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SEC. 8121. Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available by title II of this division under the heading 
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, up to $1,000,000 
may be used to sustain morale, welfare, and recreation 
(MWR) facilities that— 
(1) have been closed as a result of flooding, an 
earthquake, a wildfire, or a volcanic event in 2018; 
(2) have furloughed or put employees on admin-
istrative leave in connection with such closure; and 
(3) have used revenue or operating reserves to 
pay operation and maintenance expenses during such 
closure. 
SENSE OF SENATE ON RESEARCH REGARDING BLAST 
EXPOSURE ON THE CELLULAR LEVEL OF THE BRAIN 
SEC. 8122. It is the sense of the Senate that— 
(1) further research is necessary regarding blast 
exposure on the cellular level of the brain; 
(2) such research is needed to develop blast pro-
tection requirements for helmets and other personal 
protective equipment; and 
(3) the Department of Defense should increase 
ongoing efforts, to the maximum extent possible, to 
develop a predictive traumatic brain injury model for 
blast, in order to better understand the cellular re-
sponse to blast impulses and the interaction of the
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human brain and protective equipment related to 
blast exposure. 
SEC. 8123. Of the amount appropriated by title II of 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide’’, up to $7,000,000 may be available for the 
Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Information Assur-
ance Scholarship Program. 
SEC. 8124. Not later than 120 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, 
acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research 
and Engineering, submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report on current investments of the Armed Forces 
in research on energetics. The report shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(1) A comparison between current investments of 
the Navy in research on energetics and current invest-
ments of the other military departments in such re-
search. 
(2) Recommendations for the most appropriate 
investments by the Armed Forces in research on 
energetics in the future, and a strategic roadmap for 
such investments. 
SEC. 8125. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense under the headings ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Air Force’’ and ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air
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National Guard’’, not more than $45,000,000 shall be avail-
able to the Secretary of the Air Force for payments to a 
local water authority located in the vicinity of an Air Force 
or Air National Guard base (including a base not Feder-
ally-owned), or to a State in which the local water author-
ity is located, for the treatment of perfluorooctane sulfonic 
acid and perfluorooctanoic acid in drinking water from the 
water source and/or wells owned and operated by the local 
water authority undertaken to attain the Environmental 
Protection Agency Lifetime Health Advisory level for such 
acids: Provided, That the applicable Lifetime Health Advi-
sory shall be the one in effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act: Provided further, That the local water authority 
or State must have requested such a payment from the Air 
Force or National Guard Bureau not later than the date 
that is 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That the elevated levels of such acids in 
the water was the result of activities conducted by or paid 
for by the Department of the Air Force or the Air National 
Guard: Provided further, That such funds may be expended 
without regard to existing contractual provisions in agree-
ments between the Department of the Air Force or the Na-
tional Guard Bureau, as the case may be, and the State 
in which the base is located relating to environmental re-
sponse actions or indemnification: Provided further, That,
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in order to be eligible for payment under this section, such 
treatment must have taken place after January 1, 2016, 
and the local water authority or State, as the case may 
be, must waive all claims for treatment expenses incurred 
before such date: Provided further, That any payment under 
this section may not exceed the actual cost of such treatment 
resulting from the activities conducted by or paid for by 
the Department of the Air Force: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may enter into such agreements with the local 
water authority or State as may be necessary to implement 
this section: Provided further, That the Secretary may pay, 
utilizing the Defense State Memorandum of Agreement, 
costs that would otherwise be eligible for payment under 
that agreement were those costs paid using funds appro-
priated to the Environmental Restoration Account, Air 
Force, established under section 2703(a)(4) of title 10, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 8126. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 
to any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and admin-
istrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and 
that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an
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agreement with the authority responsible for collecting such 
tax liability, provided that the applicable Federal agency 
is aware of the unpaid Federal tax liability. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the applicable 
Federal agency has considered suspension or debarment of 
the corporation described in such subsection and has made 
a determination that such suspension or debarment is not 
necessary to protect the interests of the Federal Government. 
SEC. 8127. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended for assistance to the Islamic Republic of Iran unless 
specifically appropriated for that purpose. 
SEC. 8128. From amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available by title II of this division under the heading 
‘‘OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE’’, the Sec-
retary of Defense may reimburse the Government of the Re-
public of Palau in an amount not to exceed $9,700,000 for 
land acquisition costs for defense sites. 
SEC. 8129. Of the amount appropriated or otherwise 
made available by title IV of this division under the head-
ing ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy’’, 
up to $2,000,000 may be available for research on a prac-
tical means of reducing fighter aircraft engine noise (both 
near and far noise impacts) at the source while maintain-
ing operational performance.
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SEC. 8130. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on 
improving trauma training for trauma teams of the De-
partment of Defense, including through the use of the Joint 
Trauma Education and Training Directorate established 
under section 708 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328; 10 U.S.C. 1071 
note). 
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall include 
recommendations regarding how to best coordinate trauma 
teams of the Department of Defense with trauma partners 
in the civilian sector, including evaluating how trauma 
surgeons and physicians of the Department can best partner 
with civilian level 1 trauma centers verified by the Amer-
ican College of Surgeons, including those trauma centers 
coupled to a burn center that offers burn rotations and clin-
ical experience, to provide adequate training and readiness 
for the next generation of medical providers to treat criti-
cally injured burn patients and other military trauma vic-
tims. 
SEC. 8131. (a)(1) The amount appropriated by title 
I of this division under the heading ‘‘National Guard Per-
sonnel, Air Force’’ is hereby increased by $450,000.