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United States Code, or a small business owned and con-
trolled by an individual or individuals defined under sec-
tion 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code. 
SEC. 8020. None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act shall be available to perform any cost study pursuant 
to the provisions of OMB Circular A–76 if the study being 
performed exceeds a period of 24 months after initiation 
of such study with respect to a single function activity or 
30 months after initiation of such study for a multi-func-
tion activity. 
SEC. 8021. Funds appropriated by this Act for the 
American Forces Information Service shall not be used for 
any national or international political or psychological ac-
tivities. 
SEC. 8022. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of 
not to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in sec-
tion 2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipa-
tion of receipt of contributions, only from the Government 
of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, That upon re-
ceipt, such contributions from the Government of Kuwait 
shall be credited to the appropriations or fund which in-
curred such obligations. 
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SEC. 8023. (a) Of the funds made available in this 
Act, not less than $31,355,000 shall be available for the 
Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 
(1) $23,753,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 
Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 
readiness, counterdrug activities, and drug demand 
reduction activities involving youth programs; 
(2) $6,727,000 shall be available from ‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, Air Force’’; and 
(3) $875,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other 
Procurement, Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reim-
bursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 
counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 
local government agencies. 
SEC. 8024. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act are available to establish a new Department of De-
fense (department) federally funded research and develop-
ment center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as a 
separate entity administrated by an organization man-
aging another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership cor-
poration consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and 
other non-profit entities. 
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(b) No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, 
Overseers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting 
Committee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, 
and no paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, except 
when acting in a technical advisory capacity, may be com-
pensated for his or her services as a member of such enti-
ty, or as a paid consultant by more than one FFRDC in 
a fiscal year: Provided, That a member of any such entity 
referred to previously in this subsection shall be allowed 
travel expenses and per diem as authorized under the Fed-
eral Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the per-
formance of membership duties. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds available to the department from any source 
during fiscal year 2008 may be used by a defense FFRDC, 
through a fee or other payment mechanism, for construc-
tion of new buildings, for payment of cost sharing for 
projects funded by Government grants, for absorption of 
contract overruns, or for certain charitable contributions, 
not to include employee participation in community service 
and/or development. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
the funds available to the department during fiscal year 
2008, not more than 5,517 staff years of technical effort 
(staff years) may be funded for defense FFRDCs: Pro-
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vided, That this subsection shall not apply to staff years 
funded in the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and 
the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). 
(e) The Secretary of Defense shall, with the submis-
sion of the department’s fiscal year 2009 budget request, 
submit a report presenting the specific amounts of staff 
years of technical effort to be allocated for each defense 
FFRDC during that fiscal year. 
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs 
is hereby reduced by $57,725,000. 
SEC. 8025. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy 
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned fa-
cility or property under the control of the Department of 
Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United 
States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re-
strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 
9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications 
of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the military department responsible 
for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case- 
by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
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Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available 
to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely 
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order 
to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro-
vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to 
contracts which are in being as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 8026. For the purposes of this Act, the term 
‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the Armed 
Services Committee of the House of Representatives, the 
Armed Services Committee of the Senate, the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives. 
SEC. 8027. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot 
maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels 
as well as the production of components and other De-
fense-related articles, through competition between De-
partment of Defense depot maintenance activities and pri-
vate firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Execu-
tive of the military department or Defense Agency con-
cerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that success-
ful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and in-
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