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(4) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air 
Force’’, $158,301,000. 
SEC. 8079. The total amount appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act is hereby reduced by 
$167,000,000 to limit excessive growth in the procure-
ment of advisory and assistance services, to be distributed 
as follows: 
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $24,000,000. 
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $19,000,000. 
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Air 
Force’’, 
$74,000,000. 
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide’’, 
$50,000,000. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8080. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Research, Development, Test and 
Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’, $77,616,000 shall be made 
available for the Arrow missile defense program: Provided, 
That of this amount, $15,000,000 shall be available for 
the purpose of producing Arrow missile components in the 
United States and Arrow missile components and missiles 
in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements, consistent 
with each nation’s laws, regulations and procedures: Pro-
vided further, That funds made available under this provi-
sion for production of missiles and missile components 
may be transferred to appropriations available for the pro-
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curement of weapons and equipment, to be merged with 
and to be available for the same time period and the same 
purposes as the appropriation to which transferred: Pro-
vided further, That the transfer authority provided under 
this provision is in addition to any other transfer authority 
contained in this Act. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8081. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 
$394,523,000 shall be available until September 30, 2006, 
to fund prior year shipbuilding cost increases: Provided, 
That upon enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Navy shall transfer such funds to the following appropria-
tions in the amounts specified: Provided further, That the 
amounts transferred shall be merged with and be available 
for the same purposes as the appropriations to which 
transferred: 
To: Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conver-
sion, Navy, 1998/2007’’: 
NSSN, $28,000,000. 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conver-
sion, Navy, 1999/2009’’: 
LPD–17 Amphibious Transport Dock Ship, 
$25,000,000; and 
NSSN, $72,000,000.
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Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conver-
sion, Navy, 2000/2009’’: 
LPD–17 Amphibious Transport Dock Ship, 
$41,800,000. 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conver-
sion, Navy, 2001/2007’’: 
Carrier Replacement Program, $145,023,000; 
and 
NSSN, $82,700,000. 
SEC. 8082. The Secretary of the Navy may settle, 
or compromise, and pay any and all admiralty claims 
under 10 U.S.C. 7622 arising out of the collision involving 
the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU, in 
any amount and without regard to the monetary limita-
tions in subsections (a) and (b) of that section: Provided, 
That such payments shall be made from funds available 
to the Department of the Navy for operation and mainte-
nance. 
SEC. 8083. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law or regulation, the Secretary of Defense may exercise 
the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 7403(g) for occupations listed 
in 38 U.S.C. 7403(a)(2) as well as the following: 
Pharmacists, Audiologists, and Dental Hygienists. 
(A) 
The 
requirements 
of 
U.S.C. 
7403(g)(1)(A) shall apply.
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(B) The limitations of 38 U.S.C. 7403(g)(1)(B) 
shall not apply. 
SEC. 8084. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-
ligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized 
by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal 
year 2006 until the enactment of the Intelligence Author-
ization Act for fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 8085. None of the funds in this Act may be 
used to initiate a new start program without prior written 
notification to the Office of Secretary of Defense and the 
congressional defense committees. 
SEC. 8086. The amounts appropriated in title II of 
this Act are hereby reduced by $250,000,000 to reflect 
cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in Depart-
ment of Defense Working Capital Funds, as follows: 
(1) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, 
$107,000,000. 
(2) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air 
Force’’, $143,000,000. 
SEC. 8087. (a) In addition to the amounts provided 
elsewhere in this Act, the amount of $6,000,000 is hereby 
appropriated to the Department of Defense for ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Army National Guard’’. Such
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amount shall be made available to the Secretary of the 
Army only to make a grant in the amount of $6,000,000 
to the entity specified in subsection (b) to facilitate access 
by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the 
construction industry. 
(b) The entity referred to in subsection (a) is the 
Center for Military Recruitment, Assessment and Vet-
erans Employment, a nonprofit labor-management co-op-
eration committee provided for by section 302(c)(9) of the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 
186(c)(9)), for the purposes set forth in section 6(b) of 
the Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 
U.S.C. 175a note). 
SEC. 8088. FINANCING AND FIELDING OF KEY ARMY 
CAPABILITIES.—The Department of Defense and the De-
partment of the Army shall make future budgetary and 
programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight 
Future Force cannon and resupply vehicle program 
(NLOS–C) in order to field this system in fiscal year 
2010, consistent with the broader plan to field the Future 
Combat System (FCS) in fiscal year 2010: Provided, That 
if the Army is precluded from fielding the FCS program 
by fiscal year 2010, then the Army shall develop the 
NLOS–C independent of the broader FCS development 
timeline to achieve fielding by fiscal year 2010. In addition
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the Army will deliver eight (8) combat operational pre-
production NLOS–C systems by the end of calendar year 
2008. These systems shall be in addition to those systems 
necessary for developmental and operational testing: Pro-
vided further, That the Army shall ensure that budgetary 
and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than 
seven (7) Stryker Brigade Combat Teams. 
SEC. 8089. In addition to the amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available elsewhere in this Act, 
$14,400,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of 
Defense, to remain available until September 30, 2006: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall make grants 
in the amounts specified as follows: $4,500,000 to the In-
trepid Sea-Air-Space Foundation; $1,000,000 to the Pen-
tagon Memorial Fund, Inc.; $4,400,000 to the Center for 
Applied Science and Technologies at Jordan Valley Inno-
vation Center; $1,000,000 to the Vietnam Veterans Me-
morial Fund for the Teach Vietnam initiative; $500,000 
for the Westchester County World Trade Center Memo-
rial; $1,000,000 for the Women in Military Service for 
America Memorial Foundation; and $2,000,000 to the 
Presidio Trust. 
SEC. 8090. None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Overseas Contingency Operations 
Transfer Account’’ may be transferred or obligated for