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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
(4) The Committee on Agriculture of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate. 
SEC. 1087. GLOBAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of the 
Army shall carry out a program to support the socio-cul-
tural understanding needs of the Department of the Army, 
to be known as the Global Cultural Knowledge Network. 
(b) GOALS.—The Global Cultural Knowledge Network 
shall support the following goals: 
(1) Provide socio-cultural analysis support to 
any unit deployed, or preparing to deploy, to an exer-
cise or operation in the assigned region of responsi-
bility of the unit being supported. 
(2) Make recommendations or support policy de-
velopment to increase the social science expertise of 
military and civilian personnel of the Department of 
the Army. 
(3) Provide reimbursable support to other mili-
tary departments or Federal agencies if requested 
through an operational needs request process. 
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(c) ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM.—The Global Cul-
tural Knowledge Network shall include the following ele-
ments: 
(1) A center in the continental United States (re-
ferred to in this section as a ‘‘reach-back center’’) to 
support requests for information and analysis. 
(2) Outreach to academic institutions and other 
Federal agencies involved in social science research to 
increase the network of resources for the reach-back 
center. 
(3) Training with operational units during an-
nual training exercises or during pre-deployment 
training. 
(4) The training, contracting, and human re-
sources capacity to rapidly respond to contingencies 
in which social science expertise is requested by oper-
ational commanders through an operational needs re-
quest process. 
(d) DIRECTIVE REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the 
Army shall issue a directive within one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act for the governance of the Global 
Cultural Knowledge Network, including oversight and proc-
ess controls for auditing the activities of personnel of the 
Network, the employment of the Global Cultural Knowledge 
Network by operation forces, and processes for requesting 
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support by operational Army units and other Department 
of Defense and Federal entities. 
(e) PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENTS UNDER GLOBAL 
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of the Army 
may not deploy social scientists in a conflict zone. 
(2) WAIVER.—The Secretary of the Army may 
waive the prohibition in paragraph (1) if the Sec-
retary submits, at least 10 days before the deploy-
ment, to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate— 
(A) notice of the waiver; and 
(B) a certification that there is a compel-
ling national security interest for the deployment 
or there will be a benefit to the safety and wel-
fare of members of the Armed Forces from the de-
ployment. 
(3) ELEMENTS OF WAIVER NOTICE.—A waiver 
notice under this subsection also shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) The operational unit, or units, request-
ing support, including the location or locations 
where the social scientists are to be deployed. 
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(B) The number of Global Cultural Knowl-
edge Network personnel to be deployed and the 
anticipated duration of such deployments. 
(C) The anticipated resource needs for such 
deployment. 
SEC. 1088. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING 
TO 
MANAGEMENT 
OF 
MILITARY 
TECHNI-
CIANS. 
(a) CONVERSION OF CERTAIN MILITARY TECHNICIAN 
(DUAL STATUS) POSITIONS.—Subsection (a) of section 1053 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 981; 10 U.S.C. 10216 
note) is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following new paragraph (1): 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—By not later than October 1, 
2017, the Secretary of Defense shall convert not fewer 
than 20 percent of all military technician positions 
to positions filled by individuals who are employed 
under section 3101 of title 5, United States Code, or 
section 1601 of title 10, United States Code, or serv-
ing under section 328 of title 32, United States Code, 
and are not military technicians. The positions to be 
converted are described in paragraph (2).’’; 
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(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in the report’’ 
and all that follows and inserting ‘‘by the Army Re-
serve, the Air Force Reserve, the National Guard Bu-
reau, and the State adjutants general in the course of 
reviewing all military technician positions for pur-
poses of implementing this section.’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘may fill’’ and 
inserting ‘‘shall fill’’. 
(b) CONVERSION OF ARMY RESERVE, AIR FORCE RE-
SERVE, AND NATIONAL GUARD NON-DUAL STATUS POSI-
TIONS.—Subsection (e) of section 10217 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(e) CONVERSION OF POSITIONS.—(1) No individual 
may be newly hired or employed, or rehired or reemployed, 
as a non-dual status technician for purposes of this section 
after September 30, 2017. 
‘‘(2) On October 1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense shall 
convert all non-dual status technicians to positions filled 
by individuals who are employed under section 3101 of title 
5 or section 1601 of this title and are not military techni-
cians. 
‘‘(3) In the case of a position converted under para-
graph (2) for which there is an incumbent employee on Oc-
tober 1, 2017, the Secretary shall fill that position, as con-
verted, with the incumbent employee without regard to any 
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requirement concerning competition or competitive hiring 
procedures. 
‘‘(4) Any individual newly hired or employed, or re-
hired or employed, to a position required to be filled by 
reason of paragraph (1) shall an individual employed in 
such position under section 3101 of title 5 or section 1601 
of this title.’’. 
(c) REPORT ON CONVERSION OF MILITARY TECHNI-
CIAN POSITIONS
TO PERSONNEL PERFORMING ACTIVE 
GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 1, 2017, 
the Secretary of Defense, shall in consultation with 
the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, submit to 
the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives a report on the feasi-
bility and advisability of converting any remaining 
military technicians (dual status) to personnel per-
forming active Guard and Reserve duty under section 
328 of title 32, United States Code, or other applica-
ble provisions of law. The report shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) An analysis of the fully-burdened costs 
of the conversion taking into account the new 
modernized military retirement system. 
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(B) An assessment of the ratio of members 
of the Armed Forces performing active Guard 
and Reserve duty and civilian employees of the 
Department of Defense under title 5, United 
States Code, required to best contribute to the 
readiness of the National Guard and the Re-
serves. 
(2) ACTIVE
GUARD
AND
RESERVE
DUTY
DE-
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘active Guard 
and Reserve duty’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 101(d)(6) of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 1089. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING CONNECTI-
CUT’S SUBMARINE CENTURY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) On March 2, 1867, Congress enacted a naval 
appropriations Act that authorized the Secretary of 
the Navy to ‘‘receive and accept a deed of gift, when 
offered by the State of Connecticut, of a tract of land 
with not less than one mile of shore front on the 
Thames River near New London, Connecticut, to be 
held by the United States for naval purposes’’. 
(2) The people of Connecticut and the towns and 
cities in the southeastern region of Connecticut subse-
quently gifted land to establish a military installation 
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to fulfil the Nation’s need for a naval facility on the 
Atlantic coast. 
(3) On April 11, 1868, the Navy accepted the 
deed of gift of land from Connecticut to establish a 
naval yard and storage depot along the eastern shore 
of the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut; 
(4) Between 1868 and 1912, the New London 
Navy Yard supported a diverse range of missions, in-
cluding berthing inactive Civil War era ironclad war-
ships and serving as a coaling station for refueling 
naval ships traveling in New England waters. 
(5) Congress rejected the Navy’s proposal to close 
New London Navy Yard in 1912, following an impas-
sioned effort by Congressman Edwin W. Higgins, who 
stated that ‘‘this action proposed is not only unjust 
but unreasonable and unsound as a military propo-
sition’’. 
(6) The outbreak of World War I and the enemy 
use of submarines to sink allied military and civilian 
ships in the Atlantic sparked a new focus on devel-
oping submarine capabilities in the United States. 
(7) October 18, 1915, marked the arrival at the 
New London Navy Yard of the submarines G–1, G– 
2, and G–4 under the care of the tender U.S.S. 
OZARK, soon followed by the arrival of submarines 
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E–1, D–1, and D–3 under the care of the tender 
U.S.S. TONOPAH, and on November 1, 1915, the ar-
rival of the first ship built as a submarine tender, the 
U.S.S. FULTON (AS–1). 
(8) On June 21, 1916, Commander Yeates Stir-
ling assumed the command of the newly designated 
Naval Submarine Base New London, the New London 
Submarine Flotilla, and the Submarine School; 
(9) In the 100 years since the arrival of the first 
submarines to the base, Naval Submarine Base New 
London has grown to occupy more than 680 acres 
along the east side of the Thames River, with more 
than 160 major facilities, 15 nuclear submarines, and 
more than 70 tenant commands and activities, in-
cluding the Submarine Learning Center, Naval Sub-
marine School, the Naval Submarine Medical Re-
search Laboratory, the Naval Undersea Medical Insti-
tute, and the newly established Undersea Warfighting 
Development Center. 
(10) In addition to being the site of the first sub-
marine base in the United States, Connecticut was 
home to the foremost submarine manufacturers of the 
time, the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport 
and the Electric Boat Company in Groton, which 
later became General Dynamics Electric Boat. 
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(11) General Dynamics Electric Boat, its tal-
ented workforce, and its Connecticut-based and na-
tionwide network of suppliers have delivered more 
than 200 submarines from its current location in 
Groton, Connecticut, including the first nuclear-pow-
ered submarine, the U.S.S. NAUTILUS (SSN 571), 
and nearly half of the nuclear submarines ever built 
by the United States. 
(12) The Submarine Force Library and Museum, 
located adjacent to Naval Submarine Base New Lon-
don in Groton, Connecticut, is the only submarine 
museum operated by the United States Navy and 
today serves as the primary repository for artifacts, 
documents, and photographs relating to the bold and 
courageous history of the Submarine Force and high-
lights as its core exhibit the Historic Ship NAU-
TILUS (SSN 571) following her retirement from 
service. 
(13) Reflecting the close ties between Connecticut 
and the Navy that began with the gift of land that 
established the base, the State of Connecticut has set 
aside $40,000,000 in funding for critical infrastruc-
ture investments to support the mission of the base, 
including construction of a new dive locker building, 
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icy, guidance, or rules to carry out such executive order or 
otherwise implement any provision of such executive order 
or any related implementation rules or regulations. 
SEC. 1096. DETERMINATION AND DISCLOSURE OF TRANS-
PORTATION COSTS INCURRED BY SECRETARY 
OF DEFENSE FOR CONGRESSIONAL TRIPS 
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) DETERMINATION AND DISCLOSURE OF COSTS BY 
SECRETARY.—In the case of a trip taken by a Member, offi-
cer, or employee of the House of Representatives or Senate 
in carrying out official duties outside the United States for 
which the Department of Defense provides transportation, 
the Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) determine the cost of the transportation pro-
vided with respect to the Member, officer, or employee; 
and 
(2) provide the Member, officer, or employee with 
a written statement of the cost not later than 10 days 
after completion of the trip involved. 
(b) INCLUSION
OF INFORMATION
IN TRAVEL RE-
PORTS.—Any Member, officer, or employee of the House of 
Representatives or Senate who takes a trip to which sub-
section (a) applies shall include the information contained 
in the written statement provided to the Member, officer, 
or employee under subsection (a)(2) with respect to the trip 
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