Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Bill: 112-s-1254
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2011-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Afghanistan
Africa
Alliances
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Aviation and airports
Buy American requirements
Caribbean area
Colombia
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Cuba
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Detention of persons
Disability and paralysis
Djibouti
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Education programs funding
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Ethiopia
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Fires
Gambia
Ghana
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Guinea
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Higher education
Hydrology and hydrography
Indian lands and resources rights
Industrial facilities
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Iran
Iraq
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Judicial review and appeals
Kenya
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
Liberia
Licensing and registrations
Life, casualty, property insurance
Marine pollution
Mauritania
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Metals
Middle East
Military command and structure
Military education and training
Military facilities and property
Military history
Military law
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves
Nicaragua
North Carolina
North Korea
Nuclear weapons
Personnel records
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Russia
Sex offenses
Sierra Leone
Small business
Solid waste and recycling
Spacecraft and satellites
Special education
Strategic materials and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Surgery and anesthesia
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Togo
Transportation costs
U.S. history
Uganda
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Wages and earnings
Washington State
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: 
Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2012.
 Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement; (2) research, development, test, and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance; (4) active and reserve military personnel; (5) Working Capital Funds; (6) the National Defense Sealift Fund; (7) the Defense Health Program; (8) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (9) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (10) the Defense Inspector General; (11) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (12) overseas contingency operations. 
Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) military personnel policy, including education and training, military justice, and sexual assault prevention and response; (2) military pay and allowances; (3) military health care; (4) acquisition policy and management, including major defense acquisition programs; (5) DOD organization and management, including space, intelligence, and cybersecurity matters; (6) financial matters, including counter-drug activities and detainee matters; (7) civilian personnel matters; (8) matters relating to foreign nations, including assistance and training; and (9) cooperative threat reduction.
 
Revises and adds new offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) relating to rape, sexual assault, and other sexual misconduct.
 
Provides procedures for the judicial review of decisions concerning the correction of military personnel records.
 
Consolidates and revises DOD travel and transportation authorities.
 
Establishes: (1) the Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund, and (2) the Global Security Contingency Fund.
 
Requires a DOD plan to acquire capabilities to detect previously unknown cyber attacks.

action_date: 2011-06-22
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.

 
 Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 - 
Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for procurement for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide activities, in amounts specified in a related funding table.
 

Subtitle B: Navy Programs 
- (Sec. 121) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into one or more multiyear contracts, beginning with the FY2012 program year, for the procurement of mission avionics and common cockpits for MH-60R/S helicopters.
 

Subtitle C: Air Force Programs 
- (Sec. 131) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to procure two advanced extremely high frequency satellites through a fixed-price contract. Authorizes such Secretary to (1) include the use of economic order quantities when resulting in cost savings, as well as cost reduction initiatives; and (2) use incremental funding under such contract for up to six fiscal years. Limits total procurement costs to $3.1 billion, allowing a cost adjustment upon notification to the congressional defense and appropriations committees. Directs such Secretary to: (1) report to such committees within 30 days after entering into such a contract, and (2) submit to such committees a plan to use contract cost savings to improve the capability of military satellite communications. Allows such Secretary to use funds currently available for high frequency satellite space vehicle number 5 for the procurement of parts and the replacement of parts for space vehicle number 6. Expresses the sense of Congress that such Secretary should not enter into such a contract until determining that it will save the Air Force 20% or more over procuring two satellites separately.
 
(Sec. 132) Earmarks the use of specified B-2 bomber aircraft funds for: (1) research, development, test, and evaluation on a conventional mixed load capability for such aircraft, and (2) supporting alternative options for the extremely high frequency terminal Increment 1 program of record. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the defense and appopriations committees a plan to provide an extremely high frequency terminal for secure protected communications for the B-2 and other aircraft.
 
(Sec. 134) Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated or expended: (1) to retire any B-1 bomber aircraft before the date on which the Secretary of the Air Force submits to the defense and appropriations committee a plan for retiring such aircraft; and (2) after such date, to retire more than six of such aircraft. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) at least 60% of the savings achieved in each year through 2022 resulting from such retirements should be reinvested in modernizing and sustaining bomber aircraft, and (2) at least 35% of such amount should be reinvested in modernizing and sustaining the remaining B-1 fleet through such period.
 
(Sec. 135) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from taking any action to prevent maintaining the U-2 aircraft fleet in its current configuation and capability beyond FY2016 until the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Under Secretary) certifies to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees that the operating and sustainment costs for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle are less than comparable costs for the U-2 on a flight-hour basis.
 

Subtitle D: Joint and Multiservice Matters 
- (Sec. 151) Amends the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Skelton Act) to include in quarterly reports on the use of combat mission requirement funds a table setting forth the requirements approved during the fiscal year in which the report is submitted and the two preceding fiscal years, as well as a statement of any unspent funds for such period.
 
(Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary), in entering into a contract for the procurement of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, to ensure that the contract: (1) is a fixed-price contract, and (2) requires the contractor to assume full responsibility for contract costs above the target cost.
 
(Sec. 153) Requires the Under Secretary, at the same time as submission of the FY2013 budget, to report to the defense committees on DOD plans to implement the requirements of the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 within the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft program.
 
(Sec. 154) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into one or more multiyear contracts, beginning with the FY2012 program year, for the procurement of airframes for UH-60M/HH-50M and MH-60R/MH-60S helicopters.
 
(Sec. 155) Directs the Under Secretary to designate the undersea mobility acquisition program of the U.S. Special Operations Command as a major defense acquisition program (MDAP).
 
(Sec. 156) Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and carry out a plan for the orderly transfer of the Air Force C-12 Liberty intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft to the Army; and (2) report to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees on such plan.
 
(Sec. 157) Directs the Air Force Audit Agency to submit to the defense and appropriations committees the results of a financial audit of funds previously authorized and appropriated for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft re-engining program.
 

Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for DOD for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), in amounts specified in the funding table.
 

Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations 
- (Sec. 211) Prohibits: (1) the use of this Act's funds for RDT&E on the F136 engine; or (2) such RDT&E conducted by a contractor from being considered an allowable charge on any future government contract.
 
(Sec. 212) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds earmarked for Increment 2 of the B-2 bomber aircraft extremely high frequency satellite communications program until the Secretary of the Air Force submits to the defense and appropriations committees a program certification and a plan setting forth the projected cost and schedule for certain RDT&E under the program.
 
(Sec. 213) Limits to 50% the obligation or expenditure of funds for the unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike program until the Under Secretary certifies to the defense and appropriations committees the approval of an acquisition plan for such program.
 
(Sec. 214) Prohibits the granting of Milestone B approval for the Marine personnel carrier until 30 days after submission to the defense and appropriations committees of an analysis of alternatives for the amphibious combat vehicle. Outlines analysis requirements. Prohibits Milestone B approval for certain other Marine Corps ground combat vehicles until 30 days after submission to such committees of a life-cycle assessment of such vehicles performed by the DOD Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation.
 

Subtitle C: Missile Defense Matters 
- (Sec. 231) Amends the Skelton Act to direct the Comptroller General (CG), at the end of each of FY2012-FY2015, to review required annual DOD reports on acquisition baselines and variances of missile defense acquisition programs and assess the extent to which the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has achieved its acquisition goals and objectives, and report assessment results to the defense and appropriations committees.
 
(Sec. 232) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) it is essential for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GBMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System to achieve appropriate levels of reliability, availability, sustainability, and operational performance against limited future missile attacks from nations such as North Korea and Iran; (2) the MDA should, as its highest priority, determine the root cause of the December 2010 flight-test failure of the GBMD system, design a correction of the problem, and verify that such correction is effective and will allow the GBMD to reach the capabilities described above; (3) before such verification, the MDA should suspend further production of Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicles to ensure that they will not be deployed with any component or design flaws that may have caused the flight-test failure; (4) after the MDA has verified the correction of the problem, it should assess the need for any additional ground-based interceptors and any additional steps needed for the GBMD testing and sustainment program; and (5) DOD should plan for and budget sufficient future funds for the GBMD to ensure the ability to complete and verify an effective correction of the problem. Requires two annual reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD plans to correct the problem, and progress toward achievement of such plan.
 
(Sec. 233) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) it is in the U.S. national security interest to pursue efforts at missile defense cooperation with Russia that would enhance the security of the United States, its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, and Russia, particularly against missile threats from Iran; (2) the United States should pursue ballistic missile defense cooperation with Russia on both a bilateral and a multilateral basis with its NATO allies, particularly through the NATO-Russia Council; (3) missile defense cooperation with Russia should not in any way limit U.S. or NATO missile defense capabilities and should be mutually beneficial and reciprocal in nature; and (4) the United States should pursue appropriate missile defense cooperation with Russia. Requires a report from the President to the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees on the status of efforts to reach agreement with Russia on missile defense cooperation.
 

Subtitle D: Reports 
- (Sec. 251) Amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Warner Act) to extend through 2020 requirements for a biennial roadmap and annual review and certification of funding for the development of hypersonics.
 

Subtitle E: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 261) Amends the Skelton Act to require the contractor to bear at least 50% of the cost of activities for enhancing or enabling the exportability of certain designated defense systems.
 

Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Armed Forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.
 

Subtitle B: Energy and Environmental Provisions 
- (Sec. 311) Establishes periodic goals, covering FY2015-FY2024, for DOD production or procurement of its total facility energy consumption from renewable energy sources.
 
(Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on defense environmental programs.
 
(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified funds to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as payment in connection with a remedial investigation/feasibility study for the Jackson Park Housing Complex, Washington.
 
(Sec. 314) Prohibits funds from being used for deciding or adjudicating any claim regarding water contamination at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, unless the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry completes all epidemiological and water modeling studies relevant to such contamination that are ongoing as of June 1, 2011, and certifies the completion of all such studies to the defense committees. Provides for the resolution of certain disputes in connection with such claims.
 
(Sec. 315) Amends the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships to provide an exclusion from such Act's ship pollutant discharge requirements for military ships that have unique military design, construction, manning, or operation requirements and cannot comply with such requirements because it is not technologically feasible or would impair the operations or operational capability of the ship. Provides updated pollution discharge requirements for military vessels at sea.
 

Subtitle C: Workplace and Depot Issues 
- (Sec. 321) Requires investment funds included in the capital budget of specified military depots to be used to modernize or improve the efficiency of facilities, equipment, work environment, or processes in direct support of depot operations. Excludes the use of such funds for depot repair or other activity to maintain or sustain existing facilities, infrastructure, or equipment. Adds nine Army depots to the covered depots.
 
(Sec. 322) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) from issuing guidance, regulations, policy, or revisions to any DOD or military department instructions containing a revision to the definition of depot-level maintenance unless the Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees on the advisability of establishing a single definition of such term.
 
(Sec. 323) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to designate any military industrial facility as a center of industrial and technical excellence.
 
(Sec. 324) Requires the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of such Agency's drawdown, retrograde, and reset program for equipment from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the status of the overall supply chain management for depot-level activities.
 

Subtitle D: Reports 
- (Sec. 331) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) conduct a study on the ability of the major air test and training range infrastructure to support the full spectrum of Air Force operations, (2) create a master plan of requirements and investments to meet Air Force training and test needs through 2025, and (3) submit to the defense and appropriations committees an interim and final report on plan implementation.
 
(Sec. 332) Requires the Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command to: (1) conduct a study on the ability of existing special operations training ranges to support the full spectrum of missions and operations assigned to special operations forces, and (2) submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan on meeting special operations training requirements through 2025.
 
(Sec. 333) Directs the Secretary to: (1) survey the quantity and condition of each class of non-tactical wheeled vehicles and base-level commercial equipment in the fleets of the military departments, and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on the advisability of establishing service life extension programs for such classes of vehicles.
 
(Sec. 334) Revises the deadline for an annual report on budget shortfalls for implementing DOD operational energy strategy.
 

Subtitle E: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 341) Allows Army industrial facilities to enter into up to 15 (under current law, 8) contracts or cooperative arrangements with non-Army entities to carry out certain authorized activities related to such facilities. Extends through FY2025 the authority to enter into such contracts or arrangements.
 
(Sec. 342) Requires all capital assets financed by a DOD working-capital fund to be capitalized and depreciated for budgeting, rate-setting, and financial accounting purposes.
 
(Sec. 343) Amends the Skelton Act concerning the commercial sale by DOD of small arms ammunition and ammunition components in excess of military requirements to allow the commercial resale of only intact expended small arms cartridge cases. States that such commercial sale provisions shall not apply to ammunition or components stored or expended outside the United States. Requires all such sales to be subject to all applicable explosives safety and trade security controls.
 
(Sec. 345) Requires: (1) the Secretary to develop guidance for commanders of military installations inside the United States on planning to minimize the effects of disruption of services by a utility that sells natural gas, water, or electricity to such installation; (2) such commanders to develop appropriate action plans to minimize such effects; and (3) the CG to review actions taken and report to Congress on the guidance developed.
 

Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces 
- (Sec. 401) Sets forth authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY2012.
 

Subtitle B: Reserve Forces
 - (Sec. 411) Sets forth authorized end strengths as of the end of FY2012 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.
 
(Sec. 413) Sets forth minimum end strengths for FY2012 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians.
 
(Sec. 414) Provides a FY2012 limitation on the number of non-dual status Army and Air Force military technicians.
 
(Sec. 415) Sets forth the maximum number of reserve personnel authorized to be on active duty for operational support during FY2012.
 

Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations
 - (Sec. 421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for military personnel. 
 

Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Generally 
- (Sec. 501) Increases the authorized end strengths for active-duty Marine Corps officers in the grades of major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel.
 
(Sec. 502) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretary concerned to provide a voluntary retirement incentive payment (VRIP) to officers who: (1) have served on active duty for more than 20 but not more than 29 years on the approved date of retirement; (2) meet the minimum length of commissioned service requirement for voluntary retirement as a commissioned officer; (3) on the approved date, have 12 months or more remaining on active duty before reaching the maximum retirement years for the member's grade, or under any other provision of law; and (4) meet any additional requirements as specified by the Secretary concerned. Provides VRIP exclusions. Makes the maximum VRIP payment 12 times the officer's monthly basic pay at the time of retirement. Requires repayment for members who return to active duty, but allows the Secretary to waive repayment when recovery would be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best U.S. interests. Terminates the VRIP as specified by the Secretary, but no later than December 31, 2018.
 
(Sec. 503) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to assign a graduate of the National Defense University who is not designated as a joint qualified officer to a joint assignment other than a joint duty assignment. Excludes from the requirement to be assigned to a joint duty assignment after graduation those joint qualified officers and other officers who graduate from a school within the National Defense University following pursuit of a program on an other-than-in-residence basis.
 
(Sec. 504) Includes within the definition of &quot;joint duty assignment&quot; all instructor assignments for joint training and education.
 

Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management 
- (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, when necessary to augment the active forces for a preplanned mission, to order any unit or unassigned member of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential, to active duty, without the consent of the member, for not more than 365 consecutive days. Outlines activation limitations, including a limit of 60,000 members under such order. Excludes members so ordered from active-duty end strength limits. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify Congress when exercising such authority, including the circumstances necessitating such action. Terminates such duty by law or by order of the Secretary concerned. Requires, when determining which members will be so ordered, appropriate consideration to be given to: (1) length and nature of previous service; (2) frequency of assignments during service career; (3) family responsibilities; and (4) employment necessary to maintain the national health, safety, or interest.
 
(Sec. 512) Makes reserve officer military technicians (dual status) who have been retained beyond their mandatory removal date for years of service ineligible for consideration for promotion by a mandatory promotion board.
 
(Sec. 513) Allows preseparation counseling for reserve members being demobilized to commence less than 90 days before their projected date of discharge or release from active duty when operational requirements make the full 90- day requirement unfeasible.
 
(Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the feasibility and advisability of terminating the military technician as a distinct DOD personnel management category, and (2) report study results to the defense and appropriations committees.
 

Subtitle C: General Service Authorities 
- (Sec. 521) Repeals the requirement that the Secretary pay a high-deployment allowance for members deployed in excess of specified periods.
 
(Sec. 522) Prohibits a member from being denied reenlistment for unsuitability based on the same medical condition for which they were determined by a physical evaluation board to be fit for duty.
 
(Sec. 523) Allows any enlisted member to be discharged within one year (under current law, three months) before the expiration of their enlistment or extended enlistment.
 
(Sec. 524) Extends through 2018 DOD authority to pay voluntary separation pay and benefits to eligible members voluntarily separated from active duty.
 
(Sec. 525) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out one or more programs to provide eligible members with job training and employment skills training for civilian employment. Makes eligible for such program members who: (1) have completed at least 180 days of active duty, and (2) are expected to be discharged or released from such duty within 180 days after participation in the program.
 
(Sec. 526) Requires the Secretary concerned, for the purposes of recruitment or enlistment, to treat a graduate who receives a diploma from a legally operating secondary school or otherwise completes a program of secondary education in compliance with that state's education laws as a graduate of a secondary school as defined under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe a policy that incorporates means for identifying such graduates who are qualified for recruitment and enlistment. Requires each Secretary concerned to: (1) develop a recruitment plan and strategy for targeting various segments of potential recruits with all types of secondary education credentials, and (2) develop a communication plan to ensure that the policy and plan are understood by military recruiters.
 

Subtitle D: Education and Training 
- (Sec. 541) Allows graduates of the National Defense Intelligence College to receive credit for completing joint professional military education phase I. Eliminates the requirement that the curriculum for phase II instruction at the Joint Forces Staff College be taught only in residence.
 
(Sec. 542) Allows certain military medical students, while on active duty, to serve in pay grade O-2 (under current law, all such students serve in pay grade O-1) if they meet specified criteria prescribed by the Secretary concerned. Requires officers detailed as a student at a medical school to serve on active duty in the same grade (with the same entitlements) in which they served before such detail.
 
(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements to pay a stipend to individuals eligible to be appointed as a reserve officer and enrolled or accepted in a course of study that results in a degree in clinical psychology or social work. Requires, under each agreement, that the individual serve, upon completion of the educational program, one year in the Ready Reserve for each six months for which the stipend is provided.
 
(Sec. 544) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to provide for the enrollment of certain seriously wounded, ill, or injured former or retired enlisted personnel in associate degree programs of the Community College of the Air Force in order to complete their degree program requirements. Prohibits participation by any individuals after the end of the 10-year period following their separation from active duty.
 
(Sec. 545) Allows the Secretary concerned to issue arms, tentage, and equipment to an educational institution at which no unit of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is maintained if such institution: (1) offers a course in military training prescribed by that Secretary, and (2) has a student body of at least 100 physically fit students over 14 years of age.
 
(Sec. 546) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive the maximum age limit for admission to the military service academies if the individual: (1) satisfies all other admission eligibility requirements; and (2) was or is prevented from admission before reaching the maximum age limit as a result of active duty service in a theater of operations for Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, or New Dawn. Prohibits: (1) any waiver in which the candidate would pass his or her 26th birthday by July 1 of the year of admission, and (2) more than five candidates from being admitted to each service academy under such waiver. Requires a report from each department Secretary to the defense committees on the exercise of the waiver authority.
 

Subtitle E: Military Justice and Legal Matters Generally 
- (Sec. 551) Amends article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) involving offenses of rape, sexual assault, and other sexual misconduct to divide such article into three separate articles covering: (1) offenses of rape and sexual assault of any person; (2) sexual offenses against children under age 16; and (3) other nonconsensual sexual misconduct offenses. Defines "child" for purposes of such provisions as one under age 16 (under current law, under 12). Includes as sexual assaults committing a sexual act upon another person: (1) knowing that the other person is asleep, unconscious, or otherwise unaware that the act is occurring; and (2) when the other person is incapable of proper consent due to impairment, mental disease or defect, or physical disability. Provides that marriage is not a defense for any conduct in issue under the offenses of rape and sexual assault. Repeals provisions concerning the defenses of consent and mistake of fact as to consent, as well as other affirmative defenses not being precluded simply by their omission. States specifically that: (1) a sleeping, unconscious, or incompetent person cannot consent; (2) a person cannot consent to force causing or likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm or to being rendered unconscious; and (3) a person cannot consent while under threat or in fear. Includes under other sexual misconduct the indecent viewing, visual recording, or broadcasting of the private area of another person without their consent and under circumstances in which the other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
 
(Sec. 552) Amends the UCMJ to authorize the issuance of subpoenas to compel the production of documentary evidence prior to trial by court-martial. Repeals obsolete provisions relating to fees and mileage allowance payable to witnesses.
 
(Sec. 553) Requires final decisions of the Secretary or the Secretary concerned which result in the denial of the correction of a personnel record of a member or former member to include a concise written statement of the factual and legal basis for such decision, together with a statement of the procedure and time for obtaining further review. Requires the individual to submit a review request within 90 days after a decision resulting in denial of correction of such record. Requires the decision of a military corrections board to include a thorough advisory opinion if it involves a historically significant military event, if the corrective action modifies a disciplinary action, or if it includes a promotion decision regarding a general or flag officer that would require Senate confirmation.
 
Sets forth procedures for the judicial review of decisions based on correction board actions, including a requirement that the individual request correction of the record before judicial review may proceed. Allows individuals to seek judicial review within three years after receiving the final decision of a correction board.
 
(Sec. 554) Authorizes the Secretary to provide support to one or more public or private programs designed to facilitate representation by attorneys who provide pro bono legal assistance to military personnel in need of representation. Provides funding.
 

Subtitle F: Sexual Assault Prevention and Response 
- (Sec. 561) Amends the Skelton Act to require the Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office to be appointed from among general or flag officers or from DOD employees in a comparable Senior Executive Service position.
 
(Sec. 562) Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue guidance to implement certain recommendations of the Report of the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services, and (2) report to Congress on the status of implementation of such recommendations.
 
(Sec. 563) Requires the Secretaries concerned to prescribe regulations on the provision of legal assistance to victims of sexual assault. Allows a member of the Armed Forces (member) who is the victim of a sexual assault to be provided: (1) legal assistance by military or civilian legal assistance counsel, or (2) assistance through a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator or Sexual Assault Victim Advocate. Requires a member-victim to be informed of the availability of the various types of assistance at the time the member first seeks assistance. Allows a member-victim to confidentially disclose assault details to any of the above individuals, health care personnel, or a chaplain, and receive medical treatment, legal assistance, or counseling without initiating an official investigation.
 
(Sec. 564) Directs the President to establish in the Manual for Courts-Martial an evidentiary privilege against disclosure of certain circumstances by victims of sexual assault made to Sexual Assault Response Coordinators, Sexual Assault Victim Advocates, and such other persons as the President shall specify.
 
(Sec. 565) Requires the Secretaries concerned to provide guidance on expedited consideration and decision-making on requests for a permanent change of station or unit transfer submitted by a member-victim serving on active duty.
 
(Sec. 566) Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a comprehensive DOD policy on the retention of and access to evidence and records relating to sexual assaults involving members, and (2) ensure that such policy is implemented uniformly by the military departments.
 

Subtitle G: Defense Dependents' Education 
- (Sec. 571) Earmarks specified DOD O&M funds: (1) to assist local educational agencies (LEAs) having a significant number of dependents of members and DOD civilian employees enrolled in their schools, and (2) for impact aid for children with severe disabilities.
 
(Sec. 573) Amends the Warner Act to authorize additional forms of assistance to LEAs serving military dependent students who do not attend Department of Defense Education Activity schools. Extends such authority through FY2016.
 

Subtitle H: Military Family Readiness 
- (Sec. 576) Revises the membership and terms of office on the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council.
 

Subtitle I: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 581) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretaries concerned to issue a Cold War Service Medal to eligible individuals.
 
(Sec. 582) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008 relating to the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (military-to-civilian transition assistance) to: (1) include federal and state-led programs of outreach under the Program, and (2) add to Program functions the development and implementation of a process for identifying best practices in the delivery of information and services in outreach programs.
 
(Sec. 583) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress an assessment of the feasibility and advisability of the establishment by the military departments of a process to expedite the determination of disability with respect to members who suffer from certain disabling diseases or conditions.
 
(Sec. 584) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the achievement of diversity goals for the leadership of the Armed Forces.
 
(Sec. 585) Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to apply to overseas voters (under current law, only to absent uniformed services voters) the prohibition against U.S. states from refusing to accept or process valid applications for voter registration and absentee ballots on the grounds of premature submission.
 

Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays 
- (Sec. 611) Extends through 2012 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2011 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve Armed Forces.
 
(Sec. 612) Requires hostile fire and imminent danger pay and hazardous duty pay to be prorated according to the number of days spent in a qualifying area. (Under current law, such payments are made on a monthly basis.)
 

Subtitle B: Consolidation and Reform of Travel and Transportation Authorities 
- (Sec. 621) Provides revised and updated definitions, administrative provisions, and general and specific authorities concerning military travel and transportation. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct pilot programs to evaluate alternative methods for performing and reimbursing travel, for limiting the need for travel, and for reducing the environmental impact of travel. Requires pilot program reports.
 
Directs the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security (with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy), the Secretary of Commerce (with respect to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]), and the Secretary of Health and Human Service (with respect to the Public Health Service) (administering Secretaries) to establish programs of compliance to ensure the integrity of the defense travel system, minimize fraud and waste, and ensure that benefits do not exceed actual expenses of travel or reasonable allowances based on commercial travel rates. Require that all DOD travel claims be processed electronically within five years after the enactment of this Act. 
 
Recodifies and renumbers current military travel and transportation authorities. Terminates current authorities with respect to travel that occurs after ten years after the enactment of this Act. Makes technical and clerical amendments necessitated by the recodified and renumbered authorities.
 
(Sec. 622) Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to implement the transition from current military travel and transportation authorities to the revised and updated authorities within the 10-year period following the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to prepare such plan, and modify current law to facilitate the transition process, in coordination with the administering Secretaries.
 

Subtitle C: Disability, Retired Pay, and Survivor Benefits 
- (Sec. 631) Removes members from automatic enrollment as a dependent under the Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program when they are already insured under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program.
 
(Sec. 632) Limits to 50% the obligation or expenditure of FY2012 funds for travel of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness until such Under Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees on the implementation of special compensation for members with injury or illness requiring assistance in daily living.
 
(Sec. 633) Amends the Skelton Act to repeals provisions expressing the sense of Congress concerning age and service requirements for retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service.
 

Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: TRICARE Program 
- (Sec. 701) Requires the Secretary, after FY2012, to increase the fee payable for enrollment in TRICARE Prime by the same percentage as any cost-of-living increase for retired pay of members and former members.
 
(Sec. 702) Provides that TRICARE institutional, professional, and pharmacy networks shall not be considered subcontractors for purposes of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) or any other law.
 
(Sec. 703) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 1997 to require beneficiaries enrolled in the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan after September 30, 2011, to transition to TRICARE for Life once they become Medicare-eligible.
 
(Sec. 704) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008 to: (1) extend from 2011 to 2015 the required reporting period on access to health care under TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra, and (2) change from semiannually to biennially the frequency of CG reports containing reviews of such reports.
 

Subtitle B: Other Health Care Benefits 
- (Sec. 711) Authorizes the Secretary to pay travel expenses to a location inside the United States in the case of a command-sponsored dependent of a member assigned to a remote location outside the United States who requires or elects obstetrical anesthesia services.
 
(Sec. 712) Extends the normal 180-day period for medical eligibility under the Transition Assistance Management Program, in the case of reserve members called to active duty in support of a contingency operation and then extended for additional active duty, to the 180-day period following the end of the extended duty.
 
(Sec. 713) Directs the Secretary to prescribe and maintain regulations relating to commanding officer and supervisor referrals of members for mental health evaluations. Requires such regulations to seek to eliminate any perceived stigma associated with seeking and receiving mental health services. Outlines procedures for such evaluations, and prohibits using such referrals to retaliate against whistleblowers.
 

Subtitle C: Health Care Administration 
- (Sec. 721) Allows a health-care professional who is a member of the Armed Forces, DOD civilian employee, personal services contractor, or other health-care professional who is credentialed and privileged at a federal health care institution to perform duties relating to mental health care at any location in a state, the District of Columbia, or U.S. territory or possession regardless of where the professional or patient is located, as long as the practice is within the scope of the authorized federal duties.
 
(Sec. 722) Limits access to medical quality assurance records to peer review activity by or for DOD to assess the quality of medical care.
 

Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Major Defense Acquisition Programs 
- (Sec. 801) Allows the waiver of requirements relating to new milestone approval for certain major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) that experience critical cost growth attributable to changes in the purchase quantity, and not as the result of an increase in program cost, program delay, or meeting program requirements. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a written determination to such effect.
 
(Sec. 802) Amends the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 to: (1) repeal the requirement that DOD certify MDAP compliance with actions on the treatment of systemic problems prior to milestone approval, and (2) eliminate the requirement to continually review and revalidate waivers granted under such Act.
 
(Sec. 803) Directs the Secretary to issue guidance on actions taken to assess, manage, and control DOD costs for the operation and support of major weapon systems. Makes the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation responsible for developing and maintaining a database on operating and support estimates, supporting documentation, and actual operating and support costs for such systems.
 
(Sec. 804) Makes the Under Secretary responsible for policies and guidance on cost analyses and targets to be used in contract negotiations.
 
(Sec. 805) Amends the Skelton Act to allow DOD to tailor manufacturing readiness levels or other manufacturing standards to address the unique characteristics of specific industry sectors or weapon system portfolios.
 
(Sec. 806) Amends the Warner Act to require each MDAP to be supported by a chief development tester and a government test agency.
 
(Sec. 807) Directs the Secretary, after the President certifies Congress regarding a proposed cooperative agreement expected to result in the award of a DOD contract for the engineering and manufacturing development of a major weapon system, to submit to the defense committees a risk assessment of the proposed project.
 

Subtitle B: Acquisition Policy and Management 
- (Sec. 821) Directs: (1) the Under Secretary to develop a strategy for ensuring that timely, accurate, and complete information on contractor performance is included in past performance databases used for making source selection decisions, and (2) the CG to report to the defense and appropriations committees on actions taken by the Under Secretary pursuant to such strategy.
 
(Sec. 822) Requires: (1) the Under Secretary to develop a plan for implementing the recommendations of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Improvements to Service Contracting, and (2) the CG to report to such committees on actions taken pursuant to this section.
 
(Sec. 823) Prohibits the total amount obligated by DOD for contract services in FY2012 or FY2013 from exceeding the total amount requested for such services by DOD in FY2010, adjusted for net transfers from funding for overseas contingency operations. Provides an exception with respect to any increase in the number of civilian DOD billets in such fiscal years. Requires the Secretary to issue guidance to the military departments and defense agencies on the implementation of such limitations.
 
(Sec. 824) Requires a single annual report on single-award task and delivery order contracts based on exceptional circumstances (in lieu of separate reports on each single-award contract awarded during such year). Requires an explanation of the basis of the determination with respect to a single-award contract in excess of $100 million.
 
(Sec. 825) Directs the Under Secretary to: (1) incorporate specified corrosion prevention and control recommendations into requirements applicable to the development and acquisition of new weapon systems, (2) develop a plan to achieve such incorporation in a timely and appropriate manner, and (3) incorporate such corrosion prevention and control into the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Requires: (1) the Secretary to ensure that the Milestone Decision Authority for an MDAP to consider issues of corrosion and materials degradation within MDAP certification requirements; and (2) the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to consider corrosion, environmental severity, and duration in the adequacy of operational test and evaluation plans, and include such information in required annual reports.
 
(Sec. 826) Prohibits the use of funds to implement or carry out any program that creates a price evaluation adjustment that is inconsistent with certain federal court rulings.
 

Subtitle C: Amendments Relating to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations 
- (Sec. 841) Provides for the treatment and use of technical data developed through DOD expenditure of certain independent research and development and bid and proposal costs.
 
(Sec. 842) Extends the current cap on allowable costs for defense contractor executive compensation to all contractor management employees. (Under current law, such cap applies only to company senior executives.) 
 
(Sec. 843) Amends the Skelton Act to define &quot;covered contracts&quot; for purposes of requirements for contractor business systems.
 
(Sec. 844) Requires non-defense agencies to comply with defense procurement requirements, including FAR, when making procurements on behalf of DOD.
 
(Sec. 845) Prohibits the head of a defense agency from requiring a contractor to submit contractor political information as part of a contract solicitation, bid, or proposal, or during any part of contract performance.
 
(Sec. 846) Waives DOD Buy American requirements for the procurement of components containing specialty metal otherwise producible overseas with specialty metal not produced in the United States.
 
(Sec. 847) Directs the CG to submit to the defense committees a review and assessment of the noncompetitive contracts and one-offer contracts awarded by DOD during the preceding fiscal year.
 

Subtitle D: Provisions Relating to Wartime Contracting 
- (Sec. 861) Authorizes the head of a DOD contracting activity to void a contract, or restrict or limit the award of future contracts, to a contractor who has been determined by the Commander of the U.S. Central Command as actively opposing U.S. or coalition forces in a contingency operation in the Central Command theater of operations. Allows such contracting head to authorize the contract termination for default of a contractor who fails to exercise due diligence to ensure that none of the contract funds are awarded to persons actively supporting an insurgency or opposing U.S. or coalition forces in such theater of operations. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees in each of 2013-2015 on the use of such authority. Terminates such authority three years after the enactment of this Act.
 
(Sec. 862) Authorizes the Secretary to include in defense contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements a clause authorizing the Secretary to examine the records of the contract, grant, or agreement recipient to ensure that contract funds are not subject to extortion or corruption and are not provided to persons or entities supporting an insurgency or actively opposing U.S. or coalition forces in a contingency operation. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees in each of 2013-2015 on the use of such authority. Terminates such authority three years after the enactment of this Act.
 
(Sec. 863) Establishes in the Treasury the Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund to fund capabilities determined to be suitable for rapid fielding in response to urgent operational needs. Allows the transfer of funds to such Fund from DOD O&M, procurement, and RDT&E accounts. Terminates Fund use authority on the last day of the third fiscal year following the enactment of this Act. Prohibits any Fund expenditures until the Secretary certifies to the defense and appropriations committees that DOD has developed and implemented an expedited review process in compliance with provisions of the Skelton Act.
 
(Sec. 864) Amends the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Stump Act) to include associated support services within DOD use of rapid acquisition and deployment procedures for urgently needed supplies.
 
(Sec. 865) Authorizes the Under Secretary to designate a single contracting activity inside the United States to act as the lead contracting activity for the use of domestic capabilities in support of overseas contracting for Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. Authorizes the head of the designated contracting activity, when awarding such a contract inside the United States, to use the larger overseas micro-purchase and simplified acquisition thresholds in the same manner and to the same extent as if the contract were to be awarded outside the United States.
 
(Sec. 866) Requires that the Quadrennial Defense Review, National Military Strategy, and other major military planning documents address the expected roles and responsibilities of contractors in military operations and risks associated with the assignment of functions to contractors.
 

Subtitle E: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 881) Extends, to include by way of direct appropriation or deposit, the availability of funds in the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund.
 
(Sec. 882) Revises the delegation of authority for determinations on the DOD making of cooperative research and development agreements with NATO and other U.S.-friendly countries and organizations.
 
(Sec. 883) Directs the Secretary to determine a fair and reasonable rate of payment for airlift services provided to DOD by air carriers participating in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program.
 
(Sec. 884) Authorizes DOD to acquire right-hand drive passenger vehicles, at a cost of up to $40,000 each. Requires such cost limit to be adjusted annually for inflation.
 
(Sec. 885) Amends the Small Business Act to extend through FY2018: (1) the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, (2) the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, and (3) the small business commercialization pilot program.
 
(Sec. 886) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY2014 a test program for the negotiation of comprehensive small business subcontracting plans. Extends an associated report requirement.
 
(Sec. 887) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY2015 the DOD mentor-protege pilot program.
 
(Sec. 888) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on fire-resistant and fire-retardant fibers and materials used in military products.
 

Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense Management 
- (Sec. 901) Requires the Deputy Secretary of Defense to be appointed from among those most highly qualified by background and experience, including management experience.
 
(Sec. 902) Directs the Secretary to designate a senior DOD official with principal responsibility for DOD airship programs, and to set forth appropriate responsibilites of the position.
 
(Sec. 903) Requires each department Secretary to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Commander of the Special Operations Command establishing procedures for the synchronization of general purposes forces with the training and deployment cycle of special operations forces.
 
(Sec. 904) Establishes the positions of Commandant and Provost and Academic Dean at the Air Force Institute of Technology, with appropriate qualifications and responsibilities. Provides a five-year term for each, but authorizes an additional five-year term for the Commandant.
 
(Sec. 905) Makes permanent DOD authority: (1) for the direct hiring of scientists and engineers for defense laboratory positions, (2) to fund defense laboratories for research and development of technologies for military missions, and (3) for unspecified minor military construction projects related to defense laboratory revitalization. Requires the Secretary to: (1) assess current requirements of defense laboratories for the revitalization and recapitalization of infrastructure, and (2) submit an interim and final report to the defense and appropriations committees on such assessment.
 
(Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess current and potential mechanisms to permit DOD to employ non-U.S. citizens with critical scientific and technical skills vital to U.S. national security interests, and (2) submit an interim and final report to the defense and appropriations committees on such assessment.
 

Subtitle B: Space Activities 
- (Sec. 911) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to assist the Secretary of Transportation with respect to private-sector involvement in commercial space activities and public-private partnerships pertaining to space transportation infrastructure (STI), to: (1) maximixe the use of DOD STI by the private sector, (2) maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the DOD STI, (3) reduce the cost of STI services provided by DOD, (4) encourage commercial space activities by enabling investment in the DOD STI by non-federal entities engaged in commercial space activities, and (5) foster cooperation between DOD and such entities. Establishes the Defense Cooperation Space Launch Account for such purposes. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on funds, services, and equipment accepted and used for such purposes.
 
(Sec. 912) Provides that if the Secretary determines that a MDAP to purchase space vehicles requires delivery in two or more increments, the Secretary may designate each increment as a major subprogram for purposes of acquisition reporting requirements.
 
(Sec. 913) Expresses the sense of Congress on the importance of the reliable, uninterrupted provision of precision navigation and timing signals by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites owned and operated by DOD. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the ability of national security GPS receivers to receive signals without interruption or interference, and determine if commercial communications services are or will cause interference with such signals; and (2) notify the defense and appropriations committees upon a positive determination of interruption or interference.
 

Subtitle C: Intelligence Matters 
- (Sec. 921) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to exchange or furnish mapping, charting, and geodetic data, supplies and services relating to areas outside the United States to a nongovernmental organization or academic institution engaged in geospatial information research or production of such areas.
 
(Sec. 922) Authorizes the Secretary to maintain, repair, and exercise jurisdiction over a facility if necessary to provide security for authorized DOD intelligence collection or special operations activities abroad.
 
(Sec. 923) Requires the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency to implement a mechanism to publish and maintain on the public Internet specified information on and resources for the Ozone Widget Framework in order to permit individuals and companies to develop, integrate, and test analysis tools and applications for use by DOD and elements of the intelligence community. Requires such Director to encourage and foster the use of such Framework by the computer industry and commercial information technology vendors.
 
(Sec. 924) Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to: (1) develop a plan for the incorporation of an enterprise query and correlation capability into the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise, (2) conduct a pilot program to demonstrate its capability to perform specified functions, and (3) report to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees on incorporation actions taken.
 

Subtitle D: Cybersecurity Matters 
- (Sec. 931) Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a plan to augment the cybersecurity strategy of DOD through the acquisition of advanced capabilities to discover and isolate penetrations and attacks that were previously unknown and for which signatures have not been developed for incorporation into computer intrusion detection and prevention systems and anti-virus software systems, and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on such plan.
 
(Sec. 932) Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to support DOD policy on sustaining and expanding information sharing by adopting and improving technical and procedural capabilities to detect and prevent unauthorized personnel from acquiring and exporting information from classified networks. Requires annual DOD budget justification materials to include information on such program.
 

Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters 
- (Sec. 1001) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $5 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 1002) Revises requirements for the review and approval of expenditures for a defense business system modernization program to allow the appropriate chief management officer for the program to waive program review and approval requirements if such officer determines that the program is necessary: (1) to achieve a critical national security capability or address a critical requirement in an area such as safety or security, or (2) to prevent a significant adverse effect on a project needed to achieve an essential capability. Extends current review and approval requirements to decisions to expend funds on the O&M of existing business systems, as well as to business systems acquired with nonappropriated funds. Directs the Secretary to establish an investment review board and investment management process with respect to such programs. Extends program report requirements through 2016.
 
(Sec. 1003) Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe professional certification and credential standards for financial management (under current law, accounting) positions within DOD. Allows the Secretary to either: (1) require the standards to apply immediately to all DOD personnel holding financial management positions, or (2) delay the imposition of such standard for a reasonable period to permit persons holding such positions to comply.
 
(Sec. 1004) Requires sums received as reimbursement for DOD fire protection services to be credited to the same appropriation or fund from which the expenses were paid (current law) or, if the period of availability for obligation for that appropriation has expired, to the appropriation or fund currently available for the same purpose.
 

Subtitle B: Counter-Drug Activities 
- (Sec. 1011) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY2016 DOD authority to provide additional support for counterdrug activities of other governmental agencies. Includes tribal law enforcement agencies within authorized governmental agencies.
 
(Sec. 1012) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY2017 DOD support for counterdrug activities of certain foreign governments. Increases the maximum annual expenditure limit. Provides 13 additional countries eligible for such support.
 
(Sec. 1013) Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Spence Act) to extend to 2012 a reporting requirement on expenditures to support foreign counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 1014) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to extend through FY2012 the authority of a DOD joint task force to provide support to law enforcement agencies conducting counterterrorism activities. Provides a FY2012 limitation on the use of such authority.
 
(Sec. 1015) Amends the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Reagan Act) to extend through FY2012 DOD authority to support a unified counter-drug and counterterrorism campaign in Colombia.
 

Subtitle C: Naval Vessels and Shipyards 
- (Sec. 1021) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to place a Maritime Prepositioning Ship squadron or component on reduced operating status until the later of the date on which: (1) the Commandant of the Marine Corps submits a report assessing the impact of such placing on military readiness, (2) the Chief of Naval Operations describes Navy plans for such placing, or (3) the Secretary certifies that the risks of such placing to readiness are acceptable.
 
(Sec. 1022) Amends the Warner Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to demilitarize the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in preparation for transfer to retired status. (Under current law, such Secretary is required to maintain the ship in a status that would allow its return to active service in the event of a national emergency.)
 
(Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to maximize the safety and effectiveness of all vessels, aircraft, and forces by means of marine data collection, numerical weather and ocean prediction, and forecasting of hazardous weather and ocean conditions. Authorizes such Secretary to extend such support to NATO and/or coalition forces operating with the Armed Forces. Directs the Secretary to collect, process, and provide to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency hydrographic information to support such Agency's preparation of maps, charts, books, and geodetic products.
 

Subtitle D: Detainee Matters 
- (Sec. 1031) Allows U.S. Armed Forces to detain covered persons captured during hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force as unprivileged enemy belligerents pending disposition under the law of war. Defines a &quot;covered person&quot; as a person who: (1) planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, or harbored those responsible for such attacks; or (2) was part of or substantially supported al Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.
 
(Sec. 1032) Requires U.S. Armed Forces to hold in custody as an unprivileged enemy belligerent pending disposition a person who was a member or part of al Qaeda or an affiliated entity and participated in planning or carrying out an attack or attempted attack against the United States or its coalition partners. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement in the national security interest. Makes such requirement inapplicable to U.S. citizens.
 
(Sec. 1033) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to transfer any individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo) to the custody or control of that individual's country of origin, other foreign country, or foreign entity unless the Secretary makes a specified certification to Congress, including that the tranferee country or entity is not a state sponsor of terrorism or terrorist organization and has agreed to ensure that the individual cannot take action to threaten the United States or its citizens or allies in the future. Prohibits any such transfer if there is a confirmed case of an individual who was transferred to a foreign country and subsequently engaged in terrorist activity. Authorizes the waiver of such prohibition in the national security interest.
 
(Sec. 1034) Prohibits funds from being used to construct or modify any facility in the United States or its territories or possessions to house any individual detained at Guantanamo for purposes of detention or imprisonment by DOD, unless authorized by Congress. Provides an exception.
 
(Sec. 1035) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and intelligence committees procedures for implementing the periodic Guantanamo detainee review process required under Executive Order.
 
(Sec. 1036) Directs the Secretary to submit to such committees: (1) procedures for determining the status of unprivileged enemy belligerents captured in the course of hostilities, and (2) any modifications to such procedures.
 
(Sec. 1037) Allows a guilty plea as part of a pre-trial agreement in capital offense trials by military commission.
 

Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Authorities and Limitations 
- (Sec. 1041) Directs the Secretary to protect the buildings, grounds, and property under DOD jurisdiction or control, and the persons on that property. Authorizes the Secretary to designate military or DOD civilian personnel to perform such functions. Empowers those so designated to enforce federal laws, carry firearms, and make arrests while carrying out such duties.
 
(Sec. 1042) Makes technical corrections relating to the Military Commissions Act of 2009.
 
(Sec. 1043) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out: (1) reintegration activities for DOD personnel recovered after detention in isolation or captivity by a hostile force while participating in or associated with a U.S.-sponsored military activity or mission; and (2) post-isolation activities on behalf of such individuals, military or civilian officers or employees of an allied or coalition partner, or other U.S. or foreign nationals.
 
(Sec. 1044) Authorizes the Secretary to exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act: (1) DOD critical infrastructure information that, if disclosed, may result in the disruption, degradation, or destruction of DOD operations, property, or facilities; and (2) files of the military flight operations quality assurance systems of the military departments that, if disclosed, would reveal sensitive information regarding the tactics or capabilities of combat aircraft, units, or crews.
 
(Sec. 1045) Defines &quot;CRAF-eligible aircraft&quot; for purposes of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program.
 
(Sec. 1046) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to assign DOD civilian employees as advisors to the ministries of defense of foreign countries and international peace and security organizations. Terminates such authority at the end of FY2014. Requires: (1) annual reports during such period from the Secretary to the defense committees on program activities, and (2) a one-time report from the CG assessing the effectiveness of advisory services provided under the program.
 
(Sec. 1047) Directs the President to conduct an assessment of current and proposed nuclear forces of the United States and other countries to determine whether U.S. nuclear forces can meet its goals of nuclear deterrence, assurance of allies, and defense. Requires such assessment to be submitted to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs that such assessment take place upon a proposal: (1) to reduce the number of U.S.-deployed nuclear weapons below the level described in a treaty between the United States and Russia signed in 2010, or (2) to reduce, before 2022, the number of non-deployed nuclear weapons held by the United States as a hedge.
 
(Sec. 1048) Authorizes the Secretary to administer the Troops-to-Teachers program during FY2012. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Education to jointly report to the defense and education committees on such program.
 

Subtitle F: Repeal and Modification of Reporting Requirements 
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Part I: Repeal of Reporting Requirements
 - (Sec. 1061) Repeals various DOD reports under armed forces and pay and allowance provisions and defense authorization Acts.
 

Part II: Modification of Existing Reporting Requirements
 - (Sec. 1066) Reduces and/or revises DOD report requirements under armed forces provisions, defense authorization Acts, and the Small Business Act.
 

Subtitle G: Other Study and Report Matters 
- (Sec. 1071) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010 to reduce from five to three the number of required CG reports concerning a joint DOD-VA agreement on administration of a Navy ambulatory care center and related facilities in North Chicago, Illinois.
 
(Sec. 1072) Directs the President to: (1) submit to Congress a plan to implement the organizational goals recommended in the National Security Strategy-May 2010, and (2) annually update the plan.
 
(Sec. 1073) Directs the Secretary to biennially: (1) assess the safety, security, sustainability, performance, and military effectiveness of each type of platform for the delivery of nuclear weapons and of the U.S. nuclear command and control system; and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on such assessment.
 
(Sec. 1074) Expresses the sense of Congress on the need for sustained investments in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and nuclear security complex. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the nuclear weapons stockpile.
 
(Sec. 1075) Expresses the sense of Congress that any future modification to the U.S. nuclear employment strategy should maintain or enhance the ability of U.S. nuclear forces to support goals relating to nuclear deterrence, extended deterrence, assurance for allies, and the defense of the United States. Directs the President, any time after issuing a nuclear employment strategy that differs from the current one, to report to Congress on such modifications and an assessment of their effects on U.S. nuclear posture.
 
(Sec. 1076) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study examining the availability of military and civilian personnel for DOD defensive and offensive cyberspace operations, and (2) report study results to the defense and appropriations committees.
 
(Sec. 1077) Directs the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress the results of a review of current restrictions on the resolution of electro-optical imagery collected from satellites that commercial companies may sell or disseminate. Requires the Director of National Intelligence to submit to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees an assessment of benefits and risks of relaxing such restrictions, along with recommendations for protecting national security-related information in the event of restriction relaxation.
 
(Sec. 1078) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.
 
(Sec. 1079) Requires: (1) the Secretary to commission an independent entity to assess U.S. security interests in East Asia and the Pacific region, and (2) the entity selected to report assessment results to the Secretary, who shall in turn provide the assessment to the defense and appropriations committees. Authorizes appropriations.
 

Subtitle H: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 1081) Redesignates military psychological operations as military information support operations.
 
(Sec. 1082) Amends the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 1991 to terminate the requirement that civilian members of the National Security Education Board be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
 
(Sec. 1083) Redesignates the Industrial College of the Armed Forces as the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.
 
(Sec. 1084) Designates the Fisher House for the Families of the Fallen and Meditation Pavillion at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, as a Fisher House for administrative and governance purposes.
 
(Sec. 1085) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the moratorium on congressionally-directed spending items in the Senate and on congressional earmarks in the House of Representatives be fully enforced in this Act.
 

Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters 
- (Sec. 1101) Allows each Secretary concerned (under current law, only the Secretary of Defense) to employ without pay up to ten individuals possessing outstanding experience and ability.
 
(Sec. 1102) Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay, through FY2014, the federal share and administrative fees for temporary continuation of coverage health insurance premiums for former DOD employees enrolled in such coverage and separated due to a reduction in force.
 
(Sec. 1103) Authorizes the Secretary to waive repayment of voluntary separation incentive pay in the case of employees who accepted a reassignment with DOD during the period beginning on April 1, 2004, and ending on May 1, 2008, and had received written assurance that such repayment would not be required or would be waived.
 
(Sec. 1104) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) make permanent a temporary experimental personnel management program for technical positions at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and (2) increase from 40 to 50 the number of additional positions authorized for DARPA due to increased need. Allows up to ten of the additional positions to be allocated for scientific and engineering positions in the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 
(Sec. 1105) Allows a federal employee to designate any person to receive all (under current law, up to 50%) or any portion of their death gratuity in the event that such employee dies in connection with service with the Armed Forces in a contingency operation. Requires the appropriate agency head to notify the spouse in the event the employee does not choose the spouse as the beneficiary of a full death gratuity.
 
(Sec. 1106) Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to extend through FY2013 DOD authority to grant allowances, benefits, and gratuities to federal employees performing official duty in a combat zone.
 
(Sec. 1107) Amends the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 to extend through FY2012 the authority of the head of a federal agency to waive the annual limitations on premium pay and aggregate pay for employees working abroad.
 

Title XII: Matters Relating to Foreign Nations - Subtitle A: Assistance and Training 
- (Sec. 1201) Expands the scope of authorized DOD humanitarian demining assistance to certain friendly foreign countries to include stockpiled conventional munitions assistance.
 
(Sec. 1202) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to extend through FY2012 the Commanders' Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects in Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 1203) Amends the Warner Act to extend through FY2014 the temporary authority to use acquisition and cross-servicing agreements to lend personnel protection equipment to allied forces during coalition operations or for pre-deployment training in preparation for such operations.
 
(Sec. 1204) Amends the Skelton Act to extend through FY2012 DOD authority to provide assistance to enhance the ability of the Yemen Ministry of Interior Counter Terrorism Forces to conduct counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of State to jointly notify the defense, foreign relations, and appropriations committees 60 days in advance of the provision of such assistance.
 
(Sec. 1205) Amends the Reagan Act to extend through FY2017 DOD authority to support or facilitate U.S. operations to combat terrorism.
 
(Sec. 1206) Limits to $100 million the obligation and expenditure of FY2012 funds to train and equip certain foreign military forces until the Secretaries of Defense and State submit a global partnership authorities report required under the Hunter Act.
 
(Sec. 1207) Establishes in the Treasury the Global Security Contingency Fund to allow either the Secretary of Defense or State to provide assistance: (1) to enhance the capabilities of a foreign country's national military forces and other forces that conduct border and maritime security, internal defense counterterrorism, or peace support operations consistent with U.S. foreign policy and national security interests; and (2) for the justice sector (including law enforcement and prisons) of such countries. Authorizes transfers to such Fund from other foreign assistance and related funds. Provides a $300 million annual limit on the amount of funds appropriated and transferred to the Fund. Requires: (1) the Secretary to notify the defense, foreign relations, and approriations committees 15 days in advance of the provision of such assistance, and (2) quarterly reports from such Secretaries on the use of such funds. Terminates such authority at the end of FY2014.
 
(Sec. 1208) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY2012-FY2013, to provide assistance to enhance the capacity of: (1) the national military forces, defense security agencies, and border security forces of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya to conduct counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its affiliates and al Shabaab; and (2) national military forces participating in the African Union Mission in Somalia to conduct such operations. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense, foreign relations, and appropriations committees 30 days in advance of providing such assistance.
 
(Sec. 1209) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY2012-FY2013, to provide logistic support, supplies, and services, and intelligence support for forces, including the national military forces of Uganda, participating in operations to mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the Lord's Resistance Army. Allows the participation of U.S. personnel only for self-defense or rescuing U.S. citizens. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. Requires: (1) the Secretary to notify the above committees within five days after the provision of such support, and (2) the Secretaries of Defense and State to report quarterly to such committees on the obligation of funds for such support.
 

Subtitle B: Matters Relating to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan 
- (Sec. 1221) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008 to extend through FY2012 DOD authority to reimburse certain coalition countries for support provided to U.S. military operations. Increases the amount of such funding. Limits FY2012 funding until Congress receives a report required under the Skelton Act concerning coalition support authorities.
 
(Sec. 1222) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010 to extend through 2012 DOD authority to transfer defense articles, and provide defense services in connection with such transfer, to the military and security forces of Iraq and Afghanistan. Extends required quarterly reports.
 
(Sec. 1223) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010 to extend through FY2012 certain authorities regarding the use of the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistan security forces.
 
(Sec. 1224) Amends the Skelton Act to extend through 2012 DOD authority to use funds for former insurgent reintegration activities in Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 1225) Amends the Skelton Act to: (1) extend through FY2012 DOD authority to develop and carry out certain infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, and (2) reduce from 30 to 15 days the required advanced congressional notification of such projects.
 
(Sec. 1226) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008 to: (1) extend through FY2012 DOD authority to reimburse certain coalition countries for support provided to U.S. military operations, (2) increase the authorized amount for such reimbursements, and (3) extend through FY2013 required congressional notification of reimbursement to Pakistan for military support.
 
(Sec. 1227) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008 to extend through FY2014 reports concerning: (1) progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan, and (2) a long-term plan for sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces.
 
(Sec. 1228) Authorizes the Secretary to provide support for operations and activities of the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq and for security assistance teams in Iraq. Limits FY2012 funding for such support. Provides such funding through DOD O&M funds.
 
(Sec. 1229) Directs the President to: (1) establish, and periodically update, a set of benchmarks to evaluate progress in transitioning security responsibilities in Afghanistan to their government by December 31, 2014; and (2) include the most current benchmarks in required annual reports on progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan.
 

Subtitle C: Reports and Other Matters 
- (Sec. 1241) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to report to the defense committees on progress of the African Union in operationalizing the African Standby Force.
 
(Sec. 1242) Directs the CG to report to the defense committees on the National Guard State Partnership program.
 

Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction 
- (Sec. 1301) Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 15 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on the new purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification.
 
(Sec. 1303) Prohibits more than $500,000 of the FY2012 CTR funds from being obligated or expended to establish a center of excellence in any country not a state of the former Soviet Union until 15 days after the Secretary notifies the defense and appropriations committees.
 

Title XIV: Other Authorizations - Subtitle A: Military Programs - 
(Sec. 1401) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY2012 for: (1) Defense Working Capital Funds, (2) the National Defense Sealift Fund, (3) the Defense Health Program, (4) chemical agents and munitions destruction, (5) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, and (6) the Defense Inspector General.
 

Subtitle B: National Defense Stockpile 
- (Sec. 1411) Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY2012, to obligate up to $50,107,320 of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses, including the disposal of hazardous materials that are environmentally sensitive. Authorizes the NDS Manager to obligate amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations.
 
(Sec. 1412) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 to increase and extend through 2016 DOD authority to sell NDS materials.
 

Subtitle C: Armed Forces Retirement Home - Part I: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 1421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
 

Part II: Armed Forces Retirement Home Authorities 
- (Sec. 1423) Requires the Chief Operating Officer of the Armed Forces Retirement Home (Home), when securing accreditation of a Home facility that exceeds one year, to seek accreditation for every year after that first year that the DOD Inspector General does not conduct an inspection of that facility.
 
(Sec. 1424) Revises oversight and reporting responsibilities of the Home's Senior Medical Advisor.
 
(Sec. 1425) Establishes an Armed Forces Retirement Home Advisory Council (to replace local boards of trustees for each Home facility). Requires the Council to report annually to the Secretary on its activities.
 
(Sec. 1426) Replaces the Home Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director with a Home Administrator and an Ombudsman.
 
(Sec. 1427) Increases, from annually to not less than every three years, the authorized interval between DOD Inspector General inspections of each Home facility. Increases intervals with respect to certain other inspection requirements.
 
(Sec. 1428) Repeals obsolete transitional provisions concerning the Armed Forces Retirement Home Board and facility directors and deputy directors.
 
(Sec. 1429) Makes technical, conforming, and clerical amendments to the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to conform to changes made under this Part.
 

Subtitle D: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 1431) Earmarks specified funds for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund for operations at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, Illinois, under an operational agreement outlined in the Hunter Act.
 

Title XV: Authorization of Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations 
- (Sec. 1501) Authorizes appropriations for DOD for FY2012 to provide additional funds for overseas contingency operations, specifically for: (1) procurement, (2) RDT&E, (3) O&M, (4) military personnel, (5) Defense Working Capital Funds, (6) the Defense Health Program, (7) drug interdiction and counterdrug activities, and (8) the Defense Inspector General.
 

Subtitle B: Financial Matters 
- (Sec. 1522) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $4 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this title between any such authorizations for that fiscal year.
 

Subtitle C: Other Matters 
- (Sec. 1531) Amends the Skelton Act to extend into 2012 project authority and related requirements of the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Afghanistan. Allows project activities to include facilitating private investment, mining sector development, industrial development, and other projects determined to strengthen stability or provide strategic support to the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. Allows as additional Task Force members representatives of the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
 
(Sec. 1532) Requires funds authorized for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund in FY2012 to be subject to Fund use and other conditions enumerated under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008. Allows assistance provided to include literacy instruction and training to build the capacity of military and civilian personnel of Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior.
 
(Sec. 1533) Prohibits the use of funds for DOD's Trans Regional Web Initiative until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees.
 
(Sec. 1534) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on lessons learned from DOD participation on interagency teams for counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 81.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Levin. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Levin. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate