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‘‘Missile Procurement, Air Force, 1995/1997’’,
$20,978,000; and
‘‘Missile Procurement, Air Force, 1996/1998’’,
$16,782,400.
SEC. 8095. None of the funds in this or any other
Act may be used by the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency for any mapping, charting, and geodesy activities
unless contracts for such services are awarded in accord-
ance with the qualifications based selection process in 40
U.S.C. 541 et seq. and 10 U.S.C. 2855: Provided, That
an exception shall be provided for such services that are
critical to national security after a written notification has
been submitted by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate.
SEC. 8096. Funds made available to the Civil Air Pa-
trol in this Act under the heading ‘‘Drug Interdiction and
Counter-Drug Activities, Defense’’ may be used for the
Civil Air Patrol Corporation’s counterdrug program, in-
cluding its demand reduction program involving youth
programs, as well as operational and training drug recon-
naissance missions for federal, state and local government
agencies; for administrative costs, including the hiring of
Civil Air Patrol Corporation employees; for travel and per
diem expenses of Civil Air Patrol Corporation personnel
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in support of those missions; and for equipment needed
for mission support or performance: Provided, That of
these funds, $300,000 shall be made available to establish
and operate a distance learning program: Provided further,
That the Department of the Air Force should waive reim-
bursement from the Federal, State and local government
agencies for the use of these funds.
SEC. 8097. The Secretary of Defense shall undertake
a review of all distributed learning education and training
programs in the Department of Defense and shall issue
a plan to implement a department-wide, standardized,
cost-effective Advanced Distributed Learning framework
to achieve the goals of commonality, interoperability, and
reuse: Provided, That the Secretary shall report to Con-
gress on the results of this review and present a detailed
implementation and budget plan no later than July 30,
1999.
SEC. 8098. None of the funds in this Act may be
available for the purchase by the Department of Defense
of cross deck pendants for arresting aircraft on U.S. Navy
aircraft carriers unless such cross deck pendants are man-
ufactured in the United States from components which are
substantially manufactured in the United States: Pro-
vided, That when adequate domestic supplies are not
available to meet Department of Defense requirements on
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a timely basis, the Secretary of the military department
responsible for the procurement may waive this restriction
on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate that such an acquisition must be
made in order to acquire capability for national security
purposes.
SEC. 8099. None of the funds in this or any other
Act shall be available to any Reserve Component to estab-
lish new activities to perform depot level maintenance and
remanufacture of any equipment in the Department of De-
fense inventory unless the Secretary of Defense first cer-
tifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate, on a case-by-case basis,
that (a) insufficient workload capacity is available at exist-
ing government or private sector depot maintenance facili-
ties currently used by the Reserve Components for similar
work; and (b) an in-depth analysis has been performed
comparing the cost of any proposed expansion of depot
facilities versus the cost of performing the same work at
existing depot facilities or by the private sector.
SEC. 8100. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the TRICARE managed care support contracts in ef-
fect, or in final stages of acquisition as of September 30,
1998, may be extended for two years: Provided, That any
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such extension may only take place if the Secretary of De-
fense determines that it is in the best interest of the gov-
ernment: Provided further, That any contract extension
shall be based on the price in the final best and final offer
for the last year of the existing contract as adjusted for
inflation and other factors mutually agreed to by the con-
tractor and the government: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, all future
TRICARE managed care support contracts replacing con-
tracts in effect, or in the final stages of acquisition as of
September 30, 1998, may include a base contract period
for transition and up to seven one-year option periods.
SEC. 8101. Notwithstanding any other provision in
this Act, the total amount appropriated in this Act is here-
by reduced by $204,100,000 to reflect savings from re-
vised economic assumptions, to be distributed as follows:
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Army’’, $4,000,000;
‘‘Missile Procurement, Army’’, $4,000,000;
‘‘Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat
Vehicles, Army’’, $4,000,000;
‘‘Procurement
of
Ammunition,
Army’’,
$3,000,000;
‘‘Other Procurement, Army’’, $9,000,000;
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, $22,000,000;
‘‘Weapons Procurement, Navy’’, $4,000,000;
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‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Ma-
rine Corps’’, $1,000,000;
‘‘Shipbuilding
and
Conversion,
Navy’’,
$18,000,000;
‘‘Other Procurement, Navy’’, $12,000,000;
‘‘Procurement, Marine Corps’’, $2,000,000;
‘‘Aircraft
Procurement,
Air
Force’’,
$23,000,000;
‘‘Missile Procurement, Air Force’’, $5,200,000;
‘‘Procurement
of
Ammunition,
Air
Force’’,
$1,000,000;
‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, $4,900,000;
‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’, $5,100,000;
‘‘Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction,
Army’’, $3,000,000;
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Army’’, $10,000,000;
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Navy’’, $18,500,000;
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Air Force’’, $26,300,000; and
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Defense-Wide’’, $24,100,000:
Provided, That these reductions shall be applied propor-
tionally to each budget activity, activity group and sub-