111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2647 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Depart-
ment of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
for such fiscal year, to provide special pays and allow-
ances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand 
concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA dis-
ability benefits to disabled military retirees, 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. 
Divisions A through C of this Act may be cited as 
the ‘‘National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2010’’. 
SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF 
CONTENTS. 
(a) DIVISIONS.—This Act is organized into four divi-
sions as follows: 
(1) Division A—Department of Defense Au-
thorizations. 
(2) Division B—Military Construction Author-
izations. 
(3) Division C—Department of Energy Na-
tional Security Authorizations and Other Authoriza-
tions. 
(4) Division D—Disabled Military Retiree Re-
lief Act of 2009. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Congressional defense committees. 
DIVISION A—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS 
TITLE I—PROCUREMENT 
Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 101. Army. 
Sec. 102. Navy and Marine Corps. 
Sec. 103. Air Force. 
Sec. 104. Defense-wide activities. 
Sec. 105. National Guard and Reserve equipment. 
Sec. 106. Rapid Acquisition Fund. 
Subtitle B—Army Programs 
Sec. 111. Restriction on obligation of funds for army tactical radio systems. 
Sec. 112. Procurement of future combat systems spin out early-infantry brigade 
combat team equipment. 
Subtitle C—Navy Programs 
Sec. 121. Littoral combat ship program. 
Sec. 122. Ford-class aircraft carrier report and limitation on use of funds. 
Sec. 123. Advance procurement funding. 
Sec. 124. Multiyear procurement authority for F/A–18E, F/A–18F, and EA– 
18G aircraft. 
Sec. 125. Multiyear procurement authority for DDG–51 Burke-class destroyers. 
Sec. 126. Conversion of certain vessels; leasing rates. 
Subtitle D—Air Force Programs 
Sec. 131. Repeal of certification requirement for F–22A fighter aircraft. 
Sec. 132. Preservation and storage of unique tooling for F–22 fighter aircraft. 
Sec. 133. Report on 4.5 generation fighter procurement. 
Sec. 134. Reports on strategic airlift aircraft. 
Sec. 135. Strategic airlift force structure. 
Sec. 136. Repeal of requirement to maintain certain retired C–130E aircraft. 
Subtitle E—Joint and Multiservice Matters 
Sec. 141. Body armor procurement. 
Sec. 142. Unmanned cargo-carrying-capable aerial vehicles. 
TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION 
Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations 
Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle B—Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations 
Sec. 211. Limitation on obligation of funds for the Navy Next Generation En-
terprise Network. 
Sec. 212. Limitation on expenditure of funds for Joint Multi-Mission Submers-
ible program. 
Sec. 213. Separate program elements required for research and development of 
individual body armor and associated components. 
Sec. 214. Separate procurement and research, development, test and evaluation 
line items and program elements for the F–35B and F–35C 
joint strike fighter aircraft. 
Sec. 215. Restriction on obligation of funds pending submission of Selected Ac-
quisition Report. 
Sec. 216. Restriction on obligation of funds for Future Combat Systems pro-
gram pending receipt of report.
initial production in subsection (a) and the limitation on 
obligation of funds in subsection (b) do not apply if the 
procurement of covered Future Combat Systems equip-
ment is specifically intended to address an operational 
need statement requirement. 
(d) COVERED FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS EQUIP-
MENT DEFINED.—For the purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘covered Future Combat Systems equipment’’ means 
the following: 
(1) Future Combat Systems non-line of sight 
launcher systems. 
(2) Future Combat Systems unattended ground 
sensors. 
(3) Future Combat Systems class I unmanned 
aerial systems. 
(4) Future Combat Systems small unmanned 
ground vehicles. 
(5) Future Combat Systems integrated control 
system computers. 
(6) Any vehicular kits needed to integrate and 
operate a system listed in paragraph (1), (2), (3), 
(4), or (5).