[FULL COMMITTEE PRINT] 

Union Calendar No. ll 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. ll 

[Report No. 118–ll] 

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 

ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE --, 2023 

Mr. CALVERT, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 

bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 

A BILL 

Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other 

purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 

4 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 

5 fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for military func6 tions administered by the Department of Defense and for 

7 other purposes, namely: 

8 TITLE I 

9 MILITARY PERSONNEL 

10 MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY

11 For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 

12 interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta13 tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza14 tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 

15 between permanent duty stations, for members of the 

16 Army on active duty (except members of reserve compo17 nents provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; 

18 for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and 

19 for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97– 

20 377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Depart21 ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 

22 $50,230,906,000. 

23 MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY

24 For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 

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1 tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza2 tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 

3 between permanent duty stations, for members of the 

4 Navy on active duty (except members of the Reserve pro5 vided for elsewhere), midshipmen, and aviation cadets; for 

6 members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for 

7 payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, 

8 as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department 

9 of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $37,615,388,000. 

10 MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS

11 For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 

12 interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta13 tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza14 tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 

15 between permanent duty stations, for members of the Ma16 rine Corps on active duty (except members of the Reserve 

17 provided for elsewhere); and for payments pursuant to sec18 tion 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

19 402 note), and to the Department of Defense Military Re20 tirement Fund, $15,556,629,000. 

21 MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

22 For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 

23 interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta24 tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza25 tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 


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1 between permanent duty stations, for members of the Air 

2 Force on active duty (except members of reserve compo3 nents provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; 

4 for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and 

5 for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97– 

6 377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Depart7 ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 

8 $36,512,530,000. 

9 MILITARY PERSONNEL, SPACE FORCE

10 For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 

11 interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta12 tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza13 tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 

14 between permanent duty stations, for members of the 

15 Space Force on active duty and cadets; for members of 

16 the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for payments 

17 pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amend18 ed (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of De19 fense Military Retirement Fund, $1,239,573,000. 

20 RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY

21 For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 

22 travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Re23 serve on active duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 

24 7038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 

25 active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 


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1 States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 

2 in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 

3 while undergoing reserve training, or while performing 

4 drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses au5 thorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 

6 and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 

7 Retirement Fund, $5,367,436,000. 

8 RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY

9 For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 

10 travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Navy Re11 serve on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, 

12 United States Code, or while serving on active duty under 

13 section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in con14 nection with performing duty specified in section 12310(a) 

15 of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing re16 serve training, or while performing drills or equivalent 

17 duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 

18 10, United States Code; and for payments to the Depart19 ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 

20 $2,486,718,000. 

21 RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS

22 For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 

23 travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Marine 

24 Corps Reserve on active duty under section 10211 of title 

25 10, United States Code, or while serving on active duty 


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1 under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, 

2 in connection with performing duty specified in section 

3 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under4 going reserve training, or while performing drills or equiv5 alent duty, and for members of the Marine Corps platoon 

6 leaders class, and expenses authorized by section 16131 

7 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the 

8 Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 

9 $898,928,000. 

10 RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

11 For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 

12 travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force 

13 Reserve on active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 

14 9038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 

15 active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 

16 States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 

17 in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 

18 while undergoing reserve training, or while performing 

19 drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses au20 thorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 

21 and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 

22 Retirement Fund, $2,459,466,000. 

23 NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY

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1 tional Guard while on duty under sections 10211, 10302, 

2 or 12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United 

3 States Code, or while serving on duty under section 

4 12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United 

5 States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 

6 in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 

7 while undergoing training, or while performing drills or 

8 equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by 

9 section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for pay10 ments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 

11 Fund, $9,766,369,000. 

12 NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

13 For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 

14 travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Na15 tional Guard on duty under sections 10211, 10305, or 

16 12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States 

17 Code, or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of 

18 title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 

19 in connection with performing duty specified in section 

20 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under21 going training, or while performing drills or equivalent 

22 duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 

23 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 

24 to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 

25 $5,234,625,000. 


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1 TITLE II 

2 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 

3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY

4 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

5 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, as author6 ized by law, $60,526,399,000: Provided, That not to ex7 ceed $12,478,000 may be used for emergencies and ex8 traordinary expenses, to be expended upon the approval 

9 or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and payments 

10 may be made upon the Secretary’s certificate of necessity 

11 for confidential military purposes. 

12 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY

13 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

14 for the operation and maintenance of the Navy and the 

15 Marine Corps, as authorized by law, $73,547,305,000: 

16 Provided, That not to exceed $15,055,000 may be used 

17 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be ex18 pended upon the approval or authority of the Secretary 

19 of the Navy, and payments may be made upon the Sec20 retary’s certificate of necessity for confidential military 

21 purposes. 

22 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS

23 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

24 for the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, 

25 as authorized by law, $10,909,609,000. 


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1 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE

2 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

3 for the operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as 

4 authorized by law, $63,460,822,000: Provided, That not 

5 to exceed $7,699,000 may be used for emergencies and 

6 extraordinary expenses, to be expended upon the approval 

7 or authority of the Secretary of the Air Force, and pay8 ments may be made upon the Secretary’s certificate of ne9 cessity for confidential military purposes. 

10 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SPACE FORCE

11 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

12 for the operation and maintenance of the Space Force, as 

13 authorized by law, $4,890,886,000. 

14 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE

15 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

16 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

17 for the operation and maintenance of activities and agen18 cies of the Department of Defense (other than the military 

19 departments), as authorized by law, $52,453,715,000: 

20 Provided, That not more than $2,981,000 may be used 

21 for the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund authorized 

22 under section 166a of title 10, United States Code: Pro23 vided further, That not to exceed $36,000,000 may be 

24 used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be ex25 pended upon the approval or authority of the Secretary 


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1 of Defense, and payments may be made upon the Sec2 retary’s certificate of necessity for confidential military 

3 purposes: Provided further, That of the funds provided 

4 under this heading, not less than $55,000,000 shall be 

5 made available for the Procurement Technical Assistance 

6 Cooperative Agreement Program, of which not less than 

7 $5,000,000 shall be available for centers defined in 10 

8 U.S.C. 2411(1)(D): Provided further, That none of the 

9 funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 

10 Act may be used to plan or implement the consolidation 

11 of a budget or appropriations liaison office of the Office 

12 of the Secretary of Defense, the office of the Secretary 

13 of a military department, or the service headquarters of 

14 one of the Armed Forces into a legislative affairs or legis15 lative liaison office: Provided further, That $25,968,000 

16 to remain available until expended, is available only for 

17 expenses relating to certain classified activities, and may 

18 be transferred as necessary by the Secretary of Defense 

19 to operation and maintenance appropriations or research, 

20 development, test and evaluation appropriations, to be 

21 merged with and to be available for the same time period 

22 as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided fur23 ther, That any ceiling on the investment item unit cost 

24 of items that may be purchased with operation and main25 tenance funds shall not apply to the funds described in 


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1 the preceding proviso: Provided further, That of the funds 

2 provided under this heading, $2,304,649,000, of which 

3 $1,343,580,000, to remain available until September 30, 

4 2025, shall be available to provide support and assistance 

5 to foreign security forces or other groups or individuals 

6 to conduct, support or facilitate counterterrorism, crisis 

7 response, or other Department of Defense security co8 operation programs: Provided further, That the Secretary 

9 of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the Commit10 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 

11 and the Senate on the use and status of funds made avail12 able in this paragraph: Provided further, That the transfer 

13 authority provided under this heading is in addition to any 

14 other transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act. 

15 COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND

16 For the ‘‘Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 

17 Train and Equip Fund’’, $397,950,000, to remain avail18 able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That such funds 

19 shall be available to the Secretary of Defense in coordina20 tion with the Secretary of State, to provide assistance, in21 cluding training; equipment; logistics support, supplies, 

22 and services; stipends; infrastructure repair and renova23 tion; construction for facility fortification and humane 

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1 paring to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 

2 State of Iraq and Syria, and their affiliated or associated 

3 groups: Provided further, That amounts made available 

4 under this heading shall be available to provide assistance 

5 only for activities in a country designated by the Secretary 

6 of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, 

7 as having a security mission to counter the Islamic State 

8 of Iraq and Syria, and following written notification to the 

9 congressional defense committees of such designation: 

10 Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall en11 sure that prior to providing assistance to elements of any 

12 forces or individuals, such elements or individuals are ap13 propriately vetted, including at a minimum, assessing such 

14 elements for associations with terrorist groups or groups 

15 associated with the Government of Iran; and receiving 

16 commitments from such elements to promote respect for 

17 human rights and the rule of law: Provided further, That 

18 the Secretary of Defense shall, not fewer than 15 days 

19 prior to obligating from this appropriation account, notify 

20 the congressional defense committees in writing of the de21 tails of any such obligation: Provided further, That the 

22 Secretary of Defense may accept and retain contributions, 

23 including assistance in-kind, from foreign governments, 

24 including the Government of Iraq and other entities, to 

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1 vided further, That contributions of funds for the purposes 

2 provided herein from any foreign government or other en3 tity may be credited to this Fund, to remain available until 

4 expended, and used for such purposes: Provided further, 

5 That the Secretary of Defense shall prioritize such con6 tributions when providing any assistance for construction 

7 for facility fortification: Provided further, That the Sec8 retary of Defense may waive a provision of law relating 

9 to the acquisition of items and support services or sections 

10 40 and 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 

11 2780 and 2785) if the Secretary determines that such pro12 vision of law would prohibit, restrict, delay or otherwise 

13 limit the provision of such assistance and a notice of and 

14 justification for such waiver is submitted to the congres15 sional defense committees, the Committees on Appropria16 tions and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com17 mittees on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs of the 

18 House of Representatives: Provided further, That the 

19 United States may accept equipment procured using funds 

20 provided under this heading that was transferred to secu21 rity forces, irregular forces, or groups participating, or 

22 preparing to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 

23 State of Iraq and Syria and returned by such forces or 

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1 ten notification to the congressional defense committees: 

2 Provided further, That equipment procured using funds 

3 provided under this heading and not yet transferred to se4 curity forces, irregular forces, or groups participating, or 

5 preparing to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 

6 State of Iraq and Syria may be treated as stocks of the 

7 Department of Defense when determined by the Secretary 

8 to no longer be required for transfer to such forces or 

9 groups and upon written notification to the congressional 

10 defense committees: Provided further, That the Secretary 

11 of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the congres12 sional defense committees on the use of funds provided 

13 under this heading, including, but not limited to, the num14 ber of individuals trained, the nature and scope of support 

15 and sustainment provided to each group or individual, the 

16 area of operations for each group, and the contributions 

17 of other countries, groups, or individuals: Provided further, 

18 That of the funds provided under this heading for stipends 

19 for foreign security forces, irregular forces, groups, or in20 dividuals participating, or preparing to participate in ac21 tivities to counter ISIS in Syria, fifty percent shall not 

22 be available for obligation or expenditure until the Sec23 retary of Defense reports to the Committees on Appropria24 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate that 


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1 measures are in place to ensure accountability of such 

2 funds. 

3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE

4 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

5 for the operation and maintenance, including training, or6 ganization, and administration, of the Army Reserve; re7 pair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 

8 vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re9 cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip10 ment; and communications, $3,559,248,000. 

11 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE

12 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

13 for the operation and maintenance, including training, or14 ganization, and administration, of the Navy Reserve; re15 pair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 

16 vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re17 cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip18 ment; and communications, $1,366,710,000. 

19 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS

20 RESERVE

21 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

22 for the operation and maintenance, including training, or23 ganization, and administration, of the Marine Corps Re24 serve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger 

25 motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; 


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1 recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip2 ment; and communications, $323,395,000. 

3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE

4 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

5 for the operation and maintenance, including training, or6 ganization, and administration, of the Air Force Reserve; 

7 repair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 

8 vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re9 cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip10 ment; and communications, $4,056,196,000. 

11 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL

12 GUARD

13 For expenses of training, organizing, and admin14 istering the Army National Guard, including medical and 

15 hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal 

16 hospitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to struc17 tures and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles; per18 sonnel services in the National Guard Bureau; travel ex19 penses (other than mileage), as authorized by law for 

20 Army personnel on active duty, for Army National Guard 

21 division, regimental, and battalion commanders while in22 specting units in compliance with National Guard Bureau 

23 regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, Na24 tional Guard Bureau; supplying and equipping the Army 

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1 pair, modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 

2 equipment (including aircraft), $8,612,404,000. 

3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD

4 For expenses of training, organizing, and admin5 istering the Air National Guard, including medical and 

6 hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal 

7 hospitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to struc8 tures and facilities; transportation of things, hire of pas9 senger motor vehicles; supplying and equipping the Air 

10 National Guard, as authorized by law; expenses for repair, 

11 modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 

12 equipment, including those furnished from stocks under 

13 the control of agencies of the Department of Defense; 

14 travel expenses (other than mileage) on the same basis as 

15 authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on 

16 active Federal duty, for Air National Guard commanders 

17 while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard 

18 Bureau regulations when specifically authorized by the 

19 Chief, National Guard Bureau, $7,250,745,000. 

20 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED

21 FORCES

22 For salaries and expenses necessary for the United 

23 States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 

24 $16,620,000, of which not to exceed $10,000 may be used 

25 for official representation purposes. 


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1 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY

2 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

3 For the Department of the Army, $198,760,000, to 

4 remain available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec5 retary of the Army shall, upon determining that such 

6 funds are required for environmental restoration, reduc7 tion and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 

8 buildings and debris of the Department of the Army, or 

9 for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available by 

10 this appropriation to other appropriations made available 

11 to the Department of the Army, to be merged with and 

12 to be available for the same purposes and for the same 

13 time period as the appropriations to which transferred: 

14 Provided further, That upon a determination that all or 

15 part of the funds transferred from this appropriation are 

16 not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such 

17 amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 

18 Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 

19 under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au20 thority provided elsewhere in this Act. 

21 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY

22 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

23 For the Department of the Navy, $345,240,000, to 

24 remain available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec25 retary of the Navy shall, upon determining that such 


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1 funds are required for environmental restoration, reduc2 tion and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 

3 buildings and debris of the Department of the Navy, or 

4 for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available by 

5 this appropriation to other appropriations made available 

6 to the Department of the Navy, to be merged with and 

7 to be available for the same purposes and for the same 

8 time period as the appropriations to which transferred: 

9 Provided further, That upon a determination that all or 

10 part of the funds transferred from this appropriation are 

11 not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such 

12 amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 

13 Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 

14 under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au15 thority provided elsewhere in this Act. 

16 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE

17 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

18 For the Department of the Air Force, $359,744,000, 

19 to remain available until transferred: Provided, That the 

20 Secretary of the Air Force shall, upon determining that 

21 such funds are required for environmental restoration, re22 duction and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of un23 safe buildings and debris of the Department of the Air 

24 Force, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made 

25 available by this appropriation to other appropriations 


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1 made available to the Department of the Air Force, to be 

2 merged with and to be available for the same purposes 

3 and for the same time period as the appropriations to 

4 which transferred: Provided further, That upon a deter5 mination that all or part of the funds transferred from 

6 this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes pro7 vided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to 

8 this appropriation: Provided further, That the transfer au9 thority provided under this heading is in addition to any 

10 other transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act. 

11 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE

12 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

13 For the Department of Defense, $8,965,000, to re14 main available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec15 retary of Defense shall, upon determining that such funds 

16 are required for environmental restoration, reduction and 

17 recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 

18 and debris of the Department of Defense, or for similar 

19 purposes, transfer the funds made available by this appro20 priation to other appropriations made available to the De21 partment of Defense, to be merged with and to be avail22 able for the same purposes and for the same time period 

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1 essary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts 

2 may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided 

3 further, That the transfer authority provided under this 

4 heading is in addition to any other transfer authority pro5 vided elsewhere in this Act. 

6 ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED

7 DEFENSE SITES

8 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

9 For the Department of the Army, $232,806,000, to 

10 remain available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec11 retary of the Army shall, upon determining that such 

12 funds are required for environmental restoration, reduc13 tion and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 

14 buildings and debris at sites formerly used by the Depart15 ment of Defense, transfer the funds made available by this 

16 appropriation to other appropriations made available to 

17 the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to 

18 be available for the same purposes and for the same time 

19 period as the appropriations to which transferred: Pro20 vided further, That upon a determination that all or part 

21 of the funds transferred from this appropriation are not 

22 necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts 

23 may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided 

24 further, That the transfer authority provided under this 


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1 heading is in addition to any other transfer authority pro2 vided elsewhere in this Act. 

3 OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID

4 For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, 

5 Disaster, and Civic Aid programs of the Department of 

6 Defense (consisting of the programs provided under sec7 tions 401, 402, 404, 407, 2557, and 2561 of title 10, 

8 United States Code), $142,500,000, to remain available 

9 until September 30, 2025. 

10 COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT

11 For assistance, including assistance provided by con12 tract or by grants, under programs and activities of the 

13 Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction 

14 Program authorized under the Department of Defense Co15 operative Threat Reduction Act, $350,999,000, to remain 

16 available until September 30, 2026. 

17 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE

18 DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT

19 For the Department of Defense Acquisition Work20 force Development Account, $54,977,000: Provided, That 

21 no other amounts may be otherwise credited or transferred 

22 to the Account, or deposited into the Account, in fiscal 

23 year 2024 pursuant to section 1705(d) of title 10, United 

24 States Code. 


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1 TITLE III 

2 PROCUREMENT 

3 AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY

4 For construction, procurement, production, modifica5 tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 

6 ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and 

7 accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 

8 devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 

9 the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, 

10 and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 

11 and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 

12 title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap13 pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 

14 reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 

15 equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 

16 foregoing purposes, $3,030,767,000, to remain available 

17 for obligation until September 30, 2026. 

18 MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY

19 For construction, procurement, production, modifica20 tion, and modernization of missiles, equipment, including 

21 ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and 

22 accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 

23 devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 

24 the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, 

25 and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 


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1 and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 

2 title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap3 pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 

4 reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 

5 equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 

6 foregoing purposes, $4,483,806,000, to remain available 

7 for obligation until September 30, 2026. 

8 PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT

9 VEHICLES, ARMY

10 For construction, procurement, production, and 

11 modification of weapons and tracked combat vehicles, 

12 equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and acces13 sories therefor; specialized equipment and training devices; 

14 expansion of public and private plants, including the land 

15 necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 

16 lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con17 struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 

18 procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 

19 and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 

20 plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 

21 layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing 

22 purposes, $3,943,584,000, to remain available for obliga23 tion until September 30, 2026. 


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1 PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY

2 For construction, procurement, production, and 

3 modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe4 cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub5 lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au6 thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 

7 and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur8 poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac9 quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap10 proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip11 ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 

12 plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor13 owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 

14 for the foregoing purposes, $2,971,928,000, to remain 

15 available for obligation until September 30, 2026. 

16 OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY

17 For construction, procurement, production, and 

18 modification of vehicles, including tactical, support, and 

19 non-tracked combat vehicles; the purchase of passenger 

20 motor vehicles for replacement only; communications and 

21 electronic equipment; other support equipment; spare 

22 parts, ordnance, and accessories therefor; specialized 

23 equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 

24 private plants, including the land necessary therefor, for 

25 the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 


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1 therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 

2 thereon prior to approval of title; and procurement and 

3 installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools 

4 in public and private plants; reserve plant and Govern5 ment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other 

6 expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 

7 $8,679,516,000, to remain available for obligation until 

8 September 30, 2026. 

9 AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY

10 For construction, procurement, production, modifica11 tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 

12 ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 

13 equipment; expansion of public and private plants, includ14 ing the land necessary therefor, and such lands and inter15 ests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 

16 thereon prior to approval of title; and procurement and 

17 installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools 

18 in public and private plants; reserve plant and Govern19 ment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 

20 $17,450,040,000, to remain available for obligation until 

21 September 30, 2026. 

22 WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY

23 For construction, procurement, production, modifica24 tion, and modernization of missiles, torpedoes, other weap25 ons, and related support equipment including spare parts, 


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1 and accessories therefor; expansion of public and private 

2 plants, including the land necessary therefor, and such 

3 lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con4 struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 

5 procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 

6 and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 

7 plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 

8 layaway, $5,826,997,000, to remain available for obliga9 tion until September 30, 2026. 

10 PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY AND MARINE

11 CORPS

12 For construction, procurement, production, and 

13 modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe14 cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub15 lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au16 thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 

17 and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur18 poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac19 quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap20 proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip21 ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 

22 plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor23 owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 

24 for the foregoing purposes, $1,238,558,000, to remain 

25 available for obligation until September 30, 2026. 


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1 SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY

2 For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisi3 tion, or conversion of vessels as authorized by law, includ4 ing armor and armament thereof, plant equipment, appli5 ances, and machine tools and installation thereof in public 

6 and private plants; reserve plant and Government and con7 tractor-owned equipment layaway; procurement of critical, 

8 long lead time components and designs for vessels to be 

9 constructed or converted in the future; and expansion of 

10 public and private plants, including land necessary there11 for, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 

12 and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 

13 title, as follows: 

14 Columbia Class Submarine, $2,443,598,000; 

15 Columbia Class Submarine (AP), 

16 $3,390,734,000; 

17 Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–80), 

18 $1,104,421,000; 

19 Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–81), 

20 $800,492,000; 

21 Virginia Class Submarine, $7,129,965,000; 

22 Virginia Class Submarine (AP), 

23 $3,215,539,000; 

24 CVN Refueling Overhauls (AP), $802,988,000; 

25 DDG–1000 Program, $318,655,000; 


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1 DDG–51 Destroyer, $4,199,179,000; 

2 DDG–51 Destroyer (AP), $284,035,000; 

3 FFG–Frigate, $2,133,861,000; 

4 LHA Replacement, $1,830,149,000; 

5 AS Submarine Tender, $1,544,595,000; 

6 TAO Fleet Oiler, $815,420,000; 

7 LCU 1700, $62,532,000; 

8 Ship to Shore Connector, $400,000,000; 

9 Service Craft, $85,115,000; 

10 LCAC SLEP, $15,286,000; 

11 Auxiliary Vessels, $142,008,000; 

12 For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and 

13 first destination transportation, $539,681,000; and 

14 Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Pro15 grams, $1,648,559,000. 

16 In all: $32,906,812,000, to remain available for obligation 

17 until September 30, 2028: Provided, That additional obli18 gations may be incurred after September 30, 2028, for 

19 engineering services, tests, evaluations, and other such 

20 budgeted work that must be performed in the final stage 

21 of ship construction: Provided further, That none of the 

22 funds provided under this heading for the construction or 

23 conversion of any naval vessel to be constructed in ship24 yards in the United States shall be expended in foreign 

25 facilities for the construction of major components of such 


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1 vessel: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 

2 under this heading shall be used for the construction of 

3 any naval vessel in foreign shipyards: Provided further, 

4 That funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 

5 this Act for Columbia Class Submarine (AP) may be avail6 able for the purposes authorized by subsections (f), (g), 

7 (h) or (i) of section 2218a of title 10, United States Code, 

8 only in accordance with the provisions of the applicable 

9 subsection. 

10 OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY

11 For procurement, production, and modernization of 

12 support equipment and materials not otherwise provided 

13 for, Navy ordnance (except ordnance for new aircraft, new 

14 ships, and ships authorized for conversion); the purchase 

15 of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; expan16 sion of public and private plants, including the land nec17 essary therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may 

18 be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 

19 approval of title; and procurement and installation of 

20 equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 

21 private plants; reserve plant and Government and con22 tractor-owned equipment layaway, $13,675,677,000, to 

23 remain available for obligation until September 30, 2026: 

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1 tenance, repair, and modernization of ships under a pilot 

2 program established for such purposes. 

3 PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS

4 For expenses necessary for the procurement, manu5 facture, and modification of missiles, armament, military 

6 equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant 

7 equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation 

8 thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant and 

9 Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; ve10 hicles for the Marine Corps, including the purchase of pas11 senger motor vehicles for replacement only; and expansion 

12 of public and private plants, including land necessary 

13 therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac14 quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap15 proval of title, $3,775,224,000, to remain available for ob16 ligation until September 30, 2026. 

17 AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

18 For construction, procurement, and modification of 

19 aircraft and equipment, including armor and armament, 

20 specialized ground handling equipment, and training de21 vices, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 

22 equipment; expansion of public and private plants, Gov23 ernment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 

24 plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 

25 the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 


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1 therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 

2 thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov3 ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 

4 other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes in5 cluding rents and transportation of things, 

6 $20,196,409,000, to remain available for obligation until 

7 September 30, 2026. 

8 MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

9 For construction, procurement, and modification of 

10 missiles, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 

11 parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equip12 ment, and training devices; expansion of public and pri13 vate plants, Government-owned equipment and installa14 tion thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and ac15 quisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such 

16 lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con17 struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; re18 serve plant and Government and contractor-owned equip19 ment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the fore20 going purposes including rents and transportation of 

21 things, $4,401,753,000, to remain available for obligation 

22 until September 30, 2026. 

23 PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE

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1 cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub2 lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au3 thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 

4 and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur5 poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac6 quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap7 proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip8 ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 

9 plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor10 owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 

11 for the foregoing purposes, $642,448,000, to remain avail12 able for obligation until September 30, 2026. 

13 OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

14 For procurement and modification of equipment (in15 cluding ground guidance and electronic control equipment, 

16 and ground electronic and communication equipment), 

17 and supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, not oth18 erwise provided for; the purchase of passenger motor vehi19 cles for replacement only; lease of passenger motor vehi20 cles; and expansion of public and private plants, Govern21 ment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 

22 plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 

23 the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 

24 therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 

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1 ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 

2 $29,819,938,000, to remain available for obligation until 

3 September 30, 2026. 

4 PROCUREMENT, SPACE FORCE

5 For construction, procurement, and modification of 

6 spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including 

7 spare parts and accessories therefor; ground handling 

8 equipment, and training devices; expansion of public and 

9 private plants, Government-owned equipment and installa10 tion thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and ac11 quisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such 

12 lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con13 struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; re14 serve plant and Government and contractor-owned equip15 ment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the fore16 going purposes including rents and transportation of 

17 things, $4,109,201,000, to remain available for obligation 

18 until September 30, 2026. 

19 PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE

20 For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart21 ment of Defense (other than the military departments) 

22 necessary for procurement, production, and modification 

23 of equipment, supplies, materials, and spare parts there24 for, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of passenger 

25 motor vehicles for replacement only; expansion of public 


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1 and private plants, equipment, and installation thereof in 

2 such plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land 

3 for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 

4 therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 

5 thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov6 ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 

7 $6,289,820,000, to remain available for obligation until 

8 September 30, 2026. 

9 DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES

10 For activities by the Department of Defense pursuant 

11 to sections 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense Produc12 tion Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 4533), 

13 $618,605,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep14 tember 30, 2026, which shall be obligated and expended 

15 by the Secretary of Defense as if delegated the necessary 

16 authorities conferred by the Defense Production Act of 

17 1950. 

18 NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT ACCOUNT

19 For procurement of rotary-wing aircraft; combat, tac20 tical and support vehicles; other weapons; and other pro21 curement items for the reserve components of the Armed 

22 Forces, $1,000,000,000, to remain available for obligation 

23 until September 30, 2026: Provided, That the Chiefs of 

24 National Guard and Reserve components shall, not later 

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1 mit to the congressional defense committees the mod2 ernization priority assessment for their respective Na3 tional Guard or Reserve component: Provided further, 

4 That none of the funds made available by this paragraph 

5 may be used to procure manned fixed wing aircraft, or 

6 procure or modify missiles, munitions, or ammunition. 


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1 TITLE IV 

2 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND 

3 EVALUATION 

4 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 

5 ARMY

6 For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci7 entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ8 ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa9 cilities and equipment, $16,758,462,000, to remain avail10 able for obligation until September 30, 2025. 

11 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 

12 NAVY

13 For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci14 entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ15 ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa16 cilities and equipment, $27,690,777,000, to remain avail17 able for obligation until September 30, 2025: Provided, 

18 That funds appropriated in this paragraph which are 

19 available for the V–22 may be used to meet unique oper20 ational requirements of the Special Operations Forces. 

21 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 

22 AIR FORCE

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1 cilities and equipment, $46,479,858,000, to remain avail2 able for obligation until September 30, 2025. 

3 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 

4 SPACE FORCE

5 For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci6 entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ7 ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa8 cilities and equipment, $18,839,144,000, to remain avail9 able until September 30, 2025. 

10 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 

11 DEFENSE-WIDE

12 For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart13 ment of Defense (other than the military departments), 

14 necessary for basic and applied scientific research, devel15 opment, test and evaluation; advanced research projects 

16 as may be designated and determined by the Secretary 

17 of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, 

18 lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, 

19 $36,782,566,000, to remain available for obligation until 

20 September 30, 2025. 

21 OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE

22 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

23 for the independent activities of the Director, Operational 

24 Test and Evaluation, in the direction and supervision of 

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1 ational test and evaluation which is conducted prior to, 

2 and in support of, production decisions; joint operational 

3 testing and evaluation; and administrative expenses in 

4 connection therewith, $285,444,000, to remain available 

5 for obligation until September 30, 2025. 


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1 TITLE V 

2 REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS 

3 DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS

4 For the Defense Working Capital Funds, 

5 $1,666,779,000. 

6 NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE TRANSACTION FUND

7 For the National Defense Stockpile Transaction 

8 Fund, $7,629,000, for activities pursuant to the Strategic 

9 and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et 

10 seq.). 


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1 TITLE VI 

2 OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS 

3 DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM

4 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical 

5 and health care programs of the Department of Defense 

6 as authorized by law, $39,365,472,000; of which 

7 $36,826,743,000 shall be for operation and maintenance, 

8 of which not to exceed one percent shall remain available 

9 for obligation until September 30, 2025, and of which up 

10 to $19,762,352,000 may be available for contracts entered 

11 into under the TRICARE program; of which 

12 $381,881,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep13 tember 30, 2026, shall be for procurement; and of which 

14 $2,156,848,000, to remain available for obligation until 

15 September 30, 2025, shall be for research, development, 

16 test and evaluation: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 

17 other provision of law, of the amount made available under 

18 this heading for research, development, test and evalua19 tion, not less than $12,000,000 shall be available for HIV 

20 prevention educational activities undertaken in connection 

21 with United States military training, exercises, and hu22 manitarian assistance activities conducted primarily in Af23 rican nations: Provided further, That of the funds provided 

24 under this heading for research, development, test and 

25 evaluation, not less than $1,154,000,000 shall be made 


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1 available to the Defense Health Agency to carry out the 

2 congressionally directed medical research programs: Pro3 vided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall submit 

4 to the congressional defense committees quarterly reports 

5 on the current status of the electronic health record pro6 gram: Provided further, That the Comptroller General of 

7 the United States shall perform quarterly performance re8 views of the electronic health record program. 

9 CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, 

10 DEFENSE

11 For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 

12 for the destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal 

13 chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the pro14 visions of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Au15 thorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), and for the de16 struction of other chemical warfare materials that are not 

17 in the chemical weapon stockpile, $1,091,844,000, of 

18 which $89,284,000 shall be for operation and mainte19 nance, of which no less than $57,875,000 shall be for the 

20 Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, 

21 consisting of $23,676,000 for activities on military instal22 lations and $34,199,000, to remain available until Sep23 tember 30, 2025, to assist State and local governments; 

24 and $1,002,560,000, to remain available until September 

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1 uation, of which $1,000,467,000 shall only be for the As2 sembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program. 

3 DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, 

4 DEFENSE

5 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

6 For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of 

7 the Department of Defense, for transfer to appropriations 

8 available to the Department of Defense for military per9 sonnel of the reserve components serving under the provi10 sions of title 10 and title 32, United States Code; for oper11 ation and maintenance; for procurement; and for research, 

12 development, test and evaluation, $1,162,161,000, of 

13 which $683,848,000 shall be for counter-narcotics sup14 port; $138,313,000 shall be for the drug demand reduc15 tion program; $300,000,000 shall be for the National 

16 Guard counter-drug program; and $30,000,000 shall be 

17 for the National Guard counter-drug schools program: 

18 Provided, That the funds appropriated under this heading 

19 shall be available for obligation for the same time period 

20 and for the same purpose as the appropriation to which 

21 transferred: Provided further, That upon a determination 

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1 vided under this heading is in addition to any other trans2 fer authority contained elsewhere in this Act: Provided fur3 ther, That funds appropriated under this heading may be 

4 used to support a new start program or project only after 

5 written prior notification to the Committees on Appropria6 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 

7 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

8 For expenses and activities of the Office of the In9 spector General in carrying out the provisions of the In10 spector General Act of 1978, as amended, $505,629,000, 

11 of which $501,131,000 shall be for operation and mainte12 nance, of which not to exceed $700,000 is available for 

13 emergencies and extraordinary expenses to be expended 

14 upon the approval or authority of the Inspector General, 

15 and payments may be made upon the Inspector General’s 

16 certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes; 

17 of which $1,098,000, to remain available for obligation 

18 until September 30, 2026, shall be for procurement; and 

19 of which $3,400,000, to remain available until September 

20 30, 2025, shall be for research, development, test and eval21 uation. 

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1 TITLE VII 

2 RELATED AGENCIES 

3 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND

4 DISABILITY SYSTEM FUND

5 For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Re6 tirement and Disability System Fund, to maintain the 

7 proper funding level for continuing the operation of the 

8 Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 

9 System, $514,000,000. 

10 INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT

11 For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Commu12 nity Management Account, $608,820,000. 


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1 TITLE VIII 

2 GENERAL PROVISIONS 

3 SEC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained 

4 in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur5 poses not authorized by the Congress. 

6 SEC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions 

7 of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or em8 ployment of, any person not a citizen of the United States 

9 shall not apply to personnel of the Department of Defense: 

10 Provided, That salary increases granted to direct and indi11 rect hire foreign national employees of the Department of 

12 Defense funded by this Act shall not be at a rate in excess 

13 of the percentage increase authorized by law for civilian 

14 employees of the Department of Defense whose pay is 

15 computed under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5, 

16 United States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percent17 age increase provided by the appropriate host nation to 

18 its own employees, whichever is higher: Provided further, 

19 That this section shall not apply to Department of De20 fense foreign service national employees serving at United 

21 States diplomatic missions whose pay is set by the Depart22 ment of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1980: Pro23 vided further, That the limitations of this provision shall 

24 not apply to foreign national employees of the Department 

25 of Defense in the Republic of Turkey. 


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1 SEC. 8003. No part of any appropriation contained 

2 in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 

3 the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided herein. 

4 SEC. 8004. No more than 20 percent of the appro5 priations in this Act which are limited for obligation dur6 ing the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the 

7 last 2 months of the fiscal year: Provided, That this sec8 tion shall not apply to obligations for support of active 

9 duty training of reserve components or summer camp 

10 training of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. 

11 (TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

12 SEC. 8005. Upon determination by the Secretary of 

13 Defense that such action is necessary in the national inter14 est, the Secretary may, with the approval of the Office 

15 of Management and Budget, transfer not to exceed 

16 $6,000,000,000 of working capital funds of the Depart17 ment of Defense or funds made available in this Act to 

18 the Department of Defense for military functions (except 

19 military construction) between such appropriations or 

20 funds or any subdivision thereof, to be merged with and 

21 to be available for the same purposes, and for the same 

22 time period, as the appropriation or fund to which trans23 ferred: Provided, That such authority to transfer may not 

24 be used unless for higher priority items, based on unfore25 seen military requirements, than those for which originally 


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1 appropriated and in no case where the item for which 

2 funds are requested has been denied by the Congress: Pro3 vided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall notify 

4 the Congress promptly of all transfers made pursuant to 

5 this authority or any other authority in this Act: Provided 

6 further, That no part of the funds in this Act shall be 

7 available to prepare or present a request to the Commit8 tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 

9 and the Senate for reprogramming of funds, unless for 

10 higher priority items, based on unforeseen military re11 quirements, than those for which originally appropriated 

12 and in no case where the item for which reprogramming 

13 is requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided 

14 further, That a request for multiple reprogrammings of 

15 funds using authority provided in this section shall be 

16 made prior to June 30, 2024: Provided further, That 

17 transfers among military personnel appropriations shall 

18 not be taken into account for purposes of the limitation 

19 on the amount of funds that may be transferred under 

20 this section. 

21 SEC. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific pro22 grams, projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts 

23 and adjustments to budget activities corresponding to 

24 such programs, projects, and activities) contained in the 

25 tables titled Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in 


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1 the explanatory statement regarding this Act and the ta2 bles contained in the classified annex accompanying this 

3 Act, the obligation and expenditure of amounts appro4 priated or otherwise made available in this Act for those 

5 programs, projects, and activities are hereby required by 

6 law to be carried out in the manner provided by such ta7 bles to the same extent as if the tables were included in 

8 the text of this Act. 

9 (b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables de10 scribed in subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivi11 sions of appropriations for purposes of section 8005 of this 

12 Act: Provided, That section 8005 shall apply when trans13 fers of the amounts described in subsection (a) occur be14 tween appropriation accounts. 

15 SEC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 

16 of the enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense 

17 shall submit a report to the congressional defense commit18 tees to establish the baseline for application of reprogram19 ming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2024: Pro20 vided, That the report shall include— 

21 (1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa22 rate column to display the President’s budget re23 quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments 

24 due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 

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1 (2) a delineation in the table for each appro2 priation both by budget activity and program, 

3 project, and activity as detailed in the Budget Ap4 pendix; and 

5 (3) an identification of items of special congres6 sional interest. 

7 (b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none 

8 of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for 

9 reprogramming or transfer until the report identified in 

10 subsection (a) is submitted to the congressional defense 

11 committees, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies in 

12 writing to the congressional defense committees that such 

13 reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency 

14 requirement: Provided, That this subsection shall not 

15 apply to transfers from the following appropriations ac16 counts: 

17 (1) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Army’’; 

18 (2) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Navy’’; 

19 (3) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Air Force’’; 

20 (4) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Defense21 Wide’’; 

22 (5) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Formerly 

23 Used Defense Sites’’; and 

24 (6) ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Ac25 tivities, Defense’’. 


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1 (TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8008. During the current fiscal year, cash bal3 ances in working capital funds of the Department of De4 fense established pursuant to section 2208 of title 10, 

5 United States Code, may be maintained in only such 

6 amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disburse7 ments to be made from such funds: Provided, That trans8 fers may be made between such funds: Provided further, 

9 That transfers may be made between working capital 

10 funds and the ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense’’ 

11 appropriation and the ‘‘Operation and Maintenance’’ ap12 propriation accounts in such amounts as may be deter13 mined by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of 

14 the Office of Management and Budget, except that such 

15 transfers may not be made unless the Secretary of Defense 

16 has notified the Congress of the proposed transfer: Pro17 vided further, That except in amounts equal to the 

18 amounts appropriated to working capital funds in this Act, 

19 no obligations may be made against a working capital fund 

20 to procure or increase the value of war reserve material 

21 inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the 

22 Congress prior to any such obligation. 

23 SEC. 8009. Funds appropriated by this Act may not 

24 be used to initiate a special access program without prior 


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1 notification 30 calendar days in advance to the congres2 sional defense committees. 

3 SEC. 8010. None of the funds provided in this Act 

4 shall be available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that 

5 employs economic order quantity procurement in excess of 

6 $20,000,000 in any one year of the contract or that in7 cludes an unfunded contingent liability in excess of 

8 $20,000,000; or (2) a contract for advance procurement 

9 leading to a multiyear contract that employs economic 

10 order quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in 

11 any one year, unless the congressional defense committees 

12 have been notified at least 30 days in advance of the pro13 posed contract award: Provided, That no part of any ap14 propriation contained in this Act shall be available to ini15 tiate a multiyear contract for which the economic order 

16 quantity advance procurement is not funded at least to 

17 the limits of the Government’s liability: Provided further, 

18 That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 

19 shall be available to initiate multiyear procurement con20 tracts for any systems or component thereof if the value 

21 of the multiyear contract would exceed $500,000,000 un22 less specifically provided in this Act: Provided further, 

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1 cution of multiyear authority shall require the use of a 

2 present value analysis to determine lowest cost compared 

3 to an annual procurement: Provided further, That none of 

4 the funds provided in this Act may be used for a multiyear 

5 contract executed after the date of the enactment of this 

6 Act unless in the case of any such contract— 

7 (1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to 

8 Congress a budget request for full funding of units 

9 to be procured through the contract and, in the case 

10 of a contract for procurement of aircraft, that in11 cludes, for any aircraft unit to be procured through 

12 the contract for which procurement funds are re13 quested in that budget request for production be14 yond advance procurement activities in the fiscal 

15 year covered by the budget, full funding of procure16 ment of such unit in that fiscal year; 

17 (2) cancellation provisions in the contract do 

18 not include consideration of recurring manufacturing 

19 costs of the contractor associated with the produc20 tion of unfunded units to be delivered under the con21 tract; 

22 (3) the contract provides that payments to the 

23 contractor under the contract shall not be made in 

24 advance of incurred costs on funded units; and 


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1 (4) the contract does not provide for a price ad2 justment based on a failure to award a follow-on 

3 contract. 

4 Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be used 

5 for multiyear procurement contracts for Naval Strike Mis6 sile, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, PATRIOT 

7 Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, 

8 Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, and Joint Air-to-Surface 

9 Standoff Missile. 

10 SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the op11 eration and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are 

12 hereby appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, 

13 United States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance 

14 costs under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code: 

15 Provided, That such funds may also be obligated for hu16 manitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to author17 ized operations and pursuant to authority granted in sec18 tion 401 of title 10, United States Code, and these obliga19 tions shall be reported as required by section 401(d) of 

20 title 10, United States Code: Provided further, That funds 

21 available for operation and maintenance shall be available 

22 for providing humanitarian and similar assistance by 

23 using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the 

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1 ized by Public Law 99–239: Provided further, That upon 

2 a determination by the Secretary of the Army that such 

3 action is beneficial for graduate medical education pro4 grams conducted at Army medical facilities located in Ha5 waii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provi6 sion of medical services at such facilities and transpor7 tation to such facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for 

8 civilian patients from American Samoa, the Common9 wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Is10 lands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and 

11 Guam. 

12 SEC. 8012. None of the funds made available by this 

13 Act shall be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to in14 fluence congressional action on any legislation or appro15 priation matters pending before the Congress. 

16 SEC. 8013. None of the funds available in this Act 

17 to the Department of Defense, other than appropriations 

18 made for necessary or routine refurbishments, upgrades, 

19 or maintenance activities, shall be used to reduce or to 

20 prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-de21 ployed strategic delivery vehicles and launchers below the 

22 levels set forth in the report submitted to Congress in ac23 cordance with section 1042 of the National Defense Au24 thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. 


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1 (TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8014. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this 

3 Act for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote ́ge ́

4 Program may be transferred to any other appropriation 

5 contained in this Act solely for the purpose of imple6 menting a Mentor-Prote ́ge ́ Program developmental assist7 ance agreement pursuant to section 831 of the National 

8 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public 

9 Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as amended, under 

10 the authority of this provision or any other transfer au11 thority contained in this Act. 

12 (b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the 

13 budget justification documents in support of the budget 

14 for fiscal year 2025 (as submitted to Congress pursuant 

15 to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) a descrip16 tion of each transfer under this section that occurred dur17 ing the last fiscal year before the fiscal year in which such 

18 budget is submitted. 

19 SEC. 8015. None of the funds in this Act may be 

20 available for the purchase by the Department of Defense 

21 (and its departments and agencies) of welded shipboard 

22 anchor and mooring chain unless the anchor and mooring 

23 chain are manufactured in the United States from compo24 nents which are substantially manufactured in the United 

25 States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, the 


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1 term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall include cutting, heat treating, 

2 quality control, testing of chain and welding (including the 

3 forging and shot blasting process): Provided further, That 

4 for the purpose of this section substantially all of the com5 ponents of anchor and mooring chain shall be considered 

6 to be produced or manufactured in the United States if 

7 the aggregate cost of the components produced or manu8 factured in the United States exceeds the aggregate cost 

9 of the components produced or manufactured outside the 

10 United States: Provided further, That when adequate do11 mestic supplies are not available to meet Department of 

12 Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary of 

13 the Service responsible for the procurement may waive this 

14 restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 

15 to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep16 resentatives and the Senate that such an acquisition must 

17 be made in order to acquire capability for national security 

18 purposes. 

19 SEC. 8016. None of the funds appropriated by this 

20 Act shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated 

21 funds activity of the Department of Defense that procures 

22 malt beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for 

23 resale (including such alcoholic beverages sold by the 

24 drink) on a military installation located in the United 

25 States unless such malt beverages and wine are procured 


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1 within that State, or in the case of the District of Colum2 bia, within the District of Columbia, in which the military 

3 installation is located: Provided, That, in a case in which 

4 the military installation is located in more than one State, 

5 purchases may be made in any State in which the installa6 tion is located: Provided further, That such local procure7 ment requirements for malt beverages and wine shall 

8 apply to all alcoholic beverages only for military installa9 tions in States which are not contiguous with another 

10 State: Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other 

11 than wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and 

12 the District of Columbia shall be procured from the most 

13 competitive source, price and other factors considered. 

14 SEC. 8017. None of the funds available to the De15 partment of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dis16 pose of M–1 Carbines, M–1 Garand rifles, M–14 rifles, 

17 .22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, or M–1911 pistols, or 

18 to demilitarize or destroy small arms ammunition or am19 munition components that are not otherwise prohibited 

20 from commercial sale under Federal law, unless the small 

21 arms ammunition or ammunition components are certified 

22 by the Secretary of the Army or designee as unserviceable 

23 or unsafe for further use. 

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1 ing a single fiscal year for any single relocation of an orga2 nization, unit, activity or function of the Department of 

3 Defense into or within the National Capital Region: Pro4 vided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive this re5 striction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 

6 to the congressional defense committees that such a relo7 cation is required in the best interest of the Government. 

8 SEC. 8019. In addition to the funds provided else9 where in this Act, $25,000,000 is appropriated only for 

10 incentive payments authorized by section 504 of the In11 dian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544): Provided, 

12 That a prime contractor or a subcontractor at any tier 

13 that makes a subcontract award to any subcontractor or 

14 supplier as defined in section 1544 of title 25, United 

15 States Code, or a small business owned and controlled by 

16 an individual or individuals defined under section 4221(9) 

17 of title 25, United States Code, shall be considered a con18 tractor for the purposes of being allowed additional com19 pensation under section 504 of the Indian Financing Act 

20 of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever the prime contract 

21 or subcontract amount is over $500,000 and involves the 

22 expenditure of funds appropriated by an Act making ap23 propriations for the Department of Defense with respect 

24 to any fiscal year: Provided further, That notwithstanding 

25 section 1906 of title 41, United States Code, this section 


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1 shall be applicable to any Department of Defense acquisi2 tion of supplies or services, including any contract and any 

3 subcontract at any tier for acquisition of commercial items 

4 produced or manufactured, in whole or in part, by any 

5 subcontractor or supplier defined in section 1544 of title 

6 25, United States Code, or a small business owned and 

7 controlled by an individual or individuals defined under 

8 section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code. 

9 SEC. 8020. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 

10 of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no 

11 cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian 

12 tribes located in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Da13 kota, South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and 

14 Washington relocatable military housing units located at 

15 Grand Forks Air Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, 

16 Mountain Home Air Force Base, Ellsworth Air Force 

17 Base, and Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the 

18 needs of the Air Force. 

19 (b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at 

20 no cost to the Air Force, military housing units under sub21 section (a) in accordance with the request for such units 

22 that are submitted to the Secretary by the Operation 

23 Walking Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located 

24 in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Da25 kota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington. Any 


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1 such conveyance shall be subject to the condition that the 

2 housing units shall be removed within a reasonable period 

3 of time, as determined by the Secretary. 

4 (c) The Operation Walking Shield Program shall re5 solve any conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for 

6 housing units under subsection (a) before submitting re7 quests to the Secretary of the Air Force under subsection 

8 (b). 

9 (d) In this section, the term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ means 

10 any recognized Indian tribe included on the current list 

11 published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 

12 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 

13 (Public Law 103–454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 5131). 

14 SEC. 8021. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart15 ment of Defense under the heading ‘‘Operation and Main16 tenance, Defense-Wide’’, not less than $20,000,000 shall 

17 be made available only for the mitigation of environmental 

18 impacts, including training and technical assistance to 

19 tribes, related administrative support, the gathering of in20 formation, documenting of environmental damage, and de21 veloping a system for prioritization of mitigation and cost 

22 to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands re23 sulting from Department of Defense activities. 


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1 SEC. 8022. Funds appropriated by this Act for the 

2 Defense Media Activity shall not be used for any national 

3 or international political or psychological activities. 

4 SEC. 8023. (a) Of the funds made available in this 

5 Act, not less than $68,100,000 shall be available for the 

6 Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 

7 (1) $55,100,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper8 ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 

9 Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 

10 readiness, counter-drug activities, and drug demand 

11 reduction activities involving youth programs; 

12 (2) $11,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Air13 craft Procurement, Air Force’’; and 

14 (3) $2,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other 

15 Procurement, Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 

16 (b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reim17 bursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 

18 counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 

19 local government agencies. 

20 SEC. 8024. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 

21 Act are available to establish a new Department of De22 fense (department) federally funded research and develop23 ment center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as a 

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1 poration consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and 

2 other nonprofit entities. 

3 (b) No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, 

4 Overseers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting 

5 Committee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, 

6 and no paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, except 

7 when acting in a technical advisory capacity, may be com8 pensated for his or her services as a member of such enti9 ty, or as a paid consultant by more than one FFRDC in 

10 a fiscal year: Provided, That a member of any such entity 

11 referred to previously in this subsection shall be allowed 

12 travel expenses and per diem as authorized under the Fed13 eral Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the per14 formance of membership duties. 

15 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 

16 of the funds available to the Department from any source 

17 during the current fiscal year may be used by a defense 

18 FFRDC, through a fee or other payment mechanism, for 

19 construction of new buildings not located on a military in20 stallation, for payment of cost sharing for projects funded 

21 by Government grants, for absorption of contract over22 runs, or for certain charitable contributions, not to include 

23 employee participation in community service and/or devel24 opment. 


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1 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 

2 the funds available to the department during fiscal year 

3 2024, not more than $2,885,000,000 may be funded for 

4 professional technical staff-related costs of the defense 

5 FFRDCs: Provided, That within such funds, not more 

6 than $456,803,000 shall be available for the defense stud7 ies and analysis FFRDCs: Provided further, That this sub8 section shall not apply to staff years funded in the Na9 tional Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence 

10 Program: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 

11 shall, with the submission of the department’s fiscal year 

12 2025 budget request, submit a report presenting the spe13 cific amounts of staff years of technical effort to be allo14 cated for each defense FFRDC by program during that 

15 fiscal year and the associated budget estimates, by appro16 priation account and program: Provided further, That this 

17 subsection shall not apply to appropriations for the Na18 tional Intelligence Program and Military Intelligence Pro19 gram. 

20 SEC. 8025. For the purposes of this Act, the term 

21 ‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the Armed 

22 Services Committee of the House of Representatives, the 

23 Armed Services Committee of the Senate, the Sub24 committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 

25 of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 


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1 Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa2 tives. 

3 SEC. 8026. For the purposes of this Act, the term 

4 ‘‘congressional intelligence committees’’ means the Perma5 nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 

6 Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of 

7 the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com8 mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 

9 and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 

10 Appropriations of the Senate. 

11 SEC. 8027. During the current fiscal year, the De12 partment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot 

13 maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels 

14 as well as the production of components and other De15 fense-related articles, through competition between De16 partment of Defense depot maintenance activities and pri17 vate firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Execu18 tive of the military department or Defense Agency con19 cerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that success20 ful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and in21 direct costs for both public and private bids: Provided fur22 ther, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 

23 76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this 

24 section. 


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1 SEC. 8028. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 

2 Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of 

3 Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, com4 plies with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this 

5 subsection, the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ means chapter 

6 83 of title 41, United States Code. 

7 (b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a per8 son has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label 

9 bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription to any product 

10 sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made 

11 in America, the Secretary shall determine, in accordance 

12 with section 4658 of title 10, United States Code, whether 

13 the person should be debarred from contracting with the 

14 Department of Defense. 

15 (c) In the case of any equipment or products pur16 chased with appropriations provided under this Act, it is 

17 the sense of the Congress that any entity of the Depart18 ment of Defense, in expending the appropriation, purchase 

19 only American-made equipment and products, provided 

20 that American-made equipment and products are cost21 competitive, quality competitive, and available in a timely 

22 fashion. 

23 SEC. 8029. None of the funds appropriated or made 

24 available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy, 

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1 cility or property under the control of the Department of 

2 Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United 

3 States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re4 strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 

5 9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) 

6 or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications 

7 of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further, 

8 That the Secretary of the military department responsible 

9 for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case10 by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees 

11 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 

12 Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available 

13 to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely 

14 basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order 

15 to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro16 vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to 

17 contracts which are in being as of the date of the enact18 ment of this Act. 

19 SEC. 8030. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after 

20 consultation with the United States Trade Representative, 

21 determines that a foreign country which is party to an 

22 agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the 

23 terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain 

24 types of products produced in the United States that are 

25 covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall 


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1 rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer2 ican Act with respect to such types of products produced 

3 in that foreign country. 

4 (2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 

5 reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under6 standing, between the United States and a foreign country 

7 pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec8 tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products 

9 in that country. 

10 (b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Con11 gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense 

12 purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 2024. Such 

13 report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items 

14 for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to 

15 any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade 

16 Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any 

17 international agreement to which the United States is a 

18 party. 

19 (c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Buy 

20 American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United 

21 States Code. 

22 SEC. 8031. None of the funds appropriated by this 

23 Act may be used for the procurement of ball and roller 

24 bearings other than those produced by a domestic source 

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1 the military department responsible for such procurement 

2 may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certi3 fying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 

4 the House of Representatives and the Senate, that ade5 quate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart6 ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis and that 

7 such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire ca8 pability for national security purposes: Provided further, 

9 That this restriction shall not apply to the purchase of 

10 ‘‘commercial products’’, as defined by section 103 of title 

11 41, United States Code, except that the restriction shall 

12 apply to ball or roller bearings purchased as end items. 

13 SEC. 8032. None of the funds in this Act may be 

14 used to purchase any supercomputer which is not manu15 factured in the United States, unless the Secretary of De16 fense certifies to the congressional defense committees 

17 that such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire 

18 capability for national security purposes that is not avail19 able from United States manufacturers. 

20 SEC. 8033. (a) The Secretary of Defense may, on a 

21 case-by-case basis, waive with respect to a foreign country 

22 each limitation on the procurement of defense items from 

23 foreign sources provided in law if the Secretary determines 

24 that the application of the limitation with respect to that 

25 country would invalidate cooperative programs entered 


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1 into between the Department of Defense and the foreign 

2 country, or would invalidate reciprocal trade agreements 

3 for the procurement of defense items entered into under 

4 section 4851 of title 10, United States Code, and the 

5 country does not discriminate against the same or similar 

6 defense items produced in the United States for that coun7 try. 

8 (b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to— 

9 (1) contracts and subcontracts entered into on 

10 or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and 

11 (2) options for the procurement of items that 

12 are exercised after such date under contracts that 

13 are entered into before such date if the option prices 

14 are adjusted for any reason other than the applica15 tion of a waiver granted under subsection (a). 

16 (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a limitation re17 garding construction of public vessels, ball and roller bear18 ings, food, and clothing or textile materials as defined by 

19 section XI (chapters 50–65) of the Harmonized Tariff 

20 Schedule of the United States and products classified 

21 under headings 4010, 4202, 4203, 6401 through 6406, 

22 6505, 7019, 7218 through 7229, 7304.41 through 

23 7304.49, 7306.40, 7502 through 7508, 8105, 8108, 8109, 

24 8211, 8215, and 9404. 


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1 SEC. 8034. None of the funds made available in this 

2 Act, or any subsequent Act making appropriations for the 

3 Department of Defense, may be used for the purchase or 

4 manufacture of a flag of the United States unless such 

5 flags are treated as covered items under section 4862(b) 

6 of title 10, United States Code. 

7 SEC. 8035. During the current fiscal year, amounts 

8 contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 

9 Facility Investment Recovery Account shall be available 

10 until expended for the payments specified by section 

11 2687a(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code. 

12 SEC. 8036. During the current fiscal year, appropria13 tions which are available to the Department of Defense 

14 for operation and maintenance may be used to purchase 

15 items having an investment item unit cost of not more 

16 than $350,000: Provided, That upon determination by the 

17 Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary to meet 

18 the operational requirements of a Commander of a Com19 batant Command engaged in a named contingency oper20 ation overseas, such funds may be used to purchase items 

21 having an investment item unit cost of not more than 

22 $500,000. 

23 SEC. 8037. Up to $11,000,000 of the funds appro24 priated under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, 

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1 gional Initiative Program for the purpose of enabling the 

2 United States Indo-Pacific Command to execute Theater 

3 Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian as4 sistance, and payment of incremental and personnel costs 

5 of training and exercising with foreign security forces: 

6 Provided, That funds made available for this purpose may 

7 be used, notwithstanding any other funding authorities for 

8 humanitarian assistance, security assistance or combined 

9 exercise expenses: Provided further, That funds may not 

10 be obligated to provide assistance to any foreign country 

11 that is otherwise prohibited from receiving such type of 

12 assistance under any other provision of law. 

13 SEC. 8038. The Secretary of Defense shall issue reg14 ulations to prohibit the sale of any tobacco or tobacco15 related products in military resale outlets in the United 

16 States, its territories and possessions at a price below the 

17 most competitive price in the local community: Provided, 

18 That such regulations shall direct that the prices of to19 bacco or tobacco-related products in overseas military re20 tail outlets shall be within the range of prices established 

21 for military retail system stores located in the United 

22 States. 

23 SEC. 8039. (a) During the current fiscal year, none 

24 of the appropriations or funds available to the Department 

25 of Defense Working Capital Funds shall be used for the 


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1 purchase of an investment item for the purpose of acquir2 ing a new inventory item for sale or anticipated sale dur3 ing the current fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to 

4 customers of the Department of Defense Working Capital 

5 Funds if such an item would not have been chargeable 

6 to the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund 

7 during fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an 

8 investment item would be chargeable during the current 

9 fiscal year to appropriations made to the Department of 

10 Defense for procurement. 

11 (b) The fiscal year 2025 budget request for the De12 partment of Defense as well as all justification material 

13 and other documentation supporting the fiscal year 2025 

14 Department of Defense budget shall be prepared and sub15 mitted to the Congress on the basis that any equipment 

16 which was classified as an end item and funded in a pro17 curement appropriation contained in this Act shall be 

18 budgeted for in a proposed fiscal year 2025 procurement 

19 appropriation and not in the supply management business 

20 area or any other area or category of the Department of 

21 Defense Working Capital Funds. 

22 SEC. 8040. None of the funds appropriated by this 

23 Act for programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall 

24 remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 

25 year, except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for 


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1 Contingencies, which shall remain available until Sep2 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That funds appropriated, 

3 transferred, or otherwise credited to the Central Intel4 ligence Agency Central Services Working Capital Fund 

5 during this or any prior or subsequent fiscal year shall 

6 remain available until expended: Provided further, That 

7 any funds appropriated or transferred to the Central Intel8 ligence Agency for advanced research and development ac9 quisition, for agent operations, and for covert action pro10 grams authorized by the President under section 503 of 

11 the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3093) shall 

12 remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided fur13 ther, That any funds appropriated or transferred to the 

14 Central Intelligence Agency for the construction, improve15 ment, or alteration of facilities, including leased facilities, 

16 to be used primarily by personnel of the intelligence com17 munity, shall remain available until September 30, 2026. 

18 SEC. 8041. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) 

19 and (c), none of the funds made available by this Act may 

20 be used— 

21 (1) to establish a field operating agency; or 

22 (2) to pay the basic pay of a member of the 

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1 quarters activity if the member or employee’s place 

2 of duty remains at the location of that headquarters. 

3 (b) The Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a mili4 tary department may waive the limitations in subsection 

5 (a), on a case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines, 

6 and certifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the 

7 House of Representatives and the Senate that the grant8 ing of the waiver will reduce the personnel requirements 

9 or the financial requirements of the department. 

10 (c) This section does not apply to— 

11 (1) field operating agencies funded within the 

12 National Intelligence Program; 

13 (2) an Army field operating agency established 

14 to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of im15 provised explosive devices, and, as determined by the 

16 Secretary of the Army, other similar threats; 

17 (3) an Army field operating agency established 

18 to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of bio19 metric activities and to integrate common biometric 

20 technologies throughout the Department of Defense; 

21 or 

22 (4) an Air Force field operating agency estab23 lished to administer the Air Force Mortuary Affairs 

24 Program and Mortuary Operations for the Depart25 ment of Defense and authorized Federal entities. 


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1 SEC. 8042. (a) None of the funds appropriated by 

2 this Act shall be available to convert to contractor per3 formance an activity or function of the Department of De4 fense that, on or after the date of the enactment of this 

5 Act, is performed by Department of Defense civilian em6 ployees unless— 

7 (1) the conversion is based on the result of a 

8 public-private competition that includes a most effi9 cient and cost effective organization plan developed 

10 by such activity or function; 

11 (2) the Competitive Sourcing Official deter12 mines that, over all performance periods stated in 

13 the solicitation of offers for performance of the ac14 tivity or function, the cost of performance of the ac15 tivity or function by a contractor would be less costly 

16 to the Department of Defense by an amount that 

17 equals or exceeds the lesser of— 

18 (A) 10 percent of the most efficient organi19 zation’s personnel-related costs for performance 

20 of that activity or function by Federal employ21 ees; or 

22 (B) $10,000,000; and 

23 (3) the contractor does not receive an advan24 tage for a proposal that would reduce costs for the 

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1 (A) not making an employer-sponsored 

2 health insurance plan available to the workers 

3 who are to be employed in the performance of 

4 that activity or function under the contract; or 

5 (B) offering to such workers an employer6 sponsored health benefits plan that requires the 

7 employer to contribute less towards the pre8 mium or subscription share than the amount 

9 that is paid by the Department of Defense for 

10 health benefits for civilian employees under 

11 chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 

12 (b)(1) The Department of Defense, without regard 

13 to subsection (a) of this section or subsection (a), (b), or 

14 (c) of section 2461 of title 10, United States Code, and 

15 notwithstanding any administrative regulation, require16 ment, or policy to the contrary shall have full authority 

17 to enter into a contract for the performance of any com18 mercial or industrial type function of the Department of 

19 Defense that— 

20 (A) is included on the procurement list estab21 lished pursuant to section 2 of the Javits-Wagner22 O’Day Act (section 8503 of title 41, United States 

23 Code); 

24 (B) is planned to be converted to performance 

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1 a qualified nonprofit agency for other severely handi2 capped individuals in accordance with that Act; or 

3 (C) is planned to be converted to performance 

4 by a qualified firm under at least 51 percent owner5 ship by an Indian tribe, as defined in section 4(e) 

6 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education As7 sistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)), or a Native Ha8 waiian Organization, as defined in section 8(a)(15) 

9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(15)). 

10 (2) This section shall not apply to depot contracts 

11 or contracts for depot maintenance as provided in sections 

12 2469 and 2474 of title 10, United States Code. 

13 (c) The conversion of any activity or function of the 

14 Department of Defense under the authority provided by 

15 this section shall be credited toward any competitive or 

16 outsourcing goal, target, or measurement that may be es17 tablished by statute, regulation, or policy and is deemed 

18 to be awarded under the authority of, and in compliance 

19 with, subsection (h) of section 2304 of title 10, United 

20 States Code, for the competition or outsourcing of com21 mercial activities. 

22 (RESCISSIONS)

23 SEC. 8043. Of the funds appropriated in Department 

24 of Defense Appropriations Acts, the following funds are 

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1 grams in the specified amounts: Provided, That no 

2 amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des3 ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 

4 pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the 

5 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 

6 1985: 

7 ‘‘Missile Procurement, Army’’, 2022/2024, 

8 $9,093,000; 

9 ‘‘Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat 

10 Vehicles, Army’’, 2022/2024, $1,900,000; 

11 ‘‘Other Procurement, Army’’, 2022/2024, 

12 $44,681,000; 

13 ‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 

14 $1,428,000; 

15 ‘‘Weapons Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 

16 $13,058,000; 

17 ‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Ma18 rine Corps’’, 2022/2024, $1,012,000; 

19 ‘‘Other Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 

20 $2,975,000; 

21 ‘‘Cooperative Threat Reduction Account’’, 

22 2022/2024, $75,000,000; 

23 ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’, 

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1 ‘‘Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund’’, 2023/ 

2 2024, $50,000,000; 

3 ‘‘Other Procurement, Army’’, 2023/2025, 

4 $4,066,000; 

5 ‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 

6 $10,033,000; 

7 ‘‘Weapons Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 

8 $53,139,000; 

9 ‘‘Other Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 

10 $1,550,000; 

11 ‘‘Procurement, Marine Corps’’, 2023/2025, 

12 $155,304,000; 

13 ‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, 2023/2025, 

14 $45,000,000; 

15 ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’, 2023/2025, 

16 $32,148,000; 

17 ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 

18 Air Force’’, 2023/2024, $29,300,000; 

19 ‘‘Army Working Capital Fund’’, XXXX/XXXX, 

20 $100,000,000; and 

21 ‘‘Navy Working Capital Fund’’, XXXX/XXXX, 

22 $100,000,000. 

23 SEC. 8044. None of the funds available in this Act 

24 may be used to reduce the authorized positions for mili25 tary technicians (dual status) of the Army National 


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1 Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and Air Force 

2 Reserve for the purpose of applying any administratively 

3 imposed civilian personnel ceiling, freeze, or reduction on 

4 military technicians (dual status), unless such reductions 

5 are a direct result of a reduction in military force struc6 ture. 

7 SEC. 8045. None of the funds appropriated or other8 wise made available in this Act may be obligated or ex9 pended for assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic 

10 of Korea unless specifically appropriated for that purpose: 

11 Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to any ac12 tivities incidental to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting 

13 Agency mission to recover and identify the remains of 

14 United States Armed Forces personnel from the Demo15 cratic People’s Republic of Korea. 

16 SEC. 8046. Funds appropriated in this Act for oper17 ation and maintenance of the Military Departments, Com18 batant Commands and Defense Agencies shall be available 

19 for reimbursement of pay, allowances and other expenses 

20 which would otherwise be incurred against appropriations 

21 for the National Guard and Reserve when members of the 

22 National Guard and Reserve provide intelligence or coun23 terintelligence support to Combatant Commands, Defense 

24 Agencies and Joint Intelligence Activities, including the 

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1 ligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program: 

2 Provided, That nothing in this section authorizes deviation 

3 from established Reserve and National Guard personnel 

4 and training procedures. 

5 SEC. 8047. (a) None of the funds available to the 

6 Department of Defense for any fiscal year for drug inter7 diction or counter-drug activities may be transferred to 

8 any other department or agency of the United States ex9 cept as specifically provided in an appropriations law. 

10 (b) None of the funds available to the Central Intel11 ligence Agency for any fiscal year for drug interdiction or 

12 counter-drug activities may be transferred to any other de13 partment or agency of the United States except as specifi14 cally provided in an appropriations law. 

15 SEC. 8048. In addition to the amounts appropriated 

16 or otherwise made available elsewhere in this Act, 

17 $49,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of 

18 Defense: Provided, That upon the determination of the 

19 Secretary of Defense that it shall serve the national inter20 est, the Secretary shall make grants in the amounts speci21 fied as follows: $24,000,000 to the United Service Organi22 zations and $25,000,000 to the Red Cross. 

23 SEC. 8049. Notwithstanding any other provision in 

24 this Act, the Small Business Innovation Research program 

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1 asides shall be taken proportionally from all programs, 

2 projects, or activities to the extent they contribute to the 

3 extramural budget. The Secretary of each military depart4 ment, the Director of each Defense Agency, and the head 

5 of each other relevant component of the Department of 

6 Defense shall submit to the congressional defense commit7 tees, concurrent with submission of the budget justifica8 tion documents to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of 

9 title 31, United States Code, a report with a detailed ac10 counting of the Small Business Innovation Research pro11 gram and the Small Business Technology Transfer pro12 gram set-asides taken from programs, projects, or activi13 ties within such department, agency, or component during 

14 the most recently completed fiscal year. 

15 SEC. 8050. None of the funds available to the De16 partment of Defense under this Act shall be obligated or 

17 expended to pay a contractor under a contract with the 

18 Department of Defense for costs of any amount paid by 

19 the contractor to an employee when— 

20 (1) such costs are for a bonus or otherwise in 

21 excess of the normal salary paid by the contractor 

22 to the employee; and 

23 (2) such bonus is part of restructuring costs as24 sociated with a business combination. 


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1 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8051. During the current fiscal year, no more 

3 than $30,000,000 of appropriations made in this Act 

4 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense5 Wide’’ may be transferred to appropriations available for 

6 the pay of military personnel, to be merged with, and to 

7 be available for the same time period as the appropriations 

8 to which transferred, to be used in support of such per9 sonnel in connection with support and services for eligible 

10 organizations and activities outside the Department of De11 fense pursuant to section 2012 of title 10, United States 

12 Code. 

13 SEC. 8052. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 

14 of law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may per15 mit the use of equipment of the National Guard Distance 

16 Learning Project by any person or entity on a space-avail17 able, reimbursable basis. The Chief of the National Guard 

18 Bureau shall establish the amount of reimbursement for 

19 such use on a case-by-case basis. 

20 (b) Amounts collected under subsection (a) shall be 

21 credited to funds available for the National Guard Dis22 tance Learning Project and be available to defray the costs 

23 associated with the use of equipment of the project under 

24 that subsection. Such funds shall be available for such 

25 purposes without fiscal year limitation. 


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1 SEC. 8053. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 

2 otherwise made available by this or prior Acts may be obli3 gated or expended to retire, prepare to retire, or place in 

4 storage or on backup aircraft inventory status any C–40 

5 aircraft. 

6 (b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not 

7 apply to an individual C–40 aircraft that the Secretary 

8 of the Air Force determines, on a case-by-case basis, to 

9 be no longer mission capable due to a Class A mishap. 

10 (c) If the Secretary determines under subsection (b) 

11 that an aircraft is no longer mission capable, the Secretary 

12 shall submit to the congressional defense committees a 

13 certification in writing that the status of such aircraft is 

14 due to a Class A mishap and not due to lack of mainte15 nance, repairs, or other reasons. 

16 (d) Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact17 ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 

18 to the congressional defense committees a report on the 

19 necessary steps taken by the Department of Defense to 

20 meet the travel requirements for official or representa21 tional duties of members of Congress and the Cabinet in 

22 fiscal years 2024 and 2025. 

23 SEC. 8054. (a) None of the funds appropriated in 

24 title IV of this Act may be used to procure end-items for 

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1 ational use, or inventory requirements: Provided, That this 

2 restriction does not apply to end-items used in develop3 ment, prototyping in accordance with an approved test 

4 strategy, and test activities preceding and leading to ac5 ceptance for operational use. 

6 (b) If the number of end-items budgeted with funds 

7 appropriated in title IV of this Act exceeds the number 

8 required in an approved test strategy, the Under Secretary 

9 of Defense (Research and Engineering) and the Under 

10 Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment), in 

11 coordination with the responsible Service Acquisition Ex12 ecutive, shall certify in writing to the congressional de13 fense committees that there is a bonafide need for the ad14 ditional end-items at the time of submittal to Congress 

15 of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2025 pursu16 ant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code: Pro17 vided, That this restriction does not apply to programs 

18 funded within the National Intelligence Program. 

19 (c) The Secretary of Defense shall, at the time of the 

20 submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for 

21 fiscal year 2025 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, 

22 United States Code, submit to the congressional defense 

23 committees a report detailing the use of funds requested 

24 in research, development, test and evaluation accounts for 

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1 tivities preceding and leading to acceptance for operational 

2 use: Provided, That the report shall set forth, for each 

3 end item covered by the preceding proviso, a detailed list 

4 of the statutory authorities under which amounts in the 

5 accounts described in that proviso were used for such item: 

6 Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, at 

7 the time of the submittal to Congress of the budget of 

8 the President for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to section 

9 1105 of title 31, United States Code, submit to the con10 gressional defense committees a certification that funds 

11 requested for fiscal year 2025 in research, development, 

12 test and evaluation accounts are in compliance with this 

13 section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 

14 may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certi15 fying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 

16 the House of Representatives and the Senate that it is 

17 in the national security interest to do so. 

18 SEC. 8055. None of the funds appropriated or other19 wise made available by this or other Department of De20 fense Appropriations Acts may be obligated or expended 

21 for the purpose of performing repairs or maintenance to 

22 military family housing units of the Department of De23 fense, including areas in such military family housing 

24 units that may be used for the purpose of conducting offi25 cial Department of Defense business. 


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1 SEC. 8056. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

2 law, funds appropriated in this Act under the heading 

3 ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense4 Wide’’ for any new start defense innovation acceleration 

5 or rapid prototyping program demonstration project with 

6 a value of more than $5,000,000 may only be obligated 

7 15 days after a report, including a description of the 

8 project, the planned acquisition and transition strategy 

9 and its estimated annual and total cost, has been provided 

10 in writing to the congressional defense committees: Pro11 vided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive this re12 striction on a case-by-case basis by certifying to the con13 gressional defense committees that it is in the national in14 terest to do so. 

15 SEC. 8057. The Secretary of Defense shall continue 

16 to provide a classified quarterly report to the Committees 

17 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 

18 Senate, Subcommittees on Defense on certain matters as 

19 directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act. 

20 SEC. 8058. Notwithstanding section 12310(b) of title 

21 10, United States Code, a servicemember who is a member 

22 of the National Guard serving on full-time National Guard 

23 duty under section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 

24 may perform duties in support of the ground-based ele25 ments of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System. 


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1 SEC. 8059. None of the funds provided in this Act 

2 may be used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity 

3 ammunition held by the Department of Defense that has 

4 a center-fire cartridge and a United States military no5 menclature designation of ‘‘armor penetrator’’, ‘‘armor 

6 piercing (AP)’’, ‘‘armor piercing incendiary (API)’’, or 

7 ‘‘armor-piercing incendiary tracer (API–T)’’, except to an 

8 entity performing demilitarization services for the Depart9 ment of Defense under a contract that requires the entity 

10 to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department of 

11 Defense that armor piercing projectiles are either: (1) ren12 dered incapable of reuse by the demilitarization process; 

13 or (2) used to manufacture ammunition pursuant to a con14 tract with the Department of Defense or the manufacture 

15 of ammunition for export pursuant to a License for Per16 manent Export of Unclassified Military Articles issued by 

17 the Department of State. 

18 SEC. 8060. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

19 law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or their des20 ignee, may waive payment of all or part of the consider21 ation that otherwise would be required under section 2667 

22 of title 10, United States Code, in the case of a lease of 

23 personal property for a period not in excess of 1 year to 

24 any organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, 

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1 ternal nonprofit organization as may be approved by the 

2 Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or their designee, 

3 on a case-by-case basis. 

4 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

5 SEC. 8061. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

6 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, 

7 $175,943,968 shall remain available until expended: Pro8 vided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 

9 the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer such 

10 funds to other activities of the Federal Government: Pro11 vided further, That the Secretary of Defense is authorized 

12 to enter into and carry out contracts for the acquisition 

13 of real property, construction, personal services, and oper14 ations related to projects carrying out the purposes of this 

15 section: Provided further, That contracts entered into 

16 under the authority of this section may provide for such 

17 indemnification as the Secretary determines to be nec18 essary: Provided further, That projects authorized by this 

19 section shall comply with applicable Federal, State, and 

20 local law to the maximum extent consistent with the na21 tional security, as determined by the Secretary of Defense. 

22 SEC. 8062. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 

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1 (1) the appropriations account structure for the 

2 National Intelligence Program budget, including 

3 through the creation of a new appropriation or new 

4 appropriation account; 

5 (2) how the National Intelligence Program 

6 budget request is presented in the unclassified P–1, 

7 R–1, and O–1 documents supporting the Depart8 ment of Defense budget request; 

9 (3) the process by which the National Intel10 ligence Program appropriations are apportioned to 

11 the executing agencies; or 

12 (4) the process by which the National Intel13 ligence Program appropriations are allotted, obli14 gated and disbursed. 

15 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to 

16 prohibit the merger of programs or changes to the Na17 tional Intelligence Program budget at or below the Ex18 penditure Center level, provided such change is otherwise 

19 in accordance with paragraphs (1)–(3) of subsection (a). 

20 (c) The Director of National Intelligence and the Sec21 retary of Defense may jointly, only for the purposes of 

22 achieving auditable financial statements and improving 

23 fiscal reporting, study and develop detailed proposals for 

24 alternative financial management processes. Such study 

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1 sessment to ensure that none of the alternative processes 

2 will adversely affect counterintelligence. 

3 (d) Upon development of the detailed proposals de4 fined under subsection (c), the Director of National Intel5 ligence and the Secretary of Defense shall— 

6 (1) provide the proposed alternatives to all af7 fected agencies; 

8 (2) receive certification from all affected agen9 cies attesting that the proposed alternatives will help 

10 achieve auditability, improve fiscal reporting, and 

11 will not adversely affect counterintelligence; and 

12 (3) not later than 30 days after receiving all 

13 necessary certifications under paragraph (2), present 

14 the proposed alternatives and certifications to the 

15 congressional defense and intelligence committees. 

16 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

17 SEC. 8063. During the current fiscal year, not to ex18 ceed $11,000,000 from each of the appropriations made 

19 in title II of this Act for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, 

20 Army’’, ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, and ‘‘Oper21 ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ may be transferred by 

22 the military department concerned to its central fund es23 tablished for Fisher Houses and Suites pursuant to sec24 tion 2493(d) of title 10, United States Code. 


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1 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8064. In addition to amounts provided else3 where in this Act, $5,000,000 is hereby appropriated to 

4 the Department of Defense, to remain available for obliga5 tion until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 

6 other provision of law, that upon the determination of the 

7 Secretary of Defense that it shall serve the national inter8 est, these funds shall be available only for a grant to the 

9 Fisher House Foundation, Inc., only for the construction 

10 and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet the 

11 needs of military family members when confronted with 

12 the illness or hospitalization of an eligible military bene13 ficiary. 

14 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

15 SEC. 8065. Of the amounts appropriated for ‘‘Oper16 ation and Maintenance, Navy’’, up to $1,000,000 shall be 

17 available for transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for 

18 Public Service Development Trust Fund established under 

19 section 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Serv20 ice Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105). 

21 SEC. 8066. None of the funds available to the De22 partment of Defense may be obligated to modify command 

23 and control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command 

24 operational and administrative control of United States 

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1 the command and control relationships which existed on 

2 October 1, 2004, shall remain in force until a written 

3 modification has been proposed to the Committees on Ap4 propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen5 ate: Provided further, That the proposed modification may 

6 be implemented 30 days after the notification unless an 

7 objection is received from either the House or Senate Ap8 propriations Committees: Provided further, That any pro9 posed modification shall not preclude the ability of the 

10 commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command to 

11 meet operational requirements. 

12 SEC. 8067. Any notice that is required to be sub13 mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 

14 of Representatives and the Senate under section 3601 of 

15 title 10, United States Code, as added by section 804(a) 

16 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 

17 Act for Fiscal Year 2023, after the date of the enactment 

18 of this Act shall be submitted pursuant to that require19 ment concurrently to the Subcommittees on Defense of the 

20 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent21 atives and the Senate. 

22 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

23 SEC. 8068. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

24 under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and 

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1 Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative 

2 Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $80,000,000 

3 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Gov4 ernment of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome 

5 defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, sub6 ject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agree7 ment, as amended; $127,000,000 shall be for the Short 

8 Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, in9 cluding cruise missile defense research and development 

10 under the SRBMD program; $40,000,000 shall be for co11 production activities of SRBMD systems in the United 

12 States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements 

13 consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and proce14 dures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement 

15 for SRBMD, as amended; $80,000,000 shall be for an 

16 upper-tier component to the Israeli Missile Defense Archi17 tecture, of which $80,000,000 shall be for co-production 

18 activities of Arrow 3 Upper Tier systems in the United 

19 States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements 

20 consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and proce21 dures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement 

22 for Arrow 3 Upper Tier, as amended; and $173,000,000 

23 shall be for the Arrow System Improvement Program in24 cluding development of a long range, ground and airborne, 

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1 ity provided under this provision is in addition to any 

2 other transfer authority contained in this Act. 

3 SEC. 8069. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

4 under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 

5 $1,648,559,000 shall be available until September 30, 

6 2024, to fund prior year shipbuilding cost increases for 

7 the following programs: 

8 (1) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con9 version, Navy’’, 2013/2024: Carrier Replacement 

10 Program, $624,600,000; 

11 (2) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con12 version, Navy’’, 2015/2024: Virginia Class Sub13 marine Program, $43,419,000; 

14 (3) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con15 version, Navy’’, 2016/2024: Virginia Class Sub16 marine Program, $100,115,000; 

17 (4) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con18 version, Navy’’, 2016/2024: DDG–51 Destroyer, 

19 $104,090,000; 

20 (5) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con21 version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: Virginia Class Sub22 marine Program, $24,646,000; 

23 (6) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con24 version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: DDG–51 Destroyer, 

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1 (7) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con2 version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: LPD–17, $16,520,000; 

3 (8) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con4 version, Navy’’, 2018/2024: Ship to Shore Connector 

5 Program, $43,600,000; 

6 (9) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con7 version, Navy’’, 2019/2024: Littoral Combat Ship, 

8 $23,000,000; 

9 (10) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con10 version, Navy’’, 2019/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 

11 $27,060,000; 

12 (11) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con13 version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: CVN Refueling Over14 hauls, $42,422,000; 

15 (12) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con16 version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 

17 $93,250,000; 

18 (13) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con19 version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 

20 Rescue Ship Program, $1,150,000; 

21 (14) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con22 version, Navy’’, 2021/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 

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1 (15) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con2 version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 

3 $2,585,000; 

4 (16) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con5 version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 

6 Rescue Ship Program, $3,300,000; and 

7 (17) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con8 version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: T-AGOS Surtass Ships 

9 Program, $355,166,000. 

10 SEC. 8070. Funds appropriated by this Act for intel11 ligence and intelligence-related activities are deemed to be 

12 specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec13 tion 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 

14 U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)) until the enactment of the Intelligence 

15 Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. 

16 SEC. 8071. None of the funds provided in this Act 

17 shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 

18 reprogramming of funds that creates or initiates a new 

19 program, project, or activity unless such program, project, 

20 or activity must be undertaken immediately in the interest 

21 of national security and only after written prior notifica22 tion to the congressional defense committees. 

23 SEC. 8072. None of the funds in this Act may be 

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1 ment or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a 

2 missile defense system. 

3 SEC. 8073. None of the funds made available by this 

4 Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of de5 commissioning any Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Ger6 mantown, or the USS Tortuga. 

7 SEC. 8074. For purposes of section 1553(b) of title 

8 31, United States Code, any subdivision of appropriations 

9 made in this Act under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and 

10 Conversion, Navy’’ shall be considered to be for the same 

11 purpose as any subdivision under the heading ‘‘Ship12 building and Conversion, Navy’’ appropriations in any 

13 prior fiscal year, and the 1 percent limitation shall apply 

14 to the total amount of the appropriation. 

15 SEC. 8075. None of the funds appropriated or made 

16 available in this Act shall be used to reduce or disestablish 

17 the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squad18 ron of the Air Force Reserve, if such action would reduce 

19 the WC–130 Weather Reconnaissance mission below the 

20 levels funded in this Act: Provided, That the Air Force 

21 shall allow the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron to 

22 perform other missions in support of national defense re23 quirements during the non-hurricane season. 

24 SEC. 8076. (a) None of the funds appropriated by 

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1 ment, acquisition, or other program authority relating to 

2 current tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) from 

3 the Army. 

4 (b) The Army shall retain responsibility for and oper5 ational control of the MQ–1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aer6 ial Vehicle (UAV) in order to support the Secretary of De7 fense in matters relating to the employment of unmanned 

8 aerial vehicles. 

9 SEC. 8077. None of the funds provided in this Act 

10 shall be available for integration of foreign intelligence in11 formation unless the information has been lawfully col12 lected and processed during the conduct of authorized for13 eign intelligence activities: Provided, That information 

14 pertaining to United States persons shall only be handled 

15 in accordance with protections provided in the Fourth 

16 Amendment of the United States Constitution as imple17 mented through Executive Order No. 12333. 

18 SEC. 8078. None of the funds appropriated by this 

19 Act for programs of the Office of the Director of National 

20 Intelligence shall remain available for obligation beyond 

21 the current fiscal year, except for funds appropriated for 

22 research and technology, which shall remain available until 

23 September 30, 2025, and except for funds appropriated 

24 for the purchase of real property, which shall remain avail25 able until September 30, 2026. 


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1 SEC. 8079. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 

2 of enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel3 ligence shall submit a report to the congressional intel4 ligence committees to establish the baseline for application 

5 of reprogramming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 

6 2024: Provided, That the report shall include— 

7 (1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa8 rate column to display the President’s budget re9 quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments 

10 due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 

11 fiscal year enacted level; 

12 (2) a delineation in the table for each appro13 priation by Expenditure Center and project; and 

14 (3) an identification of items of special congres15 sional interest. 

16 (b) None of the funds provided for the National Intel17 ligence Program in this Act shall be available for re18 programming or transfer until the report identified in sub19 section (a) is submitted to the congressional intelligence 

20 committees, unless the Director of National Intelligence 

21 certifies in writing to the congressional intelligence com22 mittees that such reprogramming or transfer is necessary 

23 as an emergency requirement. 

24 SEC. 8080. (a) None of the funds provided for the 

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1 priations Act shall be available for obligation or expendi2 ture through a reprogramming or transfer of funds in ac3 cordance with section 102A(d) of the National Security 

4 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3024(d)) that— 

5 (1) creates a new start effort; 

6 (2) terminates a program with appropriated 

7 funding of $10,000,000 or more; 

8 (3) transfers funding into or out of the Na9 tional Intelligence Program; or 

10 (4) transfers funding between appropriations, 

11 unless the congressional intelligence committees are 

12 notified 30 days in advance of such reprogramming 

13 of funds; this notification period may be reduced for 

14 urgent national security requirements. 

15 (b) None of the funds provided for the National Intel16 ligence Program in this or any prior appropriations Act 

17 shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 

18 reprogramming or transfer of funds in accordance with 

19 section 102A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 

20 U.S.C. 3024(d)) that results in a cumulative increase or 

21 decrease of the levels specified in the classified annex ac22 companying the Act unless the congressional intelligence 

23 committees are notified 30 days in advance of such re24 programming of funds; this notification period may be re25 duced for urgent national security requirements. 


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1 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8081. Upon a determination by the Director of 

3 National Intelligence that such action is necessary and in 

4 the national interest, the Director may, with the approval 

5 of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer not to 

6 exceed $1,500,000,000 of the funds made available in this 

7 Act for the National Intelligence Program: Provided, That 

8 such authority to transfer may not be used unless for 

9 higher priority items, based on unforeseen intelligence re10 quirements, than those for which originally appropriated 

11 and in no case where the item for which funds are re12 quested has been denied by the Congress: Provided further, 

13 That a request for multiple reprogrammings of funds 

14 using authority provided in this section shall be made 

15 prior to June 30, 2024. 

16 SEC. 8082. Any transfer of amounts appropriated to 

17 the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Devel18 opment Account in or for fiscal year 2024 to a military 

19 department or Defense Agency pursuant to section 

20 1705(e)(1) of title 10, United States Code, shall be cov21 ered by and subject to section 8005 of this Act. 

22 SEC. 8083. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 

23 otherwise made available by this Act may be expended for 

24 any Federal contract for an amount in excess of 

25 $1,000,000, unless the contractor agrees not to— 


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1 (1) enter into any agreement with any of its 

2 employees or independent contractors that requires, 

3 as a condition of employment, that the employee or 

4 independent contractor agree to resolve through ar5 bitration any claim under title VII of the Civil 

6 Rights Act of 1964 or any tort related to or arising 

7 out of sexual assault or harassment, including as8 sault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional 

9 distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, su10 pervision, or retention; or 

11 (2) take any action to enforce any provision of 

12 an existing agreement with an employee or inde13 pendent contractor that mandates that the employee 

14 or independent contractor resolve through arbitra15 tion any claim under title VII of the Civil Rights Act 

16 of 1964 or any tort related to or arising out of sex17 ual assault or harassment, including assault and 

18 battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, 

19 false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, 

20 or retention. 

21 (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 

22 made available by this Act may be expended for any Fed23 eral contract unless the contractor certifies that it requires 

24 each covered subcontractor to agree not to enter into, and 

25 not to take any action to enforce any provision of, any 


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1 agreement as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub2 section (a), with respect to any employee or independent 

3 contractor performing work related to such subcontract. 

4 For purposes of this subsection, a ‘‘covered subcon5 tractor’’ is an entity that has a subcontract in excess of 

6 $1,000,000 on a contract subject to subsection (a). 

7 (c) The prohibitions in this section do not apply with 

8 respect to a contractor’s or subcontractor’s agreements 

9 with employees or independent contractors that may not 

10 be enforced in a court of the United States. 

11 (d) The Secretary of Defense may waive the applica12 tion of subsection (a) or (b) to a particular contractor or 

13 subcontractor for the purposes of a particular contract or 

14 subcontract if the Secretary or the Deputy Secretary per15 sonally determines that the waiver is necessary to avoid 

16 harm to national security interests of the United States, 

17 and that the term of the contract or subcontract is not 

18 longer than necessary to avoid such harm. The determina19 tion shall set forth with specificity the grounds for the 

20 waiver and for the contract or subcontract term selected, 

21 and shall state any alternatives considered in lieu of a 

22 waiver and the reasons each such alternative would not 

23 avoid harm to national security interests of the United 

24 States. The Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Con25 gress, and simultaneously make public, any determination 


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1 under this subsection not less than 15 business days be2 fore the contract or subcontract addressed in the deter3 mination may be awarded. 

4 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

5 SEC. 8084. From within the funds appropriated for 

6 operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Pro7 gram in this Act, up to $172,000,000, shall be available 

8 for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense-Depart9 ment of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration 

10 Fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1704 

11 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

12 2010, Public Law 111–84: Provided, That for purposes 

13 of section 1704(b), the facility operations funded are oper14 ations of the integrated Captain James A. Lovell Federal 

15 Health Care Center, consisting of the North Chicago Vet16 erans Affairs Medical Center, the Navy Ambulatory Care 

17 Center, and supporting facilities designated as a combined 

18 Federal medical facility as described by section 706 of 

19 Public Law 110–417: Provided further, That additional 

20 funds may be transferred from funds appropriated for op21 eration and maintenance for the Defense Health Program 

22 to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Vet23 erans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund upon 

24 written notification by the Secretary of Defense to the 


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1 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent2 atives and the Senate. 

3 SEC. 8085. None of the funds appropriated or other4 wise made available by this Act may be used by the De5 partment of Defense or a component thereof in contraven6 tion of the provisions of section 130h of title 10, United 

7 States Code. 

8 SEC. 8086. Appropriations available to the Depart9 ment of Defense may be used for the purchase of heavy 

10 and light armored vehicles for the physical security of per11 sonnel or for force protection purposes up to a limit of 

12 $450,000 per vehicle, notwithstanding price or other limi13 tations applicable to the purchase of passenger carrying 

14 vehicles. 

15 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

16 SEC. 8087. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

17 for ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, $142,008,000, 

18 to remain available for obligation until September 30, 

19 2028, may be used for the purchase of two used sealift 

20 vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet, established 

21 under section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 

22 (46 U.S.C. 57100): Provided, That such amounts are 

23 available for reimbursements to the Ready Reserve Force, 

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1 ties, and expenses related to the National Defense Reserve 

2 Fleet: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 

3 2218 of title 10, United States Code, none of these funds 

4 shall be transferred to the National Defense Sealift Fund 

5 for execution. 

6 SEC. 8088. (a) Any agency receiving funds made 

7 available in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and 

8 (c), post on the public Web site of that agency any report 

9 required to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 

10 other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen11 cy that it shall serve the national interest. 

12 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 

13 (1) the public posting of the report com14 promises national security; or 

15 (2) the report contains proprietary information. 

16 (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 

17 do so only after such report has been made available to 

18 the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 

19 no less than 45 days. 

20 SEC. 8089. The Secretary of Defense shall post grant 

21 awards on a public website in a searchable format. 

22 SEC. 8090. None of the funds made available by this 

23 Act may be used by the National Security Agency to— 

24 (1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section 

25 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 


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1 1978 for the purpose of targeting a United States 

2 person; or 

3 (2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as 

4 such term is defined in section 2510(8) of title 18, 

5 United States Code) of any electronic communica6 tion of a United States person from a provider of 

7 electronic communication services to the public pur8 suant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Sur9 veillance Act of 1978. 

10 SEC. 8091. None of the funds made available in this 

11 or any other Act may be used to pay the salary of any 

12 officer or employee of any agency funded by this Act who 

13 approves or implements the transfer of administrative re14 sponsibilities or budgetary resources of any program, 

15 project, or activity financed by this Act to the jurisdiction 

16 of another Federal agency not financed by this Act with17 out the express authorization of Congress: Provided, That 

18 this limitation shall not apply to transfers of funds ex19 pressly provided for in Defense Appropriations Acts, or 

20 provisions of Acts providing supplemental appropriations 

21 for the Department of Defense. 

22 SEC. 8092. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

23 for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $667,508,000, 

24 to remain available until expended, may be used for any 

25 purposes related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet 


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1 established under section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales 

2 Act of 1946 (46 U.S.C. 57100): Provided, That such 

3 amounts are available for reimbursements to the Ready 

4 Reserve Force, Maritime Administration account of the 

5 United States Department of Transportation for pro6 grams, projects, activities, and expenses related to the Na7 tional Defense Reserve Fleet. 

8 SEC. 8093. (a) None of the funds provided in this 

9 Act for the TAO Fleet Oiler program shall be used to 

10 award a new contract that provides for the acquisition of 

11 the following components unless those components are 

12 manufactured in the United States: Auxiliary equipment 

13 (including pumps) for shipboard services; propulsion 

14 equipment (including engines, reduction gears, and propel15 lers); shipboard cranes; spreaders for shipboard cranes; 

16 and anchor chains, specifically for the seventh and subse17 quent ships of the fleet. 

18 (b) None of the funds provided in this Act for the 

19 FFG(X) Frigate program shall be used to award a new 

20 contract that provides for the acquisition of the following 

21 components unless those components are manufactured in 

22 the United States: Air circuit breakers; gyrocompasses; 

23 electronic navigation chart systems; steering controls; 

24 pumps; propulsion and machinery control systems; totally 

25 enclosed lifeboats; auxiliary equipment pumps; shipboard 


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1 cranes; auxiliary chill water systems; and propulsion pro2 pellers: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall in3 corporate United States manufactured propulsion engines 

4 and propulsion reduction gears into the FFG(X) Frigate 

5 program beginning not later than with the eleventh ship 

6 of the program. 

7 SEC. 8094. None of the funds provided in this Act 

8 for requirements development, performance specification 

9 development, concept design and development, ship con10 figuration development, systems engineering, naval archi11 tecture, marine engineering, operations research analysis, 

12 industry studies, preliminary design, development of the 

13 Detailed Design and Construction Request for Proposals 

14 solicitation package, or related activities for the T– 

15 ARC(X) Cable Laying and Repair Ship or the T– 

16 AGOS(X) Oceanographic Surveillance Ship may be used 

17 to award a new contract for such activities unless these 

18 contracts include specifications that all auxiliary equip19 ment, including pumps and propulsion shafts, are manu20 factured in the United States. 

21 SEC. 8095. No amounts credited or otherwise made 

22 available in this or any other Act to the Department of 

23 Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Account may 

24 be transferred to: 


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1 (1) the Rapid Prototyping Fund established 

2 under section 804(d) of the National Defense Au3 thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (10 U.S.C. 

4 2302 note); or 

5 (2) credited to a military-department specific 

6 fund established under section 804(d)(2) of the Na7 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

8 2016 (as amended by section 897 of the National 

9 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017). 

10 SEC. 8096. From funds made available in title II of 

11 this Act, the Secretary of Defense may purchase for use 

12 by military and civilian employees of the Department of 

13 Defense in the United States Central Command area of 

14 responsibility: (1) passenger motor vehicles up to a limit 

15 of $75,000 per vehicle; and (2) heavy and light armored 

16 vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for force 

17 protection purposes up to a limit of $450,000 per vehicle, 

18 notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the 

19 purchase of passenger carrying vehicles. 

20 SEC. 8097. None of the funds made available by this 

21 Act may be used for Government Travel Charge Card ex22 penses by military or civilian personnel of the Department 

23 of Defense for gaming, or for entertainment that includes 

24 topless or nude entertainers or participants, as prohibited 

25 by Department of Defense FMR, Volume 9, Chapter 3 


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1 and Department of Defense Instruction 1015.10 (enclo2 sure 3, 14a and 14b). 

3 SEC. 8098. (a) None of the funds made available in 

4 this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 

5 network unless such network is designed to block access 

6 to pornography websites. 

7 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 

8 funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 

9 enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi10 nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities, 

11 or for any activity necessary for the national defense, in12 cluding intelligence activities. 

13 SEC. 8099. None of the funds provided for, or other14 wise made available, in this or any other Act, may be obli15 gated or expended by the Secretary of Defense to provide 

16 motorized vehicles, aviation platforms, munitions other 

17 than small arms and munitions appropriate for customary 

18 ceremonial honors, operational military units, or oper19 ational military platforms if the Secretary determines that 

20 providing such units, platforms, or equipment would un21 dermine the readiness of such units, platforms, or equip22 ment. 

23 SEC. 8100. (a) None of the funds made available by 

24 this or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 

25 memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 


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1 with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 

2 to any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil3 ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad4 ministrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, 

5 and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant 

6 to an agreement with the authority responsible for col7 lecting such tax liability, provided that the applicable Fed8 eral agency is aware of the unpaid Federal tax liability. 

9 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the applicable 

10 Federal agency has considered suspension or debarment 

11 of the corporation described in such subsection and has 

12 made a determination that such suspension or debarment 

13 is not necessary to protect the interests of the Federal 

14 Government. 

15 SEC. 8101. Amounts appropriated under title IV of 

16 this Act, as detailed in budget activity eight of the ‘‘Expla17 nation of Project Level Adjustments’’ tables in the explan18 atory statement regarding this Act, may be used for ex19 penses for the agile research, development, test and eval20 uation, procurement, production, modification, and oper21 ation and maintenance, only for the following Software 

22 and Digital Technology Pilot programs— 

23 (1) Defensive CYBER (PE 0608041A); 

24 (2) Risk Management Information (PE 

25 0608013N); 


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1 (3) Maritime Tactical Command and Control 

2 (PE 0608231N); 

3 (4) Space Command and Control (PE 

4 1208248SF); 

5 (5) Global Command and Control System (PE 

6 0303150K); 

7 (6) Acquisition Visibility (PE 0608648D8Z); 

8 and 

9 (7) Defense Innovation Unit Fielding 

10 (RDTE,DW Line 281A). 

11 SEC. 8102. None of the funds appropriated or other12 wise made available by this Act may be used to transfer 

13 the National Reconnaissance Office to the Space Force: 

14 Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 

15 limit or prohibit cooperation, collaboration, and coordina16 tion between the National Reconnaissance Office and the 

17 Space Force or any other elements of the Department of 

18 Defense. 

19 SEC. 8103. None of the funds made available in this 

20 Act may be used in contravention of the following laws 

21 enacted or regulations promulgated to implement the 

22 United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other 

23 Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 

24 (done at New York on December 10, 1984): 


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1 (1) Section 2340A of title 18, United States 

2 Code. 

3 (2) Section 2242 of the Foreign Affairs Reform 

4 and Restructuring Act of 1998 (division G of Public 

5 Law 105–277; 112 Stat. 2681–822; 8 U.S.C. 1231 

6 note) and regulations prescribed thereto, including 

7 regulations under part 208 of title 8, Code of Fed8 eral Regulations, and part 95 of title 22, Code of 

9 Federal Regulations. 

10 (3) Sections 1002 and 1003 of the Department 

11 of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 

12 to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and 

13 Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (Public Law 109– 

14 148). 

15 SEC. 8104. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

16 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense17 Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 

18 $300,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

19 2025, shall be for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initia20 tive: Provided, That such funds shall be available to the 

21 Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Sec22 retary of State, to provide assistance, including training; 

23 equipment; lethal assistance; logistics support, supplies 

24 and services; salaries and stipends; sustainment; and intel25 ligence support to the military and national security forces 


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1 of Ukraine, and to other forces or groups recognized by 

2 and under the authority of the Government of Ukraine, 

3 including governmental entities within Ukraine, engaged 

4 in resisting Russian aggression against Ukraine, for re5 placement of any weapons or articles provided to the Gov6 ernment of Ukraine from the inventory of the United 

7 States, and to recover or dispose of equipment procured 

8 using funds made available in this section in this or prior 

9 Acts: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 

10 shall, not less than 15 days prior to obligating funds made 

11 available in this section, notify the congressional defense 

12 committees in writing of the details of any such obligation: 

13 Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, not 

14 more than 60 days after such notification is made, inform 

15 such committees if such funds have not been obligated and 

16 the reasons therefor: Provided further, That the Secretary 

17 of Defense shall consult with such committees in advance 

18 of the provision of support provided to other forces or 

19 groups recognized by and under the authority of the Gov20 ernment of Ukraine: Provided further, That the United 

21 States may accept equipment procured using funds made 

22 available in this section in this or prior Acts transferred 

23 to the security forces of Ukraine and returned by such 

24 forces to the United States: Provided further, That equip25 ment procured using funds made available in this section 


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1 in this or prior Acts, and not yet transferred to the mili2 tary or national security forces of Ukraine or to other as3 sisted entities, or returned by such forces or other assisted 

4 entities to the United States, may be treated as stocks 

5 of the Department of Defense upon written notification 

6 to the congressional defense committees: Provided further, 

7 That any notification of funds made available in this sec8 tion in this or prior Acts shall specify whether such funds 

9 support ongoing or new programs, the duration and ex10 pected cost over the life of each program, a timeline for 

11 the delivery of defense articles and defense services, and 

12 any equipment that requires enhanced end-use moni13 toring: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 

14 shall provide quarterly reports to the congressional de15 fense committees on the use and status of funds made 

16 available in this section. 

17 SEC. 8105. None of the funds made available by this 

18 Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assist19 ance to the Azov Battalion. 

20 SEC. 8106. During the current fiscal year, the De21 partment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of 

22 not to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in sec23 tion 2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipa24 tion of receipt of contributions, only from the Government 

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1 tributions shall, upon receipt, be credited to the appropria2 tions or fund which incurred such obligations. 

3 SEC. 8107. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

4 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense5 Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 

6 $1,343,580,000, to remain available until September 30, 

7 2025, shall be available for International Security Co8 operation Programs and other programs to provide sup9 port and assistance to foreign security forces or other 

10 groups or individuals to conduct, support or facilitate 

11 counterterrorism, crisis response, or building partner ca12 pacity programs: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense 

13 shall, not less than 15 days prior to obligating funds made 

14 available in this section, notify the congressional defense 

15 committees in writing of the details of any planned obliga16 tion: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall 

17 provide quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropria18 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate on 

19 the use and status of funds made available in this section. 

20 SEC. 8108. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

21 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense22 Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 

23 $410,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

24 2025, shall be available to reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, 

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1 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (22 

2 U.S.C. 2151 note), for enhanced border security, of which 

3 not less than $150,000,000 shall be for Jordan: Provided, 

4 That the Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 15 days 

5 prior to obligating funds made available in this section, 

6 notify the congressional defense committees in writing of 

7 the details of any planned obligation and the nature of 

8 the expenses incurred: Provided further, That the Sec9 retary of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the 

10 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent11 atives and the Senate on the use and status of funds made 

12 available in this section. 

13 SEC. 8109. None of the funds made available by this 

14 Act may be used in contravention of the War Powers Res15 olution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.). 

16 SEC. 8110. None of the funds made available by this 

17 Act for excess defense articles, assistance under section 

18 333 of title 10, United States Code, or peacekeeping oper19 ations for the countries designated annually to be in viola20 tion of the standards of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act 

21 of 2008 (Public Law 110–457; 22 U.S.C. 2370c–1) may 

22 be used to support any military training or operation that 

23 includes child soldiers, as defined by the Child Soldiers 

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1 wise permitted under section 404 of the Child Soldiers 

2 Prevention Act of 2008. 

3 SEC. 8111. None of the funds made available by this 

4 Act may be made available for any member of the Taliban. 

5 SEC. 8112. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

6 law, any transfer of funds, appropriated or otherwise made 

7 available by this Act, for support to friendly foreign coun8 tries in connection with the conduct of operations in which 

9 the United States is not participating, pursuant to section 

10 331(d) of title 10, United States Code, shall be made in 

11 accordance with section 8005 of this Act. 

12 SEC. 8113. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 

13 otherwise made available by this or any other Act may 

14 be used by the Secretary of Defense, or any other official 

15 or officer of the Department of Defense, to enter into a 

16 contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative 

17 agreement with, or make a grant to, or provide a loan 

18 or loan guarantee to Rosoboronexport or any subsidiary 

19 of Rosoboronexport. 

20 (b) The Secretary of Defense may waive the limita21 tion in subsection (a) if the Secretary, in consultation with 

22 the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intel23 ligence, determines that it is in the vital national security 

24 interest of the United States to do so, and certifies in writ25 ing to the congressional defense committees that— 


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1 (1) Rosoboronexport has ceased the transfer of 

2 lethal military equipment to, and the maintenance of 

3 existing lethal military equipment for, the Govern4 ment of the Syrian Arab Republic; 

5 (2) the armed forces of the Russian Federation 

6 have withdrawn from Ukraine; and 

7 (3) agents of the Russian Federation have 

8 ceased taking active measures to destabilize the con9 trol of the Government of Ukraine over eastern 

10 Ukraine. 

11 (c) The Inspector General of the Department of De12 fense shall conduct a review of any action involving 

13 Rosoboronexport with respect to a waiver issued by the 

14 Secretary of Defense pursuant to subsection (b), and not 

15 later than 90 days after the date on which such a waiver 

16 is issued by the Secretary of Defense, the Inspector Gen17 eral shall submit to the congressional defense committees 

18 a report containing the results of the review conducted 

19 with respect to such waiver. 

20 SEC. 8114. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

21 under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense22 Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 

23 $15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

24 2025, shall be for payments to reimburse key cooperating 

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1 ing access, provided to United States military and stability 

2 operations to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: 

3 Provided, That such reimbursement payments may be 

4 made in such amounts as the Secretary of Defense, with 

5 the concurrence of the Secretary of State, and in consulta6 tion with the Director of the Office of Management and 

7 Budget, may determine, based on documentation deter8 mined by the Secretary of Defense to adequately account 

9 for the support provided, and such determination is final 

10 and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the United 

11 States, and 15 days following written notification to the 

12 appropriate congressional committees: Provided further, 

13 That these funds may be used for the purpose of providing 

14 specialized training and procuring supplies and specialized 

15 equipment and providing such supplies and loaning such 

16 equipment on a non-reimbursable basis to coalition forces 

17 supporting United States military and stability operations 

18 to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and 15 

19 days following written notification to the appropriate con20 gressional committees: Provided further, That the Sec21 retary of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the 

22 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent23 atives and the Senate on the use and status of funds made 

24 available in this section. 


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1 SEC. 8115. The Secretary of Defense shall notify the 

2 congressional defense committees in writing not more than 

3 30 days after the receipt of any contribution of funds re4 ceived from the government of a foreign country for any 

5 purpose relating to the stationing or operations of the 

6 United States Armed Forces: Provided, That such notifi7 cation shall include the amount of the contribution; the 

8 purpose for which such contribution was made; and the 

9 authority under which such contribution was accepted by 

10 the Secretary of Defense: Provided further, That not fewer 

11 than 15 days prior to obligating such funds, the Secretary 

12 of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense com13 mittees in writing a notification of the planned use of such 

14 contributions, including whether such contributions would 

15 support existing or new stationing or operations of the 

16 United States Armed Forces. 

17 SEC. 8116. (a) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 

18 in coordination with the Secretaries of the military depart19 ments and the Chiefs of the Armed Forces, shall submit 

20 to the congressional defense committees, not later than 30 

21 days after the last day of each quarter of the fiscal year, 

22 a report on the use of operation and maintenance funds 

23 for activities or exercises in excess of $5,000,000 that have 

24 been designated by the Secretary of Defense as unplanned 

25 activities for fiscal year 2024. 


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1 (b) Each report required by subsection (a) shall also 

2 include— 

3 (1) the title, date, and location, of each activity 

4 and exercise covered by the report; 

5 (2) an identification of the military department 

6 and units that participated in each such activity or 

7 exercise (including an estimate of the number of 

8 participants); 

9 (3) the total cost of the activity or exercise, by 

10 budget line item (with a breakdown by cost element 

11 such as transportation); and 

12 (4) a short explanation of the objective of the 

13 activity or exercise. 

14 (c) The report required by subsection (a) shall be 

15 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi16 fied annex. 

17 SEC. 8117. Not later than 15 days after the date on 

18 which any foreign base that involves the stationing or op19 erations of the United States Armed Forces, including a 

20 temporary base, permanent base, or base owned and oper21 ated by a foreign country, is opened or closed, the Sec22 retary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense 

23 committees in writing of the opening or closing of such 

24 base: Provided, That such notification shall also include 


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1 information on any personnel changes, costs, and savings 

2 associated with the opening or closing of such base. 

3 SEC. 8118. None of the funds made available by this 

4 Act may be used with respect to Iraq in contravention of 

5 the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.), in6 cluding for the introduction of United States Armed 

7 Forces into hostilities in Iraq, into situations in Iraq 

8 where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indi9 cated by the circumstances, or into Iraqi territory, air10 space, or waters while equipped for combat, in contraven11 tion of the congressional consultation and reporting re12 quirements of sections 3 and 4 of such Resolution (50 

13 U.S.C. 1542 and 1543). 

14 SEC. 8119. None of the funds made available by this 

15 Act may be used with respect to Syria in contravention 

16 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.), 

17 including for the introduction of United States armed or 

18 military forces into hostilities in Syria, into situations in 

19 Syria where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly 

20 indicated by the circumstances, or into Syrian territory, 

21 airspace, or waters while equipped for combat, in con22 travention of the congressional consultation and reporting 

23 requirements of sections 3 and 4 of that law (50 U.S.C. 

24 1542 and 1543). 


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1 SEC. 8120. None of the funds appropriated or other2 wise made available by this or any other Act shall be obli3 gated or expended by the United States Government for 

4 a purpose as follows: 

5 (1) To establish any military installation or 

6 base for the purpose of providing for the permanent 

7 stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq. 

8 (2) To exercise United States control over any 

9 oil resource of Iraq or Syria. 

10 SEC. 8121. None of the funds made available by this 

11 Act under the heading ‘‘Counter-ISIS Train and Equip 

12 Fund’’, and under the heading ‘‘Operation and Mainte13 nance, Defense-Wide’’ for Department of Defense security 

14 cooperation grant programs, may be used to procure or 

15 transfer man-portable air defense systems. 

16 SEC. 8122. Up to $500,000,000 of funds appro17 priated by this Act for the Defense Security Cooperation 

18 Agency in ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’ 

19 may be used to provide assistance to the Government of 

20 Jordan to support the armed forces of Jordan and to en21 hance security along its borders. 

22 SEC. 8123. Not later than 180 days after the date 

23 of the enactment of this Act, United States Southern 

24 Command shall assume combatant command responsi25 bility for activities related to Mexico. 


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1 SEC. 8124. None of the funds appropriated or other2 wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 

3 to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 

4 or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 

5 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 

6 (1) is not a United States citizen or a member 

7 of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 

8 (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 

9 at United States Naval Station, Guanta ́namo Bay, 

10 Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 

11 SEC. 8125. None of the funds appropriated or other12 wise made available in this Act may be used to transfer 

13 any individual detained at United States Naval Station 

14 Guanta ́namo Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control of the 

15 individual’s country of origin, any other foreign country, 

16 or any other foreign entity except in accordance with sec17 tion 1034 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 

18 Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92) and section 1035 

19 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization 

20 Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232). 

21 SEC. 8126. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 

22 otherwise made available in this or any other Act may be 

23 used to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the 

24 United States, its territories, or possessions to house any 

25 individual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of 


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1 detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the ef2 fective control of the Department of Defense. 

3 (b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 

4 to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 

5 Station, Guanta ́namo Bay, Cuba. 

6 (c) An individual described in this subsection is any 

7 individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 

8 States Naval Station, Guanta ́namo Bay, Cuba, and who— 

9 (1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 

10 member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 

11 and 

12 (2) is— 

13 (A) in the custody or under the effective 

14 control of the Department of Defense; or 

15 (B) otherwise under detention at United 

16 States Naval Station, Guanta ́namo Bay, Cuba. 

17 SEC. 8127. None of the funds made available by this 

18 Act may be used to carry out the closure or realignment 

19 of the United States Naval Station, Guanta ́namo Bay, 

20 Cuba. 

21 SEC. 8128. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

22 this Act, to reflect savings due to favorable foreign ex23 change rates, the total amount appropriated in this Act 

24 is hereby reduced by $950,000,000. 


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1 SEC. 8129. In carrying out the program described in 

2 the memorandum on the subject of ‘‘Policy for Assisted 

3 Reproductive Services for the Benefit of Seriously or Se4 verely Ill/Injured (Category II or III) Active Duty Service 

5 Members’’ issued by the Assistant Secretary of Defense 

6 for Health Affairs on April 3, 2012, and the guidance 

7 issued to implement such memorandum, the Secretary of 

8 Defense shall apply such policy and guidance, except 

9 that— 

10 (1) the limitation on periods regarding embryo 

11 cryopreservation and storage set forth in part III(G) 

12 and in part IV(H) of such memorandum shall not 

13 apply; and 

14 (2) the term ‘‘assisted reproductive technology’’ 

15 shall include embryo cryopreservation and storage 

16 without limitation on the duration of such 

17 cryopreservation and storage. 

18 SEC. 8130. None of the funds appropriated or other19 wise made available by this Act may be made used to sup20 port, directly or indirectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virol21 ogy, or any laboratory owned or controlled by the govern22 ments of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of 

23 Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic Peo24 ple’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the 

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1 gime, or any other country determined by the Secretary 

2 of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, 

3 to be a foreign adversary. 

4 SEC. 8131. None of the funds made available by this 

5 Act may be used to fund any work to be performed by 

6 EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. in China on research supported 

7 by the government of China unless the Secretary of De8 fense determines that a waiver to such prohibition is in 

9 the national security interests of the United States and, 

10 not later than 14 days after granting such a waiver, sub11 mits to the congressional defense committees a detailed 

12 justification for the waiver, including— 

13 (1) an identification of the Department of De14 fense entity obligating or expending the funds; 

15 (2) an identification of the amount of such 

16 funds; 

17 (3) an identification of the intended purpose of 

18 such funds; 

19 (4) an identification of the recipient or prospec20 tive recipient of such funds (including any third21 party entity recipient, as applicable); 

22 (5) an explanation for how the waiver is in the 

23 national security interests of the United States; and 

24 (6) any other information the Secretary deter25 mines appropriate. 


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1 SEC. 8132. The Secretary of the Navy shall continue 

2 to provide pay and allowances to Lieutenant Ridge 

3 Alkonis, United States Navy, until such time as the Sec4 retary of the Navy makes a determination with respect 

5 to the separation of Lieutenant Alkonis from the Navy. 

6 SEC. 8133. The Secretary of Defense may obligate 

7 funds made available in this Act for procurement or for 

8 research, development, test and evaluation for the F-35 

9 Joint Strike Fighter to modify up to six F-35 aircraft, 

10 including up to two F-35 aircraft of each variant, to a 

11 test configuration: Provided, That the Secretary of De12 fense shall, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the 

13 Air Force and the Secretary of the Navy, notify the con14 gressional defense committees not fewer than 30 days 

15 prior to obligating funds under this section: Provided fur16 ther, That any transfer of funds pursuant to the authority 

17 provided in this section shall be made in accordance with 

18 section 8005 of this Act. 

19 SEC. 8134. None of the funds appropriated or other20 wise made available by this Act may be obligated to inte21 grate an alternative engine on any F-35 aircraft. 

22 SEC. 8135. Funds appropriated in title III of this Act 

23 may be used to enter into a contract or contracts for the 

24 procurement of airframes and engines for the CH-53K 

25 heavy lift helicopter program. 


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1 SEC. 8136. (a) Within 45 days of enactment of this 

2 Act, the Secretary of Defense shall allocate amounts made 

3 available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce 

4 Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Defense Fund for 

5 fiscal year 2024 pursuant to the transfer authority in sec6 tion 102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of 

7 Public Law 117-167), to the account specified, in the 

8 amounts specified, and for the projects and activities spec9 ified, in the table titled ‘‘Department of Defense Alloca10 tion of Funds: CHIPS and Science Act Fiscal Year 2024’’ 

11 in the report accompanying this Act. 

12 (b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo13 cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 

14 year under section 102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 

15 if there is in effect an Act making or continuing appro16 priations for part of a fiscal year for the Department of 

17 Defense: Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter pre18 ceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation, appor19 tionment, or allotment of amounts for continuing adminis20 tration of programs allocated using funds transferred from 

21 the CHIPS for America Defense Fund, which may be allo22 cated pursuant to the transfer authority in section 

23 102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 only in amounts that 

24 are no more than the allocation for such purposes in sub25 section (a) of this section. 


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1 (c) The Secretary of Defense may reallocate funds 

2 allocated by subsection (a) of this section, subject to the 

3 terms and conditions contained in the provisos in section 

4 8005 of this Act: Provided, That amounts may be reallo5 cated pursuant to this subsection only for those require6 ments necessary to carry out section 9903(b) of the Wil7 liam M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authoriza8 tion Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283). 

9 (d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 

10 the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of De11 fense shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 

12 of the House of Representatives and the Senate proposed 

13 allocations by account and by program, project, or activity, 

14 with detailed justifications, for amounts made available 

15 under section 102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for 

16 fiscal year 2025. 

17 (e) The Department of Defense shall provide the 

18 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent19 atives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of bal20 ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 

21 America Defense Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to 

22 subsection (a) of this section, including all uncommitted, 

23 committed, and unobligated funds. 

24 SEC. 8137. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 

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1 Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’ for the Office of Strategic 

2 Capital, $99,000,000, to remain available until September 

3 30, 2028, shall be available for the cost of loans and loan 

4 guarantees: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 

5 of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 

6 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1947. 

7 SEC. 8138. In addition to the amounts appropriated 

8 or otherwise made available by this Act, $800,000,000 is 

9 hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense to as10 sist with increasing pay for certain enlisted grades: Pro11 vided, That the Secretary of Defense shall change the fol12 lowing cells in the military monthly basic pay table that 

13 was effective as of January 1, 2023 to the following: E14 1 with greater than four months in service to $2,600.60, 

15 E-2 to $2,799.20, E-3 with less than three years of service 

16 to $2,900.90, E-3 with three years of service to $2,950.60, 

17 E-3 with four years of service to $3,000.60, E-3 with six 

18 or more years of service to $3,050.60, E-4 with less than 

19 two years of service to $3,010.50, E-4 with two years of 

20 service to $3,060.60, E-4 with three years of service to 

21 $3,100.10, E-4 with four years of service to $3,150.80, 

22 E-4 with six years of service to $3,210.30, E-4 with eight 

23 or more years of service to $3,260.30, E-5 with less than 

24 two years of service to $3,100.30, E-5 with two years of 

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1 $3,200.20, E-5 with four years of service to $3,250.20, 

2 E-6 with less than two years of service to $3,210: Provided 

3 further, That the 5.2 percent increase in pay in the fiscal 

4 year 2024 budget request for all grades is in addition to 

5 the changes identified in this section. 

6 SEC. 8139. None of the funds appropriated or other7 wise made available by this Act may be used to release 

8 information described in paragraph C4.2.2.5.2 of DoD 

9 5400.11-R regarding a current or former member of the 

10 Armed Forces to any non-Federal entity or person without 

11 the consent of such member or former member or, if the 

12 member or former member is deceased, the consent of the 

13 next of kin of such member or former member or a legally 

14 authorized representative of the estate of such member or 

15 former member, unless such information is requested 

16 under section 552 of title 5 (commonly referred to as the 

17 ‘‘Freedom of Information Act’’) and such information is 

18 not exempt from disclosure under such section: Provided, 

19 That if such information is requested under such section, 

20 the releasing authority shall notify the member or former 

21 member who is the subject of the request or, if the mem22 ber or former member is deceased, the next of kin of such 

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1 ther, That this section shall not apply to a request for such 

2 information from a State or local law enforcement agency. 

3 SEC. 8140. None of the funds appropriated or other4 wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex5 pended for acquisition, construction, installation, or leas6 ing of temporary or permanent public works, military in7 stallations, facilities, and real property, or otherwise up8 date, modernize, or repair current public works, military 

9 installations, and facilities, including leased structures, for 

10 United States Space Command until such time as the Sec11 retary of the Air Force formally selects and publicly an12 nounces the permanent location of the United States 

13 Space Command Headquarters in alignment to the United 

14 States Air Force Selection Process for the Permanent Lo15 cation of the United States Space Command Head16 quarters, as validated by the United States Government 

17 Accountability Office Report to Congress concerning 

18 United States Space Command (GAO-22-106055) and 

19 United States Department of Defense Inspector General 

20 Report titled ‘‘Evaluation of the Air Force Selection Proc21 ess for the Permanent Location of the United States 

22 Space Command Headquarters’’ (DODIG-2022-096). 

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1 section 554(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act 

2 for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283). 

3 SEC. 8142. None of the funds appropriated or other4 wise made available by this Act may be used to implement, 

5 administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Diversity, Eq6 uity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan of the De7 partment of Defense, or Executive Order 13985 of Janu8 ary 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing 

9 racial equity and support for under-served communities 

10 through the Federal Government), Executive Order 14035 

11 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diver12 sity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Federal 

13 workforce), Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 

14 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advancing racial 

15 equity and support for underserved communities through 

16 the Federal government), or shall be used to execute ac17 tivities that promote or perpetuate divisive concepts re18 lated to race or sex, such as the concepts that one race 

19 or sex is inherently superior to another, or that an individ20 ual’s moral character or worth is determined by their race 

21 or sex. 

22 SEC. 8143. None of the funds made available by this 

23 Act may be used for surgical procedures or hormone thera24 pies for the purposes of gender affirming care. 


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1 SEC. 8144. None of the funds appropriated or other2 wise made available by this Act may be used to promote, 

3 host, facilitate, or support events on United States mili4 tary installations or as part of military recruiting pro5 grams that violate the Department of Defense Joint Eth6 ics Regulation or bring discredit upon the military, such 

7 as a drag queen story hour for children or the use of drag 

8 queens as military recruiters. 

9 SEC. 8145. None of the funds appropriated or other10 wise made available by this Act may be used or transferred 

11 to another Federal agency, board, or commission to re12 cruit, hire, or promote any person who has been convicted 

13 of a Federal or State child pornography charge, has been 

14 convicted of any other Federal or State sexual assault 

15 charge, or has been formally disciplined for using Federal 

16 resources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 

17 SEC. 8146. None of the funds appropriated by or 

18 made available in this Act shall be used to implement, ad19 minister, or otherwise carry out the Department of De20 fense memorandum dated October 20, 2022, or any suc21 cessor to such memorandum, or to propose, promulgate, 

22 or implement any substantially similar rule or policy. 

23 SEC. 8147. None of the funds appropriated or other24 wise made available by this Act may be used to finalize, 

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1 partment of Defense titled ‘‘Federal Acquisition Regula2 tion: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cli3 mate-Related Financial Risk’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 68312; No4 vember 14, 2022), or to propose, promulgate, or imple5 ment any substantially similar rule or policy. 

6 SEC. 8148. None of the funds appropriated or other7 wise made available by this Act may be used to carry out 

8 any program, project, or activity that promotes or ad9 vances Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with 

10 Critical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea 

11 or concept that condones an individual being discriminated 

12 against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based 

13 on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling discom14 fort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological dis15 tress on account of that individual’s race or sex, as well 

16 as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently 

17 superior to another race, the United States or its institu18 tions as being systemically racist or sexist, an individual 

19 as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue 

20 of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s moral char21 acter as being necessarily determined by race or sex, an 

22 individual as bearing responsibility for actions committed 

23 in the past by other members of the same race or sex, 

24 or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created 

25 by a particular race to oppress another race. 


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1 SEC. 8149. None of the funds appropriated or other2 wise made available in this Act may be used to— 

3 (1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 

4 communications by a United States person as mis5 , dis-, or mal-information; or 

6 (2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or7 ganizations that pressure or recommend private 

8 companies to censor lawful and constitutionally pro9 tected speech of United States persons, including 

10 recommending the censoring or removal of content 

11 on social media platforms. 

12 SEC. 8150. None of the funds appropriated or other13 wise made available by this Act may be used to grant, 

14 renew, or maintain a security clearance for any individual 

15 listed as a signatory in the statement titled ‘‘Public State16 ment on the Hunter Biden Emails’’ dated October 19, 

17 2020. 

18 SEC. 8151. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding sec19 tion 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of 

20 title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 

21 none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro22 priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 

23 any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par24 tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 

25 accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 


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1 conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 

2 a union of one man and one woman. 

3 (b) DISCRIMINATORY ACTION DEFINED.—As used in 

4 subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action 

5 taken by the Federal Government to— 

6 (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 

7 of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as8 sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp9 tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter10 nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 

11 in subsection (a); 

12 (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur13 poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 

14 such person; 

15 (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 

16 exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 

17 deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co18 operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li19 cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 

20 other similar position or status from or to such per21 son; 

22 (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth23 erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 

24 benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 

25 admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 


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1 degree from an educational program, from or to 

2 such person; or 

3 (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth4 erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle5 ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in6 stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 

7 and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam8 paigns from or to such person. 

9 (c) ACCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.— 

10 The Federal Government shall consider accredited, li11 censed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person 

12 that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respec13 tively, for such purposes but for a determination against 

14 such person wholly or partially on the basis that the per15 son speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held 

16 religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection 

17 (a). 

18 SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT

19 SEC. 8152. $0. 

20 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Defense 

21 Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 


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[FULL COMMITTEE PRINT] 

Union Calendar No. ll 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. ll 

[Report No. 118–ll] 

A BILL 

Making appropriations for the Department of De2024, and for other purposes. fense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 

JUNE --, 2023 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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