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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8095. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 
$517,523,000 shall be available until September 30, 2006, 
to fund prior year shipbuilding cost increases: Provided, 
That upon enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy 
shall transfer such funds to the following appropriations in 
the amounts specified: Provided further, That the amounts 
transferred shall be merged with and be available for the 
same purposes as the appropriations to which transferred: 
To: 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-
version, Navy, 1998/2006’’: 
New SSN, $28,000,000. 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-
version, Navy, 1999/2006’’: 
LPD–17 Amphibious Transport Dock 
Ship Program, $95,000,000; 
New SSN, $72,000,000. 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-
version, Navy, 2000/2006’’: 
LPD–17 Amphibious Transport Dock 
Ship Program, $94,800,000. 
Under the heading, ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-
version, Navy, 2001/2006’’:
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Carrier 
Replacement 
Program, 
$145,023,000; 
New SSN, $82,700,000. 
SEC. 8096. The Secretary of the Navy may settle, or 
compromise, and pay any and all admiralty claims under 
section 7622 of title 10, United States Code arising out of 
the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the 
EHIME MARU, in any amount and without regard to the 
monetary limitations in subsections (a) and (b) of that sec-
tion: Provided, That such payments shall be made from 
funds available to the Department of the Navy for operation 
and maintenance. 
SEC. 8097. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense may be obligated to modify command and 
control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command admin-
istrative and operational control of U.S. Navy forces as-
signed to the Pacific fleet: Provided, That the command and 
control relationships which existed on October 1, 2004, shall 
remain in force unless changes are specifically authorized 
in a subsequent Act. 
SEC. 8098. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law or regulation, the Secretary of Defense may exercise the 
provisions of section 7403(g) of title 38, United States Code 
for occupations listed in section 7403(a)(2) of title 38, 
United States Code as well as the following:
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Pharmacists, Audiologists, and Dental Hygien-
ists. 
(A) 
The 
requirements 
of 
section 
7403(g)(1)(A) of title 38, United States Code 
shall apply. 
(B) The limitations of section 7403(g)(1)(B) 
of title 38, United States Code shall not apply. 
SEC. 8099. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Secu-
rity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 2006 
until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 8100. In addition to funds made available else-
where in this Act, $5,500,000 is hereby appropriated and 
shall remain available until expended to provide assistance, 
by grant or otherwise (such as, but not limited to, the provi-
sion of funds for repairs, maintenance, construction, and/ 
or for the purchase of information technology, text books, 
teaching resources), to public schools that have unusually 
high concentrations of special needs military dependents en-
rolled: Provided, That in selecting school systems to receive 
such assistance, special consideration shall be given to 
school systems in States that are considered overseas assign-
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ments, and all schools within these school systems shall be 
eligible for assistance: Provided further, That up to 2 per-
cent of the total appropriated funds under this section shall 
be available to support the administration and execution 
of the funds or program and/or events that promote the pur-
pose of this appropriation (e.g. payment of travel and per 
diem of school teachers attending conferences or a meeting 
that promotes the purpose of this appropriation and/or con-
sultant fees for on-site training of teachers, staff, or Joint 
Venture Education Forum (JVEF) Committee members): 
Provided further, That up to $2,000,000 shall be available 
for the Department of Defense to establish a non-profit trust 
fund to assist in the public-private funding of public school 
repair and maintenance projects, or provide directly to 
non-profit organizations who in return will use these mon-
ies to provide assistance in the form of repair, maintenance, 
or renovation to public school systems that have high con-
centrations of special needs military dependents and are lo-
cated in States that are considered overseas assignments: 
Provided further, That to the extent a Federal agency pro-
vides this assistance, by contract, grant, or otherwise, it 
may accept and expend non-Federal funds in combination 
with these Federal funds to provide assistance for the au-
thorized purpose, if the non-Federal entity requests such as-
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sistance and the non-Federal funds are provided on a reim-
bursable basis. 
SEC. 8101. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to initiate a new start program without prior written noti-
fication to the Office of Secretary of Defense and the con-
gressional defense committees. 
SEC. 8102. The amounts appropriated in title II of 
this Act are hereby reduced by $350,000,000 to reflect cash 
balance and rate stabilization adjustments in Department 
of Defense Working Capital Funds, as follows: 
(1) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, 
$100,000,000. 
(2) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, 
$150,000,000. 
(3) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air 
Force’’, $100,000,000. 
SEC. 8103. FINANCING AND FIELDING OF KEY ARMY 
CAPABILITIES.—The Department of Defense and the De-
partment of the Army shall make future budgetary and pro-
gramming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Fu-
ture Force cannon and resupply vehicle program (NLOS– 
C) in order to field this system in fiscal year 2010, con-
sistent with the broader plan to field the Future Combat 
System (FCS) in fiscal year 2010: Provided, That if the 
Army is precluded from fielding the FCS program by fiscal