for reimbursement for defense services of the Department 
of Defense and military education and training, provided 
to or identified for provision to Israel or to foreign coun-
tries that have provided support to Israel at the request 
of the United States: Provided further, That amounts 
made available under this heading may also be transferred 
to accounts under the heading ‘‘Procurement’’ for expan-
sion of public and private plants, including the land nec-
essary therefore, and procurement and installation of 
equipment, appliances, and machine tools in such plants, 
for the purpose of increasing production of critical muni-
tions: Provided further, That of amounts made available 
under this heading may also be transferred to accounts 
under the heading ‘‘Procurement’’ and ‘‘Research, Devel-
opment, Test and Evaluation’’ for the acquisition of crit-
ical defense articles: Provided further, That funds trans-
ferred pursuant to a transfer authority provided under 
this heading shall be merged with and available for the 
same purposes and for the same time period as the appro-
priations to which the funds are transferred: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary of Defense shall notify the con-
gressional defense committees of the details of such trans-
fers not less than 15 days before any such transfer: Pro-
vided further, That upon a determination that all or part 
of the funds transferred from this appropriation are not 
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necessary for the purposes provided under this heading, 
such amounts may be transferred back and merged with 
this appropriation: Provided further, That amounts may 
be transferred between appropriations made under this 
heading: Provided further, That any transfer authority 
provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
transfer authority provided by law: Provided further, That 
such amount in this paragraph is designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, 
That such amounts shall be available only if the President 
designates such amount as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A). 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Procurement of Am-
munition, Army’’, $801,400,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2026, to respond to the situation in Israel 
and for related expenses. Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
Provided further, That such amount shall be available only 
if the President designates such amount as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A). 
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PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Procurement, De-
fense-Wide’’, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027, for the Secretary of Defense to pro-
vide to the Government of Israel for the procurement of 
the Iron Dome and David’s Sling defense systems to 
counter short-range rocket threats: Provided, That such 
funds shall be transferred pursuant to an exchange of let-
ters and are in addition to funds provided pursuant to the 
U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agreement, as 
amended: Provided further, That nothing under this head-
ing shall be construed to apply to amounts made available 
in prior appropriations Acts for the procurement of the 
Iron Dome and David’s Sling defense systems: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, 
That such amounts shall be available only if the President 
designates such amount as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A). 
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Defense Production 
Act Purchases’’, $198,600,000, to remain available until 
expended, for activities by the Department of Defense pur-
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suant to sections 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense 
Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 
4533): Provided, That such amounts shall be obligated 
and expended by the Secretary of Defense as if delegated 
the necessary authorities conferred by the Defense Pro-
duction Act of 1950: Provided further, That such amount 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That such amount shall be 
available only if the President designates such amount as 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section 
251(b)(2)(A). 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND 
EVALUATION 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 
DEFENSE-WIDE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Research, Develop-
ment, 
Test 
and 
Evaluation, 
Defense-Wide’’, 
$1,200,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2026, for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Gov-
ernment of Israel for the development of the Iron Beam 
defense system to counter short-range rocket threats: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall be transferred pursuant to 
an exchange of letters: Provided further, That nothing in 
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the preceding proviso shall be construed to apply to 
amounts made available in prior appropriations Acts for 
the development of the Iron Beam defense system: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
further, That such amounts shall be available only if the 
President designates such amount as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A). 
GENERAL PROVISIONS–THIS DIVISION 
SEC. 2001. Section 12001 of the Department of De-
fense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287), as 
amended by Public Law 115–141, is amended as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (2) of subsection (a), by striking 
‘‘armor’’ and all that follows through the end of the para-
graph and inserting ‘‘defense articles that are in the inven-
tory of the Department of Defense as of the date of trans-
fer, are intended for use as reserve stocks for Israel, and 
are located in a stockpile for Israel as of the date of trans-
fer’’; 
(2) In subsection (b), by striking ‘‘at least equal to 
the fair market value of the items transferred’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘in an amount to be determined by the Secretary of 
Defense’’; and 
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(3) In subsection (c), by inserting before the comma 
in the first sentence the following: ‘‘, or as far in advance 
of such transfer as is practicable as determined by the 
President on a case-by-case basis during extraordinary cir-
cumstances impacting the national security of the United 
States’’. 
SEC. 2002. For fiscal year 2024, section 514(b) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321h(b)) 
shall not apply to defense articles to be set aside, ear-
marked, reserved, or intended for use as reserve stocks 
in stockpiles in the State of Israel. 
Æ 
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