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(3) A description of the plan of the United 
States to assist the militaries of Guatemala, Hon-
duras, and El Salvador to carry out their respon-
sibilities in a manner that adheres to democratic 
principles. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 
a classified annex. 
(d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The unclassified matter 
of the report required by subsection (a) shall be posted 
on a publicly available Internet website of the Department 
of Defense and a publicly available Internet website of the 
Department of State. 
(e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Armed Services and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
SEC. 1066. REPORT ON COUNTERPROLIFERATION ACTIVI-
TIES AND PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a biennial 
report on the counterproliferation activities and programs
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of the Department of Defense. The Secretary shall submit 
the first such report by not later than May 1, 2017. 
(b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—Each report required 
under subsection (a) shall include each of the following: 
(1) A complete list and assessment of existing 
and proposed capabilities and technologies for sup-
port of United States nonproliferation policy and 
counterproliferation policy, with regard to— 
(A) interdiction; 
(B) elimination; 
(C) threat reduction cooperation; 
(D) passive defenses; 
(E) security cooperation and partner ac-
tivities; 
(F) offensive operations; 
(G) active defenses; and 
(H) weapons of mass destruction con-
sequence management. 
(2) For the existing and proposed capabilities 
and technologies identified under paragraph (1), an 
identification of goals, a description of ongoing ef-
forts, and recommendations for further enhance-
ments. 
(3) A complete description of requirements and 
priorities for the development and deployment of
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highly effective capabilities and technologies, includ-
ing identifying areas for capability enhancement and 
deficiencies in existing capabilities and technologies. 
(4) A comprehensive discussion of the near- 
term, mid-term, and long-term programmatic op-
tions for meeting requirements and eliminating defi-
ciencies, including the annual funding requirements 
and completion dates established for each such op-
tion. 
(5) An outline of interagency activities and ini-
tiatives. 
(6) Any other matters the Secretary considers 
appropriate. 
(c) FORMS OF REPORT.—Each report under sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 
may contain a classified annex. 
(d) TERMINATION
OF REQUIREMENT.—No report 
shall be required to be submitted under this section after 
January 31, 2021. 
SEC. 1067. INCLUSION OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN-
FORMATION IN ANNUAL REPORT ON RE-
QUIREMENTS OF COMBATANT COMMANDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2)(A) of section 
153(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by in-
serting before the period the following: ‘‘, including the
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integrated priorities list requirements for ballistic missile 
defense by the geographic combatant commands and the 
prioritized capabilities list for ballistic missile defense de-
veloped by the Commander of the United States Strategic 
Command’’. 
(b) REPORT DURATION.—Paragraph (1) of such sec-
tion is amended by striking ‘‘At or about’’ and inserting 
‘‘During the period preceding January 31, 2021, at or 
about’’. 
SEC. 1068. REVIEWS BY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CON-
CERNING NATIONAL SECURITY USE OF SPEC-
TRUM. 
(a) REVIEW AND REPORT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL 
DEFENSE COMMITTEES.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every two years 
thereafter until January 31, 2021, the Secretary of De-
fense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
containing the results of a comprehensive review con-
ducted by the Secretary and the Chairman of all uses by 
the Department of Defense of spectrum. Such review shall 
include the use of spectrum in military plans, training, 
test, and in military capabilities that are in development 
or have been fielded for any known or potential impacts 
of sharing or repurposing of spectrum used or allocated
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to be used by the Department of Defense that may be 
reallocated or shared pursuant to a spectrum auction, 
sharing arrangement, or other arrangement, or that is 
otherwise identified as part of the 10-year plan developed 
by the National Telecommunications and Information Ad-
ministration, and whether there are known or possible 
mitigations in the event of reallocation or sharing that 
they recommend, including exclusion zones, equipment 
modifications, development or procurement of new tech-
nology, or any other mitigation they believe will protect 
Department of Defense use of such spectrum, including 
projected or estimated potential costs of the same, and 
whether such costs will be borne out of Defense of Defense 
total obligation authority. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—At the time of the submission 
of the report required under subsection (a), the Secretary 
and the Chairman shall both certify that they understand 
any potential impacts to Department of Defense use of 
spectrum that could result from a spectrum auction, re-
allocation, or sharing arrangement as of that date, and 
submit such certification to the congressional defense com-
mittees. 
(c) REPORT OF NON-CONCURRENCE OR VETO.—The 
Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense 
committees as to whether the Secretary has not concurred
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with or otherwise objected to the most recent version of 
the 10-year plan developed by the National Telecommuni-
cations and Information Administration not later than 30 
days after the date of such non-concurrence or other objec-
tion. 
(d) FUNDING WITHHELD.—The Secretary of Defense 
and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may not 
obligate more than 95 percent of the funding authorized 
to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal 
year 2017 for operation and maintenance for headquarters 
operations before the date that is 30 days after the date 
on which the report required by subsection (a) and the 
certification required under subsection (b) are submitted 
to the congressional defense committees. 
SEC. 1069. ANNUAL REPORT ON PERSONNEL, TRAINING, 
AND EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 
NON-FEDERALIZED 
NATIONAL 
GUARD 
TO 
SUPPORT CIVILIAN AUTHORITIES IN PRE-
VENTION AND RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC DIS-
ASTERS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Section 10504 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘REPORT.—’’ 
and inserting ‘‘REPORT
ON STATE
OF
THE NA-
TIONAL GUARD.—(1)’’;
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(2) by striking ‘‘(b) SUBMISSION OF REPORT 
TO CONGRESS.—’’ and inserting ‘‘(2)’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘annual report of the Chief of 
the National Guard Bureau’’ and inserting ‘‘annual 
report required by paragraph (1)’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section (b): 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT ON NON-FEDERALIZED SERV-
ICE NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, TRAINING, AND 
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS.—(1) Not later than Janu-
ary 31 of each of calendar years 2017 through 2021, the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees and the officials speci-
fied in paragraph (5) a report setting forth the personnel, 
training, and equipment required by the National Guard 
during the next fiscal year to carry out its mission, while 
not Federalized, to provide prevention, protection mitiga-
tion, response, and recovery activities in support of civilian 
authorities in connection with natural and man-made dis-
asters. 
‘‘(2) To determine the annual personnel, training, 
and equipment requirements of the National Guard re-
ferred to in paragraph (1), the Chief of the National 
Guard Bureau shall take into account, at a minimum, the 
following:
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‘‘(A) Core civilian capabilities gaps for the pre-
vention, protection, mitigation, response, and recov-
ery activities in connection with natural and man- 
made disasters, as collected by the Department of 
Homeland Security from the States. 
‘‘(B) Threat and hazard identifications and risk 
assessments of the Department of Defense, the De-
partment of Homeland Security, and the States. 
‘‘(3) Personnel, training, and equipment require-
ments shall be collected from the States, validated by the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau, and be categorized 
in the report required by paragraph (1) by each of the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Emergency support functions of the Na-
tional Response Framework. 
‘‘(B) Federal Emergency Management Agency 
regions. 
‘‘(4) The annual report required by paragraph (1) 
shall be prepared in consultation with the chief executive 
of each State, other appropriate civilian authorities, and 
the Council of Governors. 
‘‘(5) In addition to the congressional defense commit-
tees, the annual report required by paragraph (1) shall 
be submitted to the following officials: 
‘‘(A) The Secretary of Defense.
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‘‘(B) The Secretary of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(C) The Council of Governors. 
‘‘(D) The Secretary of the Army. 
‘‘(E) The Secretary of the Air Force. 
‘‘(F) The Commander of the United States 
Northern Command. 
‘‘(G) The Commander of the United States 
Cyber Command.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) SECTION HEADING.—The heading of such 
section is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 10504. Chief of the National Guard Bureau: annual 
reports’’. 
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of chapter 1011 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by striking the item 
relating to section 10504 and inserting the following 
new section: 
‘‘10504. Chief of the National Guard Bureau: annual reports.’’. 
SEC. 1070. BRIEFING ON CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING LO-
CATIONS OF AIR FORCE INSTALLATION AND 
MISSION SUPPORT CENTER HEADQUARTERS. 
(a) BRIEFING.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Air Force shall provide a briefing to the Committee on 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives on the
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Department of the Air Force’s process and reasoning for 
using proximity to primary medium commercial hub air-
ports as part of the mission criteria for the Air Force In-
stallation and Mission Support Center headquarters stra-
tegic basing process. 
(b) CONTENTS OF BRIEFING.—The briefing under 
subsection (a) will specifically address the rationale behind 
the distance categories used to allocate points under this 
mission criteria referred to in subsection (a), and shall 
provide references to any existing government guidance 
that supports use of these distance categories. In addition, 
the briefing shall include an analysis regarding the reasons 
why the Department did not consider commuting times 
as a more equitable way of determining proximity to com-
mercial hub airports that would account for the impact 
of different traffic conditions across the candidate loca-
tions. 
SEC. 1071. REPORT ON TESTING AND INTEGRATION OF 
MINEHUNTING SONAR SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE 
LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP MINEHUNTING CA-
PABILITIES. 
(a) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than April 1, 
2018, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the con-
gressional defense committees a report that contains the 
findings of an assessment of all operational minehunting
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Synthetic Aperture Sonar (hereinafter referred to as 
‘‘SAS’’) technologies suitable to meet the requirements for 
use on the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Countermeasures 
Mission Package. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 
(a) shall include— 
(1) an explanation of the future acquisition 
strategy for the minehunting mission package; 
(2) specific details regarding the capabilities of 
all in-production SAS systems available for integra-
tion into the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Counter-
measure Mission Package; 
(3) an assessment of key performance param-
eters for the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Counter-
measures Mission Package with each of the assessed 
SAS technologies; and 
(4) a review of the Department of the Navy’s 
efforts to evaluate SAS technologies in operation 
with allied Navies for future use on the Littoral 
Combat Ship Mine Countermeasures Mission Pack-
age. 
(c) SYSTEM TESTING.—The Secretary of the Navy 
is encouraged to perform at-sea testing and experimen-
tation of sonar systems in order to provide data in support 
of the assessment required by subsection (a).
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SEC. 1072. REPORT ON CARRIER AIR WING FORCE STRUC-
TURE. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to Congress a report on the impact of changes to existing 
carrier air wing force structure and the impact a potential 
reduction to 9 carrier air wings would have on overall fleet 
readiness if aircraft and personnel were to be distributed 
throughout the remaining 9 air wings. 
SEC. 1073. QUARTERLY REPORTS ON PARACHUTE JUMPS 
CONDUCTED AT FORT BRAGG AND POPE 
ARMY AIRFIELD AND AIR FORCE SUPPORT 
FOR SUCH JUMPS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Until January 31, 2020, 
the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of the 
Army shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate quarterly 
reports— 
(1) specifying the number of parachute jumps 
conducted at Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield, 
North Carolina, during the three-month period cov-
ered by the report; and 
(2) describing and evaluating the level of air 
support provided by the Air Force for those jumps. 
(b) JOINT
AIRBORNE
AIR
TRANSPORTABILITY 
TRAINING CONTRACTS.—As part of each report submitted
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under subsection (a), the Secretaries shall specifically pro-
vide the following: 
(1) The number of Joint Airborne Air Trans-
portability Training contracts requested during the 
three-month period covered by the report by all units 
located at Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield. 
(2) The number of Joint Airborne Air Trans-
portability Training contracts validated during the 
three-month period covered by the report for units 
located at Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield. 
(3) The number of Joint Airborne Air Trans-
portability Training contracts not validated during 
the three-month period covered by the report for 
units located at Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield. 
(4) In the case of each Joint Airborne Air 
Transportability Training contract identified pursu-
ant to paragraph (3), the reason the contract was 
not validated. 
SEC. 1074. BRIEFING ON REAL PROPERTY INVENTORY. 
(a) BRIEFING REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall brief the Committee on Armed Services 
of the House of Representatives on the status of the In-
stallation Geospatial Information and Services of the De-
partment of Defense as it relates to the real property in-
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ventory of the Department, and the extent to which the 
Department has made use of the cadastral geographic in-
formation systems-based real property inventory. 
(b) MATTERS COVERED.—The briefing required by 
subsection (a) shall, at a minimum, cover the following: 
(1) The status of current policies of the Depart-
ment governing real property inventories and the use 
of geospatial information systems, the status of real 
property inventory in relation to the financial im-
provement and audit readiness efforts of the Depart-
ment, and the status of implementation of Depart-
ment of Defense Instruction 8130.01, Installation 
Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S). 
(2) The extent to which the Department is co-
ordinating with the Federal Geographic Data Com-
mittee, other Federal agencies, and State and local 
governments, and how existing Department stand-
ards and common protocols ensure that the inter-
operability of geospatial information complies with 
section 216 of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub-
lic Law 107–347; 44 U.S.C. 3501 note) and Execu-
tive Orders 12906 and 13327. 
(3) The existing real property inventories sys-
tems or any components of any cadastre currently 
authorized by law or conducted by the Department
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of Defense, the statutory authorization for such in-
ventories or components, and the amount expended 
by the Federal Government for each such activity in 
fiscal year 2015. 
(4) A discussion of the Department’s ability to 
make this information publicly available on the 
Internet in a graphically geo-enabled and searchable 
format, and how the Department plans to prevent 
the disclosure of any parcel or parcels of land, any 
buildings or facilities on any such parcel, or any in-
formation related to any such parcel, building, or fa-
cility, if such disclosure would impair or jeopardize 
the national security or homeland defense of the 
United States. 
(5) Any additional topics identified by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 1075. REPORT ON ADJUSTMENT AND DIVERSIFICA-
TION ASSISTANCE. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide 
to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives a briefing on the adjustment and diversifica-
tion assistance authorized by subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 2391 of title 10, United States Code. Such briefing 
shall include each of the following:
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(1) A description of the activities and programs 
currently being conducted under subsections (b)(1) 
and (c) of such section, including a list of the recipi-
ents of grants, and amount received by each recipi-
ent, of such activities and programs in each of the 
five most recent fiscal years. 
(2) For each of the five fiscal years preceding 
the fiscal year during which the briefing is con-
ducted, separate estimates of the funding the De-
partment of Defense has directed to activities under 
each of clauses (A) through (E) of paragraph (1) of 
subsection (b) and under subsection (c) of such sec-
tion and the recipients of such funding. 
SEC. 1076. BRIEFING ON THE PROTECTION OF PERSON-
ALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF MEM-
BERS OF THE ARMED FORCES. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide 
to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the 
efforts of the Department of Defense to protect the per-
sonally identifiable information of members of the Armed 
Forces and their families, and of employees of the Depart-
ment of Defense, which shall include— 
(1) current and planned initiatives to protect 
the personally identifying information of members of
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the Armed Forces and their families, and employees 
of the Department of Defense; 
(2) the challenges encountered in carrying out 
the activities described in paragraph (1); and 
(3) any trends related to fraudulent activity 
that targets the personally identifying information of 
members of the Armed Forces or their families, or 
employees of the Department of Defense. 
Subtitle G—Other Matters 
SEC. 1081. TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS. 
(a) TITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 10, 
United States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 130h is amended by striking ‘‘sub-
section (a) and (b)’’ both places it appears and in-
serting ‘‘subsections (a) and (b)’’. 
(2) Section 187(a)(2)(C) is amended by striking 
‘‘Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics’’. 
(3) Section 196(c)(1)(A)(ii) is amended by 
striking ‘‘section 139(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
139(j)’’. 
(4) Subsection (b)(1)(B) of section 1415, to be 
added by section 633(a)(1) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law
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114–92; 129 Stat. 848), is amended by adding a pe-
riod at the end of clause (ii). 
(5) Section 1705(g)(1) is amended by striking 
‘‘of of’’ and inserting ‘‘of’’. 
(6) Section 2222 is amended— 
(A) in subsection (d)(1)(B), by inserting 
‘‘to’’ before ‘‘eliminate’’; 
(B) in subsection (g)(1)(E) by inserting 
‘‘the system’’ before ‘‘is in compliance’’; and 
(C) in subsection (i)(5), by striking ‘‘PRO-
GRAM’’ in the heading. 
(b) AMENDMENTS RELATED
TO ELIMINATION
OF 
TITLE 50 APPENDIX.— 
(1) MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT CITA-
TION CHANGES.— 
(A) TITLE
10, UNITED
STATES
CODE.— 
Title 10, United States Code, is amended as 
follows: 
(i) Section 101(d)(6)(B)(v) is amend-
ed 
by 
striking 
‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 
App. 
460(b)(2))’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 
3809(b)(2))’’. 
(ii) Section 513(c) is amended—
499 
(I) by striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 
451 et seq.)’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 3801 et seq.)’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 
3806(c)(2)(A))’’ after ‘‘of that Act’’. 
(iii) Section 523(b)(7) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 460(b)(2))’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3809(b)(2))’’. 
(iv) Section 651(a) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 456(d)(1))’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3806(d)(1))’’. 
(v) Section 671(c)(1) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 454(a))’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3803(a))’’. 
(vi) Section 1475(a)(5)(B) is amended 
by striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.)’’. 
(vii) Section 12103 is amended— 
(I) in subsections (b) and (d), by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 451 et 
seq.)’’ both places it appears and in-
serting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.)’’; 
and 
(II) in subsection (d), by striking 
‘‘section 6(c)(2)(A)(ii) and (iii) of
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such Act’’ and inserting ‘‘clauses (ii) 
and (iii) of section 6(c)(2)(A) of such 
Act (50 U.S.C. 3806(c)(2)(A))’’. 
(viii) Section 12104(a) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.)’’ 
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 3801 et seq.)’’. 
(ix) Section 12208(a) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.)’’ 
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 3801 et seq.)’’. 
(B) TITLE
37, UNITED
STATES
CODE.— 
Section 209(a)(1) of title 37, United States 
Code is amended by striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 
456(d)(1))’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 
3806(d)(1))’’. 
(2) SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT CITA-
TION CHANGES.—Title 10, United States Code, is 
amended as follows: 
(A) Section 987 is amended— 
(i) in subsection (e)(2), by inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.)’’ before the 
semicolon; and
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(ii) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. App. 527)’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 3937)’’. 
(B) Section 1408(b)(1)(D) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 501 et seq.)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.)’’. 
(3) EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 1979 CI-
TATION CHANGES.—Title 10, United States Code, is 
amended as follows: 
(A) Section 130(a) is amended by striking 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2401–2420)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.)’’. 
(B) Section 2249a(a)(1) is amended by 
striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A))’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4605(j)(1)(A))’’. 
(C) Section 2327 is amended— 
(i) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A))’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4605(j)(1)(A))’’; and 
(ii) in subsection (b)(2), by striking 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A))’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4605(j)(1)(A))’’. 
(D) Section 2410i(a) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2402(5)(A))’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4602(5)(A))’’.
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(E) Section 7430(e) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2401 et seq.)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.)’’. 
(4) DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950 CITA-
TION CHANGES.—Title 10, United States Code, is 
amended as follows: 
(A) Section 139c of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(i) in subsection (b)— 
(I) in paragraph (11), by striking 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2171)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4567)’’; and 
(II) in paragraph (12)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 
App. 2062(b))’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4502(b))’’; and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘(50 U.S.C. 
App. 2061 et seq.)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.)’’; and 
(ii) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. App. 2170(k))’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 4565(k))’’. 
(B) Section 2537(c) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2170(a))’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4565(a))’’.
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(C) Section 9511(6) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2071)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4511)’’. 
(D) Section 9513(e) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 2071)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. 4511)’’. 
(5) MERCHANT SHIP SALES ACT OF 1946 CITA-
TION CHANGES.—Section 2218 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (c)(1)(E), by striking 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 1744)’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 4405)’’; and 
(B) in subsection (k)(3)(B), by striking 
‘‘(50 U.S.C. App. 1744)’’ and inserting ‘‘(50 
U.S.C. 4405)’’. 
(c) NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR 
FISCAL YEAR 2016.—Effective as of November 25, 2015, 
and as if included therein as enacted, the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 
114–92) is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 563(a) is amended by striking ‘‘Sec-
tion 5(c)(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘Section 5(c)(2)’’. 
(2) Section 883(a)(2) (129 Stat. 947) is 
amended by striking ‘‘such chapter’’ and inserting 
‘‘chapter 131 of such title’’.
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(3) Section 883 (129 Stat. 942) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(f) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) Effective on the effective date specified in 
subsection (a)(1) of section 901 of the Carl Levin 
and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 
113–291; 128 Stat. 3462; 10 U.S.C. 132a note), 
section 2222 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
‘‘(A) by striking ‘Deputy Chief Manage-
ment Officer of the Department of Defense’ 
each place it appears in subsections (c)(2), 
(e)(1), (g)(2)(A), (g)(2)(B)(ii), and (i)(5)(B) 
and inserting ‘Under Secretary of Defense for 
Business Management and Information’; and 
‘‘(B) by striking ‘Deputy Chief Manage-
ment Officer’ in subsection (f)(1) and inserting 
‘Under Secretary of Defense for Business Man-
agement and Information’. 
‘‘(2) The second paragraph (3) of section 
901(k) of such Act (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 
3468; 10 U.S.C. 2222 note) is repealed.’’. 
(4) Section 1079(a) is amended to read as fol-
lows:
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‘‘(a) ANNUAL REPORT ON PRIZES FOR ADVANCED 
TECHNOLOGY ACHIEVEMENTS.—Section 2374a of title 
10, United States Code, is amended— 
‘‘(1) by striking subsection (f); and 
‘‘(2) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (f).’’. 
(5) Section 1086(f)(11)(A) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘Not later than\ one year’’ and inserting ‘‘Not 
later than one year’’. 
(d) COORDINATION
WITH
OTHER
AMENDMENTS 
MADE BY THIS ACT.—For purposes of applying amend-
ments made by provisions of this Act other than this sec-
tion, the amendments made by this section shall be treated 
as having been enacted immediately before any such 
amendments by other provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 1082. MODIFICATION TO SUPPORT FOR NON-FEDERAL 
DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF MATERIAL 
FOR CHEMICAL AGENT DEFENSE. 
Section 1034 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110–181) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘report on the use of the 
authority under subsection (a)’’ and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘report that includes—’’
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‘‘(A) a description of— 
‘‘(i) each use of the authority under 
subsection (a); and 
‘‘(ii) for each such use, the specific 
material made available and to whom it 
was made available; and 
‘‘(B) a description of— 
‘‘(i) any instance in which the Depart-
ment of Defense made available to a State, 
a unit of local government, or a private en-
tity any biological select agent or toxin for 
the development or testing of any bio-
defense technology; and 
‘‘(ii) for each such instance, the spe-
cific material made available and to whom 
it was made available.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) The requirement to submit a report under 
paragraph (1) shall terminate on January 31, 
2021.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘this section’’ 
and all that follows and inserting ‘‘this section:’’ 
‘‘(1) The terms ‘precursor’, ‘protective pur-
poses’, and ‘toxic chemical’ have the meanings given
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those terms in the convention referred to in sub-
section (c), in paragraph 2, paragraph 9(b), and 
paragraph 1, respectively, of article II of that con-
vention. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘biological select agent or toxin’ 
means any agent or toxin identified under any of the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Section 331.3 of title 7, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations. 
‘‘(B) Section 121.3 or section 121.4 of title 
9, Code of Federal Regulations. 
‘‘(C) Section 73.3 or section 73.4 of title 
42, Code of Federal Regulations.’’. 
SEC. 1083. INCREASE IN MAXIMUM AMOUNT AVAILABLE 
FOR EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, AND SUPPLIES 
PROVIDED FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING 
ASSISTANCE. 
Section 407(c)(3) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$15,000,000’’.
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SEC. 1084. LIQUIDATION OF UNPAID CREDITS ACCRUED AS 
A 
RESULT 
OF 
TRANSACTIONS 
UNDER 
A 
CROSS-SERVICING AGREEMENT. 
(a) LIQUIDATION
OF UNPAID CREDITS.—Section 
2345 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c)(1) Any credits of the United States accrued as 
a result of the provision of logistic support, supplies, and 
services under the authority of this subchapter that re-
main unliquidated more than 18 months after the date 
of delivery of the logistic support, supplies, or services 
may, at the option of the Secretary of Defense, with the 
concurrence of the Secretary of State, be liquidated by off-
setting the credits against any amount owed by the De-
partment of Defense, pursuant to a transaction or trans-
actions concluded under the authority of this subchapter, 
to the government or international organization to which 
the logistic support, supplies, or services were provided by 
the United States. 
‘‘(2) The amount of any credits offset pursuant to 
paragraph (1) shall be credited as specified in section 
2346 of this title as if it were a receipt of the United 
States.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (c) of section 
2345 of title 10, United States Code, as added by sub-
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section (a), shall apply with respect to credits accrued by 
the United States that— 
(1) were accrued prior to, and remain unpaid as 
of, the date of the enactment of this Act; or 
(2) are accrued after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 1085. CLARIFICATION OF CONTRACTS COVERED BY 
AIRLIFT SERVICE PROVISION. 
Section 9516 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) CONTRACT FOR AIRLIFT SERVICE DEFINED.— 
In this section, the term ‘contract for airlift service’ 
means— 
‘‘(1) a contract with the Department of Defense 
for airlift service; 
‘‘(2) any contract with the Department of De-
fense other than a contract described in paragraph 
(1), if transportation services are used in the per-
formance of the contract; or 
‘‘(3) any subcontract (at any tier) under a con-
tract described in paragraph (1) or (2) if the sub-
contract is for airlift service or if transportation 
services are used in the performance of the sub-
contract.’’.
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SEC. 1086. NATIONAL BIODEFENSE STRATEGY. 
(a) STRATEGY
AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN RE-
QUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly de-
velop a national biodefense strategy and associated imple-
mentation plan, which shall include a review and assess-
ment of biodefense policies, practices, programs and initia-
tives. Such Secretaries shall review and, as appropriate, 
revise the strategy biennially. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy and associated imple-
mentation plan required under subsection (a) shall include 
each of the following: 
(1) An inventory and assessment of all existing 
strategies, plans, policies, laws, and interagency 
agreements related to biodefense, including preven-
tion, deterrence, preparedness, detection, response, 
attribution, recovery, and mitigation. 
(2) A description of the biological threats, in-
cluding biological warfare, bioterrorism, naturally oc-
curring infectious diseases, and accidental exposures. 
(3) A description of the current programs, ef-
forts, or activities of the United States Government 
with respect to preventing the acquisition, prolifera-
tion, and use of a biological weapon, preventing an
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accidental or naturally occurring biological outbreak, 
and mitigating the effects of a biological epidemic. 
(4) A description of the roles and responsibil-
ities of the Executive Agencies, including internal 
and external coordination procedures, in identifying 
and sharing information related to, warning of, and 
protection against, acts of terrorism using biological 
agents and weapons and accidental or naturally oc-
curring biological outbreaks. 
(5) An articulation of related or required inter-
agency capabilities and whole-of-Government activi-
ties required to support the national biodefense 
strategy. 
(6) Recommendations for strengthening and im-
proving the current biodefense capabilities, authori-
ties, and command structures of the United States 
Government. 
(7) Recommendations for improving and for-
malizing interagency coordination and support mech-
anisms with respect to providing a robust national 
biodefense. 
(8) Any other matters the Secretary of Defense, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary 
of Agriculture determine necessary.
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(c) SUBMITTAL TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 275 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees the strategy and associated im-
plementation plan required by subsection (a). The strategy 
and implementation plan shall be submitted in unclassified 
form, but may include a classified annex. 
(d) BRIEFINGS.—Not later than March 1, 2017, and 
annually thereafter until March 1, 2019, the Secretary of 
Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Ag-
riculture shall provide to the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices of the House of Representatives, the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, 
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Agriculture of the 
House of Representatives a joint briefing on the strategy 
developed under subsection (a) and the status of the im-
plementation of such strategy. 
(e) GAO REVIEW.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the submittal of the strategy and implementation 
plan under subsection (c), the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall conduct a review of the strategy and
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implementation plan to analyze gaps and resources 
mapped against the requirements of the National Bio-
defense Strategy and existing United States biodefense 
policy documents. 
(f) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means the following: 
(1) The congressional defense committees. 
(2) The Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the 
Senate. 
(3) The Committee on Homeland Security of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
(4) The Committee on Agriculture of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Agri-
culture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate. 
SEC. 1087. GLOBAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK. 
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of the 
Army shall carry out a program to support the socio-cul-
tural understanding needs of the Department of the Army, 
to be known as the Global Cultural Knowledge Network.
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(b) GOALS.—The Global Cultural Knowledge Net-
work shall support the following goals: 
(1) Provide socio-cultural analysis support to 
any unit deployed, or preparing to deploy, to an ex-
ercise or operation in the assigned region of respon-
sibility of the unit being supported. 
(2) Make recommendations or support policy 
development to increase the social science expertise 
of military and civilian personnel of the Department 
of the Army. 
(3) Provide reimbursable support to other mili-
tary departments or Federal agencies if requested 
through an operational needs request process. 
(c) ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM.—The Global Cul-
tural Knowledge Network shall include the following ele-
ments: 
(1) A center in the continental United States 
(referred to in this section as a ‘‘reach-back center’’) 
to support requests for information and analysis. 
(2) Outreach to academic institutions and other 
Federal agencies involved in social science research 
to increase the network of resources for the reach- 
back center.
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(3) Training with operational units during an-
nual training exercises or during pre-deployment 
training. 
(4) The training, contracting, and human re-
sources capacity to rapidly respond to contingencies 
in which social science expertise is requested by 
operational commanders through an operational 
needs request process. 
(d) DIRECTIVE REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the 
Army shall issue a directive within one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act for the governance of the 
Global Cultural Knowledge Network, including oversight 
and process controls for auditing the activities of per-
sonnel of the Network, the employment of the Global Cul-
tural Knowledge Network by operation forces, and proc-
esses for requesting support by operational Army units 
and other Department of Defense and Federal entities. 
(e) PROHIBITION ON DEPLOYMENTS UNDER GLOBAL 
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of the Army 
may not deploy social scientists in a conflict zone. 
(2) WAIVER.—The Secretary of the Army may 
waive the prohibition in paragraph (1) if the Sec-
retary submits, at least 10 days before the deploy-
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ment, to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate— 
(A) notice of the waiver; and 
(B) a certification that there is a compel-
ling national security interest for the deploy-
ment or there will be a benefit to the safety and 
welfare of members of the Armed Forces from 
the deployment. 
(3) ELEMENTS OF WAIVER NOTICE.—A waiver 
notice under this subsection also shall include the 
following: 
(A) The operational unit, or units, request-
ing support, including the location or locations 
where the social scientists are to be deployed. 
(B) The number of Global Cultural Knowl-
edge Network personnel to be deployed and the 
anticipated duration of such deployments. 
(C) The anticipated resource needs for 
such deployment. 
SEC. 1088. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING 
TO MANAGEMENT OF MILITARY TECHNI-
CIANS. 
(a) CONVERSION OF CERTAIN MILITARY TECHNI-
CIAN (DUAL STATUS) POSITIONS.—Subsection (a) of sec-
tion 1053 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
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Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 981; 10 
U.S.C. 10216 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following new paragraph (1): 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—By not later than October 
1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense shall convert not 
fewer than 20 percent of all military technician posi-
tions to positions filled by individuals who are em-
ployed under section 3101 of title 5, United States 
Code, or section 1601 of title 10, United States 
Code, or serving under section 328 of title 32, 
United States Code, and are not military techni-
cians. The positions to be converted are described in 
paragraph (2).’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in the re-
port’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘by the 
Army Reserve, the Air Force Reserve, the National 
Guard Bureau, and the State adjutants general in 
the course of reviewing all military technician posi-
tions for purposes of implementing this section.’’; 
and 
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘may fill’’ and 
inserting ‘‘shall fill’’. 
(b) CONVERSION OF ARMY RESERVE, AIR FORCE 
RESERVE, AND NATIONAL GUARD NON-DUAL STATUS PO-
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SITIONS.—Subsection (e) of section 10217 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(e) CONVERSION OF POSITIONS.—(1) No individual 
may be newly hired or employed, or rehired or reemployed, 
as a non-dual status technician for purposes of this section 
after September 30, 2017. 
‘‘(2) On October 1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense 
shall convert all non-dual status technicians to positions 
filled by individuals who are employed under section 3101 
of title 5 or section 1601 of this title and are not military 
technicians. 
‘‘(3) In the case of a position converted under para-
graph (2) for which there is an incumbent employee on 
October 1, 2017, the Secretary shall fill that position, as 
converted, with the incumbent employee without regard to 
any requirement concerning competition or competitive 
hiring procedures. 
‘‘(4) Any individual newly hired or employed, or re-
hired or employed, to a position required to be filled by 
reason of paragraph (1) shall an individual employed in 
such position under section 3101 of title 5 or section 1601 
of this title.’’.
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(c) REPORT ON CONVERSION OF MILITARY TECHNI-
CIAN POSITIONS TO PERSONNEL PERFORMING ACTIVE 
GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than March 1, 
2017, the Secretary of Defense, shall in consultation 
with the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, sub-
mit to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives a report on 
the feasibility and advisability of converting any re-
maining military technicians (dual status) to per-
sonnel performing active Guard and Reserve duty 
under section 328 of title 32, United States Code, 
or other applicable provisions of law. The report 
shall include the following: 
(A) An analysis of the fully-burdened costs 
of the conversion taking into account the new 
modernized military retirement system. 
(B) An assessment of the ratio of members 
of the Armed Forces performing active Guard 
and Reserve duty and civilian employees of the 
Department of Defense under title 5, United 
States Code, required to best contribute to the 
readiness of the National Guard and the Re-
serves.
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(2) ACTIVE GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY DE-
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘active Guard 
and Reserve duty’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 101(d)(6) of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 1089. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING CONNECTI-
CUT’S SUBMARINE CENTURY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) On March 2, 1867, Congress enacted a 
naval appropriations Act that authorized the Sec-
retary of the Navy to ‘‘receive and accept a deed of 
gift, when offered by the State of Connecticut, of a 
tract of land with not less than one mile of shore 
front on the Thames River near New London, Con-
necticut, to be held by the United States for naval 
purposes’’. 
(2) The people of Connecticut and the towns 
and cities in the southeastern region of Connecticut 
subsequently gifted land to establish a military in-
stallation to fulfil the Nation’s need for a naval facil-
ity on the Atlantic coast. 
(3) On April 11, 1868, the Navy accepted the 
deed of gift of land from Connecticut to establish a 
naval yard and storage depot along the eastern 
shore of the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut.
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(4) Between 1868 and 1912, the New London 
Navy Yard supported a diverse range of missions, 
including berthing inactive Civil War era ironclad 
warships and serving as a coaling station for refuel-
ing naval ships traveling in New England waters. 
(5) Congress rejected the Navy’s proposal to 
close New London Navy Yard in 1912, following an 
impassioned effort by Congressman Edwin W. Hig-
gins, who stated that ‘‘this action proposed is not 
only unjust but unreasonable and unsound as a mili-
tary proposition’’. 
(6) The outbreak of World War I and the 
enemy use of submarines to sink allied military and 
civilian ships in the Atlantic sparked a new focus on 
developing submarine capabilities in the United 
States. 
(7) October 18, 1915, marked the arrival at the 
New London Navy Yard of the submarines G–1, G– 
2, and G–4 under the care of the tender U.S.S. 
OZARK, soon followed by the arrival of submarines 
E–1, D–1, and D–3 under the care of the tender 
U.S.S. TONOPAH, and on November 1, 1915, the 
arrival of the first ship built as a submarine tender, 
the U.S.S. FULTON (AS–1).
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(8) On June 21, 1916, Commander Yeates Stir-
ling assumed the command of the newly designated 
Naval Submarine Base New London, the New Lon-
don Submarine Flotilla, and the Submarine School. 
(9) In the 100 years since the arrival of the 
first submarines to the base, Naval Submarine Base 
New London has grown to occupy more than 680 
acres along the east side of the Thames River, with 
more than 160 major facilities, 15 nuclear sub-
marines, and more than 70 tenant commands and 
activities, including the Submarine Learning Center, 
Naval Submarine School, the Naval Submarine Med-
ical Research Laboratory, the Naval Undersea Med-
ical Institute, and the newly established Undersea 
Warfighting Development Center. 
(10) In addition to being the site of the first 
submarine base in the United States, Connecticut 
was home to the foremost submarine manufacturers 
of the time, the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in 
Bridgeport and the Electric Boat Company in Grot-
on, which later became General Dynamics Electric 
Boat. 
(11) General Dynamics Electric Boat, its tal-
ented workforce, and its Connecticut-based and na-
tionwide network of suppliers have delivered more
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than 200 submarines from its current location in 
Groton, Connecticut, including the first nuclear-pow-
ered submarine, the U.S.S. NAUTILUS (SSN 571), 
and nearly half of the nuclear submarines ever built 
by the United States. 
(12) The Submarine Force Library and Mu-
seum, located adjacent to Naval Submarine Base 
New London in Groton, Connecticut, is the only sub-
marine museum operated by the United States Navy 
and today serves as the primary repository for arti-
facts, documents, and photographs relating to the 
bold and courageous history of the Submarine Force 
and highlights as its core exhibit the Historic Ship 
NAUTILUS (SSN 571) following her retirement 
from service. 
(13) Reflecting the close ties between Con-
necticut and the Navy that began with the gift of 
land that established the base, the State of Con-
necticut has set aside $40,000,000 in funding for 
critical infrastructure investments to support the 
mission of the base, including construction of a new 
dive locker building, expansion of the Submarine 
Learning Center, and modernization of energy infra-
structure.
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(14) On September 29, 2015, Connecticut Gov-
ernor Dannel Malloy designated October 2015 
through October 2016 as Connecticut’s Submarine 
Century, a year-long observance that celebrates 100 
years of submarine activity in Connecticut, including 
the Town of Groton’s distinction as the Submarine 
Capital of the World, to coincide with the centennial 
anniversary of the establishment of Naval Sub-
marine Base New London and the Naval Submarine 
School. 
(15) Whereas Naval Submarine Base New Lon-
don still proudly proclaims its motto of ‘‘The First 
and Finest’’. 
(16) Congressman Higgins’ statement before 
Congress in 1912 that ‘‘Connecticut stands ready, as 
she always has, to bear her part of the burdens of 
the national defense’’ remains true today. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 
(1) commends the longstanding dedication and 
contribution to the Navy and submarine force by the 
people of Connecticut, both through the initial deed 
of gift that established what would become Naval 
Submarine Base New London and through their on-
going commitment to support the mission of the 
base and the Navy personnel assigned to it;
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(2) honors the submariners who have trained 
and served at Naval Submarine Base New London 
throughout its history in support of the Nation’s se-
curity and undersea superiority; 
(3) recognizes the contribution of the industry 
and workforce of Connecticut in designing, building, 
and sustaining the Navy’s submarine fleet; and 
(4) encourages the recognition of Connecticut’s 
Submarine Century by Congress, the Navy, and the 
American people by honoring the contribution of the 
people of Connecticut to the defense of the United 
States and the important role of the submarine force 
in safeguarding the security of the United States for 
more than a century. 
SEC. 1090. LNG PERMITTING CERTAINTY AND TRANS-
PARENCY. 
(a) ACTION ON APPLICATIONS.— 
(1) DECISION DEADLINE.—For proposals that 
must also obtain authorization from the Federal En-
ergy Regulatory Commission or the United States 
Maritime Administration to site, construct, expand, 
or operate LNG export facilities, the Department of 
Energy shall issue a final decision on any applica-
tion for the authorization to export natural gas
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under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 
717b) not later than 30 days after the later of— 
(A) the conclusion of the review to site, 
construct, expand, or operate the LNG facilities 
required by the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); or 
(B) the date of enactment of this Act. 
(2) CONCLUSION OF REVIEW.—For purposes of 
paragraph (1), review required by the National En-
vironmental Policy Act of 1969 shall be considered 
concluded— 
(A) for a project requiring an Environ-
mental Impact Statement, 30 days after publi-
cation of a Final Environmental Impact State-
ment; 
(B) for a project for which an Environ-
mental Assessment has been prepared, 30 days 
after publication by the Department of Energy 
of a Finding of No Significant Impact; and 
(C) upon a determination by the lead agen-
cy that an application is eligible for a categor-
ical exclusion pursuant National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 implementing regulations. 
(3) JUDICIAL ACTION.—(A) The United States 
Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the export
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facility will be located pursuant to an application de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall have original jurisdic-
tion over any civil action for the review of— 
(i) an order issued by the Department of 
Energy with respect to such application; or 
(ii) the Department of Energy’s failure to 
issue a final decision on such application. 
(B) If the Court in a civil action described in 
subparagraph (A) finds that the Department of En-
ergy has failed to issue a final decision on the appli-
cation as required under paragraph (1), the Court 
shall order the Department of Energy to issue such 
final decision not later than 30 days after the 
Court’s order. 
(C) The Court shall set any civil action brought 
under this paragraph for expedited consideration 
and shall set the matter on the docket as soon as 
practical after the filing date of the initial pleading. 
(b) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
OF EXPORT DESTINA-
TIONS.—Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 
717b) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF LNG EXPORT DES-
TINATIONS.—As a condition for approval of any authoriza-
tion to export LNG, the Secretary of Energy shall require
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the applicant to publicly disclose the specific destination 
or destinations of any such authorized LNG exports.’’. 
SEC. 1091. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE REPORT-
ING OF THE MV–22 MISHAP IN MARANA, ARI-
ZONA, ON APRIL 8, 2000. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) in the report accompanying H.R. 1735 of 
the 114th Congress (House Report 114–102), the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives encouraged the Secretary of Defense to 
‘‘publicly clarify the causes of the MV-22 mishap at 
Marana Northwest Regional Airport, Arizona, in a 
way consistent with the results of all investigations 
as soon as possible’’; 
(2) the Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. 
Work did an excellent job reviewing the investiga-
tions of such mishap and concluded that there was 
a misrepresentation of facts by the media which in-
correctly identified pilot error as the cause of the 
mishap which the Deputy Secretary publicly made 
known in March 2016; and 
(3) Congress is grateful for the successful con-
clusion to this tragic situation.
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SEC. 1092. TRANSFER OF SURPLUS FIREARMS TO COR-
PORATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE 
PRACTICE AND FIREARMS SAFETY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40728(h) of title 36, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary may transfer’’ and inserting ‘‘The Sec-
retary shall transfer’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall determine 
a reasonable schedule for the transfer of such sur-
plus pistols.’’; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (2). 
(b) PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 1087 of National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 
114–92; 129 Stat. 1012) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘may’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘shall’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘not more than 10,000’’; 
and 
(2) by striking subsection (c).
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SEC. 1093. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE IMPOR-
TANCE OF PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, TO THE 
HISTORY 
AND 
FUTURE 
OF 
THE 
ARMED 
FORCES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) On December 6, 1941—one day before the 
attack on Pearl Harbor—the War Department es-
tablished Tyndall Field as an Army Air Force gun-
nery school in Panama City, Florida. 
(2) Tyndall Field was named in honor of native 
Floridian Lieutenant Francis B. Tyndall, who re-
ceived the U.S. Air Force flying ace designation for 
his service in the First World War. 
(3) Tyndall Field became an important center 
for aerial gunnery training during the Second World 
War, hosting training missions using aircraft includ-
ing A–33, 0–47, AT-6, Martin B-26 Marauders, and 
B–17 bombers. 
(4) On January 13, 1948, Tyndall Field be-
came Tyndall Air Force Base and was an active site 
for air training and defense throughout the Cold 
War. 
(5) Tyndall AFB is now home to the First Air 
Force as well as the 325th Fighter Wing Head-
quarters and their F–22 Raptors.
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(6) The 325th Fighter Wing has been instru-
mental to national security at such crucial junctures 
as the Cuban Missile Crisis, throughout the Cold 
War, and more recently in intercepting unidentified 
aircraft and supporting anti-smuggling efforts. 
(7) On July 20, 1945, the Navy Mine Counter-
measure Station was established in Panama City. 
(8) The Navy Mine Countermeasure Station de-
veloped into the Naval Support Activity Panama 
City (NSAPC), which has faithfully carried out its 
mission since its inception and continues to support 
the crucial efforts and important research of tenant 
command organizations such as the Naval Surface 
Warfare Center: Panama City Division (NSWC 
PCD) and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit 
(NEDU). 
(9) Research performed at NSWC PCD has 
been integral to equipping the Navy with the per-
sonnel and technology necessary to maintaining its 
status as the world’s greatest and most techno-
logically advanced. 
(10) NSWC PCD’s newest facility, the Littoral 
Warfare Research Facility, is one of the Navy’s 
major research, development, test, and evaluation 
laboratories and where standards for weapons inte-
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gration on Littoral Combat Ships are often devel-
oped. 
(11) NEDU is a global hub of research, devel-
opment, and testing for undersea operations. 
(12) During the Second World War, the Wain-
wright Shipyard in Panama City built over 100 ves-
sels for the war effort and employed over 15,000 
people. 
(13) Panama City’s shipbuilding legacy con-
tinues as home to one of today’s most prolific do-
mestic shipbuilders, Eastern Shipbuilding. 
(14) The Department of Defense is the largest 
employer in Panama City, where many of the resi-
dents and their relatives have proudly served in the 
Armed Forces for generations. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 
(1) commends the longstanding dedication and 
contribution to the Armed Forces by the people of 
Panama City, both through the legacy of naval ship-
building and through their ongoing commitment to 
support the mission of Panama City’s military in-
stallations and the personnel assigned to them; 
(2) honors the members of the Armed Forces 
who have trained and served at the several military 
installations in and around Panama City;
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(3) recognizes the contribution of the industry 
and workforce of Panama City to naval shipbuilding; 
and 
(4) encourages the recognition of the impor-
tance of Panama City to the history of the Armed 
Forces by Congress, the Air Force, the Navy, and 
the American people by honoring the contribution of 
the people of Panama City to the defense of the 
United States. 
SEC. 1094. PROTECTIONS RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS AND 
DISABILITIES. 
Any branch or agency of the Federal Government 
shall, with respect to any religious corporation, religious 
association, religious educational institution, or religious 
society that is a recipient of or offeror for a Federal Gov-
ernment contract, subcontract, grant, purchase order, or 
cooperative agreement, provide protections and exemp-
tions consistent with sections 702(a) and 703(e)(2) of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-1(a) and 42 
U.S.C. 2000e-2(e)(2)) and section 103(d) of the Ameri-
cans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12113(d)).
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SEC. 1095. NONAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN EXECUTIVE 
ORDER TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND 
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRA-
TION. 
The provisions of Executive Order 13673 and any im-
plementing rules or regulations shall not apply to the ac-
quisition, contracting, contract administration, source se-
lection, or any other activities of the Department of De-
fense or the National Nuclear Security Administration. 
The Secretary of Defense and the Administrator for Nu-
clear Security may not issue, or be required to comply 
with, any policy, guidance, or rules to carry out such exec-
utive order or otherwise implement any provision of such 
executive order or any related implementation rules or reg-
ulations. 
SEC. 1096. DETERMINATION AND DISCLOSURE OF TRANS-
PORTATION 
COSTS 
INCURRED 
BY 
SEC-
RETARY OF DEFENSE FOR CONGRESSIONAL 
TRIPS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) DETERMINATION AND DISCLOSURE OF COSTS BY 
SECRETARY.—In the case of a trip taken by a Member, 
officer, or employee of the House of Representatives or 
Senate in carrying out official duties outside the United 
States for which the Department of Defense provides 
transportation, the Secretary of Defense shall—
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(1) determine the cost of the transportation 
provided with respect to the Member, officer, or em-
ployee; and 
(2) provide the Member, officer, or employee 
with a written statement of the cost not later than 
10 days after completion of the trip involved. 
(b) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION IN TRAVEL RE-
PORTS.—Any Member, officer, or employee of the House 
of Representatives or Senate who takes a trip to which 
subsection (a) applies shall include the information con-
tained in the written statement provided to the Member, 
officer, or employee under subsection (a)(2) with respect 
to the trip in any report that the Member, officer, or em-
ployee is required to file with respect to the trip under 
any provision of law and under any provision of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives or the Standing Rules of 
the Senate (as the case may be). 
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—This section does not apply with 
respect to any trip the sole purpose of which is to visit 
one or more United States military installations or to visit 
United States military personnel in a war zone (or both). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) MEMBER.—The term ‘‘Member’’, with re-
spect to the House of Representatives, includes a 
Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.
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(2) 
UNITED
STATES.—The 
term 
‘‘United 
States’’ means the several States, the District of Co-
lumbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and any 
other territory or possession of the United States. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to trips taken on or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, except that this section does not apply 
with respect to any trip which began prior to such date. 
SEC. 1097. WAIVER OF CERTAIN POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION 
REQUIREMENTS. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through 
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
may waive the polygraph examination requirement under 
section 3 of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010 (Pub-
lic Law 111–376) for any applicant who— 
(1) the Commissioner determines is suitable for 
employment; 
(2) holds a current, active Top Secret clearance 
and is able to access sensitive compartmented infor-
mation; 
(3) has a current single scope background in-
vestigation;
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(4) was not granted any waivers to obtain the 
clearance; and 
(5) is a veteran (as such term is defined in sec-
tion 2108 or 2109a of title 5, United States Code). 
SEC. 1098. USE OF TRANSPORTATION WORKER IDENTIFICA-
TION CREDENTIAL TO GAIN ACCESS AT DE-
PARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS. 
(a) ACCESS TO INSTALLATIONS FOR CREDENTIALED 
TRANSPORTATION WORKERS.—During the period that the 
Secretary is developing and fielding physical access stand-
ards, capabilities, processes, and electronic access control 
systems, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, ensure that the Transportation Worker Identifica-
tion Credential (TWIC) shall be accepted as a valid cre-
dential for unescorted access to Department of Defense 
installations by transportation workers. 
(b) CREDENTIALED
TRANSPORTATION
WORKERS 
WITH SECRET CLEARANCE.—TWIC-carrying transpor-
tation workers who also have a current Secret Level Clear-
ance issued by the Department of Defense shall be consid-
ered exempt from further vetting when seeking unescorted 
access at Department of Defense facilities. Access security 
personnel shall verify such person’s security clearance in 
a timely manner and provide them with unescorted access 
to complete their freight service.
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(c) REPORT ON CREDENTIALED PERSONS DENIED 
ACCESS
TO
DEPARTMENT
OF
DEFENSE
INSTALLA-
TIONS.—Not later than 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall begin doc-
umenting each instance when a credentialed transpor-
tation worker is denied unescorted access to a military fa-
cility in the Continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, 
Guam, or Native American lands. The report shall include, 
but not be limited to, the reasons for such denial, and the 
amount of time the credentialed party denied entrance 
waited to obtain access. The report shall be submitted to 
the Armed Services Committees of the House and Senate 
no later than the first day of February of each year until 
complete fielding of Identity Management Enterprise 
Services Architecture and electronic access control systems 
are achieved. 
SEC. 1098A. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
DESTRUCTION OF CERTAIN LANDMINES AND 
REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF REPLACE-
MENT ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINE MUNI-
TIONS. 
(a) LIMITATION.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by 
this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2017 
for the Department of Defense may be obligated or ex-
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pended for the destruction of anti-personnel landmine mu-
nitions before the date on which the Secretary of Defense 
submits the report required by subsection (c). 
(b) EXCEPTION FOR SAFETY.—Subsection (a) shall 
not apply to any anti-personnel landmine munitions that 
the Secretary determines are unsafe or could pose a safety 
risk if not demilitarized or destroyed. 
(c) REPORT REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a re-
port that includes the following: 
(A) An assessment of the current state of 
research into operational alternatives to anti- 
personnel landmines. 
(B) Any other matter that the Secretary 
determines should be included in the report. 
(2) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required by 
paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified 
form, but may include a classified annex. 
(d) ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINE MUNITIONS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘anti-personnel land-
mine munitions’’ includes anti-personnel landmines and 
sub-munitions as defined by the Convention on the Prohi-
bition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
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of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, as de-
termined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 1098B. REQUIREMENT FOR MEMORANDUM OF UNDER-
STANDING REGARDING TRANSFER OF DE-
TAINEES. 
Section 1034(b) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 
Stat. 969; 10 U.S.C. 801 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(3); 
(2) by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’ 
at the end of paragraph (4); and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(5) the United States Government and the 
government of the foreign country have entered into 
a written memorandum of understanding regarding 
the transfer of the individual and such memorandum 
of understanding has previously been transmitted to 
the appropriate committees of Congress.’’. 
SEC. 1098C. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING AMERICAN 
VETERANS DISABLED FOR LIFE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) There are at least 3,600,000 veterans cur-
rently living with service-connected disabilities.
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(2) As a result of their service, many veterans 
are permanently disabled throughout their lives and 
in many cases must rely on the support of their fam-
ilies and friends when these visible and invisible bur-
dens become too much to bear alone. 
(3) October 5, which is the anniversary of the 
dedication of the American Veterans Disabled for 
Life Memorial, has been recognized as an appro-
priate day on which to honor American veterans dis-
abled for life each year. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 
(1) expresses its appreciation to the men and 
women left permanently wounded, ill, or injured as 
a result of their service in the Armed Forces; 
(2) supports the annual recognition of Amer-
ican veterans disabled for life each year; and 
(3) encourages the American people to honor 
American veterans disabled for life each year with 
appropriate programs and activities. 
SEC. 1098D. STUDY ON MILITARY HELICOPTER NOISE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, in co-
ordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, shall—
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(1) conduct a study on the effects of military 
helicopter noise on National Capital Region commu-
nities and individuals; and 
(2) develop recommendations for the reduction 
of the effects of military helicopter noise on individ-
uals, structures, and property values in the National 
Capital Region. 
(b) FOCUS.—In conducting the study under sub-
section (a), the Secretary and the Administrator shall 
focus on air traffic control, airspace design, airspace man-
agement, and types of aircraft, to address helicopter noise 
problems and shall take into account the needs of law en-
forcement, emergency, and military operations. 
(c) CONSIDERATION OF VIEWS.—In conducting the 
study under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consider 
the views of representatives of— 
(1) members of the Armed Forces; 
(2) law enforcement agencies; 
(3) community stakeholders, including residents 
and local government officials; and 
(4) organizations with an interest in reducing 
military helicopter noise. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
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shall submit to Congress a report on the results of 
the study conducted under subsection (a). 
(2) AVAILABILITY TO THE PUBLIC.—The Sec-
retary shall make the report required under para-
graph (1) publicly available. 
SEC. 
1098E. 
MARITIME 
OCCUPATIONAL 
SAFETY 
AND 
HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Maritime Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Com-
mittee Act’’. 
(b) MARITIME OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—Section 7 of the Occupational 
Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 656) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) There is established a Maritime Occupational 
Safety and Health Advisory Committee, which shall be a 
continuing body and shall provide advice to the Secretary 
in formulating maritime industry standards and regarding 
matters pertaining to the administration of this Act re-
lated to the maritime industry. The composition of this 
advisory committee shall be consistent with the advisory 
committees established under subsection (b), provided that 
a member of this committee who is otherwise qualified 
may continue to serve until a successor is appointed. The
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Secretary may promulgate or amend regulations as nec-
essary to implement this subsection.’’. 
SEC. 1098F. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED 
STATES NORTHERN COMMAND PREPARED-
NESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) the United States Northern Command plays 
a crucial role in providing additional response capa-
bility to State and local governments in domestic 
disaster relief and consequence management oper-
ations; 
(2) the United States Northern Command must 
continue to build upon its current efforts to develop 
command strategies, leadership training, and re-
sponse plans to effectively work with civil authorities 
when acting as the lead agency or a supporting 
agency; and 
(3) the United States Northern Command 
should leverage whenever possible training and man-
agement expertise that resides within the Depart-
ment of Defense, other Federal agencies, State and 
local governments, and private sector businesses and 
academic institutions to enhance— 
(A) its defense support to civil authorities 
and incidence management missions;
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(B) relationships with other entities in-
volved in disaster response; and 
(C) its ability to respond to unforeseen 
events. 
SEC. 1098G. COST OF WARS. 
The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and the Di-
rector of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, shall post on 
the public Web site of the Department of Defense the 
costs, including the relevant legacy costs, to each Amer-
ican taxpayer of each of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, 
and Syria. 
SEC. 1098H. WORKFORCE ISSUES FOR RELOCATION OF MA-
RINES TO GUAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6(b) of the Joint Resolu-
tion entitled ‘‘A Joint Resolution to approve the ‘Covenant 
To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands in Political Union With the United States of 
America’, and for other purposes’’, approved March 24, 
1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806(b)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS FOR NONIMMIGRANT 
WORKERS.—An alien, if otherwise qualified, may seek ad-
mission to Guam or to the Commonwealth during the 
transition program as a nonimmigrant worker under sec-
tion 101(a)(15)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality
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Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)) without counting against 
the numerical limitations set forth in section 214(g) of 
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)). An alien, if otherwise quali-
fied, may, before October 1, 2028, be admitted under sec-
tion 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such Act for a period of up 
to 3 years (which may be extended by the Secretary of 
Homeland Security before October 1, 2028, for an addi-
tional period or periods not to exceed 3 years each) to per-
form services or labor on Guam pursuant to any agree-
ment entered into by a prime contractor or subcontractor 
calling for services or labor required for performance of 
the contract or subcontract in direct support of all mili-
tary-funded construction, repairs, renovation, and facili-
ties services, or to perform services or labor on Guam as 
a health-care worker, notwithstanding the requirement of 
such section that the service or labor be temporary. This 
subsection does not apply to any employment to be per-
formed outside of Guam or the Commonwealth.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 120 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1098I. REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEBT 
COLLECTION REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall review
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and update Department of Defense regulations to ensure 
such regulations comply with Federal consumer protection 
law with respect to the collection of debt. 
SEC. 1098J. IMPORTANCE OF ROLE PLAYED BY WOMEN IN 
WORLD WAR II. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) National Rosie the Riveter Day is a collec-
tive national effort to raise awareness of the 16 mil-
lion women working during World War II. 
(2) Americans have chosen to honor female 
workers who contributed on the home front during 
World War II. 
(3) These women left their homes to work or 
volunteer full-time in factories, farms, shipyards, air-
plane factories, banks, and other institutions in sup-
port of the military overseas. 
(4) These women worked with the USO and 
Red Cross, drove trucks, riveted airplane parts, col-
lected critical materials, rolled bandages, and served 
on rationing boards. 
(5) It is fitting and proper to recognize and 
preserve the history and legacy of working women, 
including volunteer women, during World War II to 
promote cooperation and fellowship among such 
women and their descendants.
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(6) These women and their descendants wish to 
further the advancement of patriotic ideas, excel-
lence in the workplace, and loyalty to the United 
States of America. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress acknowledges 
the important role played by women in World War II. 
SEC. 1098K. RECOVERY OF EXCESS RIFLES, AMMUNITION, 
AND PARTS GRANTED TO FOREIGN COUN-
TRIES AND TRANSFER TO CERTAIN PERSONS. 
(a) RECOVERY.—Subchapter II of chapter 407 of 
title 36, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
section 40728A the following new section: 
‘‘§ 40728B. Recovery of excess rifles, ammunition, and 
parts granted to foreign countries and 
transfer to certain persons 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO RECOVER.—(1) Subject to para-
graph (2) and subsection (b), the Secretary of the Army 
may acquire from any person any rifle, ammunition, repair 
parts, or other supplies described in section 40731(a) of 
this title which were— 
‘‘(A) provided to any country on a grant basis 
under the conditions imposed by section 505 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2314) 
that became excess to the needs of such country; 
and
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‘‘(B) lawfully acquired by such person. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of the Army may not acquire any-
thing under paragraph (1) except for transfer to a person 
in the United States under subsection (c). 
‘‘(3) The Secretary of the Army may accept rifles, 
ammunition, repair parts, or other supplies under para-
graph (1) notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31. 
‘‘(b) COST OF RECOVERY.—The Secretary of the 
Army may not acquire anything under subsection (a) if 
the United States would incur any cost for such acquisi-
tion. 
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY FOR TRANSFER.—Any rifles, am-
munition, repair parts, or supplies acquired under sub-
section (a) shall be available for transfer in the United 
States to the person from whom acquired if such person— 
‘‘(1) is licensed as a manufacturer, importer, or 
dealer pursuant to section 923(a) of title 18; and 
‘‘(2) uses an ammunition depot of the Army 
that is an eligible facility for receipt of any rifles, 
ammunition, repair parts, or supplies under this 
paragraph. 
‘‘(d) CONTRACTS.—Notwithstanding subsection (k) 
of section 2304 of title 10, the Secretary may enter into 
such contracts or cooperative agreements on a sole source
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basis pursuant to paragraphs (4) and (5) of subsection 
(c) of such section to carry out this section. 
‘‘(e) AECA.—Transfers authorized under this section 
may only be made in accordance with applicable provisions 
of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778). 
‘‘(f) RIFLE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘rifle’ has the meaning given such term in section 921 of 
title 18.’’. 
(b) SALE.—Section 40732 of such title is amended— 
(1) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(d) SALES BY OTHER PERSONS.—A person who re-
ceives a rifle or any ammunition, repair parts, or supplies 
under section 40728B(c) of this title may sell, at fair mar-
ket value, such rifle, ammunition, repair parts, or supplies. 
With respect to rifles other than caliber .22 rimfire and 
caliber .30 rifles, the seller shall obtain a license as a deal-
er in rifles and abide by all requirements imposed on per-
sons licensed under chapter 44 of title 18, including main-
taining acquisition and disposition records, and con-
ducting background checks.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), in the heading, by insert-
ing ‘‘BY THE CORPORATION’’ after ‘‘LIMITATION ON 
SALES’’.
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(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 407 of such title is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 40728A the 
following new item: 
‘‘40728B. Recovery of excess rifles, ammunition, and parts granted to foreign 
countries and transfer to certain persons.’’. 
SEC. 1098L. PROJECT MANAGEMENT. 
(a) DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT.— 
(1) ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS.—Section 503 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Subject to the direction 
and approval of the Director, the Deputy Director 
for Management or a designee shall— 
‘‘(A) adopt governmentwide standards, 
policies, and guidelines for program and project 
management for executive agencies; 
‘‘(B) oversee implementation of program 
and project management for the standards, 
policies, and guidelines established under sub-
paragraph (A); 
‘‘(C) chair the Program Management Pol-
icy Council established under section 1126(b); 
‘‘(D) establish standards and policies for 
executive agencies, consistent with widely ac-
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cepted standards for program and project man-
agement planning and delivery; 
‘‘(E) engage with the private sector to 
identify best practices in program and project 
management that would improve Federal pro-
gram and project management; 
‘‘(F) conduct portfolio reviews to address 
programs identified as high risk by the Govern-
ment Accountability Office; 
‘‘(G) not less than annually, conduct port-
folio reviews of agency programs in coordination 
with Project Management Improvement Officers 
designated under section 1126(a)(1) to assess 
the quality and effectiveness of program man-
agement; and 
‘‘(H) establish a 5-year strategic plan for 
program and project management. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
TO
DEPARTMENT
OF
DE-
FENSE.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the De-
partment of Defense to the extent that the provi-
sions of that paragraph are substantially similar to 
or duplicative of— 
‘‘(A) the provisions of chapter 87 of title 
10; or
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‘‘(B) policy, guidance, or instruction of the 
Department related to program management.’’. 
(2) DEADLINE FOR STANDARDS, POLICIES, AND 
GUIDELINES.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Deputy Director for 
Management of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall issue the standards, policies, and 
guidelines required under section 503(c) of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by paragraph (1). 
(3) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date on which the standards, policies, and 
guidelines are issued under paragraph (2), the Dep-
uty Director for Management of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget, in consultation with the Pro-
gram Management Policy Council established under 
section 1126(b) of title 31, United States Code, as 
added by subsection (b)(1), and the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, shall issue any 
regulations as are necessary to implement the re-
quirements of section 503(c) of title 31, United 
States Code, as added by paragraph (1). 
(b) PROGRAM MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT OFFI-
CERS AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT POLICY COUNCIL.—
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(1) AMENDMENT.—Chapter 11 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 1126. Program Management Improvement Officers 
and Program Management Policy Council 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT OFFI-
CERS.— 
‘‘(1) DESIGNATION.—The head of each agency 
described in section 901(b) shall designate a senior 
executive of the agency as the Program Management 
Improvement Officer of the agency. 
‘‘(2) FUNCTIONS.—The Program Management 
Improvement Officer of an agency designated under 
paragraph (1) shall— 
‘‘(A) implement program management poli-
cies established by the agency under section 
503(c); and 
‘‘(B) develop a strategy for enhancing the 
role of program managers within the agency 
that includes the following: 
‘‘(i) Enhanced training and edu-
cational opportunities for program man-
agers that shall include— 
‘‘(I) training in the relevant com-
petencies encompassed with program
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and project manager within the pri-
vate sector for program managers; 
and 
‘‘(II) training that emphasizes 
cost containment for large projects 
and programs. 
‘‘(ii) Mentoring of current and future 
program managers by experienced senior 
executives and program managers within 
the agency. 
‘‘(iii) Improved career paths and ca-
reer opportunities for program managers. 
‘‘(iv) A plan to encourage the recruit-
ment and retention of highly qualified indi-
viduals to serve as program managers. 
‘‘(v) Improved means of collecting and 
disseminating best practices and lessons 
learned to enhance program management 
across the agency. 
‘‘(vi) Common templates and tools to 
support improved data gathering and anal-
ysis for program management and over-
sight purposes. 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION
TO
DEPARTMENT
OF
DE-
FENSE.—This subsection shall not apply to the De-
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partment of Defense to the extent that the provi-
sions of this subsection are substantially similar to 
or duplicative of the provisions of chapter 87 of title 
10. For purposes of paragraph (1), the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
Logistics (or a designee of the Under Secretary) 
shall be considered the Program Management Im-
provement Officer. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM MANAGEMENT POLICY COUNCIL.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in 
the Office of Management and Budget a council to 
be known as the ‘Program Management Policy 
Council’ (in this subsection referred to as the ‘Coun-
cil’). 
‘‘(2) PURPOSE AND FUNCTIONS.—The Council 
shall act as the principal interagency forum for im-
proving agency practices related to program and 
project management. The Council shall— 
‘‘(A) advise and assist the Deputy Director 
for Management of the Office of Management 
and Budget; 
‘‘(B) review programs identified as high 
risk by the General Accountability Office and 
make recommendations for actions to be taken 
by the Deputy Director for Management of the
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Office of Management and Budget or a des-
ignee; 
‘‘(C) discuss topics of importance to the 
workforce, including— 
‘‘(i) career development and workforce 
development needs; 
‘‘(ii) policy to support continuous im-
provement in program and project manage-
ment; and 
‘‘(iii) major challenges across agencies 
in managing programs; 
‘‘(D) advise on the development and appli-
cability of standards governmentwide for pro-
gram management transparency; and 
‘‘(E) review the information published on 
the website of the Office of Management and 
Budget pursuant to section 1122. 
‘‘(3) MEMBERSHIP.— 
‘‘(A) COMPOSITION.—The Council shall be 
composed of the following members: 
‘‘(i) Five members from the Office of 
Management and Budget as follows: 
‘‘(I) The Deputy Director for 
Management.
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‘‘(II) The Administrator of the 
Office of Electronic Government. 
‘‘(III) The Administrator of Fed-
eral Procurement Policy. 
‘‘(IV) The Controller of the Of-
fice of Federal Financial Manage-
ment. 
‘‘(V) The Director of the Office 
of Performance and Personnel Man-
agement. 
‘‘(ii) The Program Management Im-
provement Officer from each agency de-
scribed in section 901(b). 
‘‘(iii) Other individuals as determined 
appropriate by the Chairperson. 
‘‘(B) CHAIRPERSON
AND
VICE
CHAIR-
PERSON.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Deputy Di-
rector for Management of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall be the 
Chairperson of the Council. A Vice Chair-
person shall be elected by the members and 
shall serve a term of not more than 1 year. 
‘‘(ii) DUTIES.—The Chairperson shall 
preside at the meetings of the Council, de-
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termine the agenda of the Council, direct 
the work of the Council, and establish and 
direct subgroups of the Council as appro-
priate. 
‘‘(4) MEETINGS.—The Council shall meet not 
less than twice per fiscal year and may meet at the 
call of the Chairperson or a majority of the members 
of the Council. 
‘‘(5) SUPPORT.—The head of each agency with 
a Project Management Improvement Officer serving 
on the Council shall provide administrative support 
to the Council, as appropriate, at the request of the 
Chairperson. 
‘‘(6) COMMITTEE DURATION.—Section 14(a)(2) 
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.) shall not apply to the Council.’’. 
(2) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, in con-
sultation with each Program Management Improve-
ment Officer designated under section 1126(a)(1) of 
title 31, United States Code, shall submit to Con-
gress a report containing the strategy developed 
under section 1126(a)(2)(B) of such title, as added 
by paragraph (1).
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(c) PROGRAM
AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT PER-
SONNEL STANDARDS.— 
(1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘agency’’ means each agency described in section 
901(b) of title 31, United States Code, other than 
the Department of Defense. 
(2) REGULATIONS REQUIRED.—Not later than 
180 days after the date on which the standards, 
policies, and guidelines are issued under section 
503(c) of title 31, United States Code, as added by 
subsection (a)(1), the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management, in consultation with the Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget, shall 
issue regulations that— 
(A) identify key skills and competencies 
needed for a program and project manager in 
an agency; 
(B) establish a new job series, or update 
and improve an existing job series, for program 
and project management within an agency; and 
(C) establish a new career path for pro-
gram and project managers within an agency. 
(d) GAO REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF POLICIES 
ON PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT.—Not later 
than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the
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Government Accountability Office shall issue, in conjunc-
tion with the High Risk list of the Government Account-
ability Office, a report examining the effectiveness of the 
following on improving Federal program and project man-
agement: 
(1) The standards, policies, and guidelines for 
program and project management issued under sec-
tion 503(c) of title 31, United States Code, as added 
by subsection (a)(1). 
(2) The 5-year strategic plan established under 
section 503(c)(1)(H) of title 31, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a)(1). 
(3) Program Management Improvement Offi-
cers designated under section 1126(a)(1) of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (b)(1). 
(4) The Program Management Policy Council 
established under section 1126(b)(1) of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (b)(1). 
Subtitle H—United States Naval 
Station Guantanamo Bay Pres-
ervation Act 
SEC. 1099. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘United States 
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Preservation Act’’.
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SEC. 1099A. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, has been a strategic military asset crit-
ical to the defense of the United States and the 
maintenance of regional security for more than a 
century. 
(2) The United States continues to exercise 
control over the area of United States Naval Sta-
tion, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pursuant to the 
Guantanamo Lease Agreements, which were initi-
ated and concluded pursuant to an Act of Congress. 
(3) Senior United States military leaders have 
consistently voiced strong support for maintaining 
United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, noting its strategic value for military basing 
and logistics, disaster relief, humanitarian work, ter-
rorist detention, and counter-narcotics purposes. 
(4) On February 29, 2016, Secretary of De-
fense Ashton B. Carter, discussing United States 
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stated that 
‘‘it’s a strategic location, we’ve had it for a long 
time, it’s important to us and we intend to hold onto 
it’’. 
(5) On March 12, 2015, Commander of United 
States Southern Command, General John Kelly, tes-
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tified that the United States facilities at Naval Sta-
tion Guantanamo Bay ‘‘are indispensable to the De-
partments of Defense, Homeland Security, and 
State’s operational and contingency plans. . . . As 
the only permanent U.S. military base in Latin 
America and the Caribbean, its location provides 
persistent U.S. presence and immediate access to the 
region, as well as supporting a layered defense to se-
cure the air and maritime approaches to the United 
States’’. 
(6) In testimony before Congress in 2012, then- 
Commander of United States Southern Command, 
General Douglas Fraser, stated that ‘‘the strategic 
capability provided by U.S. Naval Station Guanta-
namo Bay remains essential for executing national 
priorities throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, 
and South America’’. 
(7) Following a 1991 coup in Haiti that 
prompted a mass exodus of people by boat, United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pro-
vided a location for temporary housing and the or-
derly adjudication of asylum claims outside of the 
continental United States. 
(8) In 2010, United States Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a critical hub for the
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provision of humanitarian disaster relief following 
the devastating earthquakes in Haiti. 
(9) The United States presence at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has 
its origins in Acts of Congress undertaken pursuant 
to the powers of Congress expressly enumerated in 
the Constitution of the United States. 
(10) By joint resolution approved on April 20, 
1898, Congress ‘‘directed and empowered’’ the 
President ‘‘to use the entire land and naval forces 
of the United States’’ as necessary to ensure that 
the Government of Spain ‘‘relinquish its authority 
and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw 
its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban 
waters’’. 
(11) Congress declared war against Spain on 
April 25, 1898, which lasted until December 10, 
1898, when the United States and Spain signed the 
Treaty of Paris, in which Spain relinquished all 
claims of sovereignty over Cuba, and United States 
governance of Cuba was established. 
(12) Nearly three years later, in the Act of 
March 2, 1901 (Chapter 803; 31 Stat. 898), Con-
gress granted the President the authority to return 
‘‘the government and control of the island of Cuba
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to its people’’ subject to several express conditions 
including, in article VII of the Act of March 2, 
1901, the sale or lease by Cuba to the United States 
of lands necessary for naval stations. 
(13) Pursuant to the authority granted by arti-
cle VII of the Act of March 2, 1901, the United 
States negotiated the Guantanamo Lease Agree-
ments, which specified the area of, and United 
States jurisdiction and control over, what became 
United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba. 
(14) On October 2, 1903, when approving the 
Lease to the United States by the Government of 
Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and Water for Naval 
or Coaling Stations, signed in Havana on July 2, 
1903, President Theodore Roosevelt cited the Act of 
March 2, 1901, as providing his authority to do so: 
‘‘I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United 
States of America, having seen and considered the 
foregoing lease, do hereby approve the same, by vir-
tue of the authority conferred by the seventh of the 
provisions defining the relations which are to exist 
between the United States and Cuba, contained in 
the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, enti-
tled ‘An Act making appropriation for the support
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of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1902.’ ’’. 
(15) Obtaining United States naval station 
rights in Cuba was an express condition of the au-
thority that Congress gave the President to return 
control and governance of Cuba to the people of 
Cuba. In exercising that authority and concluding 
the Guantanamo Lease Agreements, President Theo-
dore Roosevelt recognized the source of that author-
ity as the Act of March 2, 1901. 
(16) The Treaty of Relations between the 
United States of America and the Republic of Cuba, 
signed at Washington, May 29, 1934, did not super-
sede, abrogate, or modify the Guantanamo Lease 
Agreements, but noted that the stipulations of those 
agreements ‘‘shall continue in effect’’ until the 
United States and Cuba agree to modify them. 
(17) The Constitution of the United States ex-
pressly grants to Congress the power to provide for 
the common defense of the United States, the power 
to provide and maintain a Navy, and the power ‘‘to 
dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regula-
tions respecting the Territory or other Property be-
longing to the United States’’.
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SEC. 1099B. PROHIBITION ON MODIFICATION, ABROGA-
TION, OR OTHER RELATED ACTIONS WITH 
RESPECT TO UNITED STATES JURISDICTION 
AND CONTROL OVER UNITED STATES NAVAL 
STATION, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, WITH-
OUT CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. 
No action may be taken to modify, abrogate, or re-
place the stipulations, agreements, and commitments con-
tained in the Guantanamo Lease Agreements, or to impair 
or abandon the jurisdiction and control of the United 
States over United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, unless specifically authorized or otherwise pro-
vided by— 
(1) a statute that is enacted on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act; 
(2) a treaty that is ratified with the advice and 
consent of the Senate on or after the date of the en-
actment of this Act; or 
(3) a modification of the Treaty Between the 
United States of America and Cuba signed at Wash-
ington, DC, on May 29, 1934, that is ratified with 
the advice and consent of the Senate on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1099C. GUANTANAMO LEASE AGREEMENTS DEFINED. 
In this subtitle, the term ‘‘Guantanamo Lease Agree-
ments’’ means—
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(1) the Agreement Between the United States 
of America and the Republic of Cuba for the Lease 
to the United States of Lands in Cuba for coaling 
and naval stations, signed by the President of the 
United States on February 23, 1903; and 
(2) the Lease to the United States by the Gov-
ernment of Cuba of Certain Areas of Land and 
Water for Naval or Coaling Stations, signed by the 
President of the United States on October 2, 1903. 
TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL 
MATTERS 
SEC. 1101. TEMPORARY DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY FOR DO-
MESTIC DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE FACILI-
TIES AND THE MAJOR RANGE AND TEST FA-
CILITIES BASE. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—During fiscal years 2017 and 
2018, the Secretary of Defense may appoint, without re-
gard to the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 33 of 
title 5, United States Code, other than sections 3303 and 
3328 of such title, qualified candidates to positions in the 
competitive service at any defense industrial base facility 
or the Major Range and Test Facilities Base or as a mili-
tary technician (dual status). 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the end 
of fiscal year 2018, the Secretary of Defense shall submit
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a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate on the use of 
the authority provided under subsection (a). Such report 
shall include the total number of individuals appointed 
under such authority and the effectiveness of such author-
ity in fulfilling the manpower needs of the defense indus-
trial base facilities or the Major Range and Test Facilities 
Base. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘defense industrial base facility’’ 
means any Department of Defense depot, arsenal, or 
shipyard located within the United States; and 
(2) the term ‘‘military technician (dual status)’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 10216 
of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 1102. TEMPORARY PERSONNEL FLEXIBILITIES FOR 
DOMESTIC DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE FA-
CILITIES AND MAJOR RANGE AND TEST FA-
CILITIES BASE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding chapter 33 of 
title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of law 
relating to the examination, certification, and appointment 
of individuals in the competitive service, during fiscal 
years 2017 and 2018, an employee of a defense industrial 
base facility or the Major Range and Test Facilities Base
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serving under a time-limited appointment in the competi-
tive service is eligible to compete for a permanent appoint-
ment in the competitive service at (A) any such facility, 
Base, or any other component of the Department of De-
fense when such facility, Base, or component (as the case 
may be) is accepting applications from individuals within 
the facility, Base, or component’s workforce under merit 
promotion procedures, or (B) any agency when the agency 
is accepting applications from individuals outside its own 
workforce under merit promotion procedures of the appli-
cable agency, if— 
(1) the employee was appointed initially under 
open, competitive examination under subchapter I of 
chapter 33 of such title to the time-limited appoint-
ment; 
(2) the employee has served under 1 or more 
time-limited appointments by a defense industrial 
base facility or the Major Range and Test Facilities 
Base for a period or periods totaling more than 24 
months without a break of 2 or more years; and 
(3) the employee’s performance has been at an 
acceptable level of performance throughout the pe-
riod or periods (as the case may be) referred to in 
paragraph (2).
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(b) WAIVER
OF AGE REQUIREMENT.—In deter-
mining the eligibility of a time-limited employee under this 
section to be examined for or appointed in the competitive 
service, the Office of Personnel Management or other ex-
amining agency shall waive requirements as to age, unless 
the requirement is essential to the performance of the du-
ties of the position. 
(c) STATUS.—An individual appointed under this sec-
tion— 
(1) becomes a career-conditional employee, un-
less the employee has otherwise completed the serv-
ice requirements for career tenure; and 
(2) acquires competitive status upon appoint-
ment. 
(d) FORMER EMPLOYEES.—A former employee of a 
defense industrial base facility or the Major Range and 
Test Facilities Base who served under a time-limited ap-
pointment and who otherwise meets the requirements of 
this section shall be deemed a time-limited employee for 
purposes of this section if— 
(1) such employee applies for a position covered 
by this section within the period of 2 years after the 
most recent date of separation; and 
(2) such employee’s most recent separation was 
for reasons other than misconduct or performance.
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(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘defense 
industrial base facility’’ means any Department of De-
fense depot, arsenal, or shipyard located within the United 
States. 
SEC. 1103. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY AUTHOR-
ITY TO GRANT ALLOWANCES, BENEFITS, AND 
GRATUITIES TO CIVILIAN PERSONNEL ON OF-
FICIAL DUTY IN A COMBAT ZONE. 
Paragraph (2) of section 1603(a) of the Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global 
War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 (Public 
Law 109–234; 120 Stat. 443), as added by section 1102 
of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 
4616) and as most recently amended by section 1102 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1022), is further 
amended by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2018’’. 
SEC. 1104. ADVANCE PAYMENTS FOR EMPLOYEES RELO-
CATING WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS 
TERRITORIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 5524a 
of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(a) The head’’ and inserting 
‘‘(a)(1) The head’’; and
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(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) The head of each agency may provide for the 
advance payment of basic pay, covering not more than 6 
pay periods, to an employee who is assigned to a position 
in the agency that is located— 
‘‘(A) outside of the employee’s commuting area; 
and 
‘‘(B) in the United States, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, or any territory or possession of 
the United States.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subsection (b) of 
such section is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or assigned’’ 
after ‘‘appointed’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)(B)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or assignment’’ after 
‘‘appointment’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or assigned’’ after ‘‘ap-
pointed’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) SECTION HEADING.—The heading of such 
section is amended by inserting ‘‘and employees 
relocating within the United States and 
its territories’’ after ‘‘appointees’’.
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(2) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The item relating to 
such section in the table of sections of chapter 55 
of such title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘5524a. Advance payments for new appointees and employees relocating within 
the United States and its territories.’’. 
SEC. 1105. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR ALTERNATIVE 
PERSONNEL PROGRAM FOR SCIENTIFIC AND 
TECHNICAL PERSONNEL. 
(a) PERMANENT AUTHORITY AND CODIFICATION.— 
Chapter 81 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting after section 1589 a new section 1590 con-
sisting of— 
(1) a heading as follows: 
‘‘§ 1590. Alternative personnel program for scientific 
and technical personnel’’; and 
(2) a text consisting of the text of subsection 
(a), (b), (c), and (d) of section 1101 of the Strom 
Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261; 5 U.S.C. 
3104 note). 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 1590 of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘During the program pe-
riod specified in subsection (e)(1), the’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘of experimental use of’’ 
and inserting ‘‘to use’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘, United States Code,’’ in 
paragraph (1); and 
(B) by striking ‘‘United States Code,’’ in 
paragraph (2); and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘, United 
States Code’’ in paragraphs (2) and (3) each place 
it appears. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 81 of such title is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1589 the 
following new item: 
‘‘1590. Alternative personnel program for scientific and technical personnel.’’. 
(d) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 1101 of the 
Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261; 5 U.S.C. 3104 
note) is repealed.
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SEC. 1106. MODIFICATION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
PERSONNEL EXCHANGE PROGRAM. 
Section 1110 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 5 U.S.C. 
3702 note) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting 
‘‘CYBER AND’’ before ‘‘INFORMATION’’. 
(2) in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(C), and 
(g)(2), by inserting ‘‘cyber operations or’’ before ‘‘in-
formation’’; 
(3) in subsection (g)(1), by inserting ‘‘to or’’ 
before ‘‘from’’; and 
(4) in subsection (h), by striking ‘‘10’’ and in-
serting ‘‘50’’. 
SEC. 1107. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN LOCALITIES FOR CAL-
CULATION OF PER DIEM ALLOWANCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to section 5707 of title 
5, United States Code, the Administrator of General Serv-
ices shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary to 
provide that, with respect to per diem rates for Ohio, the 
locality described as Dayton/Fairborn and the locality de-
scribed as Cincinnati are considered 1 locality for purposes 
of establishing per diem allowance or maximum amount 
of reimbursement under section 5702(a)(2) of such title. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The adjustment of the treat-
ment of localities described under subsection (a) shall be
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effective on the same date as the application of the first 
recalculation of per diem allowances by the Administrator 
that occurs after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1108. ELIGIBILITY OF EMPLOYEES IN A TIME-LIMITED 
APPOINTMENT TO COMPETE FOR A PERMA-
NENT APPOINTMENT AT ANY FEDERAL AGEN-
CY. 
Section 9602 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘any land 
management agency or any other agency (as defined 
in section 101 of title 31) under the internal merit 
promotion procedures of the applicable agency’’ and 
inserting ‘‘such land management agency when such 
agency is accepting applications from individuals 
within the agency’s workforce under merit promotion 
procedures, or any agency, including a land manage-
ment agency, when the agency is accepting applica-
tions from individuals outside its own workforce 
under the merit promotion procedures of the appli-
cable agency’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d) by inserting ‘‘of the agen-
cy from which the former employee was most re-
cently separated’’ after ‘‘deemed a time-limited em-
ployee’’.
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SEC. 1109. LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 63 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 6330. Limitation on administrative leave 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—During any calendar year, an 
employee may not be placed on administrative leave, or 
any other paid non-duty status without charge to leave, 
for more than 14 total days for reasons relating to mis-
conduct or performance. After an employee has been 
placed on administrative leave for 14 days, the employing 
agency shall return the employee to duty status, utilizing 
telework if available, and assign the employee to duties 
if such employee is not a threat to safety, the agency mis-
sion, or Government property. 
‘‘(b) EXTENDED ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an agency finds that an 
employee is a threat to safety, the agency mission, 
or Government property and upon the expiration of 
the 14-day period described in subsection (a), an 
agency head may place the employee on extended ad-
ministrative leave for additional periods of not more 
than 30 days each. 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—For any additional period of 30 
days granted to the employee after the initial 30-day 
extension, the agency head shall submit to the Com-
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mittee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 
House of Representatives, the agency’s authorizing 
committees of jurisdiction of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate a report, not later than 5 business days after 
granting the additional period, containing— 
‘‘(A) title, position, office or agency sub-
component, job series, pay grade, and salary of 
the employee on administrative leave; 
‘‘(B) a description of the work duties of 
the employee; 
‘‘(C) the reason the employee is on admin-
istrative leave; 
‘‘(D) an explanation as to why the em-
ployee is a threat to safety, the agency mission, 
or Government property; 
‘‘(E) an explanation as to why the em-
ployee is not able to telework or be reassigned 
to another position within the agency; 
‘‘(F) in the case of a pending related inves-
tigation of the employee— 
‘‘(i) the status of such investigation; 
and
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‘‘(ii) the certification described in sub-
section (c)(1); and 
‘‘(G) in the case of a completed related in-
vestigation of the employee— 
‘‘(i) the results of such investigation; 
and 
‘‘(ii) the reason that the employee re-
mains on administrative leave. 
‘‘(c) EXTENSION PENDING RELATED INVESTIGA-
TION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an employee is under a 
related investigation by an investigative entity at the 
time an additional period described under subsection 
(b)(2) is granted and, in the opinion of the inves-
tigative entity, additional time is needed to complete 
the investigation, such entity shall certify to the ap-
plicable agency that such additional time is needed 
and include in the certification an estimate of the 
length of such additional time. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The head of an agency may 
not grant an additional period of administrative 
leave described under subsection (b)(2) to an em-
ployee on or after the date that is 30 days after the 
completion of a related investigation by an investiga-
tive entity.
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‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following 
definitions apply: 
‘‘(1) INVESTIGATIVE ENTITY.—The term ‘inves-
tigative entity’ means an internal investigative unit 
of the agency granting administrative leave, the Of-
fice of Inspector General, the Office of the Attorney 
General, or the Office of Special Counsel. 
‘‘(2) RELATED INVESTIGATION.—The term ‘re-
lated investigation’ means an investigation that per-
tains to the underlying reasons an employee was 
placed on administrative leave.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall begin to apply 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(c) RULES
OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the 
amendment made by subsection (a) shall be construed 
to— 
(1) supersede the provisions of chapter 75 of 
title 5, United States Code; or 
(2) limit the number of days that an employee 
may be placed on administrative leave, or any other 
paid non-duty status without charge to leave, for 
reasons unrelated to misconduct or performance. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United States
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Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 6329 the following new item: 
‘‘6330. Limitation on administrative leave.’’. 
SEC. 1110. RECORD OF INVESTIGATION OF PERSONNEL AC-
TION IN SEPARATED EMPLOYEE’S OFFICIAL 
PERSONNEL FILE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 3321 the following: 
‘‘§ 3322. Voluntary separation before resolution of 
personnel investigation 
‘‘(a) With respect to any employee occupying a posi-
tion in the competitive service or the excepted service who 
is the subject of a personnel investigation and resigns from 
Government employment prior to the resolution of such 
investigation, the head of the agency from which such em-
ployee so resigns shall, if an adverse finding was made 
with respect to such employee pursuant to such investiga-
tion, make a permanent notation in the employee’s official 
personnel record file. The head shall make such notation 
not later than 40 days after the date of the resolution of 
such investigation. 
‘‘(b) Prior to making a permanent notation in an em-
ployee’s official personnel record file under subsection (a), 
the head of the agency shall—
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‘‘(1) notify the employee in writing within 5 
days of the resolution of the investigation and pro-
vide such employee a copy of the adverse finding and 
any supporting documentation; 
‘‘(2) provide the employee with a reasonable 
time, but not less than 30 days, to respond in writ-
ing and to furnish affidavits and other documentary 
evidence to show why the adverse finding was un-
founded (a summary of which shall be included in 
any notation made to the employee’s personnel file 
under subsection (d)); and 
‘‘(3) provide a written decision and the specific 
reasons therefore to the employee at the earliest 
practicable date. 
‘‘(c) An employee is entitled to appeal the decision 
of the head of the agency to make a permanent notation 
under subsection (a) to the Merit Systems Protection 
Board under section 7701. 
‘‘(d)(1) If an employee files an appeal with the Merit 
Systems Protection Board pursuant to subsection (c), the 
agency head shall make a notation in the employee’s offi-
cial personnel record file indicating that an appeal dis-
puting the notation is pending not later than 2 weeks after 
the date on which such appeal was filed.
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‘‘(2) If the head of the agency is the prevailing party 
on appeal, not later than 2 weeks after the date that the 
Board issues the appeal decision, the head of the agency 
shall remove the notation made under paragraph (1) from 
the employee’s official personnel record file. 
‘‘(3) If the employee is the prevailing party on appeal, 
not later than 2 weeks after the date that the Board issues 
the appeal decision, the head of the agency shall remove 
the notation made under paragraph (1) and the notation 
of an adverse finding made under subsection (a) from the 
employee’s official personnel record file. 
‘‘(e) In this section, the term ‘personnel investigation’ 
includes— 
‘‘(1) an investigation by an Inspector General; 
and 
‘‘(2) an adverse personnel action as a result of 
performance, misconduct, or for such cause as will 
promote the efficiency of the service under chapter 
43 or chapter 75.’’. 
(b) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply to any employee described in section 
3322 of title 5, United States Code, (as added by such 
subsection) who leaves the service after the date of enact-
ment of this Act.
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(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 3321 the following: 
‘‘3322. Voluntary separation before resolution of personnel investigation.’’. 
SEC. 1111. REVIEW OF OFFICIAL PERSONNEL FILE OF 
FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES BEFORE RE-
HIRING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘§ 3330e. Review of official personnel file of former 
Federal employees before rehiring 
‘‘(a) If a former Government employee is a candidate 
for a position within the competitive service or the ex-
cepted service, prior to making any determination with re-
spect to the appointment or reinstatement of such em-
ployee to such position, the appointing authority shall re-
view and consider the information relating to such employ-
ee’s former period or periods of service in such employee’s 
official personnel record file. 
‘‘(b) In subsection (a), the term ‘former Government 
employee’ means an individual whose most recent position 
with the Government prior to becoming a candidate as de-
scribed under subsection (a) was within the competitive 
service or the excepted service.
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‘‘(c) The Office of Personnel Management shall pre-
scribe regulations to carry out the purpose of this sec-
tion.’’. 
(b) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply to any former Government em-
ployee (as described in section 3330e of title 5, United 
States Code, as added by such subsection) appointed or 
reinstated on or after the date that is 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘3330e. Review of official personnel file of former Federal employees before re-
hiring.’’. 
SEC. 1112. REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVIL-
IAN WORKFORCE PERSONNEL AND CONTRAC-
TORS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) A large, disproportionate, and duplicative 
civilian work force coupled with bureaucratic, struc-
tural inefficiencies has detracted from the Penta-
gon’s production of combat power and its ability to 
modernize. 
(2) The recent uniformed military drawdown 
has not been accompanied by an equivalent reduc-
tion of either the civilian or contractor work force.
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Right sizing the civilian workforce must be statutory 
in number but implemented with executive discre-
tion. Across-the-board cuts to the defense civilian 
workforce are not the answer. 
(3) Spending on contract services is over 50 
percent of all Department of Defense purchases even 
as the total defense budget has dropped. Expendi-
tures in services contracting lack appropriate over-
sight, accountability, and scrutiny. 
(b) REPORTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall submit a preliminary report within 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and a 
final report within 180 days after such date, to the 
congressional defense committees detailing the struc-
ture and number of the civilian workforce and con-
tractors of the Department of Defense. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), each report shall include the following for 
each of fiscal years 2017 through 2020, including a 
breakdown in location, job function, General Sched-
ule (GS) level, and date of when the job was created 
for the following individuals: 
(A) The total number of full time equiva-
lent employees, including each of the following:
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(i) The total number of Senior Execu-
tive Service employees and their assign-
ments. 
(ii) The total number of civilian em-
ployees of the Department of Defense 
within the military health care system. 
(iii) The total number of civilian em-
ployees of the Department employed at de-
pots, arsenals, and ammunition facilities. 
(B) The total number of civilian contrac-
tors of the Department of Defense, including 
each of the following: 
(i) The total number of civilian con-
tractors for weapons acquisitions. 
(ii) The total number of civilian con-
tractors for services or labor for non-weap-
on systems acquisitions. 
(iii) The total number of civilian con-
tractors employed at depots, arsenals, and 
ammunition facilities. 
(3) PRELIMINARY
REPORT.—The preliminary 
report provided under this subsection— 
(A) shall cover the contents described in 
paragraph (2) in as much detail as is ascertain-
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able within 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act; and 
(B) shall include an explanation of any im-
pediments to developing a complete and final 
report by 180 days after such date of enact-
ment. 
SEC. 1113. PUBLIC-PRIVATE TALENT EXCHANGE. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—Chapter 81 of title 10, United 
States Code, as amended by section 1105 of this Act, is 
further amended by adding at the end the following new 
section: 
‘‘§ 1599g. Public-private talent exchange 
‘‘(a) ASSIGNMENT AUTHORITY.—Under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary may, 
with the agreement of a private-sector organization and 
the consent of the employee, arrange for the temporary 
assignment of an employee to such private-sector organi-
zation, or from such private-sector organization to a De-
partment of Defense organization under this section. 
‘‘(b) AGREEMENTS.—(1) The Secretary of Defense 
shall provide for a written agreement among the Depart-
ment of Defense, the private-sector organization, and the 
employee concerned regarding the terms and conditions of 
the employee’s assignment under this section. The agree-
ment—
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‘‘(A) shall require that the employee of the De-
partment of Defense, upon completion of the assign-
ment, will serve in the Department of Defense, or 
elsewhere in the civil service if approved by the Sec-
retary, for a period equal to the length of the assign-
ment; and 
‘‘(B) shall provide that if the employee of the 
Department of Defense or of the private-sector orga-
nization (as the case may be) fails to carry out the 
agreement, such employee shall be liable to the 
United States for payment of all expenses of the as-
signment, unless that failure was for good and suffi-
cient reason, as determined by the Secretary of De-
fense. 
‘‘(2) An amount for which an employee is liable under 
paragraph (1) shall be treated as a debt due the United 
States. 
‘‘(3) The Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, 
collection of a debt described in paragraph (2) based on 
a determination that the collection would be against equity 
and good conscience and not in the best interests of the 
United States, after taking into account any indication of 
fraud, misrepresentation, fault, or lack of good faith on 
the part of the employee.
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‘‘(c) TERMINATION.—An assignment under this sec-
tion may, at any time and for any reason, be terminated 
by the Department of Defense or the private-sector orga-
nization concerned. 
‘‘(d) DURATION.—An assignment under this section 
shall be for a period of not less than 3 months and not 
more than one year, renewable up to a total of 4 years. 
No employee of the Department of Defense may be as-
signed under this section for more than a total of 4 years 
inclusive of all such assignments. 
‘‘(e) STATUS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASSIGNED TO 
PRIVATE-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS.—An employee of the 
Department of Defense who is assigned to a private-sector 
organization under this section shall be considered, during 
the period of assignment, to be on detail to a regular work 
assignment in the Department for all purposes. The writ-
ten agreement established under subsection (b)(1) shall 
address the specific terms and conditions related to the 
employee’s continued status as a Federal employee. 
‘‘(f) TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PRIVATE-SECTOR 
EMPLOYEES.—An employee of a private-sector organiza-
tion who is assigned to a Department of Defense organiza-
tion under this section— 
‘‘(1) shall continue to receive pay and benefits 
from the private-sector organization from which such
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employee is assigned and shall not receive pay or 
benefits from the Department of Defense, except as 
provided in paragraph (2); 
‘‘(2) is deemed to be an employee of the De-
partment of Defense for the purposes of— 
‘‘(A) chapters 73 and 81 of title 5; 
‘‘(B) sections 201, 203, 205, 207, 208, 
209, 603, 606, 607, 643, 654, 1905, and 1913 
of title 18; 
‘‘(C) sections 1343, 1344, and 1349(b) of 
title 31; 
‘‘(D) the Federal Tort Claims Act and any 
other Federal tort liability statute; 
‘‘(E) the Ethics in Government Act of 
1978; and 
‘‘(F) chapter 21 of title 41; 
‘‘(3) shall not have access to any trade secrets 
or to any other nonpublic information which is of 
commercial value to the private-sector organization 
from which such employee is assigned. 
‘‘(g) PROHIBITION AGAINST CHARGING CERTAIN 
COSTS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.—A private-sec-
tor organization may not charge the Department of any 
other agency of the Federal Government, as direct or indi-
rect costs under a Federal contract, the costs of pay or
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benefits paid by the organization to an employee assigned 
to a Department organization under this section for the 
period of the assignment. 
‘‘(h) CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out this section, 
the Secretary of Defense— 
‘‘(1) shall ensure that, of the assignments made 
under this section each year, at least 20 percent are 
from small business concerns (as defined by section 
3703(e)(2)(A) of title 5); 
‘‘(2) shall take into consideration the question 
of how assignments under this section might best be 
used to help meet the needs of the Department of 
Defense with respect to the training of employees; 
and 
‘‘(3) shall take into consideration, where appli-
cable, areas of particular private sector expertise, 
such as cybersecurity.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF SECTIONS AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections at the beginning of such chapter, as amended by 
section 1105 of this Act, is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new item: 
‘‘1599g. Public-private talent exchange.’’.
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TITLE XII—MATTERS RELATING 
TO FOREIGN NATIONS 
Subtitle A—Assistance and 
Training 
SEC. 1201. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF LOGISTICAL SUPPORT 
FOR COALITION FORCES SUPPORTING CER-
TAIN 
UNITED 
STATES 
MILITARY 
OPER-
ATIONS. 
Section 1234 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110–181; 122 Stat. 
394), as most recently amended by section 1201 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
(Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1035), is further amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017’’; 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘during the 
period beginning on October 1, 2015, and ending on 
December 31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘during the pe-
riod beginning on October 1, 2016, and ending on 
December 31, 2017’’; and 
(3) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ‘‘December 
31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2017’’.
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SEC. 1202. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR TRAINING OF 
GENERAL PURPOSE FORCES OF THE UNITED 
STATES ARMED FORCES WITH MILITARY AND 
OTHER SECURITY FORCES OF FRIENDLY 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Section 1203(h) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113–66; 127 
Stat. 894; 10 U.S.C. 2011 note) is amended by striking 
‘‘September 30, 2017’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2019’’. 
SEC. 1203. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY 
TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE THE 
CAPABILITY OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO RE-
SPOND TO INCIDENTS INVOLVING WEAPONS 
OF MASS DESTRUCTION. 
(a) LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF AUTHORITY 
FOR OTHER COUNTRIES.—Subsection (b) of section 1204 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2014 (Public Law 113–66; 127 Stat. 896; 10 U.S.C. 401 
note) is amended by striking ‘‘of the Secretary’s inten-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘not later than 48 hours after the Sec-
retary makes a determination’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Subsection (d)(1) of 
such section is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) FUNDS AVAILABLE.—Of the funds author-
ized to be appropriated for the Department of De-
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fense for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide, 
and available for the Defense Threat Reduction 
Agency for a fiscal year, not more than $20,000,000 
may be made available for assistance under this sec-
tion for such fiscal year.’’. 
(c) NOTICE
TO CONGRESS
ON CERTAIN ASSIST-
ANCE.—Subsection (e) of such section, as amended by sec-
tion 1202 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ 
McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3530), is fur-
ther amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘If the amount’’ and inserting 
‘‘If the Secretary of Defense determines that the 
amount’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘the Secretary of Defense shall 
notify’’ and inserting ‘‘the Secretary shall notify’’; 
and 
(3) by striking ‘‘of that fact’’ and inserting ‘‘of 
such determination not later than 48 hours after 
making the determination’’. 
(d) EXPIRATION.—Subsection (h) of such section, as 
amended by section 1273 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 
Stat. 1076), is further amended by striking ‘‘September 
30, 2019’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2020’’.
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(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section take effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act and apply with respect to assistance authorized 
to be provided under subsection (a) of section 1204 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 
on or after such date of enactment. 
SEC. 1204. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR SUPPORT OF 
SPECIAL 
OPERATIONS 
TO 
COMBAT 
TER-
RORISM. 
Subsection (h) of section 1208 of the Ronald W. 
Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2005 (Public Law 108–375; 118 Stat. 2086), as 
most recently amended by section 1208(b) of the Carl 
Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113– 
291; 128 Stat. 3541), is further amended by striking 
‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2020’’. 
SEC. 1205. MODIFICATION AND CODIFICATION OF REPORT-
ING REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO SECURITY 
COOPERATION AUTHORITIES. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Subsection (a) of 
section 1211 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ 
McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3544) is 
amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘BIENNIAL’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘the Secretary of Defense’’ and inserting 
‘‘ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than Jan-
uary 31 of each year through January 31, 2021, the 
Secretary of Defense’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘congressional defense commit-
tees’’ and inserting ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘security assistance’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘assistance’’; and 
(4) by striking ‘‘the two fiscal years’’ and in-
serting ‘‘the fiscal year’’. 
(b) ELEMENTS OF REPORT.—Subsection (b) of such 
section is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, duration,’’ 
after ‘‘purpose’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘The cost’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The cost and expenditures’’; 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) For each foreign country in which the 
training, equipment, or other assistance or reim-
bursement was provided, a description of the extent 
of participation, if any, by the military forces and 
security forces or other government organizations of 
such foreign country.
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‘‘(5) The number of members of the Armed 
Forces involved in providing such training, equip-
ment, or assistance and a description of the military 
benefits for such members involved in providing such 
training, equipment or assistance. 
‘‘(6) A summary, by authority, of the activities 
carried out under each authority specified in sub-
section (c).’’. 
(c) MODIFICATION TO SPECIFIED AUTHORITIES.— 
Subsection (c) of such section is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(1) Sections 256, 263, 271, 272, 273, 281, 
284, 285, 286, and 287.’’. 
(2) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), (7), and 
(11); 
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (6), (8), (9), 
(10), and (12) through (17) as paragraphs (4) 
through (13), respectively; 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(14) Section 401, relating to humanitarian 
and civic assistance provided in conjunction with 
military operations. 
‘‘(15) Section 1206 of the Carl Levin and How-
ard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authoriza-
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tion Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (128 Stat. 3538; 10 
U.S.C. 2282 note), relating to authority to conduct 
human rights training of security forces and associ-
ated security ministries of foreign countries. 
‘‘(16) Section 1534 of the Carl Levin and How-
ard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (128 Stat. 3616), re-
lating to the Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund. 
‘‘(17) Section 1203 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 
113–66; 127 Stat. 894; 10 U.S.C. 2011 note), relat-
ing to training of general purpose forces of the 
United States Armed Forces with military and other 
security forces of friendly foreign countries.’’; and 
(5) by striking ‘‘of title 10, United States 
Code’’ each place it appears. 
(d) FORM.—Subsection (e) of such section is amend-
ed by adding ‘‘that may also include other sensitive infor-
mation’’ after ‘‘annex’’. 
(e) CODIFICATION OF SECTION 1211 OF FY 2015 
NDAA.— 
(1) CODIFICATION.—Chapter 11 of title 10, 
United States Code, as amended by section 1261 of 
this Act, is further amended by inserting after sec-
tion 251 a new section 252 consisting of—
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(A) a heading as follows: 
‘‘§ 252. Annual report on programs carried out by the 
Department of Defense to provide train-
ing, equipment, or other assistance or re-
imbursement to foreign security forces’’; 
and 
(B) a text consisting of the text of sub-
sections (a) through (e) of section 1211 of the 
Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 
3544), as amended by subsections (a) through 
(d) of this section. 
(2) CONFORMING
REPEAL.—Section 1211 of 
the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3544), as 
amended by subsections (a) through (d) of this sec-
tion, is repealed. 
(f) REPEAL
OF
OTHER
REPORTING
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORT ON HUMANITARIAN AND 
CIVIC ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES.—Section 401 of title 
10, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking subsection (d); and
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(B) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (d). 
(2) SEMI-ANNUAL REPORTS ON COUNTERTER-
RORISM PARTNERSHIPS FUND.—Section 1534 of the 
Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3616) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking subsection (g); and 
(B) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (g). 
(3) ANNUAL REPORT ON USE OF AUTHORITY TO 
TRAIN GENERAL PURPOSE FORCES OF THE UNITED 
STATES ARMED FORCES WITH MILITARY AND OTHER 
SECURITY
FORCES
OF
FRIENDLY
FOREIGN
COUN-
TRIES.—Section 1203 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 
113–66; 127 Stat. 894; 10 U.S.C. 2011 note) is 
amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (f)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (e)’’; 
(B) by striking subsection (e); and 
(C) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), 
and (h) as subsections (e), (f), and (g), respec-
tively.
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(4) ANNUAL REPORT ON USE OF AUTHORITY 
FOR NATIONAL GUARD STATE PARTNERSHIP PRO-
GRAM.—Section 1205 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 
113–66; 127 Stat. 897; 32 U.S.C. 107 note) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking subsection (f); and 
(B) by redesignating subsection (g), sub-
section (h), the second subsection (h), and sub-
section (i) as subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i), 
respectively. 
SEC. 1206. INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF DEPARTMENT 
OF DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) ASSESSMENT REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall enter into an agreement with a federally fund-
ed research and development center, or another ap-
propriate independent entity, with expertise in secu-
rity cooperation to conduct an assessment of the 
Strategic Framework for Department of Defense Se-
curity Cooperation. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The assessment under para-
graph (1) shall include the following:
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(A) An assessment of each of the elements 
of the Strategic Framework for Department of 
Defense Security Cooperation, as directed by 
section 1202 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 
114–92; 129 Stat. 1036; 10 U.S.C. 113 note). 
(B) An assessment of the extent to which 
security cooperation programs, individually and 
in combination, as identified in the Comptroller 
General Inventory of Department of Defense 
Security Cooperation Programs directed in the 
committee report (H. Rept. 114–102) accom-
panying the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2016, and any other rel-
evant studies, contribute to the strategic goals, 
primary objectives, priorities, and desired end- 
states of Department of Defense security co-
operation programs. 
(C) Any other matters the entity that con-
ducts the assessment considers appropriate. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than November 1, 
2017, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees, the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee
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on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 
a report that includes the assessment under sub-
section (a) and any other matters the Secretary con-
siders appropriate. 
(2) FORM.—The report required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex. 
SEC. 1207. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING AN ASSESS-
MENT, 
MONITORING, 
AND 
EVALUATION 
FRAMEWORK FOR SECURITY COOPERATION. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the Secretary of Defense should develop and 
maintain an assessment, monitoring, and evaluation 
framework for security cooperation with foreign 
countries to ensure accountability and foster imple-
mentation of best practices; and 
(2) such framework— 
(A) should be consistent with interagency 
approaches and existing best practices; 
(B) should be sufficiently resourced and 
appropriately placed within the Department of 
Defense to enable the rigorous examination and 
measurement of security cooperation efforts to-
wards meeting stated objectives and outcomes; 
and
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(C) should be used to inform security co-
operation planning, policies, and resource deci-
sions as well as ensure the effectiveness and ef-
ficiency of security cooperation efforts. 
SEC. 1208. REPORT ON THE PROHIBITION ON USE OF 
FUNDS FOR ASSISTANCE TO UNITS OF FOR-
EIGN SECURITY FORCES THAT HAVE COM-
MITTED A GROSS VIOLATION OF HUMAN 
RIGHTS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report on its implementation of section 294 of 
title 10, United States Code (relating to prohibition on 
use of funds for assistance to units of foreign security 
forces that have committed a gross violation of human 
rights). 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall contain the following: 
(1) A detailed description of the policies and 
procedures governing the manner in which Depart-
ment of Defense personnel identify and report infor-
mation on gross violations of human rights and how 
such information is shared with personnel respon-
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sible for implementing the prohibition in subsection 
(a)(1) of section 294 of title 10, United States Code. 
(2) The funding expended in fiscal years 2015 
and 2016 for purposes of implementing section 294 
of title 10, United States Code, including any rel-
evant training of personnel, and a description of the 
titles, roles, and responsibilities of the personnel re-
sponsible for reviewing credible information relating 
to human rights violations and the personnel respon-
sible for making decisions regarding the implementa-
tion of the prohibition in subsection (a)(1) of such 
section 294. 
(3) An addendum that includes any findings or 
recommendations included in any report issued by a 
Federal Inspector General related to the implemen-
tation of section 294 of title 10, United States Code, 
and, as appropriate, the Department of Defense’s 
response to such findings or recommendations. 
(4) Any other matters the Secretary determines 
is appropriate. 
(c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex.
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Subtitle B—Matters Relating to 
Afghanistan and Pakistan 
SEC. 1211. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF COM-
MANDERS’ 
EMERGENCY 
RESPONSE 
PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Section 1201 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 
112–81; 125 Stat. 1619), as most recently amended by 
section 1211 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 
1042), is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘During fiscal year 2016’’ 
and inserting ‘‘During the period beginning on 
October 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 
2017’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘in such fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘in such period’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017’’; and 
(3) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘in fiscal year 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘during the period beginning 
on October 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 
2017’’.
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(b) AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO RE-
DRESS INJURY AND LOSS IN IRAQ.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—During the period beginning 
on October 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 
2017, amounts available pursuant to section 1201 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2012, as amended by this section, shall also be 
available for ex gratia payments for damage, per-
sonal injury, or death that is incident to combat op-
erations of the Armed Forces in Iraq. 
(2) NOTICE AND WAIT.—The authority in this 
subsection may not be used until 30 days after the 
date on which the Secretary of Defense submits to 
the congressional defense committees a report set-
ting forth the following: 
(A) The amount that will be used for pay-
ments pursuant to this subsection. 
(B) The manner in which claims for pay-
ments shall be verified. 
(C) The officers or officials who shall be 
authorized to approve claims for payments. 
(D) The manner in which payments shall 
be made. 
(3) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE.—The 
total amount of payments made pursuant to this
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subsection during the period beginning on October 
1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2017, may 
not exceed $5,000,000. 
(4) AUTHORITIES APPLICABLE TO PAYMENT.— 
Any payment made pursuant to this subsection shall 
be made in accordance with the authorities and limi-
tations in section 8121 of the Department of De-
fense Appropriations Act, 2015 (division C of Public 
Law 113–235), other than subsection (h) of such 
section. 
(5) CONSTRUCTION
WITH
RESTRICTION
ON 
AMOUNT OF PAYMENTS.—For purposes of the appli-
cation of subsection (e) of such section 1201, as so 
amended, to any payment pursuant to this sub-
section, such payment shall be deemed to be a 
project described by such subsection (e). 
SEC. 1212. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY 
FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF CERTAIN COALI-
TION NATIONS FOR SUPPORT PROVIDED TO 
UNITED STATES MILITARY OPERATIONS. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Subsection (a) of section 1233 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2008 (Public Law 110–181; 122 Stat. 393), as most re-
cently amended by section 1212 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–
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92; 129 Stat. 1043), is further amended by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘the period beginning on Octo-
ber 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2017,’’. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON AMOUNTS AVAILABLE.—Sub-
section (d)(1) of such section, as so amended, is further 
amended— 
(1) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘during 
fiscal year 2016 may not exceed $1,160,000,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘during the period beginning on Octo-
ber 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2017, 
may not exceed $1,100,000,000’’; and 
(2) in the third sentence, by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘the period beginning on 
October 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 
2017,’’. 
(c) EXTENSION OF NOTICE REQUIREMENT RELAT-
ING TO REIMBURSEMENT OF PAKISTAN FOR SUPPORT 
PROVIDED BY PAKISTAN.—Section 1232(b)(6) of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 
(122 Stat. 393), as most recently amended by section 
1212(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2016 (129 Stat. 1043), is further amended 
by striking ‘‘September 30, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem-
ber 31, 2017’’.
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(d) EXTENSION
OF LIMITATION
ON REIMBURSE-
MENT OF PAKISTAN PENDING CERTIFICATION ON PAKI-
STAN.—Section 1227(d)(1) of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Public Law 112– 
239; 126 Stat. 2001), as most recently amended by sec-
tion 1212(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2016 (129 Stat. 1043), is further amended 
by striking ‘‘for fiscal year 2016 or any prior fiscal year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘for any period prior to December 31, 
2017’’. 
(e) ADDITIONAL LIMITATION ON REIMBURSEMENT 
OF PAKISTAN PENDING CERTIFICATION ON PAKISTAN.— 
Of the total amount of reimbursements and support au-
thorized for Pakistan during the period beginning on Oc-
tober 1, 2016, and ending on December 31, 2017, pursu-
ant to the third sentence of section 1233(d)(1) of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (as 
amended by subsection (b)(2)), $450,000,000 shall not be 
eligible for the waiver under section 1227(d)(2) of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 
(126 Stat. 2001) unless the Secretary of Defense certifies 
to the congressional defense committees that— 
(1) Pakistan continues to conduct military oper-
ations in North Waziristan that are contributing to
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significantly disrupting the safe haven and freedom 
of movement of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan; 
(2) Pakistan has taken steps to demonstrate its 
commitment to prevent the Haqqani Network from 
using North Waziristan as a safe haven; 
(3) the Government of Pakistan actively coordi-
nates with the Government of Afghanistan to re-
strict the movement of militants, such as the 
Haqqani Network, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan 
border; 
(4) Pakistan has shown progress in arresting 
and prosecuting Haqqani network senior leaders and 
mid-level operatives; and 
(5) Pakistan is not using its military or any 
funds or equipment provided by the United States to 
persecute minority groups seeking political or reli-
gious freedom, including the Balochi, Sindhi, and 
Hazara ethnic groups and minority religious groups, 
including Christian, Hindu, and Ahmadiyya Muslim. 
SEC. 1213. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE PROD-
UCTS AND SERVICES PRODUCED IN COUN-
TRIES ALONG A MAJOR ROUTE OF SUPPLY 
TO AFGHANISTAN. 
Section 801(f) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat.
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2399), as most recently amended by section 1214 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
(Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1045), is further amended 
by striking ‘‘December 31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem-
ber 31, 2017’’. 
SEC. 1214. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER DE-
FENSE ARTICLES AND PROVIDE DEFENSE 
SERVICES TO THE MILITARY AND SECURITY 
FORCES OF AFGHANISTAN. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Subsection (h) of section 1222 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2013 (Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 1992), as most re-
cently amended by section 1215 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114– 
92; 129 Stat. 1045), is further amended by striking ‘‘De-
cember 31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2017’’. 
(b) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Subsection (f)(1) of 
such section, as so amended, is further amended by strik-
ing ‘‘March 31, 2017’’ and inserting ‘‘March 31, 2018’’. 
(c) EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES.—Subsection (i)(2) 
of such section, as so amended, is further amended by 
striking ‘‘,, 2015, and 2016’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘, 2015, 2016, and 2017’’.
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SEC. 1215. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON UNITED STATES POL-
ICY AND STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States continues to have vital 
national security interests in ensuring that Afghani-
stan is a stable, sovereign country. 
(2) President Obama signed a Strategic Part-
nership Agreement and a Bilateral Security Agree-
ment with the President of the Islamic Republic of 
Afghanistan, which commits the United States to 
the long-term security of, and defense cooperation 
with, the Government of Afghanistan and designates 
Afghanistan as a ‘‘major non-NATO ally’’. 
(3) The unity government in Afghanistan, led 
by President Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah, 
should be applauded for their continued leadership 
and commitment to Afghanistan’s stability and secu-
rity. 
(4) Stability and security in Afghanistan rein-
forces stability and security in the region. 
(5) The best long-term guarantor of stability 
and security in Afghanistan is a stable unity govern-
ment and a capable Afghan National Defense and 
Security Forces (ANDSF). 
(6) The President’s current policy is to draw 
down from 9,800 to 5,500 United States troops by
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January 1, 2017. As the recent commander in Af-
ghanistan, General John Campbell, testified to the 
Senate Armed Services Committee, ‘‘the 5,500 [U.S. 
troops] plan was developed primarily around 
counterterrorism. There’s very limited train-advise- 
and-assist...in those numbers. To continue to build 
on the Afghan Security Forces, the gaps and seams 
in aviation, logistics, intelligence...we’d have to make 
some adjustments to that number.’’. 
(7) The President’s policy of limiting the num-
ber of United States troops that the commander can 
employ in Afghanistan is hindering the effectiveness 
of the United States mission therein. 
(8) Further, at the current policy of 9,800 
United States troops, the new commander of Oper-
ation Resolute Support in Afghanistan, General 
John ‘‘Mick’’ Nicholson, agreed in testimony with 
the Senate Armed Services Committee that the secu-
rity situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating 
rather than improving. 
(9) 
General 
John 
Campbell 
also 
stated 
‘‘. . .Afghan shortfalls will persist beyond 2016. Ca-
pability gaps still exist in fixed and rotary-wing avia-
tion, combined arms operations, intelligence collec-
tion and dissemination, and maintenance.’’.
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(10) General John Campbell further stated ‘‘I 
have the authority to protect coalition members 
against any insurgents. . .to attack the Taliban just 
because they’re Taliban, I do not have that author-
ity.’’. 
(11) The Taliban have made territorial gains 
and are holding terrain in key geographic areas in 
Afghanistan, including in Helmand Province. 
(12) The Taliban held the city of Kunduz, Af-
ghanistan, which is the first time the Taliban have 
held a major city in Afghanistan in 14 years. 
(13) The Haqqani Network, a designated for-
eign terrorist organization aligned with the Taliban, 
is the most lethal group on the battlefield in Afghan-
istan, and continues to provide safe haven to al- 
Qaeda. 
(14) The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 
(ISIL) has established an affiliate in Afghanistan. 
(15) Since the death of the Taliban’s leader, 
Mullah Mohammad Omar, and the ascendance of 
Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and Saraj Haqqani, head of 
the Haqqani Network, to Taliban leadership, the 
Taliban have not engaged in political reconciliation 
negotiations with the Government of Afghanistan.
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(16) The President has the statutory, legal au-
thority to strike the Taliban and the Haqqani Net-
work. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the President should authorize at least 
9,800 United States troops to continue the train, 
advise, and assist and counterterrorism missions in 
Afghanistan after 2016; 
(2) the President should provide the United 
States commander in Afghanistan with the authority 
to unilaterally strike the Taliban and the Haqqani 
Network; 
(3) the President should provide additional re-
sources to strike the Islamic State of Iraq and the 
Levant (ISIL) in Afghanistan; 
(4) the President should provide the United 
States commander in Afghanistan the authority to 
conduct the train, advise, and assist mission below 
the corps level of the Afghan National Defense and 
Security Forces (ANDSF); 
(5) the United States should provide United 
States Armed Forces lift and close air support to 
ANDSF units until the ANDSF has a fully capable,
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organic lift and close air support capability and ca-
pacity; 
(6) the United States should provide monetary 
and advisory support for 352,000 ANDSF personnel 
and 30,000 Afghan Local Police, including intel-
ligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support, 
through 2018; 
(7) it should continue to be a top priority to 
provide United States Armed Forces deployed to Af-
ghanistan with necessary medical, force protection, 
and combat search and rescue support; and 
(8) United States military personnel who are 
tasked with the mission of providing combat search 
and rescue support, casualty evacuation, and medical 
support should not be counted as part of any force 
management level limitation on the number of 
United States ground forces in Afghanistan. 
SEC. 1216. SPECIAL IMMIGRANT STATUS FOR CERTAIN AF-
GHANS. 
(a) ALIENS DESCRIBED.—Section 602(b)(2)(A)(ii)(I) 
of the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 (8 U.S.C. 
1101 note) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(I)(aa) by, or on behalf of, the 
United States Government, in the 
case of an alien submitting an appli-
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cation for Chief of Mission approval 
pursuant to subparagraph (D) before 
the date of the enactment of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2017; or 
‘‘(bb) in the case of an alien sub-
mitting an application for Chief of 
Mission approval pursuant to sub-
paragraph (D) on or after the date of 
the enactment of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2017, in a capacity that required 
the alien— 
‘‘(AA) to serve as an inter-
preter or translator for personnel 
of the Department of State or 
the United States Agency for 
International Development in Af-
ghanistan while traveling away 
from United States embassies or 
consulates with such personnel; 
‘‘(BB) to serve as an inter-
preter or translator for United 
States military personnel in Af-
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ghanistan while traveling off-base 
with such personnel; or 
‘‘(CC) to perform sensitive 
and trusted activities for United 
States military personnel sta-
tioned in Afghanistan; or’’. 
(b) NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS.—Clauses (i) and (ii) 
of section 602(b)(3)(F) of such Act are each amended by 
striking ‘‘December 31, 2016;’’ and inserting ‘‘December 
31, 2017;’’. 
(c) REPORT.—Section 602(b)(14) of such Act is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Not later than 60 days after 
the date of the enactment of this paragraph,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Not later than December 31, 2016, and 
annually thereafter through January 31, 2021,’’; 
and 
(2) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘under 
this section;’’ and inserting ‘‘under subclause (I) or 
(II)(bb) of paragraph (2)(A)(ii);’’. 
SEC. 1217. MODIFICATION TO SEMIANNUAL REPORT ON EN-
HANCING SECURITY AND STABILITY IN AF-
GHANISTAN. 
Subsection (b) of section 1225 of the Carl Levin and 
Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authoriza-
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tion Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 
Stat. 3550), as amended by section 1213 of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public 
Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1045), is further amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) AFGHAN PERSONNEL AND PAY SYSTEM.— 
A description of the status of the implementation of 
the Afghan Personnel and Pay System (APPS) at 
the Afghan Ministry of Interior and the Afghan 
Ministry of Defense for personnel funds provided 
through the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund, in-
cluding a description of the following: 
‘‘(A) The expected completion date of in-
stallation and full implementation and utiliza-
tion of the APPS. 
‘‘(B) If installation of the APPS is com-
plete at one, or both, ministries, the extent to 
which the APPS is being utilized to distribute 
personnel funds to the Afghan National Army 
and Afghan National Police. 
‘‘(C) If installation of the APPS is not 
complete at one, or both, ministries, or full im-
plementation and utilization of the APPS has 
not been achieved at one, or both, ministries, an 
explanation of any delays, any expected obsta-
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cles, and any additional support that may be 
needed for installation or full implementation 
and utilization. 
‘‘(D) Any examples of intentional delay or 
obstruction by members of the Government of 
Afghanistan, to include one, or both, ministries, 
or any sub-unit thereof, to installing or fully 
implementing or utilizing the APPS. 
‘‘(E) If the APPS is fully implemented at 
one, or both, ministries, the identified cost sav-
ings to date, due to the elimination of waste, 
fraud, and abuse at the ministry compared to 
the previous payroll system. If the APPS is not 
fully implemented at one, or both, ministries, 
the expected cost savings due to the elimination 
of waste, fraud, and abuse at the ministry once 
the APPS is fully implemented. 
‘‘(F) If the APPS is not fully implemented, 
what steps the United States and Afghanistan 
are taking to mitigate waste, fraud, and abuse 
in the disbursement of personnel funds provided 
through 
the 
Afghanistan 
Security 
Forces 
Fund.’’.
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SEC. 1218. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO DR. SHAKIL 
AFRIDI. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The attacks of September 11, 2001, killed 
approximately 3,000 people, most of whom were 
Americans, but also included hundreds of individuals 
with foreign citizenships, nearly 350 New York Fire 
Department personnel, and about 50 law enforce-
ment officers. 
(2) Downed United Airlines flight 93 was re-
portedly intended, under the control of the al-Qaeda 
high-jackers, to crash into the White House or the 
Capitol in an attempt to kill the President of the 
United States or Members of the United States Con-
gress. 
(3) The September 11, 2001, attacks were 
largely planned and carried out by the al-Qaeda ter-
rorist network led by Osama bin Laden and his dep-
uty Ayman al Zawahiri, after which Osama bin 
Laden enjoyed safe haven in Pakistan from where he 
continued to plot deadly attacks against the United 
States and the world. 
(4) The United States has obligated nearly $30 
billion between 2002 and 2014 in United States tax-
payer money for security and economic aid to Paki-
stan.
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(5) The United States very generously and 
swiftly responded to the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake 
in Pakistan with more than $200 million in emer-
gency aid and the support of several United States 
military aircraft, approximately 1,000 United States 
military personnel, including medical specialists, 
thousands of tents, blankets, water containers and a 
variety of other emergency equipment. 
(6) The United States again generously and 
swiftly contributed approximately $150 million in 
emergency aid to Pakistan following the 2010 Paki-
stan flood, in addition to the service of nearly twenty 
United States military helicopters, their flight crews, 
and other resources to assist the Pakistan Army’s 
relief efforts. 
(7) The United States continues to work tire-
lessly to support Pakistan’s economic development, 
including millions of dollars allocated towards the 
development of Pakistan’s energy infrastructure, 
health services and education system. 
(8) The United States and Pakistan continue to 
have many critical shared interests, both economic 
and security related, which could be the foundation 
for a positive and mutually beneficial partnership.
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(9) Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician, is 
a hero to whom the people of the United States, 
Pakistan and the world owe a debt of gratitude for 
his help in finally locating Osama bin Laden before 
more innocent American, Pakistani and other lives 
were lost to this terrorist leader. 
(10) Pakistan, the United States and the inter-
national community had failed for nearly 10 years 
following attacks of September 11, 2001, to locate 
and bring Osama bin Laden, who continued to kill 
innocent civilians in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, 
Africa and the United States, to justice without the 
help of Dr. Afridi. 
(11) The Government of Pakistan’s imprison-
ment of Dr. Afridi presents a serious and growing 
impediment to the United States’ bilateral relations 
with Pakistan. 
(12) The Government of Pakistan has leveled 
and allowed baseless charges against Dr. Afridi in a 
politically motivated, spurious legal process. 
(13) Dr. Afridi is currently imprisoned by the 
Government of Pakistan, a deplorable and uncon-
scionable situation which calls into question Paki-
stan’s actual commitment to countering terrorism
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and undermines the notion that Pakistan is a true 
ally in the struggle against terrorism. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that Dr. Shakil Afridi is an international hero and 
that the Government of Pakistan should release him im-
mediately from prison. 
SEC. 1219. REPORT ON ACCESS TO FINANCIAL RECORDS OF 
THE GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN TO 
AUDIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ASSISTANCE 
FOR AFGHANISTAN. 
Not later than December 31, 2017, the Secretary of 
Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the extent 
to which the Combined Security Transition Command-Af-
ghanistan has adequate access to financial records of the 
Government of Afghanistan to audit the use of funds au-
thorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made 
available for fiscal year 2017 for assistance for Afghani-
stan. 
Subtitle C—Matters Relating to 
Syria and Iraq 
SEC. 1221. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY 
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE VETTED 
SYRIAN OPPOSITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 1209 of 
the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National
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Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 
Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3541) is amended by striking 
‘‘December 31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2017’’. 
(b) REPROGRAMMING
REQUIREMENT.—Subsection 
(f) of such section, as amended by section 1225(e) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
(Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1055), is further amend-
ed— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘December 
31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2017’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) 
CERTIFICATION
ACCOMPANYING
RE-
PROGRAMMING
REQUESTS.—Each request under 
paragraph (1) shall include a certification of the 
Secretary of Defense that— 
‘‘(A) a required number and type of 
United States Armed Forces have been de-
ployed to support the strategy for Syria re-
quired under section 1225(b) of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
(Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 1054) and to 
support a plan to retake and hold Raqqa, Syria; 
and
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‘‘(B) a required number and type of 
United States Armed Forces have been de-
ployed to support the elements of the Syrian 
opposition and other Syrian groups and individ-
uals that are to be trained and equipped under 
this section to ensure that such elements, 
groups, and individuals are able to defend 
themselves from attacks by the Islamic State of 
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Government of 
Syria forces consistent with the purposes set 
forth in subsection (a).’’. 
SEC. 1222. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY 
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO COUNTER THE 
ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND THE LEVANT. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) it should be the policy of the United States 
to support, within the framework of the Iraqi Con-
stitution, the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, the Iraqi 
Security Forces, and Sunni tribal forces in the fight 
against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; 
(2) recognizing the important role of the Iraqi 
Kurdish Peshmerga within the military campaign 
against ISIL in Iraq, the United States should pro-
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vide arms, training, and appropriate equipment di-
rectly to the Kurdistan Regional Government; 
(3) efforts should be made to ensure trans-
parency and oversight mechanisms are in place for 
oversight of United States assistance to combat 
waste, fraud, and abuse; and 
(4) securing safe areas, including the Nineveh 
Plain, for purposes of resettling and reintegrating 
ethnic and religious minorities, including victims of 
genocide, into their homelands, is a critical compo-
nent of a safe, secure, and sovereign Iraq. 
(b) AUTHORITY.—Subsection (a) of section 1236 of 
the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 
Law 113–291; 128 Stat. 3559) is amended by striking 
‘‘December 31, 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2017’’. 
(c) FUNDING.—Subsection (g) of such section, as 
amended by section 1223 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 
Stat. 1049), is further amended— 
(1) by striking the first sentence and inserting 
the following: ‘‘Of the amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated in the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2017 for Overseas Contingency
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Operations in title XV for fiscal year 2017, there are 
authorized to be appropriated $680,000,000 to carry 
out this section.’’; and 
(2) by striking the second sentence. 
(d) SUBMISSION
OF PLAN REQUIREMENT.—Sub-
section (k) of such section is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(k) SUBMISSION
OF PLAN REQUIREMENT.—Not 
more than 75 percent of the funds authorized to be appro-
priated under this section may be obligated or expended 
until not earlier than 15 days after the date on which the 
Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary 
of State, submits to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a plan to re-take Mosul, Iraq from the Islamic State 
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to hold Mosul, Iraq.’’. 
(e) BRIEFING AND AUTHORITY TO ASSIST DIRECTLY 
CERTAIN COVERED GROUPS.—Subsection (l) of such sec-
tion, as so amended, is further amended— 
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘AS-
SESSMENT’’ and inserting ‘‘BRIEFING’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
‘‘ASSESSMENT’’ and inserting ‘‘BRIEFING’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016’’ and
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inserting ‘‘National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2017’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees an assess-
ment of’’ and inserting ‘‘provide to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a brief-
ing that includes an assessment of’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees an update 
of’’ and inserting ‘‘provide to the appro-
priate congressional committees a briefing 
that includes an update of’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘the assessment is 
submitted’’ and inserting ‘‘the briefing is 
provided’’; and 
(D) by striking subparagraph (D); 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘If the President’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘the Secretary of 
Defense’’ and inserting ‘‘Of the funds au-
thorized to be appropriated under this sec-
tion, $50,000,000 shall be available to the 
Secretary of Defense’’;
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(ii) by striking ‘‘is authorized’’; 
(iii) by striking ‘‘assistance’’ and in-
serting ‘‘stipends and sustainment’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Of the funds made available to 
carry out this subparagraph, not less than 
33 percent shall be available for stipends 
and sustainment for the group described in 
subparagraph (D)(i).’’. 
(B) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘COST- 
SHARING’’ and inserting ‘‘SUBMISSION OF 
PLAN’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘cost-sharing’’ and in-
serting ‘‘submission of plan’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (D) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(D) COVERED GROUPS.—The groups de-
scribed in this subparagraph are the following 
groups that are directly engaged in the cam-
paign for Mosul, Iraq: 
‘‘(i) The Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga. 
‘‘(ii) Sunni tribal security forces, or 
other local security forces, including ethnic
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and religious minority groups, with a na-
tional security mission.’’. 
(f) PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE AND REPORT ON 
EQUIPMENT
OR SUPPLIES TRANSFERRED
TO
OR AC-
QUIRED BY VIOLENT EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS.— 
(1) 
PROHIBITION.—Assistance 
authorized 
under section 1236 of the Carl Levin and Howard 
P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 128 
Stat. 3559), as so amended, may not be provided to 
the Government of Iraq after the date that is 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act un-
less the Secretary of Defense certifies to the appro-
priate congressional committees, after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, that the Government of 
Iraq has taken such actions as may be reasonably 
necessary to safeguard against such assistance being 
transferred to or acquired by violent extremist orga-
nizations. 
(2) BRIEFING.— 
(A) BRIEFING REQUIRED.—Not later than 
30 days after the date on which the Secretary 
of Defense makes any determination that equip-
ment or supplies provided pursuant to section 
1236(a) of the Carl Levin and Howard P.
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‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 
113–291; 128 Stat. 3559), as so amended, have 
been transferred to or acquired by a violent ex-
tremist organization, the Secretary shall provide 
to the appropriate congressional committees a 
briefing that contains a description of the deter-
mination of the Secretary and the transfer to or 
acquisition by the violent extremist organiza-
tion. 
(B) ELEMENTS.—Each briefing under 
paragraph (1) shall include, with respect to the 
transfer covered by the report, the following: 
(i) An assessment of the type and 
quantity of equipment or supplies trans-
ferred to the violent extremist organiza-
tion. 
(ii) A description of the criteria used 
to determine that the organization is a vio-
lent extremist organization. 
(iii) A description, if known, of how 
the equipment or supplies were transferred 
to or acquired by the violent extremist or-
ganization.
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(iv) If the equipment or supplies are 
determined to remain under the current 
control of the violent extremist organiza-
tion, a description of the organization, in-
cluding its relationship, if any, to the secu-
rity forces of the Government of Iraq. 
(v) A description of the end use moni-
toring or other policies and procedures in 
place in order to prevent equipment or 
supplies to be transferred to or acquired by 
violent extremist organizations. 
(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COM-
MITTEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(i) the congressional defense commit-
tees; and 
(ii) the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Represent-
atives. 
(B) 
VIOLENT
EXTREMIST
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘‘violent extremist organiza-
tion’’ means an organization that—
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(b) AUTHORITY.—Subsection (a) of such section is 
amended by striking ‘‘transition’’ and inserting ‘‘secu-
rity’’. 
(c) AMOUNT
AVAILABLE.—Such section, as so 
amended, is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2016’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017’’. 
SEC. 1224. REPORT ON PREVENTION OF FUTURE TER-
RORIST ORGANIZATIONS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report that describes the political, economic, and 
security conditions in Iraq and Syria that would be nec-
essary and sufficient to prevent the formation of future 
terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria that may present 
a danger to the United States, its allies, and the stability 
of Iraq, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East region. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) A detailed construct of the conditions that 
must be met for the Islamic State to be considered
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defeated and a successful conclusion to Operation 
Inherent Resolve achieved. 
(2) A detailed explanation of the political, eco-
nomic, and security conditions that would— 
(A) provide reasonable confidence a new 
terrorist organization, including a successor to 
al Qaeda or Islamic State, or an unrelated or-
ganization, would not form in the region in the 
short and long term; 
(B) decrease probability of terrorist at-
tacks on the United States, its allies, and coun-
tries in the Middle East; 
(C) eliminate safe havens for terrorist or-
ganizations in Syria and Iraq; and 
(D) diminish refugee flows within and out 
of Iraq and Syria. 
(3) A strategy for the United States and its al-
lies and partners to facilitate those political, eco-
nomic, and security conditions in the short and long 
term, including a description of— 
(A) the posture, roles, and activities of the 
Department of Defense in Iraq and Syria and 
the region; 
(B) the roles and responsibilities of United 
States’ allies and regional partners; and
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(C) the roles and responsibilities for other 
countries and groups in the region, including 
Kurds, Shia, and Sunni groups in Iraq and 
Syria, and Saudi Arabia and Iran. 
(4) Any other matters the Secretary of Defense 
may determine to be appropriate. 
(c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 
a classified annex if necessary. 
SEC. 1225. SEMIANNUAL REPORT ON INTEGRATION OF PO-
LITICAL 
AND 
MILITARY 
STRATEGIES 
AGAINST ISIL. 
(a) REPORTS REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of State shall jointly submit to the 
appropriate committees of Congress, on a semi-
annual basis, a report on the political and military 
strategies to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the 
Levant. 
(2) SUBMITTAL.— A report under paragraph 
(1) shall be submitted not later than June 15 each 
year, for the 6-month period ending on May 31 of 
such year, and not later than December 15 each 
year, for the 6-month period ending on November 30 
of such year.
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(3) FORM.—Each report required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—Each report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) Military strategy and objectives of the 
United States Department of Defense and coalition 
partners against the Islamic State in Iraq and the 
Levant (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
‘‘ISIL’’); 
(2) Political strategy and objectives of the 
United States Department of State and coalition 
partners to address the political roots underlying the 
growth of ISIL, including— 
(A) a comprehensive political plan for 
achieving a transition plan, interim government, 
and free and fair internationally monitored elec-
tions after the end of the current government 
headed by Bashar al-Assad; 
(B) a comprehensive political plan for Iraqi 
political reform and reconciliation between eth-
nic groups and political parties (including a 
plan for passage of national guard legislation, 
repeal of de-Baathification laws, and a plan for
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equitable petroleum revenue sharing with the 
Kurdistan Regional Government); and 
(C) a critical assessment of the current 
size and structure of the Iraqi Security Forces 
(hereinafter in this section referred to as 
‘‘ISF’’) including an assessment of— 
(i) provincial and neighborhood mili-
tias and special counterterrorism units; 
(ii) any changes in strength and mix 
of force structure within the ISF; 
(iii) levels of recruitment, retention, 
and attrition within ISF forces; and 
(iv) the operating budget of the ISF. 
(c) REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 
to the appropriate committees of Congress a review of— 
(1) the transparency and anti-fraud, internal 
controls and accounting, and other measures under-
taken by the Government of Iraq for the ISF, in-
cluding irregular forces, relating to cash transfers 
and other assistance provided through the Iraq 
Train and Equip Fund; and 
(2) the financial management capacity and ac-
countability of United States direct assistance with
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respect to all recipients of funding under the Iraq 
Train and Equip Fund. 
(d) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-
tees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. 
(e) SUNSET.—The requirements under this section 
shall expire on the date that is three years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1226. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONDEMNING CON-
TINUING ATTACKS ON MEDICAL FACILITIES 
IN SYRIA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Attacks intentionally targeting civilians, 
medical personnel, or medical facilities constitute 
grave violations of international humanitarian law. 
(2) In Syria, schools, markets, and hospitals 
are routinely destroyed in attacks and medical pro-
viders routinely targeted for attacks.
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(3) Physicians for Human Rights has docu-
mented at least 350 airstrikes against medical facili-
ties and the deaths of over 700 medical personnel in 
Syria since 2011. 
(4) So far in May 2016, there have been at 
least six attacks on medical facilities in the city of 
Aleppo alone in less than a week killing dozens, in-
cluding the last pediatrician still working in Aleppo. 
(5) These attacks seriously hinder access to 
medical care and are compounded by ongoing efforts 
by the Syrian regime to block or limit humanitarian 
aid to Syrians. 
(6) Secretary of State John Kerry has con-
demned these attacks arguing, ‘‘there is no justifica-
tion for this horrific violence that targets civilians or 
medical facilities or first responders no matter who 
it is, whether it’s a member of the opposition retali-
ating or the regime in its brutality against the civil-
ians which has continued for five years.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Department of Defense and all other 
appropriate United States Government agencies 
should continue to strongly condemn and call for an 
immediate end to attacks on medical facilities and
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medical providers in Syria and work to ensure that 
doctors can do their job and provide care to the 
those in need; 
(2) humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq, exac-
erbated by targeted attacks on medical facilities, 
personnel, and schools, threaten the achievement of 
United States goals in the region, such as destroying 
and dismantling the Islamic State in Iraq and the 
Levant (ISIL) and peace and stability in the region, 
including Syria; 
(3) the United States and international commu-
nity should do more to support medical professionals 
and medical nonprofit organizations working in 
Syria, at great risk to their personal well-being, to 
treat the ill and infirm and ensure some level of 
medical care for Syrians; and 
(4) the Department of Defense is strongly en-
couraged to support, where appropriate, other ap-
propriate United States Government agencies and 
entities engaged in meeting urgent and increasing 
humanitarian and medical needs in Syria, especially 
in areas where medical facilities and providers have 
been targeted by the Syrian regime, ISIL, or Al- 
Qaeda.
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SEC. 1227. UNITED NATIONS PROCESSING CENTER IN 
ERBIL, IRAQI KURDISTAN, TO ASSIST INTER-
NATIONALLY-DISPLACED COMMUNITIES. 
The President shall instruct the United States Per-
manent Representative to the United Nations to use the 
voice and vote of the United States at the United Nations 
to seek the establishment of a United Nations processing 
center in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, to assist internationally- 
displaced communities. 
SEC. 1228. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BUSINESS PRACTICES 
OF THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA 
(ISIS). 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) For nearly two years, the Islamic State of 
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has capitalized on established 
oil production facilities throughout Iraq and Syria in 
order to fund its jihadist operations globally. 
(2) Oil production and sale represent the larg-
est and most vulnerable income factors for ISIS. 
(3) In 2015, ISIS oil sales brought in over 
$400,000,000 to prop up the terror group’s oper-
ations world-wide. 
(4) ISIS has executed a robust recruitment 
scheme to staff and operate the oil facilities within 
the group’s control and maintained smuggling routes 
for the sale of that oil.
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(5) Further disrupting ISIS oil production and 
sale structures would be minimally invasive but 
would effectively curtail the terror group’s ability to 
self-finance. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States should focus all necessary 
efforts in the Middle East to disrupt the financing of the 
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through oil produc-
tion and sale. 
SEC. 1229. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF MAN-PORTABLE 
AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO ANY ENTITY IN 
SYRIA. 
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by 
this Act or otherwise made available for the Department 
of Defense for fiscal year 2017 may be obligated or ex-
pended to transfer or facilitate the transfer of man-port-
able air defense systems (MANPADS) to any entity in 
Syria. 
Subtitle D—Matters Relating to the 
Russian Federation 
SEC. 1231. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO APPROVE OR 
OTHERWISE PERMIT APPROVAL OF CERTAIN 
REQUESTS BY RUSSIAN FEDERATION UNDER 
OPEN SKIES TREATY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) COVERED STATE PARTY.—The term ‘‘cov-
ered state party’’ means a foreign country that— 
(A) is a state party to the Open Skies 
Treaty; and 
(B) is a United States ally. 
(3) OBSERVATION
AIRCRAFT, 
OBSERVATION 
FLIGHT, AND SENSOR.—The terms ‘‘observation air-
craft’’, ‘‘observation flight’’, and ‘‘sensor’’ have the 
meanings given such terms in Article II of the Open 
Skies Treaty. 
(4) OPEN
SKIES
TREATY.—The term ‘‘Open 
Skies Treaty’’ means the Treaty on Open Skies, 
done at Helsinki March 24, 1992, and entered into 
force January 1, 2002.
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(b) LIMITATION.—None of the funds authorized to 
be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act 
or any other Act for fiscal year 2017 or any subsequent 
fiscal year may be used to approve or otherwise permit 
the approval of a request by the Russian Federation to 
carry out an initial or exhibition observation flight or cer-
tification event of an observation aircraft on which is in-
stalled an upgraded sensor with infrared or synthetic aper-
ture radar capability over the territory of the United 
States or over the territory of a covered state party under 
the Open Skies Treaty unless and until the Secretary of 
Defense, jointly with the Secretary of State, the Secretary 
of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director 
of National Intelligence, and the commander of U.S. Stra-
tegic Command and the Commander of U.S. Northern 
Command in the case of a flight over the territory of the 
United States and the Commander of U.S. European 
Command in the case of other flights, submits to the ap-
propriate congressional committees the following: 
(1) CERTIFICATION.—A certification that— 
(A) the Russian Federation— 
(i) is taking no action that is incon-
sistent with the terms of the Open Skies 
Treaty;
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(ii) is not exceeding the imagery limits 
set forth in the Treaty; and 
(iii) is allowing overflights by covered 
state parties over all of Moscow, Chechnya, 
Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Kaliningrad 
without restriction and without inconsist-
ency to requirements under the Open Skies 
Treaty; and 
(B) covered state parties have been noti-
fied and briefed on concerns of the intelligence 
community (as defined in section 3 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) 
regarding upgraded sensors used under the 
Open Skies Treaty. 
(2) REPORT.—A report on the Open Skies 
Treaty that includes the following: 
(A) The annual costs to the United States 
associated with countermeasures to combat po-
tential abuses of Russian flights carried out 
under the Open Skies Treaty over European 
and United States territories with a sensor de-
scribed in paragraph (1)(B). 
(B) A plan to replace the Open Skies 
Treaty architecture with a more robust sharing 
of overhead commercial imagery, consistent
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with United States national security, with cov-
ered state parties, excluding the Russian Fed-
eration. 
(C) An evaluation by the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence of matters concerning how an 
observation flight described in subparagraph 
(A) could implicate intelligence activities of the 
Russian Federation in the United States and 
United States counterintelligence activities and 
vulnerabilities. 
(D) An assessment of how such informa-
tion is used by the Russian Federation, for 
what purpose, and how the information fits into 
the Russian Federation’s overall collection pos-
ture. 
(c) NOTICE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 14 days after 
the completion of an observation flight over the 
United States, the Secretary of Defense, jointly with 
the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, the Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, and the Director of National Intel-
ligence, shall notify the appropriate congressional 
committees of such flight.
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(2) CONTENTS.—Notice submitted for a flight 
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) A description of the flight path. 
(B) An analysis of whether and the extent 
to which any United States critical infrastruc-
ture was the subject of image capture activities 
of such flight. 
(C) An estimate for the mitigation costs 
imposed on the Department of Defense or other 
United States Government agencies by such 
flight. 
(D) An assessment of how such informa-
tion is used by the Russian Federation, for 
what purpose, and how the information fits into 
the Russian Federation’s overall collection pos-
ture. 
(d) ADDITIONAL LIMITATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not more than 65 percent of 
the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act for fis-
cal year 2017 year may be used to carry out any ac-
tivities to implement the Open Skies Treaty until the 
requirements described in paragraph (2) are met.
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(2) REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED.—The require-
ments described in this paragraph are the following: 
(A) The Director of National Intelligence 
and the Director of the National Geospatial-In-
telligence Agency jointly submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report on the 
following: 
(i) Whether it is possible, consistent 
with United States national security inter-
ests, to provide enhanced access to United 
States commercial imagery or other United 
States capabilities, consistent with the pro-
tection of sources and methods and United 
States national security, to covered state 
parties that is qualitatively similar to that 
derived by flights over the territory of the 
United States or over the territory of a 
covered state party under the Open Skies 
Treaty, on a more timely basis. 
(ii) What the cost would be to provide 
enhanced access to such commercial im-
agery or other capabilities as compared to 
the current imagery sharing through the 
Open Skies Treaty.
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(iii) Whether any new agreements 
would be needed to provide enhanced ac-
cess to such commercial imagery or other 
capabilities and what would be required to 
obtain such agreements. 
(iv) Whether transitioning to such 
commercial imagery or other capabilities 
from the current imagery sharing through 
the Open Skies Treaty would reduce op-
portunities by the Russian Federation to 
exceed imagery limits and reduce utility for 
Russian intelligence collection against the 
United States or covered state parties. 
(v) How such commercial imagery or 
other capabilities would compare to the 
current imagery sharing through the Open 
Skies Treaty. 
(B) The Secretary of State, in consultation 
with the Director of the National Geospatial In-
telligence Agency and the Secretary of Defense, 
submits to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees an unclassified report that— 
(i) details the costs for implementa-
tion of the Open Skies Treaty, including—
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(I) mitigation costs relating to 
national security; and 
(II) aircraft, sensors, and related 
overhead and treaty implementation 
costs for covered state parties; and 
(ii) describes the impact on contribu-
tions by covered state parties and relation-
ships among covered state parties in the 
context of the Open Skies Treaty, the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and 
any other venues for United States part-
nership dialogue and activity. 
SEC. 1232. MILITARY RESPONSE OPTIONS TO RUSSIAN FED-
ERATION VIOLATION OF INF TREATY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—An amount equal to $10,000,000 
of the amount authorized to be appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Defense for fiscal 
year 2017 to provide support services to the Executive Of-
fice of the President shall be withheld from obligation or 
expenditure until the Secretary of Defense— 
(1) submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees the plan for the development of military 
capabilities as described in paragraph (1) of section 
1243(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act
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for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 129 Stat. 
1062); and 
(2) carries out the development of capabilities 
pursuant to such plan in accordance with the re-
quirements described in paragraph (3) of such sec-
tion. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 1243(e) of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016. 
SEC. 1233. LIMITATION ON MILITARY COOPERATION BE-
TWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE RUS-
SIAN FEDERATION. 
(a) LIMITATION.—None of the funds authorized to 
be appropriated for fiscal year 2017 for the Department 
of Defense may be used for any bilateral military-to-mili-
tary cooperation between the Governments of the United 
States and the Russian Federation until the Secretary of 
Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, cer-
tifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— 
(1) the Russian Federation has ceased its occu-
pation of Ukrainian territory and its aggressive ac-
tivities that threaten the sovereignty and territorial 
integrity of Ukraine and members of the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization; and
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(2) the Russian Federation is abiding by the 
terms of and taking steps in support of the Minsk 
Protocols regarding a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. 
(b) NONAPPLICABILITY.—The limitation in sub-
section (a) shall not apply to— 
(1) any activities necessary to ensure the com-
pliance of the United States with its obligations or 
the exercise of rights of the United States under any 
bilateral or multilateral arms control or nonprolifera-
tion agreement or any other treaty obligation of the 
United States; and 
(2) any activities required to provide logistical 
or other support to the conduct of United States or 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization military oper-
ations in Afghanistan or the withdrawal from Af-
ghanistan. 
(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary of Defense may waive 
the limitation in subsection (a) if the Secretary of Defense, 
in coordination with the Secretary of State— 
(1) determines that the waiver is in the national 
security interest of the United States; and 
(2) submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees— 
(A) a notification that the waiver is in the 
national security interest of the United States
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and a description of the national security inter-
est covered by the waiver; and 
(B) a report explaining why the Secretary 
of Defense cannot make the certification under 
subsection (a). 
(d) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN MILITARY BASES.— 
The certification requirement specified in paragraph (1) 
of subsection (a) shall not apply to military bases of the 
Russian Federation in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula oper-
ating in accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status 
and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet Stationing on the 
Territory of Ukraine. 
(e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives.
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SEC. 1234. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON UNITED STATES EF-
FORTS IN EUROPE TO REASSURE UNITED 
STATES PARTNERS AND ALLIES AND DETER 
AGGRESSION BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
RUSSIAN FEDERATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) The Russian Federation, under the leader-
ship of President Vladimir Putin, continues to dem-
onstrate its intent to expand its sphere of influence 
and limit Western influence both regionally and 
globally. 
(2) In March 2016, at a House Armed Services 
Committee hearing discussing worldwide threats, 
Major General James Marrs, Director for Intel-
ligence in the Joint Staff stated, ‘‘principally, what 
we are seeing in Russia. . .is just a breadth of capa-
bilities from strategic systems to anti access area de-
nial to even, I would say, a growing adeptness at op-
erating sort of just short of traditional military con-
flict that is posing a significant challenge in the fu-
ture’’. 
(3) In July 2015, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, testified to the 
Senate Armed Services Committee, that ‘‘Russia 
presents the greatest threat to our national secu-
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rity’’. In November 2015, Secretary of Defense, Ash-
ton Carter, discussed the need for ‘‘adapting our 
operational posture and contingency plans. . .to 
deter Russia’s aggression’’. 
(4) In February 2016, the Rand Corporation 
released its report, ‘‘Reinforcing Deterrence on 
NATO’s Eastern Flank’’, concluding that at a max-
imum it would take Russian forces approximately 60 
hours to reach the capitals of Estonia and Latvia, 
exhibiting the challenge to North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) member countries of success-
fully defending such territory with its current pos-
ture and capability. 
(5) In February 2016, the Center for Strategic 
and International Studies released its report, ‘‘Eval-
uating U.S. Army Force Posture in Europe’’, calling 
for increased pre-positioned sets of United States 
military equipment, increased rotational forces and 
associated enablers, increased logistics capabilities, 
and increased investment in combating unconven-
tional warfare methods in Europe. 
(6) In February 2016, the National Commis-
sion on the Future of the Army released its findings 
and recommendations, which included Recommenda-
tion 14 calling for stationing an Armored Brigade
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Combat Team Forward in Europe and Rec-
ommendation 15 calling for the conversion of Army 
Europe Aviation Headquarters to a warfighting mis-
sion command. 
(7) In the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 114–92) and the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2016 (Public Law 113–291), Congress authorized 
approximately $1,800,000,000 for the European Re-
assurance Initiative to reassure allies through ex-
panded United States military presence in Europe 
through rotational deployments of United States 
troops, bilateral and multilateral exercises, improved 
infrastructure, 
increased 
pre-positioned 
United 
States military equipment, and building partnership 
capacity. 
(8) The budget of the President for fiscal year 
2017 submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) 
of 
title 
31, 
United 
States 
Code, 
includes 
$3,420,000,000 for the European Reassurance Ini-
tiative to begin the transition from primarily reas-
suring United States partners and allies to deterring 
the Russian Federation. 
(9) The request encompasses a large increase of 
conventional resources, including additional rota-
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tional deployments of United States troops and pre- 
positioning an Armored Brigade Combat Team’s 
worth of equipment into Europe. 
(10) The request also includes increased fund-
ing for unconventional warfare resources, including 
cyber and special operations forces, as well as for in-
telligence and indicators and warning. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United 
States to reassure United States partners and allies 
in Europe and to work with United States partners 
and allies to deter aggression by the Government of 
the Russian Federation in order to enhance regional 
and global security and stability. 
(2) CONDUCT OF POLICY.—The policy described 
in paragraph (1) shall, among other things, be car-
ried out through a comprehensive defense strategy 
and guidance to outline the future path of defense 
resources and capabilities in the European theater. 
Such strategy and guidance shall include— 
(A) use and expansion of conventional 
methods, including increased United States 
presence, pre-positioning of United States mili-
tary equipment, increased infrastructure, and 
building partnership capacity in Europe;
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(B) emphasis on developing capabilities for 
countering unconventional methods of warfare, 
including cyber warfare, economic warfare, in-
formation operations, and intelligence oper-
ations; and 
(C) encouraging security assistance and 
capabilities of partners and allies, including 
NATO member countries. 
SEC. 1235. MODIFICATION OF UKRAINE SECURITY ASSIST-
ANCE INITIATIVE. 
(a) AUTHORITY
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE.—Sub-
section (a) of section 1250 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114– 
92; 129 Stat. 1068) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Of the amounts’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘the Secretary of Defense’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The Secretary of Defense’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘is authorized’’ before ‘‘to pro-
vide’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS.—Subsection (c) of 
such section is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1); 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; 
(3) in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated)—