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(G) Any legislative, policy or budgetary rec-
ommendations of the Secretary related to the 
subject matter of the report. 
(c) BUDGET REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall, in the Secretary’s annual budget submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2025 and 
each fiscal year thereafter, identify mission changes, oppor-
tunities for automation, and business process improvements 
that could better optimize the size, structure, composition 
of the Department of Defense’s workforce and its allocation 
against validated requirements. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘civil service’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 2101 of title 5, United 
States Code; and 
(2) the term ‘‘Office’’ means the Office for Diver-
sity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of De-
fense. 
TITLE XII—MATTERS RELATING 
TO FOREIGN NATIONS 
Subtitle A—Assistance and 
Training 
SEC. 1201. SUPPORT OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS FOR IRREG-
ULAR WARFARE. 
(a) CODIFICATION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 3 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
127c a new section 127d consisting of— 
(A) a heading as follows: 
‘‘§ 127d. Support of special operations for irregular 
warfare’’; and 
(B) a text consisting of the text of sub-
sections (a) through (i) of section 1202 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2018 (Public Law 115–91; 131 Stat. 1639). 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such chapter is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 127c the 
following new item: 
‘‘127d. Support of special operations for irregular warfare.’’. 
(b) MODIFICATION
OF DOLLAR AMOUNT.—Section 
127d of title 10, United States Code, as so amended, is fur-
ther amended in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘$15,000,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$25,000,000’’. 
(c) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 1202 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 is 
repealed. 
SEC. 1202. MODIFICATION OF COMBATANT COMMANDER 
INITIATIVE FUND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 166a of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(11) Incremental expenses (as such term is de-
fined in section 301(5) of this title) related to security 
cooperation programs and activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense (as such term is defined in section 
301(7) of this title).’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) incremental expenses related to security co-
operation programs and activities of the Department 
of Defense, as authorized by subsection (b)(11), for 
United States Africa Command and United States 
Southern Command.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Funds are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Combatant Com-
mander Initiative Fund for fiscal year 2024, as specified 
in section 4301 of this Act, to carry out the activities au-
thorized by paragraphs (7), (8), and (11) (as added by sub-
section (a)(1)) of section 166a(b) of title 10, United States 
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Code, for United States Africa Command and United States 
Southern Command. 
SEC. 1203. EQUIPMENT DISPOSITION WITH RESPECT TO 
BUILDING CAPACITY OF FOREIGN SECURITY 
FORCES. 
Section 333 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) EQUIPMENT DISPOSITION.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
may treat as stocks of the Department of Defense— 
‘‘(A) equipment procured to carry out a 
program pursuant to subsection (a) that has not 
yet been transferred to a foreign country and is 
no longer needed to support such program or an-
other program carried out pursuant to such sub-
section; and 
‘‘(B) equipment that has been transferred to 
a foreign country to carry out a program pursu-
ant to subsection (a) and is returned by the for-
eign country to the United States. 
‘‘(2) NOTICE AND WAIT.—Not later than 15 days 
before initiating activities under a program under 
subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to the appropriate committees of Congress a written 
and electronic notice of the following: 
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‘‘(A) The foreign country, and specific unit, 
whose capacity was intended to be built under 
the program, and the amount, type, and purpose 
of the equipment that was to be provided. 
‘‘(B) An explanation why the equipment is 
no longer needed to support such program or an-
other program carried out pursuant to such sub-
section.’’. 
SEC. 1204. MISSION TRAINING THROUGH DISTRIBUTED SIM-
ULATION. 
Section 346 of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking the section designation and head-
ing and inserting the following: 
‘‘§ 346. Mission training of certain foreign forces 
through 
distributed 
simulation 
and 
networked technology to enhance military 
interoperability 
and 
integration 
with 
United States Armed Forces’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘TRAINING
AND’’ before ‘‘DISTRIBUTION
AU-
THORIZED’’; 
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(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘interoperability’’ and inserting 
‘‘interoperability and integration’’; 
(C) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘per-
sistent advanced networked training and exercise 
activities, also referred to as mission training 
through distributed simulation, and other’’ before 
‘‘electronically-distributed learning content’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘com-
puter software’’ and inserting ‘‘hardware and 
software’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘shall include’’ and inserting ‘‘may 
include’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) Persistent advanced networked training and 
exercise activities.’’. 
SEC. 1205. MODIFICATIONS TO SECURITY COOPERATION 
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND 
ESTABLISHMENT OF DEFENSE SECURITY CO-
OPERATION UNIVERSITY. 
(a) MODIFICATIONS
TO PROGRAM.—Section 384 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended— 
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