Us Congress House Bill HB4365 Latest Draft

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Calendar No. 226 
118THCONGRESS 
1
STSESSION H. R. 4365 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER16, 2023 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 1
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 2
fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for military func-3
tions administered by the Department of Defense and for 4
other purposes, namely: 5
TITLE I 6
MILITARY PERSONNEL 7
M
ILITARYPERSONNEL, ARMY 8
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 9
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta-10
tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza-11
tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 12
between permanent duty stations, for members of the 13
Army on active duty (except members of reserve compo-14
nents provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; 15
for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and 16
for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97– 17
377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Depart-18
ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 19
$50,230,906,000. 20
M
ILITARYPERSONNEL, NAVY 21
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 22
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta-23
tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza-24
tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 25
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between permanent duty stations, for members of the 1
Navy on active duty (except members of the Reserve pro-2
vided for elsewhere), midshipmen, and aviation cadets; for 3
members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for 4
payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, 5
as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department 6
of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $37,615,388,000. 7
M
ILITARYPERSONNEL, MARINECORPS 8
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 9
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta-10
tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza-11
tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 12
between permanent duty stations, for members of the Ma-13
rine Corps on active duty (except members of the Reserve 14
provided for elsewhere); and for payments pursuant to sec-15
tion 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 16
402 note), and to the Department of Defense Military Re-17
tirement Fund, $15,556,629,000. 18
M
ILITARYPERSONNEL, AIRFORCE 19
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 20
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta-21
tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza-22
tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 23
between permanent duty stations, for members of the Air 24
Force on active duty (except members of reserve compo-25
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nents provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; 1
for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and 2
for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97– 3
377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Depart-4
ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 5
$36,512,530,000. 6
M
ILITARYPERSONNEL, SPACEFORCE 7
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 8
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of sta-9
tion travel (including all expenses thereof for organiza-10
tional movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel 11
between permanent duty stations, for members of the 12
Space Force on active duty and cadets; for members of 13
the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for payments 14
pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amend-15
ed (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of De-16
fense Military Retirement Fund, $1,239,573,000. 17
R
ESERVEPERSONNEL, ARMY 18
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 19
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Re-20
serve on active duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 21
7038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 22
active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 23
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 24
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 25
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while undergoing reserve training, or while performing 1
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses au-2
thorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 3
and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 4
Retirement Fund, $5,367,436,000. 5
R
ESERVEPERSONNEL, NAVY 6
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 7
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Navy Re-8
serve on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, 9
United States Code, or while serving on active duty under 10
section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in con-11
nection with performing duty specified in section 12310(a) 12
of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing re-13
serve training, or while performing drills or equivalent 14
duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 15
10, United States Code; and for payments to the Depart-16
ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 17
$2,486,718,000. 18
R
ESERVEPERSONNEL, MARINECORPS 19
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 20
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Marine 21
Corps Reserve on active duty under section 10211 of title 22
10, United States Code, or while serving on active duty 23
under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, 24
in connection with performing duty specified in section 25
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12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-1
going reserve training, or while performing drills or equiv-2
alent duty, and for members of the Marine Corps platoon 3
leaders class, and expenses authorized by section 16131 4
of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the 5
Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 6
$898,928,000. 7
R
ESERVEPERSONNEL, AIRFORCE 8
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 9
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force 10
Reserve on active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 11
9038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 12
active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 13
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 14
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 15
while undergoing reserve training, or while performing 16
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses au-17
thorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 18
and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 19
Retirement Fund, $2,459,466,000. 20
N
ATIONALGUARDPERSONNEL, ARMY 21
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 22
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Na-23
tional Guard while on duty under sections 10211, 10302, 24
or 12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United 25
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States Code, or while serving on duty under section 1
12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United 2
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 3
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or 4
while undergoing training, or while performing drills or 5
equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by 6
section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for pay-7
ments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 8
Fund, $9,766,369,000. 9
N
ATIONALGUARDPERSONNEL, AIRFORCE 10
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 11
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Na-12
tional Guard on duty under sections 10211, 10305, or 13
12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States 14
Code, or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of 15
title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 16
in connection with performing duty specified in section 17
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-18
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent 19
duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 20
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 21
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 22
$5,234,625,000. 23
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TITLE II 1
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 2
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, ARMY 3
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 4
for the operation and maintenance of the Army, as author-5
ized by law, $60,525,399,000 (reduced by $15,000,000) 6
(reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (in-7
creased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (in-8
creased by $1,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (re-9
duced by $5,000,000) (reduced by $7,750,000) (reduced 10
by $5,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 11
$1,000,000): Provided, That not to exceed $12,478,000 12
may be used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, 13
to be expended upon the approval or authority of the Sec-14
retary of the Army, and payments may be made upon the 15
Secretary’s certificate of necessity for confidential military 16
purposes. 17
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, NAVY 18
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 19
for the operation and maintenance of the Navy and the 20
Marine Corps, as authorized by law, $73,547,305,000 (in-21
creased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (in-22
creased by $8,606,779) (reduced by $55,000,000): Pro-23
vided, That not to exceed $15,055,000 may be used for 24
emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended 25
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upon the approval or authority of the Secretary of the 1
Navy, and payments may be made upon the Secretary’s 2
certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes. 3
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, MARINECORPS 4
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 5
for the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, 6
as authorized by law, $10,909,609,000 (increased by 7
$1,000,000). 8
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, AIRFORCE 9
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 10
for the operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as 11
authorized by law, $63,460,822,000 (increased by 12
$1,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 13
$7,200,000) (increased by $7,200,000): Provided, That 14
not to exceed $7,699,000 may be used for emergencies and 15
extraordinary expenses, to be expended upon the approval 16
or authority of the Secretary of the Air Force, and pay-17
ments may be made upon the Secretary’s certificate of ne-18
cessity for confidential military purposes. 19
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, SPACEFORCE 20
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 21
for the operation and maintenance of the Space Force, as 22
authorized by law, $4,890,886,000 (increased by 23
$5,000,000) (reduced by $8,000,000) (reduced by 24
$10,000,000) (increased by $2,500,000). 25
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OPERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 3
for the operation and maintenance of activities and agen-4
cies of the Department of Defense (other than the military 5
departments), as authorized by law, $52,453,715,000 (re-6
duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced 7
by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 8
$8,606,779) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 9
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 10
$5,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 11
$5,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 12
$3,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 13
$5,000,000) (reduced by $2,500,000) (reduced by 14
$4,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 15
$3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by 16
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 17
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 18
$10,000,000) (reduced by $122,600,000) (reduced by 19
$15,000,000) (reduced by $7,000,000) (reduced by 20
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 21
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 22
$15,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 23
$7,500,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced by 24
$12,000,000) (reduced by $7,500,000) (reduced by 25
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$5,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 1
$10,000,000) (reduced by $15,000,000) (reduced by 2
$4,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 3
$1,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 4
$10,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 5
$2,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 6
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 7
$2,500,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 8
$2,500,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced by 9
$5,000,000) (reduced by $6,000,000) (reduced by 10
$2,500,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced by 11
$16,500,000) (reduced by $6,000,000) (reduced by 12
$10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced by 13
$7,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 14
$50,000,000) (reduced by $300,000,000): Provided, That 15
not more than $2,981,000 may be used for the Combatant 16
Commander Initiative Fund authorized under section 17
166a of title 10, United States Code: Provided further, 18
That not to exceed $36,000,000 may be used for emer-19
gencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended upon 20
the approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense, and 21
payments may be made upon the Secretary’s certificate 22
of necessity for confidential military purposes: Provided 23
further, That of the funds provided under this heading, 24
not less than $55,000,000 shall be made available for the 25
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Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement 1
Program, of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be avail-2
able for centers defined in 10 U.S.C. 2411(1)(D): Pro-3
vided further, That none of the funds appropriated or oth-4
erwise made available by this Act may be used to plan 5
or implement the consolidation of a budget or appropria-6
tions liaison office of the Office of the Secretary of De-7
fense, the office of the Secretary of a military department, 8
or the service headquarters of one of the Armed Forces 9
into a legislative affairs or legislative liaison office: Pro-10
vided further, That $25,968,000 to remain available until 11
expended, is available only for expenses relating to certain 12
classified activities, and may be transferred as necessary 13
by the Secretary of Defense to operation and maintenance 14
appropriations or research, development, test and evalua-15
tion appropriations, to be merged with and to be available 16
for the same time period as the appropriations to which 17
transferred: Provided further, That any ceiling on the in-18
vestment item unit cost of items that may be purchased 19
with operation and maintenance funds shall not apply to 20
the funds described in the preceding proviso: Provided fur-21
ther, That of the funds provided under this heading, 22
$2,304,649,000, of which $1,343,580,000, to remain 23
available until September 30, 2025, shall be available to 24
provide support and assistance to foreign security forces 25
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or other groups or individuals to conduct, support or facili-1
tate counterterrorism, crisis response, or other Depart-2
ment of Defense security cooperation programs: Provided 3
further, That the Secretary of Defense shall provide quar-4
terly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the 5
House of Representatives and the Senate on the use and 6
status of funds made available in this paragraph: Provided 7
further, That the transfer authority provided under this 8
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority pro-9
vided elsewhere in this Act. 10
C
OUNTER-ISIS TRAIN ANDEQUIPFUND 11
For the ‘‘Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 12
Train and Equip Fund’’, $397,950,000, to remain avail-13
able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That such funds 14
shall be available to the Secretary of Defense in coordina-15
tion with the Secretary of State, to provide assistance, in-16
cluding training; equipment; logistics support, supplies, 17
and services; stipends; infrastructure repair and renova-18
tion; construction for facility fortification and humane 19
treatment; and sustainment, to foreign security forces, ir-20
regular forces, groups, or individuals participating, or pre-21
paring to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 22
State of Iraq and Syria, and their affiliated or associated 23
groups: Provided further, That amounts made available 24
under this heading shall be available to provide assistance 25
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only for activities in a country designated by the Secretary 1
of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, 2
as having a security mission to counter the Islamic State 3
of Iraq and Syria, and following written notification to the 4
congressional defense committees of such designation: 5
Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall en-6
sure that prior to providing assistance to elements of any 7
forces or individuals, such elements or individuals are ap-8
propriately vetted, including at a minimum, assessing such 9
elements for associations with terrorist groups or groups 10
associated with the Government of Iran; and receiving 11
commitments from such elements to promote respect for 12
human rights and the rule of law: Provided further, That 13
the Secretary of Defense shall, not fewer than 15 days 14
prior to obligating from this appropriation account, notify 15
the congressional defense committees in writing of the de-16
tails of any such obligation: Provided further, That the 17
Secretary of Defense may accept and retain contributions, 18
including assistance in-kind, from foreign governments, 19
including the Government of Iraq and other entities, to 20
carry out assistance authorized under this heading: Pro-21
vided further, That contributions of funds for the purposes 22
provided herein from any foreign government or other en-23
tity may be credited to this Fund, to remain available until 24
expended, and used for such purposes: Provided further, 25
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That the Secretary of Defense shall prioritize such con-1
tributions when providing any assistance for construction 2
for facility fortification: Provided further, That the Sec-3
retary of Defense may waive a provision of law relating 4
to the acquisition of items and support services or sections 5
40 and 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 6
2780 and 2785) if the Secretary determines that such pro-7
vision of law would prohibit, restrict, delay or otherwise 8
limit the provision of such assistance and a notice of and 9
justification for such waiver is submitted to the congres-10
sional defense committees, the Committees on Appropria-11
tions and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com-12
mittees on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs of the 13
House of Representatives: Provided further, That the 14
United States may accept equipment procured using funds 15
provided under this heading that was transferred to secu-16
rity forces, irregular forces, or groups participating, or 17
preparing to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 18
State of Iraq and Syria and returned by such forces or 19
groups to the United States, and such equipment may be 20
treated as stocks of the Department of Defense upon writ-21
ten notification to the congressional defense committees: 22
Provided further, That equipment procured using funds 23
provided under this heading and not yet transferred to se-24
curity forces, irregular forces, or groups participating, or 25
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preparing to participate in activities to counter the Islamic 1
State of Iraq and Syria may be treated as stocks of the 2
Department of Defense when determined by the Secretary 3
to no longer be required for transfer to such forces or 4
groups and upon written notification to the congressional 5
defense committees: Provided further, That the Secretary 6
of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the congres-7
sional defense committees on the use of funds provided 8
under this heading, including, but not limited to, the num-9
ber of individuals trained, the nature and scope of support 10
and sustainment provided to each group or individual, the 11
area of operations for each group, and the contributions 12
of other countries, groups, or individuals: Provided further, 13
That of the funds provided under this heading for stipends 14
for foreign security forces, irregular forces, groups, or in-15
dividuals participating, or preparing to participate in ac-16
tivities to counter ISIS in Syria, fifty percent shall not 17
be available for obligation or expenditure until the Sec-18
retary of Defense reports to the Committees on Appropria-19
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate that 20
measures are in place to ensure accountability of such 21
funds. 22
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, ARMYRESERVE 23
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 24
for the operation and maintenance, including training, or-25
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ganization, and administration, of the Army Reserve; re-1
pair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 2
vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re-3
cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip-4
ment; and communications, $3,559,248,000. 5
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, NAVYRESERVE 6
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 7
for the operation and maintenance, including training, or-8
ganization, and administration, of the Navy Reserve; re-9
pair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 10
vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re-11
cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip-12
ment; and communications, $1,366,710,000. 13
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, MARINECORPS 14
R
ESERVE 15
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 16
for the operation and maintenance, including training, or-17
ganization, and administration, of the Marine Corps Re-18
serve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger 19
motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; 20
recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip-21
ment; and communications, $323,395,000. 22
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, AIRFORCERESERVE 23
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 24
for the operation and maintenance, including training, or-25
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ganization, and administration, of the Air Force Reserve; 1
repair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor 2
vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; re-3
cruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equip-4
ment; and communications, $4,056,196,000. 5
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, ARMYNATIONAL 6
G
UARD 7
For expenses of training, organizing, and admin-8
istering the Army National Guard, including medical and 9
hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal 10
hospitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to struc-11
tures and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles; per-12
sonnel services in the National Guard Bureau; travel ex-13
penses (other than mileage), as authorized by law for 14
Army personnel on active duty, for Army National Guard 15
division, regimental, and battalion commanders while in-16
specting units in compliance with National Guard Bureau 17
regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, Na-18
tional Guard Bureau; supplying and equipping the Army 19
National Guard as authorized by law; and expenses of re-20
pair, modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 21
equipment (including aircraft), $8,612,404,000. 22
O
PERATION ANDMAINTENANCE, AIRNATIONALGUARD 23
For expenses of training, organizing, and admin-24
istering the Air National Guard, including medical and 25
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hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal 1
hospitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to struc-2
tures and facilities; transportation of things, hire of pas-3
senger motor vehicles; supplying and equipping the Air 4
National Guard, as authorized by law; expenses for repair, 5
modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 6
equipment, including those furnished from stocks under 7
the control of agencies of the Department of Defense; 8
travel expenses (other than mileage) on the same basis as 9
authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on 10
active Federal duty, for Air National Guard commanders 11
while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard 12
Bureau regulations when specifically authorized by the 13
Chief, National Guard Bureau, $7,250,745,000. 14
U
NITEDSTATESCOURT OFAPPEALS FOR THEARMED 15
F
ORCES 16
For salaries and expenses necessary for the United 17
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 18
$16,620,000, of which not to exceed $10,000 may be used 19
for official representation purposes. 20
E
NVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
For the Department of the Army, $198,760,000 (re-23
duced by $2,500,000), to remain available until trans-24
ferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the Army shall, 25
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upon determining that such funds are required for envi-1
ronmental restoration, reduction and recycling of haz-2
ardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of 3
the Department of the Army, or for similar purposes, 4
transfer the funds made available by this appropriation 5
to other appropriations made available to the Department 6
of the Army, to be merged with and to be available for 7
the same purposes and for the same time period as the 8
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, 9
That upon a determination that all or part of the funds 10
transferred from this appropriation are not necessary for 11
the purposes provided herein, such amounts may be trans-12
ferred back to this appropriation: Provided further, That 13
the transfer authority provided under this heading is in 14
addition to any other transfer authority provided else-15
where in this Act. 16
E
NVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 18
For the Department of the Navy, $345,240,000, to 19
remain available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-20
retary of the Navy shall, upon determining that such 21
funds are required for environmental restoration, reduc-22
tion and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 23
buildings and debris of the Department of the Navy, or 24
for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available by 25
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this appropriation to other appropriations made available 1
to the Department of the Navy, to be merged with and 2
to be available for the same purposes and for the same 3
time period as the appropriations to which transferred: 4
Provided further, That upon a determination that all or 5
part of the funds transferred from this appropriation are 6
not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such 7
amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 8
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 9
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-10
thority provided elsewhere in this Act. 11
E
NVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIRFORCE 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 13
For the Department of the Air Force, $359,744,000, 14
to remain available until transferred: Provided, That the 15
Secretary of the Air Force shall, upon determining that 16
such funds are required for environmental restoration, re-17
duction and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of un-18
safe buildings and debris of the Department of the Air 19
Force, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made 20
available by this appropriation to other appropriations 21
made available to the Department of the Air Force, to be 22
merged with and to be available for the same purposes 23
and for the same time period as the appropriations to 24
which transferred: Provided further, That upon a deter-25
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mination that all or part of the funds transferred from 1
this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes pro-2
vided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to 3
this appropriation: Provided further, That the transfer au-4
thority provided under this heading is in addition to any 5
other transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act. 6
E
NVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 8
For the Department of Defense, $8,965,000 (in-9
creased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000), to re-10
main available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-11
retary of Defense shall, upon determining that such funds 12
are required for environmental restoration, reduction and 13
recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 14
and debris of the Department of Defense, or for similar 15
purposes, transfer the funds made available by this appro-16
priation to other appropriations made available to the De-17
partment of Defense, to be merged with and to be avail-18
able for the same purposes and for the same time period 19
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided fur-20
ther, That upon a determination that all or part of the 21
funds transferred from this appropriation are not nec-22
essary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts 23
may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided 24
further, That the transfer authority provided under this 25
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heading is in addition to any other transfer authority pro-1
vided elsewhere in this Act. 2
E
NVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLYUSED 3
D
EFENSESITES 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
For the Department of the Army, $232,806,000, to 6
remain available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-7
retary of the Army shall, upon determining that such 8
funds are required for environmental restoration, reduc-9
tion and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 10
buildings and debris at sites formerly used by the Depart-11
ment of Defense, transfer the funds made available by this 12
appropriation to other appropriations made available to 13
the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to 14
be available for the same purposes and for the same time 15
period as the appropriations to which transferred: Pro-16
vided further, That upon a determination that all or part 17
of the funds transferred from this appropriation are not 18
necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts 19
may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided 20
further, That the transfer authority provided under this 21
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority pro-22
vided elsewhere in this Act. 23
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OVERSEASHUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, ANDCIVICAID 1
For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, 2
Disaster, and Civic Aid programs of the Department of 3
Defense (consisting of the programs provided under sec-4
tions 401, 402, 404, 407, 2557, and 2561 of title 10, 5
United States Code), $142,500,000, to remain available 6
until September 30, 2025. 7
C
OOPERATIVETHREATREDUCTIONACCOUNT 8
For assistance, including assistance provided by con-9
tract or by grants, under programs and activities of the 10
Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction 11
Program authorized under the Department of Defense Co-12
operative Threat Reduction Act, $350,999,000, to remain 13
available until September 30, 2026. 14
D
EPARTMENT OFDEFENSEACQUISITIONWORKFORCE 15
D
EVELOPMENTACCOUNT 16
For the Department of Defense Acquisition Work-17
force Development Account, $54,977,000: Provided, That 18
no other amounts may be otherwise credited or transferred 19
to the Account, or deposited into the Account, in fiscal 20
year 2024 pursuant to section 1705(d) of title 10, United 21
States Code. 22
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TITLE III 1
PROCUREMENT 2
A
IRCRAFTPROCUREMENT, ARMY 3
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-4
tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 5
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and 6
accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 7
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 8
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, 9
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 10
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 11
title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap-12
pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 13
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 14
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 15
foregoing purposes, $3,030,767,000 (increased by 16
$10,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000), to remain avail-17
able for obligation until September 30, 2026. 18
M
ISSILEPROCUREMENT, ARMY 19
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-20
tion, and modernization of missiles, equipment, including 21
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and 22
accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 23
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 24
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, 25
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and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 1
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 2
title; and procurement and installation of equipment, ap-3
pliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 4
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 5
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 6
foregoing purposes, $4,483,806,000, to remain available 7
for obligation until September 30, 2026. 8
P
ROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS ANDTRACKEDCOMBAT 9
V
EHICLES, ARMY 10
For construction, procurement, production, and 11
modification of weapons and tracked combat vehicles, 12
equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and acces-13
sories therefor; specialized equipment and training devices; 14
expansion of public and private plants, including the land 15
necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 16
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-17
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 18
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 19
and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 20
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 21
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing 22
purposes, $3,943,584,000, to remain available for obliga-23
tion until September 30, 2026. 24
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PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY 1
For construction, procurement, production, and 2
modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe-3
cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub-4
lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au-5
thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 6
and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur-7
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-8
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-9
proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip-10
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 11
plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor- 12
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 13
for the foregoing purposes, $2,971,928,000, to remain 14
available for obligation until September 30, 2026. 15
O
THERPROCUREMENT, ARMY 16
For construction, procurement, production, and 17
modification of vehicles, including tactical, support, and 18
non-tracked combat vehicles; the purchase of passenger 19
motor vehicles for replacement only; communications and 20
electronic equipment; other support equipment; spare 21
parts, ordnance, and accessories therefor; specialized 22
equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 23
private plants, including the land necessary therefor, for 24
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 25
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therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 1
thereon prior to approval of title; and procurement and 2
installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools 3
in public and private plants; reserve plant and Govern-4
ment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other 5
expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 6
$8,679,516,000 (increased by $55,000,000) (increased by 7
$15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000) (reduced by 8
$750,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-9
tember 30, 2026. 10
A
IRCRAFTPROCUREMENT, NAVY 11
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-12
tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 13
ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 14
equipment; expansion of public and private plants, includ-15
ing the land necessary therefor, and such lands and inter-16
ests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 17
thereon prior to approval of title; and procurement and 18
installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools 19
in public and private plants; reserve plant and Govern-20
ment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 21
$17,450,040,000, to remain available for obligation until 22
September 30, 2026. 23
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WEAPONSPROCUREMENT, NAVY 1
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-2
tion, and modernization of missiles, torpedoes, other weap-3
ons, and related support equipment including spare parts, 4
and accessories therefor; expansion of public and private 5
plants, including the land necessary therefor, and such 6
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-7
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 8
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 9
and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 10
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 11
layaway, $5,826,997,000, to remain available for obliga-12
tion until September 30, 2026. 13
P
ROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY ANDMARINE 14
C
ORPS 15
For construction, procurement, production, and 16
modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe-17
cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub-18
lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au-19
thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 20
and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur-21
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-22
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-23
proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip-24
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 25
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plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor- 1
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 2
for the foregoing purposes, $1,238,558,000 (increased by 3
$5,000,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-4
tember 30, 2026. 5
S
HIPBUILDING ANDCONVERSION, NAVY 6
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisi-7
tion, or conversion of vessels as authorized by law, includ-8
ing armor and armament thereof, plant equipment, appli-9
ances, and machine tools and installation thereof in public 10
and private plants; reserve plant and Government and con-11
tractor-owned equipment layaway; procurement of critical, 12
long lead time components and designs for vessels to be 13
constructed or converted in the future; and expansion of 14
public and private plants, including land necessary there-15
for, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 16
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 17
title, as follows: 18
Columbia Class Submarine, $2,443,598,000; 19
Columbia Class Submarine (AP), 20
$3,390,734,000; 21
Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–80), 22
$1,104,421,000; 23
Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–81), 24
$800,492,000; 25
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Virginia Class Submarine, $7,129,965,000; 1
Virginia Class Submarine (AP), 2
$3,215,539,000; 3
CVN Refueling Overhauls (AP), $802,988,000; 4
DDG–1000 Program, $318,655,000; 5
DDG–51 Destroyer, $4,199,179,000; 6
DDG–51 Destroyer (AP), $284,035,000; 7
FFG–Frigate, $2,133,861,000; 8
LHA Replacement, $1,830,149,000; 9
AS Submarine Tender, $1,544,595,000; 10
TAO Fleet Oiler, $815,420,000; 11
LCU 1700, $62,532,000; 12
Ship to Shore Connector, $400,000,000; 13
Service Craft, $85,115,000; 14
LCAC SLEP, $15,286,000; 15
Auxiliary Vessels, $142,008,000; 16
For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and 17
first destination transportation, $539,681,000; and 18
Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Pro-19
grams, $1,648,559,000. 20
In all: $32,906,812,000, to remain available for obligation 21
until September 30, 2028: Provided, That additional obli-22
gations may be incurred after September 30, 2028, for 23
engineering services, tests, evaluations, and other such 24
budgeted work that must be performed in the final stage 25
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of ship construction: Provided further, That none of the 1
funds provided under this heading for the construction or 2
conversion of any naval vessel to be constructed in ship-3
yards in the United States shall be expended in foreign 4
facilities for the construction of major components of such 5
vessel: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 6
under this heading shall be used for the construction of 7
any naval vessel in foreign shipyards: Provided further, 8
That funds appropriated or otherwise made available by 9
this Act for Columbia Class Submarine (AP) may be avail-10
able for the purposes authorized by subsections (f), (g), 11
(h) or (i) of section 2218a of title 10, United States Code, 12
only in accordance with the provisions of the applicable 13
subsection. 14
O
THERPROCUREMENT, NAVY 15
For procurement, production, and modernization of 16
support equipment and materials not otherwise provided 17
for, Navy ordnance (except ordnance for new aircraft, new 18
ships, and ships authorized for conversion); the purchase 19
of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; expan-20
sion of public and private plants, including the land nec-21
essary therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may 22
be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 23
approval of title; and procurement and installation of 24
equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 25
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private plants; reserve plant and Government and con-1
tractor-owned equipment layaway, $13,675,677,000, to 2
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2026: 3
Provided, That such funds are also available for the main-4
tenance, repair, and modernization of ships under a pilot 5
program established for such purposes. 6
P
ROCUREMENT, MARINECORPS 7
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manu-8
facture, and modification of missiles, armament, military 9
equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant 10
equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation 11
thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant and 12
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; ve-13
hicles for the Marine Corps, including the purchase of pas-14
senger motor vehicles for replacement only; and expansion 15
of public and private plants, including land necessary 16
therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-17
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-18
proval of title, $3,775,224,000, to remain available for ob-19
ligation until September 30, 2026. 20
A
IRCRAFTPROCUREMENT, AIRFORCE 21
For construction, procurement, and modification of 22
aircraft and equipment, including armor and armament, 23
specialized ground handling equipment, and training de-24
vices, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 25
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equipment; expansion of public and private plants, Gov-1
ernment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 2
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 3
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 4
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 5
thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov-6
ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 7
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes in-8
cluding rents and transportation of things, 9
$20,196,409,000 (increased by $122,600,000) (reduced 10
by $150,000,000) (increased by $150,000,000), to remain 11
available for obligation until September 30, 2026. 12
M
ISSILEPROCUREMENT, AIRFORCE 13
For construction, procurement, and modification of 14
missiles, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 15
parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equip-16
ment, and training devices; expansion of public and pri-17
vate plants, Government-owned equipment and installa-18
tion thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and ac-19
quisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such 20
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-21
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; re-22
serve plant and Government and contractor-owned equip-23
ment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the fore-24
going purposes including rents and transportation of 25
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things, $4,401,753,000, to remain available for obligation 1
until September 30, 2026. 2
P
ROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIRFORCE 3
For construction, procurement, production, and 4
modification of ammunition, and accessories therefor; spe-5
cialized equipment and training devices; expansion of pub-6
lic and private plants, including ammunition facilities, au-7
thorized by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, 8
and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing pur-9
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-10
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-11
proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip-12
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 13
plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor- 14
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary 15
for the foregoing purposes, $642,448,000, to remain avail-16
able for obligation until September 30, 2026. 17
O
THERPROCUREMENT, AIRFORCE 18
For procurement and modification of equipment (in-19
cluding ground guidance and electronic control equipment, 20
and ground electronic and communication equipment), 21
and supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, not oth-22
erwise provided for; the purchase of passenger motor vehi-23
cles for replacement only; lease of passenger motor vehi-24
cles; and expansion of public and private plants, Govern-25
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ment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 1
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 2
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 3
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 4
thereon, prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov-5
ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 6
$29,819,938,000 (reduced by $4,300,000) (increased by 7
$4,300,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-8
tember 30, 2026. 9
P
ROCUREMENT, SPACEFORCE 10
For construction, procurement, and modification of 11
spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including 12
spare parts and accessories therefor; ground handling 13
equipment, and training devices; expansion of public and 14
private plants, Government-owned equipment and installa-15
tion thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and ac-16
quisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such 17
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-18
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; re-19
serve plant and Government and contractor-owned equip-20
ment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the fore-21
going purposes including rents and transportation of 22
things, $4,109,201,000, to remain available for obligation 23
until September 30, 2026. 24
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PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE 1
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-2
ment of Defense (other than the military departments) 3
necessary for procurement, production, and modification 4
of equipment, supplies, materials, and spare parts there-5
for, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of passenger 6
motor vehicles for replacement only; expansion of public 7
and private plants, equipment, and installation thereof in 8
such plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land 9
for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 10
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 11
thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and Gov-12
ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 13
$6,289,820,000 (increased by $2,500,000) (reduced by 14
$10,000,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-15
tember 30, 2026. 16
D
EFENSEPRODUCTIONACTPURCHASES 17
For activities by the Department of Defense pursuant 18
to sections 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense Produc-19
tion Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 4533), 20
$618,605,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 21
$50,000,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-22
tember 30, 2026, which shall be obligated and expended 23
by the Secretary of Defense as if delegated the necessary 24
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authorities conferred by the Defense Production Act of 1
1950. 2
N
ATIONALGUARD ANDRESERVEEQUIPMENTACCOUNT 3
For procurement of rotary-wing aircraft; combat, tac-4
tical and support vehicles; other weapons; and other pro-5
curement items for the reserve components of the Armed 6
Forces, $1,000,000,000 (increased by $750,000), to re-7
main available for obligation until September 30, 2026: 8
Provided, That the Chiefs of National Guard and Reserve 9
components shall, not later than 30 days after enactment 10
of this Act, individually submit to the congressional de-11
fense committees the modernization priority assessment 12
for their respective National Guard or Reserve component: 13
Provided further, That none of the funds made available 14
by this paragraph may be used to procure manned fixed 15
wing aircraft, or procure or modify missiles, munitions, 16
or ammunition. 17
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TITLE IV 1
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND 2
EVALUATION 3
R
ESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST ANDEVALUATION, 4
A
RMY 5
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-6
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-7
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-8
cilities and equipment, $16,758,462,000 (increased by 9
$15,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000) (increased by 10
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 11
$5,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000) (increased by 12
$5,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 13
$7,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 14
$5,000,000) (increased by $7,500,000) (increased by 15
$10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 16
$4,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 17
$5,000,000) (increased by $2,500,000) (increased by 18
$10,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 19
$2,500,000) (reduced by $7,000,000) (increased by 20
$7,000,000) (reduced by $8,000,000) (increased by 21
$8,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 22
$3,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by 23
$10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by 24
$10,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by 25
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$5,000,000) (reduced by $11,000,000) (increased by 1
$11,000,000) (reduced by $7,000,000) (increased by 2
$7,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by 3
$5,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000) (reduced by 4
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 5
$8,400,000) (increased by $8,400,000) (increased by 6
$3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 7
$5,600,000) (increased by $5,600,000) (reduced by 8
$15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000) (increased by 9
$5,000,000), to remain available for obligation until Sep-10
tember 30, 2025. 11
R
ESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST ANDEVALUATION, 12
N
AVY 13
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-14
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-15
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-16
cilities and equipment, $27,690,777,000 (increased by 17
$8,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (increased by 18
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 19
$6,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000) (increased by 20
$4,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by 21
$10,000,000) (increased by $6,500,000) (reduced by 22
$7,000,000) (increased by $7,000,000) (reduced by 23
$5,500,000) (increased by $5,500,000) (reduced by 24
$8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000) (reduced by 25
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$8,500,000) (increased by $8,500,000) (increased by 1
$5,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000), to remain avail-2
able for obligation until September 30, 2025: Provided, 3
That funds appropriated in this paragraph which are 4
available for the V–22 may be used to meet unique oper-5
ational requirements of the Special Operations Forces. 6
R
ESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST ANDEVALUATION, 7
A
IRFORCE 8
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-9
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-10
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-11
cilities and equipment, $46,479,858,000 (increased by 12
$7,750,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (increased by 13
$4,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 14
$5,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000) (increased by 15
$2,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000) (increased by 16
$5,000,000) (increased by $2,500,000) (reduced by 17
$20,000,000) (reduced by $4,500,000) (increased by 18
$4,500,000) (increased by $7,000,000) (reduced by 19
$7,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 20
$3,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 21
$10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by 22
$5,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by 23
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 24
$44,000,000) (increased by $44,000,000) (reduced by 25
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$3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by 1
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain avail-2
able for obligation until September 30, 2025. 3
R
ESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST ANDEVALUATION, 4
S
PACEFORCE 5
For expenses necessary for basic and applied sci-6
entific research, development, test and evaluation, includ-7
ing maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of fa-8
cilities and equipment, $18,839,144,000 (increased by 9
$10,000,000) (increased by $2,500,000) (increased by 10
$7,500,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 11
$20,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 12
2025. 13
R
ESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST ANDEVALUATION, 14
D
EFENSE-WIDE 15
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-16
ment of Defense (other than the military departments), 17
necessary for basic and applied scientific research, devel-18
opment, test and evaluation; advanced research projects 19
as may be designated and determined by the Secretary 20
of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, 21
lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, 22
$36,782,566,000 (reduced by $2,500,000) (increased by 23
$6,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 24
$16,500,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 25
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$100,000,000) (reduced by $6,500,000) (reduced by 1
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 2
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 3
$20,000,000) (increased by $20,000,000) (reduced by 4
$8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000) (reduced by 5
$10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (increased by 6
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 7
$6,500,000) (increased by $6,500,000) (reduced by 8
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 9
$10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000) (reduced by 10
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain avail-11
able for obligation until September 30, 2025. 12
O
PERATIONALTEST ANDEVALUATION, DEFENSE 13
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 14
for the independent activities of the Director, Operational 15
Test and Evaluation, in the direction and supervision of 16
operational test and evaluation, including initial oper-17
ational test and evaluation which is conducted prior to, 18
and in support of, production decisions; joint operational 19
testing and evaluation; and administrative expenses in 20
connection therewith, $285,444,000 (reduced by 21
$20,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000), to remain avail-22
able for obligation until September 30, 2025. 23
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TITLE V 1
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS 2
D
EFENSEWORKINGCAPITALFUNDS 3
For the Defense Working Capital Funds, 4
$1,666,779,000 (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 5
$5,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 6
$5,000,000). 7
N
ATIONALDEFENSESTOCKPILETRANSACTIONFUND 8
For the National Defense Stockpile Transaction 9
Fund, $7,629,000, for activities pursuant to the Strategic 10
and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et 11
seq.). 12
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TITLE VI 1
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS 2
D
EFENSEHEALTHPROGRAM 3
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical 4
and health care programs of the Department of Defense 5
as authorized by law, $39,365,472,000 (increased by 6
$4,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by 7
$2,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by 8
$10,000,000) (increased by $7,000,000) (increased by 9
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 10
$4,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (increased by 11
$7,800,000) (reduced by $7,800,000) (increased by 12
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 13
$3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 14
$15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000) (reduced by 15
$200,000) (increased by $200,000); of which 16
$36,826,743,000 (reduced by $7,800,000) (reduced by 17
$200,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) shall be for operation 18
and maintenance, of which not to exceed one percent shall 19
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2025, 20
and of which up to $19,762,352,000 may be available for 21
contracts entered into under the TRICARE program; of 22
which $381,881,000, to remain available for obligation 23
until September 30, 2026, shall be for procurement; and 24
of which $2,156,848,000 (increased by $2,000,000) (in-25
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creased by $5,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000) (in-1
creased by $7,000,000) (increased by $7,800,000) (in-2
creased by $200,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (reduced 3
by $15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000), to remain 4
available for obligation until September 30, 2025, shall be 5
for research, development, test and evaluation: Provided, 6
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 7
amount made available under this heading for research, 8
development, test and evaluation, not less than 9
$12,000,000 shall be available for HIV prevention edu-10
cational activities undertaken in connection with United 11
States military training, exercises, and humanitarian as-12
sistance activities conducted primarily in African nations: 13
Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 14
heading for research, development, test and evaluation, 15
not less than $1,154,000,000 (increased by $2,000,000) 16
(reduced by $842,000) (increased by $842,000) (increased 17
by $9,000,000) (reduced by $9,000,000) shall be made 18
available to the Defense Health Agency to carry out the 19
congressionally directed medical research programs: Pro-20
vided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall submit 21
to the congressional defense committees quarterly reports 22
on the current status of the electronic health record pro-23
gram: Provided further, That the Comptroller General of 24
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the United States shall perform quarterly performance re-1
views of the electronic health record program. 2
C
HEMICALAGENTS ANDMUNITIONSDESTRUCTION, 3
D
EFENSE 4
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary 5
for the destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal 6
chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the pro-7
visions of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Au-8
thorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), and for the de-9
struction of other chemical warfare materials that are not 10
in the chemical weapon stockpile, $1,091,844,000, of 11
which $89,284,000 shall be for operation and mainte-12
nance, of which no less than $57,875,000 shall be for the 13
Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, 14
consisting of $23,676,000 for activities on military instal-15
lations and $34,199,000, to remain available until Sep-16
tember 30, 2025, to assist State and local governments; 17
and $1,002,560,000, to remain available until September 18
30, 2025, shall be for research, development, test and eval-19
uation, of which $1,000,467,000 shall only be for the As-20
sembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program. 21
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DRUGINTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUGACTIVITIES, 1
D
EFENSE 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of 4
the Department of Defense, for transfer to appropriations 5
available to the Department of Defense for military per-6
sonnel of the reserve components serving under the provi-7
sions of title 10 and title 32, United States Code; for oper-8
ation and maintenance; for procurement; and for research, 9
development, test and evaluation, $1,162,161,000 (in-10
creased by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (in-11
creased by $5,000,000), of which $693,848,000 (increased 12
by $3,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) shall be for 13
counter-narcotics support; $138,313,000 shall be for the 14
drug demand reduction program; $300,000,000 (increased 15
by $3,000,000) shall be for the National Guard counter- 16
drug program; and $30,000,000 shall be for the National 17
Guard counter-drug schools program: Provided, That the 18
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 19
for obligation for the same time period and for the same 20
purpose as the appropriation to which transferred: Pro-21
vided further, That upon a determination that all or part 22
of the funds transferred from this appropriation are not 23
necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts 24
may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided 25
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further, That the transfer authority provided under this 1
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority con-2
tained elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That funds 3
appropriated under this heading may be used to support 4
a new start program or project only after written prior 5
notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the 6
House of Representatives and the Senate. 7
O
FFICE OF THEINSPECTORGENERAL 8
For expenses and activities of the Office of the In-9
spector General in carrying out the provisions of the In-10
spector General Act of 1978, as amended, $506,629,000 11
(reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000) (in-12
creased by $20,000,000), of which $502,131,000 (reduced 13
by $5,000,000) shall be for operation and maintenance, 14
of which not to exceed $700,000 is available for emer-15
gencies and extraordinary expenses to be expended upon 16
the approval or authority of the Inspector General, and 17
payments may be made upon the Inspector General’s cer-18
tificate of necessity for confidential military purposes; of 19
which $1,098,000, to remain available for obligation until 20
September 30, 2026, shall be for procurement; and of 21
which $3,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 22
2025, shall be for research, development, test and evalua-23
tion. 24
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TITLE VII 1
RELATED AGENCIES 2
C
ENTRALINTELLIGENCEAGENCYRETIREMENT AND 3
D
ISABILITYSYSTEMFUND 4
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Re-5
tirement and Disability System Fund, to maintain the 6
proper funding level for continuing the operation of the 7
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 8
System, $514,000,000. 9
I
NTELLIGENCECOMMUNITYMANAGEMENTACCOUNT 10
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Commu-11
nity Management Account, $608,820,000. 12
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TITLE VIII 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
S
EC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained 3
in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-4
poses not authorized by the Congress. 5
S
EC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions 6
of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or em-7
ployment of, any person not a citizen of the United States 8
shall not apply to personnel of the Department of Defense: 9
Provided, That salary increases granted to direct and indi-10
rect hire foreign national employees of the Department of 11
Defense funded by this Act shall not be at a rate in excess 12
of the percentage increase authorized by law for civilian 13
employees of the Department of Defense whose pay is 14
computed under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5, 15
United States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percent-16
age increase provided by the appropriate host nation to 17
its own employees, whichever is higher: Provided further, 18
That this section shall not apply to Department of De-19
fense foreign service national employees serving at United 20
States diplomatic missions whose pay is set by the Depart-21
ment of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1980: Pro-22
vided further, That the limitations of this provision shall 23
not apply to foreign national employees of the Department 24
of Defense in the Republic of Turkey. 25
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SEC. 8003. No part of any appropriation contained 1
in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond 2
the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided herein. 3
S
EC. 8004. No more than 20 percent of the appro-4
priations in this Act which are limited for obligation dur-5
ing the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the 6
last 2 months of the fiscal year: Provided, That this sec-7
tion shall not apply to obligations for support of active 8
duty training of reserve components or summer camp 9
training of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. 10
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 11
S
EC. 8005. Upon determination by the Secretary of 12
Defense that such action is necessary in the national inter-13
est, the Secretary may, with the approval of the Office 14
of Management and Budget, transfer not to exceed 15
$6,000,000,000 of working capital funds of the Depart-16
ment of Defense or funds made available in this Act to 17
the Department of Defense for military functions (except 18
military construction) between such appropriations or 19
funds or any subdivision thereof, to be merged with and 20
to be available for the same purposes, and for the same 21
time period, as the appropriation or fund to which trans-22
ferred: Provided, That such authority to transfer may not 23
be used unless for higher priority items, based on unfore-24
seen military requirements, than those for which originally 25
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appropriated and in no case where the item for which 1
funds are requested has been denied by the Congress: Pro-2
vided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall notify 3
the Congress promptly of all transfers made pursuant to 4
this authority or any other authority in this Act: Provided 5
further, That no part of the funds in this Act shall be 6
available to prepare or present a request to the Commit-7
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 8
and the Senate for reprogramming of funds, unless for 9
higher priority items, based on unforeseen military re-10
quirements, than those for which originally appropriated 11
and in no case where the item for which reprogramming 12
is requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided 13
further, That a request for multiple reprogrammings of 14
funds using authority provided in this section shall be 15
made prior to June 30, 2024: Provided further, That 16
transfers among military personnel appropriations shall 17
not be taken into account for purposes of the limitation 18
on the amount of funds that may be transferred under 19
this section. 20
S
EC. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific pro-21
grams, projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts 22
and adjustments to budget activities corresponding to 23
such programs, projects, and activities) contained in the 24
tables titled Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in 25
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the explanatory statement regarding this Act and the ta-1
bles contained in the classified annex accompanying this 2
Act, the obligation and expenditure of amounts appro-3
priated or otherwise made available in this Act for those 4
programs, projects, and activities are hereby required by 5
law to be carried out in the manner provided by such ta-6
bles to the same extent as if the tables were included in 7
the text of this Act. 8
(b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables de-9
scribed in subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivi-10
sions of appropriations for purposes of section 8005 of this 11
Act: Provided, That section 8005 shall apply when trans-12
fers of the amounts described in subsection (a) occur be-13
tween appropriation accounts. 14
S
EC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 15
of the enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense 16
shall submit a report to the congressional defense commit-17
tees to establish the baseline for application of reprogram-18
ming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2024: Pro-19
vided, That the report shall include— 20
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-21
rate column to display the President’s budget re-22
quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments 23
due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 24
fiscal year enacted level; 25
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(2) a delineation in the table for each appro-1
priation both by budget activity and program, 2
project, and activity as detailed in the Budget Ap-3
pendix; and 4
(3) an identification of items of special congres-5
sional interest. 6
(b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none 7
of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for 8
reprogramming or transfer until the report identified in 9
subsection (a) is submitted to the congressional defense 10
committees, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies in 11
writing to the congressional defense committees that such 12
reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency 13
requirement: Provided, That this subsection shall not 14
apply to transfers from the following appropriations ac-15
counts: 16
(1) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Army’’; 17
(2) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Navy’’; 18
(3) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Air Force’’; 19
(4) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Defense- 20
Wide’’; 21
(5) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Formerly 22
Used Defense Sites’’; and 23
(6) ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Ac-24
tivities, Defense’’. 25
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EC. 8008. During the current fiscal year, cash bal-2
ances in working capital funds of the Department of De-3
fense established pursuant to section 2208 of title 10, 4
United States Code, may be maintained in only such 5
amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disburse-6
ments to be made from such funds: Provided, That trans-7
fers may be made between such funds: Provided further, 8
That transfers may be made between working capital 9
funds and the ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense’’ 10
appropriation and the ‘‘Operation and Maintenance’’ ap-11
propriation accounts in such amounts as may be deter-12
mined by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of 13
the Office of Management and Budget, except that such 14
transfers may not be made unless the Secretary of Defense 15
has notified the Congress of the proposed transfer: Pro-16
vided further, That except in amounts equal to the 17
amounts appropriated to working capital funds in this Act, 18
no obligations may be made against a working capital fund 19
to procure or increase the value of war reserve material 20
inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the 21
Congress prior to any such obligation. 22
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EC. 8009. Funds appropriated by this Act may not 23
be used to initiate a special access program without prior 24
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notification 30 calendar days in advance to the congres-1
sional defense committees. 2
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EC. 8010. None of the funds provided in this Act 3
shall be available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that 4
employs economic order quantity procurement in excess of 5
$20,000,000 in any one year of the contract or that in-6
cludes an unfunded contingent liability in excess of 7
$20,000,000; or (2) a contract for advance procurement 8
leading to a multiyear contract that employs economic 9
order quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in 10
any one year, unless the congressional defense committees 11
have been notified at least 30 days in advance of the pro-12
posed contract award: Provided, That no part of any ap-13
propriation contained in this Act shall be available to ini-14
tiate a multiyear contract for which the economic order 15
quantity advance procurement is not funded at least to 16
the limits of the Government’s liability: Provided further, 17
That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 18
shall be available to initiate multiyear procurement con-19
tracts for any systems or component thereof if the value 20
of the multiyear contract would exceed $500,000,000 un-21
less specifically provided in this Act: Provided further, 22
That no multiyear procurement contract can be termi-23
nated without 30-day prior notification to the congres-24
sional defense committees: Provided further, That the exe-25
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cution of multiyear authority shall require the use of a 1
present value analysis to determine lowest cost compared 2
to an annual procurement: Provided further, That none of 3
the funds provided in this Act may be used for a multiyear 4
contract executed after the date of the enactment of this 5
Act unless in the case of any such contract— 6
(1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to 7
Congress a budget request for full funding of units 8
to be procured through the contract and, in the case 9
of a contract for procurement of aircraft, that in-10
cludes, for any aircraft unit to be procured through 11
the contract for which procurement funds are re-12
quested in that budget request for production be-13
yond advance procurement activities in the fiscal 14
year covered by the budget, full funding of procure-15
ment of such unit in that fiscal year; 16
(2) cancellation provisions in the contract do 17
not include consideration of recurring manufacturing 18
costs of the contractor associated with the produc-19
tion of unfunded units to be delivered under the con-20
tract; 21
(3) the contract provides that payments to the 22
contractor under the contract shall not be made in 23
advance of incurred costs on funded units; and 24
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(4) the contract does not provide for a price ad-1
justment based on a failure to award a follow-on 2
contract. 3
Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be used 4
for multiyear procurement contracts for Naval Strike Mis-5
sile, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, PATRIOT 6
Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, 7
Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, Joint Air-to-Surface 8
Standoff Missile, and USS Virginia Class (SSN-774). 9
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EC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the op-10
eration and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are 11
hereby appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, 12
United States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance 13
costs under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code: 14
Provided, That such funds may also be obligated for hu-15
manitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to author-16
ized operations and pursuant to authority granted in sec-17
tion 401 of title 10, United States Code, and these obliga-18
tions shall be reported as required by section 401(d) of 19
title 10, United States Code: Provided further, That funds 20
available for operation and maintenance shall be available 21
for providing humanitarian and similar assistance by 22
using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the 23
Pacific Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, 24
pursuant to the Compact of Free Association as author-25
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ized by Public Law 99–239: Provided further, That upon 1
a determination by the Secretary of the Army that such 2
action is beneficial for graduate medical education pro-3
grams conducted at Army medical facilities located in Ha-4
waii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provi-5
sion of medical services at such facilities and transpor-6
tation to such facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for 7
civilian patients from American Samoa, the Common-8
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Is-9
lands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and 10
Guam. 11
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EC. 8012. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act shall be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to in-13
fluence congressional action on any legislation or appro-14
priation matters pending before the Congress. 15
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EC. 8013. None of the funds available in this Act 16
to the Department of Defense, other than appropriations 17
made for necessary or routine refurbishments, upgrades, 18
or maintenance activities, shall be used to reduce or to 19
prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-de-20
ployed strategic delivery vehicles and launchers below the 21
levels set forth in the report submitted to Congress in ac-22
cordance with section 1042 of the National Defense Au-23
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. 24
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EC. 8014. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this 2
Act for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote´ge´ 3
Program may be transferred to any other appropriation 4
contained in this Act solely for the purpose of imple-5
menting a Mentor-Prote´ge´Program developmental assist-6
ance agreement pursuant to section 831 of the National 7
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public 8
Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as amended, under 9
the authority of this provision or any other transfer au-10
thority contained in this Act. 11
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the 12
budget justification documents in support of the budget 13
for fiscal year 2025 (as submitted to Congress pursuant 14
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) a descrip-15
tion of each transfer under this section that occurred dur-16
ing the last fiscal year before the fiscal year in which such 17
budget is submitted. 18
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EC. 8015. None of the funds in this Act may be 19
available for the purchase by the Department of Defense 20
(and its departments and agencies) of welded shipboard 21
anchor and mooring chain unless the anchor and mooring 22
chain are manufactured in the United States from compo-23
nents which are substantially manufactured in the United 24
States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, the 25
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term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall include cutting, heat treating, 1
quality control, testing of chain and welding (including the 2
forging and shot blasting process): Provided further, That 3
for the purpose of this section substantially all of the com-4
ponents of anchor and mooring chain shall be considered 5
to be produced or manufactured in the United States if 6
the aggregate cost of the components produced or manu-7
factured in the United States exceeds the aggregate cost 8
of the components produced or manufactured outside the 9
United States: Provided further, That when adequate do-10
mestic supplies are not available to meet Department of 11
Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary of 12
the Service responsible for the procurement may waive this 13
restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 14
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-15
resentatives and the Senate that such an acquisition must 16
be made in order to acquire capability for national security 17
purposes. 18
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EC. 8016. None of the funds appropriated by this 19
Act shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated 20
funds activity of the Department of Defense that procures 21
malt beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for 22
resale (including such alcoholic beverages sold by the 23
drink) on a military installation located in the United 24
States unless such malt beverages and wine are procured 25
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within that State, or in the case of the District of Colum-1
bia, within the District of Columbia, in which the military 2
installation is located: Provided, That, in a case in which 3
the military installation is located in more than one State, 4
purchases may be made in any State in which the installa-5
tion is located: Provided further, That such local procure-6
ment requirements for malt beverages and wine shall 7
apply to all alcoholic beverages only for military installa-8
tions in States which are not contiguous with another 9
State: Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other 10
than wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and 11
the District of Columbia shall be procured from the most 12
competitive source, price and other factors considered. 13
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EC. 8017. None of the funds available to the De-14
partment of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dis-15
pose of M–1 Carbines, M–1 Garand rifles, M–14 rifles, 16
.22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, or M–1911 pistols, or 17
to demilitarize or destroy small arms ammunition or am-18
munition components that are not otherwise prohibited 19
from commercial sale under Federal law, unless the small 20
arms ammunition or ammunition components are certified 21
by the Secretary of the Army or designee as unserviceable 22
or unsafe for further use. 23
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EC. 8018. No more than $500,000 of the funds ap-24
propriated or made available in this Act shall be used dur-25
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ing a single fiscal year for any single relocation of an orga-1
nization, unit, activity or function of the Department of 2
Defense into or within the National Capital Region: Pro-3
vided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive this re-4
striction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 5
to the congressional defense committees that such a relo-6
cation is required in the best interest of the Government. 7
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EC. 8019. In addition to the funds provided else-8
where in this Act, $25,000,000 is appropriated only for 9
incentive payments authorized by section 504 of the In-10
dian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544): Provided, 11
That a prime contractor or a subcontractor at any tier 12
that makes a subcontract award to any subcontractor or 13
supplier as defined in section 1544 of title 25, United 14
States Code, or a small business owned and controlled by 15
an individual or individuals defined under section 4221(9) 16
of title 25, United States Code, shall be considered a con-17
tractor for the purposes of being allowed additional com-18
pensation under section 504 of the Indian Financing Act 19
of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever the prime contract 20
or subcontract amount is over $500,000 and involves the 21
expenditure of funds appropriated by an Act making ap-22
propriations for the Department of Defense with respect 23
to any fiscal year: Provided further, That notwithstanding 24
section 1906 of title 41, United States Code, this section 25
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shall be applicable to any Department of Defense acquisi-1
tion of supplies or services, including any contract and any 2
subcontract at any tier for acquisition of commercial items 3
produced or manufactured, in whole or in part, by any 4
subcontractor or supplier defined in section 1544 of title 5
25, United States Code, or a small business owned and 6
controlled by an individual or individuals defined under 7
section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code. 8
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EC. 8020. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 9
of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no 10
cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian 11
tribes located in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Da-12
kota, South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and 13
Washington relocatable military housing units located at 14
Grand Forks Air Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, 15
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Ellsworth Air Force 16
Base, and Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the 17
needs of the Air Force. 18
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at 19
no cost to the Air Force, military housing units under sub-20
section (a) in accordance with the request for such units 21
that are submitted to the Secretary by the Operation 22
Walking Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located 23
in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Da-24
kota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington. Any 25
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such conveyance shall be subject to the condition that the 1
housing units shall be removed within a reasonable period 2
of time, as determined by the Secretary. 3
(c) The Operation Walking Shield Program shall re-4
solve any conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for 5
housing units under subsection (a) before submitting re-6
quests to the Secretary of the Air Force under subsection 7
(b). 8
(d) In this section, the term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ means 9
any recognized Indian tribe included on the current list 10
published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 11
104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 12
(Public Law 103–454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 5131). 13
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EC. 8021. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-14
ment of Defense under the heading ‘‘Operation and Main-15
tenance, Defense-Wide’’, not less than $20,000,000 shall 16
be made available only for the mitigation of environmental 17
impacts, including training and technical assistance to 18
tribes, related administrative support, the gathering of in-19
formation, documenting of environmental damage, and de-20
veloping a system for prioritization of mitigation and cost 21
to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands re-22
sulting from Department of Defense activities. 23
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SEC. 8022. Funds appropriated by this Act for the 1
Defense Media Activity shall not be used for any national 2
or international political or psychological activities. 3
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EC. 8023. (a) Of the funds made available in this 4
Act, not less than $68,100,000 shall be available for the 5
Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 6
(1) $55,100,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper-7
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 8
Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 9
readiness, counter-drug activities, and drug demand 10
reduction activities involving youth programs; 11
(2) $11,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Air-12
craft Procurement, Air Force’’; and 13
(3) $2,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other 14
Procurement, Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 15
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reim-16
bursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 17
counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 18
local government agencies. 19
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EC. 8024. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 20
Act are available to establish a new Department of De-21
fense (department) federally funded research and develop-22
ment center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as a 23
separate entity administrated by an organization man-24
aging another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership cor-25
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poration consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and 1
other nonprofit entities. 2
(b) No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, 3
Overseers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting 4
Committee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, 5
and no paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, except 6
when acting in a technical advisory capacity, may be com-7
pensated for his or her services as a member of such enti-8
ty, or as a paid consultant by more than one FFRDC in 9
a fiscal year: Provided, That a member of any such entity 10
referred to previously in this subsection shall be allowed 11
travel expenses and per diem as authorized under the Fed-12
eral Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the per-13
formance of membership duties. 14
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 15
of the funds available to the Department from any source 16
during the current fiscal year may be used by a defense 17
FFRDC, through a fee or other payment mechanism, for 18
construction of new buildings not located on a military in-19
stallation, for payment of cost sharing for projects funded 20
by Government grants, for absorption of contract over-21
runs, or for certain charitable contributions, not to include 22
employee participation in community service and/or devel-23
opment. 24
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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 1
the funds available to the department during fiscal year 2
2024, not more than $2,885,000,000 may be funded for 3
professional technical staff-related costs of the defense 4
FFRDCs: Provided, That within such funds, not more 5
than $456,803,000 shall be available for the defense stud-6
ies and analysis FFRDCs: Provided further, That this sub-7
section shall not apply to staff years funded in the Na-8
tional Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence 9
Program: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 10
shall, with the submission of the department’s fiscal year 11
2025 budget request, submit a report presenting the spe-12
cific amounts of staff years of technical effort to be allo-13
cated for each defense FFRDC by program during that 14
fiscal year and the associated budget estimates, by appro-15
priation account and program: Provided further, That this 16
subsection shall not apply to appropriations for the Na-17
tional Intelligence Program and Military Intelligence Pro-18
gram. 19
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EC. 8025. For the purposes of this Act, the term 20
‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the Armed 21
Services Committee of the House of Representatives, the 22
Armed Services Committee of the Senate, the Sub-23
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 24
of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 25
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Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-1
tives. 2
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EC. 8026. For the purposes of this Act, the term 3
‘‘congressional intelligence committees’’ means the Perma-4
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 5
Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of 6
the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-7
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 8
and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 9
Appropriations of the Senate. 10
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EC. 8027. During the current fiscal year, the De-11
partment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot 12
maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels 13
as well as the production of components and other De-14
fense-related articles, through competition between De-15
partment of Defense depot maintenance activities and pri-16
vate firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Execu-17
tive of the military department or Defense Agency con-18
cerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that success-19
ful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and in-20
direct costs for both public and private bids: Provided fur-21
ther, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 22
76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this 23
section. 24
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SEC. 8028. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 1
Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of 2
Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, com-3
plies with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this 4
subsection, the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ means chapter 5
83 of title 41, United States Code. 6
(b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a per-7
son has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label 8
bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription to any product 9
sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made 10
in America, the Secretary shall determine, in accordance 11
with section 4658 of title 10, United States Code, whether 12
the person should be debarred from contracting with the 13
Department of Defense. 14
(c) In the case of any equipment or products pur-15
chased with appropriations provided under this Act, it is 16
the sense of the Congress that any entity of the Depart-17
ment of Defense, in expending the appropriation, purchase 18
only American-made equipment and products, provided 19
that American-made equipment and products are cost- 20
competitive, quality competitive, and available in a timely 21
fashion. 22
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EC. 8029. None of the funds appropriated or made 23
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy, 24
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned fa-25
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cility or property under the control of the Department of 1
Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United 2
States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re-3
strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 4
9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) 5
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications 6
of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further, 7
That the Secretary of the military department responsible 8
for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case- 9
by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees 10
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 11
Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available 12
to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely 13
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order 14
to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro-15
vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to 16
contracts which are in being as of the date of the enact-17
ment of this Act. 18
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EC. 8030. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after 19
consultation with the United States Trade Representative, 20
determines that a foreign country which is party to an 21
agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the 22
terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain 23
types of products produced in the United States that are 24
covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall 25
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rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer-1
ican Act with respect to such types of products produced 2
in that foreign country. 3
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 4
reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-5
standing, between the United States and a foreign country 6
pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec-7
tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products 8
in that country. 9
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Con-10
gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense 11
purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 2024. Such 12
report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items 13
for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to 14
any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade 15
Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any 16
international agreement to which the United States is a 17
party. 18
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Buy 19
American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United 20
States Code. 21
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EC. 8031. None of the funds appropriated by this 22
Act may be used for the procurement of ball and roller 23
bearings other than those produced by a domestic source 24
and of domestic origin: Provided, That the Secretary of 25
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the military department responsible for such procurement 1
may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certi-2
fying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 3
the House of Representatives and the Senate, that ade-4
quate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart-5
ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis and that 6
such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire ca-7
pability for national security purposes: Provided further, 8
That this restriction shall not apply to the purchase of 9
‘‘commercial products’’, as defined by section 103 of title 10
41, United States Code, except that the restriction shall 11
apply to ball or roller bearings purchased as end items. 12
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EC. 8032. None of the funds in this Act may be 13
used to purchase any supercomputer which is not manu-14
factured in the United States, unless the Secretary of De-15
fense certifies to the congressional defense committees 16
that such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire 17
capability for national security purposes that is not avail-18
able from United States manufacturers. 19
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EC. 8033. (a) The Secretary of Defense may, on a 20
case-by-case basis, waive with respect to a foreign country 21
each limitation on the procurement of defense items from 22
foreign sources provided in law if the Secretary determines 23
that the application of the limitation with respect to that 24
country would invalidate cooperative programs entered 25
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into between the Department of Defense and the foreign 1
country, or would invalidate reciprocal trade agreements 2
for the procurement of defense items entered into under 3
section 4851 of title 10, United States Code, and the 4
country does not discriminate against the same or similar 5
defense items produced in the United States for that coun-6
try. 7
(b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to— 8
(1) contracts and subcontracts entered into on 9
or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and 10
(2) options for the procurement of items that 11
are exercised after such date under contracts that 12
are entered into before such date if the option prices 13
are adjusted for any reason other than the applica-14
tion of a waiver granted under subsection (a). 15
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a limitation re-16
garding construction of public vessels, ball and roller bear-17
ings, food, and clothing or textile materials as defined by 18
section XI (chapters 50–65) of the Harmonized Tariff 19
Schedule of the United States and products classified 20
under headings 4010, 4202, 4203, 6401 through 6406, 21
6505, 7019, 7218 through 7229, 7304.41 through 22
7304.49, 7306.40, 7502 through 7508, 8105, 8108, 8109, 23
8211, 8215, and 9404. 24
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SEC. 8034. None of the funds made available in this 1
Act, or any subsequent Act making appropriations for the 2
Department of Defense, may be used for the purchase or 3
manufacture of a flag of the United States unless such 4
flags are treated as covered items under section 4862(b) 5
of title 10, United States Code. 6
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EC. 8035. During the current fiscal year, amounts 7
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 8
Facility Investment Recovery Account shall be available 9
until expended for the payments specified by section 10
2687a(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code. 11
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EC. 8036. During the current fiscal year, appropria-12
tions which are available to the Department of Defense 13
for operation and maintenance may be used to purchase 14
items having an investment item unit cost of not more 15
than $350,000: Provided, That upon determination by the 16
Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary to meet 17
the operational requirements of a Commander of a Com-18
batant Command engaged in a named contingency oper-19
ation overseas, such funds may be used to purchase items 20
having an investment item unit cost of not more than 21
$500,000. 22
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EC. 8037. Up to $11,000,000 of the funds appro-23
priated under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, 24
Navy’’ may be made available for the Asia Pacific Re-25
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gional Initiative Program for the purpose of enabling the 1
United States Indo-Pacific Command to execute Theater 2
Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian as-3
sistance, and payment of incremental and personnel costs 4
of training and exercising with foreign security forces: 5
Provided, That funds made available for this purpose may 6
be used, notwithstanding any other funding authorities for 7
humanitarian assistance, security assistance or combined 8
exercise expenses: Provided further, That funds may not 9
be obligated to provide assistance to any foreign country 10
that is otherwise prohibited from receiving such type of 11
assistance under any other provision of law. 12
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EC. 8038. The Secretary of Defense shall issue reg-13
ulations to prohibit the sale of any tobacco or tobacco- 14
related products in military resale outlets in the United 15
States, its territories and possessions at a price below the 16
most competitive price in the local community: Provided, 17
That such regulations shall direct that the prices of to-18
bacco or tobacco-related products in overseas military re-19
tail outlets shall be within the range of prices established 20
for military retail system stores located in the United 21
States. 22
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EC. 8039. (a) During the current fiscal year, none 23
of the appropriations or funds available to the Department 24
of Defense Working Capital Funds shall be used for the 25
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purchase of an investment item for the purpose of acquir-1
ing a new inventory item for sale or anticipated sale dur-2
ing the current fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to 3
customers of the Department of Defense Working Capital 4
Funds if such an item would not have been chargeable 5
to the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund 6
during fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an 7
investment item would be chargeable during the current 8
fiscal year to appropriations made to the Department of 9
Defense for procurement. 10
(b) The fiscal year 2025 budget request for the De-11
partment of Defense as well as all justification material 12
and other documentation supporting the fiscal year 2025 13
Department of Defense budget shall be prepared and sub-14
mitted to the Congress on the basis that any equipment 15
which was classified as an end item and funded in a pro-16
curement appropriation contained in this Act shall be 17
budgeted for in a proposed fiscal year 2025 procurement 18
appropriation and not in the supply management business 19
area or any other area or category of the Department of 20
Defense Working Capital Funds. 21
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EC. 8040. None of the funds appropriated by this 22
Act for programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall 23
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 24
year, except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for 25
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Contingencies, which shall remain available until Sep-1
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That funds appropriated, 2
transferred, or otherwise credited to the Central Intel-3
ligence Agency Central Services Working Capital Fund 4
during this or any prior or subsequent fiscal year shall 5
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 6
any funds appropriated or transferred to the Central Intel-7
ligence Agency for advanced research and development ac-8
quisition, for agent operations, and for covert action pro-9
grams authorized by the President under section 503 of 10
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3093) shall 11
remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided fur-12
ther, That any funds appropriated or transferred to the 13
Central Intelligence Agency for the construction, improve-14
ment, or alteration of facilities, including leased facilities, 15
to be used primarily by personnel of the intelligence com-16
munity, shall remain available until September 30, 2026. 17
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EC. 8041. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) 18
and (c), none of the funds made available by this Act may 19
be used— 20
(1) to establish a field operating agency; or 21
(2) to pay the basic pay of a member of the 22
Armed Forces or civilian employee of the depart-23
ment who is transferred or reassigned from a head-24
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quarters activity if the member or employee’s place 1
of duty remains at the location of that headquarters. 2
(b) The Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a mili-3
tary department may waive the limitations in subsection 4
(a), on a case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines, 5
and certifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the 6
House of Representatives and the Senate that the grant-7
ing of the waiver will reduce the personnel requirements 8
or the financial requirements of the department. 9
(c) This section does not apply to— 10
(1) field operating agencies funded within the 11
National Intelligence Program; 12
(2) an Army field operating agency established 13
to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of im-14
provised explosive devices, and, as determined by the 15
Secretary of the Army, other similar threats; 16
(3) an Army field operating agency established 17
to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of bio-18
metric activities and to integrate common biometric 19
technologies throughout the Department of Defense; 20
or 21
(4) an Air Force field operating agency estab-22
lished to administer the Air Force Mortuary Affairs 23
Program and Mortuary Operations for the Depart-24
ment of Defense and authorized Federal entities. 25
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SEC. 8042. (a) None of the funds appropriated by 1
this Act shall be available to convert to contractor per-2
formance an activity or function of the Department of De-3
fense that, on or after the date of the enactment of this 4
Act, is performed by Department of Defense civilian em-5
ployees unless— 6
(1) the conversion is based on the result of a 7
public-private competition that includes a most effi-8
cient and cost effective organization plan developed 9
by such activity or function; 10
(2) the Competitive Sourcing Official deter-11
mines that, over all performance periods stated in 12
the solicitation of offers for performance of the ac-13
tivity or function, the cost of performance of the ac-14
tivity or function by a contractor would be less costly 15
to the Department of Defense by an amount that 16
equals or exceeds the lesser of— 17
(A) 10 percent of the most efficient organi-18
zation’s personnel-related costs for performance 19
of that activity or function by Federal employ-20
ees; or 21
(B) $10,000,000; and 22
(3) the contractor does not receive an advan-23
tage for a proposal that would reduce costs for the 24
Department of Defense by— 25
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(A) not making an employer-sponsored 1
health insurance plan available to the workers 2
who are to be employed in the performance of 3
that activity or function under the contract; or 4
(B) offering to such workers an employer- 5
sponsored health benefits plan that requires the 6
employer to contribute less towards the pre-7
mium or subscription share than the amount 8
that is paid by the Department of Defense for 9
health benefits for civilian employees under 10
chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 11
(b)(1) The Department of Defense, without regard 12
to subsection (a) of this section or subsection (a), (b), or 13
(c) of section 2461 of title 10, United States Code, and 14
notwithstanding any administrative regulation, require-15
ment, or policy to the contrary shall have full authority 16
to enter into a contract for the performance of any com-17
mercial or industrial type function of the Department of 18
Defense that— 19
(A) is included on the procurement list estab-20
lished pursuant to section 2 of the Javits-Wagner- 21
O’Day Act (section 8503 of title 41, United States 22
Code); 23
(B) is planned to be converted to performance 24
by a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or by 25
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a qualified nonprofit agency for other severely handi-1
capped individuals in accordance with that Act; or 2
(C) is planned to be converted to performance 3
by a qualified firm under at least 51 percent owner-4
ship by an Indian tribe, as defined in section 4(e) 5
of the Indian Self-Determination and Education As-6
sistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)), or a Native Ha-7
waiian Organization, as defined in section 8(a)(15) 8
of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(15)). 9
(2) This section shall not apply to depot contracts 10
or contracts for depot maintenance as provided in sections 11
2469 and 2474 of title 10, United States Code. 12
(c) The conversion of any activity or function of the 13
Department of Defense under the authority provided by 14
this section shall be credited toward any competitive or 15
outsourcing goal, target, or measurement that may be es-16
tablished by statute, regulation, or policy and is deemed 17
to be awarded under the authority of, and in compliance 18
with, subsection (h) of section 2304 of title 10, United 19
States Code, for the competition or outsourcing of com-20
mercial activities. 21
(RESCISSIONS) 22
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EC. 8043. Of the funds appropriated in Department 23
of Defense Appropriations Acts, the following funds are 24
hereby rescinded from the following accounts and pro-25
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grams in the specified amounts: Provided, That no 1
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-2
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 3
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the 4
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 5
1985: 6
‘‘Missile Procurement, Army’’, 2022/2024, 7
$9,093,000; 8
‘‘Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat 9
Vehicles, Army’’, 2022/2024, $1,900,000; 10
‘‘Other Procurement, Army’’, 2022/2024, 11
$44,681,000; 12
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 13
$1,428,000; 14
‘‘Weapons Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 15
$13,058,000; 16
‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Ma-17
rine Corps’’, 2022/2024, $1,012,000; 18
‘‘Other Procurement, Navy’’, 2022/2024, 19
$2,975,000; 20
‘‘Cooperative Threat Reduction Account’’, 21
2022/2024, $75,000,000; 22
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’, 23
2023/2024, $75,000,000; 24
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‘‘Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund’’, 2023/ 1
2024, $50,000,000; 2
‘‘Other Procurement, Army’’, 2023/2025, 3
$4,066,000; 4
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 5
$10,033,000; 6
‘‘Weapons Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 7
$53,139,000; 8
‘‘Other Procurement, Navy’’, 2023/2025, 9
$1,550,000; 10
‘‘Procurement, Marine Corps’’, 2023/2025, 11
$155,304,000; 12
‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, 2023/2025, 13
$45,000,000; 14
‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’, 2023/2025, 15
$32,148,000; 16
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 17
Air Force’’, 2023/2024, $29,300,000; 18
‘‘Army Working Capital Fund’’, XXXX/XXXX, 19
$100,000,000; and 20
‘‘Navy Working Capital Fund’’, XXXX/XXXX, 21
$100,000,000. 22
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EC. 8044. None of the funds available in this Act 23
may be used to reduce the authorized positions for mili-24
tary technicians (dual status) of the Army National 25
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Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and Air Force 1
Reserve for the purpose of applying any administratively 2
imposed civilian personnel ceiling, freeze, or reduction on 3
military technicians (dual status), unless such reductions 4
are a direct result of a reduction in military force struc-5
ture. 6
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EC. 8045. None of the funds appropriated or other-7
wise made available in this Act may be obligated or ex-8
pended for assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic 9
of Korea unless specifically appropriated for that purpose: 10
Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to any ac-11
tivities incidental to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting 12
Agency mission to recover and identify the remains of 13
United States Armed Forces personnel from the Demo-14
cratic People’s Republic of Korea. 15
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EC. 8046. Funds appropriated in this Act for oper-16
ation and maintenance of the Military Departments, Com-17
batant Commands and Defense Agencies shall be available 18
for reimbursement of pay, allowances and other expenses 19
which would otherwise be incurred against appropriations 20
for the National Guard and Reserve when members of the 21
National Guard and Reserve provide intelligence or coun-22
terintelligence support to Combatant Commands, Defense 23
Agencies and Joint Intelligence Activities, including the 24
activities and programs included within the National Intel-25
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ligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program: 1
Provided, That nothing in this section authorizes deviation 2
from established Reserve and National Guard personnel 3
and training procedures. 4
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EC. 8047. (a) None of the funds available to the 5
Department of Defense for any fiscal year for drug inter-6
diction or counter-drug activities may be transferred to 7
any other department or agency of the United States ex-8
cept as specifically provided in an appropriations law. 9
(b) None of the funds available to the Central Intel-10
ligence Agency for any fiscal year for drug interdiction or 11
counter-drug activities may be transferred to any other de-12
partment or agency of the United States except as specifi-13
cally provided in an appropriations law. 14
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EC. 8048. In addition to the amounts appropriated 15
or otherwise made available elsewhere in this Act, 16
$49,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of 17
Defense: Provided, That upon the determination of the 18
Secretary of Defense that it shall serve the national inter-19
est, the Secretary shall make grants in the amounts speci-20
fied as follows: $24,000,000 to the United Service Organi-21
zations and $25,000,000 to the Red Cross: Provided fur-22
ther, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 23
made available by this section may be used to encourage, 24
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guide, or otherwise assist in migration towards the United 1
States southwest border. 2
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EC. 8049. Notwithstanding any other provision in 3
this Act, the Small Business Innovation Research program 4
and the Small Business Technology Transfer program set- 5
asides shall be taken proportionally from all programs, 6
projects, or activities to the extent they contribute to the 7
extramural budget. The Secretary of each military depart-8
ment, the Director of each Defense Agency, and the head 9
of each other relevant component of the Department of 10
Defense shall submit to the congressional defense commit-11
tees, concurrent with submission of the budget justifica-12
tion documents to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of 13
title 31, United States Code, a report with a detailed ac-14
counting of the Small Business Innovation Research pro-15
gram and the Small Business Technology Transfer pro-16
gram set-asides taken from programs, projects, or activi-17
ties within such department, agency, or component during 18
the most recently completed fiscal year. 19
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EC. 8050. None of the funds available to the De-20
partment of Defense under this Act shall be obligated or 21
expended to pay a contractor under a contract with the 22
Department of Defense for costs of any amount paid by 23
the contractor to an employee when— 24
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(1) such costs are for a bonus or otherwise in 1
excess of the normal salary paid by the contractor 2
to the employee; and 3
(2) such bonus is part of restructuring costs as-4
sociated with a business combination. 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 6
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EC. 8051. During the current fiscal year, no more 7
than $30,000,000 of appropriations made in this Act 8
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 9
Wide’’ may be transferred to appropriations available for 10
the pay of military personnel, to be merged with, and to 11
be available for the same time period as the appropriations 12
to which transferred, to be used in support of such per-13
sonnel in connection with support and services for eligible 14
organizations and activities outside the Department of De-15
fense pursuant to section 2012 of title 10, United States 16
Code. 17
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EC. 8052. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 18
of law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may per-19
mit the use of equipment of the National Guard Distance 20
Learning Project by any person or entity on a space-avail-21
able, reimbursable basis. The Chief of the National Guard 22
Bureau shall establish the amount of reimbursement for 23
such use on a case-by-case basis. 24
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(b) Amounts collected under subsection (a) shall be 1
credited to funds available for the National Guard Dis-2
tance Learning Project and be available to defray the costs 3
associated with the use of equipment of the project under 4
that subsection. Such funds shall be available for such 5
purposes without fiscal year limitation. 6
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EC. 8053. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 7
otherwise made available by this or prior Acts may be obli-8
gated or expended to retire, prepare to retire, or place in 9
storage or on backup aircraft inventory status any C–40 10
aircraft. 11
(b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not 12
apply to an individual C–40 aircraft that the Secretary 13
of the Air Force determines, on a case-by-case basis, to 14
be no longer mission capable due to a Class A mishap. 15
(c) If the Secretary determines under subsection (b) 16
that an aircraft is no longer mission capable, the Secretary 17
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a 18
certification in writing that the status of such aircraft is 19
due to a Class A mishap and not due to lack of mainte-20
nance, repairs, or other reasons. 21
(d) Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-22
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 23
to the congressional defense committees a report on the 24
necessary steps taken by the Department of Defense to 25
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meet the travel requirements for official or representa-1
tional duties of members of Congress and the Cabinet in 2
fiscal years 2024 and 2025. 3
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EC. 8054. (a) None of the funds appropriated in 4
title IV of this Act may be used to procure end-items for 5
delivery to military forces for operational training, oper-6
ational use, or inventory requirements: Provided, That this 7
restriction does not apply to end-items used in develop-8
ment, prototyping in accordance with an approved test 9
strategy, and test activities preceding and leading to ac-10
ceptance for operational use. 11
(b) If the number of end-items budgeted with funds 12
appropriated in title IV of this Act exceeds the number 13
required in an approved test strategy, the Under Secretary 14
of Defense (Research and Engineering) and the Under 15
Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment), in 16
coordination with the responsible Service Acquisition Ex-17
ecutive, shall certify in writing to the congressional de-18
fense committees that there is a bonafide need for the ad-19
ditional end-items at the time of submittal to Congress 20
of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2025 pursu-21
ant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-22
vided, That this restriction does not apply to programs 23
funded within the National Intelligence Program. 24
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(c) The Secretary of Defense shall, at the time of the 1
submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for 2
fiscal year 2025 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, 3
United States Code, submit to the congressional defense 4
committees a report detailing the use of funds requested 5
in research, development, test and evaluation accounts for 6
end-items used in development, prototyping and test ac-7
tivities preceding and leading to acceptance for operational 8
use: Provided, That the report shall set forth, for each 9
end item covered by the preceding proviso, a detailed list 10
of the statutory authorities under which amounts in the 11
accounts described in that proviso were used for such item: 12
Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, at 13
the time of the submittal to Congress of the budget of 14
the President for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to section 15
1105 of title 31, United States Code, submit to the con-16
gressional defense committees a certification that funds 17
requested for fiscal year 2025 in research, development, 18
test and evaluation accounts are in compliance with this 19
section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 20
may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certi-21
fying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 22
the House of Representatives and the Senate that it is 23
in the national security interest to do so. 24
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SEC. 8055. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
wise made available by this or other Department of De-2
fense Appropriations Acts may be obligated or expended 3
for the purpose of performing repairs or maintenance to 4
military family housing units of the Department of De-5
fense, including areas in such military family housing 6
units that may be used for the purpose of conducting offi-7
cial Department of Defense business. 8
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EC. 8056. Notwithstanding any other provision of 9
law, funds appropriated in this Act under the heading 10
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense- 11
Wide’’ for any new start defense innovation acceleration 12
or rapid prototyping program demonstration project with 13
a value of more than $5,000,000 may only be obligated 14
15 days after a report, including a description of the 15
project, the planned acquisition and transition strategy 16
and its estimated annual and total cost, has been provided 17
in writing to the congressional defense committees: Pro-18
vided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive this re-19
striction on a case-by-case basis by certifying to the con-20
gressional defense committees that it is in the national in-21
terest to do so. 22
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EC. 8057. The Secretary of Defense shall continue 23
to provide a classified quarterly report to the Committees 24
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 25
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Senate, Subcommittees on Defense on certain matters as 1
directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act. 2
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EC. 8058. Notwithstanding section 12310(b) of title 3
10, United States Code, a servicemember who is a member 4
of the National Guard serving on full-time National Guard 5
duty under section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 6
may perform duties in support of the ground-based ele-7
ments of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System. 8
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EC. 8059. None of the funds provided in this Act 9
may be used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity 10
ammunition held by the Department of Defense that has 11
a center-fire cartridge and a United States military no-12
menclature designation of ‘‘armor penetrator’’, ‘‘armor 13
piercing (AP)’’, ‘‘armor piercing incendiary (API)’’, or 14
‘‘armor-piercing incendiary tracer (API–T)’’, except to an 15
entity performing demilitarization services for the Depart-16
ment of Defense under a contract that requires the entity 17
to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department of 18
Defense that armor piercing projectiles are either: (1) ren-19
dered incapable of reuse by the demilitarization process; 20
or (2) used to manufacture ammunition pursuant to a con-21
tract with the Department of Defense or the manufacture 22
of ammunition for export pursuant to a License for Per-23
manent Export of Unclassified Military Articles issued by 24
the Department of State. 25
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SEC. 8060. Notwithstanding any other provision of 1
law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or their des-2
ignee, may waive payment of all or part of the consider-3
ation that otherwise would be required under section 2667 4
of title 10, United States Code, in the case of a lease of 5
personal property for a period not in excess of 1 year to 6
any organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, 7
United States Code, or any other youth, social, or fra-8
ternal nonprofit organization as may be approved by the 9
Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or their designee, 10
on a case-by-case basis. 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
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EC. 8061. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 13
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, 14
$175,943,968 shall remain available until expended: Pro-15
vided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 16
the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer such 17
funds to other activities of the Federal Government: Pro-18
vided further, That the Secretary of Defense is authorized 19
to enter into and carry out contracts for the acquisition 20
of real property, construction, personal services, and oper-21
ations related to projects carrying out the purposes of this 22
section: Provided further, That contracts entered into 23
under the authority of this section may provide for such 24
indemnification as the Secretary determines to be nec-25
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essary: Provided further, That projects authorized by this 1
section shall comply with applicable Federal, State, and 2
local law to the maximum extent consistent with the na-3
tional security, as determined by the Secretary of Defense. 4
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EC. 8062. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 5
or any other Act may be used to take any action to mod-6
ify— 7
(1) the appropriations account structure for the 8
National Intelligence Program budget, including 9
through the creation of a new appropriation or new 10
appropriation account; 11
(2) how the National Intelligence Program 12
budget request is presented in the unclassified P–1, 13
R–1, and O–1 documents supporting the Depart-14
ment of Defense budget request; 15
(3) the process by which the National Intel-16
ligence Program appropriations are apportioned to 17
the executing agencies; or 18
(4) the process by which the National Intel-19
ligence Program appropriations are allotted, obli-20
gated and disbursed. 21
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to 22
prohibit the merger of programs or changes to the Na-23
tional Intelligence Program budget at or below the Ex-24
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penditure Center level, provided such change is otherwise 1
in accordance with paragraphs (1)–(3) of subsection (a). 2
(c) The Director of National Intelligence and the Sec-3
retary of Defense may jointly, only for the purposes of 4
achieving auditable financial statements and improving 5
fiscal reporting, study and develop detailed proposals for 6
alternative financial management processes. Such study 7
shall include a comprehensive counterintelligence risk as-8
sessment to ensure that none of the alternative processes 9
will adversely affect counterintelligence. 10
(d) Upon development of the detailed proposals de-11
fined under subsection (c), the Director of National Intel-12
ligence and the Secretary of Defense shall— 13
(1) provide the proposed alternatives to all af-14
fected agencies; 15
(2) receive certification from all affected agen-16
cies attesting that the proposed alternatives will help 17
achieve auditability, improve fiscal reporting, and 18
will not adversely affect counterintelligence; and 19
(3) not later than 30 days after receiving all 20
necessary certifications under paragraph (2), present 21
the proposed alternatives and certifications to the 22
congressional defense and intelligence committees. 23
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 1
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EC. 8063. During the current fiscal year, not to ex-2
ceed $11,000,000 from each of the appropriations made 3
in title II of this Act for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, 4
Army’’, ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, and ‘‘Oper-5
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ may be transferred by 6
the military department concerned to its central fund es-7
tablished for Fisher Houses and Suites pursuant to sec-8
tion 2493(d) of title 10, United States Code. 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
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EC. 8064. In addition to amounts provided else-11
where in this Act, $5,000,000 is hereby appropriated to 12
the Department of Defense, to remain available for obliga-13
tion until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 14
other provision of law, that upon the determination of the 15
Secretary of Defense that it shall serve the national inter-16
est, these funds shall be available only for a grant to the 17
Fisher House Foundation, Inc., only for the construction 18
and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet the 19
needs of military family members when confronted with 20
the illness or hospitalization of an eligible military bene-21
ficiary. 22
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 23
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EC. 8065. Of the amounts appropriated for ‘‘Oper-24
ation and Maintenance, Navy’’, up to $1,000,000 shall be 25
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available for transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for 1
Public Service Development Trust Fund established under 2
section 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Serv-3
ice Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105). 4
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EC. 8066. None of the funds available to the De-5
partment of Defense may be obligated to modify command 6
and control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command 7
operational and administrative control of United States 8
Navy forces assigned to the Pacific fleet: Provided, That 9
the command and control relationships which existed on 10
October 1, 2004, shall remain in force until a written 11
modification has been proposed to the Committees on Ap-12
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-13
ate: Provided further, That the proposed modification may 14
be implemented 30 days after the notification unless an 15
objection is received from either the House or Senate Ap-16
propriations Committees: Provided further, That any pro-17
posed modification shall not preclude the ability of the 18
commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command to 19
meet operational requirements. 20
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EC. 8067. Any notice that is required to be sub-21
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 22
of Representatives and the Senate under section 3601 of 23
title 10, United States Code, as added by section 804(a) 24
of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 25
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Act for Fiscal Year 2023, after the date of the enactment 1
of this Act shall be submitted pursuant to that require-2
ment concurrently to the Subcommittees on Defense of the 3
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-4
atives and the Senate. 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 6
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EC. 8068. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 7
under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and 8
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense- 9
Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative 10
Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $80,000,000 11
shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Gov-12
ernment of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome 13
defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, sub-14
ject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agree-15
ment, as amended; $127,000,000 shall be for the Short 16
Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, in-17
cluding cruise missile defense research and development 18
under the SRBMD program; $40,000,000 shall be for co- 19
production activities of SRBMD systems in the United 20
States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements 21
consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and proce-22
dures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement 23
for SRBMD, as amended; $80,000,000 shall be for an 24
upper-tier component to the Israeli Missile Defense Archi-25
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tecture, of which $80,000,000 shall be for co-production 1
activities of Arrow 3 Upper Tier systems in the United 2
States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements 3
consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and proce-4
dures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement 5
for Arrow 3 Upper Tier, as amended; and $173,000,000 6
shall be for the Arrow System Improvement Program in-7
cluding development of a long range, ground and airborne, 8
detection suite: Provided further, That the transfer author-9
ity provided under this provision is in addition to any 10
other transfer authority contained in this Act. 11
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EC. 8069. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 12
under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 13
$1,648,559,000 shall be available until September 30, 14
2024, to fund prior year shipbuilding cost increases for 15
the following programs: 16
(1) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-17
version, Navy’’, 2013/2024: Carrier Replacement 18
Program, $624,600,000; 19
(2) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-20
version, Navy’’, 2015/2024: Virginia Class Sub-21
marine Program, $43,419,000; 22
(3) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-23
version, Navy’’, 2016/2024: Virginia Class Sub-24
marine Program, $100,115,000; 25
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(4) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-1
version, Navy’’, 2016/2024: DDG–51 Destroyer, 2
$104,090,000; 3
(5) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-4
version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: Virginia Class Sub-5
marine Program, $24,646,000; 6
(6) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-7
version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: DDG–51 Destroyer, 8
$121,827,000; 9
(7) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-10
version, Navy’’, 2017/2024: LPD–17, $16,520,000; 11
(8) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-12
version, Navy’’, 2018/2024: Ship to Shore Connector 13
Program, $43,600,000; 14
(9) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-15
version, Navy’’, 2019/2024: Littoral Combat Ship, 16
$23,000,000; 17
(10) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-18
version, Navy’’, 2019/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 19
$27,060,000; 20
(11) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-21
version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: CVN Refueling Over-22
hauls, $42,422,000; 23
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(12) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-1
version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 2
$93,250,000; 3
(13) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-4
version, Navy’’, 2020/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 5
Rescue Ship Program, $1,150,000; 6
(14) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-7
version, Navy’’, 2021/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 8
Rescue Ship Program, $21,809,000; 9
(15) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-10
version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: TAO Fleet Oiler, 11
$2,585,000; 12
(16) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-13
version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: Towing, Salvage, and 14
Rescue Ship Program, $3,300,000; and 15
(17) Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Con-16
version, Navy’’, 2022/2024: T-AGOS Surtass Ships 17
Program, $355,166,000. 18
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EC. 8070. Funds appropriated by this Act for intel-19
ligence and intelligence-related activities are deemed to be 20
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-21
tion 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 22
U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)) until the enactment of the Intelligence 23
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. 24
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SEC. 8071. None of the funds provided in this Act 1
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 2
reprogramming of funds that creates or initiates a new 3
program, project, or activity unless such program, project, 4
or activity must be undertaken immediately in the interest 5
of national security and only after written prior notifica-6
tion to the congressional defense committees. 7
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EC. 8072. None of the funds in this Act may be 8
used for research, development, test, evaluation, procure-9
ment or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a 10
missile defense system. 11
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EC. 8073. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of de-13
commissioning any Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Ger-14
mantown, or the USS Tortuga. 15
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EC. 8074. For purposes of section 1553(b) of title 16
31, United States Code, any subdivision of appropriations 17
made in this Act under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and 18
Conversion, Navy’’ shall be considered to be for the same 19
purpose as any subdivision under the heading ‘‘Ship-20
building and Conversion, Navy’’ appropriations in any 21
prior fiscal year, and the 1 percent limitation shall apply 22
to the total amount of the appropriation. 23
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EC. 8075. None of the funds appropriated or made 24
available in this Act shall be used to reduce or disestablish 25
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the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squad-1
ron of the Air Force Reserve, if such action would reduce 2
the WC–130 Weather Reconnaissance mission below the 3
levels funded in this Act: Provided, That the Air Force 4
shall allow the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron to 5
perform other missions in support of national defense re-6
quirements during the non-hurricane season. 7
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EC. 8076. (a) None of the funds appropriated by 8
this Act may be used to transfer research and develop-9
ment, acquisition, or other program authority relating to 10
current tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) from 11
the Army. 12
(b) The Army shall retain responsibility for and oper-13
ational control of the MQ–1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aer-14
ial Vehicle (UAV) in order to support the Secretary of De-15
fense in matters relating to the employment of unmanned 16
aerial vehicles. 17
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EC. 8077. None of the funds provided in this Act 18
shall be available for integration of foreign intelligence in-19
formation unless the information has been lawfully col-20
lected and processed during the conduct of authorized for-21
eign intelligence activities: Provided, That information 22
pertaining to United States persons shall only be handled 23
in accordance with protections provided in the Fourth 24
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Amendment of the United States Constitution as imple-1
mented through Executive Order No. 12333. 2
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EC. 8078. None of the funds appropriated by this 3
Act for programs of the Office of the Director of National 4
Intelligence shall remain available for obligation beyond 5
the current fiscal year, except for funds appropriated for 6
research and technology, which shall remain available until 7
September 30, 2025, and except for funds appropriated 8
for the purchase of real property, which shall remain avail-9
able until September 30, 2026. 10
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EC. 8079. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 11
of enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-12
ligence shall submit a report to the congressional intel-13
ligence committees to establish the baseline for application 14
of reprogramming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 15
2024: Provided, That the report shall include— 16
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-17
rate column to display the President’s budget re-18
quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments 19
due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 20
fiscal year enacted level; 21
(2) a delineation in the table for each appro-22
priation by Expenditure Center and project; and 23
(3) an identification of items of special congres-24
sional interest. 25
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(b) None of the funds provided for the National Intel-1
ligence Program in this Act shall be available for re-2
programming or transfer until the report identified in sub-3
section (a) is submitted to the congressional intelligence 4
committees, unless the Director of National Intelligence 5
certifies in writing to the congressional intelligence com-6
mittees that such reprogramming or transfer is necessary 7
as an emergency requirement. 8
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EC. 8080. (a) None of the funds provided for the 9
National Intelligence Program in this or any prior appro-10
priations Act shall be available for obligation or expendi-11
ture through a reprogramming or transfer of funds in ac-12
cordance with section 102A(d) of the National Security 13
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3024(d)) that— 14
(1) creates a new start effort; 15
(2) terminates a program with appropriated 16
funding of $10,000,000 or more; 17
(3) transfers funding into or out of the Na-18
tional Intelligence Program; or 19
(4) transfers funding between appropriations, 20
unless the congressional intelligence committees are 21
notified 30 days in advance of such reprogramming 22
of funds; this notification period may be reduced for 23
urgent national security requirements. 24
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(b) None of the funds provided for the National Intel-1
ligence Program in this or any prior appropriations Act 2
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 3
reprogramming or transfer of funds in accordance with 4
section 102A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 5
U.S.C. 3024(d)) that results in a cumulative increase or 6
decrease of the levels specified in the classified annex ac-7
companying the Act unless the congressional intelligence 8
committees are notified 30 days in advance of such re-9
programming of funds; this notification period may be re-10
duced for urgent national security requirements. 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
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EC. 8081. Upon a determination by the Director of 13
National Intelligence that such action is necessary and in 14
the national interest, the Director may, with the approval 15
of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer not to 16
exceed $1,500,000,000 of the funds made available in this 17
Act for the National Intelligence Program: Provided, That 18
such authority to transfer may not be used unless for 19
higher priority items, based on unforeseen intelligence re-20
quirements, than those for which originally appropriated 21
and in no case where the item for which funds are re-22
quested has been denied by the Congress: Provided further, 23
That a request for multiple reprogrammings of funds 24
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using authority provided in this section shall be made 1
prior to June 30, 2024. 2
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EC. 8082. Any transfer of amounts appropriated to 3
the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Devel-4
opment Account in or for fiscal year 2024 to a military 5
department or Defense Agency pursuant to section 6
1705(e)(1) of title 10, United States Code, shall be cov-7
ered by and subject to section 8005 of this Act. 8
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EC. 8083. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 9
otherwise made available by this Act may be expended for 10
any Federal contract for an amount in excess of 11
$1,000,000, unless the contractor agrees not to— 12
(1) enter into any agreement with any of its 13
employees or independent contractors that requires, 14
as a condition of employment, that the employee or 15
independent contractor agree to resolve through ar-16
bitration any claim under title VII of the Civil 17
Rights Act of 1964 or any tort related to or arising 18
out of sexual assault or harassment, including as-19
sault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional 20
distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, su-21
pervision, or retention; or 22
(2) take any action to enforce any provision of 23
an existing agreement with an employee or inde-24
pendent contractor that mandates that the employee 25
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or independent contractor resolve through arbitra-1
tion any claim under title VII of the Civil Rights Act 2
of 1964 or any tort related to or arising out of sex-3
ual assault or harassment, including assault and 4
battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, 5
false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, 6
or retention. 7
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 8
made available by this Act may be expended for any Fed-9
eral contract unless the contractor certifies that it requires 10
each covered subcontractor to agree not to enter into, and 11
not to take any action to enforce any provision of, any 12
agreement as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub-13
section (a), with respect to any employee or independent 14
contractor performing work related to such subcontract. 15
For purposes of this subsection, a ‘‘covered subcon-16
tractor’’ is an entity that has a subcontract in excess of 17
$1,000,000 on a contract subject to subsection (a). 18
(c) The prohibitions in this section do not apply with 19
respect to a contractor’s or subcontractor’s agreements 20
with employees or independent contractors that may not 21
be enforced in a court of the United States. 22
(d) The Secretary of Defense may waive the applica-23
tion of subsection (a) or (b) to a particular contractor or 24
subcontractor for the purposes of a particular contract or 25
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subcontract if the Secretary or the Deputy Secretary per-1
sonally determines that the waiver is necessary to avoid 2
harm to national security interests of the United States, 3
and that the term of the contract or subcontract is not 4
longer than necessary to avoid such harm. The determina-5
tion shall set forth with specificity the grounds for the 6
waiver and for the contract or subcontract term selected, 7
and shall state any alternatives considered in lieu of a 8
waiver and the reasons each such alternative would not 9
avoid harm to national security interests of the United 10
States. The Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Con-11
gress, and simultaneously make public, any determination 12
under this subsection not less than 15 business days be-13
fore the contract or subcontract addressed in the deter-14
mination may be awarded. 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
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EC. 8084. From within the funds appropriated for 17
operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Pro-18
gram in this Act, up to $172,000,000, shall be available 19
for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense-Depart-20
ment of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration 21
Fund in accordance with the provisions of section 1704 22
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 23
2010, Public Law 111–84: Provided, That for purposes 24
of section 1704(b), the facility operations funded are oper-25
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ations of the integrated Captain James A. Lovell Federal 1
Health Care Center, consisting of the North Chicago Vet-2
erans Affairs Medical Center, the Navy Ambulatory Care 3
Center, and supporting facilities designated as a combined 4
Federal medical facility as described by section 706 of 5
Public Law 110–417: Provided further, That additional 6
funds may be transferred from funds appropriated for op-7
eration and maintenance for the Defense Health Program 8
to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Vet-9
erans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund upon 10
written notification by the Secretary of Defense to the 11
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-12
atives and the Senate. 13
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EC. 8085. None of the funds appropriated or other-14
wise made available by this Act may be used by the De-15
partment of Defense or a component thereof in contraven-16
tion of the provisions of section 130h of title 10, United 17
States Code. 18
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EC. 8086. Appropriations available to the Depart-19
ment of Defense may be used for the purchase of heavy 20
and light armored vehicles for the physical security of per-21
sonnel or for force protection purposes up to a limit of 22
$450,000 per vehicle, notwithstanding price or other limi-23
tations applicable to the purchase of passenger carrying 24
vehicles. 25
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 1
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EC. 8087. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 2
for ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, $142,008,000, 3
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 4
2028, may be used for the purchase of two used sealift 5
vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet, established 6
under section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 7
(46 U.S.C. 57100): Provided, That such amounts are 8
available for reimbursements to the Ready Reserve Force, 9
Maritime Administration account of the United States De-10
partment of Transportation for programs, projects, activi-11
ties, and expenses related to the National Defense Reserve 12
Fleet: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 13
2218 of title 10, United States Code, none of these funds 14
shall be transferred to the National Defense Sealift Fund 15
for execution. 16
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EC. 8088. (a) Any agency receiving funds made 17
available in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and 18
(c), post on the public Web site of that agency any report 19
required to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 20
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-21
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 22
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 23
(1) the public posting of the report com-24
promises national security; or 25
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(2) the report contains proprietary information. 1
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 2
do so only after such report has been made available to 3
the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 4
no less than 45 days. 5
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EC. 8089. The Secretary of Defense shall post grant 6
awards on a public website in a searchable format. 7
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EC. 8090. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used by the National Security Agency to— 9
(1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section 10
702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 11
1978 for the purpose of targeting a United States 12
person; or 13
(2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as 14
such term is defined in section 2510(8) of title 18, 15
United States Code) of any electronic communica-16
tion of a United States person from a provider of 17
electronic communication services to the public pur-18
suant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Sur-19
veillance Act of 1978. 20
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EC. 8091. None of the funds made available in this 21
or any other Act may be used to pay the salary of any 22
officer or employee of any agency funded by this Act who 23
approves or implements the transfer of administrative re-24
sponsibilities or budgetary resources of any program, 25
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project, or activity financed by this Act to the jurisdiction 1
of another Federal agency not financed by this Act with-2
out the express authorization of Congress: Provided, That 3
this limitation shall not apply to transfers of funds ex-4
pressly provided for in Defense Appropriations Acts, or 5
provisions of Acts providing supplemental appropriations 6
for the Department of Defense. 7
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EC. 8092. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 8
for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $667,508,000, 9
to remain available until expended, may be used for any 10
purposes related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet 11
established under section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales 12
Act of 1946 (46 U.S.C. 57100): Provided, That such 13
amounts are available for reimbursements to the Ready 14
Reserve Force, Maritime Administration account of the 15
United States Department of Transportation for pro-16
grams, projects, activities, and expenses related to the Na-17
tional Defense Reserve Fleet. 18
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EC. 8093. (a) None of the funds provided in this 19
Act for the TAO Fleet Oiler program shall be used to 20
award a new contract that provides for the acquisition of 21
the following components unless those components are 22
manufactured in the United States: Auxiliary equipment 23
(including pumps) for shipboard services; propulsion 24
equipment (including engines, reduction gears, and propel-25
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lers); shipboard cranes; spreaders for shipboard cranes; 1
and anchor chains, specifically for the seventh and subse-2
quent ships of the fleet. 3
(b) None of the funds provided in this Act for the 4
FFG(X) Frigate program shall be used to award a new 5
contract that provides for the acquisition of the following 6
components unless those components are manufactured in 7
the United States: Air circuit breakers; gyrocompasses; 8
electronic navigation chart systems; steering controls; 9
pumps; propulsion and machinery control systems; totally 10
enclosed lifeboats; auxiliary equipment pumps; shipboard 11
cranes; auxiliary chill water systems; and propulsion pro-12
pellers: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall in-13
corporate United States manufactured propulsion engines 14
and propulsion reduction gears into the FFG(X) Frigate 15
program beginning not later than with the eleventh ship 16
of the program. 17
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EC. 8094. None of the funds provided in this Act 18
for requirements development, performance specification 19
development, concept design and development, ship con-20
figuration development, systems engineering, naval archi-21
tecture, marine engineering, operations research analysis, 22
industry studies, preliminary design, development of the 23
Detailed Design and Construction Request for Proposals 24
solicitation package, or related activities for the T– 25
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ARC(X) Cable Laying and Repair Ship or the T– 1
AGOS(X) Oceanographic Surveillance Ship may be used 2
to award a new contract for such activities unless these 3
contracts include specifications that all auxiliary equip-4
ment, including pumps and propulsion shafts, are manu-5
factured in the United States. 6
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EC. 8095. No amounts credited or otherwise made 7
available in this or any other Act to the Department of 8
Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Account may 9
be transferred to: 10
(1) the Rapid Prototyping Fund established 11
under section 804(d) of the National Defense Au-12
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (10 U.S.C. 13
2302 note); or 14
(2) credited to a military-department specific 15
fund established under section 804(d)(2) of the Na-16
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 17
2016 (as amended by section 897 of the National 18
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017). 19
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EC. 8096. From funds made available in title II of 20
this Act, the Secretary of Defense may purchase for use 21
by military and civilian employees of the Department of 22
Defense in the United States Central Command area of 23
responsibility: (1) passenger motor vehicles up to a limit 24
of $75,000 per vehicle; and (2) heavy and light armored 25
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vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for force 1
protection purposes up to a limit of $450,000 per vehicle, 2
notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the 3
purchase of passenger carrying vehicles. 4
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EC. 8097. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used for Government Travel Charge Card ex-6
penses by military or civilian personnel of the Department 7
of Defense for gaming, or for entertainment that includes 8
topless or nude entertainers or participants, as prohibited 9
by Department of Defense FMR, Volume 9, Chapter 3 10
and Department of Defense Instruction 1015.10 (enclo-11
sure 3, 14a and 14b). 12
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EC. 8098. (a) None of the funds made available in 13
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 14
network unless such network is designed to block access 15
to pornography websites. 16
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 17
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 18
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-19
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities, 20
or for any activity necessary for the national defense, in-21
cluding intelligence activities. 22
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EC. 8099. None of the funds provided for, or other-23
wise made available, in this or any other Act, may be obli-24
gated or expended by the Secretary of Defense to provide 25
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motorized vehicles, aviation platforms, munitions other 1
than small arms and munitions appropriate for customary 2
ceremonial honors, operational military units, or oper-3
ational military platforms if the Secretary determines that 4
providing such units, platforms, or equipment would un-5
dermine the readiness of such units, platforms, or equip-6
ment. 7
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EC. 8100. (a) None of the funds made available by 8
this or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 9
memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement 10
with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee 11
to any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liabil-12
ity that has been assessed, for which all judicial and ad-13
ministrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, 14
and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant 15
to an agreement with the authority responsible for col-16
lecting such tax liability, provided that the applicable Fed-17
eral agency is aware of the unpaid Federal tax liability. 18
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the applicable 19
Federal agency has considered suspension or debarment 20
of the corporation described in such subsection and has 21
made a determination that such suspension or debarment 22
is not necessary to protect the interests of the Federal 23
Government. 24
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SEC. 8101. Amounts appropriated under title IV of 1
this Act, as detailed in budget activity eight of the ‘‘Expla-2
nation of Project Level Adjustments’’ tables in the explan-3
atory statement regarding this Act, may be used for ex-4
penses for the agile research, development, test and eval-5
uation, procurement, production, modification, and oper-6
ation and maintenance, only for the following Software 7
and Digital Technology Pilot programs— 8
(1) Defensive CYBER (PE 0608041A); 9
(2) Risk Management Information (PE 10
0608013N); 11
(3) Maritime Tactical Command and Control 12
(PE 0608231N); 13
(4) Space Command and Control (PE 14
1208248SF); 15
(5) Global Command and Control System (PE 16
0303150K); 17
(6) Acquisition Visibility (PE 0608648D8Z); 18
and 19
(7) Defense Innovation Unit Fielding 20
(RDTE,DW Line 281). 21
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EC. 8102. None of the funds appropriated or other-22
wise made available by this Act may be used to transfer 23
the National Reconnaissance Office to the Space Force: 24
Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 25
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limit or prohibit cooperation, collaboration, and coordina-1
tion between the National Reconnaissance Office and the 2
Space Force or any other elements of the Department of 3
Defense. 4
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EC. 8103. None of the funds made available in this 5
Act may be used in contravention of the following laws 6
enacted or regulations promulgated to implement the 7
United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other 8
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 9
(done at New York on December 10, 1984): 10
(1) Section 2340A of title 18, United States 11
Code. 12
(2) Section 2242 of the Foreign Affairs Reform 13
and Restructuring Act of 1998 (division G of Public 14
Law 105–277; 112 Stat. 2681–822; 8 U.S.C. 1231 15
note) and regulations prescribed thereto, including 16
regulations under part 208 of title 8, Code of Fed-17
eral Regulations, and part 95 of title 22, Code of 18
Federal Regulations. 19
(3) Sections 1002 and 1003 of the Department 20
of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 21
to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and 22
Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 (Public Law 109– 23
148). 24
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SEC. 8104. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assist-2
ance to the Azov Battalion. 3
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EC. 8105. During the current fiscal year, the De-4
partment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of 5
not to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in sec-6
tion 2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipa-7
tion of receipt of contributions, only from the Government 8
of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, That, such con-9
tributions shall, upon receipt, be credited to the appropria-10
tions or fund which incurred such obligations. 11
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EC. 8106. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 12
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 13
Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 14
$1,343,580,000, to remain available until September 30, 15
2025, shall be available for International Security Co-16
operation Programs and other programs to provide sup-17
port and assistance to foreign security forces or other 18
groups or individuals to conduct, support or facilitate 19
counterterrorism, crisis response, or building partner ca-20
pacity programs: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense 21
shall, not less than 15 days prior to obligating funds made 22
available in this section, notify the congressional defense 23
committees in writing of the details of any planned obliga-24
tion: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall 25
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provide quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropria-1
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate on 2
the use and status of funds made available in this section. 3
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EC. 8107. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 4
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 5
Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 6
$410,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 7
2025, shall be available to reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, 8
Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman under section 1226 of the Na-9
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (22 10
U.S.C. 2151 note), for enhanced border security, of which 11
not less than $150,000,000 shall be for Jordan: Provided, 12
That the Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 15 days 13
prior to obligating funds made available in this section, 14
notify the congressional defense committees in writing of 15
the details of any planned obligation and the nature of 16
the expenses incurred: Provided further, That the Sec-17
retary of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the 18
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-19
atives and the Senate on the use and status of funds made 20
available in this section. 21
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EC. 8108. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used in contravention of the War Powers Res-23
olution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.). 24
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SEC. 8109. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act for excess defense articles, assistance under section 2
333 of title 10, United States Code, or peacekeeping oper-3
ations for the countries designated annually to be in viola-4
tion of the standards of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act 5
of 2008 (Public Law 110–457; 22 U.S.C. 2370c–1) may 6
be used to support any military training or operation that 7
includes child soldiers, as defined by the Child Soldiers 8
Prevention Act of 2008, unless such assistance is other-9
wise permitted under section 404 of the Child Soldiers 10
Prevention Act of 2008. 11
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EC. 8110. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be made available for any member of the Taliban. 13
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EC. 8111. Notwithstanding any other provision of 14
law, any transfer of funds, appropriated or otherwise made 15
available by this Act, for support to friendly foreign coun-16
tries in connection with the conduct of operations in which 17
the United States is not participating, pursuant to section 18
331(d) of title 10, United States Code, shall be made in 19
accordance with section 8005 of this Act. 20
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EC. 8112. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 21
otherwise made available by this or any other Act may 22
be used by the Secretary of Defense, or any other official 23
or officer of the Department of Defense, to enter into a 24
contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative 25
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agreement with, or make a grant to, or provide a loan 1
or loan guarantee to Rosoboronexport or any subsidiary 2
of Rosoboronexport. 3
(b) The Secretary of Defense may waive the limita-4
tion in subsection (a) if the Secretary, in consultation with 5
the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intel-6
ligence, determines that it is in the vital national security 7
interest of the United States to do so, and certifies in writ-8
ing to the congressional defense committees that— 9
(1) Rosoboronexport has ceased the transfer of 10
lethal military equipment to, and the maintenance of 11
existing lethal military equipment for, the Govern-12
ment of the Syrian Arab Republic; 13
(2) the armed forces of the Russian Federation 14
have withdrawn from Ukraine; and 15
(3) agents of the Russian Federation have 16
ceased taking active measures to destabilize the con-17
trol of the Government of Ukraine over eastern 18
Ukraine. 19
(c) The Inspector General of the Department of De-20
fense shall conduct a review of any action involving 21
Rosoboronexport with respect to a waiver issued by the 22
Secretary of Defense pursuant to subsection (b), and not 23
later than 90 days after the date on which such a waiver 24
is issued by the Secretary of Defense, the Inspector Gen-25
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eral shall submit to the congressional defense committees 1
a report containing the results of the review conducted 2
with respect to such waiver. 3
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EC. 8113. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 4
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 5
Wide’’, for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 6
$15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 7
2025, shall be for payments to reimburse key cooperating 8
nations for logistical, military, and other support, includ-9
ing access, provided to United States military and stability 10
operations to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: 11
Provided, That such reimbursement payments may be 12
made in such amounts as the Secretary of Defense, with 13
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, and in consulta-14
tion with the Director of the Office of Management and 15
Budget, may determine, based on documentation deter-16
mined by the Secretary of Defense to adequately account 17
for the support provided, and such determination is final 18
and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the United 19
States, and 15 days following written notification to the 20
appropriate congressional committees: Provided further, 21
That these funds may be used for the purpose of providing 22
specialized training and procuring supplies and specialized 23
equipment and providing such supplies and loaning such 24
equipment on a non-reimbursable basis to coalition forces 25
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supporting United States military and stability operations 1
to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and 15 2
days following written notification to the appropriate con-3
gressional committees: Provided further, That the Sec-4
retary of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to the 5
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-6
atives and the Senate on the use and status of funds made 7
available in this section. 8
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EC. 8114. The Secretary of Defense shall notify the 9
congressional defense committees in writing not more than 10
30 days after the receipt of any contribution of funds re-11
ceived from the government of a foreign country for any 12
purpose relating to the stationing or operations of the 13
United States Armed Forces: Provided, That such notifi-14
cation shall include the amount of the contribution; the 15
purpose for which such contribution was made; and the 16
authority under which such contribution was accepted by 17
the Secretary of Defense: Provided further, That not fewer 18
than 15 days prior to obligating such funds, the Secretary 19
of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense com-20
mittees in writing a notification of the planned use of such 21
contributions, including whether such contributions would 22
support existing or new stationing or operations of the 23
United States Armed Forces. 24
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SEC. 8115. (a) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 1
in coordination with the Secretaries of the military depart-2
ments and the Chiefs of the Armed Forces, shall submit 3
to the congressional defense committees, not later than 30 4
days after the last day of each quarter of the fiscal year, 5
a report on the use of operation and maintenance funds 6
for activities or exercises in excess of $5,000,000 that have 7
been designated by the Secretary of Defense as unplanned 8
activities for fiscal year 2024. 9
(b) Each report required by subsection (a) shall also 10
include— 11
(1) the title, date, and location, of each activity 12
and exercise covered by the report; 13
(2) an identification of the military department 14
and units that participated in each such activity or 15
exercise (including an estimate of the number of 16
participants); 17
(3) the total cost of the activity or exercise, by 18
budget line item (with a breakdown by cost element 19
such as transportation); and 20
(4) a short explanation of the objective of the 21
activity or exercise. 22
(c) The report required by subsection (a) shall be 23
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi-24
fied annex. 25
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SEC. 8116. Not later than 15 days after the date on 1
which any foreign base that involves the stationing or op-2
erations of the United States Armed Forces, including a 3
temporary base, permanent base, or base owned and oper-4
ated by a foreign country, is opened or closed, the Sec-5
retary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense 6
committees in writing of the opening or closing of such 7
base: Provided, That such notification shall also include 8
information on any personnel changes, costs, and savings 9
associated with the opening or closing of such base. 10
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EC. 8117. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used with respect to Iraq in contravention of 12
the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.), in-13
cluding for the introduction of United States Armed 14
Forces into hostilities in Iraq, into situations in Iraq 15
where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indi-16
cated by the circumstances, or into Iraqi territory, air-17
space, or waters while equipped for combat, in contraven-18
tion of the congressional consultation and reporting re-19
quirements of sections 3 and 4 of such Resolution (50 20
U.S.C. 1542 and 1543). 21
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EC. 8118. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used with respect to Syria in contravention 23
of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.), 24
including for the introduction of United States armed or 25
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military forces into hostilities in Syria, into situations in 1
Syria where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly 2
indicated by the circumstances, or into Syrian territory, 3
airspace, or waters while equipped for combat, in con-4
travention of the congressional consultation and reporting 5
requirements of sections 3 and 4 of that law (50 U.S.C. 6
1542 and 1543). 7
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EC. 8119. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
wise made available by this or any other Act shall be obli-9
gated or expended by the United States Government for 10
a purpose as follows: 11
(1) To establish any military installation or 12
base for the purpose of providing for the permanent 13
stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq. 14
(2) To exercise United States control over any 15
oil resource of Iraq or Syria. 16
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EC. 8120. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act under the heading ‘‘Counter-ISIS Train and Equip 18
Fund’’, and under the heading ‘‘Operation and Mainte-19
nance, Defense-Wide’’ for Department of Defense security 20
cooperation grant programs, may be used to procure or 21
transfer man-portable air defense systems. 22
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EC. 8121. Up to $500,000,000 of funds appro-23
priated by this Act for the Defense Security Cooperation 24
Agency in ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’ 25
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may be used to provide assistance to the Government of 1
Jordan to support the armed forces of Jordan and to en-2
hance security along its borders. 3
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EC. 8122. Not later than 180 days after the date 4
of the enactment of this Act, United States Southern 5
Command shall assume combatant command responsi-6
bility for activities related to Mexico. 7
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EC. 8123. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 9
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 10
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 11
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 12
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 13
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 14
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 15
at United States Naval Station, Guanta´namo Bay, 16
Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 17
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EC. 8124. None of the funds appropriated or other-18
wise made available in this Act may be used to transfer 19
any individual detained at United States Naval Station 20
Guanta´namo Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control of the 21
individual’s country of origin, any other foreign country, 22
or any other foreign entity except in accordance with sec-23
tion 1034 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 24
Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92) and section 1035 25
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of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization 1
Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232). 2
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EC. 8125. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 3
otherwise made available in this or any other Act may be 4
used to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the 5
United States, its territories, or possessions to house any 6
individual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of 7
detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the ef-8
fective control of the Department of Defense. 9
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 10
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 11
Station, Guanta´namo Bay, Cuba. 12
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 13
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 14
States Naval Station, Guanta´namo Bay, Cuba, and who— 15
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 16
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 17
and 18
(2) is— 19
(A) in the custody or under the effective 20
control of the Department of Defense; or 21
(B) otherwise under detention at United 22
States Naval Station, Guanta´namo Bay, Cuba. 23
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EC. 8126. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to carry out the closure or realignment 25
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of the United States Naval Station, Guanta´namo Bay, 1
Cuba. 2
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EC. 8127. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
this Act, to reflect savings due to favorable foreign ex-4
change rates, the total amount appropriated in this Act 5
is hereby reduced by $950,000,000. 6
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EC. 8128. In carrying out the program described in 7
the memorandum on the subject of ‘‘Policy for Assisted 8
Reproductive Services for the Benefit of Seriously or Se-9
verely Ill/Injured (Category II or III) Active Duty Service 10
Members’’ issued by the Assistant Secretary of Defense 11
for Health Affairs on April 3, 2012, and the guidance 12
issued to implement such memorandum, the Secretary of 13
Defense shall apply such policy and guidance, except 14
that— 15
(1) the limitation on periods regarding embryo 16
cryopreservation and storage set forth in part III(G) 17
and in part IV(H) of such memorandum shall not 18
apply; and 19
(2) the term ‘‘assisted reproductive technology’’ 20
shall include embryo cryopreservation and storage 21
without limitation on the duration of such 22
cryopreservation and storage. 23
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EC. 8129. None of the funds appropriated or other-24
wise made available by this Act may be made used to sup-25
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port, directly or indirectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virol-1
ogy, or any laboratory owned or controlled by the govern-2
ments of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of 3
Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic Peo-4
ple’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the 5
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the Maduro re-6
gime, or any other country determined by the Secretary 7
of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, 8
to be a foreign adversary. 9
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EC. 8130. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to fund any work to be performed by 11
EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. unless the Secretary of Defense 12
determines that a waiver to such prohibition is in the na-13
tional security interests of the United States and, not later 14
than 14 days after granting such a waiver, submits to the 15
congressional defense committees a detailed justification 16
for the waiver, including— 17
(1) an identification of the Department of De-18
fense entity obligating or expending the funds; 19
(2) an identification of the amount of such 20
funds; 21
(3) an identification of the intended purpose of 22
such funds; 23
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(4) an identification of the recipient or prospec-1
tive recipient of such funds (including any third- 2
party entity recipient, as applicable); 3
(5) an explanation for how the waiver is in the 4
national security interests of the United States; and 5
(6) any other information the Secretary deter-6
mines appropriate. 7
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EC. 8131. The Secretary of the Navy shall continue 8
to provide pay and allowances to Lieutenant Ridge 9
Alkonis, United States Navy, until such time as the Sec-10
retary of the Navy makes a determination with respect 11
to the separation of Lieutenant Alkonis from the Navy. 12
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EC. 8132. The Secretary of Defense may obligate 13
funds made available in this Act for procurement or for 14
research, development, test and evaluation for the F-35 15
Joint Strike Fighter to modify up to six F-35 aircraft, 16
including up to two F-35 aircraft of each variant, to a 17
test configuration: Provided, That the Secretary of De-18
fense shall, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the 19
Air Force and the Secretary of the Navy, notify the con-20
gressional defense committees not fewer than 30 days 21
prior to obligating funds under this section: Provided fur-22
ther, That any transfer of funds pursuant to the authority 23
provided in this section shall be made in accordance with 24
section 8005 of this Act. 25
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SEC. 8133. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
wise made available by this or any other Act may be obli-2
gated to integrate an alternative engine on any F-35 air-3
craft. 4
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EC. 8134. Funds appropriated in title III of this Act 5
may be used to enter into a contract or contracts for the 6
procurement of airframes and engines for the CH-53K 7
heavy lift helicopter program. 8
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EC. 8135. (a) Within 45 days of enactment of this 9
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall allocate amounts made 10
available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce 11
Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Defense Fund for 12
fiscal year 2024 pursuant to the transfer authority in sec-13
tion 102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of 14
Public Law 117-167), to the account specified, in the 15
amounts specified, and for the projects and activities spec-16
ified, in the table titled ‘‘Department of Defense Alloca-17
tion of Funds: CHIPS and Science Act Fiscal Year 2024’’ 18
in the report accompanying this Act. 19
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo-20
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 21
year under section 102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 22
if there is in effect an Act making or continuing appro-23
priations for part of a fiscal year for the Department of 24
Defense: Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter pre-25
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ceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation, appor-1
tionment, or allotment of amounts for continuing adminis-2
tration of programs allocated using funds transferred from 3
the CHIPS for America Defense Fund, which may be allo-4
cated pursuant to the transfer authority in section 5
102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 only in amounts that 6
are no more than the allocation for such purposes in sub-7
section (a) of this section. 8
(c) The Secretary of Defense may reallocate funds 9
allocated by subsection (a) of this section, subject to the 10
terms and conditions contained in the provisos in section 11
8005 of this Act: Provided, That amounts may be reallo-12
cated pursuant to this subsection only for those require-13
ments necessary to carry out section 9903(b) of the Wil-14
liam M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authoriza-15
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283). 16
(d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 17
the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of De-18
fense shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 19
of the House of Representatives and the Senate proposed 20
allocations by account and by program, project, or activity, 21
with detailed justifications, for amounts made available 22
under section 102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for 23
fiscal year 2025. 24
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(e) The Department of Defense shall provide the 1
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-2
atives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of bal-3
ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 4
America Defense Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to 5
subsection (a) of this section, including all uncommitted, 6
committed, and unobligated funds. 7
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EC. 8136. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 8
under the heading ‘‘Research, Development, Test and 9
Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’ for the Office of Strategic 10
Capital, $99,000,000, to remain available until September 11
30, 2028, shall be available for the cost of loans and loan 12
guarantees: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 13
of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 14
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 15
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EC. 8137. In addition to the amounts appropriated 16
or otherwise made available by this Act, $800,000,000 is 17
hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense to as-18
sist with increasing pay for certain enlisted grades: Pro-19
vided, That the Secretary of Defense shall change the fol-20
lowing cells in the military monthly basic pay table that 21
was effective as of January 1, 2023 to the following: E- 22
1 with greater than four months in service to $2,600.60, 23
E-2 to $2,799.20, E-3 with less than three years of service 24
to $2,900.90, E-3 with three years of service to $2,950.60, 25
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E-3 with four years of service to $3,000.60, E-3 with six 1
or more years of service to $3,050.60, E-4 with less than 2
two years of service to $3,010.50, E-4 with two years of 3
service to $3,060.60, E-4 with three years of service to 4
$3,100.10, E-4 with four years of service to $3,150.80, 5
E-4 with six years of service to $3,210.30, E-4 with eight 6
or more years of service to $3,260.30, E-5 with less than 7
two years of service to $3,100.30, E-5 with two years of 8
service to $3,150.20, E-5 with three years of service to 9
$3,200.20, E-5 with four years of service to $3,250.20, 10
E-6 with less than two years of service to $3,210: Provided 11
further, That the 5.2 percent increase in pay in the fiscal 12
year 2024 budget request for all grades is in addition to 13
the changes identified in this section. 14
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EC. 8138. None of the funds appropriated or other-15
wise made available by this Act may be used to release 16
information described in paragraph C4.2.2.5.2 of DoD 17
5400.11-R regarding a current or former member of the 18
Armed Forces to any non-Federal entity or person without 19
the consent of such member or former member or, if the 20
member or former member is deceased, the consent of the 21
next of kin of such member or former member or a legally 22
authorized representative of the estate of such member or 23
former member, unless such information is requested 24
under section 552 of title 5 (commonly referred to as the 25
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‘‘Freedom of Information Act’’) and such information is 1
not exempt from disclosure under such section: Provided, 2
That if such information is requested under such section, 3
the releasing authority shall notify the member or former 4
member who is the subject of the request or, if the mem-5
ber or former member is deceased, the next of kin of such 6
member or former member, or a legally authorized rep-7
resentative of the estate of such member or former mem-8
ber, prior to the release of such information: Provided fur-9
ther, That this section shall not apply to a request for such 10
information from a State or local law enforcement agency. 11
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EC. 8139. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-13
pended for acquisition, construction, installation, or leas-14
ing of temporary or permanent public works, military in-15
stallations, facilities, and real property, or otherwise up-16
date, modernize, or repair current public works, military 17
installations, and facilities, including leased structures, for 18
United States Space Command until such time as the Sec-19
retary of the Air Force formally selects and publicly an-20
nounces the permanent location of the United States 21
Space Command Headquarters in alignment to the United 22
States Air Force Selection Process for the Permanent Lo-23
cation of the United States Space Command Head-24
quarters, as validated by the United States Government 25
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Accountability Office Report to Congress concerning 1
United States Space Command (GAO-22-106055) and 2
United States Department of Defense Inspector General 3
Report titled ‘‘Evaluation of the Air Force Selection Proc-4
ess for the Permanent Location of the United States 5
Space Command Headquarters’’ (DODIG-2022-096). 6
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EC. 8140. None of the funds appropriated or other-7
wise made available by this Act may be used to carry out 8
sections 554(a) and 913 of the National Defense Author-9
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283). 10
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EC. 8141. None of the funds appropriated or other-11
wise made available by this Act may be used to implement, 12
administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Diversity, Eq-13
uity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan of the De-14
partment of Defense, or Executive Order 13985 of Janu-15
ary 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing 16
racial equity and support for under-served communities 17
through the Federal Government), Executive Order 14035 18
of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diver-19
sity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Federal 20
workforce), Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 21
(88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advancing racial 22
equity and support for underserved communities through 23
the Federal government), or shall be used to execute ac-24
tivities that promote or perpetuate divisive concepts re-25
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lated to race or sex, such as the concepts that one race 1
or sex is inherently superior to another, or that an individ-2
ual’s moral character or worth is determined by their race 3
or sex. 4
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EC. 8142. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used for surgical procedures or hormone thera-6
pies for the purposes of gender affirming care. 7
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EC. 8143. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
wise made available by this Act may be used to promote, 9
host, facilitate, or support events on United States mili-10
tary installations or as part of military recruiting pro-11
grams that violate the Department of Defense Joint Eth-12
ics Regulation or bring discredit upon the military, such 13
as a drag queen story hour for children or the use of drag 14
queens as military recruiters. 15
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EC. 8144. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
wise made available by this Act may be used or transferred 17
to another Federal agency, board, or commission to re-18
cruit, hire, or promote any person who has been convicted 19
of a Federal or State child pornography charge, has been 20
convicted of any other Federal or State sexual assault 21
charge, or has been formally disciplined for using Federal 22
resources to access, use, or sell child pornography. 23
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EC. 8145. None of the funds appropriated by or 24
made available in this Act shall be used to implement, ad-25
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minister, or otherwise carry out the Department of De-1
fense memorandum dated October 20, 2022, or any suc-2
cessor to such memorandum, or to propose, promulgate, 3
or implement any substantially similar rule or policy. 4
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EC. 8146. None of the funds appropriated or other-5
wise made available by this Act may be used to finalize, 6
promulgate, or implement the rule proposed by the De-7
partment of Defense titled ‘‘Federal Acquisition Regula-8
tion: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cli-9
mate-Related Financial Risk’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 68312; No-10
vember 14, 2022), or to propose, promulgate, or imple-11
ment any substantially similar rule or policy. 12
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EC. 8147. None of the funds appropriated or other-13
wise made available by this Act may be used to carry out 14
any program, project, or activity that promotes or ad-15
vances Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with 16
Critical Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea 17
or concept that condones an individual being discriminated 18
against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based 19
on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling discom-20
fort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological dis-21
tress on account of that individual’s race or sex, as well 22
as any idea or concept that regards one race as inherently 23
superior to another race, the United States or its institu-24
tions as being systemically racist or sexist, an individual 25
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as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue 1
of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s moral char-2
acter as being necessarily determined by race or sex, an 3
individual as bearing responsibility for actions committed 4
in the past by other members of the same race or sex, 5
or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been created 6
by a particular race to oppress another race. 7
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EC. 8148. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
wise made available in this Act may be used to— 9
(1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 10
communications by a United States person as mis- 11
, dis-, or mal-information; or 12
(2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-13
ganizations that pressure or recommend private 14
companies to censor lawful and constitutionally pro-15
tected speech of United States persons, including 16
recommending the censoring or removal of content 17
on social media platforms. 18
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EC. 8149. None of the funds appropriated or other-19
wise made available by this Act may be used to grant, 20
renew, or maintain a security clearance for any individual 21
listed as a signatory in the statement titled ‘‘Public State-22
ment on the Hunter Biden Emails’’ dated October 19, 23
2020. 24
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SEC. 8150. (a) INGENERAL.—Notwithstanding sec-1
tion 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of 2
title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 3
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-4
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 5
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-6
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 7
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 8
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 9
a union of one man and one woman. 10
(b) D
ISCRIMINATORYACTIONDEFINED.—As used in 11
subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action 12
taken by the Federal Government to— 13
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 14
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-15
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-16
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-17
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 18
in subsection (a); 19
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-20
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 21
such person; 22
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 23
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 24
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-25
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operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-1
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 2
other similar position or status from or to such per-3
son; 4
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-5
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 6
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 7
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 8
degree from an educational program, from or to 9
such person; or 10
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-11
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-12
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-13
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 14
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-15
paigns from or to such person. 16
(c) A
CCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.— 17
The Federal Government shall consider accredited, li-18
censed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person 19
that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respec-20
tively, for such purposes but for a determination against 21
such person wholly or partially on the basis that the per-22
son speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held 23
religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection 24
(a). 25
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SEC. 8151. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
wise made available by this Act may be used by the Sec-2
retary of Defense or the Service Secretaries to fly or dis-3
play a flag over or within a facility of the Department 4
of Defense other than the flag of the United States; the 5
flag of a State, Territory, or District of Columbia; the flag 6
of the Department of Defense; the flag of a Military Serv-7
ice; the flag of Flag or General Officers; the flag of Presi-8
dentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed civilians; the flag of 9
Senior Executive Service (SES) and Military Department- 10
specific SES; the POW/MIA flag; the flags of other coun-11
tries with which the United States is an ally or partner, 12
or for official protocol purposes; the flags of organizations 13
in which the United States is a member, such as the North 14
Atlantic Treaty Organization; or ceremonial, command, 15
unit, or branch flags or guidons. 16
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EC. 8152. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 17
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 18
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both 19
the House of Representatives and Senate a report on ex-20
cessive contractor payments that exceed the Truthful Cost 21
and Pricing Act (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. 22
chapter 35) threshold and with respect to which none of 23
the exceptions to certified cost or pricing data require-24
ments applies. 25
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(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall also 1
include the following: 2
(1) The amounts collected, adjusted, or offset 3
from contractors as a result of providing defective 4
cost and pricing data. 5
(2) The mechanisms used to identify violations 6
of the Truthful Cost and Pricing Act (10 U.S.C. 7
chapter 271 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 35). 8
(3) Disciplinary actions taken by the Depart-9
ment of Defense when violations of the Truthful 10
Cost and Pricing Act (10 U.S.C. chapter 271 and 11
41 U.S.C. chapter 35) are identified, regardless of 12
whether included in the System for Award Manage-13
ment. 14
(4) Any referrals made to the Department of 15
Justice where appropriate. 16
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 17
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EC. 8153. $0. 18
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EC. 8154. None of the funds made available in this 19
Act may be used to eliminate a unit of the Senior Reserve 20
Officers’ Training Corps at an institution of higher edu-21
cation. 22
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EC. 8155. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to administer, implement, or enforce— 24
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(1) the proposed action outlined in the Notice 1
published by the Department of Army to the Federal 2
Register on August 4, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 51786); 3
or 4
(2) recommendations of the Naming Commis-5
sion regarding any monument in Arlington National 6
Cemetery. 7
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EC. 8156. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used to deploy United States Armed Forces 9
to Ukraine. 10
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EC. 8157. The salary of Lloyd James Austin III, 11
the Secretary of Defense, shall be reduced to $1. 12
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EC. 8158. None of the funds appropriated or other-13
wise made available by this Act may be used to pay for 14
the costs of teleworking or remote working for any em-15
ployee or contractor of the Department of Defense on a 16
regular and recurring base. 17
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EC. 8159. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to provide assistance to the Department 19
of Homeland Security to house persons on a military in-20
stallation located in the United States. 21
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EC. 8160. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used for any office of diversity, equity, or in-23
clusion. 24
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SEC. 8161. (a) None of the funds made available by 1
this Act may be used, with regards to a member of the 2
Armed Forces with a minor dependent child enrolled in 3
an EFMP— 4
(1) to provide gender transition procedures, in-5
cluding surgery or medication, to such child through 6
such EFMP; 7
(2) to provide a referral for a procedure de-8
scribed in paragraph (1) to such child through such 9
EFMP; or 10
(3) to approve a change of duty station for such 11
member through such EFMP for the purpose of pro-12
viding such child with access to procedures described 13
in paragraph (1). 14
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘EFMP’’ means a pro-15
gram under section 1781c(e) of title 10, United States 16
Code. 17
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EC. 8162. None of the funds appropriated or other-18
wise made available by this Act may be made available 19
to remove a Chinese military company from the list re-20
quired by section 1260H of the National Defense Author-21
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. 22
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EC. 8163. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be made available to NewsGuard Technologies 24
Inc. 25
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SEC. 8164. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to require a member of the Armed Forces 2
or a civilian employee of the Department of Defense to 3
receive a vaccination against COVID–19. 4
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EC. 8165. The salary of Cyrus Salazar shall be re-5
duced to $1. 6
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EC. 8166. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used for the Reynolds Scholars Program of 8
the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future War-9
fare of Marine Corps University. 10
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EC. 8167. None of the funds appropriated by this 11
Act may be used to implement any of the following execu-12
tive orders: 13
(1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to 14
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 15
Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis. 16
(2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to 17
Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. 18
(3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, re-19
lating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To 20
Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of 21
Climate Change on Migration. 22
(4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Cli-23
mate-Related Financial Risk. 24
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(5) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to 1
Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 2
Through Federal Sustainability. 3
(6) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Im-4
plementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Pro-5
visions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. 6
(7) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Re-7
vitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environ-8
mental Justice for All. 9
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EC. 8168. None of the funds appropriated or other-10
wise made available by this Act may be expended to create, 11
procure, or display any map that depicts Taiwan, Kinmen, 12
Matsu, Penghu, Wuciou, Green Island, or Orchid Island 13
as part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. 14
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EC. 8169. None of the funds appropriated or other-15
wise made available by this Act may be made available 16
to enforce the restrictions outlined under the headings 17
‘‘Visits and Travel’’ (regarding limitations on ‘‘Travel to 18
Taiwan’’) and ‘‘Communications’’ (regarding limitations 19
on ‘‘Name’’, ‘‘Symbols of Sovereignty’’, and ‘‘Correspond-20
ence’’) in the Department of State’s June 29, 2021, 21
Memorandum for All Department and Agency Executive 22
Secretaries entitled ‘‘Revised Guidelines on Interacting 23
with Taiwan’’. 24
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SEC. 8170. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to enforce any COVID–19 mask man-2
dates. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Defense 4
Appropriations Act, 2024’’. 5
Passed the House of Representatives September 28, 
2023. 
Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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H. R. 4365 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of De-
fense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2024, and for other purposes. 
O
CTOBER
16, 2023 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
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