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Act: Provided further, That no part of the funds in this Act shall 
be available to prepare or present a request to the Committees 
on Appropriations for reprogramming of funds, unless for higher 
priority items, based on unforeseen military requirements, 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, 2015: Provided further, That trans-
fers 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 programs, 
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 the explanatory statement regarding this 
Act, the obligation and expenditure of amounts appropriated or 
otherwise made available in this Act for those programs, projects, 
and activities for which the amounts appropriated exceed the 
amounts requested are hereby required by law to be carried out 
in the manner provided by such tables to the same extent as 
if the tables were included in the text of this Act. 
(b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables described in 
subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivisions of appropriations 
for purposes of section 8005 of this Act: Provided, That section 
8005 shall apply when transfers of the amounts described in sub-
section (a) occur between appropriation accounts. 
SEC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after enactment of this 
Act, the Department of Defense shall submit a report to the congres-
sional defense committees to establish the baseline for application 
of reprogramming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2015: 
Provided, That the report shall include— 
(1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column 
to display the President’s budget request, adjustments made 
by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appro-
priate, and the fiscal year enacted level; 
(2) a delineation in the table for each appropriation both 
by budget activity and program, project, and activity as detailed 
in the Budget Appendix; and 
(3) an identification of items of special congressional 
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. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8008. During the current fiscal year, cash balances in 
working capital funds of the Department of Defense 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 disbursements to be made from such funds: Provided,
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That transfers 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’’ appropriation accounts in such 
amounts as may be determined 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. 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 notification 30 
calendar days in advance to the congressional 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 includes 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 proposed contract award: Pro-
vided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to initiate 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 contracts for any 
systems or component thereof if the value of the multiyear contract 
would exceed $500,000,000 unless specifically provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That no multiyear procurement contract can be 
terminated without 30-day prior notification to the congressional 
defense committees: Provided further, That the execution of 
multiyear authority shall require the use of a present value analysis 
to determine lowest cost compared to an annual procurement: Pro-
vided 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 includes, for any aircraft unit to be procured 
through the contract for which procurement funds are requested 
in that budget request for production beyond advance procure-
ment activities in the fiscal year covered by the budget, full 
funding of procurement 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 production of unfunded units to be delivered 
under the contract; 
(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 adjustment 
based on a failure to award a follow-on contract. 
SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the operation 
and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are hereby appro-
priated 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. Such funds may also be obligated 
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to authorized 
operations and pursuant to authority granted in section 401 of 
chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code, and these obligations 
shall be reported as required by section 401(d) of title 10, United 
States Code: Provided, That funds available for operation and 
maintenance shall be available for providing humanitarian and 
similar assistance by using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Terri-
tories of the Pacific Islands and freely associated states of Micro-
nesia, pursuant to the Compact of Free Association as authorized 
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 programs conducted at Army medical 
facilities located in Hawaii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize 
the provision of medical services at such facilities and transpor-
tation to such facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for civilian 
patients from American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of 
Micronesia, Palau, and Guam. 
SEC. 8012. (a) During fiscal year 2015, the civilian personnel 
of the Department of Defense may not be managed on the basis 
of any end-strength, and the management of such personnel during 
that fiscal year shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation 
(known as an end-strength) on the number of such personnel who 
may be employed on the last day of such fiscal year. 
(b) The fiscal year 2016 budget request for the Department 
of Defense as well as all justification material and other documenta-
tion supporting the fiscal year 2016 Department of Defense budget 
request shall be prepared and submitted to the Congress as if 
subsections (a) and (b) of this provision were effective with regard 
to fiscal year 2016. 
(c) As required by section 1107 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66; 10 
U.S.C. 2358 note) civilian personnel at the Department of Army 
Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories may not be man-
aged on the basis of the Table of Distribution and Allowances, 
and the management of the workforce strength shall be done in 
a manner consistent with the budget available with respect to 
such Laboratories. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to mili-
tary (civilian) technicians. 
SEC. 8013. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional 
action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before 
the Congress. 
SEC. 8014. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available for the basic pay and allowances of any member of 
the Army participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits 
paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from the Department 
of Defense Education Benefits Fund when time spent as a full- 
time student is credited toward completion of a service commitment:
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Provided, That this section shall not apply to those members who 
have reenlisted with this option prior to October 1, 1987: Provided 
further, That this section applies only to active components of 
the Army. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8015. Funds appropriated in title III of this Act for the 
Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program may be trans-
ferred to any other appropriation contained in this Act solely for 
the purpose of implementing a Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program develop-
mental assistance 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 authority contained 
in this Act. 
SEC. 8016. 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 4 
inches in diameter and under unless the anchor and mooring chain 
are manufactured in the United States from components which 
are substantially manufactured in the United States: Provided, 
That for the purpose of this section, the term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall 
include cutting, heat treating, quality control, testing of chain and 
welding (including the forging and shot blasting process): Provided 
further, That for the purpose of this section substantially all of 
the components of anchor and mooring chain shall be considered 
to be produced or manufactured in the United States if the aggre-
gate cost of the components produced or manufactured in the United 
States exceeds the aggregate cost of the components produced or 
manufactured outside the United States: Provided further, That 
when adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart-
ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary 
of the service responsible for the procurement may waive this 
restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the 
Committees on Appropriations that such an acquisition must be 
made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8017. In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in this 
Act, there is appropriated $175,000,000, for an additional amount 
for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such funds shall only be avail-
able to the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Office of Eco-
nomic Adjustment of the Department of Defense, or for transfer 
to the Secretary of Education, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, or supple-
ment other Federal funds to construct, renovate, repair, or expand 
elementary and secondary public schools on military installations 
in order to address capacity or facility condition deficiencies at 
such schools: Provided further, That in making such funds available, 
the Office of Economic Adjustment or the Secretary of Education 
shall give priority consideration to those military installations with 
schools having the most serious capacity or facility condition defi-
ciencies as determined by the Secretary of Defense: Provided fur-
ther, That a matching share, as outlined by the Department of 
Defense in the guidelines published in the September 9, 2011,