conduct a capability based assessment to identify gaps in DoD’s ability 

to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, both domestically and internationally.

(C) Sustain, and expand if possible public health-related capacity building 

for the full range of infectious diseases with partner countries as conditions allow.

(D) Work with CDC and other stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for a 

global laboratory network and improved information sharing.

(E) Identify and leverage opportunities to expand sampling programs to 

enhance OCONUS disease surveillance and gain an improved understanding of 

disease prevalence in different geographic areas.

(F) Support the continued development of USG strategic plans that increase 

the public health and bio-surveillance capacities of partner nations. 

Therapeutic Service Dog Training Program for Service Members

The committee is aware that service dog training therapy can provide 

important therapeutic benefits to service members recovering from post-traumatic 

stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other post-deployment mental health 

conditions. The committee notes the important role played by non-governmental 

organizations that have established robust programs in the training and handling 

of therapeutic service dogs, and further notes that the right mix of personnel with 

the appropriate backgrounds and certifications facilitates positive therapeutic 

experiences. The committee believes these programs, whenever possible, should use 

data and research to continue to improve their effectiveness in assisting service 

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members. The committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to continue 

administering a therapeutic service dog-training program that delivers effective and 

positive therapeutic and emotional benefits to service members recovering from 

post-traumatic stress disorder and other post-deployment mental health conditions.

TRICARE Managed Care Support Contractor Reporting

The committee notes the TRICARE benefit underwent considerable reform 

beginning January 1, 2018. The Department of Defense consolidated the TRICARE 

regions from three to two as part of the updated TRICARE management contract, 

and Congress directed that the TRICARE benefit be consolidated into two plans: a 

Healthcare Maintenance Plan and a Preferred Provider Plan. Both reforms took 

effect on January 1, 2018. The committee is aware of challenges for beneficiaries 

regarding timely appointments, referrals, provider network development, and other 

administrative processing functions. The committee is concerned these challenges 

may be impacting beneficiary access to health care services. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the Committee 

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives not later than March 1, 2019, on 

managed care support contractor compliance with performance metrics and 

standards relating to appointments, referral processing, network development (to 

include the requirement to cover 85 percent of the beneficiaries with standard select 

coverage in Prime Service Areas with special emphasis on remote locations), and 

other administrative processing functions.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—TRICARE AND OTHER HEALTH CARE BENEFITS

Section 701—TRICARE Medicare Advantage Demonstration Program

This section would authorize the Department of Defense to develop a 

Medicare Advantage demonstration program for TRICARE-eligible beneficiaries.

Section 702—Pilot Program on Treatment of Members of the Armed Forces for PostTraumatic Stress Disorder Related to Military Sexual Trauma

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to assess the 

feasibility of a pilot program that uses intensive outpatient programs to treat 

members of the Armed Forces suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 

resulting from military sexual trauma. 

Section 703—Pilot Program on Cryopreservation and Storage

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot 

program for not more than 1,000 Active Duty service members that provides the 

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opportunity to cryopreserve and store their gametes prior to deployment to a 

combat zone.

SUBTITLE B—HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Section 711—Transition of Administration by Defense Health Agency of Military 

Medical Treatment Facilities

This section would amend section 1073 of title 10, United States Code, by 

requiring the Department of Defense to transition the administration of military 

treatment facilities from the respective Secretary of the military departments to the 

Director of the Defense Health Agency not later than September 30, 2020. This 

section would also prohibit the Secretary of Defense from closing or limiting services 

in any military medical treatment facility until a transition certification process is 

completed. 

Section 712—Sharing Information with State Prescription Drug Monitoring 

Programs

This section would amend section 1074g of title 10, United States Code, by 

requiring the Department of Defense to establish a prescription drug monitoring 

program and share information with State prescription drug monitoring programs.

Section 713—Improvement to Notification to Congress of Hospitalization of 

Combat-Wounded Members of the Armed Forces

This section would amend section 1074l(a) of title 10, United States Code, 

by including notification to Congress of hospitalization of combat-wounded members 

of the Armed Forces to every military medical treatment facility.

Section 714—Improvements to Trauma Center Partnerships

This section would amend section 708 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), by authorizing the use 

of civilian trauma centers in the training of military health professionals in traumarelated specialties.

Section 715—Wounded Warrior Policy Review

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to update and review 

policy and procedures related to wounded warrior care and include a report on the 

review not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 716—Joint Force Medical Capabilities Development and Standardization

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This section would require the Secretary of Defense to develop a process to 

establish joint medical capabilities that meet operational planning requirements 

and provide a report on this process to the Committees on Armed Services of the 

Senate and the House of Representatives not later than March 1, 2019. 

SUBTITLE C—REPORTS AND OTHER MATTERS

Section 721—Establishment of Triservice Dental Research Program

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish the 

Triservice Dental Research Program at the Uniformed Services University of the 

Health Sciences.

Section 722—Increasing the Number of Appointed Directors of the Henry M. 

Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

This section would increase the number of appointed directors of the Henry 

M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

Section 723—Extension of Authority for Joint Department of Defense-Department 

of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund

This section would authorize the extension of the Joint Department of 

Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund 

established by section 1704 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84) and most recently amended by section 719 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91).

Section 724—Inclusion of Gambling Disorder in Health Assessments and Related 

Research Efforts of the Department of Defense

This section would require the Department of Defense to include questions 

concerning gambling disorders in annual periodic health assessments and the 

Health-Related Behaviors Survey of Active Duty Military Personnel.

Section 725—Medical Simulation Technology and Live Tissue Training within the 

Department of Defense

This section would require the Department of Defense to use medical 

simulation technology before the use of live tissue training to train medical 

professionals and combat medics except for when the use of live tissue training is 

determined necessary by the medical chain of command. This section would also 

require a briefing on the use and benefit of medical simulation technology and live 

tissue training within the Department of Defense.

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Section 726—Limitation on Changes to Federal Emergency Services Certification 

Levels of the Air Force

This section limits any changes to Federal Emergency Services certification 

levels in the Air Force.

Section 727—Strategic Medical Research Plan

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 

the Secretaries of the military departments, to submit to the congressional defense 

committees a comprehensive strategic medical research plan that is inclusive of the 

Congressional Directed Medical Research Plan and the Defense Health Program. 

Section 728—Independent Evaluation of Mental Health Care

This section would require an independent assessment of mental health 

care services in the Military Health System by an independent federally funded 

research and development center.

Section 729—Study on Reimbursement Rates for Mental Health Care Providers 

under TRICARE Prime and TRICARE Select in the East and West Regions of the 

TRICARE Program

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study 

assessing the impacts of using established reimbursement rates to reimburse 

covered mental health care providers on the availability of such providers.

TITLE VIII—ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION 

MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Assessment of Acquisition Workforce

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide the House Armed 

Services Committees no later than December 1, 2018 a report to assess the current 

effectiveness of Defense Acquisition University’s mission to adequately train the 

Department of Defenses’ acquisition workforce and other personnel involved in the 

acquisition process. This report shall include an assessment of Defense Acquisition 

University's ability to adequately train students to write acquisition requirements 

(including scope of work) so that requirements are developed in such a way as to 

meet the needs of the Department, as well as its ability to adequately train students 

on the appropriate use of transactions other than contracts, cooperative 

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agreements, and grants, also known as other transaction authority, and additional 

items at the Secretary’s discretion.

Briefing on Athletic Footwear for New Recruits

The committee notes the health and safety of newly recruited 

servicemembers is of utmost importance. The committee notes athletic footwear 

furnished to new recruits upon entering the military should be consistently issued 

in a manner that accounts for each recruit’s individual physiological requirement in

order to prevent lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries. The committee directs 

the Department of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services, not later than November 1, 2018, on the Department’s effort to examine, 

measure, and fit new recruits with athletic shoes in an effort to reduce and prevent 

injury. The briefing will present the information separately by individual service as 

well as in aggregate.

Comptroller General Report on the Issuance of Regulations in the Defense Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Supplement

The committee notes that despite recent legislative reform to the 

acquisition system there has been a significant delay between statutory enactment 

and issuance of regulations in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Supplement (DFARS). For example, a final rule on procurement of commercial 

items (issued in January 2018) amended the DFARS based upon requirements from 

as long ago as the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Public 

Law 112-239). As a result, the acquisition and contracting communities within and 

outside the Federal Government are unable to take full advantage of recent reforms 

and improvements to acquisition and contracting procedures. The committee is 

concerned that the momentum generated by congressional acquisition reform 

initiatives has been lost as a result of delayed, and potentially incomplete, revision 

of regulations, and seeks to identify and remedy the causes of such delays. 

According to the Department of Defense’s operating guidance for the DFARS, the 

standard timeline for issuance of a final rule is one year, including multiple layers 

of review within and outside the Department as well as time for public comment. 

The committee seeks recommendations on how to reduce that timeline and ensure 

that previously enacted statutory provisions are not disregarded in regulation. The 

committee also encourages exploration of other ways to quickly implement enacted 

reforms such as through interim policy memoranda or other guidance, without the 

need for formal regulatory action.

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to submit a report to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, 

on the issuance of regulations in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Supplement as required under statutory provisions enacted in past National 

Defense Authorization Acts. The report should describe the existing revision process 

and assess the status of statutory provisions enacted since fiscal year 2010. The 

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report should assess the factors delaying revision to the DFARS and provide 

recommendations for any changes that might accelerate such revisions. The 

committee intends for the Comptroller General to focus on acquisition policy-related 

statutory provisions enacted in past National Defense Authorization Acts.

The committee further directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018, on preliminary 

findings.

Contract Incentives for Superior Supplier Performance

The committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not 

later than December 1, 2018, on the Department of Defense's Superior Supplier 

Incentive Program. This program is designed to recognize and reward contractors 

who demonstrate superior performance by focusing on cost, schedule, performance, 

quality, and responsiveness. The briefing should include discussion of the feasibility 

of providing contract incentives, such as more favorable contract terms and 

conditions, which had been considered in relation to the Department of the Navy’s 

Superior Supplier Incentive Program that preceded the Department of Defense’s 

program.

Core Logistics Capability

The committee notes that section 2464 of title 10, United States Code, 

requires the Department of Defense to maintain a core logistics capability that is 

Government-owned and Government-operated (including Government personnel 

and Government-owned and Government-operated equipment and facilities) to 

ensure a ready and controlled source of technical competence and resources 

necessary to ensure effective and timely response to a mobilization, national defense 

contingency situations, and other emergency requirements. The committee further 

notes that recent National Defense Authorization Acts have made important 

changes to commercial item statutes, and that elsewhere in this Act the committee 

recommends further changes to the statutes governing commercial items. In all 

cases, the committee expects the Department to implement any statutory changes 

in a manner consistent with the mandate in section 2464 of title 10, United States 

Code, to maintain core logistics capabilities. 

The committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment to provide a report to the House Committee on Armed Services, not 

later than February 1, 2019, on the Department’s implementation of changes to 

commercial item statutes enacted in National Defense Authorization Acts for fiscal 

years 2016 through 2019, and how such changes may affect core logistics capability 

in the future.

Data Rights Impact to Sustainment

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The committee is concerned about access to appropriate data rights with 

regard to long-term sustainment of weapon systems, especially for weapon systems 

transitioning to organic depot sustainment. 

The committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

September 30, 2018, on the process and status of obtaining appropriate data rights 

for long-term sustainment of weapon systems transitioning to organic depots.

Domestic Samarium Cobalt Magnet Manufacturing

The committee is aware of the Department of Defense's continued need for 

a reliable rare earth magnet manufacturing industrial base to provide key 

components in many weapon systems. The committee is concerned that a recent 

memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japan may result in the outsourcing of 

all remaining rare earth magnet manufacturing capability in the United States to 

foreign manufacturers. There is currently one U.S.-owned and -operated rare earth 

magnet manufacturing facility in the United States, which produces samarium 

cobalt magnets. The committee urges the Secretary of Defense to take the 

appropriate steps to ensure that the United States is not completely without a 

commercial-scale rare earth magnet manufacturing facility. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 30, 2018, on the risks to the 

current domestic rare earth supply chain, including domestic samarium cobalt 

magnet makers, as a result of the MOU with Japan. The briefing should also 

describe the Department's strategy for preserving the long-term viability of the U.S. 

rare earth magnet industrial base.

Ensuring Availability of Beryllium

The committee notes that beryllium is the only material designated by the 

Department of Defense's Strategic Materials Protection Board as a critical material. 

The committee notes there is a complete, vertically integrated supply chain in the 

United States for beryllium metal and other beryllium products that are used in 

major defense systems including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and nuclear weapon 

systems. This supply chain has historically been supported by the Department of 

Defense through the Defense Production Act and other authorities as required in 

order to maintain access to this critical, strategic material.

The committee is interested in the Department's efforts to help the U.S. 

defense industrial base sustain a secure, viable, and affordable domestic supply of 

beryllium.

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 30, 

2018, on the Department’s efforts to maintain the availability of beryllium for 

defense needs. The briefing should address the following:

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(1) what steps the Department is taking to ensure a stable and affordable 

domestic supply chain for beryllium;

(2) whether the Department intends to provide any guidance regarding 

individual programs using beryllium feedstock from the Russian Federation and 

metal production from the Republic of Kazakhstan;

(3) the Department’s coordination with the National Nuclear Security 

Administration to maintain the availability of beryllium for nuclear modernization 

requirements; 

(4) the Department’s efforts to work with the Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration to ensure that regulatory burdens do not jeopardize the 

domestic beryllium supply chain; and

(5) the potential opportunities for the Department’s guidance to its 

component agencies and military services to ensure a whole-of-Department 

approach to beryllium supply.

Final Activities of and Archiving of Records for Advisory Panel on Streamlining and 

Codifying Acquisition Regulations

The committee notes that the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and 

Codifying Acquisition Regulations has continued to provide analysis to the relevant 

congressional committees and the Department of Defense to support statutory and 

regulatory implementation of recommendations contained in volume 1 of its final 

report. The committee expects the Advisory Panel to provide additional 

recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch in volumes 2 and 3 of the 

final report. The Advisory Panel, pursuant to section 883 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91), which amended section 

809 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 

114-92), will remain in existence for 180 days following delivery of volume 3 of the 

final report in January 2019. During this final 6-month period, the Advisory Panel 

should continue to provide any necessary analysis and clarification of 

recommendations contained in the final report to Congress and the Executive 

Branch to support and facilitate statutory and regulatory implementation of such 

recommendations. 

The committee expects that the Department of Defense's acquisition reform 

efforts will not cease upon the termination of the Advisory Panel on Streamlining 

and Codifying Acquisition Regulations. In addition, the Department of Defense’s 

implementation of recent legislative reforms as well as the Advisory Panel’s 

recommendations on regulations will require continued research and analysis by 

the Department. The committee notes that section 809 of Public Law 114-92 

established the National Defense University as one of the sponsors of the Advisory

Panel. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense that upon termination of 

the Advisory Panel, the Advisory Panel’s records shall be maintained by the 

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Eisenhower School at the National Defense University by no later than August 1, 

2019.

Installation of Command, Control, Communication and Computer Systems

The committee remains concerned that the Navy is using lowest price 

technically acceptable (LPTA) contracting procedures inappropriately, particularly 

when acquiring complex systems, including command and control systems or 

services for the installation of command and control systems on ships. The 

committee notes that the Navy faces a significant backlog of maintenance and 

repair on ships and this backlog includes upgrades of command and control 

systems. The capacity of the Navy to reduce the backlog of needed repairs remains 

of concern to the committee. Consequently, the committee directs the Secretary of 

the Navy to provide a briefing to the House Armed Services Committee not later 

than March 1, 2019, on the Navy’s acquisition plan for command and control 

systems and the installation of these systems aboard Navy vessels. The briefing 

shall include an overview on how the Navy plans to reduce the backlog of needed 

command and control system upgrades, as well as the physical installation of these 

systems on Navy vessels. The briefing shall include the Navy’s plan for acquiring 

adequate contracting capacity for the performance of the required work, the plan to 

incentivize contractors to perform the work quickly, and the total amount of work 

programmed for the next five years by class of ship.

Mandatory Arbitration Briefing

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services not later than March 1, 2019, on steps the 

Department has taken to ensure compliance with the provisions of Subpart 222.74 

of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement concerning restrictions 

on the use of mandatory arbitration agreements. The briefing shall include steps 

taken to ensure that the Department does not fund contracts in excess of $1 million 

with contractors that require as a condition of employment that employees enter an 

agreement to resolve certain claims and torts through arbitration. The briefing 

shall also include steps taken to ensure that contractors have certified that covered 

subcontractors, as defined in the clause at 252.222-7006 of the Defense Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Supplement, have been required to agree not to enter into 

such agreements. The briefing shall also include the extent to which the Secretary 

of Defense has waived the requirements of this subpart. The briefing shall also 

include potential ways for Department of Defense to determine the prevalence of 

mandatory arbitration by Department of Defense contractors compared to 

contractors that do not do business with Department of Defense.

Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program

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The committee supports and recognizes the importance of the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership 

program. The committee understands that the Manufacturing Extension 

Partnership program provides assistance to small- and medium-sized 

manufacturing companies to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve 

management, enhance supply chains, and adapt to new market and supply chain 

opportunities. In addition, the committee believes that additional resourcing and 

support for the program would likely provide these services to a larger number of 

manufacturers involved in Department of Defense programs.

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House Committee on 

Armed Services not later than March 1, 2019, on the Department of Defense plans 

for future cooperation with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, 

including collaborative efforts between the Department and the Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership program. The briefing should also include a review of 

potential opportunities for expanding Department support for the Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership program in an effort to provide assistance to manufacturing 

elements of the defense industrial base.

National Defense Stockpile

The committee notes the importance of the National Defense Stockpile and 

of the preservation of strategic and critical materials for national defense. The 

committee is concerned about the current risks and long-term sustainability of the 

National Defense Stockpile. According to the Department of Defense, there are 

significant unsatisfied stockpile requirements, and, under the current programfinancing model, the Transaction Fund will be unsustainable by 2024. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by September 30, 2018, on the National 

Defense Stockpile. The briefing should address the following:

(1) the Department’s plan to address the current unmitigated risks;

(2) how the Department will make the Transaction Fund sustainable;

(3) an overview of the Department’s stockpile management to include 

acquisition of materials, storage, security, and maintenance;

(4) the Department’s ability to upgrade, refine, and process the material for 

storage, disposition, or use; and

(5) any vulnerabilities to the National Defense Stockpile supply chain and 

the Department’s risk mitigation efforts.

Navy Build-to-Print Cost Savings

The committee supports expanding competition in Navy acquisition, 

including appropriate use of "build-to-print" competitions where the Navy holds 

sufficient rights to the design of military equipment components to compete the 

production of them with multiple sources. The committee is aware of Navy efforts to 

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use such competitions to dramatically reduce the time and cost of contracting for 

selected items. The committee encourages the Navy to expand these efforts if they 

can be pursued in a way that works collaboratively with industry on obtaining the 

necessary technical data rights and intellectual property through early 

negotiations. 

One Hundred Percent Employee-Owned Contractors

The committee is interested in understanding the merits of 100 percent 

employee-owned contractors and the potential benefits they bring to strengthening 

the defense industrial base. The committee seeks to further understand the benefits 

and cost implications of awarding contracts to employee-owned contractors for the 

Department of Defense; the retention rates of employee-owned contractors; and any 

other benefits of this type of contractor. 

The committee will work with the Comptroller General of the United States 

to further study these types of contractors.

Report on REE-Bearing Waste Recycling

The committee continues to be concerned with our dependence on foreign 

sources for materials critical to our national defense. To help mitigate this supply 

chain risk, the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act strongly encouraged 

the Department to recycle discarded items, such as spent fluorescent lamps, in 

order to extract, reclaim and reuse critical materials and rare earth elements 

contained in such waste. This section also provided the Department broad authority 

to recover, acquire, recycle and manage the disposal and recyclable strategic and 

critical materials containing REE from other federal agencies.

 The committee is aware of recent advances in domestic recycling 

technology, providing clean and efficient means for reclaiming rare earth elements 

from a variety of domestic waste streams. At current recycling levels of fluorescent 

lamps alone, recoverable quantities of target rare earth elements such as Yttrium, 

deemed by the Department to be critical to the national defense, can wholly offset 

the total amount of imported Yttrium originating in China on an annual basis, and 

sold at or below current market price. 

 Where feasible, such waste streams should not be destroyed or landfilled, 

but managed in accordance with our national defense needs. The committee 

therefore directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the Department’s past and 

planned future use of new authorities granted to them to both recycle the 

Department’s applicable REE-bearing waste, and recover and exploit the REEbearing waste of other federal agencies. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—STREAMLINING OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION STATUTES AND REGULATIONS

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Section 800—Effective Dates; Coordination of Amendments

This section would set the effective dates for the establishment of a new 

part V of subtitle A of title 10, United States Code, and the redesignation of the 

chapter and section numbers for title 10 subtitles B, C, and D in order to create 

numerical space for a new part V at the end of subtitle A. This restructuring would 

also enable additional growth and potential future reorganization of title 10 

statutes in other subject areas outside of the acquisition code. 

The committee expects that this restructuring effort would be sustained. 

The second phase of reorganization would be enacted by follow-on legislation that 

would direct the more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into the final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 not later than February 1, 2020.

PART I—CONSOLIDATION OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION STATUTES IN NEW PART V OF 

SUBTITLE A OF TITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE

Section 801—Framework for New Part V of Subtitle A

This section would establish the initial step in the first phase of a 

comprehensive reorganization and optimization of acquisition-related statutes in 

title 10, United States Code. The committee recognizes that the structure for 

acquisition-related statutes in title 10 has become unwieldy and inadequate.

This section would create a new part V at the end of subtitle A of title 10, 

thus logically organizing all acquisition-related statutes in one part in the Code. 

The committee expects that the actual shift of statutory language for the new part 

V would be established in a subsequent second phase of legislation, but not later 

than February 1, 2020.

 The committee notes that reorganizing defense acquisition statutes into a 

restructured, rationalized form would reflect more clearly the underlying 

organization of these statutes and provide a structure that is more intuitive and 

easier to navigate, as well as facilitate future growth within the Code’s structure. In 

addition, the proposed reorganization would provide an opportunity to restore 

parallelism between the acquisition-related provisions of title 10 and the 

corresponding provisions of title 41, United States Code, that are applicable to 

procurement by non-defense agencies, which would benefit the entirety of the 

Federal contracting community.

The committee expects that this restructuring effort will be sustained, and 

the second phase of reorganization will be enacted by follow-on legislation that will 

direct the more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into the final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 (to include the new part V of subtitle A) not later 

than February 1, 2020.

PART II—REDESIGNATION OF SECTIONS AND CHAPTERS OF SUBTITLES B, C, AND D TO 

PROVIDE ROOM FOR NEW PART V OF SUBTITLE A 

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Section 806—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle D of Title 10, 

United States Code—Air Force

This section would redesignate the chapter and section numbers for subtitle 

D of title 10, United States Code, in order to create numerical space for a new part 

V at the end of subtitle A. This restructuring would also enable additional growth 

and potential future reorganization of title 10 statutes in other subject areas outside 

of the acquisition code. 

The committee expects that this restructuring effort would be sustained. 

The second phase of reorganization would be enacted by follow-on legislation that 

would direct a more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into a final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 not later than February 1, 2020.

Section 807—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle C of Title 10, 

United States Code—Navy and Marine Corps

This section would redesignate the chapter and section numbers for subtitle 

C of title 10, United States Code, in order to create numerical space for a new part 

V at the end of subtitle A. This restructuring would also enable additional growth 

and potential future reorganization of title 10 statutes in other subject areas outside 

of the acquisition code. 

The committee expects that this restructuring effort would be sustained. 

The second phase of reorganization would be enacted by follow-on legislation that 

would direct a more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into a final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 not later than February 1, 2020.

Section 808—Redesignation of Sections and Chapters of Subtitle B of Title 10, 

United States Code—Army

This section would redesignate the chapter and section numbers for subtitle 

B of title 10, United States Code, in order to create numerical space for a new part 

V at the end of subtitle A. This restructuring would also enable additional growth 

and potential future reorganization of title 10 statutes in other subject areas outside 

of the acquisition code. 

The committee expects that this restructuring effort would be sustained. 

The second phase of reorganization would be enacted by follow-on legislation that 

would direct a more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into a final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 not later than February 1, 2020.

Section 809—Cross References to Redesignated Sections and Chapters

This section would establish the cross-references guidance for new 

redesignated sections and chapters of title 10, United States Code. 

The committee expects that this restructuring effort would be sustained. 

The second phase of reorganization would be enacted by follow-on legislation that 

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would direct a more detailed chapter by chapter transfer into a final revised, 

rationalized structure of title 10 not later than February 1, 2020. 

PART III—REPEALS OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION LAW

Section 811—Amendment to and Repeal of Statutory Requirements for Certain 

Positions or Offices in the Department of Defense

This section would amend or repeal a number of statutory requirements for 

certain Department of Defense positions or offices established or required by law, 

and would establish a sunset for one statutory designation.

The committee notes that these repeals do not constitute an assessment of 

the offices’ or positions’ respective missions or roles in the acquisition process, but 

rather are an effort to remove needlessly prescriptive and obsolete requirements 

from the United States Code. Codifying the existence and structure of certain offices 

may unnecessarily restrict the Secretary of Defense’s ability to modify the 

Department’s organizational structure to improve efficiency and effectiveness in a 

way that is consistent with the reforms to the organization of the Office of the 

Secretary of Defense as required by section 901 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328). Repeal of these 

statutory requirements would not directly abolish the affected positions, but would 

allow the Secretary to restructure those positions should such action be warranted. 

Removing statutory mandates would enhance the Secretary’s authority and ability 

to craft an agile acquisition organization.

Section 812—Repeal of Certain Defense Acquisition Laws

This section would repeal a number of outdated provisions of law related to 

defense acquisition, including sections of title 10, United States Code, and 

provisions that appear in the United States Code as legislative “note” sections 

under various provisions of title 10. These out-of-date provisions either required the 

Department of Defense to issue regulations, have now expired by their own terms, 

or are otherwise obsolete. 

The committee notes that, with respect to repeal of a statutory requirement 

for issuance of a regulation, it is not expressing a view on the merits of the policies 

covered by the regulation. Rather, in repealing the statutory requirement for a 

regulation, this section would allow the Secretary of Defense to revise the 

regulation as circumstances warrant. Repealing the statutory requirement would 

allow the Secretary to revise or rescind the regulation, but would not prescribe it. 

The decision to retain, or not retain, the regulation would remain with the 

Secretary.

Section 813—Repeal of Certain Department of Defense Reporting Requirements

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This section would repeal certain Department of Defense recurring 

reporting requirements. The committee notes that excessive reporting requirements 

can impose costs on the Department of Defense that outweigh the intended benefits 

of each individual report, and can potentially impede the Department’s ability to 

effectively direct resources to core objectives. In the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), Congress initially directed a large 

group of recurring reporting requirements to sunset on December 31, 2021. This 

section continues to advance this streamlining effort.

SUBTITLE B—AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL CONTRACTING AUTHORITIES, PROCEDURES,

AND LIMITATIONS

Section 821—Contract Goal for the AbilityOne Program

This section would amend section 2323a of title 10, United States Code, to 

create a contract goal for the AbilityOne program of 1.5 percent. This section would 

also require the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report to the U.S. 

AbilityOne Commission on progress made toward achieving said contract goal.

The committee intends to establish greater transparency for this program's 

execution. 

Section 822—Increased Micro-Purchase Threshold Applicable to Department of 

Defense Procurements

This section would amend section 2338 of title 10, United States Code, by 

raising the micro-purchase threshold for the Department of Defense from $5,000 to 

$10,000.

Section 823—Preference for Offerors Employing Veterans

 This section would amend chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, by 

adding a new section that would authorize the head of an agency, in awarding a 

contract for the procurement of goods and services for the Department of Defense, to 

establish a preference for offerors that employ veterans on a full-time basis, with 

criteria for use of such preference determined by the Secretary of Defense. Prior to 

establishing such preference, the Secretary of Defense would be required to provide 

a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services on the process for assessing 

and verifying offeror compliance with regulations relating to equal opportunity for 

veteran’s requirements, and an implementation plan that includes penalties for an 

offeror that willfully and intentionally misrepresents the veteran status of 

employees. 

 The committee notes the importance of ensuring and expanding economic 

opportunity for veterans, and the role of the Department in this endeavor. The 

committee further notes that the Department uses existing programs that 

maximize contracting opportunities for veteran-owned businesses and believes 

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procurement policy should also encourage the employment of veterans through 

development of a preference that rewards the employment of veterans by 

companies. The committee also notes the importance of establishing effective 

compliance mechanisms as part of any such preference to ensure that the service of 

veterans is not abused as a result of willful misrepresentation of their status by 

offerors.

Section 824—Revision of Requirement to Submit Information on Services Contracts 

to Congress

This section would amend section 2329(b) of title 10, United States Code, to 

change from October 1, 2022, to October 1, 2020, the effective date for the Secretary 

of Defense’s submission to Congress of information on services contracts that clearly 

and separately identifies the amount requested for each category of services to be 

procured for each Defense Agency, Department of Defense Field Activity, command, 

or military installation. This section would also add the requirement that such 

information should be included in the Future Years Defense Program submitted to 

Congress under section 221 of this title.

The committee notes the Department of Defense’s recent decision to 

proceed with an initiative to budget services acquisitions over the course of the full 

Future Years Defense Program and to develop an implementation plan that 

leverages existing tools that can be employed to improve planning for acquisition of 

services. The committee notes that the Department’s approach harmonizes well 

with the committee’s reform efforts enacted in the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) concerning enterprise data 

standardization and transparency. The committee further notes that the 

Department’s decision obviates the need for, and expenditure on, the independent 

analysis on this matter performed by a federally funded research and development 

center or other organization that was included in the conference report (H. Rept. 

115-404) accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018.

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018, on the development of 

this implementation plan and milestones leading to implementation of this 

initiative not later than October 1, 2020.

Section 825—Data Collection and Inventory for Services Contracts

This section would amend section 2330a of title 10, United States Code, by 

changing the dollar threshold for data to be collected on each purchase of services 

by a military department or Defense Agency from $3.0 million to the simplified 

acquisition threshold. This section would also remove the specification of the four 

service acquisition portfolio groups to be included in such data collection. This 

section would also change the activities contained in an annual inventory prepared 

by the Secretary of Defense from those pursuant to staff augmentation contracts, to 

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those pursuant to services contracts, and replace references to the Under Secretary 

of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics with the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.

Section 826—Competition Requirements for Purchases from Federal Prison 

Industries

This section would amend section 2410n of title 10, United States Code, by 

removing "for which Federal Prison Industries does not have a significant market 

share".

This section would create a requirement for conducting market research 

before purchasing a product listed in the Federal Prison Industries (FPI) catalog. 

This section would require the Department of Defense to: 

(1) conduct market research to determine if the product is comparable to 

products in the private sector and meets the Department's needs (price, quality, or 

time of delivery) prior to purchasing a product from FPI.

(2) use competitive procedures or purchase under a multiple award contract 

if the product is not comparable and does not meet the Department's needs.

Section 827—Requirement for a Fair and Reasonable Price for Technical Data 

Before Development or Production of Major Weapon Systems

This section would provide the Department of Defense with additional 

flexibility on negotiations for appropriate technical data.

Section 828—Revisions in Authority Relating to Program Cost Targets and Fielding 

Targets for Major Defense Acquisition Programs

This section would amend sections 2448a, 2366a, and 2366b of title 10, 

United States Code, to allow the Secretaries of the military departments, or, in 

instances where an alternate milestone decision authority for a program has been 

designated under section 2430(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of 

Defense, to establish program cost, fielding, and performance goals in planning 

major defense acquisition programs. This section would also allow for the delegation 

of these responsibilities beyond the Deputy Secretary of Defense.

The committee notes that while section 825 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92) amended section 2430 of 

title 10, United States Code, by changing the designation of the milestone decision 

authority for major defense acquisition programs to be, with some exceptions, the 

service acquisition executive of the military department that is managing the 

program, this change has not been reflected elsewhere in this title. As a result, 

certain statutory responsibilities remain with the Secretary of Defense when they 

should more appropriately be performed by the Secretaries of the military 

departments. This section addresses this discrepancy as it pertains to establishing 

program cost, fielding, and performance goals in planning major defense acquisition 

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programs, as well as associated reporting to Congress that coincides with the 

granting of Milestone A and Milestone B approval.

Section 829—Revision of Timeline for Use of the Rapid Fielding Pathway for 

Acquisition Programs

This section would amend section 804(b)(2) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92) to change part of the 

objective of an acquisition program under the rapid fielding pathway from 

completing fielding within 5 years, to completing low-rate initial production within 

5 years. 

The committee notes that requiring completion of fielding within 5 years 

may unnecessarily limit the applicability of this pathway for incremental upgrade 

programs.

Section 830—Clarification of Services Contracting Definitions

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense, not later than 180 days 

after the date of the enactment of this Act, to revise the Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement to clarify the definitions of and relationships between terms 

related to services contracts, including the appropriate use of personal and 

nonpersonal services contracts, and the responsibilities of individuals in the 

acquisition workforce with respect to such contracts. 

The committee notes that definitions for terms related to contracted 

services are found in statute, regulation, and elsewhere in the Department of 

Defense's contracted services lexicon. The committee expects the Department to 

clearly delineate in one place the definitions of and relationships between terms 

related to contracted services, including associated supervisory responsibilities.

SUBTITLE C—PROVISIONS RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Section 831—Revision of Definition of Commercial Item for Purposes of Federal 

Acquisition Statutes

This section would clarify the definition of commercial items. Specifically, it 

would clarify commercial items as commercial products or commercial services. 

The committee notes the current definition of commercial items throughout 

the United States Code is inconsistent, with 40 disparate definitions of commercial 

items. Additionally, commercial item definitions do not appropriately take into 

account the differences between products and services. The separation of the 

definition of commercial items into commercial products and commercial services 

would simplify and streamline procurement. Consistency in application of 

definitions would assist the acquisition workforce as well as businesses seeking to 

participate in the defense sector.

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Section 832—Definition of Subcontract

This section would create a precise definition for "subcontract" in title 41, 

United States Code, and incorporates this revised definition in title 10, United 

States Code. 

The committee notes there are multiple definitions of subcontract and 

establishing a single definition for a subcontract would provide clarification, 

simplicity, and consistency for defense procurement actions.

Section 833—Limitation on Applicability to Department of Defense Commercial 

Contracts of Certain Provisions of Law and Certain Executive Orders and 

Regulations

This section would update section 2375, section 2533a, and section 2533b of 

title 10, United States Code, with the clarified definition of commercial products 

and commercial services. This section would also establish a new section 2375a to 

limit applicability of certain Executive orders and regulations. 

The committee expects that these revisions would remove current obstacles 

from commercial transactions between the Department of Defense and commercial 

suppliers, and improve access to the best commercial goods and services.

Section 834—Modifications to Procurement through Commercial E-Commerce 

Portals

This section would amend section 846 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) to allow the 

Administrator of the General Services Administration to develop procedures for 

procurement through a commercial e-commerce portal. The procedures must satisfy 

the requirements for competitive procedures outlined in title 41, United States 

Code. Additionally, this section would require these procedures to be submitted to 

the congressional defense committees 30 days prior to implementation. 

This section would also amend titles 10 and 41, United States Code, by 

increasing the micro-purchase threshold for procurement through a commercial ecommerce portal from $10,000 to $25,000.

The committee notes that Public Law 115-91 authorized the Office of 

Management and Budget to develop a program managed by the General Services 

Administration to procure commercial products through e-commerce portals. The 

committee expects the commercial e-commerce portals would simplify and 

streamline the defense acquisition process as well as provide better transparency.

SUBTITLE D—INDUSTRIAL BASE MATTERS

Section 841—Requirement That Certain Ship Components Be Manufactured in the 

National Technology and Industrial Base

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This section would amend section 2534 of title 10, United States Code, and 

would require certain auxiliary ship components to be procured from a 

manufacturer in the national technology and industrial base.

Section 842—Report on Domestic Sourcing of Specific Components for All Naval 

Vessels

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, that provides a market 

survey and cost assessment associated with limiting competition to domestic 

sources for certain naval components.

Section 843—Removal of National Interest Determination Requirements for 

Certain Entities

This section would streamline the National Industrial Security Program by 

removing the regulatory requirements relating to National Interest Determinations 

(NIDs). It would build on section 1712 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91), which required a review of whether certain 

companies “should be exempted from one or more of the foreign ownership, control, 

or influence [FOCI] requirements of the National Industrial Security Program.” 

This section would address NIDs as a particularly urgent problem within that set of 

FOCI requirements authorized for exemption. It would also authorize the Secretary 

of Defense to accelerate implementation of this policy for contracting entities that 

have already demonstrated a longstanding commitment to industrial security and 

have previously been approved for access to proscribed information.

The committee is concerned that, especially with regard to entities from 

allied countries (United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 

Ireland, the Commonwealth of Australia, and Canada) that comprise the national 

technology and industrial base (NTIB), the NID process creates substantial burdens 

without meaningfully enhancing the government’s national security interests. It 

also causes the misallocation of scarce industrial security oversight resources. 

Under current practice, but not pursuant to any statutory mandate, NIDs are 

required for entities operating under a "special security agreement" (SSA) to access 

proscribed categories of classified information. The committee is aware that certain 

agencies can take between 6 and 10 months to process NID requests, even for SSAmitigated companies from NTIB countries that have a longstanding history of 

industrial security performance in the United States and are critical players in our 

nation’s defense industrial base. These delays and associated burdens have 

restricted competition and innovation by excluding qualified and responsible U.S.-

based companies that operate under SSAs.

Section 844—Pilot Program to Test Machine-Vision Technologies to Determine the 

Authenticity and Security of Microelectronic Parts in Weapon Systems

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This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 

Engineering, in coordination with the Defense Microelectronics Activity, to establish 

a pilot program to test the feasibility and reliability of using machine-vision 

technologies to determine the authenticity and security of microelectronics parts in 

weapon systems.

The committee supports the Department of Defense's comprehensive 

counterfeit material prevention strategy, which is a risk-based approach that 

includes collaboration with industry to reduce counterfeit parts in the supply chain. 

The committee notes that since it first highlighted this issue in 2012, the 

Department has made significant improvements and standardized the processes for 

assuring acquisition of authentic and conforming material. However, remaining 

ahead of emerging security threats in this area remains a challenge.

The committee believes that utilization of innovative software applications 

may provide opportunities to cost-effectively add capabilities and improve 

operations by addressing gaps from third-party providers, including receiving and 

inspection requirements for non-franchised parts. 

Specifically, the committee is aware of new technologies based on 

personalization and anti-counterfeiting software that, combined with optical and 

digital authentication methods, are effectively being used to meet high-security 

inventory demands in commercial industry. Such technologies include machinevision technologies that have the ability to identify and authenticate objects without 

adding additional hardware to the object such as radio frequency identification 

chips, bar codes, quick response codes, or serial numbers. These technologies 

provide identification of counterfeit goods by using authentication methods that are 

strongly resistant to replication and tampering; can be applied to a variety of 

substrates such as plastic and metal; can be encoded and/or embedded onto 

substrates; and can be easily authenticated optically and digitally using decoder 

devices and applications on mobile devices. The committee understands that such 

technologies may provide data analytics capability as well. As a result, the 

committee believes a pilot program of the appropriate scope is the best way for the 

Department to evaluate and understand the potential of this new technology.

SUBTITLE E—SMALL BUSINESS MATTERS

Section 851—Department of Defense Small Business Strategy

This section would require the Department of Defense to develop and 

implement a small business strategy to better leverage small businesses as a means 

to enhance or support mission execution. This section specifies that such a strategy 

should include plans to integrate small businesses into a holistic view of industry; to 

realign the Department’s small business programs with agency mission under a 

unified management structure; and to clarify points of entry into the defense 

market.

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The committee expects that this unified strategy would create expanded 

small business engagement in the defense sector by increasing entry points for nontraditional and innovative companies.

Section 852—Prompt Payments of Small Business Contractors

This section would direct Federal agencies to establish a prompt payment 

goal of 15 days for small business prime contractors. It would also extend the 

accelerated payment objective to other-than small prime contractors that 

subcontract with small businesses, and encourage these prime contractors to also 

accelerate payments to their small business subcontractors.

Section 853—Increased Participation in the Small Business Administration 

Microloan Program

This section would amend section 636(m)(3)(C) of title 15, United States 

Code, by increasing the total limit on outstanding loans from $5.0 million to $6.0 

million.

This section would also amend section 636(m)(4)(E), which establishes the 

"25/75 Rule." Currently, the 25/75 Rule prohibits a microloan intermediary from 

using more than 25 percent of the technical assistance grants they receive from the 

Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide pre-loan assistance to small 

business borrowers and third-party contracts. This section would amend the ratio 

from 25/75 to 50/50.

This section would also require the Administrator of SBA to submit a report 

to the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and the 

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate, not later than 1 

year after the date of the enactment of this Act, on why the program often has low 

participation rates among microlenders. The report shall gather a representative 

sample of eligible entities that participate in the program and those that do not, 

along with the reasons why entities do not partake, and offer recommendations on 

modifications that would increase participation.

Finally, this section would require the Comptroller General of the United 

States to submit a report to the Committee on Small Business of the House of 

Representatives and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 

Senate, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, evaluating 

SBA oversight of the microloan program and the specific processes SBA uses to 

ensure compliance and track performance.

Section 854—Amendments to Small Business Innovation Research Program and 

Small Business Technology Transfer Program

This section would authorize the use of Small Business Innovation 

Research or Small Business Technology Transfer program funding for 

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administrative costs and expand phase flexibility during fiscal years 2018 through 

2022.

Section 855—Construction Contract Administration

 This section would amend section 644 of title 15, United States Code, to require 

Federal agencies to provide prospective construction contractors with information 

about an agency’s policies and performance on the administration of change orders.

Section 856—Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Coordinator

This section would direct the Associate Administrator for the Office of 

Investment and Innovation of the Small Business Administration to designate a 

senior employee as the "Broadband and Emerging Information Technology 

Coordinator." The Coordinator would be responsible for connecting small businesses 

with financing programs, and advising these businesses on how to acquire 

broadband and new information technology.

This section would also direct a biennial report on activities beginning 2 

years after the first designation of a Coordinator to the Committee on Small 

Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small 

Business of the House of Representatives.

Section 857—Amendments to the Small Business Investment Act of 1958

This section would amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 

U.S.C. 682(b)) by increasing the Individual Leverage Limit from $150.0 million to 

$175.0 million and by increasing the total amount of capital and surplus that a 

financial institution and Federal savings association can invest in a small business 

investment company from 5 percent to 15 percent.

Section 858—Consolidated Budget Justification for the Department of Defense 

Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology 

Transfer Program

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a 

budget justification for all activities conducted under the Small Business Innovation 

Research Program or Small Business Technology Transfer Program during the 

previous fiscal year. 

Section 859—Funding for Procurement Technical Assistance Program

This section would amend section 2413(b) of title 10, United States Code, to 

provide Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs) the resources necessary 

to conduct greater outreach and provide expanded support to small businesses. 

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Division D of this Act would increase the topline budget for the Procurement 

Technical Assistance Program to $50.0 million. 

This section would increase the funding caps for PTACs operating on 

statewide, less than statewide, and eligible tribal locations. This section would also 

adjust the percentage of Federal funding for PTACs to 75 percent from 65 percent, 

and would adjust the community contribution to 25 percent from 35 percent. 

Section 860—Exemption of Certain Contracts from the Periodic Inflation 

Adjustments to the Acquisition-Related Dollar Threshold

This section would amend subparagraph (B) of section 1908(b)(2) of title 41, 

United States Code, to exempt certain contracts from the periodic inflation 

adjustments to the acquisition-related dollar threshold.

SUBTITLE F—OTHER MATTERS

Section 871—Additional Requirements for Negotiations for Noncommercial 

Computer Software

This section would amend section 2322a of title 10, United States Code, and 

codify existing Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations on noncommercial software 

rights as well as mandate, to the maximum extent practicable, that specially 

negotiated licenses be used for weapon systems noncommercial software.

Section 872—Removal of Requirement for Risk and Sensitivity Analysis of Baseline 

Estimates in Selected Acquisition Reports

This section would amend section 2432(c)(1)(B) of title 10, United States

Code, by removing the requirement for risk and sensitivity analysis to be included 

with baseline estimates in selected acquisition reports.

The committee notes that risk and sensitivity analyses help in 

understanding the effects of changing variables on cost estimates. However, this 

language has been interpreted as requiring analysis of the sensitivity of the 

information in selected acquisition reports, resulting in unwarranted barriers to 

dissemination.

Section 873—Prohibition on Acquisition of Sensitive Materials from Non-Allied 

Foreign Nations

This section would amend section 2533b of title 10, United States Code, by 

prohibiting acquisition of certain sensitive materials from non-allied foreign 

nations.

Section 874—Transfer or Possession of Defense Items for National Defense 

Purposes

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This section would amend sections 922 and 925 of title 18, United States 

Code, to allow joint production, integration, and calibration of military-grade 

hardware by licensed contractors, transfers of defense items to government 

customers, and export of authorized weapons to foreign governments.

Section 875—Expedited Hiring Authority for Shortage Category Positions in the 

Acquisition Workforce

This section would expand and extend direct-hire authority for acquisition 

professionals, which permits an agency to appoint candidates to positions for which 

there is either a severe shortage of candidates or a critical hiring need. Section 1413 

of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-

136) authorized agency heads to determine, under regulations prescribed by the 

Office of Personnel Management (OPM), that certain Federal acquisition positions 

are shortage category positions in order to use direct-hire authorities. This section 

would extend the expiration date on those direct-hire authorities from September 

30, 2017, to September 30, 2021. Additionally, this section would add the General 

Schedule Realty series (GS-1170) to the description of acquisition workforce found 

in section 1703 of title 41, United States Code, thereby including GS-1170 positions 

under the direct-hire authority extension established in this section.

The committee notes that the government depends on skilled acquisition 

and program personnel to understand complex market dynamics, develop clear 

requirements, negotiate in the best interest of the taxpayer, and hold contractors to 

high performance standards. The expediency that direct-hire authority allows can 

be helpful to an agency both in meeting critical initiatives that may require 

particular expertise, such as to support information technology modernization, 

cybersecurity efforts, and real property acquisition and disposal, as well as 

supporting the Federal Government as it plans and executes on its agency and 

regulatory reform activities.

Section 876—Extension of Prohibition on Providing Funds to the Enemy

This section would amend section 841(n) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. 

"Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 

Law 113-291) to change from December 31, 2019, to December 31, 2021, the sunset 

date for the provisions of the prohibition on providing funds to the enemy.

Section 877—Repeal of Certain Determinations Required for Grants of Exceptions 

to Cost or Pricing Data Certification Requirements and Waivers of Cost Accounting 

Standards

This section would repeal section 817(b)(1) of the Bob Stump National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-314) regarding 

certain determinations required for grants of exceptions to cost or pricing data 

certification requirements and waivers of cost accounting standards. 

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The committee notes that section 817(b) of Public Law 107-314 provides 

that a grant of an exception or waiver is appropriate only upon a determination that 

the property or services cannot reasonably be obtained under the contract, 

subcontract, or modification, as the case may be, without the grant of the exception 

or waiver, in addition to two other determinations. The committee believes that this 

requirement could unnecessarily limit the granting of exceptions or waivers in those 

instances in which, while cost and pricing data could be obtained, it would add little 

value and delay contract negotiations. For example, on a long-running production 

program, determination of a fair and reasonable price may be both possible and 

more efficiently performed without submission of certified cost and pricing data, 

and therefore meet two of the three conditions for grant of an exception or waiver. 

However, because the contractor is willing and able to provide such data, the 

condition at section 817(b)(1) would not be met and the exception or waiver could 

not be granted.

The committee believes that increasing the flexibility with which exceptions 

or waivers can be granted will help streamline the acquisition process. The 

committee expects the Secretary of Defense to promptly revise the Defense Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Supplement to reflect this repeal.

Section 878—Reporting on Projects Performed through Transactions Other Than 

Contracts, Cooperative Agreements, and Grants

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to the 

congressional defense committees, not later than December 31 of each year through 

2021, a report on the Department of Defense’s use of transactions other than 

contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants, known as other transaction 

authority, to perform projects. The report would include, for transactions that 

provide for payments in a total amount in excess of $5.0 million, information 

including the entities entering into the transaction, the amount of payment 

provided for, project goals and status, and key dates. The report would also address 

mechanisms established to regulate use of this authority, including policies, 

guidance, and reporting requirements.

The committee remains committed to providing the Department of Defense 

the needed flexibility to acquire advanced capabilities through streamlined and 

expedited processes. The committee recognizes that other transaction authority has 

been an effective tool for research and development, particularly for execution of 

science, technology, and prototyping programs. It provides needed flexibility in 

terms of adherence to select Federal acquisition regulations. While the benefits of 

this flexibility are clear, the committee believes that it is still necessary to exercise 

effective oversight both to understand the ways in which the Department is 

properly leveraging the use of this authority and to prevent its abuse or misuse. The 

committee does not intend for this reporting requirement to cause the Department 

to seek additional approval for use of other transaction authority, beyond the 

congressional notification requirement already established in statute. Rather, it is 

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designed to facilitate regular and consistent updates on use of this authority across 

the Department in order to facilitate proper assessment of effectiveness and 

success. The $5.0 million threshold for reporting is consistent with the amount 

established in statute for inclusion of a clause that provides for the Comptroller 

General of the United States to examine the records of any party to an agreement 

entered into using other transaction authority.

Section 879—Standardization of Formatting and Public Accessibility of Department 

of Defense Reports to Congress

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing not 

later than March 1, 2019, to the House Committee on Armed Services on a plan for 

implementing, not later than March 1, 2020, standardization of the formatting and 

public accessibility of unclassified Department of Defense reports required by 

Congress. The briefing shall address how the Department plans to ensure that 

reports are created in an open format that can be retrieved, downloaded, indexed, 

and searched by commonly used web search applications. An open format is one 

that is platform independent, machine readable, and made available to the public 

without restrictions that would impede reuse of that information. The briefing shall 

also address how the Department plans to provide a publicly accessible online 

repository of its unclassified reports to Congress required by provisions of law, 

including protocols for inclusion of reports which, although unclassified, may not be 

appropriate for public release in their entirety. The briefing shall address how the 

Department plans to include in the repository unclassified reports to Congress 

required by provisions of law issued since January 1, 2010.

Section 880—Defending United States Government Communications

This section would provide that, not later than January 1, 2021, no 

government agency may procure or obtain, nor extend or renew a contract to 

procure or obtain, nor enter into a contract with an entity that uses covered 

telecommunications equipment or services with any covered entity. This section 

would define covered telecommunications equipment or services as that:

(1) produced by Huawei Technologies Company or ZTE Corporation (or any 

subsidiary or affiliate of either company);

(2) telecommunications services provided by an entity using such 

equipment; or

(3) telecommunications equipment or services produced or provided by an 

entity that the head of an agency believes to be owned or controlled by, or otherwise 

connected to, the Government of the People's Republic of China.

This section would require the head of an agency to submit to the specified 

committees a plan to phase in the prohibition in this section, including with respect 

to the "white label" problem. 

This section would also permit the head of an agency to provide an 

additional 2-year waiver if he determines it is appropriate to allow an entity to 

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terminate its use of covered telecommunications equipment and he can demonstrate 

certain other conditions have been met. Additionally, the head of an agency would 

be permitted, subject to the receipt of a written assurance concerning any future use 

of Huawei or ZTE Corporation components, to permit an entity to continue to use 

components through the end of their reasonable life-cycle, if the component cannot 

be used to route or direct data traffic or provide visibility into any data or packets 

transmitted or manipulated by such components. 

This section would further require the Director of National Intelligence 

(DNI), in coordination with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 

the Secretaries of State, Homeland Security and Defense, to produce a report on the 

national security risks posed by use of technology produced by Huawei and ZTE 

technology, especially pertaining to evidence of malicious software or hardware that 

enables unauthorized network access. The DNI would further be required to 

develop a plan to share such report with U.S. allies, partners, and U.S. cleared 

defense contractors and telecommunications service providers. The Director would 

also be required to ensure an unclassified version of the report is available for U.S. 

allies and partners, and well as telecommunications companies, that do not have 

access to classified information. 

In an April 12, 2018, House Committee on Armed Services hearing, the 

Secretary of Defense stated with respect to information and communications 

technology produced by companies linked to the People's Republic of China, namely 

Huawei and ZTE, that he does “not think that’s wise” for the Department to allow 

equipment manufactured and maintained by those companies to be a part of its 

supply chain. 

The committee is also aware that the Federal Communications Commission 

in an April 17, 2018, meeting voted unanimously to approve a proposed rule that 

would deny Universal Service Fund support to purchase equipment or services from 

companies posing a national security threat to the integrity of communications 

networks or the communications supply chain. The commission specifically cited 

the risks posed by Huawei and ZTE in the notice of proposed rulemaking.

TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND 

MANAGEMENT

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERALLY

Section 901—Authority of Secretary of Defense to Determine Command and Control 

Relationships

This section would amend section 113 of title 10, United States Code, to 

specify that the Secretary of Defense may define command and control relationships 

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within the Department of Defense as necessary to support the Department's 

objectives and missions.

Section 902—Civilian Personnel Management

 This section would amend section 129 of title 10, United States Code, to require 

the Secretary of Defense to consider the cost of the Department of Defense military 

and contract workforces, along with the cost of the civilian workforce, when 

managing the civilian personnel workforce of the Department.

Section 903—Performance of Civilian Functions by Military Personnel

This section would amend section 129a of title 10, United States Code, to 

require that when the Secretaries of the military departments determine that the 

performance of civilian functions by military personnel is cost effective, that they 

further consider whether the functions performed are consistent with the military 

occupational specialty for which the military personnel have been trained.

Section 904—Roles of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under Secretary of 

Defense for Intelligence

This section would amend section 134 of title 10, United States Code, with 

respect to the authorities of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. It would 

amend the Under Secretary’s responsibility for supervising and directing the 

activities of the Department with respect to export controls, to focus on policy 

making within the Department as it pertains to export controls. 

This section would add a new authority to those of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Policy, subject to the Secretary of Defense, with respect to the 

development, implementation, and integration across the Department of Defense of 

the National Defense Strategy and other strategic policy guidance for the activities 

of the Department across all geographic regions and military functions and 

domains. It would also provide the Under Secretary with the authority, subject to 

the Secretary of Defense, of integrating the activities of the Department of Defense 

within the interagency process with respect to the National Security Strategy of the 

United States. 

The committee notes that the Summary to the 2018 National Defense 

Strategy stated that "the central challenge to U.S. prosperity and security is the 

reemergence of long-term strategic competition by what the National Security 

Strategy classifies as revisionist powers." The committee asserts that it is essential 

that a senior civilian official be responsible for, subject to the Secretary of Defense, 

the Department's efforts with respect to strategic competition.

This section would also amend section 137 of title 10, United States Code, 

with respect to the authorities of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. 

The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence would assume the authority for 

supervising and directing the activities of the Department of Defense with respect 

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to technology protection in the export controls process, other than the policy making 

activities that are the responsibility of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. 

Numerous senior Department of Defense civilian and military officials have 

testified to the risk to U.S. military technological superiority and the committee 

believes that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Intelligence, respectively, have specific roles in, and expertise with, 

protecting sensitive technologies. 

Section 905—Designation of Navy Commanders

This section would amend section 5013 of title 10, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of the Navy to designate a single commander within the 

Department of the Navy responsible for ensuring Navy forces are available for 

tasking and deployment, including those Navy forces that may be operating from a 

forward deployed location. This section would also require the Secretary to 

designate a single commander for all Navy shipyards, including any located 

overseas. 

The committee notes that the Secretary of the Navy's Strategic Readiness 

Review cited unclear command relationships as a contributing factor to the surface 

force accidents suffered by 7th Fleet ships in 2017. The committee encourages the 

Secretary to consider designating the Commander, Fleet Forces Command, as the 

responsible commander for tasking and deployment, as that official performs that 

function now for all naval forces excepting the Pacific Fleet. 

The committee notes that the Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, 

has the overall responsibility within the Department of the Navy for scheduling and 

maintaining Navy vessels in public and private shipyards, with the exception of the 

U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center. The 

committee encourages the Secretary to consider designating the Commander, Naval 

Sea Systems Command, as the single commander of naval shipyards, including the 

facility located in Japan.

SUBTITLE B—COMPREHENSIVE PENTAGON BUREAUCRACY REFORM AND REDUCTION

Section 911—Authorities and Responsibilities of the Chief Management Officer of 

the Department of Defense

This section would authorize the Chief Management Officer (CMO) of the 

Department of Defense to carry out the elimination of agencies and activities (other 

than those established by statute and other than the Department of Defense 

Education Activity), and to maximize efficiency across the Department with respect 

to civilian resource management, logistics, services contracting, and real estate 

management (other than with respect to the military departments). Section 132a of 

title 10, United States Code, would be further amended by requiring each Defense 

Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity to transmit their budgets to the 

CMO for review before submission to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). 

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The CMO would submit a report concerning all proposed budgets to the Secretary of 

Defense not later than January 31 of the year preceding the budgets’ fiscal year. 

The Secretary would submit a report by March 31 with a plan of action and 

proposed legislation for each budget the CMO did not certify. No Defense Agency or 

Department of Defense Field Activity funds, with respect to civilian resource, 

logistics, services contracting, and real estate management shall be obligated or 

expended until the CMO approves the plan; such process shall be conducted without 

impact to the processes carried out by the Director of National Intelligence.

The Department’s Chief Management Officer would reduce or eliminate 

duplicative cross-enterprise functions across all Defense Agencies and Field 

Activities related to civilian resource, services contracting, logistics, or real estate 

management. Not later than March 1, 2020, the CMO would submit a plan to the 

congressional defense committees. The CMO would certify that the Department has 

achieved at least 25 percent savings of these functions within these Defense 

Agencies and Field Activities by January 1, 2021; the Government Accountability 

Office would verify and validate the CMO’s certification. This would be a recurring 

requirement, each 5 years (beginning January 1, 2021), with the second iteration 

expanding the scope of the review to include the military departments.

Section 912—Authorities and Responsibilities of the Inspector General of the 

Department of Defense

This section would require the Department of Defense Inspector General 

(IG) to maximize efficiency among Department IGs with respect to any crossenterprise IG activities. This section would require each organization or element IG 

to submit a budget to the Department of Defense IG for review before submission to 

the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). The Department IG would submit a 

report about the budgets to the Secretary not later than January 31 of the year 

preceding the budget's fiscal year. The Secretary would submit a report to Congress 

about budgets the Department IG did not certify by March 31 each year, including a 

plan of action and recommended legislation. No IG funds may be obligated or 

expended until the Department IG certifies the IG’s budget. The Department IG 

would submit a plan for compliance with the above not later than March 1, 2020.

The committee understands there are almost 30 different inspectors 

general (IGs) in the Department of Defense, including: the Department of Defense 

IG, the four military service IGs, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 

Reconstruction, the nine combatant commands, the Defense Media Activity, the 

Defense Contract Audit Agency, the Defense Contract Management Agency, 

Defense Information Systems Agency, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Security 

Service, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The committee believes this 

proliferation of IG offices merits oversight from a lead IG to determine if there are 

opportunities for elimination of waste, redundancy, and duplication.

Section 913—Transition of Certain Defense Agencies and Department of Defense 

Field Activities

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This section would require the Secretary of Defense, acting through the 

Chief Management Officer (CMO), to submit a plan to the congressional defense 

committees not later than March 1, 2020, concerning the transfer and migration of 

all Defense Information Systems Agency information technology contracting and 

acquisition services, and senior leader communications functions, to other 

Department elements. 

This section would require the CMO to eliminate the Washington 

Headquarters Service not later than January 1, 2021. The CMO would transfer any 

essential functions to other appropriate elements of the Office of the Secretary of 

Defense (OSD) and eliminate the others. The CMO would be required to submit a 

plan to the congressional defense committees to accomplish the above by March 1, 

2020.

This section would also require the CMO to review the efficiency and 

effectiveness of each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity and 

to examine potential duplication among the agencies and activities. The CMO would 

be required to submit a report to the congressional defense committees on his 

findings not later than March 1, 2020, including any recommendations to eliminate 

an agency or activity or transfer some or all of its functions to another Department 

entity. 

This section would also clarify the Secretary's authority to establish or 

terminate any Defense Agency or Department of Defense Field Activity, other than 

entities that are specifically established or terminated by act of Congress. 

Section 914—Actions to Increase the Efficiency and Transparency of the Defense 

Logistics Agency

This section would require that the Director of the Defense Logistics 

Agency (DLA) and the Chief Management Officer (CMO) jointly implement a 

comprehensive system not later than January 1, 2021, that enables customers to 

view items and materials available to customers, the delivery status of items and 

materials in transit, and predictive analytics designed to improve the system’s 

efficiency. 

This section would also require the Director of DLA and the CMO to jointly 

reduce charged rates by at least 10 percent, eliminate duplication of services, and 

establish specific goals and metrics to ensure the agency is fulfilling its mission by 

January 1, 2021. 

This section would also require the Director of DLA and the CMO to jointly 

submit a plan to accomplish the above to the congressional defense committees by 

March 1, 2020.

Section 915—Review of Functions of Defense Contract Audit Agency and Defense 

Contract Management Agency

This section would direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 

and Sustainment and the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to conduct a 

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joint review of the Defense Contract Auditing Agency and Defense Contract 

Management Agency to validate their missions and functions and determine if any 

of their functions could be more appropriately performed by the other Agency, any 

other organization within the Department of Defense, or commercial providers. This 

review would also validate the continued need for two separate Agencies with 

oversight for defense contracting. The Secretary of Defense shall submit, not later 

than March 1, 2020, a report to the congressional defense committees that includes 

the results of this review.

Section 916—Streamlining of Defense Finance and Accounting Services

This section would require that, not later than January 1, 2021, the Chief 

Management Officer (CMO) and the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall 

jointly carry out activities to make the Defense Finance and Accounting Services 

more efficient and effective. 

This section would further require that, not later than March 1, 2020, the 

CMO and Comptroller shall jointly submit a plan for carrying out such activities to 

the congressional defense committees.

Section 917—Reduction in Number of Chief Information Officers in the Senior 

Executive Service

This section would require that, starting in calendar year 2021, there may 

not be more than five "Chief Information Officers" in the Department of Defense. 

The committee understands that there are at least 60 Senior Executive 

Service grade positions in the Department of Defense with the position of "Chief 

Information Officer". 

The committee is concerned that this number of senior personnel with this 

same responsibility injects duplication, redundancy, and slows the Department's 

ability to swiftly react to the requirements of the Department in terms of 

information technology and responding to the cyber domain of warfare.

Section 918—General Provisions

This section would provide authority for the Secretary of Defense and the 

Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense to consolidate certain 

reporting requirements established in this Act.

This section would also define certain terms used in this Act and make 

certain conforming changes in title 10, United States Code.

SUBTITLE C—OTHER MATTERS

Section 921—Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Policy and Oversight 

Council

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This section would direct the Under Secretary of Research and Engineering 

to establish an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Policy and Oversight 

Council to continuously improve research, innovation, policy, joint processes, and 

procedures that facilitate the development, acquisition, integration, advancement, 

and sustainment of artificial intelligence and machine learning throughout the 

Department of Defense.

Section 922—Limitation on Transfer of the Chemical, Biological, and Radiological 

Defense Division of the Navy

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to provide a report to 

the congressional defense committees on the timeline, costs, risks, and benefits of 

transferring the Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Defense Division, Dahlgren, 

Virginia, to another location. The report would be required not later than 90 days 

after the date of the enactment of this Act. This section would further prohibit the 

Secretary of the Navy from transferring or preparing to transfer the Chemical, 

Biological, and Radiological Defense Division to another location until 45 days after 

submission of the report.

TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES

Colombian Security and the U.S.-Colombian Partnership

The peace accords between the Government of Colombia and the 

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in August 2016 was a landmark 

event that ended over 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia. As a result of the 

agreement, the Colombian legislature passed, and the Government of Colombia 

implemented, several portions of the peace accords, which included demobilization 

and reintegration processes for FARC members. The committee is encouraged by 

the progress of the Colombian people and its Government in implementing the 

peace accord legislation.

Colombian leadership has made great strides in bringing stability to the 

country, developing integration pathways for the FARC political party, disarming 

over 11,000 FARC members, implementing rural development, establishing rule of 

law, and reintegrating FARC members into society. The committee notes that 

complete implementation of other pieces of the peace accords, including land reform 

and combating FARC dissidents who have chosen not to disarm, will likely take 

decades. 

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The committee commends the Government of Colombia for its continued 

leadership in working to end decades of violence and instability with the FARC and 

other armed groups in Colombia. The committee is also aware that security issues 

remain a problem in Colombia, including transnational criminal organizations 

seizing territorial control post peace accords, FARC dissidents choosing not to 

disarm and continuing criminal behavior, and increasing coca production over the 

past 2 years.

Further, the committee commends the Colombian military on its 

professionalization, successes in bringing security to Colombia and being the 

exporters of security to global organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization, and regional neighbors including the Republic of Honduras, the 

Republic of Guatemala, and the United Mexican States. 

Over the past 17 years, the U.S. has assisted Colombia in the fight for its 

security and stability. The committee has supported these efforts and acknowledges 

the continuing vital importance of the U.S.-Colombian relationship for bringing 

strength and stability to the hemisphere. 

DOD Support to Combating the Opioid Epidemic

The committee is deeply concerned about the rising numbers of opioidrelated deaths in the United States. This nationwide health epidemic affects 

millions of people and their families. The abuse of opioids, both prescription and 

illicit opioids, is a public health emergency as categorized by the President in 

January 2018. This crisis highlights national security concerns including illicit 

trafficking of opioids, synthetic opioids, to include Fentanyl, and precursors for the 

production of opioids by transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and their 

networks which have supply chains that extend into south and east Asia. The 

committee believes that the Department of Defense can play a vital role in support 

of lead U.S. agencies to address this crisis.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than 

September 30, 2018, to submit a report to the House Committee on Armed Services 

with an assessment of the assistance the Department is providing to lead U.S. 

government agencies to combat the opioid crisis. This report should include an 

assessment of resources available to assist other U.S. government partners in their 

strategy to combat the opioid epidemic to include the United States Postal Service, 

and an analysis of potential opportunities for the Department to provide assistance 

in the future.

United States-Mexico Security Cooperation

The committee recognizes the importance of the relationship between the 

United States and the United Mexican States. The United States continues to face a 

nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction. Mexico continues to face violence, 

corruption, and instability as a result of transnational criminal organizations 

(TCOs) producing opioids and other illicit substances for distribution in the United 

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States. The unlawful activity of the TCOs creates instability, violence, and 

insecurity in both the United States and Mexico. 

The committee believes these shared security challenges can only be 

countered cooperatively as each nation addresses illicit trafficking, violence, and 

production and distribution of illicit narcotics. The strength of the military-tomilitary relationship between the United States and Mexico is vital in combating 

these challenges. The committee encourages efforts to continue the development of 

the strong relationship and partnership between the U.S. Armed Forces and the 

Mexican Armed Forces. 

OTHER MATTERS

Assessment of Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Involuntary Mobilization 

Plans to Support Special Operations Activities

During review of the fiscal year 2019 President's budget request and 

related activities in support of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), 

the committee determined that a small number of Air National Guard units and all 

Air Force Reserve Command units that support AFSOC missions and force 

presentation requirements do not possess a current, validated involuntary 

mobilization plan that complies with various Department of Defense, Department of 

the Air Force, and Special Operations Command instructions or policies. The 

committee is concerned that without sufficient and validated involuntary 

mobilization plans that detail how the Air National Guard and the Air Force 

Reserve Command intend to support AFSOC as operational reserve units, should 

the need arise for Special Operations Command to fully mobilize forces in support of 

global special operations activities, the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve 

Command may lack the capability and capacity to support the mission. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later 

than March 1, 2019, that assesses involuntary mobilization plans for Air National 

Guard and Air Force Reserve Command units that support Air Force Special 

Operations missions and activities. The Comptroller General should assess, at a 

minimum: 

(1) the existence and recency of an involuntary mobilization plan; 

(2) the sufficiency and validity of the plan as compared to a unit's Designed 

Operational Capability statement, authorized and assigned manpower levels, 

authorized and assigned equipment, facilities, and support functions necessary to 

execute the plan; 

(3) comparison with existing Department of Defense policy and regulations 

governing mobilization-to-dwell and deployment-to-dwell goals and objectives; 

(4) any discrepancies, shortfalls, or gaps associated with the 

aforementioned areas of assessment; and

(5) any additional information the Comptroller General would find useful to 

support the briefing.

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Briefing on Ukrainian Special Operations Forces Training

The committee recognizes the critical role played by U.S. and partner 

assistance in training, advising, and equipping Ukrainian military and security 

forces over the last several years, especially at the International Peacekeeping and 

Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine. This training facility has facilitated the 

successful completion of numerous joint, combined exercises up to the battalion 

level and has better enabled multi-domain readiness of Ukrainian forces. By 

employing the instrumented training capability at this center, United States Army 

Europe has led the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine in greatly 

enhancing the operational capability, performance, and professionalism of 

Ukrainian forces.

The committee further understands that such joint, combined training is 

scheduled to conclude in 2020 and that the Ukrainian General Staff is aware of 

acute needs, identified in October 2016 and restated in December 2017, to 

modernize the International Peacekeeping and Security Center before such training 

ends. These requirements include refurbishing and adding multiple integrated laser 

engagement systems, enhancing range and battlefield effects, and developing an 

urban operations training system.

Finally, the committee understands that since their establishment in 2016, 

Ukrainian special operations forces have grown in both numbers and capabilities 

with a focus on unconventional missions such as counterterrorism and drug 

interdiction operations. In addition, Ukrainian land forces have grown, requiring 

additional training to support skills development in support of combined exercises 

with NATO and U.S. forces. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of 

Defense to provide the congressional defense committees, not later than September 

30, 2018, with a briefing on current and planned U.S. support to Ukrainian special 

operations and land forces training, including but not limited to: detailed 

assessments of both the training center at Berdychiv, Ukraine and a land forces 

training complex in the Mykolaiv District near Odessa, Ukraine; analysis of 

training requirements; and a plan for potential U.S. funding assistance to new or 

modernized training facilities.

Civil Support Team Information Management System

The committee is aware that the National Guard Bureau Weapons of Mass 

Destruction Civil Support Teams (CST) currently field the CST Information 

Management System (CIMS). CIMS provides a common operation picture and 

promotes information sharing and real-time collaboration. CIMS also supports the 

CST mission of assisting and advising first responders and facilitating 

communications with other Federal resources in an emergency. 

The committee encourages the expansion of CIMS to establish an 

enterprise-wide capable tool, commonly referred to as the National Guard Chemical, 

Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Response Enterprise Information 

Management System 2018+ (NG CIMS 2018+). The committee believes that 

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expansion will increase the capabilities of the CIMS to support other National 

Guard Bureau forces, such as the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and 

High-Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package and Homeland Defense 

Response Force units. 

The committee notes that the timeline the Department of Defense 

previously presented to the committee in their September 8, 2015, report “Civil 

Support Team Information Management System” has been delayed. The committee, 

therefore, directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by October 1, 2018, on the plan for the development 

of NG CIMS 2018+, including a description of timelines, milestones, fielding, and 

completion dates.

Close Combat Lethality Task Force

The Committee understands that military operations still require our units 

to close with and destroy the enemy. The Committee also notes that, despite 

comprising a tiny fraction of total Department of Defense personnel, the ground 

close combat formations primarily tasked to close with and destroy the enemy bear 

a unique burden, reflected in them historically accounting for almost 90% of 

casualties.

The Committee is aware that the Secretary of Defense established the 

Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF) on February 8, 2018 in order to 

implement select initiatives identified by the 2017 Cost Assessment and Program 

Evaluation’s Close Combat Strategic Portfolio Review. The Committee also notes 

that the CCLTF further aims to improve the personnel policies, training methods, 

and equipment to update the training of ground close combat formations to reflect 

available technology, human factors science, and talent management best practices. 

The Committee notes that, relative to the overall size of the Department 

budget, the cost of supporting modernization to equipment and training for ground 

close combat formations is relatively small. The Committee believes that increased 

investments in these units’ personnel, equipment, readiness, and training offer 

outsize returns for our military’s combat capabilities.

The Committee notes that greater tactical integration of existing 

unmanned aircraft—specifically medium-altitude, long-endurance aircraft—offers a 

unique opportunity to address deficiencies in close combat units organic sensing, 

load-bearing, communications extension, and lethality capabilities.

In addition, the Committee notes that, since 2001, special operations forces 

(SOF) have taken on an increasing share of global missions, driven by the 

responsiveness of their capabilities to combatant commander requirements. The 

Committee believes that the CCLTF’s efforts to bring SOF capabilities and training 

methodologies to line close combat formations is an important element of the overall 

CCLTF effort.

In order to allow the Committee to fully support the efforts of the CCLTF, 

the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to brief the House Committee on 

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Armed Services not later than December 1, 2018 on the CCLTF’s findings, including 

key focus areas for improvements in ground close combat equipment, training and 

readiness; proposals for rationalizing personnel management for ground close 

combat formations; the feasibility of establishing a Joint Close Combat Leader 

Center as a center of excellence for small-unit infantry leadership; the feasibility of 

making existing unmanned aircraft organic to ground close combat units; and the 

impact of improving line close combat formation capabilities and interoperability 

with SOF, as well as any other topics the Secretary deems appropriate.

Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Authority for United States Facilities and 

Assets

The committee notes that the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) provided the Department of Defense a modest 

expansion of existing counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) authority in 

section 130i of title 10, United States Code, to address additional mission areas that 

the Department determined are critical, high-priority U.S. facilities and assets 

essential to the Department carrying out its mission. The committee appreciates the 

Department's deliberate and thoughtful implementation of the C-UAS authority to 

ensure the safety and security of Department assets and facilities, in addition to 

ensuring the safety of operations within the U.S. National Airspace System. The 

committee also notes that the Department, in conjunction with the Administrator, 

Federal Aviation Administration, is required to provide to relevant congressional 

committees a semiannual briefing on how the current C-UAS is being utilized and 

implemented, and various other items of information pertaining to the authority.

 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 1, 

2018, the date of the next scheduled semiannual C-UAS briefing requirement to 

Congress. The briefing should include a list of capability gaps and shortfalls for CUAS systems or mission areas of the Department that are not currently included in 

the existing C-UAS authority, but deemed to be high-priority or critical facilities or 

assets contributing to the success of the Department in executing its mission. The 

briefing should also include a list of existing Department research and development, 

or test and evaluation locations within the military services, that currently 

participate and specialize in C-UAS capabilities in the areas of detection and 

tracking, hard-kill defeat prediction, or improvised explosive/improvised explosive 

device performance assessment capability. The committee also encourages the 

Secretary of Defense to leverage existing deployment, operations, and test and 

evaluation activities and operational capabilities for C-UAS that are occurring at 

various U.S. overseas basing locations in order to determine what existing C-UAS 

technologies and capabilities could feasibly and viably be deployed to protect U.S. 

facility and asset locations requiring C-UAS capability.

Counterterrorism Effectiveness Research

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The committee recognizes that basic research into the effectiveness of 

current counterterrorism policies and strategy is critical to informing and shaping 

future efforts. The committee understands that there is currently a wide range of 

social science research in these areas that should be leveraged, including better use 

of and integration with existing research by organizations maintaining databases of 

terrorism incidents globally.

For example, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and 

Responses to Terrorism (START) is a university-based research and education 

center. The center is comprised of an international network of scholars committed to 

the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the 

United States and around the world. START supports the research efforts of leading 

social scientists at more than 50 academic and research institutions across the 

country and the globe.

The committee is aware the START program supports more than 14 

terrorism and counterterrorism related datasets that are used across civilian and 

defense agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the 

Department of Defense, in order to directly inform international, Federal, State, 

and local training and educational programs.

However, the budget request for fiscal year 2019 did not include funding for 

this effort. The committee believes that it is within the purview of the Department 

of Defense, and specifically U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) as the 

Coordinating Authority for Countering Violent Extremist Organizations, to foster 

academically rigorous studies of terrorism, like the START initiative, to provide a 

foundational understanding for how to assess the effectiveness of specific 

counterterrorism activities and programs, and best practices to inform 

counterterrorism policies. Further, the committee believes that as the Coordinating 

Authority for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), SOCOM may also 

derive similar benefits for the Department of Defense from research pertaining to 

CWMD strategies, policies, and programs, by leveraging and enhancing programs 

like START. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Commander, U.S. Special Operations 

Command to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

October 30, 2018, on the feasibility and advisability of funding programs like 

START.

Development and Procurement of Combat Equipment and Clothing for Female 

Servicemembers in Combat Occupations

The Committee notes that in June 2015 the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology provided guidance to the services to take 

immediate steps to ensure that combat equipment is properly designed and fitted 

for female servicemembers. In 2016, the Committee recognized that the Services

had been conducting anthropometric studies on male and female servicemembers in 

order to properly outfit and equip their respective servicemembers. However, 

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although more than 600 women have competed for and joined newly opened ground 

combat units in the Army and Marine Corps, the Committee is concerned that 

properly designed and fitted combat equipment, gear, and clothing is not 

consistently available to women warfighters. That concern also encompasses other 

women from all the services who continue to deploy to areas where they too need 

properly fitting combat and organizational gear. The Committee believes that 

female servicemembers in physically demanding occupations like infantry and 

armor are not positioned for success and their lethality and safety is compromised if 

they are required to train and perform in equipment not designed for their body 

type. Properly designed and fitted equipment for women should be available 

beginning with initial entry training through any and all deployments. 

 Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the service chiefs, to submit a report to the Committees on Armed Services no 

later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act. The report shall include:

(1) Information about the status of procuring and issuing the following to 

all females serving in or training for, infantry and armor occupations and to those 

from other units and occupations deploying to areas where they will require such 

equipment (from the beginning of training through any deployments): (1) personal 

protective equipment (2) organizational clothing and individual equipment 

(including for example tanker apparel, mechanics coveralls, tanker headsets, and 

ruck frames); and (3) the female urinary diverter; 

(2) Information about timing, including the date on which such equipment 

will be available;

(3) What additional legislative and funding authorities are required to 

expedite procurement; 

(4) The results of any surveys and studies that have addressed the 

availability, serviceability, and effectiveness of personal protective equipment, 

organizational clothing and individual equipment, and the female urinary diverter 

device.

Foreign Currency Fluctuation Account

In the committee reports accompanying the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2015 through 2017 (H. Rept. 113-446, H. Rept. 114-102, H. Rept. 

114-537), the committee encouraged the Department of Defense to take into 

consideration the current balance within the Foreign Currency Fluctuation, Defense 

(FCF,D) account when determining foreign currency rates in future budget 

submissions. 

When the FCF,D account has a balance close to or at the statutory cap of 

$970.0 million, the committee believes the budgeted rates should be adjusted to 

generate losses within the account, thereby drawing down the FCF,D account 

balance. This would reduce the operation and maintenance (O&M) budget 

requirement for foreign goods and services, allowing excess funds to be allocated to 

other readiness programs without changing the budget topline. However, as the 

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FCF,D account realizes a net gain, these gains remain in O&M and are used for 

purposes not originally requested in the annual budget submission to Congress. 

Without visibility of these transactions through a reprogramming request, the 

committee cannot determine whether funds remaining in the FCF,D account are 

being used to reduce current readiness shortfalls. 

The committee observes that the Department continues to not take the 

current balance into account when determining foreign currency rates. Due to lack 

of the use of current balances to structure foreign currency rates, the committee 

recommends a reduction in the O&M budget for fiscal year 2019 as shown in section 

4301 of this Act, a reduction in the Military Personnel budget for fiscal year 2019 as 

shown in section 4401 of this Act, and a reduction in the Defense Health Program 

budget for fiscal year 2019 as shown in section 4501 of this Act, and realigns those 

funds to support higher priority defense requirements throughout the Department.

Friendly Force Identification in Close Air Support

The committee is aware that tactical aircraft controllers use a multitude of 

commercial-off-the-shelf infrared (IR) strobes for friendly force identification in 

close combat operations, and that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has 

validated and approved a Thermal-Identification, Friend or Foe (T-IFF) Capability 

Production Document (CPD) to improve existing capability. The committee notes 

the T-IFF program would provide for an “out of band” beacon which should align 

with current advanced targeting pods used on tactical aircraft. The committee also 

notes that SOCOM is planning two user evaluations in 2018 to assess potential 

commercial off-the-shelf solutions that could also potentially meet the requirements 

in the TIFF CPD. 

While the committee is supportive of these efforts and encourages their 

acceleration, it is concerned that current infrared marking strobes currently fielded 

to U.S. ground forces, to include U.S. Special Operation Forces, are not easily 

detectable to tactical aircraft performing close air support, and could result in 

fratricide. Additionally, the committee is aware of multiple programs in progress 

across the military services to address this requirement. These efforts and 

requirements must be coordinated and communicated across the military services 

and SOCOM to expeditiously provide upgraded IR strobes that can be detected by 

advanced targeting pods.

The committee directs the Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, 

in coordination with the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Air 

Force, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

December 14, 2018, on their efforts to synchronize a friendly force identification 

mechanism, such as IR strobes, for use during combat close air support operations. 

The briefing should also include efforts to ensure that these mechanisms are 

detectable by advanced targeting pods used on current tactical aircraft. 

Genetic and Medical Information Security

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Recent advancements in information and computational capabilities, along 

with advancements in synthetic biology and genomics, have resulted in the 

convergence of data and life sciences. The committee is troubled by the potential 

risks posed by the proliferation of personal biological information, including DNA 

sequences, electronic medical records, medical claims processing data, pharmacy 

records, health information exchanges, and activity trackers. The committee 

recognizes this information is essential for the development of precision medicine, 

but is concerned about the potential lack of appropriate security control over the 

data of service members due to the growing efforts by adversaries to acquire this 

information. The committee believes acquisition of this information by adversaries 

may lead to the development of new biological threats. 

 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services by March 1, 2019, on the Department of 

Defense's effort to secure service members’ genetic, medical, and lifestyle 

information. The briefing shall include information on the location, access control, 

and security protocols of all databases with this information; and offer policy 

recommendations for protecting this information. 

The committee further directs the Director of the Defense Intelligence 

Agency to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by March 

1, 2019, on foreign intelligence services attempts to collect this information on 

Department of Defense personnel, including:

(1) attempts by foreign intelligence services to collect genetic data, medical 

records, and any other personal health or biological information;

(2) use of non-traditional intelligence collection techniques, to include 

foreign investment in commercial entities that offer genetic data analysis, medical 

record administration, and other health information services; and 

(3) use of this data lost through data breaches, unauthorized disclosures, or 

non-traditional collection techniques to enable targeting of U.S. persons.

MQ-9 Enterprise Supporting Air Combat Command and Air Force Special 

Operations Command Activities

After a detailed review, the committee has determined that a system to 

manage and develop MQ-9 specific remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) aircrews does not 

exist between Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), Air Combat 

Command (ACC), and the Air Force Personnel Center. The committee is concerned 

that ACC is the Air Force's primary entity responsible for managing, assigning, and 

transitioning MQ-9 aircrews for AFSOC and that AFSOC may not have the 

visibility it needs into ACC "talent management" processes to sufficiently support 

AFSOC future planning and normalization of operations tempo. Moreover, the role 

of the Air Force Personnel Center's in managing and career-shaping MQ-9 aircrews 

is unclear. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Commander of ACC, in cordination 

with the Commander of AFSOC and the Commander of the Air Force Personnel 

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Center, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later 

than October 19, 2018, on how MQ-9 aircrews are assigned, managed, and 

developed among ACC and AFSOC. The briefing should also include an update 

regarding the Air Force's MQ-9 Culture and Process Improvement Program 

activities for each command, and each command's progress for acquiring the 

necessary manpower authorizations, and actual assigned manpower, to achieve 

deployment to dwell operations tempo to comply with Department of Defense 

policies.

National Guard Access to Department of Defense Owned Unmanned Aircraft 

Systems 

The committee notes that section 1084 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) required that not later 

than 1 year after the date of the enactment of Public Law 115-91, the Secretary of 

Defense, in coordination with the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, the 

Commander, U.S. Northern Command, and the Commander, U.S. Pacific 

Command, complete an efficiency and effectiveness review of the governance 

structure, coordination processes, documentation, and timing requirements 

stipulated in Department of Defense policy memorandum 15-002, “Guidance for the 

Domestic Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)." In addition, not later than 30 

days after the policy review is completed, the Secretary of Defense is required to 

submit the results of the review to the congressional defense committees. The 

committee expects that during the policy review, Department of Defense officials 

will implement a processing timeline for reviewing National Guard UAS utilization 

requests that appropriately balances reviewing the request for compliance with 

established policy and reviewing the request in a timely manner that coincides with 

the responsiveness, urgency, and operational planning factors dictated by the 

specific mission the UAS capability is being requested to support. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than 30 days after the 

policy review required by section 1084 of Public Law 115-91 is completed. The 

briefing should include information related to the processing timeline that the 

Secretary established during the policy review and how the timeline will be 

implemented. 

Preparedness of U.S. Forces to Counter North Korean Chemical and Biological 

Weapons

The committee is aware of reports of the Democratic People's Republic of 

Korea's pursuit of the essential laboratories, equipment, and skills for an advanced 

biological weapons program, in addition to reports of existing stockpiles of chemical 

weapons. The 2017 National Security Strategy states that North Korea is pursuing 

chemical and biological weapons, which could be delivered by missile. The strategy 

also states that the Department of Defense will ensure U.S. military forces can 

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operate effectively in the face of biological weapons attacks, and that our troops and 

critical domestic and overseas installations are effectively protected against such 

threats. 

To assist the committee in conducting its oversight of the preparedness of 

U.S. forces to respond to these threats, the committee directs the Comptroller 

General of the United States to review the extent to which Department of Defense 

military units deployed to the Republic of Korea and the Department’s chemical and 

biological defense support units on the Korean peninsula, in the U.S. Pacific 

Command area of responsibility, and in the United States, are prepared to counter 

chemical and biological weapons, including:

(1) detection and identification;

(2) individual and collective protection; 

(3) medical countermeasures;

(4) decontamination;

(5) training and exercises; and

(6) any other matters the Comptroller General deems relevant.

The committee also directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services by March 1, 2019, on the preliminary 

results of the review, and submit a subsequent report by a date agreed to at the 

time of the briefing.

Report on NORTHCOM Response to Hurricane Maria

In 2017, the United States witnessed Hurricane Maria, which had a 

devastating impact on Puerto Rico and required a Federal Government response. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in collaboration with the 

Secretary of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency 

Administrator, to submit a report by December 1, 2018 on the ongoing U.S. 

Government recovery effort of Hurricane Maria. The report shall include the 

following elements: (a) statistics on ongoing power outages; (b) the number of 

deaths in each U.S. state or territory affected; (c) measures to improve hurricane 

emergency response plans for insular areas and/or territories of the United States.

Review of National Guard Capabilities in Support of Incident Awareness and 

Assessment Mission Operations

 The committee notes there is inconsistency among National Guard and 

Department of the Air Force officials in expressing what type of capabilities and 

which platforms are required to support the Incident Awareness and Assessment 

(IAA) mission of the National Guard. The committee requires clarification 

regarding the National Guard’s current and future capability and capacity 

requirements to execute the IAA mission in support of Domestic Operations 

(DOMOPS) when National Guard personnel are on duty or mobilized under title 32, 

United States Code, authority, and in support of Defense Support to Civil 

Authorities (DSCA) when National Guard personnel are on duty or mobilized under 

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title 10, United States Code, authority. The committee believes it is critical for the 

Department of Defense to maintain a sufficient capability, capacity, and 

responsiveness among the Active and Reserve components of the Department when 

supporting missions related to homeland defense and responding to natural 

disasters or declared emergencies.

Therefore, the committee directs the Chief, National Guard Bureau, in 

coordination with the Commander, U.S. Northern Command, the Director, Air 

National Guard, and the Director, Army National Guard, to provide a report to the 

congressional defense committees by October 1, 2018, that provides an Incident 

Awareness and Assessment capability and capacity roadmap for the National 

Guard covering the 2019 to 2023 Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). The 

report should describe, at a minimum:

(1) the validated capability and capacity requirements defining the IAA 

mission in support of U.S. Northern Command, State Governors, and other 

Government agencies; 

(2) the specific platforms and quantities of platforms the National Guard 

will leverage, maintain, or procure to support IAA capability and capacity 

requirements; 

(3) a schedule depicting specific platforms that will be procured, 

maintained, or divested in support of IAA capabilities and capacity over the covered 

time period; 

(4) a schedule depicting specific platforms and associated modernization 

and upgrades that will be accomplished over the covered time period; 

(5) the required funding needed and currently programmed in the FYDP to 

support individual platforms within the IAA portfolio of capabilities; and 

(6) any capability or capacity gaps or shortfalls that are identified over the 

covered time period.

Senior Civilian or Military Leaders in Charge of Audit and Financial Management

The committee has long maintained that a central factor of the 

department's audit progress has been clear leadership and accountability across the 

department. The committee is concerned that there are mid-level departments 

within the services and agencies that lack designated audit and financial 

management accountability of senior leaders by requiring this in official position 

duties. Therefore, the committee directs the department to provide a report no later 

than September 30, 2018, to the congressional armed services committees on the 

senior civilian or military leadership responsible for audit and financial 

management compliance of each respective department.

Soo Locks

The committee understands that the Soo Locks on the St. Marys River at 

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, are the only waterway connection from Lake Superior 

to the rest of the Lower Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee 

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is concerned that of the 2 current operational locks, only the Poe Lock is large 

enough to accommodate the 1,000-foot carriers necessary to transport a majority of 

the iron ore used in domestic steel production. The committee notes that this lock is 

near the end of its 50-year useful lifespan and that the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers is reevaluating a past economic evaluation report to update the Soo 

Locks’ benefit to cost ratio.

The committee believes that a failure at the Soo Locks would have drastic 

impacts on national security, in that the U.S. iron mining-integrated steel 

production-manufacturing supply chain is dependent on the Soo Locks, and there is 

no redundancy. Indeed, such a failure would cripple steel production that is used for 

national defense priorities. Therefore, the committee urges the Chief of the Corps of 

Engineers and all involved executive branch agencies to expedite necessary reviews, 

analysis, and approvals in order to speed the required upgrades at the Soo Locks.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—FINANCIAL MATTERS

Section 1001—General Transfer Authority

This section would allow the Secretary of Defense, with certain limitations, 

to make transfers between amounts authorized for fiscal year 2019 in division A of 

this Act. This section would limit the total amount transferred under this authority 

to $5.0 billion. This section would also require prompt notification to Congress of 

each transfer made.

Section 1002—Expertise in Audit Remediation

This section would amend section 252(b)(2) of chapter 9A of title 10, United 

States Code, directing the Secretary of Defense to report the number of 

professionals performing auditing and audit remediation services who hold certain 

qualifications.

Section 1003—Authority to transfer funds to Director of National Intelligence for 

CAPNET

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense, consistent with the 

authority provided in section 1001 of this Act, to transfer an amount that does not 

exceed $2.0 million to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to provide support 

for the operation of the CAPNET network. 

The committee notes its belief that, per established procedures, the 

Department of Defense currently has the authority to provide support to the DNI 

for the operation of CAPNET.

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Section 1004—Independent Public Accountant Audit of Financial Systems of the 

Department of Defense

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure new or altered 

financial systems meet applicable Federal requirements through a review 

performed by an independent public accountant.

SUBTITLE B—COUNTERDRUG ACTIVITIES

Section 1011—Department of Defense Support for Combating Opioid Trafficking 

and Abuse

This section would express the sense of Congress regarding the nationwide 

opioid epidemic affecting millions of U.S. citizens. The section would also increase, 

by $20.0 million, Department of Defense National Guard counterdrug programs to 

support the Federal Government's efforts to combat the opioid crisis. 

SUBTITLE C—NAVAL VESSELS AND SHIPYARDS

Section 1021—Inclusion of Operation and Sustainment Costs in Annual Naval 

Vessel Construction Plans

This section would incorporate operations and sustainment costs into the 

30-year shipbuilding plan required by section 231 of title 10, United States Code.

Section 1022—Purchase of Vessels Using Funds in National Defense Sealift Fund

This section expands section 2218 of title 10, United States Code, and 

authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure up to 10 foreign-constructed ships if 

the Secretary certifies that the U.S. Navy has initiated an acquisition strategy for 

the construction of 10 new sealift vessels. Additionally, this section would limit 25 

percent of the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command's fiscal year 2019 expenditures 

until the Secretary of the Navy enters into a contract for the procurement of two 

used National Defense Reserve Fleet vessels, and completes the capability 

development document for the common hull multi-mission platform.

Section 1023—Purchase of Vessels Built in Foreign Shipyards with Funds in 

National Defense Sealift Fund

This section would modify section 2218 of title 10, United States Code, and 

require a 30-day notice to the congressional defense committees before entering into 

a contract for a used vessel authorized for procurement by section 2218 of title 10, 

United States Code.

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Section 1024—Technical Corrections and Clarifications to Chapter 633 of Title 10, 

United States Code, and Other Provisions of Law Regarding Naval Vessels

This section updates chapter 633 of title 10, United States Code.

Section 1025—Retention of Navy Hospital Ship Capability

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to retain two Mercyclass hospital ships until the Secretary has certified to the congressional defense 

committees that a replacement capability has been fielded.

SUBTITLE D—COUNTERTERRORISM

Section 1031—Definition of Sensitive Military Operation

This section would modify section 130f of title 10, United States Code, 

regarding notification requirements for sensitive military operations.

Section 1032—Prohibition on Use of Funds for Transfer or Release of Individuals 

Detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United 

States 

This section would prohibit the use of any amounts authorized to be 

appropriated or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense during the 

period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on December 

31, 2019, to transfer or release detainees at U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 

Cuba, to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions.

Section 1033—Prohibition on Use of Funds to Construct or Modify Facilities in the 

United States to House Detainees Transferred from United States Naval Station, 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

This section would prohibit the use of any amounts authorized to be 

appropriated or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense during the 

period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on December 

31, 2019, to construct or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, or 

possessions to house any detainee transferred from U.S. Naval Station, 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the 

custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense.

Section 1034—Prohibition on Use of Funds for Transfer or Release of Individuals 

Detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Certain 

Countries

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This section would prohibit the use of any amounts authorized to be 

appropriated or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense during the 

period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on December 

31, 2019, to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release of any individual 

detained at U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Libya, the Federal 

Republic of Somalia, the Syrian Arab Republic, or the Republic of Yemen.

SUBTITLE E—MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES AND LIMITATIONS

Section 1041—Notification on the Provision of Defense Sensitive Support

 This section would modify the current Defense Sensitive Support 

congressional notification procedures, to include a Secretary of Defense 

determination that the requesting Federal department has reasonably attempted to 

satisfy the requirement using internal resources, and that the Department of 

Defense is the most appropriate Federal agency or department to satisfy the request 

for support. This section would also add a congressional notification requirement for 

Department of Defense requests for Reverse Defense Sensitive Support from other 

Federal departments or agencies. 

Section 1042—Coordinating United States Response to Malign Foreign Influence 

Operations and Campaigns

This section would amend section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 

(50 U.S.C. 3021) to explicitly task the National Security Council (NSC) to coordinate 

the full U.S. Government response to malign foreign influence operations and 

campaigns, particularly those that are cyber-enabled. This section would define 

"malign foreign influence operations and campaigns," and would request the 

President to task an NSC official with combating it, and further requires the 

President to submit a report to the designated congressional committees not later 

than 9 months after the date of the enactment of this Act on the whole-ofgovernment strategy for combating malign foreign influence operations. 

Section 1043—Workforce Issues for Military Realignments in the Pacific

 This section would amend section 1806 of title 48, United States Code, to allow 

the continued employment of temporary workers on Guam engaged in the military 

realignment to Guam or to perform service as a health care worker. This section 

would also exempt returning workers from the cap on such workers in the event of a 

single departure and return to Guam.

Section 1044—Mitigation of Operational Risks Posed to Certain Military Aircraft by 

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Equipment

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 This section would enable the Secretary of Defense to mitigate the 

operational risk posed to certain military aircraft by the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) next-generation airspace control mandate that takes effect on 

January, 1 2020, by accommodating certain fighter, bomber, and other sensitive 

mission aircraft until the Department of Defense and FAA agree on one or more 

solutions to address Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out security 

risks or incorporate mitigation for security risks into a memorandum of agreement.

The committee notes that the Department is working to meet the FAA 

mandate for its aircraft and supports its efforts to procure equipment and carry out 

modifications for its accommodated fighter, bomber, and special mission aircraft.

Section 1045—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

This section would limit the availability of funds authorized to be 

appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019, until the 

Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering certifies the Strategic 

Capabilities Office Ghost Fleet Overlord Unmanned Surface Vehicle program to the 

congressional defense committees.

Section 1046—Program for Department of Defense Controlled Unclassified 

Information in the Hands of Industry

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to establish and 

implement a foreign ownership, control, or influence program for Department of 

Defense controlled unclassified information in the hands of industry.

The Secretary would be required to act to ensure that prior to any company 

receiving controlled unclassified information or classified information, or becoming 

a cleared defense contractor, the company would have to report to the Secretary any 

foreign direction or controlling interest in the company or any access to intellectual 

property relating to classified information or controlled unclassified information. 

The Secretary would be required to make a determination on the basis of 

such a company's report whether the company should receive such information due 

to a risk to national security and whether such risk can be mitigated.

Section 1047—Protection of Emerging and Foundational Technologies

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to establish and 

maintain a list of emerging and foundational technologies that are necessary for 

maintaining the national security technical advantage of the United States. 

This section would require the Secretary to use that list to inform the 

activities carried out by the Secretary relating to technology protection, including 

under interagency processes.

SUBTITLE F—STUDIES AND REPORTS

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Section 1051—Additional Matter for Inclusion in Annual Report on Civilian 

Casualties in Connection with United States Military Operations

This section would amend section 1057(b)(2) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) to include an annual 

reporting requirement on civilian casualties in connection with U.S. military 

operations. 

Section 1052—Department of Defense Review and Assessment on Advances in 

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense, acting through the 

Defense Innovation Board and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 

Engineering, to carry out a review and assessment of the advances in artificial 

intelligence, related machine learning developments, and associated technologies 

for military applications. This section would also require the Secretary of Defense to 

submit an initial report to the congressional defense committees not later than 180 

days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and a comprehensive report not 

later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 1053—Report on Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure

 This section would prohibit certain funds authorized to be appropriated by this 

Act from being obligated or expended for the Joint Enterprise Defense 

Infrastructure until the Secretary of Defense provides a report to the congressional 

defense committees on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.

Section 1054—Report on Proposed Consolidation of Department of Defense Global 

Messaging and Counter Messaging Capabilities

This section would limit the availability of funds authorized to be 

appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019, until the 

Secretary of Defense provides a report to the congressional defense committees on 

the Department of Defense Global Messaging and Counter Messaging program.

Section 1055—Comprehensive Review of Professionalism and Ethics Programs for 

Special Operations Forces

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the 

Secretaries of the military departments, to conduct a comprehensive review of the 

ethics and professionalism programs of the U.S. Special Operations Command and 

the military departments for officers and other military personnel serving in special 

operations forces. This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit the 

review to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 

Representatives by March 1, 2019. 

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Section 1056—Munitions Assessments and Future-Years Defense Program 

Requirements 

This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 

and Sustainment to provide all relevant documents related to the Department of 

Defense's munitions requirements process, as well as provide the planned funding 

and munitions requirements required for fiscal year 2020 and across the Future 

Years Defense Program for munitions across all military services and the Missile 

Defense Agency. This section would also require the Under Secretary to evaluate 

and identify supply chain risks, including qualified supplier shortages or single 

source supplier vulnerabilities for munitions production. The committee notes that 

munitions are defined as a complete device charged with explosives; propellants; 

pyrotechnics; initiating composition; or chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear 

material for use in operations including demolitions, to include conventional 

ammunition.

Section 1057—Report on Establishment of Army Futures Command

This section would require the Secretary of the Army to provide a report to 

the congressional defense committees on the Army’s plan for the establishment of 

Army Futures Command, to include a description of the authorities, mission, and 

organizational structure. This section does not prohibit the Secretary of the Army 

from proceeding forward with any current internal organizational changes in 

accordance with existing authorities related to the establishment of the Army 

Futures Command.

Section 1058—Assessment of Department of Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum 

Warfare Enterprise

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 

the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), to develop an implementation 

plan to conduct joint campaign modeling and wargaming for joint electromagnetic 

spectrum operations (JEMSO) of the Department of Defense, and to submit that 

plan in the form of a report by February 18, 2019, to the congressional defense 

committees. This section would also require the Secretary and CJCS to provide 

various briefing presentations to the House Committee on Armed Services, not later 

than February 25, 2019, on essential topics and functions of the Department’s

JEMSO enterprise.

The committee is concerned that since the electronic warfare (EW) strategy 

document was released by the Department's Electronic Warfare Executive 

Committee in June 2017, subsequent efforts to strengthen, modernize, and create 

synergy of effort across the Department related to the JEMSO enterprise may have 

stagnated within the military services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and 

the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The committee seeks to gain 

a greater understanding of current JEMSO efforts since release of the EW strategy 

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document, and the committee encourages those officials overseeing the JEMSO 

enterprise to reinvigorate efforts towards achieving the goals and objectives 

described in the EW strategy. 

Section 1059—Report on Support for Non-Contiguous States and Territories in the 

Event of Threats and Incidents

This section would direct the Department of Defense to provide a report on 

its preparedness to provide contiguous States with temporary relief and emergency 

work in the aftermath of an emergency incident.

Section 1060—Report on Low-Boom Flight Demonstration

This section would require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration to submit a report, not later than 90 days after the date 

of the enactment of this Act, to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of 

the House of Representatives describing the progress in development of the LowBoom Flight Demonstration. 

Section 1061—Report on Cyber-Enabled Information Operations

This section would require the President to provide the Committees on 

Armed Services and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 

Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations of the Senate a report not 

later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act on the effects of 

cyber-enabled information operations on the national security of the United States.

SUBTITLE G—OTHER MATTERS

Section 1071—Technical, Conforming, and Clerical Amendments

This section would make a number of technical, conforming, and clerical 

amendments of a non-substantive nature to existing law.

Section 1072—Principal Advisor on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to designate, from among 

the personnel of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a Principal Advisor on 

Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD). Such individual shall act as the 

Principal Advisor to the Secretary on the activities of the Department of Defense 

relating to countering weapons of mass destruction. Further, this section would 

require a plan for realigning, restructuring, or reducing the current CWMD 

oversight framework of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 

Section 1073—Receipt of Firearm or Ammunition

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This section would require for the purposes of Federal firearms laws that 

the residency of members of the Armed Forces and their spouses be determined in 

the same manner.

Section 1074—Federal Charter for Spirit of America

This section would designate Spirit of America, a nonprofit organization, as 

a federally chartered corporation.

Section 1075—Transfer of Aircraft to Other Departments

This section would amend section 1098 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66) to relieve the United 

States Air Force (USAF) from the mandate to modify United States Coast Guard 

(USCG) HC-130H aircraft with designated capabilities for use by the United States 

Forest Service (USFS).

The committee notes that officials from the USFS, USCG, and USAF 

notified the committee, and relevant other House of Representatives and Senate 

committees of jurisdiction, that a recently completed USFS cost-benefit analysis 

demonstrated it is more cost-effective, and provides greater firefighting capacity 

and responsiveness, to utilize contract service provided capability instead of owning 

and operating year-round a small, organic fleet of modified HC-130H aircraft.

Section 1076—Reauthorization of National Aviation Heritage Area

This section would amend title V of division J of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2005 (Public Law 108-447) to establish Dayton History as the 

entity responsible for managing the National Aviation Heritage Area.

Section 1077—Recognition of America’s Veterans

This section would honor America’s veterans, including those who have not 

yet been appropriately recognized for their service to the Nation, by authorizing the 

Secretary of Defense to carry out a parade in their honor. The Secretary would be 

authorized to expend funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for the 

display of small arms and munitions appropriate for customary ceremonial honors 

and for the participation of military units that perform customary ceremonial 

duties. 

The committee believes that, as America approaches the 100th anniversary 

of the 1918 Armistice ending World War I, it is appropriate to honor a century of 

military service by the men and women who have sacrificed to secure America’s 

freedom. The committee further believes that the world they made through their 

sacrifices is increasingly under threat from competitors like the Russian Federation 

and the People's Republic of China. The committee is concerned that far too many 

veterans, including veterans of the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and 

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Afghanistan, have been denied the public display of gratitude their service deserves 

and therefore the committee believes now is the right time to celebrate a century of 

patriotic sacrifice and service. 

Section 1078—National Commission on Military Aviation Safety

This section would establish a National Commission on Military Aviation 

Safety. The commission would undertake a comprehensive study and deliver a 

report not later than June 1, 2019, on military aviation mishaps occurring between 

fiscal years 2013-18. 

Section 1079—Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support

 This section would amend sections 669a, 669g, and 669h of title 16, United 

States Code, to expand opportunities for construction and sustainment of target 

practice and marksmanship training facilities at public target ranges on Federal 

and non-Federal land.

Section 1080—Sense of Congress on Adversary Air Capabilities

This section would express the sense of Congress that each Department of 

Defense facility housing an F-22 aircraft squadron should have adversary air 

capabilities to improve training of F-22 aircrews.

Section 1081—Sense of Congress Regarding Organic Attack Aviator Training 

Capability

This section would express the sense of Congress that the Army National 

Guard should retain rotary wing attack aviation units as well as organic training 

capacity such as the Western and Eastern Army Aviation Training Sites.

Section 1082—Sense of Congress on the Legacy, Contributions, and Sacrifices of 

American Indian and Alaska Natives in the Armed Forces

This section would express the sense of Congress on the legacy, 

contributions, and sacrifices of American Indian and Alaska Natives in the Armed 

Forces, and commits to ensuring progress for these groups with regard to 

representation in senior leadership positions, improved access to resources, and 

support for families and tribal communities.

Section 1083—Amateur Radio Parity

 This section would require the Federal Communications Commission to amend 

section 97.15 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, to prohibit the application of 

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any private land use restriction to amateur radio stations in a manner that would 

preclude communications in an amateur radio service.

Section 1084—Sense of Congress Regarding the International Borders of the United 

States 

This section would express the sense of Congress that operational control of 

the international borders of the U.S. is critical to national security, the U.S. must 

devote adequate resources to securing the border, and the Department of Defense 

must have adequate resources to support the mission to secure the international 

borders of the U.S. while maintaining combat readiness.

Section 1085—Program to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of World War II

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program to 

commemorate the 75th anniversary of World War II; such program would be 

authorized to include the provision of support to other Federal Government 

agencies, and to State and local governments. 

The Secretary would be authorized to spend not more than $2.0 million for 

fiscal year 2019 for the activities of the Department of Defense World War II 

Commemoration Fund.

TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL MATTERS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Civilian Talent Recruitment

The committee recognizes that the Department of Defense and the military 

departments encounter difficulty recruiting highly specialized civilians in science, 

technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields due to pay and other 

compensation limitations imposed by the Office of Personnel Management general 

schedule pay scales. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services not later than January 31, 2019, on the 

challenges associated with the Department’s efforts to hire organic civilians in the 

STEM fields.

The briefing must include the following elements:

(1) recommendations on how the Department can use professional pay 

incentives, such as special or incentive pay, like those provided to uniformed career 

fields such as pilots or medical professionals; 

 (2) impacts any delays in hiring have on the Department and the services’ 

medium- and long-term technical capabilities; and 

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(3) an assessment of the average time it takes for the Department of 

Defense and the military services to hire STEM civilians and recommendations for 

how this process can be improved.

Direct Hiring Authority

 The committee notes that section 1106 of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) provides direct-hire authority to the 

Secretary of Defense for post-secondary students and recent graduates. Under this 

authority, the Secretary may recruit and appoint qualified recent graduates and 

current post-secondary students to competitive service positions in professional and 

administrative occupations within the Department of Defense. These appointments 

cannot exceed 15 percent of the number of hires made into professional and 

administrative occupations. Further, section 1110 of Public Law 114-328 allows for 

direct-hire authority for the Department for Financial Management Experts not 

exceeding 10 percent of the number of hires. 

 The committee recognizes that additional hiring challenges exist throughout 

the Department and at many installations, and notes that additional direct-hiring 

authority may allow for more efficient and effective hiring of talented personnel in 

the fields of cybersecurity, engineering, science, and cost analysis positions. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 

military departments, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services not later than January 31, 2019, on the effectiveness of existing direct-hire 

authority and recommendations for any necessary expansion of or changes to the 

existing authority to improve the Department’s ability to hire technically skilled 

personnel in a timely manner.

Presidential Management Fellows Program

The committee recognizes that the Presidential Management Fellows 

(PMF) program has been one of the most successful means of recruiting the nation’s 

top graduate students into U.S. government service. Consistent with the 2018 

National Defense Strategy, the committee recognizes the PMF program’s role in 

recruiting highly-qualified, talented, and innovative graduate students in order to 

create the “motivated, diverse, and highly skilled civilian workforce.” In the 

committee’s view, during the four decades since the program’s founding, the 

Department of Defense has benefited greatly from the program. Despite this, the 

centrally managed process for hiring PMFs into the Office of the Secretary of 

Defense (OSD) has been suspended since 2015. While Department of Defense 

components are permitted to hire PMFs, unfortunately, they are unable to replicate 

the well-rounded experience created by the rotating assignments of the OSD 

program that is so crucial to leadership at the highest levels. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a 

report by January 31, 2019, on the PMF program. The report shall include the 

following elements: (a) a description of the PMF program historically and as it 

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currently exists within the Department; (b) statistics on federal civilian employees 

who entered the Department from the PMF program since its inception, including 

the overall number, their average length of tenure, the component by which they 

were hired, their entering and departing career civilian ranks, and an accounting 

for any notable subsequent leadership positions in the national security field; (c) an 

explanation for why the centrally managed process for hiring PMFs into the Office 

of the Secretary of Defense has been suspended and recommendations for any 

changes to policy, authorities, and resources required to resume it; (d) an 

assessment of the benefits and costs of resuming the use of and expanding the size 

of the PMF program across the Department; (e) recommendations for any changes 

to policy, authorities, and resources required to improve the program and expedite 

the on-boarding process for PMFs.

Recruitment and Hiring of Navy Astronomers

 The Committee recognizes the critical missions of the U.S. Naval Observatory 

(USNO) and the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) to the Department. 

The Committee is aware of challenges in recent years to recruitment and timely 

hiring of astronomers at NOFS, which risks key astronomical observation shifts 

going missed. The Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing 

to the Committee on Armed Services of the House no later than December 31, 2018, 

outlining: the hiring process and timeline for astronomy positions at USNO and 

NOFS; identifying reasons for delays in approving positions and hiring for such 

positions; what the Navy is doing to shorten timelines; barriers and challenges to 

recruitment of individuals with relevant expertise; identifying impediments to 

hiring such individuals in a timely basis; and identifying impediments to recruiting 

and relocating individuals to NOFS.

Workplace Flexibility for Federal Civilians

The committee recognizes efforts taken by the military services to increase 

workplace flexibility to attract and retain talented personnel. The committee 

remains concerned, however, that a lack of professional flexibility in the civilian 

work force limits the ability of the Department of Defense and the military services 

to attract and retain highly trained mid-level career professionals. Family planning 

and an individual’s desire to further their education are two frequently cited 

reasons why professionals seek more flexible work schedules. 

The committee notes numerous private sector organizations started 

providing increased work flexibility to their employees, providing incentives that 

lure the skilled workforce away from the DoD and the services. Therefore, in order 

to preserve and enhance the DoD’s civilian workforce the committee directs the 

Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military 

departments, to provide a briefing by January 31st, 2019 that identifies current 

policies that allow work-share, job-share, part-time, tele-work, and other 

flexibilities currently offered by the Department for civilian employees. The briefing 

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should identify the frequency with which these policies are used by each pay-band 

and career-field, whether certain career-fields have been exempted from certain 

flexibility programs and the justification for exemption, the number of employees 

who have been denied opportunities to do work-share, job-share, part-time work, or 

tele-work, and how many of these employees, as a result, have left the federal 

government. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 1101—Direct Hire Authority for the Department of Defense for Certain 

Competitive Service Positions

This section would amend chapter 99 of title 5, United States Code, by 

adding a new section that would provide the Secretary of Defense authority to 

expedite hiring of civilian personnel into positions involving maintenance, depot 

maintenance, cybersecurity, acquisition, and science, technology, and engineering. 

This authority would expire on September 30, 2025.

Section 1102—Modification of Direct Hire Authority for the Department of Defense 

for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates

This section would amend chapter 99 of title 5, United States Code, by 

adding a new section that would authorize the Secretary of Defense to recruit and 

hire recent graduates into competitive positions in the Department of Defense 

through September 30, 2025. This section would also repeal the more limited 

authority provided by section 1106 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328).

Section 1103—Extension of Overtime Rate Authority for Department of the Navy 

Employees Performing Work Aboard or Dockside in Support of the Nuclear-Powered 

Aircraft Carrier Forward Deployed in Japan 

This section would amend section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, to 

extend until September 30, 2021, the authority of the Secretary of the Navy to pay 

overtime rates to civilian employees performing temporary duty in Japan in support 

of the forward deployed nuclear aircraft carrier.

Section 1104—One-Year Extension and Expansion of Authority to Waive Annual 

Limitation on Premium Pay and Aggregate Limitation on Pay for Federal Civilian 

Employees Working Overseas

This section would amend section 1101 of the Duncan Hunter National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417) to extend the 

authority to waive the annual limitation on premium pay and aggregate limitation 

on pay for Federal civilian employees working overseas until September 30, 2019. 

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This section would also restrict the waiver limitation to the pay periods applicable, 

rather than the entire calendar year.

Section 1105—Appointment of Retired Members of the Armed Forces to Positions in 

or under the Department of Defense 

 This section would provide the Secretary of Defense temporary authority to 

appoint retired members of the Armed Forces to Federal civilian positions within 

the Department of Defense immediately upon retirement for certain categories of 

positions. This section would provide this authority to the Secretary for 5 years.

Section 1106—Extension of Authority to Conduct Telework Travel Expenses Test 

Programs

 This section would amend section 5711 of title 5, United States Code, to extend 

the authority of the Administrator of the General Services Administration to 

conduct a test telework program until December 31, 2020.

Section 1107—Personnel Demonstration Projects

 This section would amend section 4703 of title 5, United States Code, to deem 

that demonstration projects conducted under this authority lasting more than 10 

years shall not count against the limit of 10 such projects ongoing at any time.

Section 1108—Expanded Flexibility in Selecting Candidates from Referral Lists

 This section would amend subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 

Code, to provide Federal agencies flexibility in setting the minimum number of 

candidates who must be considered on a referral list for each vacancy by amending 

sections 3317, 3318, and 3319 of such title.

Section 1109—Temporary and Term Appointments in the Competitive Service

 This section would amend subchapter I of chapter 31 of title 5, United States 

Code, by adding a new section that would authorize the heads of Federal agencies to 

hire civilian personnel through temporary and term appointments. This section 

would also permit an agency head to make noncompetitive hires for up to 18 months 

to meet a critical need.

TITLE XII—MATTERS RELATING TO FOREIGN NATIONS 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Carrier Presence in the Middle East

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The committee recognizes the importance of maintaining an aircraft carrier 

strike group in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations to deter 

the Islamic Republic of Iran, support ongoing missions in the Republic of Iraq, the 

Syrian Arab Republic, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, provide assurance 

to regional partners, and maintain the capacity to flexibly respond to a variety of 

crises across the volatile region. The Navy currently struggles to meet combatant 

commander presence requirements in CENTCOM and a recent gap in carrier 

presence there temporarily limited CENTCOM’s capacity to address these security 

challenges. In an effort to more quickly reach the requirement for 12 aircraft 

carriers identified in the most recent Force Structure Assessment and to achieve 

greater cost savings, the committee authorized an acceleration of the next Fordclass aircraft carrier designated CVN-81 in fiscal year 2019. The committee also 

recommends that the Navy assess options to extend the service life of USS Nimitz 

(CVN 68) to mitigate potential gaps, which could affect CENTCOM’s regional force 

presence. 

Casualty Evacuation in U.S. Africa Command Area of Operations

Given the vast distances and austere conditions affecting mobility on the 

African continent, the committee recognizes that personnel recovery and casualty 

evacuation are critical enablers to U.S. Africa Command's (AFRICOM's) conduct of 

operations. The committee is concerned, however, that current funding for 

contractor-owned, contractor-operated casualty evacuation capabilities is currently 

insufficient to support requirements. Therefore, the funding table in division D 

would authorize an additional $15.0 million for contractor-owned, contractoroperated casualty evacuation capability in AFRICOM's area of operations.

Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa

The committee has long been concerned about U.S. Africa Command 

(AFRICOM) Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's (CJTF-HOA) ability to 

execute assigned missions and taskings, as evidenced by section 1241 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111-383), 

which required the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of 

State, to monitor and evaluate the impact of CJTF-HOA’s activities to counter 

violent extremism in Africa and provide a report to Congress. 

The committee continues to be concerned that CJTF-HOA’s organizational 

structure, resourcing, command relationships, and lack of clearly defined role, 

responsibility, and authority have led to suboptimal performance in executing its 

assigned missions as an operational headquarters and ensuring unified action in 

the region. The committee acknowledges that as the only major element of 

AFRICOM located on the continent, there may be value in maintaining and better 

enabling CJTF-HOA to synchronize, facilitate, and oversee its assigned missions. 

The committee notes, however, that options other than a joint task force may be 

more effective in accomplishing these missions. 

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Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to evaluate the 

missions of CJTF-HOA and the operational environment to determine whether a 

joint task force provides the most effective headquarters option for command and 

control of operations. Further, the committee directs the Secretary to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than October 31, 

2018, on the results of the evaluation. The briefing shall include:

(1) an evaluation of the costs and benefits of maintaining a permanent U.S. 

military presence in East Africa, and the potential locations for such presence;

(2) an evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining a 

combined joint task force structure to fulfill assigned missions and taskings;

(3) the range of headquarters options available for command and control of 

operations in East Africa and the advantages and disadvantages of each option;

(4) recommendations for the most effective headquarters structure, 

command relationships, and assignment of missions to improve the command and 

control of operations and to ensure unified action in East Africa; and

(5) any other matter the Secretary determines to be appropriate.

Coordinating Efforts to Counter the Malign Activities of the People's Republic of 

China and the Russian Federation Across Combatant Commands

The committee is concerned about the People's Republic of China and the 

Russian Federation's malign influence and activities that extend across all 

geographical regions and supports the Department's efforts to increase coordination 

across combatant commands in countering those activities. The committee believes 

that China and Russia's influence campaigns, economic investment and 

infrastructure, and security presence throughout the Indo-Pacific, Central Asia, 

Africa, Europe, and South America, have national security implications for the 

United States and its allies and partners. Therefore, the committee encourages all 

combatant commands to coordinate their respective efforts and use all appropriate 

authorities to include security cooperation activities, foreign military sales, and 

other equipment transfers to counter China and Russia's activities and to develop 

the capabilities of United States allies and partners. The committee notes that the 

combatant commands should align their efforts in accordance with section 1637 of 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91), 

as appropriate.

 The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by December 3, 2018, on the actions the 

combatant commands are taking to increase coordination and counter the activities 

posed by China and Russia. 

Department of Defense Inspector General Audit of Foreign Military Sales

An efficient, thorough, and effective Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process is 

vital to U.S. foreign policy and national security, and contributes to the health of 

the U.S. defense industrial base. The committee is aware, however, of concerns 

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raised by U.S. military leaders, the defense industry, and foreign partners that the 

FMS process is slow, cumbersome, and overly complicated.

Therefore, the committee directs the Inspector General of the Department 

of Defense to conduct an audit regarding Department of Defense implementation of 

FMS programs and, upon completion of the audit, to submit a final report to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the 

Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs of the House of Representatives. The committee further directs the Inspector 

General to meet with the House Committee on Armed Services and the House 

Committee on Foreign Affairs not later than June 30, 2018, to scope the audit fully. 

Additionally, the committee directs the Inspector General to provide an interim 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on 

Foreign Affairs not later than November 30, 2018, on the manner that it intends to 

conduct such audit. 

Foreign Military Sales

A key element of the 2018 National Defense Strategy is to “strengthen 

alliances and attract new partners.” The committee is aware that the Department 

of Defense is making progress instituting the security cooperation reforms 

contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public 

Law 114-328). The committee remains concerned, however, that the execution of 

foreign military sales (FMS) is not coordinated holistically across the Department to 

prioritize resources and effort in support of U.S. national security objectives and the 

defense industrial base. Consequently, acquisition decisions continue to be made in 

a stovepiped manner and without sufficient regard for the role of FMS. Therefore, 

the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by 

October 31, 2018, on the procedures instituted by the Department to integrate FMS 

and other security cooperation activities into the planning process for defense 

acquisition. 

Additionally, the committee notes that there are separate and disparate 

efforts across the Department that develop, negotiate, and implement foreign 

military sales for missile defense capability. This often leads to foreign partners not 

being provided price and availability for all potential systems that could meet their

requirements, and the best solution to benefit both the partner nation and overall 

Department interests. Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Policy, in coordination with the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, 

Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Army, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by November 30, 2018, on options to improve, 

consolidate, and streamline missile defense foreign military sales across the 

Department.

Further, the committee believes that production of additional foreign 

military sales variants may help mitigate risk to the supplier base and overall 

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production capacity for precision guided munitions. Elsewhere in this report the 

committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the AIM-120 

advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles production line is kept at or near full 

capacity whenever possible, either by increasing production to fill U.S. military 

requirements or by supplementing production for the U.S. military with higher 

FMS production.

Improved Coordination of Activities in Africa with International Partners

The committee is aware that international partners such as the United 

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the French Republic, Japan, and 

the United Arab Emirates, plus multinational organizations such as the European 

Union and African Union, and many others, conduct programs to build partner 

capacity in Africa. The committee is concerned that U.S. programs may be 

duplicative or in conflict with international partners’ activities, or that gaps in 

capabilities are unaddressed. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services 

and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by October 31, 2018, on the steps 

being taken to coordinate security cooperation activities in Africa with international 

partners.

International Armaments Cooperation

The committee appreciates that international armaments cooperation (IAC) 

involves cooperative research, development, test, and evaluation of defense 

technologies, systems, or equipment; joint production and follow-on support of 

defense articles or equipment; and procurement of foreign technology, equipment, 

systems or logistics support. The committee further appreciates that the Office of 

the Director of International Cooperation and the IAC Directorate are charged with 

performing managerial roles with respect to these important functions. However, 

the committee questions whether IAC is sufficiently utilized for strategic purposes 

and questions whether the Office of the Director of International Cooperation and 

the IAC Directorate are optimally situated to contribute to long-term policy making 

and strategic oversight regarding Department of Defense security cooperation 

programs. 

 Therefore, the committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to evaluate the 

status of IAC within the Department of Defense and to consider the merits of 

realigning the Office of the Director of International Cooperation and the IAC 

Directorate from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 

Sustainment to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The 

committee also directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House 

Committee on Armed Services by October 31, 2018, on IAC, the Office of the 

Director of International Cooperation, and the IAC Directorate. At a minimum, the 

briefing shall include the following:

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(1) a description of the dispositions, missions, roles, and responsibilities of 

all departmental offices with a role in IAC (to include the Office of the Director of 

International Cooperation, the IAC Directorate, and the Defense Security 

Cooperation Agency);

(2) an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of the current 

organizational and operational structures related to IAC (to include the placement 

of the Office of the Director of International Cooperation and the IAC Directorate);

(3) an assessment of the merits of realigning the Office of the Director of 

International Cooperation or the IAC Directorate to the Office of the Under 

Secretary of Defense for Policy; and

(4) a discussion of the steps that have been, or may be, taken by the 

Department of Defense to improve IAC to achieve strategic objectives.

Multilateral Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula

The committee supports efforts between United States Forces Korea and 

the United Nations Command Sending States and certain countries to augment 

U.S. forces and forces of the Republic of Korea on the Korean peninsula. 

The committee is pleased to see cooperation and participation among the 

United States, South Korea, United Nations Command Sending States, and certain 

countries in combined defense exercises. The committee further believes that these 

allies and partners can continue to play a vital role in contributing military assets 

for contingencies and capabilities in the naval and maritime domain as well as 

participating in training and exercises.

 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the component commands, to provide a briefing to the Committee on Armed 

Services of the House of Representatives not later than December 1, 2018, on 

recommendations to strengthen coordination with liaison components and to 

broaden such cooperation, including information sharing, training and exercise 

opportunities, and integration and planning of multi-national forces into existing 

arrangements between the United States and South Korea. 

Naval Mine Countermeasure Capability in the U.S. Central Command's Area of 

Operations

The committee recognizes the importance of the U.S. Navy’s mine 

countermeasures (MCM) capability in protecting the free flow of commerce through 

the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab al Mandeb Strait. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 30, 

2018, on the MCM platforms that are capable of being readily deployed to U.S. 

Central Command's area of operations. This briefing should describe available 

MCM platforms, the time that would be required to clear relevant sea lanes of the 

mine threats posed by regional state and non-state actors including the Islamic 

Republic of Iran, the extent to which MCM training and exercises focus on potential 

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mining contingencies in Middle Eastern waterways, and, if applicable, the extent to 

which U.S. MCM shortfalls could be covered by partner-country capabilities.

Non-Standard Acquisition in Foreign Military Sales

The committee is aware that foreign partners are increasingly considering 

U.S.-made capabilities through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) that are not currently 

a Department of Defense program of record. For FMS purposes, a non-standard 

article is one that the Department of Defense does not manage, either because an 

applicable end item has been retired or because it was never purchased for 

Department components; a non-standard service is one that the Department of 

Defense does not routinely provide for itself or for purchase. Likewise, the 

Department's building partner capacity (BPC) programs include acquisition of nonstandard articles and services under defense security cooperation train and equip 

authorities. Consequently, there is an increasing need for the Department of 

Defense to provide adequate program-level support so that these systems can be 

sold to international partners and supported over the life-cycle of the program. 

The committee is also aware that the military departments have, on a caseby-case basis, established program offices to support the foreign sale of certain nonstandard articles. The committee is concerned, however, that these ad hoc efforts do 

not provide the support necessary to manage foreign partners’ acquisition of nonstandard articles and services across the Department of Defense in a holistic 

manner.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a 

review of the acquisition of non-standard articles and services for FMS and BPC 

programs, and to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services and 

the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by October 31, 2018, on the results of the 

review. The briefing shall include the following with respect to foreign partners’ 

acquisition of non-standard articles and services through FMS or BPC programs:

(1) a description of current processes and procedures;

(2) an overview of previous programs, and an assessment of future 

opportunities for such programs;

(3) the various options the Department of Defense could use to address this 

issue, including the advantages and disadvantages of each and funding 

requirements; 

(4) statutory, regulatory, policy, or funding constraints related to the 

options in (3); and

(5) any other matter the Secretary considers appropriate.

Report on New START Treaty

The committee notes that the New START Treaty entered into force in 2011 

and is set to expire in 2021 but may be extended for a period of an additional five 

years. U.S. Strategic Command Commander General Hyten stated in March 2017 

before the House Armed Services Committee that "I've stated for the record in the 

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past, and I'll state again, that I'm a big supporter of the New START Agreement. In 

addition, the committee notes that Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic 

deterrence General Weinstein also stated in March 2017 that "The reason you do a 

treaty is not to cut forces but to maintain strategic stability among world powers. 

And the New START Treaty allowed us to maintain [that stability]. I think there is 

a huge value with what the New START Treaty has provided ... So I think the New 

START Treaty has been good, been good for us." 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, to provide a report to the congressional 

defense committees no later than November 15, 2018, on whether, and if so, the 

reasons that, the New START Treaty, and the extension of the treaty as of the date 

of the report, is in the national security interests of the United States.

Report on U.S. Casualty Estimates for Armed Conflict with North Korea

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the 

House Committee on Armed Services, not later than September 30, 2018, and again 

180 days thereafter, on the U.S. casualty estimates for likely scenarios of an armed 

conflict with North Korea. The reports should be unclassified, but each may contain 

a classified annex.

Security and Stability in Venezuela

The committee is concerned about the degradation of democratic 

institutions, security and stability, and human rights violations in the Bolivarian 

Republic of Venezuela during the authoritarian rule of President Nicolás Maduro. 

President Maduro's leadership tenure has produced economic, political, and security 

instability in Venezuela. 

The severe humanitarian crisis unfolding in Venezuela includes inflation 

exceeding 1,100 percent, massive shortages in food and medical supplies, and a near 

complete collapse of social services. The committee notes this crisis is directly 

impacting the Republic of Colombia with an estimated 500,000 Venezuelans seeking 

refuge there. 

The committee recognizes that hundreds of thousands more vulnerable 

members of the Venezuelan population could potentially migrate to Colombia and 

other neighboring countries to seek safety and opportunity. This migration could 

have impacts on stability throughout South America.

Therefore, the committee urges the Department of Defense, in close 

conjunction with other U.S. agencies, to monitor the economic, security, and 

political situation in Venezuela closely and to continue working with the 

government of Colombia and other regional partners to assist the Venezuelan 

refugee population and resolve the crisis.

Support to Syrian Women

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The committee notes the efforts of nongovernmental organizations that 

have successfully increased the inclusion of Syrian women in local and provincial 

governance. The committee further notes that women have been instrumental to 

humanitarian aid efforts at the local level in Syria, and have helped keep schools, 

hospitals, and basic services running in their communities. Women serve on local 

councils, advise local police departments, and are being trained to hold forums and 

town halls in their communities. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense in coordination with the 

Secretary of State to provide the House Armed Services Committees no later than 

December 1, 2018 a briefing on any efforts to support appropriately vetted Syrian 

opposition forces as defined in section 1209 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ 

McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–

291; 128 Stat. 3541) in their efforts to increase the inclusion of women in security 

and governance processes. Additionally, the briefing shall include any plans to 

initiate or expand such efforts in the future. 

Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Support to the Afghan National Defense and Security 

Forces

The committee notes that the Department of Defense works closely with the 

Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to provide protected 

mobility as well as a wide-range of other capabilities based on military 

requirements, including ANDSF priorities as well as the ANDSF’s capability to 

maintain and sustain such equipment. The committee understands the Combined 

Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) conducted a tactical wheeled 

vehicle (TWV) optimization study in 2016 in support of the ANDSF with a focus on 

creating a sustainable, affordable, and effective fleet that would increase combat 

capability and force protection for occupants. It is unclear to the committee 

whether this study considered providing excess defense article mine resistant 

ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles to the ANDSF. The committee notes there are 

several thousand MRAP vehicles categorized as Excess Defense Articles (EDA) in 

the Department’s inventory that could potentially be used to address protected 

mobility requirements for the ANDSF. The committee is aware the ANDSF are 

using MRAP vehicles and notes these vehicles provide for increased survivability 

and offensive power in combat operations. Further, the committee is aware of a 

recent letter of request by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for 738 MRAP 

vehicles. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 

in consultation with the Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, to provide 

a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by October 30, 2018, on the 

cost, operational survivability, and sustainability of EDA MRAP vehicles for the 

ANDSF, the status of the most recent letter of request for 738 MRAP vehicles for 

the ANDSF, and whether MRAP vehicles were considered as part of the most recent 

TWV optimization study conducted by CSTC-A. The briefing should also take into 

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account cost, blast protection level, catastrophic losses to date of vehicles and 

numbers of Afghan soldiers killed in vehicles damaged by improvised explosive 

devices.

Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP)

The committee recognizes the threat posed by terrorist groups such as alQaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram, and ISIS West Africa, and 

that such threat poses risks to the stabilization of countries in West Africa and the 

Sahel. 

The committee emphasizes that countering terrorism throughout Western 

Africa and the Sahel requires enhancing regional border security, tracking illicit 

financial flows, building law enforcement capacity, and strengthening the rule of 

law. In order to promote stable and strong institutions throughout Western Africa 

and the Sahel, a whole of government approach is called for, leveraging State 

Department-led diplomatic efforts, military-to-military relationships developed and 

led by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and development projects carried out by 

the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) developed in 

2005 by the Department of Defense (AFRICOM), Department of State, and USAID 

was created to support national and regional institutions in the region working with 

regional governments and European partners bordering the Mediterranean. 

The committee encourages the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism 

Partnership to continue with regular interagency coordination and engagement 

with regional partners and allies.

The Committee directs the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in 

coordination with the Secretary of State, to provide a briefing to the House 

Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs by March 1, 2019 on the TransSaharan Counterterrorism Partnership including any activities or partner 

engagement related to military, counter-terrorism, and law-enforcement capacitybuilding, as well as public diplomacy and information operations. 

U.S. Military Education and Training Locations

The committee recognizes the importance of U.S. military leadership in 

advancing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's mission to guarantee freedom 

and security in the alliance and around the world. As the 75th anniversary of D-Day 

and the allied invasion of Normandy, France, approaches, the committee notes the 

significance of this event in history. As such, the committee believes the Cotentin 

Peninsula could serve as a potential location for Department of Defense activities to 

grow global partnerships and alliances.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a 

report to the House Committee on Armed Services and the Senate Committee on 

Armed Services not later than December 1, 2018, on the feasibility (including cost 

and availability of any suitable locations for potential activities) of activities to grow 

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global partnerships and alliances on the Cotentin Peninsula prior to the 75th 

anniversary of the D-Day invasion in June 2019. 

Western Hemisphere Region Report on Strategy to Increase Engagement with 

Region 

It is the sense of Congress that the security, stability, and prosperity of the 

Western Hemisphere region are vital to the national interests of the United States. 

The United States has a military capability in the Western Hemisphere region that 

builds goodwill and is able to project power, build partner capacity, deter acts of 

aggression, and respond, if necessary, to natural disasters, regional threats or to 

threats to the national security of the United States by the activities of actors, such 

as Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, transnational criminal organizations, or 

terrorist organizations in the region. The Committee believes continuing efforts by 

the Department of Defense to increase investments in the Western Hemisphere are 

necessary to build and maintain a robust United States commitment to the region. 

Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretary of State, to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee 

on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives by April 1, 2019, that contains a 

strategy on effective U.S. defense engagement with the Western Hemisphere region, 

a plan to implement that strategy, and any additional funding requirements to 

implement such strategy. The strategy shall address each of the following:

(1) The security challenges, including threats, emanating from the Western 

Hemisphere region, including from natural disasters, and any capability gaps in 

United States defense posture to the region;

(2) The security threats to the United States or to its interests in the 

Western Hemisphere region from the engagement of Iran, China, Russia, and North 

Korea in the region, with a specific focus on Iran’s engagement in the Tri-Border 

region of South America, Bolivia, and Venezuela and Russian engagement in 

Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela;

(3) The counterintelligence threats to the United States from Cuba and the 

role of Cuba in supporting the Venezuelan government;

(4) The threats to the United States from transregional and transnational 

threat networks, including in drug trafficking, illegal mining, deforestation, human 

trafficking, and other illicit activities;

(5) The threats to the United States from the links of the Venezuelan 

government with drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations and 

corrupt government actors in the region;

(6) Department of Defense plans, force posture, capabilities, and resources 

to address any gaps in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, or counterintelligence capabilities in the region; and

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(7) The allies, partners, and other countries in the region that the Defense 

Department has prioritized for increased cooperation and a description of the areas 

of proposed increased cooperation. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING

Section 1201—Report on the Use of Security Cooperation Authorities

This section would express the sense of Congress that the Secretary of 

Defense should use appropriate security cooperation authorities to counter the 

malign influence campaigns that are directed at allies and partners and that pose a 

significant threat to the United States. This section would also require the 

Secretary of Defense to include a report on funding for this purpose with the 

consolidated budget materials for security cooperation required by section 381 of 

title 10, United States Code, in fiscal year 2020 through fiscal year 2025. 

The committee recognizes that Department of Defense programs aimed at 

building partner capacity, such as those authorized under section 333(a) of title 10, 

United States Code, have largely focused on building counterterrorism capabilities 

in allies and partners. However, with the security cooperation reforms contained in 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) 

and the evolving security environment, the committee urges the Department to 

develop capabilities with key allies and partners that will enable them to counter 

and mitigate the impact of malign influence campaigns by competitors or 

adversaries.

Section 1202—Clarification of Authority to Waive Certain Expenses for Activities of 

the Regional Centers for Security Studies

This section would amend section 342 of title 10, United States Code, to 

clarify that travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses are included among the 

costs of activities of the Regional Centers eligible for waiver of reimbursement.

Section 1203—NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds for 

fiscal year 2019 for the purposes of supporting the NATO Strategic 

Communications Center of Excellence, and would direct the Secretary of Defense to 

assign executive agent responsibilities to an appropriate organization within the 

Department of Defense. 

Section 1204—NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence

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This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds for 

fiscal year 2019 for the purposes of supporting the NATO Cooperative Cyber 

Defense Center of Excellence, and would direct the Secretary of Defense to assign 

executive agent responsibilities to an appropriate organization within the 

Department of Defense.

Section 1205—Participation in and Support of the Inter-American Defense College

This section would make permanent the authority for U.S. participation in 

and support of the Inter-American Defense College and would transfer such 

authority to chapter 16 of title 10, United States Code. This section would further 

require that Department of Defense participation in, and host nation support of, the 

Inter-American Defense College shall be in accordance with a memorandum of 

understanding between the Department and the Inter-American Defense Board, 

with Secretary of State concurrence, and that such memorandum of understanding 

shall provide details of any cost-sharing or funding arrangements, a curriculum, 

and a plan for academic program development.

Section 1206—Increase in Cost Limitation for Small Scale Construction Related to 

Security Cooperation

This section would increase the limitation on small scale construction 

related to security cooperation from $0.75 million to $2.0 million.

Section 1207—Report on Security Cooperation with Haiti

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence 

of the Secretary of State, to submit a report on cooperation between the Department 

of Defense and the Government of the Republic of Haiti.

Section 1208—Review and Report on Processes and Procedures Used to Carry Out 

Section 362 of Title 10, United States Code

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence 

of the Secretary of State, to conduct a review of the processes and procedures used 

to carry out section 362 of title 10, United States Code, and submit a report to the 

appropriate congressional committees on such review. This section would also 

make conforming amendments to section 362 and to section 1206 of the Carl Levin 

and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2015 (Public Law 113-291).

SUBTITLE B—MATTERS RELATING TO AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

Section 1211—Extension of Authority to Transfer Defense Articles and Provide 

Defense Services to the Military and Security Forces of Afghanistan

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This section would extend the authority to transfer defense articles being 

drawn down in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the authority to provide 

defense services regarding such transfers to the military and security forces of 

Afghanistan.

Section 1212—Extension of Authority for Reimbursement of Certain Coalition 

Nations for Support Provided to United States Military Operations

This section would extend through December 31, 2019, the authority to 

make Coalition Support Fund (CSF) payments under section 1233 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181). 

 This section would also maintain the limitations enacted in section 1233 of 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91), 

which provided that of the funds authorized for CSF, not more than $700.0 million 

may be provided to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and of that amount, not more 

than $350.0 million may be provided until the Secretary of Defense certified that 

Pakistan is taking demonstrable steps against the Haqqani Network.

The committee notes that elsewhere in this Act, it has fully authorized the 

President's budget request of $900.0 million for fiscal year 2019 for CSF payments. 

Section 1213—Extension and Modification of Commanders' Emergency Response 

Program

This section would extend the Commanders' Emergency Response Program 

through 2020 and would modify the eligibility to include Somalia, Yemen, and 

Libya.

Section 1214—Report on Assistance to Pakistan

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees not later than 90 days after the date of the 

enactment of this Act describing the manner in which the Department provides 

assistance to the Government of Pakistan.

SUBTITLE C—MATTERS RELATING TO SYRIA, IRAQ, AND IRAN

Section 1221—Extension and Modification of Authority to Provide Assistance to 

Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

This section would extend the authority to provide assistance to counter the 

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. This section would also authorize a funding level of 

$850.0 million for such support in Iraq.

The committee notes that some U.S.-provided equipment has inadvertently 

fallen into the hands of groups that operate outside of the control of the central 

Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Kurdish Regional Government. The 

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committee urges the Department of Defense to evaluate its current safeguards to 

ensure that equipment is properly stored and maintained.

Section 1222—Extension of Authority to Provide Assistance to the Vetted Syrian 

Opposition

This section would extend and modify section 1209 of the Carl Levin and 

Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 

(Public Law 113–291) by extending the "Syria train and equip" program and the 

reprogramming requirement through December 31, 2019. 

Further, this section would require the President to submit to the 

congressional defense committees a plan at least 30 days prior to an initial 

reprogramming request in fiscal year 2019. The plan would describe the efforts the 

United States will take to train and build an appropriately vetted force; the nature 

of the force; the current effectiveness of the force; the conditions to be met for a 

determination that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been adequately 

neutralized; the roles and contributions of partner countries; the concept of 

operations, timelines and types of training, equipment, stipends, sustainment, 

supplies to be provided by the United States (including measures for 

accountability); and a description of force posture.

Section 1223—Extension and Modification of Authority to Support Operations and 

Activities of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq

This section would extend the authority for the Office of Security 

Cooperation in Iraq (OSC-I) through December 31, 2019. The committee recognizes 

that OSC-I will manage U.S. security cooperation with the Republic of Iraq over the 

long term and expects the Department of Defense to ensure, to the extent 

practicable, that the Government of Iraq is able to sustain and maintain U.S.-

provided equipment throughout the lifespan of such equipment. 

Section 1224—Sense of Congress on Ballistic Missile Cooperation to Counter Iran

This section would express the sense of Congress that the Gulf Cooperation 

Council member countries should take meaningful steps to build an interoperable 

ballistic missile defense architecture with emphasis on information sharing, 

including early warning and tracking data, to defend against the Islamic Republic 

of Iran missile threat.

Section 1225—Strategy to Counter Destabilizing Activities of Iran

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense, with concurrence of 

the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a strategy with foreign partners to 

counter the destabilizing activities of Iran. Under such a strategy, partners and 

allies would commit to collaborating with the United States on a variety of efforts, 

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including but not limited to investing in intelligence, surveillance, and 

reconnaissance platforms, mine countermeasures resources, integrated air and 

missile defense, and cybersecurity; engaging in combined planning, defense 

education, and institution building; and sharing information. 

Further, this section would require the Secretary of Defense, in 

consultation with the Secretary of State, to submit a report to the congressional 

defense committees and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, on the strategy and 

the actions taken by partners and allies.

Section 1226—Report on Compliance of Iran under the Chemical Weapons 

Convention 

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 

the Secretary of State, to submit a report to the House Committee on Armed 

Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by February 1, 2019, 

assessing the extent to which Iran is complying with its obligations under the 

Chemical Weapons Convention. 

Section 1227—Report on Potential Release of Chemical Weapons or Chemical 

Weapons Precursors from Barzeh Research and Development Center and Him 

Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage and Bunker Facilities in Homs Province of 

Syria

 This section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the 

congressional defense committees within 30 days after the date of the enactment of 

this Act on the analysis for potential release of chemical weapons or chemical 

weapon precursors, conducted prior to U.S. and partner forces strikes on the Barzeh 

Research and Development Center and the Him Shinshar chemical weapons storage 

and bunker facilities in Homs province of Syria in April 2018. 

Section 1228—Report on Cooperation between Iran and the Russian Federation

This provision would require a report each year for the next 5 years on 

military and security cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the 

Russian Federation, particularly in respect to Syria. The report would further cover 

Russian and Iranian intelligence-sharing, joint naval exercises, joint cooperation on 

Iran's space and nuclear programs, Russian cooperation with Hezbollah, and the 

potential that Iran will adopt Russia's hybrid warfare model. 

SUBTITLE D—MATTERS RELATING TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Section 1231—Prohibition on Availability of Funds Relating to Sovereignty of the 

Russian Federation over Crimea

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This section would extend by 1 year the prohibition imposed by section 1245 

of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92), 

as amended by section 1232 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91). This section would prohibit the use of fiscal year 

2019 funds to implement any activity that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian 

Federation over Crimea. This section would also allow the Secretary of Defense, in 

concurrence with the Secretary of State, to waive the prohibition if the Secretary 

determines that doing so would be in the national security interest of the United 

States and submits a notification to the Committees on Armed Services of the 

Senate and the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Relations of 

the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.

Section 1232—Limitation on Availability of Funds Relating to Implementation of 

the Open Skies Treaty

The committee is aware that the Department of State's 2018 arms control 

compliance report, also known as the "Report on Adherence to and Compliance with 

Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments", 

submitted pursuant to section 2593a of title 22, United States Code, continues to 

find the Russian Federation in violation of numerous provisions of the Treaty on 

Open Skies. Consistent with prior National Defense Authorization Acts, the 

committee believes legislation is appropriate and required to oversee the 

implementation of this treaty. 

This section would prohibit the use of funding authorized in this Act for 

fiscal year 2019 for the purposes of upgrading or modernizing certain Treaty on 

Open Skies systems until such time as the President (or the Secretary of State) is 

able to certify that the President has imposed treaty violations responses and legal 

countermeasures. 

This section would also limit the use of funding authorized in this Act or 

any other Act for fiscal year 2019 for the approval or adoption of any implementing 

decision in the Open Skies Consultative Commission concerning approval of a 

request by states parties to certify infra-red or synthetic aperture radar sensors 

under the treaty. Such funding would be restricted until:

(1) the Secretary of Defense, jointly with the relevant U.S. Government 

officials, submits a certification that an implementing decision would not be 

harmful or detrimental to the national security of the United States, as well as a 

report on certain matters has been submitted to the appropriate congressional 

committees; and

(2) the President has certified, not later than 90 days prior to a decision 

taking effect, that Russia is in complete compliance with the treaty, is allowing 

observation flights over certain specified regions, and it has agreed to certain 

conditions (including the extradition of Russian citizens involved in undertaking 

unlawful activities against the United States incident to the 2016 Presidential 

election, it has withdrawn from Crimea and ceased support to Russian proxies in 

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Eastern Ukraine, and has ceased all military and financial support for any state 

that uses or has used against its civilian population any agent or substance banned 

by the Chemical Weapons Convention). 

The President would be permitted to waive the limitation subject to certain 

conditions.

The section would also permit the Secretary to cease operation of treaty 

aircraft for safety of flight.

Section 1233—Comprehensive Response to the Russian Federation's Material 

Breach of the INF Treaty

This section would state a series of findings concerning Russian Federation 

violations of the INF Treaty. This section would also state that it is the policy of the 

United States that Russia has defeated the object and purpose of the treaty, is in 

material breach of the treaty, and as a result the U.S. is legally entitled to suspend 

the operation of the treaty in whole or in part for so long as the Russian Federation 

continues to be in material breach of the treaty. 

This section would additionally withhold 25 percent of the funding 

authorized to be appropriated by this Act for Department support to the Executive 

Office of the President, other than funding required for senior leader 

communications, until the President certifies that each requirement of section 1290 

of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-

328) has been met; that the President has notified the appropriate congressional 

committees of the imposition of sanctions pursuant to section 1290 of that Act; and, 

that the President has submitted the report required by section 1244(c) of the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91). 

The committee notes that because the requirements of section 1244(b)(2) of 

Public Law 115-91 have not been satisfied as of this report, the restriction on $50.0 

million in fiscal year 2018 authorized funding for the Special Mission Area of the 

Defense Information Systems Agency remains in place.

The committee is aware that the State Department's 2018 arms control 

compliance report, also known as the Report on Adherence to and Compliance With 

Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, 

submitted pursuant to section 2593a of title 22, United States Code, continues to 

find Russia in violation of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and 

Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), specifically the obligations not to possess, 

produce, or flight-test a ground-launched missile with a range capability of 500 

kilometers to 5,500 kilometers. Each National Defense Authorization Act since 

fiscal year 2014 has included measures to pressure Russia to return to compliance 

with the treaty and to ensure Russia cannot obtain a military advantage by its 

violations of the treaty. The committee believes time is running out for Russia to 

take actions that will allow for the preservation of the treaty.

Section 1234—Modification and Extension of Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative

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This section would extend by 2 years section 1250 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92), most recently amended 

by section 1234 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 

(Public Law 115-91), to authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide security 

assistance and intelligence support to the Government of Ukraine. This section 

would also authorize $250.0 million to carry out this authority in fiscal year 2019.

The committee recognizes the essential role played by U.S. and partner 

assistance in training, advising, and equipping Ukrainian military and security 

forces, including the invaluable contributions of the National Guard through the 

State Partnership Program, and urges the Defense Department to fully resource 

those efforts. As part of these efforts, the committee recognizes the contributions of 

training activities conducted at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center 

in Yavoriv, Ukraine, and similar locations.

The committee commends the administration for providing defensive lethal 

assistance through Foreign Military Financing in the past year to the Government 

of Ukraine to support its efforts to protect and defend its territorial integrity. The 

committee urges the Department to continue to use the Ukraine Security 

Assistance Initiative (USAI) for assistance to the Government of Ukraine and 

encourages the Department to consider USAI as a source of funds for future 

defensive lethal assistance.

Section 1235—Statement of Policy on United States Military Investment in Europe

This section would state that it is the policy of the United States to sustain 

credible deterrence against aggression by the Government of the Russian 

Federation. 

The committee notes section 1273 of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) required the Secretary of Defense to 

submit a report to the congressional defense committees detailing a Future Years 

Defense Program plan for resourcing and planning for the European Deterrence 

Initiative. Section 1273 also prohibited any further action with respect to sites 

identified for divestiture, but not yet divested, as part of the European 

Infrastructure Consolidation (EIC) initiative until the report was submitted to the 

congressional defense committees. 

As the section 1273 report has not been submitted in compliance with the 

statutory requirement, the committee believes the limitation of the divestiture of 

sites under the EIC is still in place.

Section 1236—Imposition of Sanctions with Respect to Certain Persons Providing 

Sophisticated Goods, Services, or Technologies for Use in the Production of Major 

Defense Equipment or Advanced Conventional Weapons

This section would require the President to submit a report to the specified 

congressional committees within 120 days after the date of enactment of the Act; 

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the report would list such persons as are described in section 1290 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328). 

This section would also require the President to submit a report to the 

specified congressional committees within 120 days after the date of enactment of 

the Act; the report would provide information related to the supply chains for 

Russian arms sales programs. 

The section would require the imposition of sanctions with respect to 

persons providing specified support to Russian industry, with a focus on targeting 

Russia’s defense industry supply chain, involved with developing or producing 

major defense equipment or advanced conventional weapons. The sanctions 

available to the President would include, denial of sales or defense articles and 

services; licenses for export of an item on the United States Munitions List; or, 

exports controlled for national security under the Export Administration 

Regulations. It would also contain an enhanced sanction for governments of statesponsors of terrorism that obtain such equipment from Russia. The President 

would be authorized to waive the imposition of sanctions with respect to the new 

sanctions provided in this section in certain specified circumstances. 

This section would also amend section 231 of the Countering America's 

Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (Public Law 115-44), by providing an authority 

to suspend the imposition of sanctions under that Act for 180-day periods in the 

event a person demonstrates that they are directly supporting U.S. national 

security objectives and have taken specified steps, including terminating defense 

relationships with Russia, or reducing reliance upon the Russian defense or 

intelligence sectors. 

Finally, all provisions or amendments made by this section would expire in 

5 years. 

Section 1237—Extension of Limitation on Military Cooperation between the United 

States and the Russian Federation

This section would extend for 1-year section 1232(a) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), as most recently 

amended by section 1231 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91). This section would limit the use of fiscal year 2019 funds 

for bilateral military-to-military cooperation between the Government of the United 

States and the Russian Federation until the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretary of State, provides a certification to appropriate congressional 

committees relating to certain actions by Russia. This section would also allow the 

Secretary of Defense to waive the limitation under certain conditions.

Section 1238—Sense of Congress regarding Russia's Violations of the Chemical 

Weapons Convention

This section would express the sense of Congress that the Russian 

Federation is in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. 

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Section 1239—United States Actions regarding Material Breach of INF Treaty by 

the Russian Federation

This section would provide that, unless the President certifies to the 

specified congressional committees that the Russian Federation has returned to full 

and verifiable compliance with the INF Treaty within 1 year of the date of the 

enactment of this Act, the prohibitions set forth in Article VI of the Intermediaterange Nuclear Forces Treaty would no longer be binding upon the United States as 

a matter of U.S. law. 

Section 1240—Limitation on Availability of Funds to Extend the Implementation of 

the New START Treaty

This section would limit the expenditure of funds for the Department of 

Defense to extend the implementation of the New START Treaty unless and until 

the President certifies that the President has raised the issue of certain new 

Russian nuclear weapons systems under Article V of the New START Treaty and 

that the Russian Federation has responded in writing to the United States as to 

whether they will agree to declare such nuclear weapons systems pursuant to the 

Treaty. The President would be required to notify the specified congressional 

committees on whether the Russian position threatens the viability of the New 

START Treaty or requires political, economic, or military response by the United 

States. 

SUBTITLE E—MATTERS RELATING TO THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION

Section 1251—Support for Indo-Pacific Stability Initiative

This section would express the sense of Congress in support of the IndoPacific Stability Initiative to increase and enhance U.S. force posture; improve 

military and defense infrastructure, basing, and logistics; and increase bilateral and 

multilateral training and exercises with allies and partner nations. 

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a 

requirement and resource plan to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 

2019, that includes an analysis of the challenges faced by the United States to meet 

the objectives and activities outlined in the Indo-Pacific Stability Initiative and the 

resource requirements needed through fiscal year 2024 to address such challenges. 

This section also would require the Secretary to submit budget materials in support 

of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2020.

Section 1252—United States Strategy on China

This section would require the President to issue a strategy on the United 

States' whole-of-government approach to safeguard U.S. interests against Chinese 

industrial acquisitions, political influence, and regional and global military 

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capabilities and presence that have defense and security implications for the United 

States and its allies and partners. The strategy and recommendations for 

implementation would be required to be submitted to the appropriate congressional 

committees as a written report not later than March 1, 2019. 

Section 1253—Strengthening Taiwan's Force Readiness

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a 

comprehensive assessment, in consultation with appropriate counterparts of 

Taiwan, on ways to enhance and reform Taiwan's military forces, particularly 

Taiwan's reserve forces. The assessment would also require the development of 

recommendations to strengthen bilateral cooperation and improve Taiwan's selfdefense capabilities. The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of 

State, would be required to submit a report on the assessment and a list of 

recommendations and planned actions to the appropriate congressional committees 

not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 1254—Modification, Redesignation, and Extension of Southeast Asia 

Maritime Security Initiative

This section would modify the Southeast Asia Maritime Security Initiative 

by amending the name to the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative. It would 

include India as a covered country and allow for the inclusion of additional 

countries in the Indo-Pacific region if the Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with 

the Secretary of State, determines and certifies to the appropriate committees of 

Congress that it is important for increasing maritime security and maritime domain 

awareness. This section would also extend the authority by 3 years from September 

30, 2020, to September 30, 2023.

Section 1255—Missile Defense Exercises in the Indo-Pacific Region with United 

States Regional Allies and Partners

This section would express the sense of Congress that the United States 

should continue to develop and deploy robust missile defense in the Indo-Pacific 

region. This section would also express that the United States should increase 

coordination, conduct bilateral and multilateral missile defense exercises, and 

increase the capacity and integration of missile defense systems with allies and 

partners to move toward a more interoperable and integrated missile defense 

architecture. 

This section would also state that the Secretary of Defense may conduct 

missile defense exercises in the Indo-Pacific region with U.S. regional allies and 

partners to improve interoperability. 

Finally, this section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign 

Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 

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Representatives on the matters contained in subsection (c) not later than 120 days 

after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 1256—Quadrilateral Cooperation and Exercise

This section would express the sense of Congress on supporting 

quadrilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, the Commonwealth of 

Australia, and the Republic of India, and others as appropriate. 

This section would also state that the Secretary of Defense may conduct a 

quadrilateral naval military exercise and it would require the Secretary to provide a 

briefing to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign 

Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 

Representatives on matters contained in this section not later than 120 days after 

the date of the enactment of this Act. 

Section 1257—Name of United States Indo-Pacific Command

This section would change the name of "United States Pacific Command" to 

"United States Indo-Pacific Command" beginning in January 1, 2020. This section 

also would make several conforming amendments pursuant to the name change. 

The committee notes that changing the name from "United States Pacific 

Command" to "United States Indo-Pacific Command" may involve some necessary 

administrative expenditures. The committee believes the Department of Defense 

should be prudent and minimize such costs to the extent practicable. 

Section 1258—Requirement for Critical Languages and Expertise in Chinese, 

Korean, and Russian

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to provide a plan to 

address shortfalls in Chinese, Korean, and Russian language and expertise across 

the Department of Defense. Specifically, the plan shall provide a near-term and 

long-term plan for how the Department is building competency in these critical 

areas and the Secretary of Defense shall submit that plan to the congressional 

defense committees not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 

Act.

Section 1259—Modification of Report Required under Enhancing Defense and 

Security Cooperation with India

This section would amend subsection (a)(2) of section 1292 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (114-328) by adding an additional 

reporting requirement. The new reporting requirement would include a description 

of the progress on enabling agreements between the United States and the Republic 

of India, any limitations that hinder or slow progress, measures to improve 

interoperability, and actions India is taking, or the Secretary of Defense or the 

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Secretary of State believe India should take, to advance the relationship with the 

United States. 

Section 1260—Statement of Policy on Naval Vessel Transfers to Japan

This section would express that it shall be the policy of the United States to 

support maritime defense cooperation with Japan.

Section 1261—Report and Public Notification on China's Military, Maritime, and 

Air Activities in the Indo-Pacific Region

This section would state the sense of Congress that greater transparency of 

the People's Republic of China provocative military, maritime, and air activities in 

the Indo-Pacific region would aid in raising awareness of these activities, enable 

regional security partners to more effectively protect their sovereignty and defend 

their rights under international law, and maintain stability within the region to 

enable constructive relations with China. 

 This section would also require Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 

Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, to submit a report to 

the appropriate congressional committees on a quarterly basis describing China's 

activities in the Indo-Pacific region, and disseminate the report to regional allies 

and partners and provide public notification, as appropriate. The dissemination and 

availability of the report and public notification shall be made in a manner 

consistent with national security and the protection of classified national security 

information. 

Section 1262—Senior Defense Engagement with Taiwan

This section would express the sense of Congress that, pursuant to the 

Taiwan Travel Act, a service secretary or member of the joint chiefs should visit 

Taiwan for a senior-level defense engagement. This section would require a briefing 

to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 

Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives on 

any plans of the Department to carry out senior-level defense engagement. 

Section 1263—Limitation on Use of Funds to Reduce the Total Number of Members 

of the Armed Forces on Active Duty Who Are Deployed to the Republic of Korea

This section would limit the use of funds authorized to be appropriated by 

this Act to reduce the number of members of the Armed Forces serving on Active 

Duty in the Republic of Korea below 22,000 unless the Secretary of Defense first 

provides certification to the congressional defense committees that such a reduction 

is in the national security interest of the United States and will not significantly 

undermine the security of the United States allies in the region. 

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Section 1264—Enhancing Missile Defense Cooperation with Partners

This section would state the sense of Congress that the Secretary of 

Defense should seek to increase missile defense coordination and cooperation with 

U.S. partners.

This section would amend section 1292 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) as amended by section 

1258 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 

115-91) by including missile defense cooperation as a priority of Department of 

Defense defense cooperation efforts with the Republic of India.

SUBTITLE F—OTHER MATTERS

Section 1271—Report on Status of the United States Relationship with the Republic 

of Turkey

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 

the Secretary of State, to submit a report on the U.S.-Turkish relationship to the 

congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 

Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, not 

later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

This section would also prohibit any action to execute delivery of a foreign 

military sale for major defense equipment under section 36 of the Arms Export 

Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761) to the Republic of Turkey until the required report is 

delivered to the specified congressional committees.

Section 1272—Sense of Congress on Unity of Gulf Cooperation Council Member 

Countries

This section would describe the sense of Congress that the member 

countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are important security cooperation 

partners of the United States, that GCC unity and cohesion is critical to facing the 

growing threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran, and that the timely 

normalization of diplomatic, security, and economic relationships is in the best 

interest of the United States. 

Section 1273—Report on United States Government Police Training and Equipping 

Programs for Mexico

This section would require the President to submit a report to the 

congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 

Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 

Senate, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland 

Security of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

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House of Representatives by July 1, 2019, on U.S. police training and equipping 

programs with the United States of Mexico.

Section 1274—Authority to Increase Engagement and Military-to-Military 

Cooperation with Western Balkans Countries

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to increase 

engagement and military-to-military cooperation utilizing authorized programs and 

activities under chapter 16 of title 10, United States Code, for the Western Balkans 

region including the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of 

Kosovo, and the Republic of Macedonia.

The committee is concerned about long-term stability and security in the 

Western Balkans region. Ethnic tensions, economic challenges, and malign outside 

influences are contributing to the instability of the region. The committee remains 

concerned about the upcoming elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the 

signing of the Dayton Accords in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina has maintained 

growth in developing democratic institutions and elections. The committee 

encourages the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to promptly and effectively 

address their constitutional challenges and hold fair and free elections in October 

2018. 

The committee remains deeply concerned over the Russian Federation’s 

intensifying efforts to assert its influence in the Western Balkans. The committee 

condemns Russia’s involvement in the attempted coup against the Government of 

the newest member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 

Montenegro, in October 2016. The committee is also concerned about Russian 

information operations in the Balkans including propaganda and efforts to highlight

lingering ethnic tensions. 

The committee is encouraged by the strong partnerships that continue to 

develop in the Western Balkans with the United States. These partnerships are 

vital to increase security, stability, and prosperity in the region. The committee also 

encourages European partners and allies to strengthen relationships in the region 

as well. The committee is hopeful about, and supportive of, the continued work of 

many in the region toward goals of integrating into the Euro-Atlantic community,

including NATO and the European Union (EU). The continued forward progress by 

these nations toward accession into NATO and the EU provides a stable framework 

from which to achieve greater stability and security throughout Central Europe. 

The committee notes that the Department of Defense should continue to increase 

military-to-military cooperation and engagements in the region. 

Section 1275—Technical Corrections Relating to Defense Security Cooperation 

Statutory Reorganization

This section would make technical corrections relating to defense security 

cooperation statutory reorganization.

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Section 1276—United States-Israel Countering Unmanned Aerial Systems 

Cooperation 

This section would modify section 1279 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92) to authorize 

establishment of a cooperative research and development program with the State of 

Israel to develop capabilities for countering unmanned aerial systems through 

modification of the existing memorandum of agreement between the United States 

and Israel for anti-tunneling defense capabilities or through a new memorandum of 

agreement. 

Section 1277—Three-Year Extension of Authorization of Non-Conventional Assisted 

Recovery Capabilities

This section would modify section 943(g) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417), as most recently 

amended by section 1051(n) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91), authorization of non-conventional assisted recovery 

capabilities, by striking “2021” and inserting “2024”. 

Section 1278—Revision of Statutory References to Former NATO Support 

Organizations and Related NATO Agreements

This section would amend section 2350d of title 10, United States Code, to 

update the statutory reference to reflect a reorganization of the North Atlantic 

Treaty Organization (NATO) with respect to the elimination of the NATO Support 

Organization and the establishment of the NATO Support and Procurement 

Organization. This section would also amend section 2350d to reflect that NATO 

supply and logistics support activities may extend to NATO operations outside of 

Europe. 

Section 1279—Sense of the Congress Concerning Military-to-Military Dialogues

This section would state the sense of Congress regarding the parameters 

that lead to successful military-to-military dialogues.

Section 1280—Modifications to Global Engagement Center

This section would modify section 1287 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328). Nothing in this 

section would alter the requirements of section 8119 of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-141) or any successor provision in an 

Appropriation Act.

Section 1281—Report on Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreements

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This section would amend section 2342 of title 10, United States Code, with 

a requirement to report on cross-servicing agreements with NATO Allies and other 

countries. Reporting would include the country, date, text, dollar amount, and an 

assessment as to whether or not it falls within U.S. national security interests.

Section 1282—Prohibition on Provision of Weapons and Other Forms of Support to 

Certain Organizations

This section would prohibit funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 

or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2019 from 

being used to provide weapons or any other form of support to certain organizations.

Section 1283—Certification and Authority to Terminate Funding for Academic 

Research Relating to Foreign Talent Programs

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan to 

implement a certification requirement to ensure certain applicants for certain 

Department of Defense research funding provide the Secretary information 

concerning whether they have participated, or are currently participating, in foreign 

talent or expert recruitment programs of certain countries. 

The Secretary would be required to implement such certification program 

not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. The Secretary 

would have the authority to terminate the award of Department funds if an 

applicant or recipient of such funds is unable to provide the required certification. 

Section 1284—Sense of Congress on Support for Georgia

This section would express the sense of Congress regarding the United 

States support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as support 

for continued cooperation between the United States and Georgia.

Section 1285—Sense of Congress on Support for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

This section would express the sense of Congress on U.S. support for the 

Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia, and the Republic of Lithuania, 

including support for their sovereignty, concern over aggressive military actions of 

the Russian Federation against these nations, and encouragement for further 

defense cooperation between the United States and these nations.

Section 1286—Report on United States Strategy in Yemen

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees not later than February 1, 2019, describing 

the strategy of the United States Armed Forces with respect to Yemen including a 

description of the U.S. Armed Forces activity in Yemen, costs associated with such 

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activity, key objectives of such activity, indicators of effectiveness, how current 

efforts align with such objectives, the estimated annual resources required through 

fiscal year 2022 to achieve such objectives, the applicable legal authorities, and any 

other matters the Secretary deems relevant.

Section 1287—Report on Hizballah

This section would require the President to submit to the Senate 

Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Armed Services, the 

congressional intelligence committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 

House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a 

report on Hizballah no later than 90 days after the enactment of this act. The report 

would include accounting of Hizballah's known rocket arsenal, an evaluation of the 

impact of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), an evaluation of 

Hizballah's capabilities, a description of routes used by Hizballah to procure 

weapons illegally, an estimate of entities that support Hizballah's network, an 

assessment of Hizballah's involvement in regional conflicts, and an assessment of 

Hizballah's fundraising in territories where UNIFIL operates. 

TITLE XIII—COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Future of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

The committee notes the successful history of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative 

Threat Reduction (CTR) program, including the pivotal role it played in securing 

former Soviet Union nuclear material and delivery platforms, the destruction of 

Russian and Syrian chemical weapons, and the securing of sensitive biological 

laboratories around the world. In response to an evolving threat landscape, 

Congress has provided modifications to the original program to address current 

requirements for threat reduction and the proliferation of weapons of mass 

destruction (WMD) by state and non-state actors around the globe. 

The committee is aware that additional opportunities may exist for 

enhanced cooperation with allies and partners to address emerging proliferation 

concerns and WMD threats, such as those on the Korean Peninsula. The committee 

notes, however, that interagency coordination, expeditious project approval, 

prioritization, measuring program effectiveness, and policy gaps continue to pose 

challenges to effective and efficient utilization of CTR by the Department of 

Defense, despite efforts for improvement. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

report to the House Committee on Armed Services by December 1, 2018, on how to 

strengthen the CTR program so that it may be better leveraged for emerging threat 

reduction and proliferation concerns in an efficient and expeditious manner.

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LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 1301—Funding Allocations

This section would allocate specific funding amounts for each program 

under the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program 

from within the overall $335.2 million that the committee would authorize for the 

CTR Program. The allocation under this section reflects the amount of the budget 

request for fiscal year 2019.

Section 1302—Specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction Funds

This section would specify that funds authorized to be appropriated to the 

Department of Defense for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, established 

under the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Act (50 U.S.C. 

3711), would be available for obligation in fiscal years 2019, 2020, and 2021. 

TITLE XIV—OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—MILITARY PROGRAMS

Section 1401—Working Capital Funds

This section would authorize appropriations for Defense Working Capital 

Funds at the levels identified in section 4501 of division D of this Act.

Section 1402—Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense

This section would authorize appropriations for Chemical Agents and 

Munitions Destruction, Defense at the levels identified in section 4501 of division D 

of this Act.

Section 1403—Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense-Wide

This section would authorize appropriations for Drug Interdiction and 

Counter-Drug Activities, Defense-wide at the levels identified in section 4501 of 

division D of this Act.

Section 1404—Defense Inspector General

This section would authorize appropriations for the Office of the Inspector 

General at the levels identified in section 4501 of division D of this Act.

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Section 1405—Defense Health Program

This section would authorize appropriations for the Defense Health 

Program at the levels identified in section 4501 of division D of this Act.

Section 1406—National Defense Sealift Fund

This section would authorize appropriations for the National Defense 

Sealift Fund at the levels identified in section 4501 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—OTHER MATTERS

Section 1411—Authority for Transfer of Funds to Joint Department of DefenseDepartment of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for Captain 

James A. Lovell Health Care Center, Illinois

This section would authorize the transfer of funds from the Department of 

Defense to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs 

Medical Facility Demonstration Fund established by section 1704 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84).

Section 1412—Authorization of Appropriations for Armed Forces Retirement Home

This section authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2019 from the Armed 

Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces 

Retirement Home.

Section 1413—Quarterly Briefing on Progress of Chemical Demilitarization 

Program

This section would modify section 1521 of title 50, United States Code, to 

require the Secretary of Defense to provide quarterly briefings to the congressional 

defense committees on the progress of the chemical demilitarization program, 

including contractor cost and schedule performance, destruction progress, and any 

other relevant information until stockpile destruction is complete. This section 

would also eliminate the semiannual written reports required in the section 

referenced above. 

TITLE XV—AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS 

FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Cargo Inspections to Counter Vehicle Borne IED Threats

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The Committee is encouraged that the Department of the Army is testing 

and planning to deploy new passive cargo inspection technologies to address a joint 

urgent operational need to counter Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device 

(VBIED) threats. This disruptive technology, which utilizes naturally occurring 

cosmic ray muons and electrons, identifies shielded and unshielded nuclear and 

radioactive materials; detects smuggled contraband, including weapons, 

bombmaking materials, and illicit goods; and is proven safe for humans, animals, 

and food products. The Committee encourages the Army to continue with the 

current testing program and supports efforts to deploy the system at a major US 

military facility. Further, the Committee requests a briefing 60 days after the 

enactment of this bill on the potential future deployments of these next generation 

inspection technologies inside and outside the continental United States. The 

briefing, which may be provided in a classified setting, shall include an assessment 

of current cargo inspection protocols and requirement gaps that may exist.

National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment Account

The budget request for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) contained 

no funding for a National Guard and Reserve Component equipment account. 

Elsewhere as reflected in division D of this Act, the committee notes that the base 

budget request contained $3.4 billion for procurement of National Guard and 

Reserve Component equipment and $219.9 million in the OCO request for Army 

National Guard and Army Reserve other procurement programs.

The committee remains concerned about the availability of equipment 

needed to sustain and modernize the National Guard and Reserve Components as 

an operational reserve and for their domestic support missions. The committee 

notes that National Guard and Reserve Components are often reliant upon 

overused and outdated equipment, creating a widening capability gap with the 

Active Component, and have been unable to maintain pace with rapid technological 

change. The committee believes additional funds are required to address identified 

equipment shortfalls and improve compatibility with Active Components. The 

committee expects these funds to be used for the purposes of, but not limited to, the 

procurement of rotorcraft; avionic and radar upgrades for legacy strike fighter 

aircraft to include Navy Reserve F-18 strike fighters; wheeled and tracked combat 

vehicles; tactical wheeled vehicles; ammunition; small arms; tactical radios (to 

include single channel ground and airborne radio systems); UH-72A Lakota 

survivability upgrades; UH-60 disaster response equipment, such as rescue hoists, 

water buckets, and radios; non-system training devices; vehicle convoy operations 

trainers; unstabilized gunnery trainers and virtual convoy operations trainers; 

sense and avoid system upgrades for unmanned air systems; and explosive 

ordnance disposal man-portable robots & lightweight X-ray systems and other 

unfunded procurement items for the National Guard and Reserve Components. 

The committee recommends additional funding for a National Guard and 

Reserve Component equipment account within the Overseas Contingency 

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Operations budget request. The committee also recommends $3.4 billion, the full 

amount of the base budget request, for National Guard and Reserve Component 

equipment and also recommends $219.9 million in the OCO request for Army 

National Guard and Army Reserve. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1501—Purpose of Certain Authorizations of Appropriations

This section would establish the purpose of this title and make 

authorization of appropriations available upon enactment of this Act for the 

Department of Defense, in addition to amounts otherwise authorized in this Act, to 

provide for additional authorization of funds due to overseas contingency operations 

and other additional funding requirements.

Section 1502—Procurement

This section would authorize additional appropriations for procurement at 

the levels identified in section 4102 of division D of this Act.

Section 1503—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

This section would authorize additional appropriations for research, 

development, test, and evaluation at the levels identified in section 4202 of division 

D of this Act.

Section 1504—Operation and Maintenance

This section would authorize additional appropriations for operation and 

maintenance programs at the levels identified in section 4302 of division D of this 

Act.

Section 1505—Military Personnel

This section would authorize additional appropriations for military 

personnel at the levels identified in section 4402 of division D of this Act. 

Section 1506—Working Capital Funds

This section would authorize additional appropriations for Defense Working 

Capital Funds at the levels identified in section 4502 of division D of this Act.

Section 1507—Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense-Wide

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This section would authorize additional appropriations for Drug 

Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense-Wide, at the levels identified in 

section 4502 of division D of this Act.

Section 1508—Defense Inspector General

This section would authorize additional appropriations for the Office of the 

Inspector General at the levels identified in section 4502 of division D of this Act.

Section 1509—Defense Health Program

This section would authorize additional appropriations for the Defense 

Health Program at the levels identified in section 4502 of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—FINANCIAL MATTERS

Section 1511—Treatment as Additional Authorizations

This section would state that amounts authorized to be appropriated by this 

title are in addition to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated by this Act.

Section 1512—Special Transfer Authority

This section would authorize the transfer of up to $4.5 billion of additional 

war-related funding authorizations in this title among the accounts in this title.

SUBTITLE C—LIMITATIONS, REPORTS, AND OTHER MATTERS

Section 1521—Afghanistan Security Forces Fund

This section would extend the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund through 

December 31, 2019. This section would also set a goal of using $18.0 million to 

support, to the extent practicable, the efforts of the Government of the Islamic 

Republic of Afghanistan to promote the recruitment, training, and integration of 

Afghan women into the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and as 

security personnel for future elections. 

This section would also require an assessment of the Government of 

Afghanistan’s ability to manage, employ, and sustain equipment divested under the 

Afghan Security Forces Fund; if the results of said assessment are unfavorable, the 

Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, would be 

authorized to withhold assistance under the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund.

Section 1522—Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Fund

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This section would amend subsections (b) and (c) of section 1514 of the John 

Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-

364) to extend the use and transfer authority for the Joint Improvised-Threat 

Defeat Fund through fiscal year 2019. This section would also extend the authority 

for interdiction of improvised explosive device precursor chemicals to December 31, 

2019. 

This section would also direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by 

March 1, 2019, a plan to transition funding for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat 

Fund from Overseas Contingency Operations to the base budget.

TITLE XVI—STRATEGIC PROGRAMS, CYBER, AND

INTELLIGENCE MATTERS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

SPACE ACTIVITIES

Briefing on Deployed Satellite Communications Terminals

The committee notes that currently deployed satellite communications 

terminals may not meet the performance, the agility, timeliness, and weight 

requirements needed to provide secure satellite communications to naval and 

expeditionary forces. The committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on the 

current validated requirements for the terminals and a plan, including 

applicability, operational capability and cost, for quickly fielding commercially 

available, secure, lightweight, satellite communications terminals, equipped with 

rapidly deployable antennas, in support of warfighter operations.

Briefing on Supply Chain for In-Space Propulsion Thrusters

The committee is aware that the Department of Defense and its suppliers 

rely on U.S., allied, and non-allied manufacturers for procurement of in-space 

propulsion thrusters. These thrusters are used on critical military satellites and the 

Committee is concerned that the presence of Russian origin thrusters on these 

satellites may constitute a security risk, particularly as the Department of Defense 

shifts towards the use of commercial off the shelf satellites.

Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing on the supply chain for in-space propulsion thrusters, whether the presence 

of allied or non-allied thrusters increases risk, and if so how, options to mitigate any 

identified risks, and the cost implications of relying solely on U.S. sources to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by January 31, 2019.

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Commercial Satellite Imagery

The committee continues to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence 

Agency’s (NGA) continued acquisition of commercial satellite imagery in support of 

global geospatial-intelligence needs. The committee is also aware that NGA, 

working with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is developing a joint 

transition plan to transfer commercial imagery pixel acquisition from NGA to NRO 

in fiscal year 2019, and expects continued focus and leveraging of these commercial 

capabilities to add to U.S. imagery capacity and capabilities. 

As this transition occurs, the committee believes it is essential to maintain 

continuity of operation, quality of service, cost-effective services, and capability for 

the warfighter and other user communities. 

Acquisition of commercial imagery should contract with several providers to 

leverage U.S. industry providers of global, high-resolution, and cost-effective 

services, with high revisit rates, and reliable performance including those that have 

demonstrated proven capability and those that are rapidly emerging within 

industry. Commercial synthetic aperture radar imagery can also provide day, night, 

and all-weather imagery in highly cloud covered regions.

 The committee directs the NGA Director and the NRO Director to jointly 

provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees and the congressional 

intelligence committees by August 1, 2018, on agency plans for the transition from 

NGA to NRO, and planned funding beyond fiscal year 2019, and on an open and fair 

competitive acquisition process to leverage industry capabilities, including but not 

limited to plans following the EnhancedView contract.

Commercial Space Situational Awareness Capabilities

The committee continues to be concerned with the direction of the multiple 

programs seeking to address space situational awareness (SSA) requirements, 

including Joint Space Operations Center Mission System, the Enterprise Space 

Battle Management Command and Control System, and the SSA Operations at the 

National Space Defense Center. The committee expects the Air Force to 

operationalize existing best of breed commercial capabilities to meet warfighter 

requirements. 

The committee supports the efforts being undertaken by the Air Force 

Research Laboratory and the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office to develop common 

data standards and process commercial data to augment Department of Defense 

capabilities. The development of common data standards will be important to 

ensuring the broader multi-domain command and control efforts that are being 

undertaken within the Air Force. 

Criteria for Launch Service Agreement Down-Select 

The committee notes that the Secretary of the Air Force plans to make an 

initial down-select decision to three potential Expendable Evolved Launch Vehicle 

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(EELV) launch providers for assured access to space in the summer of 2018, and 

plans to make a final award for launch service procurement contracts by the end of 

fiscal year 2019. The committee is aware that full-scale flight tests of new space 

launch vehicles may not occur until after this award is made. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than October 1, 2018, 

on the criteria and sufficiency of test data that the Air Force will use to make the 

final launch service agreement awards by the end of fiscal year 2019, potentially 

ahead of fully integrated flight tests. The briefing should also include criteria and 

incentives that the Air Force will use to ensure that the contractors selected 

maintain schedule and fidelity in line with their contract bids.

GPS Backup Demonstration

The committee continues to support the demonstration of backup and 

complementary positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of the Global 

Positioning System (GPS) as required by section 1606 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91). The committee 

encourages the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Transportation, and Secretary of 

Homeland Security to continue to work together to jointly develop and implement a 

plan for carrying out this backup GPS capability demonstration in 2019 and 2020. 

Further, the committee expects the Secretaries to submit the final report next year 

as required by Public Law 115-91. The committee directs the Secretary of Defense 

to provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees by December 1, 2018, 

on the progress being made on this demonstration.

Launch Support and Infrastructure Modernization

The committee is aware that the Air Force's launch support and 

modernization program required by section 1609 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) covers the Eastern and 

Western Ranges, but does not include U.S. spaceports. Therefore, the committee 

directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than 

September 14, 2018, on the potential benefits of including in this program U.S. 

spaceports and ranges that actively support national security missions, including 

benefits such as increasing resilience and rapid launch capability, and the 

estimated costs of including them.

Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Mission Enhancement

The committee is interested in the cost-effective development of advanced 

launch vehicle upper stages to be used for defense of our space assets. Advanced 

upper stages could increase the operational flexibility and on-orbit reusability of the 

holistic launch system while also allowing for greater delivery of mass to orbit.

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The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the 

congressional defense committees by December 3, 2018, on the benefits, risks, costs, 

and operational opportunities for next generation upper stage technology. The 

briefing should examine as appropriate on-orbit reusability, cryogenic refueling, 

multiple engine restarts, and power generation to support secondary payloads that 

can support space resiliency.

Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Satellites

The committee supports the Department of Defense's efforts to improve the 

affordability, resiliency, and agility of Overhead Persistent Infrared Satellite 

systems that can be rapidly fielded as the battlespace changes. As adversaries 

challenge this capability, the Department must respond with technology upgrades 

in a rapid fashion to counter the threat by pursuing affordable systems with 

lifetimes under 7 years; disaggregated strategic missile warning, missile defense 

tracking, and battlespace awareness missions; smaller bus sizes; resilient mission 

architectures that can survive a loss of system nodes/satellites and still provide 

primary mission capability through complementary mission capabilities and both 

on-orbit and ground spares with the ability to rapidly reconstitute.

The committee believes these efforts should be supported with robust 

prototyping to demonstrate the now disaggregated missions of strategic missile 

warning and battlespace awareness for increased resiliency: operational 

demonstrations to drive down operational interface risks and technical 

demonstrations to drive down technical risks so that technology insertion into our 

operational systems can be done in a low-risk fashion. Prototypes should have 

residual operational capability that can contribute immediately to the resilience of 

the mission.

Plan for Use of Allied Launch Services in Case of Emergency Need

The committee notes that a plan for the use of allied launch vehicles was 

mandated by section 1604 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2017 (Public Law 114-328). This plan was to provide assured access to space should 

the Department of Defense be unable to meet that requirement for a limited period 

using only U.S. launch vehicles. 

In 2017, the Air Force provided to Congress a report that analyzed the 

initial potential of using an allied nation’s launch vehicle and services for U.S. 

national security space launches. The committee commends the Air Force for 

providing this analysis. The committee notes the report identified a number of 

activities that have not been implemented, specifically regarding the pursuit of nonrecurring design validation or certification of the allied launch system for specific 

payloads or reference missions, early integration studies of specific payloads, an 

environmental impact statement plus one year of standard mission integration and 

space-flight-worthiness assessment, and the pursuit of a pathfinder mission. The 

committee further notes that additional capabilities may be needed to use allied 

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launch capability in the event of an emergency and inability of U.S. launch 

providers to provide assured access to space. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by December 3, 2018, on an operational 

backup plan for assured access into space using allied launch vehicles. This plan 

shall include:

(1) an assessment of U.S. satellites that would be appropriate to be 

launched on an allied launch vehicle; 

(2) relevant laws, regulations, and policies governing the launch of national 

security satellites;

(3) whether any legislative, regulatory, or policy actions or changes would 

be necessary to allow for the launch of a national security satellite on an allied 

launch vehicle; and

(4) the certification requirements for using allied launch vehicles pursuant 

to the plan and the estimated cost, schedule, and measures that would be necessary 

to certify allied launch vehicles. 

 When creating this backup plan, the committee expects the Secretary to 

leverage findings identified by the previous Air Force report.

Portable Satellite Data Receiver Status

The committee notes that the United States Air Force Research 

Laboratory’s Small Business Initiative Research has provided funding for the 

development of a unique satellite communications receive suite for reliable, portable 

connection by the warfighter to the Global Broadcast System (GBS). The committee 

is aware that the Department of Defense joint program office now includes these 

portable receive suites as an approved solution for receive technology with military 

satellite communications on the existing GBS network. The committee encourages 

the Department of Defense and the Air Force to ensure that these suites are made 

available to the warfighter. 

The committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to 

the House Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on a plan, including 

applicability and cost, for rapidly fielding commercially available, secure, satellite, 

Suitcase Portable Receive Suites and Rucksack Portable Receive Suites in support 

of deployed warfighter operations.

Rapid Satellite Capability Reconstitution

The committee recognizes the value that rapid reconstitution may 

contribute to increasing resilience in the space domain. The committee directs the 

Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to submit a report to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by January 15, 2019, on the needs and 

capabilities of the Department of Defense to rapidly reconstitute disaggregated 

Earth-orbiting satellite constellations. The report should include options for 

developing an approach for commercially acquiring, where cost effective, resilient 

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and rapid launch services to support reconstitution, including but not limited to the 

feasibility of launching satellites within one week of need.

Satellite Communications

The committee is aware that the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 

(Public Law 115-141) added two more Wideband Global Satellite Communications 

System (WGS) satellites. The committee also notes the increasing demand for 

satellite communications (SATCOM) capacity and the potential for increased 

contribution from commercial SATCOM providers. In addition, recognizing the 

growing capacity and resilience requirements, the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) required that the pilot program 

required under section 1605 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291) provide order-of-magnitude improvements in 

SATCOM capability.

The committee is aware of proven commercial SATCOM technology, 

including high capacity satellite communications technology, that delivers 

improvements in capacity and performance capabilities and supports operations in 

contested environments in a cost-effective manner. The committee supports the 

Department of Defense’s request for multiyear procurement authority for these 

services.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a 

report to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives by 

December 1, 2018, including:

(1) the costs associated with the procurement, operations, and sustainment 

of the additional WGS satellites, including life-cycle costs, and costs related to 

operations and maintenance, and launch;

(2) an update on the status of the Air Force commercial SATCOM pilot and 

pathfinder programs, including an update on fulfilling the order-of-magnitude 

requirement, an explanation of the steps the Department is taking to expedite the 

integration of commercially available high capacity satellite communications to 

meet the growing capacity demand and counter accelerating adversary 

communications denial capabilities, and whether the Air Force plans to use its 

existing authorities to solicit and award annual services contracts; and

(3) a comprehensive plan to modernize terminals and networking capability 

needed to access and adopt new multi-domain commercial communications 

technologies, multi-mode terminals and network.

Space Flag Exercise and Responsive Launch

The committee is encouraged that the budget request proposed creating a 

dedicated Air Force Space Procurement funding line to acquire affordable, flexible 

launch services to deliver spacelift capability for small payloads to low Earth orbit 

through geostationary transfer orbit. The committee supports the proposed Rocket 

System Launch Program procurement and encourages sustained investment to 

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further operationalize integration of new small launch services into the space 

enterprise.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 

115-91) also states that the Secretary of Defense should establish “an annual 

capstone training event” for space professionals to refine doctrine, operations, and 

training. This “Space Flag” exercise improves training to operate in the event of loss 

of space capabilities and to deter conflict in space. The U.S. Air Force concluded its 

second annual Space Flag exercise in August 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

Demonstrating overt resolve and ability to rapidly replenish diminished 

capabilities could contribute to increasing resilience in space as it relates to 

operations, tactics, and procedures for protecting and defending U.S. assets. In 

addition, integrating responsive launch capabilities into the annual Space Flag 

event could be an important step in evolving space mission operations, and to test, 

train, and operationalize these capabilities. 

Accordingly, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide 

a briefing to the congressional defense committees by December 1, 2018, on the 

value, plans, requirements, and benefits of aligning the small launch activities of 

the Rocket System Launch Program with the annual Space Flag training exercise.

Use of Commercial Items in Follow-On Wideband Communications System

The committee supports efforts to conduct an analysis of alternatives for a 

follow-on wideband communications system to the Wideband Global Satellite 

Communications System as required by section 1611 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92). The committee 

encourages the Department of Defense's efforts to maximize the use of commercial 

satellite communications capabilities as required by section 2377 of title 10, United 

States Code.

Section 2377 of title 10, United States Code, requires that Federal agencies 

maximize the use of commercial items in determining requirements and soliciting 

for procurements. To prevent critical satellite communications capability gaps and 

to field a follow-on wideband communications system by 2021, the Department 

must ensure that its market research is fully investigating the ability of a 

commercial offeror to meet the requirements of the Air Force’s procurement needs 

on a commercial basis, in part or in full. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by June 30, 2018, on the 

Department’s efforts to comply with section 2377 of title 10, United States Code, 

and on its analysis of alternatives for a follow-on wideband communications system.

MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Airborne Tracking and Targeting System

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The Committee notes that the Missile Defense Agency has been working on 

technologies to develop and test ballistic missile tracking and surveillance using 

MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles under an experimental program. The 

Committee directs the Missile Defense Agency, in coordination with Commander, 

Pacific Command and Commander, Central Command, to provide a brief to the 

House Armed Services Committee by December 31, 2018 on the addition of an 

operational fleet of advanced sensors deployed on MQ-9 Reaper systems to the 

ballistic missile defense system, to include integration and test efforts, operational 

value for regional and homeland defense, basing options, Warfighter concepts of 

operation, and total research, development, test and evaluation and operations and 

sustainment costs associated with deployment to the Pacific command and Central 

command areas of responsibility.

Cruise Missile Threat to Hawaii

The committee notes the cruise missile threat to the United States, 

including Hawaii, and notes that the ballistic missile defense review, which has 

been delayed, may address this issue. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, to 

provide to the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives a briefing 

no later than 45 days after the Ballistic Missile Defense Review is submitted to 

Congress, on the cruise missile defense threat to the United States, including 

Hawaii, including in the event of a conflict with Russia or China, the role of nuclear 

deterrence plays in the layered defense of the United States, and an assessment of 

the required architecture, development and deployment timeline, estimated costs 

and any relevant policy implications related to a potential cruise missile defense 

system to protect the United States, including specifically Hawaii.

Cybersecurity of Ballistic Missile Defense System

This committee notes the 2017 report from the Director, Operational Test 

and Evaluation, of the Department of Defense, on the cybersecurity testing gaps 

that exist for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The committee further 

notes that a plan is needed from the Missile Defense Agency and Director, 

Operational Test and Evaluation to conduct vulnerability assessments, cooperative 

vulnerability and penetration assessments, and adversarial assessments on all 

BMDS mission elements. Therefore, the committee directs the Director of the 

Missile Defense Agency, in coordination with the Director, Operational Test and 

Evaluation, to provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the 

Senate and the House of Representatives by December 31, 2018, on the BMDS 

cybersecurity testing road map. The briefing must include a comprehensive plan to 

improve the cybersecurity posture of the mission elements of the BMDS, including 

addressing the requirement to further enhance such posture through the 

integration and dissemination of left- and right-of-launch data, and what process 

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the Director of the Missile Defense Agency will use to incorporate lessons learned 

from the cybersecurity assessments.

Hypersonic Defense

The committee directs the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to provide 

a briefing to the congressional defense committees by December 31, 2018, on the 

hypersonic defense analysis of alternatives and the integrated plan, including 

estimated costs to deliver hypersonic defense capabilities in a manner that is global, 

cost effective, persistent, and provides resilient tracking, in accordance with section 

1687 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 

114-328). This briefing shall include an assessment on the required architecture, 

deployment timeline, and estimated costs for defense against hypersonic threats as 

demonstrated and/or pursued by Russia and China.

Maintenance of Patriot Batteries

The committee notes that an ongoing review by the Comptroller General of 

the United States of the Army’s maintenance of the Patriot missile defense system 

has found that although the Army believes that the current pace of recapitalizing 

Patriot equipment incurs long-term risks to sustaining the system, the Army has 

concluded that it cannot increase the recapitalization pace without affecting current 

operational demands or without shifting resources from its integrated air and 

missile defense modernization priorities. In addition, the ongoing review by the 

Comptroller General has found that the return of reset equipment to Patriot units 

generally has not met the Army’s timeliness goal and that delays in returning reset 

equipment can affect unit training. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary 

of the Army to provide a briefing to the Committee on Armed Services of the House 

of Representatives not later than December 1, 2018, on a plan to conduct a 

comparative analysis of factors affecting Patriot reset timeliness and appropriate 

corrective actions to improve timeliness.

Options to Supplement Missile Defense of Hawaii

The committee notes that Hawaii is currently defended against missile 

threats from North Korea by the deployed ground-based interceptors located at Fort 

Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Mindful of potential 

costs and untested capability of Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors against 

long-range missile threats, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy, in 

consultation with the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, to provide a briefing 

to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, not later than 

September 15, 2018, on the potential to supplement this defense by assigning a 

permanent Aegis ship patrol to increase a layered ballistic missile defense of 

Hawaii, with the assumption that SM-3 missiles might be effective against longrange threats. The briefing should address the technical capability, feasibility, 

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benefits, risks, cost, and trade-offs of this option for the purpose of defending 

Hawaii.

In addition, mindful of the high demand for Terminal High Altitude Area 

Defense (THAAD) batteries and the untested capability of the THAAD weapon 

system against long-range threats, the committee also directs the Director of the 

Missile Defense Agency, in coordination with the Secretary of the Army, to provide 

a briefing to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, not 

later than September 15, 2018, on the feasibility of stationing a permanent THAAD 

battery in Hawaii, and the technical capability, costs, benefits, and risks of testing a 

THAAD interceptor against an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Patriot Interceptor Inventory

The committee recognizes, given the reality of ever-increasing capabilities 

and quantities of ballistic missiles and air-breathing threats (such as cruise missiles 

and unmanned aerial vehicles), the importance of maintaining a full complement of 

interceptors for the Patriot system. Section 1678 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) directed the Army to 

submit a plan to maintain an inventory of interceptors necessary to retain the 

capability provided by Patriot interceptors. The committee notes that the report has 

not yet been received and will be delayed until July 2018. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination 

with the Chief of Staff of the Army, to submit an amended report to the 

congressional defense committees by July 31, 2018, that addresses the value of 

maintaining use of Guidance Enhanced Missile (GEM-T) capabilities alongside 

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced 

(MSE) to provide Patriot with a full complement of capability and capacity against 

current and evolving threats, including air-breathing and all other types of ballistic 

missiles. The report should also include the Army's intent to recertify the aging 

GEM-T inventory and cite a desired date to commence this activity so as to 

minimize any negative consequences to Patriot munitions capacity.

Protection of Ballistic Missile Defense System Components

The committee notes an increase to land-based ballistic missile defense 

system (BMDS) components with the development and delivery of the Long Range 

Discriminating Radar, Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii, Pacific Radar, and 

completion of the Aegis Ashore site in Poland. These new sites are in addition to 

already deployed terrestrial weapon system sites and radars. Responsibility for 

protection of these sites against threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned aerial 

vehicles, and electronic warfare falls under the combatant commander for which 

they are located.

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the 

Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, and appropriate regional combatant 

commands, to provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees by 

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November 30, 2018, detailing the current protections of deployed BMDS assets from 

cruise missile, unmanned aerial vehicle, and electronic warfare threats. The 

briefing should also include the requirements for protection of the future assets that

are in the program of record, as well as any plans to increase protection of current 

and future assets, including costs and any mitigating measures in the event that a 

system is degraded or unavailable. 

Standard Missile-3 Testing and Reliability

The committee is aware of the role and importance of the Standard Missile3 (SM-3) interceptors in providing missile defense capability to the warfighter. The 

committee notes that failures of the SM-3 IB and SM-3 IIA revealed issues that may 

have been avoided with additional system engineering focus, and these recent 

challenges could have impacts on reliability assessments of these interceptors by 

the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. 

The committee also notes that section 1680 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) included a requirement 

to test the SM-3 IIA capability against a longer range threat. The committee directs 

the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to provide a briefing to the Committees 

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate, not later than 

August 1, 2018, on how the recent SM-3 IIA test failure affects the planned test of 

this missile against an intercontinental ballistic missile-range target. This briefing 

should include implications such as changes to timeline of planned tests, 

requirements for additional tests, and changes in funding requirements. 

The committee also directs the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, in 

coordination with the Director of the Office of Test and Evaluation, to provide a 

briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 

Representatives, not later than December 15, 2018, detailing how the Missile 

Defense Agency will ensure the contractor’s systems engineering and ground testing 

procedures are adequate to support production of SM-3 IB and SM-3 IIA 

interceptors. The briefing should describe how ground test data from production 

interceptors supports SM-3 reliability estimates from the Missile Defense Agency 

and the Office of Test and Evaluation.

Warfighter Procedures for Responding to and Releasing Information Regarding an 

Inbound Ballistic Missile Threat

The committee notes that on January 13, 2018, the Hawaii Emergency 

Management Agency (HI-EMA) issued a false incoming ballistic missile alert that 

caused widespread panic and confusion in the State of Hawaii. The U.S. Pacific 

Command (PACOM) notified HI-EMA that no launch had occurred within minutes 

of the false alert being issued. Nevertheless, it took HI-EMA 38 minutes to retract 

the alert.

The committee notes the importance of clear and accurate communications 

and cooperation between PACOM and relevant federal and state entities 

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responsible for communicating and alerting the public of an incoming threat. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide a briefing to the Committee on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives on ballistic missile alert procedure, 

warfighter coordination, plans, and timelines in the event of a legitimate incoming 

ballistic missile attack to the Homeland, including coordination, plans and 

timelines for releasing critical defense information to other Federal agencies, and 

state entities as appropriate, responsible for informing the general public. The 

briefing shall also include the DoD’s role and process, if any, in retracting a false, 

misinformed, or unauthorized alert issued by a federal or state agency regarding an 

inbound ballistic missile threat. 

NUCLEAR FORCES

Air Force Global Strike Command and Nuclear Deterrence Institute

The committee continues to oversee Air Force Global Strike Command 

(AFGSC) as it leads and coordinates efforts across the Air Force for both nuclear 

deterrence operations and the National Leadership Command Capabilities/Nuclear 

Command, Control, and Communications system. The committee believes strong 

and sustained attention on these missions will be required as the Air Force carries 

out its portions of the nuclear modernization program. 

The committee understands that the AFGSC's strategy to enhance science, 

technology, innovation, and collaboration related to its missions has successfully 

leveraged partnerships with local governments, academia, industry, and nonprofits. This strategy also includes an intent to establish an institute dedicated to 

AFGSC's missions, further leverage these partnerships, and provide AFGSC an 

analytical foundation and direct access to expertise across its mission set. To better 

understand how the Air Force intends to proceed with this initiative, the committee 

directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to the House Committee 

on Armed Services by November 30, 2018, on implementation of the AFGSC's 

strategy to enhance science, technology, innovation, and collaboration. The briefing 

should include:

(1) the Secretary's decision regarding if, and if so, when and how, to 

establish the institute recommended by the strategy;

(2) whether and how the institute could uniquely contribute to the nuclear 

deterrence operations mission of the Air Force without duplication of other 

capabilities and resources; and

(3) the benefits and costs associated with the institute.

B83-1 Nuclear Gravity Bomb

The committee notes that the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) proposes 

to retain the B83-1 nuclear gravity bomb in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, whereas it 

had previously been slated for retirement in the early 2020s. The NPR stated, "the 

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B83-1 and B61-11 gravity bombs can hold at risk a variety of protected targets. As a 

result, both will be retained in the stockpile, at least until there is sufficient 

confidence in the B61-12 gravity bomb that will be available in 2020." The NPR 

elaborated, saying it proposes "sustaining the B83-1 past its currently planned 

retirement date until a suitable replacement is identified."

The committee also notes that in 2012, the National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA) estimated that retaining the B83 gravity bomb would 

potentially require it to undergo an alteration in the 2020s and a life extension 

program in the 2030s, both of which would cost billions of dollars. Additionally, the 

NNSA may have planned to use certain materials from the B83 for currently 

planned life extension programs. 

The committee believes further explanation for the decision to retain the 

B83 is warranted, particularly because such decision may require the B83 to 

undergo significant life extension activities and could impact other planned 

warhead modernization programs. The committee also expects a fuller 

understanding of the military requirements associated with the B83-1 and its 

retention. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command and the Administrator for Nuclear 

Security, to submit a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 

the House of Representatives by November 15, 2018, on the plan and rationale for, 

and implications of, retaining the B83-1. The report should address specific military 

requirements associated with the decision to now retain the B83-1, impacts on 

current or planned warhead programs including re-use of any materials, and 

potential risks, benefits, plans and costs associated with continued surveillance and 

potential life extension activities for the B83-1. The committee directs the report to 

be provided in unclassified form, with a classified annex as necessary.

Comptroller General Review of Plans to Swap B61 Bombs in Europe

The committee notes that the Department of Energy and the Department of 

Defense are carrying out a life extension program to maintain the safety, security, 

reliability, and credibility of B61 nuclear gravity bombs, and expect a first 

production unit of the updated B61-12 weapon to be available in late 2019. To swap 

legacy B61 bombs currently deployed in Europe in support of the North Atlantic 

Treaty Organization (NATO) for modern B61-12 bombs, the Air Force will conduct 

movements of nuclear weapons to and from Europe using certified military cargo 

aircraft. Initial planning for these movements is underway and the committee 

understands that such planning requires dialogue and close coordination with host 

nation governments. 

To enable improved oversight of this planning, the committee directs the 

Comptroller General of the United States to submit a report to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by March 1, 2019, 

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containing a review and assessment of the Department of Defense plans to swap 

B61 nuclear gravity bombs in Europe, including the following:

(1) readiness of the military forces responsible for conducting and 

supporting the weapon movements; 

(2) coordination between the United States and allied host nations 

regarding the movements;

(3) any potential actions that may be considered or planned to enhance 

surety and survivability; and 

(4) the Department of Defense's identification and mitigation of any risks to 

these plans.

Nuclear Survivability and Hostile Environments Testing

To be a credible and effective deterrent, U.S. nuclear weapons are designed 

to operate in the most extreme hostile environments. The committee has no doubt 

that current U.S. nuclear forces and weapons meet these exacting requirements. 

However, as it has expressed in the past, the committee believes that the 

Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) 

must be mindful of how the threat environment and so-called "stockpile-to-target 

sequence" may evolve as adversaries continue to advance their defensive 

capabilities. In particular, the committee believes the United States must ensure it 

has the capability to experimentally test materials, components, subsystems, and 

full systems in realistic environments that combine multiple extreme threats. 

To better understand Department of Defense and NNSA efforts in this 

regard, the committee directs the Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council, in 

coordination with the Administrator for Nuclear Security, to provide a briefing to 

the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives 

by November 30, 2018, on nuclear weapon survivability requirements and related 

test capabilities. Such briefing should include:

(1) current requirements related to survivability and the stockpile-to-target 

sequence; 

(2) the evolving threat environment and potential changes to such 

requirements over the next 20 years;

(3) capabilities to test materials, components, subsystems, and systems in 

realistic, combined environments;

(4) any risks or gaps in such experimental capabilities and any plans to 

address or mitigate such risks or gaps; and

(5) any changes in concepts of operation that may be applicable.

Perimeter Security at NATO Nuclear Bases

The committee appreciates the importance of the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization's (NATO) deterrence and defense mission, and the role that U.S. 

forward-deployed nuclear weapons play in the NATO Alliance. The committee notes 

its continuing interest in ensuring robust and consistent security for these weapons 

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and that NATO, the United States, and individual host nations have engaged in a 

series of security enhancement and modernization projects in recent years. The 

committee applauds these steps and supports ongoing efforts to standardize 

requirements and security measures across NATO's nuclear bases but also 

recognizes that each base and host nation presents different challenges for 

implementation and standardization of upgrades. The committee believes that 

continued enhancements and progress towards standardization is an important 

endeavor, and that an area particularly ripe for further action is perimeter security. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination 

with the Secretary of the Air Force, to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate by December 1, 

2018, assessing and comparing perimeter security at all NATO nuclear bases. Such 

briefing should also contain the following:

(1) a comparison of perimeter security at NATO nuclear bases versus each 

other and versus nuclear bases in the United States;

(2) details on requirements and standards for perimeter security at NATO 

nuclear bases and nuclear bases in the United States; and 

(3) a plan for actions that the United States could propose and undertake to 

standardize and enhance perimeter security at NATO nuclear bases, including 

through bilateral engagements with host nations and multilateral engagement 

through NATO. 

Plutonium Pit Production and Reuse

In 2008, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy stated in a 

joint report, “at present the United States does not have the ability to produce new 

nuclear weapons,” particularly the ability to produce plutonium pits. In 2010, the 

Secretaries signed a Memorandum of Agreement that said the National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA) would “plan and program to ramp up to a 

minimum of 50-80 pits/year.” In 2014, the Secretary of Defense said in a letter to 

the congressional defense committees that “the Department of Defense (DOD) has 

revalidated its requirement for 50–80 pits per year based on the demands of 

stockpile modernization, the commitments to a modern physical infrastructure, and 

the ability to hedge against technical or geopolitical risk.” 

 Section 3112 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291), put this 

requirement, and associated timeframes for production, into statute and included a 

Sense of Congress that “the requirement to create a modern, responsive nuclear 

infrastructure that includes the capability and capacity to produce, at minimum, 50 

to 80 pits per year, is a national security priority.” 

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) also discusses the need for a 

plutonium pit production capacity, saying “the United States does not have a 

sustained plutonium pit manufacturing capability needed to avoid stockpile age-out, 

support life extension programs (LEP), and prepare for future uncertainty...To 

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avoid age-related risks, DOD requires NNSA to produce at least 80 plutonium pits 

per year by 2030, and to sustain the capacity for future LEPs and follow-on 

programs.” 

The committee continues to believe a pit production capability is a national 

security priority, but seeks clarification on whether and why the 2018 NPR has 

modified the pit production requirement. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy and the 

Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, to submit a report to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by November 30, 

2018, on the annual pit production requirement, including any associated timelines. 

Such report should include a detailed rationale and justification for any changes to 

the requirement, the drivers behind the requirement, and associated costs. Such 

report should also include a detailed assessment of the potential to reuse plutonium 

pits that are currently in the inventory of the United States.

Tonopah Test Range Land Use Agreement

The committee understands that the Air Force and the National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA) are currently negotiating an extension to a land 

use agreement at the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) which enables NNSA's Sandia 

National Laboratories to utilize a portion of TTR for drop testing of inert nuclear 

gravity bombs. Sandia Labs has been operating at TTR since 1956, when it 

originally used 580 square miles of the range, and since the most recent update to 

the agreement in 2002 has been using 280 square miles. The current land use 

agreement expires in 2019 and is likely to make further reductions to make 

additional land available to the Air Force. The committee supports efforts to provide 

additional land for the Air Force mission at TTR and nearby ranges, which are 

operating over capacity, but is mindful that Sandia and NNSA must be able to carry 

out their testing mission. The committee encourages and looks forward to a 

cooperative, mutually beneficial update to this agreement that enables both 

partners to carry out their important missions.

CYBER-RELATED MATTERS

Addressing Readiness Deficiencies through the Hacking for Defense Innovation 

Education Program

The committee notes that the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) authorized the Secretary of Defense to support 

national security innovation and entrepreneurial education, including but not 

limited to, Hacking for Defense. 

The committee notes that expansion of Hacking for Defense innovation and 

entrepreneurial education at U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 

universities may optimize and enhance the Department’s innovation efforts 

outlined in the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Developing a culture of rapid and 

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meaningful innovation, and deploying advanced warfighter solutions, may remedy 

existing readiness deficiencies. The committee also notes that Hacking for Defense 

innovation education programs may benefit overall Department of Defense 

professional education such as at the National Defense University, the Defense 

Acquisition University, the Naval Postgraduate School, and other professional 

education programs.

Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment to provide a briefing to the House Committee on 

Armed Services not later than September 28, 2018 on how the Department may 

expand Hacking for Defense to support the Department’s innovation and 

entrepreneurial education efforts, including a description of how the Hacking for 

Defense program is currently being employed within the Department of Defense 

and how it may be further leveraged to provide advanced warfighter solutions, 

address readiness deficiencies, and reinvigorate, modernize, and enhance the 

Department’s innovation education with U.S. and NATO universities and 

professional education programs.

Comptroller General Review of Current Military Cyber Operations

The committee notes that in the last several years, the Department of 

Defense has employed cyber capabilities to achieve objectives in or through 

cyberspace. Unlike military operations that occur in the air and land domains, 

cyberspace operations and the effects of those operations are not always visible to 

Congress and the American people. The committee believes that as the Department 

continues to conduct cyberspace operations, it will be critical that operations are 

fully aligned with the appropriate authorities, policies and doctrine, rules of 

engagement, plans, oversight mechanisms, and lessons learned processes. It will 

also be important that the Department manages the number of organizations that 

are conducting these operations, to ensure there are clearly defined roles and 

responsibilities, and that there are deconfliction mechanisms in place. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to assess the Department of Defense’s current military cyberspace 

operations. The assessment should identify:

(1) the types of cyberspace operations the Department has undertaken, 

activities undertaken to prepare for cyberspace operations, and the organizations 

conducting these operations; 

(2) authorities, policies, doctrine, and rules of engagement for these 

operations; 

(3) internal oversight and congressional reporting mechanisms; 

(4) efforts to develop and synchronize cyberspace operations within 

combatant commanders’ plans; and 

(5) processes used to deconflict cyberspace operations or mitigate the 

impact of cyberspace operations on other military operations. 

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The committee directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by March 1, 2019, on preliminary findings, 

and submit a final report to the congressional defense committees at a date agreed 

to at the time of the briefing.

Comptroller General Review of Information Operations Strategy

The committee notes that information operations are a means for the 

United States to promote economic and political freedom, as well as countering all 

forms of extremism and adversarial influence. In June 2016, in response to a 

congressional requirement, the Department of Defense issued an information 

operations strategy to align departmental actions and ensure effective integration of 

Department of Defense efforts. These efforts contribute to the mission that the 

Department of State’s Global Engagement Center was directed to lead, organize, 

and synchronize. 

Section 1637 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91) directed the Department of Defense to establish processes 

and procedures to integrate strategic information operations and cyber-enabled 

information operations across the relevant elements of the Department of Defense, 

including those responsible for military deception, public affairs, electronic warfare, 

and cyber operations. This section also directed the Department of Defense to 

coordinate regional information strategies and interagency coordination plans of the 

combatant commands with the appropriate Department of State officials and the 

Global Engagement Center, and to develop an implementation plan to support the 

Department of Defense Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment. 

However, the committee remains concerned about the lack of progress in developing 

the strategy, tools, and coordination mechanisms to counter adversarial influence. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to assess the Department's information operations strategy and 

implementation efforts. The assessment shall: 

(1) identify the Department of Defense’s implementation of the 2016 

strategy, integration of cyber and intelligence capabilities, and other activities, for 

information operations; 

(2) identify roles, responsibilities, and coordination of activities within the 

Department of Defense, and between the Department and interagency partners; 

(3) identify previous and planned investments by the Department to 

support and implement information operations; and 

(4) any other matters the Comptroller General determines relevant. 

The committee directs the Comptroller General to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services by March 1, 2019, on preliminary findings, 

with a report to follow at a time agreed to at the time of the briefing.

Cyber Scholarship Program

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The budget request contained $7.9 million in PE 33140D8Z, for the defensewide Information Security Systems Program. 

Section 1649 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91) amended chapter 112 of title 10, United States Code, to 

establish the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program. The committee 

believes the Cyber Scholarship program may alleviate the challenges the 

Department of Defense is experiencing in recruiting and retaining cybersecurity 

personnel. Additionally, the committee believes that providing additional 

opportunities under the program will be beneficial in addressing Department 

requirements for a qualified cyber workforce, especially if the Department focuses 

on educating the public and relevant academic institutions about this program. The 

committee also believes that Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs at 

universities that offer degrees in cyber studies and related fields provide an 

opportunity to leverage and expand partnerships to assist in closing the gap of 

trained cyber warriors in the military.

Therefore, the committee recommends $17.9 million, an increase of $10.0 

million, in PE 33140D8Z.

Further, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by February 1, 2019, on the 

implementation and utilization of the Cyber Scholarship Program, to include efforts 

to educate the public and focus on institutions with high-quality computer science, 

engineering, and cybersecurity programs, including historically black colleges and 

universities, and minority-serving institutions. The briefing should also include 

implementation and utilization of efforts to leverage ROTC at institutions with 

cyber studies as a way to expand the pool of talented technical applicants.

Information Security Continuous Monitoring and Comply-to-Connect 

Implementation

While the Committee understands that pursuant to the requirements 

established in Section 1653 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), the Department of Defense included language 

relating to a Department-wide automated information security continuous 

monitoring capability and a comply-to-connect policy in its Fiscal Year 2019 budget 

request, the Committee is concerned that this language failed to adequately explain 

the Department’s implementation strategy and the resources it will require. The 

Committee therefore directs the Director of Cost Assessment and Program 

Evaluation to provide the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 

Representatives, no later than December 1, 2018, a briefing specifically outlining 

the resources and any recommendations that will be required to fully address the 

requirements contained within Section 1653 of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2017.

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure

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On September 13, 2017, the Deputy Secretary of Defense signed a 

memorandum establishing the Cloud Executive Steering Group to accelerate the 

adoption of enterprise-wide cloud architecture and services, known as the Joint 

Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI.

A report provided to Congress by the Department of Defense on October 19, 

2017, in response to the committee report (H. Rept. 114-577) accompanying the 

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017, outlined several challenges 

impacting the Department’s ability to expand commercial cloud service usage. 

These included accurately projecting costs for security and complex migrations, lack 

of consistent security requirements, and an inability to identify tangible costsavings. Although the report outlined efforts to address these challenges, additional 

information has not been provided to the committee on progress to that end. The 

report also outlined several ongoing cloud computing activities.

The committee has long championed modernization of information 

technology to facilitate efficiencies and cost-savings, enhance performance, and

provide our warfighters with cutting-edge capabilities on and off the battlefield. The 

committee is encouraged by the Department's renewed commitment to accelerate 

the adoption of cloud computing architecture and services. 

However, the committee is concerned with the lack of information 

supporting the planned acquisition of JEDI from a single commercial provider. This 

includes lack of detail regarding security requirements and associated costs, 

anticipated cost-savings, migration costs, and how the Department intends to 

maintain the ability to leverage the latest cloud computing capabilities and preserve 

the ability to transition workloads and data to other providers. 

Additionally, the committee has not been provided with details on customer 

capability requirements or how JEDI impacts current cloud computing services and 

other activities, such as those identified in the October 2017 report. The committee 

expects the Department to provide sufficient information necessary for the conduct 

of oversight responsibilities.

Mitigation of Autonomous Systems

The Committee notes the Department’s increased reliance on autonomous 

systems and their associated datalinks and sensors. While the Committee supports 

increased investments in these systems, the rapid research, development, and 

deployment of autonomous equipment presents unique challenges to cyber 

vulnerability. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing by December 1, 2018 outlining the specific steps the Department is taking 

to protect autonomous systems from cyberattack, including mitigations resulting 

from the cyber vulnerability evaluations of major weapon systems that were 

conducted as directed by Section 1647 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92). The briefing should address layered cyber 

defense of associated datalinks, sensors, and onboard systems, technologies used to 

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secure the communication architecture and RF links, and any other approaches 

used to improve the cyber security in these systems.

Network Protection

The committee is aware that open, highly scalable network protection 

platforms that allow for integration of both government and commercial off-theshelf capabilities, may allow for the Department of Defense to keep pace with 

evolving threats. The committee believes expeditious detection and mitigation is 

critical, especially as the Department makes greater use of commercial cloud 

computing and other commercial capabilities. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than February 5, 

2019, on the status and evolution of automated cyber defense capabilities, to include 

those that automatically detect and mitigate malware and other threats. The 

briefing should include a description of efforts to acquire an open, scalable platform 

that can integrate commercial and government off-the-shelf technologies, and an 

evaluation of the potential effectiveness of a capability that can be deployed within 

and across network boundaries and endpoints. 

Operational Cyber Testing of Weapons Systems

The committee is aware of the challenges of performing operational cyber 

testing of weapon systems to understand the potential impacts of a cyber attack to 

the system's performance. The committee continues to believe in the importance of 

evaluating the cyber vulnerabilities of major Department of Defense weapons 

systems, as authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2016 (Public Law 114-92). The committee recognizes that for some systems there 

are gaps in the capability of the operational test and evaluation infrastructure that 

prevent it from adequately completing tests and measuring the impacts on a 

weapon system of a realistic cyber threat. The committee is also aware of efforts 

within the Department to further develop the capabilities to provide the necessary 

test, modeling, and simulation capabilities to build a robust infrastructure to be 

able to perform comprehensive cybersecurity weapon systems testing. The 

committee encourages the Department to utilize collaboration between academia 

and the different test ranges and facilities to build a robust infrastructure to 

execute tactical cyber attack scenarios against weapon systems in an operationally 

realistic environment.

Plan to Enhance Coordination with Universities and Industry on Cyber Education

The committee notes that universities and private industry will continue to 

be critical partners in the education and training of our future cyber force. 

Traditional academic approaches to cyber training and cyber certifications such as 

Security + and CISSP are based on preventing vulnerabilities, attacks, and gaps 

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that have been identified in the past. The committee is concerned that the relevance 

of the training content of academic institutions could be immaterial depending on 

when the courseware was updated. Bridging the gap in cyber training between 

curriculum that has been built on legacy data versus training built on current real 

world cyberattacks is a meaningful area of cyber training research, curriculum 

development, and instruction delivery that must be addressed. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to present to the defense committees a 

plan on how the Department of Defense can leverage and partner with universities 

and industry on cyber education and training that addresses this gap by November 

1, 2018. This plan shall include: current partnerships and ability to expand and 

leverage those partnerships; existing curriculum and recommended changes needed 

to ensure relevance to future threats; joint development of curriculum, courseware 

and research projects; availability and joint use of university facilities; and 

recommended changes to legislation to improve cyber education and training 

partnerships.

Securing Personally Identifiable Information

The committee recognizes that the Department of Defense takes extensive 

measures to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of its 

Servicemembers and civilian employees but that more remains to be done, 

especially with advances in technological communications and evolving threats. For 

instance, the use of smartphone devices invites new security threats that could 

potentially exploit the integrity of PII. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services by October 31, 2018 detailing information security technologies that the 

Department employs to protect the official unclassified email and official 

unclassified mobile communications of its employees.

Threat Cyberspace Operations

The committee notes the increasingly contested nature of the cyber domain 

and the growing reliance of the Department of Defense and the military services on 

information technology systems. The committee continues to believe in the 

importance of performing robust cyber security assessments to determine the 

potential vulnerabilities of a system to a cyber-attack. The committee is aware that 

these assessments are based on realistic adversarial threats, including intelligencebased cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures that are representative of the 

continually emerging adversary capabilities. The Army Threat Cyberspace 

Operations program maintains a threat intelligence-based test capability that is 

important in meeting these mission needs. Therefore, the committee urges the 

Department of the Army to ensure that this program is adequately funded in future 

years to maintain cyber threat capabilities in an environment where the threat is 

rapidly evolving.

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INTELLIGENCE MATTERS

Foundational Intelligence Analysis Modernization

The committee believes the Department of Defense must ensure that the 

defense intelligence enterprise has modern tools that can quickly integrate new 

technologies to assist analysts providing intelligence to support operations and 

acquisition activities. The committee is aware of the Department's efforts to 

modernize intelligence capabilities; however, the committee is concerned by a lack 

of urgency in modernizing the defense intelligence enterprise's capabilities to 

provide foundational intelligence to the combatant commands and the military 

services. Therefore, the committee directs the Joint Staff Director for Intelligence, 

in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and the 

Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to develop a plan by October 1, 

2018, to modernize systems used to provide foundational intelligence. Further, the 

committee directs the Joint Staff Director for Intelligence, in coordination with the 

DIA Director, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by 

November 1, 2018, on such plan to modernize foundational intelligence systems. If a 

determination is made that a new system is required, the committee expects the 

Battlespace Awareness Functional Capabilities Board to validate the requirements 

for any new system, and that the acquisition plan will follow best practices for the 

rapid acquisition and improvement of technology dependent systems.

Insider Threat Detection and User Activity Monitoring

The committee is aware that in June 2015, the Government Accountability 

Office recommended that the Department of Defense issue risk-assessment 

guidance and evaluate the ability of its insider threat programs to address 

capability gaps (GAO-15-544). The committee is also aware of the Department’s 

efforts to rapidly detect and remedy cyber vulnerabilities through programs such as 

the Air Force’s Automated Remediation and Asset Discovery Program. The 

committee believes that continuous network monitoring and greater network 

visibility can significantly improve security of the Department’s classified 

information and systems. Therefore, the committee encourages the Department to 

perform cost and technical analyses of available commercial off-the-shelf and 

government off-the-shelf solutions for user activity monitoring and for rapid 

detection and remediation of cyber attacks, for the purposes of obtaining best value 

and performance to decrease risks. 

Further, the committee directs the Chief Management Officer to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by November 1, 2018, on the 

outcomes of its cost and technical analyses required by this report, and the 

Department’s efforts to implement enterprise-wide programs and policies for insider 

threat detection, user activity monitoring, and cyber attack detection and 

remediation. 

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Insider Threat Risk Model Validation

The committee supports the Department of Defense continued efforts to 

improve vetting and screening of its workforce for potential threats. The committee 

commends the efforts to develop risk-rating tools and to migrate department 

programs to a risk in person model in order to prioritize risk so that the 

Department can efficiently allocate resources against the riskiest populations inside 

the workforce. The committee encourages the Department to continue to evolve and 

mature insider threat and continuous vetting risk models and rating tools, 

especially those efforts to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help 

identify potential sources of human investigative biases in current tools and 

algorithms. The committee believes artificial intelligence and machine learning 

have tremendous potential to assist in the identification of potential issues in time 

for commanders and other leaders to mitigate potential issues before they escalate 

into security vulnerabilities. 

Intelligence Combat Support Agencies

The committee commends the work of the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Intelligence to answer a request in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2017 (division N of Public Law 115-31) to review the roles and missions of the 

Defense Intelligence Agency. The committee agrees with the Under Secretary's 

finding identifying a gap in Department of Defense coordination of the functions of 

the Combat Support Agencies (CSA) that also are members of the intelligence 

community. The directors of these agencies report to both the Secretary of Defense 

and the Director of National Intelligence, but these agencies lack a framework to 

balance the resourcing and mission conflicts this bifurcated chain of command can 

occasionally cause. Therefore, not later than October 1, 2018, the committee directs 

the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, 

to develop policies that outline the process to balance the missions under the 

Combat Support Agency role with the missions and functions assigned by the 

intelligence community. These policies must address a process for assigning and 

integrating any new missions assigned by the Department of Defense or the 

intelligence community. The committee further directs the Secretary of Defense, in 

consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, to provide a briefing to the 

House Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on 

Intelligence of the House of Representatives not later than October 15, 2018, on the 

plan to develop these policies.

Intelligence Support to Cyber Operations

The committee is concerned about the Defense Intelligence Enterprise's 

ability to provide the cyber community with all-source intelligence support, 

consistent with the support provided to operations in other domains. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, in coordination 

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with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the military services, to provide a briefing 

to the House Committee on Armed Services and the House Permanent Select 

Committee on Intelligence by December 1, 2018, on intelligence support to cyber 

operations. The briefing should include efforts to standardize a common military 

intelligence lexicon and doctrine for intelligence preparation of the battlefield for 

cyber operations, efforts to develop all-source intelligence analysts with the 

capability to support cyber operations, and efforts to fully resource intelligence 

analysis support elements at U.S. Cyber Command and the service cyber 

components. 

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Careers in Defense Intelligence

The committee is concerned about the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) 

ability to attract and maintain adequate science, technology, engineering, and math 

(STEM) professionals. Specifically, the committee is concerned about career 

progression in the science and technology intelligence (S&TI) field at the Service 

Intelligence Centers and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Director of DIA to provide a briefing to the House Committee 

on Armed Services not later than December 1, 2018, on a plan to develop a STEM 

career program that attracts and maintains the defense intelligence cadre of S&TI 

analysts to meet tomorrow's threats. 

Security and Intelligence Role in Export Control

 The committee is concerned about the coordination of security and technology 

protection issues involved in the export control process managed for the 

Department of Defense by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The committee 

understands export controls support the Department's broad policy objectives to 

build relationships with partner nations, but the committee believes the risks of 

technology transfer deserve close scrutiny by the intelligence and security 

communities. Therefore, the committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Policy, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, to 

provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than 

October 1, 2018, on security support to export control.

Security Clearance Background Investigation Reciprocity

The committee remains interested in improving the efficiency, effectiveness 

and timeliness of background investigations for security clearances. The committee 

believes that the federal government must do more to address conditions that have 

caused the investigation backlog, including reciprocity issues across agencies and 

departments. The committee notes that the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 

Prevention Act (IRTPA) (Public Law 108-458) mandated that investigations 

initiated by an authorized investigative agency shall be transferable to any other 

authorized investigative agency, but a December 2017 Government Accountability 

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Office report found full implementation of investigative transferability has yet to 

occur. The committee strongly believes that ample time has passed since the 

passage of IRTPA for full implementation of investigative reciprocity between 

agencies, and the failure to implement transferability requirements is unacceptable. 

Not later than October 1, 2018, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in 

coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Office 

of Personnel Management to brief the committee on efforts to ensure seamless 

transition of investigations between authorized investigative agencies, as required 

by law.

The committee has received numerous briefings on the Department’s plan 

to reassume the background investigation mission for Department of Defense 

personnel from the National Background Investigations Bureau, and is encouraged 

by the efforts to move towards continuous evaluation and continuous vetting as a 

replacement for periodic reinvestigations to reduce the investigative backlog. The 

committee notes the lead role the Department is taking for continuous monitoring 

and continuous vetting across the federal government. The committee believes any 

solution to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and timeliness of background 

investigations must be applied across the federal government uniformly. Therefore, 

not later than November 1, 2018, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in 

coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Office 

of Personnel Management to brief the committee on efforts to ensure reciprocity is a 

consideration for implementation of continuous evaluation and continuous vetting 

across the federal government. 

Strengthening Oversight of the Military Intelligence Program Budget

The committee is aware of a recent draft Government Accountability Office 

report on the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) that identifies a lack of clear and 

definitive guidance about which programs, projects, and activities should be 

assigned to the MIP. As a result, there may be intelligence and intelligence-related 

capabilities resourced outside of the MIP. Conversely, the committee believes there 

are MIP resources allocated to programs, projects, and activities that do not 

primarily support the Secretary of Defense’s intelligence, counterintelligence, and 

related intelligence responsibilities and requirements. Thus, the Department of 

Defense’s ability to make informed decisions to balance appropriate resources 

against programs, projects, or activities is limited. 

The committee believes the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence 

(USDI) should take measures to more clearly define guidance about which 

programs, projects, or activities should be assigned to the MIP using the Joint 

Publication's definition of intelligence. Therefore, the committee directs USDI to 

review all of the Department's intelligence, counterintelligence, and related 

intelligence programs, projects, and activities supporting the Secretary's 

responsibilities and requirements. The review shall also include programs, projects, 

and activities potentially funded outside of the MIP. In conducting the review, the 

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committee expects USDI to note that the committee believes resources for sensors 

integral to the function of weapon systems, sensors and systems developed for space 

and missile defense, and resources for activities and programs associated with 

Operational Preparation of the Environment and Nonconventional Assisted 

Recovery are in support of operational requirements, and should be excluded from 

designation to the MIP.

Further, the committee directs USDI to provide a briefing to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by 

March 1, 2019, on the results of the review, including how the review will result in 

clear guidance on designation of programs, projects, and activities to the MIP. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—SPACE ACTIVITIES

Section 1601—Improvements to Acquisition System, Personnel, and Organization of 

Space Forces

This section would direct the Deputy Secretary of Defense to develop a plan 

to establish a separate alternative acquisition system for defense space acquisitions, 

including with respect to space vehicles, ground segments, and terminals. The 

Deputy Secretary would be required to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees by December 31, 2019, on such plan. 

This section would also task the Secretary of the Air Force to develop and 

implement a plan to increase the number and improve the quality of the civilian 

and military space cadre within the Air Force. The Secretary would also be required 

to submit a report to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2019, on 

such plan. 

This section would also require the Secretary of the Air Force to establish a 

new numbered Air Force responsible for space warfighting operations. The 

Secretary would be required to submit a plan for doing so to the congressional 

defense committees by December 31, 2019. 

Lastly, this section would amend chapter 6 of title 10, United States Code, 

by adding a new section that would establish a subordinate unified command for 

space under U.S. Strategic Command that would be responsible for joint space 

warfighting operations. 

Section 1602—Rapid, Responsive, and Reliable Space Launch

This section would amend section 2273b of title 10, United States Code, 

regarding assured access to space to include consideration of rapid, responsive, and 

reliable space launches for national security space programs. It would also require 

the Secretary of Defense to provide for consideration of both reusable and 

expendable launch vehicles with respect to any solicitations occurring on or after 

March 1, 2019. Lastly, it would require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a risk 

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and cost impact analysis with respect to reusable launch vehicles for national

security payloads. The Secretary would be required to submit such analysis to the 

congressional defense committees within 180 days after the date of the enactment of 

this Act. 

Section 1603—Provision of Space Situational Awareness Services and Information

This section would amend section 2274 of title 10, United States Code, by 

terminating the authority of the Department of Defense to provide space situational 

awareness (SSA) data to commercial and foreign entities on January 1, 2024. This 

section would further require the Secretary of Defense to enter into a contract with 

a federally funded research and development center to assess which department or 

departments should assume the authorities of section 2274 of title 10. This section 

would also direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to ensure that one or 

more departments may provide space situational awareness services to non-United 

States Government entities. Lastly, this section would direct the Secretary to 

submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees, as defined by this 

section, on such plan. 

Section 1604—Budget Assessments for National Security Space Programs

This section would amend section 239b of title 10, United States Code, by 

extending the required budget assessments for national security space programs to 

fiscal year 2021 and by requiring the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on the 

budget for space programs to the congressional defense committees within 30 days

after the date on which the President submits the budget request to Congress.

Section 1605—Enhancement of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capacity

This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure that 

military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals have the capability to 

receive Galileo and QZSS signals, starting with increment 2, including with 

appropriate mitigation efforts. This section would also require the terminals to 

have the capability to receive non-allied positioning, navigation, and timing signals 

if the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Commander, U.S. Strategic 

Command, determines that the benefits outweigh the risks or the risks can be 

appropriately mitigated. This section would also require engagement with relevant 

U.S. allies.

Section 1606—Use of Small- and Medium-Size Buses for Strategic and Tactical 

Satellite Payloads

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on 

the risks, benefits, and cost savings with respect to using small- and medium-size 

buses for strategic and tactical satellite payloads for protected satellite 

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communications programs and next-generation overhead persistent infrared 

systems. This section would further require the Secretary to provide a briefing to 

the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, 

not later than 180 after the date of the enactment of this Act, on such study. 

This section would also require the Director of Cost Assessment and 

Program Evaluation to certify that future analysis of alternatives include materiel 

solutions for using small- and medium-size buses. Lastly, this section would require 

the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Air Force, and the Chairman of the Joint 

Chiefs of Staff to provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the 

Senate and the House of Representatives, not later than 240 days after the date of 

the enactment of this Act, on alternative space-based architectures using small-, 

medium-, and large-size buses. 

Section 1607—Designation of Component of Department of Defense Responsible for 

Coordination of Modernization Efforts Relating to Military-Code Capable GPS 

Receiver Cards

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to designate a 

component of the Office of the Secretary of Defense to be responsible for 

coordinating common solutions for the Military-code modernization efforts among 

the military departments, Defense Agencies, and other appropriate elements of the 

Department of Defense by not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 

Act. 

Section 1608—Designation of Component of Department of Defense Responsible for 

Coordination of Hosted Payload Information

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with 

the Secretary of the Air Force, and other Secretaries of the military departments 

and the heads of Defense Agencies the Secretary determines appropriate, to 

designate a component of the Department of Defense or a military department to be 

responsible for coordinating information, processes, and lessons learned relating to 

using commercially hosted payloads across the military departments, Defense 

Agencies, and other appropriate elements of the Department of Defense not later 

than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 1609—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Joint Space Operations 

Center Mission System

This section would limit obligation or expenditure of funds for the Joint 

Space Operations Center Mission System and Enterprise Space Battle Management 

Command and Control program until the Deputy Secretary of Defense provides to 

the congressional defense committees a certification that the Secretary of the Air 

Force has entered into a contract to operationalize existing, proven, best-in-breed 

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commercial space situational awareness processing software to address warfighter 

requirements and fill gaps in current space situational awareness capabilities.

Section 1610—Evaluation and Enhanced Security of Supply Chain for Protected 

Satellite Communications Programs and Overhead Persistent Infrared Systems

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan for 

and conduct evaluations of the supply chain vulnerabilities for protected satellite 

communications and next-generation overhead persistent infrared systems. 

Additionally, it would require the Secretary to develop risk mitigation strategies for 

the identified vulnerabilities. This section would require the Secretary to establish 

requirements to carry out the supply chain vulnerability evaluation and submit 

such requirements to the congressional defense committees not later than 120 days 

after the date of the enactment of this Act. Lastly, this section would require the 

Secretary to provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 

and House of Representatives not later than 180 days after the date of the 

enactment of this Act on the plan developed for carrying out such an evaluation.

Section 1611—Report on Protected Satellite Communications

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to 

the congressional defense committees by December 31, 2018, on how specific 

protected satellite communications programs meet the requirements for resilience, 

mission assurance, and nuclear command, control, and communication missions of 

the Department of Defense.

Section 1612—Plan on Space Warfighting Readiness

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan that 

identifies joint mission-essential tasks for space as a warfighting domain. This 

section would further require the Secretary to provide a briefing to the Committees 

on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate, within 60 days 

after the date of the enactment of this Act, on any authorities associated with such 

plan that the Secretary determines require legislative action. 

Section 1613—Study on Space-Based Radio Frequency Mapping

This section would direct the Secretary of Defense and the Director of 

National Intelligence to jointly conduct a study on the capabilities of the private 

sector with respect to radio frequency mapping and services for space-based 

electromagnetic collections. This section would also require the Secretary, in 

coordination with the Director, to provide a report on the study to the congressional 

defense committees and congressional intelligence committees, not later than 90 

days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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Section 1614—Plan to Provide Persistent Weather Imagery for United States 

Central Command

This section would require the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan 

to provide the U.S. Central Command with persistent weather imagery after 2025. 

The Secretary would be required to submit such plan to the congressional defense 

committees by March 1, 2019. 

SUBTITLE B—DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES

Section 1621—Role of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

This section would amend section 137 of title 10, United States Code, to 

clarify the responsibilities of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. 

Section 1622—Security Clearance for Dual Nationals

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to apply additional 

security reviews to dual citizens seeking positions that require access to highly 

classified information. The committee expects that any additional security reviews 

will not further exacerbate background investigation backlogs.

Section 1623—Department of Defense Counterintelligence Polygraph Program

This section would amend section 1564a of title 10, United States Code, by 

authorizing the Secretary of Defense to add dual citizens to Department of Defense 

counterintelligence polygraph program, for the purposes of assessing risk.

Section 1624—Defense Intelligence Business Management Systems

This section would require the Chief Management Officer of the 

Department of Defense, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Comptroller) and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, to provide a 

report to the congressional defense committees and the congressional intelligence 

committees, not later than March 1, 2019, outlining a plan to standardize the 

planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process for the Military 

Intelligence Program (MIP) across the Department of Defense. This section would 

also direct the implementation of the plan not later than October 1, 2020. This 

section would prohibit the use of program elements that contain both MIP and nonMIP resources. The committee is concerned with the Department's ability to provide 

sufficient oversight of the Military Intelligence Program budget.

Section 1625—Modification to Annual Briefing on the Intelligence, Surveillance, 

and Reconnaissance Requirements of the Combatant Commands

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This section would require the Department of Defense to incorporate into 

the existing report required by section 1626 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" 

McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-

291) data related to the number of requests for intelligence, surveillance, and 

reconnaissance capability and capacity submitted to the Chairman of the Joint 

Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) by the combatant commanders, the number of requests 

formally validated by the CJCS, the quantity of validated requests tasked to the 

military services to fulfill, and the amount of validated requests actually fulfilled by 

the military services. 

Section 1626—Prohibition on the Availability of Funds for Department of Defense 

Assuming Background Investigation Mission for the Federal Government

This section would prohibit the Department of Defense from assuming the 

background investigation mission for the entire Federal Government before 

December 31, 2019.

SUBTITLE C—CYBERSPACE-RELATED MATTERS

Section 1631—Amendments to Pilot Program Regarding Cyber Vulnerabilities of 

Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure

This section would modify subsection (b) of section 1650 of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) to incorporate 

the Defense Digital Service (DDS) into pilot program authorities for identifying 

new, innovative methodologies or engineering approaches to evaluate cyber 

vulnerabilities of Department of Defense critical infrastructure. The committee 

notes the success of the Defense Digital Service's "Hack the Pentagon" program, and 

encourages the Department to use this or similar DDS activities to more rapidly 

and effectively improve the cybersecurity of government owned and operated 

facilities.

Section 1632—Budget Display for Cyber Vulnerability Evaluations and Mitigation 

Activities for Major Weapon Systems of the Department of Defense

This section would require that the justification materials submitted to 

Congress by the Secretary of Defense in support of the President's annual budget 

request for the Department of Defense include a consolidated display for cyber 

vulnerability evaluations and mitigation activities for each major weapon system 

beginning in fiscal year 2021. The display for each major weapon system shall 

include the status of, funding required, and a description of planned activities to 

continue or complete the cyber vulnerability evaluations in accordance with section 

1647 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 

114-92), and necessary mitigation activities for the Future Years Defense Program.

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Section 1633—Transfer of Responsibility for the Department of Defense 

Information Network to United States Cyber Command

This section would mandate that the Secretary of Defense transfer of all 

roles, missions, and responsibilities of the Commander, Joint Force HeadquartersDepartment of Defense Information Networks from the Defense Information 

Support Agency to Commander, United States Cyber Command, by September 30, 

2019. It would additionally require the Secretary of Defense to certify in writing to 

the congressional defense committees that such transfer shall not result in mission 

degradation. 

Section 1634—Pilot Program Authority to Enhance Cybersecurity and Resiliency of 

Critical Infrastructure

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with 

the Secretary of Homeland Security, to provide technical personnel to the 

Department of Homeland Security to enhance cooperation, collaboration, and unity 

of government efforts in support of the protection of critical infrastructure from 

cyber incidents and significant cyber incidents.

Section 1635—Pilot Program on Regional Cyber Security Training Center for the 

Army National Guard

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a pilot 

program to establish a National Guard cyber security training center for members 

of the Army National Guard.

Section 1636—Procedures and Reporting Requirement on Cybersecurity Breaches 

and Loss of Personally Identifiable Information

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to promptly notify the 

congressional defense committees in the event of a significant loss of personally 

identifiable information of civilian or uniformed members of the Armed Forces in 

classified or unclassified formats.

Section 1637—Cyber Institutes at the Senior Military Colleges

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish a Cyber 

Institute at each of the senior military colleges.

Section 1638—Study and Report on Reserve Component Cyber Civil Support Teams

This section would require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 

Homeland Security to conduct a study on the feasibility and advisability of 

establishing cyber civil support teams comprised of Reserve Component members, 

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primarily operating under the command and control of the Governor of each State, 

to prepare for and respond to cyber incidents, cyber emergencies, and cyber attacks. 

The Secretaries concerned shall provide a report to the congressional defense 

committees, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, 

and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate 

not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act on the results of 

the study, to include their final determination on the feasibility of, advisability and 

necessity of establishing Reserve Component cyber civil support teams for each 

State, and if so, proposed legislation.

SUBTITLE D—NUCLEAR FORCES

Section 1641—Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the 

Nuclear Weapons Council

This section would amend section 179 of title 10, United States Code, to 

include the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering as a member 

of the Nuclear Weapons Council and make a technical correction to the title of the 

Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment.

Section 1642—Long-Range Standoff Weapon Requirements

This section would amend section 217 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66) to enable the Secretary 

of the Air Force to retire the conventionally armed AGM-86 cruise missile and 

require the Secretary to ensure that a conventionally armed follow-on air-launched 

cruise missile, the long-range standoff weapon, achieves initial operating capability 

for conventional missions not later than 4 years after it achieves initial operating 

capability for nuclear missions.

Section 1643—Acceleration of Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent Program and 

Long-Range Standoff Weapon Program

This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 

and Sustainment, in consultation with the Secretary of the Air Force, to develop

and implement plans to accelerate the development, procurement, and fielding of 

the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program and the Long-Range 

Standoff cruise missile program. For GBSD, the plan would be required to 

recapitalize the full intercontinental ballistic missile system, without phasing or 

splitting the program. For both programs, the plans would be required to assess the 

benefits, risks, feasibility, costs, and cost savings of various options for accelerating 

the programs. The Under Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Air 

Force, would be required to submit the plans to the congressional defense 

committees within 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The 

Commander of U.S. Strategic Command would be required, within 160 days after 

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the date of the enactment of this Act, to provide a briefing to the congressional 

defense committees on the views of the Commander regarding the plans.

Section 1644—Procurement Authority for Certain Parts of Intercontinental Ballistic 

Missile Fuzes

This section would authorize $9.8 million of the funds made available by 

this Act for Missile Procurement, Air Force, for the procurement of certain 

commercially available parts of intercontinental ballistic missile fuzes, 

notwithstanding section 1502(a) of title 31, United States Code, under contracts 

entered into under section 1645(a) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291). 

Section 1645—Prohibition on Reduction of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles of 

the United States

This section would prohibit the Department of Defense from obligating or 

expending fiscal year 2019 funds to reduce the responsiveness, alert level, or 

quantity of deployed U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles to less than 400. This 

section would provide an exception to this prohibition for activities related to 

maintenance and sustainment and activities to ensure safety, security, or 

reliability. 

Section 1646—Extension of Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Mobile Variant 

of Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent Missile

This section would amend section 1664 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) to extend, to fiscal year 

2020, a prohibition on the availability of funds to retain the option for, or develop, a 

mobile variant of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent missile.

Section 1647—Independent Study on Nuclear Weapons Launch-Under-Attack 

Option

This section would require the Secretary of Defense, within 30 days of 

enactment of this Act, to seek to enter into a contract with a federally funded 

research and development center (FFRDC) to conduct a study on the potential 

benefits and risks of reducing the role of the launch-under-attack option in U.S. 

nuclear weapons planning. The Secretary would not be allowed to award such 

contract to an FFRDC for which the Air Force is the primary sponsor. This section 

would require the FFRDC to submit the report to the Secretary not later than 270 

days after enactment of this Act, and would require the Secretary to submit the 

report to the congressional defense committees not later than 30 days after 

receiving it.

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Section 1648—Extension of Annual Report on the Plan for the Nuclear Weapons 

Stockpile, Nuclear Weapons Complex, Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems, and 

Nuclear Weapons Command and Control System

This section would amend section 1043 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112-81) to extend the expiration 

of a reporting requirement related to nuclear weapons from 2019 to 2022. 

Section 1649—Sense of Congress on Nuclear Posture of the United States

This section would express a sense of Congress regarding the nuclear 

posture of the United States. 

Section 1650—Sense of Congress on Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the IndoPacific Region

This section would express the sense of Congress concerning the nuclear 

weapons program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and U.S. extended 

deterrence commitments to Indo-Pacific region allies and partners. 

SUBTITLE E—MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Section 1661—Development of Persistent Space-Based Sensor Architecture

This section would direct the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), 

in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, the Commander of Air 

Force Space Command, and the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, to 

complete a plan and initiate development in fiscal year 2019 for a space-based 

missile defense sensor architecture. This section would limit obligation or 

expenditure of funds to initiate the space-based missile defense layer program until 

the plan is submitted to Congress. This section would also amend section 1683 of 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) to 

require the Director of the MDA to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees and congressional intelligence committees by January 31, 2019, on 

options to use other transactional authorities to accelerate development of this 

architecture. 

Section 1662—Boost Phase Ballistic Missile Defense

This section would require the Director, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to 

begin a program in fiscal year 2019 to develop boost phase intercept capabilities 

that are either air-launched or ship-based, cost effective, and that include a kinetic 

interceptor. This section would require an independent feasibility study to be 

conducted for delivering an initial or demonstrated boost phase capability by 

calendar year 2021 using unmanned aerial vehicles and kinetic interceptors. 

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This section would also provide support for directed energy efforts that 

would contribute to intercontinental ballistic missile boost phase intercept 

applications, and would direct MDA to continue developing this capability in fiscal 

year 2019 and leverage directed energy work by the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Engineering. This section would require the Director of MDA to 

provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of 

Representatives and the Senate, and to any other congressional defense committee 

upon request, not later than February 28, 2019, on the criteria and parameters used 

to measure progress of such program.

Section 1663—Improvements to Research and Development and Acquisition 

Processes of Missile Defense Agency

This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 

Engineering to transfer all research and development efforts and programs that 

have not yet reached milestone B to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) if they are 

planned to be incorporated into the ballistic missile defense system or have explicit 

application for ballistic missile or hypersonic defense. This section would also 

require the Under Secretary to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees by March 31, 2019, on the programs affected. 

Further, this section would require the Secretary of Defense to notify the 

congressional defense committees before any of MDA's unique acquisition 

authorities are changed, and would prohibit changing the missile defense 

requirements generation process managed by U.S. Strategic Command.

This section would also require that MDA make the quarter and fiscal year 

for execution of planned flight tests unclassified. Lastly, this section would require 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense to update membership of the Missile Defense 

Executive Board, and would require that the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment be a standing member of the board and a co-chairman 

with respect to all decisions regarding acquisition and production milestone 

approvals, including other transaction authority contracts or transactions in excess 

of $500.0 million.

Section 1664—Layered Defense of the United States Homeland

This section would express the sense of Congress in support of the 

Department of Defense's efforts to provide layered defense of the homeland, and 

would require the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, in coordination with the 

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Commander of U.S. Northern Command, and 

Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by January 31, 

2019, on options to increase layered protection of the U.S. homeland, to include the 

continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska, from both the Democratic People's 

Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

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Section 1665—Testing of Redesigned Kill Vehicle Prior to Production

This section would prohibit a lot production decision for the Redesigned Kill 

Vehicle until after a successful flight intercept test. This section would also provide 

a waiver for the Secretary of Defense to make such a decision prior to a successful 

flight test, if the specified conditions are met. 

Section 1666—Requirements for Ballistic Missile Defense Capable Ships

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to include ballistic 

missile defense ship requirements in all future force structure assessments.

Section 1667—Multiyear Procurement Authority for Standard Missile-3 Block IB 

Missiles

This section would authorize the Department of Defense to enter a 

multiyear procurement for Standard Missile-3 Block IB missiles. 

Section 1668—Limitation on Availability of Funds for Army Lower Tier Air and 

Missile Defense Sensor

This section would limit obligation or expenditure of funds for the Lower 

Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor until the Secretary of the Army provides a 

report detailing the rationale for any delay should the acquisition strategy delivered 

in September 2018 push initial operating capability past 2023. This section would 

also require the Secretary of the Army to ensure performance specifications of the 

sensor specify certain requirements.

Section 1669—Missile Defense Radar in Hawaii

This section would express the sense of Congress on maintaining or 

accelerating the schedule for the homeland missile defense in Hawaii. This section 

would further require alignment of the In-Flight Interceptor Communications 

System Data Terminal (IDT) with homeland defense radar in Hawaii by requiring 

the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to provide a certification that the 

contract for the homeland defense radar in Hawaii is on schedule to award the 

contract by not later than December 31, 2018, and that the radar and the IDT will 

reach initial operating capability not later than fiscal year 2023. Should the 

contract not be awarded by December 31, 2018, this section would direct the 

Director of the Missile Defense Agency to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate every other week 

until the date of award. This section would also require the Director of the Missile 

Defense Agency to provide semiannual briefings to the Committees on Armed 

Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate on progress of the IDT and 

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homeland missile defense radar in Hawaii, including updates on the environmental 

impact study process and acquisition of the radar and terminal.

Section 1670—Reports on Unfunded Priorities of the Missile Defense Agency

This section would require the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to 

submit a report to the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 

Staff, and the congressional defense committees on the unfunded priorities of the 

Missile Defense Agency for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, within 10 days of the 

submission of the budget request to Congress for those fiscal years.

Section 1671—Report on Ballistic Missile Defense

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on 

ballistic missile defense to the congressional defense committees not later than 30 

days after the date of enactment of this Act. 

Section 1672—Sense of Congress on Missile and Rocket Defense Cooperation 

between the United States and Israel

This section would express the sense of Congress in support of the 

administration's 10-year memorandum of understanding starting in fiscal year 2019 

between the United States and the State of Israel on missile defense cooperation.

SUBTITLE F—OTHER MATTERS

Section 1681—Extension of Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States 

from Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks and Similar Events

This section would amend section 1691 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) to extend several 

deadlines associated with the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States 

from Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks and Similar Events.

Section 1682—Procurement of Ammonium Perchlorate and Other Chemicals for 

Use in Solid Rocket Motors

This section would require the Secretary of the Army and the Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy to 

jointly conduct a business case analysis of the Federal Government using a 

government-owned, contractor-operated model to ensure a robust domestic supply of 

specialty chemicals, including ammonium perchlorate, for use in solid rocket 

motors. The Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary would be required to submit 

this business case analysis to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 

2019. 

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This section would also require the Secretary of Defense to use, to the 

extent practicable, full and open competition in awarding a contract for the sale of 

ammonium perchlorate from retired solid rocket motors. The Secretary would be 

required to notify the congressional defense committees 30 days after the date of 

any such award that does not use full and open competition.

Section 1683—Conventional Prompt Global Strike Hypersonic Capabilities

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit to the 

congressional defense committees by November 30, 2018, a validated requirement 

for ground-, sea-, or air-launched (or a combination thereof) conventional prompt 

global strike (CPGS) hypersonic capabilities. 

This section would further require the Under Secretary of Defense for 

Acquisition and Sustainment to submit a report to the congressional defense 

committees by November 30, 2018, on the plan to deliver a CPGS capability in 

accordance with section 1693 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2018 (Public Law 115–91). The report would also include options with cost 

estimates for accelerating delivery for such system, policy decisions needed to 

employ the capabilities, and details with respect to the assessed level of ambiguity 

and misinterpretation of risks, and how those risks would be addressed. 

Section 1684—Report Regarding Industrial Base for Large Solid Rocket Motors

This section would require the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 

and Sustainment, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments 

that the Under Secretary determines appropriate, to submit a report to the 

appropriate congressional committees by April 15, 2019, on whether, and if so, how, 

the Federal Government will sustain more than one supplier for large solid rocket 

motors. The report would be required to include an assessment of several matters, 

including risks, costs, and options for sustaining more than one supplier by 

leveraging various programs of the Department of Defense and the broader Federal 

Government. Finally, this section would require the Under Secretary to provide a 

briefing to the appropriate congressional committees by November 30, 2018, on the 

industrial base for large solid rocket motors. 

As it has expressed in the past, the committee continues to support the 

GBSD program and efforts to recapitalize the nuclear triad. The committee 

continues to expect the Air Force and the Department of Defense to be mindful of 

the impacts GBSD and other large upcoming or ongoing programs have on the 

industrial base for large solid rocket motors in the near, medium, and longer terms. 

Due to the large volume of rocket motors that will be procured for GBSD, this 

program may have a particularly large impact on the health and vitality of this key 

element of the U.S. industrial base. The committee does not expect or encourage the 

GBSD program alone to be responsible for sustaining this industrial base, but does 

expect the Department of Defense to carefully consider its impacts, assessing risks, 

benefits, and costs. 

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Section 1685—National Intelligence Estimate with Respect to Russian and Chinese 

Interference in Democratic Countries

This section would direct the Director of National Intelligence to produce a 

National Intelligence Estimate on Russian and Chinese interference in democratic 

countries around the world.

DIVISION B—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS

PURPOSE

Division B provides military construction, family housing, and related 

authorities in support of the military departments during fiscal year 2019. As 

recommended by the committee, division B would authorize appropriations in the 

amount of $10,332,478,000 for construction in support of the Active Forces, Reserve 

Components, defense agencies, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization security 

infrastructure fund for fiscal year 2019.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND FAMILY HOUSING OVERVIEW

The Department of Defense requested $8,612,447,000 for military 

construction, $267,538,000 for Base Realignment and Closure activities, and 

$1,582,632,000 for family housing for fiscal year 2019. The committee recommends 

authorization of appropriations of $8,498,136,000 for military construction, 

$322,868,000 for Base Realignment and Closure activities, and $1,582,632,000 for 

family housing in fiscal year 2019. In addition, the committee recommends the 

inclusion of $71,158,000 in undistributed savings from prior years. The Department 

of Defense also requested $921,420,000 for Overseas Contingency Operations 

military construction for fiscal year 2019. The committee recommends authorization 

of appropriations of $921,420,000 for Overseas Contingency Operations military 

construction within title XXIX.

Section 2001—Short Title

This section would cite division B of this Act as the "Military Construction 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019".

Section 2002—Expiration of Authorizations and Amounts Required To Be Specified 

by Law

This section would ensure that the authorizations provided in titles XXI 

through XXVII and title XXIX of this Act shall expire on October 1, 2023, or the 

date of the enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal 

year 2024, whichever is later.

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Section 2003—Effective Date

This section would provide that titles XXI through XXVII and title XXIX of 

this Act would take effect on October 1, 2018, or the date of the enactment of this 

Act, whichever is later.

TITLE XXI—ARMY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $1,011,768,000 for Army military 

construction and $707,169,000 for family housing for fiscal year 2019. The 

committee recommends authorization of appropriations of $1,095,868,000 for 

military construction and $707,169,000 for family housing for the Army in fiscal 

year 2019.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee recommends the inclusion of funding for several projects 

requested by the Department of the Army but not contained in the budget request 

for military construction and family housing. These increases include:

(1) $18.0 million for a Microgrid and Power Plant at Fort Campbell, 

Kentucky; 

(2) $16.5 million for Cantonment Area Roads at Fort Meade, Maryland; and

(3) $9.6 million for a Supply Support Activity at Fort Hood, Texas.

The committee also recommends the inclusion of $50.0 million for the 

Secretary of the Army, with prior notification to Congress, to carry out projects 

intended to enhance force protection and safety. The committee recommends the 

Secretary use this authority to alleviate deficiencies in access control points, air 

traffic control towers, fire stations, and anti-terrorism and force protection. 

Finally, the committee recommends a reduction of funding for a project 

contained in the budget request submitted by the Department of the Army for 

military construction and family housing. This reduction is: 

(1) $10.0 million for Command and Control Facility, Increment 4 at Fort 

Shafter, Hawaii. While the committee supports the requirement for this 

incrementally funded project, the committee notes this is the second consecutive 

year the Army has reported cost increases associated with this project. The 

committee believes the Department did not provide sufficient justification for the 

most recent cost increase associated with this project. Therefore, the committee 

recommends $95.0 million, a reduction of $10.0 million, for this project.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

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Section 2101—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

 This section would contain the list of authorized Army construction projects 

for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-byinstallation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to be the binding 

list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2102—Family Housing

This section would authorize new construction and planning and design of 

family housing units for the Army for fiscal year 2019.

Section 2103—Authorization of Appropriations, Army

This section would authorize appropriations for Army military construction 

at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

Section 2104—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2015 Projects

This section would extend the authorization of a certain project originally 

authorized by section 2101 of the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2015 (division B of Public Law 113–291) until October 1, 2019, or the date of 

the enactment of an act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 

2020, whichever is later.

TITLE XXII—NAVY MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $2,543,189,000 for Navy and Marine Corps 

military construction and $419,117,000 for family housing for fiscal year 2019. The 

committee recommends authorization of appropriations of $2,538,898,000 for 

military construction and $419,117,000 for family housing for the Navy and Marine 

Corps in fiscal year 2019.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee recommends the inclusion of funding for several projects 

requested by the Department of the Navy but not contained in the budget request 

for military construction and family housing. These increases include:

(1) $78.8 million for an Aircraft Paint Complex at Naval Base Coronado, 

California;

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(2) $75.6 million for X-Ray Wharf Improvements (Berth 2) at Naval Base 

Guam, Guam;

(3) $51.3 million for 2nd Radio Battalion Complex, Phase 2 at Camp 

Lejeune, North Carolina; 

(4) $31.9 million for a Welding and Body Repair Shop Facility at Marine 

Corps Base Albany, Georgia; 

(5) $22.3 million for Expeditionary Combat Skills Student Berthing at 

Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Mississippi; 

(6) $21.8 million for Missile Magazines at Naval Weapons Station Seal 

Beach, California; 

(7) $19.7 million for a Consolidated Fire Station at Naval Station 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba;

(8) $19.5 million for LCS Mission Module Readiness Center at Naval Base 

San Diego, California;

(9) $16.6 million for a Supply Warehouse SOI-West at Camp Pendleton, 

California;

(10) $14.9 million for a Communications Line Ops to Admin at Naval Air 

Station Lemoore, California; 

(11) $14.8 million for Missile Motor Magazines and U&SI at Camp Navajo, 

Arizona

(12) $13.1 million for Ammunition Supply Point Upgrade, Phase 2 at 

Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia;

(13) $10.0 million for Air Traffic Control Tower (North Field) at Naval Air 

Station Whiting Field, Florida; and

(14) $6.3 million for a Cryogenics Facility Marine Corps Air Station 

Beaufort, South Carolina.

The committee also recommends the inclusion of $50.0 million for the 

Secretary of the Navy, with prior notification to Congress, to carry out projects 

intended to enhance force protection and safety. The committee recommends the 

Secretary use this authority to alleviate deficiencies in access control points, air 

traffic control towers, fire stations, and anti-terrorism and force protection. 

Finally, the committee recommends a reduction of funding for several 

projects contained in the budget request submitted by the Department of the Navy 

for military construction and family housing. These reductions include: 

(1) $73.97 million for an Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at Marine Corps Air 

Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The committee supports the requirement for 

this project and provides the full project authorization of $133.97 million included in 

the budget request. However, the committee supports the authorization of 

appropriations in an amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute 

in the year of the authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee 

believes that the Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal 

year 2019. Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation 

of $60.0 million, a reduction of $73.97 million, for this project.

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(2) $71.287 million for a Machine Gun Range at Joint Region Marianas, 

Guam. The committee supports the requirement for this project and provides the 

full project authorization of $141.287 million included in the budget request. 

However, the committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an amount 

equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the 

authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that the 

Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. 

Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $70.0 

million, a reduction of $71.287 million, for this project. 

(3) $59.353 million for Pier 8 Replacement at Naval Base San Diego, 

California. The committee supports the requirement for this project and provides 

the full project authorization of $108.1 million included in the budget request. 

However, the committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an amount 

equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the 

authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that the 

Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. 

Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $47.747 

million, a reduction of $59.353 million, for this project.

(4) $55.6 million for the Master Time Clocks & Operations Facility at the 

Naval Observatory, District of Columbia. The committee supports the requirement 

for this project and provides the full project authorization of $115.6 million included 

in the budget request. However, the committee supports the authorization of 

appropriations in an amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute 

in the year of the authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee 

believes that the Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal 

year 2019. Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation 

of $60.0 million, a reduction of $55.6 million, for this project.

(5) $58.321 million for Dry Dock #1 Superflood Basin at the Portsmouth 

Navy Yard, Maine. The committee supports the requirement for this project and 

provides the full project authorization of $109.96 million included in the budget 

request. However, the committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an 

amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the 

authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that the 

Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. 

Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $51.639 

million, a reduction of $58.321 million, for this project.

(6) $51.86 million for Flightline Utility Modernization at Marine Corps Air 

Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The committee supports the requirement for 

this project and provides the full project authorization of $106.86 million included in 

the budget request. However, the committee supports the authorization of 

appropriations in an amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute 

in the year of the authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee 

believes that the Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal 

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year 2019. Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation 

of $55.0 million, a reduction of $51.86 million, for this project.

(7) $50.52 million for a D5 Missile Motor Receipt/Storage Facility at Hill Air 

Force Base, Utah. The committee supports the requirement for this project and 

provides the full project authorization of $105.52 million included in the budget 

request. However, the committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an 

amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the 

authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that 

Department of the Navy cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. 

Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $55.0 

million, a reduction of $50.52 million, for this project.

(8) $21.98 million for a TBS Fire Station at Marine Corps Base Quantico, 

Virginia. The committee notes this project was authorized in the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) and a subsequent 

appropriations was included for this project in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2018 (Public Law 115-141). The committee does not believe an additional 

authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2019 is required for this project and 

therefore recommends a reduction of $21.98 million, for this project.

(9) $8.0 million for Planning and Design. The committee recommends an 

authorization of appropriation of $177.542 million, a reduction of $8.0 million, for 

planning and design activities.

Aegis Ashore Poland Austere Housing

The committee notes that the U.S. Navy has made the decision to maintain 

austere housing accommodations for the Aegis Ashore site in Redzikowo, Republic 

of Poland. This decision was made despite the committee's concerns about the 

impact that these conditions could have on the quality of life for the sailors manning 

the site. 

Aegis Ashore Poland will provide critical missile defense capability to 

defend our deployed forces, allies, partners, and friends from missile defense 

threats. The site will be manned 24/7 by sailors on rotating, unaccompanied tours. 

The Commander of Naval Installations Command determined that the Aegis 

Ashore site located in Redzikowo, Poland, warranted "austere" housing, and the 

Chief of Naval Operations approved this determination. Under this determination, 

the housing accommodation guidelines will place up to 4 persons in each berthing 

room. 

The committee is concerned that the austere housing may have a negative 

impact on quality of life for the sailors manning the site as they execute a critical 

missile defense mission. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy 

to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services by November 30, 

2018, on options to improve housing standards for sailors at the Aegis Ashore 

Poland site, including estimated costs and schedule for completing the possible 

improvements. 

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Infrastructure in Support of Submarine Training and Operational Requirements

The committee supports the Navy's development of the Columbia-class to 

serve as the Navy's future ballistic missile submarine. While the first submarine 

delivery is projected outside of the current Future Years Defense Program, the 

committee believes it is important for infrastructure requirements to be properly 

identified, programmed, and synchronized to support the training and operational 

requirements of this new class of submarine. The committee notes that the military 

departments have struggled in the past to align military construction and 

infrastructure investments with delivery of new weapon systems. The committee 

encourages the Secretary of the Navy to review the Navy's current infrastructure 

plans to ensure proper alignment with the Columbia-class program. Finally, the 

committee notes the importance of continuing to make appropriate investments in 

the infrastructure capabilities and capacity necessary to meet the training and 

certification of crews supporting the current fleet of Ohio-class submarines. 

Public Shipyard Infrastructure

The committee acknowledges that it has received the report related to 

Naval Shipyard Development Plans required by the committee report (H. Rept. 115-

200) accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018. 

The report identified a number of infrastructure-related configuration, age, 

condition, and capacity issues that adversely impact nuclear submarine and aircraft 

carrier depot maintenance throughput. The Navy’s report identifies approximately 

$21.0 billion in infrastructure investments through 2040 that will be needed in the 

shipyards, to include $14.0 billion for construction to provide the optimal layout of 

facilities in order to increase production capacity, $4.0 billion for improvements of 

the dry docks to provide needed capability and capacity for future classes of ships, 

and $3.0 billion for capital equipment. The committee believes the public shipyards 

are key elements that support our national defense. As such, the committee 

encourages the Secretary of the Navy to plan, program, and budget appropriate 

investments in the public shipyards to ensure those shipyards have the capabilities 

and capacity necessary to efficiently and effectively support the Navy fleet of today 

as well as the future. 

Red Hill Bulk Underground Fuel Storage Facility

The committee is aware that the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) 

have entered into an enforceable agreement with the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and the Hawaii Department of Health known as an Administrative 

Order on Consent (AOC). The AOC has opportunities for stakeholder involvement 

at every milestone. The committee notes that the EPA and Hawaii Department of 

Health regulate the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility and must approve 

work on AOC milestones including tank inspection, repair, and maintenance; tank 

upgrade alternatives using Best Available Practicable Technology (BAPT); release 

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detection and tank tightness testing; corrosion and metal fatigue practices; 

investigation and remediation of releases; groundwater protection and evaluation; 

and a risk and vulnerability assessment. The committee encourages the Navy and 

DLA to continue to work with Federal and State regulators to meet all compliance 

deadlines related to the AOC. Furthermore, the committee encourages the Navy 

and DLA to consider increasing community outreach efforts, to include holding 

more public events such as town halls, to keep the community and local 

stakeholders informed on milestones and compliance with the AOC. 

Furthermore, the committee continues to recognize the strategic value of 

the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility and the support it provides to U.S. 

Pacific Command (PACOM) operations in peacetime and for contingencies. This 

facility is a national strategic asset that supports combatant commander theater 

security requirements, contingency operations, and routine movements in the IndoAsia-Pacific region. Moving the fuel to another storage facility in the Indo-AsiaPacific region would have implications for the U.S. military force structure in the 

region. If the facility were closed, the ability of the U.S. Armed Forces to support 

the National Defense Strategy would be significantly undermined. The committee 

appreciates the ongoing dialogue with the Department of Defense and Department 

of the Navy on this topic while they continue to comply with the requirements of the 

AOC. The committee will continue to provide congressional oversight on compliance 

with the AOC and the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution for the 

BAPT solutions and overall recapitalization plan for the Red Hill Underground Fuel 

Storage Facility.

Tijuana Sewage Runoff

The committee is aware that discharges of raw sewage into the Tijuana 

River have required Navy in-water military training in the vicinity of Coronado, 

California, to be temporarily shifted to another location due to health and safety 

concerns. In addition, sewage spills and debris such as discarded tires often clog the 

river channel causing substantial erosion along the perimeter of the Naval Outlying 

Landing Field Imperial Beach (NOLFIB). The erosion has threatened the 

installation's perimeter fencing and resulted in the Navy developing a project to 

reinforce the riverbank and relocate portions of Navy fencing. The committee is 

aware that such discharges also cause secondary impacts to local Navy operations, 

such as beach closures at Naval Base Coronado in areas that are prime nesting 

grounds for the Western Snowy Plover and the California Least Tern. Increased 

regulatory actions by State and Federal environmental protection agencies may be 

levied if the quality and safety of these species' nesting areas are affected, which 

will negatively constrain military activities in these areas.

The committee is concerned that future spills, discharges, and debris from 

the Tijuana River may have more significant impacts on the military installations 

and operations in the San Diego region. Therefore, the committee directs the 

Secretary of the Navy to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

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Services and other committees of jurisdiction in the House, not later than December 

1, 2018, detailing whether such spills, discharges, and debris have any impact on 

the national security interests of the United States; whether there is a need to avoid 

future spills to prevent impacts to training, installations, and operations; and what 

actions might be taken to resolve or mitigate these impacts. As necessary, the 

Secretary is encouraged to coordinate with the Department of State, the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security (to 

include U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard), the 

International Boundary and Water Commission, and the Department of the Interior 

on this briefing requirement.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2201—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Navy construction projects 

for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation-byinstallation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to be the binding 

list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2202—Family Housing

This section would authorize new construction and planning and design of 

family housing units for the Department of the Navy for fiscal year 2019.

Section 2203—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make 

improvements to existing units of family housing for fiscal year 2019.

Section 2204—Authorization of Appropriations, Navy

This section would authorize appropriations for Navy military construction 

at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

TITLE XXIII—AIR FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $1,725,707,000 for Air Force military 

construction and $395,720,000 for family housing for fiscal year 2019. The 

committee recommends authorization of appropriations of $1,570,773,000 for 

military construction and $395,720,000 for family housing for the Air Force in fiscal 

year 2019. 

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ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee recommends the inclusion of funding for several projects 

requested by the Department of the Air Force but not contained in the budget 

request for military construction and family housing. These increases include:

(1) $26.0 million for a Dormitory (168 personnel) at Little Rock Air Force 

Base, Arkansas; 

(2) $26.0 million for a Composite Aircraft Antenna Calibration facility at 

Hill Air Force Base, Utah; 

(3) $15.0 million for an AGE Facility at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 

Arizona;

(4) $14.2 million for Anti-Terrorism Perimeter Security/Entry Control Point 

at Rome Laboratory, New York;

(5) $14.0 million for Add-Alter Joint Personnel Recovery Agency Command 

and Control Mission Support Facility at Fairchild Air Force Base–White Bluff, 

Washington;

(6) $13.0 million for a Child Development Center at Joint Base Andrews, 

Maryland;

(7) $12.25 million for an Entrance Road and Gate Complex at Barksdale Air 

Force Base, Louisiana;

(8) $9.0 million for a Main Gate at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida;

(9) $8.0 million for a Military Working Dog Facility at Joint Base Andrews, 

Maryland; and

(10) $7.0 million for Wyoming Gate Upgrade for Anti-Terrorism Compliance 

at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

The committee also recommends the inclusion of $50.0 million for the 

Secretary of the Air Force, with prior notification to Congress, to carry out projects 

intended to enhance force protection and safety. The committee recommends the 

Secretary use this authority to alleviate deficiencies in access control points, air 

traffic control towers, fire stations, and anti-terrorism and force protection. 

Finally, the committee recommends reduction of funding for several 

projects contained in the budget request submitted by the Department of the Air 

Force for military construction and family housing. These reductions include: 

(1) $185.0 million for the MIT-Lincoln Laboratory (West Lab CSL/MIF) at 

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. The committee supports the requirement 

for this project and provides the full project authorization of $225.0 million included 

in the budget request. However, the committee supports the authorization of 

appropriations in an amount equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute 

in the year of the authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee 

believes that Department of the Air Force cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal 

year 2019. Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation 

of $40.0 million, a reduction of $185.0 million, for this project.

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(2) $55.1 million for the ADAL Intelligence Production Complex (NASIC) at 

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The budget request included $116.1 million 

to construct the first phase of the construction of additional workspace for 

intelligence analysis and production to support the National Air and Space 

Intelligence Center. The committee supports the requirement for this project and is 

aware that a $66.0 million second phase is planned in a future program but is 

needed to support the full mission requirement. The committee believes it is more 

appropriate to authorize the full scope of a military construction requirement and 

provide incremental funding as opposed to bifurcating a construction project into 

separate phases. Therefore, the committee recommends combining the two phases 

into a single project and provides a total authorization of $182.0 million for the 

ADAL Intelligence Production Complex at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 

However, the committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an amount 

equivalent to the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the 

authorization for appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that 

Department of the Air Force cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. 

Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $61.0 

million, a reduction of $55.1 million, for this project.

(3) $40.0 million for a Personnel Deployment Processing facility at Al 

Udeid, Qatar. The committee supports this requirement. However, the committee 

recommends no funds in the base budget, a reduction of $40.0 million, for this 

project in order to transfer this project to Title XXIX, Overseas Contingency 

Operations Military Construction. 

(4) $30.884 million for the Presidential Aircraft Recap Complex, Increment 

2 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. The committee supports the requirement 

for this project, but notes that an additional $24.884 million was provided in the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141), which was signed into 

law after the budget request for fiscal year 2019 was submitted. In addition, the 

committee notes an additional $6.0 million was included in the project for site 

preparation work that is no longer required. Therefore, the committee recommends 

an authorization of appropriation of $123.116 million, a reduction of $30.884 

million, for this project. 

(5) $30.4 million for Flightline Support facilities at Al Udeid, Qatar. The 

committee supports this requirement. However, the committee recommends no 

funds in the base budget, a reduction of $30.4 million, for this project in order to 

transfer this project to Title XXIX, Overseas Contingency Operations Military 

Construction.

(6) $8.0 million for Planning and Design. The committee recommends an 

authorization of appropriation of $187.577 million, a reduction of $8.0 million, for 

planning and design activities.

Infrastructure Investments in Support of Research and Development Contracts

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The committee notes that section 2353 of title 10, United States Code, 

provides the secretary of a military department the authority to provide for the 

acquisition or construction of facilities and equipment by either the Government or 

the contractor that the secretary concerned determines to be necessary for the 

performance of a contract for research, development, or both. However, the 

committee notes that the Air Force Instruction (AFI) approval process currently 

used to approve projects seeking to use this authority may not be appropriate for 

the circumstances at certain research facilities. Specifically, the committee notes 

that the current AFI-32 series is used for traditional military construction projects, 

and does not adequately address construction funded through contracts for 

research, development, or both. Therefore, the addition of language to AFIs 

pertinent to acquisition and construction of facilities and equipment authorized by 

section 2353 of title 10, United States Code, may be more appropriate and necessary 

for the implementation of this authority. The committee believes the Secretary of 

the Air Force should closely examine this issue and issue a revised AFI, as 

appropriate, that better supports the use of section 2353 of title 10, United States 

Code. 

 Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a 

briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than September 30, 

2018, on the results of a review of the authorities that support the acquisition or 

construction of facilities and equipment for research and development contracts, the 

supporting AFIs to carry out such projects, and any plans to update the AFI to 

better utilize the existing authorities.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2301—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Air Force construction 

projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an installationby-installation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to be the 

binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2302—Family Housing

This section would authorize new construction and planning and design of 

family housing units for the Air Force for fiscal year 2019.

Section 2303—Improvements to Military Family Housing Units

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make 

improvements to existing units of family housing for fiscal year 2019.

Section 2304—Authorization of Appropriations, Air Force

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This section would authorize appropriations for Air Force military 

construction at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

Section 2305—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Phased Project 

Authorized in Fiscal Years 2015, 2016, and 2017

 This section would modify the authority provided by section 2301(b) of the 

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (division B of Public 

Law 113-291), the authority provided by section 2301(b) of the Military 

Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (division B of Public Law 114-

92), and the authority provided by section 2301(b) of the Military Construction 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (division B of Public Law 114-328) to 

authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to modify the location of three previously 

authorized construction phases of the project.

Section 2306—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2017 

Project

This section would modify the authority provided by section 2301 of the 

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (division B of Public 

Law 114-328) and authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make certain 

modifications to the scope and authorized cost of a previously authorized 

construction project.

Section 2307—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2018 

Project

This section would modify the authority provided by section 2301 of the 

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (division B of Public 

Law 115-91) and authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make certain 

modifications to the scope of a previously authorized construction project.

Section 2308—Additional Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2019 Projects

This section would provide the Secretary of the Air Force additional 

authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2019 projects pursuant to the Defense 

Laboratory Modernization Pilot Program established by section 2803 of the Military 

Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (division B of Public Law 114-

92).

Section 2309—Additional Authority to Carry Out Project at Travis Air Force Base, 

California, in Fiscal Year 2019

 This section would provide specific authorization for a construction project at 

Travis Air Force Base.

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TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $2,693,324,000 for defense agency military 

construction and $58,373,000 for family housing for fiscal year 2019. The committee 

recommends authorization of appropriations of $2,473,338,000 for military 

construction and $58,373,000 for family housing for defense agencies for fiscal year 

2019. 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee notes the budget request submitted by the Department of 

Defense for military construction and family housing included $150.0 million for the 

Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program. The committee supports 

this program and encourages the Department of Defense to continue to emphasize 

projects that will support increased resiliency of military installations and mission 

critical functions. Therefore, the committee recommends an authorization of 

appropriation of $165.0 million, an increase of $15.0 million, for this program.

In addition, the committee recommends reduction of funding for several 

projects contained in the budget request submitted by the Department of Defense 

for military construction and family housing. These reductions include: 

(1) $130.386 million for Kinnick High School at Yokosuka, Japan. The 

committee supports the requirement for this project and provides the full project 

authorization of $170.386 million included in the budget request. However, the 

committee supports the authorization of appropriations in an amount equivalent to 

the ability of the Department to execute in the year of the authorization for 

appropriations. For this project, the committee believes that Department of Defense 

cannot fully expend the funding in fiscal year 2019. Therefore, the committee 

recommends an authorization of appropriation of $40.0 million, a reduction of 

$130.386 million, for this project.

(2) $44.0 million for Long Range Discrimination Radar System Complex, 

Phase 2 at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska. The committee supports the 

requirement for this project and provides the full project authorization of $174.0 

million included in the budget request. However, the committee supports the 

authorization of appropriations in an amount equivalent to the ability of the 

Department to execute in the year of the authorization for appropriations. For this 

project, the committee believes that Department of the Defense cannot fully expend 

the funding in fiscal year 2019. Therefore, the committee recommends an 

authorization of appropriation of $130.0 million, a reduction of $44.0 million, for 

this project.

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(3) $32.6 million for Next NGA West (N2W) Complex, Phase 1, Increment 2 

in St. Louis, Missouri. The committee supports the requirement for this project, but 

notes that an additional $25.0 million was provided in the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141), which was signed into law after the 

budget request for fiscal year 2019 was submitted. In addition, the committee notes 

that the Office of Management and Budget has directed the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency not to award the project until receiving the full appropriation 

for both increments, resulting in a cost increase of $7.6 million due to the delay in 

award. As noted elsewhere in this report, the committee believes such a policy is not 

in the best interest of the Department of Defense or the taxpayer. Therefore, the 

committee recommends an authorization of appropriation of $181.0 million, a 

reduction of $32.6 million, for this project.

(4) $10.0 million for an Ambulatory Care Center Addition/Alteration at 

RAF Croughton, United Kingdom. The committee notes this facility may be earlyto-need based on an ongoing analysis of alternatives related to a separate military 

construction requirement. Therefore, the committee recommends no funds, a 

reduction of $10.0 million, for this project.

(5) $10.0 million for Contingency Construction at Unspecified Worldwide 

Locations. The budget request included $10.0 million to support contingency 

construction requirements not previously authorized by law. While the committee 

notes this authority was used for a project in fiscal year 2018, unobligated balances 

remain available in the military construction account and other authorities exist to 

construct projects that are in keeping with a national security interest. As such, the 

committee recommends no funds, a reduction of $10.0 million, for this program.

(6) $8.0 million for Missile Field #1 Expansion at Fort Greely, Alaska. The 

committee notes that the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental 

Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-56) 

provided $200.0 million for the construction of an additional 20 silos at Missile Field 

#4. The committee questions why the requirement for the additional expansion of 

Missile Field #1 was not included in the previous request. In addition, the 

committee notes that this project could be carried out as a minor military 

construction project and does not require specific authorization. Therefore, the 

committee recommends no funds, a reduction of $8.0 million, for this project.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2401—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized defense agencies' 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an 

installation-by-installation basis. The state list contained in this Act is intended to 

be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2402—Authorized Energy Conservation Projects

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This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out energy 

resilience and conservation projects.

Section 2403—Authorization of Appropriations, Defense Agencies

This section would authorize appropriations for defense agencies' military 

construction at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

Section 2404—Extension of Authorizations of Certain Fiscal Year 2015 Projects

This section would extend the authorization of certain projects originally 

authorized by section 2401 of the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2015 (division B of Public Law 113–291) until October 1, 2019, or the date of 

the enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 

2020, whichever is later.

TITLE XXV—INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $171,064,000 for the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization Security Investment Program (NSIP) for fiscal year 2019. The 

committee recommends authorization of appropriations of $171,064,000 for NSIP 

for fiscal year 2019.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Facilities and Infrastructure for U.S. Military Personnel at North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization Host Nation Bases

The committee appreciates its ongoing and cooperative dialogue with the 

Department of Defense regarding efforts to improve infrastructure and facilities for 

U.S. military personnel stationed at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 

host nation bases. As NATO continues to strengthen and update its posture in 

response to increasing threats, the committee believes that the United States, 

NATO, and individual host nations must recapitalize facilities and infrastructure 

that support the NATO mission. 

Based on site visits and direct oversight, the committee is pleased that the 

Kingdom of Belgium has taken several unilateral steps and applied its own funding 

to improve the security posture at several bases hosting U.S. personnel. However, 

the committee is disappointed that longstanding plans to recapitalize certain 

facilities at Belgian bases have not yet been executed. The committee understands 

that, over a decade ago, NATO allocated common funding to construct several new, 

modern facilities in Belgium to replace inadequate, decades-old buildings. But, due 

to bureaucratic delays outside of the control of NATO and the U.S. Government, the 

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new facilities have not yet been built and U.S. personnel continue to work and 

operate in antiquated, substandard, and potentially unsafe facilities. The committee 

is aware of recent discussions between senior officials from the U.S. and Belgium on 

this issue, and is pleased that officials from both nations are working together to 

execute recapitalization plans. The committee encourages Belgium, NATO, and the 

U.S. Government to find and execute a near-term solution to this serious problem. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SECURITY INVESTMENT 

PROGRAM

Section 2501—Authorized NATO Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to make 

contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment 

Program in an amount not to exceed the sum of the amount specifically authorized 

in section 2502 of this Act and the amount collected from the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization as a result of construction previously financed by the United States.

Section 2502—Authorization of Appropriations, NATO

This section would authorize appropriations for the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization Security Investment Program at the levels identified in section 4601 

of division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—HOST COUNTRY IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS

Section 2511—Republic of Korea Funded Construction Projects

This section would authorize the Secretary of Defense to accept 16 military 

construction projects totaling $518.6 million pursuant to agreement with the 

Republic of Korea for required in-kind contributions.

TITLE XXVI—GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES 

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $467,395,000 for military construction of 

National Guard and Reserve facilities for fiscal year 2019. The committee 

recommends authorization of appropriations of $648,195,000 for military 

construction for fiscal year 2019.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

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Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee recommends the inclusion of funding for several projects 

requested by the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force for their 

reserve components but not contained in the budget request for military 

construction and family housing. These increases include:

(1) $42.6 million for a Regional ISO Maintenance Hangar at Westover Air 

Reserve Base, Massachusetts; 

(2) $24.0 million for a NORTHCOM–Construct Alter Facilities at Naval Air 

Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Louisiana; 

(3) $24.0 million for an HC-130J Maintenance Hangar at Patrick Air Force 

Base, Florida;

(4) $23.0 million for an ECS Modified TEMF at Yakima Training Center, 

Washington;

(5) $13.0 million for Replace Fire Station at Mansfield Lahm Airport, Ohio;

(6) $11.0 million for an Aircraft Vehicle Storage Building at Lexington, 

Oklahoma;

(7) $9.4 million for an Aerial Port Facility at Grissom Air Reserve Base, 

Indiana;

(8) $9.0 million for Construct Aircraft Apron at Great Falls International 

Airport, Montana;

(9) $8.8 million for Relocate Main Gate at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, 

Ohio; 

(10) $8.0 million for Construct Small Arms Range at Rickenbacker 

International Airport, Ohio; and

(11) $8.0 million for Construct Small Arms Range at Duluth International 

Airport, Minnesota.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS AND AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Section 2601—Authorized Army National Guard Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Army National Guard 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an 

installation-by-installation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to 

be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2602—Authorized Army Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Army Reserve construction 

projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an installation308
by-installation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to be the 

binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2603—Authorized Navy Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve Construction 

and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Navy Reserve and Marine 

Corps Reserve construction projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts 

are listed on an installation-by-installation basis. The State list contained in this 

Act is intended to be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each 

location. 

Section 2604—Authorized Air National Guard Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Air National Guard 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an 

installation-by-installation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to 

be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2605—Authorized Air Force Reserve Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Air Force Reserve 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. The authorized amounts are listed on an 

installation-by-installation basis. The State list contained in this Act is intended to 

be the binding list of the specific projects authorized at each location.

Section 2606—Authorization of Appropriations, National Guard and Reserve

This section would authorize appropriations for the National Guard and 

Reserve military construction at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of 

this Act.

SUBTITLE B—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2611—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2016 

Project

This section would modify the authority provided by section 2603 of the 

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (division B of Public 

Law 114-92) to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to modify the location of a 

previously authorized construction project.

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Section 2612—Modification of Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2018 

Project

This section would modify the authority provided by section 2601 of the 

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (division B of Public 

Law 115-91) to authorize the Secretary of the Army to make certain modifications 

to the scope of a previously authorized construction project.

Section 2613—Additional Authority to Carry Out Certain Fiscal Year 2019 Project

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to carry out a 

military construction project and acquire land at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the 

construction of a reserve training center. The Secretary may use available, 

unobligated Navy military construction reserve funds for the project.

TITLE XXVII—BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACTIVITIES

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $267,538,000 for activities related to Base 

Realignment and Closure (BRAC) activities. The committee recommends 

authorization of appropriations of $322,868,000 for BRAC activities.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee notes the budget request submitted by the Department of 

Defense for activities related to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) included 

$322.868 million for the activities related to recommendations from the previous 

BRAC rounds. The committee notes that additional resources may allow for the 

acceleration of certain activities. Therefore, the committee recommends additional 

authorization of appropriations of $18.11 million for Base Realignment and 

Closure–Army, $19.11 million for Base Realignment and Closure–Navy, and $18.11 

million for Base Realignment and Closure–Air Force.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2701—Authorization of Appropriations for Base Realignment and Closure 

Activities Funded through Department of Defense Base Closure Account

This section would authorize appropriations for ongoing activities that are 

required to implement the base realignment and closure activities authorized by the 

Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public

Law 101–510), at the levels identified in section 4601 of division D of this Act.

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Section 2702—Additional Authority to Realign or Close Certain Military 

Installations

This section would provide the Secretary of Defense with authority to close 

or realign a military installation if the Secretary receives notification from the 

Governor of a State or territory that recommends the realignment or closure of a 

military installation within the Governor's State or territory.

Section 2703—Prohibition on Conducting Additional Base Realignment and Closure 

(BRAC) Round

This section would affirm that nothing in this Act shall be construed to 

authorize an additional Base Realignment and Closure round.

TITLE XXVIII—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION GENERAL 

PROVISIONS 

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Allied Pilot Training on Advanced Pilot Trainer

The committee understands that as the U.S. Air Force evaluates proposals 

for the Advanced Pilot Trainer (T-X) to make a final award in 2018, it will also be 

conducting an analysis of each undergraduate pilot training base to determine when 

the T-X will replace the T-38C Talon currently in service at those bases. 

Undergraduate pilot training lays the foundation for all pilots that will fly advanced 

fighter aircraft, including pilots from allies and partners who will fly American 

fighter aircraft variants. It is critical that pilots from allies and partners also 

receive opportunities to adequately prepare to fly these aircraft. Therefore, the 

committee recommends that the Secretary of the Air Force, when evaluating 

locations for basing the T-X, consider the importance of locations that also provide 

training to allies and partners.

Comptroller General Review of Utilities Privatization

The committee continues to support the utility privatization program and 

other alternative financing arrangements to achieve greater efficiencies, improve 

reliability and resiliency of utility systems, and reduce operating costs to the 

Department of Defense. While the Department has leveraged this authority for 

approximately 20 years, the committee notes with concern the amount of time it can 

take to complete a utility privatization project, from initial feasibility review by the 

military department to award of a contract to a utility provider. The committee is 

aware of instances where the process took more than 5 years from analysis to 

award. After two decades of experience with utilities privatization, the committee is 

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concerned that procedures have not improved. The Department's protracted process 

for awarding privatization contracts deters potential utility providers from 

considering such a contract.

Therefore, the committee directs the Comptroller General of the United 

States to review the Department's utility privatization program and submit a report 

to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 

Representatives not later than September 30, 2019, on his findings and 

recommendations. Specifically, the report shall address the following for each 

military service: 

(1) the specific steps of the utility privatization process, the average amount 

of time to complete each step, and the contributing factors for the time each step 

takes; 

(2) the extent to which best practices have been identified and are shared 

between the services and the Defense Logistics Agency, and other stakeholders to 

improve the process; and

(3) any recommendations to help improve the process as determined to be 

appropriate by the Comptroller General.

Core Sampling at Joint Base San Antonio

The Committee notes that Joint Base San Antonio is served by a 

wastewater pipeline, known as W-6 that is subject to a Consent Decree with the 

Environmental Protection Agency requiring its replacement. The local utility 

providing wastewater service is the San Antonio Water System, an agency of the 

City of San Antonio, Texas. This pipeline is critical to the functional wastewater 

system of Joint Base San Antonio, the City of San Antonio, and Bexar County. The 

Committee believes that the timely replacement of the pipeline is in the best 

interests of both Joint Base San Antonio and the community. The proposed route of 

the replacement pipeline would traverse a part of the base that contains capped and 

closed landfills with uncertain contents. The committee understands that the Air 

Force and the City are currently at an impasse on the liability for any 

contamination discovered during site investigations of the proposed pipeline route 

and during construction and subsequent maintenance and operation of a new 

pipeline. Given the hazards posed by the condition of the existing pipeline to the 

population on Joint Base San Antonio, and the legal requirements for replacing the 

pipeline under the Consent Decree, the Committee encourages the Secretary of the 

Air Force to work with the City of San Antonio toward an amicable and rapid 

resolution. 

To establish an estimate of liability that will allow informed decisions, the 

Committee encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct core sampling 

along the proposed route of the new pipe to determine if any regulated or hazardous 

substances are present in the soil along the proposed route and the concentrations 

of any such substances. Furthermore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Air 

Force to provide a briefing to the House Armed Services Committee, not later than 

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September 30, 2018, on the whether or not the Air Force performed such core 

sampling and the results of the core sampling performed. If the Air Force did not 

perform such core sampling, the briefing shall include a detailed explanation for the 

reasons such sampling was not performed. At the time of the briefing, the Secretary 

should also provide an update on the status of negotiations with the San Antonio 

Water System and proposed way-ahead for the site investigations and construction 

of the W-6 replacement pipeline.

Department of Defense Lands Leases in Hawaii

The Department of Defense has multiple land leases in Hawaii that require 

renegotiation and renewal within the next 15 years, including the Pohakuloa 

Training Area, Kahuku Training Area, Makua Military Reservation, and Poamoho 

Training Area. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense to report 

to the House Committee on Armed Services on efforts to renew Department of 

Defense leases in Hawaii by July 31, 2018.

Incremental Funding of Military Construction Projects

As noted elsewhere in this report, the committee continues to believe in the 

value and appropriateness of incrementally authorizing appropriations for certain 

military construction projects. The committee notes that the Office of Management 

and Budget has directed the Department of Defense to not plan, program, or 

request incremental funded projects. However, the committee believes that allowing 

the Department to seek incremental funding for certain projects ensures more 

stability and predictability in the planning process, reduces acquisition costs, and 

enables the Department to execute more work in place on other infrastructure 

requirements in the fiscal year. Furthermore, the committee believes that 

incremental funding of large and complex military construction projects ensures 

continuous oversight and opportunities to adjust the authorization of appropriation 

level for projects should issues arise or requirements change over the course of 

construction. To date, the committee is not aware of any example where a military 

construction project has been left with inadequate funding or has not been 

executable as a result of an incremental funding approach. The committee expects 

the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

to work with the House Committee on Armed Services, and the other appropriate 

congressional oversight committees, to develop a framework that enables the 

planning, programming, budgeting, and execution of incrementally funded military 

construction projects.

Naval Academy Dairy Farm

The committee is aware the Secretary of the Navy is currently prohibited 

by section 6976 of title 10, United States Code from disposing of 875 acres of real 

property containing the Naval Academy dairy farm located in Gambrills, Maryland. 

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The committee notes that this prohibition has been in place for more than twenty 

years and believes that it should be reexamined. Therefore, the committee directs 

the Secretary of the Navy to provide a report to the House Armed Services 

Committee, not later than September 30, 2018, regarding the real property 

containing the Naval Academy dairy farm. At minimum, the report shall address 

the current use and activities taking place on the property, an assessment of the 

continued need for the property to be retained by the Navy, and an evaluation of 

potential future uses for the property, including conveyance to a local county or 

municipality. In addition, the report should address how the Navy would continue 

supporting the functions and activities that benefit from the proceeds of current 

leases of the real property.

Operational Energy Technologies

The committee is aware of a variety of technologies that may improve 

operational flexibility, enhance logistics, and reduce supply lines for forces 

operating in deployed environments, to include the ability to convert natural gas to 

tactical fuels, improve power generation, distribution, and storage in deployed 

environments, and increase the range and capability of tactical vehicles. The 

committee is supportive of these efforts and encourages the Department of Defense 

to transition such natural gas to tactical fuel technologies from the research and 

development stage in support of operational requirements. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the House Armed 

Services Committee, not later than March 1, 2019, that outlines steps the 

Department is taking, to include resourcing and timelines for maturation of 

operational energy technologies, to transition such technologies to full scale 

demonstrations and commercial production.

Privatization of On-Base Lodging

The committee supports the ongoing efforts of the Secretary of Defense to 

make Department of Defense business operations more efficient. As the Secretary of 

Defense noted in his February 2017 Memorandum, this efficiency will free up 

resources to enable “a larger, more capable and more lethal Joint force.” One of the 

ways to accomplish this is to find savings in areas that may no longer merit 

individual military department approaches, particularly in non-core functions. To 

that end, the committee notes that the Army has privatized its on-base lodging 

operations and understands this effort has resulted in upgraded on-base lodging 

facilities, an improved experience for the military traveler, annual savings for the 

Army, and a self-sustaining lodging program. The committee is aware that the 

Department is considering options to consolidate and privatize Navy and Air Force 

on-base lodging.

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy and the 

Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed 

Services, not later than March 1, 2019, on how the Navy and Air Force will ensure 

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holistic sustainability and affordability of their lodging programs. At a minimum, 

the briefing shall include details on capital investment needs to correct facility 

configuration and capacity deficiencies, provision of adequate long-term 

sustainment of facilities, and the implementation of best practices that will 

maximize reductions in government manpower and operational costs for Navy and 

Air Force on-base lodging programs.

Relocation of Defense Non-Tactical Generator and Rail Equipment Center, Hill Air 

Force Base, Utah

The committee is aware of the Department of the Army's decision to 

relocate the Defense Non-Tactical Generator and Rail Equipment Center (DGRC) 

from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, to Anniston Army Depot, Alabama. The committee 

is also aware the Utah Department of Transportation plans to construct a new 

interchange at the current site of the DGRC and State funding is programmed in 

2022. The committee understands that the Army, Air Force, and State of Utah must 

undertake a number of actions before the DGRC parcel may be transferred and 

encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to begin discussions as soon as practicable 

with the Utah Department of Transportation to ensure the orderly transfer of the 

property by 2022.

Furthermore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Army, in 

coordination with the Secretary of the Air Force, to submit a report to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not 

later than January 31, 2019, on the detailed plan for executing the relocation of the 

DGRC and all actions necessary to ultimately transfer property to the Utah 

Department of Transportation. The report shall provide a detailed plan and 

timeline to relocate this mission to Anniston Army Depot and all necessary 

construction or renovation of facilities at Anniston Army Depot. The report should 

also include all actions necessary to enable transfer of Air Force property on Hill Air 

Force Base to the Utah Department of Transportation, to include the demolition of 

facilities, the construction or renovation of facilities, environmental remediation 

required, funding programmed to facilitate the transfer of the property to the Utah 

Department of Transportation, and any constraints to the execution of the transfer 

of the property by 2022.

Wireless Communications on Base

The committee recognizes that some military installations are located in 

rural areas with limited wireless communications coverage. There are also 

installations that cover such a large amount of land that communications 

infrastructure outside the fence line is unable to provide consistent or optimal 

service to portions of the installation. The committee believes that wireless 

communications coverage on military installations not only provide valuable 

support for the quality of life for service members and their families, but also can 

support military requirements related to force protection, logistics, training, or 

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operations. The committee is aware that the Navy is considering using real estate 

agreements, such as easements and enhanced use leases, to allow commercial 

industry to develop communications infrastructure on its installations to improve 

service and connectivity. The committee is aware that the Army and Air Force have 

also expressed a desire to improve wireless communications capabilities on military 

installations but may not be taking the same approach as the Navy. Therefore, the 

committee directs the service secretaries to provide a briefing to the House Armed 

Services Committee, not later than September 30, 2018, on each of the military 

departments' requirements, plans, and timelines for improving communications 

coverage and capabilities on its installations.

Yucca Mountain

Pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Department of Energy 

(DOE) plans to permanently dispose of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, 

Nevada, located on DOE’s Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), which would 

require transportation of nuclear waste to the repository. The committee has been 

briefed on DOE’s proposed route to transport the waste to Yucca Mountain, and 

understands the route is located near DOE activities at NNSS and Department of 

Defense (DOD) activities at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). In 2017, 

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson stated that, “if Yucca Mountain becomes 

a storage area it needs to operate without impacting the ability of the country to 

defend itself,” and, “there is no route across the range that would not impact testing 

and training.” Documents provided to the committee by the Air Force indicate that 

although the proposed route is located outside of the boundaries of NTTR, several 

sections of the route would border the range, and this siting of the rail line was 

confirmed in a DOE Record of Decision and Environmental Impact Statement. 

The NTTR provides the largest air and ground military training space in 

the contiguous United States, free from commercial aircraft interference, and stores 

75 percent of stateside Air Force live munitions. The NNSS provides DOE and other 

government agencies unique, high-hazard testing environments. Both facilities are 

national assets. 

The committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the 

Secretary of Energy, to submit a report to the congressional defense committees, not 

later than January 15, 2019, describing any impacts that the Yucca Mountain 

Project would have on DOD and DOE activities at NNSS, NTTR, and any other 

defense facilities in proximity to Yucca Mountain or the proposed transportation 

route. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING

Section 2801—Commercial Construction Standards for Facilities on Leased 

Property

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This section would amend section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, to 

allow the use of commercial construction standards when a private developer is 

constructing facilities on military land for commercial use under an enhanced use 

lease agreement.

Section 2802—Extension of Temporary, Limited Authority to Use Operation and 

Maintenance Funds for Construction Projects Outside the United States

This section would provide continued authority for the Secretary of Defense 

to use funds appropriated for operation and maintenance for military construction 

to meet temporary operational requirements during a time of declared war, national 

emergency, or contingency operation through the end of fiscal year 2019.

Section 2803—Small Business Set-Aside for Contracts for Architectural and 

Engineering Services and Construction Design

This section would amend section 2855 of title 10, United States Code, to 

increase the threshold for small business set-asides for architectural and 

engineering services and construction design contracts from $300,000 to $1.0 

million.

Section 2804—Authority to Obtain Architectural and Engineering Services and 

Construction Design for Defense Laboratory Modernization Program

This section would amend section 2803 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92) to clarify that the 

Secretary of the military department concerned may use amounts available for 

research, development, testing, and evaluation funding to obtain architectural and 

engineering services to carry out a construction project under this authority. This 

section would also extend the period of the Defense Laboratory Modernization Pilot 

Program until October 1, 2023.

Section 2805—Repeal of Limitation on Certain Guam Project

This section would amend section 2879 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) by repealing the 

requirement that the Secretary of the Navy award five military construction 

projects prior to awarding the "Replace Andersen Housing Phase II" project.

Section 2806—Enhancing Force Protection and Safety on Military Installations

This section would authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to 

carry out military construction projects to enhance force protection and safety on 

military installations. This section would require a notification to the congressional 

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defense committees prior to obligating or expending funds to carry out a project 

under this authority.

Section 2807—Limitation on Use of Funds for Acquisition of Furnished Energy for 

New Medical Center in Germany

This section would prohibit the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of any

military department from using funds to enter into a contract for the acquisition of 

energy for the proposed Rhine Ordnance Barracks Army Medical Center until the 

Secretary of Defense submits certain certifications regarding the source of energy 

supply and the design of the medical center.

Section 2808—Treatment of Leases of Non-Excess Property Entered into with 

Insured Depository Institutions

This section would amend section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, to 

direct the Secretary concerned to accept financial services provided by an insured 

depository institution to service members and employees of the Department of 

Defense as sufficient in-kind consideration to cover all lease, services, and utilities 

costs assessed with regard to the leased property.

SUBTITLE B—REAL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

Section 2811—Optional Participation in Collection of Information on Unutilized and 

Underutilized Military Installation Properties Available for Homeless Assistance

This provision would amend section 11411 of title 42, United States Code, 

to provide the Department of Defense discretion on the reporting of surplus 

facilities for possible assistance for the homeless. Since most facilities owned by the 

Department require credentialed access, few if any facilities have been transferred 

for adaptive reuse by homeless organizations.

Section 2812—Force Structure Plans and Infrastructure Capabilities Necessary to 

Support the Force Structure

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to submit a force 

structure plan for each military service not later than February 3, 2021, 

accompanied by a categorical model of installation capabilities required to support 

force structure and an assessment of the adequacy of the Department of Defense's 

existing infrastructure inventory to support force structure plans.

Section 2813—Retrofitting Existing Windows in Military Family Housing Units To 

Be Equipped with Fall Prevention Devices

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This section would amend section 2879 of title 10, United States Code, to 

authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to create a grant program 

from which privatized housing entities and military installations may request funds 

to retrofit or install window fall prevention devices in privatized and military-owned 

housing.

Section 2814—Updating Prohibition on Use of Certain Assessment of Public Schools 

on Department of Defense Installations to Supersede Funding of Certain Projects

This section would freeze a portion of the Public Schools on Military 

Installations List required in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) to ensure that the original top 38 schools do not 

lose priority due to any reassessment.

SUBTITLE C—LAND CONVEYANCES

Section 2821—Authority for Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction over Certain 

Lands, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, 

and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona

This section would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to transfer acquired 

State and privately owned lands to the Secretary of the Interior for inclusion as 

public lands withdrawn and reserved by section 2941 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66). This section would also 

allow the Secretary of the Interior to transfer certain parcels of land at Marine 

Corps Air Station Yuma to the Secretary of the Navy.

Section 2822—Public Inventory of Guam Land Parcels for Transfer to Government 

of Guam

This section would require the Secretary of the Navy to establish, maintain, 

and regularly update an inventory of real property located on Guam owned by the 

U.S. Government and administered by the Department of the Navy which the 

Secretary of the Navy expects to transfer to the Government of Guam. Such 

inventory shall be available online and accessible to the public and include specific 

information about each parcel of land included in the inventory. This section would 

also establish a formal process for the Governor of Guam to petition the Secretary of 

the Navy to add parcels to the inventory.

Section 2823—Land Conveyance, Naval Academy Dairy Farm, Gambrills, Maryland

This section would authorize conveyance of 40 acres of land from the United 

States Naval Academy Dairy Farm to Anne Arundel County, Maryland, contingent 

on certain conditions and considerations.

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Section 2824—Technical Correction of Description of Limestone Hills Training Area 

Land Withdrawal and Reservation, Montana

This section would amend section 2931 of the Military Construction 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (division B of Public Law 113–66) to adjust 

the acreage of withdrawn public land in Broadwater County, Montana.

Section 2825—Land Conveyance, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Rich County, 

Utah

This section would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer ownership 

of 80 acres of public land to the Utah State University Research Foundation, a 

501(c)(3) non-profit.

SUBTITLE D—MILITARY LAND WITHDRAWALS

Section 2831—Indefinite Duration of Certain Military Land Withdrawals and 

Reservations and Improved Management of Withdrawn and Reserved Lands

This section would amend statutory authority for several military land 

withdrawals to extend the withdrawals indefinitely. This section would also amend 

section 670a of title 16, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the Interior 

and the concerned Secretary of a military department to continuously review such 

withdrawals and would establish a public comment process regarding the resource 

management plans and military use of such lands.

Section 2832—Designation of Potential Wilderness Area

This section would allow the Secretary of the Interior to permit a 

microwave communications site on one acre of land within a federally protected 

wilderness area.

SUBTITLE E—OTHER MATTERS

Section 2841—Defense Community Infrastructure Program

This section would amend section 2391 of title 10, United States Code, to 

authorize the Secretary of Defense to make grants, conclude cooperative 

agreements, and supplement funds available under other Federal programs to 

assist States and local governments in addressing deficiencies in community 

infrastructure projects or facilities which are located outside of military 

installations but which support military installations.

Section 2842—Restrictions on Use of Funds for Development of Public 

Infrastructure in Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands

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This section would require the Secretary of Defense to convene an Economic 

Adjustment Committee meeting and describe assistance necessary to support 

changes in Department of Defense activities in the Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands in a report to the congressional defense committees. This section 

would also prohibit the Department of Defense from carrying out any grant, 

transfer, cooperative agreement, or supplemental funding that will result in the 

development of public infrastructure unless such project is included in the Economic 

Adjustment Committee report and specifically authorized by law. 

Section 2843—Study and Report on Coleman Bridge, York River, Virginia

This section would require the Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, 

to review the feasibility of including the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge near 

Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, Virginia, in the Strategic Highways Network 

and to report his findings to the congressional defense committees not later than 

180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Section 2844—Certifications Required Prior to Transfer of Certain Veterans 

Memorial Object

This section would amend section 2864 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91); it would provide 

language clarifying the certification requirement and require a report prior to the 

return of certain veterans memorial objects. 

TITLE XXIX—OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

SUMMARY

The budget request contained $921,420,000 for Overseas Contingency 

Operations military construction for fiscal year 2019. The committee recommends 

authorization of appropriations of $921,420,000 for Overseas Contingency 

Operations military construction for fiscal year 2019.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

Explanation of Funding Adjustments

The committee recommends reduction of funding for a project contained in 

the Overseas Contingency Operations budget request submitted by the Department 

of Defense for military construction. This reduction is: 

(1) $69.0 million for a High Value Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay, 

Cuba. The Department of Defense did not provide the committee sufficient 

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justification for the need to construct a new, permanent facility with increased 

capacity and capabilities. In addition, the committee notes that while the current 

facility may not be ideally configured, it is still capable of meeting current and 

foreseeable detention requirements. Therefore, the committee recommends no 

funds, a reduction of $69.0 million, for this project. 

As noted earlier in this report, the committee recommended a reduction in 

funding for several projects included in the base budget request in order to transfer 

them to the Overseas Contingency Operations title of this Act. Therefore, the 

committee recommends a commensurate increase in the Overseas Contingency 

Operations account to support these projects. Specifically, these projects include: 

(1) $40.0 million for a Personnel Deployment Processing facility at Al 

Udeid, Qatar; and

(2) $30.4 million for Flightline Support facilities at Al Udeid, Qatar.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 2901—Authorized Army Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of certain authorized Army construction 

projects for fiscal year 2019. These projects represent a binding list of the specific 

projects authorized at these locations.

Section 2902—Authorized Navy Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized Navy construction projects 

for fiscal year 2019. These projects represent a binding list of the specific projects 

authorized at these locations.

Section 2903—Authorized Air Force Construction and Land Acquisition Projects

This section would contain the list of certain authorized Air Force 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. These projects represent a binding list of 

the specific projects authorized at these locations.

Section 2904—Authorized Defense Agencies Construction and Land Acquisition 

Projects

This section would contain the list of authorized defense agencies' 

construction projects for fiscal year 2019. These projects represent a binding list of 

the specific projects authorized at these locations.

Section 2905—Authorization of Appropriations

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This section would authorize appropriations for Overseas Contingency 

Operations military construction at the levels identified in section 4602 of division 

D.

Section 2906—Restrictions on Use of Funds for Planning and Design Costs of 

European Deterrence Initiative Projects

This section would limit the ability of the secretaries concerned from using 

any of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for planning and design of 

military construction projects requested under the European Deterrence Initiative 

until the Secretary of Defense submits a list of the military construction projects to 

support the European Deterrence Initiative that are anticipated during fiscal year 

2019 and at least the four succeeding fiscal years. The committee notes its support 

for the European Deterrence Initiative and the military construction program that 

supports it. However, the committee believes that it is important for Congress to 

have a clear understanding of the overall military construction plan for Europe and 

the construction projects that will be supported with this planning and design 

funding.

DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL

SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER 

AUTHORIZATIONS

TITLE XXXI—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY 

PROGRAMS

OVERVIEW

The budget request for fiscal year 2019 contained $21.60 billion for atomic 

energy defense activities. The committee recommends $21.96 billion, an increase of 

$357.0 million to the budget request.

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Overview 

The budget request for fiscal year 2019 contained $15.09 billion for the 

programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The committee 

recommends $15.40 billion, an increase of $307.0 million to the budget request.

Weapons Activities

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Defense Nuclear Security and related construction projects

The budget request contained $690.6 million for Defense Nuclear Security 

at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This funding supports 

day-to-day security operations across the nuclear security enterprise, as well as 

sustainment and recapitalization of physical security infrastructure and equipment. 

This does not include certain major line item construction projects that would result 

in significant security improvements. 

The committee continues to emphasize the need for sustained and focused 

NNSA and Department of Energy leadership attention on physical security efforts 

within the nuclear security enterprise. The security certifications required by 

section 2657 of title 50, United States Code, were intended to ensure the 

Administrator for Nuclear Security and the Secretary of Energy focus significant 

personal attention on the issue and are accountable for both progress and problems. 

Further, the congressionally mandated Center for Security Technology, Analysis, 

Response, and Testing, the Security Management Improvement Plan, and Security 

Infrastructure Revitalization Program have helped provide a solid knowledge base 

of physical security expertise and clear direction for a program that must be 

continuously vigilant and improving. The committee commends these steps, but 

continues to seek further progress on two major line item construction projects that 

will support both improved security and accomplishment of NNSA's mission 

deliverables: the West End Protected Area Reduction Project at the Y-12 National 

Security Complex, and the Material Staging Facility at the Pantex Plant. 

The committee recommends $701.6 million for Defense Nuclear Security, 

an increase of $11.0 million to the budget request, $9.0 million for the West End 

Protected Area Reduction project, and $24.0 million for the Material Staging 

Facility. 

Directed Stockpile Work

The budget request included $4.67 billion for Directed Stockpile Work 

(DSW), including life extension programs (LEP) and major alterations, stockpile 

systems, stockpile services, and strategic materials. The committee continues to 

believe the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) must emphasize 

these programs and capabilities that directly support and enable NNSA's 

deliverables to the Department of Defense. 

The W76-1 LEP will soon complete production and its successful delivery to 

the Navy is a notable achievement. This weapon will soon comprise approximately 

70 percent of the nation's operationally deployed strategic warheads. Production 

engineering on the B61-12 LEP continues, and the committee will closely oversee 

capacity and throughput challenges to ensure it stays on track for delivery of a first 

production unit and associated capabilities by December 2019. This weapon will be 

both a tangible and credible extended deterrent for U.S. allies, as well as form an 

important component of the United States' own strategic deterrent. The W88 ALT 

370, with its refresh of components and high explosives, will produce a modernized 

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warhead that will ensure its reliability for decades. And the W80-4 LEP will 

produce a warhead for the future long-range standoff (LRSO) cruise missile, which 

supports the air leg of the strategic triad. The committee will continue to track 

alignment between the W80-4 LEP and the LRSO program itself. Finally, the W76-

2 program will produce a lower-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, 

as proposed by the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. Aligning initial production of the 

W76-2 with the end of production of the W76-1 will help minimize costs and ensure 

timely production and deployment.

The committee recommends $4.66 billion for Directed Stockpile Work, a 

decrease of $8.0 million to the budget request. 

Domestic uranium

The committee understands that recent market trends, foreign competition, 

and other factors have had significant negative impacts on the nation's domestic 

uranium industry. For instance, the domestic uranium mining industry has 

diminished such that in recent years domestic suppliers provide less than 5 percent 

of U.S. demand for uranium. Additionally, all domestically owned uranium 

enrichment facilities have been closed. 

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is conducting an 

analysis of alternatives (AOA), due for completion in 2020, regarding if and how to 

reconstitute a domestic uranium enrichment capability for national security 

purposes. In its review of NNSA’s AOA guidance, the Comptroller General of the 

United States found that NNSA's mission needs statement was limited in scope, 

showed preference toward a particular solution, and did not include the potential 

for enrichment facilities that meet multiple mission needs beyond just tritium 

production. The Comptroller General also found that NNSA's cost estimates for two 

potential enrichment technologies, which ranged from $3.8 billion to $14.0 billion 

depending on the technology and assumptions, only partially or minimally met best 

practice standards for being comprehensive, credible, well-documented, and 

accurate. 

The committee also notes that policy changes must be considered as part of 

the AOA, including changes that would enable the current supply of unobligated 

fuel to last longer and changes that would revise domestic policies or international 

agreements regarding limitations on the use of obligated fuel. The committee 

believes this AOA must be comprehensive and data-driven, and expects NNSA to 

update the mission needs statement and AOA guidance to address the Government 

Accountability Office's recommendations.

While the AOA is underway, the committee believes NNSA must be 

mindful of ensuring U.S. technical expertise for uranium does not atrophy and that 

both mature and less-mature technology options continue to be advanced. The 

committee also believes NNSA and the wider Federal Government must be mindful 

of any short- or long-term implications for national security if the domestic uranium 

industry as a whole is moribund. 

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To enable its oversight of these issues, the committee directs the 

Administrator for Nuclear Security, in consultation with appropriate officials from 

the Department of Energy and other agencies, to provide a briefing to the 

Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by 

November 30, 2018, on the state of the domestic uranium industry in general, its 

impacts on national security, and the status of NNSA's ongoing analysis of 

alternatives related to domestic uranium enrichment. Such briefing should include:

(1) an assessment of commercial market trends, Department of Energy 

excess uranium sales, Federal regulations and policies, enrichment capacity, and 

foreign imports;

(2) details on how NNSA is sustaining technical expertise in domestically 

owned uranium enrichment technologies while its analysis of alternatives is 

ongoing and no domestically owned source of enriched uranium is operational;

(3) NNSA’s plans to revise and clarify the mission needs statement, as 

recommended by the Comptroller General;

(4) how NNSA intends to consider a comprehensive range of options in the 

AOA, including policy changes such as reexamining the mixture of obligated and 

unobligated fuel used in reactors in proportion to tritium production and energy 

production, and revisions regarding limitations on the use of obligated fuel; 

(5) how NNSA will ensure that cost estimates of all options are consistent 

with best practices, and how the cost estimates are aligned with the updated scope 

of need.

Fusion technology pathways

The committee is aware of several different paths that may, some day, lead 

to viable fusion-based energy production and believes such a breakthrough would 

have extraordinary implications for energy security, national security, and the 

world in general. The committee is also cognizant that fusion-based energy 

production has been a long-sought outcome of the high energy density physics 

community, but has yet to yield anticipated results. The committee understands 

that tokamak technology is of particular interest in the scientific community for its 

potential to achieve viability for fusion energy production. 

To better understand the state of science and technology development in 

this field, the committee directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security, in 

coordination with the directors of appropriate national laboratories and appropriate 

officials of the Department of Energy, to provide a briefing to the Committee on 

Armed Services of the House of Representatives by February 1, 2019, on fusion 

energy technology development. Such briefing should review and assess all 

potential fusion technology paths, particularly technologies related to the tokamaks 

and the use of divertor test facilities to better understand remaining challenges for 

dealing with hot plasma exhaust. In addition, the briefing should assess fusion 

technology paths, their viability as a potential future power source, remaining risks 

and challenges associated with such technologies, any complementary research and 

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development that is needed or ongoing, any implications of such research and 

technologies for the programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration, and 

any other matters the Administrator determines appropriate to enhance the 

committee's oversight and understanding. 

Inertial Confinement Fusion

The budget request included $418.9 million for the Inertial Confinement 

Fusion (ICF) Ignition and High Yield program at the National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA). 

In the absence of nuclear explosive testing, this program provides for 

specialized expertise and unique facilities to better understand high energy density 

science and the operation of nuclear weapons. The budget request proposed a 

significant decrease in funding for ICF, including initiation of "a three-year rampdown in NNSA's financial commitment to ... the Omega Laser Facility, resulting in 

the cessation of the financial assistance agreement," and reductions in funding for 

both ignition and non-ignition experiments at the National Ignition Facility. 

The committee is encouraged by NNSA's proposal to rebalance and 

prioritize funding for programs and capabilities that directly support NNSA's 

deliverables to the Department of Defense, recapitalize NNSA's aging 

infrastructure, and prepare for an uncertain future. The committee also notes that 

the ICF program has, so far, failed to achieve fusion ignition, an outcome that was 

long-promised on specific timelines. However, the committee also believes that 

NNSA must carefully consider the impacts of its deep proposed reduction to the ICF 

program, particularly on the long-term pipeline of expertise and the sustainment of 

unique capabilities upon which certification of the U.S. nuclear stockpile has 

depended since the cessation of nuclear explosive testing. 

To better understand these impacts and deliverables, the committee directs 

the Administrator for Nuclear Security to provide a briefing to the Committees on 

Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives by September 1, 

2018, on NNSA's plans for the ICF program. Such briefing should include the 

impacts of the proposed budget reductions, any risks and risk mitigation options, 

the sustainability of facilities and infrastructure related to the ICF program, plans 

for maintaining a robust pipeline of experts in high energy density science and ICF 

at NNSA, clear criteria and milestones for measuring ICF program performance 

against measurable goals, an evaluation of ICF lines of efforts against stated goals, 

and such other matters as the Administrator determines relevant. 

The committee recommends $467.9 million, an increase of $49.0 million, for 

the ICF program.

Infrastructure

The budget request includes $540.7 million for Recapitalization and $365.0 

million for Maintenance and Repair of Facilities. These programs fund efforts to 

reduce the large backlog of deferred maintenance across the nuclear security 

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enterprise and preventative maintenance activities. Combined, these programs and 

the large line item construction projects are critical to arresting and reversing the 

declining state of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) 

infrastructure. 

Section 3111 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91) directed the Administrator for Nuclear Security to 

establish the Infrastructure Modernization Initiative (IMI) with a goal of reducing 

the backlog of deferred maintenance and repair needs at NNSA by 30 percent by 

2025. The committee believes that achieving this goal is critical to accomplishing 

NNSA's national security mission and to the safety and well-being of NNSA's 

workforce. Section 3111 and section 3119 of Public Law 115-91 also provided the 

Administrator new and enhanced statutory authorities to accelerate and streamline 

action on these infrastructure problems. The committee agrees with NNSA's view 

that infrastructure risk is becoming safety risk and mission risk and will closely 

monitor NNSA's progress in implementing the IMI and leveraging its associated 

authorities. The committee continues to note the importance of adequately 

resourcing preventative and sustaining maintenance to extend the life and increase 

the safety of its facilities. The committee encourages the Administrator to work 

closely with Congress as it prepares and executes the long-term NNSA 

infrastructure strategy. 

The committee recommends $611.7 million for Recapitalization, an increase 

of $71.0 million to the budget request, and $404.0 million for Maintenance and 

Repair of Facilities, an increase of $39.0 million to the budget request.

Lithium and tritium

The committee continues to conduct oversight of the National Nuclear 

Security Administration's (NNSA) approach to managing and ensuring a 

sustainable supply of key strategic materials, and recognizes NNSA's efforts to 

bring coherency and stability to what were previously scattered and decentralized 

efforts. The committee believes that a clear, long-term plan to ensure access to these 

materials is important for the credibility of the nuclear deterrent. 

Although NNSA's plans for all of its strategic materials would benefit from 

further clarification and refinement, the committee in particular desires increased 

detail and clarity on NNSA's plans with regard to tritium and lithium. As the 

Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) states, "U.S. production of tritium ... is now 

insufficient to meet the forthcoming U.S. nuclear force sustainment demands, or to 

hedge against unforeseen developments. Programs are planned, but not yet fully 

funded, to ease these critical production shortfalls." And as the NPR states with 

regards to lithium: "The U.S. is also unable to produce or process a number of other 

critical materials, including lithium... For instance, the United States largely relies 

on dismantling retired warheads to recover lithium to sustain and produce 

deployable warheads. This may be inadequate to support the nuclear force 

replacement program and any supplements to it."

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The committee therefore directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security to 

provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 

House of Representatives by November 1, 2018, on NNSA's plans to meet near- and 

long-term requirements for tritium and lithium. Such briefing should include the 

requirements, the options and plans to meet such requirements, costs associated 

with these options and plans, and the status of any actions underway. 

Report on IW-1 and W78 replacement

The committee notes that the recent Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) 

proposes "advancing the W78 warhead replacement one year to FY19 to support 

fielding on [the] Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) by 2030." The NPR also 

discusses "exploring future ballistic missile warhead requirements based on the 

threats and vulnerabilities of potential adversaries, including the possibility of 

common reentry systems between the Air Force and Navy," but does not directly 

mention the Interoperable Warhead-1 (IW-1) program. 

However, the fiscal year 2019 budget request for the National Nuclear 

Security Administration includes $53.0 million for the IW-1 restart of the Phase 6.2 

work (Feasibility Study & Design Options) on this program. The budget request 

justification materials further say that the IW-1 program "will replace the W78 

warhead by 2030 and support fielding of the U.S. Air Force GBSD missile system 

planned to replace the current Minuteman III ICBM force. Additionally, the 

program will investigate the feasibility of deploying the replacement warhead’s 

nuclear explosive package in a US Navy flight body."

To clarify and better understand the direction of this program, the 

committee directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security, in coordination with the 

Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council, to provide a report to the congressional 

defense committees no later than January 15, 2019, on the status of the W78 

replacement, also referenced as the IW-1 program. Specifically, the report should 

include, since deferral of the program or due to the NPR, any changes in 

requirements, program plans and schedules, assumptions, and options and designs 

being considered or that are preferred.

Secure transportation asset and Mobile Guardian Transporter

The budget request includes $278.6 million for the National Nuclear 

Security Administration's (NNSA) Secure Transportation Asset. Run by the NNSA 

Office of Secure Transportation, this program provides for the safe and secure 

transportation of nuclear weapons, weapons components, and special nuclear 

materials. 

Within this amount, $51.8 million was requested to continue development 

of the Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT) program, which is developing and 

procuring new highly-secure trailers to replace existing Safeguards Transporter 

(SGT) trailers that are nearing the end of their 20-year service life. The committee 

understands that several SGTs are beginning to show signs of significant rusting 

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and structural degradation in key locations, that mitigation of this issue is not cost 

effective, and that at least one SGT has been removed from the fleet earlier than 

planned due to this problem. 

The committee is concerned that this issue, or similar unexpected issues, if 

widespread, could undermine NNSA's planned risk reduction effort to keep a 

portion of the SGT fleet in operation beyond their 20-year service life while MGT is 

developed. Coupled with NNSA's reduction in its planned fiscal year 2019 budget 

request for MGT, NNSA's ability to meet surging transportation requirements in 

the 2020s could be at risk. The committee will oversee the SGT risk reduction effort, 

the MGT development and prototyping effort, and the Secure Transportation more 

broadly to track these important efforts. 

The committee recommends $278.6 million for the Secure Transportation 

Asset, the amount of the budget request. 

Streamlined and innovative approaches to non-nuclear construction projects

Section 3111 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2018 (Public Law 115-91) created the Infrastructure Modernization Initiative (IMI) 

at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to accelerate and 

streamline efforts to reduce the large backlog of deferred maintenance and repair 

needs across the infrastructure of the nuclear security enterprise. As part of IMI, 

the Secretary of Energy is required to provide an enhanced and streamlined process 

to the Administrator for Nuclear Security to construct and demolish non-nuclear 

facilities that cost less than $100.0 million. 

The committee continues to endorse and encourage efforts of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) and NNSA to streamline approaches and processes 

related to constructing these types of facilities using commercial standards and best 

practices, as well as efforts to employ innovative approaches. For example, new 

office buildings, light laboratories, fire stations, and emergency operations centers 

currently being planned at sites across the nuclear enterprise may be constructed at 

less cost and more quickly if streamlined, commercially-based, or more innovative 

approaches are utilized. 

The committee believes continued focus and action is needed. Therefore, the 

committee directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security to provide a briefing to 

the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives 

by January 15, 2019, on the actions taken by NNSA and DOE to implement the 

IMI, and in particular to carry out a streamlined process to construct or demolish 

non-nuclear facilities costing less than $100.0 million. Such briefing should include 

options for further streamlining and accelerating associated processes (while 

retaining applicable safety standards), identification of any innovative approaches 

or pilot programs to accelerate construction of such facilities, and such other 

matters as the Administrator determines appropriate.

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The budget request contained $11.02 billion for the Weapons Activities of 

the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). These programs support 

NNSA's central mission of ensuring and sustaining the safety, security, reliability, 

and credibility of the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile. 

In previous years, the committee has highlighted the comments of senior 

administration and military officials that have expressed concern that NNSA's 5-

year, Future Years Nuclear Security Program (FYNSP) budget profile was 

inadequate to meet NNSA's programmatic needs. The committee believes NNSA 

has taken noteworthy steps in this regard within its recent budget requests and the 

FYNSP submitted to Congress with the budget request for fiscal year 2019. Recent 

increases have made significant strides to address the inadequacy in NNSA funding 

identified by the Secretary of Energy in a December 23, 2015, letter to the Director 

of the White House Office of Management and Budget, which said NNSA's 5-year, 

Future Years Nuclear Security Program budget profile, "does not reflect the funding 

that we estimate is necessary to meet [NNSA] requirements over the period...we 

estimate that an additional $5.2 billion over FY2018-2021 is needed to establish a 

viable and sustainable program portfolio."

Elsewhere in this title, the committee discusses its recommendations for 

increased funding and prioritization for several programs within Weapons 

Activities, including for infrastructure, defense nuclear security, and inertial 

confinement fusion. 

The committee recommends $11.22 billion for Weapons Activities, an 

increase of $198.0 million to the budget request.

Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Future nuclear proliferation challenges

The committee continues to focus on the challenges associated with the 

detection, evaluation, and response to emerging nuclear threats, including emerging 

technologies that could lead to technological surprise. Recent advancements in 

materials, manufacturing, computing, and cyber interconnectivity indicate that 

robust efforts are needed to identify and develop solutions to ensure the United 

States can continue to reliably detect, define, deter, delay, deny, and defeat these 

threats.

The committee therefore directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security, in 

coordination with the directors of relevant national security laboratories, to provide 

a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 

Representatives by November 15, 2018, on emerging nuclear proliferation threats 

and the state of our capabilities to address these threats. Such briefing should 

include options for novel solutions to meet these challenging threats, leverage ongoing efforts within the national security laboratories, and include an estimate of 

the resources required to respond effectively and stay ahead of any emerging 

threats.

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Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response program

The budget request contained $319.2 million for the Nuclear 

Counterterrorism and Incident Response program of the National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA). This program is responsible for countering nuclear threats, 

responding to nuclear incidents worldwide, and providing for the Department of 

Energy's emergency management capability. 

The committee continues to highlight the importance and value of these

programs that leverage the unique capabilities and knowledge at NNSA's 

laboratories for national-level response efforts. Though a smaller and oftenoverlooked part of NNSA's portfolio of responsibilities, the personnel within this 

program ensure the nation's warfighters and first responders are able to detect, 

evaluate, and take decisive and technically informed action against all types of 

nuclear threats and incidents. 

The budget request includes $32.5 million to procure three fixed-wing 

Aerial Measuring System (AMS) aircraft in fiscal year 2019. These aircraft will 

replace antiquated and increasingly difficult to sustain aircraft, and provide NNSA 

enhanced capability to support national and international events involving 

radiological releases. Based on the completed analysis of alternatives for AMS, the 

committee supports this recapitalization. 

The committee recommends $319.2 million, the amount of the budget 

request, for the Nuclear Counterterrorism and Incident Response program.

Naval Reactors

Naval Reactors program

The budget request contained $1.79 billion for the Naval Reactors program. 

Naval Reactors is responsible for all aspects of naval nuclear propulsion efforts, 

including reactor plant technology design and development, reactor plant operation 

and maintenance, and reactor retirement and disposal. The program ensures the 

safe and reliable operation of reactor plants in nuclear-powered submarines and 

aircraft carriers that comprise over 45 percent of the Navy's major combatants. 

The committee has long been supportive of the Naval Reactors program and 

believes it is an exceptional example of a nuclear-related government program that 

is mission-driven, safety-focused, and well-managed. Due to this success, the 

committee will continue to have very high expectations for performance by Naval 

Reactors, particularly as it develops and delivers the life-of-ship reactor for the 

Columbia-class submarines. The committee is encouraged by the strong actions 

taken by Naval Reactors to address a manufacturing problem with the prototype 

electric-drive motor for the Columbia class but is mindful that there is no schedule 

margin remaining for delivering this prototype, the reactor, and the Columbia itself. 

The committee notes that, as work on the Columbia-class Reactor System 

Development program ramps down over the 5-year Future Years Nuclear Security 

Program, Naval Reactors is planning increases in its Naval Reactors Development 

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funding. The committee expects Naval Reactors to more clearly justify these 

proposed increases within future budget requests.

The budget request includes a significant, long-planned increase in funding 

for Naval Reactors to begin construction of the Spent Fuel Handling 

Recapitalization Project in Idaho and refueling of the S8G land-based prototype 

reactor in New York. The committee appreciates Naval Reactors' transparency and 

adherence to its planned budget profile. 

The committee recommends $1.79 billion for the Naval Reactors program, 

the amount of the budget request. 

Federal Salaries and Expenses

Management and operating contracts for national security laboratories

The committee notes that the National Nuclear Security Administration 

(NNSA) continues to implement its plans to compete its large management and 

operating (M&O) contracts for running the laboratories and plants of the nuclear 

security enterprise. The committee has long conducted oversight of these plans to 

ensure the costs and benefits of the M&O contract competitions and overall 

contracting strategy are appropriately weighed. Last year, the committee included 

section 3138 in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public 

Law 115-91) to continue this oversight and require an independent organization to 

review NNSA's contracting strategy. Among other matters, this review is required 

to assess the current for-profit contracting model for NNSA's nuclear security 

laboratories. 

The committee is aware that the State of New Mexico recently considered 

legislation that would require NNSA and its M&O laboratory contractors to 

continue paying certain State taxes as a for-profit entity, even if the M&O contract 

is awarded to a non-profit entity. The committee cautions that such an approach 

may be counterproductive and inappropriately interfere with the Federal 

Government's ability to manage its national security laboratories to provide 

maximum value and benefit to national security and U.S. taxpayers. The committee 

understands the important role that these laboratories play in their local 

communities and States, and highlights other means, such as payments in lieu of 

taxes, that the Federal Government may leverage to support such local 

communities. 

Security clearance investigations for the nuclear security enterprise

The committee notes that, while the Office of Personnel Management 

(OPM) has undertaken significant steps to improve the security clearance 

investigation process, the backlog of security clearance investigations continues to 

prevent the Federal Government, including the National Nuclear Security 

Administration’s (NNSA) nuclear security enterprise, from hiring qualified 

personnel in a timely manner. This problem is particularly acute for NNSA as 

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elements of the nuclear security enterprise continue to execute robust hiring plans 

to support the increased workload associated with the nation’s nuclear 

modernization program. In a recent report on the state of the nuclear weapons 

stockpile, the director of one of national security laboratories highlighted this 

challenge, saying that for his laboratory, "1,011 staff were hired in 2016, and about 

1,000 new hires are expected by the end of 2017. This hiring rate is expected to 

continue...However, technical mentoring, particularly by experienced senior staff 

who are on the verge of retiring, is virtually impossible if newly hired staff are 

unable to obtain a security clearance in a timely manner." The director further 

noted that 1,300 DOE "Q" clearances were awaiting approval. 

The committee understands the complexity of this issue and continues to 

seek solutions that enable a robust background review but also timely completion. 

To enhance its oversight, the committee directs the Administrator for Nuclear 

Security, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, 

to provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 

House of Representatives by December 1, 2018, on efforts to streamline and 

improve the security clearance investigation and adjudication process for the 

nuclear security enterprise. Such briefing should include actions taken by NNSA 

and OPM, any planned actions, options for future action, and any recommendations 

of the Administrator regarding statutory changes or other Congressional action.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES

Overview 

The budget request for fiscal year 2019 contained $6.51 billion for 

environmental and other defense activities. The committee recommends $6.56 

billion, an increase of $50.0 million to the budget request.

Defense Environmental Cleanup

Briefings on vapor events at Hanford Site

The committee is concerned about the continuing reports of toxic vapors 

emanating from nuclear waste tanks at the Hanford Site being inhaled by workers. 

Over the past several years, many workers have reported suspicious odors and 

subsequent health effects. The committee notes that additional protective measures 

and guidance have been implemented at the site, but that reported events continue. 

The committee therefore directs the Secretary of Energy, acting through the 

Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, to provide 

semiannual briefings to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 

Representatives, starting on August 31, 2018, and continuing during fiscal year 

2019, on waste tank vapor incidents at the Hanford Site. Such briefings should 

include details on recent vapor inhalation events, any technical data regarding the 

vapors, any health problems caused by the vapors, mitigation measures in place to 

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protect workers from the vapors, engineered or administrative controls being 

considered to prevent such events, and any other information the Secretary 

determines to be relevant. 

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AND AUTHORIZATIONS

Section 3101—National Nuclear Security Administration

This section would authorize appropriations for the National Nuclear 

Security Administration for fiscal year 2019, including funds for weapons activities, 

defense nuclear nonproliferation programs, naval reactor programs, and Federal 

Salaries and Expenses, at the levels specified in the funding table in division D of 

this Act.

This section would also authorize several new plant projects for the 

National Nuclear Security Administration.

Section 3102—Defense Environmental Cleanup

This section would authorize appropriations for defense environmental 

cleanup activities for fiscal year 2019 at the levels specified in the funding table in 

division D of this Act.

Section 3103—Other Defense Activities

This section would authorize appropriations for Other Defense Activities for 

the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2019 at the levels specified in the funding 

table in division D of this Act.

Section 3104—Nuclear Energy

This section would authorize appropriations for certain nuclear energy 

programs for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2019 at the levels specified in 

the funding table in division D of this Act.

SUBTITLE B—PROGRAM AUTHORIZATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, AND LIMITATIONS

Section 3111—Security Clearance for Dual Nationals Employed by National 

Nuclear Security Agency

This section would authorize the Secretary of Energy to apply additional 

security reviews to dual citizens seeking positions that require access to highly 

classified information. The committee expects that any additional security reviews 

will not further exacerbate background investigation backlogs.

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Section 3112—Department of Energy Counterintelligence Polygraph Program

This section would amend section 4504b of the Atomic Energy Defense Act 

(50 U.S.C 2654b) by authorizing the Secretary of Energy to add dual citizens to the 

Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program, for the purposes of 

assessing risk.

Section 3113—Extension of Enhanced Procurement Authority to Manage Supply 

Chain Risk

This section would extend the authority provided by section 2786 of title 50, 

U.S. Code, for an additional 5 years, to June 30, 2023. This authority enables the 

Secretary of Energy to take certain procurement actions to help protect the supply 

chain for certain critical national security technologies. This section would also 

make a technical correction to section 2786 of title 50, U.S. Code. 

Section 3114—Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons

This section would repeal section 3116 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136) related to low-yield 

nuclear weapons. This section would also authorize the Secretary of Energy, acting 

through the Administrator for Nuclear Security, to carry out the engineering 

development phase, and any subsequent phase, to modify or develop a low-yield 

nuclear warhead for submarine-launched ballistic missiles. 

Section 3115—Use of Funds for Construction and Project Support Activities 

Relating to MOX Facility

This section would require the Secretary of Energy to carry out construction 

and project support activities relating to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility 

with any funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made 

available for such purposes for fiscal year 2019. The Secretary would be allowed to 

waive this requirement if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense 

committees the matters described under section 3121(b)(1) of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91).

Section 3116—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Programs in Russian 

Federation 

This section would provide that none of the funds authorized to be 

appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019 for atomic 

energy defense activities may be obligated or expended to enter into a contract with, 

or otherwise provide assistance to, the Russian Federation. The Secretary of 

Energy, without delegation, would be provided the authority to waive this 

prohibition if the Secretary determines, in writing, that a nuclear-related threat in 

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Russia must be addressed urgently and that it is necessary to waive the prohibition 

to address that threat. The waiver could only be used if the Secretary of State and 

the Secretary of Defense concur in that determination, and the Secretary of Energy 

submits a report to the appropriate congressional committees containing 

notification that such waiver is in the national security interest of the United 

States, a justification for such waiver, a description of the activities to be carried out 

pursuant to the waiver, and a period of 7 days elapses. The prohibition and waiver 

contained in this section would not apply to up to $3.0 million that the Secretary of 

Energy may make available for the Department of Energy's Russian Health Studies 

Program.

Section 3117—Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Research and Development 

of Advanced Naval Nuclear Fuel System Based on Low-Enriched Uranium

This section would prohibit any funds authorized to be appropriated by this 

Act for fiscal year 2019 or otherwise made available to the Department of Energy or 

the Department of Defense from being obligated or expended to plan or carry out 

research and development of an advanced naval nuclear fuel system based on lowenriched uranium. The section would provide an exception to this prohibition and 

require that, in accordance with section 7319 of title 10, United States Code, that 

$10.0 million of the funds authorized for defense nuclear nonproliferation within the 

National Nuclear Security Administration's atomic energy defense activities shall 

be made available to the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors for low-enriched 

uranium activities. 

Section 3118—Limitation on Availability of Funds Relating to Submission of 

Annual Reports on Unfunded Priorities

This section would amend section 4716 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act 

(50 U.S.C. 2756) to provide that, for any of fiscal years 2020 through 2024 in which 

the Administrator fails to submit a report pursuant to such section 4716 that 

contains at least one unfunded priority of the National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA), the Administrator for Nuclear Security would be 

prohibited from obligating or expending funds for travel and transportation of 

persons under the NNSA's Federal Salaries and Expenses account until the date on 

which such a report is submitted. 

SUBTITLE C—REPORTS

Section 3121—Notification Regarding Release of Contamination at Hanford Site

This section would require the Assistant Secretary of Energy for 

Environmental Management to promptly notify and provide a briefing to the 

congressional defense committees after any improper release of contamination 

resulting from defense waste at the Hanford Site. 

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SUBTITLE D—OTHER MATTERS

Section 3131—Inclusion of Capital Assets Acquisition Projects in Activities by 

Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation

This section would amend section 3221 of the National Nuclear Security 

Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2411) to include capital assets in the definition of 

major atomic energy defense acquisition programs regarding the authorities of the 

Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation. 

The committee clarifies that this section does not affect the role of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Project Management in overseeing 

implementation of DOE Order 413.3B. 

Section 3132—Whistleblower Protections 

This section would make a series of findings and express the sense of 

Congress regarding nuclear safety and whistleblowers. This section would also 

require the Secretary of Energy, including by acting through the Administrator for 

Nuclear Security as appropriate, to impose civil penalties, as the Secretary or the 

Administrator determine appropriate, on contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers 

for violations of Department of Energy rules, regulations, and orders relating to 

nuclear safety and radiation protection. 

This section would also require the Secretary to define, within 120 days of 

enactment of this Act, what constitutes evidence of a chilled work environment with 

respect to employees and contractors making a whistleblower complaint and would 

require an annual congressional notification on the imposition of any penalties 

related to violations of rules, regulations, and orders by contractors, subcontractors, 

and suppliers. 

TITLE XXXII—DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 3201—Authorization

The budget request contained $31.2 million for the Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board for fiscal year 2019. The committee recommends $31.2 

million, the amount of the budget request. 

TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 3401—Authorization of Appropriations

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This section would authorize $10.0 million for fiscal year 2019 for operation 

and maintenance of the Naval Petroleum Reserves.

TITLE XXXV—MARITIME MATTERS

ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST 

Maritime Security Program

The committee remains deeply concerned by the decrease in our merchant 

mariner fleet. The committee notes that the U.S. commercial presence in the 

international maritime domain has been on a steady decline since its peak in World 

War II and is currently at the lowest level in American history. Of some 40,000 

large, oceangoing commercial vessels in the world today, just 181 sail under the 

U.S. flag, including 81 vessels operating exclusively in international trade. A robust 

commercial shipping industry is vital to the U.S. military's ability to project power 

around the world. The Maritime Security Program (MSP) is critical to U.S. 

sustainment capability and supporting the pool of highly trained Mariners 

necessary to support our government owned Ready Reserve Force fleet when 

activated. Created in 1996, the program helps maintain an active, privately-owned, 

U.S.-flag and U.S.-crewed fleet of 60 militarily useful commercial ships operating in 

international trade. MSP participants receive an annual stipend and their ships are 

available "on-call" to support DOD's global transportation needs. The MSP supports 

employment for 2,400 U.S. merchant mariners, and provides DOD with assured 

access to the critical multibillion-dollar global network of intermodal facilities and 

transport systems maintained by MSP participants. Recent agreements such as the 

2016 US-Israel Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the decision to end 

foreign military financing (FMF) funding for jet fuel purchases may affect the 

ability to project forces in times of future contingencies because of the potential 

diminution of government-impelled cargo. 

Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of the Navy, in consultation 

with the Secretary of Transportation, to provide a briefing to the House Armed 

Services Committee by September 1, 2018 as to the MSP impact, if any, of the 2016 

U.S.-Israel (MOU). Such a briefing shall specifically include an assessment of the 

loss of merchant mariners and the national security impact associated with the 

long-term sustainment of the Ready Reserve Force in times of conflict.

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

SUBTITLE A—MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Section 3501—Authorization of the Maritime Administration

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This section would authorize appropriations for the national security 

aspects of the merchant marine for fiscal year 2019.

Section 3502—Compliance by Ready Reserve Fleet Vessels with SOLAS Lifeboats 

and Fire Suppression Requirements

This section would require the Secretary of Defense to incorporate lifeboat 

and fire suppression standards associated with the International Convention for the 

Safety of Life at Sea for Ready Reserve Fleet vessels that are planned to be retained 

by the Secretary beyond October 1, 2026.

Section 3503—Maritime Administration National Security Multi-Mission Vessel 

Program

This section would limit the Maritime Administration from procuring used 

training vessels for the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program.

The committee notes that the Maritime Administration requested authority 

to procure two used vessels and is concerned that such a short-term strategy would 

not support the long-term maritime academies' interests. The committee continues 

to support the new construction of these training vessels in the United States.

Section 3504—Permanent Authority of Secretary of Transportation to Issue Vessel 

War Risk Insurance

This section would amend chapter 539 of title 46, United States Code, to 

make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Transportation to provide vessel 

war risk insurance.

Section 3505—Use of State Maritime Academy Training Vessels

This section would require the Secretary of Transportation to implement a 

program to share maritime academy training vessels with the State maritime 

academies.

SUBTITLE B—COAST GUARD

Section 3521—Alignment with Department of Defense and Sea Services Authorities

This section would require the Coast Guard to notify the Committee of 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on August 26, 

2018, if there is not in effect any general order or regulation prohibiting sexual 

harassment by members of the Coast Guard and that the violation of such order or 

regulation is punishable in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 

The notification is required to include the status of the drafting of such a regulation, 

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the projected implementation timeline, and an explanation of any barriers to 

implementation. The subsection also amends section 217 of the Coast Guard 

Authorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-281) to include sexual harassment in the 

annual report on sexual assaults reported to the Committee of Transportation and 

Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation of the Senate. 

This section would amend chapter 29 of title 14 by adding a new section, 

Annual Performance Report, to require the Coast Guard to submit to the 

Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 

and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate an 

update on Coast Guard mission performance during the previous fiscal year, and 

make it available on a public website. 

Section 3522—Preliminary Development and Demonstration

This section would amend section 573 of title 14, United States Code, to 

clarify the process to report safety concerns found either by an independent third 

party or a Government employee for acquisition programs or projects or a capability 

or asset or any subsystem of a capability or asset not previously identified during 

operational test and evaluation of a capability or asset already in low, initial or fullrate production.

Section 3523—Contract Termination

This section would amend chapter 17 of title 14, United States Code, by 

inserting a new section 657 to establish a process for contract cancellation, 

including requiring the Coast Guard to notify each vendor when it terminates a 

procurement or acquisition contact with a total value of more than $1.0 million and 

that such vendors are required to maintain all work product related to the contract 

for at least 1 year. Additionally, the Coast Guard shall provide an annual report to 

the Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 

Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 

the Senate on terminated contracts. 

Section 3524—Reimbursement for Travel Expenses

This section would amend section 518 of title 14, United States Code, to 

state that a covered beneficiary and their dependents residing on an island located 

in the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia that lacks public access 

roads to the mainland, shall be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses for 

medical services when referred by a primary care physician to a physician on the 

mainland or the Coast Guard medical regional manager for the area determines 

medical services cannot be provided on the island. 

Section 3525—Capital Investment Plan

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This section would amend section 2902(a) of title 14, United States Code, to 

change the date when the Capital Investment shall be reported to the Committee of 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate to require 

reporting on projected commissioning and decommissioning dates for each asset. 

Section 3526—Major Acquisition Program Risk Assessment

This section would amend chapter 29 of title 14, United States Code, to add 

a section on major acquisition program risk assessment stating that twice a year 

the Coast Guard shall provide to the Committee of Transportation and 

Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation of the Senate a briefing regarding a current 

assessment of risks associated with all current major acquisition programs, 

including breach of program schedule or costs. 

Section 3527—Marine Safety Implementation Status

This section would state that the Coast Guard shall submit a report on the 

date on which the President submits to Congress a budget for fiscal year 2020 and 

for the following two years to the Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure 

of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

Transportation of the Senate on the implementation of each action outlined in the 

Commandant’s final action memo from December 19, 2017. 

Section 3528—Retirement of Vice Commandant

This section would amend section 46 of title 14, United States Code, to state 

that a Vice Commandant who is not reappointed or appointed Commandant shall 

retire with the grade of admiral. 

Section 3529—Large Commercial Yacht Code

This section would require the Secretary of the department in which the 

Coast Guard is operating through the Commandant of the Coast Guard to establish 

a code for certification of certain large commercial yachts. 

SUBTITLE C—COAST GUARD AND SHIPPING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

CHAPTER 1—COAST GUARD

Section 3531—Commandant Defined

 This section amends chapter 1 of title 14, U.S. Code, to add a section with the 

definition of the Commandant as the “Commandant of the Coast Guard”. 

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Throughout title 14, “Commandant of the Coast Guard’’ is replaced with 

“Commandant”. 

Section 3532—Training Course on Workings of Congress

This section would amend section 60(d) of title 14, U.S. Code, by striking an 

outdated training requirement and stating that a Coast Guard flag officer or Coast 

Guard Senior Executive Service employee working in the National Capital Region 

shall complete a training course on the workings of Congress not later than 60 days 

after reporting for duty.

Section 3533—Miscellaneous 

This section would amend multiple sections of title 14, U.S. Codes with 

various technical changes.

Section 3534—Department of Defense Consultation

This section would amend section 566 of title 14, U.S. Code, to change 

“enter into” to “maintain” the memorandum of understanding with the Navy for 

technical assistance. This section would also amend section 566 of title 14, U.S. 

Code, to remove language for an already delivered one-time report on Coast Guard 

acquisitions.

Section 3535—Repeal 

This section would strike section 568 of title 14, U.S. Code, to remove 

guidance on excessive pass-through charges related to the long-defunct Deepwater 

acquisition program. 

Section 3536—Mission Need Statement

This section would amend section 569 of title 14, U.S. Code, to appear after 

section 2904 and renumber this section. This section would also amend subsection 

(a) in section 2904 of title 14, U.S. Code, as so redesignated, to strike “, on the date 

on which the President submits to Congress a budget for fiscal year 2019 under 

such section,” and replaces “for fiscal year 2016” with “for fiscal year 2019”.

Section 3537—Continuation on Active Duty

This section would amend section 290(a) of title 14, U.S. Code, to change 

“Officers, other than the Commandant, serving’’ to ‘‘Officers serving’’ in or above the 

grade of vice admiral are not subject to consideration for continuation under this 

subsection.

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Section 3538—System Acquisition Authorization

This section would amend section 2701(2) of title 14, U.S. Code, to change 

“and aircraft” to “aircraft, and systems” for the requirement for prior authorization 

of appropriations. This section would also amend section 2702(2) of title 14, U.S. 

Code, to change “and aircraft” to “aircraft, and systems” for the appropriations.

Section 3539—Inventory of Real Property

This section would amend section 679(a) of title 14, U.S. Code, to change 

“not later than September 30, 2015, the Commandant shall establish” to “The 

Commandant shall maintain” the inventory of real property. This section would also 

amend section 679(b) of title 14, U.S. Code, to state that the Commandant shall 

update inventory of real property not later than 30 days after any change to control 

of such property.

CHAPTER 2—MARITIME TRANSPORTATION

Section 3541—Definitions

This section would amend section 2101 of title 46, U.S. Code, to add the 

definition of the Commandant as the “Commandant of the Coast Guard”, redesignate existing definitions, and update all cross-references to the definitions in 

46 U.S.C. 2101 throughout the code.

Section 3542—Authority to Exempt Vessels 

This section would amend section 2113 of title 46, U.S. Code, to strike 

subsections (4) and (5) and replace with a new subsection (4) to state that the 

Secretary may maintain different structural fire protection, manning, operating, 

and equipment requirements for vessels.

Section 3543—Passenger Vessels

This section would amend section 3507 of title 46, U.S. Code, to strike 

subsection (a)(3) pertaining to an expired effective date, clarify subsection (e)(2) by 

changing “services confidential” to “services as confidential”, and, in subsection (i), 

replace “Within 6 months after the date of enactment of the Cruise Vessel Security 

and Safety Act of 2010, the Secretary shall issue” with “The Secretary shall 

maintain” for procedures related to passenger vessel security and safety 

requirements. 

This section would also amend section 3508 of title 46, U.S. Code, to strike 

subsection (d) and removes outdated requirements in subsections (a), (c), and (e), as 

redesignated by the section. 

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Section 3544—Tank Vessels 

This section would amend section 3703a, 3705 and 3706 of title 46, U.S. 

Code, to remove outdated requirements. Amends section 1001(32)(A) of the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701(32)(a)) to remove an outdated cross-reference.

Section 3545—Grounds for Denial or Revocation

This section would amend section 7503a and 7704 of title 46, U.S. Code, to 

renumber the subsections after striking previously repealed subsection (a) in each 

section. 

Section 3546—Miscellaneous Corrections to Title 46, U.S.C.

This section would amend miscellaneous sections of title 46, U.S. Code, to 

remove outdated requirements, re-designate subsections, and update crossreferences. 

Section 3547—Miscellaneous Corrections to Oil Pollution Act of 1990

This section would amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701) to 

remove outdated requirements, re-designate subsections, and update crossreferences. 

Section 3548—Miscellaneous Corrections

This section would amend: section 1 of the Act of June 15, 1917 (chapter 30; 

50 U.S.C. 191) to replace the “Secretary of Transportation” with the “Secretary of 

the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.”; section 5(b) of the Act 

entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", 

approved March 23, 1906 (chapter 1130; 33 U.S.C. 495(b)) to remove outdated 

requirements; and section 5(f) of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 

1904(f)) to remove outdated cross-references.

DIVISION D—FUNDING TABLES

Section 4001—Authorization of Amounts in Funding Tables

This section would provide for the allocation of funds among programs, 

projects, and activities in accordance with the tables in division D of this Act, 

subject to reprogramming guidance in accordance with established procedures.

Consistent with the previously expressed views of the committee, this 

section would also require that a decision by an agency head to commit, obligate, or 

expend funds to a specific entity on the basis of such funding tables be based on 

merit-based selection procedures in accordance with the requirements of section 

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2304(k) and section 2374 of title 10, United States Code, and other applicable 

provisions of law.

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DISCRETIONARY AUTHORIZATIONS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE 

National Defense Funding, Base Budget Request 

Function 051, Department of Defense-Military 

Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations 

Title I—Procurement 

Aircraft Procurement, Army ........................................... 3,782,558 223,270 4,005,828 

Missile Procurement, Army ............................................ 3,355,777 494,338 3,850,115 

Weapons & Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army ................ 4,489,118 1,368,521 5,857,639 

Procurement of Ammunition, Army ............................... 2,234,761 249,661 2,484,422 

Other Procurement, Army .............................................. 7,999,529 410,925 8,410,454 

Aircraft Procurement, Navy ........................................... 19,041,799 –327,950 18,713,849 

Weapons Procurement, Navy ......................................... 3,702,393 175,200 3,877,593 

Procurement of Ammunition, Navy & Marine Corps ..... 1,006,209 1,006,209 

Shipbuilding & Conversion, Navy .................................. 21,871,437 1,852,100 23,723,537 

Other Procurement, Navy ............................................... 9,414,355 –377,325 9,037,030 

Procurement, Marine Corps ........................................... 2,860,410 19,900 2,880,310 

Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ..................................... 16,206,937 –673,516 15,533,421 

Missile Procurement, Air Force ...................................... 2,669,454 2,669,454 

Space Procurement, Air Force ....................................... 2,527,542 5,000 2,532,542 

Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force ......................... 1,587,304 –5,000 1,582,304 

Other Procurement, Air Force ........................................ 20,890,164 –235,250 20,654,914 

Procurement, Defense-Wide ........................................... 6,786,271 –18,000 6,768,271 

Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund ........................... 100,025 –100,025 0 

Subtotal, Title I—Procurement ................................... 130,526,043 3,061,849 133,587,892 

Title II—Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army ....... 10,159,379 162,200 10,321,579 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Navy ........ 18,481,666 –94,550 18,387,116 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Air Force 40,178,343 694,100 40,872,443 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, DefenseWide .......................................................................... 22,016,553 97,950 22,114,503 

Operational Test & Evaluation, Defense ....................... 221,009 221,009 

Subtotal, Title II—Research, Development, Test and 

Evaluation ................................................................. 91,056,950 859,700 91,916,650 

Title III—Operation and Maintenance 

Operation & Maintenance, Army ................................... 42,009,317 –2,775,388 39,233,929 

Operation & Maintenance, Army Reserve ..................... 2,916,909 30,000 2,946,909 

Operation & Maintenance, Army National Guard ......... 7,399,295 70,000 7,469,295 

Operation & Maintenance, Navy ................................... 49,003,633 –673,430 48,330,203 

Operation & Maintenance, Marine Corps ...................... 6,832,510 78,100 6,910,610 

Operation & Maintenance, Navy Reserve ...................... 1,027,006 10,000 1,037,006 

Operation & Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve ........ 271,570 16,700 288,270 

Operation & Maintenance, Air Force ............................. 42,060,568 –78,900 41,981,668 

Operation & Maintenance, Air Force Reserve ............... 3,260,234 50,600 3,310,834 

Operation & Maintenance, Air National Guard ............. 6,427,622 23,900 6,451,522 


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Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide ..................... 36,352,625 –745,825 35,606,800 

US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Defense ... 14,662 14,662 

DoD Acquisition Workforce Development Fund ............. 400,000 400,000 

Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster and Civic Aid .......... 107,663 107,663 

Cooperative Threat Reduction ....................................... 335,240 335,240 

Environmental Restoration, Army .................................. 203,449 10,000 213,449 

Environmental Restoration, Navy .................................. 329,253 10,000 339,253 

Environmental Restoration, Air Force ............................ 296,808 50,000 346,808 

Environmental Restoration, Defense ............................. 8,926 8,926 

Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Sites .......... 212,346 212,346 

Subtotal, Title III—Operation and Maintenance ........ 199,469,636 –3,924,243 195,545,393 

Title IV—Military Personnel 

Military Personnel Appropriations ................................. 140,689,301 –700,500 139,988,801 

Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contributions ... 7,533,090 7,533,090 

Subtotal, Title IV—Military Personnel ........................ 148,222,391 –700,500 147,521,891 

Title XIV—Other Authorizations 

Working Capital Fund, Army ......................................... 158,765 158,765 

Working Capital Fund, Air Force ................................... 69,054 69,054 

Working Capital Fund, DECA ......................................... 48,096 48,096 

Working Capital Fund, Defense-Wide ............................ 1,266,200 1,266,200 

National Defense Sealift Fund ...................................... 0 816,752 816,752 

Chemical Agents & Munitions Destruction ................... 993,816 993,816 

Drug Interdiction and Counter Drug Activities ............. 787,525 20,000 807,525 

Office of the Inspector General ..................................... 329,273 5,000 334,273 

Defense Health Program ............................................... 33,729,192 –452,500 33,276,692 

Subtotal, Title XIV—Other Authorizations .................. 37,381,921 389,252 37,771,173 

Total, Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations .......................................................................... 606,656,941 –313,942 606,342,999 

Division B: Military Construction Authorizations 

Military Construction 

Army ............................................................................... 1,011,768 84,100 1,095,868 

Navy ............................................................................... 2,543,189 –4,291 2,538,898 

Air Force ........................................................................ 1,725,707 –154,934 1,570,773 

Defense-Wide ................................................................. 2,693,324 –219,986 2,473,338 

NATO Security Investment Program .............................. 171,064 171,064 

Army National Guard ..................................................... 180,122 11,000 191,122 

Army Reserve ................................................................. 64,919 23,000 87,919 

Navy and Marine Corps Reserve ................................... 43,065 43,065 

Air National Guard ........................................................ 129,126 62,000 191,126 

Air Force Reserve ........................................................... 50,163 84,800 134,963 

Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund ................ 600 600 

Subtotal, Military Construction .................................... 8,613,047 –114,311 8,498,736 

Family Housing 

Construction, Army ........................................................ 330,660 330,660 


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Operation & Maintenance, Army ................................... 376,509 376,509 

Construction, Navy and Marine Corps .......................... 104,581 104,581 

Operation & Maintenance, Navy and Marine Corps ..... 314,536 314,536 

Construction, Air Force .................................................. 78,446 78,446 

Operation & Maintenance, Air Force ............................. 317,274 317,274 

Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide ..................... 58,373 58,373 

Improvement Fund ......................................................... 1,653 1,653 

Subtotal, Family Housing ............................................. 1,582,032 0 1,582,032 

Base Realignment and Closure 

Base Realignment and Closure—Army ........................ 62,796 18,110 80,906 

Base Realignment and Closure—Navy ........................ 151,839 19,110 170,949 

Base Realignment and Closure—Air Force .................. 52,903 18,110 71,013 

Subtotal, Base Realignment and Closure ................... 267,538 55,330 322,868 

Prior Year Savings ......................................................... 0 –71,158 –71,158 

Total, Division B: Military Construction Authorizations .......................................................................... 10,462,617 –130,139 10,332,478 

Total, 051, Department of Defense-Military ............... 617,119,558 –444,081 616,675,477 

Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorization and Other Authorizations 

Function 053, Atomic Energy Defense Activities 

Environmental and Other Defense Activities 

Nuclear Energy .............................................................. 136,090 136,090 

Weapons Activities ........................................................ 11,017,078 198,000 11,215,078 

Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation .................................. 1,862,825 127,000 1,989,825 

Naval Reactors .............................................................. 1,788,618 1,788,618 

Federal Salaries and Expenses ..................................... 422,529 –18,000 404,529 

Defense Environmental Cleanup ................................... 5,630,217 50,000 5,680,217 

Other Defense Activities ................................................ 853,300 853,300 

Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal .................................. 30,000 30,000 

Subtotal, Environmental and Other Defense Activities ............................................................................ 21,740,657 357,000 22,097,657 

Independent Federal Agency Authorization 

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board ....................... 31,243 31,243 

Subtotal, Independent Federal Agency Authorization 31,243 0 31,243 

Subtotal, 053, Atomic Energy Defense Activities ....... 21,771,900 357,000 22,128,900 

Function 054, Defense-Related Activities 

Other Agency Authorizations 

Maritime Security Program ............................................ 214,000 86,000 300,000 

Subtotal, Independent Federal Agency Authorization 214,000 86,000 300,000 


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Subtotal, 054, Defense-Related Activities .................. 214,000 86,000 300,000 

Subtotal, Division C: Department of Energy National 

Security Authorization and Other Authorizations .. 21,985,900 443,000 22,428,900 

Total, National Defense Funding, Base Budget Request ......................................................................... 639,105,458 –1,081 639,104,377 

National Defense Funding, Overseas Contingency Operations 

Function 051, Department of Defense-Military 

Procurement 

Aircraft Procurement, Army ........................................... 363,363 –54,270 309,093 

Missile Procurement, Army ............................................ 1,802,351 –646,938 1,155,413 

Weapons & Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army ................ 1,107,183 –1,095,521 11,662 

Procurement of Ammunition, Army ............................... 309,525 –211,661 97,864 

Other Procurement, Army .............................................. 1,382,047 –273,125 1,108,922 

Aircraft Procurement, Navy ........................................... 80,119 80,119 

Weapons Procurement, Navy ......................................... 14,134 14,134 

Procurement of Ammunition, Navy & Marine Corps ..... 246,541 246,541 

Other Procurement, Navy ............................................... 187,173 187,173 

Procurement, Marine Corps ........................................... 58,023 58,023 

Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ..................................... 1,018,888 –192,700 826,188 

Missile Procurement, Air Force ...................................... 493,526 493,526 

Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force ......................... 1,421,516 1,421,516 

Other Procurement, Air Force ........................................ 3,725,944 3,725,944 

Procurement, Defense-Wide ........................................... 572,135 572,135 

National Guard & Reserve Equipment .......................... 0 150,000 150,000 

Subtotal, Procurement ................................................. 12,782,468 –2,324,215 10,458,253 

Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army ....... 325,104 –40,000 285,104 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Navy ........ 167,812 167,812 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Air Force 314,271 314,271 

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, DefenseWide .......................................................................... 500,544 500,544 

Subtotal, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation ............................................................................ 1,307,731 –40,000 1,267,731 

Operation and Maintenance 

Operation & Maintenance, Army ................................... 18,210,500 2,314,057 20,524,557 

Operation & Maintenance, Army Reserve ..................... 41,887 41,887 

Operation & Maintenance, Army National Guard ......... 110,729 110,729 

Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ................................ 5,199,450 5,199,450 

Counter-ISIS Train & Equip Fund ................................. 1,400,000 1,400,000 

Operation & Maintenance, Navy ................................... 4,757,155 4,757,155 

Operation & Maintenance, Marine Corps ...................... 1,121,900 1,121,900 

Operation & Maintenance, Navy Reserve ...................... 25,637 25,637 

Operation & Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve ........ 3,345 3,345 


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Operation & Maintenance, Air Force ............................. 9,285,789 9,285,789 

Operation & Maintenance, Air Force Reserve ............... 60,500 60,500 

Operation & Maintenance, Air National Guard ............. 15,870 15,870 

Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide ..................... 8,549,908 –200,000 8,349,908 

Ukraine Security Assistance .......................................... 0 250,000 250,000 

Subtotal, Operation and Maintenance ........................ 48,782,670 2,364,057 51,146,727 

Military Personnel 

Military Personnel Appropriations ................................. 4,660,661 4,660,661 

Subtotal, Military Personnel ........................................ 4,660,661 0 4,660,661 

Other Authorizations 

Working Capital Fund, Army ......................................... 6,600 6,600 

Working Capital Fund, Air Force ................................... 8,590 8,590 

Drug Interdiction and Counter Drug Activities ............. 153,100 153,100 

Office of the Inspector General ..................................... 24,692 24,692 

Defense Health Program ............................................... 352,068 352,068 

Subtotal, Other Authorizations .................................... 545,050 0 545,050 

Military Construction 

Army ............................................................................... 261,250 –69,000 192,250 

Navy ............................................................................... 227,320 227,320 

Air Force ........................................................................ 345,800 69,000 414,800 

Defense-Wide ................................................................. 87,050 87,050 

Subtotal, Military Construction .................................... 921,420 0 921,420 

Total, National Defense Funding, Overseas Contingency Operations ..................................................... 69,000,000 –158 68,999,842 

Total, National Defense ................................................ 708,105,458 –1,239 708,104,219 

MEMORANDUM: NON-DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Title XIV—Armed Forces Retirement Home (Function 

600) ........................................................................... 64,300 64,300 

Title XXXIV—Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves 

(Function 270) .......................................................... 10,000 10,000 

MEMORANDUM: TRANSFER AUTHORITIES (NON-ADD) 

Title X—General Transfer Authority .............................. [5,000,000 ] [5,000,000 ] 

Title XV—Special Transfer Authority ............................ [4,500,000 ] [4,500,000 ] 

MEMORANDUM: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS NOT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE (NON-ADD) 

Defense Production Act ................................................. [38,578 ] [38,578 ] 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

FY 2019 

Request 

House 

Change 

House 

Authorized 

Summary, Discretionary Authorizations Within the Jurisdiction of the Armed Services Committee 

SUBTOTAL, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (051) ......................... 617,119,558 –444,081 616,675,477 

SUBTOTAL, ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROGRAMS (053) ...... 21,771,900 357,000 22,128,900 

SUBTOTAL, DEFENSE-RELATED ACTIVITIES (054) ................... 214,000 86,000 300,000 

TOTAL, NATIONAL DEFENSE (050)—BASE BILL ...................... 639,105,458 –1,081 639,104,377 

TOTAL, OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS ...................... 69,000,000 –158 68,999,842 

GRAND TOTAL, NATIONAL DEFENSE ........................................ 708,105,458 –1,239 708,104,219 

Scoring adjustments to account for transfers out already credited to 050 by OMB 

Transfers to non-Defense budget functions ........................... –128,000 –128,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 051 ...................................... –128,000 –128,000 

Base National Defense Discretionary Programs that are Not In the Jurisdiction of the Armed Services 

Committee or Do Not Require Additional Authorization (CBO Estimates) 

Defense Production Act Purchases ......................................... 39,000 39,000 

Indefinite Account: Disposal Of DOD Real Property ............... 8,000 8,000 

Indefinite Account: Lease Of DOD Real Property .................... 36,000 36,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 051 ...................................... 83,000 83,000 

Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program .................. 120,000 120,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 053 ...................................... 120,000 120,000 

Other Discretionary Programs ................................................. 7,819,542 7,819,542 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 054 ...................................... 7,819,542 7,819,542 

Total Defense Discretionary Adjustments (050) ................... 8,022,542 8,022,542 

Budget Authority Implication, National Defense Discretionary 

Department of Defense--Military (051) ................................... 686,074,558 –444,239 685,630,319 

Atomic Energy Defense Activities (053) .................................. 21,891,900 357,000 22,248,900 

Defense-Related Activities (054) ............................................ 8,033,542 86,000 8,119,542 

Total BA Implication, National Defense Discretionary ........ 716,000,000 –1,239 715,998,761 

National Defense Mandatory Programs, Current Law (CBO Baseline) 

Concurrent receipt accrual payments to the Military Retirement Fund ........................................................................... 7,720,000 7,720,000 

Revolving, trust and other DOD Mandatory ............................ 1,794,000 1,794,000 

Offsetting receipts ................................................................... –1,855,000 –1,855,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 051 ...................................... 7,659,000 7,659,000 

Energy employees occupational illness compensation programs and other ................................................................. 1,277,000 1,277,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 053 ...................................... 1,277,000 1,277,000 

Radiation exposure compensation trust fund ........................ 50,000 50,000 

Payment to CIA retirement fund and other ............................ 514,000 514,000 

Subtotal, Budget Sub-Function 054 ...................................... 564,000 564,000 

Total National Defense Mandatory (050) .............................. 9,500,000 9,500,000 

Budget Authority Implication, National Defense Discretionary and Mandatory 

Department of Defense--Military (051) ................................... 693,733,558 –444,239 693,289,319 

Atomic Energy Defense Activities (053) .................................. 23,168,900 357,000 23,525,900 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

FY 2019 

Request 

House 

Change 

House 

Authorized 

Defense-Related Activities (054) ............................................ 8,597,542 86,000 8,683,542 

Total BA Implication, National Defense Discretionary and 

Mandatory ........................................................................... 725,500,000 –1,239 725,498,761 


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SEC. 4101. PROCUREMENT. 

SEC. 4101. PROCUREMENT 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY FIXED WING 

002 UTILITY F/W AIRCRAFT ........................................................................................ 744 003 MQ–1 UAV ........................................................................................................... 43,326 60,000 

MQ–1 Gray Eagle Service Life Extension Program ................................... [60,000 ] 

004 RQ–11 (RAVEN) ................................................................................................... 46,416 

ROTARY 

007 AH–64 APACHE BLOCK IIIA REMAN .................................................................... 48 753,248 48 008 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 174,550 009 AH–64 APACHE BLOCK IIIB NEW BUILD ............................................................. 12 284,687 12 

Additional AH–64Es to address ARNG shortfalls ...................................... [6 ] [192,000 ] Realignment to cover ARNG shortfalls ...................................................... [–6 ] [–192,000 ] 

010 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 58,600 011 UH–60 BLACKHAWK M MODEL (MYP) ................................................................. 49 988,810 5 85,000 54 

Additional UH–60Ms for ARNG .................................................................. [5 ] [85,000 ] 

012 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 106,150 013 UH–60 BLACK HAWK A AND L MODELS .............................................................. 18 146,138 18 014 CH–47 HELICOPTER ............................................................................................ 6 99,278 6 015 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 24,235 

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Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

018 UNIVERSAL GROUND CONTROL EQUIPMENT (UAS) ............................................. 27,114 019 GRAY EAGLE MODS2 ........................................................................................... 97,781 

020 MULTI SENSOR ABN RECON (MIP) ...................................................................... 52,274 14,000 

Army UFR: program increase ..................................................................... [14,000 ] 

021 AH–64 MODS ....................................................................................................... 104,996 022 CH–47 CARGO HELICOPTER MODS (MYP) .......................................................... 7,807 023 GRCS SEMA MODS (MIP) .................................................................................... 5,573 

024 ARL SEMA MODS (MIP) ....................................................................................... 7,522 025 EMARSS SEMA MODS (MIP) ................................................................................ 20,448 

026 UTILITY/CARGO AIRPLANE MODS ......................................................................... 17,719 027 UTILITY HELICOPTER MODS ................................................................................. 6,443 10,000 

UH–72A Life-Cycle Sustainability .............................................................. [10,000 ] 

028 NETWORK AND MISSION PLAN ............................................................................ 123,614 

029 COMMS, NAV SURVEILLANCE .............................................................................. 161,969 030 DEGRADED VISUAL ENVIRONMENT ...................................................................... 30,000 031 GATM ROLLUP ..................................................................................................... 26,848 032 RQ–7 UAV MODS ................................................................................................. 103,246 50,868 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [50,868 ] 

033 UAS MODS ........................................................................................................... 17,644 3,402 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [3,402 ] 

GROUND SUPPORT AVIONICS 

034 AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY EQUIPMENT ................................................................ 57,170 

035 SURVIVABILITY CM .............................................................................................. 5,853 036 CMWS .................................................................................................................. 13,496 037 COMMON INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (CIRCM) ............................................ 36,839 

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038 AVIONICS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 1,778 039 COMMON GROUND EQUIPMENT ........................................................................... 34,818 

040 AIRCREW INTEGRATED SYSTEMS ........................................................................ 27,243 

041 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ........................................................................................ 63,872 042 INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ....................................................................................... 1,417 043 LAUNCHER, 2.75 ROCKET ................................................................................... 1,901 

044 LAUNCHER GUIDED MISSILE: LONGBOW HELLFIRE XM2 .................................... 991 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY .............................................. 133 3,782,558 5 223,270 138 

MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM 

001 LOWER TIER AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE (AMD) ................................................. 111,395 

002 MSE MISSILE ....................................................................................................... 179 871,276 260,000 179 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [260,000 ] 

003 INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION CAPABILITY INC 2–I .............................................. 145,636 004 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 31,286 

AIR-TO-SURFACE MISSILE SYSTEM 

006 JOINT AIR-TO-GROUND MSLS (JAGM) .................................................................. 1,046 276,462 –27,600 1,046 

Unit cost and engineering services cost growth ...................................... [–27,600 ] 

ANTI-TANK/ASSAULT MISSILE SYS 

008 JAVELIN (AAWS-M) SYSTEM SUMMARY ............................................................... 709 303,665 –36,200 709 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus for command launch units ....... [–50,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [13,800 ] 

009 TOW 2 SYSTEM SUMMARY .................................................................................. 1,472 105,014 1,472 010 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 19,949 

011 GUIDED MLRS ROCKET (GMLRS) ......................................................................... 3,267 359,613 –30,000 3,267 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–30,000 ] 

012 MLRS REDUCED RANGE PRACTICE ROCKETS (RRPR) ........................................ 2,214 20,964 2,214 013 HIGH MOBILITY ARTILLERY ROCKET SYSTEM (HIMARS ...................................... 171,138 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [171,138 ] 

MODIFICATIONS 

015 PATRIOT MODS .................................................................................................... 313,228 20,000 


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Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

Increase PATRIOT Mod efforts ................................................................... [20,000 ] 

016 ATACMS MODS .................................................................................................... 221,656 15,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–65,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [80,000 ] 

017 GMLRS MOD ........................................................................................................ 266 018 STINGER MODS .................................................................................................... 94,756 019 AVENGER MODS .................................................................................................. 48,670 020 ITAS/TOW MODS .................................................................................................. 3,173 021 MLRS MODS ........................................................................................................ 383,216 122,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [122,000 ] 

022 HIMARS MODIFICATIONS ...................................................................................... 10,196 

SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

023 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 27,737 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 

024 AIR DEFENSE TARGETS ....................................................................................... 6,417 025 PRODUCTION BASE SUPPORT .............................................................................. 1,202 

TOTAL MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY ................................................. 8,887 3,355,777 494,338 8,887 

PROCUREMENT OF W&TCV, ARMY TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 

001 BRADLEY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 205,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [205,000 ] 

002 ARMORED MULTI PURPOSE VEHICLE (AMPV) ..................................................... 131 479,801 230,359 131 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [230,359 ] 

MODIFICATION OF TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 

004 STRYKER (MOD) .................................................................................................. 287,490 –149,300 


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005 STRYKER UPGRADE ............................................................................................. 3 21,900 110 338,100 113 

A1 conversions for 5th SBCT ..................................................................... [61 ] [188,800 ] Army requested realignment—A1 conversions for 5th SBCT ................... [49 ] [149,300 ] 

006 BRADLEY PROGRAM (MOD) ................................................................................. 625,424 50,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [50,000 ] 

007 M109 FOV MODIFICATIONS .................................................................................. 26,482 008 PALADIN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT (PIM) ........................................................ 30 351,802 142,000 30 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [67,000 ] Smooth funding production profile ............................................................ [75,000 ] 

009 IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88A2 HERCULES) ......................................... 26 110,500 42,354 26 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [42,354 ] 

010 ASSAULT BRIDGE (MOD) ..................................................................................... 2,120 

011 ASSAULT BREACHER VEHICLE ............................................................................. 12 62,407 12 012 M88 FOV MODS ................................................................................................... 4,517 

013 JOINT ASSAULT BRIDGE ....................................................................................... 30 142,255 30 014 M1 ABRAMS TANK (MOD) .................................................................................... 927,600 34,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [34,000 ] 

015 ABRAMS UPGRADE PROGRAM ............................................................................. 95 1,075,999 455,000 95 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [455,000 ] 

WEAPONS & OTHER COMBAT VEHICLES 

018 M240 MEDIUM MACHINE GUN (7.62MM) ............................................................ 1,955 5,126 

Program Increase—M240L and M240B .................................................... [5,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [126 ] 

019 MULTI-ROLE ANTI-ARMOR ANTI-PERSONNEL WEAPON S .................................... 23,345 020 GUN AUTOMATIC 30MM M230 ............................................................................ 7,434 021 MACHINE GUN, CAL .50 M2 ROLL ...................................................................... 22,330 

022 MORTAR SYSTEMS ............................................................................................... 12,470 180 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [180 ] 

023 XM320 GRENADE LAUNCHER MODULE (GLM) ..................................................... 697 024 COMPACT SEMI-AUTOMATIC SNIPER SYSTEM ..................................................... 46,236 

025 CARBINE .............................................................................................................. 69,306 1,800 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [1,800 ] 

026 SMALL ARMS—FIRE CONTROL ........................................................................... 7,929 

027 COMMON REMOTELY OPERATED WEAPONS STATION .......................................... 35,968 3,378 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [3,378 ] 

028 HANDGUN ............................................................................................................ 48,251 

MOD OF WEAPONS AND OTHER COMBAT VEH 

029 MK–19 GRENADE MACHINE GUN MODS ............................................................. 1,684 030 M777 MODS ........................................................................................................ 3,086 031 M4 CARBINE MODS ............................................................................................. 31,575 4,200 

Additional free-float forward extended rails ............................................. [4,200 ] 

032 M2 50 CAL MACHINE GUN MODS ....................................................................... 21,600 4,920 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [4,920 ] 

033 M249 SAW MACHINE GUN MODS ........................................................................ 3,924 

034 M240 MEDIUM MACHINE GUN MODS .................................................................. 6,940 7 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [7 ] 

035 SNIPER RIFLES MODIFICATIONS .......................................................................... 2,747 

036 M119 MODIFICATIONS ......................................................................................... 5,704 037 MORTAR MODIFICATION ....................................................................................... 3,965 038 MODIFICATIONS LESS THAN $5.0M (WOCV-WTCV) .............................................. 5,577 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 

039 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (WOCV-WTCV) ............................................................. 3,174 1,397 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [1,397 ] 

040 PRODUCTION BASE SUPPORT (WOCV-WTCV) ...................................................... 3,284 041 SMALL ARMS EQUIPMENT (SOLDIER ENH PROG) ............................................... 1,640 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF W&TCV, ARMY ............................................. 327 4,489,118 110 1,368,521 437 


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PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY SMALL/MEDIUM CAL AMMUNITION 

001 CTG, 5.56MM, ALL TYPES ................................................................................... 41,848 3,392 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [3,392 ] 

002 CTG, 7.62MM, ALL TYPES ................................................................................... 86,199 40 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [40 ] 

003 CTG, HANDGUN, ALL TYPES ................................................................................ 20,158 17 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [17 ] 

004 CTG, .50 CAL, ALL TYPES ................................................................................... 65,573 189 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [189 ] 

005 CTG, 20MM, ALL TYPES ...................................................................................... 8,198 

007 CTG, 30MM, ALL TYPES ...................................................................................... 77,995 25,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [25,000 ] 

008 CTG, 40MM, ALL TYPES ...................................................................................... 69,781 

MORTAR AMMUNITION 

009 60MM MORTAR, ALL TYPES ................................................................................ 45,280 218 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [218 ] 

010 81MM MORTAR, ALL TYPES ................................................................................ 46,853 484 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [484 ] 

011 120MM MORTAR, ALL TYPES .............................................................................. 83,003 

TANK AMMUNITION 

012 CARTRIDGES, TANK, 105MM AND 120MM, ALL TYPES ....................................... 168,101 

ARTILLERY AMMUNITION 

013 ARTILLERY CARTRIDGES, 75MM & 105MM, ALL TYPES ..................................... 39,341 

014 ARTILLERY PROJECTILE, 155MM, ALL TYPES ...................................................... 211,442 79,400 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [79,400 ] 

015 PROJ 155MM EXTENDED RANGE M982 ............................................................... 1,189 100,906 51,700 1,189 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [51,700 ] 

016 ARTILLERY PROPELLANTS, FUZES AND PRIMERS, ALL ....................................... 236,677 31,900 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–15,000 ] Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–2,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [48,900 ] 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

MINES 

017 MINES & CLEARING CHARGES, ALL TYPES ......................................................... 15,905 

ROCKETS 

018 SHOULDER LAUNCHED MUNITIONS, ALL TYPES .................................................. 4,503 1,572 27,242 1,572 

Army UFR: bunker defeat munitions ......................................................... [1,572 ] [25,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [2,242 ] 

019 ROCKET, HYDRA 70, ALL TYPES ......................................................................... 211,211 20,000 30,000 20,000 

Army UFR: additional HYDRA rockets ........................................................ [20,000 ] [30,000 ] 

OTHER AMMUNITION 

020 CAD/PAD, ALL TYPES ........................................................................................... 10,428 021 DEMOLITION MUNITIONS, ALL TYPES .................................................................. 44,656 5 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [5 ] 

022 GRENADES, ALL TYPES ........................................................................................ 19,896 8 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [8 ] 

023 SIGNALS, ALL TYPES ........................................................................................... 10,121 024 SIMULATORS, ALL TYPES ..................................................................................... 11,464 

MISCELLANEOUS 

025 AMMO COMPONENTS, ALL TYPES ........................................................................ 5,224 026 NON-LETHAL AMMUNITION, ALL TYPES ............................................................... 4,310 027 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION (AMMO) .............................................................. 11,193 66 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [66 ] 

028 AMMUNITION PECULIAR EQUIPMENT ................................................................... 10,500 029 FIRST DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION (AMMO) .................................................. 18,456 030 CLOSEOUT LIABILITIES ........................................................................................ 100 

PRODUCTION BASE SUPPORT 

032 INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ....................................................................................... 394,133 


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033 CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS DEMILITARIZATION .................................................. 157,535 034 ARMS INITIATIVE .................................................................................................. 3,771 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY ................................... 1,189 2,234,761 21,572 249,661 22,761 

OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY TACTICAL VEHICLES 

001 TACTICAL TRAILERS/DOLLY SETS ........................................................................ 16,512 

002 SEMITRAILERS, FLATBED: .................................................................................... 16,951 8,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [8,000 ] 

003 AMBULANCE, 4 LITTER, 5/4 TON, 4X4 ................................................................ 50,123 20,770 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [20,770 ] 

004 GROUND MOBILITY VEHICLES (GMV) .................................................................. 46,988 –10,000 

Unobligated Balances ................................................................................ [–10,000 ] 

005 ARNG HMMWV MODERNIZATION PROGRAM ........................................................ 25,000 

Additional HMMWVs ................................................................................... [25,000 ] 

006 JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE .......................................................................... 1,319,436 007 TRUCK, DUMP, 20T (CCE) ................................................................................... 6,480 008 FAMILY OF MEDIUM TACTICAL VEH (FMTV) ........................................................ 132,882 009 FIRETRUCKS & ASSOCIATED FIREFIGHTING EQUIP ............................................. 14,842 010 FAMILY OF HEAVY TACTICAL VEHICLES (FHTV) ................................................... 138,105 115,400 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [115,400 ] 

012 HVY EXPANDED MOBILE TACTICAL TRUCK EXT SERV ......................................... 31,892 6,682 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [6,682 ] 

013 TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLE PROTECTION KITS ................................................ 38,128 50,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [50,000 ] 

014 MODIFICATION OF IN SVC EQUIP ........................................................................ 78,507 377 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [377 ] 

015 MINE-RESISTANT AMBUSH-PROTECTED (MRAP) MODS ....................................... 27,000 

SFAB emerging requirements .................................................................... [27,000 ] 

NON-TACTICAL VEHICLES 

016 HEAVY ARMORED VEHICLE .................................................................................. 790 

017 PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES ....................................................................... 1,390 


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Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

018 NONTACTICAL VEHICLES, OTHER ......................................................................... 15,415 

COMM—JOINT COMMUNICATIONS 

020 SIGNAL MODERNIZATION PROGRAM .................................................................... 150,777 

021 TACTICAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY MOD IN SVC ................................................ 469,117 64,000 

Additional TCN-L, NOSC-L, and next generation embedded kits for 

IBCTs and SBCTs.

[64,000 ] 

022 SITUATION INFORMATION TRANSPORT ................................................................. 62,727 023 JOINT INCIDENT SITE COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY ......................................... 13,895 

024 JCSE EQUIPMENT (USREDCOM) ........................................................................... 4,866 

COMM—SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 

027 DEFENSE ENTERPRISE WIDEBAND SATCOM SYSTEMS ........................................ 108,133 

028 TRANSPORTABLE TACTICAL COMMAND COMMUNICATIONS ................................ 56,737 

029 SHF TERM ............................................................................................................ 13,100 030 SMART-T (SPACE) ................................................................................................ 9,160 

031 GLOBAL BRDCST SVC—GBS ............................................................................... 25,647 032 ENROUTE MISSION COMMAND (EMC) ................................................................. 37,401 

COMM—C3 SYSTEM 

036 COE TACTICAL SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE (TSI) ................................................. 20,500 

COMM—COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS 

037 JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM .......................................................................... 1,560 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [1,560 ] 

038 HANDHELD MANPACK SMALL FORM FIT (HMS) ................................................... 351,565 040 RADIO TERMINAL SET, MIDS LVT(2) .................................................................... 4,641 041 TRACTOR DESK .................................................................................................... 2,187 042 TRACTOR RIDE .................................................................................................... 9,411 13,200 

Army UFR: program increase ..................................................................... [13,200 ] 


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044 SPIDER FAMILY OF NETWORKED MUNITIONS INCR ............................................. 17,515 

045 TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND PROTECTIVE SYSTEM .................................... 819 046 UNIFIED COMMAND SUITE ................................................................................... 17,807 047 COTS COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ................................................................. 191,835 17,000 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–5,000 ] Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [22,000 ] 

048 FAMILY OF MED COMM FOR COMBAT CASUALTY CARE ..................................... 25,177 

COMM—INTELLIGENCE COMM 

050 CI AUTOMATION ARCHITECTURE (MIP) ................................................................ 9,740 051 DEFENSE MILITARY DECEPTION INITIATIVE ......................................................... 2,667 

INFORMATION SECURITY 

053 FAMILY OF BIOMETRICS ...................................................................................... 8,319 

054 INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY PROGRAM-ISSP .............................................. 2,000 

055 COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY (COMSEC) ............................................................ 88,337 3 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [3 ] 

056 DEFENSIVE CYBER OPERATIONS ......................................................................... 51,343 

057 INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM—UNIT ACTIVITY MONITO ....................................... 330 058 PERSISTENT CYBER TRAINING ENVIRONMENT .................................................... 3,000 

COMM—LONG HAUL COMMUNICATIONS 

059 BASE SUPPORT COMMUNICATIONS ..................................................................... 34,434 

COMM—BASE COMMUNICATIONS 

060 INFORMATION SYSTEMS ...................................................................................... 95,558 061 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MODERNIZATION PROGRAM .................................... 4,736 062 HOME STATION MISSION COMMAND CENTERS (HSMCC) .................................... 24,479 

063 INSTALLATION INFO INFRASTRUCTURE MOD PROGRAM ...................................... 216,433 9,050 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [9,050 ] 

ELECT EQUIP—TACT INT REL ACT (TIARA) 

066 JTT/CIBS-M (MIP) ................................................................................................ 10,268 

068 DCGS-A (MIP) ...................................................................................................... 261,863 069 JOINT TACTICAL GROUND STATION (JTAGS) (MIP) .............................................. 5,434 

070 TROJAN (MIP) ...................................................................................................... 20,623 600 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [600 ] 


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071 MOD OF IN-SVC EQUIP (INTEL SPT) (MIP) .......................................................... 45,998 

072 CI HUMINT AUTO REPRTING & COLL(CHARCS)(MIP) .......................................... 296 

076 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (MIP) .......................................................................... 410 

ELECT EQUIP—ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) 

077 LIGHTWEIGHT COUNTER MORTAR RADAR ........................................................... 9,165 078 EW PLANNING & MANAGEMENT TOOLS (EWPMT) ............................................... 5,875 

079 AIR VIGILANCE (AV) (MIP) ................................................................................... 8,497 

083 CI MODERNIZATION (MIP) ................................................................................... 486 

ELECT EQUIP—TACTICAL SURV. (TAC SURV) 

084 SENTINEL MODS .................................................................................................. 79,629 085 NIGHT VISION DEVICES ....................................................................................... 153,180 86 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [86 ] 

086 LONG RANGE ADVANCED SCOUT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ................................. 2,861 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [2,861 ] 

087 SMALL TACTICAL OPTICAL RIFLE MOUNTED MLRF ............................................. 22,882 

088 RADIATION MONITORING SYSTEMS ...................................................................... 17,393 11 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [11 ] 

090 INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION FAMILY OF SYSTEMS ............................................. 46,740 262 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [262 ] 

091 FAMILY OF WEAPON SIGHTS (FWS) ..................................................................... 140,737 –8,775 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [525 ] Unexecutable funds ................................................................................... [–9,300 ] 

093 PROFILER ............................................................................................................. 171 094 JOINT BATTLE COMMAND—PLATFORM (JBC-P) .................................................. 405,239 26,146 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [26,146 ] 

095 JOINT EFFECTS TARGETING SYSTEM (JETS) ........................................................ 66,574 


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096 MOD OF IN-SVC EQUIP (LLDR) ............................................................................ 20,783 4,050 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [4,050 ] 

097 COMPUTER BALLISTICS: LHMBC XM32 ............................................................... 8,553 098 MORTAR FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM ........................................................................ 21,489 

099 COUNTERFIRE RADARS ........................................................................................ 162,121 

ELECT EQUIP—TACTICAL C2 SYSTEMS 

100 ARMY COMMAND POST INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE ( .................................. 2,855 

101 FIRE SUPPORT C2 FAMILY .................................................................................. 19,153 

102 AIR & MSL DEFENSE PLANNING & CONTROL SYS .............................................. 33,837 103 LIFE CYCLE SOFTWARE SUPPORT (LCSS) ........................................................... 5,136 

104 NETWORK MANAGEMENT INITIALIZATION AND SERVICE ...................................... 18,329 105 MANEUVER CONTROL SYSTEM (MCS) ................................................................. 38,015 106 GLOBAL COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM-ARMY (GCSS-A) ........................................ 15,164 107 INTEGRATED PERSONNEL AND PAY SYSTEM-ARMY (IPP .................................... 29,239 

109 RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENT SET ....................................... 6,823 110 MOD OF IN-SVC EQUIPMENT (ENFIRE) ................................................................ 1,177 

ELECT EQUIP—AUTOMATION 

111 ARMY TRAINING MODERNIZATION ....................................................................... 12,265 112 AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING EQUIP ............................................................... 201,875 113 GENERAL FUND ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SYSTEMS FAM ..................................... 10,976 114 HIGH PERF COMPUTING MOD PGM (HPCMP) ...................................................... 66,330 115 CONTRACT WRITING SYSTEM .............................................................................. 5,927 

116 RESERVE COMPONENT AUTOMATION SYS (RCAS) .............................................. 27,896 

ELECT EQUIP—AUDIO VISUAL SYS (A/V) 

117 TACTICAL DIGITAL MEDIA .................................................................................... 4,392 

118 ITEMS LESS THAN $5M (SURVEYING EQUIPMENT) ............................................. 1,970 

ELECT EQUIP—SUPPORT 

119 PRODUCTION BASE SUPPORT (C-E) .................................................................... 506 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

120A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 4,501 

CHEMICAL DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT 

121 PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS ......................................................................................... 2,314 27 


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122 FAMILY OF NON-LETHAL EQUIPMENT (FNLE) ...................................................... 7,478 

124 CBRN DEFENSE ................................................................................................... 173,954 317 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [317 ] 

BRIDGING EQUIPMENT 

125 TACTICAL BRIDGING ............................................................................................ 98,229 126 TACTICAL BRIDGE, FLOAT-RIBBON ...................................................................... 64,438 

127 COMMON BRIDGE TRANSPORTER (CBT) RECAP ................................................. 79,916 

ENGINEER (NON-CONSTRUCTION) EQUIPMENT 

128 HANDHELD STANDOFF MINEFIELD DETECTION SYS-HST ..................................... 8,471 129 GRND STANDOFF MINE DETECTN SYSM (GSTAMIDS) .......................................... 29,883 130 AREA MINE DETECTION SYSTEM (AMDS) ............................................................ 11,594 1 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [1 ] 

131 HUSKY MOUNTED DETECTION SYSTEM (HMDS) .................................................. 40,834 

132 ROBOTIC COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM (RCSS) ..................................................... 4,029 133 EOD ROBOTICS SYSTEMS RECAPITALIZATION ..................................................... 14,208 

134 ROBOTICS AND APPLIQUE SYSTEMS ................................................................... 31,456 136 REMOTE DEMOLITION SYSTEMS .......................................................................... 1,748 1 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [1 ] 

137 < $5M, COUNTERMINE EQUIPMENT .................................................................... 7,829 

138 FAMILY OF BOATS AND MOTORS ......................................................................... 5,806 

COMBAT SERVICE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

139 HEATERS AND ECU’S ........................................................................................... 9,852 

140 SOLDIER ENHANCEMENT ..................................................................................... 1,103 141 PERSONNEL RECOVERY SUPPORT SYSTEM (PRSS) ............................................ 5,875 142 GROUND SOLDIER SYSTEM ................................................................................. 92,487 


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143 MOBILE SOLDIER POWER .................................................................................... 30,774 145 FIELD FEEDING EQUIPMENT ................................................................................ 17,521 146 CARGO AERIAL DEL & PERSONNEL PARACHUTE SYSTEM .................................. 44,855 147 FAMILY OF ENGR COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION SETS ....................................... 17,173 

148 ITEMS LESS THAN $5M (ENG SPT) ..................................................................... 2,000 

PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT 

149 QUALITY SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT .................................................................. 1,770 

150 DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, PETROLEUM & WATER ................................................ 39,730 

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 

151 COMBAT SUPPORT MEDICAL ............................................................................... 57,752 20,000 

Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training. [20,000 ] 

MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT 

152 MOBILE MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS .................................................... 37,722 

153 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (MAINT EQ) ................................................................. 4,985 268 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [268 ] 

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 

155 SCRAPERS, EARTHMOVING .................................................................................. 7,961 156 HYDRAULIC EXCAVATOR ...................................................................................... 1,355 158 ALL TERRAIN CRANES ......................................................................................... 13,031 

159 HIGH MOBILITY ENGINEER EXCAVATOR (HMEE) ................................................. 46,048 

160 ENHANCED RAPID AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION CAPAP .......................................... 980 7,500 

Program increase—additional ERACC systems ........................................ [7,500 ] 

161 CONST EQUIP ESP ............................................................................................... 37,017 

162 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (CONST EQUIP) ........................................................... 6,103 

RAIL FLOAT CONTAINERIZATION EQUIPMENT 

163 ARMY WATERCRAFT ESP ..................................................................................... 27,711 

164 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (FLOAT/RAIL) .............................................................. 8,385 

GENERATORS 

165 GENERATORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIP ............................................................... 133,772 166 TACTICAL ELECTRIC POWER RECAPITALIZATION ................................................. 8,333 

MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT 


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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

167 FAMILY OF FORKLIFTS ......................................................................................... 12,901 

TRAINING EQUIPMENT 

168 COMBAT TRAINING CENTERS SUPPORT .............................................................. 123,228 169 TRAINING DEVICES, NONSYSTEM ........................................................................ 228,598 170 CLOSE COMBAT TACTICAL TRAINER .................................................................... 33,080 171 AVIATION COMBINED ARMS TACTICAL TRAINER ................................................. 32,700 

172 GAMING TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OF ARMY TRAINING .................................... 25,161 

TEST MEASURE AND DIG EQUIPMENT (TMD) 

173 CALIBRATION SETS EQUIPMENT .......................................................................... 4,270 

174 INTEGRATED FAMILY OF TEST EQUIPMENT (IFTE) ............................................... 76,295 9,495 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [9,495 ] 

175 TEST EQUIPMENT MODERNIZATION (TEMOD) ...................................................... 9,806 

OTHER SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

176 M25 STABILIZED BINOCULAR .............................................................................. 4,368 33 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................... [33 ] 

177 RAPID EQUIPPING SOLDIER SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ............................................. 9,879 

178 PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEMS (OPA3) ............................................................... 54,043 179 BASE LEVEL COMMON EQUIPMENT ..................................................................... 6,633 

180 MODIFICATION OF IN-SVC EQUIPMENT (OPA–3) ................................................. 49,797 181 PRODUCTION BASE SUPPORT (OTH) ................................................................... 2,301 182 SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR USER TESTING ........................................................... 11,608 183 TRACTOR YARD ................................................................................................... 4,956 

OPA2 

184 INITIAL SPARES—C&E ........................................................................................ 9,817 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY .................................................... 7,999,529 410,925 


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AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY COMBAT AIRCRAFT 

001 F/A–18E/F (FIGHTER) HORNET ............................................................................ 24 1,937,553 –30,000 24 

Excess NRE and Support Costs ................................................................. [–30,000 ] 

002 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 58,799 003 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER CV .................................................................................. 9 1,144,958 –12,900 9 

Production Effiencies ................................................................................. [–12,900 ] 

004 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 140,010 005 JSF STOVL ............................................................................................................ 20 2,312,847 –36,300 20 

Production Efficiences ............................................................................... [–36,300 ] 

006 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 228,492 007 CH–53K (HEAVY LIFT) ......................................................................................... 8 1,113,804 –24,000 8 

Support cost growth .................................................................................. [–24,000 ] 

008 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 161,079 009 V–22 (MEDIUM LIFT) ........................................................................................... 7 806,337 7 010 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 36,955 

011 H–1 UPGRADES (UH–1Y/AH–1Z) ........................................................................ 25 820,755 25 014 P–8A POSEIDON .................................................................................................. 10 1,803,753 –26,000 10 

Excessive CFE Electronics cost growth ..................................................... [–5,000 ] Excessive GFE Electronics cost growth ..................................................... [–1,000 ] Excessive support cost growth .................................................................. [–20,000 ] 

015 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 180,000 016 E–2D ADV HAWKEYE ........................................................................................... 4 742,693 –16,300 4 

Excessive CFE cost growth ........................................................................ [–5,800 ] Excessive Non-reoccurring cost growth ..................................................... [–2,900 ] Excessive Other ILS cost growth ............................................................... [–1,700 ] Excessive peculiar equipment cost growth ............................................... [–5,900 ] 

017 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 240,734 

AIRLIFT AIRCRAFT 

018 C–40A ................................................................................................................. 2 206,000 –206,000 2 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–206,000 ] 

OTHER AIRCRAFT 


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FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

020 KC–130J .............................................................................................................. 2 160,433 2 021 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 110,013 022 MQ–4 TRITON ...................................................................................................... 3 568,743 –23,950 3 

Unit and support cost growth ................................................................... [–23,950 ] 

023 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 58,522 

024 MQ–8 UAV ........................................................................................................... 54,761 025 STUASL0 UAV ...................................................................................................... 14,866 026 VH–92A EXECUTIVE HELO ................................................................................... 6 649,015 6 

MODIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT 

027 AEA SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 25,277 028 AV–8 SERIES ....................................................................................................... 58,577 029 ADVERSARY ......................................................................................................... 14,606 030 F–18 SERIES ....................................................................................................... 1,213,482 –2,500 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–2,500 ] 

031 H–53 SERIES ....................................................................................................... 70,997 032 SH–60 SERIES ..................................................................................................... 130,661 033 H–1 SERIES ......................................................................................................... 87,143 

034 EP–3 SERIES ....................................................................................................... 3,633 035 P–3 SERIES ......................................................................................................... 803 036 E–2 SERIES ......................................................................................................... 88,780 037 TRAINER A/C SERIES ........................................................................................... 11,660 038 C–2A ................................................................................................................... 11,327 039 C–130 SERIES ..................................................................................................... 79,075 040 FEWSG ................................................................................................................. 597 041 CARGO/TRANSPORT A/C SERIES ......................................................................... 8,932 

042 E–6 SERIES ......................................................................................................... 181,821 


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043 EXECUTIVE HELICOPTERS SERIES ....................................................................... 23,566 

044 SPECIAL PROJECT AIRCRAFT ............................................................................... 7,620 

045 T–45 SERIES ....................................................................................................... 195,475 046 POWER PLANT CHANGES ..................................................................................... 21,521 047 JPATS SERIES ...................................................................................................... 27,644 048 AVIATION LIFE SUPPORT MODS ........................................................................... 15,864 049 COMMON ECM EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 166,306 25,000 

Navy UFR: F/A–18E/F Super Hornet Adaptive RADAR countermeasures .. [25,000 ] 

050 COMMON AVIONICS CHANGES ............................................................................. 117,551 –5,000 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–5,000 ] 

051 COMMON DEFENSIVE WEAPON SYSTEM .............................................................. 1,994 052 ID SYSTEMS ......................................................................................................... 40,696 053 P–8 SERIES ......................................................................................................... 71,251 054 MAGTF EW FOR AVIATION .................................................................................... 11,590 055 MQ–8 SERIES ...................................................................................................... 37,907 057 V–22 (TILT/ROTOR ACFT) OSPREY ...................................................................... 214,820 

058 NEXT GENERATION JAMMER (NGJ) ...................................................................... 952 

059 F–35 STOVL SERIES ............................................................................................ 36,618 

060 F–35 CV SERIES ................................................................................................. 21,236 061 QRC ..................................................................................................................... 101,499 062 MQ–4 SERIES ...................................................................................................... 48,278 063 RQ–21 SERIES .................................................................................................... 6,904 

AIRCRAFT SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

064 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 1,792,920 40,000 

F–35B Spares ............................................................................................ [40,000 ] 

AIRCRAFT SUPPORT EQUIP & FACILITIES 

065 COMMON GROUND EQUIPMENT ........................................................................... 421,606 –10,000 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–10,000 ] 

066 AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ....................................................................... 24,496 

067 WAR CONSUMABLES ............................................................................................ 42,108 068 OTHER PRODUCTION CHARGES ........................................................................... 1,444 

069 SPECIAL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ........................................................................... 49,489 


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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

070 FIRST DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION ................................................................ 1,951 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY ............................................... 120 19,041,799 –327,950 120 1

WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY MODIFICATION OF MISSILES 

001 TRIDENT II MODS ................................................................................................ 1,078,750 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 

002 MISSILE INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ......................................................................... 6,998 

STRATEGIC MISSILES 

003 TOMAHAWK .......................................................................................................... 98,570 198 114,800 198 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–81,000 ] Program Increase—198 missile ................................................................ [198 ] [216,000 ] Shutdown costs early to need ................................................................... [–20,200 ] 

TACTICAL MISSILES 

004 AMRAAM .............................................................................................................. 140 211,058 140 005 SIDEWINDER ........................................................................................................ 191 77,927 59 45,000 250 

Navy UFR: additional AIM 9–X missiles .................................................... [59 ] [45,000 ] 

006 JSOW .................................................................................................................... 1,330 007 STANDARD MISSILE ............................................................................................. 125 490,210 125 008 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 125,683 009 SMALL DIAMETER BOMB II .................................................................................. 750 91,272 750 010 RAM ..................................................................................................................... 120 96,221 –2,300 120 

Excess Production Support ........................................................................ [–2,300 ] 

011 JOINT AIR GROUND MISSILE (JAGM) ................................................................... 75 24,109 75 014 STAND OFF PRECISION GUIDED MUNITIONS (SOPGM) ........................................ 31 11,378 31 015 AERIAL TARGETS ................................................................................................. 137,137 


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016 OTHER MISSILE SUPPORT ................................................................................... 3,318 

017 LRASM ................................................................................................................. 25 81,190 10 30,000 35 

Navy Unfunded Requirement ..................................................................... [10 ] [30,000 ] 

018 LCS OTH MISSILE ................................................................................................ 8 18,156 8 

MODIFICATION OF MISSILES 

019 ESSM ................................................................................................................... 45 98,384 –2,000 45 

Excess Production Support ........................................................................ [–2,000 ] 

020 HARPOON MODS .................................................................................................. 14,840 021 HARM MODS ........................................................................................................ 187,985 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 

023 WEAPONS INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES ....................................................................... 2,006 

024 FLEET SATELLITE COMM FOLLOW-ON .................................................................. 66,779 

ORDNANCE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

025 ORDNANCE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 62,008 

TORPEDOES AND RELATED EQUIP 

026 SSTD .................................................................................................................... 6,353 027 MK–48 TORPEDO ................................................................................................. 45 92,616 5 11,000 50 

Navy Unfunded Requirement ..................................................................... [5 ] [11,000 ] 

028 ASW TARGETS ...................................................................................................... 12,324 

MOD OF TORPEDOES AND RELATED EQUIP 

029 MK–54 TORPEDO MODS ...................................................................................... 105,946 –10,500 

HAAWC unit cost growth ............................................................................ [–6,500 ] Non Recurring Engineering excess growth ................................................ [–4,000 ] 

030 MK–48 TORPEDO ADCAP MODS .......................................................................... 40,005 031 QUICKSTRIKE MINE .............................................................................................. 9,758 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

032 TORPEDO SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 79,371 033 ASW RANGE SUPPORT ......................................................................................... 3,872 

DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION 

034 FIRST DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION ................................................................ 3,726 

GUNS AND GUN MOUNTS 

035 SMALL ARMS AND WEAPONS .............................................................................. 15,067 


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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

MODIFICATION OF GUNS AND GUN MOUNTS 

036 CIWS MODS ......................................................................................................... 63,318 037 COAST GUARD WEAPONS .................................................................................... 40,823 038 GUN MOUNT MODS .............................................................................................. 74,618 039 LCS MODULE WEAPONS ...................................................................................... 90 11,350 –5,800 90 

Mission Module Early to need ................................................................... [–5,800 ] 

041 AIRBORNE MINE NEUTRALIZATION SYSTEMS ...................................................... 22,249 

SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

043 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 135,688 –5,000 

Unjustified program cost growth ............................................................... [–5,000 ] 

TOTAL WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY ............................................... 1,645 3,702,393 272 175,200 1,917 

PROCUREMENT OF AMMO, NAVY & MC NAVY AMMUNITION 

001 GENERAL PURPOSE BOMBS ................................................................................ 79,871 002 JDAM .................................................................................................................... 3,688 87,900 3,688 

003 AIRBORNE ROCKETS, ALL TYPES ........................................................................ 151,431 004 MACHINE GUN AMMUNITION ............................................................................... 11,344 

005 PRACTICE BOMBS ............................................................................................... 49,471 006 CARTRIDGES & CART ACTUATED DEVICES ......................................................... 56,227 007 AIR EXPENDABLE COUNTERMEASURES ............................................................... 66,382 

008 JATOS ................................................................................................................... 2,907 009 5 INCH/54 GUN AMMUNITION ............................................................................. 72,657 010 INTERMEDIATE CALIBER GUN AMMUNITION ........................................................ 33,613 011 OTHER SHIP GUN AMMUNITION ........................................................................... 42,142 012 SMALL ARMS & LANDING PARTY AMMO ............................................................. 49,888 


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013 PYROTECHNIC AND DEMOLITION ......................................................................... 10,931 015 AMMUNITION LESS THAN $5 MILLION ................................................................. 1,106 

MARINE CORPS AMMUNITION 

019 MORTARS ............................................................................................................. 28,266 021 DIRECT SUPPORT MUNITIONS ............................................................................. 63,664 022 INFANTRY WEAPONS AMMUNITION ...................................................................... 59,295 026 COMBAT SUPPORT MUNITIONS ............................................................................ 31,577 

028 AMMO MODERNIZATION ....................................................................................... 15,001 029 ARTILLERY MUNITIONS ........................................................................................ 86,297 030 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 6,239 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMO, NAVY & MC ..................................... 3,688 1,006,209 3,688 

SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY FLEET BALLISTIC MISSILE SHIPS 

001 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 3,005,330 82,700 

Accelerated Advance Procurement ............................................................. [150,000 ] Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus for the foundry propeller center [–19,000 ] Ordnance Early to Need ............................................................................. [–48,300 ] 

OTHER WARSHIPS 

002 CARRIER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM .................................................................... 1,598,181 1 –49,100 1 

Authorize CVN81—One ship ...................................................................... [1 ] Excess change order rate .......................................................................... [–49,100 ] 

004 VIRGINIA CLASS SUBMARINE .............................................................................. 2 4,373,382 938,000 2 

EOQ AP for submarine in FY 2022 and 2023 ........................................... [1,003,000 ] Excess change order rate .......................................................................... [–20,000 ] Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–45,000 ] 

005 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 2,796,401 007 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 449,597 008 DDG 1000 ............................................................................................................ 270,965 009 DDG–51 ............................................................................................................... 3 5,253,327 –312,000 3 

DDG Flight III Multiyear Procurement Savings .......................................... [–150,000 ] Excessive Basic Construction Unit Cost Growth ....................................... [–162,000 ] 


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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

010 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 391,928 011 LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP ...................................................................................... 1 646,244 2 950,000 3 

Program Increase—Two ships .................................................................. [2 ] [950,000 ] 

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS 

012A ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 150,000 

EOQ for LPD Flight II Multi-year Procurement .......................................... [150,000 ] 

013 EXPEDITIONARY SEA BASE (ESB) ........................................................................ 1 650,000 –20,000 1 

Accelerated contracts learning curve ........................................................ [–20,000 ] 

AUXILIARIES, CRAFT AND PRIOR YR PROGRAM COST 

016 TAO FLEET OILER ................................................................................................ 2 977,104 –20,000 2 

Accelerated contracts learning curve ........................................................ [–20,000 ] 

017 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 75,046 

018 TOWING, SALVAGE, AND RESCUE SHIP (ATS) ..................................................... 1 80,517 –5,000 1 

Accelerated contracts learning curve ........................................................ [–5,000 ] 

020 LCU 1700 ............................................................................................................ 2 41,520 2 021 OUTFITTING .......................................................................................................... 634,038 –45,000 

Outfitting and Post Delivery early to need ............................................... [–45,000 ] 

022 SHIP TO SHORE CONNECTOR .............................................................................. 5 325,375 3 182,500 8 

Program Increase—Three vessels ............................................................. [3 ] [182,500 ] 

023 SERVICE CRAFT ................................................................................................... 72,062 024 LCAC SLEP .......................................................................................................... 1 23,321 1 028 COMPLETION OF PY SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMS .................................................. 207,099 

TOTAL SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY ................................... 18 21,871,437 6 1,852,100 24 2

OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY SHIP PROPULSION EQUIPMENT 


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001 SURFACE POWER EQUIPMENT ............................................................................. 19,700 

GENERATORS 

003 SURFACE COMBATANT HM&E .............................................................................. 23,495 

NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT 

004 OTHER NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 63,330 

OTHER SHIPBOARD EQUIPMENT 

005 SUB PERISCOPE, IMAGING AND SUPT EQUIP PROG ........................................... 178,421 006 DDG MOD ............................................................................................................ 487,999 103,200 

AWS Installation Unit Cost Growth ............................................................ [–4,800 ] Navy Unfunded Requirement ..................................................................... [43,000 ] Program Increase—One additional Combat System ................................ [65,000 ] 

007 FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT ................................................................................... 28,143 008 COMMAND AND CONTROL SWITCHBOARD ........................................................... 2,248 

009 LHA/LHD MIDLIFE ................................................................................................ 37,694 010 POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 20,883 

011 SUBMARINE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ..................................................................... 37,155 

012 VIRGINIA CLASS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ............................................................... 66,328 013 LCS CLASS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 47,241 

014 SUBMARINE BATTERIES ....................................................................................... 27,987 015 LPD CLASS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 65,033 

016 DDG 1000 CLASS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ............................................................ 89,700 

017 STRATEGIC PLATFORM SUPPORT EQUIP .............................................................. 22,254 018 DSSP EQUIPMENT ................................................................................................ 3,629 019 CG MODERNIZATION ............................................................................................ 276,446 –3,900 

Integrated Ship Controls Unit Cost Growth .............................................. [–3,900 ] 

020 LCAC .................................................................................................................... 3,709 021 UNDERWATER EOD PROGRAMS ........................................................................... 78,807 –30,400 

Insufficient transition strategy .................................................................. [–30,400 ] 

022 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 126,865 

023 CHEMICAL WARFARE DETECTORS ....................................................................... 2,966 

024 SUBMARINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM ................................................................... 11,968 

REACTOR PLANT EQUIPMENT 


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Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

025 REACTOR POWER UNITS ...................................................................................... 346,325 –346,325 

Early to need .............................................................................................. [–346,325 ] 

026 REACTOR COMPONENTS ...................................................................................... 497,063 

OCEAN ENGINEERING 

027 DIVING AND SALVAGE EQUIPMENT ...................................................................... 10,706 

SMALL BOATS 

028 STANDARD BOATS ............................................................................................... 49,771 

PRODUCTION FACILITIES EQUIPMENT 

029 OPERATING FORCES IPE ...................................................................................... 225,181 

OTHER SHIP SUPPORT 

031 LCS COMMON MISSION MODULES EQUIPMENT ................................................... 46,732 032 LCS MCM MISSION MODULES ............................................................................. 124,147 033 LCS ASW MISSION MODULES .............................................................................. 57,294 –49,900 

Late test event for VDS and MFTA ............................................................ [–49,900 ] 

034 LCS SUW MISSION MODULES .............................................................................. 26,006 –11,000 

Surface to Surface MM Early to need ....................................................... [–11,000 ] 

035 LCS IN-SERVICE MODERNIZATION ....................................................................... 70,526 

LOGISTIC SUPPORT 

036 LSD MIDLIFE & MODERNIZATION ........................................................................ 4,784 

SHIP SONARS 

037 SPQ–9B RADAR ................................................................................................... 20,309 038 AN/SQQ–89 SURF ASW COMBAT SYSTEM ........................................................... 115,459 039 SSN ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 318,189 040 UNDERSEA WARFARE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ....................................................... 10,134 

ASW ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 

041 SUBMARINE ACOUSTIC WARFARE SYSTEM ......................................................... 23,815 


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042 SSTD .................................................................................................................... 11,277 043 FIXED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ............................................................................ 237,780 –30,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–30,000 ] 

044 SURTASS .............................................................................................................. 57,872 –10,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus for SURTASS-E .......................... [–10,000 ] 

ELECTRONIC WARFARE EQUIPMENT 

045 AN/SLQ–32 .......................................................................................................... 420,344 –23,100 

Excess Ship Installation Unit Cost Growth ............................................... [–23,100 ] 

RECONNAISSANCE EQUIPMENT 

046 SHIPBOARD IW EXPLOIT ...................................................................................... 220,883 

047 AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) ........................................................ 4,028 

OTHER SHIP ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 

048 COOPERATIVE ENGAGEMENT CAPABILITY ............................................................ 44,173 –1,600 

Excess Production Engineering Support .................................................... [–1,600 ] 

049 NAVAL TACTICAL COMMAND SUPPORT SYSTEM (NTCSS) ................................... 10,991 

050 ATDLS .................................................................................................................. 34,526 051 NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM (NCCS) .............................................. 3,769 

052 MINESWEEPING SYSTEM REPLACEMENT ............................................................. 35,709 

053 SHALLOW WATER MCM ........................................................................................ 8,616 

054 NAVSTAR GPS RECEIVERS (SPACE) .................................................................... 10,703 055 AMERICAN FORCES RADIO AND TV SERVICE ...................................................... 2,626 

056 STRATEGIC PLATFORM SUPPORT EQUIP .............................................................. 9,467 

AVIATION ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 

057 ASHORE ATC EQUIPMENT .................................................................................... 70,849 058 AFLOAT ATC EQUIPMENT ..................................................................................... 47,890 059 ID SYSTEMS ......................................................................................................... 26,163 060 JOINT PRECISION APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM ( ...................................... 38,094 061 NAVAL MISSION PLANNING SYSTEMS .................................................................. 11,966 

OTHER SHORE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 

062 TACTICAL/MOBILE C4I SYSTEMS ......................................................................... 42,010 063 DCGS-N ............................................................................................................... 12,896 064 CANES ................................................................................................................. 423,027 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

065 RADIAC ................................................................................................................ 8,175 066 CANES-INTELL ..................................................................................................... 54,465 067 GPETE .................................................................................................................. 5,985 068 MASF ................................................................................................................... 5,413 069 INTEG COMBAT SYSTEM TEST FACILITY .............................................................. 6,251 

070 EMI CONTROL INSTRUMENTATION ....................................................................... 4,183 

071 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 148,350 

SHIPBOARD COMMUNICATIONS 

072 SHIPBOARD TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ........................................................... 45,450 073 SHIP COMMUNICATIONS AUTOMATION ................................................................ 105,087 074 COMMUNICATIONS ITEMS UNDER $5M ............................................................... 41,123 

SUBMARINE COMMUNICATIONS 

075 SUBMARINE BROADCAST SUPPORT ..................................................................... 30,897 076 SUBMARINE COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT ......................................................... 78,580 

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 

077 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ............................................................. 41,205 078 NAVY MULTIBAND TERMINAL (NMT) .................................................................... 113,885 

SHORE COMMUNICATIONS 

079 JOINT COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT ELEMENT (JCSE) ......................................... 4,292 

CRYPTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT 

080 INFO SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM (ISSP) ....................................................... 153,526 081 MIO INTEL EXPLOITATION TEAM .......................................................................... 951 

CRYPTOLOGIC EQUIPMENT 

082 CRYPTOLOGIC COMMUNICATIONS EQUIP ............................................................ 14,209 

OTHER ELECTRONIC SUPPORT 

086 COAST GUARD EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 40,713 


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SONOBUOYS 

088 SONOBUOYS—ALL TYPES ................................................................................... 177,891 38,300 

Navy Unfunded Requirement ..................................................................... [38,300 ] 

AIRCRAFT SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

089 WEAPONS RANGE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ............................................................. 93,864 090 AIRCRAFT SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 111,724 091 ADVANCED ARRESTING GEAR (AAG) ................................................................... 11,054 092 METEOROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT ............................................................................ 21,072 093 DCRS/DPL ............................................................................................................ 656 094 AIRBORNE MINE COUNTERMEASURES ................................................................ 11,299 095 LAMPS EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 594 096 AVIATION SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .......................................................................... 39,374 097 UMCS-UNMAN CARRIER AVIATION(UCA)MISSION CNTRL .................................... 35,405 

SHIP GUN SYSTEM EQUIPMENT 

098 SHIP GUN SYSTEMS EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 5,337 

SHIP MISSILE SYSTEMS EQUIPMENT 

099 SHIP MISSILE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ................................................................... 213,090 –5,000 

Unjustified Stalker Growth ......................................................................... [–5,000 ] 

100 TOMAHAWK SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ...................................................................... 92,890 

FBM SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

101 STRATEGIC MISSILE SYSTEMS EQUIP .................................................................. 271,817 

ASW SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

102 SSN COMBAT CONTROL SYSTEMS ....................................................................... 129,501 –5,500 

Excessive Unit Cost Growth for Install ..................................................... [–5,500 ] 

103 ASW SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 19,436 

OTHER ORDNANCE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

104 EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL EQUIP ............................................................ 14,258 105 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 5,378 

OTHER EXPENDABLE ORDNANCE 

106 SUBMARINE TRAINING DEVICE MODS ................................................................. 65,543 107 SURFACE TRAINING EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 230,425 

CIVIL ENGINEERING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

108 PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES ....................................................................... 4,867 109 GENERAL PURPOSE TRUCKS ............................................................................... 2,674 

110 CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE EQUIP ............................................................ 20,994 111 FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT ................................................................................. 17,189 

112 TACTICAL VEHICLES ............................................................................................ 19,916 113 AMPHIBIOUS EQUIPMENT .................................................................................... 7,400 114 POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 2,713 

115 ITEMS UNDER $5 MILLION .................................................................................. 35,540 116 PHYSICAL SECURITY VEHICLES ........................................................................... 1,155 

SUPPLY SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

117 SUPPLY EQUIPMENT ............................................................................................ 18,786 118 FIRST DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION ................................................................ 5,375 119 SPECIAL PURPOSE SUPPLY SYSTEMS ................................................................. 580,371 

TRAINING DEVICES 

120 TRAINING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 3,400 

121 TRAINING AND EDUCATION EQUIPMENT .............................................................. 24,283 –2,100 

Excess Production Support ........................................................................ [–2,100 ] 

COMMAND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

122 COMMAND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ........................................................................ 66,681 

123 MEDICAL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .......................................................................... 3,352 

125 NAVAL MIP SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ....................................................................... 1,984 

126 OPERATING FORCES SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ........................................................ 15,131 127 C4ISR EQUIPMENT ............................................................................................... 3,576 128 ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .............................................................. 31,902 129 PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT ........................................................................ 175,436 

130 ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ........................................................... 25,393 


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OTHER 

133 NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISE SERVICE .......................................................... 96,269 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

133A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 15,681 

SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

134 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 326,838 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY .................................................... 9,414,355 –377,325 

PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 

001 AAV7A1 PIP ......................................................................................................... 156,249 –20,000 

Program reduction ..................................................................................... [–20,000 ] 

002 AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT VEHICLE 1.1 .................................................................... 30 167,478 30 003 LAV PIP ................................................................................................................ 43,701 

ARTILLERY AND OTHER WEAPONS 

005 155MM LIGHTWEIGHT TOWED HOWITZER ............................................................ 47,158 006 ARTILLERY WEAPONS SYSTEM ............................................................................ 134,246 007 WEAPONS AND COMBAT VEHICLES UNDER $5 MILLION ..................................... 40,687 

OTHER SUPPORT 

008 MODIFICATION KITS ............................................................................................. 22,904 

GUIDED MISSILES 

009 GROUND BASED AIR DEFENSE ............................................................................ 18,334 

010 ANTI-ARMOR MISSILE-JAVELIN ............................................................................ 5 3,020 5 011 FAMILY ANTI-ARMOR WEAPON SYSTEMS (FOAAWS) ............................................ 13,760 012 ANTI-ARMOR MISSILE-TOW .................................................................................. 59,702 

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS 

013 COMMON AVIATION COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM (C ................................ 35,467 

REPAIR AND TEST EQUIPMENT 

014 REPAIR AND TEST EQUIPMENT ............................................................................ 46,081 –4,600 

Program Reduction .................................................................................... [–4,600 ] 

OTHER SUPPORT (TEL) 

015 MODIFICATION KITS ............................................................................................. 971 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM (NON-TEL) 

016 ITEMS UNDER $5 MILLION (COMM & ELEC) ...................................................... 69,203 –7,000 

Program Reduction .................................................................................... [–7,000 ] 

017 AIR OPERATIONS C2 SYSTEMS ............................................................................ 14,269 

RADAR + EQUIPMENT (NON-TEL) 

018 RADAR SYSTEMS ................................................................................................. 6,694 019 GROUND/AIR TASK ORIENTED RADAR (G/ATOR) ................................................. 6 224,969 6 

INTELL/COMM EQUIPMENT (NON-TEL) 

021 GCSS-MC ............................................................................................................. 1,187 022 FIRE SUPPORT SYSTEM ....................................................................................... 60,189 023 INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .................................................................. 73,848 –6,000 

Unjustified request for TSCS Inc 1 ........................................................... [–6,000 ] 

025 UNMANNED AIR SYSTEMS (INTEL) ...................................................................... 3,848 026 DCGS-MC ............................................................................................................. 16,081 

OTHER SUPPORT (NON-TEL) 

030 NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISE NETWORK (NGEN) ............................................ 87,120 031 COMMON COMPUTER RESOURCES ...................................................................... 68,914 032 COMMAND POST SYSTEMS .................................................................................. 124,838 033 RADIO SYSTEMS .................................................................................................. 279,680 –15,000 

Program reduction ..................................................................................... [–15,000 ] 

034 COMM SWITCHING & CONTROL SYSTEMS ........................................................... 36,649 035 COMM & ELEC INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT ....................................................... 83,971 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

035A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 3,626 

ADMINISTRATIVE VEHICLES 

036 COMMERCIAL CARGO VEHICLES ......................................................................... 25,441 


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TACTICAL VEHICLES 

037 MOTOR TRANSPORT MODIFICATIONS ................................................................... 11,392 038 JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE .......................................................................... 607,011 214 69,000 214 

Optimize production profile ....................................................................... [214 ] [69,000 ] 

039 FAMILY OF TACTICAL TRAILERS .......................................................................... 2,393 040 TRAILERS ............................................................................................................. 6,540 

ENGINEER AND OTHER EQUIPMENT 

041 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL EQUIP ASSORT ........................................................ 496 042 TACTICAL FUEL SYSTEMS .................................................................................... 54 043 POWER EQUIPMENT ASSORTED ........................................................................... 21,062 044 AMPHIBIOUS SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .................................................................... 5,290 045 EOD SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................... 47,854 

MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT 

046 PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT ........................................................................ 28,306 

GENERAL PROPERTY 

047 FIELD MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ................................................................................ 33,513 048 TRAINING DEVICES .............................................................................................. 52,040 049 FAMILY OF CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ............................................................. 36,156 3,500 

GPS Grade Control Systems (GCS) and Survey Sets ................................ [3,500 ] 

050 FAMILY OF INTERNALLY TRANSPORTABLE VEH (ITV) .......................................... 606 

OTHER SUPPORT 

051 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 11,608 

SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

053 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 25,804 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS ................................................ 41 2,860,410 214 19,900 255 

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE TACTICAL FORCES 

001 F–35 .................................................................................................................... 48 4,261,021 –83,340 48 

Production Efficiences ............................................................................... [–83,340 ] 

002 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 406,000 

OTHER COMBAT AIRCRAFT 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

003 C–135B ............................................................................................................... 2 222,176 –2 –222,176 

Ahead of need ............................................................................................ [–2 ] [–222,176 ] 

TACTICAL AIRLIFT 

004 C–130J ................................................................................................................ 35,858 005 KC–46A TANKER .................................................................................................. 15 2,559,911 –3 –549,000 12 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus—three aircraft ......................... [–3 ] [–499,000 ] Interim contractor support early to need .................................................. [–50,000 ] 

OTHER AIRLIFT 

007 HC–130J .............................................................................................................. 1 129,437 1 009 MC–130J ............................................................................................................. 6 770,201 –100,000 6 

Interim supply support costs unjustified growth ...................................... [–100,000 ] 

010 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 218,000 

HELICOPTERS 

012 COMBAT RESCUE HELICOPTER ........................................................................... 10 680,201 10 

MISSION SUPPORT AIRCRAFT 

014 CIVIL AIR PATROL A/C ......................................................................................... 4 2,719 4 

OTHER AIRCRAFT 

015 TARGET DRONES ................................................................................................. 48 139,053 48 

016 COMPASS CALL MODS ......................................................................................... 1 108,113 1 018 MQ–9 ................................................................................................................... 8 221,707 2 42,800 10 

Program increase ....................................................................................... [2 ] [42,800 ] 

STRATEGIC AIRCRAFT 

020 B–2A ................................................................................................................... 60,301 –23,000 

MOP modifications excess to need ............................................................ [–23,000 ] 

021 B–1B ................................................................................................................... 51,290 022 B–52 ................................................................................................................... 105,519 –14,700 


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Technical adjustment (move to R–173) .................................................... [–14,700 ] 

TACTICAL AIRCRAFT 

024 A–10 .................................................................................................................... 98,720 65,000 

Additional A–10 wing replacements ......................................................... [65,000 ] 

025 C–130J ................................................................................................................ 10,831 026 F–15 .................................................................................................................... 548,109 027 F–16 .................................................................................................................... 324,312 028 F–16 .................................................................................................................... 11 

029 F–22A .................................................................................................................. 250,710 031 F–35 MODIFICATIONS .......................................................................................... 247,271 032 F–15 EPAW .......................................................................................................... 147,685 67,200 

Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) ......... [67,200 ] 

033 INCREMENT 3.2B ................................................................................................. 9,007 035 KC–46A TANKER .................................................................................................. 8,547 

AIRLIFT AIRCRAFT 

036 C–5 ..................................................................................................................... 77,845 038 C–17A ................................................................................................................. 102,121 039 C–21 ................................................................................................................... 17,516 040 C–32A ................................................................................................................. 4,537 041 C–37A ................................................................................................................. 419 

TRAINER AIRCRAFT 

043 GLIDER MODS ...................................................................................................... 137 044 T–6 ...................................................................................................................... 22,550 045 T–1 ...................................................................................................................... 21,952 046 T–38 .................................................................................................................... 70,623 

OTHER AIRCRAFT 

047 U–2 MODS ........................................................................................................... 48,774 048 KC–10A (ATCA) ................................................................................................... 11,104 049 C–12 ................................................................................................................... 4,900 050 VC–25A MOD ....................................................................................................... 36,938 051 C–40 ................................................................................................................... 251 052 C–130 ................................................................................................................. 22,094 129,000 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

Program Increase--eight blade proppeler upgrade (88 kits) ................... [55,000 ] Program Increase--engine enhancement program (88 kits) .................... [74,000 ] 

053 C–130J MODS ..................................................................................................... 132,045 054 C–135 ................................................................................................................. 113,076 055 OC–135B ............................................................................................................. 5,913 056 COMPASS CALL MODS ......................................................................................... 49,885 057 COMBAT FLIGHT INSPECTION (CFIN) ................................................................... 499 

058 RC–135 ............................................................................................................... 394,532 059 E–3 ...................................................................................................................... 133,906 060 E–4 ...................................................................................................................... 67,858 061 E–8 ...................................................................................................................... 9,919 062 AIRBORNE WARNING AND CNTR SYS (AWACS) 40/45 ........................................ 57,780 

063 FAMILY OF BEYOND LINE-OF-SIGHT TERMINALS ................................................. 14,293 064 H–1 ..................................................................................................................... 2,940 065 H–60 ................................................................................................................... 55,466 066 RQ–4 MODS ........................................................................................................ 23,715 1 105,000 1 

EQ–4 BACN aircraft increase .................................................................... [1 ] [105,000 ] 

067 HC/MC–130 MODIFICATIONS ............................................................................... 37,754 068 OTHER AIRCRAFT ................................................................................................. 62,010 069 MQ–9 MODS ........................................................................................................ 171,548 071 CV–22 MODS ....................................................................................................... 60,416 

AIRCRAFT SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

072 INITIAL SPARES/REPAIR PARTS ........................................................................... 956,408 60,000 

F–35A Spares ............................................................................................. [60,000 ] 

COMMON SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

073 AIRCRAFT REPLACEMENT SUPPORT EQUIP ......................................................... 81,241 


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POST PRODUCTION SUPPORT 

076 B–2A ................................................................................................................... 1,763 077 B–2B ................................................................................................................... 35,861 078 B–52 ................................................................................................................... 12,819 079 C–17A ................................................................................................................. 10,114 081 F–15 .................................................................................................................... 2,545 083 F–16 .................................................................................................................... 11,718 –4,000 

F–16 Line Shutdown .................................................................................. [–4,000 ] 

084 F–22A .................................................................................................................. 14,489 085 OTHER AIRCRAFT ................................................................................................. 9,928 086 RQ–4 POST PRODUCTION CHARGES ................................................................... 40,641 –37,300 

RQ–4 Post Production Support .................................................................. [–37,300 ] 

INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS 

088 INDUSTRIAL RESPONSIVENESS ............................................................................ 17,378 

WAR CONSUMABLES 

090 WAR CONSUMABLES ............................................................................................ 29,342 

OTHER PRODUCTION CHARGES 

091 OTHER PRODUCTION CHARGES ........................................................................... 1,502,386 –109,000 

Classified program adjustment ................................................................. [–109,000 ] 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

095 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 28,278 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE ..................................... 143 16,206,937 –2 –673,516 141 1

MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE MISSILE REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT—BALLISTIC 

001 MISSILE REPLACEMENT EQ-BALLISTIC ................................................................ 36,786 

TACTICAL 

002 JOINT AIR-SURFACE STANDOFF MISSILE ............................................................. 312 430,708 312 003 LRASM0 ............................................................................................................... 12 44,185 12 004 SIDEWINDER (AIM–9X) ........................................................................................ 256 121,253 256 005 AMRAAM .............................................................................................................. 220 337,886 220 006 PREDATOR HELLFIRE MISSILE ............................................................................. 1,338 113,765 1,338 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

007 SMALL DIAMETER BOMB ..................................................................................... 2,917 105,034 2,917 008 SMALL DIAMETER BOMB II .................................................................................. 510 100,861 510 

INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES 

009 INDUSTR’L PREPAREDNS/POL PREVENTION ........................................................ 787 

CLASS IV 

010 ICBM FUZE MOD ................................................................................................. 15,767 

011 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 4,100 012 MM III MODIFICATIONS ........................................................................................ 129,199 013 AGM–65D MAVERICK ........................................................................................... 288 014 AIR LAUNCH CRUISE MISSILE (ALCM) ................................................................ 47,632 

MISSILE SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

016 REPLEN SPARES/REPAIR PARTS .......................................................................... 97,481 

SPECIAL PROGRAMS 

018 SPECIAL UPDATE PROGRAMS .............................................................................. 188,539 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

019 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 895,183 

TOTAL MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE ........................................ 5,565 2,669,454 5,565 

SPACE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE SPACE PROGRAMS 

001 ADVANCED EHF ................................................................................................... 29,829 002 AF SATELLITE COMM SYSTEM ............................................................................. 35,400 003 COUNTERSPACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................... 1,121 

004 FAMILY OF BEYOND LINE-OF-SIGHT TERMINALS ................................................. 27,867 005 WIDEBAND GAPFILLER SATELLITES(SPACE) ......................................................... 61,606 006 GENERAL INFORMATION TECH—SPACE .............................................................. 3,425 


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007 GPS III SPACE SEGMENT ..................................................................................... 69,386 5,000 

GPS backup technology demonstration ..................................................... [5,000 ] 

008 GLOBAL POSTIONING (SPACE) ............................................................................. 2,181 

009 INTEG BROADCAST SERV .................................................................................... 16,445 

010 SPACEBORNE EQUIP (COMSEC) .......................................................................... 31,895 

012 MILSATCOM ......................................................................................................... 11,265 013 EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH CAPABILITY ...................................................... 709,981 014 EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEH(SPACE) ..................................................... 5 994,555 5 015 SBIR HIGH (SPACE) ............................................................................................. 138,397 017 NUDET DETECTION SYSTEM ................................................................................ 7,705 

018 ROCKET SYSTEMS LAUNCH PROGRAM ................................................................ 47,609 

019 SPACE FENCE ...................................................................................................... 51,361 020 SPACE MODS ....................................................................................................... 148,065 

021 SPACELIFT RANGE SYSTEM SPACE ..................................................................... 117,637 

SSPARES 

022 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 21,812 

TOTAL SPACE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE ........................................... 5 2,527,542 5,000 5 

PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE ROCKETS 

001 ROCKETS ............................................................................................................. 345,911 

CARTRIDGES 

002 CARTRIDGES ........................................................................................................ 163,840 

BOMBS 

003 PRACTICE BOMBS ............................................................................................... 20,876 

004 GENERAL PURPOSE BOMBS ................................................................................ 259,308 005 MASSIVE ORDNANCE PENETRATOR (MOP) .......................................................... 38,111 

006 JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION ........................................................................ 7,899 234,198 7,899 007 B61 ...................................................................................................................... 250 109,292 250 008 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 52,731 

OTHER ITEMS 

009 CAD/PAD .............................................................................................................. 51,455 


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Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

010 EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) ............................................................. 6,038 

011 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 524 

012 MODIFICATIONS ................................................................................................... 1,270 013 ITEMS LESS THAN $5,000,000 ............................................................................ 4,604 

FLARES 

015 FLARES ................................................................................................................ 125,286 

FUZES 

016 FUZES .................................................................................................................. 109,358 

SMALL ARMS 

017 SMALL ARMS ....................................................................................................... 64,502 –5,000 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–5,000 ] 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE ........................... 8,149 1,587,304 –5,000 8,149 

OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES 

001 PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES ....................................................................... 6,949 –3,500 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–3,500 ] 

CARGO AND UTILITY VEHICLES 

002 MEDIUM TACTICAL VEHICLE ................................................................................ 36,002 –18,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–18,000 ] 

003 CAP VEHICLES ..................................................................................................... 1,022 004 CARGO AND UTILITY VEHICLES ........................................................................... 42,696 –21,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–21,000 ] 

SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLES 

005 JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE .......................................................................... 30,145 

006 SECURITY AND TACTICAL VEHICLES ................................................................... 1,230 


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007 SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLES .............................................................................. 43,003 –21,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–21,000 ] 

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT 

008 FIRE FIGHTING/CRASH RESCUE VEHICLES .......................................................... 23,328 

MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT 

009 MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES ........................................................................ 11,537 

BASE MAINTENANCE SUPPORT 

010 RUNWAY SNOW REMOV AND CLEANING EQU ...................................................... 37,600 

011 BASE MAINTENANCE SUPPORT VEHICLES ........................................................... 104,923 –52,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–52,000 ] 

COMM SECURITY EQUIPMENT(COMSEC) 

012 COMSEC EQUIPMENT ........................................................................................... 114,372 

INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS 

013 INTERNATIONAL INTEL TECH & ARCHITECTURES ................................................ 8,290 014 INTELLIGENCE TRAINING EQUIPMENT .................................................................. 2,099 

015 INTELLIGENCE COMM EQUIPMENT ...................................................................... 37,415 

ELECTRONICS PROGRAMS 

016 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL & LANDING SYS ............................................................. 57,937 –43,550 

D-RAPCON Cost Growth ............................................................................. [–43,550 ] 

018 BATTLE CONTROL SYSTEM—FIXED ..................................................................... 3,012 019 THEATER AIR CONTROL SYS IMPROVEMEN ......................................................... 19,989 020 WEATHER OBSERVATION FORECAST .................................................................... 45,020 021 STRATEGIC COMMAND AND CONTROL ................................................................ 32,836 022 CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX ........................................................................ 12,454 023 MISSION PLANNING SYSTEMS ............................................................................. 14,263 025 INTEGRATED STRAT PLAN & ANALY NETWORK (ISPAN) ...................................... 7,769 

SPCL COMM-ELECTRONICS PROJECTS 

026 GENERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ................................................................ 40,450 027 AF GLOBAL COMMAND & CONTROL SYS ............................................................. 6,619 028 MOBILITY COMMAND AND CONTROL ................................................................... 10,192 029 AIR FORCE PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEM ........................................................... 159,313 –15,900 

Underexecution ........................................................................................... [–15,900 ] 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

030 COMBAT TRAINING RANGES ................................................................................ 132,675 031 MINIMUM ESSENTIAL EMERGENCY COMM N ...................................................... 140,875 032 WIDE AREA SURVEILLANCE (WAS) ...................................................................... 92,104 033 C3 COUNTERMEASURES ...................................................................................... 45,152 034 GCSS-AF FOS ....................................................................................................... 483 035 DEFENSE ENTERPRISE ACCOUNTING & MGT SYS ............................................... 802 

036 MAINTENANCE REPAIR & OVERHAUL INITIATIVE ................................................. 12,207 

037 THEATER BATTLE MGT C2 SYSTEM ..................................................................... 7,644 038 AIR & SPACE OPERATIONS CENTER (AOC) ......................................................... 40,066 

AIR FORCE COMMUNICATIONS 

041 BASE INFORMATION TRANSPT INFRAST (BITI) WIRED ......................................... 22,357 042 AFNET .................................................................................................................. 102,836 043 JOINT COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT ELEMENT (JCSE) ......................................... 3,145 044 USCENTCOM ........................................................................................................ 13,194 

ORGANIZATION AND BASE 

045 TACTICAL C-E EQUIPMENT .................................................................................. 161,231 047 RADIO EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 12,142 048 CCTV/AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT .......................................................................... 6,505 

049 BASE COMM INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................... 169,404 

MODIFICATIONS 

050 COMM ELECT MODS ............................................................................................ 10,654 

PERSONAL SAFETY & RESCUE EQUIP 

051 PERSONAL SAFETY AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT .................................................... 51,906 

DEPOT PLANT+MTRLS HANDLING EQ 

052 MECHANIZED MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIP .......................................................... 88,298 –7,500 

Program reduction ..................................................................................... [–7,500 ] 


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BASE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

053 BASE PROCURED EQUIPMENT ............................................................................. 17,031 5,000 

Civil Engineers Construction, Surveying, and Mapping Equipment ......... [5,000 ] 

054 ENGINEERING AND EOD EQUIPMENT ................................................................... 82,635 055 MOBILITY EQUIPMENT ......................................................................................... 9,549 –3,000 

Program reduction ..................................................................................... [–3,000 ] 

056 BASE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ................................................ 24,005 –7,000 

Program reduction ..................................................................................... [–7,000 ] 

SPECIAL SUPPORT PROJECTS 

058 DARP RC135 ....................................................................................................... 26,262 059 DCGS-AF .............................................................................................................. 448,290 –47,800 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ................................................... [–35,000 ] Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–12,800 ] 

061 SPECIAL UPDATE PROGRAM ................................................................................ 913,813 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

062 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 17,258,069 1

SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

063 SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS ............................................................................... 86,365 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE ........................................... 20,890,164 –235,250 2

PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE MAJOR EQUIPMENT, OSD 

043 MAJOR EQUIPMENT, OSD ..................................................................................... 35,295 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, NSA 

042 INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM (ISSP) ......................................... 5,403 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, WHS 

046 MAJOR EQUIPMENT, WHS .................................................................................... 497 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DISA 

007 INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY ..................................................................... 21,590 

008 TELEPORT PROGRAM ........................................................................................... 33,905 009 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 27,886 010 NET CENTRIC ENTERPRISE SERVICES (NCES) .................................................... 1,017 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

011 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEM NETWORK ........................................................ 150,674 013 WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATION AGENCY ........................................................... 94,610 014 SENIOR LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE ...................................................................... 197,246 015 JOINT REGIONAL SECURITY STACKS (JRSS) ........................................................ 140,338 016 JOINT SERVICE PROVIDER ................................................................................... 107,182 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DLA 

018 MAJOR EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 5,225 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DSS 

021 MAJOR EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 1,196 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DCAA 

001 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................................ 2,542 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, TJS 

044 MAJOR EQUIPMENT, TJS ...................................................................................... 4,360 

045 MAJOR EQUIPMENT, TJS—CE2T2 ........................................................................ 904 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY 

026 THAAD .................................................................................................................. 82 874,068 82 027 GROUND BASED MIDCOURSE .............................................................................. 14 409,000 14 028 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 115,000 029 AEGIS BMD .......................................................................................................... 43 593,488 43 030 ADVANCE PROCUREMENT (CY) ....................................................................... 115,206 031 BMDS AN/TPY–2 RADARS ................................................................................... 13,185 

032 ISRAELI PROGRAMS ............................................................................................. 80,000 

033 SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE (SRBMD) ...................................... 50,000 

034 AEGIS ASHORE PHASE III .................................................................................... 15,000 035 IRON DOME ......................................................................................................... 70,000 036 AEGIS BMD HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ............................................................ 28 97,057 28 


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MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DHRA 

003 PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................. 10,630 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY 

023 VEHICLES ............................................................................................................. 207 024 OTHER MAJOR EQUIPMENT .................................................................................. 5,592 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DODEA 

020 AUTOMATION/EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT & LOGISTICS ........................................... 1,723 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DCMA 

002 MAJOR EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 3,873 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DMACT 

019 MAJOR EQUIPMENT .............................................................................................. 13,106 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

046A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ....................................................................................... 589,691 

AVIATION PROGRAMS 

050 ROTARY WING UPGRADES AND SUSTAINMENT .................................................... 148,351 051 UNMANNED ISR ................................................................................................... 57,708 052 NON-STANDARD AVIATION ................................................................................... 18,731 053 U–28 ................................................................................................................... 32,301 054 MH–47 CHINOOK ................................................................................................. 131,033 055 CV–22 MODIFICATION ......................................................................................... 32,529 056 MQ–9 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE .................................................................... 24,621 057 PRECISION STRIKE PACKAGE .............................................................................. 226,965 058 AC/MC–130J ........................................................................................................ 165,813 059 C–130 MODIFICATIONS ....................................................................................... 80,274 

SHIPBUILDING 

060 UNDERWATER SYSTEMS ...................................................................................... 136,723 

AMMUNITION PROGRAMS 

061 ORDNANCE ITEMS <$5M .................................................................................... 357,742 

OTHER PROCUREMENT PROGRAMS 

062 INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS ...................................................................................... 85,699 063 DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ........................................ 17,863 064 OTHER ITEMS <$5M ........................................................................................... 112,117 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Author

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

065 COMBATANT CRAFT SYSTEMS ............................................................................. 7,313 

066 SPECIAL PROGRAMS ............................................................................................ 14,026 067 TACTICAL VEHICLES ............................................................................................ 88,608 068 WARRIOR SYSTEMS <$5M .................................................................................. 438,590 –5,200 

Link 16 handheld radios for USSOCOM .................................................... [12,800 ] SAT Deployable Node ................................................................................. [–18,000 ] 

069 COMBAT MISSION REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................... 19,408 

070 GLOBAL VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES ......................................................... 6,281 

071 OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS INTELLIGENCE ................................................... 18,509 073 OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS ........................................................................... 367,433 

CBDP 

074 CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ............................................. 166,418 –12,800 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–12,800 ] 

075 CB PROTECTION & HAZARD MITIGATION ............................................................ 144,519 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE ................................................ 167 6,786,271 –18,000 167 

JOINT URGENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS FUND JOINT URGENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS FUND 

001 JOINT URGENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS FUND ........................................................ 100,025 –100,025 

Program decrease ...................................................................................... [–100,025 ] 

TOTAL JOINT URGENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS FUND .............................. 100,025 –100,025 TOTAL PROCUREMENT ........................................................................... 30,077 130,526,043 22,177 3,061,849 52,254 13


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SEC. 4102. PROCUREMENT FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Authori

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY FIXED WING 

003 MQ–1 UAV ....................................................................................................... 6 60,000 6 

ROTARY 

011 UH–60 BLACKHAWK M MODEL (MYP) ............................................................. 1 21,246 1 014 CH–47 HELICOPTER ........................................................................................ 2 25,000 2 

MODIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT 

017 MQ–1 PAYLOAD (MIP) ..................................................................................... 11,400 019 GRAY EAGLE MODS2 ....................................................................................... 32,000 020 MULTI SENSOR ABN RECON (MIP) .................................................................. 51,000 

032 RQ–7 UAV MODS ............................................................................................. 50,868 –50,868 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–50,868 ] 

033 UAS MODS ....................................................................................................... 3,402 –3,402 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–3,402 ] 

GROUND SUPPORT AVIONICS 

036 CMWS .............................................................................................................. 84,387 037 COMMON INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (CIRCM) ........................................ 24,060 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY .......................................... 9 363,363 –54,270 9 

MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SYSTEM 

002 MSE MISSILE ................................................................................................... 61 260,000 –260,000 61 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–260,000 ] 

AIR-TO-SURFACE MISSILE SYSTEM 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Authori

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

005 HELLFIRE SYS SUMMARY ................................................................................ 2,684 255,040 2,684 

ANTI-TANK/ASSAULT MISSILE SYS 

008 JAVELIN (AAWS-M) SYSTEM SUMMARY ........................................................... 75 31,120 –13,800 75 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–13,800 ] 

011 GUIDED MLRS ROCKET (GMLRS) ..................................................................... 7,584 624,500 7,584 013 HIGH MOBILITY ARTILLERY ROCKET SYSTEM (HIMARS ................................... 24 171,138 –171,138 24 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–171,138 ] 

014 LETHAL MINIATURE AERIAL MISSILE SYSTEM (LMAMS ................................... 1,318 112,973 1,318 

MODIFICATIONS 

016 ATACMS MODS ................................................................................................ 225,580 –80,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–80,000 ] 

021 MLRS MODS .................................................................................................... 122,000 –122,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–122,000 ] 

TOTAL MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY ............................................. 11,746 1,802,351 –646,938 11,746 

PROCUREMENT OF W&TCV, ARMY TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 

001 BRADLEY PROGRAM ........................................................................................ 61 205,000 –205,000 61 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–205,000 ] 

002 ARMORED MULTI PURPOSE VEHICLE (AMPV) ................................................. 66 230,359 –230,359 66 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–230,359 ] 

MODIFICATION OF TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 

006 BRADLEY PROGRAM (MOD) ............................................................................. 50,000 –50,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–50,000 ] 

008 PALADIN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT (PIM) .................................................... 6 67,000 –67,000 6 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–67,000 ] 


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009 IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88A2 HERCULES) ..................................... 12 42,354 –42,354 12 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–42,354 ] 

014 M1 ABRAMS TANK (MOD) ................................................................................ 34,000 –34,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–34,000 ] 

015 ABRAMS UPGRADE PROGRAM ......................................................................... 40 455,000 –455,000 40 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–455,000 ] 

WEAPONS & OTHER COMBAT VEHICLES 

018 M240 MEDIUM MACHINE GUN (7.62MM) ........................................................ 126 –126 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–126 ] 

022 MORTAR SYSTEMS ........................................................................................... 11,842 –180 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–180 ] 

025 CARBINE .......................................................................................................... 1,800 –1,800 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–1,800 ] 

027 COMMON REMOTELY OPERATED WEAPONS STATION ...................................... 3,378 –3,378 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–3,378 ] 

MOD OF WEAPONS AND OTHER COMBAT VEH 

032 M2 50 CAL MACHINE GUN MODS ................................................................... 4,920 –4,920 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–4,920 ] 

034 M240 MEDIUM MACHINE GUN MODS .............................................................. 7 –7 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–7 ] 

SUPPORT EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES 

039 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (WOCV-WTCV) ......................................................... 1,397 –1,397 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–1,397 ] 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF W&TCV, ARMY ......................................... 185 1,107,183 –1,095,521 185 

PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY SMALL/MEDIUM CAL AMMUNITION 

001 CTG, 5.56MM, ALL TYPES ............................................................................... 3,392 –3,392 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–3,392 ] 

002 CTG, 7.62MM, ALL TYPES ............................................................................... 40 –40 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–40 ] 

003 CTG, HANDGUN, ALL TYPES ............................................................................ 17 –17 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Authori

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–17 ] 

004 CTG, .50 CAL, ALL TYPES ............................................................................... 189 –189 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–189 ] 

005 CTG, 20MM, ALL TYPES .................................................................................. 1,605 007 CTG, 30MM, ALL TYPES .................................................................................. 25,000 –25,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–25,000 ] 

MORTAR AMMUNITION 

009 60MM MORTAR, ALL TYPES ............................................................................ 218 –218 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–218 ] 

010 81MM MORTAR, ALL TYPES ............................................................................ 484 –484 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–484 ] 

ARTILLERY AMMUNITION 

014 ARTILLERY PROJECTILE, 155MM, ALL TYPES .................................................. 79,400 –79,400 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–79,400 ] 

015 PROJ 155MM EXTENDED RANGE M982 ........................................................... 973 72,985 –51,700 973 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–51,700 ] 

016 ARTILLERY PROPELLANTS, FUZES AND PRIMERS, ALL ................................... 63,900 –48,900 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–48,900 ] 

ROCKETS 

018 SHOULDER LAUNCHED MUNITIONS, ALL TYPES .............................................. 22,242 –2,242 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–2,242 ] 

019 ROCKET, HYDRA 70, ALL TYPES ..................................................................... 39,974 

OTHER AMMUNITION 

021 DEMOLITION MUNITIONS, ALL TYPES .............................................................. 5 –5 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–5 ] 

022 GRENADES, ALL TYPES .................................................................................... 8 –8 


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Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–8 ] 

MISCELLANEOUS 

027 ITEMS LESS THAN $5 MILLION (AMMO) .......................................................... 66 –66 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–66 ] 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY ................................ 973 309,525 –211,661 973 

OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY TACTICAL VEHICLES 

002 SEMITRAILERS, FLATBED: ................................................................................ 8,000 –8,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–8,000 ] 

003 AMBULANCE, 4 LITTER, 5/4 TON, 4X4 ............................................................ 20,770 –20,770 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–20,770 ] 

010 FAMILY OF HEAVY TACTICAL VEHICLES (FHTV) ............................................... 596 115,400 –115,400 596 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–115,400 ] 

012 HVY EXPANDED MOBILE TACTICAL TRUCK EXT SERV ..................................... 6,682 –6,682 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–6,682 ] 

013 TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLE PROTECTION KITS ............................................ 50,000 –50,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–50,000 ] 

014 MODIFICATION OF IN SVC EQUIP .................................................................... 186,377 –377 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–377 ] 

COMM—SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 

028 TRANSPORTABLE TACTICAL COMMAND COMMUNICATIONS ............................. 7,100 

COMM—COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS 

037 JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM ...................................................................... 1,560 –1,560 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–1,560 ] 

042 TRACTOR RIDE ................................................................................................ 13,190 045 TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND PROTECTIVE SYSTEM ................................ 9,549 047 COTS COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ............................................................. 22,000 –22,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–22,000 ] 

COMM—INTELLIGENCE COMM 

050 CI AUTOMATION ARCHITECTURE (MIP) ............................................................ 9,800 

INFORMATION SECURITY 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Line Item 

FY 2019 Request House Change House Authori

Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

055 COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY (COMSEC) ........................................................ 3 –3 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–3 ] 

COMM—LONG HAUL COMMUNICATIONS 

059 BASE SUPPORT COMMUNICATIONS ................................................................. 690 

COMM—BASE COMMUNICATIONS 

060 INFORMATION SYSTEMS .................................................................................. 8,750 063 INSTALLATION INFO INFRASTRUCTURE MOD PROGRAM .................................. 60,337 –9,050 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–9,050 ] 

ELECT EQUIP—TACT INT REL ACT (TIARA) 

068 DCGS-A (MIP) .................................................................................................. 37,806 070 TROJAN (MIP) .................................................................................................. 6,926 –600 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–600 ] 

071 MOD OF IN-SVC EQUIP (INTEL SPT) (MIP) ...................................................... 2,011 075 BIOMETRIC TACTICAL COLLECTION DEVICES (MIP) ........................................ 5,370 

ELECT EQUIP—ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) 

080 CREW ............................................................................................................... 42,651 

081 FAMILY OF PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE CAP. (MIP) ....................................... 20,050 5,400 

SOUTHCOM UFR: CENTAM Maritime Sensor .......................................... [3,600 ] SOUTHCOM UFR: SIGINT Suite COMSAT RF ........................................... [1,800 ] 

082 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE/SECURITY COUNTERMEASURES ................................ 12,974 

ELECT EQUIP—TACTICAL SURV. (TAC SURV) 

085 NIGHT VISION DEVICES ................................................................................... 463 –86 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–86 ] 

086 LONG RANGE ADVANCED SCOUT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM .............................. 2,861 –2,861 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–2,861 ] 

087 SMALL TACTICAL OPTICAL RIFLE MOUNTED MLRF .......................................... 60 


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088 RADIATION MONITORING SYSTEMS .................................................................. 11 –11 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–11 ] 

090 INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION FAMILY OF SYSTEMS ......................................... 251,062 –262 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–262 ] 

091 FAMILY OF WEAPON SIGHTS (FWS) ................................................................. 525 –525 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–525 ] 

094 JOINT BATTLE COMMAND—PLATFORM (JBC-P) .............................................. 26,146 –26,146 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–26,146 ] 

096 MOD OF IN-SVC EQUIP (LLDR) ........................................................................ 4,050 –4,050 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–4,050 ] 

097 COMPUTER BALLISTICS: LHMBC XM32 ........................................................... 960 

098 MORTAR FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM .................................................................... 7,660 

099 COUNTERFIRE RADARS .................................................................................... 165,200 

ELECT EQUIP—AUTOMATION 

112 AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING EQUIP ........................................................... 28,475 

CHEMICAL DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT 

121 PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS ..................................................................................... 27 –27 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–27 ] 

122 FAMILY OF NON-LETHAL EQUIPMENT (FNLE) .................................................. 20,200 123 BASE DEFENSE SYSTEMS (BDS) ..................................................................... 39,200 124 CBRN DEFENSE ............................................................................................... 2,317 –317 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–317 ] 

ENGINEER (NON-CONSTRUCTION) EQUIPMENT 

129 GRND STANDOFF MINE DETECTN SYSM (GSTAMIDS) ...................................... 16,000 130 AREA MINE DETECTION SYSTEM (AMDS) ........................................................ 1 –1 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–1 ] 

132 ROBOTIC COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM (RCSS) ................................................. 4,850 136 REMOTE DEMOLITION SYSTEMS ...................................................................... 1 –1 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–1 ] 

COMBAT SERVICE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

139 HEATERS AND ECU’S ....................................................................................... 270 

141 PERSONNEL RECOVERY SUPPORT SYSTEM (PRSS) ........................................ 4,300 


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142 GROUND SOLDIER SYSTEM ............................................................................. 1,725 

144 FORCE PROVIDER ............................................................................................ 55,800 145 FIELD FEEDING EQUIPMENT ............................................................................ 1,035 146 CARGO AERIAL DEL & PERSONNEL PARACHUTE SYSTEM .............................. 1,980 

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 

151 COMBAT SUPPORT MEDICAL ........................................................................... 17,527 

MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT 

153 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (MAINT EQ) ............................................................. 268 –268 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–268 ] 

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 

159 HIGH MOBILITY ENGINEER EXCAVATOR (HMEE) ............................................. 25,700 

GENERATORS 

165 GENERATORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIP ........................................................... 569 

TEST MEASURE AND DIG EQUIPMENT (TMD) 

174 INTEGRATED FAMILY OF TEST EQUIPMENT (IFTE) ........................................... 9,495 –9,495 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–9,495 ] 

OTHER SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

176 M25 STABILIZED BINOCULAR .......................................................................... 33 –33 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ........................... [–33 ] 

177 RAPID EQUIPPING SOLDIER SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ......................................... 18,000 178 PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEMS (OPA3) ........................................................... 6,000 179 BASE LEVEL COMMON EQUIPMENT ................................................................. 2,080 180 MODIFICATION OF IN-SVC EQUIPMENT (OPA–3) ............................................. 19,200 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY ................................................ 596 1,382,047 –273,125 596 

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY 


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OTHER AIRCRAFT 

025 STUASL0 UAV .................................................................................................. 35,065 

MODIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT 

032 SH–60 SERIES ................................................................................................. 4,858 034 EP–3 SERIES ................................................................................................... 5,380 044 SPECIAL PROJECT AIRCRAFT ........................................................................... 2,165 049 COMMON ECM EQUIPMENT ............................................................................. 9,820 051 COMMON DEFENSIVE WEAPON SYSTEM .......................................................... 3,206 061 QRC ................................................................................................................. 2,410 063 RQ–21 SERIES ................................................................................................ 17,215 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY ........................................... 80,119 

WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY TACTICAL MISSILES 

004 AMRAAM .......................................................................................................... 1 1,183 1 005 SIDEWINDER .................................................................................................... 1 381 1 012 HELLFIRE ......................................................................................................... 23 1,530 23 015 AERIAL TARGETS ............................................................................................. 6,500 

GUNS AND GUN MOUNTS 

035 SMALL ARMS AND WEAPONS .......................................................................... 1,540 

MODIFICATION OF GUNS AND GUN MOUNTS 

038 GUN MOUNT MODS .......................................................................................... 3,000 

TOTAL WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY ........................................... 25 14,134 25 

PROCUREMENT OF AMMO, NAVY & MC NAVY AMMUNITION 

001 GENERAL PURPOSE BOMBS ............................................................................ 62,530 002 JDAM ................................................................................................................ 3,906 93,019 3,906 003 AIRBORNE ROCKETS, ALL TYPES .................................................................... 2,163 004 MACHINE GUN AMMUNITION ........................................................................... 5,000 006 CARTRIDGES & CART ACTUATED DEVICES ..................................................... 5,334 

007 AIR EXPENDABLE COUNTERMEASURES ........................................................... 36,580 


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008 JATOS ............................................................................................................... 747 

011 OTHER SHIP GUN AMMUNITION ....................................................................... 2,538 

013 PYROTECHNIC AND DEMOLITION ..................................................................... 1,807 015 AMMUNITION LESS THAN $5 MILLION ............................................................. 2,229 

MARINE CORPS AMMUNITION 

019 MORTARS ......................................................................................................... 2,018 021 DIRECT SUPPORT MUNITIONS ......................................................................... 632 

022 INFANTRY WEAPONS AMMUNITION .................................................................. 779 

026 COMBAT SUPPORT MUNITIONS ........................................................................ 164 

029 ARTILLERY MUNITIONS .................................................................................... 31,001 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMO, NAVY & MC ................................. 3,906 246,541 3,906 

OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY OTHER SHIPBOARD EQUIPMENT 

021 UNDERWATER EOD PROGRAMS ....................................................................... 9,200 

SMALL BOATS 

028 STANDARD BOATS ........................................................................................... 19,060 

ASW ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 

043 FIXED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ........................................................................ 56,950 

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 

077 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ......................................................... 3,200 

CRYPTOLOGIC EQUIPMENT 

082 CRYPTOLOGIC COMMUNICATIONS EQUIP ........................................................ 2,000 

SONOBUOYS 

088 SONOBUOYS—ALL TYPES ............................................................................... 21,156 

OTHER ORDNANCE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 


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104 EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL EQUIP ........................................................ 33,580 

CIVIL ENGINEERING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

108 PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES ................................................................... 170 

109 GENERAL PURPOSE TRUCKS ........................................................................... 400 

111 FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT ............................................................................. 770 

112 TACTICAL VEHICLES ........................................................................................ 7,298 

SUPPLY SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

118 FIRST DESTINATION TRANSPORTATION ............................................................ 500 

COMMAND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

123 MEDICAL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ...................................................................... 6,500 128 ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT EQUIPMENT .......................................................... 2,200 129 PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT .................................................................... 19,389 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

133A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................... 4,800 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY ................................................ 187,173 

PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS INTELL/COMM EQUIPMENT (NON-TEL) 

022 FIRE SUPPORT SYSTEM ................................................................................... 5,583 

TACTICAL VEHICLES 

037 MOTOR TRANSPORT MODIFICATIONS ............................................................... 44,440 

ENGINEER AND OTHER EQUIPMENT 

045 EOD SYSTEMS ................................................................................................. 8,000 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS ............................................ 58,023 

AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE OTHER AIRLIFT 

007 HC–130J .......................................................................................................... 1 100,000 1 

OTHER AIRCRAFT 

018 MQ–9 ............................................................................................................... 21 339,740 –9 –192,700 12 

Excess attrition aircraft ......................................................................... [–9] [–192,700 ] 

019 RQ–20B PUMA ................................................................................................ 13,500 


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STRATEGIC AIRCRAFT 

021 B–1B ............................................................................................................... 4,000 023 LARGE AIRCRAFT INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES .......................................... 149,778 

TACTICAL AIRCRAFT 

024 A–10 ................................................................................................................ 10,350 

OTHER AIRCRAFT 

047 U–2 MODS ....................................................................................................... 7,900 056 COMPASS CALL MODS ..................................................................................... 36,400 061 E–8 .................................................................................................................. 13,000 065 H–60 ............................................................................................................... 40,560 067 HC/MC–130 MODIFICATIONS ........................................................................... 87,900 068 OTHER AIRCRAFT ............................................................................................. 53,731 070 MQ–9 UAS PAYLOADS ..................................................................................... 16,000 

AIRCRAFT SPARES AND REPAIR PARTS 

072 INITIAL SPARES/REPAIR PARTS ....................................................................... 91,500 

COMMON SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

073 AIRCRAFT REPLACEMENT SUPPORT EQUIP ..................................................... 32,529 074 OTHER PRODUCTION CHARGES ....................................................................... 22,000 

TOTAL AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE .................................. 22 1,018,888 –9 –192,700 13 

MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE TACTICAL 

002 JOINT AIR-SURFACE STANDOFF MISSILE ......................................................... 48 61,600 48 

005 AMRAAM .......................................................................................................... 2 2,600 2 006 PREDATOR HELLFIRE MISSILE ......................................................................... 3,000 255,000 3,000 007 SMALL DIAMETER BOMB ................................................................................. 3,909 140,724 3,909 


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013 AGM–65D MAVERICK ....................................................................................... 33,602 

TOTAL MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE .................................... 6,959 493,526 6,959 

PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE CARTRIDGES 

002 CARTRIDGES .................................................................................................... 29,587 

BOMBS 

004 GENERAL PURPOSE BOMBS ............................................................................ 551,862 006 JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION .................................................................... 28,101 738,451 28,101 

FLARES 

015 FLARES ............................................................................................................ 12,116 

FUZES 

016 FUZES .............................................................................................................. 81,000 

SMALL ARMS 

017 SMALL ARMS ................................................................................................... 8,500 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE ....................... 28,101 1,421,516 28,101 

OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES 

001 PASSENGER CARRYING VEHICLES ................................................................... 9,680 

CARGO AND UTILITY VEHICLES 

002 MEDIUM TACTICAL VEHICLE ............................................................................ 9,680 004 CARGO AND UTILITY VEHICLES ....................................................................... 19,680 

SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLES 

006 SECURITY AND TACTICAL VEHICLES ............................................................... 24,880 

007 SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLES .......................................................................... 34,680 

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT 

008 FIRE FIGHTING/CRASH RESCUE VEHICLES ...................................................... 9,736 

MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT 

009 MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES .................................................................... 24,680 

BASE MAINTENANCE SUPPORT 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

010 RUNWAY SNOW REMOV AND CLEANING EQU .................................................. 9,680 011 BASE MAINTENANCE SUPPORT VEHICLES ....................................................... 9,680 

INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS 

015 INTELLIGENCE COMM EQUIPMENT .................................................................. 6,156 

ELECTRONICS PROGRAMS 

016 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL & LANDING SYS ......................................................... 56,884 

SPCL COMM-ELECTRONICS PROJECTS 

029 AIR FORCE PHYSICAL SECURITY SYSTEM ....................................................... 46,236 037 THEATER BATTLE MGT C2 SYSTEM ................................................................. 2,500 

ORGANIZATION AND BASE 

045 TACTICAL C-E EQUIPMENT .............................................................................. 27,911 

PERSONAL SAFETY & RESCUE EQUIP 

051 PERSONAL SAFETY AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT ................................................ 13,600 

BASE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT 

053 BASE PROCURED EQUIPMENT ......................................................................... 28,800 054 ENGINEERING AND EOD EQUIPMENT ............................................................... 53,500 055 MOBILITY EQUIPMENT ..................................................................................... 78,562 056 BASE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ............................................ 28,055 

SPECIAL SUPPORT PROJECTS 

059 DCGS-AF .......................................................................................................... 2,000 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

062 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................... 3,229,364 

TOTAL OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE ....................................... 3,725,944 

PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DISA 


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008 TELEPORT PROGRAM ....................................................................................... 3,800 017 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS NETWORK .................................................. 12,000 

MAJOR EQUIPMENT, DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY 

025 COUNTER IED & IMPROVISED THREAT TECHNOLOGIES .................................. 5,534 

CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS 

046A CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................... 41,559 

AVIATION PROGRAMS 

047 MANNED ISR .................................................................................................... 5,000 048 MC–12 ............................................................................................................. 5,000 049 MH–60 BLACKHAWK ........................................................................................ 27,600 051 UNMANNED ISR ............................................................................................... 17,000 052 NON-STANDARD AVIATION ............................................................................... 13,000 053 U–28 ............................................................................................................... 51,722 054 MH–47 CHINOOK ............................................................................................. 36,500 

AMMUNITION PROGRAMS 

061 ORDNANCE ITEMS <$5M ................................................................................ 100,850 

OTHER PROCUREMENT PROGRAMS 

062 INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS .................................................................................. 16,500 064 OTHER ITEMS <$5M ....................................................................................... 7,700 067 TACTICAL VEHICLES ........................................................................................ 59,891 068 WARRIOR SYSTEMS <$5M .............................................................................. 21,135 069 COMBAT MISSION REQUIREMENTS .................................................................. 10,000 071 OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS INTELLIGENCE ............................................... 10,805 073 OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS ....................................................................... 13 126,539 13 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE ............................................ 13 572,135 13 

NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT UNDISTRIBUTED 

007 UNDISTRIBUTED ............................................................................................... 150,000 

Program increase ................................................................................... [150,000 ] 

TOTAL NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT ....................... 150,000 


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Qty Cost Qty Cost Qty 

TOTAL PROCUREMENT ....................................................................... 52,535 12,782,468 –9 –2,324,215 52,526 1


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EVALUATION 

SEC. 4201. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION. 

SEC. 4201. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, ARMY BASIC RESEARCH 

001 0601101A IN-HOUSE LABORATORY INDEPENDENT RESEARCH .................................................................................... 11,585 002 0601102A DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES .................................................................................................................. 276,912 003 0601103A UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVES ............................................................................................................ 65,283 

004 0601104A UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY RESEARCH CENTERS ..................................................................................... 92,115 

SUBTOTAL BASIC RESEARCH .................................................................................................................. 445,895 

APPLIED RESEARCH 

005 0602105A MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................ 28,600 1,000 

Conformal batteries and composite armor ....................................................................................... [1,000 ] 

006 0602120A SENSORS AND ELECTRONIC SURVIVABILITY ............................................................................................... 32,366 4,000 

Expand Army Research lab Open Campus project ........................................................................... [4,000 ]

007 0602122A TRACTOR HIP ............................................................................................................................................... 8,674 008 0602126A TRACTOR JACK ............................................................................................................................................ 400 

009 0602211A AVIATION TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................... 64,847 010 0602270A ELECTRONIC WARFARE TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................................... 25,571 011 0602303A MISSILE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................. 50,183 012 0602307A ADVANCED WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................ 29,502 


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013 0602308A ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND SIMULATION .................................................................................................... 28,500 014 0602601A COMBAT VEHICLE AND AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY .................................................................................... 70,450 015 0602618A BALLISTICS TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................ 75,541 016 0602622A CHEMICAL, SMOKE AND EQUIPMENT DEFEATING TECHNOLOGY ................................................................. 5,032 017 0602623A JOINT SERVICE SMALL ARMS PROGRAM ..................................................................................................... 12,394 018 0602624A WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................... 40,444 10,000 

Accelerate Army railgun development and prototyping .................................................................... [10,000 ] 

019 0602705A ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES .................................................................................................. 58,283 020 0602709A NIGHT VISION TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 29,582 021 0602712A COUNTERMINE SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................. 21,244 022 0602716A HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................... 24,131 023 0602720A ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNOLOGY .................................................................................................... 13,242 024 0602782A COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................ 55,003 025 0602783A COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................. 14,958 026 0602784A MILITARY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 78,159 027 0602785A MANPOWER/PERSONNEL/TRAINING TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................... 21,862 028 0602786A WARFIGHTER TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................................................... 40,566 5,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

029 0602787A MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................... 90,075 

SUBTOTAL APPLIED RESEARCH .............................................................................................................. 919,609 20,000 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 

030 0603001A WARFIGHTER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 39,338 031 0603002A MEDICAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................. 62,496 032 0603003A AVIATION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................. 124,958 033 0603004A WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................ 102,686 

034 0603005A COMBAT VEHICLE AND AUTOMOTIVE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ................................................................. 119,739 


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035 0603006A SPACE APPLICATION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................... 13,000 036 0603007A MANPOWER, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ........................................................... 8,044 037 0603009A TRACTOR HIKE ............................................................................................................................................. 22,631 038 0603015A NEXT GENERATION TRAINING & SIMULATION SYSTEMS ............................................................................. 25,682 040 0603125A COMBATING TERRORISM—TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................... 3,762 041 0603130A TRACTOR NAIL ............................................................................................................................................. 4,896 042 0603131A TRACTOR EGGS ........................................................................................................................................... 6,041 043 0603270A ELECTRONIC WARFARE TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................................... 31,491 044 0603313A MISSILE AND ROCKET ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................ 61,132 10,000 

Shoot-on-the-Move Technology Development for SHORAD platforms ............................................... [10,000 ] 

045 0603322A TRACTOR CAGE ........................................................................................................................................... 16,845 046 0603461A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MODERNIZATION PROGRAM .................................................................. 183,322 5,000 

Enhance and accelerate Army artificial intelligence and machine learning ................................... [5,000 ] 

047 0603606A LANDMINE WARFARE AND BARRIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY .................................................................. 11,104 

048 0603607A JOINT SERVICE SMALL ARMS PROGRAM ..................................................................................................... 5,885 049 0603710A NIGHT VISION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 61,376 –2,500 

Program decrease .............................................................................................................................. [–2,500 ] 

050 0603728A ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS ...................................................................... 9,136 051 0603734A MILITARY ENGINEERING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................... 25,864 052 0603772A ADVANCED TACTICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY ................................................... 34,883 5,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

053 0603794A C3 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................... 52,387 –2,500 

Program decrease .............................................................................................................................. [–2,500 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 1,026,698 15,000 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

054 0603305A ARMY MISSLE DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ........................................................................................ 10,777 

056 0603327A AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING .................................................................................. 42,802 1,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ....................................................................... [1,000 ]

057 0603619A LANDMINE WARFARE AND BARRIER—ADV DEV ......................................................................................... 45,254 058 0603627A SMOKE, OBSCURANT AND TARGET DEFEATING SYS-ADV DEV .................................................................... 22,700 059 0603639A TANK AND MEDIUM CALIBER AMMUNITION ................................................................................................ 41,974 14,000 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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Aut

Army UFR: test and evaluation of the M999 155mm Anti-Personnel Improved Conventional Munition. [14,000 ] 

060 0603645A ARMORED SYSTEM MODERNIZATION—ADV DEV ........................................................................................ 119,395 061 0603747A SOLDIER SUPPORT AND SURVIVABILITY ...................................................................................................... 8,746 062 0603766A TACTICAL ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM—ADV DEV ...................................................................... 35,667 063 0603774A NIGHT VISION SYSTEMS ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 7,350 064 0603779A ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNOLOGY—DEM/VAL .................................................................................. 14,749 065 0603790A NATO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................................... 3,687 066 0603801A AVIATION—ADV DEV ................................................................................................................................... 10,793 067 0603804A LOGISTICS AND ENGINEER EQUIPMENT—ADV DEV .................................................................................... 14,248 068 0603807A MEDICAL SYSTEMS—ADV DEV ................................................................................................................... 34,284 069 0603827A SOLDIER SYSTEMS—ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................ 18,044 10,000 

Advanced materials research for personal protective equipment (PPE) .......................................... [10,000 ] 

070 0604017A ROBOTICS DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................................................... 95,660 

071 0604020A CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM (CFT) ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPING .......................................... 38,000 30,000 

Iron Dome short range air defense experimentation ........................................................................ [30,000 ] 

072 0604100A ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES ....................................................................................................................... 9,765 073 0604113A FUTURE TACTICAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (FTUAS) ....................................................................... 12,393 

074 0604114A LOWER TIER AIR MISSILE DEFENSE (LTAMD) SENSOR ............................................................................... 120,374 075 0604115A TECHNOLOGY MATURATION INITIATIVES ...................................................................................................... 95,347 076 0604117A MANEUVER—SHORT RANGE AIR DEFENSE (M-SHORAD) ........................................................................... 95,085 23,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ....................................................................... [23,000 ] 

077 0604118A TRACTOR BEAM ........................................................................................................................................... 52,894 079 0604121A SYNTHETIC TRAINING ENVIRONMENT REFINEMENT & PROTOTYPING ......................................................... 77,939 080 0604319A INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION CAPABILITY INCREMENT 2–INTERCEPT (IFPC2) ............................................ 51,030 081 0305251A CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS FORCES AND FORCE SUPPORT ....................................................................... 65,817 082 1206120A ASSURED POSITIONING, NAVIGATION AND TIMING (PNT) ............................................................................ 146,300 


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083 1206308A ARMY SPACE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ......................................................................................................... 38,319 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES .................................................... 1,329,393 78,000 

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION 

084 0604201A AIRCRAFT AVIONICS .................................................................................................................................... 32,293 085 0604270A ELECTRONIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 78,699 

088 0604328A TRACTOR CAGE ........................................................................................................................................... 17,050 089 0604601A INFANTRY SUPPORT WEAPONS .................................................................................................................... 83,155 090 0604604A MEDIUM TACTICAL VEHICLES ...................................................................................................................... 3,704 091 0604611A JAVELIN ........................................................................................................................................................ 10,623 092 0604622A FAMILY OF HEAVY TACTICAL VEHICLES ...................................................................................................... 11,950 093 0604633A AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ................................................................................................................................ 12,347 095 0604642A LIGHT TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLES ......................................................................................................... 8,212 096 0604645A ARMORED SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION (ASM)—ENG DEV ........................................................................... 393,613 097 0604710A NIGHT VISION SYSTEMS—ENG DEV ............................................................................................................ 139,614 098 0604713A COMBAT FEEDING, CLOTHING, AND EQUIPMENT ........................................................................................ 4,507 099 0604715A NON-SYSTEM TRAINING DEVICES—ENG DEV ............................................................................................. 49,436 100 0604741A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND, CONTROL AND INTELLIGENCE—ENG DEV ......................................................... 95,172 101 0604742A CONSTRUCTIVE SIMULATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 22,628 102 0604746A AUTOMATIC TEST EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 13,297 103 0604760A DISTRIBUTIVE INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS (DIS)—ENG DEV ...................................................................... 9,145 104 0604768A BRILLIANT ANTI-ARMOR SUBMUNITION (BAT) ............................................................................................. 9,894 105 0604780A COMBINED ARMS TACTICAL TRAINER (CATT) CORE ................................................................................... 21,964 106 0604798A BRIGADE ANALYSIS, INTEGRATION AND EVALUATION ................................................................................. 49,288 107 0604802A WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS—ENG DEV ....................................................................................................... 183,100 108 0604804A LOGISTICS AND ENGINEER EQUIPMENT—ENG DEV ................................................................................... 79,706 –3,800 

Late MSV-L contract award and concurrency ................................................................................... [–3,800 ] 

109 0604805A COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS—ENG DEV ................................................................ 15,970 110 0604807A MEDICAL MATERIEL/MEDICAL BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE EQUIPMENT—ENG DEV ........................................... 44,542 111 0604808A LANDMINE WARFARE/BARRIER—ENG DEV ................................................................................................. 50,817 112 0604818A ARMY TACTICAL COMMAND & CONTROL HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ........................................................... 178,693 113 0604820A RADAR DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................. 39,338 


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114 0604822A GENERAL FUND ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SYSTEM (GFEBS) ......................................................................... 37,851 115 0604823A FIREFINDER ................................................................................................................................................. 45,473 116 0604827A SOLDIER SYSTEMS—WARRIOR DEM/VAL .................................................................................................... 10,395 117 0604852A SUITE OF SURVIVABILITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS—EMD ........................................................................ 69,204 –13,400 

Program reduction ............................................................................................................................. [–13,400 ] 

118 0604854A ARTILLERY SYSTEMS—EMD ........................................................................................................................ 1,781 119 0605013A INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................... 113,758 120 0605018A INTEGRATED PERSONNEL AND PAY SYSTEM-ARMY (IPPS-A) ..................................................................... 166,603 121 0605028A ARMORED MULTI-PURPOSE VEHICLE (AMPV) ............................................................................................. 118,239 122 0605029A INTEGRATED GROUND SECURITY SURVEILLANCE RESPONSE CAPABILITY (IGSSR-C) ................................ 3,211 123 0605030A JOINT TACTICAL NETWORK CENTER (JTNC) ................................................................................................. 15,889 124 0605031A JOINT TACTICAL NETWORK (JTN) ................................................................................................................. 41,972 125 0605032A TRACTOR TIRE ............................................................................................................................................. 41,166 126 0605033A GROUND-BASED OPERATIONAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM—EXPEDITIONARY (GBOSS-E) ............................. 5,175 127 0605034A TACTICAL SECURITY SYSTEM (TSS) ............................................................................................................ 4,496 128 0605035A COMMON INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (CIRCM) .................................................................................... 51,178 129 0605036A COMBATING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (CWMD) ........................................................................... 11,311 131 0605038A NUCLEAR BIOLOGICAL CHEMICAL RECONNAISSANCE VEHICLE (NBCRV) SENSOR SUITE .......................... 17,154 132 0605041A DEFENSIVE CYBER TOOL DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................... 36,626 133 0605042A TACTICAL NETWORK RADIO SYSTEMS (LOW-TIER) ...................................................................................... 3,829 134 0605047A CONTRACT WRITING SYSTEM ...................................................................................................................... 41,928 135 0605049A MISSILE WARNING SYSTEM MODERNIZATION (MWSM) ............................................................................... 28,276 136 0605051A AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................... 21,965 137 0605052A INDIRECT FIRE PROTECTION CAPABILITY INC 2—BLOCK 1 ....................................................................... 157,710 138 0605053A GROUND ROBOTICS ..................................................................................................................................... 86,167 139 0605054A EMERGING TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES ......................................................................................................... 42,866 25,400 

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140 0605380A AMF JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM (JTRS) .............................................................................................. 15,984 141 0605450A JOINT AIR-TO-GROUND MISSILE (JAGM) ...................................................................................................... 11,773 142 0605457A ARMY INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE (AIAMD) ........................................................................... 277,607 143 0605766A NATIONAL CAPABILITIES INTEGRATION (MIP) .............................................................................................. 12,340 144 0605812A JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE (JLTV) ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT PH ............. 2,686 145 0605830A AVIATION GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT ................................................................................................... 2,706 147 0303032A TROJAN—RH12 ........................................................................................................................................... 4,521 150 0304270A ELECTRONIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 8,922 151 1205117A TRACTOR BEARS ......................................................................................................................................... 23,170 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION ........................................................................ 3,192,689 8,200 

RDT&E MANAGEMENT SUPPORT 

152 0604256A THREAT SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................ 12,835 

153 0604258A TARGET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................... 12,135 154 0604759A MAJOR T&E INVESTMENT ............................................................................................................................ 82,996 155 0605103A RAND ARROYO CENTER ............................................................................................................................... 19,821 156 0605301A ARMY KWAJALEIN ATOLL ............................................................................................................................. 246,574 157 0605326A CONCEPTS EXPERIMENTATION PROGRAM ................................................................................................... 30,430 159 0605601A ARMY TEST RANGES AND FACILITIES .......................................................................................................... 305,759 160 0605602A ARMY TECHNICAL TEST INSTRUMENTATION AND TARGETS ........................................................................ 62,379 161 0605604A SURVIVABILITY/LETHALITY ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................... 40,496 162 0605606A AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION ............................................................................................................................ 3,941 163 0605702A METEOROLOGICAL SUPPORT TO RDT&E ACTIVITIES ................................................................................... 9,767 164 0605706A MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................... 21,226 165 0605709A EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN ITEMS .............................................................................................................. 13,026 166 0605712A SUPPORT OF OPERATIONAL TESTING .......................................................................................................... 52,718 167 0605716A ARMY EVALUATION CENTER ........................................................................................................................ 57,049 168 0605718A ARMY MODELING & SIM X-CMD COLLABORATION & INTEG ....................................................................... 2,801 169 0605801A PROGRAMWIDE ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................................... 60,942 170 0605803A TECHNICAL INFORMATION ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................... 29,050 171 0605805A MUNITIONS STANDARDIZATION, EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY ................................................................... 42,332 172 0605857A ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNOLOGY MGMT SUPPORT ......................................................................... 3,216 


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173 0605898A ARMY DIRECT REPORT HEADQUARTERS—R&D - MHA .............................................................................. 54,145 174 0606001A MILITARY GROUND-BASED CREW TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................... 4,896 175 0606002A RONALD REAGAN BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TEST SITE ........................................................................ 63,011 176 0606003A COUNTERINTEL AND HUMAN INTEL MODERNIZATION ................................................................................. 2,636 177 0606942A ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 88,300 

SUBTOTAL RDT&E MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ........................................................................................... 1,322,481 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 

181 0603778A MLRS PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ................................................................................................. 8,886 182 0603813A TRACTOR PULL ............................................................................................................................................ 4,067 183 0605024A ANTI-TAMPER TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT ........................................................................................................ 4,254 

184 0607131A WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS ............................................................. 16,022 185 0607133A TRACTOR SMOKE ......................................................................................................................................... 4,577 186 0607134A LONG RANGE PRECISION FIRES (LRPF) ...................................................................................................... 186,475 187 0607135A APACHE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ............................................................................................. 31,049 188 0607136A BLACKHAWK PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ...................................................................................... 35,240 189 0607137A CHINOOK PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ........................................................................................... 157,822 190 0607138A FIXED WING PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ....................................................................................... 4,189 191 0607139A IMPROVED TURBINE ENGINE PROGRAM ...................................................................................................... 192,637 194 0607142A AVIATION ROCKET SYSTEM PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ................................................ 60,860 195 0607143A UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM UNIVERSAL PRODUCTS ............................................................................. 52,019 196 0607665A FAMILY OF BIOMETRICS .............................................................................................................................. 2,400 197 0607865A PATRIOT PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT .............................................................................................................. 65,369 25,000 

Increase PATRIOT improvement efforts ............................................................................................. [25,000 ] 

198 0202429A AEROSTAT JOINT PROJECT—COCOM EXERCISE ......................................................................................... 1 199 0203728A JOINT AUTOMATED DEEP OPERATION COORDINATION SYSTEM (JADOCS) .................................................. 30,954 200 0203735A COMBAT VEHICLE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS ............................................................................................ 411,927 


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202 0203743A 155MM SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER IMPROVEMENTS ............................................................................... 40,676 203 0203744A AIRCRAFT MODIFICATIONS/PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS .............................................................. 17,706 204 0203752A AIRCRAFT ENGINE COMPONENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ........................................................................ 146 205 0203758A DIGITIZATION ............................................................................................................................................... 6,316 206 0203801A MISSILE/AIR DEFENSE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ....................................................................... 1,643 2,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ....................................................................... [2,000 ]

207 0203802A OTHER MISSILE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS ............................................................................... 4,947 208 0203808A TRACTOR CARD ........................................................................................................................................... 34,050 210 0205410A MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT ............................................................................................................. 1,464 211 0205412A ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TECHNOLOGY—OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEV .................................................... 249 212 0205456A LOWER TIER AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE (AMD) SYSTEM ........................................................................... 79,283 213 0205778A GUIDED MULTIPLE-LAUNCH ROCKET SYSTEM (GMLRS) .............................................................................. 154,102 216 0303028A SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................. 12,280 217 0303140A INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 68,533 218 0303141A GLOBAL COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM ........................................................................................................... 68,619 220 0303150A WWMCCS/GLOBAL COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM ............................................................................... 2,034 223 0305172A COMBINED ADVANCED APPLICATIONS ......................................................................................................... 1,500 224 0305179A INTEGRATED BROADCAST SERVICE (IBS) ................................................................................................... 450 225 0305204A TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES .................................................................................................... 6,000 226 0305206A AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................... 12,416 14,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ....................................................................... [14,000 ] 

227 0305208A DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 38,667 229 0305232A RQ–11 UAV ................................................................................................................................................. 6,180 230 0305233A RQ–7 UAV ................................................................................................................................................... 12,863 231 0307665A BIOMETRICS ENABLED INTELLIGENCE ......................................................................................................... 4,310 233 0708045A END ITEM INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES ................................................................................... 53,958 234 1203142A SATCOM GROUND ENVIRONMENT (SPACE) ................................................................................................. 12,119 235 1208053A JOINT TACTICAL GROUND SYSTEM .............................................................................................................. 7,400 

235A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................... 5,955 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 1,922,614 41,000 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, ARMY .............................................................. 10,159,379 162,200 1


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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, NAVY BASIC RESEARCH 

001 0601103N UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVES ............................................................................................................ 119,433 10,000 

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program .................................................................... [10,000 ] 

002 0601152N IN-HOUSE LABORATORY INDEPENDENT RESEARCH .................................................................................... 19,237 003 0601153N DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES .................................................................................................................. 458,708 

SUBTOTAL BASIC RESEARCH .................................................................................................................. 597,378 10,000 

APPLIED RESEARCH 

004 0602114N POWER PROJECTION APPLIED RESEARCH ................................................................................................... 14,643 

005 0602123N FORCE PROTECTION APPLIED RESEARCH ................................................................................................... 124,049 006 0602131M MARINE CORPS LANDING FORCE TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................... 59,607 007 0602235N COMMON PICTURE APPLIED RESEARCH ..................................................................................................... 36,348 5,000 

Enhance and accelerate Navy artificial intelligence research ......................................................... [5,000 ] 

008 0602236N WARFIGHTER SUSTAINMENT APPLIED RESEARCH ....................................................................................... 56,197 

009 0602271N ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS APPLIED RESEARCH .................................................................................... 83,800 010 0602435N OCEAN WARFIGHTING ENVIRONMENT APPLIED RESEARCH ......................................................................... 42,998 011 0602651M JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS APPLIED RESEARCH .................................................................................... 6,349 012 0602747N UNDERSEA WARFARE APPLIED RESEARCH ................................................................................................. 58,049 20,000 

Academic partnerships for undersea unmanned warfare research and energy technology ............ [20,000 ] 

013 0602750N FUTURE NAVAL CAPABILITIES APPLIED RESEARCH .................................................................................... 147,771 014 0602782N MINE AND EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE APPLIED RESEARCH ........................................................................ 37,545 23,500 

Program increase-one sensor plus integration ................................................................................. [23,500 ] 

015 0602792N INNOVATIVE NAVAL PROTOTYPES (INP) APPLIED RESEARCH ...................................................................... 159,697 10,000 

Accelerate Navy railgun development and prototyping .................................................................... [10,000 ] 

016 0602861N SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT—ONR FIELD ACITIVITIES ....................................................... 64,418 


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SUBTOTAL APPLIED RESEARCH .............................................................................................................. 891,471 58,500 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 

019 0603123N FORCE PROTECTION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................... 2,423 

021 0603640M USMC ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (ATD) ........................................................................... 150,245 022 0603651M JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................... 13,313 023 0603671N NAVY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (ATD) ................................................................................ 131,502 024 0603673N FUTURE NAVAL CAPABILITIES ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 232,996 025 0603680N MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ................................................................................................. 58,657 030 0603801N INNOVATIVE NAVAL PROTOTYPES (INP) ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ..................................... 161,859 20,000 

Accelerate Navy railgun development and prototyping .................................................................... [20,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 750,995 20,000 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

031 0603207N AIR/OCEAN TACTICAL APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................... 29,747 

032 0603216N AVIATION SURVIVABILITY ............................................................................................................................. 7,050 033 0603251N AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................... 793 034 0603254N ASW SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................................................... 7,058 5,000 

Prototyping fiber deployment sonobuoy systems .............................................................................. [5,000 ] 

035 0603261N TACTICAL AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE ..................................................................................................... 3,540 036 0603382N ADVANCED COMBAT SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................. 59,741 037 0603502N SURFACE AND SHALLOW WATER MINE COUNTERMEASURES ..................................................................... 62,727 038 0603506N SURFACE SHIP TORPEDO DEFENSE ............................................................................................................. 8,570 10,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

039 0603512N CARRIER SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................. 5,440 040 0603525N PILOT FISH ................................................................................................................................................... 162,222 041 0603527N RETRACT LARCH .......................................................................................................................................... 11,745 042 0603536N RETRACT JUNIPER ....................................................................................................................................... 114,265 043 0603542N RADIOLOGICAL CONTROL ............................................................................................................................. 740 044 0603553N SURFACE ASW ............................................................................................................................................. 1,122 045 0603561N ADVANCED SUBMARINE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................ 109,086 –20,000 

Excessive cost growth ........................................................................................................................ [–7,000 ] 


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Prior year inefficiencies impact ........................................................................................................ [–13,000 ] 

046 0603562N SUBMARINE TACTICAL WARFARE SYSTEMS ................................................................................................ 9,374 047 0603563N SHIP CONCEPT ADVANCED DESIGN ............................................................................................................. 89,419 048 0603564N SHIP PRELIMINARY DESIGN & FEASIBILITY STUDIES .................................................................................. 13,348 049 0603570N ADVANCED NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 256,137 050 0603573N ADVANCED SURFACE MACHINERY SYSTEMS ............................................................................................... 22,109 051 0603576N CHALK EAGLE .............................................................................................................................................. 29,744 052 0603581N LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP (LCS) .................................................................................................................... 27,997 053 0603582N COMBAT SYSTEM INTEGRATION .................................................................................................................. 16,351 054 0603595N OHIO REPLACEMENT .................................................................................................................................... 514,846 12,000 

Advanced Submarines Control and Precision Propulsion Module Integration .................................. [12,000 ] 

055 0603596N LCS MISSION MODULES .............................................................................................................................. 103,633 056 0603597N AUTOMATED TEST AND ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................... 7,931 057 0603599N FRIGATE DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................................. 134,772 058 0603609N CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS ......................................................................................................................... 9,307 060 0603635M MARINE CORPS GROUND COMBAT/SUPPORT SYSTEM ................................................................................ 1,828 061 0603654N JOINT SERVICE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................. 43,148 062 0603713N OCEAN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 5,915 063 0603721N ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION .................................................................................................................... 19,811 5,000 

High-Pressure Waterjet Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology development .............................. [5,000 ] 

064 0603724N NAVY ENERGY PROGRAM ............................................................................................................................ 25,656 065 0603725N FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT ........................................................................................................................... 5,301 066 0603734N CHALK CORAL .............................................................................................................................................. 267,985 067 0603739N NAVY LOGISTIC PRODUCTIVITY .................................................................................................................... 4,059 068 0603746N RETRACT MAPLE .......................................................................................................................................... 377,878 069 0603748N LINK PLUMERIA ........................................................................................................................................... 381,770 070 0603751N RETRACT ELM .............................................................................................................................................. 60,535 


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073 0603790N NATO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................................... 9,652 074 0603795N LAND ATTACK TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 15,529 075 0603851M JOINT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS TESTING ....................................................................................................... 27,581 5,000 

Joint service adoption of non-lethal weapon technologies ............................................................... [5,000 ]

076 0603860N JOINT PRECISION APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEMS—DEM/VAL ............................................................ 101,566 077 0603925N DIRECTED ENERGY AND ELECTRIC WEAPON SYSTEMS .............................................................................. 223,344 –52,000 

Program decrease .............................................................................................................................. [–52,000 ] 

078 0604014N F/A –18 INFRARED SEARCH AND TRACK (IRST) ......................................................................................... 108,700 079 0604027N DIGITAL WARFARE OFFICE ........................................................................................................................... 26,691 080 0604028N SMALL AND MEDIUM UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES ............................................................................ 16,717 081 0604029N UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLE CORE TECHNOLOGIES ............................................................................. 30,187 082 0604030N RAPID PROTOTYPING, EXPERIMENTATION AND DEMONSTRATION. .............................................................. 48,796 083 0604031N LARGE UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES ................................................................................................... 92,613 –21,200 

Excessive Snakehead LDUUV growth ................................................................................................. [–21,200 ] 

084 0604112N GERALD R. FORD CLASS NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER (CVN 78—80) .................................................... 58,121 15,000 

EMALS software support activity ....................................................................................................... [15,000 ] 

086 0604126N LITTORAL AIRBORNE MCM .......................................................................................................................... 17,622 087 0604127N SURFACE MINE COUNTERMEASURES .......................................................................................................... 18,154 088 0604272N TACTICAL AIR DIRECTIONAL INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (TADIRCM) ................................................... 47,278 090 0604289M NEXT GENERATION LOGISTICS ..................................................................................................................... 11,081 092 0604320M RAPID TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITY PROTOTYPE ............................................................................................ 7,107 093 0604454N LX (R) .......................................................................................................................................................... 5,549 094 0604536N ADVANCED UNDERSEA PROTOTYPING ......................................................................................................... 87,669 095 0604659N PRECISION STRIKE WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ............................................................................ 132,818 096 0604707N SPACE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE (SEW) ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING SUPPORT ................................. 7,230 

097 0604786N OFFENSIVE ANTI-SURFACE WARFARE WEAPON DEVELOPMENT .................................................................. 143,062 099 0303354N ASW SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT—MIP .......................................................................................................... 8,889 100 0304240M ADVANCED TACTICAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM ................................................................................ 25,291 –14,950 

Unjustified cost growth ..................................................................................................................... [–14,950 ] 

101 0304240N ADVANCED TACTICAL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM ................................................................................ 9,300 102 0304270N ELECTRONIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT—MIP ............................................................................................. 466 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES .................................................... 4,293,713 –56,150 


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103 0603208N TRAINING SYSTEM AIRCRAFT ...................................................................................................................... 12,798 1,000 

TH–57 follow-on training system development ................................................................................ [1,000 ] 

104 0604212N OTHER HELO DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................................... 32,128 105 0604214M AV–8B AIRCRAFT—ENG DEV ...................................................................................................................... 46,363 107 0604215N STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................................................... 3,771 108 0604216N MULTI-MISSION HELICOPTER UPGRADE DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 16,611 109 0604218N AIR/OCEAN EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING ........................................................................................................ 17,368 110 0604221N P–3 MODERNIZATION PROGRAM ................................................................................................................. 2,134 111 0604230N WARFARE SUPPORT SYSTEM ....................................................................................................................... 9,729 112 0604231N TACTICAL COMMAND SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................... 57,688 113 0604234N ADVANCED HAWKEYE .................................................................................................................................. 223,565 –8,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–10,000 ] Program increase--IFF range improvement ....................................................................................... [2,000 ] 

114 0604245M H–1 UPGRADES ........................................................................................................................................... 58,097 116 0604261N ACOUSTIC SEARCH SENSORS ...................................................................................................................... 42,485 117 0604262N V–22A .......................................................................................................................................................... 143,079 118 0604264N AIR CREW SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ........................................................................................................... 20,980 119 0604269N EA–18 .......................................................................................................................................................... 147,419 120 0604270N ELECTRONIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 89,824 31,600 

Navy UFR: EA–18G offensive airborne electronic attack special mission pods .............................. [31,600 ] 

121 0604273M EXECUTIVE HELO DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................ 245,064 123 0604274N NEXT GENERATION JAMMER (NGJ) .............................................................................................................. 459,529 124 0604280N JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM—NAVY (JTRS-NAVY) ................................................................................ 3,272 125 0604282N NEXT GENERATION JAMMER (NGJ) INCREMENT II ...................................................................................... 115,253 126 0604307N SURFACE COMBATANT COMBAT SYSTEM ENGINEERING ............................................................................. 397,403 –20,000 


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ACB 20 unexecutable growth ............................................................................................................ [–20,000 ] 

127 0604311N LPD–17 CLASS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ...................................................................................................... 939 128 0604329N SMALL DIAMETER BOMB (SDB) ................................................................................................................... 104,448 129 0604366N STANDARD MISSILE IMPROVEMENTS ........................................................................................................... 165,881 15,000 

XFU electronics unit integration ........................................................................................................ [15,000 ] 

130 0604373N AIRBORNE MCM .......................................................................................................................................... 10,831 131 0604378N NAVAL INTEGRATED FIRE CONTROL—COUNTER AIR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ........................................... 33,429 –6,900 

Excess overhead ................................................................................................................................. [–6,900 ] 

132 0604501N ADVANCED ABOVE WATER SENSORS .......................................................................................................... 35,635 133 0604503N SSN–688 AND TRIDENT MODERNIZATION ................................................................................................... 126,932 134 0604504N AIR CONTROL .............................................................................................................................................. 62,448 135 0604512N SHIPBOARD AVIATION SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................. 9,710 136 0604518N COMBAT INFORMATION CENTER CONVERSION ........................................................................................... 19,303 137 0604522N AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE RADAR (AMDR) SYSTEM ................................................................................. 27,059 138 0604530N ADVANCED ARRESTING GEAR (AAG) ........................................................................................................... 184,106 139 0604558N NEW DESIGN SSN ........................................................................................................................................ 148,233 –21,400 

Excess cost growth ............................................................................................................................ [–21,400 ] 

140 0604562N SUBMARINE TACTICAL WARFARE SYSTEM .................................................................................................. 60,824 141 0604567N SHIP CONTRACT DESIGN/ LIVE FIRE T&E ................................................................................................... 60,062 142 0604574N NAVY TACTICAL COMPUTER RESOURCES .................................................................................................... 4,642 144 0604601N MINE DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................... 25,756 145 0604610N LIGHTWEIGHT TORPEDO DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................................... 95,147 146 0604654N JOINT SERVICE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................. 7,107 147 0604703N PERSONNEL, TRAINING, SIMULATION, AND HUMAN FACTORS .................................................................... 6,539 148 0604727N JOINT STANDOFF WEAPON SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................... 441 

149 0604755N SHIP SELF DEFENSE (DETECT & CONTROL) ............................................................................................... 180,391 150 0604756N SHIP SELF DEFENSE (ENGAGE: HARD KILL) ................................................................................................ 178,538 151 0604757N SHIP SELF DEFENSE (ENGAGE: SOFT KILL/EW) ........................................................................................... 120,507 152 0604761N INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING ....................................................................................................................... 29,715 153 0604771N MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................................. 8,095 154 0604777N NAVIGATION/ID SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................... 121,026 155 0604800M JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (JSF)—EMD ........................................................................................................... 66,566 


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156 0604800N JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (JSF)—EMD ............................................................................................................ 65,494 159 0605013M INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................... 14,005 160 0605013N INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................... 268,567 161 0605024N ANTI-TAMPER TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT ........................................................................................................ 5,618 162 0605212M CH–53K RDTE ............................................................................................................................................. 326,945 164 0605215N MISSION PLANNING ..................................................................................................................................... 32,714 165 0605217N COMMON AVIONICS ..................................................................................................................................... 51,486 166 0605220N SHIP TO SHORE CONNECTOR (SSC) ............................................................................................................ 1,444 167 0605327N T-AO 205 CLASS ......................................................................................................................................... 1,298 168 0605414N UNMANNED CARRIER AVIATION (UCA) ........................................................................................................ 718,942 –116,900 

Insufficient Air Vehicle budget justification ..................................................................................... [–116,900 ] 

169 0605450M JOINT AIR-TO-GROUND MISSILE (JAGM) ...................................................................................................... 6,759 5,000 

JAGM-F for USN and USMC ............................................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

171 0605500N MULTI-MISSION MARITIME AIRCRAFT (MMA) .............................................................................................. 37,296 172 0605504N MULTI-MISSION MARITIME (MMA) INCREMENT III ...................................................................................... 160,389 173 0605611M MARINE CORPS ASSAULT VEHICLES SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION .................................... 98,223 174 0605813M JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE (JLTV) SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION ................................ 2,260 175 0204202N DDG–1000 ................................................................................................................................................... 161,264 180 0304785N TACTICAL CRYPTOLOGIC SYSTEMS .............................................................................................................. 44,098 182 0306250M CYBER OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................... 6,808 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION ........................................................................ 6,042,480 –120,600 

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT 

183 0604256N THREAT SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................ 94,576 

184 0604258N TARGET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................... 10,981 185 0604759N MAJOR T&E INVESTMENT ............................................................................................................................ 77,014 6,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [6,000 ] 


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186 0605126N JOINT THEATER AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION ...................................................................... 48 187 0605152N STUDIES AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT—NAVY ................................................................................................. 3,942 188 0605154N CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ................................................................................................................... 48,797 189 0605285N NEXT GENERATION FIGHTER ........................................................................................................................ 5,000 191 0605804N TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICES .......................................................................................................... 1,029 192 0605853N MANAGEMENT, TECHNICAL & INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ............................................................................ 87,565 193 0605856N STRATEGIC TECHNICAL SUPPORT ................................................................................................................ 4,231 194 0605861N RDT&E SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT .................................................................................... 1,072 195 0605863N RDT&E SHIP AND AIRCRAFT SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 97,471 196 0605864N TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT ................................................................................................................ 373,834 197 0605865N OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION CAPABILITY ..................................................................................... 21,554 198 0605866N NAVY SPACE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE (SEW) SUPPORT ....................................................................... 16,227 200 0605873M MARINE CORPS PROGRAM WIDE SUPPORT ................................................................................................ 24,303 201 0605898N MANAGEMENT HQ—R&D ............................................................................................................................ 43,262 202 0606355N WARFARE INNOVATION MANAGEMENT ......................................................................................................... 41,918 203 0606942M ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 7,000 204 0606942N ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 48,800 205 0305327N INSIDER THREAT .......................................................................................................................................... 1,682 206 0902498N MANAGEMENT HEADQUARTERS (DEPARTMENTAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES) .................................................... 1,579 208 1206867N SEW SURVEILLANCE/RECONNAISSANCE SUPPORT ...................................................................................... 8,684 

SUBTOTAL MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 1,020,569 6,000 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 

210 0604227N HARPOON MODIFICATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 5,426 

211 0604840M F–35 C2D2 .................................................................................................................................................. 259,122 212 0604840N F–35 C2D2 .................................................................................................................................................. 252,360 213 0607658N COOPERATIVE ENGAGEMENT CAPABILITY (CEC) ......................................................................................... 130,515 –11,200 

Excess cost growth ............................................................................................................................ [–11,200 ] 

214 0607700N DEPLOYABLE JOINT COMMAND AND CONTROL ........................................................................................... 3,127 215 0101221N STRATEGIC SUB & WEAPONS SYSTEM SUPPORT ........................................................................................ 157,679 9,000 

Project 2228, technical applications, systems engineering modeling and simulation capability 

and tool development.

[9,000 ] 


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216 0101224N SSBN SECURITY TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ................................................................................................... 43,198 –4,000 

Excess program growth ..................................................................................................................... [–4,000 ] 

217 0101226N SUBMARINE ACOUSTIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................... 11,311 218 0101402N NAVY STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS .......................................................................................................... 39,313 219 0204136N F/A–18 SQUADRONS .................................................................................................................................... 193,086 7,500 

Engine noise reduction engineering .................................................................................................. [2,500 ] JAGM-F for USN and USMC ............................................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

220 0204163N FLEET TELECOMMUNICATIONS (TACTICAL) .................................................................................................. 25,014 221 0204228N SURFACE SUPPORT ..................................................................................................................................... 11,661 222 0204229N TOMAHAWK AND TOMAHAWK MISSION PLANNING CENTER (TMPC) ............................................................ 282,395 223 0204311N INTEGRATED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ......................................................................................................... 36,959 224 0204313N SHIP-TOWED ARRAY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................... 15,454 225 0204413N AMPHIBIOUS TACTICAL SUPPORT UNITS (DISPLACEMENT CRAFT) ............................................................. 6,073 226 0204460M GROUND/AIR TASK ORIENTED RADAR (G/ATOR) ......................................................................................... 45,029 227 0204571N CONSOLIDATED TRAINING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 104,903 228 0204574N CRYPTOLOGIC DIRECT SUPPORT ................................................................................................................. 4,544 229 0204575N ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) READINESS SUPPORT ................................................................................... 66,889 230 0205601N HARM IMPROVEMENT .................................................................................................................................. 120,762 231 0205604N TACTICAL DATA LINKS ................................................................................................................................. 104,696 232 0205620N SURFACE ASW COMBAT SYSTEM INTEGRATION .......................................................................................... 28,421 233 0205632N MK–48 ADCAP ............................................................................................................................................. 94,155 –25,600 

Excessive TI–1 cost growth ............................................................................................................... [–25,600 ] 

234 0205633N AVIATION IMPROVEMENTS ........................................................................................................................... 121,805 15,000 

Navy UFR: F/A–18E/F Super Hornet engine enhancements .............................................................. [15,000 ] 

235 0205675N OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS ................................................................................................. 117,028 236 0206313M MARINE CORPS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ............................................................................................. 174,779 237 0206335M COMMON AVIATION COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM (CAC2S) ............................................................... 4,826 


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238 0206623M MARINE CORPS GROUND COMBAT/SUPPORTING ARMS SYSTEMS .............................................................. 97,152 239 0206624M MARINE CORPS COMBAT SERVICES SUPPORT ........................................................................................... 30,156 240 0206625M USMC INTELLIGENCE/ELECTRONIC WARFARE SYSTEMS (MIP) ................................................................... 39,976 241 0206629M AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT VEHICLE .................................................................................................................. 22,637 242 0207161N TACTICAL AIM MISSILES .............................................................................................................................. 40,121 243 0207163N ADVANCED MEDIUM RANGE AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE (AMRAAM) ..................................................................... 32,473 249 0303138N CONSOLIDATED AFLOAT NETWORK ENTERPRISE SERVICES (CANES) ......................................................... 23,697 250 0303140N INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 44,228 252 0305192N MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM (MIP) ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ 6,081 253 0305204N TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES .................................................................................................... 8,529 254 0305205N UAS INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY ................................................................................................ 41,212 255 0305208M DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 7,687 256 0305208N DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 42,846 257 0305220N MQ–4C TRITON ............................................................................................................................................ 14,395 258 0305231N MQ–8 UAV ................................................................................................................................................... 9,843 259 0305232M RQ–11 UAV ................................................................................................................................................. 524 260 0305234N SMALL (LEVEL 0) TACTICAL UAS (STUASL0) ............................................................................................... 5,360 261 0305239M RQ–21A ....................................................................................................................................................... 10,914 262 0305241N MULTI-INTELLIGENCE SENSOR DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 81,231 263 0305242M UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) PAYLOADS (MIP) ............................................................................... 5,956 264 0305421N RQ–4 MODERNIZATION ................................................................................................................................ 219,894 –3,000 

Program decrease .............................................................................................................................. [–3,000 ] 

265 0308601N MODELING AND SIMULATION SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 7,097 266 0702207N DEPOT MAINTENANCE (NON-IF) ................................................................................................................... 36,560 267 0708730N MARITIME TECHNOLOGY (MARITECH) .......................................................................................................... 7,284 268 1203109N SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS (SPACE) ....................................................................................................... 39,174 

268A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................... 1,549,503 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 4,885,060 –12,300 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, NAVY .............................................................. 18,481,666 –94,550 1

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BASIC RESEARCH 

001 0601102F DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES .................................................................................................................. 348,322 002 0601103F UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVES ............................................................................................................ 154,991 

003 0601108F HIGH ENERGY LASER RESEARCH INITIATIVES ............................................................................................ 14,506 

SUBTOTAL BASIC RESEARCH .................................................................................................................. 517,819 

APPLIED RESEARCH 

004 0602102F MATERIALS .................................................................................................................................................. 125,373 19,000 

Additional facility engineering research and development .............................................................. [3,000 ] Structural Biology Techniques ........................................................................................................... [3,000 ] Sub-atomic particle research ............................................................................................................ [3,000 ] Thermal protecting systems for hypersonics .................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

005 0602201F AEROSPACE VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES ......................................................................................................... 130,547 10,000 

Hypersonic vehicle structures ............................................................................................................ [10,000 ] 

006 0602202F HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS APPLIED RESEARCH ............................................................................................. 112,518 007 0602203F AEROSPACE PROPULSION ............................................................................................................................ 190,919 5,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

008 0602204F AEROSPACE SENSORS ................................................................................................................................. 166,534 009 0602298F SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT— MAJOR HEADQUARTERS ACTIVITIES .................................. 8,288 011 0602602F CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS ......................................................................................................................... 112,841 012 0602605F DIRECTED ENERGY TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................... 141,898 013 0602788F DOMINANT INFORMATION SCIENCES AND METHODS .................................................................................. 162,420 10,000 

Enhance and accelerate Air Force artificial intelligence research ................................................... [10,000 ] 

014 0602890F HIGH ENERGY LASER RESEARCH ................................................................................................................ 43,359 015 1206601F SPACE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................... 117,645 

SUBTOTAL APPLIED RESEARCH .............................................................................................................. 1,312,342 44,000 


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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 

016 0603112F ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR WEAPON SYSTEMS ......................................................................................... 34,426 10,000 

Metals Affordability Initiative ............................................................................................................ [10,000 ] 

017 0603199F SUSTAINMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (S&T) ...................................................................................... 15,150 5,000 

Air Force artificial intelligence research and non-operational support activities ........................... [5,000 ] 

018 0603203F ADVANCED AEROSPACE SENSORS .............................................................................................................. 39,968 019 0603211F AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY DEV/DEMO ........................................................................................................ 121,002 020 0603216F AEROSPACE PROPULSION AND POWER TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................ 115,462 10,000 

Laser power system enhancement .................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

021 0603270F ELECTRONIC COMBAT TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................... 55,319 022 0603401F ADVANCED SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 54,895 023 0603444F MAUI SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (MSSS) ............................................................................................ 10,674 024 0603456F HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................ 36,463 10,000 

Autonomous life support system development ................................................................................. [10,000 ] 

025 0603601F CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 194,981 026 0603605F ADVANCED WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................ 43,368 027 0603680F MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ................................................................................................. 42,025 5,000 

Academic and industrial partnerships for aerospace materials ...................................................... [5,000 ] 

028 0603788F BATTLESPACE KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION ............................................................ 51,064 13,300 

Additional facility engineering research and development .............................................................. [8,300 ] Enhance and accelerate Air Force artificial intelligence research ................................................... [5,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 814,797 53,300 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

030 0603260F INTELLIGENCE ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................... 5,568 

032 0603742F COMBAT IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY ...................................................................................................... 18,194 033 0603790F NATO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................................... 2,305 035 0603851F INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE—DEM/VAL ................................................................................... 41,856 037 0604015F LONG RANGE STRIKE—BOMBER ................................................................................................................ 2,314,196 038 0604201F INTEGRATED AVIONICS PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................. 14,894 039 0604257F ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND SENSORS .................................................................................................... 34,585 040 0604288F NATIONAL AIRBORNE OPS CENTER (NAOC) RECAP .................................................................................... 9,740 


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041 0604317F TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ............................................................................................................................. 12,960 042 0604327F HARD AND DEEPLY BURIED TARGET DEFEAT SYSTEM (HDBTDS) PROGRAM ............................................. 71,501 043 0604414F CYBER RESILIENCY OF WEAPON SYSTEMS-ACS ......................................................................................... 62,618 046 0604776F DEPLOYMENT & DISTRIBUTION ENTERPRISE R&D ...................................................................................... 28,350 048 0604858F TECH TRANSITION PROGRAM ...................................................................................................................... 1,186,075 15,000 

Competitively Awarded Transition Programs ..................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

Non-engine development technology ................................................................................................. [10,000 ] 

049 0605230F GROUND BASED STRATEGIC DETERRENT ................................................................................................... 345,041 69,400 

Accelerated execution of program ..................................................................................................... [69,400 ] 

050 0207110F NEXT GENERATION AIR DOMINANCE ........................................................................................................... 503,997 –90,000 

Ahead of need .................................................................................................................................... [–90,000 ] 

051 0207455F THREE DIMENSIONAL LONG-RANGE RADAR (3DELRR) ............................................................................... 40,326 052 0208099F UNIFIED PLATFORM (UP) ............................................................................................................................. 29,800 054 0305236F COMMON DATA LINK EXECUTIVE AGENT (CDL EA) ..................................................................................... 41,880 055 0305601F MISSION PARTNER ENVIRONMENTS ............................................................................................................ 10,074 056 0306250F CYBER OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................... 253,825 057 0306415F ENABLED CYBER ACTIVITIES ....................................................................................................................... 16,325 059 0901410F CONTRACTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM .................................................................................. 17,577 060 1203164F NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (USER EQUIPMENT) (SPACE) ...................................................... 286,629 061 1203710F EO/IR WEATHER SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................... 7,940 062 1206422F WEATHER SYSTEM FOLLOW-ON ................................................................................................................... 138,052 10,000 

Commercial weather data pilot ......................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

063 1206425F SPACE SITUATION AWARENESS SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 39,338 064 1206434F MIDTERM POLAR MILSATCOM SYSTEM ....................................................................................................... 383,113 065 1206438F SPACE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 91,018 15,000 

NTS–3 Payload ................................................................................................................................... [15,000 ] 

066 1206730F SPACE SECURITY AND DEFENSE PROGRAM ................................................................................................ 45,542 4,000 


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Allied launch services ........................................................................................................................ [4,000 ] 

067 1206760F PROTECTED TACTICAL ENTERPRISE SERVICE (PTES) ................................................................................. 51,419 068 1206761F PROTECTED TACTICAL SERVICE (PTS) ........................................................................................................ 29,776 069 1206855F PROTECTED SATCOM SERVICES (PSCS)—AGGREGATED ............................................................................ 29,379 070 1206857F OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACE .......................................................................................................... 366,050 –119,000 

Space RCO Advanced Solar Power—early to need .......................................................................... [–119,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES .................................................... 6,529,943 –95,600 

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION 

071 0604200F FUTURE ADVANCED WEAPON ANALYSIS & PROGRAMS .............................................................................. 39,602 

072 0604201F INTEGRATED AVIONICS PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................. 58,531 073 0604222F NUCLEAR WEAPONS SUPPORT .................................................................................................................... 4,468 074 0604270F ELECTRONIC WARFARE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 1,909 075 0604281F TACTICAL DATA NETWORKS ENTERPRISE .................................................................................................... 207,746 076 0604287F PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT ................................................................................................................ 14,421 077 0604329F SMALL DIAMETER BOMB (SDB)—EMD ....................................................................................................... 73,158 20,000 

SDB II cost reduction initiatives ....................................................................................................... [20,000 ] 

081 0604429F AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC ATTACK ................................................................................................................. 7,153 083 0604602F ARMAMENT/ORDNANCE DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 58,590 084 0604604F SUBMUNITIONS ............................................................................................................................................ 2,990 085 0604617F AGILE COMBAT SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................ 20,028 086 0604618F JOINT DIRECT ATTACK MUNITION ................................................................................................................ 15,787 087 0604706F LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................. 8,919 088 0604735F COMBAT TRAINING RANGES ........................................................................................................................ 35,895 27,000 

Advanced threat radar system .......................................................................................................... [27,000 ] 

089 0604800F F–35—EMD ................................................................................................................................................ 69,001 091 0604932F LONG RANGE STANDOFF WEAPON ............................................................................................................... 614,920 85,000 

Accelerated execution of program ..................................................................................................... [85,000 ] 

092 0604933F ICBM FUZE MODERNIZATION ....................................................................................................................... 172,902 097 0605221F KC–46 ......................................................................................................................................................... 88,170 098 0605223F ADVANCED PILOT TRAINING ........................................................................................................................ 265,465 099 0605229F COMBAT RESCUE HELICOPTER ................................................................................................................... 457,652 


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105 0605830F ACQ WORKFORCE- GLOBAL BATTLE MGMT ................................................................................................. 3,617 106 0605931F B–2 DEFENSIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ..................................................................................................... 261,758 107 0101125F NUCLEAR WEAPONS MODERNIZATION ......................................................................................................... 91,907 108 0207171F F–15 EPAWSS .............................................................................................................................................. 137,095 109 0207328F STAND IN ATTACK WEAPON ......................................................................................................................... 43,175 110 0207423F ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS .................................................................................................... 14,888 111 0207701F FULL COMBAT MISSION TRAINING ............................................................................................................... 1,015 115 0307581F JSTARS RECAP ............................................................................................................................................. 623,000 

JSTARS recap EMD execution ............................................................................................................. [623,000 ] 

116 0401310F C–32 EXECUTIVE TRANSPORT RECAPITALIZATION ...................................................................................... 7,943 117 0401319F PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT RECAPITALIZATION (PAR) .................................................................................... 673,032 118 0701212F AUTOMATED TEST SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................ 13,653 119 1203176F COMBAT SURVIVOR EVADER LOCATOR ....................................................................................................... 939 120 1203269F GPS IIIC ....................................................................................................................................................... 451,889 121 1203940F SPACE SITUATION AWARENESS OPERATIONS .............................................................................................. 46,668 122 1206421F COUNTERSPACE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................... 20,676 123 1206425F SPACE SITUATION AWARENESS SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 134,463 124 1206426F SPACE FENCE .............................................................................................................................................. 20,215 125 1206431F ADVANCED EHF MILSATCOM (SPACE) ......................................................................................................... 151,506 126 1206432F POLAR MILSATCOM (SPACE) ....................................................................................................................... 27,337 127 1206433F WIDEBAND GLOBAL SATCOM (SPACE) ........................................................................................................ 3,970 128 1206441F SPACE BASED INFRARED SYSTEM (SBIRS) HIGH EMD ............................................................................... 60,565 129 1206442F EVOLVED SBIRS ........................................................................................................................................... 643,126 130 1206853F EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM (SPACE)—EMD ....................................................... 245,447 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION ........................................................................ 5,272,191 755,000 

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131 0604256F THREAT SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................ 34,256 132 0604759F MAJOR T&E INVESTMENT ............................................................................................................................ 91,844 133 0605101F RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE ......................................................................................................................... 34,614 135 0605712F INITIAL OPERATIONAL TEST & EVALUATION ................................................................................................ 18,043 136 0605807F TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT ................................................................................................................ 692,784 31,900 

Test range modernization .................................................................................................................. [31,900 ] 

137 0605826F ACQ WORKFORCE- GLOBAL POWER ............................................................................................................ 233,924 138 0605827F ACQ WORKFORCE- GLOBAL VIG & COMBAT SYS ........................................................................................ 263,488 139 0605828F ACQ WORKFORCE- GLOBAL REACH ............................................................................................................ 153,591 140 0605829F ACQ WORKFORCE- CYBER, NETWORK, & BUS SYS .................................................................................... 232,315 141 0605830F ACQ WORKFORCE- GLOBAL BATTLE MGMT ................................................................................................. 169,868 142 0605831F ACQ WORKFORCE- CAPABILITY INTEGRATION ............................................................................................. 226,219 143 0605832F ACQ WORKFORCE- ADVANCED PRGM TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................... 38,400 144 0605833F ACQ WORKFORCE- NUCLEAR SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 125,761 147 0605898F MANAGEMENT HQ—R&D ............................................................................................................................ 10,642 148 0605976F FACILITIES RESTORATION AND MODERNIZATION—TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT ................................ 162,216 

149 0605978F FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT—TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT ................................................................... 28,888 150 0606017F REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS AND MATURATION ............................................................................................. 35,285 153 0308602F ENTEPRISE INFORMATION SERVICES (EIS) .................................................................................................. 20,545 154 0702806F ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ................................................................................................ 12,367 155 0804731F GENERAL SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................... 1,448 157 1001004F INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................................... 3,998 158 1206116F SPACE TEST AND TRAINING RANGE DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 23,254 159 1206392F SPACE AND MISSILE CENTER (SMC) CIVILIAN WORKFORCE ...................................................................... 169,912 160 1206398F SPACE & MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER—MHA .............................................................................................. 10,508 161 1206860F ROCKET SYSTEMS LAUNCH PROGRAM (SPACE) ......................................................................................... 19,721 10,000 

Rocket systems launch program ....................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

162 1206864F SPACE TEST PROGRAM (STP) ...................................................................................................................... 25,620 50,000 

Blackjack project ............................................................................................................................... [50,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 2,839,511 91,900 

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165 0604233F SPECIALIZED UNDERGRADUATE FLIGHT TRAINING ...................................................................................... 11,344 167 0605018F AF INTEGRATED PERSONNEL AND PAY SYSTEM (AF-IPPS) ......................................................................... 47,287 168 0605024F ANTI-TAMPER TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE AGENCY ....................................................................................... 32,770 169 0605117F FOREIGN MATERIEL ACQUISITION AND EXPLOITATION ................................................................................ 68,368 170 0605278F HC/MC–130 RECAP RDT&E ......................................................................................................................... 32,574 171 0606018F NC3 INTEGRATION ....................................................................................................................................... 26,112 172 0606942F ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 99,100 173 0101113F B–52 SQUADRONS ...................................................................................................................................... 280,414 14,700 

Technical adjustment ........................................................................................................................ [14,700 ] 

174 0101122F AIR-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE (ALCM) .................................................................................................... 5,955 175 0101126F B–1B SQUADRONS ...................................................................................................................................... 76,030 176 0101127F B–2 SQUADRONS ........................................................................................................................................ 105,561 177 0101213F MINUTEMAN SQUADRONS ............................................................................................................................ 156,047 179 0101316F WORLDWIDE JOINT STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS ..................................................................................... 10,442 180 0101324F INTEGRATED STRATEGIC PLANNING & ANALYSIS NETWORK ....................................................................... 22,833 181 0101328F ICBM REENTRY VEHICLES ........................................................................................................................... 18,412 183 0102110F UH–1N REPLACEMENT PROGRAM ............................................................................................................... 288,022 184 0102326F REGION/SECTOR OPERATION CONTROL CENTER MODERNIZATION PROGRAM ............................................ 9,252 186 0205219F MQ–9 UAV ................................................................................................................................................... 115,345 188 0207131F A–10 SQUADRONS ....................................................................................................................................... 26,738 189 0207133F F–16 SQUADRONS ....................................................................................................................................... 191,564 190 0207134F F–15E SQUADRONS ..................................................................................................................................... 192,883 50,000 

ALQ–128 EW suite for ANG units ...................................................................................................... [50,000 ] 

191 0207136F MANNED DESTRUCTIVE SUPPRESSION ........................................................................................................ 15,238 192 0207138F F–22A SQUADRONS ..................................................................................................................................... 603,553 –19,700 

Program reduction ............................................................................................................................. [–19,700 ] 

193 0207142F F–35 SQUADRONS ....................................................................................................................................... 549,501 


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194 0207161F TACTICAL AIM MISSILES .............................................................................................................................. 37,230 195 0207163F ADVANCED MEDIUM RANGE AIR-TO-AIR MISSILE (AMRAAM) ..................................................................... 61,393 196 0207227F COMBAT RESCUE—PARARESCUE ............................................................................................................... 647 198 0207249F PRECISION ATTACK SYSTEMS PROCUREMENT ............................................................................................ 14,891 199 0207253F COMPASS CALL ........................................................................................................................................... 13,901 200 0207268F AIRCRAFT ENGINE COMPONENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ........................................................................ 121,203 202 0207325F JOINT AIR-TO-SURFACE STANDOFF MISSILE (JASSM) ................................................................................. 60,062 203 0207410F AIR & SPACE OPERATIONS CENTER (AOC) ................................................................................................. 106,102 –26,500 

Unjustified request ............................................................................................................................ [–26,500 ] 

204 0207412F CONTROL AND REPORTING CENTER (CRC) ................................................................................................. 6,413 205 0207417F AIRBORNE WARNING AND CONTROL SYSTEM (AWACS) .............................................................................. 120,664 –41,800 

Program reduction ............................................................................................................................. [–5,800 ] Radar controller program delay ........................................................................................................ [–36,000 ] 

206 0207418F TACTICAL AIRBORNE CONTROL SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 2,659 208 0207431F COMBAT AIR INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................ 10,316 209 0207444F TACTICAL AIR CONTROL PARTY-MOD .......................................................................................................... 6,149 210 0207448F C2ISR TACTICAL DATA LINK ........................................................................................................................ 1,738 211 0207452F DCAPES ....................................................................................................................................................... 13,297 212 0207573F NATIONAL TECHNICAL NUCLEAR FORENSICS .............................................................................................. 1,788 213 0207581F JOINT SURVEILLANCE/TARGET ATTACK RADAR SYSTEM (JSTARS) .............................................................. 14,888 214 0207590F SEEK EAGLE ................................................................................................................................................ 24,699 215 0207601F USAF MODELING AND SIMULATION ............................................................................................................. 17,078 216 0207605F WARGAMING AND SIMULATION CENTERS .................................................................................................... 6,141 218 0207697F DISTRIBUTED TRAINING AND EXERCISES .................................................................................................... 4,225 219 0208006F MISSION PLANNING SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................... 63,653 220 0208007F TACTICAL DECEPTION .................................................................................................................................. 6,949 221 0208087F AF OFFENSIVE CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS .................................................................................................. 40,526 222 0208088F AF DEFENSIVE CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS .................................................................................................. 24,166 223 0208097F JOINT CYBER COMMAND AND CONTROL (JCC2) ......................................................................................... 13,000 224 0208099F UNIFIED PLATFORM (UP) ............................................................................................................................. 28,759 229 0301017F GLOBAL SENSOR INTEGRATED ON NETWORK (GSIN) .................................................................................. 3,579 230 0301112F NUCLEAR PLANNING AND EXECUTION SYSTEM (NPES) .............................................................................. 29,620 


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237 0301401F AIR FORCE SPACE AND CYBER NON-TRADITIONAL ISR FOR BATTLESPACE AWARENESS .......................... 6,633 238 0302015F E–4B NATIONAL AIRBORNE OPERATIONS CENTER (NAOC) ......................................................................... 57,758 240 0303131F MINIMUM ESSENTIAL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK (MEECN) ............................................... 99,088 

241 0303133F HIGH FREQUENCY RADIO SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................ 51,612 242 0303140F INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 34,612 244 0303142F GLOBAL FORCE MANAGEMENT—DATA INITIATIVE ...................................................................................... 2,170 246 0304260F AIRBORNE SIGINT ENTERPRISE ................................................................................................................... 106,873 3,000 

SIGINT single-pod development ......................................................................................................... [3,000 ] 

247 0304310F COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................ 3,472 250 0305015F C2 AIR OPERATIONS SUITE—C2 INFO SERVICES ...................................................................................... 8,608 251 0305020F CCMD INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................... 1,586 252 0305099F GLOBAL AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (GATM) .............................................................................................. 4,492 254 0305111F WEATHER SERVICE ...................................................................................................................................... 26,942 255 0305114F AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, APPROACH, AND LANDING SYSTEM (ATCALS) ...................................................... 6,271 2,500 

Augmentation of air surveillance and early warning radar systems ............................................... [2,500 ] 

256 0305116F AERIAL TARGETS ......................................................................................................................................... 8,383 259 0305128F SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................. 418 

261 0305146F DEFENSE JOINT COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................. 3,845 268 0305202F DRAGON U–2 ............................................................................................................................................... 48,518 17,000 

EO/IR sensor upgrades ...................................................................................................................... [17,000 ] 

270 0305206F AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................... 175,334 

Gorgon Stare ...................................................................................................................................... [10,800 ] Program reduction ............................................................................................................................. [–10,800 ] 

271 0305207F MANNED RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................ 14,223 272 0305208F DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 24,554 273 0305220F RQ–4 UAV ................................................................................................................................................... 221,690 –9,800 

RQ–4 infrastructure unjustified request ........................................................................................... [–9,800 ] 


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274 0305221F NETWORK-CENTRIC COLLABORATIVE TARGETING ....................................................................................... 14,288 275 0305238F NATO AGS .................................................................................................................................................... 51,527 276 0305240F SUPPORT TO DCGS ENTERPRISE ................................................................................................................. 26,579 278 0305600F INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURES ......................................................... 8,464 280 0305881F RAPID CYBER ACQUISITION ......................................................................................................................... 4,303 284 0305984F PERSONNEL RECOVERY COMMAND & CTRL (PRC2) .................................................................................. 2,466 285 0307577F INTELLIGENCE MISSION DATA (IMD) ........................................................................................................... 4,117 287 0401115F C–130 AIRLIFT SQUADRON ......................................................................................................................... 105,988 288 0401119F C–5 AIRLIFT SQUADRONS (IF) ..................................................................................................................... 25,071 289 0401130F C–17 AIRCRAFT (IF) .................................................................................................................................... 48,299 290 0401132F C–130J PROGRAM ....................................................................................................................................... 15,409 291 0401134F LARGE AIRCRAFT IR COUNTERMEASURES (LAIRCM) .................................................................................. 4,334 292 0401218F KC–135S ..................................................................................................................................................... 3,493 293 0401219F KC–10S ....................................................................................................................................................... 6,569 294 0401314F OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AIRLIFT ................................................................................................................. 3,172 295 0401318F CV–22 ......................................................................................................................................................... 18,502 296 0401840F AMC COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM .................................................................................................... 1,688 297 0408011F SPECIAL TACTICS / COMBAT CONTROL ...................................................................................................... 2,541 298 0702207F DEPOT MAINTENANCE (NON-IF) ................................................................................................................... 1,897 299 0708055F MAINTENANCE, REPAIR & OVERHAUL SYSTEM ........................................................................................... 50,933 300 0708610F LOGISTICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (LOGIT) ......................................................................................... 13,787 301 0708611F SUPPORT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................. 4,497 302 0804743F OTHER FLIGHT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................. 2,022 303 0808716F OTHER PERSONNEL ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................... 108 304 0901202F JOINT PERSONNEL RECOVERY AGENCY ...................................................................................................... 2,023 305 0901218F CIVILIAN COMPENSATION PROGRAM ........................................................................................................... 3,772 306 0901220F PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION ..................................................................................................................... 6,358 307 0901226F AIR FORCE STUDIES AND ANALYSIS AGENCY ............................................................................................. 1,418 308 0901538F FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................ 99,734 309 1201921F SERVICE SUPPORT TO STRATCOM—SPACE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................. 14,161 310 1202247F AF TENCAP .................................................................................................................................................. 26,986 311 1203001F FAMILY OF ADVANCED BLOS TERMINALS (FAB-T) ...................................................................................... 80,168 


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312 1203110F SATELLITE CONTROL NETWORK (SPACE) ..................................................................................................... 17,808 314 1203165F NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (SPACE AND CONTROL SEGMENTS) ........................................... 8,937 315 1203173F SPACE AND MISSILE TEST AND EVALUATION CENTER ................................................................................ 59,935 316 1203174F SPACE INNOVATION, INTEGRATION AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................ 21,019 317 1203179F INTEGRATED BROADCAST SERVICE (IBS) ................................................................................................... 8,568 318 1203182F SPACELIFT RANGE SYSTEM (SPACE) ........................................................................................................... 10,641 319 1203265F GPS III SPACE SEGMENT ............................................................................................................................. 144,543 320 1203400F SPACE SUPERIORITY INTELLIGENCE ............................................................................................................ 16,278 321 1203614F JSPOC MISSION SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................. 72,256 322 1203620F NATIONAL SPACE DEFENSE CENTER ........................................................................................................... 42,209 325 1203913F NUDET DETECTION SYSTEM (SPACE) .......................................................................................................... 19,778 326 1203940F SPACE SITUATION AWARENESS OPERATIONS .............................................................................................. 19,572 327 1206423F GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM III—OPERATIONAL CONTROL SEGMENT ..................................................... 513,235 

327A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................... 16,534,124 –143,900 1

Classifed adjustment ......................................................................................................................... [–40,000 ] 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–89,900 ] 

PDSA staff reduction ......................................................................................................................... [–14,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 22,891,740 –154,500 2

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, AF ................................................................... 40,178,343 694,100 4

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, DW BASIC RESEARCH 

001 0601000BR DTRA BASIC RESEARCH .............................................................................................................................. 37,023 

002 0601101E DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES .................................................................................................................. 422,130 –6,000 

Program decrease .............................................................................................................................. [–6,000 ] 

003 0601110D8Z BASIC RESEARCH INITIATIVES ..................................................................................................................... 42,702 


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004 0601117E BASIC OPERATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH SCIENCE .................................................................................. 47,825 005 0601120D8Z NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION PROGRAM ................................................................................................ 85,919 006 0601228D8Z HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES/MINORITY INSTITUTIONS .......................................... 30,412 10,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

007 0601384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM ...................................................................................... 42,103 

SUBTOTAL BASIC RESEARCH .................................................................................................................. 708,114 4,000 

APPLIED RESEARCH 

008 0602000D8Z JOINT MUNITIONS TECHNOLOGY .................................................................................................................. 19,170 009 0602115E BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY .......................................................................................................................... 101,300 

011 0602234D8Z LINCOLN LABORATORY RESEARCH PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 51,596 012 0602251D8Z APPLIED RESEARCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF S&T PRIORITIES ............................................................ 60,688 013 0602303E INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................... 395,317 014 0602383E BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE ................................................................................................................. 38,640 015 0602384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM ...................................................................................... 192,674 016 0602668D8Z CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH ...................................................................................................................... 14,969 017 0602702E TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................................... 335,466 018 0602715E MATERIALS AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................... 226,898 019 0602716E ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 333,847 020 0602718BR COUNTER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION APPLIED RESEARCH ............................................................ 161,151 021 0602751D8Z SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE (SEI) APPLIED RESEARCH ................................................................. 9,300 022 1160401BB SOF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................... 35,921 

SUBTOTAL APPLIED RESEARCH .............................................................................................................. 1,976,937 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 

023 0603000D8Z JOINT MUNITIONS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................... 25,598 

024 0603122D8Z COMBATING TERRORISM TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT ...................................................................................... 125,271 025 0603133D8Z FOREIGN COMPARATIVE TESTING ................................................................................................................ 24,532 027 0603160BR COUNTER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ........................... 299,858 028 0603176C ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT ......................................................................... 13,017 029 0603178C WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................................................. 10,000 

Accelerate hypersonic defense capability ......................................................................................... [10,000 ] 


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031 0603180C ADVANCED RESEARCH ................................................................................................................................ 20,365 20,000 

Accelerate hypersonic defense capability ......................................................................................... [20,000 ] 

032 0603225D8Z JOINT DOD-DOE MUNITIONS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................... 18,644 034 0603286E ADVANCED AEROSPACE SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................... 277,603 035 0603287E SPACE PROGRAMS AND TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 254,671 036 0603288D8Z ANALYTIC ASSESSMENTS ............................................................................................................................. 19,472 037 0603289D8Z ADVANCED INNOVATIVE ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTS .................................................................................... 37,263 038 0603291D8Z ADVANCED INNOVATIVE ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTS—MHA ........................................................................ 13,621 039 0603294C COMMON KILL VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 189,753 –89,000 

Early to need ...................................................................................................................................... [–89,000 ] 

040 0603342D8W DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT EXPERIMENTAL (DIUX) ................................................................................... 29,364 041 0603375D8Z TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION .......................................................................................................................... 83,143 042 0603384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM—ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ........................................ 142,826 

043 0603527D8Z RETRACT LARCH .......................................................................................................................................... 161,128 044 0603618D8Z JOINT ELECTRONIC ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................................. 12,918 045 0603648D8Z JOINT CAPABILITY TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS ................................................................................... 106,049 046 0603662D8Z NETWORKED COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES ........................................................................................... 12,696 047 0603680D8Z DEFENSE-WIDE MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ................................................ 114,637 048 0603680S MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ................................................................................................. 49,667 049 0603699D8Z EMERGING CAPABILITIES TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 48,338 050 0603712S GENERIC LOGISTICS R&D TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS ....................................................................... 11,778 052 0603716D8Z STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PROGRAM ................................................................................... 76,514 053 0603720S MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT ............................................................ 168,931 054 0603727D8Z JOINT WARFIGHTING PROGRAM ................................................................................................................... 5,992 055 0603739E ADVANCED ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES .................................................................................................. 111,099 056 0603760E COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ........................................................................... 185,984 057 0603766E NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................. 438,569 


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058 0603767E SENSOR TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................. 190,128 059 0603769D8Z DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................ 13,564 060 0603781D8Z SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE ........................................................................................................... 15,050 061 0603826D8Z QUICK REACTION SPECIAL PROJECTS ......................................................................................................... 69,626 062 0603833D8Z ENGINEERING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 19,415 063 0603924D8Z HIGH ENERGY LASER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ........................................................................ 69,533 064 0603941D8Z TEST & EVALUATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY .......................................................................................... 96,389 065 0604055D8Z OPERATIONAL ENERGY CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT .................................................................................... 40,582 066 0303310D8Z CWMD SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................... 26,644 067 1160402BB SOF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 79,380 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 3,699,612 –59,000 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES 

068 0603161D8Z NUCLEAR AND CONVENTIONAL PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT RDT&E ADC&P ..................................... 28,140 069 0603600D8Z WALKOFF ...................................................................................................................................................... 92,222 070 0603821D8Z ACQUISITION ENTERPRISE DATA & INFORMATION SERVICES ..................................................................... 2,506 

071 0603851D8Z ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM ........................................................... 40,016 072 0603881C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TERMINAL DEFENSE SEGMENT ..................................................................... 214,173 145,000 

Accelerate USFK JEON delivery .......................................................................................................... [100,000 ] Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [45,000 ] 

073 0603882C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE MIDCOURSE DEFENSE SEGMENT ................................................................. 926,359 –200,000 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [8,000 ] Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–208,000 ] 

074 0603884BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM—DEM/VAL .................................................................... 129,886 075 0603884C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SENSORS ...................................................................................................... 220,876 25,000 

Accelerate USFK JEON delivery .......................................................................................................... [20,000 ] 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [5,000 ] 

076 0603890C BMD ENABLING PROGRAMS ........................................................................................................................ 540,926 077 0603891C SPECIAL PROGRAMS—MDA ........................................................................................................................ 422,348 078 0603892C AEGIS BMD .................................................................................................................................................. 767,539 081 0603896C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND AND CONTROL, BATTLE MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATI ...... 475,168 8,000 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [8,000 ] 


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082 0603898C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE JOINT WARFIGHTER SUPPORT ...................................................................... 48,767 083 0603904C MISSILE DEFENSE INTEGRATION & OPERATIONS CENTER (MDIOC) ........................................................... 54,925 084 0603906C REGARDING TRENCH ................................................................................................................................... 16,916 085 0603907C SEA BASED X-BAND RADAR (SBX) .............................................................................................................. 149,715 –33,000 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–33,000 ] 

086 0603913C ISRAELI COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................. 300,000 087 0603914C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TEST ............................................................................................................. 365,681 65,000 

Accelerate USFK JEON delivery .......................................................................................................... [50,000 ] 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [15,000 ] 

088 0603915C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TARGETS ....................................................................................................... 517,852 –26,500 

Accelerate USFK JEON delivery .......................................................................................................... [4,500 ] 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [5,000 ] 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–36,000 ] 

089 0603920D8Z HUMANITARIAN DEMINING ........................................................................................................................... 11,347 090 0603923D8Z COALITION WARFARE ................................................................................................................................... 8,528 091 0604016D8Z DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CORROSION PROGRAM .................................................................................... 3,477 092 0604115C TECHNOLOGY MATURATION INITIATIVES ...................................................................................................... 148,822 55,000 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [5,000 ] Continue directed energy and boost phase intercept efforts ........................................................... [50,000 ] 

093 0604132D8Z MISSILE DEFEAT PROJECT ........................................................................................................................... 58,607 094 0604134BR COUNTER IMPROVISED-THREAT DEMONSTRATION, PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT, AND TESTING ................. 12,993 095 0604181C HYPERSONIC DEFENSE ................................................................................................................................ 120,444 10,000 

Accelerate hypersonic defense capability ......................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

096 0604250D8Z ADVANCED INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES ..................................................................................................... 1,431,702 –50,000 

Program reduction ............................................................................................................................. [–50,000 ] 

097 0604294D8Z TRUSTED & ASSURED MICROELECTRONICS ................................................................................................ 233,142 098 0604331D8Z RAPID PROTOTYPING PROGRAM .................................................................................................................. 99,333 


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098A 0604342D8Z DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY OFFSET .................................................................................................................. 100,000 

Directed energy .................................................................................................................................. [100,000 ] 

099 0604400D8Z DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) UNMANNED SYSTEM COMMON DEVELOPMENT ..................................... 3,781 100 0604673C PACIFIC DISCRIMINATING RADAR ................................................................................................................ 95,765 101 0604682D8Z WARGAMING AND SUPPORT FOR STRATEGIC ANALYSIS (SSA) ................................................................... 3,768 103 0604826J JOINT C5 CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY ASSESSMENTS ................... 22,435 104 0604873C LONG RANGE DISCRIMINATION RADAR (LRDR) ........................................................................................... 164,562 105 0604874C IMPROVED HOMELAND DEFENSE INTERCEPTORS ....................................................................................... 561,220 –139,400 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–139,400 ] 

106 0604876C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TERMINAL DEFENSE SEGMENT TEST ............................................................ 61,017 107 0604878C AEGIS BMD TEST ......................................................................................................................................... 95,756 108 0604879C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SENSOR TEST ............................................................................................... 81,001 109 0604880C LAND-BASED SM–3 (LBSM3) ...................................................................................................................... 27,692 150 

Retain Poland CHUs .......................................................................................................................... [150 ] 

111 0604887C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE MIDCOURSE SEGMENT TEST ........................................................................ 81,934 –9,300 

Forward financed in the FY18 Omnibus ........................................................................................... [–9,300 ] 

112 0604894C MULTI-OBJECT KILL VEHICLE ...................................................................................................................... 8,256 113 0300206R ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS ................................................................................... 2,600 114 0303191D8Z JOINT ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY (JET) PROGRAM .......................................................................... 3,104 115 0305103C CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVE ....................................................................................................................... 985 

116 1206893C SPACE TRACKING & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ............................................................................................. 36,955 117 1206895C BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM SPACE PROGRAMS ......................................................................... 16,484 58,000 

Address cyber threats ........................................................................................................................ [8,000 ] Develop space sensor architecture ................................................................................................... [50,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES ................................................ 8,709,725 7,950 

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION 

118 0604161D8Z NUCLEAR AND CONVENTIONAL PHYSICAL SECURITY EQUIPMENT RDT&E SDD .......................................... 8,333 

119 0604165D8Z PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................ 263,414 150,000 

Accelerate program ............................................................................................................................ [150,000 ] 

120 0604384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM—EMD ........................................................................... 388,701 121 0604771D8Z JOINT TACTICAL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (JTIDS) .................................................................. 19,503 


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122 0605000BR COUNTER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 6,163 123 0605013BL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................... 11,988 124 0605021SE HOMELAND PERSONNEL SECURITY INITIATIVE ............................................................................................ 296 125 0605022D8Z DEFENSE EXPORTABILITY PROGRAM ........................................................................................................... 1,489 126 0605027D8Z OUSD(C) IT DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES ...................................................................................................... 9,590 127 0605070S DOD ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION ........................................................... 3,173 128 0605075D8Z DCMO POLICY AND INTEGRATION ............................................................................................................... 2,105 129 0605080S DEFENSE AGENCY INITIATIVES (DAI)—FINANCIAL SYSTEM ........................................................................ 21,156 130 0605090S DEFENSE RETIRED AND ANNUITANT PAY SYSTEM (DRAS) ......................................................................... 10,731 132 0605210D8Z DEFENSE-WIDE ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT CAPABILITIES ....................................................................... 6,374 133 0605294D8Z TRUSTED & ASSURED MICROELECTRONICS ................................................................................................ 56,178 134 0303141K GLOBAL COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM ........................................................................................................... 2,512 135 0305304D8Z DOD ENTERPRISE ENERGY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (EEIM) ............................................................... 2,435 136 0305310D8Z CWMD SYSTEMS: SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION .............................................................. 17,048 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION .................................................................... 831,189 150,000 

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT 

137 0604774D8Z DEFENSE READINESS REPORTING SYSTEM (DRRS) .................................................................................... 6,661 

138 0604875D8Z JOINT SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................................... 4,088 139 0604940D8Z CENTRAL TEST AND EVALUATION INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT (CTEIP) ..................................................... 258,796 140 0604942D8Z ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS .............................................................................................................. 31,356 141 0605001E MISSION SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................................... 65,646 142 0605100D8Z JOINT MISSION ENVIRONMENT TEST CAPABILITY (JMETC) .......................................................................... 84,184 143 0605104D8Z TECHNICAL STUDIES, SUPPORT AND ANALYSIS .......................................................................................... 22,576 144 0605126J JOINT INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION (JIAMDO) ................................................. 52,565 –10,000 

Unjustified program growth ............................................................................................................... [–10,000 ] 

146 0605142D8Z SYSTEMS ENGINEERING .............................................................................................................................. 38,872 


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147 0605151D8Z STUDIES AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT—OSD ................................................................................................... 3,534 148 0605161D8Z NUCLEAR MATTERS-PHYSICAL SECURITY ................................................................................................... 5,050 149 0605170D8Z SUPPORT TO NETWORKS AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION ........................................................................ 11,450 150 0605200D8Z GENERAL SUPPORT TO USD (INTELLIGENCE) ............................................................................................. 1,693 151 0605384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM ...................................................................................... 102,883 159 0605790D8Z SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR)/ SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ............... 2,545 160 0605798D8Z DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................... 24,487 161 0605801KA DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER (DTIC) .................................................................................. 56,853 162 0605803SE R&D IN SUPPORT OF DOD ENLISTMENT, TESTING AND EVALUATION ......................................................... 24,914 163 0605804D8Z DEVELOPMENT TEST AND EVALUATION ....................................................................................................... 20,179 164 0605898E MANAGEMENT HQ—R&D ............................................................................................................................ 13,643 165 0605998KA MANAGEMENT HQ—DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER (DTIC) .................................................. 4,124 166 0606100D8Z BUDGET AND PROGRAM ASSESSMENTS ...................................................................................................... 5,768 167 0606225D8Z ODNA TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCE ANALYSIS ......................................................................................... 1,030 168 0606589D8W DEFENSE DIGITAL SERVICE (DDS) DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT ...................................................................... 1,000 169 0606942C ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 3,400 170 0606942S ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS CYBER VULNERABILITIES ..................................................................... 4,000 171 0203345D8Z DEFENSE OPERATIONS SECURITY INITIATIVE (DOSI) .................................................................................. 3,008 172 0204571J JOINT STAFF ANALYTICAL SUPPORT ............................................................................................................ 6,658 175 0303166J SUPPORT TO INFORMATION OPERATIONS (IO) CAPABILITIES ...................................................................... 652 176 0303260D8Z DEFENSE MILITARY DECEPTION PROGRAM OFFICE (DMDPO) ..................................................................... 1,005 177 0305172K COMBINED ADVANCED APPLICATIONS ......................................................................................................... 21,363 180 0305245D8Z INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES AND INNOVATION INVESTMENTS ................................................................... 109,529 181 0306310D8Z CWMD SYSTEMS: RDT&E MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ..................................................................................... 1,244 184 0804768J COCOM EXERCISE ENGAGEMENT AND TRAINING TRANSFORMATION (CE2T2)—NON-MHA ........................ 42,940 185 0901598C MANAGEMENT HQ—MDA ............................................................................................................................ 28,626 187 0903235K JOINT SERVICE PROVIDER (JSP) .................................................................................................................. 5,104 

188A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................... 45,604 

SUBTOTAL MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 1,117,030 –10,000 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 

189 0604130V ENTERPRISE SECURITY SYSTEM (ESS) ....................................................................................................... 9,750 


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190 0605127T REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH (RIO) AND PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE INFORMATION MANA .......... 1,855 191 0605147T OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE SHARED INFORMATION SYSTEM (OHASIS) .................................. 304 

192 0607210D8Z INDUSTRIAL BASE ANALYSIS AND SUSTAINMENT SUPPORT ....................................................................... 10,376 193 0607310D8Z CWMD SYSTEMS: OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ......................................................................... 5,915 194 0607327T GLOBAL THEATER SECURITY COOPERATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (G-TSCMIS) ............. 5,869 195 0607384BP CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT) ..................................... 48,741 

196 0208043J PLANNING AND DECISION AID SYSTEM (PDAS) .......................................................................................... 3,037 197 0208045K C4I INTEROPERABILITY ................................................................................................................................ 62,814 203 0302019K DEFENSE INFO INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION .......................................................... 16,561 204 0303126K LONG-HAUL COMMUNICATIONS—DCS ........................................................................................................ 14,769 205 0303131K MINIMUM ESSENTIAL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK (MEECN) ............................................... 17,579 

207 0303136G KEY MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE (KMI) ............................................................................................... 31,737 208 0303140D8Z INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 7,940 10,000 

Expand cyber scholarship program ................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

209 0303140G INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 229,252 210 0303140K INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROGRAM ............................................................................................ 19,611 211 0303150K GLOBAL COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEM ............................................................................................... 46,900 212 0303153K DEFENSE SPECTRUM ORGANIZATION .......................................................................................................... 7,570 213 0303228K JOINT INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT (JIE) .................................................................................................... 7,947 215 0303430K FEDERAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ............................................................... 39,400 224 0305186D8Z POLICY R&D PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................. 6,262 225 0305199D8Z NET CENTRICITY .......................................................................................................................................... 16,780 227 0305208BB DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 6,286 230 0305208K DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS ................................................................................ 2,970 233 0305327V INSIDER THREAT .......................................................................................................................................... 5,954 234 0305387D8Z HOMELAND DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM ......................................................................... 2,198 240 0307577D8Z INTELLIGENCE MISSION DATA (IMD) ........................................................................................................... 6,889 


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242 0708012K LOGISTICS SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 1,317 243 0708012S PACIFIC DISASTER CENTERS ....................................................................................................................... 1,770 244 0708047S DEFENSE PROPERTY ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM ......................................................................................... 1,805 246 1105219BB MQ–9 UAV ................................................................................................................................................... 18,403 248 1160403BB AVIATION SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................................................... 184,993 –5,000 

Realignment of funds ........................................................................................................................ [–5,000 ] 

249 1160405BB INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................................................... 10,625 250 1160408BB OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS ................................................................................................................... 102,307 251 1160431BB WARRIOR SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................... 46,942 252 1160432BB SPECIAL PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................... 2,479 253 1160434BB UNMANNED ISR ........................................................................................................................................... 27,270 254 1160480BB SOF TACTICAL VEHICLES ............................................................................................................................. 1,121 255 1160483BB MARITIME SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................... 42,471 256 1160489BB GLOBAL VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................. 4,780 257 1160490BB OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS INTELLIGENCE ........................................................................................... 12,176 258 1203610K TELEPORT PROGRAM ................................................................................................................................... 2,323 

258A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................................... 3,877,898 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 4,973,946 5,000 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, DW ................................................................. 22,016,553 97,950 2

OPERATIONAL TEST & EVAL, DEFENSE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT 

001 0605118OTE OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION ......................................................................................................... 85,685 

002 0605131OTE LIVE FIRE TEST AND EVALUATION ............................................................................................................... 64,332 003 0605814OTE OPERATIONAL TEST ACTIVITIES AND ANALYSES ......................................................................................... 70,992 

SUBTOTAL MANAGEMENT SUPPORT ....................................................................................................... 221,009 

TOTAL OPERATIONAL TEST & EVAL, DEFENSE .............................................................................. 221,009 TOTAL RDT&E ................................................................................................................................. 91,056,950 859,700 9


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ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

056 0603327A AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING .................................................................................... 1,000 –1,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ......................................................................... [–1,000 ] 

058 0603627A SMOKE, OBSCURANT AND TARGET DEFEATING SYS-ADV DEV ...................................................................... 1,500 061 0603747A SOLDIER SUPPORT AND SURVIVABILITY ........................................................................................................ 3,000 076 0604117A MANEUVER—SHORT RANGE AIR DEFENSE (M-SHORAD) ............................................................................. 23,000 –23,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ......................................................................... [–23,000 ] 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES ...................................................... 28,500 –24,000 

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION 

088 0604328A TRACTOR CAGE .............................................................................................................................................. 12,000 100 0604741A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND, CONTROL AND INTELLIGENCE—ENG DEV ........................................................... 119,300 

125 0605032A TRACTOR TIRE ............................................................................................................................................... 66,760 128 0605035A COMMON INFRARED COUNTERMEASURES (CIRCM) ...................................................................................... 2,670 136 0605051A AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................................... 34,933 147 0303032A TROJAN—RH12 ............................................................................................................................................. 1,200 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION .......................................................................... 236,863 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 

184 0607131A WEAPONS AND MUNITIONS PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS ............................................................... 2,548 

185 0607133A TRACTOR SMOKE ........................................................................................................................................... 7,780 206 0203801A MISSILE/AIR DEFENSE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ......................................................................... 2,000 –2,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ......................................................................... [–2,000 ] 

209 0205402A INTEGRATED BASE DEFENSE—OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEV ......................................................................... 8,000 


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216 0303028A SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................................... 23,199 226 0305206A AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................ 14,000 –14,000 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ......................................................................... [–14,000 ] 

231 0307665A BIOMETRICS ENABLED INTELLIGENCE ........................................................................................................... 2,214 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 59,741 –16,000 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, ARMY ................................................................ 325,104 –40,000 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

041 0603527N RETRACT LARCH ............................................................................................................................................ 18,000 061 0603654N JOINT SERVICE EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 13,900 

074 0603795N LAND ATTACK TECHNOLOGY .......................................................................................................................... 1,400 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES ...................................................... 33,300 

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION 

149 0604755N SHIP SELF DEFENSE (DETECT & CONTROL) .................................................................................................. 1,100 

SUBTOTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION .......................................................................... 1,100 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 

236 0206313M MARINE CORPS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ............................................................................................... 16,130 

268A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................................................................. 117,282 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 133,412 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, NAVY ................................................................. 167,812 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES 

065 1206438F SPACE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 1,100 

070 1206857F OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACE ............................................................................................................ 12,395 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPES ...................................................... 13,495 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 

186 0205219F MQ–9 UAV ..................................................................................................................................................... 4,500 


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187 0205671F JOINT COUNTER RCIED ELECTRONIC WARFARE ............................................................................................ 4,000 188 0207131F A–10 SQUADRONS ......................................................................................................................................... 1,000 217 0207610F BATTLEFIELD ABN COMM NODE (BACN) ....................................................................................................... 42,349 228 0208288F INTEL DATA APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................ 1,200 254 0305111F WEATHER SERVICE ........................................................................................................................................ 3,000 268 0305202F DRAGON U–2 ................................................................................................................................................. 22,100 272 0305208F DISTRIBUTED COMMON GROUND/SURFACE SYSTEMS .................................................................................. 29,500 310 1202247F AF TENCAP ..................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 

327A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................................................................. 188,127 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................. 300,776 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, AF ..................................................................... 314,271 

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 

024 0603122D8Z COMBATING TERRORISM TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT ......................................................................................... 25,000 026 0603134BR COUNTER IMPROVISED-THREAT SIMULATION ................................................................................................ 13,648 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................ 38,648 

ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES 

094 0604134BR COUNTER IMPROVISED-THREAT DEMONSTRATION, PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT, AND TESTING ................... 242,668 

SUBTOTAL ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES .................................................. 242,668 

OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 

250 1160408BB OPERATIONAL ENHANCEMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 3,632 251 1160431BB WARRIOR SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................................... 11,040 253 1160434BB UNMANNED ISR ............................................................................................................................................. 11,700 254 1160480BB SOF TACTICAL VEHICLES ............................................................................................................................... 725 


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258A 9999999999 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS ................................................................................................................................. 192,131 

SUBTOTAL OPERATIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 219,228 

TOTAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST & EVAL, DW .................................................................... 500,544 TOTAL RDT&E ................................................................................................................................... 1,307,731 –40,000 


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SEC. 4301. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. 

SEC. 4301. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 

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OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY OPERATING FORCES 

010 MANEUVER UNITS ............................................................................................................................................................. 2,076,360 –445,300 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [9,400 ] Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–454,700 ] 

020 MODULAR SUPPORT BRIGADES ......................................................................................................................................... 107,946 1,800 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [1,800 ] 

030 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 732,485 –143,970 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [7,600 ] 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–151,570 ] 

040 THEATER LEVEL ASSETS ................................................................................................................................................... 1,169,508 –224,200 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [18,300 ] 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–242,500 ] 

050 LAND FORCES OPERATIONS SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................. 1,180,460 17,500 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [17,500 ] 

060 AVIATION ASSETS .............................................................................................................................................................. 1,467,500 17,800 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [17,800 ] 

070 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 4,285,211 –604,260 

Female personal protective equipment ................................................................................................................... [2,000 ] 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–606,260 ] 

080 LAND FORCES SYSTEMS READINESS ................................................................................................................................ 482,201 


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090 LAND FORCES DEPOT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................................ 1,536,851 –161,620 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [111,200 ] 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–272,820 ] 

100 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 8,274,299 –606,260 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–606,260 ] 

110 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 3,516,859 –1,018,881 

85% Sustainment .................................................................................................................................................... [175,469 ] 

Capability Output Level 3 Funding ......................................................................................................................... [25,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–1,219,350 ] 

111 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 1,054,140 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [1,054,140 ] 

112 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 215,210 

Program increase ..................................................................................................................................................... [50,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [165,210 ] 

120 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS .......................................................................................................... 438,733 180 US AFRICA COMMAND ....................................................................................................................................................... 231,518 190 US EUROPEAN COMMAND ................................................................................................................................................. 150,268 200 US SOUTHERN COMMAND ................................................................................................................................................. 195,964 210 US FORCES KOREA ........................................................................................................................................................... 59,625 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 25,905,788 –1,898,041 2

MOBILIZATION 

220 STRATEGIC MOBILITY ........................................................................................................................................................ 370,941 230 ARMY PREPOSITIONED STOCKS ........................................................................................................................................ 573,560 158,753 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................................................................................. [158,753 ] 

240 INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS ............................................................................................................................................. 7,678 

SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 952,179 158,753 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

250 OFFICER ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................................................................... 135,832 260 RECRUIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................ 54,819 270 ONE STATION UNIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................ 69,599 


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280 SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS ................................................................................................................. 518,998 290 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 1,020,073 300 FLIGHT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................... 1,082,190 310 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................... 220,399 320 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 611,482 330 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 698,962 340 EXAMINING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 162,049 350 OFF-DUTY AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................... 215,622 360 CIVILIAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING ................................................................................................................................. 176,914 370 JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS ................................................................................................................... 174,430 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 5,141,369 

ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES 

390 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 588,047 –151,600 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [–151,600 ] 

400 CENTRAL SUPPLY ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................................ 931,462 410 LOGISTIC SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................................................... 696,114 420 AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 461,637 430 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 447,564 440 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 2,069,127 450 MANPOWER MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................ 261,021 460 OTHER PERSONNEL SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................... 379,541 470 OTHER SERVICE SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................ 1,699,767 480 ARMY CLAIMS ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................................. 192,686 490 REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................. 240,917 500 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT READINESS ............................................................................................................ 291,569 510 INTERNATIONAL MILITARY HEADQUARTERS ...................................................................................................................... 442,656 


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520 MISC. SUPPORT OF OTHER NATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 48,251 10,000 

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence .......................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence ........................................................................................... [5,000 ] 

565 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 1,259,622 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 10,009,981 –141,600 

UNDISTRIBUTED 

570 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –894,500 

Foreign Currency adjustments ................................................................................................................................. [–210,300 ] Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–694,200 ] Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training ....................... [10,000 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –894,500 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY ....................................................................................................... 42,009,317 –2,775,388 3

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY RES OPERATING FORCES 

010 MODULAR SUPPORT BRIGADES ......................................................................................................................................... 13,867 020 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 536,438 030 THEATER LEVEL ASSETS ................................................................................................................................................... 113,225 040 LAND FORCES OPERATIONS SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................. 551,141 

050 AVIATION ASSETS .............................................................................................................................................................. 89,073 060 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 409,531 070 LAND FORCES SYSTEMS READINESS ................................................................................................................................ 101,411 080 LAND FORCES DEPOT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................................ 60,114 090 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 595,728 100 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 304,658 –41,593 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–71,593 ] 

Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [30,000 ] 

101 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 49,176 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [49,176 ] 

102 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 22,417 


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Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [22,417 ] 

110 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS .......................................................................................................... 22,175 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 2,797,361 30,000 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

120 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 11,832 130 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 18,218 140 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 25,069 150 MANPOWER MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................ 6,248 160 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 58,181 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 119,548 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY RES ............................................................................................... 2,916,909 30,000 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARNG OPERATING FORCES 

010 MANEUVER UNITS ............................................................................................................................................................. 810,269 020 MODULAR SUPPORT BRIGADES ......................................................................................................................................... 193,402 030 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 753,815 040 THEATER LEVEL ASSETS ................................................................................................................................................... 84,124 050 LAND FORCES OPERATIONS SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................. 31,881 

060 AVIATION ASSETS .............................................................................................................................................................. 973,874 070 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 784,086 080 LAND FORCES SYSTEMS READINESS ................................................................................................................................ 51,353 090 LAND FORCES DEPOT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................................ 221,633 100 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 1,129,942 110 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 919,947 –31,187 


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Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–101,187 ] Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [70,000 ] 

111 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 85,859 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [85,859 ] 

112 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 15,328 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [15,328 ] 

120 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS .......................................................................................................... 1,010,524 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 6,964,850 70,000 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

130 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 10,017 140 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 72,746 150 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 83,105 160 MANPOWER MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................ 10,678 170 OTHER PERSONNEL SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................... 254,753 180 REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................. 3,146 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 434,445 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARNG ....................................................................................................... 7,399,295 70,000 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY OPERATING FORCES 

010 MISSION AND OTHER FLIGHT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 5,372,399 020 FLEET AIR TRAINING ......................................................................................................................................................... 2,023,351 –8,758 

Advanced skills management ................................................................................................................................. [–8,758 ] 

030 AVIATION TECHNICAL DATA & ENGINEERING SERVICES ................................................................................................... 56,225 040 AIR OPERATIONS AND SAFETY SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................... 156,081 050 AIR SYSTEMS SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................... 682,379 060 AIRCRAFT DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................... 1,253,756 37,400 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [37,400 ] 

070 AIRCRAFT DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................... 66,649 080 AVIATION LOGISTICS .......................................................................................................................................................... 939,368 6,400 


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Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [6,400 ] 

090 MISSION AND OTHER SHIP OPERATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 4,439,566 100 SHIP OPERATIONS SUPPORT & TRAINING ......................................................................................................................... 997,663 110 SHIP DEPOT MAINTENANCE ............................................................................................................................................... 8,751,526 148,600 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [116,600 ] Western Pacific Dry Dock capability ....................................................................................................................... [32,000 ] 

120 SHIP DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................. 2,168,876 130 COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE ................................................................................................ 1,349,593 150 SPACE SYSTEMS AND SURVEILLANCE .............................................................................................................................. 215,255 160 WARFARE TACTICS ............................................................................................................................................................ 632,446 170 OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 373,046 180 COMBAT SUPPORT FORCES .............................................................................................................................................. 1,452,075 190 EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ...................................................................................... 153,719 210 COMBATANT COMMANDERS CORE OPERATIONS ............................................................................................................... 63,039 220 COMBATANT COMMANDERS DIRECT MISSION SUPPORT .................................................................................................. 89,339 230 MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT OPERATIONS ............................................................................................................... 8,475 240 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 424,088 260 FLEET BALLISTIC MISSILE ................................................................................................................................................. 1,361,947 280 WEAPONS MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................. 823,952 –4,500 

Insufficient budget justification for submarine acoustic systems ......................................................................... [–4,500 ] 

290 OTHER WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................ 494,101 300 ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................... 921,936 310 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 2,040,389 –328,167 

85% Sustainment .................................................................................................................................................... [101,000 ] 

Capability Output Level 3 Funding ......................................................................................................................... [20,000 ] Project oversight (Unjustified Growth) .................................................................................................................... [–85,420 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–363,747 ] 


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311 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 243,745 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [243,745 ] 

312 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 160,002 

Program increase ..................................................................................................................................................... [40,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [120,002 ] 

320 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 4,414,753 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 41,725,992 254,722 4

MOBILIZATION 

330 SHIP PREPOSITIONING AND SURGE .................................................................................................................................. 549,142 –148,597 

Realign DoD Mobilization Alternation to NDSF ....................................................................................................... [–20,858 ] 

Realign LG Med Spd RO/RO Maintenance to NDSF ................................................................................................ [–127,739 ] 

340 READY RESERVE FORCE ................................................................................................................................................... 310,805 –310,805 

Realign Ready Reserve Forces to NDSF .................................................................................................................. [–310,805 ] 

360 SHIP ACTIVATIONS/INACTIVATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 161,150 370 EXPEDITIONARY HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................. 120,338 –72,350 

Realign T-AH Maintenance to NDSF ........................................................................................................................ [–72,350 ] 

390 COAST GUARD SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................... 24,097 

SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 1,165,532 –531,752 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

400 OFFICER ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................................................................... 145,481 410 RECRUIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................ 9,637 420 RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS .............................................................................................................................. 149,687 

430 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 879,557 450 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................... 184,436 1,700 

Naval Sea Cadets .................................................................................................................................................... [1,700 ] 

460 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 223,159 470 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 181,086 480 OFF-DUTY AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................... 96,006 490 CIVILIAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING ................................................................................................................................. 72,083 500 JUNIOR ROTC .................................................................................................................................................................... 54,156 


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SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 1,995,288 1,700 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

510 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 1,089,964 530 CIVILIAN MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 164,074 540 MILITARY MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................... 418,350 

580 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 167,106 600 PLANNING, ENGINEERING, AND PROGRAM SUPPORT ........................................................................................................ 333,556 610 ACQUISITION, LOGISTICS, AND OVERSIGHT ....................................................................................................................... 663,690 650 INVESTIGATIVE AND SECURITY SERVICES ......................................................................................................................... 705,087 765 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 574,994 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 4,116,821 

UNDISTRIBUTED 

770 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –398,100 

Foreign Currency adjustments ................................................................................................................................. [–55,100 ] Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–343,000 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –398,100 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY ........................................................................................................ 49,003,633 –673,430 4

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS OPERATING FORCES 

010 OPERATIONAL FORCES ...................................................................................................................................................... 873,320 12,400 

Additional parts & spares to support intermediate & organizational maintenance ............................................. [8,200 ] Additional training requirements ............................................................................................................................ [4,200 ] 

020 FIELD LOGISTICS ............................................................................................................................................................... 1,094,187 


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030 DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................................... 314,182 26,900 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [26,900 ] 

040 MARITIME PREPOSITIONING .............................................................................................................................................. 98,136 050 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 183,546 060 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 832,636 –86,282 

85% Sustainment .................................................................................................................................................... [42,400 ] 

Capability Output Level 3 Funding ......................................................................................................................... [10,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–138,682 ] 

061 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 61,469 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [61,469 ] 

062 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 107,213 

Program increase ..................................................................................................................................................... [30,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [77,213 ] 

070 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 2,151,390 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 5,547,397 121,700 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

080 RECRUIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................ 16,453 090 OFFICER ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................................................................... 1,144 100 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 106,360 

110 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................... 46,096 120 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 389,751 130 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 201,662 140 OFF-DUTY AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................... 32,461 150 JUNIOR ROTC .................................................................................................................................................................... 24,217 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 818,144 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

160 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 29,735 

170 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 386,375 225 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 50,859 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 466,969 


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UNDISTRIBUTED 

230 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –43,600 

Foreign Currency adjustments ................................................................................................................................. [–13,600 ] Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–30,000 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –43,600 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS ....................................................................................... 6,832,510 78,100 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY RES OPERATING FORCES 

010 MISSION AND OTHER FLIGHT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 569,584 020 INTERMEDIATE MAINTENANCE ........................................................................................................................................... 6,902 030 AIRCRAFT DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................... 109,776 040 AIRCRAFT DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................... 538 

050 AVIATION LOGISTICS .......................................................................................................................................................... 18,888 060 SHIP OPERATIONS SUPPORT & TRAINING ......................................................................................................................... 574 070 COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 17,561 080 COMBAT SUPPORT FORCES .............................................................................................................................................. 121,070 090 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 337 100 ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................... 23,964 110 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 36,356 4,795 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–5,205 ] 

Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [10,000 ] 

111 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 3,205 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [3,205 ] 

112 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 2,000 


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Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [2,000 ] 

120 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 103,562 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 1,009,112 10,000 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

130 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 1,868 140 MILITARY MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................... 12,849 

160 ACQUISITION AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................................... 3,177 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 17,894 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY RES ................................................................................................ 1,027,006 10,000 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MC RESERVE OPERATING FORCES 

010 OPERATING FORCES .......................................................................................................................................................... 99,173 8,700 

Additional training requirements ............................................................................................................................ [8,700 ] 

020 DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................................... 19,430 030 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 39,962 –14,296 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–22,296 ] 

Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [8,000 ] 

031 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 22,296 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [22,296 ] 

040 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 101,829 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 260,394 16,700 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

050 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 11,176 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 11,176 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MC RESERVE ........................................................................................... 271,570 16,700 

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OPERATING FORCES 

010 PRIMARY COMBAT FORCES ............................................................................................................................................... 758,178 

020 COMBAT ENHANCEMENT FORCES ..................................................................................................................................... 1,509,027 030 AIR OPERATIONS TRAINING (OJT, MAINTAIN SKILLS) ........................................................................................................ 1,323,330 040 DEPOT PURCHASE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................. 3,511,830 84,500 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [46,500 ] Restoration of U–2 Tail #80–1099 ......................................................................................................................... [38,000 ] 

050 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 2,892,705 –270,881 

85% Sustainment .................................................................................................................................................... [152,000 ] 

Capability Output Level 3 Funding ......................................................................................................................... [23,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–445,881 ] 

051 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 420,861 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [420,861 ] 

052 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 67,020 

Program increase ..................................................................................................................................................... [42,000 ] Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [25,020 ] 

060 CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SYSTEM SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 7,613,084 74,800 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [74,800 ] 

070 FLYING HOUR PROGRAM ................................................................................................................................................... 4,345,208 080 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 5,989,215 090 GLOBAL C3I AND EARLY WARNING ................................................................................................................................... 928,023 100 OTHER COMBAT OPS SPT PROGRAMS .............................................................................................................................. 1,080,956 110 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 879,032 130 LAUNCH FACILITIES ........................................................................................................................................................... 183,777 140 SPACE CONTROL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................... 404,072 170 US NORTHCOM/NORAD ...................................................................................................................................................... 187,375 180 US STRATCOM ................................................................................................................................................................... 529,902 


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190 US CYBERCOM .................................................................................................................................................................. 329,474 200 US CENTCOM .................................................................................................................................................................... 166,024 210 US SOCOM ........................................................................................................................................................................ 723 220 US TRANSCOM .................................................................................................................................................................. 535 225 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 1,164,810 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 33,797,280 376,300 3

MOBILIZATION 

230 AIRLIFT OPERATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1,307,695 240 MOBILIZATION PREPAREDNESS ......................................................................................................................................... 144,417 

SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 1,452,112 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

280 OFFICER ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................................................................... 133,187 290 RECRUIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................ 25,041 300 RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS (ROTC) ................................................................................................................. 117,338 330 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 401,996 

340 FLIGHT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................... 477,064 350 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................... 276,423 360 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 95,948 380 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 154,530 390 EXAMINING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4,132 400 OFF-DUTY AND VOLUNTARY EDUCATION ........................................................................................................................... 223,150 410 CIVILIAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING ................................................................................................................................. 209,497 420 JUNIOR ROTC .................................................................................................................................................................... 59,908 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 2,178,214 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

430 LOGISTICS OPERATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 681,788 440 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................................... 117,812 

480 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 953,102 490 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 358,389 


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500 OTHER SERVICEWIDE ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................................... 1,194,862 510 CIVIL AIR PATROL ............................................................................................................................................................. 29,594 540 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................. 74,959 545 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 1,222,456 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 4,632,962 

UNDISTRIBUTED 

550 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –455,200 

Foreign Currency adjustments ................................................................................................................................. [–104,500 ] Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–350,700 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –455,200 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE .............................................................................................. 42,060,568 –78,900 4

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AF RESERVE OPERATING FORCES 

010 PRIMARY COMBAT FORCES ............................................................................................................................................... 1,853,437 

020 MISSION SUPPORT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 205,369 030 DEPOT PURCHASE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................. 345,576 1,900 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [1,900 ] 

040 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 120,736 2,367 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–27,633 ] 

Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [30,000 ] 

041 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 27,633 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [27,633 ] 

050 CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SYSTEM SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 241,239 18,700 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [18,700 ] 


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060 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 385,922 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 3,152,279 50,600 

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICEWIDE ACTIVITIES 

070 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 71,188 080 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 19,429 

090 MILITARY MANPOWER AND PERS MGMT (ARPC) .............................................................................................................. 9,386 100 OTHER PERS SUPPORT (DISABILITY COMP) ...................................................................................................................... 7,512 110 AUDIOVISUAL ..................................................................................................................................................................... 440 

SUBTOTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICEWIDE ACTIVITIES ................................................................................. 107,955 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AF RESERVE ............................................................................................ 3,260,234 50,600 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ANG OPERATING FORCES 

010 AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ..................................................................................................................................................... 2,619,940 020 MISSION SUPPORT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 623,265 030 DEPOT PURCHASE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................. 748,287 

040 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 303,792 –14,092 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [–34,092 ] 

Sustainment recovery .............................................................................................................................................. [20,000 ] 

041 FACILITIES RESTORATION & MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................................. 31,696 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [31,696 ] 

042 FACILITIES DEMOLITION .................................................................................................................................................... 2,396 

Realignment of FSRM funds to new RM and Demo lines ...................................................................................... [2,396 ] 

050 CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SYSTEM SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 1,061,759 3,000 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [3,000 ] 

060 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 988,333 900 

Readiness restoration .............................................................................................................................................. [900 ] 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 6,345,376 23,900 

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070 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 45,711 080 RECRUITING AND ADVERTISING ........................................................................................................................................ 36,535 

SUBTOTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE-WIDE ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ 82,246 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ANG .......................................................................................................... 6,427,622 23,900 

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE OPERATING FORCES 

010 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF .................................................................................................................................................... 430,215 020 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF—CE2T2 ...................................................................................................................................... 602,186 040 SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND/OPERATING FORCES .................................................................................................... 5,389,250 –174,000 

Civilian pay ahead of need ..................................................................................................................................... [–10,700 ] Communications ...................................................................................................................................................... [–20,000 ] DCGS-SOF ................................................................................................................................................................. [–10,000 ] MC–12 ahead of need ............................................................................................................................................. [–33,300 ] 

Program decrease .................................................................................................................................................... [–100,000 ] SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 6,421,651 –174,000 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

050 DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIVERSITY .................................................................................................................................. 181,601 –9,100 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–9,100 ] 

060 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF .................................................................................................................................................... 96,565 070 SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND/TRAINING AND RECRUITING ......................................................................................... 370,583 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 648,749 –9,100 

ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES 

080 CIVIL MILITARY PROGRAMS .............................................................................................................................................. 166,131 20,000 


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STARBASE ................................................................................................................................................................. [20,000 ] 

100 DEFENSE CONTRACT AUDIT AGENCY ................................................................................................................................ 625,633 –31,300 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–31,300 ] 

110 DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY ................................................................................................................... 1,465,354 –73,300 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–73,300 ] 

120 DEFENSE HUMAN RESOURCES ACTIVITY .......................................................................................................................... 859,923 –43,000 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–43,000 ] 

130 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY ...................................................................................................................... 2,106,930 –105,300 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–105,300 ] 

150 DEFENSE LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY ................................................................................................................................. 27,403 –1,400 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–1,400 ] 

160 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ........................................................................................................................................... 379,275 6,475 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–19,000 ] 

Program increase for the Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAP) ...................................................... [25,475 ] 

170 DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY ................................................................................................................................................. 207,537 –10,400 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–10,400 ] 

180 DEFENSE PERSONNEL ACCOUNTING AGENCY ................................................................................................................... 130,696 190 DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION AGENCY .................................................................................................................... 754,711 200 DEFENSE SECURITY SERVICE ........................................................................................................................................... 789,175 220 DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY SECURITY ADMINISTRATION ........................................................................................................ 34,951 –1,700 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–1,700 ] 

230 DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY ............................................................................................................................ 553,329 250 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY ............................................................................................................. 2,892,284 50,000 

Impact Aid ............................................................................................................................................................... [40,000 ] 

Impact Aid for Children with Severe Disabilities ................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

260 MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY ............................................................................................................................................... 499,817 280 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ................................................................................................................................. 70,035 96,500 

Defense Community Infrastructure Program ........................................................................................................... [100,000 ] 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–3,500 ] 

290 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ........................................................................................................................ 1,519,655 11,000 

CDC PFOS/PFOA Health Study Increment ................................................................................................................ [7,000 ] 

Contract support for ACCM oversight as directed by Sec. 1062 of FY17 NDAA ................................................... [5,000 ] 


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Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–76,000 ] Establish Artificial Intelligence commission ........................................................................................................... [10,000 ] Funds to support the Global Engagement Center .................................................................................................. [60,000 ] Initial capital for Department of Defense World War II Commemoration Fund ..................................................... [2,000 ] Training of qualified personnel to join the staff of the Boards of Corrections for Military and Naval Records [3,000 ] 

300 SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND/ADMIN & SVC-WIDE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................. 97,787 310 WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES ......................................................................................................................... 456,407 –68,500 

Efficiencies within the 4th estate ........................................................................................................................... [–68,500 ] 

315 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 15,645,192 1

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 29,282,225 –150,925 2

UNDISTRIBUTED 

320 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –411,800 

Foreign Currency adjustments ................................................................................................................................. [–26,400 ] Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–385,400 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –411,800 

TOTAL OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE .................................................................................... 36,352,625 –745,825 3

US COURT OF APPEALS FOR ARMED FORCES, DEF ADMINISTRATION AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES 

010 US COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES, DEFENSE .......................................................................................... 14,662 

SUBTOTAL ADMINISTRATION AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES .................................................................................... 14,662 

TOTAL US COURT OF APPEALS FOR ARMED FORCES, DEF ............................................................................... 14,662 

DOD ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FUND 


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ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 

010 ACQ WORKFORCE DEV FD ................................................................................................................................................. 400,000 

SUBTOTAL ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 400,000 

TOTAL DOD ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FUND ........................................................................... 400,000 

OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE 

010 OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER AND CIVIC AID ..................................................................................................... 107,663 

SUBTOTAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE .................................................................................................................. 107,663 

TOTAL OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID .......................................................................... 107,663 

COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT FSU THREAT REDUCTION 

010 FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU) THREAT REDUCTION ......................................................................................................... 335,240 

SUBTOTAL FSU THREAT REDUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 335,240 

TOTAL COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT ......................................................................................... 335,240 

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 

060 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY ............................................................................................................................ 203,449 10,000 

PFOS/PFOA remediation increase ............................................................................................................................ [10,000 ] SUBTOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY .................................................................................................................. 203,449 10,000 

TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY ................................................................................................... 203,449 10,000 

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 

080 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY ............................................................................................................................. 329,253 10,000 

PFOS/PFOA remediation increase ............................................................................................................................ [10,000 ] 


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SUBTOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY ................................................................................................................... 329,253 10,000 

TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY .................................................................................................... 329,253 10,000 

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 

100 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE .................................................................................................................... 296,808 50,000 

PFOS/PFOA remediation increase ............................................................................................................................ [50,000 ] SUBTOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE ......................................................................................................... 296,808 50,000 

TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE ........................................................................................... 296,808 50,000 

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE DEFENSE-WIDE 

120 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE ....................................................................................................................... 8,926 

SUBTOTAL DEFENSE-WIDE ....................................................................................................................................... 8,926 

TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE .............................................................................................. 8,926 

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION FORMERLY USED SITES DEFENSE-WIDE 

140 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION FORMERLY USED SITES ................................................................................................. 212,346 

SUBTOTAL DEFENSE-WIDE ....................................................................................................................................... 212,346 

TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION FORMERLY USED SITES ........................................................................ 212,346 


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TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................... 199,469,636 –3,924,243 19


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SEC. 4302. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS. 

SEC. 4302. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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Auth

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY OPERATING FORCES 

010 MANEUVER UNITS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1,179,339 454,700 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [454,700 ] 

030 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 25,983 151,570 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [151,570 ] 

040 THEATER LEVEL ASSETS ................................................................................................................................................... 2,189,916 242,500 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [242,500 ] 

050 LAND FORCES OPERATIONS SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................. 188,609 060 AVIATION ASSETS .............................................................................................................................................................. 120,787 070 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 3,867,286 606,260 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [606,260 ] 

080 LAND FORCES SYSTEMS READINESS ................................................................................................................................ 550,068 090 LAND FORCES DEPOT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................................ 195,873 272,820 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [272,820 ] 

100 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 109,560 606,260 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [606,260 ] 

110 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 60,807 140 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................................................................................... 5,992,222 150 COMMANDERS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM .......................................................................................................... 10,000 160 RESET ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1,036,454 180 US AFRICA COMMAND ....................................................................................................................................................... 248,796 15,000 

Contract personnel recovery/casualty evacuation in AFRICOM ............................................................................... [15,000 ] 

190 US EUROPEAN COMMAND ................................................................................................................................................. 98,127 


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200 US SOUTHERN COMMAND ................................................................................................................................................. 2,550 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 15,876,377 2,349,110 1

MOBILIZATION 

230 ARMY PREPOSITIONED STOCKS ........................................................................................................................................ 158,753 –158,753 

Realignment of EDI APS Unit Set from OCO to Base ............................................................................................. [–158,753 ] SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 158,753 –158,753 

ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES 

390 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 712,230 151,600 

Realign OCO requirements from Base to OCO ....................................................................................................... [151,600 ] 

400 CENTRAL SUPPLY ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................................ 44,168 410 LOGISTIC SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................................................... 5,300 420 AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 38,597 460 OTHER PERSONNEL SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................... 109,019 490 REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................. 191,786 565 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 1,074,270 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 2,175,370 151,600 

UNDISTRIBUTED 

570 UNDISTRIBUTED ................................................................................................................................................................. –27,900 

Historical unobligated balances .............................................................................................................................. [–27,900 ] SUBTOTAL UNDISTRIBUTED ..................................................................................................................................... –27,900 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY ....................................................................................................... 18,210,500 2,314,057 2

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY RES OPERATING FORCES 

020 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 20,700 060 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 700 

090 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 20,487 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 41,887 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARMY RES ............................................................................................... 41,887 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARNG OPERATING FORCES 

010 MANEUVER UNITS ............................................................................................................................................................. 42,519 020 MODULAR SUPPORT BRIGADES ......................................................................................................................................... 778 

030 ECHELONS ABOVE BRIGADE ............................................................................................................................................. 12,093 040 THEATER LEVEL ASSETS ................................................................................................................................................... 708 060 AVIATION ASSETS .............................................................................................................................................................. 28,135 070 FORCE READINESS OPERATIONS SUPPORT ....................................................................................................................... 5,908 100 BASE OPERATIONS SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................ 18,877 120 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS .......................................................................................................... 956 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 109,974 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

150 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 755 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 755 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ARNG ....................................................................................................... 110,729 

AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY 

090 SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 1,522,777 100 INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................................................. 137,732 110 EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION .................................................................................................................................. 71,922 120 TRAINING AND OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 175,846 

SUBTOTAL AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY ....................................................................................................................... 1,908,277 


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AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE 

130 SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 527,554 140 INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................................................. 42,984 150 EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION .................................................................................................................................. 14,554 

160 TRAINING AND OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 181,922 

SUBTOTAL AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE .................................................................................................................... 767,014 

AFGHAN AIR FORCE 

170 SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 942,279 180 INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................................................. 30,350 190 EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION .................................................................................................................................. 572,310 

200 TRAINING AND OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 277,191 

SUBTOTAL AFGHAN AIR FORCE ............................................................................................................................... 1,822,130 

AFGHAN SPECIAL SECURITY FORCES 

210 SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 353,734 220 INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................................................................................................................. 43,132 230 EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION .................................................................................................................................. 151,790 

240 TRAINING AND OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 153,373 

SUBTOTAL AFGHAN SPECIAL SECURITY FORCES .................................................................................................... 702,029 

TOTAL AFGHANISTAN SECURITY FORCES FUND ................................................................................................. 5,199,450 

COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND (CTEF) 

010 IRAQ .................................................................................................................................................................................. 850,000 020 SYRIA ................................................................................................................................................................................. 300,000 030 OTHER ............................................................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

SUBTOTAL COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND (CTEF) ................................................................................... 1,400,000 

TOTAL COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND ................................................................................................. 1,400,000 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY OPERATING FORCES 

010 MISSION AND OTHER FLIGHT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 435,507 030 AVIATION TECHNICAL DATA & ENGINEERING SERVICES ................................................................................................... 800 

040 AIR OPERATIONS AND SAFETY SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................... 9,394 050 AIR SYSTEMS SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................... 193,384 060 AIRCRAFT DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................... 173,053 070 AIRCRAFT DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................... 3,524 080 AVIATION LOGISTICS .......................................................................................................................................................... 60,219 090 MISSION AND OTHER SHIP OPERATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 942,960 100 SHIP OPERATIONS SUPPORT & TRAINING ......................................................................................................................... 20,236 110 SHIP DEPOT MAINTENANCE ............................................................................................................................................... 1,022,647 130 COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE ................................................................................................ 59,553 160 WARFARE TACTICS ............................................................................................................................................................ 16,651 170 OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 31,118 180 COMBAT SUPPORT FORCES .............................................................................................................................................. 635,560 190 EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND DEPOT OPERATIONS SUPPORT ...................................................................................... 4,334 220 COMBATANT COMMANDERS DIRECT MISSION SUPPORT .................................................................................................. 24,800 240 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 355 280 WEAPONS MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................. 493,033 290 OTHER WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................ 12,780 310 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 67,321 320 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 211,394 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 4,418,623 

MOBILIZATION 


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370 EXPEDITIONARY HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................. 12,902 390 COAST GUARD SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................... 165,000 

SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 177,902 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

430 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 51,138 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 51,138 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

510 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 4,145 540 MILITARY MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................... 7,503 

580 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 69,297 610 ACQUISITION, LOGISTICS, AND OVERSIGHT ....................................................................................................................... 10,912 650 INVESTIGATIVE AND SECURITY SERVICES ......................................................................................................................... 1,559 765 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 16,076 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 109,492 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY ........................................................................................................ 4,757,155 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS OPERATING FORCES 

010 OPERATIONAL FORCES ...................................................................................................................................................... 734,505 020 FIELD LOGISTICS ............................................................................................................................................................... 212,691 030 DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................................... 53,040 070 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 23,047 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 1,023,283 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

120 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 30,459 

SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 30,459 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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160 SERVICEWIDE TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 61,400 170 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 2,108 225 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 4,650 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 68,158 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS ....................................................................................... 1,121,900 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY RES OPERATING FORCES 

020 INTERMEDIATE MAINTENANCE ........................................................................................................................................... 500 

030 AIRCRAFT DEPOT MAINTENANCE ....................................................................................................................................... 11,400 080 COMBAT SUPPORT FORCES .............................................................................................................................................. 13,737 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 25,637 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, NAVY RES ................................................................................................ 25,637 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MC RESERVE OPERATING FORCES 

010 OPERATING FORCES .......................................................................................................................................................... 2,550 040 BASE OPERATING SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 795 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 3,345 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, MC RESERVE ........................................................................................... 3,345 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE OPERATING FORCES 

010 PRIMARY COMBAT FORCES ............................................................................................................................................... 166,274 


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020 COMBAT ENHANCEMENT FORCES ..................................................................................................................................... 1,492,580 030 AIR OPERATIONS TRAINING (OJT, MAINTAIN SKILLS) ........................................................................................................ 110,237 040 DEPOT PURCHASE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................. 209,996 050 FACILITIES SUSTAINMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 92,412 060 CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT AND SYSTEM SUPPORT ............................................................................................. 1,289,693 070 FLYING HOUR PROGRAM ................................................................................................................................................... 2,355,264 080 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 1,141,718 090 GLOBAL C3I AND EARLY WARNING ................................................................................................................................... 13,537 100 OTHER COMBAT OPS SPT PROGRAMS .............................................................................................................................. 224,713 110 CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................. 17,353 120 TACTICAL INTEL AND OTHER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................ 36,098 130 LAUNCH FACILITIES ........................................................................................................................................................... 385 140 SPACE CONTROL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................... 38,966 170 US NORTHCOM/NORAD ...................................................................................................................................................... 725 180 US STRATCOM ................................................................................................................................................................... 2,056 190 US CYBERCOM .................................................................................................................................................................. 35,189 200 US CENTCOM .................................................................................................................................................................... 162,691 210 US SOCOM ........................................................................................................................................................................ 19,000 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 7,408,887 

MOBILIZATION 

230 AIRLIFT OPERATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1,287,659 240 MOBILIZATION PREPAREDNESS ......................................................................................................................................... 107,064 

SUBTOTAL MOBILIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 1,394,723 

TRAINING AND RECRUITING 

280 OFFICER ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................................................................... 300 

290 RECRUIT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................ 340 330 SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING ........................................................................................................................................... 25,327 340 FLIGHT TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................................... 844 350 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................... 1,199 360 TRAINING SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................................................... 1,320 


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SEC. 4302. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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SUBTOTAL TRAINING AND RECRUITING ................................................................................................................... 29,330 

ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES 

430 LOGISTICS OPERATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 154,485 440 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................................... 13,608 480 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 4,814 490 SERVICEWIDE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 131,123 500 OTHER SERVICEWIDE ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................................................... 97,471 540 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ................................................................................................................................................. 240 

545 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 51,108 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWD ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................. 452,849 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE .............................................................................................. 9,285,789 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AF RESERVE OPERATING FORCES 

030 DEPOT PURCHASE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................. 51,000 

060 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 9,500 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 60,500 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, AF RESERVE ............................................................................................ 60,500 

OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ANG OPERATING FORCES 

020 MISSION SUPPORT OPERATIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 3,560 060 BASE SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................................. 12,310 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 15,870 


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TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE, ANG .......................................................................................................... 15,870 

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE OPERATING FORCES 

010 JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF .................................................................................................................................................... 28,671 040 SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND/OPERATING FORCES .................................................................................................... 3,733,161 

SUBTOTAL OPERATING FORCES ............................................................................................................................... 3,761,832 

ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES 

100 DEFENSE CONTRACT AUDIT AGENCY ................................................................................................................................ 1,781 110 DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AGENCY ................................................................................................................... 21,723 

130 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY ...................................................................................................................... 111,702 150 DEFENSE LEGAL SERVICES AGENCY ................................................................................................................................. 127,023 170 DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY ................................................................................................................................................. 14,377 190 DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION AGENCY .................................................................................................................... 2,208,442 –200,000 

Transfer of funds to Ukraine Security Assistance fund ......................................................................................... [–200,000 ] 

230 DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY ............................................................................................................................ 302,250 250 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY ............................................................................................................. 31,620 290 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ........................................................................................................................ 16,579 310 WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES ......................................................................................................................... 7,766 315 CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................... 1,944,813 

SUBTOTAL ADMIN & SRVWIDE ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 4,788,076 –200,000 

TOTAL OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE .................................................................................... 8,549,908 –200,000 

UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE 

010 UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE ...................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Program increase for defensive lethal assistance ................................................................................................. [50,000 ] Transfer of funds from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency ......................................................................... [200,000 ] SUBTOTAL UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE ........................................................................................................... 250,000 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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TOTAL UKRAINE SECURITY ASSISTANCE ............................................................................................................. 250,000 

TOTAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE ................................................................................................................... 48,782,670 2,364,057 5


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TITLE XLIV—MILITARY PERSONNEL 

SEC. 4401. MILITARY PERSONNEL. 

SEC. 4401. MILITARY PERSONNEL 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Item FY 2019 Request House Change Hou

Autho

Military Personnel Appropriations ........................................................................................................................................ 140,689,301 –700,500 139

Control Grade Increase ....................................................................................................................................... [7,000 ] Foreign Currency adjustments ............................................................................................................................ [–218,000 ] Historical unobligated balance ........................................................................................................................... [–761,500 ] Permanently reverse BAH reduction for Military Housing Privatization Initiative .............................................. [275,000 ] Program decrease ............................................................................................................................................... [–3,000 ] 

Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund Contributions ........................................................................................................ 7,533,090 7

Total, Military Personnel ....................................................................................................................................................... 148,222,391 –700,500 147


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SEC. 4402. MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS. 

SEC. 4402. MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Item FY 2019 Request House Change Hou

Autho

Military Personnel Appropriations ........................................................................................................................................ 4,660,661 4


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TITLE XLV—OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS 

SEC. 4501. OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS. 

SEC. 4501. OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY ARMY ARSENALS INITIATIVE .................................................................................................................................................... 59,002 ARMY SUPPLY MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 99,763 

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY .................................................................................................... 158,765 

WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE WORKING CAPITAL FUND ......................................................................................................................................................... 69,054 

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE ............................................................................................ 69,054 

WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DEFENSE-WIDE WORKING CAPITAL FUND SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................................... 48,096 

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DEFENSE-WIDE ..................................................................................... 48,096 

WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DECA WORKING CAPITAL FUND SUPPORT ......................................................................................................................................... 1,266,200 1

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DECA ..................................................................................................... 1,266,200 1

NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND SURGE SEALIFT RECAPITALIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 200,000 

Program increase—one used vessel .................................................................................................................. [200,000 ] 

LG MED SPD RO/RO MAINTENANCE ........................................................................................................................................ 127,739 


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Transfer from OMN .............................................................................................................................................. [127,739 ] 

DOD MOBILIZATION ALTERATIONS ........................................................................................................................................... 20,858 

Transfer from OMN .............................................................................................................................................. [20,858 ] 

TAH MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................................. 157,350 

Service Life Extension of USNS Comfort (TAH 20) ............................................................................................. [85,000 ] Transfer from OMN .............................................................................................................................................. [72,350 ] 

READY RESERVE AND PREPOSITIONING FORCE ..................................................................................................................... 310,805 

Transfer from OMN .............................................................................................................................................. [310,805 ] 

TOTAL NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND ................................................................................................ 816,752 

CHEM AGENTS & MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION OPERATION & MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................. 105,997 RDT&E ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 886,728 PROCUREMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1,091 

TOTAL CHEM AGENTS & MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION .................................................................................. 993,816 

DRUG INTERDICTION & CTR-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEF DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE ......................................................................................... 547,171 20,000 

Combatting opioid trafficking and abuse .......................................................................................................... [20,000 ] 

DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION PROGRAM ................................................................................................................................... 117,900 NATIONAL GUARD COUNTER-DRUG PROGRAM ........................................................................................................................ 117,178 

DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE ......................................................................................... 5,276 

TOTAL DRUG INTERDICTION & CTR-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEF ..................................................................... 787,525 20,000 

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................. 327,611 5,000 

Program increase ................................................................................................................................................ [5,000 ] 


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PROCUREMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1,602 RDT&E ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 60 

TOTAL OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ........................................................................................... 329,273 5,000 

DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM OPERATION & MAINTENANCE IN-HOUSE CARE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 9,738,569 9PRIVATE SECTOR CARE ........................................................................................................................................................... 15,103,735 15CONSOLIDATED HEALTH SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................................... 2,107,961 2INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................... 2,039,878 2MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES ....................................................................................................................................................... 307,629 EDUCATION AND TRAINING ..................................................................................................................................................... 756,778 BASE OPERATIONS/COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 2,090,845 2RDT&E RESEARCH ............................................................................................................................................................................... 11,386 EXPLORATRY DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................................... 75,010 5,000 

Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training .................. [5,000 ] 

ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................................................................................... 275,258 5,000 

Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training .................. [5,000 ] 

DEMONSTRATION/VALIDATION ................................................................................................................................................. 117,529 5,000 

Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training .................. [5,000 ] 

ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 151,985 25,000 

FDA approved devices to detect and monitor traumatic brain injury ............................................................... [10,000 ] 

Freeze-dried platelet derived hemostatic agents ............................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

Simulators and other technologies to reduce the use of live animal tissue for medical training .................. [5,000 ] 

MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT .................................................................................................................................................. 63,755 CAPABILITIES ENHANCEMENT ................................................................................................................................................. 15,714 PROCUREMENT INITIAL OUTFITTING ................................................................................................................................................................. 33,056 REPLACEMENT & MODERNIZATION ......................................................................................................................................... 343,424 

DOD HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MODERNIZATION .................................................................................................. 496,680 UNDISTRIBUTED 


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UNDISTRIBUTED ...................................................................................................................................................................... –492,500 –

Foreign Currency adjustments ............................................................................................................................ [–22,100 ] Historical unobligated balances ......................................................................................................................... [–470,400 ] 

TOTAL DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM ........................................................................................................... 33,729,192 –452,500 33

TOTAL OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS ................................................................................................................. 37,381,921 389,252 37


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SEC. 4502. OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS. 

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WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY ARMY SUPPLY MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................................................. 6,600 

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY .................................................................................................... 6,600 

WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE WORKING CAPITAL FUND ......................................................................................................................................................... 8,590 

TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE ............................................................................................ 8,590 

DRUG INTERDICTION & CTR-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEF DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE ......................................................................................... 153,100 

TOTAL DRUG INTERDICTION & CTR-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEF ..................................................................... 153,100 

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE .................................................................................................................................................. 24,692 

TOTAL OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ........................................................................................... 24,692 

DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM OPERATION & MAINTENANCE IN-HOUSE CARE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 72,627 PRIVATE SECTOR CARE ........................................................................................................................................................... 277,066 CONSOLIDATED HEALTH SUPPORT .......................................................................................................................................... 2,375 

TOTAL DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM ........................................................................................................... 352,068 

TOTAL OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS ................................................................................................................. 545,050 


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TITLE XLVI—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

SEC. 4601. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION. 

SEC. 4601. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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Army Alabama Anniston Army Depot Weapon Maintenance Shop ........................................ 5,200 Army California Fort Irwin Multipurpose Range Complex .................................... 29,000 Army Colorado Fort Carson Vehicle Maintenance Shop ......................................... 77,000 Army Georgia Fort Gordon Cyber Instructional Fac and Network Ctr .................. 99,000 Army Germany East Camp Grafenwoehr Mission Training Complex .......................................... 31,000 Army Hawaii Fort Shafter Command and Control Facility, Incr 4 ...................... 105,000 –10,000 Army Honduras Soto Cano Air Base Barracks ..................................................................... 21,000 Army Indiana Crane Army Ammunition Plant Railcar Holding Area .................................................. 16,000 Army Kentucky Fort Campbell Microgird and Power Plant ........................................ 0 18,000 Army Kentucky Fort Campbell Vehicle Maintenance Shop ......................................... 32,000 Army Kentucky Fort Knox Digital Air/Ground Integration Range ........................ 26,000 Army Korea Camp Tango Command and Control Facility .................................. 17,500 Army Kuwait Camp Arifjan Vehicle Maintenance Shop ......................................... 44,000 Army Maryland Fort Meade Cantonment Area Roads ............................................ 0 16,500 Army New Jersey Picatinny Arsenal Munitions Disassembly Complex ............................... 41,000 Army New Mexico White Sands Missile Range Information Systems Facility ..................................... 40,000 Army New York U.S. Military Academy Engineering Center .................................................... 95,000 Army New York U.S. Military Academy Parking Structure ....................................................... 65,000 Army North Carolina Fort Bragg Dining Facility ............................................................ 10,000 Army South Carolina Fort Jackson Trainee Barracks Complex 3, Ph2 ............................. 52,000 Army Texas Fort Bliss Supply Support Activity .............................................. 24,000 Army Texas Fort Hood Supply Support Activity .............................................. 0 9,600 


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Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Force Protection and Safety ....................................... 0 50,000 

Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Host Nation Support .................................................. 34,000 Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 76,068 Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 72,000 

Military Construction, Army Total ......................................................................................................................................................... 1,011,768 84,100 

Navy Arizona Camp Navajo Missile Motor Magazines and U&SI ........................... 0 14,800 

Navy Bahamas Andros Island AUTEC Austere Quarters ............................................ 31,050 Navy Bahrain SW Asia Fleet Maintenance Facility & TOC ............................. 26,340 Navy California Camp Pendleton AAV-ACV Maintenance & Warehouse Facility ............ 49,410 Navy California Camp Pendleton Electrical Upgrades .................................................... 4,020 Navy California Camp Pendleton Full Motion Trainer Facility ........................................ 10,670 Navy California Camp Pendleton Potable Water Distribution Improvements ................. 47,230 Navy California Camp Pendleton Supply Warehouse SOI-West ...................................... 0 16,600 Navy California Marine Corps Air Station 

Miramar 

Airfield Security Improvements .................................. 11,500 

Navy California Marine Corps Air Station 

Miramar 

F–35 Vertical Landing Pads and Taxiway ................. 20,480 

Navy California Naval Air Station Lemoore Communications Line Ops to Admin ......................... 0 14,900 Navy California Naval Air Station Lemoore F–35 Maintenance Hangar ........................................ 112,690 

Navy California Naval Base Coronado Aircraft Paint Complex ............................................... 0 78,800 

Navy California Naval Base Coronado CMV–22B Airfield Improvements ............................... 77,780 Navy California Naval Base San Diego Harbor Drive Switching Station ................................. 48,440 Navy California Naval Base San Diego LCS Mission Module Readiness Center ..................... 0 19,500 

Navy California Naval Base San Diego Pier 8 Replacement ................................................... 108,100 –59,353 Navy California Naval Base Ventura Directed Energy Systems Intergration Lab ................ 22,150 Navy California Naval Base Ventura Missile Assembly Build & High Explosive Mag ......... 31,010 Navy California Naval Weapons Station Seal 

Beach 

Causeway, Boat Channel & Turning Basin ............... 117,830 

Navy California Naval Weapons Station Seal 

Beach 

Missile Magazines ...................................................... 0 21,800 

Navy Cuba Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Consolidated Fire Station .......................................... 0 19,700 


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Navy Cuba Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Solid Waste Management Facility ............................. 85,000 Navy District Of Columbia Naval Observatory Master Time Clocks & Operations Facility ................ 115,600 –55,600 Navy Florida Naval Air Station Whiting Field Air Traffic Control Tower (North Field) ...................... 0 10,000 Navy Florida Naval Station Mayport LCS Operational Training Facility Addition ............... 29,110 Navy Florida Naval Station Mayport LCS Support Facility .................................................. 82,350 Navy Georgia Marine Corps Base Albany Welding and Body Repair Shop Facility .................... 0 31,900 Navy Germany Panzer Kaserne MARFOREUR HQ Modernization and Expansion ......... 43,950 Navy Guam Joint Region Marianas ACE Gym & Dining ..................................................... 27,910 Navy Guam Joint Region Marianas Earth Covered Magazines .......................................... 52,270 Navy Guam Joint Region Marianas Machine Gun Range .................................................. 141,287 –71,287 Navy Guam Joint Region Marianas Ordnance Ops ............................................................ 22,020 Navy Guam Joint Region Marianas Unaccompanied Enlisted Housing ............................. 36,170 Navy Guam Naval Base Guam X-Ray Wharf Improvements (Berth 2) ....................... 0 75,600 

Navy Hawaii Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Drydock Waterfront Facility ........................................ 45,000 Navy Hawaii Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Water Transmission Line ........................................... 78,320 Navy Hawaii Marine Corps Base Hawaii Corrosion Control Hangar .......................................... 66,100 Navy Japan Kadena Air Base Tactical Operations Center ........................................ 9,049 Navy Maine Portsmouth Naval Yard Dry Dock #1 Superflood Basin ................................... 109,960 –58,321 Navy Maine Portsmouth Naval Yard Extend Portal Crane Rail ........................................... 39,725 Navy Mississippi Naval Construction Battalion 

Center 

Expeditionary Combat Skills Student Berthing ......... 0 22,300 

Navy North Carolina Camp Lejeune 2nd Radio BN Complex, Phase 2 .............................. 0 51,300 Navy North Carolina Marine Corps Air Station Cherry 

Point 

Aircraft Maintenance Hangar .................................... 133,970 –73,970 

Navy North Carolina Marine Corps Air Station Cherry 

Point 

Flightline Utility Modernization .................................. 106,860 –51,860 


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Navy Pennsylvania Naval Support Activity Philadelphia Submarine Propulsor Manufacturing Support Fac .... 71,050 Navy South Carolina Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Cryogenics Facility ..................................................... 0 6,300 Navy South Carolina Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Recycling/Hazardous Waste Facility .......................... 9,517 

Navy South Carolina Marine Corps Recruit Depot, 

Parris Island 

Range Improvements & Modernization, Phase 2 ...... 35,190 

Navy Utah Hill Air Force Base D5 Missile Motor Receipt/Storage Facility ................. 105,520 –50,520 Navy Virginia Marine Corps Base Quantico Ammunition Supply Point Upgrade, Phase 2 ............ 0 13,100 Navy Virginia Marine Corps Base Quantico TBS Fire Station ......................................................... 21,980 –21,980 Navy Virginia Portsmouth Ships Maintenance Facility ........................................ 26,120 Navy Washington Bangor Pier and Maintenance Facility ................................... 88,960 

Navy Washington Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Fleet Support Facility ................................................. 19,450 Navy Washington Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Next Generation Jammer Facility ............................... 7,930 Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Force Protection and Safety ....................................... 0 50,000 Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 185,542 –8,000 Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 28,579 

Military Construction, Navy Total .......................................................................................................................................................... 2,543,189 –4,291 

AF Alaska Eielson Air Force Base F–35 Aircraft Maintenance Unit Admin Facility ........ 6,800 

AF Alaska Eielson Air Force Base F–35 Conventional Munitions Maintenance Fac ....... 15,500 

AF Alaska Eielson Air Force Base F–35A CATM Range ................................................... 19,000 

AF Alaska Eielson Air Force Base F–35A School Age Facility ......................................... 22,500 

AF Arizona Davis Monthan Air Force Base AGE Facility ................................................................ 0 15,000 

AF Arizona Luke Air Force Base F–35A Aircraft Maintenance Unit Facility ................. 23,000 

AF Arizona Luke Air Force Base F–35A Squad Ops #6 ................................................ 17,000 

AF Arkansas Little Rock Air Force Base Dormitory - 168 PN .................................................... 0 26,000 

AF Florida Eglin Air Force Base F–35A Integrated Trng Center Academics Bldg ........ 34,863 

AF Florida Eglin Air Force Base F–35A Student Dormitory II ....................................... 28,000 


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AF Florida MacDill Air Force Base KC135 Beddown Add Flight Simulator Training ........ 3,100 

AF Florida Patrick Air Force Base Main Gate .................................................................. 0 9,000 

AF Guam Joint Region Marianas Hayman Munitions Storage Igloos MSA 2 ................. 9,800 

AF Louisiana Barksdale Air Force Base Entrance Road and Gate Complex ............................ 0 12,250 AF Mariana Islands Tinian APR—Cargo Pad with Taxiway Extension ................. 46,000 AF Mariana Islands Tinian APR—Maintenance Support Facility ......................... 4,700 AF Maryland Joint Base Andrews Child Development Center ......................................... 0 13,000 

AF Maryland Joint Base Andrews MWD Facility .............................................................. 0 8,000 

AF Maryland Joint Base Andrews PAR Relocate Haz Cargo Pad and EOD Range ......... 37,000 

AF Maryland Joint Base Andrews Presidential Aircraft Recap Complex, Inc. 2 ............. 154,000 –30,884 

AF Massachusetts Hanscom Air Force Base MIT-Lincoln Laboratory (West Lab CSL/MIF) .............. 225,000 –185,000 

AF Nebraska Offutt Air Force Base Parking Lot, USSTRATCOM ......................................... 9,500 

AF Nevada Creech Air Force Base MQ–9 CPIP GCS Operations Facility .......................... 28,000 AF Nevada Creech Air Force Base MQ–9 CPIP Operations & Command Center Fac. ..... 31,000 

AF Nevada Nellis Air Force Base CRH Simulator ........................................................... 5,900 

AF New Mexico Holloman Air Force Base MQ–9 FTU Ops Facility .............................................. 85,000 

AF New Mexico Kirtland Air Force Base Wyoming Gate Upgrade for Anti-terrorism Compliance. 0 7,000 

AF New York Rome Lab Anti-Terrorism Perimeter Security / Entry Control 

Point.

0 14,200 

AF North Dakota Minot Air Force Base Consolidated Helo/TRF Ops/AMU and Alert Fac ........ 66,000 

AF Ohio Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ADAL Intelligence Production Complex (NASIC) ......... 116,100 –55,100 

AF Oklahoma Altus Air Force Base KC–46A FTU/FTC Simulator Facility Ph 3 .................. 12,000 

AF Oklahoma Tinker Air Force Base KC–46A Depot Fuel Maintenance Hangar ................. 85,000 

AF Oklahoma Tinker Air Force Base KC–46A Depot Maintenance Hangar ......................... 81,000 AF Qatar Al Udeid Flightline Support Facilities ....................................... 30,400 –30,400 

AF Qatar Al Udeid Personnel Deployment Processing Facility ................. 40,000 –40,000 


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AF South Carolina Shaw Air Force Base CPIP MQ–9 MCE GROUP ............................................ 53,000 

AF Texas Joint Base San Antonio BMT Recruit Dormitory 6 ........................................... 25,000 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A 6 Bay Hangar ................................................. 39,036 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A ADAL Conventional Munitions MX .................. 9,204 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A ADAL Parts Store ............................................ 13,926 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A AGE Facility .................................................... 12,449 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A Dorm ............................................................... 29,541 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A Fuel System Maintenance Dock 2 Bay ........... 16,880 

AF United Kingdom RAF Lakenheath F–35A Parking Apron ................................................. 27,431 

AF Utah Hill Air Force Base Composite Aircraft Antenna Calibration Fac ............. 0 26,000 

AF Washington Fairchild—White Bluff ADAL JPRA C2 Mission Support Facility .................... 0 14,000 AF Worldwide Classified Classified Location TACMOR—Utilities and Infrastructure Support ........ 18,000 AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Force Protection and Safety ....................................... 0 50,000 

AF Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 206,577 –8,000 

AF Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Military Construction ................... 38,500 

Military Construction, AF Total ............................................................................................................................................................. 1,725,707 –154,934 

Def-Wide Alaska Clear Air Force Station Long Range Discrim Radar Sys Complex Ph2 .......... 174,000 –44,000 Def-Wide Alaska Fort Greely Missile Field #1 Expansion ........................................ 8,000 –8,000 

Def-Wide Alaska Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Operations Facility Replacement ............................... 14,000 Def-Wide Arkansas Little Rock Air Force Base Hydrant Fuel System Alterations ............................... 14,000 Def-Wide Belgium Chievres Air Base Europe West District Superintendent’s Office ........... 14,305 Def-Wide California Camp Pendleton SOF EOD Facility—West ............................................ 3,547 Def-Wide California Camp Pendleton SOF Human Performance Training Center-West ........ 9,049 Def-Wide California Defense Distribution Depot-Tracy Main Access Control Point Upgrades ........................ 18,800 Def-Wide California Naval Base Coronado SOF ATC Applied Instruction Facility ......................... 14,819 Def-Wide California Naval Base Coronado SOF ATC Training Facility .......................................... 18,329 Def-Wide California Naval Base Coronado SOF Close Quarters Combat Facility ......................... 12,768 Def-Wide California Naval Base Coronado SOF NSWG–1 Operations Support Facility ................. 25,172 

Def-Wide Colorado Fort Carson SOF Human Performance Training Center ................. 15,297 Def-Wide Colorado Fort Carson SOF Mountaineering Facility ...................................... 9,000 


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Def-Wide Conus Classified Classified Location Battalion Complex, PH2 ............................................. 49,222 Def-Wide Cuba Naval Base Guantanamo Bay Working Dog Treatment Facility Replacement ........... 9,080 Def-Wide Germany Baumholder SOF Joint Parachute Rigging Facility ........................ 11,504 Def-Wide Germany Kaiserlautern Air Base Kaiserslautern Middle School .................................... 99,955 Def-Wide Germany Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center Replacement Inc. 8 .......................... 319,589 Def-Wide Germany Weisbaden Clay Kaserne Elementary School ............................... 56,048 Def-Wide Japan Camp Mctureous Bechtel Elementary School ........................................ 94,851 

Def-Wide Japan Iwakuni Fuel Pier ..................................................................... 33,200 Def-Wide Japan Kadena Air Base Truck Unload Facilities .............................................. 21,400 Def-Wide Japan Yokosuka Kinnick High School ................................................... 170,386 –130,386 Def-Wide Kentucky Fort Campbell Ft Campbell Middle School ........................................ 62,634 

Def-Wide Kentucky Fort Campbell SOF Air/Ground Integ. Urban Live Fire Range ........... 9,091 Def-Wide Kentucky Fort Campbell SOF Logistics Support Operations Facility ................ 5,435 Def-Wide Kentucky Fort Campbell SOF Multi-Use Helicopter Training Facility ................ 5,138 

Def-Wide Maine Kittery Consolidated Warehouse Replacement ...................... 11,600 Def-Wide Maryland Fort Meade Mission Support Operations Warehouse Facility ....... 30,000 Def-Wide Maryland Fort Meade NSAW Recapitalize Building #2 Inc 4 ....................... 218,000 Def-Wide Maryland Fort Meade NSAW Recapitalize Building #3 Inc 1 ....................... 99,000 Def-Wide Missouri St Louis Next NGA West (N2W) Complex Phase 1 Inc. 2 ........ 213,600 –32,600 Def-Wide Missouri St Louis Next NGA West (N2W) Complex Phase 2 Inc. 1 ........ 110,000 

Def-Wide New Jersey Joint Base Mcguire-DixLakehurst Hot Cargo Hydrant System Replacement .................. 10,200 Def-Wide North Carolina Fort Bragg SOF Replace Training Maze and Tower ..................... 12,109 Def-Wide North Carolina Fort Bragg SOF SERE Resistance Training Lab. Complex ........... 20,257 Def-Wide North Carolina New River Amb Care Center/Dental Clinic Replacement ........... 32,580 Def-Wide Oklahoma Mcalester Bulk Diesel System Replacement .............................. 7,000 Def-Wide Texas Joint Base San Antonio Energy Aerospace Operations Facility ........................ 10,200 


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Def-Wide Texas Red River Army Depot General Purpose Warehouse ...................................... 71,500 Def-Wide United Kingdom Croughton RAF Ambulatory Care Center Addition/Alteration .............. 10,000 –10,000 Def-Wide Virginia Fort A.P. Hill Training Campus ....................................................... 11,734 Def-Wide Virginia Fort Belvoir Human Performance Training Center ........................ 6,127 Def-Wide Virginia Humphreys Engineer Center Maintenance and Supply Facility .............................. 20,257 Def-Wide Virginia Joint Base Langley-Eustis Fuel Facilities Replacement ....................................... 6,900 Def-Wide Virginia Joint Base Langley-Eustis Ground Vehicle Fueling Facility Replacement ........... 5,800 Def-Wide Virginia Pentagon Exterior Infrastruc. & Security Improvements ........... 23,650 Def-Wide Virginia Pentagon North Village VACP & Fencing ................................... 12,200 Def-Wide Virginia Traning Center Dam Neck SOF Magazines ........................................................... 8,959 Def-Wide Washington Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord Refueling Facility ....................................................... 26,200 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Contingency Construction .......................................... 10,000 –10,000 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Energy Resilience and Conserv. Invest. Prog. ........... 150,000 15,000 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations ERCIP Design ............................................................. 10,000 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Exercise Related Minor Construction ......................... 12,479 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 86,941 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 31,642 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Planning & Design ..................................................... 42,705 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 55,699 Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 17,366 

Military Construction, Def-Wide Total .................................................................................................................................................. 2,693,324 –219,986 

NATO Worldwide Unspecified Nato Security Investment Program Nato Security Investment Program ............................ 171,064 

NATO Security Investment Program Total ............................................................................................................................................ 171,064 0 

Army NG Alaska Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson United States Property & Fiscal Office ..................... 27,000 Army NG Illinois Marseilles Training Center Automated Record Fire Range ................................... 5,000 Army NG Montana Malta National Guard Readiness Center ............................. 15,000 Army NG Nevada North Las Vegas National Guard Readiness Center ............................. 32,000 Army NG New Hampshire Pembroke National Guard Readiness Center ............................. 12,000 


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Army NG North Dakota Fargo National Guard Readiness Center ............................. 32,000 Army NG Ohio Camp Ravenna Automated Multipurpose Machine Gun Range .......... 7,400 Army NG Oklahoma Lexington Aircraft Vehicle Storage Building .............................. 0 11,000 

Army NG South Dakota Rapid City National Guard Readiness Center ............................. 15,000 Army NG Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 16,622 Army NG Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 18,100 

Military Construction, Army National Guard Total ............................................................................................................................... 180,122 11,000 

Army Res California Fort Irwin ECS Modified TEMF / Warehouse ............................... 34,000 Army Res Washington Yakima Training Center ECS Modified TEMF .................................................... 0 23,000 

Army Res Wisconsin Fort Mccoy Transient Training Barracks ...................................... 23,000 Army Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 5,855 Army Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 2,064 

Military Construction, Army Reserve Total .......................................................................................................................................... 64,919 23,000 

N/MC Res California Naval Weapons Station Seal 

Beach 

Reserve Training Center ............................................ 21,740 

N/MC Res Georgia Fort Benning Reserve Training Center ............................................ 13,630 N/MC Res Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Reserve Training Center ............................................ 0 

N/MC Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning & Design ..................................................... 4,695 N/MC Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 3,000 

Military Construction, Naval Reserve Total .......................................................................................................................................... 43,065 0 

Air NG California Channel Islands Air National 

Guard Station 

Construct C–130J Flight Simulator Facility .............. 8,000 

Air NG Hawaii Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Construct Addition to F–22 LO/CRF B3408 .............. 17,000 Air NG Illinois Greater Peoria Regional Airport Construct New Fire Crash/Rescue Station ................ 9,000 


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Air NG Louisiana New Orleans NORTHCOM—Construct Alert Apron .......................... 15,000 Air NG Louisiana New Orleans NORTHCOM—Construct Alert Facilities ..................... 0 24,000 Air NG Minnesota Duluth International Airport Construct Small Arms Range .................................... 0 8,000 

Air NG Montana Great Falls International Airport Construct Aircraft Apron ............................................ 0 9,000 Air NG New York Francis S. Gabreski Airport Security Forces/Comm.Training Facility ..................... 20,000 Air NG Ohio Mansfield Lahm Airport Replace Fire Station .................................................. 0 13,000 Air NG Ohio Rickenbacker International Airport Construct Small Arms Range .................................... 0 8,000 

Air NG Pennsylvania Fort Indiantown Gap Replace Operations Training/Dining Hall .................. 8,000 Air NG Virginia Joint Base Langley-Eustis Construct Cyber Ops Facility ..................................... 10,000 Air NG Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 23,626 Air NG Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations Planning and Design ................................................. 18,500 

Military Construction, Air National Guard Total ................................................................................................................................... 129,126 62,000 

AF Res Florida Patrick Air Force Base HC–130J Mx Hanger .................................................. 0 24,000 AF Res Indiana Grissom Air Reserve Base Add/Alter Aircraft Maintenance Hangar .................... 12,100 AF Res Indiana Grissom Air Reserve Base Aerial Port Facility ..................................................... 0 9,400 AF Res Massachusetts Westover Air Reserve Base Regional ISO Mx Hanger ............................................ 0 42,600 AF Res Minnesota Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport Small Arms Range ..................................................... 9,000 AF Res Mississippi Keesler Air Force Base Aeromedical Staging Squadron Facility ..................... 4,550 AF Res New York Niagara Falls International Airport Physical Fitness Center ............................................. 14,000 AF Res Ohio Youngstown Air Rserve Station Relocation Main Gate ................................................ 0 8,800 AF Res Texas Naval Air Station Joint Reserve 

Base Fort Worth 

Munitions Training/Admin Facility ............................. 3,100 

AF Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning & Design ..................................................... 4,055 AF Res Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Unspecified Minor Construction ................................. 3,358 

Military Construction, Air Force Reserve Total ................................................................................................................................... 50,163 84,800 

FH Con Army Germany Baumholder Family Housing Improvements ................................... 32,000 FH Con Army Italy Vicenza Family Housing New Construction ............................. 95,134 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

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FH Con Army Korea Camp Humphreys Family Housing New Construction Incr 3 .................. 85,000 FH Con Army Korea Camp Walker Family Housing Replacement Construction ............... 68,000 FH Con Army Puerto Rico Fort Buchanan Family Housing Replacement Construction ............... 26,000 FH Con Army Wisconsin Fort Mccoy Family Housing New Construction ............................. 6,200 FH Con Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Family Housing P & D ............................................... 18,326 

Family Housing Construction, Army Total ............................................................................................................................................ 330,660 0 

FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Furnishings ................................................................ 15,842 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Housing Privatization Support ................................... 18,801 1,500 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Leasing ....................................................................... 161,252 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Maintenance ............................................................... 75,530 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Management .............................................................. 36,302 –1,500 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Miscellaneous ............................................................. 408 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Services ...................................................................... 10,502 FH Ops Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Utilities ....................................................................... 57,872 

Family Housing Operation And Maintenance, Army Total ................................................................................................................... 376,509 0 

FH Con Navy Mariana Islands Guam Replace Anderson Housing PH III .............................. 83,441 FH Con Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Design, Washington DC ............................................. 4,502 FH Con Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Improvements, Washington DC .................................. 16,638 

Family Housing Construction, Navy And Marine Corps Total ............................................................................................................. 104,581 0 

FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Furnishings ................................................................ 16,395 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Housing Privatization Support ................................... 21,767 1,500 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Leasing ....................................................................... 62,515 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Maintenance ............................................................... 86,328 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Management .............................................................. 50,870 –1,500 


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FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Miscellaneous ............................................................. 148 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Services ...................................................................... 16,261 FH Ops Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Utilities ....................................................................... 60,252 

Family Housing Operation And Maintenance, Navy And Marine Corps Total .................................................................................... 314,536 0 

FH Con AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Construction Improvements ....................................... 75,247 FH Con AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Planning & Design ..................................................... 3,199 

Family Housing Construction, Air Force Total ..................................................................................................................................... 78,446 0 

FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Furnishings ................................................................ 30,645 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Housing Privatization Support ................................... 22,205 1,500 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Leasing ....................................................................... 15,832 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Maintenance ............................................................... 129,763 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Management .............................................................. 54,423 –1,500 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Miscellaneous ............................................................. 2,171 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Services ...................................................................... 13,669 FH Ops AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Utilities ....................................................................... 48,566 

Family Housing Operation And Maintenance, Air Force Total ............................................................................................................ 317,274 0 

FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Furnishings ................................................................ 1,060 FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Leasing ....................................................................... 51,278 FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Maintenance ............................................................... 1,663 FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Management .............................................................. 155 FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Services ...................................................................... 2 FH Ops DW Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Utilities ....................................................................... 4,215 

Family Housing Operation And Maintenance, Defense-Wide Total ..................................................................................................... 58,373 0 

FHIF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Administrative Expenses—FHIF ................................. 1,653 

DOD Family Housing Improvement Fund Total .................................................................................................................................... 1,653 0 

UHIF Worldwide Unspecified Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund Administrative Expenses—UHIF ................................ 600 


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(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Account State/ Country Installation Project Title FY 2019 Request House Change 

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Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund Total ............................................................................................................................. 600 0 

BRAC Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Base Realignment and Closure ................................. 62,796 18,110 BRAC Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Base Realignment and Closure ................................. 151,839 19,110 BRAC Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations Base Realignment and Closure ................................. 52,903 18,110 

Base Realignment and Closure Total ................................................................................................................................................... 267,538 55,330 

PYS Prior Year Savings Prior Year Savings Prior Year Savings ..................................................... 0 –71,158 

Prior Year Savings Total ....................................................................................................................................................................... 0 –71,158 Total, Military Construction ................................................................................................................................................................... 10,462,617 –130,139 1


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SEC. 4602. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS. 

SEC. 4602. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Account State/ Country Installation Project Title FY 2019 Request House Change 

Ag

Army Bulgaria Nevo Selo EDI: Ammunition Holding Area ........................................... 5,200 

Army Cuba Guantanamo Bay High Value Detention Facility ............................................. 69,000 –69,000 

Army Poland Drawsko Pomorski Training Area EDI: Staging Area ............................................................... 17,000 Army Poland Powidz Air Base EDI: Ammunition Storage Facility ....................................... 52,000 Army Poland Powidz Air Base EDI: Bulk Fuel Storage ....................................................... 21,000 Army Poland Powidz Air Base EDI: Rail Extension & Railhead .......................................... 14,000 

Army Poland Zagan Training Area EDI: Rail Extension and Railhead ...................................... 6,400 

Army Poland Zagan Training Area EDI: Staging Area ............................................................... 34,000 

Army Romania Mihail Kogalniceanu EDI: Explosives & Ammo Load/Unload Apron ..................... 21,651 Army Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations EDI: Planning and Design .................................................. 20,999 

Military Construction, Army Total ......................................................................................................................................................... 261,250 –69,000 

Navy Greece Souda Bay EDI: Joint Mobility Processing Center ................................. 41,650 

Navy Greece Souda Bay EDI: Marathi Logistics Support Center ............................... 6,200 

Navy Italy Sigonella EDI: P–8A Taxiway .............................................................. 66,050 

Navy Spain Rota EDI: Port Operations Facilities ........................................... 21,590 Navy United Kingdom Lossiemouth EDI: P–8 Base Improvements ............................................. 79,130 Navy Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations EDI: Planning and Design .................................................. 12,700 

Military Construction, Navy Total .......................................................................................................................................................... 227,320 0 

AF Germany Ramstein AB EDI: KMC DABS-FEV/RH Storage Warehouses .................... 119,000 

AF Norway Rygge EDI: Construct Taxiway ....................................................... 13,800 

AF Qatar Al Udeid Flight line Support Facilities .............................................. 0 30,400 


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SEC. 4602. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Account State/ Country Installation Project Title FY 2019 Request House Change 

Ag

AF Qatar Al Udeid Personnel Deployment Processing Facility ......................... 0 40,000 

AF Slovakia Malacky EDI: Regional Munitions Storage Area ............................... 59,000 AF United Kingdom RAF Fairford EDI: Construct DABS-FEV Storage ...................................... 87,000 AF United Kingdom RAF Fairford EDI: Munitions Holding Area .............................................. 19,000 AF Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations EDI: Planning & Design Funds ........................................... 48,000 –1,400 

Military Construction, Air Force Total .................................................................................................................................................. 345,800 69,000 

Def-Wide Estonia Unspecified Estonia EDI: SOF Operations Facility ............................................... 6,100 Def-Wide Estonia Unspecified Estonia EDI: SOF Training Facility ................................................... 9,600 Def-Wide Qatar Al Udeid Trans-Regional Logistics Complex ..................................... 60,000 

Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Unspecified Worldwide Locations EDI: Planning and Design .................................................. 7,100 

Def-Wide Worldwide Unspecified Various Worldwide Locations EDI: Planning and Design .................................................. 4,250 

Military Construction, Defense-Wide Total ........................................................................................................................................... 87,050 0 Total, Military Construction ................................................................................................................................................................... 921,420 0 


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TITLE XLVII—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL 

SECURITY PROGRAMS 

SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS. 

SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

Discretionary Summary By Appropriation 

Energy And Water Development, And Related Agencies Appropriation Summary: 

Energy Programs 

Nuclear Energy ......................................................................................................................................................... 136,090 0 

Atomic Energy Defense Activities 

National nuclear security administration: 

Weapons activities .......................................................................................................................................... 11,017,078 198,000 1Defense nuclear nonproliferation ................................................................................................................... 1,862,825 127,000 Naval reactors ................................................................................................................................................ 1,788,618 0 Federal salaries and expenses ....................................................................................................................... 422,529 –18,000 

Total, National nuclear security administration ................................................................................................... 15,091,050 307,000 1

Environmental and other defense activities: 

Defense environmental cleanup ..................................................................................................................... 5,630,217 50,000 Other defense activities ................................................................................................................................. 853,300 0 Defense nuclear waste disposal .................................................................................................................... 30,000 0 

Total, Environmental & other defense activities ................................................................................................. 6,513,517 50,000 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

Total, Atomic Energy Defense Activities ........................................................................................................................ 21,604,567 357,000 2

Total, Discretionary Funding ............................................................................................................................................................. 21,740,657 357,000 2Nuclear Energy 

Idaho sitewide safeguards and security ................................................................................................................................... 136,090 

Total, Nuclear Energy ........................................................................................................................................................................ 136,090 0 

Weapons Activities 

Directed stockpile work 

Life extension programs and major alterations 

B61–12 Life extension program .............................................................................................................................. 794,049 W76–1 Life extension program ............................................................................................................................... 48,888 W88 Alt 370 ............................................................................................................................................................. 304,285 W80–4 Life extension program ............................................................................................................................... 654,766 IW–1 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 53,000 W76–2 Warhead modification program .................................................................................................................. 65,000 

Total, Life extension programs and major alterations ................................................................................................. 1,919,988 0 Stockpile systems 

B61 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 64,547 W76 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 94,300 W78 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 81,329 W80 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 80,204 B83 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 35,082 W87 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 83,107 W88 Stockpile systems ............................................................................................................................................ 180,913 

Total, Stockpile systems ................................................................................................................................................. 619,482 0 


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Weapons dismantlement and disposition 

Operations and maintenance .................................................................................................................................. 56,000 

Stockpile services 

Production support .................................................................................................................................................. 512,916 –4,000 

Program decrease ........................................................................................................................................... [–4,000 ] 

Research and development support ........................................................................................................................ 38,129 R&D certification and safety ................................................................................................................................... 216,582 –2,000 

Program decrease ........................................................................................................................................... [–2,000 ] 

Management, technology, and production .............................................................................................................. 300,736 –2,000 

Program decrease ........................................................................................................................................... [–2,000 ] 

Total, Stockpile services ................................................................................................................................................. 1,068,363 –8,000 

Strategic materials 

Uranium sustainment .............................................................................................................................................. 87,182 Plutonium sustainment ........................................................................................................................................... 361,282 Tritium sustainment ................................................................................................................................................ 205,275 Lithium sustainment ............................................................................................................................................... 29,135 Domestic uranium enrichment ................................................................................................................................ 100,704 Strategic materials sustainment ............................................................................................................................. 218,794 

Total, Strategic materials ............................................................................................................................................... 1,002,372 0 

Total, Directed stockpile work ................................................................................................................................................ 4,666,205 –8,000 

Research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) 

Science 

Advanced certification ............................................................................................................................................. 57,710 Primary assessment technologies ........................................................................................................................... 95,057 –2,000 

Program decrease ........................................................................................................................................... [–2,000 ] 

Dynamic materials properties ................................................................................................................................. 131,000 –3,000 

Program decrease ........................................................................................................................................... [–3,000 ] 

Advanced radiography ............................................................................................................................................. 32,544 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

Secondary assessment technologies ....................................................................................................................... 77,553 Academic alliances and partnerships ..................................................................................................................... 53,364 Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments ................................................................................................ 117,632 

Total, Science .................................................................................................................................................................. 564,860 –5,000 Engineering 

Enhanced surety ...................................................................................................................................................... 43,226 Weapon systems engineering assessment technology ............................................................................................ 27,536 Nuclear survivability ................................................................................................................................................ 48,230 Enhanced surveillance ............................................................................................................................................. 58,375 Stockpile Responsiveness ........................................................................................................................................ 34,000 6,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................................ [6,000 ] 

Total, Engineering ............................................................................................................................................................ 211,367 6,000 Inertial confinement fusion ignition and high yield 

Ignition ..................................................................................................................................................................... 22,434 20,000 

Maintain sustainable levels ........................................................................................................................... [20,000 ] 

Support of other stockpile programs ...................................................................................................................... 17,397 4,000 

Maintain sustainable levels ........................................................................................................................... [4,000 ] 

Diagnostics, cryogenics and experimental support ................................................................................................ 51,453 10,000 

Maintain sustainable levels ........................................................................................................................... [10,000 ] 

Pulsed power inertial confinement fusion .............................................................................................................. 8,310 Facility operations and target production ............................................................................................................... 319,333 15,000 

Maintain sustainable levels ........................................................................................................................... [15,000 ] 

Total, Inertial confinement fusion and high yield ........................................................................................................ 418,927 49,000 Advanced simulation and computing 


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Advanced simulation and computing ..................................................................................................................... 656,401 Construction: 

18–D–670, Exascale Class Computer Cooling Equipment, LANL .................................................................. 24,000 18–D–620, Exascale Computing Facility Modernization Project, LLNL ......................................................... 23,000 

Total, Construction ................................................................................................................................................. 47,000 0 

Total, Advanced simulation and computing ................................................................................................................... 703,401 0 

Advanced manufacturing 

Additive manufacturing ........................................................................................................................................... 17,447 Component manufacturing development ................................................................................................................ 48,477 Process technology development ............................................................................................................................. 30,914 

Total, Advanced manufacturing ...................................................................................................................................... 96,838 0 

Total, RDT&E ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1,995,393 50,000 Infrastructure and operations 

Operations of facilities ..................................................................................................................................................... 891,000 Safety and environmental operations .............................................................................................................................. 115,000 Maintenance and repair of facilities ............................................................................................................................... 365,000 39,000 

Address high-priority repair needs and preventive maintenance .......................................................................... [39,000 ] 

Recapitalization: 

Infrastructure and safety ........................................................................................................................................ 431,631 67,000 

Support high-priority deferred maintenance .................................................................................................. [67,000 ] 

Capability based investments ................................................................................................................................. 109,057 4,000 

Program increase ............................................................................................................................................ [4,000 ] 

Total, Recapitalization ..................................................................................................................................................... 540,688 71,000 Construction: 

19–D–670, 138kV Power Transmission System Replacement, NNSS ..................................................................... 6,000 19–D–660, Lithium Production Capability, Y–12 ................................................................................................... 19,000 18–D–680, Material Staging Facility, Pantex ......................................................................................................... 0 24,000 18–D–650, Tritium Production Capability, SRS ...................................................................................................... 27,000 17–D–710, West End Protected Area reduction Project, Y–12 .............................................................................. 0 9,000 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

17–D–640, U1a Complex Enhancements Project, NNSS ........................................................................................ 53,000 16–D–515, Albuquerque complex project ............................................................................................................... 47,953 14–D–710, DAF Argus project, NNSS ...................................................................................................................... 0 2,000 06–D–141 Uranium processing facility Y–12, Oak Ridge, TN ............................................................................... 703,000 04–D–125 Chemistry and metallurgy research facility replacement project, LANL .............................................. 235,095 

Total, Construction .......................................................................................................................................................... 1,091,048 35,000 

Total, Infrastructure and operations ...................................................................................................................................... 3,002,736 145,000 

Secure transportation asset 

Operations and equipment ............................................................................................................................................... 176,617 Program direction ............................................................................................................................................................. 102,022 

Total, Secure transportation asset ......................................................................................................................................... 278,639 0 Defense nuclear security 

Operations and maintenance ........................................................................................................................................... 690,638 11,000 

Physical security infrastructure recapitalization and CSTART ................................................................................ [11,000 ] 

Total, Defense nuclear security .............................................................................................................................................. 690,638 11,000 Information technology and cybersecurity ................................................................................................................................. 221,175 Legacy contractor pensions ....................................................................................................................................................... 162,292 

Total, Weapons Activities .................................................................................................................................................................. 11,017,078 198,000 1Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation 

Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs 

Global material security 


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International nuclear security ................................................................................................................................. 46,339 Domestic radiological security ................................................................................................................................ 90,764 International radiological security ........................................................................................................................... 59,576 Nuclear smuggling detection and deterrence ......................................................................................................... 140,429 

Total, Global material security ....................................................................................................................................... 337,108 0 

Material management and minimization 

HEU reactor conversion ........................................................................................................................................... 98,300 Nuclear material removal ........................................................................................................................................ 32,925 Material disposition ................................................................................................................................................. 200,869 

Total, Material management & minimization ................................................................................................................ 332,094 0 Nonproliferation and arms control ................................................................................................................................... 129,703 Defense nuclear nonproliferation R&D ............................................................................................................................. 456,095 12,000 

Acceleration of low-yield detection experiments ..................................................................................................... [6,000 ] Future nuclear proliferation challenges, including 3D printing ............................................................................. [6,000 ] 

Nonproliferation Construction: 

18–D–150 Surplus Plutonium Disposition Project .................................................................................................. 59,000 99–D–143 Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility, SRS ................................................................................ 220,000 115,000 

Total, Nonproliferation construction .............................................................................................................................. 279,000 115,000 

Total, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs ............................................................................................................... 1,534,000 127,000 Legacy contractor pensions ....................................................................................................................................................... 28,640 Nuclear counterterrorism and incident response program ....................................................................................................... 319,185 Use of prior year balances ........................................................................................................................................................ –19,000 

Total, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation ......................................................................................................................................... 1,862,825 127,000 

Naval Reactors 

Naval reactors development ...................................................................................................................................................... 514,951 Columbia-Class reactor systems development ......................................................................................................................... 138,000 S8G Prototype refueling ............................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

Naval reactors operations and infrastructure ........................................................................................................................... 525,764 Construction: 

19–D–930, KS Overhead Piping ....................................................................................................................................... 10,994 17–D–911, BL Fire System Upgrade ................................................................................................................................ 13,200 14–D–901 Spent fuel handling recapitalization project, NRF ........................................................................................ 287,000 

Total, Construction ................................................................................................................................................................... 311,194 0 Program direction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 48,709 

Total, Naval Reactors ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1,788,618 0 

Federal Salaries And Expenses 

Program direction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 422,529 –18,000 

Program decrease ............................................................................................................................................................. [–18,000 ] 

Total, Office Of The Administrator ................................................................................................................................................... 422,529 –18,000 Defense Environmental Cleanup 

Closure sites: 

Closure sites administration ............................................................................................................................................ 4,889 

Richland: 

River corridor and other cleanup operations ................................................................................................................... 89,577 Central plateau remediation ............................................................................................................................................ 562,473 50,000 

Accelerated remediation of 300–296 waste site .............................................................. [50,000 ] 

Richland community and regulatory support ................................................................................................................... 5,121 Construction: 

18–D–404 WESF Modifications and Capsule Storage ............................................................................................ 1,000 


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Total, Construction .......................................................................................................................................................... 1,000 0 

Total, Hanford site .................................................................................................................................................................... 658,171 50,000 

Office of River Protection: 

Waste Treatment Immobilization Plant Commissioning .................................................................................................. 15,000 Rad liquid tank waste stabilization and disposition ...................................................................................................... 677,460 Construction: 

15–D–409 Low activity waste pretreatment system, ORP ..................................................................................... 56,053 01–D–416 A-D WTP Subprojects A-D ..................................................................................................................... 675,000 01–D–416 E—Pretreatment Facility ....................................................................................................................... 15,000 

Total, Construction .......................................................................................................................................................... 746,053 0 

Total, Office of River protection ............................................................................................................................................. 1,438,513 0 

Idaho National Laboratory: 

SNF stabilization and disposition—2012 ........................................................................................................................ 17,000 Solid waste stabilization and disposition ........................................................................................................................ 148,387 Radioactive liquid tank waste stabilization and disposition .......................................................................................... 137,739 Soil and water remediation—2035 ................................................................................................................................. 42,900 Idaho community and regulatory support ........................................................................................................................ 3,200 

Total, Idaho National Laboratory ............................................................................................................................................. 349,226 0 

NNSA sites and Nevada off-sites 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ......................................................................................................................... 1,704 Nuclear facility D & D 

Separations Process Research Unit ........................................................................................................................ 15,000 Nevada ..................................................................................................................................................................... 60,136 Sandia National Laboratories .................................................................................................................................. 2,600 Los Alamos National Laboratory .............................................................................................................................. 191,629 

Total, NNSA sites and Nevada off-sites .................................................................................................................................. 271,069 0 

Oak Ridge Reservation: 

OR Nuclear facility D & D 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

OR-0041—D&D - Y–12 .......................................................................................................................................... 30,214 OR-0042—D&D -ORNL ............................................................................................................................................ 60,007 

Total, OR Nuclear facility D & D .................................................................................................................................... 90,221 0 

U233 Disposition Program ................................................................................................................................................ 45,000 OR cleanup and waste disposition 

OR cleanup and disposition .................................................................................................................................... 67,000 Construction: 

17–D–401 On-site waste disposal facility .................................................................................................... 5,000 

14–D–403 Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility ....................................................................................... 11,274 

Total, Construction ................................................................................................................................................. 16,274 0 

Total, OR cleanup and waste disposition ...................................................................................................................... 83,274 0 OR community & regulatory support ................................................................................................................................ 4,711 

OR technology development and deployment .................................................................................................................. 3,000 

Total, Oak Ridge Reservation .................................................................................................................................................. 226,206 0 Savannah River Sites: 

Nuclear Material Management ......................................................................................................................................... 351,331 Environmental Cleanup 

Environmental Cleanup ........................................................................................................................................... 166,105 Construction: 

18–D–402, Emergency Operations Center ..................................................................................................... 1,259 

Total, Environmental Cleanup ......................................................................................................................................... 167,364 0 


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SR community and regulatory support ............................................................................................................................ 4,749 

Radioactive liquid tank waste stabilization and disposition ................................................................................. 805,686 Construction: 

18–D–401, SDU #8/9 ..................................................................................................................................... 37,450 17–D–402—Saltstone Disposal Unit #7 ....................................................................................................... 41,243 05–D–405 Salt waste processing facility, Savannah River Site .................................................................. 65,000 

Total, Construction ................................................................................................................................................. 143,693 0 

Total, Savannah River site ....................................................................................................................................................... 1,472,823 0 

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 

Operations and maintenance ........................................................................................................................................... 220,000 Central characterization project ....................................................................................................................................... 19,500 Critical Infrastructure Repair/Replacement ..................................................................................................................... 46,695 Transportation ................................................................................................................................................................... 25,500 Construction: 

15–D–411 Safety significant confinement ventilation system, WIPP .................................................................... 84,212 15–D–412 Exhaust shaft, WIPP .............................................................................................................................. 1,000 

Total, Construction .......................................................................................................................................................... 85,212 0 

Total, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ........................................................................................................................................... 396,907 0 

Program direction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 300,000 Program support ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6,979 Minority Serving Institution Partnership ................................................................................................................................... 6,000 

Safeguards and Security 

Oak Ridge Reservation ..................................................................................................................................................... 14,023 Paducah ............................................................................................................................................................................ 15,577 Portsmouth ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15,078 Richland/Hanford Site ...................................................................................................................................................... 86,686 Savannah River Site ......................................................................................................................................................... 183,357 Waste Isolation Pilot Project ............................................................................................................................................ 6,580 West Valley ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3,133 

Total, Safeguards and Security ............................................................................................................................................... 324,434 0 


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SEC. 4701. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 

(In Thousands of Dollars) 

Program FY 2019 Request House Change Ho

Auth

Technology development ............................................................................................................................................................ 25,000 HQEF-0040—Excess Facilities .................................................................................................................................................. 150,000 

Total, Defense Environmental Cleanup ............................................................................................................................................ 5,630,217 50,000 Other Defense Activities 

Environment, health, safety and security 

Environment, health, safety and security ........................................................................................................................ 135,194 Program direction ............................................................................................................................................................. 70,653 

Total, Environment, Health, safety and security .................................................................................................................... 205,847 0 Independent enterprise assessments 

Independent enterprise assessments ............................................................................................................................... 24,068 Program direction ............................................................................................................................................................. 52,702 

Total, Independent enterprise assessments ........................................................................................................................... 76,770 0 

Specialized security activities ................................................................................................................................................... 254,378 Office of Legacy Management 

Legacy management ......................................................................................................................................................... 140,575 Program direction ............................................................................................................................................................. 18,302 

Total, Office of Legacy Management ...................................................................................................................................... 158,877 0 

Defense related administrative support 

Chief financial officer ...................................................................................................................................................... 48,484 Chief information officer .................................................................................................................................................. 96,793 Project management oversight and Assessments ........................................................................................................... 8,412 

Total, Defense related administrative support ....................................................................................................................... 153,689 0 


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Office of hearings and appeals ................................................................................................................................................ 5,739 

Subtotal, Other defense activities .................................................................................................................................................... 855,300 0 

Rescission of prior year balances (OHA) .................................................................................................................................. –2,000 

Total, Other Defense Activities ......................................................................................................................................................... 853,300 0 Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal 

Yucca mountain and interim storage ....................................................................................................................................... 30,000 

Total, Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal ........................................................................................................................................... 30,000 0 


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST

The Department of Defense requested legislation, in accordance with the 

program of the President, as illustrated by the correspondence set out below:

MARCH 9, 2018. 

HON. PAUL D. RYAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Enclosed please find a draft of proposed legislation, titled 

the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019", which the 

Department of Defense requests be enacted during the second session of the 115th 

Congress.

The purpose of each provision in the proposed bill is stated in the 

accompanying section-by-section analysis. 

The Department is currently working with the Administration on additional 

legislative initiatives, which the Department hopes to transmit to Congress for its 

consideration in the coming weeks.

The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection, 

from the standpoint of the Administration's program, to the presenting of these 

legislative proposals for your consideration and the consideration of Congress.

Sincerely, 

ROBERT R. HOOD

Enclosure: As Stated

_____ 

MARCH 16, 2018. 

HON. PAUL D. RYAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Enclosed please find additional legislative proposals that 

the Department of Defense requests be enacted during the second session of the 

115th Congress. The purpose of each proposal is stated in the accompanying 

section-by-section analysis. The Department submits these proposals as a follow-on 

to the earlier transmittal of our request for enactment of proposed legislation titled 

the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019”.

The Department is currently working with the Administration on additional 

legislative initiatives, which the Department hopes to transmit to Congress for its 

consideration in the coming weeks.

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The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection, 

from the standpoint of the Administration's program, to the presenting of these 

legislative proposals for your consideration and the consideration of Congress.

Sincerely, 

ROBERT R. HOOD

Enclosure: As Stated

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MARCH 26, 2018. 

HON. PAUL D. RYAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Enclosed please find additional legislative proposals that 

the Department of Defense requests be enacted during the second session of the 

115th Congress. The purpose of each proposal is stated in the accompanying 

section-by-section analysis. The Department submits these proposals as a follow-on 

to the earlier transmittal of our request for enactment of proposed legislation titled 

the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019”.

The Department is currently working with the Administration on additional 

legislative initiatives, which the Department hopes to transmit to Congress for its 

consideration in the coming weeks.

The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection, 

from the standpoint of the Administration's program, to the presenting of these 

legislative proposals for your consideration and the consideration of Congress.

Sincerely, 

ROBERT R. HOOD

Enclosure: As Stated

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APRIL 3, 2018. 

HON. PAUL D. RYAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Enclosed please find additional legislative proposals that 

the Department of Defense requests be enacted during the second session of the 

115th Congress. The purpose of each proposal is stated in the accompanying 

section-by-section analysis. The Department submits these proposals as a follow-on 

to the earlier transmittal of our request for enactment of proposed legislation titled 

the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019”.

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The Department is currently working with the Administration on additional 

legislative initiatives, which the Department hopes to transmit to Congress for its 

consideration in the coming weeks.

The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection, 

from the standpoint of the Administration's program, to the presenting of these 

legislative proposals for your consideration and the consideration of Congress.

Sincerely, 

ROBERT R. HOOD

Enclosure: As Stated

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APRIL 13, 2018. 

HON. PAUL D. RYAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Enclosed please find additional legislative proposals that 

the Department of Defense requests be enacted during the second session of the 

115th Congress. The purpose of each proposal is stated in the accompanying 

section-by-section analysis. The Department submits these proposals as a follow-on 

to the earlier transmittal of our request for enactment of proposed legislation titled 

the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019”.

The Department is currently working with the Administration on additional 

legislative initiatives, which the Department hopes to transmit to Congress for its 

consideration in the coming weeks.

The Office of Management and Budget advises that there is no objection, 

from the standpoint of the Administration's program, to the presenting of these 

legislative proposals for your consideration and the consideration of Congress.

Sincerely, 

ROBERT R. HOOD

Enclosure: As Stated

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COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET, 

Washington, DC, May 10, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

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House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I am writing regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. This legislation contains 

subject matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget. However, in 

order to expedite floor consideration of this important legislation, the Committee 

waives consideration of the bill.

The Committee on the Budget takes this action only with the understanding 

that the Committee’s jurisdictional interests over this and similar legislation are in 

no way diminished or altered. I also ask that the Committee on the Budget be 

appropriately consulted and involved as this bill or similar legislation moves 

forward so that the Committee may address any remaining issues that fall within 

its jurisdiction.

The Committee also reserves the right to seek appointment to any HouseSenate conference on this legislation and requests your support if such a request is 

made. I would appreciate your response to this letter, confirming this 

understanding with respect to H.R. 5515 and would ask that a copy of our exchange 

of letters on this matter be included in the Congressional Record during House 

Floor consideration. Thank you for your attention to these matters.

 Sincerely, 

 STEVE WOMACK, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. STEVE WOMACK, 

Chairman, Committee on the Budget, 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on the Budget has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions in 

this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on the Budget is not waiving its 

jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the committee 

report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, 

Washington, DC, May 11, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I write in regard to H.R. 5515, the “National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.” Although the Committee on 

Energy and Commerce has jurisdictional interests in the bill, I wanted to notify you 

that the will forgo action on the bill so that it may proceed expeditiously to the 

House floor for consideration. 

This is done with the understanding that the Committee on Energy and 

Commerce’s jurisdictional interests over this and similar legislation are in no way 

diminished or altered. In addition, the Committee reserves the right to seek 

conferees on H.R. 5515 and requests your support when such a request is made.

 I would appreciate your response confirming this understanding with respect 

to H.R. 5515 and ask that a copy of our exchange of letters on this matter be 

included in the Congressional Record during consideration of the bill on the House 

floor. 

 Sincerely, 

 GREG WALDEN, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. GREG WALDEN, 

Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Energy and Commerce has valid jurisdictional claims to certain 

provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision 

not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I 

agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Energy and 

Commerce is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be 

included in the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018.

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I am writing to you regarding H.R. 5515, 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. There are certain 

provisions of H.R. 5515 which fall within the Rule X jurisdiction of the 

Committee on Financial Services.

In the interest of permitting your committee to have the House 

expeditiously consider H.R. 5515, I am writing to waive this Committee' s right 

to sequential referral. I do so with the understanding that by waiving 

consideration of the bill the Committee on Financial Services does not waive 

any future jurisdictional claim over the subject matters contained in H.R. 5515 

which fall within its Rule X jurisdiction. I request that you urge the Speaker to 

name members of the Committee on Financial Services to any conference

committee which is named to consider such provisions.

Please place this letter into the committee report on H.R. 5515 

and into the Congressional Record during consideration of the measure 

on the House floor. Thank you for your attention to these important 

matters.

 Sincerely, 

 JEB HENSARLING, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. JEB HENSARLING, 

Chairman, Committee on Financial Services 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Financial Services has valid jurisdictional claims to certain 

provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision 

not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I 

agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Financial Services 

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is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in 

the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I write to confirm our mutual understanding regarding 

H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which 

contains substantial matter that falls within the Rule X legislative jurisdiction of 

the Foreign Affairs Committee. I appreciate the cooperation that allowed us to work 

out mutually agreeable text on numerous matters prior to your markup.

Based on that cooperation and our associated understandings, the Foreign 

Affairs Committee will not seek a sequential referral or object to floor consideration 

of the bill text approved at your Committee markup. This decision in no way 

diminishes or alters the jurisdictional interests of the Foreign Affairs Committee in 

this bill, any subsequent amendments, or similar legislation. I request your support 

for the appointment of House Foreign Affairs conferees during any House-Senate 

conference on this legislation.

Finally, I respectfully request that you include this letter and your response 

in your committee report on the bill and in the Congressional Record during 

consideration of H.R. 5515 on the House floor.

 Sincerely, 

 EDWARD R. ROYCE, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. EDWARD R. ROYCE, 

Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions in 

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this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Foreign Affairs is not waiving 

its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the committee 

report on the bill.

Sincerely, 

WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY, 

Washington, DC, May 10, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. THORNBERRY: I am writing to you concerning H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. There are certain 

provisions in this legislation which fall within the Rule X jurisdiction of the 

Committee on Homeland Security.

In the interest of permitting your committee to proceed expeditiously to floor 

consideration of this important bill, I am willing to waive this committee’s right to 

sequential referral. However, I do so with the understanding that by waiving 

consideration of the bill, the Committee on Homeland Security does not waive any 

future jurisdictional claim over the subject matters contained in the bill which fall 

within its Rule X jurisdiction. I request that you urge the Speaker to name 

members of this committee to any conference committee which is named to consider 

such provisions.

Please place this letter into the committee report on H.R. 5515 and into the 

Congressional Record during consideration of the measure on the House floor. 

Thank you for the cooperative spirit in which you and your staff have worked 

regarding this matter and others between our respective committees. 

Sincerely, 

MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

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HON. MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, 

Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Homeland Security has valid jurisdictional claims to certain 

provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision 

not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I 

agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Homeland Security 

is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in 

the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I write with respect to H.R. 5515, the 

“National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.” As a result of your 

having consulted with us on provisions within H.R. 5515 that fall within the Rule X 

jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary, I forego any further consideration of 

this bill so that it may proceed expeditiously to the House floor for consideration.

The Judiciary Committee takes this action with our mutual understanding 

that by foregoing consideration of H.R. 5515 at this time, we do not waive any 

jurisdiction over subject matter contained in this or similar legislation and that our 

committee will be appropriately consulted and involved as this bill or similar 

legislation moves forward so that we may address any remaining issues in our 

jurisdiction. Our committee also reserves the right to seek appointment of an 

appropriate number of conferees to any House-Senate conference involving this or 

similar legislation and asks that you support any such request.

I would appreciate a response to this letter confirming this understanding 

with respect to H.R. 5515 and would ask that a copy of our exchange of letters on 

this matter be included your committee report and in the Congressional Record

during floor consideration of H.R. 5515.

 Sincerely, 

BOB GOODLATTE, 

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CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. BOB GOODLATTE, 

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on the Judiciary has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions in 

this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on the Judiciary is not waiving its 

jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the committee 

report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

 COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. THORNBERRY: I am writing to you concerning the bill H.R. 5515, 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. There are certain 

provisions in the legislation which fall within the Rule X jurisdiction of the 

Committee on Natural Resources. 

In the interest of permitting your committee to proceed expeditiously to floor 

consideration of this important bill, I am willing to waive this committee’s right to 

sequential referral. I do so with the understanding that by waiving consideration of 

the bill the Committee on Natural Resources does not waive any future 

jurisdictional claim over the subject matters contained in the bill which fall within 

its Rule X jurisdiction. I request that you urge the Speaker to name members of this 

committee to any conference committee which is named to consider such provisions.

Please place this letter into the committee report on H.R. 5515 and into the 

Congressional Record during consideration of the measure on the House floor. 

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Thank you for the cooperative spirit in which you have worked regarding this 

matter and others between our respective committees.

 Sincerely, 

 ROB BISHOP, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. ROB BISHOP, 

Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Natural Resources has valid jurisdictional claims to certain 

provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision 

not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I 

agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Natural Resources 

is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in 

the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT 

REFORM, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I write concerning H.R. 5515, the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. This bill contains provisions within the 

jurisdiction of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. As a result of 

your having consulted with me concerning the provisions of the bill that fall within 

our Rule X jurisdiction, I agree to forgo consideration of the bill, so the bill may 

proceed expeditiously to the House floor. 

The Committee takes this action with our mutual understanding that by 

foregoing consideration of H.R. 5515 we do not waive any jurisdiction over the 

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subject matter contained in this or similar legislation, and we will be appropriately 

consulted and involved as the bill or similar legislation moves forward so we may 

address any remaining issues within our Rule X jurisdiction. Further, I request 

your support for the appointment of conferees from the Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform during any House-Senate conference on this or related 

legislation.

Finally, I would appreciate a response confirming this understanding and ask 

that a copy of our exchange of letters on this matter be included in the bill report 

filed by the Committee on Armed Services, as well as in the Congressional Record

during floor consideration thereof.

 Sincerely, 

 TREY GOWDY, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. TREY GOWDY, 

Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has valid jurisdictional claims to 

certain provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your 

decision not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the 

bill. I agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Oversight 

and Government Reform is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of 

letters will be included in the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND 

TECHNOLOGY, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

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 DEAR MR. THORNBERRY: I am writing to you concerning the bill H.R. 5515, 

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. There are certain 

provisions in the legislation which fall within the Rule X jurisdiction of the 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

In the interest of permitting your committee to proceed expeditiously to floor 

consideration of this important bill, I am willing to waive this committee’s right to 

sequential referral. I do so with the understanding that by waiving consideration of 

the bill the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology does not waive any future 

jurisdictional claim over the subject matters contained in the bill which fall within

its Rule X jurisdiction. I request that you urge the Speaker to name members of this 

committee to any conference committee which is named to consider such provisions.

Please place this letter into the committee report on H.R. 5515 and into the 

Congressional Record during consideration of the measure on the House floor. 

Thank you for the cooperative spirit in which you have worked regarding this 

matter and others between our respective committees.

Sincerely, 

 LAMAR SMITH, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. LAMAR SMITH, 

Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has valid jurisdictional claims to 

certain provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your 

decision not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the 

bill. I agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Science, 

Space, and Technology is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of 

letters will be included in the Congressional Record. 

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

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COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS, 

Washington, DC, May 10, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I write to confirm our mutual understanding 

regarding H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. 

This legislation contains subject matter within the jurisdiction of the House of 

Representatives’ Committee on Small Business. However, in order to expedite floor 

consideration of this important legislation, the Committee waives consideration of 

the bill.

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Small Business takes this 

action only with the understanding that the committee’s jurisdictional interests 

over this and similar legislation are in no way diminished or altered. 

The Committee also reserves the right to seek appointment to any HouseSenate conference on this legislation and requests your support if such a request is 

made. Finally, I would appreciate your including this letter in the Congressional 

Record during consideration of H.R. 5515 on the House Floor. Thank you for you’re 

the cooperative spirit in which you have worked on these issues and others between 

our respective committees.

Sincerely, 

 STEVE CHABOT, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. STEVE CHABOT, 

Chairman, Committee on Small Business,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Small Business has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions in 

this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Small Business is not waiving 

its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the committee 

report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND 

INFRASTRUCTURE,

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. THORNBERRY: I am writing to you concerning the jurisdictional 

interest of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in matters being 

considered in H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2019. 

Our committee recognizes the importance of H.R. 5515 and the need for the 

legislation to move expeditiously. Therefore, while we have a valid claim to 

jurisdiction over the bill, I do not intend to request a sequential referral. This, of 

course, is conditional on our mutual understanding that nothing in this legislation 

or my decision to forego a sequential referral waives, reduces or otherwise affects 

the jurisdiction of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and that a 

copy of this letter and your response acknowledging our jurisdictional interest will 

be included in the Committee Report and as part of the Congressional Record 

during consideration of this bill by the House.

The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure also asks that you 

support our request to be conferees on the provisions over which we have 

jurisdiction during any House-Senate conference.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

 Sincerely, 

 BILL SHUSTER, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. BILL SHUSTER, 

Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has valid jurisdictional claims to 

certain provisions in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your 

decision not to request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the 

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bill. I agree that by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure is not waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this 

exchange of letters will be included in the committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS,

Washington, DC, May 9, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I write to confirm our mutual understanding 

regarding H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. 

This legislation contains subject matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs. However, in order to expedite floor consideration of this 

important legislation, the committee waives consideration of the bill.

The Committee on Veterans’ Affairs takes this action only with the 

understanding that the committee’s jurisdictional interests over this and similar 

legislation are in no way diminished or altered. 

The committee also reserves the right to seek appointment to any HouseSenate conference on this legislation and requests your support if such a request is 

made. Finally, I would appreciate your including this letter in the Committee 

Report and as part of the Congressional Record during consideration of H.R. 5515 

on the House Floor. 

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

 Sincerely, 

 DAVID P. ROE, M.D., 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. DAVID P. ROE, M.D., 

Chairman, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions 

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in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is not 

waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the 

committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

 COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS,

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

DEAR CHAIRMAN THORNBERRY: I am writing with respect to the jurisdictional 

interest of the Committee on Ways and Means in matters being considered in H.R. 

5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. 

As a result of your having consulted with us on provisions in H.R. 5515 that 

fall within the Rule X jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, I agree to 

waive formal consideration of this bill so that it may move expeditiously to the floor. 

The Committee on Ways and Means takes this action with the mutual 

understanding that we do not waive any jurisdiction over the subject matter 

contained in this or similar legislation, and the Committee will be appropriately 

consulted and involved as the bill or similar legislation moves forward so that we 

may address any remaining issues that fall within our jurisdiction. The Committee 

also reserves the right to seek appointment of an appropriate number of conferees to 

any House-Senate conference involving this or similar legislation, and requests your 

support for such request.

Finally, I would appreciate your response to this letter confirming this 

understanding, and would ask that a copy of our exchange of letters on this matter 

be included in the Congressional Record during floor consideration of H.R. 5515.

 Sincerely, 

 KEVIN BRADY, 

CHAIRMAN. 

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, 

Washington, DC, May 14, 2018. 

HON. KEVIN BRADY, 

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Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your letter regarding H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. I agree that the 

Committee on Ways and Means has valid jurisdictional claims to certain provisions 

in this important legislation, and I am most appreciative of your decision not to 

request a referral in the interest of expediting consideration of the bill. I agree that 

by foregoing a sequential referral, the Committee on Ways and Means is not 

waiving its jurisdiction. Further, this exchange of letters will be included in the 

committee report on the bill.

 Sincerely, 

 WILLIAM M. “MAC” THORNBERRY, 

 CHAIRMAN. 

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CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ESTIMATE

In compliance with clause 3(c)(3) of rule XIII of the House of 

Representatives, the cost estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office and 

submitted pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is as 

follows:

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATE

MAY 14, 2018. 

HONORABLE MAC THORNBERRY

Chairman, Committee on Armed Services,

U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has completed a 

preliminary estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of H.R. 5515, the 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, as ordered reported by the 

House Committee on Armed Services on May 10, 2018. This preliminary estimate is 

based on the Committee Print 115-70 of H.R. 5515 that was posted to the website of 

the House Committee on Rules on May 11, 2018. CBO’s complete cost estimate for 

H.R. 5515, including discretionary costs, will be provided shortly.

Several provisions of the legislation would have insignificant effects (some 

positive; some negative) on direct spending. Those budgetary changes would result 

primarily from provisions that would:

• Authorize the Department of Defense to accept and spend contributions for 

specific purposes, 

• Increase eligibility for military retirement, and

• Change the timing of small amounts of outlays from appropriations that are 

currently available. 

On a preliminary basis, CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 5515 would 

affect net direct spending by less than $500,000 over the 2019-2028 period. 

The bill also would increase certain civil and criminal fines and would 

impose sanctions on entities that engage in certain transactions with Russia. Those 

fines and penalties, which are classified as revenues, would total less than $500,000 

over the next 10 years, CBO estimates. Because enacting the bill would affect direct 

spending and revenues, pay-as-you-go procedures apply.

If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be pleased to provide 

them. The CBO staff contact is David Newman, who can be reached at 226-2840.

 Sincerely, 

 KEITH HALL,

 Director.

cc: Honorable Adam Smith

Ranking Member

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STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT

Pursuant to clause (3)(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, and section 308(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public 

Law 93-344):

(1) this legislation does not provide budget authority subject to an 

allocation made pursuant to section 302(b) of Public Law 93-344;

(2) the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Estimate included in this report 

pursuant to clause (3)(c)(3) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives 

contains CBO’s projection of how this legislation will affect the levels of budget 

authority, budget outlays, revenues, and tax expenditures for fiscal year 2019 and 

for the ensuing 5 fiscal years; and

(3) the CBO Estimate does not identify any new budget authority for 

assistance to state and local governments by this measure at the time that this 

report was filed.

COMMITTEE COST ESTIMATE

Pursuant to clause (3)(d)(2)(B) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, the Congressional Budget Office Estimate included in this report 

satisfies the requirement for the committee to include an estimate by the committee 

of the costs incurred in carrying out this bill.

ADVISORY OF EARMARKS

The committee finds that H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2019, as reported, does not contain any congressional earmarks, 

limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI of 

the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

OVERSIGHT FINDINGS

With respect to clause 3(c)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, this legislation results from hearings and other oversight activities 

conducted by the committee pursuant to clause 2(b)(1) of rule X. The findings are 

reflected in the body of this report.

GENERAL PERFORMANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

With respect to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, the general goal and objective of H.R. 5515 is to maintain our 

national defense, to prepare the warfighter for current and future threats, and to do 

so in a fiscally responsible manner. 

Our country continues to face national security challenges: the Russian 

Federation continues its overt and covert attempts to undermine democratic 

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institutions and the international rules-based order; the People's Republic of China 

is pursuing a foreign policy that is increasingly aggressive toward U.S. interests; 

the Islamic Republic of Iran is seeking to destabilize a areas in the Middle East; the 

Democratic People's Republic of Korea maintains a nuclear program that 

undermines peace and security in East Asia; and terrorist groups continue to 

threaten U.S. citizens at home and abroad. 

This legislation is a continuation of the efforts of the Committee on Armed 

Services to provide for the common defense by responding to these, and other, 

national security challenges. The bill provides $617.1 billion to support core 

Department of Defense requirements, a number consistent with the President's 

Budget Request and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123). It also 

includes an additional $69.0 billion of Overseas Contingency Operations, also 

matching the request. This includes money to fully fund the 2.6 percent pay raise 

for troops, to expand funding for maintenance and readiness, and to deter America's 

adversaries. 

This bill also seeks to continue the committee’s focus on reform to create 

savings by cutting unnecessary waste. This legislation includes numerous reforms 

to streamline the Department of Defense. The bill reforms the definition of 

commercial item to simplify Government purchasing, requires the Department to 

examine its bureaucracy to identify redundant activities for potential savings, and 

begins a process of updating acquisition statutes to reduce unnecessary confusion 

and red tape. 

This bill continues the committee's work to ensure the military is both 

adequately resourced and prepared to maintain our national defense, and thereby 

fulfills the committee’s duties under Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution.

STATEMENT OF FEDERAL MANDATES

Pursuant to section 423 of Public Law 104-4, this legislation contains no 

Federal mandates with respect to state, local, and tribal governments, nor with 

respect to the private sector. Similarly, the bill provides no Federal 

intergovernmental mandates. 

FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE STATEMENT

Consistent with the requirements of section 5(b) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, the committee finds that the functions of the proposed advisory 

committee authorized in the bill are not currently being nor could they be performed 

by one or more agencies, an advisory committee already in existence or by enlarging 

the mandate of an existing advisory committee.

APPLICABILITY TO THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

The committee finds that this legislation does not relate to the terms and 

conditions of employment or access to public services or accommodations within the 

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meaning of section 102(b)(3) of the Congressional Accountability Act (Public Law 

104-1). 

DUPLICATION OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS

No provision of H.R. 5515 establishes or reauthorizes a program of the 

Federal Government known to be duplicative of another Federal program, a 

program that was included in any report from the Government Accountability Office 

to Congress pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111-139, or a program related to a 

program identified in the most recent Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. 

DISCLOSURE OF DIRECTED RULE MAKINGS

The committee estimates that H.R. 5515 requires three instances of 

directed rule makings. They are contained in the following provisions: 

(1) section 582

(2) section 830; and 

(3) section 1610. 

COMMITTEE VOTES

In accordance with clause 3(b) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, record votes were taken with respect to the committee’s 

consideration of H.R. 5515. The record of these votes is contained in the following 

pages.

The committee ordered H.R. 5515 to be reported to the House with a 

favorable recommendation by a vote of 60-1, a quorum being present.

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 1

H.R. 5515

On Hanabusa Log 301—Clarifies command and control relationship as it relates to surface force readiness. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper ..........

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 2

H.R. 5515

On Russell Log 323—Treatment of leases of non-excess property 

entered into with insured depository institutions. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 3

H.R. 5515

On Russell Log 328—Transfer or possession of defense items for 

national defense purposes. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 4

H.R. 5515

On O’Halleran Log 282—Requires the Secretary of Defense to 

submit reports, on a quarterly basis, to HASC detailing direct and 

indirect costs to DOD in support of travel by senior executive officials on military aircraft. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 5

H.R. 5515

On Speier Log 054r2—Randomizes selection of members for military courts-martial panels allowing for rank and theater of operations considerations. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 6

H.R. 5515

On Veasey Log 080r1—Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a report on the feasibility of tracking the number of veterans 

who have served in the Armed Forces, as well as service member 

dependents who have been deported from the U.S. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 7

H.R. 5515

On Gallego Log 336r1—Permit granting of reenlistment waivers 

to individuals who attest to using marijuana. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 8

H.R. 5515

On Rogers Log 028—Expresses Congress’ support for and endorsement of the Administration’s recent Nuclear Posture Review. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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10 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 9

H.R. 5515

On Larsen Log 070—Provides CJCS with waiver authority of the 

prohibitions related to ICBMs in section 1645 of the bill. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

Roll Call Vote Total: 28 33 0 


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11 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 10

H.R. 5515

On Langevin Log 420—Perfecting Amendment to the Substitute 

Amendment offered by Mr. Byrne (Log 414). 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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12 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 11

H.R. 5515

On Gallego Log 406—Strikes section 1109. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard .......

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

Roll Call Vote Total: 27 33 0 


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13 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 12

H.R. 5515

On Bishop Log 221r2—Provision does not allow for listing of the 

Greater Sage Grouse, Lesser Prairie Chicken and American Burying Beetle under ESA for a 10-year period. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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14 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 13

H.R. 5515

On Brown Log 053r3—Strikes subsection (a), section 913, and requires a study on the feasibility and advisability of the transfer of 

DISA services and functions, which addresses the impact on jobs. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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15 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 14

H.R. 5515

On Knight Log 371—Strikes subsection (e) of section 913 regarding TRMC. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

Roll Call Vote Total: 33 28 0 


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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 15

H.R. 5515

On Khanna Log 310r1—Limits funds for U.S. refueling of nonU.S. military aircraft for missions against the Houthis in Yemen. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

Roll Call Vote Total: 19 42 0 


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17 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 16

H.R. 5515

On Brown Log 025r1—Requires a report to Congress containing 

a comprehensive strategy for any National Guard deployments to 

the southern land border. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 17

H.R. 5515

On Smith Log 149—Strikes authorizing language and funding for 

the low-yield D5 missile warhead. Redirects funding ($65.0M) to 

Army readiness. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

Roll Call Vote Total: 28 33 0 


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ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 18

H.R. 5515

On Davis Log 127—Reduces LRSO and GBSD funding to President’s Budget levels and uses additional funds for aviation readiness. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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20 

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

ROLL CALL VOTE NO. 19

H.R. 5515

On the motion by Mr. Wilson to report the bill H.R. 5515 as 

amended favorably to the House, with a recommendation that it do 

pass. 

Member Aye No Present Member Aye No Present 

Mr. Thornberry ......... x Mr. Smith ............ x 

Mr. Jones ................. Mr. Brady ............ x 

Mr. Wilson ............... x Mrs. Davis ........... x 

Mr. LoBiondo ........... x Mr. Langevin ....... x 

Mr. Bishop ............... x Mr. Larsen ........... x 

Mr. Turner ................ x Mr. Cooper .......... x 

Mr. Rogers ............... x Ms. Bordallo ........ x 

Mr. Shuster .............. x Mr. Courtney ....... x 

Mr. Conaway ............ x Ms. Tsongas ........ x 

Mr. Lamborn ............ x Mr. Garamendi .... x 

Mr. Wittman ............ x Ms. Speier ........... x 

Mr. Hunter ............... x Mr. Veasey .......... x 

Mr. Coffman ............ x Ms. Gabbard ....... x 

Mrs. Hartzler ............ x Mr. O’Rourke ....... x 

Mr. Scott .................. x Mr. Norcross ........ x 

Mr. Brooks ............... x Mr. Gallego ......... x 

Mr. Cook .................. x Mr. Moulton ......... x 

Dr. Wenstrup ........... x Ms. Hanabusa ..... x 

Mr. Byrne ................. x Ms. Shea-Porter .. x 

Mr. Graves ............... x Ms. Rosen ........... x 

Ms. Stefanik ............ x Mr. McEachin ...... x 

Ms. McSally ............. x Mr. Carbajal ........ x 

Mr. Knight ............... x Mr. Brown ........... x 

Mr. Russell .............. x Mrs. Murphy ........ x 

Dr. DesJarlais .......... x Mr. Khanna ......... x 

Dr. Abraham ............ x Mr. O’Halleran ..... x 

Mr. Kelly .................. x Mr. Suozzi ........... x 

Mr. Gallagher .......... x Mr. Panetta ......... x 

Mr. Gaetz ................. x 

Mr. Bacon ................ x 

Mr. Banks ................ x 

Ms. Cheney .............. x 

Mr. Hice ................... x 

Mr. Mitchell ............. x 

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CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

The committee has taken steps to make available the analysis of changes in 

existing law made by the bill, as required by clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 

the House of Representatives, and will make the analysis available as soon as 

possible. 

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