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(K) An ANSF personnel accountability 
system with effective internal discipline proce-
dures and mechanisms. 
(L) A system for addressing ANSF per-
sonnel complaints. 
(M) A strong record-keeping system to 
track ANSF equipment and personnel issues, 
and other ANSF oversight mechanisms. 
(5) Coordination with all relevant United States 
Government departments and agencies, as well as 
NATO–ISAF countries and other international part-
ners, including on— 
(A) funding; 
(B) reform and establishment of ANSF- 
sustaining institutions; and 
(C) efforts to ensure that progress on sus-
taining the ANSF is reinforced with progress in 
other pillars of the Afghan security sector, par-
ticularly progress on building an effective judi-
ciary, curbing production and trafficking of il-
licit narcotics, and demobilizing, disarming, and 
reintegrating militia fighters. 
(d) UPDATE OF PLAN.—Not later than 90 days after 
the submission of the plan required by subsection (a), and 
every 90 days thereafter, the Secretary of Defense, in co-
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ordination with the Secretary of State and the Attorney 
General, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees an update of the plan required by subsection 
(a), as necessary. 
(e) CONCURRENT SUBMISSION OF PLAN.—The plan 
required by subsection (a), and any update of the plan 
required by subsection (d), shall be submitted concurrently 
with the report required by section 1232 of this Act (relat-
ing to progress toward security and stability in Afghani-
stan). 
(f) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on 
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on the Judici-
ary of the Senate. 
SEC. 1235. REPORT ON OPERATIONAL STATUS OF THE AIR-
FIELD LOCATED IN ABECHE, CHAD. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) Sudan has been ravaged by civil war for 
four decades. 
(2) More than two million people have died in 
Southern Sudan over the past two decades due to 
war-related causes and famine and millions have 
been displaced from their homes. 
(3) The airfield located in Abeche, Chad is near 
the border between Chad and Sudan. 
(4) Although the Abeche airfield is currently 
used for military transportation and humanitarian 
missions, it may be in need of upgrades to allow for 
increased air traffic, including upgrades to the air-
strip and hangers. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States, with the concurrence of the 
Government of Chad, should help provide for the nec-
essary upgrades to the airfield located in Abeche, Chad 
in order to support potential North Atlantic Treaty Orga-
nization operations, facilitate a possible United Nations 
deployment to Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan, and 
support humanitarian operations. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall submit to Congress a report on the current oper-
ational status of the airfield located in Abeche, Chad and
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recommendations for upgrades to the Abeche airfield to 
support enhanced operations and a large increase in air 
traffic, including a cost-estimate for such upgrades. 
Subtitle D—Other Matters 
SEC. 1241. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
AGREEMENTS: NATO ORGANIZATIONS; AL-
LIED AND FRIENDLY FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Subsection (e) of section 2350a of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘an arms cooperation op-
portunities document’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘a cooperative opportunities docu-
ment’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘a 
Mission Need Statement’’ and inserting ‘‘an 
analysis of alternatives plan’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘An arms co-
operation opportunities document’’ and inserting ‘‘A 
cooperative opportunities document’’. 
SEC. 1242. EXTENSION OF COUNTERPROLIFERATION PRO-
GRAM REVIEW COMMITTEE. 
(a) MEMBERS.—Section 1605 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (22 U.S.C. 
2751 note) is amended in subsection (a)(1)—
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(1) in subparagraph (C) by striking ‘‘Director 
of Central Intelligence’’ and inserting ‘‘Director of 
National Intelligence’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) The Secretary of State. 
‘‘(F) The Secretary of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(G) The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services. 
‘‘(H) The Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency.’’. 
(b) ACCESS TO INFORMATION.—Subsection (d) of 
such section is amended by inserting after ‘‘Department 
of Energy,’’ the following: ‘‘the Department of State, the 
Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency,’’. 
(c) TERMINATION.—Subsection (f) of such section is 
amended by striking ‘‘2008’’ and inserting ‘‘2013’’. 
(d) SUBMISSION OF REPORT.—Section 1503 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 
(22 U.S.C. 2751 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘ANNUAL’’ and inserting 
‘‘BIENNIAL’’; and
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(B) by striking ‘‘May 1 each year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘March 1 each odd-numbered year’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (b)(5)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘fiscal year preceding’’ and 
inserting ‘‘two fiscal years preceding’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘preceding fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘preceding fiscal years’’. 
SEC. 1243. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE WEST-
ERN HEMISPHERE INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY 
COOPERATION. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the education and training facility of the 
Department of Defense known as the Western 
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation is 
succeeding in meeting its stated mission of providing 
professional education and training to eligible mili-
tary personnel, law enforcement officials, and civil-
ians of nations of the Western Hemisphere that sup-
port the democratic principles set forth in the Char-
ter of the Organization of American States, while 
fostering mutual knowledge, transparency, con-
fidence, and cooperation among the participating na-
tions and promoting democratic values and respect 
for human rights; and
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(2) therefore, the Institute is an invaluable edu-
cation and training facility which the Department of 
Defense should continue to utilize in order to help 
foster a spirit of partnership and interoperability 
among the United States military and the militaries 
of participating nations. 
SEC. 1244. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE STRA-
TEGIC MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND INTEN-
TIONS 
OF 
THE 
PEOPLE’S 
REPUBLIC 
OF 
CHINA. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) United States military war-fighting capabili-
ties are potentially threatened by the strategic mili-
tary capabilities and intentions of the People’s Re-
public of China, as demonstrated by— 
(A) the October 2006 undetected broach of 
a Chinese SONG-class diesel-electric submarine 
in close proximity of the USS Kitty Hawk in 
international waters; and 
(B) the January 2007 test of a direct as-
cent anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon, posing a po-
tential threat to United States military assets 
in space; 
(2) it is in the national security interests of the 
United States to make every effort to understand
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China’s strategic military capabilities and intentions; 
and 
(3) as part of such an effort, the Secretary of 
Defense should expand efforts to develop an accu-
rate assessment of China’s strategic military mod-
ernization, particularly with regard to its sea- and 
space-based strategic capabilities. 
TITLE 
AA—COOPERATIVE 
THREAT 
REDUCTION 
WITH 
STATES OF THE FORMER SO-
VIET UNION 
Sec. 1301. Specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and funds. 
Sec. 1302. Funding allocations. 
Sec. 1303. New initiatives for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. 
Sec. 1304. Requirements 
relating 
to 
chemical 
weapons 
destruction 
at 
Shchuch’ye, Russia. 
Sec. 1305. Repeal of restrictions on Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. 
Sec. 1306. Authority to use Cooperative Threat Reduction funds outside the 
former Soviet Union. 
Sec. 1307. Clarification of amounts for Cooperative Threat Reduction pro-
grams. 
SEC. 1301. SPECIFICATION OF COOPERATIVE THREAT RE-
DUCTION PROGRAMS AND FUNDS. 
(a) SPECIFICATION OF CTR PROGRAMS.—For pur-
poses of section 301 and other provisions of this Act, Co-
operative Threat Reduction programs are the programs 
specified in section 1501(b) of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104– 
201; 110 Stat. 2731; 50 U.S.C. 2362 note).
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(b) FISCAL YEAR 2008 COOPERATIVE THREAT RE-
DUCTION FUNDS DEFINED.—As used in this title, the 
term ‘‘fiscal year 2008 Cooperative Threat Reduction 
funds’’ means the funds appropriated pursuant to the au-
thorization of appropriations in section 301 for Coopera-
tive Threat Reduction programs. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated 
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
301 for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs shall be 
available for obligation for three fiscal years. 
SEC. 1302. FUNDING ALLOCATIONS. 
(a) FUNDING
FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES.—Of the 
$398,000,000 authorized to be appropriated to the De-
partment of Defense for fiscal year 2008 in section 
301(19) for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs, the 
following amounts may be obligated for the purposes spec-
ified: 
(1) For strategic offensive arms elimination in 
the Russian Federation, $77,900,000. 
(2) For nuclear weapons storage security in 
Russia, $23,000,000. 
(3) For nuclear weapons transportation security 
in Russia, $37,700,000.