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(2) by inserting after paragraph (15) the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(16) A summary of the technologies and capabilities docu-
mented under section 4310(a). 
‘‘(17) A summary of the assessments conducted under sec-
tion 4310(b)(1).’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents for the Atomic 
Energy Defense Act is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 4309 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 4310. Information relating to certain defense nuclear nonproliferation pro-
grams.’’. 
SEC. 3115. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED NAVAL 
REACTOR FUEL BASED ON LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 
2018.— 
(1) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—Except as provided by 
paragraph (2), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 
for the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense 
may be obligated or expended to plan or carry out research 
and development of an advanced naval nuclear fuel system 
based on low-enriched uranium. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2018 
for defense nuclear nonproliferation, as specified in the funding 
table in division D— 
(A) $5,000,000 shall be made available to the Deputy 
Administrator for Naval Reactors of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration for low-enriched uranium activities 
(including downblending of high-enriched uranium fuel into 
low-enriched uranium fuel, research and development using 
low-enriched uranium fuel, or the modification or procure-
ment of equipment and infrastructure related to such 
activities) to develop an advanced naval nuclear fuel system 
based on low-enriched uranium; and 
(B) if the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of 
the Navy determine under section 3118(c)(1) of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public 
Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1196) that such low-enriched ura-
nium activities and research and development should con-
tinue, an additional $30,000,000 may be made available 
to the Deputy Administrator for such purpose. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS REGARDING CER-
TAIN ACCOUNTS AND PURPOSES.— 
(1) RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOPMENT
AND
PROCUREMENT.— 
Chapter 633 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 7319. Requirements for availability of funds relating to 
advanced naval nuclear fuel systems based on low- 
enriched uranium 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Low-enriched uranium activities may 
only be carried out using funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available for the Department of Energy for atomic 
energy defense activities for defense nuclear nonproliferation.
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‘‘(b) PROHIBITION REGARDING CERTAIN ACCOUNTS.—(1) None 
of the funds described in paragraph (2) may be obligated or 
expended to carry out low-enriched uranium activities. 
‘‘(2) The funds described in this paragraph are funds authorized 
to be appropriated or otherwise made available for any fiscal year 
for any of the following accounts: 
‘‘(A) Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy, or any other 
account of the Department of Defense. 
‘‘(B) Any account within the atomic energy defense activi-
ties of the Department of Energy other than defense nuclear 
nonproliferation, as specified in subsection (a). 
‘‘(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) may not be superseded 
except by a provision of law that specifically supersedes, repeals, 
or modifies this section. A provision of law, including a table incor-
porated into an Act, that appropriates funds described in paragraph 
(2) for low-enriched uranium activities may not be treated as specifi-
cally superseding this section unless such provision specifically 
cites to this section. 
‘‘(c) LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM ACTIVITIES DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘low-enriched uranium activities’ means the following: 
‘‘(1) Planning or carrying out research and development 
of an advanced naval nuclear fuel system based on low-enriched 
uranium. 
‘‘(2) Procuring ships that use low-enriched uranium in naval 
nuclear propulsion reactors.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the 
beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end 
the following new item: 
‘‘7319. Requirements for availability of funds relating to advanced naval nuclear fuel 
systems based on low-enriched uranium.’’. 
(c) REPORTS.— 
(1) SSN(X) SUBMARINE.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy 
and the Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors shall jointly 
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the cost and 
timeline required to assess the feasibility, costs, and require-
ments for a design of the Virginia-class replacement nuclear 
attack submarine that would allow for the use of a low-enriched 
uranium fueled reactor, if technically feasible, without changing 
the diameter of the submarine. 
(2) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Adminis-
trator for Naval Reactors shall submit to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
a report on— 
(A) the planned research and development activities 
on low-enriched uranium and highly enriched uranium fuel 
that could apply to the development of a low-enriched 
uranium fuel or an advanced highly enriched uranium 
fuel; and 
(B) with respect to such activities for each such fuel— 
(i) the costs associated with such activities; and 
(ii) a detailed proposal for funding such activities.
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SEC. 3116. NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PAY AND 
PERFORMANCE SYSTEM. 
(a) PAY ADJUSTMENT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.— 
(1) EXTENSION.—The Administrator for Nuclear Security 
shall carry out the pay banding and performance-based pay 
adjustment demonstration project of the National Nuclear Secu-
rity Administration authorized under section 4703 of title 5, 
United States Code, until the date that is 10 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) MODIFICATIONS.—In carrying out the demonstration 
project described in paragraph (1), the Administrator— 
(A) may, subject to subparagraph (B), revise the 
requirements and limitations of the demonstration project 
to the extent necessary; and 
(B) shall— 
(i) ensure that the demonstration project is carried 
out in a manner consistent with the plan for the dem-
onstration project published in the Federal Register 
on December 21, 2007 (72 Fed. Reg. 72776); 
(ii) ensure that significant changes in the dem-
onstration project not take effect until revisions, as 
necessary and applicable, to the plan for the dem-
onstration project are approved by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management and published in the Federal Reg-
ister; 
(iii) ensure that procedural modifications or clari-
fications to the plan for the demonstration project be 
made through local notification processes; 
(iv) 
authorize, 
and 
establish 
incentives 
for, 
employees of the National Nuclear Security Adminis-
tration to have rotational assignments among different 
programs of the Administration, the headquarters and 
field offices of the Administration, and the manage-
ment and operating contractors of the Administration; 
and 
(v) establish requirements for employees of the 
Administration who are in the demonstration project 
described in paragraph (1) to be promoted to senior- 
level positions in the Administration, including require-
ments with respect to— 
(I) professional training and continuing edu-
cation; and 
(II) a certain number and types of rotational 
assignments under clause (iv), as determined by 
the Administrator. 
(3) APPLICATION
TO
NAVAL
NUCLEAR
PROPULSION
PRO-
GRAM.—The Director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program 
established pursuant to section 4101 of the Atomic Energy 
Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2511) and section 3216 of the National 
Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2406) may, 
with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Navy, apply the 
demonstration project described in paragraph (1) to— 
(A) all employees of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Pro-
gram in the competitive service (as defined in section 2102 
of title 5, United States Code); and 
(B) all employees of the Department of Navy who are 
assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and
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are in the excepted service (as defined in section 2103 
of title 5, United States Code) (other than such employees 
in statutory excepted service systems). 
(b) ROTATIONS FOR CERTAIN CONTRACTORS.— 
(1) INCREASED USE.—The Administrator for Nuclear Secu-
rity shall increase the use of rotational assignments of 
employees of the management and operating contractors of 
the National Nuclear Security Administration to the head-
quarters of the Administration, the Department of Defense 
and the military departments, the intelligence community, and 
other departments and agencies of the Federal Government. 
(2) METHODS.—The Administrator shall carry out para-
graph (1) by— 
(A) establishing incentives for— 
(i) the management and operating contractors of 
the Administration and the employees of such contrac-
tors to participate in rotational assignments; and 
(ii) the departments and agencies of the Federal 
Government specified in such paragraph to facilitate 
such assignments; 
(B) providing professional and leadership development 
opportunities during such assignments; 
(C) using details and other applicable authorities and 
programs, including the mobility program under sub-
chapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly referred to as the ‘‘Intergovernmental Personnel 
Act Mobility Program’’); and 
(D) taking such other actions as the Administrator 
determines appropriate to increase the use of such rota-
tional assignments. 
(c) RED-TEAM ANALYSIS.— 
(1) ANALYSIS.—The Director for Cost Estimating and Pro-
gram Evaluation of the National Nuclear Security Administra-
tion shall carry out a red-team analysis of the Federal employee 
staffing structure of the Administration with respect to the 
Administrator for Nuclear Security meeting the authorized per-
sonnel levels under section 3241A of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2441a). 
(2) MATTERS
INCLUDED.—The analysis under paragraph 
(1) shall include assessments of— 
(A) the number of Federal employees within each pro-
gram of the Administration, and whether such numbers 
are appropriately balanced with respect to the size, scope, 
functions, budgets, and risks, of the program; and 
(B) the number of Senior Executive Service positions 
(as defined in section 3132(a) of title 5, United States 
Code) within the Administration, including a comparison 
of such number to other comparable departments and agen-
cies of the Federal Government, and whether such number 
is appropriate. 
(d) BRIEFINGS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act— 
(A) the Administrator shall provide a briefing to the 
appropriate congressional committees on the implementa-
tion of—