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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4914
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Defense
to carry out a cooperative research and development program of dual
use transportation technologies for certain commercial and military appli-
cations, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 12, 2002
Mr. HORN (for himself, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. MURTHA, and Mr.
WELDON of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation and the Sec-
retary of Defense to carry out a cooperative research
and development program of dual use transportation
technologies for certain commercial and military applica-
tions, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Center for Commercial
Deployment of Transportation Technology Development
Authorization Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. JOINT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION/DE-
PARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAM TO DE-
VELOP 
TRANSPORTATION 
TECHNOLOGIES
FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY APPLICA-
TIONS.
Section 8 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (46
U.S.C. App. 867) is amended—
(1) by designating the text as subsection (a);
and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
from amounts made available to carry out this subsection,
the Secretary of Defense, in cooperation with the Sec-
retary of Transportation, shall carry out a program under
this subsection to develop and deploy dual use transpor-
tation technologies for commercial and military applica-
tions, including but not limited to the following:
‘‘(A) Agile port.
‘‘(B) High-speed sealift.
‘‘(C) Advanced cargo and passenger vessel hull
design, propulsion systems, and construction employ-
ing national defense features.
‘‘(D) Rapid deployment.
‘‘(E) Command and control, and decision sup-
port.
‘‘(F) Maritime, port, and cargo security.
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall carry out such
program in cooperation with the Secretary of Transpor-
tation under section 2358(b)(4) of title 10, United States
Code.
‘‘(3) The program required by paragraph (1) shall
be carried out pursuant to a cooperative agreement to be
entered into by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary
of Transportation, and the Center for Commercial Deploy-
ment of Transportation Technology of California State
University, Long Beach.
‘‘(4) Of amounts appropriated or otherwise made
available for the use of the Department of Defense for
research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide,
the following amounts shall be available for a task and
delivery order contract under section 2304(c) of title 10,
United States Code, to carry out this subsection, to re-
main available until expended:
‘‘(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003.
‘‘(B) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004
and 2005.
‘‘(C) $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006
and 2007.’’
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