year covered by the budget, full funding of procure-
ment of such unit in that fiscal year; 
(2) cancellation provisions in the contract do 
not include consideration of recurring manufacturing 
costs of the contractor associated with the produc-
tion of unfunded units to be delivered under the con-
tract; 
(3) the contract provides that payments to the 
contractor under the contract shall not be made in 
advance of incurred costs on funded units; and 
(4) the contract does not provide for a price ad-
justment based on a failure to award a follow-on 
contract. 
Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be 
used for multiyear procurement contracts for CH-53K 
Heavy Lift helicopters, and USS Virginia Class (SSN- 
774). 
SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the op-
eration and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are 
hereby appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, 
United States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance 
costs under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code: 
Provided, That such funds may also be obligated for hu-
manitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to author-
ized operations and pursuant to authority granted in sec-
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tion 401 of title 10, United States Code, and these obliga-
tions shall be reported as required by section 401(d) of 
title 10, United States Code: Provided further, That funds 
available for operation and maintenance shall be available 
for providing humanitarian and similar assistance by 
using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the 
Pacific Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, 
pursuant to the Compact of Free Association as author-
ized by Public Law 99–239: Provided further, That upon 
a determination by the Secretary of the Army that such 
action is beneficial for graduate medical education pro-
grams conducted at Army medical facilities located in Ha-
waii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provi-
sion of medical services at such facilities and transpor-
tation to such facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for 
civilian patients from American Samoa, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Is-
lands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and 
Guam. 
SEC. 8012. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate a report on ex-
cessive contractor payments that exceed the thresholds es-
tablished in 10 U.S.C. chapter 271 ‘‘Truthful Cost or 
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Pricing Data (Truth in Negotiations)’’ or 41 U.S.C. chap-
ter 35 ‘‘Truthful Cost or Pricing Data’’ and with respect 
to which none of the exceptions to certified cost or pricing 
data requirements apply. 
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall also 
include the following: 
(1) The amounts collected, adjusted, or offset 
from contractors as a result of providing defective 
cost and pricing data; 
(2) The mechanisms used to identify violations 
of 10 U.S.C. chapter 271 or 41 U.S.C. chapter 35; 
(3) Disciplinary actions taken by the Depart-
ment of Defense when violations of 10 U.S.C. chap-
ter 271 or 41 U.S.C. chapter 35 are identified, re-
gardless of whether they are included in the System 
for Award Management; and 
(4) Any referrals made to the Department of 
Justice. 
SEC. 8013. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used in any way, 
directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on 
any legislation or appropriation matters pending before 
the Congress. 
SEC. 8014. None of the funds available in this Act 
to the Department of Defense, other than appropriations 
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made for necessary or routine refurbishments, upgrades, 
or maintenance activities, shall be used to reduce or to 
prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-de-
ployed strategic delivery vehicles and launchers below the 
levels set forth in the report submitted to Congress in ac-
cordance with section 1042 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8015. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this 
Act for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote´ge´ 
Program may be transferred to any other appropriation 
contained in this Act solely for the purpose of imple-
menting a Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program developmental assist-
ance agreement pursuant to section 4902 of title 10, 
United States Code, under the authority of this provision 
or any other transfer authority contained in this Act. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the 
budget justification documents in support of the budget 
for fiscal year 2026 (as submitted to Congress pursuant 
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) a descrip-
tion of each transfer under this section that occurred dur-
ing the last fiscal year before the fiscal year in which such 
budget is submitted. 
SEC. 8016. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be available for the 
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purchase by the Department of Defense (and its depart-
ments and agencies) of welded shipboard anchor and 
mooring chain unless the anchor and mooring chain are 
manufactured in the United States from components 
which are substantially manufactured in the United 
States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, the 
term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall include cutting, heat treating, 
quality control, and testing of chain and welding (includ-
ing the forging and shot blasting process): Provided fur-
ther, That for the purpose of this section substantially all 
of the components of anchor and mooring chain shall be 
considered to be produced or manufactured in the United 
States if the aggregate cost of the components produced 
or manufactured in the United States exceeds the aggre-
gate cost of the components produced or manufactured 
outside the United States: Provided further, That when 
adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet De-
partment of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the 
Secretary of the Service responsible for the procurement 
may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certi-
fying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate that such 
an acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability 
for national security purposes. 
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SEC. 8017. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used for the sup-
port of any nonappropriated funds activity of the Depart-
ment of Defense that procures malt beverages and wine 
with nonappropriated funds for resale (including such al-
coholic beverages sold by the drink) on a military installa-
tion located in the United States unless such malt bev-
erages and wine are procured within that State, or in the 
case of the District of Columbia, within the District of 
Columbia, in which the military installation is located: 
Provided, That, in a case in which the military installation 
is located in more than one State, purchases may be made 
in any State in which the installation is located: Provided 
further, That such local procurement requirements for 
malt beverages and wine shall apply to all alcoholic bev-
erages only for military installations in States which are 
not contiguous with another State: Provided further, That 
alcoholic beverages other than wine and malt beverages, 
in contiguous States and the District of Columbia shall 
be procured from the most competitive source, price and 
other factors considered. 
SEC. 8018. None of the funds available to the De-
partment of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dis-
pose of M–1 Carbines, M–1 Garand rifles, M–14 rifles, 
.22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, or M–1911 pistols, or 
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to demilitarize or destroy small arms ammunition or am-
munition components that are not otherwise prohibited 
from commercial sale under Federal law, unless the small 
arms ammunition or ammunition components are certified 
by the Secretary of the Army or designee as unserviceable 
or unsafe for further use. 
SEC. 8019. No more than $500,000 of the funds ap-
propriated or made available in this Act shall be used dur-
ing a single fiscal year for any single relocation of an orga-
nization, unit, activity or function of the Department of 
Defense into or within the National Capital Region: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive this re-
striction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 
to the congressional defense committees that such a relo-
cation is required in the best interest of the Government. 
SEC. 8020. Of the funds made available in this Act 
under 
the 
heading 
‘‘Procurement, 
Defense-Wide’’, 
$25,169,000 shall be available only for incentive payments 
authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 
1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544): Provided, That a prime contractor 
or a subcontractor at any tier that makes a subcontract 
award to any subcontractor or supplier as defined in sec-
tion 1544 of title 25, United States Code, or a small busi-
ness owned and controlled by an individual or individuals 
defined under section 4221(9) of title 25, United States 
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Code, shall be considered a contractor for the purposes 
of being allowed additional compensation under section 
504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 
1544) whenever the prime contract or subcontract amount 
is over $500,000 and involves the expenditure of funds 
appropriated by an Act making appropriations for the De-
partment of Defense with respect to any fiscal year: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 1906 of title 
41, United States Code, this section shall be applicable 
to any Department of Defense acquisition of supplies or 
services, including any contract and any subcontract at 
any tier for acquisition of commercial items produced or 
manufactured, in whole or in part, by any subcontractor 
or supplier defined in section 1544 of title 25, United 
States Code, or a small business owned and controlled by 
an individual or individuals defined under section 4221(9) 
of title 25, United States Code. 
SEC. 8021. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no 
cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian 
tribes located in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and 
Washington relocatable military housing units located at 
Grand Forks Air Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, 
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Ellsworth Air Force 
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Base, and Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the 
needs of the Air Force. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at 
no cost to the Air Force, military housing units under sub-
section (a) in accordance with the request for such units 
that are submitted to the Secretary by the Operation 
Walking Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located 
in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington. Any 
such conveyance shall be subject to the condition that the 
housing units shall be removed within a reasonable period 
of time, as determined by the Secretary. 
(c) The Operation Walking Shield Program shall re-
solve any conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for 
housing units under subsection (a) before submitting re-
quests to the Secretary of the Air Force under subsection 
(b). 
(d) In this section, the term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ means 
any recognized Indian tribe included on the current list 
published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 
104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 5131). 
SEC. 8022. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense under the heading ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Defense-Wide’’, not less than $19,861,000 may 
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be made available only for the mitigation of environmental 
impacts, including training and technical assistance to 
tribes, related administrative support, the gathering of in-
formation, documenting of environmental damage, and de-
veloping a system for prioritization of mitigation and cost 
to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands re-
sulting from Department of Defense activities. 
SEC. 8023. Funds appropriated by this Act for the 
Defense Media Activity may not be used for any national 
or international political or psychological activities. 
SEC. 8024. (a) Of the funds made available in this 
Act, not less than $73,500,000 shall be available for the 
Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 
(1) $56,500,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 
Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 
readiness, counter-drug activities, and drug demand 
reduction activities involving youth programs; 
(2) $15,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Air-
craft Procurement, Air Force’’; and 
(3) $2,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other 
Procurement, Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reim-
bursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 
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counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 
local government agencies. 
SEC. 8025. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available by this Act may be used to estab-
lish a new Department of Defense (department) federally 
funded research and development center (FFRDC), either 
as a new entity, or as a separate entity administrated by 
an organization managing another FFRDC, or as a non-
profit membership corporation consisting of a consortium 
of other FFRDCs and other nonprofit entities. 
(b) Except when acting in a technical advisory capac-
ity, no member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, Over-
seers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Com-
mittee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, or any 
entity that contracts with the Federal government to man-
age or operate one or more FFRDCs, or any paid consult-
ant to a defense FFRDC shall receive funds appropriated 
by this Act as compensation for services as a member of 
such entity: Provided, That a member of any such entity 
shall be allowed travel expenses and per diem as author-
ized under the Federal Joint Travel Regulations, when en-
gaged in the performance of membership duties: Provided 
further, That except when acting in a technical advisory 
capacity, no paid consultant shall receive funds appro-
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priated by this Act as compensation by more than one 
FFRDC in a calendar year. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds available to the department from any source 
during the current fiscal year may be used by a defense 
FFRDC, through a fee or other payment mechanism, for 
construction of new buildings not located on a military in-
stallation, for payment of cost sharing for projects funded 
by Government grants, for absorption of contract over-
runs, or for certain charitable contributions, not to include 
employee participation in community service and/or devel-
opment. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
the funds available to the department during fiscal year 
2025, not more than $2,886,300,000 may be funded for 
professional technical staff-related costs of the defense 
FFRDCs: Provided, That within such funds, not more 
than $461,300,000 shall be available for the defense stud-
ies and analysis FFRDCs: Provided further, That this sub-
section shall not apply to staff years funded in the Na-
tional Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence 
Program: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 
shall, with the submission of the department’s fiscal year 
2026 budget request, submit a report presenting the spe-
cific amounts of staff years of technical effort to be allo-
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cated for each defense FFRDC by program during that 
fiscal year and the associated budget estimates, by appro-
priation account and program. 
SEC. 8026. For the purposes of this Act, the term 
‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the Armed 
Services Committee of the House of Representatives, the 
Armed Services Committee of the Senate, the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
SEC. 8027. For the purposes of this Act, the term 
‘‘congressional intelligence committees’’ means the Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 8028. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot 
maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels 
as well as the production of components and other De-
fense-related articles, through competition between De-
partment of Defense depot maintenance activities and pri-
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vate firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Execu-
tive of the military department or Defense Agency con-
cerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that success-
ful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and in-
direct costs for both public and private bids: Provided fur-
ther, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 
76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this 
section. 
SEC. 8029. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of 
Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, com-
plies with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this 
subsection, the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ means chapter 
83 of title 41, United States Code. 
(b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a per-
son has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label 
bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription to any product 
sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made 
in America, the Secretary shall determine, in accordance 
with section 4658 of title 10, United States Code, whether 
the person should be debarred from contracting with the 
Department of Defense. 
(c) In the case of any equipment or products pur-
chased with appropriations provided under this Act, it is 
the sense of the Congress that any entity of the Depart-
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ment of Defense, in expending the appropriation, purchase 
only American-made equipment and products, provided 
that American-made equipment and products are cost- 
competitive, quality competitive, and available in a timely 
fashion. 
SEC. 8030. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy, 
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned fa-
cility or property under the control of the Department of 
Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United 
States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re-
strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 
9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications 
of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further, 
That 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 Representatives and the 
Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available 
to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely 
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order 
to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro-
vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to 
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contracts which are in being as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 8031. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after 
consultation with the United States Trade Representative, 
determines that a foreign country which is party to an 
agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the 
terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain 
types of products produced in the United States that are 
covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall 
rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer-
ican Act with respect to such types of products produced 
in that foreign country. 
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 
reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing, between the United States and a foreign country 
pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec-
tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products 
in that country. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Con-
gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense 
purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 2025. Such 
report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items 
for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to 
any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade 
Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any 
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