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25, United States Code shall be considered a contractor 
for the purposes of being allowed additional compensation 
under section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 
(25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever the prime contract or sub-
contract amount is over $500,000 and involves the ex-
penditure of funds appropriated by an Act making Appro-
priations for the Department of Defense with respect to 
any fiscal year: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 430 of title 41, United States Code, this section 
shall be applicable to any Department of Defense acquisi-
tion of supplies or services, including any contract and any 
subcontract at any tier for acquisition of commercial items 
produced or manufactured, in whole or in part by any sub-
contractor or supplier defined in section 1544 of title 25, 
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: Provided fur-
ther, That, during the current fiscal year and hereafter, 
businesses certified as 8(a) by the Small Business Admin-
istration pursuant to section 8(a)(15) of Public Law 85– 
536, as amended, shall have the same status as other pro-
gram participants under section 602 of Public Law 100– 
656, 102 Stat. 3825 (Business Opportunity Development 
Reform Act of 1988) for purposes of contracting with 
agencies of the Department of Defense. 
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SEC. 8019. 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. 8020. 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. 8021. 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. 
SEC. 8022. (a) Of the funds made available in this 
Act, not less than $36,188,000 shall be available for the 
Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 
(1) $25,087,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 
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Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 
readiness, counterdrug activities, and drug demand 
reduction activities involving youth programs; 
(2) $10,193,000 shall be available from ‘‘Air-
craft Procurement, Air Force’’; and 
(3) $908,000 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. 8023. (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. 
(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-
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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 2007 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 
2007, not more than 5,417 staff years of technical effort 
(staff years) may be funded for defense FFRDCs: Pro-
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 2008 budget request, 
submit a report presenting the specific amounts of staff 
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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 $25,000,000. 
SEC. 8024. 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 
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 
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contracts which are in being as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 8025. 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. 8026. 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-
direct costs for both public and private bids: Provided fur-
ther, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 
76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this 
section. 
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SEC. 8027. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after 
consultation with the United States Trade Representative, 
determines that a foreign country which is party to an 
agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the 
terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain 
types of products produced in the United States that are 
covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall 
rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer-
ican Act with respect to such types of products produced 
in that foreign country. 
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 
reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing, between the United States and a foreign country 
pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec-
tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products 
in that country. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Con-
gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense 
purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 2007. Such 
report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items 
for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to 
any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade 
Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any 
international agreement to which the United States is a 
party. 
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(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Buy 
American Act’’ means title III of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act 
making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office 
Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, 
and for other purposes’’, approved March 3, 1933 (41 
U.S.C. 10a et seq.). 
SEC. 8028. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds available during the current fiscal year and 
hereafter for ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activi-
ties, Defense’’ may be obligated for the Young Marines 
program. 
SEC. 8029. During the current fiscal year, amounts 
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 
Facility Investment Recovery Account established by sec-
tion 2921(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
of 1991 (Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) shall 
be available until expended for the payments specified by 
section 2921(c)(2) of that Act. 
SEC. 8030. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may 
convey at no cost to the Air Force, without consideration, 
to Indian tribes located in the States of North Dakota, 
South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable mili-
tary housing units located at Grand Forks Air Force Base 
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and Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the needs 
of the Air Force. 
(b) PROCESSING OF REQUESTS.—The Secretary of 
the Air Force shall convey, at no cost to the Air Force, 
military housing units under subsection (a) in accordance 
with the request for such units that are submitted to the 
Secretary by the Operation Walking Shield Program on 
behalf of Indian tribes located in the States of North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota. 
(c) RESOLUTION OF HOUSING UNIT CONFLICTS.— 
The Operation Walking Shield Program shall resolve any 
conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for housing units 
under subsection (a) before submitting requests to the 
Secretary of the Air Force under subsection (b). 
(d) INDIAN TRIBE DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ means any recognized Indian tribe in-
cluded on the current list published by the Secretary of 
the Interior under section 104 of the Federally Recognized 
Indian Tribe Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–454; 108 Stat. 
4792; 25 U.S.C. 479a–1). 
SEC. 8031. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions which are available to the Department of Defense 
for operation and maintenance may be used to purchase 
items having an investment item unit cost of not more 
than $250,000. 
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SEC. 8032. (a) During the current fiscal year, none 
of the appropriations or funds available to the Department 
of Defense Working Capital Funds shall be used for the 
purchase of an investment item for the purpose of acquir-
ing a new inventory item for sale or anticipated sale dur-
ing the current fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to 
customers of the Department of Defense Working Capital 
Funds if such an item would not have been chargeable 
to the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund 
during fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an 
investment item would be chargeable during the current 
fiscal year to appropriations made to the Department of 
Defense for procurement. 
(b) The fiscal year 2008 budget request for the De-
partment of Defense as well as all justification material 
and other documentation supporting the fiscal year 2008 
Department of Defense budget shall be prepared and sub-
mitted to the Congress on the basis that any equipment 
which was classified as an end item and funded in a pro-
curement appropriation contained in this Act shall be 
budgeted for in a proposed fiscal year 2008 procurement 
appropriation and not in the supply management business 
area or any other area or category of the Department of 
Defense Working Capital Funds. 
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