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(A) current authorities and responsibilities; 
and 
(B) such other authorities as are deter-
mined to be relevant by the Secretary of De-
fense. 
(7) Identification of any statutory barriers to 
implementing the master plan and legislative pro-
posals to address such barriers. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In developing the master plan 
required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense 
and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and En-
gineering shall consult with— 
(1) the Secretary of each military department; 
(2) the Service Acquisition Executives with re-
sponsibilities relevant to the laboratories; 
(3) the commander of each military command 
with responsibilities relating to research and engi-
neering that is affected by the master plan; and 
(4) any other officials determined to be relevant 
by the Secretary of Defense and the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering. 
(d) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary 
of Defense for Research and Engineering shall submit to 
the congressional defense committees a report that identi-
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fies any barriers that prevent the full use and implementa-
tion of current authorities and responsibilities and such 
other authorities as are determined to be relevant by the 
Secretary of Defense, including any barriers presented by 
the policies, authorities, and activities of— 
(1) organizations and elements of the Depart-
ment of Defense; and 
(2) organizations outside the Department. 
(e) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than October 30, 
2020, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees— 
(1) the master plan developed under subsection 
(a); and 
(2) a report on the activities carried out under 
this section. 
SEC. 232. MASTER PLAN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED 
TO 
SUPPORT 
RESEARCH, 
DEVELOPMENT, 
TEST, AND EVALUATION MISSIONS. 
(a) PLAN REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense, in 
consultation with the Secretaries of the military depart-
ments, shall develop and implement a master plan that 
addresses the research, development, test, and evaluation 
infrastructure and modernization requirements of the De-
partment of Defense, including the science and technology
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reinvention laboratories and the facilities of the Major 
Range and Test Facility Base. 
(b) EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED INFRASTRUCTURE RES-
TORATION MASTER PLAN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of any base dam-
aged by the July 2019 earthquakes within the R– 
2508 Special Use Airspace Complex (including U.S. 
Air Force Plant 42), the Secretary of Defense shall 
complete and submit to the congressional defense 
committees the master plan required by subsection 
(a), by not later than October 1, 2019. If additional 
funding is required to repair or improve the installa-
tions’ research, development, test, evaluation, train-
ing, and related infrastructure to a modern standard 
as a result of damage caused by the earthquakes, 
the request for funding shall be made in either a dis-
aster or supplemental appropriations request to Con-
gress or the Secretary of Defense shall include the 
request for funding in the annual budget submission 
of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, whichever comes first. The re-
quest for additional funding may be included in both 
requests if appropriate. 
(2) POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES.—
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(A) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense 
of Congress that— 
(i) the military installations located 
within the R–2508 Special Use Airspace 
Complex, including Edwards Air Force 
Base, Fort Irwin, and Naval Air Weapons 
Station China Lake, are national assets of 
critical importance to our country’s defense 
system; 
(ii) the R–2508 Special Use Airspace 
Complex is comprised of all airspace and 
associated land used and managed by the 
412 Test Wing at Edwards Air Force 
Base, the National Training Center at 
Fort Irwin, and the Naval Air Warfare 
Center Weapons Division at China Lake, 
California; 
(iii) the essential research, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation missions con-
ducted at Edwards Air Force Base and 
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, 
along with the critical combat preparation 
training conducted at Fort Irwin, make 
these installations vital cornerstones within 
our National Defense architecture inte-
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grating all operational domains, air, land, 
sea, space, and cyberspace; 
(iv) any damage to these military in-
stallations caused by the earthquakes and 
the negative impact on the installations’ 
missions as a result are a cause for con-
cern; 
(v) the proud men and women, both 
in uniform and their civilian counterparts, 
who work at these military installations de-
velop, test, and evaluate the best tools and 
impart 
the 
training 
needed 
for 
our 
warfighters, so that our military remains 
second to none; 
(vi) in light of the earthquakes in July 
2019, the Secretary of Defense should re-
program or marshal, to the fullest extent 
the law allows, all available resources that 
are necessary and appropriate to ensure— 
(I) the safety and security of the 
base employees, both civilian and 
those in uniform, including those who 
have been evacuated; 
(II) the bases are mission capa-
ble; and
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(III) that all the damage caused 
by any earthquake is repaired and im-
proved as expeditiously as possible. 
(B) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United 
States, when planning or making repairs on 
military installations damaged by natural disas-
ters, the current and future requirements of 
these military installations, as identified in the 
National Defense Strategy, shall, to the fullest 
extent practical, be made. 
(c) ELEMENTS.—The master plan required under 
subsection (a) shall include, with respect to the research, 
development, test, and evaluation infrastructure of the De-
partment of Defense, the following: 
(1) A summary of deficiencies in the infrastruc-
ture, by location, and the effect of the deficiencies 
on the ability of the Department— 
(A) to meet current and future military re-
quirements identified in the National Defense 
Strategy; 
(B) to support science and technology de-
velopment and acquisition programs; and 
(C) to recruit and train qualified per-
sonnel.
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(2) A summary of existing and emerging mili-
tary research, development, test, and evaluation mis-
sion areas, by location, that require modernization 
investments in the infrastructure— 
(A) to improve operations in a manner 
that may benefit all users; 
(B) to enhance the overall capabilities of 
the research, development, test, and evaluation 
infrastructure, including facilities and re-
sources; 
(C) to improve safety for personnel and fa-
cilities; and 
(D) to reduce the long-term cost of oper-
ation and maintenance. 
(3) Identification of specific infrastructure 
projects that are required to address the infrastruc-
ture deficiencies identified under paragraph (1) or to 
support the existing and emerging mission areas 
identified under paragraph (2). 
(4) For each project identified under paragraph 
(3)— 
(A) a description of the scope of work; 
(B) a cost estimate; 
(C) a summary of the plan for the project;
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(D) an explanation of the level of priority 
that will be given to the project; and 
(E) a schedule of required infrastructure 
investments. 
(5) A description of how the Department, in-
cluding each military department concerned, will 
carry out the infrastructure projects identified in 
paragraph (3) using the range of authorities and 
methods available to the Department, including— 
(A) military construction authority under 
section 2802 of title 10, United States Code; 
(B) unspecified minor military construction 
authority under section 2805(a) of such title; 
(C) 
laboratory 
revitalization 
authority 
under section 2805(d) of such title; 
(D) the authority to carry out facility re-
pair projects, including the conversion of exist-
ing facilities, under section 2811 of such title; 
(E) the authority provided under the De-
fense Laboratory Modernization Pilot Program 
under section 2803 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public 
Law 114–92; 10 U.S.C. 2358 note); 
(F) methods that leverage funding from 
entities outside the Department, including pub-
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lic-private partnerships, enhanced use leases, 
real property exchanges; and 
(G) any other authorities and methods de-
termined to be appropriate by the Secretary of 
Defense. 
(6) An updated description of real property 
asset military construction needs at MRTFBs com-
pared to those reported by the Department of De-
fense in response to House Report 114–102, to ac-
company H.R. 1735, the National Defense Author-
ization Act of Fiscal Year 2016. 
(7) An assessment of the Department of De-
fense Test and Resource Management Center’s abil-
ity to support testing for future warfare needs at 
MRTFBs, including those identified in the Depart-
ment of Defense 2018 National Defense Strategy. 
(8) Identification of any statutory, regulatory, 
or policy barriers to implementing the master plan 
and regulatory, policy, or legislative proposals to ad-
dress such barriers. 
(d) CONSULTATION
AND USE
OF CONTRACT AU-
THORITY.—In implementing the plan required under sub-
section (a), the Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) consult with existing and anticipated users 
of the Major Range and Test Facility Base; and
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(2) consider using the contract authority pro-
vided to the Secretary under section 2681 of title 
10, United States Code. 
(e) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not later than Oc-
tober 30, 2020, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
the congressional defense committees the master plan de-
veloped under subsection (a). 
(f) RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUC-
TURE DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation infrastructure’’ means the 
infrastructure of— 
(1) the science and technology reinvention lab-
oratories (as designated under section 1105 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2010 (Public Law 111–84; 10 U.S.C. 2358 note)); 
(2) the Major Range and Test Facility Base (as 
defined in section 2358a(f)(3) of title 10, United 
States Code); 
(3) other facilities that support the research de-
velopment, test, and evaluation activities of the De-
partment; and 
(4) the United States Naval Observatory (as 
described in section 8715 of title 10, United States 
Code).
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SEC. 233. STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR 
FIFTH GENERATION INFORMATION AND COM-
MUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall develop— 
(1) a strategy for harnessing fifth generation 
(commonly known as ‘‘5G’’) information and com-
munications technologies to enhance military capa-
bilities, maintain a technological advantage on the 
battlefield, and accelerate the deployment of new 
commercial products and services enabled by 5G net-
works throughout the Department of Defense; and 
(2) a plan for implementing the strategy devel-
oped under paragraph (1). 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following elements: 
(1) Adoption and use of secure fourth genera-
tion (commonly known as ‘‘4G’’) communications 
technologies and the transition to advanced and se-
cure 5G communications technologies for military 
applications. 
(2) Science, technology, research, and develop-
ment efforts to facilitate the advancement and adop-
tion of 5G technology and new uses of 5G systems, 
subsystems, and components, including—
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(A) 5G testbeds for developing military ap-
plications; and 
(B) spectrum-sharing technologies and 
frameworks. 
(3) Strengthening engagement and outreach 
with industry, academia, international partners, and 
other departments and agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment on issues relating to 5G technology. 
(4) Defense industrial base supply chain risk, 
management, and opportunities. 
(5) Preserving the ability of the Joint Force to 
achieve objectives in a contested and congested spec-
trum environment. 
(6) Strengthening the ability of the Joint Force 
to conduct full spectrum operations that enhance the 
military advantages of the United States. 
(7) Securing the information technology and 
weapon systems of the Department against malicious 
activity. 
(8) Such other matters as the Secretary of De-
fense determines to be relevant. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In developing the strategy and 
implementation plan required under subsection (a), the 
Secretary of Defense shall consult with the following:
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(1) The Chief Information Officer of the De-
partment of Defense. 
(2) The Under Secretary of Defense for Re-
search and Engineering. 
(3) The Under Secretary of Defense for Acqui-
sition and Sustainment. 
(4) The Under Secretary of Defense for Intel-
ligence. 
(5) Service Acquisition Executives of each mili-
tary service. 
(d) BRIEFING.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall provide to the congressional defense committees a 
briefing on the progress of the Secretary in developing the 
strategy and implementation plan required under sub-
section (a). 
SEC. 234. DEPARTMENT-WIDE SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY. 
(a) DESIGNATION OF SENIOR OFFICIAL.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering and in 
consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Ac-
quisition and Sustainment, shall designate a single official 
or existing entity within the Department of Defense as
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the official or entity (as the case may be) with principal 
responsibility for guiding the direction of research and de-
velopment of next generation software and software inten-
sive systems for the Department, including the research 
and development of— 
(1) new technologies for the creation of highly 
secure, reliable, and mission-critical software; and 
(2) new approaches to software development, 
data-based analytics, and next generation manage-
ment tools. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGY.—The official or 
entity designated under subsection (a) shall develop a De-
partment-wide strategy for the research and development 
of next generation software and software intensive systems 
for the Department of Defense, including strategies for— 
(1) types of software innovation efforts within 
the science and technology portfolio of the Depart-
ment; 
(2) investment in new approaches to software 
development, data-based analytics, and next genera-
tion management tools; 
(3) ongoing research and other support of aca-
demic, commercial, and development community ef-
forts to innovate the software development, engineer-
ing, and testing process;
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(4) to the extent practicable, implementing the 
recommendations set forth in— 
(A) the final report of the Defense Innova-
tion Board submitted to the congressional de-
fense committees under section 872 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2018 (Public Law 115–91; 131 Stat. 
1497); and 
(B) the final report of the Defense Science 
Board Task Force on the Design and Acquisi-
tion of Software for Defense Systems described 
in section 868 of the John S. McCain National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 
(Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 2223 note); 
(5) supporting the acquisition, technology devel-
opment, and test and operational needs of the De-
partment through the development of capabilities, 
including personnel and infrastructure, and pro-
grams in— 
(A) the science and technology reinvention 
laboratories (as designated under section 1105 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 10 
U.S.C. 2358 note));
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(B) the facilities of the Major Range and 
Test Facility Base (as defined in section 
2358a(f)(3) of title 10, United States Code); 
and 
(C) 
the 
Defense 
Advanced 
Research 
Projects Agency; and 
(6) the transition of relevant capabilities and 
technologies to information technology programs of 
the Department, including software intensive tactical 
systems, enterprise systems, and business systems. 
(c) SUBMITTAL TO CONGRESS.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the offi-
cial or entity designated under subsection (a) shall submit 
to the congressional defense committees the strategy de-
veloped under subsection (b). 
SEC. 235. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION STRAT-
EGY. 
(a) STRATEGY REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall develop a strategy for educating service mem-
bers in relevant occupational fields on matters relat-
ing to artificial intelligence. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The strategy developed under 
subsection (a) shall include a curriculum designed to 
give service members a basic knowledge of artificial
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intelligence. The curriculum shall include instruction 
in— 
(A) artificial intelligence design; 
(B) software coding; 
(C) potential military applications for arti-
ficial intelligence; 
(D) the impact of artificial intelligence on 
military strategy and doctrine; 
(E) artificial intelligence decisionmaking 
via machine learning and neural networks; 
(F) ethical issues relating to artificial in-
telligence; 
(G) the potential biases of artificial intel-
ligence; 
(H) potential weakness in artificial intel-
ligence technology; 
(I) opportunities and risks; and 
(J) any other matters the Secretary of De-
fense determines to be relevant. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall develop a plan for implementing the strategy 
developed under subsection (a).
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(2) ELEMENTS.—The implementation plan re-
quired under paragraph (1) shall identify the fol-
lowing: 
(A) The military occupational specialties 
(applicable to enlisted members and officers) 
that are most likely to involve interaction with 
artificial intelligence technology. 
(B) The specific occupational specialties 
that will receive training in accordance with the 
curriculum described in subsection (a)(2). 
(C) The duration of the training. 
(D) The context in which the training will 
be provided, which may include basic training, 
occupationally specific training, and profes-
sional military education. 
(E) Metrics for evaluating the effectiveness 
of the training and curriculum. 
(F) Any other issues the Secretary of De-
fense determines to be relevant. 
(c) SUBMITTAL TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 270 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees— 
(1) the strategy developed under subsection (a); 
and
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(2) the implementation plan developed under 
subsection (b). 
SEC. 236. BIANNUAL REPORT ON THE JOINT ARTIFICIAL IN-
TELLIGENCE CENTER. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and biannually thereafter 
through the end of 2023, the Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
on the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘Center’’). 
(b) ELEMENTS.—Each report under subsection (a) 
shall include the following: 
(1) Information relating to the mission and ob-
jectives of the Center. 
(2) A description of the National Mission Initia-
tives, Component Mission Initiatives, and any other 
initiatives of the Center, including a description of— 
(A) the activities carried out under the ini-
tiatives; 
(B) any investments made or contracts en-
tered into under the initiatives; and 
(C) the progress of the initiatives. 
(3) A description of how the Center has sought 
to leverage lessons learned, share best practices, 
avoid duplication of efforts, and transition artificial
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intelligence research efforts into operational capabili-
ties by— 
(A) collaborating with other organizations 
and elements of the Department of Defense, in-
cluding the Defense Agencies and the military 
departments; and 
(B) deconflicting the activities of the Cen-
ter with the activities of other organizations 
and elements of the Department. 
(4) A description any collaboration between— 
(A) the Center and the private sector and 
academia; and 
(B) the Center and international allies and 
partners. 
(5) The total number of military, contractor, 
and civilian personnel who are employed by the Cen-
ter, assigned to the Center, and performing func-
tions in support of the Center. 
(6) A description of the organizational structure 
and staffing of the Center. 
(7) A detailed description of the frameworks, 
metrics, and capabilities established to measure the 
effectiveness of the Center and the Center’s invest-
ments in the National Mission Initiatives and Com-
ponent Mission Initiatives.
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(8) A description of any new policies, stand-
ards, or guidance relating to artificial intelligence 
that have been issued by the Chief Information Offi-
cer of the Department. 
(c) JOINT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Joint Artificial Intel-
ligence Center’’ means the Joint Artificial Intelligence 
Center of the Department of Defense established pursuant 
to section 238 of the John S. McCain National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115– 
232). 
SEC. 237. QUARTERLY UPDATES ON THE OPTIONALLY 
MANNED FIGHTING VEHICLE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than October 
1, 2019, and on a quarterly basis thereafter through Octo-
ber 1, 2025, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Ac-
quisition, Logistics, and Technology, in consultation with 
the Commander of the Army Futures Command, shall 
provide to the Committee on Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives a briefing on the progress of the Op-
tionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program of the Army. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—Each briefing under subsection (a) 
shall include, with respect to the Optionally Manned 
Fighting Vehicle program, the following elements:
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(1) An overview of funding for the program, in-
cluding identification of— 
(A) any obligations and expenditures that 
have been made under the program; and 
(B) any obligations and expenditures that 
are planned for the program. 
(2) An overview of the program schedule. 
(3) A description of each contract awarded 
under the program, including a description of the 
type of contract and the status of the contract. 
(4) An assessment of the status of the program 
with respect to— 
(A) the development and approval of tech-
nical requirements; 
(B) technological maturity; 
(C) testing; 
(D) delivery; and 
(E) program management. 
SEC. 238. GRANTS FOR CIVICS EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
carry out a program under which the Secretary makes 
grants to eligible entities, on a competitive basis, to sup-
port the development and evaluation of civics education 
programs.
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(d) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—To the extent 
practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure an equi-
table geographic distribution of grants under this section. 
(e) CONSULTATION.—In awarding grants under this 
section, the Secretary of Defense shall consult with the 
Secretary of Education. 
(f) USES OF FUNDS.— 
(1) REQUIRED USES OF FUNDS.—An eligible 
entity that receives a grant under this section shall 
use such grant— 
(A) to establish a civics education program 
or to improve an existing civics education pro-
gram; and 
(B) to evaluate the effect of the program 
on participants, including with respect to— 
(i) critical thinking and media lit-
eracy; 
(ii) voting and other forms of political 
and civic engagement; 
(iii) interest in employment, and ca-
reers, in public service; 
(iv) understanding of United States 
law, history, and Government; and
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(v) the ability of participants to col-
laborate and compromise with others to 
solve problems. 
(2) ALLOWABLE USES OF FUNDS.—An eligible 
entity that receives a grant under this section may 
use such grant for— 
(A) the development or modification of 
curricula relating to civics education; 
(B) classroom activities, thesis projects, in-
dividual or team projects, internships, or com-
munity service activities relating to civics; 
(C) collaboration with government entities, 
nonprofit organizations, or consortia of such en-
tities and organizations to provide participants 
with civics-related experiences; 
(D) civics-related faculty development pro-
grams; 
(E) recruitment of educators who are high-
ly qualified in civics education to teach civics or 
to assist with the development of curricula for 
civics education; 
(F) presentation of seminars, workshops, 
and training for the development of skills asso-
ciated with civic engagement;
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(G) activities that enable participants to 
interact with government officials and entities; 
(H) expansion of civics education programs 
and outreach for members of the Armed 
Forces, dependents and children of such mem-
bers and employees of the Department of De-
fense; and 
(I) opportunities for participants to obtain 
work experience in fields relating to civics. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘civics education program’’ means 
an educational program that provides participants 
with— 
(A) knowledge of law, government, and the 
rights of citizens; and 
(B) skills that enable participants to re-
sponsibly participate in democracy. 
(2) The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means a Depart-
ment of Defense domestic dependent elementary or 
secondary school (as described in section 2164 of 
title 10, United States Code). 
SEC. 239. TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY FELLOW-
SHIP. 
(a) FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.—
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense, acting through the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering, 
may establish a civilian fellowship program designed 
to place eligible individuals within the Department of 
Defense to increase the number of national security 
professionals with science, technology, engineering, 
and mathematics credentials employed by the De-
partment. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The fellowship program es-
tablished under paragraph (1) shall be known as the 
‘‘Technology and National Security Fellowship’’ (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘fellows program’’). 
(3) EMPLOYMENT.—Fellows will be assigned to 
a one year tour of duty within the Department of 
Defense. 
(4) PAY
AND
BENEFITS.—An individual as-
signed to a position under the fellows program shall 
be compensated at the rate of compensation for em-
ployees at level GS–10 of the General Schedule, and 
shall be treated as an employee of the United States 
during the term of assignment.
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(b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.—For purposes of this 
section, and subject to subsection (f)(3), an eligible indi-
vidual is any individual who— 
(1) is a citizen of the United States; and 
(2) either— 
(A) expects to be awarded an associate, 
undergraduate, or graduate degree that, as de-
termined by the Secretary, focuses on science, 
technology, engineering, or mathematics course 
work not later than 180 days after the date on 
which the individual submits an application for 
participation in the fellows program; or 
(B) possesses an associate, undergraduate, 
or graduate degree that, as determined by the 
Secretary, focuses on science, technology, engi-
neering, or mathematics course work that was 
awarded not earlier than one year before the 
date on which the individual submits an appli-
cation for participation in the fellows program. 
(c) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—Each individual seek-
ing to participate in the fellows program shall submit to 
the Secretary an application therefor at such time and in 
such manner as the Secretary shall specify. 
(d) COORDINATION.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out this section, 
the 
Secretary 
may 
consider 
coordinating 
or 
partnering with the entities specified in paragraph 
(2). 
(2) ENTITIES SPECIFIED.—The entities speci-
fied in this paragraph are the following: 
(A) The National Security Innovation Net-
work. 
(B) Universities affiliated with Hacking for 
Defense. 
(f) MODIFICATIONS TO FELLOWS PROGRAM.—As the 
Secretary considers necessary to modify the fellows pro-
gram, and in coordination with the entities specified in 
subsection (d)(2), as the Secretary considers appropriate, 
the Secretary may— 
(1) determine the length of a fellowship term; 
(2) establish the rate of compensation for an in-
dividual selected to participate in the fellows pro-
gram; and 
(3) change the eligibility requirements for par-
ticipation in the fellows program, including who is 
considered an eligible individual for purposes of the 
fellows program. 
(g) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary may consult 
with the heads of the agencies, components, and other ele-
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ments of the Department of Defense and such institutions 
of higher education and private entities engaged in work 
on national security and emerging technologies as the Sec-
retary considers appropriate for purposes of the fellows 
program, including fellowship assignments. 
SEC. 240. NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION ON DEFENSE 
RESEARCH AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COL-
LEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER MI-
NORITY INSTITUTIONS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
executive branch an independent Commission to re-
view the state of defense research at covered institu-
tions. 
(2) TREATMENT.—The Commission shall be 
considered an independent establishment of the Fed-
eral Government as defined by section 104 of title 
5, United States Code, and a temporary organiza-
tion under section 3161 of such title. 
(3) DESIGNATION.—The Commission estab-
lished under paragraph (1) shall be known as the 
‘‘National Security Commission on Defense Re-
search At Historically Black Colleges and Univer-
sities and Other Minority Institutions’’. 
(4) MEMBERSHIP.—
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(A) COMPOSITION.—The Commission shall 
be composed of 11 members appointed as fol-
lows: 
(i) The Secretary of Defense shall ap-
point 2 members. 
(ii) The Secretary of Education shall 
appoint 1 member. 
(iii) The Chairman of the Committee 
on Armed Services of the Senate shall ap-
point 1 member. 
(iv) The Ranking Member of the 
Committee on Armed Services of the Sen-
ate shall appoint 1 member. 
(v) The Chairman of the Committee 
on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives shall appoint 1 member. 
(vi) The Ranking Member of the 
Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives shall appoint 1 
member. 
(vii) The Chairman of the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pen-
sions of the Senate shall appoint 1 mem-
ber.
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(viii) The Ranking Member of the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions of the Senate shall appoint 1 
member. 
(ix) The Chairman of the Committee 
on Education and Labor of the House of 
Representatives shall appoint 1 member. 
(x) The Ranking Member of the Com-
mittee on Education and Labor of the 
House of Representatives shall appoint 1 
member. 
(B) DEADLINE FOR APPOINTMENT.—Mem-
bers shall be appointed to the Commission 
under subparagraph (A) not later than 90 days 
after the date on which the commission is es-
tablished. 
(C) EFFECT OF LACK OF APPOINTMENT 
BY APPOINTMENT DATE.—If one or more ap-
pointments under subparagraph (A) is not 
made by the appointment date specified in sub-
paragraph (B), or if a position described in sub-
paragraph (A) is vacant for more than 90 days, 
the authority to make such appointment shall 
transfer to the Chair of the Commission.
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(5) CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR.—The Commission 
shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair from among its 
members. 
(6) TERMS.—Members shall be appointed for 
the life of the Commission. A vacancy in the Com-
mission shall not affect its powers and shall be filled 
in the same manner as the original appointment was 
made. 
(7) STATUS
AS
FEDERAL
EMPLOYEES.—Not-
withstanding the requirements of section 2105 of 
title 5, United States Code, including the required 
supervision under subsection (a)(3) of such section, 
the members of the Commission shall be deemed to 
be Federal employees. 
(b) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall carry 
out the review described in paragraph (2). In car-
rying out such review, the Commission shall consider 
the methods and means necessary to advance re-
search capacity at covered institutions to comprehen-
sively address the national security and defense 
needs of the United States. 
(2) SCOPE OF THE REVIEW.—In conducting the 
review under paragraph (1), the Commission shall 
consider the following:
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(A) The competitiveness of covered institu-
tions in developing, pursuing, capturing, and 
executing defense research with the Department 
of Defense through contracts and grants. 
(B) Means and methods for advancing the 
capacity of covered institutions to conduct re-
search related to national security and defense. 
(C) The advancements and investments 
necessary to elevate covered institutions to R2 
status on the Carnegie Classification of Institu-
tions of Higher Education, covered institutions 
to R1 status on the Carnegie Classification of 
Institutions of Higher Education, one covered 
institution or a consortium of multiple covered 
institutions to the capability of a University Af-
filiated Research Center, and identify the can-
didate institutions for each category. 
(D) The facilities and infrastructure for 
defense-related research at covered institutions 
as compared to the facilities and infrastructure 
at universities classified as R1 status on the 
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher 
Education.
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(E) Incentives to attract, recruit, and re-
tain leading research faculty to covered institu-
tions. 
(F) The legal and organizational structure 
of the contracting entity of covered institutions 
as compared to the legal and organizational 
structure of the contracting entity of covered 
institutions at universities classified as R1 sta-
tus on the Carnegie Classification of Institu-
tions of Higher Education. 
(G) The ability of covered institutions to 
develop, protect, and commercialize intellectual 
property created through defense-related re-
search. 
(H) The amount of defense research fund-
ing awarded to all colleges and universities 
through contracts and grants for the fiscal 
years of 2010 through 2019, including— 
(i) the legal mechanism under which 
the organization was formed; 
(ii) the total value of contracts and 
grants awarded to the organization during 
fiscal years 2010 to 2019; 
(iii) the overhead rate of the organiza-
tion for fiscal year 2019;
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(iv) the Carnegie Classification of In-
stitutions of Higher Education of the asso-
ciated university or college; 
(v) if the associated university or col-
lege qualifies as a historically Black college 
or university or a minority institution. 
(I) Areas for improvement in the programs 
executed under section 2362 of title 10, United 
States Code, the existing authorization to en-
hance defense-related research and education at 
covered institutions. 
(J) Previous executive or legislative actions 
by the Federal Government to address the im-
balance in federal research funding, such as the 
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive 
Research (commonly known as ‘‘EPSCoR’’). 
(K) The effectiveness of the Department of 
Defense in attracting and retaining students 
specializing in STEM from covered institutions 
for the Department’s programs on emerging ca-
pabilities and technologies. 
(L) Any other matters the Commission 
deems relevant to the advancing the defense re-
search capacity of covered institutions. 
(c) REPORTS.—
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(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Commission shall submit to the President and Con-
gress an initial report on the findings of the Com-
mission and such recommendations that the Com-
mission may have for action by the executive branch 
and Congress related to the covered institutions par-
ticipating in Department of Defense research and 
actions necessary to expand their research capacity. 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—Prior to the date on which 
the commission terminates under subsection (d), the 
Commission shall submit to the President and Con-
gress a comprehensive report on the results of the 
review required under subsection (b). 
(3) FORM
OF
REPORTS.—Reports submitted 
under this subsection shall be made publically avail-
able. 
(d) LIST OF COVERED INSTITUTIONS.—The Commis-
sion, in consultation with the Secretary of Education and 
the Secretary of Defense, shall make available a list identi-
fying each covered institution. The list shall be made avail-
able on a publicly accessible website of the Department 
of Defense and the Department of Education and shall 
be updated not less frequently than once annually during 
the life of the Commission.
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(e) TERMINATION.—The Commission shall terminate 
on December 31, 2021. 
(f) COVERED INSTITUTION DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘covered institution’’ means— 
(1) a part B institution (as that term is defined 
in section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)); or 
(2) any other institution of higher education (as 
that term is defined in section 101 of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 1001)) at which not less than 50 percent of 
the total student enrollment consists of students 
from ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the 
fields of science and engineering. 
SEC. 241. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR BASIC OPERATIONAL 
MEDICAL RESEARCH SCIENCE. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201, for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, basic re-
search, basic operational medical research science, line 
004 (PE 0601117E) is hereby increased by $5,000,000 
(with the amount of such increase to be made available 
for partnering with universities to research brain injuries).
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(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, for operation and maintenance, Defense- 
wide, operating forces, Special Operations Command man-
agement/operational headquarters, line 080 is hereby re-
duced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 242. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR UNIVERSITY RE-
SEARCH INITIATIVES. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201, for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Army, basic research, uni-
versity research initiatives, line 003 (PE 0601103A) is 
hereby increased by $5,000,000 (with the amount of such 
increase to be made available for studying ways to increase 
the longevity and resilience of infrastructure on military 
bases). 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, as specified in the corresponding funding table
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in section 4301, for operation and maintenance, Defense- 
wide, operating forces, Special Operations Command man-
agement/operational headquarters, line 080 is hereby re-
duced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 243. QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATION 
CENTER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Air Force, shall es-
tablish a Quantum Information Science Innovation Center 
to accelerate the research and development of quantum 
information sciences by the Air Force. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Quantum Infor-
mation Science Innovation Center shall be to— 
(1) provide an environment where researchers 
from the Air Force, Government, industry, and aca-
demia can collaborate to solve difficult problems 
using quantum information technology; 
(2) accelerate the research and development of 
new computing technologies, including quantum in-
formation sciences; and 
(3) stimulate research and development of 
quantum information sciences technologies by build-
ing upon the quantum information technology devel-
oped at the Air Force Research Laboratory Informa-
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tion Directorate, including secure communication 
networks and advanced computing technology. 
(c) FUNDING.— 
(1) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts 
set forth in the funding tables in division D, the 
amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201 
for research, development, test, and evaluation, as 
specified in the corresponding funding table in sec-
tion 4201, for research, development, test, and eval-
uation, Air Force, applied research, dominant infor-
mation sciences and methods, line 014 is hereby in-
creased by $10,000,000 (to be made available for 
the establishment of the Quantum Information 
Science Innovation Center under subsection (a)). 
(2) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount 
authorized to be appropriated in section 301 for op-
eration and maintenance, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4301, for oper-
ation and maintenance, Defense-wide, operating 
forces, Special Operations Command Operational 
Support, line 090 is hereby reduced by $10,000,000.
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SEC. 244. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR NAVAL UNIVERSITY 
RESEARCH INITIATIVES. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201 for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Navy, basic research, Uni-
versity Research Initiatives, Line 001 (PE 0601103N) is 
hereby increased by $5,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, for operation and maintenance, Defense- 
wide, operating forces, Special Operations Command The-
ater Forces, line 100 is hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 245. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR UNIVERSITY AND IN-
DUSTRY RESEARCH CENTERS. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201, for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Army, basic research for
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university and industry research centers, line 004 (PE 
0601104A) is hereby increased by $5,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, for operation and maintenance, Air Force, 
operational systems development, AF integrated personnel 
and pay system (AF-IPPS), line 158 (PE 0605018F) is 
hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 246. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY 
INNOVATION CAPITAL. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201, for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, for Defense 
Innovation Unit (DIU) Prototyping is hereby increased by 
$75,000,000 (to be used in support of national security 
innovation capital). 
(b) OFFSET.—Not withstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
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SEC. 248. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR NAVAL UNIVERSITY 
RESEARCH INITIATIVES. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201 for Navy basic 
research, University Research Initiatives, line 001 (PE 
0601103N) is hereby increased by $5,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, for operation and maintenance, Defense- 
wide, operating forces, Special Operations Command The-
ater Forces, line 100 is hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 249. STUDY AND REPORT ON LAB-EMBEDDED ENTRE-
PRENEURIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. 
(a) STUDY.—The Under Secretary of Defense for Re-
search and Engineering, in consultation with the Director 
of the Advanced Manufacturing Office of the Department 
of Energy, shall conduct a study on the feasibility and po-
tential benefits of establishing a lab-embedded entrepre-
neurial fellowship program.
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(b) ELEMENTS.—The study under subsection (a) 
shall include, with respect to a lab-embedded entrepre-
neurial fellowship program, the following: 
(1) An estimate of administrative and pro-
grammatic costs and materials, including appro-
priate levels of living stipends and health insurance 
to attract a competitive pool of applicants. 
(2) An assessment of capacity for entrepre-
neurial fellows to use laboratory facilities and equip-
ment. 
(3) An assessment of the benefits for partici-
pants in the program through access to mentorship, 
education, and networking and exposure to leaders 
from academia, industry, government, and finance. 
(4) Assessment of the benefits for the Depart-
ment of Defense science and technology activities 
through partnerships and exchanges with program 
fellows. 
(5) An estimate of the economic benefits cre-
ated by the implementation of this program, based 
in part on similar entrepreneurial programs. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In conducting the study under 
subsection (a), the Under Secretary of Defense for Re-
search and Engineering shall consult with the following, 
as necessary:
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(1) The Director of the Defense Advanced Re-
search Projects Agency. 
(2) The Director of Research for each military 
service. 
(3) Relevant research facilities, including the 
Department of Energy National Laboratories (as de-
fined in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
(42 U.S.C. 15801)). 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engi-
neering shall submit to the designated recipients a 
report on the results of the study conducted under 
subsection (a). At minimum, the report shall include 
an explanation of the results of the study with re-
spect to each element set forth in subsection (b). 
(2) 
NONDUPLICATION
OF
EFFORTS.—The 
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engi-
neering may use or add to any existing reports com-
pleted by the Department in order to meet the re-
porting requirement under paragraph (1). 
(3) FORM OF REPORT.—The report under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex.
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(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘designated recipients’’ means the 
following: 
(A) The Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(B) The Committee on Armed Services, 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate. 
(C) The Secretary of Defense. 
(D) The Secretary of Energy. 
(2) The term ‘‘lab-embedded entrepreneurial 
fellowship program’’ means a competitive, two-year 
program in which participants (to be known as ‘‘fel-
lows’’) are selected from a pool of applicants to work 
in a Federal research facility where the fellows will 
conduct research, development, and demonstration 
activities, commercialize technology, and train to be 
entrepreneurs.
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SEC. 250. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON THREATS TO UNITED 
STATES NATIONAL SECURITY FROM DEVEL-
OPMENT OF HYPERSONIC WEAPONS BY FOR-
EIGN NATIONS. 
(a) INDEPENDENT STUDY.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall seek to enter into a contract with a feder-
ally funded research and development center under which 
the center will conduct a study on the development of 
hypersonic weapons capabilities by foreign nations and the 
threat posed by such capabilities to United States terri-
tory, forces and overseas bases, and allies. 
(b) ELEMENTS
OF STUDY.—The study required 
under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) describe the hypersonic weapons capabilities 
in development in the People’s Republic of China, 
the Russian Federation, and other nations; 
(2) assess the proliferation risk that nations 
that develop hypersonic weapons capabilities might 
transfer this technology to other nations; 
(3) attempt to describe the rationale for why 
each nation that is developing hypersonic weapons 
capabilities is undertaking such development; and 
(4) examine the unique threats created to 
United States national security by hypersonic weap-
ons due to both their maneuverability and speed,
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distinguishing between hypersonic glide vehicles de-
livered by rocket boosters (known as boost-glide sys-
tems) and hypersonic cruise missiles, and further 
distinguishing between longer-range systems that 
can reach United States territory and shorter or me-
dium range systems that might be used in a regional 
conflict. 
(c) SUBMISSION TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.— 
Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the federally funded research and development 
center that conducts the study under subsection (a) shall 
submit to the Secretary of Defense a report on the results 
of the study in both classified and unclassified form. 
(d) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 
days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense re-
ceives the report under subsection (c), the Secretary shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees an 
unaltered copy of the report in both classified and unclas-
sified form, and any comments of the Secretary with re-
spect to the report. 
SEC. 251. REPORT ON INNOVATION INVESTMENTS AND 
MANAGEMENT. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than December 
31, 2019, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research 
and Engineering shall submit to the congressional defense
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committees a report on the efforts of the Department of 
Defense to improve innovation investments and manage-
ment. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include an explanation of each of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) How incremental and disruptive innovation 
investments for each military department are de-
fined. 
(2) How such investments are assessed. 
(3) Whether the Under Secretary has defined a 
science and technology management framework 
that— 
(A) emphasizes greater use of existing 
flexible approaches to more quickly initiate and 
discontinue projects to respond to the rapid 
pace of innovation; 
(B) incorporates acquisition stakeholders 
into technology development programs to ensure 
that they are relevant to customers; and 
(C) promotes advanced prototyping of dis-
ruptive technologies within the labs so that the 
science and technology community can prove 
that these technologies work to generate de-
mand from future acquisition programs.
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SEC. 252. REQUIREMENT FOR ANNUAL REPORT SUMMA-
RIZING THE OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVAL-
UATION ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
DEFENSE. 
Section 139(h)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘, through January 31, 2021’’. 
SEC. 253. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR ARMY UNIVERSITY 
RESEARCH INITIATIVES. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201 for Army basic 
research, University Research Initiatives, Line 003 (PE 
0601103A ) is hereby increased by $5,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 201 for research, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201 for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Army, system develop-
ment and demonstration, integrated personnel and pay 
system-Army (IPPS-A), Line 143 (PE 0605018A), is 
hereby reduced by $5,000,000.
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SEC. 254. FUNDING FOR ANTI-TAMPER HETEROGENOUS IN-
TEGRATED MICROELECTRONICS. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4201, for research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, advanced 
technology development, defense-wide manufacturing 
science 
and 
technology 
program, 
line 
047 
(PE 
0603680D8Z) is hereby increased by $5,000,000 (with the 
amount of such increase to be made available for anti- 
tamper heterogeneous integrated microelectronics). 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 101 for procurement, as 
specified in the corresponding funding table in section 
4101, for other procurement, Army, elect equip-automa-
tion, general fund enterprise business systems fam, line 
114 is hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
SEC. 255. BRIEFING ON USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY 
FOR DEFENSE PURPOSES. 
(a) BRIEFING REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under 
Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall 
provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing
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on the potential use of distributed ledger technology for 
defense purposes. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The briefing under subsection (a) 
shall include the following: 
(1) An explanation of how distributed ledger 
technology may be used by the Department of De-
fense to— 
(A) improve cybersecurity, beginning at the 
hardware level, of vulnerable assets such as en-
ergy, water and transport grids, through dis-
tributed versus centralized computing; 
(B) reduce single points of failure in emer-
gency and catastrophe decision-making by sub-
jecting the decision to consensus validation 
through distributed ledger technologies; 
(C) improve the efficiency of defense logis-
tics and supply chain operations; 
(D) enhance the transparency of procure-
ment auditing; and 
(E) allow innovations to be adapted by the 
private sector for ancillary uses. 
(2) Such other information as the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering de-
termines to be appropriate.
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SEC. 256. EFFORTS TO COUNTER MANIPULATED MEDIA 
CONTENT. 
(a) BRIEFING REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall provide to the congressional 
defense committees a briefing on initiatives of the 
Department of Defense to identify and address, as 
appropriate and as authorized in support of Depart-
ment of Defense operations, manipulated media con-
tent, specifically ‘‘deepfakes’’. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The briefing required by 
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) Status of efforts to develop technology 
to identify manipulated content impacting the 
national security of the United States. 
(B) Challenges to detecting, labeling, and 
preventing foreign actors’ manipulation of im-
ages and video impacting national security. 
(C) Plans to make deepfake detection tech-
nology available to the public and other Federal 
agencies for use in identifying manipulated 
media. 
(D) The efforts of the Department of De-
fense, as appropriate, to engage academia and 
industry stakeholders to combat deliberately
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manipulated or deceptive information from 
state and non-state actors on social media plat-
forms impacting operations overseas. 
(E) An assessment of the ability of adver-
saries to generate deepfakes. 
(F) Recommendations for a long-term 
transition partner organization. 
(b) FUNDING.— 
(1) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts 
set forth in the funding tables in division D, the 
amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201 
for research, development, test, and evaluation, as 
specified in the corresponding funding table in sec-
tion 4201, for research, development, test, and eval-
uation, Defense-wide, applied research, SOF tech-
nology development, line 022 (PE 1160401BB) is 
hereby increased by $5,000,000 (with the amount of 
such increase to be made available for Media 
Forensics). 
(2) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount 
authorized to be appropriated in section 201 for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation, as speci-
fied in the corresponding funding table in section 
4201 for research, development, test, and evaluation,
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Air Force, operational systems development, AF in-
tegrated personnel and pay system (AF-IPPS), line 
158 
(PE 
0605018F) 
is 
hereby 
reduced 
by 
$5,000,000. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to authorize an activity that will 
impact the privacy or civil liberties of United States per-
sons. 
TITLE III—OPERATION AND 
MAINTENANCE 
Subtitle A—Authorization of 
Appropriations 
SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Funds are here by authorized to be appropriated for 
fiscal year 2020 for the use of the Armed Forces and other 
activities and agencies of the Department of Defense for 
expenses, not otherwise provided for, for operation and 
maintenance, as specified in the funding table in section 
4301. 
SEC. 302. FUNDING FOR ARMY COMMUNITY SERVICES. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 301 for operation 
and maintenance for Army base operations support, line 
100, as specified in the corresponding funding table in sec-
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tion 4301, for Army Community Services is hereby in-
creased by $30,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, for Army Force Readiness Operations Support, 
line 070, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, is hereby reduced by $15,000,000. 
(c) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for operation and main-
tenance, for Army Land Forces Operations Support, as 
specified in the corresponding funding table in section 
4301, line 050, is hereby reduced by $15,000,000. 
SEC. 303. INCREASE IN FUNDING FOR CIVIL MILITARY PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated for operation and mainte-
nance, Defense-wide, as specified in the corresponding 
funding table in section 4301, for Civil Military Programs 
is hereby increased by $50,000,000 (to be used in support 
of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program). 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized
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to be appropriated for operation and maintenance, De-
fense-wide, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, for Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 
wide is hereby reduced by $50,000,000. 
Subtitle B—Energy and 
Environment 
SEC. 311. TIMELINE FOR CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW OF AP-
PLICATIONS FOR ENERGY PROJECTS THAT 
MAY HAVE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON MILI-
TARY OPERATIONS AND READINESS. 
Section 183a(c)(1) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘60 days’’ and inserting ‘‘90 
days’’. 
SEC. 312. AUTHORITY TO MAKE FINAL FINDING ON DES-
IGNATION OF GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF CON-
CERN FOR PURPOSES OF ENERGY PROJECTS 
WITH ADVERSE IMPACTS ON MILITARY OPER-
ATIONS AND READINESS. 
Section 183a(d)(2)(E) of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘or a Principal’’ and inserting 
‘‘a’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, an Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, or a Deputy Assistant Secretary of De-
fense’’ after ‘‘Deputy Under Secretary of Defense’’.
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SEC. 313. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT CONTRIBUTIONS OF 
FUNDS 
FROM 
APPLICANTS 
FOR 
ENERGY 
PROJECTS FOR MITIGATION OF IMPACTS ON 
MILITARY OPERATIONS AND READINESS. 
Section 183a(f) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘for a project filed with the Secretary 
of Transportation pursuant to section 44718 of title 49’’ 
and inserting ‘‘for an energy project’’. 
SEC. 314. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IMPROVEMENT OF 
PREVIOUSLY CONVEYED UTILITY SYSTEMS 
SERVING MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 
Section 2688 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (k) as sub-
section (l); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (j) the fol-
lowing new subsection (k): 
‘‘(k) IMPROVEMENT
OF CONVEYED UTILITY SYS-
TEMS.—In the case of a utility system that is conveyed 
under this section and that only provides utility services 
to a military installation, the Secretary concerned may use 
amounts authorized to be appropriated for military con-
struction to improve the reliability, resilience, efficiency, 
physical security, or cybersecurity of the utility system.’’.
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SEC. 315. FIVE-YEAR AUTHORITY FOR NATIONAL GUARD 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION PROJECTS 
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2707 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(e) TEMPORARY AUTHORITY FOR NATIONAL GUARD 
PROJECTS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this sec-
tion and section 2701(c)(1) of this title, during the five- 
year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
subsection, the Secretary concerned may carry out an en-
vironmental restoration project if the Secretary deter-
mines that the project is necessary to carry out a response 
to perfluorooctanoic acid or perfluorooctane sulfonate con-
tamination under this chapter or CERCLA.’’. 
(b) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this section, or 
the amendment made by this section, shall affect any re-
quirement or authority under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.). 
SEC. 316. SALE OF ELECTRICITY FROM ALTERNATE EN-
ERGY AND COGENERATION PRODUCTION FA-
CILITIES. 
Section 2916(b)(3) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended—
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(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘shall be available’’ and all 
that follows and inserting ‘‘shall be provided di-
rectly to the commander of the military installa-
tion in which the geothermal energy resource is 
located to be used for—’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
clauses: 
‘‘(i) military construction projects de-
scribed in paragraph (2) that benefit the mili-
tary installation where the geothermal energy 
resource is located; or 
‘‘(ii) energy or water security projects 
that— 
‘‘(I) benefit the military installation 
where the geothermal energy resource is lo-
cated; 
‘‘(II) the commander of the military 
installation determines are necessary; and 
‘‘(III) are directly coordinated with 
local area energy or groundwater governing 
authorities.’’.
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SEC. 317. TRANSFER AUTHORITY FOR FUNDING OF STUDY 
AND ASSESSMENT ON HEALTH IMPLICATIONS 
OF 
PER- 
AND 
POLYFLUOROALKYL 
SUB-
STANCES 
CONTAMINATION 
IN 
DRINKING 
WATER BY AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES 
AND DISEASE REGISTRY. 
Section 316(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115– 
91; 131 Stat. 1350), as amended by section 315(a) of the 
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232), is amended by 
striking ‘‘2019 and 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘2019, 2020, and 
2021’’. 
SEC. 318. REPLACEMENT OF FLUORINATED AQUEOUS 
FILM-FORMING FOAM WITH FLUORINE-FREE 
FIRE-FIGHTING AGENT. 
(a) USE OF FLUORINE-FREE FOAM AT MILITARY IN-
STALLATIONS.—Not later than January 31, 2023, the 
Secretary of the Navy shall publish a military specification 
for a fluorine-free fire-fighting agent for use at all military 
installations to ensure such agent is available for use by 
not later than December 31, 2024. 
(b) PROHIBITION
ON USE.—Fluorinated aqueous 
film-forming foam may not be used at any military instal-
lation on or after September 30, 2025, or before such 
date, if possible.
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(c) WAIVER.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary of Defense may grant a waiver to the 
prohibition under subsection (b) with respect to the 
use of fluorinated aqueous film-forming foam at a 
specific military installation if the Secretary submits 
to the congressional defense committees, by not later 
than 30 days prior to issuing the waiver— 
(A) notice of the waiver; and 
(B) certification, in writing, that the waiv-
er is necessary for the protection of life and 
safety. 
(2) BASIS FOR WAIVER.—Any certification sub-
mitted under paragraph (1)(B) shall document the 
basis for the waiver and, at a minimum, shall in-
clude the following: 
(A) A detailed description of the threat 
justifying the waiver and a description of the 
imminence, urgency, and severity of such 
threat. 
(B) An analysis of potential populations 
impacted by continued use of fluorinated aque-
ous film forming foam and why the waiver out-
weighs the impact to such populations.
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(C) An analysis of potential economic ef-
fects, including with respect to agriculture, live-
stock, and water systems of continued use of 
fluorinated aqueous film forming foam and why 
the waiver outweighs such effects. 
(3) LIMITATION.—A waiver under this sub-
section shall apply for a period that does not exceed 
one year. The Secretary may extend any such waiver 
once for an additional period that does not exceed 
one year. 
SEC. 319. PROHIBITION OF UNCONTROLLED RELEASE OF 
FLUORINATED 
AQUEOUS 
FILM-FORMING 
FOAM AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Except as provided by subsection 
(b), the Secretary of Defense shall prohibit the uncon-
trolled release of fluorinated aqueous film-forming foam 
(hereinafter in this section referred to as ‘‘AFFF’’) at 
military installations. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 
fluorinated AFFF may be released at military installa-
tions as follows: 
(1) AFFF may be released for purposes of an 
emergency response. 
(2) A non-emergency release of AFFF may be 
made for the purposes of testing of equipment or
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training of personnel, if complete containment, cap-
ture, and proper disposal mechanisms are in place to 
ensure no AFFF is released into the environment. 
SEC. 320. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FLUORINATED AQUE-
OUS FILM FORMING FOAM FOR TRAINING EX-
ERCISES. 
The Secretary of Defense shall prohibit the use of 
fluorinated aqueous film forming foam for training exer-
cises at military installations. 
SEC. 321. REAL-TIME NOISE-MONITORING STUDY AT NAVY 
AND AIR FORCE INSTALLATIONS WHERE TAC-
TICAL FIGHTER AIRCRAFT OPERATE. 
(a) REAL-TIME MONITORING.—The Secretary of the 
Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force shall each con-
duct a real-time noise-monitoring study at no fewer than 
three Navy installations and three Air Force installations. 
In conducting such study, the Secretaries shall— 
(1) select installations where tactical fighter air-
craft operate and noise contours have been developed 
through noise modeling to validate the noise con-
tours developed through analysis and modeling at 
those installations; and 
(2) ensure that such monitoring is conducted 
during times of high, medium, and low activity.
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(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than December 
1, 2020, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of 
the Air Force shall jointly submit to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives a report on the real-time noise monitoring required 
under subsection (a). Such report shall include— 
(1) the results of such monitoring; 
(2) a comparison of such monitoring and the 
noise contours previously developed with the analysis 
and modeling methods previously used; 
(3) an overview of any changes to the analysis 
and modeling process that have been made or are 
being considered as a result of the findings of such 
monitoring; and 
(4) any other matters that the Secretaries de-
termine appropriate. 
SEC. 322. DEVELOPMENT OF CLIMATE VULNERABILITY 
AND RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall develop a climate vulnerability and risk assessment 
tool to assist the military departments in measuring how 
the risks associated with climate change impact networks, 
systems, installations, facilities, and other assets, as well
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as the operational plans and capabilities of the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—In developing the tool under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with the Admin-
istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sec-
retary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Admin-
istrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, the Commander of the Army Corps 
of Engineers, the Administrator of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, a federally funded re-
search and development center, and the heads of such 
other relevant Federal agencies as the Secretary of De-
fense determines appropriate. 
(c) PREVAILING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS.—Before 
completing development of the tool under subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall obtain from a federally funded research 
and development center with which the Secretary has con-
sulted under subsection (b) a certification in writing that 
the tool contains a methodology that adequately incor-
porates the prevailing scientific consensus on climate 
change. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
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retary shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report describing the tool developed under 
subsection (a). 
(2) CLASSIFIED
ANNEX.—The report under 
paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified 
form but may contain a classified annex if necessary. 
(3) PUBLICATION.—Upon submittal of the re-
port under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall pub-
lish the unclassified portion of the report on an 
internet website of the Department that is available 
to the public. 
(e) UPDATES TO TOOL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—After submittal of the report 
under subsection (d), the Secretary of Defense shall 
update the climate vulnerability and risk assessment 
tool developed under subsection (a) on an annual 
basis, in consultation with the individuals and enti-
ties described in subsection (b) and consistent with 
the prevailing scientific consensus as required under 
subsection (c). 
(2) REPORT
AND
PUBLICATION.—Upon com-
pleting an update to the tool under paragraph (1), 
the Secretary shall—
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(A) submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report describing such update; 
and 
(B) publish the unclassified version of such 
report on an internet website of the Depart-
ment that is available to the public. 
SEC. 323. PROVISION OF UNCONTAMINATED WATER FOR 
AGRICULTURAL USE ON LAND CONTAMI-
NATED BY PFOS AND PFOA USED ON MILI-
TARY INSTALLATIONS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (in this section 
referred to as ‘‘PFOS’’) and perfluorooctanoic acid 
(in this section referred to as ‘‘PFOA’’) are part of 
a class of man-made chemicals that have been used 
in a variety of industrial and consumer products to 
make the products resist heat, stains, water, and 
grease. Because PFOS and PFOA extinguish petro-
leum fires quickly, the Department of Defense and 
commercial airports began using aqueous film form-
ing foam containing PFOS and PFOA in the 1970s. 
(2) PFOS and PFOA can accumulate and stay 
in the body for long periods of time. Exposure to 
PFOS and PFOA may cause health problems, in-
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cluding issues with the reproductive system, liver 
and kidney damage, developmental issues in chil-
dren, and negatively impacted immune system, and 
cancer. 
(3) A common method of human exposure to 
PFOS and PFOA is by consuming contaminated 
drinking water. 
(4) The Environmental Protection Agency 
issued lifetime health advisories under the Safe 
Drinking Water Act for individual or combined 
PFOS and PFOA concentrations at 70 parts per 
trillion in 2016, but has not yet issued any guidance 
or regulation for groundwater or agricultural water. 
(5) The Department of Defense has provided 
mitigations in many communities where drinking 
water has tested at or above the lifetime health advi-
sory level, including bottled water and drinking 
water filtration systems. Due to the lack of regu-
latory guidance, these mitigations have not been 
mirrored in agricultural water systems. 
(6) As a result, farmers located adjacent to 
military installations with PFOS and PFOA con-
tamination that has migrated off-installation are po-
tentially impacted, and in at least one case, such
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contamination has had a serious impact on the liveli-
hood of a dairy farmer. 
(b) AUTHORITY
TO
PROVIDE
UNCONTAMINATED 
WATER FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If an area has been identi-
fied under paragraph (2), and a military installation 
has been determined to be the source of that con-
tamination, the Secretary of Defense or the Sec-
retary concerned may provide, for the purpose of 
producing agricultural products destined for human 
consumption— 
(A) water sources uncontaminated with 
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, 
including PFOA and PFOS, or 
(B) treatment of contaminated waters. 
(2) IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS.—An area iden-
tified under this paragraph is an area for which the 
level of PFOA or PFOS contamination— 
(A) is above the lifetime health advisory 
for contamination for such compounds as issued 
by the Environmental Protection Agency and 
printed in the Federal Register on May 25, 
2016; 
(B) is at or above a regulatory standard 
set by the Food and Drug Administration for
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PFOA and PFOS in raw agricultural commod-
ities and milk; or 
(C) is at or above a duly promulgated, 
non-discriminatory standard promulgated by a 
State regulatory entity for PFOA and PFOS in 
raw agricultural commodities and milk. 
(3) SOURCE
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts used to 
carry out this section shall be derived— 
(A) in the case of amounts made available 
by the Secretary concerned, from amounts au-
thorized to be appropriated for Operation and 
Maintenance for the military department con-
cerned; or 
(B) in the case of amounts made available 
by the Secretary of Defense, from amounts au-
thorized to be appropriated for Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-wide. 
(c) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING LAND ACQUI-
SITION.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary 
concerned should explore authorities under which the Sec-
retary could acquire land the land adjacent to military in-
stallations where the owners of the land have experienced 
impacts to their livelihood due to PFOS and PFOA con-
tamination that has been verified to have been caused by
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that installation, including the authorities under sections 
2663, 2864a, and 2869 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 324. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS THAT DISCOURAGE IN-
VESTMENTS TO INCREASE RESILIENCY TO 
CLIMATE CHANGE. 
The Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) identify and seek to remove barriers that 
discourage investments to increase resiliency to cli-
mate change; 
(2) reform policies and programs that uninten-
tionally increased the vulnerability of systems to re-
lated climate change risks; and 
(3) develop, and update at least once every four 
years, an adaptation plan that assessed how climate 
impacts affected the ability of the department or 
agency to accomplish its mission, and the short-and 
long- term actions the department or agency can 
take to manage climate risks. 
SEC. 325. OFFSHORE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
not issue an offshore wind assessment that proposes wind 
exclusion areas and may not object to an offshore energy 
project filed for review by the Military Aviation and Instal-
lation Assurance Clearinghouse (in this section referred
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to as the ‘‘Clearinghouse’’) until 180 days after submitting 
the report required under (b). 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense, 
in coordination with the Secretaries of the military depart-
ments, shall submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees on the process that will be used to by the 
Clearinghouse to review proposed offshore lease blocks and 
proposed offshore energy projects. At minimum, the report 
should include the following elements: 
(1) The process and metrics used in evaluating 
proposed offshore lease blocks or specific offshore 
energy projects for compatibility with, or unaccept-
able risk to, military operations and readiness. 
(2) The process for coordinating with the De-
partment of Interior on assessing proposed offshore 
lease blocks and military operations and readiness 
activities that occur in those proposed lease blocks. 
(3) The process for working with the proponent 
of a proposed energy development to identify and 
evaluate possible mitigations to enable energy devel-
opments that are compatible with military operations 
and readiness. 
(4) Any legislative changes to section 183a of 
title 10, United States Code, to enable the Clearing-
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house to perform its new role in reviewing proposed 
offshore lease blocks and offshore energy projects. 
SEC. 326. USE OF PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF RECYCLABLE 
MATERIALS. 
Section 2577(c) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘$2,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$10,000,000’’. 
SEC. 327. DISPOSAL OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS. 
Section 2577(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(3) In this section, the term ‘recyclable materials’ 
includes any quality recyclable material provided to the 
Department by a State or local government entity.’’. 
SEC. 328. CLIMATE-CONSCIOUS BUDGETING OF DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall in-
clude in the annual budget submission of the President 
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code— 
(1) a dedicated budget line item for adaptation 
to, and mitigation of, climate-related risks to mili-
tary networks, systems, installations, facilities, and 
other assets and capabilities of the Department of 
Defense; and
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(2) an estimate of the anticipated adverse im-
pacts to the readiness of the Department and the fi-
nancial costs to the Department during the year cov-
ered by the budget of the loss of, or damage to, mili-
tary networks, systems, installations, facilities, and 
other assets and capabilities of the Department, in-
cluding loss of or obstructed access to training 
ranges, as a result of climate change. 
(b) DISAGGREGATION OF IMPACTS AND COSTS.—The 
estimate under subsection (a)(2) shall set forth the ad-
verse readiness impacts and financial costs under that 
subsection by military department, Defense Agency, and 
other component or element of the Department. 
SEC. 329. FUNDING FOR DETONATION CHAMBERS IN 
VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO. 
(a) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated in section 4301 for environ-
mental restoration, Navy, line 060, as specified in the cor-
responding funding table in section 4301, for the pur-
chase, deployment, and operation of a closed detonation 
chambers of the dimensions necessary to achieve a sub-
stantial reduction in open air burning and open air deto-
nation that will bring the practice of open air burning and
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open air detonation to the lowest practicable level, is here-
by increased by $10,000,000. 
(b) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 4301 for Operations and 
Maintenance, as specified in the corresponding funding 
table in section 4301, line 460, Office of the Secretary 
of Defense for Admin & SRVWIDE Activities is hereby 
reduced by $10,000,000. 
SEC. 330. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON ENVIRON-
MENTAL 
CLEANUP 
OF 
VIEQUES 
AND 
CULEBRA, PUERTO RICO. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Secretary of Defense should explore all 
avenues and alternatives to expedite the ongoing 
cleanup and environmental restoration process in the 
former military training sites located on the island- 
municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico; 
(2) the Department of Defense should work 
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the 
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Government of 
Puerto Rico to ensure the decontamination process 
is conducted in a manner that causes the least pos-
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sible intrusion on the lives of island residents and 
minimizes public health risks; and 
(3) the Federal Government should collaborate 
with local and private stakeholders to effectively ad-
dress economic challenges and opportunities in 
Vieques, Culebra, and the adjacent communities of 
the former United States Naval Station Roosevelt 
Roads. 
(b) GAO REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
of the United States shall complete a study and submit 
a report to the congressional defense committees on the 
status of the Federal cleanup and decontamination process 
in the island-municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, Puer-
to Rico. The study shall include a comprehensive analysis 
of the following: 
(1) The pace of ongoing cleanup and environ-
mental restoration efforts in the former military 
training sites in Vieques and Culebra. 
(2) Potential challenges and alternatives to ac-
celerate the completion of such efforts, including 
their associated costs and any impact they might 
have on the public health and safety of island resi-
dents.
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SEC. 
330B. 
PROHIBITION 
ON 
PERFLUOROALKYL 
SUB-
STANCES 
AND 
POLYFLUOROALKYL 
SUB-
STANCES IN MEALS READY-TO-EAT FOOD 
PACKAGING. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Not later than October 1, 2020, 
the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency shall ensure 
that any food contact substances that are used to assemble 
and package meals ready-to-eat (MREs) procured by the 
Defense 
Logistics 
Agency 
do 
not 
contain 
any 
perfluoroalkyl substances or polyfluoroalkyl substances. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE.—The term 
‘‘perfluoroalkyl substance’’ means a man-made 
chemical of which all of the carbon atoms are fully 
fluorinated carbon atoms. 
(2) 
POLYFLUOROALKYL
SUBSTANCE.—The 
term ‘‘polyfluoroalkyl substance’’ means a man-made 
chemical containing a mix of fully fluorinated carbon 
atoms, partially fluorinated carbon atoms, and 
nonfluorinated carbon atoms. 
SEC. 330C. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY ON PFAS CON-
TAMINATION. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General of 
the United States shall conduct a review of the efforts of 
the Department of Defense to clean up per- and 
polyfluoroalkyl substances (in this section referred to as
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‘‘PFAS’’) contamination in and around military bases as 
well as the Department’s efforts to mitigate the public 
health impact of the contamination. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study required by subsection 
(a), shall include the following: 
(1) An assessment of— 
(A) when the Department of Defense dis-
covered that drinking water sources used by 
members of the Armed Forces and residents of 
communities surrounding military bases were 
contaminated with PFAS; 
(B) after learning that the drinking water 
was contaminated, when the Department of De-
fense notified members of the Armed Forces 
and residents of communities surrounding mili-
tary bases that their drinking water is contami-
nated with PFAS; 
(C) after providing such notification, how 
much time lapsed before those affected were 
given alternative sources of drinking water; 
(D) the number of installations and sur-
rounding communities currently drinking water 
that is contaminated with PFAS above the 
EPA’s advisory limit;
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(E) the amount of money the Department 
of Defense has spent on cleaning up PFAS con-
tamination through the date of enactment of 
this Act; 
(F) the number of sites where the Depart-
ment of Defense has taken action to remediate 
PFAS contamination or other materials as a re-
sult of the use of firefighting foam on military 
bases; 
(G) factors that might limit or prevent the 
Department of Defense from remediating 
PFAS contamination or other materials as a re-
sult of the use of firefighting foam on military 
bases; 
(H) the estimated total cost of clean-up of 
PFAS; 
(I) the cost to the Department of Defense 
to discontinue the use of PFAS in firefighting 
foam and to develop and procure viable replace-
ments that meet military specifications; and 
(J) the number of members of the Armed 
Forces who have been exposed to PFAS in their 
drinking water above the EPA’s Health Advi-
sory levels during their military service.
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(2) An evaluation of what the Department of 
Defense could have done better to mitigate the re-
lease of PFAS contamination into the environment 
and expose service members. 
(3) Any other elements the Comptroller General 
may deem necessary. 
(c) RESULTS.— 
(1) INTERIM BRIEFING.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General shall provide to the congres-
sional defense committees, the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on the Environment and Public 
Works of the Senate a briefing on the preliminary 
findings of the study required by this section. 
(2) FINAL RESULTS.—The Comptroller General 
shall provide the final results of the study required 
by this section to the congressional defense commit-
tees, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
the Environment and Public Works of the Senate at 
such time and in such format as is mutually agreed 
upon by the committees and the Comptroller Gen-
eral at the time of briefing under paragraph (1).
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SEC. 330D. DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS CONTAINING PER- 
AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES OR 
AQUEOUS FILM-FORMING FOAM. 
The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that when ma-
terials containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (re-
ferred to in this section as ‘‘PFAS’’) or aqueous film form-
ing foam are disposed— 
(1) all incineration is conducted in a manner 
that eliminates PFAS while also ensuring that no 
PFAS is emitted into the air; 
(2) all incineration is conducted in accordance 
with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (42 USC 
7401 et seq.), including controlling hydrogen fluo-
ride; 
(3) any materials containing PFAS that are 
designated for disposal are stored in accordance with 
the requirement under part 264 of title 40, Code of 
Federal Regulations; and 
(4) no incineration is conducted at any facility 
that violated the requirements of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) during the 12-month pe-
riod preceding the date of disposal.
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SEC. 330E. PROHIBITION ON USE OF PERFLUOROALKYL 
SUBSTANCES AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUB-
STANCES FOR LAND-BASED APPLICATIONS 
OF FIREFIGHTING FOAM. 
(a) LIMITATION.—After October 1, 2022, no amount 
authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available 
for the Department of Defense may be obligated or ex-
pended to procure firefighting foam that contains in excess 
of one part per billion of perfluoroalkyl substances and 
polyfluoroalkyl substances. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON USE OF EXISTING STOCKS.— 
Not later than October 1, 2023, the Secretary of Defense 
shall cease the use of firefighting foam containing in ex-
cess of one part per billion of perfluoroalkyl substances 
and polyfluoroalkyl substances; 
(c) EXEMPTION FOR SHIPBOARD USE.—Subsections 
(a) and (b) shall not apply to firefighting foam for use 
solely onboard ocean-going vessels. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘perfluoroalkyl substances’’ 
means aliphatic substances for which all of the H 
atoms attached to C atoms in the nonfluorinated 
substance from which they are notionally derived 
have been replaced by F atoms, except those H 
atoms whose substitution would modify the nature of 
any functional groups present.
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(2) The term ‘‘polyfluoroalkyl substances’’ 
means aliphatic substances for which all H atoms 
attached to at least one (but not all) C atoms have 
been replaced by F atoms, in such a manner that 
they contain the perfluoroalkyl moiety CnF2n∂1l 
(for example, C8F17CH2CH2OH). 
SEC. 330F. AGREEMENTS TO SHARE MONITORING DATA RE-
LATING 
TO 
PERFLUOROALKYL 
AND 
POLYFLUOROALKYL 
SUBSTANCES 
AND 
OTHER CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
seek to enter into agreements with municipalities or mu-
nicipal drinking water utilities located adjacent to military 
installations under which both the Secretary and the mu-
nicipalities and utilities would share monitoring data relat-
ing to perfluoroalkyl substances, polyfluoroalkyl sub-
stances, and other emerging contaminants of concern col-
lected at the military installation. 
(b) PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.—An agreement under 
subsection (a) does not negate the responsibility of the 
Secretary to communicate with the public about drinking 
water contamination from perfluoroalkyl substances, 
polyfluoroalkyl substances, and other contaminants. 
(c) MILITARY INSTALLATION DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘military installation’’ has the meaning
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given that term in section 2801(c) of title 10, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 330G. DETECTION OF PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS. 
(a) PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR THE DETECTION 
OF PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the United 
States Geologic Survey shall establish a performance 
standard for the detection of perfluorinated com-
pounds. 
(2) EMPHASIS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In developing the per-
formance standard under subsection (a), the 
Director shall emphasize the ability to detect as 
many perfluorinated compounds present in the 
environment as possible using analytical meth-
ods that are as sensitive as is feasible and prac-
ticable. 
(B) REQUIREMENT.—In developing the 
performance standard under subsection (a), the 
Director may— 
(i) develop quality assurance and 
quality control measures to ensure accu-
rate sampling and testing; 
(ii) develop a training program with 
respect to the appropriate method of sam-
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ple collection and analysis of perfluorinated 
compounds; and 
(iii) coordinate as necessary with the 
Administrator to develop methods to detect 
individual and different perfluorinated 
compounds simultaneously. 
(b) NATIONWIDE SAMPLING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall carry out 
a nationwide sampling to determine the concentra-
tion of perfluorinated compounds in estuaries, lakes, 
streams, springs, wells, wetlands, rivers, aquifers, 
and soil using the performance standard developed 
under subsection (a)(1). 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out the sam-
pling under paragraph (1), the Director shall— 
(A) first carry out the sampling at sources 
of drinking water near locations with known or 
suspected releases of perfluorinated compounds; 
(B) when carrying out sampling of sources 
of drinking water under paragraph (1), carry 
out the sampling prior to any treatment of the 
water; 
(C) survey for ecological exposure to 
perfluorinated compounds, with a priority in de-
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termining direct human exposure through 
drinking water; and 
(D) consult with— 
(i) States to determine areas that are 
a priority for sampling; and 
(ii) the Administrator— 
(I) to enhance coverage of the 
sampling; and 
(II) to avoid unnecessary duplica-
tion. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 150 days after 
the completion of the sampling under paragraph (1), 
the Director shall prepare a report describing the re-
sults of the sampling and submit the report to— 
(A) the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 
and the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives; 
(C) the Senators of each State in which 
the Director carried out the sampling; and 
(D) each Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives that represents a district in which 
the Director carried out the sampling.
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(c) DATA USAGE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall provide 
the sampling data collected under subsection (b) 
to— 
(A) the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency; and 
(B) other Federal and State regulatory 
agencies on request. 
(2) USAGE.—The sampling data provided under 
subsection (a) shall be used to inform and enhance 
assessments of exposure, likely health and environ-
mental impacts, and remediation priorities. 
(d) COLLABORATION.—In carrying out this section, 
the Director shall collaborate with— 
(1) appropriate Federal and State regulators; 
(2) institutions of higher education; 
(3) research institutions; and 
(4) other expert stakeholders. 
(e) AUTHORITY FOR TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Of the 
funds authorized to be appropriated by section 301, the 
Secretary of Defense may, without regard to section 2215 
of title 10, United States Code, transfer not more than 
$5,000,000 to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out 
nationwide sampling under this section. Any funds trans-
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ferred under this section may not be used for any other 
purpose, except those specified under this section. 
(f) FUNDING.— 
(1) INCREASE.—Notwithstanding the amounts 
set forth in the funding tables in division D, the 
amount authorized to be appropriated in section 
301, as specified in the corresponding funding table 
in section 4301, Total Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide, Line 080, for the Detection of 
Perfluorinated Compounds is hereby increased by 
$5,000,000. 
(2) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set 
forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount 
authorized to be appropriated in section 101 for 
Procurement of Wheeled and Tracked Combat Vehi-
cles, Army, as specified in the corresponding funding 
table in section 4101, for Bradley Program (Mod) is 
hereby reduced by $5,000,000. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(2) The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the United States Geological Survey. 
(3) The term ‘‘perfluorinated compound’’ means 
a perfluoroalkyl substance or a polyfluoroalkyl sub-
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stance that is manmade with at least 1 fully 
fluorinated carbon atom. 
(4) The term ‘‘fully fluorinated carbon atom’’ 
means a carbon atom on which all the hydrogen 
substituents have been replaced by fluorine. 
(5) The term ‘‘nonfluorinated carbon atom’’ 
means a carbon atom on which no hydrogen 
substituents have been replaced by fluorine. 
(6) The term ‘‘partially fluorinated carbon 
atom’’ means a carbon atom on which some, but not 
all, of the hydrogen substituents have been replaced 
by fluorine. 
(7) The term ‘‘perfluoroalkyl substance’’ means 
a manmade chemical of which all of the carbon 
atoms are fully fluorinated carbon atoms. 
(8) The term ‘‘polyfluoroalkyl substance’’ 
means a manmade chemical containing a mix of 
fully fluorinated carbon atoms, partially fluorinated 
carbon atoms, and nonfluorinated carbon atoms. 
SEC. 330H. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH STATES TO 
ADDRESS 
CONTAMINATION 
BY 
PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL 
SUBSTANCES. 
(a) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon request from the Gov-
ernor or chief executive of a State, the Secretary of 
Defense shall work expeditiously, pursuant to section 
2701(d) of title 10, United States Code, to finalize 
a cooperative agreement, or amend an existing coop-
erative agreement to address testing, monitoring, re-
moval, and remedial actions relating to the contami-
nation or suspected contamination of drinking, sur-
face, or ground water from PFAS originating from 
activities of the Department of Defense by providing 
the mechanism and funding for the expedited review 
and approval of documents of the Department re-
lated to PFAS investigations and remedial actions 
from an active or decommissioned military installa-
tion, including a facility of the National Guard. 
(2) 
MINIMUM
STANDARDS.—A 
cooperative 
agreement finalized or amended under paragraph 
(1) shall meet or exceed the most stringent of the 
following standards for PFAS in any environmental 
media: 
(A) An enforceable State standard, in ef-
fect in that State, for drinking, surface, or 
ground 
water, 
as 
described 
in 
section 
121(d)(2)(A)(ii) of the Comprehensive Environ-
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mental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9621(d)(2)(A)(ii)). 
(B) An enforceable Federal standard for 
drinking, surface, or ground water, as described 
in section 121(d)(2)(A)(i) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability 
Act 
of 
1980 
(42 
U.S.C. 
9621(d)(2)(A)(i)). 
(C) A health advisory under section 
1412(b)(1)(F) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300g–1(b)(1)(F)). 
(3) OTHER AUTHORITY.—In addition to the re-
quirements for a cooperative agreement under para-
graph (1), when otherwise authorized to expend 
funds for the purpose of addressing ground or sur-
face water contaminated by a perfluorinated com-
pound, the Secretary of Defense may, to expend 
those funds, enter into a grant agreement, coopera-
tive agreement, or contract with— 
(A) the local water authority with jurisdic-
tion over the contamination site, including— 
(i) a public water system (as defined 
in section 1401 of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f)); and
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(ii) a publicly owned treatment works 
(as defined in section 212 of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1292)); or 
(B) a State, local, or Tribal government. 
(b) REPORT.—Beginning on February 1, 2020, if a 
cooperative agreement is not finalized or amended under 
subsection (a) within one year after the request from the 
Governor or chief executive under that subsection, and an-
nually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to the appropriate committees and Members of Congress 
a report— 
(1) explaining why the agreement has not been 
finalized or amended, as the case may be; and 
(2) setting forth a projected timeline for final-
izing or amending the agreement. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES AND MEMBERS 
OF CONGRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees 
and Members of Congress’’ means— 
(A) the congressional defense committees; 
(B) the Senators who represent a State 
impacted by PFAS contamination described in 
subsection (a)(1); and
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(C) the Members of the House of Rep-
resentatives who represent a district impacted 
by such contamination. 
(2) FULLY FLUORINATED CARBON ATOM.—The 
term ‘‘fully fluorinated carbon atom’’ means a car-
bon atom on which all the hydrogen substituents 
have been replaced by fluorine. 
(3) 
PFAS.—The 
term 
‘‘PFAS’’ 
means 
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances that 
are man-made chemicals with at least one fully 
fluorinated carbon atom. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 101 of the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601). 
SEC. 330I. FINDINGS, PURPOSE, AND APOLOGY. 
Section 2(a)(1) of the Radiation Exposure Com-
pensation Act (Public Law 101–426; 42 U.S.C. 2210 
note) is amended by inserting ‘‘, including individuals in 
New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Wyo-
ming, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota, 
Nevada, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands,’’ after 
‘‘tests exposed individuals’’.
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SEC. 330J. STUDY ON ENERGY SAVINGS PERFORMANCE 
CONTRACTS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Defense shall conduct 
a study on how the Secretary could enter into more energy 
savings performance contracts (referred to in this section 
as ‘‘ESPCs’’ ). In conducting the study, the Secretary 
shall— 
(1) identify any legislative or regulatory bar-
riers to entering into more ESPCs; and 
(2) include policy proposals for how the Depart-
ment of Defense could evaluate the cost savings 
caused by increasing energy resiliency when evalu-
ating whether to enter into ESPCs. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the congressional defense committees a report on the 
study required under subsection (a). 
SEC. 330K. REDUCTION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FA-
CILITY WATER USE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a re-
port containing plan to reduce facility water use intensity, 
relative to the baseline of the water consumption of the 
facility for fiscal year 2018. The report shall include each 
of the following:
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(1) Life-cycle cost-effective measures that will 
reduce water consumption by 2 percent annually 
through the end of fiscal year 2025. 
(2) Baseline development methodology for cal-
culating a baseline of water use intensity for fiscal 
year 2018, defined as gallons per gross square foot 
per year, that will permit all future reduction goals 
to be measured relative to such baseline. 
(3) An identification of life-cycle cost effective 
water savings measures that can be implemented to 
achieve in Department of Defense facilities a min-
imum of 2 percent annual reduction in water use 
through 2025. 
(4) A description of any barriers to implemen-
tation of a water use reduction program. 
(b) WATER USE.—In this section, the term ‘‘water 
use’’ with respect to a facility includes— 
(1) all water used at the facility that is ob-
tained from public water systems or from natural 
freshwater sources such as lakes, streams, and 
aquifers, where the water is classified or permitted 
for human consumption; and 
(2) potable water used for drinking, bathing, 
toilet flushing, laundry, cleaning and food services, 
watering of landscaping, irrigation, and process ap-
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plications such as cooling towers, boilers, and fire 
suppression systems. 
SEC. 330L. PLAN TO PHASE OUT USE OF BURN PITS. 
The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress 
an implementation plan to phase out the use of the burn 
pits identified in the Department of Defense Open Burn 
Pit Report to Congress in April 2019. 
SEC. 330M. INFORMATION RELATING TO LOCATIONS OF 
BURN PIT USE. 
The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs and Congress a list of all loca-
tions at which open-air burn pits have been used by Sec-
retary of Defense, for the purposes of augmenting the re-
search, healthcare delivery, disability compensation, and 
other activities of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 
SEC. 330N. RADIUM TESTING AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS OF 
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Navy shall 
provide for an independent third-party data quality review 
of all radium testing completed by contractors of the De-
partment of the Navy at a covered location. 
(b) COVERED LOCATION DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘covered location’’ means any location where the 
Secretary of the Navy is undertaking a project or activity
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funded through one of the following accounts of the De-
partment of Defense: 
(1) Operation and Maintenance, Environmental 
Restoration, Navy. 
(2) Operation and Maintenance, Environmental 
Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites. 
SEC. 330O. DESIGNATION AS HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency shall designate all per- and polyfluoroalkyl 
substances as hazardous substances under section 102(a) 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9602(a)). 
Subtitle C—Logistics and 
Sustainment 
SEC. 331. MATERIAL READINESS METRICS AND OBJEC-
TIVES. 
(a) MATERIAL READINESS METRICS
AND OBJEC-
TIVES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 2 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
117 the following new section: 
‘‘§ 118. Material readiness metrics and objectives 
‘‘(a) GUIDANCE.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall 
issue and maintain guidance requiring the implementation
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and use of material readiness metrics to enable assessment 
of the readiness of armed forces to carry out the national 
defense strategy required by section 113 of this title. 
‘‘(2) Guidance issued pursuant to this section shall 
ensure that such material readiness metrics— 
‘‘(A) are based on standardized and consistent 
criteria; and 
‘‘(B) are applied, used, recorded, and reported 
in same manner by all components of the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
‘‘(b) METRICS.—At a minimum, the material readi-
ness metrics required by subsection (a) shall address the 
material availability, operational availability, and material 
reliability of each major weapon system by designated mis-
sion design series, variant, or class. 
‘‘(c) MATERIAL READINESS OBJECTIVES.—(1) The 
Secretary of Defense shall establish, and annually review 
and revise, an objective value for each metric required by 
subsection (b) as a necessary component to support the 
review and revision of the national defense strategy re-
quired by section 113 of this title. 
‘‘(2) To the maximum extent practicable, the Sec-
retary shall ensure that objective values established under 
this subsection are unclassified. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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‘‘(1) The term ‘major weapons system’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘major system’ under section 
2302(5) of this title, except that such term does not 
include an acquisition program for a defense busi-
ness system (as defined in section 2222(i)(1) of this 
title). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘material availability’ means the 
measure of the percentage of the total inventory of 
a system that is operationally capable of performing 
an assigned mission. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘material reliability’ means the 
probability that a covered asset will perform without 
failure over a specified interval. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘operational availability’ means 
the measure of the percentage of time a covered 
asset is operationally capable.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 117 
the following new item: 
‘‘118. Material readiness metrics and objectives.’’. 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
2337(b)(2)(A) of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘to meet the material readiness 
objectives’’ before ‘‘for the weapon system’’; and
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(2) by inserting ‘‘under section 118 of this 
title’’ after ‘‘weapon system’’. 
(c) DEADLINES.— 
(1) DEADLINE FOR GUIDANCE.—The guidance 
required by section 118(a) of title 10, United States 
Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be issued by 
not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(2) DEADLINE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF MATE-
RIAL READINESS OBJECTIVES.—The material readi-
ness objectives required by section 118(c)(1) of title 
10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), 
shall be established by not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 332. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY REGARDING USE 
OF WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS FOR UNSPEC-
IFIED 
MINOR 
MILITARY 
CONSTRUCTION 
PROJECTS 
RELATED 
TO 
REVITALIZATION 
AND RECAPITALIZATION OF DEFENSE INDUS-
TRIAL BASE FACILITIES. 
Section 2208(u) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘carry out’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fund’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘Section 2805’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(A) Except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), section 2805’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘carried out with’’ and in-
serting ‘‘funded using’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) For purposes of applying subparagraph (A), the 
dollar limitation specified in subsection (a)(2) of section 
2805 of this title, subject to adjustment as provided in 
subsection (f) of such section, shall apply rather than the 
dollar limitation specified in subsection (c) of such sec-
tion.’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘carry out’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fund’’. 
SEC. 333. F–35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER SUSTAINMENT. 
(a) LIMITATION
ON
USE
OF
FUNDS.—Of the 
amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act for the Office of the Under Secretary 
of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment for fiscal year 
2020, not more than 75 percent may be obligated or ex-
pended until the date on which the Under Secretary sub-
mits the report required by subsection (b). 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—The Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit to
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the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
House of Representatives a report on steps being taken 
to improve the availability and accountability of F–35 
parts within the supply chain. At a minimum, the report 
shall include a detailed plan for each of the following ele-
ments: 
(1) How the accountable property system of 
record will be updated with information from the 
prime contractors supplying such parts on required 
cost and related data with respect to the parts and 
how the F–35 Program Office will ensure such con-
tractors are adhering to contractual requirements 
for the management, reporting, visibility, and ac-
countability of all such parts supplied by the prime 
contractors. 
(2) How the accountability property system of 
record will have interfaces that allow the F–35 Pro-
gram Office and other authorized entities to have 
proper accountability of assets in accordance with 
applicable Department of Defense Instructions, De-
partment of Defense Manuals, and other applicable 
regulations. 
(3) How the F–35 Program Office and the Sec-
retary of each of the military departments will en-
sure business rules for the prioritization of F–35
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parts across all program participants is sufficient, 
effective, and responsive. 
(4) Steps being taken to ensure parts within 
the base, afloat, and deployment spares packages are 
compatible for deploying F–35 aircraft and account 
for updated parts demand. 
SEC. 
334. 
REPORT 
ON 
STRATEGIC 
POLICY 
FOR 
PREPOSITIONED 
MATERIEL 
AND 
EQUIP-
MENT. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than March 1, 
2020, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, 
in coordination with the Joint Staff, shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House 
of Representatives a report on the implementation plan 
for prepositioned materiel and equipment required by sec-
tion 321(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66; 127 Stat. 730; 10 
U.S.C. 2229 note). Such report shall include each of the 
following: 
(1) A comprehensive list of the prepositioned 
materiel and equipment programs of the Department 
of Defense. 
(2) A detailed description of how the plan will 
be implemented.
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(3) A description of the resources required to 
implement the plan, including the amount of funds 
and personnel. 
(4) A description of how the plan will be re-
viewed and assessed to monitor progress. 
(5) Guidance on applying a consistent definition 
of prepositioning across the Department, including 
the military departments, the combatant commands, 
and the Defense Agencies. 
(6) A detailed description of how the Secretary 
will implement a joint oversight approach of the 
prepositioning programs of the military departments. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON
USE
OF
FUNDS.—Of the 
amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act for the Office of the Assistant Sec-
retary of Defense for Sustainment for fiscal year 2020, 
not more than 75 percent may be obligated or expended 
until the date on which the Assistant Secretary submits 
the report required by subsection (a). 
SEC. 335. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR IMPLEMEN-
TATION OF ELEMENTS OF MASTER PLAN FOR 
REDEVELOPMENT OF FORMER SHIP REPAIR 
FACILITY IN GUAM. 
(a) LIMITATION.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by
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this Act or otherwise made available for the Navy for fiscal 
year 2020 may be obligated or expended for any construc-
tion, alteration, repair, or development of the real property 
consisting of the Former Ship Repair Facility in Guam. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The limitation under subsection 
(a) does not apply to any project that directly supports 
depot-level ship maintenance capabilities, including the 
mooring of a floating dry dock. 
(c) FORMER SHIP REPAIR FACILITY IN GUAM.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘Former Ship Repair Facility in 
Guam’’ means the property identified by that name under 
the base realignment and closure authority carried out 
under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 
U.S.C. 2687 note). 
SEC. 336. REPORT ON EFFECTS OF INCREASED AUTOMA-
TION OF DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE ON 
MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to Congress a report on the effects of the increased auto-
mation of the defense industrial base over the ten-year pe-
riod beginning on the date that is 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. Such report shall include, 
for the period covered by the report—
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(1) an estimate of the number of jobs in the 
United States manufacturing workforce expected to 
be eliminated due to automation in the defense sec-
tor; 
(2) an analysis describing any new types of jobs 
that are expected to be established as a result of an 
increasingly automated process, including an esti-
mate of the number of these types of jobs that are 
expected to be created; 
(3) an analysis of the potential threats to the 
national security of the United States that are 
unique to the automation of the defense industry; 
(4) a strategy to assist in providing workforce 
training and transition preparation for workers who 
may lose manufacturing jobs in the defense industry 
due to automation; 
(5) a description of any training necessary for 
workers affected by automation to more easily tran-
sition to new types of jobs within the defense manu-
facturing industry; and 
(6) any actions taken, or planned to be taken, 
by the Department of Defense to assist in worker 
transition.
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SEC. 337. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY INSTALLATION RE-
UTILIZATION AUTHORITY FOR ARSENALS, 
DEPOTS AND PLANTS. 
(a) ENSURING VIABILITY
OF ARSENALS, DEPOTS 
AND PLANTS.—Section 345(d) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115- 
91; 10 U.S.C. 2667 note) is amended by striking ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2025’’. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED .— Not later than March 1, 
2020, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the con-
gressional defense committees a report that includes— 
(1) the results of a needs assessment conducted 
by the Secretary to determine the logistical, informa-
tion technology, and security requirements to create 
an internal listing service of Army assets available 
for lease at Arsenal’s, depots and plants; and 
(2) information from any previous Army assess-
ments or inventory of real property. 
SEC. 338. PILOT PROGRAM TO TRAIN SKILLED TECHNI-
CIANS IN CRITICAL SHIPBUILDING SKILLS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense 
may carry out a pilot program to train individuals to be-
come skilled technicians in critical shipbuilding skills such 
as welding, metrology, quality assurance, machining, and 
additive manufacturing.
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(b) PARTNERSHIPS.—In carrying out the pilot pro-
gram required under this section, the Secretary may part-
ner with existing Federal or State projects relating to in-
vestment and infrastructure in training and education or 
workforce development, such as the National Network for 
Manufacturing Innovation, the Industrial Base Analysis 
and Sustainment program of the Department of Defense, 
and the National Maritime Educational Council. 
(c) TERMINATION.—The pilot program required 
under this section shall terminate on September 30, 2025. 
(d) BRIEFINGS.— 
(1) PLAN BRIEFING.—Not later than February 
28, 2020, the Secretary shall provide a briefing to 
the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives on the plan, cost 
estimate, and schedule for the pilot program re-
quired under this section. 
(2) PROGRESS BRIEFINGS.—Not less frequently 
than annually during fiscal years 2020 and 2021, 
the Secretary shall brief the congressional defense 
committees on the progress of the Secretary in car-
rying out the pilot program.
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Subtitle D—Reports 
SEC. 341. READINESS REPORTING. 
(a) READINESS REPORTING SYSTEM.—Section 117 
of title 10, United State Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking subsections (d) through (g); and 
(2) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (d). 
(b) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Section 482 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘Quar-
terly reports: personnel and unit readi-
ness’’ and inserting ‘‘Readiness reports’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) In the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘QUARTERLY REPORTS REQUIRED’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘REPORTS AND BRIEFINGS’’; 
(B) In the first sentence— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Not later’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(1) Not later’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘each calendar-year 
quarter’’ and inserting ‘‘the second and 
fourth quarter of each calendar year’’; 
(C) by striking the second and third sen-
tences and inserting ‘‘The Secretary of Defense 
shall submit each such report in writing and
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shall also submit a copy of each such report to 
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.’’; 
and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(2) Not later than 30 days after the end of the first 
and third quarter of each calendar year, the Secretary of 
Defense shall provide to Congress a briefing regarding the 
military readiness of the active and reserve components. 
‘‘(3) Each report under this subsection shall contain 
the elements required by subsection (b) for the quarter 
covered by the report, and each briefing shall address any 
changes to the elements described in subsection (b) since 
the submittal of the most recently submitted report.’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(b) REQUIRED
ELEMENTS.—The elements de-
scribed in this subsection are each of the following: 
‘‘(1) A description of each readiness problem or 
deficiency that affects the ground, sea, air, space, 
cyber, or special operations forces, and any other 
area determined appropriate by the Secretary of De-
fense.
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‘‘(2) The key contributing factors, indicators, 
and other relevant information related to each iden-
tified problem or deficiency. 
‘‘(3) The short-term mitigation strategy the De-
partment will employ to address each readiness 
problem or deficiency until a resolution is in place, 
as well as the timeline, cost, and any legislative rem-
edies required to support the resolution. 
‘‘(4) A summary of combat readiness ratings 
for the key force elements assessed, including spe-
cific information on personnel, supply, equipment, 
and training problems or deficiencies that affect the 
combat readiness ratings for each force element. 
‘‘(5) A summary of each upgrade or downgrade 
of the combat readiness of a unit that was issued by 
the commander of the unit, together with the ration-
ale of the commander for the issuance of such up-
grade or downgrade. 
‘‘(6) A summary of the readiness of supporting 
capabilities, including infrastructure, prepositioned 
equipment and supplies, and mobility assets, and 
other supporting logistics capabilities. 
‘‘(7) A summary of the readiness of the combat 
support and related agencies, any readiness problem 
or deficiency affecting any mission essential tasks of
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any such agency, and actions recommended to ad-
dress any such problem or deficiency. 
‘‘(8) A list of all Class A, Class B, and Class 
C mishaps that occurred in operations related to 
combat support and training events involving avia-
tion, ground, or naval platforms, weapons, space, or 
Government vehicles, as defined by Department of 
Defense Instruction 6055.07, or a successor instruc-
tion. 
‘‘(9) Information on the extent to which units 
of the armed forces have removed serviceable parts, 
supplies, or equipment from one vehicle, vessel, or 
aircraft in order to render a different vehicle, vessel, 
or aircraft operational. 
‘‘(10) Such other information as determined 
necessary or appropriate by the Secretary of De-
fense.’’; 
(4) by striking subsections (d) through (h) and 
subsection (j); 
(5) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection 
(e); and 
(6) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing new subsections (d): 
‘‘(d) SEMI-ANNUAL JOINT FORCE READINESS RE-
VIEW.—(1) Not later than 30 days after the last day of
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the first and third quarter of each calendar year, the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to Con-
gress a written report on the capability of the armed 
forces, the combat support and related agencies, oper-
ational contract support, and the geographic and func-
tional combatant commands to execute their wartime mis-
sions based upon their posture and readiness as of the 
time the review is conducted. 
‘‘(2) The Chairman shall produce the report required 
under this subsection using information derived from the 
quarterly reports required by subsection (a). 
‘‘(3) Each report required by this subsection shall in-
clude an assessment by each commander of a geographic 
or functional combatant command of the readiness of the 
command to conduct operations in a multidomain battle 
that integrates ground, sea, air, space, cyber, and special 
operations forces. 
‘‘(4) The Chairman shall submit to the Secretary of 
Defense a copy of each report under this subsection.’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 23 of such title is amended 
by striking the item relating to section 482 and inserting 
the following new item: 
‘‘482. Readiness reports.’’.
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SEC. 342. EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR TRANSITION 
FROM SERVICE-SPECIFIC DEFENSE READI-
NESS REPORTING SYSTEMS. 
Section 358(c) of the John S. McCain National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 
115–232) is amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2019’’ and 
inserting ‘‘October 1, 2020’’. 
SEC. 343. REPORT ON NAVY SHIP DEPOT MAINTENANCE 
BUDGET. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 1 of each 
of 2020, 2021, and 2022, the Secretary of the Navy shall 
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Sen-
ate and the House of Representatives a report on the Op-
eration and Maintenance Ship Depot Maintenance budget 
sub-activity group. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include each of the following elements: 
(1) A breakdown of funding, categorized by 
class of ship, requested for ship and submarine 
maintenance. 
(2) A description of how the requested funding, 
categorized by class of ship, compares to the identi-
fied ship maintenance requirement. 
(3) The amount of funds appropriated for each 
class of ship for the preceding fiscal year.
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(4) The amount of funds obligated and ex-
pended for each class of ship for each of the three 
preceding fiscal years. 
(5) The cost, categorized by class of ship, of 
unplanned growth work for each of the three pre-
ceding fiscal years. 
SEC. 344. REPORT ON RUNIT DOME. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Energy, in coordination with the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary of De-
fense, shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Represent-
atives and the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen-
ate a report on the status of the Runit Dome in the Mar-
shal Islands. 
(b) MATTERS FOR INCLUSION.—The report required 
by subsection (a) shall include each of the following: 
(1) A detailed plan to remove the radioactive 
materials in the dome to a safer and more stable lo-
cation, including a predicted timeline and associated 
costs.
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(2) A detailed plan to repair the dome to ensure 
that it does not have any harmful effects to the local 
population, environment, or wildlife, including the 
projected costs of implementing such plan. 
(3) The effects on the environment that the 
dome has currently and is projected to have in 5 
years, 10 years, and 20 years. 
(4) An assessment on the safety of food gath-
ered from local food sources. 
(5) An assessment of the current condition of 
the outer constructs of the dome. 
(6) An assessment of the current and long-term 
safety to local humans posed by the site. 
(7) How climate change and rising sea levels 
are predicted to affect the dome, including a descrip-
tion of projected scenarios if the dome becomes par-
tially or fully submerged by ocean water. 
(8) A summary of interactions between the 
Government of the United States and the govern-
ment of the Marshall Islands about the dome. 
(9) A detailed description of the physical health 
effects on Pacific Islanders, including residents of 
Hawaii, Fuji, and Samoa, of nuclear testing con-
ducted at Runit Dome.
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(10) A detailed description of the pre- and post- 
nuclear test communications between the United 
States and the governments of the territories and 
nations of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii, 
Fuji, and Samoa. 
(c) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required by sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form and 
made publicly available. 
SEC. 345. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY OF OUT-OF- 
POCKET COSTS FOR SERVICE DRESS UNI-
FORMS. 
(a) REVIEW REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General 
of the United States shall conduct a study of the out-of- 
pocket costs to members of the Armed Forces for service 
dress uniforms. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The review under subsection (a) 
shall address each of the following: 
(1) A description and comparison of the out-of- 
pocket cost to members of the Armed Forces for the 
purchase of service dress uniforms and service dress 
uniform items, broken down by— 
(A) gender; 
(B) Armed Force; 
(C) enlisted; and 
(D) officer.
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(2) Stipends, in-kind provision of items, or 
other assistance provided by each service to per-
sonnel to offset cost of service dress uniforms. 
(3) A comparison of the out-of-pocket cost for 
purchase and maintenance of service and service 
dress uniforms over one, five, 10, and 20-year peri-
ods. 
(4) A description of service dress uniform 
changes directed by any of the Armed Forces over 
the past 10 years that have affected the out-of-pock-
et costs to members of the Armed Forces and the 
costs associated with such change, by gender. 
(5) Any other information that the Comptroller 
General determines appropriate. 
(c) BRIEFING AND REPORT.— 
(1) BRIEFING.—Not later than April 15, 2020, 
the Comptroller General shall provide to the con-
gressional defense committees a briefing on the pre-
liminary findings of the study required under this 
section. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 
2020, the Comptroller General shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees a final report on 
the findings of such study.
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SEC. 346. INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT OF CERTAIN COM-
MERCIAL DEPOT MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS. 
The Inspector General of the Department of Defense 
shall conduct an audit of each military department and 
Defense Agency (as defined in section 101 of title 10, 
United States Code), as applicable, to determine if there 
has been any excess profit or cost escalation with respect 
to any sole-source contracts relating to commercial depot 
maintenance (including contracts for parts, supplies, 
equipment, and maintenance services). 
SEC. 347. REPORT ON PLAN TO DECONTAMINATE SITES 
FORMERLY USED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 
THE ARMY THAT HAVE SINCE BEEN TRANS-
FERRED TO UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT 
AND ARE AFFECTED BY POLLUTANTS THAT 
ARE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, A RESULT OF AC-
TIVITY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) There are numerous properties that were 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the 
Army, such as former Nike missile sites, but that 
have been transferred to units of local government. 
(2) Many of these properties may remain pol-
luted because of activity by the Department of De-
fense.
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(3) This pollution may inhibit the use of these 
properties for commercial or residential purposes. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the Army 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report— 
(1) specifying each covered property that may 
remain polluted because of activity by the Depart-
ment of Defense; and 
(2) containing the Secretary’s plan to decon-
taminate each covered property. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives. 
(2) The term ‘‘covered property’’ means prop-
erty that was under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of the Army and was transferred to a unit of 
local government before the date of the enactment of 
section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental
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Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 
but that would have triggered Federal Government 
notice or action under that section had the transfer 
occurred on or after that date. 
Subtitle E—Other Matters 
SEC. 351. INCLUSION OF OVER-THE-HORIZON RADARS IN 
EARLY OUTREACH PROCEDURES. 
Section 183a(c)(6) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘or airport surveillance radar’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, airport surveillance radar, or wide area sur-
veillance over-the-horizon radar’’. 
SEC. 352. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR SECRETARY OF 
DEFENSE TO USE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
REIMBURSEMENT 
RATE 
FOR 
TRANSPOR-
TATION SERVICES PROVIDED TO CERTAIN 
NON-DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ENTITIES. 
Section 2642(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘October 1, 2024’’. 
SEC. 353. EXPANDED TRANSFER AND ADOPTION OF MILI-
TARY ANIMALS. 
Section 2583 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)—
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(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘TRANSFER OR’’ before ‘‘ADOPTION’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘adoption’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘transfer or adoption’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘TRANSFER OR’’ before ‘‘ADOPTION’’; 
(B) in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘adoption’’ and inserting ‘‘transfer or adop-
tion’’; and 
(C) in the second sentence, by striking 
‘‘adoptability’’ and inserting ‘‘transferability or 
adoptability’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)(1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by inserting ‘‘transfer or’’ before ‘‘adop-
tion’’; 
(B) in subparagraphs (A) and (B), by in-
serting ‘‘adoption’’ before ‘‘by’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘or 
organizations’’ after ‘‘persons’’; and 
(D) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘by’’ 
and inserting ‘‘transfer to’’; 
(4) in subsection (e)—
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(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘OR ADOPTED’’ after ‘‘TRANSFERRED’’; 
(B) in paragraphs (1) and (2), by striking 
‘‘transferred’’ each place it appears and insert-
ing ‘‘transferred or adopted’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘trans-
fer’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘trans-
fer or adoption’’; 
(5) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘TRANSFER
OF
RETIRED’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘TRANSPORTATION OF RETIRING’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘trans-
fer’’ and inserting ‘‘transport’’; 
(6) in subsection (g)(3), by striking ‘‘adoption 
of military working dogs’’ and all that follows 
through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘trans-
fer of military working dogs to law enforcement 
agencies before the end of the dogs’ useful working 
lives.’’; and 
(7) in subsection (h)(2), by striking ‘‘A horse’’ 
and inserting ‘‘An equid (horse, mule, or donkey)’’.
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SEC. 354. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION TO ISSUE NON-PREMIUM 
AVIATION INSURANCE. 
Section 44310(b) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2019’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2022’’. 
SEC. 355. DEFENSE PERSONAL PROPERTY PROGRAM. 
(a) ADVISORY GROUP.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established an 
advisory group on the defense personal property pro-
gram, to be known as the ‘‘Global Household Relo-
cation Services Advisory Committee’’. 
(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The advisory group shall be 
comprised of 15 members appointed from among in-
dividuals who represent appropriate entities as fol-
lows: 
(A) One member representing United 
States Transportation Command appointed by 
the Commander of United States Transpor-
tation Command. 
(B) A flag or general officer of the Armed 
Forces representing each of the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard ap-
pointed by the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, 
Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Chief of 
Staff of the Air Force, the Assistant Com-
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mandant of the Marine Corps, and Vice Com-
mandant of the Coast Guard, respectively. 
(C) Four members representing appro-
priate transportation service providers, includ-
ing two small business concerns, appointed by 
the 
Assistant 
Secretary 
of 
Defense 
for 
Sustainment. 
(D) Five members representing consumer 
representatives who are members of the Armed 
Forces or spouses of members of the Armed 
Forces, one of whom is appointed by the senior 
non-commissioned officer of each of the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast 
Guard. 
(3) MEETINGS.—The advisory group shall con-
vene regularly to provide to the Secretary of Defense 
feedback on the execution of, and any recommended 
changes to, the global household goods contract. 
(4) REPORTS.— 
(A) QUARTERLY
REPORTS.—Not later 
than 30 days after the last day of a fiscal quar-
ter, the advisory group shall submit to the con-
gressional defense committees a report on the 
activities and recommendations of the advisory 
group during such fiscal quarter.
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(B) TERMINATION OF REPORT REQUIRE-
MENT.—The requirement to submit a report 
under subparagraph (A) shall terminate on the 
termination date specified under paragraph 
(5)(A). 
(5) TERMINATION.—The advisory group shall 
terminate on the date that is five years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS.—Not later than 60 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Com-
mander of United States Transportation Command shall 
prepare a business case analysis for the proposed award 
of a global household goods contract for the defense per-
sonal property program. 
(c) LIMITATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds author-
ized to be appropriated in this Act for fiscal year 
2020 shall be available to enter into a global house-
hold goods contract until the date that is 30 days 
after later of the following dates: 
(A) The date on which the Commander of 
United States Transportation Command pro-
vides to the congressional defense committees a 
briefing on—
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(i) the business case analysis required 
by subsection (b); and 
(ii) the proposed structure and meet-
ing schedule for the advisory group estab-
lished under subsection (a). 
(B) The date on which the Comptroller 
General of the United States submits to the 
congressional defense committees the report re-
quired by paragraph (2). 
(2) GAO REPORT.—Not later than February 
15, 2020, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report on a comprehensive study con-
ducted by the Comptroller General that includes— 
(A) an analysis of the effects that the out-
sourcing of the management and oversight of 
the movement of household goods to a private 
entity or entities would have on members of the 
Armed Forces and their families; 
(B) a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis; 
and 
(C) recommendations for changes to the 
strategy of the Department of Defense for the 
defense personal property program. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘global household goods contract’’ 
means the solicitation managed by United States 
Transportation Command to engage a private entity 
to manage the defense personal property program. 
(2) The term ‘‘defense personal property pro-
gram’’ means the Department of Defense program 
used to manage the shipment of the baggage and 
household effects of members of the Armed Forces 
under section 476 of title 37, United States Code. 
SEC. 356. PUBLIC EVENTS ABOUT RED HILL BULK FUEL 
STORAGE FACILITY. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—At least once every calendar 
quarter, the Secretary of the Navy, or the designee of the 
Secretary, shall hold an event that is open to the public 
at which the Secretary shall provide up-to-date informa-
tion about the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. 
(b) TERMINATION.—The requirement to hold events 
under subsection (a) shall terminate on the earlier of the 
following dates: 
(1) September 30, 2025. 
(2) The date on which the Red Hill Bulk Fuel 
Storage Facility ceases operation. 
SEC. 357. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INNOVATIVE 
READINESS TRAINING PROGRAM. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
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(1) the Innovative Readiness Training program 
is an effective training program for members of the 
Armed Forces and is highly beneficial to civilian- 
military relationships with local American commu-
nities; 
(2) due to the geographic complexities and re-
alities of non-contiguous States and territories, In-
novative Readiness Training has lent greater benefit 
to such States and territories while providing unique 
and realistic training opportunities and deployment 
readiness for members of the Armed Forces; 
(3) the Department of Defense should pursue 
continued Innovative Readiness Training opportuni-
ties, and, where applicable, strongly encourage the 
use of Innovative Readiness Training in non-contig-
uous States and territories; and 
(4) in considering whether to recommend a 
project, the Secretary should consider the benefits of 
the project to the economy of a region damaged by 
natural disasters. 
SEC. 358. PILOT PROGRAM ON REDUCTION OF EFFECTS OF 
MILITARY 
AVIATION 
NOISE 
ON 
PRIVATE 
RESIDENCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
carry out a five-year pilot program under which the com-
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mander of a military installation may provide funds for 
the purpose of installing noise insulation on private resi-
dences impacted by military aviation noise from the instal-
lation. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive funds 
under the pilot program, a recipient shall enter into an 
agreement with the commander to— 
(1) provide at least 50 percent of the funds re-
quired to carry out the noise insulation; and 
(2) ensure that the noise at any private resi-
dence where insulation is installed is reduced by at 
least 5 dB. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds provided under the pilot 
program shall be used for the installation of noise insula-
tion at a residence— 
(1) located within a Department of Defense 
noise contour between 65 dB day-night average 
sound level and 75 dB day-night average sound level 
as validated on a National Environmental Policy 
Act-compliant assessment within the past three 
years; and 
(2) where interior noise has been measured at 
45 dB day-night average sound level by the installa-
tion.
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(d) GOALS AND BEST PRACTICES.—In carrying out 
the pilot program under this section, a commander shall 
use the following goals and best practices: 
(1) Minimize cost in order to maximize number 
of homes served. 
(2) Focus efforts on residences newly impacted 
by increased noise levels. 
SEC. 359. COMPLETION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DI-
RECTIVE 2310.07E REGARDING MISSING PER-
SONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
make the completion of Department of Defense Directive 
2310.07E a top priority in order to improve the efficiency 
of locating missing persons. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘missing 
person’’ has the meaning given such term in section 1513 
of title 10, United States Code. 
TITLE IV—MILITARY 
PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS 
Subtitle A—Active Forces 
SEC. 401. END STRENGTHS FOR ACTIVE FORCES. 
The Armed Forces are authorized strengths for active 
duty personnel as of September 30, 2020, as follows: 
(1) The Army, 480,000. 
(2) The Navy, 340,500.
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(3) The Marine Corps, 186,200. 
(4) The Air Force, 332,800. 
SEC. 402. REVISIONS IN PERMANENT ACTIVE DUTY END 
STRENGTH MINIMUM LEVELS. 
Section 691(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and in-
serting the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(1) For the Army, 480,000. 
‘‘(2) For the Navy, 340,500. 
‘‘(3) For the Marine Corps, 186,200. 
‘‘(4) For the Air Force, 332,800.’’. 
Subtitle B—Reserve Forces 
SEC. 411. END STRENGTHS FOR SELECTED RESERVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Armed Forces are authorized 
strengths for Selected Reserve personnel of the reserve 
components as of September 30, 2020, as follows: 
(1) The Army National Guard of the United 
States, 336,000. 
(2) The Army Reserve, 189,500. 
(3) The Navy Reserve, 59,000. 
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 38,500. 
(5) The Air National Guard of the United 
States, 107,700. 
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 70,100. 
(7) The Coast Guard Reserve, 7,000.
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(b) 
END
STRENGTH
REDUCTIONS.—The 
end 
strengths prescribed by subsection (a) for the Selected Re-
serve of any reserve component shall be proportionately 
reduced by— 
(1) the total authorized strength of units orga-
nized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of 
such component which are on active duty (other 
than for training) at the end of the fiscal year; and 
(2) the total number of individual members not 
in units organized to serve as units of the Selected 
Reserve of such component who are on active duty 
(other than for training or for unsatisfactory partici-
pation in training) without their consent at the end 
of the fiscal year. 
(c) END STRENGTH INCREASES.—Whenever units or 
individual members of the Selected Reserve of any reserve 
component are released from active duty during any fiscal 
year, the end strength prescribed for such fiscal year for 
the Selected Reserve of such reserve component shall be 
increased proportionately by the total authorized strengths 
of such units and by the total number of such individual 
members.
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SEC. 412. END STRENGTHS FOR RESERVES ON ACTIVE 
DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES. 
Within the end strengths prescribed in section 
411(a), the reserve components of the Armed Forces are 
authorized, as of September 30, 2020, the following num-
ber of Reserves to be serving on full-time active duty or 
full-time duty, in the case of members of the National 
Guard, for the purpose of organizing, administering, re-
cruiting, instructing, or training the reserve components: 
(1) The Army National Guard of the United 
States, 30,595. 
(2) The Army Reserve, 16,511. 
(3) The Navy Reserve, 10,155. 
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 2,386. 
(5) The Air National Guard of the United 
States, 22,637. 
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 4,431. 
SEC. 413. END STRENGTHS FOR MILITARY TECHNICIANS 
(DUAL STATUS). 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The minimum number of military 
technicians (dual status) as of the last day of fiscal year 
2020 for the reserve components of the Army and the Air 
Force (notwithstanding section 129 of title 10, United 
States Code) shall be the following: 
(1) For the Army National Guard of the United 
States, 22,294.
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(2) For the Army Reserve, 6,492. 
(3) For the Air National Guard of the United 
States, 13,573. 
(4) For the Air Force Reserve, 8,848. 
(b) LIMITATION.—Under no circumstances may a 
military technician (dual status) employed under the au-
thority of this section be coerced by a State into accepting 
an offer of realignment or conversion to any other military 
status, including as a member of the Active, Guard, and 
Reserve program of a reserve component. If a military 
technician (dual status) declines to participate in such re-
alignment or conversion, no further action will be taken 
against the individual or the individual’s position. 
SEC. 414. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RESERVE PERSONNEL AU-
THORIZED TO BE ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR 
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT. 
During fiscal year 2020, the maximum number of 
members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 
who may be serving at any time on full-time operational 
support duty under section 115(b) of title 10, United 
States Code, is the following: 
(1) The Army National Guard of the United 
States, 17,000. 
(2) The Army Reserve, 13,000. 
(3) The Navy Reserve, 6,200.
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(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 3,000. 
(5) The Air National Guard of the United 
States, 16,000. 
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 14,000. 
Subtitle C—Authorization of 
Appropriations 
SEC. 421. MILITARY PERSONNEL. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Funds 
are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 
2020 for the use of the Armed Forces and other activities 
and agencies of the Department of Defense for expenses, 
not otherwise provided for, for military personnel, as spec-
ified in the funding table in section 4401. 
(b) CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORIZATION.—The au-
thorization of appropriations in the subsection (a) super-
sedes any other authorization of appropriations (definite 
or indefinite) for such purpose for fiscal year 2020. 
TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL 
POLICY 
Subtitle A—Officer Personnel 
Policy 
SEC. 501. MANAGEMENT POLICIES FOR JOINT QUALIFIED 
OFFICERS. 
Section 661(d)(3)(B) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended in the third sentence by inserting ‘‘or a des-
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ignee of the Chairman who is an officer of the armed 
forces in grade O–8 or higher’’ before the period. 
SEC. 502. GRADE OF CHIEF OF THE VETERINARY CORPS OF 
THE ARMY. 
Section 7084 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘An officer 
appointed to that position who holds a lower grade shall 
be appointed in the grade of brigadier general.’’. 
SEC. 503. AUTHORITY OF PROMOTION BOARDS TO REC-
OMMEND THAT OFFICERS OF PARTICULAR 
MERIT BE PLACED HIGHER ON PROMOTION 
LIST. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 14108 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(f) HIGHER PLACEMENT OF OFFICERS OF PAR-
TICULAR MERIT ON PROMOTION LIST.—(1) In selecting 
officers to be recommended for promotion, a promotion 
board may, when authorized by the Secretary concerned, 
recommend that officers of particular merit, from among 
those officers selected for promotion, be placed higher on 
the promotion list established by the Secretary under sec-
tion 14308(a) of this title.
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‘‘(2) A promotion board may make a recommendation 
under paragraph (1) only if an officer receives the rec-
ommendation of— 
‘‘(A) a majority of the members of the pro-
motion board; or 
‘‘(B) an alternative requirement established by 
the Secretary concerned and furnished to the pro-
motion board as part of the guidelines under section 
14107 of this title. 
‘‘(3) For officers who receive recommendations under 
paragraph (1), the board shall recommend the order in 
which those officers should be placed on the promotion 
list.’’. 
(b) REPORTS REGARDING RECOMMENDATIONS THAT 
OFFICERS OF PARTICULAR MERIT BE PLACED HIGHER 
ON PROMOTION LIST.—Section 14109 of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) REPORT
OF OFFICERS RECOMMENDED
FOR 
HIGHER PLACEMENT
ON PROMOTION LIST.—A pro-
motion board convened under section 14101(a) of this title 
shall, when authorized under section 14108(f) of this title, 
include in its report to the Secretary concerned—
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‘‘(1) the names of those officers the promotion 
board recommends be placed higher on the pro-
motion list; and 
‘‘(2) the order in which the promotion board 
recommends those officers should be placed on the 
promotion list.’’. 
(c) OFFICERS OF PARTICULAR MERIT APPEARING 
HIGHER ON PROMOTION LIST.—Section 14308(a) of such 
title is amended in the first sentence by inserting ‘‘or 
based on particular merit, as determined by the promotion 
board’’ before the period. 
SEC. 504. AVAILABILITY ON THE INTERNET OF CERTAIN IN-
FORMATION ABOUT OFFICERS SERVING IN 
GENERAL OR FLAG OFFICER GRADES. 
(a) AVAILABILITY REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of each mili-
tary department shall make available on an internet 
website of such department available to the public 
information specified in paragraph (2) on each offi-
cer in a general or flag officer grade under the juris-
diction of such Secretary, including any such officer 
on the reserve active-status list. 
(2) INFORMATION.—The information on an of-
ficer specified by this paragraph to be made avail-
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able pursuant to paragraph (1) is the information as 
follows: 
(A) The officer’s name. 
(B) The officer’s current grade, duty posi-
tion, command or organization, and location of 
assignment. 
(C) A summary list of the officer’s past 
duty assignments while serving in a general or 
flag officer grade. 
(b) ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE ON CERTAIN OFFI-
CERS.—Whenever an officer in a grade of O–7 or above 
is assigned to a new billet or reassigned from a current 
billet, the Secretary of the military department having ju-
risdiction of such officer shall make available on an inter-
net website of such department available to the public a 
notice of such assignment or reassignment. 
(c) LIMITATION ON WITHHOLDING OF CERTAIN IN-
FORMATION OR NOTICE.— 
(1) LIMITATION.—The Secretary of a military 
department may not withhold the information or no-
tice specified in subsections (a) and (b) from public 
availability pursuant to subsection (a), unless and 
until the Secretary notifies the Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives in writing of the information or notice
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that will be so withheld, together with justification 
for withholding the information or notice from public 
availability. 
(2) LIMITED
DURATION
OF
WITHHOLDING.— 
The Secretary concerned may withhold from the 
public under paragraph (1) information or notice on 
an officer only on the basis of individual risk or na-
tional security, and may continue to withhold such 
information or notice only for so long as the basis 
for withholding remains in force. 
SEC. 505. REPORT ON RATE OF MATERNAL MORTALITY 
AMONG MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, and with re-
spect to members of the Coast Guard, the Secretary of 
the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating 
when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, shall 
submit to Congress a report on the rate of maternal mor-
tality among members of the Armed Forces and the de-
pendents of such members. 
SEC. 506. FUNCTIONAL BADGE OR INSIGNIA UPON COMMIS-
SION FOR CHAPLAINS. 
A military chaplain shall receive a functional badge 
or insignia upon commission.
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Subtitle B—Reserve Component 
Management 
SEC. 511. GRADE OF CERTAIN CHIEFS OF RESERVE COMPO-
NENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) 
CHIEF
OF
ARMY
RESERVE.—Section 
7038(b)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘general officers of the Army 
Reserve’’ and inserting ‘‘officers of the Army Re-
serve in the grade of lieutenant general and’’. 
(2) 
CHIEF
OF
NAVY
RESERVE.—Section 
8083(b)(1) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘flag 
officers of the Navy (as defined in section 8001(1))’’ 
and inserting ‘‘officers of the Navy Reserve in the 
grade of vice admiral and’’. 
(3) COMMANDER, MARINE FORCES RESERVE.— 
Section 8084(b)(1) of such title is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘general officers of the Marine Corps (as defined 
in section 8001(2))’’ and inserting ‘‘officers of the 
Marine Corps Reserve in the grade of lieutenant 
general and’’. 
(4) CHIEF OF AIR FORCE RESERVE.—Section 
9038(b)(1) of such title is amended by striking 
‘‘general officers of the Air Force Reserve’’ and in-
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serting ‘‘officers of the Air Force Reserve in the 
grade of lieutenant general and’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The amendments made 
under subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
shall apply to appointments made after such date. 
SEC. 512. AUTHORITY TO DEFER MANDATORY SEPARATION 
AT AGE 68 OF OFFICERS IN MEDICAL SPE-
CIALTIES IN THE RESERVE COMPONENTS. 
Section 14703(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘An’’ and inserting ‘‘(1) Subject 
to paragraph (2), an’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph (2): 
‘‘(2) The Secretary concerned may, with the consent 
of the officer, retain in an active status an officer in a 
medical specialty described in subsection (a) beyond the 
date described in paragraph (1) of this subsection if the 
Secretary concerned determines that such retention is nec-
essary to the military department concerned. Each such 
retention shall be made on a case-by-case basis and for 
such period as the Secretary concerned determines appro-
priate.’’.
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SEC. 513. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR REVIEW OF CER-
TAIN ARMY RESERVE OFFICER UNIT VA-
CANCY PROMOTIONS BY COMMANDERS OF 
ASSOCIATED ACTIVE DUTY UNITS. 
Section 1113 of the Army National Guard Combat 
Readiness Reform Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–484; 10 
U.S.C. 10105 note) is repealed. 
SEC. 514. GUIDANCE FOR USE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT 
SYSTEMS BY THE NATIONAL GUARD. 
(a) NEW GUIDANCE.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Defense shall issue new guidance that treats the use of 
unmanned aircraft systems by the National Guard for cov-
ered activities in a manner no more restrictive than the 
use of other aircraft for covered activities. 
(b) COVERED ACTIVITIES DEFINED.—In this section, 
‘‘covered activities’’ means the following: 
(1) Emergency operations. 
(2) Search and rescue operations. 
(3) Defense support to civil authorities. 
(4) Support under section 502(f) of title 32, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 515. JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2031(b)(3) of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘and which 
may include instruction or activities in the fields of
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science, technology, engineering, and mathematics’’ after 
‘‘duration’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 516. JROTC COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CYBERSECU-
RITY PROGRAM. 
Chapter 102 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2036. Computer science and cybersecurity pro-
gram 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of De-
fense may carry out a program to enhance the preparation 
of students in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 
for careers in computer science and cybersecurity. 
‘‘(b) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the program, 
the Secretary shall coordinate with the following: 
‘‘(1) The Secretaries of the military depart-
ments. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Education. 
‘‘(3) The National Science Foundation. 
‘‘(4) The heads of such other Federal, State, 
and local government
entities the Secretary of De-
fense determines appropriate.
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‘‘(5) Private sector organizations, including 
workforce development organizations, the Secretary 
of Defense determines appropriate. 
‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES.—Activities under the program may 
include the following: 
‘‘(1) Establishment of targeted internships and 
cooperative research opportunities in computer 
science and cybersecurity at defense laboratories and 
other technical centers for students in and instruc-
tors of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. 
‘‘(2) Funding for training and other supports 
for instructors to teach evidence-based courses in 
computer science and cybersecurity to students. 
‘‘(3) Efforts and activities that improve the 
quality of cybersecurity and computer science edu-
cational, training opportunities, and curricula for 
students and instructors. 
‘‘(4) Development of travel opportunities, dem-
onstrations, mentoring programs, and informal com-
puter science and cybersecurity education for stu-
dents and instructors. 
‘‘(d) METRICS.—The Secretary shall establish out-
come-based metrics and internal and external assessments 
to evaluate the merits and benefits of activities conducted
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under the program with respect to the needs of the De-
partment of Defense. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out the program, 
the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
make use of the authorities under section 2193b, chapter 
111, and sections 2601, 2605, and 2374a of this title, sec-
tion 219 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 
10 U.S.C. 2358 note), and other authorities the Secretary 
determines appropriate. 
‘‘(f) REPORT.—Not later than two years after the 
date of the enactment of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2020, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives a report on activities carried 
out under the program.’’. 
SEC. 517. PROGRAMS OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MEMBERS OF 
JUNIOR 
RESERVE 
OFFICERS’ 
TRAINING 
CORPS UNITS TOWARD OBTAINING PRIVATE 
PILOT’S CERTIFICATES. 
(a) PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED.—Each Secretary of a 
military department may carry out a program to award 
scholarships to qualified members of units of the Junior 
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps under the jurisdiction of 
such Secretary to assist such members in obtaining a pri-
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vate pilot’s certificate through an institution of higher 
education with an accredited aviation program that is ap-
proved by such Secretary pursuant to subsection (c). 
(b) MEMBER QUALIFICATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out a program 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of a military de-
partment shall prescribe the standards to be met by 
members of units of the Junior Reserve Officers’ 
Training Corps under the jurisdiction of such Sec-
retary to be eligible for the award of a scholarship 
under the program. 
(2) UNIFORMITY
ACROSS
MILITARY
DEPART-
MENTS.—To the extent practicable, the standards 
prescribed under this subsection shall be uniform 
across the military departments. 
(c) APPROVED INSTITUTIONS
OF HIGHER EDU-
CATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out a program 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of a military de-
partment shall maintain a list of institutions of high-
er education (as that term is defined in section 101 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1001)) at which a scholarship awarded under the 
program may be used toward obtaining a private pi-
lot’s certificate.
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(2) QUALIFICATIONS
AND
STANDARDS.—Any 
institution of higher education included on a list 
under this subsection, and any course of instruction 
toward obtaining a private pilot’s certificate offered 
by such institution, shall meet such qualifications 
and standards as the Secretary shall prescribe for 
purposes of the program. Such qualifications and 
standards shall include a requirement that any insti-
tution included on the list award academic credit at 
such institution to any member awarded a scholar-
ship under the program for work (whether or not 
fully completed) on the ground school course of in-
struction of such institution in connection with ob-
taining a private pilot’s certificate. 
(d) SCHOLARSHIP.— 
(1) AMOUNT.—The amount of the scholarship 
awarded a member of a Junior Reserve Officers’ 
Training Corps under a program under subsection 
(a) shall be such amount as the Secretary of the 
military department concerned considers appropriate 
to defray, whether in whole or in part, the charges 
and fees of a course of instruction toward obtaining 
a private pilot’s certificate offered by the institution 
of higher education to be attended by the member 
in obtaining the certificate.
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(2) USE.—A scholarship awarded a member 
under a program may be used by the member only 
to defray the charges and fees of an institution of 
higher education for a course of instruction toward 
obtaining a private pilot’s certificate. 
(3) MAINTENANCE OF MEMBERSHIP.—A schol-
arship awarded an individual under a program may 
be used by the individual only while the individual 
maintains membership in a unit of a Junior Reserve 
Officers’ Training Corps. 
(e) ANNUAL REPORTS ON PROGRAMS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than February 28, 
2021, and each year thereafter, each Secretary of a 
military department shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the program, if any, carried out by such 
Secretary during the preceding calendar year. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—Each report under paragraph 
(1) shall include, for the program and year covered 
by such report, the following: 
(A) The number of scholarships awarded. 
(B) The total amount of scholarships 
awarded. 
(C) The work undertaken through such 
scholarships, including the number of recipients 
who fully completed a ground school course of
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instruction in connection with obtaining a pri-
vate pilot’s certificate. 
(f) ASSESSMENT OF RELATED PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report 
setting forth the results of an assessment, conducted 
by the study group described in paragraph (2) for 
purposes of the report, of the pilot program con-
ducted by the Air Force in 2018 and 2019 known 
as the ‘‘Air Force JROTC Flight Academy, Chief of 
Staff Private Pilot Scholarship Program’’. 
(2) STUDY GROUP.—The study group described 
in this paragraph shall include the following: 
(A) A representative of the Department of 
Defense, selected by the Secretary of Defense. 
(B) A representative of the headquarters 
of the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers’ 
Training Corps with experience with the pilot 
program, selected by the Secretary of the Air 
Force. 
(C) In addition to the representative under 
subparagraph (B), a representative of each 
military department, selected by the Secretary 
of such military department.
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(D) A representative of the Department of 
Transportation, selected by the Secretary of 
Transportation. 
(E) A representative of the Department of 
Education, selected by the Secretary of Edu-
cation. 
(F) Representatives of such private organi-
zations and entities as the Secretary of Defense 
considers appropriate. 
(3) ELEMENTS.—The assessment required by 
paragraph (1) shall identify best practices in assist-
ing members of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Train-
ing Corps in obtaining a private pilot’s certificate 
through institutions of higher education, including 
the most appropriate funding mechanisms for such 
practices. 
SEC. 518. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING JUNIOR RE-
SERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 
(referred to in this section as ‘‘JROTC’’) contributes 
to an enhanced sense of pride in our Nation and in 
the members of the Armed Forces who serve;
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(2) JROTC develops a culture dedicated to 
service of our great land and reinforces duty, honor 
and courage; 
(3) the Nation has been steadily depending on 
a smaller and smaller minority of the population to 
fight its wars and protect its borders; 
(4) this dwindling population risks the long- 
term security of our Nation and the freedoms it pro-
vides; 
(5) JROTC operates in all 50 States and con-
tributes to better grades and graduation rates; and 
(6) JROTC was supported in the John S. 
McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232) and should be 
increased in fiscal year 2020, including at least 
3,700 JROTC units nationwide. 
SEC. 519. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE NATIONAL 
GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the National Guard Youth Challenge Pro-
gram provides a vital service to at-risk youth by pro-
viding life-changing mentorship, developing self-dis-
cipline, and providing education in valuable skills; 
and
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(2) the Secretary of Defense should use the au-
thority provided under section 509(h)(2) of title 32, 
United States Code, to allow Department of Defense 
equipment and facilities to be used by the National 
Guard to maximize the support of the Department 
for the Youth Challenge Program. 
SEC. 520. PILOT PROGRAM ON THE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFI-
CERS’ TRAINING CORPS PROGRAM AT LUCY 
GARRETT 
BECKHAM 
HIGH 
SCHOOL, 
CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the department 
in which the Coast Guard is operating may carry out a 
pilot program to establish and maintain a Junior Reserve 
Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program unit in co-
operation with Lucy Garrett Beckham High School, 
Charleston County, South Carolina. 
(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—The pilot program 
carried out by the Secretary under this section shall pro-
vide to students at Lucy Garrett Beckham High School— 
(1) instruction in subject areas relating to oper-
ations of the Coast Guard; and 
(2) training in skills which are useful and ap-
propriate for a career in the Coast Guard. 
(c) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.—In car-
rying out the pilot program under this section, the Sec-
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retary may provide to Lucy Garrett Beckham High 
School— 
(1) assistance in course development, instruc-
tion, and other support activities; and 
(2) necessary and appropriate course materials, 
equipment, and uniforms. 
(d) EMPLOYMENT OF RETIRED COAST GUARD PER-
SONNEL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary may authorize the Lucy Garrett 
Beckham High School to employ, as administrators 
and instructors for the pilot program, retired Coast 
Guard and Coast Guard Reserve commissioned, war-
rant, and petty officers not on active duty who re-
quest that employment and who are approved by the 
Secretary and Lucy Garrett Beckham High School. 
(2) AUTHORIZED PAY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Retired members em-
ployed under paragraph (1) are entitled to re-
ceive their retired or retainer pay and an addi-
tional amount of not more than the difference 
between— 
(i) the amount the individual would be 
paid as pay and allowance if the individual 
was considered to have been ordered to ac-
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tive duty during the period of employment; 
and 
(ii) the amount of retired pay the in-
dividual is entitled to receive during that 
period. 
(B) PAYMENT TO SCHOOL.—The Secretary 
shall pay to Lucy Garrett Beckham High 
School an amount equal to one-half of the 
amount described in subparagraph (A), from 
funds appropriated for such purpose. 
(3) EMPLOYMENT NOT ACTIVE-DUTY OR INAC-
TIVE-DUTY
TRAINING.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, while employed under this sub-
section, an individual is not considered to be on ac-
tive-duty or inactive-duty training. 
SEC. 520A. JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS 
THRESHOLD. 
Section 2031(b)(1) of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘8th grade’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘7th grade’’.
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SEC. 520B. INCLUSION OF HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS IN 
JUNIOR 
RESERVE 
OFFICER’S 
TRAINING 
CORPS UNITS. 
Section 2031 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(g)(1) Each public secondary educational institution 
that maintains a unit under this section shall permit mem-
bership in the unit to homeschooled students residing in 
the area served by the institution who are qualified for 
membership in the unit (but for lack of enrollment in the 
institution). 
‘‘(2) A student who is a member of a unit pursuant 
to this subsection shall count toward the satisfaction by 
the institution concerned of the requirement in subsection 
(b)(1) relating to the minimum number of student mem-
bers in the unit necessary for the continuing maintenance 
of the unit.’’. 
SEC. 520C. REPORT ON NATIONAL GUARD AND UNITED 
STATES NORTHERN COMMAND CAPACITY TO 
MEET HOMELAND DEFENSE AND SECURITY 
INCIDENTS. 
Not later than September 30, 2020, the Chief of the 
National Guard Bureau shall, in consultation with the 
Commander of United States Northern Command, submit
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to the congressional defense committees a report setting 
forth the following: 
(1) A clarification of the roles and missions, 
structure, capabilities, and training of the National 
Guard and the United States Northern Command, 
and an identification of emerging gaps and shortfalls 
in light of current homeland security threats to our 
country. 
(2) A list of the resources that each State and 
Territory National Guard has at its disposal that 
are available to respond to a homeland defense or 
security incident, with particular focus on a multi- 
State electromagnetic pulse event. 
(3) The readiness and resourcing status of 
forces listed pursuant to paragraph (2). 
(4) The current strengths and areas of improve-
ment in working with State and Federal interagency 
partners. 
(5) The current assessments that address Na-
tional Guard readiness and resourcing of regular 
United States Northern Command forces postured 
to respond to homeland defense and security inci-
dents.
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(6) A roadmap to 2040 that addresses readi-
ness across the spectrum of long-range emerging 
threats facing the United States. 
SEC. 520D. NATIONAL GUARD SUPPORT TO MAJOR DISAS-
TERS. 
Section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(C) Operations or missions authorized by the 
President or the Secretary of Defense to support 
large scale, complex, catastrophic disasters, as de-
fined by section 311(3) of title 6, United States 
Code, at the request of a State governor.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) With respect to operations or missions de-
scribed under paragraph (2)(C), there is authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary of Defense such 
sums as may be necessary to carry out such oper-
ations and missions, but only if— 
‘‘(A) an emergency has been declared by 
the governor of the applicable State; and 
‘‘(B) the President has declared the emer-
gency to be a major disaster for the purposes
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of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act.’’. 
SEC. 520E. REPORT ON METHODS TO ENHANCE DOMESTIC 
RESPONSE TO LARGE SCALE, COMPLEX AND 
CATASTROPHIC DISASTERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of De-
fense, in consultation and coordination with the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, the National Security 
Council, the Council of Governors, and the National Gov-
ernors Association, shall submit to the congressional de-
fense, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report 
on their plan to establish policy and processes to imple-
ment the authority provided by the amendments made by 
section 520. The report shall include a detailed examina-
tion of the policy framework consistent with existing au-
thorities, identify major statutory or policy impediments 
to implementation, and make recommendations for legisla-
tion as appropriate. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report submitted under para-
graph (1) shall include a description of— 
(1) the current policy and processes whereby 
governors can request activation of the National
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Guard under title 32, United States Code, as part 
of the response to large scale, complex, catastrophic 
disasters that are supported by the Federal Govern-
ment and, if no formal process exists in policy, the 
Secretary of Defense shall provide a timeline and 
plan to establish such a policy, including consulta-
tion with the Council of Governors and the National 
Governors Association; 
(2) the Secretary of Defense’s assessment, in-
formed by consultation with the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, the National Security Council, 
the Council of Governors, and the National Gov-
ernors Association, regarding the sufficiency of cur-
rent authorities for the reimbursement of National 
Guard and Reserve manpower during large scale, 
complex, catastrophic disasters under title 10 and 
title 32, United States Code, and specifically wheth-
er reimbursement authorities are sufficient to ensure 
that military training and readiness are not de-
graded to fund disaster response, or invoking them 
degrades the effectiveness of the Disaster Relief 
Fund; 
(3) the Department of Defense’s plan to ensure 
there is parallel and consistent policy in the applica-
tion of the authorities granted under section 12304a
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of title 10, United States Code, and section 502(f) 
of title 32, United States Code, including— 
(A) a description of the disparities between 
benefits and protections under Federal law 
versus State active duty; 
(B) recommended solutions to achieve par-
ity at the Federal level; and 
(C) recommended changes at the State 
level, if appropriate; 
(4) the Department of Defense’s plan to ensure 
there is parity of benefits and protections for mili-
tary members employed as part of the response to 
large scale, complex, catastrophic disasters under 
title 32 or title 10, United States Code, and rec-
ommendations for addressing shortfalls; and 
(5) a review, by the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, of the current policy for, and an 
assessment of the sufficiency of, reimbursement au-
thority for the use of all National Guard and Re-
serve, both to the Department of Defense and to the 
States, during large scale, complex, catastrophic dis-
asters, including any policy and legal limitations, 
and cost assessment impact on Federal funding.
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SEC. 520F. REPORT REGARDING NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH 
CHALLENGE PROGRAM. 
Not later than December 31, 2020, the Secretary of 
Defense shall submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees regarding the resources and authorities the 
Secretary determines necessary to identify the effects of 
the National Guard Youth Challenge Program on grad-
uates of that program during the five years immediately 
preceding the date of the report. Such resources shall in-
clude the costs of identifying such effects beyond the 12- 
month, post-residential mentoring period of that program. 
SEC. 520G. PERMANENT EXTENSION OF SUICIDE PREVEN-
TION AND RESILIENCE PROGRAM FOR THE 
RESERVE COMPONENTS. 
Strike subsection (g) of section 10219 of title 10, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 520H. TEMPORARY AUTHORITY TO USE AIR FORCE RE-
SERVE COMPONENT PERSONNEL TO PRO-
VIDE TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION REGARD-
ING PILOT TRAINING. 
(a) AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—During fiscal year 2020, the 
Secretary of the Air Force may authorize personnel 
described in paragraph (2) to provide training and 
instruction regarding pilot training to the following:
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(A) Members of the Armed Forces on ac-
tive duty. 
(B) Members of foreign military forces who 
are in the United States. 
(2) PERSONNEL.—The personnel described in 
this paragraph are the following: 
(A) Members of the reserve components of 
the Air Force on active Guard and Reserve 
duty (as that term is defined in section 101(d) 
of title 10, United States Code) who are not 
otherwise authorized to conduct the training de-
scribed in paragraph (1) due to the limitations 
in section 12310 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
(B) Members of the Air Force who are 
military technicians (dual status) who are not 
otherwise authorized to conduct the training de-
scribed in paragraph (1) due to the limitations 
in section 10216 of title 10, United States 
Code, and section 709(a) of title 32, United 
States Code. 
(3) LIMITATION.—Not more than 50 members 
described in paragraph (2) may provide training and 
instruction under the authority in paragraph (1) at 
any one time.
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(4) FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT.—Members of 
the uniformed services described in paragraph (2) 
who provide training and instruction pursuant to the 
authority in paragraph (1) shall be covered by the 
Federal Tort Claims Act for purposes of any claim 
arising from the employment of such individuals 
under that authority. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air 
Force shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report 
setting forth a plan to eliminate shortages in the number 
of pilot instructors within the Air Force using authorities 
available to the Secretary under current law. 
Subtitle C—General Service Au-
thorities and Correction of Mili-
tary Records 
SEC. 521. ESTABLISHMENT OF BOARD OF APPEALS RE-
GARDING DENIED REQUESTS FOR UPGRADED 
DISCHARGES AND DISMISSALS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Chapter 79 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
1553 the following new section 1553a:
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‘‘§ 1553a. Board of Discharge Appeals 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) The Secretary of De-
fense shall establish a Board of Discharge Appeals to hear 
appeals of requests for upgraded discharges and dismis-
sals under section 1553 of this title that are denied by 
the service review agencies. 
‘‘(2) The Board of Discharge Appeals shall consist 
of not fewer than three members appointed by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(b) APPEAL.—(1) Upon the request of an appellant, 
the Board of Discharge Appeals shall review the findings 
and decisions of a service review agency regarding the re-
view of the discharge or dismissal of the appellant. 
‘‘(2) The Board of Discharge Appeals may direct the 
Secretary of the military department concerned to change 
the discharge or dismissal of an appellant, or issue a new 
discharge for an appellant, to reflect its findings. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘appellant’ means a former mem-
ber of the armed forces (or if the former member is 
dead, the surviving spouse, next of kin, or legal rep-
resentative of the former member) whose request for 
an upgraded discharge or dismissal was denied by a 
service review agency.
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‘‘(2) The term ‘service review agency’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 1555 of this 
title.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 1553 the 
following new item: 
‘‘1553a. Board of Discharge Appeals.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
1553(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘A board’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) If a board of review established by the Secretary 
of a military department denies a request for an upgraded 
discharge or dismissal, that denial may be appealed to the 
Board of Discharge Appeals under section 1553a of this 
title.’’. 
(c) DEADLINE.—The Secretary of Defense shall es-
tablish and implement the Board of Discharge Appeals 
under such section 1553a of title 10, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a), not later than September 30, 
2020.
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(d) TRAINING.—Each member of the Board of Dis-
charge Appeals established under such section 1553a shall 
receive training under section 534(c) of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 
114–328; 10 U.S.C. 1552 note). 
(e) REPORTING.— 
(1) REPORT.—Not later than April 1, 2021, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees 
on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives a report regarding the Board of 
Discharge Appeals established under such section 
1553a. The report shall include, with respect to ap-
peals heard by the Board of Discharge Appeals since 
implementation, the following: 
(A) The number of appeals heard. 
(B) The number of appeals granted. 
(C) The number of appeals denied, includ-
ing the reasons for such denials. 
(D) A summary of any differences between 
reviews under section 1553 of title 10, United 
States Code, and appeals under section 1553a 
of such title. 
(2) ONLINE PUBLICATION.—On October 1 of 
each year starting in 2022, the Secretary shall pub-
lish online the information described in subpara-
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graphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1) with re-
gards to the preceding fiscal year. 
SEC. 522. PROHIBITION ON REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF 
PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO DUTY WITH A 
SERVICE REVIEW AGENCY. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Section 1559(a) of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2019’’ and in-
serting ‘‘December 31, 2025’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘that agency until—’’ and in-
serting ‘‘that agency.’’; and 
(3) by striking subsections (1) and (2). 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 
days after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of each military department shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and House of Representatives that details a plan 
to— 
(A) reduce the backlog of applications be-
fore the service review agency of the military 
department concerned; and 
(B) maintain the resources required to 
meet the timeliness standards for disposition of 
applications before the Corrections Boards
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under section 1557 of title 10, United States 
Code, not later than October 1, 2021. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—Each report under this sub-
section shall include the following: 
(A) A description of the current backlog of 
applications before the service review agency of 
the military department concerned. 
(B) The number of personnel required to 
meet the deadline described in paragraph 
(1)(B). 
(C) The plan of the Secretary concerned to 
modernize the application and review system of 
the service review agency of the military depart-
ment concerned. 
SEC. 523. ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RECORD AND SERVICE 
REVIEW BOARDS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Defense shall establish a Department of Defense Advisory 
Committee to be known as the ‘‘Defense Advisory Com-
mittee on Record and Upgrade Review Boards’’ (in this 
section referred to as the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’). 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Advisory Committee 
shall consist of not more than 15 members ap-
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pointed by the Secretary of Defense, eight of whom 
shall be civilian practitioners or representatives of 
organizations that have experience assisting mem-
bers of the Armed Forces and veterans with cases 
before service review boards (as that term is defined 
in section 1555 of title 10, United States Code). 
(2) MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES ON AC-
TIVE DUTY INELIGIBLE.—A member of the Armed 
Forces serving on active duty may not serve as a 
member of the Advisory Committee. 
(c) PERSONNEL.— 
(1) EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.—At least 35 per-
cent of members of the staff of the Advisory Com-
mittee shall have experience described in subsection 
(b)(1). 
(2) DIRECTOR; ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.—The di-
rector and assistant director of the Advisory Com-
mittee may not both be members of the Armed 
Forces serving on active duty. 
(3) STAFF.—Not more than 65 percent of the 
staff of the Advisory Committee may be comprised 
of members of the Armed Forces serving on active 
duty. 
(d) DUTIES.—The Advisory Committee shall advise 
the Secretary of Defense on the best structure, practices,
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and procedures to ensure consistency of boards for the 
correction of military records and service review boards 
in carrying out their responsibilities under chapter 79 of 
title 10, United States Code, and in granting relief to 
claimants under that chapter. 
(e) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the establishment of the Advisory Committee 
and annually thereafter for the three subsequent years, 
the Advisory Committee shall submit to the Secretary of 
Defense and the congressional defense committees a re-
port containing observations and recommendations re-
garding issues of board operations and efficacy, includ-
ing— 
(1) granting relief at adequate rates; 
(2) adhering to the intent of Congress, includ-
ing regarding liberal consideration; 
(3) standards for evidence, training experience 
and qualifications of board members; 
(4) efficacy of efforts to ensure consistency 
across boards; 
(5) case management and record keeping sys-
tems, including electronic access to board prece-
dents; 
(6) ease of personal appearances by claimants;
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(7) expert review of medical and psychiatric 
cases; and 
(8) related potential structural changes or alter-
native board models. 
(f) TERMINATION.—The Advisory Committee shall 
terminate on the date that is four years after the date 
of establishment under subsection (a). 
(g) AUTHORITIES.—The Advisory Committee shall 
have all normal authorities granted to advisory commit-
tees, including the ability for staff to request documents 
from the Department of Defense, hold public hearings, 
and travel in furtherance of the board mandate. The board 
shall also be permitted, with assistance from personnel of 
the Department of Defense, to administer surveys and 
conduct field experiments to assess the viability of dif-
ferent policy options considered in the course of the activi-
ties of the Advisory Committee. 
SEC. 524. TIME REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATION OF 
HONORABLE SERVICE. 
Upon the submission to the Secretary of a military 
department or a designated commissioned officer serving 
in the pay grade O–6 or higher by a member of the Armed 
Forces of a completed United States Citizenship and Im-
migration Services Form N–426, the Secretary or the Of-
ficer shall—
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(1) in the case of a member of the Armed 
Forces who has served or is serving honorably on ac-
tive duty, provide certification that the nature of the 
member’s service has been honorable by not later 
than five days from receiving the form; 
(2) in the case of a member of the Armed 
Forces who has served or is serving honorably in a 
Reserve Component of the Armed Forces, provide 
such certification by not later than three weeks from 
receiving the form; and 
(3) in the case of a member of the Armed 
Forces whose service has been other than honorable, 
provide to the member notice that a certification of 
honorable service will not be provided and justifica-
tion for why such certification will not be provided— 
(A) in the case of a member who has 
served or is serving on active duty, by not later 
than five days from receiving the form; and 
(B) in the case of a member who has 
served or is serving in a Reserve Component, by 
not later than three weeks from receiving the 
form.
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SEC. 525. PROHIBITION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF MILI-
TARY 
SERVICE 
SUITABILITY 
DETERMINA-
TIONS FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS WHO ARE 
LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENTS. 
The Secretary of Defense may not take any action 
to implement the memorandum titled ‘‘Military Service 
Suitability Determinations for Foreign Nationals Who Are 
Lawful Permanent Residents’’, issued by the Secretary 
and dated October 13, 2017, until the Secretary reports 
to the congressional defense committees the justification 
for the policy changes required by such memorandum. 
SEC. 526. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLU-
SION. 
(a) PLAN REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall design and implement a five-year strategic plan for 
diversity and inclusion in the Department of Defense. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategic plan under this sec-
tion— 
(1) shall be based on the strategic plan estab-
lished under section 2 of Executive Order No. 13583 
(3 Fed. Reg. 13583 (August 18, 2011)); 
(2) shall incorporate existing efforts to promote 
diversity and inclusion within the Department; and 
(3) may not conflict with the objectives of the 
2018 National Military Strategy.
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(c) DEADLINE.—The Secretary shall implement the 
strategic plan under this section on January 1, 2020. 
SEC. 527. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON BARRIERS TO ENTRY 
INTO THE ARMED FORCES FOR ENGLISH 
LEARNERS. 
(a) INDEPENDENT STUDY.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall seek to seek to enter into a contract with 
a federally funded research and development center under 
which the center will conduct a study on barriers to entry 
into the Armed Forces for English learners. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study under subsection (a) 
shall— 
(1) identify barriers to entry into the Armed 
Forces for English learners, including— 
(A) challenges with military recruiters and 
language proficiency; 
(B) challenges with the assessment of po-
tential recruits, including the construction and 
delivery of and testing time constraints related 
to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Bat-
tery; 
(C) challenges with dissemination of re-
cruiting information; and
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(D) any other challenges that may be iden-
tified by the federally funded research and de-
velopment center in the course of the study; 
(2) the effect of such barriers on— 
(A) the number of interactions recruiters 
have with English learners; 
(B) the enlistment rate among populations 
of English learners; and 
(C) any other effects that may be identi-
fied by the federally funded research and devel-
opment center in the course of the study; 
(3) an analysis of existing efforts and programs 
to remove barriers to entry into the Armed Forces 
for English learners, including an analysis of the 
scalability and sustainability of such efforts and pro-
grams; and 
(4) additional opportunities to address such 
barriers, including alternative assessments and 
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery prepa-
ration programs for English learners. 
(c) SUBMITTAL TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.— 
Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the federally funded research and development 
that conducts the study under subsection (a) shall submit
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to the Secretary of Defense a report on the results of the 
study. 
(d) SUBMITTAL TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 
days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense re-
ceives the report under subsection (c), the Secretary shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees an 
unaltered copy of the report and any comments of the Sec-
retary with respect to the report. 
(e) ENGLISH LEARNER DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘English learner’’ has the meaning given that 
term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
SEC. 528. REENLISTMENT WAIVERS FOR PERSONS SEPA-
RATED FROM THE ARMED FORCES WHO COM-
MIT ONE MISDEMEANOR CANNABIS OFFENSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall prescribe regulations that permit any Secretary of 
a military department to grant a reenlistment waiver to 
a covered person if the Secretary determines that the reen-
listment of that covered person is vital to the national in-
terest. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘covered person’’ means an indi-
vidual—
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(A) who has separated from the Armed 
Forces; and 
(B) who has admitted to or been convicted 
by a court of competent jurisdiction of a single 
violation— 
(i) of any law of a State or the United 
States relating to the use or possession of 
cannabis; 
(ii) that constitutes a misdemeanor; 
and 
(iii) that occurred while that indi-
vidual was not on active service in the 
Armed Forces. 
(2) The terms ‘‘active service’’ and ‘‘military 
department’’ have the meanings given such terms in 
section 101 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 529. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ACCESSION 
PHYSICALS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) United States Military Entrance Processing 
Command (‘‘USMEPCOM’’) operates 65 Military 
Entrance Processing Stations (‘‘MEPS’’) dispersed 
throughout the 50 States and Puerto Rico. 
(2) Applicants for accession into the Armed 
Forces must travel to the closest MEPS to receive
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physical examinations, are often driven by a military 
recruiter, and receive lodging at a nearby hotel, paid 
for by the Armed Force represented by that re-
cruiter. 
(3) In 2015, USMEPCOM reported that 
473,000 applicants from the military and other 
agencies processed through the 65 MEPS, for a 
total of 931,000 MEPS visits. 
(4) Section 1703 of title 38, United States 
Code, authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
to enter into contracts with private health care pro-
viders for physical examinations. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Secretary of Defense should explore alter-
natives to centralized accession physicals at MEPS, in-
cluding conducting physicals through community health 
care providers, in order to reduce transportation costs, in-
crease efficiency in processing times, and free recruiters 
to focus on the core of the recruiting mission. 
SEC. 530. RECOGNITION AND HONORING OF SERVICE OF 
INDIVIDUALS 
WHO 
SERVED 
IN 
UNITED 
STATES 
CADET 
NURSE 
CORPS 
DURING 
WORLD WAR II. 
(a) DETERMINATION OF ACTIVE MILITARY SERV-
ICE.—
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall be deemed to have determined under subpara-
graph (A) of section 401(a)(1) of the GI Bill Im-
provement Act of 1977 (Public Law 95–202; 38 
U.S.C. 106 note) that the service of the organization 
known as the United States Cadet Nurse Corps dur-
ing the period beginning on July 1, 1943, and end-
ing on December 31, 1948, constitutes active mili-
tary service. 
(2) ISSUANCE OF DISCHARGE.—Not later than 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall, pursuant to subparagraph (B) of 
such section, issue to each member of such organiza-
tion a discharge from service of such organization 
under honorable conditions where the nature and 
duration of the service of such member so warrants. 
(b) BENEFITS.— 
(1) STATUS AS A VETERAN.—Except as other-
wise provided in this subsection, an individual who 
receives a discharge under subsection (a)(2) for serv-
ice shall be honored as a veteran but shall not be en-
titled by reason of such service to any benefit under 
a law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs.
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(2) BURIAL BENEFITS.—Service for which an 
individual receives a discharge under subsection 
(a)(2) shall be considered service in the active mili-
tary, naval, or air service (as defined in section 101 
of title 38, United States Code) for purposes of eligi-
bility and entitlement to benefits under chapters 23 
and 24 of title 38, United States Code, not including 
section 2410 of that title. 
(3) MEDALS OR OTHER COMMENDATIONS.—The 
Secretary of Defense may design and produce a 
service medal or other commendation to honor indi-
viduals who receive a discharge under subsection 
(a)(2). 
SEC. 530A. DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDELINES FOR USE OF UN-
OFFICIAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION TO DE-
TERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF MEMBERS AND 
FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
FOR BENEFITS AND DECORATIONS WHEN 
THE SERVICE RECORDS ARE INCOMPLETE 
BECAUSE OF DAMAGE TO THE OFFICIAL 
RECORD. 
(a) GUIDELINES REQUIRED.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall develop guidelines regarding the use by the 
Secretaries of the military departments and the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs of unofficial sources of information,
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including eyewitness statements, to determine the eligi-
bility of a member or former member of the Armed Forces 
for benefits and decorations when the service records of 
the member are incomplete because of damage to the 
records as a result of the 1973 fire at the National Per-
sonnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, or any sub-
sequent incident while the records were in the possession 
of the Department of Defense. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
prepare the guidelines in consultation with the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs, with respect to veterans benefits 
under title 38, United States Code, whose eligibility deter-
minations depend on the use of service records maintained 
by the Department of Defense. 
(c) TIME FOR COMPLETION.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall complete development of the guidelines not 
later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
SEC. 530B. NONDISCRIMINATION WITH RESPECT TO SERV-
ICE IN THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 37 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 651 the 
following new section: