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of structures, and acquisition of land, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be
acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon, prior to
approval of title; reserve plant and Government and con-
tractor-owned equipment layaway, $7,034,217,000, to re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 2001.
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments)
necessary for procurement, production, and modification
of equipment, supplies, materials, and spare parts there-
for, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of not to ex-
ceed 346 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only;
the purchase of 4 vehicles required for physical security
of personnel, notwithstanding price limitations applicable
to passenger vehicles but not to exceed $165,000 per vehi-
cle; expansion of public and private plants, equipment, and
installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures,
and acquisition of land for the foregoing purposes, and
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and
construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned
equipment layaway, $2,055,432,000, to remain available
for obligation until September 30, 2001: Provided, That
not less than $109,455,000 of the funds appropriated in
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this paragraph shall be made available only for the pro-
curement of high performance computing hardware: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds appropriated in this para-
graph, $92,566,000 shall not be obligated or expended
until authorized by law.
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT
For procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat
vehicles, ammunition, other weapons, and other procure-
ment for the reserve components of the Armed Forces,
$120,000,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided, That the Chiefs of the Reserve
and National Guard components shall, not later than 30
days after the enactment of this Act, individually submit
to the congressional defense committees the modernization
priority assessment for their respective Reserve or Na-
tional Guard component.
TITLE IV
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND
EVALUATION
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
ARMY
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-
cilities and equipment, $4,967,446,000, to remain avail-
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able for obligation until September 30, 2000: Provided,
That
of
the
funds
appropriated
in
this
paragraph,
$175,449,000 shall not be obligated or expended until au-
thorized by law: Provided further, That of the funds made
available under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be avail-
able only to commence a live fire, side-by-side operational
test and evaluation of the air-to-air Starstreak and air-
to-air Stinger missiles fired from the AH–64D Apache hel-
icopter: Provided further, That none of the funds specified
in the preceding proviso may be obligated until the Sec-
retary of the Army certifies the following, in writing, to
the congressional defense committees:
(1) Engagement tests can be safely conducted
with both Starstreak and Stinger missiles from the
AH–64D helicopter at air speeds consistent with the
normal operating limits of that aircraft;
(2) The Starstreak missiles utilized in the test
will be provided at no cost to the United States Gov-
ernment;
(3) None of the $10,000,000 provided will be
used to develop modifications to the Starstreak or
the Stinger missiles; and
(4) Both the Starstreak and Stinger missiles
can be fired from the AH–64D aircraft consistent
with the survivability of the aircraft and missile per-
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formance standards contained in the Army’s Air-to-
Air Missile Capability Need Statement approved by
the Department of the Army in January 1997.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
NAVY
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-
cilities and equipment, $8,297,986,000, to remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 2000: Provided,
That funds appropriated in this paragraph which are
available for the V–22 may be used to meet unique re-
quirements of the Special Operation Forces: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding 10 U.S.C. 2366, none of the
funds made available under this heading may be used to
conduct system-level live-fire shock tests on the SSN–21
class of submarines unless the Commander-in-Chief of the
United States Atlantic Command certifies in writing to the
congressional defense committees that such testing must
be conducted to meet operational requirements for those
submarines:
Provided
further,
That
not
more
than
$50,000,000 of the funds made available under this head-
ing for feasibility studies and component research and de-
velopment for future aircraft carriers may be obligated
until the Secretary of the Navy certifies in writing to the
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congressional defense committees that the Navy has a pro-
gram in place to develop and install an infrared search
and track device on CVN–77 upon its acceptance by the
government: Provided further, That the restriction in the
preceding proviso does not apply to funds requested in the
fiscal year 1999 President’s budget and provided in this
Act for design of CVN–77: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated in title IV of Public Law 105–56 (De-
partment
of
Defense
Appropriations
Act,
1998),
$213,229,000 is only for research, development, test and
evaluation of cooperative engagement capability.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
AIR FORCE
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-
cilities and equipment, $13,577,441,000, to remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 2000.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
DEFENSE-WIDE
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments),
necessary for basic and applied scientific research, devel-
opment, test and evaluation; advanced research projects
as may be designated and determined by the Secretary
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of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation,
lease,
and
operation
of
facilities
and
equipment,
$8,776,318,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2000: Provided, That not less than
$340,446,000 of the funds made available under this
heading shall be made available only for the Sea-Based
Wide Area Defense (Navy Upper-Tier) program: Provided
further, That funding for the Sea-Based Wide Area De-
fense (Navy Upper-Tier) program in this or any other Act
shall be used for research, development and deployment
including, but not limited to, continuing ongoing risk re-
duction activities, initiating system engineering for an ini-
tial Block I capability, and deployment at the earliest fea-
sible time following Aegis Lightweight Exoatmospheric
Projectile (LEAP) intercept flight tests.
DEVELOPMENTAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, of inde-
pendent activities of the Director, Test and Evaluation in
the direction and supervision of developmental test and
evaluation, including performance and joint developmental
testing and evaluation; and administrative expenses in
connection therewith, $263,606,000, to remain available
for obligation until September 30, 2000: Provided, That
of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $12,500,000
shall not be obligated or expended until authorized by law.
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OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary
for the independent activities of the Director, Operational
Test and Evaluation in the direction and supervision of
operational test and evaluation, including initial oper-
ational test and evaluation which is conducted prior to,
and in support of, production decisions; joint operational
testing and evaluation; and administrative expenses in
connection therewith, $35,245,000, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 2000: Provided, That of the
funds appropriated in this paragraph, $6,000,000 shall
not be obligated or expended until authorized by law.
TITLE V
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For
the
Defense
Working
Capital
Funds,
$94,500,000: Provided, That during the fiscal year 1999,
in order to maintain adequate cash balances in the De-
fense Working Capital Funds, the Secretary of Defense
may transfer up to $350,000,000 from the National De-
fense Stockpile Transaction Fund to the Defense Working
Capital
Funds:
Provided
further,
That
the
total
of
amounts so transferred during the fiscal year shall be
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transferred back to the National Defense Stockpile Trans-
action Fund not later than September 30, 1999.
NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For
National
Defense
Sealift
Fund
programs,
projects, and activities, and for expenses of the National
Defense Reserve Fleet, as established by section 11 of the
Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 (50 U.S.C. App. 1744),
$673,366,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds provided in this paragraph
shall be used to award a new contract that provides for
the acquisition of any of the following major components
unless such components are manufactured in the United
States: auxiliary equipment, including pumps, for all ship-
board services; propulsion system components (that is; en-
gines, reduction gears, and propellers); shipboard cranes;
and spreaders for shipboard cranes: Provided further, That
the exercise of an option in a contract awarded through
the obligation of previously appropriated funds shall not
be considered to be the award of a new contract: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the funds available under this heading, $28,800,000
shall be transferred to ‘‘Alteration of Bridges’’: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the military department re-
sponsible for such procurement may waive the restrictions
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in the first proviso 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: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated in this paragraph, $3,800,000
shall not be obligated or expended until authorized by law.
TITLE VI
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical
and health care programs of the Department of Defense,
as
authorized
by
law,
$10,127,622,000,
of
which
$9,725,235,000 shall be for Operation and maintenance,
of which not to exceed two per centum shall remain avail-
able
until
September
30,
2000,
and
of
which
$402,387,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2001, shall be for Procurement: Provided,
That
of
the
funds
appropriated
in
this
paragraph,
$62,200,000 shall not be obligated or expended until au-
thorized by law.
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CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION,
ARMY
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary
for the destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal
chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the pro-
visions of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Au-
thorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), and for the de-
struction of other chemical warfare materials that are not
in the chemical weapon stockpile, $796,100,000, of which
$508,650,000 shall be for Operation and maintenance,
$124,670,000 shall be for Procurement to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2001, and $162,780,000 shall
be for Research, development, test and evaluation to re-
main available until September 30, 2000.
DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES,
DEFENSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of
the Department of Defense, for transfer to appropriations
available to the Department of Defense for military per-
sonnel of the reserve components serving under the provi-
sions of title 10 and title 32, United States Code; for Op-
eration and maintenance; for Procurement; and for Re-
search, development, test and evaluation, $764,595,000:
Provided, That the funds appropriated under this heading
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shall be available for obligation for the same time period
and for the same purpose as the appropriation to which
transferred: Provided further, That the transfer authority
provided in this paragraph is in addition to any transfer
authority contained elsewhere in this Act: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated in this paragraph,
$37,013,000 shall not be obligated or expended until au-
thorized by law.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses and activities of the Office of the In-
spector General in carrying out the provisions of the In-
spector General Act of 1978, as amended, $132,064,000,
of which $130,764,000 shall be for Operation and mainte-
nance, of which not to exceed $600,000 is available for
emergencies and extraordinary expenses to be expended on
the approval or authority of the Inspector General, and
payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for
confidential military purposes; and of which $1,300,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2001, shall be for
Procurement.