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SEC. 324. PURCHASE AND DESTRUCTION OF WEAPONS
OVERSEAS.
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUNDS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 134
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following new section:
‘‘§ 2249d. Use of appropriated funds for purchase and
destruction of weapons overseas
‘‘(a) PURCHASE
OF
WEAPONS.—Amounts appro-
priated or otherwise available to the Department of Defense
for operation and maintenance may be used to purchase
weapons overseas from any person, foreign government,
international organization, or other entity for the purpose
of protecting United States forces engaged in military oper-
ations overseas.
‘‘(b) DESTRUCTION
OF WEAPONS.—Weapons pur-
chased under the authority in subsection (a) may be de-
stroyed.
‘‘(c) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of Defense
shall promptly notify the congressional defense committees
of any use of the authority in subsection (a) to purchase
weapons.’’.
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such subchapter is amended
by adding at the end the following new item:
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‘‘2249d. Use of appropriated funds for purchase and destruction of weapons over-
seas.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this
section shall take effect on October 1, 2005, and shall apply
with respect to funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able for fiscal years after fiscal year 2005.
SEC. 325. INCREASE IN MAXIMUM CONTRACT AMOUNT FOR
PROCUREMENT OF SUPPLIES AND SERVICES
FROM 
EXCHANGE 
STORES 
OUTSIDE 
THE
UNITED STATES.
Section 2424(b)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘$50,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$100,000’’.
SEC. 326. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE LOGIS-
TICS SUPPORT AND SERVICES FOR WEAPON
SYSTEMS CONTRACTORS.
Section 365(g)(1) of the Bob Stump National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107–
314; 116 Stat. 2520; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) is amended by
striking ‘‘September 30, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘September
30, 2010’’.
SEC. 327. ARMY TRAINING STRATEGY.
(a) TRAINING STRATEGY.—
(1) STRATEGY REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the
Army shall develop and implement a training strat-
egy to ensure the readiness of brigade-based combat
teams and functional supporting brigades.
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(2) ELEMENTS.—The training strategy shall in-
clude the following:
(A) A statement of the purpose of training
for brigade-based combat teams and supporting
brigades.
(B) Performance goals for both active and
reserve brigade-based combat teams and sup-
porting brigades, including goals for live, vir-
tual, and constructive training for each compo-
nent and brigade type.
(C) Metrics to quantify performance against
the performance goals specified under subpara-
graph (B).
(D) A process to report the accomplishment
of collective training by which Army leadership
can monitor the training performance of bri-
gade-based combat teams and functional sup-
porting brigades.
(E) A model to quantify, and to forecast,
operation and maintenance funding required to
attain training goals.
(b) REPORT.—
(1) REPORT
REQUIRED.—Not later than one
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congres-
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sional defense committees a report on the require-
ments to be fulfilled in order to implement the train-
ing strategy developed under subsection (a).
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report shall include the fol-
lowing:
(A) A discussion of the training strategy de-
veloped under subsection (a), including a de-
scription of performance goals and metrics devel-
oped under that subsection.
(B) A discussion and description of the
training range requirements necessary to imple-
ment the training strategy.
(C) A discussion and description of the
training aids, devices, simulations and simula-
tors necessary to implement the training strat-
egy.
(D) A list of the funding requirements,
itemized by fiscal year and specified in a format
consistent with the future-years defense program
to accompany the budget of the President for fis-
cal year 2007 under section 221 of title 10,
United States Code, necessary to fulfill the range
requirements described in subparagraph (B) and
to provide the training aids, devices, simula-
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tions, and simulators described in subparagraphs
(C).
(E) A schedule for the implementation of
the training strategy.
(F) A discussion of the challenges that the
Army anticipates in the implementation of the
training strategy.
(c) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW OF IMPLEMEN-
TATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of
the United States shall monitor the implementation of
the training strategy developed under subsection (a).
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller
General shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report containing the assessment of the
Comptroller General of the current progress of the
Army in implementing the training strategy.
SEC. 328. LIMITATION ON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IM-
PROVEMENT AND AUDIT INITIATIVES WITHIN
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
Amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense for fiscal year 2006 may not be obligated
or expended for the purposes of financial management im-
provement activities relating to the preparation, processing,
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or auditing of financial statements until the Secretary of
Defense prepares and submits to the congressional defense
committees the following:
(1) A comprehensive and integrated financial
management improvement plan that—
(A) describes specific actions to be taken to
correct financial management deficiencies that
impair the ability of the Department of Defense
to prepare timely, reliable, and complete finan-
cial management information; and
(B) systematically ties such actions to proc-
ess and control improvements and business sys-
tems modernization efforts described in the busi-
ness enterprise architecture and transition plan
required by section 2222 of title 10, United
States Code.
(2) A written determination that each of the fi-
nancial management improvement activities to be un-
dertaken are—
(A) consistent with the financial manage-
ment improvement plan submitted pursuant to
paragraph (1); and
(B) likely to improve internal controls or
otherwise result in sustained improvements in
the ability of the Department to produce timely,
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reliable, and complete financial management in-
formation.
SEC. 329. STUDY ON USE OF ETHANOL FUEL.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall con-
duct a study on the use of ethanol fuel by the Armed Forces
and the Defense Agencies.
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study shall include—
(1) an evaluation of the historical utilization of
ethanol fuel by the Armed Forces and the Defense
Agencies, including the quantity of ethanol fuel ac-
quired by the Department of Defense for the Armed
Forces and the Defense Agencies during the 5-year pe-
riod ending on the date of the report under subsection
(c);
(2) a forecast of the requirements of the Armed
Forces and the Defense Agencies for ethanol fuel for
each of fiscal years 2007 through 2012;
(3) an assessment of the current and future com-
mercial availability of ethanol fuel, including facili-
ties for the production, storage, transportation, dis-
tribution, and commercial sale of such fuel;
(4) an assessment of the utilization by the De-
partment of the commercial infrastructure for ethanol
fuel as described in paragraph (3);
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(5) a review of the actions of the Department to
coordinate with State, local, and private entities to
support the expansion and use of alternative fuel re-
fueling stations that are accessible to the public; and
(6) an assessment of the fueling infrastructure on
military installations in the United States, including
storage and distribution facilities, that could be
adapted or converted to the delivery of ethanol fuel,
including—
(A) an assessment of cost of the adaptation
or conversion of such infrastructure to the deliv-
ery of ethanol fuel; and
(B) an assessment of the feasibility and ad-
visability of that adaptation or conversion.
(c) REPORT.—Not later than February 1, 2006, the
Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report on the study conducted under subsection (a).
(d) ETHANOL FUEL DEFINED.—In this section, the
term ‘‘ethanol fuel’’ means fuel that is 85 percent ethyl alco-
hol.
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SEC. 330. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY OF ARMY WORK-
ING-CAPITAL FUNDED FACILITIES TO EN-
GAGE IN COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH
NON-ARMY ENTITIES.
(a) APPLICABILITY OF SUNSET.—Subsection (j) of sec-
tion 4544 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking ‘‘September 30, 2009,’’ and all that follows through
the end and inserting September 30, 2009.’’.
(b) CREDITING OF PROCEEDS OF SALE OF ARTICLES
AND SERVICES.—Such section is further amended—
(1) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’
and inserting ‘‘subsection (f)’’;
(2) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), (g), (h),
and (i) as subsections (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j), respec-
tively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the following
new subsection (e):
‘‘(e) PROCEEDS CREDITED
TO WORKING CAPITAL
FUND.—The proceeds of sale of an article or service pursu-
ant to a contract or other cooperative arrangement under
this section shall be credited to the working capital fund
that incurs the cost of manufacturing the article or per-
forming the service.’’; and
(4) in subsection (g), as redesignated by para-
graph (2) of this subsection, by striking ‘‘subsection
(e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (f)’’.