To direct that funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1996 for certain medical research relating to illnesses suffered by veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War shall be obligated in accordance with peer review procedures of the Food and Drug Administration.

Requires the Secretary of Defense to direct that the peer review guidelines to be used in determining the manner in which to obligate funds specified for a treatment protocol and related studies for Desert Storm-syndrome affected veterans shall be those applicable to the Food and Drug Administration rather than the peer review procedures otherwise applicable to the Army.