TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses not authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions 
of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or em-
ployment of, any person not a citizen of the United States 
shall not apply to personnel of the Department of Defense: 
Provided, That salary increases granted to direct and indi-
rect hire foreign national employees of the Department of 
Defense funded by this Act shall not be at a rate in excess 
of the percentage increase authorized by law for civilian 
employees of the Department of Defense whose pay is 
computed under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5, 
United States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percent-
age increase provided by the appropriate host nation to 
its own employees, whichever is higher: Provided further, 
That this section shall not apply to Department of De-
fense foreign service national employees serving at United 
States diplomatic missions whose pay is set by the Depart-
ment of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1980: Pro-
vided further, That the limitations of this provision shall 
not apply to foreign national employees of the Department 
of Defense in the Republic of Turkey. 
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SEC. 8003. No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 
the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 8004. No more than 20 percent of the appro-
priations in this Act which are limited for obligation dur-
ing the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the 
last 2 months of the fiscal year: Provided, That this sec-
tion shall not apply to obligations for support of active 
duty training of reserve components or summer camp 
training of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8005. Upon determination by the Secretary of 
Defense that such action is necessary in the national inter-
est, the Secretary may, with the approval of the Office 
of Management and Budget, transfer not to exceed 
$6,000,000,000 of working capital funds of the Depart-
ment of Defense or funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Defense for military functions (except 
military construction) between such appropriations or 
funds or any subdivision thereof, to be merged with and 
to be available for the same purposes, and for the same 
time period, as the appropriation or fund to which trans-
ferred: Provided, That such authority to transfer may not 
be used unless for higher priority items, based on unfore-
seen military requirements, than those for which originally 
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appropriated and in no case where the item for which 
funds are requested has been denied by the Congress: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall notify 
the Congress promptly of all transfers made pursuant to 
this authority or any other authority in this Act: Provided 
further, That no part of the funds in this Act shall be 
available to prepare or present a request to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate for reprogramming of funds, unless for 
higher priority items, based on unforeseen military re-
quirements, than those for which originally appropriated 
and in no case where the item for which reprogramming 
is requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided 
further, That a request for multiple reprogrammings of 
funds using authority provided in this section shall be 
made prior to June 30, 2024: Provided further, That 
transfers among military personnel appropriations shall 
not be taken into account for purposes of the limitation 
on the amount of funds that may be transferred under 
this section. 
SEC. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific pro-
grams, projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts 
and adjustments to budget activities corresponding to 
such programs, projects, and activities) contained in the 
tables titled Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in 
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the explanatory statement regarding this Act and the ta-
bles contained in the classified annex accompanying this 
Act, the obligation and expenditure of amounts appro-
priated or otherwise made available in this Act for those 
programs, projects, and activities are hereby required by 
law to be carried out in the manner provided by such ta-
bles to the same extent as if the tables were included in 
the text of this Act. 
(b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivi-
sions of appropriations for purposes of section 8005 of this 
Act: Provided, That section 8005 shall apply when trans-
fers of the amounts described in subsection (a) occur be-
tween appropriation accounts. 
SEC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense 
shall submit a report to the congressional defense commit-
tees to establish the baseline for application of reprogram-
ming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2024: Pro-
vided, That the report shall include— 
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the President’s budget re-
quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments 
due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 
fiscal year enacted level; 
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(2) a delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by budget activity and program, 
project, and activity as detailed in the Budget Ap-
pendix; and 
(3) an identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none 
of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for 
reprogramming or transfer until the report identified in 
subsection (a) is submitted to the congressional defense 
committees, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies in 
writing to the congressional defense committees that such 
reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency 
requirement: Provided, That this subsection shall not 
apply to transfers from the following appropriations ac-
counts: 
(1) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Army’’; 
(2) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Navy’’; 
(3) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Air Force’’; 
(4) 
‘‘Environmental 
Restoration, 
Defense- 
Wide’’; 
(5) 
‘‘Environmental 
Restoration, 
Formerly 
Used Defense Sites’’; and 
(6) ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Ac-
tivities, Defense’’. 
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8008. During the current fiscal year, cash bal-
ances in working capital funds of the Department of De-
fense established pursuant to section 2208 of title 10, 
United States Code, may be maintained in only such 
amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disburse-
ments to be made from such funds: Provided, That trans-
fers may be made between such funds: Provided further, 
That transfers may be made between working capital 
funds and the ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense’’ 
appropriation and the ‘‘Operation and Maintenance’’ ap-
propriation accounts in such amounts as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of 
the Office of Management and Budget, except that such 
transfers may not be made unless the Secretary of Defense 
has notified the Congress of the proposed transfer: Pro-
vided further, That except in amounts equal to the 
amounts appropriated to working capital funds in this Act, 
no obligations may be made against a working capital fund 
to procure or increase the value of war reserve material 
inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the 
Congress prior to any such obligation. 
SEC. 8009. Funds appropriated by this Act may not 
be used to initiate a special access program without prior 
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notification 30 calendar days in advance to the congres-
sional defense committees. 
SEC. 8010. None of the funds provided in this Act 
shall be available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that 
employs economic order quantity procurement in excess of 
$20,000,000 in any one year of the contract or that in-
cludes an unfunded contingent liability in excess of 
$20,000,000; or (2) a contract for advance procurement 
leading to a multiyear contract that employs economic 
order quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in 
any one year, unless the congressional defense committees 
have been notified at least 30 days in advance of the pro-
posed contract award: Provided, That no part of any ap-
propriation contained in this Act shall be available to ini-
tiate a multiyear contract for which the economic order 
quantity advance procurement is not funded at least to 
the limits of the Government’s liability: Provided further, 
That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to initiate multiyear procurement con-
tracts for any systems or component thereof if the value 
of the multiyear contract would exceed $500,000,000 un-
less specifically provided in this Act: Provided further, 
That no multiyear procurement contract can be termi-
nated without 30-day prior notification to the congres-
sional defense committees: Provided further, That the exe-
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cution of multiyear authority shall require the use of a 
present value analysis to determine lowest cost compared 
to an annual procurement: Provided further, That none of 
the funds provided in this Act may be used for a multiyear 
contract executed after the date of the enactment of this 
Act unless in the case of any such contract— 
(1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to 
Congress a budget request for full funding of units 
to be procured through the contract and, in the case 
of a contract for procurement of aircraft, that in-
cludes, for any aircraft unit to be procured through 
the contract for which procurement funds are re-
quested in that budget request for production be-
yond advance procurement activities in the fiscal 
year covered by the budget, full funding of procure-
ment of such unit in that fiscal year; 
(2) cancellation provisions in the contract do 
not include consideration of recurring manufacturing 
costs of the contractor associated with the produc-
tion of unfunded units to be delivered under the con-
tract; 
(3) the contract provides that payments to the 
contractor under the contract shall not be made in 
advance of incurred costs on funded units; and 
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(4) the contract does not provide for a price ad-
justment based on a failure to award a follow-on 
contract. 
Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be used 
for multiyear procurement contracts for Naval Strike Mis-
sile, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, PATRIOT 
Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, 
Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, Joint Air-to-Surface 
Standoff Missile, and USS Virginia Class (SSN-774). 
SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the op-
eration and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are 
hereby appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, 
United States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance 
costs under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code: 
Provided, That such funds may also be obligated for hu-
manitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to author-
ized operations and pursuant to authority granted in sec-
tion 401 of title 10, United States Code, and these obliga-
tions shall be reported as required by section 401(d) of 
title 10, United States Code: Provided further, That funds 
available for operation and maintenance shall be available 
for providing humanitarian and similar assistance by 
using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the 
Pacific Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, 
pursuant to the Compact of Free Association as author-
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ized by Public Law 99–239: Provided further, That upon 
a determination by the Secretary of the Army that such 
action is beneficial for graduate medical education pro-
grams conducted at Army medical facilities located in Ha-
waii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provi-
sion of medical services at such facilities and transpor-
tation to such facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for 
civilian patients from American Samoa, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Is-
lands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and 
Guam. 
SEC. 8012. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to in-
fluence congressional action on any legislation or appro-
priation matters pending before the Congress. 
SEC. 8013. None of the funds available in this Act 
to the Department of Defense, other than appropriations 
made for necessary or routine refurbishments, upgrades, 
or maintenance activities, shall be used to reduce or to 
prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-de-
ployed strategic delivery vehicles and launchers below the 
levels set forth in the report submitted to Congress in ac-
cordance with section 1042 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. 
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8014. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this 
Act for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote´ge´ 
Program may be transferred to any other appropriation 
contained in this Act solely for the purpose of imple-
menting a Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program developmental assist-
ance agreement pursuant to section 831 of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public 
Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as amended, under 
the authority of this provision or any other transfer au-
thority contained in this Act. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the 
budget justification documents in support of the budget 
for fiscal year 2025 (as submitted to Congress pursuant 
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) a descrip-
tion of each transfer under this section that occurred dur-
ing the last fiscal year before the fiscal year in which such 
budget is submitted. 
SEC. 8015. None of the funds in this Act may be 
available for the purchase by the Department of Defense 
(and its departments and agencies) of welded shipboard 
anchor and mooring chain unless the anchor and mooring 
chain are manufactured in the United States from compo-
nents which are substantially manufactured in the United 
States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, the 
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