An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Procurement
Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
Subtitle B: Army Programs
Subtitle C: Navy Programs
Subtitle D: Air Force Programs
Subtitle E: Other Matters
Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and
Limitations
Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense
Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long-Term
Military Capabilities
Subtitle E: Other Matters
Title III: Operation and Maintenance
Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and
Limitations
Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions
Subtitle D: Other Matters
Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations
Subtitle A: Active Forces
Subtitle B: Reserve Forces
Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations
Title V: Military Personnel Policy
Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy
Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters
Subtitle C: Military Education and Training
Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations
Subtitle E: Amendments to Uniform Code of Military
Justice
Subtitle F: Other Matters
Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits
Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances
Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays
Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances
Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related
Matters
Subtitle E: Montgomery GI Bill Benefits and Other
Education Benefits
Subtitle F: Other Matters
Title VII: Health Care
Subtitle A: TRICARE Program
Subtitle B: Other Matters
Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and
Related Matters
Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management
Subtitle A: General
Subtitle B: Commission to Assess United States National
Security Space Management and Organization
Title X: General Provisions
Subtitle A: Financial Matters
Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards
Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and
Repeals
Subtitle D: Other Matters
Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel
Title XII: National Military Museum and Related Matters
Subtitle A: Commission on National Military Museum
Subtitle B: Related Matters
Title XII: Military Voting Rights Act of 1999
Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.
(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense- wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) the Defense Health Program.
Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for specified Army programs.
(Sec. 112) Prohibits Army procurement funds from being used for certain procurements under the close combat tactical trainer program until the Secretary of the Army has reported to the Senate and House defense and appropriations committees concerning the correction of deficiencies under such program, and 30 days have elapsed since such report.
(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to such committees a comprehensive plan for modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides a funding limitation on the procurement of Army missiles until such report is received.
(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.
Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious dock ship LHD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.
(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001, and to earmark other Navy procurement funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.
(Sec. 124) Requires operational test and evaluation before the installation of cooperative engagement equipment under the Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability program.
(Sec. 125) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for F-A 18E-F aircraft, with a certification requirement.
Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Requires certain certifications from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense and appropriations committees before awarding the contract for the low- rate initial production under the F-22 aircraft program.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.
(Sec. 142) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such pilot program.
(Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.
Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).
(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) contributions for the common-funded civil budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); (2) continued implementation of the micro- satellite technology program under a prior defense authorization Act (requiring the Secretary to develop a plan and submit a report with respect to such program); (3) space control technology development; and (4) the space maneuver vehicle program.
(Sec. 215) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) strike as a program purpose the promotion of dual-use manufacturing processes; and (2) add as a program purpose the development and application of technologies that involve repair and remanufacturing in support of the operations of system commands, depots, air logistics centers, and shipyards. Requires the Secretary to have manufacturing technology projects selected principally on the basis of the extent to which the projects satisfy such new program purpose, above, as determined by a panel established to review the projects and make selections. Requires the competitive procedures used for selecting projects to include the extent to which a proposal provides for the prospective contract recipient to share in defraying project costs.
(Sec. 216) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the testing of airblast and improvised explosives. Reduces by a corresponding amount funds provided for sensor and guidance technology.
Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.
(Sec. 222) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to repeal the requirement to implement technical and price competition for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense System.
(Sec. 223) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Expresses the sense of Congress that the structure required be consistent with the joint venture contracting approach and overall objective established by the Department of Defense (DOD) for the space-based laser program. Requires a revised program baseline. Earmarks program funds.
(Sec. 224) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.
(Sec. 225) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.
(Sec. 226) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.
(Sec. 227) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on options for conventional air launched cruise missiles once such missiles' inventory is depleted.
Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long-Term Military Capabilities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) extend through 2002 a required report from the Secretary on emerging operational concepts; and (2) provide additional matters to be included in such reports after 1999. Amends provisions of such Act relating to an annual joint warfighting science and technology plan to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of that plan.
(Sec. 233) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.
(Sec. 234) Requires the modification of certain DOD profit guidelines to place increased emphasis on technical risk as a factor for determining appropriate profit margins and to provide an increased profit incentive for contractors to develop and produce complex and innovative new technologies rather than mature technologies with low technical risk.
(Sec. 235) Authorizes the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to carry out a program to award prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research, technology development, and prototype development that have the potential for application to the performance of DOD military missions. Requires a competitive process to be used for the selection of participants. Limits to $10 million the amount that may be awarded in a fiscal year. Requires an annual report from the Director to the defense committees on program administration.
(Sec. 236) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved cooperative relationships with universities and other private sector entities for the performance of research and development functions. Requires the Secretary to consider laboratories where innovative management techniques have been demonstrated. Allows the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 237) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to exempt defense laboratory employees covered by a personnel demonstration project carried out under such Act from certain defense workforce management personnel restrictions.
(Sec. 238) Provides for the use of defense working capital funds for financing RDT&E activities and programs of the military departments. Requires implementation status reports from the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to the defense committees.
(Sec. 239) Directs the Secretary to convene a panel of independent experts to conduct an analysis of the resources and capabilities of all DOD laboratories and test and evaluation facilities, including those of the military departments. Requires the panel to report its findings to the Secretary and Congress. Directs the Secretary to develop an appropriate performance review process for rating the quality and relevance of work performed by DOD laboratories.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.
Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.
(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.
(Sec. 305) Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) operational meteorology and oceanography and UNOLS; and (2) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services.
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks Army O&M funds for contributions for the common-funded NATO military budget.
(Sec. 312) Authorizes the use of humanitarian and civic assistance funds for the pay and allowances of reserve personnel of the Special Operations Command furnishing education and training on the detection and clearance of land mines or related technical assistance.
(Sec. 313) Authorizes the head of any Federal agency to enter into a contract for the installation and maintenance of national defense features in one or more commercial vessels owned or controlled by the offeror in accordance with the purposes of the National Defense Sealift Fund. Authorizes advance payments for such features. Requires the vessel to be operated for DOD after the installation of such features and for the contract term.
(Sec. 314) Earmarks specified O&M funds for certain drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, including funding for Operation Caper Focus.
Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Directs the Secretary to provide for the management of projects for the research, development, and evaluation of environmental technologies for DOD and the military departments. Outlines related responsibilities of the Secretary in connection with such projects. Requires the appropriate DOD officials to establish, at the beginning of each fiscal year, a performance plan for the environmental technology program within that department or agency. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on the environmental technology program of DOD during the preceding fiscal year.
(Sec. 322) Establishes the: (1) Environmental Restoration Account, Army, Formerly Used Defense Sites; and (2) Environmental Restoration Account, Defense Base Closure and Realignment. Requires funds in the latter Account to be used only for carrying out environmental restoration required as the result of the closure or realignment of a military installation pursuant to a base closure law. Directs the Secretary to transfer funds to the latter Account from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Provides for the funding of administrative expenses and technical assistance in connection with such environmental restoration activities.
(Sec. 323) Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.
(Sec. 324) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)
(Sec. 325) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.
(Sec. 326) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.
(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc. site in Fresno, California.
(Sec. 328) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.
(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary to publicly disclose existing information relevant to a foreign nation's determination of the nature and extent of environmental contamination, if any, at a site in such nation where the United States operated a military installation that has since been closed. Requires the Secretary to present Congress with a list of information made public. Waives such requirement for national security purposes.
(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified committees on long-term solutions and costs related to the removal of ordnance in the Toussaint River, Ohio.
Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the: (1) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; (2) Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into; and (3) latter Act to allow certain changes in defense retail systems to be implemented if approved by all of the military department Secretaries (currently, implementation is permitted only if specifically authorized by law).
(Sec. 344) Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress of such reasons.
(Sec. 346) Directs the Secretary to designate the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this Act for the increased use of Smart Cards and for demonstration programs. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on progress made by the senior coordinating group in implementing this section. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.
(Sec. 347) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense committees on, potential DOD benefits from the use of the Smart Card for addressing DOD needs for a public-private key infrastructure authentication device carrier.
(Sec. 348) Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles).
(Sec. 350) Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to settle claims arising from the deaths caused by the accident involving a Marine Corps aircraft on February 3, 1998, near Cavalese, Italy. Outlines payment sources and limitations.
(Sec. 351) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of Germany should promptly settle with the families of certain members of the Air Force who were killed in a collision in September of 1997 off the coast of Namibia between an Air Force aircraft and a German aircraft; and (2) the United States should not make any payments to citizens of Germany as settlement for claims arising from deaths of German individuals in Cavalese, Italy, on February 3, 1998, until a settlement is reached with the German Government with respect to the collision off the coast of Namibia.
Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels. Revises generally the conditions under which such end strengths may be reduced below the level needed to support two simultaneous major regional contingencies.
Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.
(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status) and military technicians (non-dual status).
(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.
Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.
Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers.
(Sec. 502) Excludes from three-star officer grade limitations those officers serving as a superintendent of a military academy. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to retire a superintendent within that department upon the termination of detail to such position. Requires those accepting the position of superintendent to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail.
(Sec. 503) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).
(Sec. 505) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the president of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.
(Sec. 506) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.
(Sec. 507) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.
(Sec. 508) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.
Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Exempts from active-duty general and flag officer limitations up to 25 reserve general and flag officers serving on active duty at any one time under calls or orders specifying periods of 180 days or more.
(Sec. 512) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.
(Sec. 513) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.
(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.
(Sec. 515) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to: (1) delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently 60).
(Sec. 517) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.
(Sec. 518) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 519) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty that results from such degree.
(Sec. 521) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, headed by a Director. Requires the Director to report annually to the Secretaries of Transportation and Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve and its ability to meet mission requirements.
(Sec. 522) Revises the prescribed grades for the Chiefs of the various reserve components and the general officers assigned to the National Guard Bureau. Excludes such officers from prescribed limitations on the number of authorized general and flag officers.
Subtitle C: Military Education and Training - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to authorize the Secretary concerned to exceed the annual military academy class limitations by not more than five percent (requiring a justification of such increase to the defense committees).
(Sec. 532) Repeals current limitations on the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies.
(Sec. 533) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.
(Sec. 534) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.
(Sec. 535) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.
(Sec. 536) Authorizes the commander of the: (1) Air Education and Training Command to establish minimum educational requirements for Community College of the Air Force professors and instructors; and (2) Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.
(Sec. 538) Excludes members of the armed forces within the defense acquisition workforce from a limitation on the amount of reimbursement that may be received for tuition and training expenses.
(Sec. 539) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1, 200 individuals from participating in such program at any one time. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.
Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, of the Coast Guard Commendation Medal for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.
(Sec. 552) Authorizes the President, notwithstanding certain time limitations, to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for acts of valor as an Army medic in Vietnam during the Vietnamese Conflict.
(Sec. 553) Directs the Secretary to provide necessary funds and resources to ensure the elimination of the backlog of unsatisfied requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 554) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.
Subtitle E: Amendments to Uniform Code of Military Justice - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently six months).
(Sec. 562) Reduces from 0.10 to 0.08 the level of blood-alcohol content for determining the UCMJ offense of drunken operation of a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for honor guard details at their funerals. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it as a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag, and to play Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Requires at least one detail member to be of the same service branch as the deceased. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such a detail. Provides the duty status for reserve personnel serving on such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowances. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 stipend for members on such detail.
(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.
(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the pilot program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.
(Sec. 574) Reduces from annually to every two years a required report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill.
(Sec. 575) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.
(Sec. 576) Authorizes the Armed Forces Medical Examiner to conduct forensic pathology investigations, including an autopsy, to determine the cause or manner of death of persons under certain circumstances, including those who die while imprisoned in a military installation or from an injury or illness incurred during active duty or military training. Subjects such authority to the primary jurisdiction of any State or local government, or foreign country in which there is an international agreement with the United States.
(Sec. 577) Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.
(Sec. 578) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.
(Sec. 579) Revises provisions providing financial assistance to separated military personnel to obtain certification as teachers or teachers' aides (the troops-to-teachers program) to place administration of the program in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, for the armed forces, and the Secretary of Transportation, for the Coast Guard, but to transfer such jurisdiction to the Secretary of Education, such transfer to be completed by October 1, 2001. Requires the administering Secretary to periodically identify local educational agencies for program participation. Makes retired military personnel eligible for such assistance. Revises generally provisions concerning outreach information provided to eligible individuals and the selection of participants. Authorizes the provision of a $10,000 bonus (in lieu of the regular stipend of $5,000) to each participant who agrees to accept full-time employment as an elementary or secondary school teacher or vocational or technical teacher for not less than four years in a high need school. Deletes provisions requiring the administering Secretary to pay specified amounts of the base salary of teachers hired under the program to the local educational agencies involved. Provides additional exceptions to required reimbursement for a participant's failure to complete the agreed-upon period of service as a teacher or aide. Authorizes the administering Secretary to make grants (with grant limits) to States or a consortia of States in order to operate offices to recruit eligible individuals for program participation. Prohibits the administering Secretary from using more than five percent of program funds to establish and maintain program management infrastructure. Provides for the transfer of program administration to the Secretary of Education. Requires such Secretary and the Comptroller General (CG), after such transfer, to report to Congress on program effectiveness.
(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations; and (3) ensures that the provider complies with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD funds to provide such assistance. Requires a biennial report from the Secretary to Congress. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents. Requires a biennial report on the exercise of such authority.
(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to establish a Military-Civilian Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit an annual report to Congress concerning responses to domestic violence in the military, pending research on domestic violence, and recommendations for improving the military response to such violence. Requires the Secretary to establish a central database of information on cases of domestic violence involving military personnel.
(Sec. 582) Expresses the sense of Congress that the late Husband E. Kimmel, Rear Admiral, Navy, and the late Walter C. Short, Major General, Army, performed their duties competently and professionally during the period which included the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December, 1941, and that losses incurred there were not a result of dereliction of duty on the part of such individuals.
(Sec. 583) Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a survey on attitudes toward military service by military personnel who voluntarily separate or transfer from a regular to a reserve component during the period of January 1 through June 30, 2000. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on survey results.
(Sec. 584) Directs the Secretary to designate the Secretary of the Navy as the lead agent for carrying out the defense reform initiative enterprise pilot program for military manpower and personnel information established under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999.
Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 military pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective on January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.
(Sec. 603) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a monthly special subsistence allowance to military personnel in pay grades E-5 or below who are eligible for food stamp assistance, with conditions and limitations, including a monthly limit of $180 and termination of such assistance if paid for 12 consecutive months. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2004. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 604) Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.
(Sec. 605) Requires the continuation of authorized pay and allowances for a member listed under a "whereabouts unknown" duty status.
(Sec. 606) Provides for the identical treatment, for purposes of pay determination and years of service credit, for officers who completed instruction at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1987 and those who graduated in 1986.
Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.
(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.
(Sec. 615) Extends through 2004 the bonus authority for aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of duty for at least one year. Repeals the requirement that such officers must have completed at least six, but less than 13 years of active duty in order to be eligible for the bonus. Repeals the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve three additional years or less. Allows such an agreement to extend until the officer has completed up to 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service).
(Sec. 616) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, such amount increasing with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.
(Sec. 617) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement term from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.
(Sec. 618) Authorizes the payment of a retention bonus for surface warfare officers who agree to: (1) remain on active duty for at least two years and through the tenth year of active commissioned service; and (2) complete tours of duty to which the officer may be ordered during such period as a department head afloat. Limits such amount to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement term from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete ten years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.
(Sec. 619) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.
(Sec. 620) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special monthly pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel; and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).
(Sec. 623) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.
(Sec. 624) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.
(Sec. 625) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.
(Sec. 626) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.
(Sec. 627) Increases: (1) certain special pay and bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the monthly foreign language proficiency special pay.
(Sec. 629) Expresses the sense of the Senate that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.
Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.
(Sec. 642) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at a lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)
(Sec. 643) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.
(Sec. 644) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.
(Sec. 645) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member for travel expenses incurred in connection with approved leave which is canceled to meet an exigency in connection with U.S. participation in Operation Allied Force.
Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service only to those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum amount of $30,000.
(Sec. 652) Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active-duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council. Authorizes such participation and contribution as of July 1, 2000, unless postponed by the Secretary under certain circumstances.
(Sec. 653) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make contributions to the Fund if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.
(Sec. 654) Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive when employed in a civilian position.
(Sec. 655) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.
(Sec. 656) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years for which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.
(Sec. 657) Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of annuities to the surviving spouses of certain reserve personnel.
(Sec. 658) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.
(Sec. 659) Directs the Secretary concerned, subject to the availability of appropriations, to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300, for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200, for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100, for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.
(Sec. 660) Revises the computation of the amount of the basic annuity for a spouse, former spouse, or child of deceased military personnel to increase such amount for months beginning after the enactment of this Act and before October 1, 2004, with an added increase for months beginning after such latter date. Makes similar adjustments for the computation of supplemental annuities and in the recomputation of annuity amounts required as a result of such annuity increases.
Subtitle E: Montgomery GI Bill Benefits and Other Education Benefits - Part I: Montgomery GI Bill Benefits - Revises provisions concerning the provision of basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to: (1) increase the rates of such assistance for the pursuit of an educational program on a full-time basis; (2) repeal a provision requiring a reduction in monthly pay for members of the Selected Reserve electing to receive such educational assistance; and (3) authorize the payment of basic educational assistance on an accelerated basis, upon request, under certain conditions.
(Sec. 674) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in order to enhance recruiting and retention, to permit individuals who so request to transfer their entitlement to basic educational assistance to a spouse or family member, or combination thereof. Prohibits any child receiving such an entitlement from using it after attaining 26 years of age.
(Sec. 675) Authorizes the use of basic educational assistance for preparatory courses for tests that are required for admission to college or graduate school.
Part II: Other Educational Benefits - Authorizes the accelerated payment of educational assistance benefits to members of the Selected Reserve when the Secretary concerned, or the chief of the reserve component concerned, determine such payment as appropriate.
(Sec. 682) Revises a time limitation with respect to the use of basic educational assistance by certain members of the Selected Reserve.
Part III: Report - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees assessing the effects of the provisions and amendments made under this Subtitle on the recruitment and retention of military personnel.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.
(Sec. 692) Requires the first general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days of which such member has been deployed out of 365 consecutive days is in excess of 180 days. Limits such deployment to 200 out of 365 consecutive days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a continued deployment. Provides for the waiver of such limitations by the Secretary for national security purposes. Authorizes a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 220 days out of 365 consecutive days (with a national security waiver of such allowance). Makes such provisions inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy.
(Sec. 693) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation in the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.
(Sec. 694) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.
(Sec. 695) Extends to the Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement.
(Sec. 696) Entitles to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill program to certain active duty members who are either: (1) participating in the veterans' educational assistance program; or (2) disenrolled from such program or elected not to participate in such program. Outlines additional requirements. Requires a reduction in the basic pay of members choosing to participate in the GI Bill program. Expresses the sense of Congress that any law enacted which terminates or reduces contributions made by military personnel for veterans' basic educational assistance should also terminate by an identical amount such contributions under the GI Bill program.
(Sec. 697) Authorizes the provision of veterans' educational assistance during periods between school terms if the period between such terms does not exceed eight weeks, and both the term preceding and following such period are not shorter than such period.
(Sec. 698) Directs (currently authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a program to provide supplemental foods and nutrition education. Directs the Secretary to use only DOD funds for such program. Makes eligible for such program those already certified for participation in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children under the Child Nutrition Act of 1996.
Title VII: Health Care - Subtitle A: TRICARE Program - Amends the Civilian Heath and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to require the Secretary to ensure that health care coverage available through TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program) is substantially similar to coverage available under similar health benefits plans offered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits program. Directs the Secretary to minimize the authorization or certification requirements of covered beneficiaries under the TRICARE program as a condition of access to program benefits.
Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse health care providers under the TRICARE program at higher rates (with limits) if such rates are necessary to ensure the availability of an adequate number of qualified health care providers. Authorizes collection by military medical treatment facilities of health care costs incurred on behalf of a covered beneficiary of another insurer. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 702) Requires the Secretary to establish voluntary enrollment dental plans for members of the Selected Reserve (current law) and Individual Ready Reserve, and authorizes such plans for other reserves, active duty dependents, and Ready Reserve dependents. (Currently, the Secretary is authorized to establish such plans for dependents of military personnel who are on active duty for more than 30 days.) Provides for: (1) plan administration; (2) types of care authorized; (3) premiums and premium sharing plans; (4) copayments; (5) dental care provided outside the United States; and (6) a waiver of plan requirements for dependents of personnel on active duty for more than 30 days. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing plan benefits until notice to the defense committees followed by a one-year waiting period.
(Sec. 703) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for the automatic authorization for enrollment into the TRICARE Senior Prime demonstration program of persons already enrolled in a DOD managed care program.
(Sec. 704) Provides for the designation and services of TRICARE beneficiary advocates, requiring such designation no later than January 15, 2000.
(Sec. 705) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to direct the Secretary to conduct a program under which covered CHAMPUS beneficiaries shall be permitted to enroll at any time in a managed care plan offered by a designated provider consistent with the enrollment requirements for the TRICARE Prime option. Limits the demonstration program to the period from October 1, 1999, through September 30, 2001. Requires a demonstration program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.
Subtitle B: Other Matters - Provides for the health care at former military medical treatment facilities of active-duty personnel stationed at certain remote locations.
(Sec. 712) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2000 the chiropractic health care demonstration program.
(Sec. 713) Directs the Secretary, in the administration of health care contracts, to implement program benefit and administrative changes at the start of each fiscal year rather than throughout the year, except when the Secretary determines that such changes would significantly improve health services to eligible beneficiaries or result in more effective provision of such care.
(Sec. 714) Requires CHAMPUS contracts to be awarded to offerors that will provide the best value consistent with high-quality care in a manner that protects the fiscal and other interests of the United States.
(Sec. 715) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, with the consent of the member, to order a reserve member to active duty to complete a health surveillance study.
(Sec. 716) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to continue payment under CHAMPUS for domiciliary or custodial care services to covered beneficiaries who, prior to the effective date of final regulations implementing the individual case management program, were provided such care.
(Sec. 717) Authorizes dental benefits provided to military retirees to be comparable to that provided to active-duty military personnel under CHAMPUS.
(Sec. 718) Authorizes a member to be ordered to active duty, or to continue on active duty, for more than 30 days to be treated for or recover from an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated during inactive duty training. Authorizes medical and dental care for such members.
(Sec. 719) Directs the Secretary to establish a Department of Defense Center for Medical Informatics to serve as a primary DOD resource for matters concerning the capture, processing, and dissemination of data on DOD health care quality. Requires establishment of the Medical Informatics Council to coordinate such activities and to report annually to Congress on such activities. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to report annually to Congress on the quality of health care furnished under DOD health care programs. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 720) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs, during the three-year period beginning on October 1, 1999, to carry out joint demonstration projects for evaluating the feasibility and practicability of providing health care and pharmacy services by means of telecommunications. Requires a joint report to Congress on such projects.
Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 2005 a test program for the negotiation of comprehensive small business subcontracting plans.
(Sec. 802) Amends provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 relating to the Mentor-Prot?g? program (a program to provide incentives to major DOD contractors to award subcontracts to disadvantaged small businesses) to: (1) provide a program participation term of not more than three years, while allowing up to five years in unusual circumstances; (2) authorize (currently require) the Secretary to reimburse a mentor for the total amount of progress or advance payments made to a subcontractor under the program, as well as certain support costs; (3) state that determinations made in a mentor firm's annual performance review shall be a major factor in determining appropriate reimbursement amounts; (4) limit such total reimbursement amount in a fiscal year to $1 million, with an exception; (5) extend such program through FY 2004; (6) require specified reports from the mentor firm, the prot?g? firm, and the Secretary; (7) require an annual performance review of each mentor-prot?g? agreement; and (8) repeal a provision that limits the provision of funding to the end of FY 1999.
(Sec. 803) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress the implementation status of the Small Business Innovation Research program transition plan developed under a prior defense authorization Act.
(Sec. 804) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to provide for CG review of records concerning prototype projects carried out by the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
(Sec. 805) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to treat procurements of certain commercial services as procurements of commercial items under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act. Limits such program to a five-year period. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress on the program; and (2) collect and analyze information on price trends for all services covered by the program.
(Sec. 806) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to state that certain cost accounting standards required under such Act shall not apply to a contractor or subcontractor for a fiscal year in which the total value of all contracts and subcontracts covered by such standards in the previous or current fiscal year was less than $50 million. Provides exceptions. Authorizes the head of an executive agency to waive cost accounting standards for a contract or subcontract of less than $10 million if such official determines that the contractor or subcontractor: (1) is primarily engaged in the sale of commercial items; and (2) would not otherwise be subject to such standards. Authorizes such agency head to also waive such standards under extraordinary circumstances when necessary to meet agency needs.
(Sec. 807) Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to provide guidance to agencies on the appropriate use of task order and delivery order contracts. Requires the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to consult with the Administrator of General Services to assess the effectiveness of the Federal Supply Schedules program.
(Sec. 808) Includes within the definition of commercial items under the Federal Procurement Policy Act certain installation, maintenance, repair, and training services in support of commercial items.
(Sec. 809) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend through 2001 a test program for the use of special simplified acquisition procedures for the purchase of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Requires a report from the CG to Congress evaluating the test program.
(Sec. 810) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to extend until October 1, 2004, an interim reporting rule for certain procurements of less than $100,000.
(Sec. 811) Extends through FY 2003 a goal for participation in DOD contracts and subcontracts by small disadvantaged businesses and certain minority higher education institutions.
Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: General - Provides that, as of October 1, 2002, the number of DOD management headquarters and headquarters support personnel may not exceed 65 (currently 75) percent of such number as of October 1, 1989. Repeals provisions requiring a phased reduction of such number.
(Sec. 902) Outlines additional matters to be included within annual reports concerning joint warfighting experimentation.
(Sec. 903) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to accept from a donor a qualified guarantee for the completion of a major project (cost of at least $1 million) for the benefit of the U.S. Military Academy. Allows funds for such a project to be obligated and expended without regard to whether they are sufficient to pay for project completion. Requires a qualified account control agreement to be set up between such Secretary, the donor, and a major U.S. investment management firm in order to ensure the availability of sufficient funds to pay the guaranteed amount (along with related assurances and requirements).
(Sec. 904) Expresses the sense of Congress that no major change to the governing structure of the Civil Air Patrol should be mandated by Congress until a review of potential improvements in the management and oversight of Patrol operations is conducted. Requires the CG to conduct such review and report results to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs the DOD Inspector General to review the financial and management operations of the Patrol and to report review results to such committees.
Prohibits a member of the regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard serving in such position from receiving compensation for such service other than the pay and allowances provided to military personnel in such positions.
(Sec. 905) Repeals the requirement that the DOD strategic plan be updated and revised at least every three years.
(Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary, in each year in which a President is inaugurated, to conduct a comprehensive examination of the defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and related elements of defense programs and policies with a view toward determining and expressing the U.S. defense strategy and establishing a revised defense plan for the ensuing ten years and a revised defense plan for the ensuing 20 years. Requires during such time the consideration of reports of the National Defense Panel (established herein). Directs the Secretary to report on such review to the defense committees every year such review is conducted. Directs the Secretary to establish the National Defense Panel (nonpartisan and independent) to make certain assessments and recommendations concerning appropriate changes to U.S. defense strategy and to identify the most dangerous threats to U.S. national security during such upcoming periods. Requires the Panel to submit to the Secretary and the defense committees an interim and final report containing appropriate recommendations. Terminates the Panel after submission of its final report.
Subtitle B: Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization - Establishes the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization to conduct a review of such management and organization and report to Congress its findings and conclusions. Funds the Commission from defense-wide O&M funds for FY 2000. Terminates the Commission 60 days after its report.
Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of authorizations made available in this Division for FY 2000 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers.
(Sec. 1002) Outlines matters to be included in the second biennial DOD financial management improvement plan.
(Sec. 1003) Allows a contract for the procurement of subsistence items entered into under the prime vendor program of the Defense Logistics Agency to specify a single payment date applicable to an invoice for such items, but prohibits such date to be more than ten days after invoice receipt.
(Sec. 1004) Authorizes the Secretary to require the use of electronic funds transfer for the pay, allowances, retired or retainer pay, and any other payments out of funds available to DOD for current and former military personnel, DOD employees or former employees, or dependents. Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on such transfers.
(Sec. 1005) Authorizes the Secretary to pay, out of the proceeds of sales of maps, charts, and other publications of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), any licensing or other fees imposed by foreign countries or international organizations for the acquisition or use of data or products by NIMA.
(Sec. 1006) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.
(Sec. 1007) Earmarks funds authorized under this Act for DOD missions relating to combating terrorism. Requires the DOD budget for fiscal years after 2000 to set forth separately the amounts requested for such purpose.
(Sec. 1008) Provides for U.S. contribution for the common-funded budgets of NATO for FY 2000.
(Sec. 1009) Makes the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) responsible for ensuring that DOD financial statements are in a condition to receive an unqualified audit opinion and that such opinion is obtained for such statements. Requires the Under Secretary to prescribe regulations: (1) governing the use and control of all credit cards and convenience checks issued to DOD personnel for official use; and (2) setting forth controls on alteration of remittance addresses.
(Sec. 1010) Adjusts the amount authorized to be appropriated in the prior defense authorization Act for FY 1999 by the amounts by which appropriations pursuant to such authorizations were increased or decreased in the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.
Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Waives certain transfer restrictions if a sale of naval shipyard articles or services is made to a DOD contractor for a nuclear ship in order to facilitate the contractor's fulfillment of the contract.
(Sec. 1012) Requires congressional notification followed by a 60- day waiting period prior to the transfer of a vessel which has been stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
(Sec. 1013) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the Government of Thailand the coastal patrol craft CYCLONE or a craft with a similar hull. Requires such Secretary, as a condition of such transfer, to require any necessary repair or refurbishment of such ship to be performed in a U.S. Navy shipyard or other shipyard within the United States. Terminates such transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act.
Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Preserves certain defense reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, prior national defense and military construction Acts, and related Acts, as listed in the report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives to the Speaker of the House on January 5, 1993.
(Sec. 1022) Requires a report from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the defense and appropriations committees on the requirements of the combatant commands.
(Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) assessments of the readiness of the United States to execute the national military strategy; and (2) the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999.
(Sec. 1024) Directs the Secretary to develop, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a detailed guide for investment in space science and technology, demonstrations of space technology, and planning and development for space technology systems. Requires such guide to include two alternative technology paths.
(Sec. 1025) Requires the CG to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and their therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the CG to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken after such study.
(Sec. 1026) Requires a report from the CG to Congress on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.
(Sec. 1027) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the deployment across State boundaries of rapid assessment and initial detection teams used to respond to incidents involving a weapon of mass destruction.
(Sec. 1028) Directs the Secretary to include in quarterly readiness reports an assessment of the readiness, training status, and future funding requirements of all active and reserve units that are considered assets of the Consequence Management Program Integration Office of DOD. Requires the Secretary to prepare a decontamination readiness plan for such Office.
(Sec. 1029) Requires the Secretary to report to the: (1) defense and appropriations committees on the relationship between the defense budget and current and emerging threats to national security; and (2) defense committees on implementation of the Defense Capabilities Initiative by NATO nations.
(Sec. 1032) Directs the Secretary to review, and report to Congress on, the incidence of violations of State and local motor vehicle laws applicable to the operation and parking of Army motor vehicles by Army personnel during FY 1999.
(Sec. 1033) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.
(Sec. 1034) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on military-to-military contacts between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2000 a prohibition on the retirement or dismantlement of specified strategic nuclear delivery systems. Prohibits funds from being obligated for retiring or dismantling: (1) B-52H bomber aircraft below a minimum of 76 (currently 71); and (2) Trident ballistic missile submarines below 14 (currently 18).
(Sec. 1042) Prohibits any FY 2000 funds from being used to reduce the number of U.S. strategic nuclear forces below the maximum number currently permitted the United States under the START II Treaty unless the President reports to Congress an assessment that such reductions would not impede U.S. capability to respond militarily to a significant challenge posed by nuclear weapons modernization programs of the People's Republic of China or any other nation.
(Sec. 1043) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to extend through FY 1994 the Counterproliferation Program Review Committee. Provides for an executive secretary to such Committee, and revises certain report deadlines.
(Sec. 1044) Prohibits funds authorized under this Act from being obligated or expended for assistance for a country under any Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program until the President makes certain certifications to Congress with respect to arms control compliance and related actions of such country.
(Sec. 1045) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to revise the period covered by an annual report on accounting for U.S. assistance under CTR programs.
(Sec. 1046) Limits to $15 million the total amount of FY 2000 U.S. assistance in support of UN-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities.
(Sec. 1047) Directs the Secretary to carry out an (defense electronic) information assurance program, to report annually to Congress on such program, and to prepare a DOD information assurance guide for the development of appropriate organizational structures and technologies for information assurance (protection) under the program. Requires development of an information assurance test bed. Provides funding from amounts authorized under this Act.
(Sec. 1048) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force of the Defense Science Board to examine the use of radio and television broadcasting as a propaganda instrument and the adequacy of the capabilities of U.S. armed forces to deal with propaganda situations such as the conflict in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Requires a report from the task force to the Secretary, and from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 1049) Requires a non-DOD entity operating a communication system, device, or apparatus on any portion of the frequency spectrum used by DOD to ensure noninterference with DOD communications operated therein. Provides an exception with respect to frequency that is reserved for exclusively nongovernmental use. Makes such entity liable for any required redesign or rebuilding of a DOD communication system as a result of such interference.
(Sec. 1050) Prohibits the use of any funds to enter into any contract with or issue any broadcast or other license to any entity that broadcasts from outside the United States into the United States on any frequency that is reserved to or used by DOD, unless such broadcasting is authorized by law.
(Sec. 1051) Repeals a provision that limits to $50 million in a fiscal year the Federal expenditure for the National Guard civilian youth opportunities program.
(Sec. 1052) Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to exempt from Federal disclosure requirements information concerning military personnel or DOD or Coast Guard employees assigned to overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units.
(Sec. 1053) Authorizes the Secretary to exempt from such disclosure requirements: (1) certain operational files of NIMA; and (2) NIMA information having commercial significance.
(Sec. 1055) Authorizes the Secretary to continue the enrollment in the DOD domestic dependent elementary and secondary schools program of a military or Federal employee dependent who would otherwise lose their eligibility under such program.
(Sec. 1056) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.
(Sec. 1057) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 1058) Requires the Secretary's program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War to run during FY 2000 through 2004. Provides program funding during such period through Army O&M funds.
(Sec. 1059) Reauthorizes and extends through FY 2000 the Defense Production Act of 1950.
(Sec. 1060) Extends to naval aircraft on which one or more Coast Guard members are assigned the authority to engage in certain drug interdiction activities.
(Sec. 1061) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for vigorous prosecution of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity in Kosovo and the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
(Sec. 1062) Includes lung and colon cancer and tumors of the brain and central nervous system among those diseases presumed to be service-connected for radiation-exposed veterans, and therefore compensable under veterans' disability compensation.
(Sec. 1063) Directs the President to determine and certify to the Senate whether the new strategic concept of NATO imposes any new commitment or obligation on the United States and, if so, to submit such concept to the Senate as a treaty for the Senate's advice and consent. Directs the President to report to the Senate an analysis of the potential threats facing NATO in the first decade of the next millennium.
(Sec. 1064) Directs the President to: (1) seek to establish a multinational economic embargo against any country in which the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with; (2) seek the seizure of such country's foreign financial assets; and (3) report to Congress within 20 days after the commencement of such armed conflict setting forth steps taken to achieve steps (1) and (2).
(Sec. 1065) Revises a condition on the lending of rifles and blank ammunition for use at veterans' ceremonies and funerals.
(Sec. 1066) Prohibits the President from transferring a veterans memorial object to a foreign country or entity controlled by a foreign government unless specifically authorized by law.
(Sec. 1067) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 2000, to provide assistance to civilian authorities in response to an act of terrorism, including one involving a weapon of mass destruction, upon a determination that such assistance is necessary and critical and will not adversely affect military preparedness. Limits funding for such assistance to $10 million per fiscal year. Provides personnel use restrictions.
(Sec. 1068) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should use all diplomatic means possible to prevent the UN Security Council from lifting certain sanctions imposed against Libya as a result of Libyan refusal to allow the extradition of two Libyan agents suspected in the bombing of a Pan American flight in December 1998 that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.
(Sec. 1070) Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing increased activities for personnel of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency relating to the monitoring of satellite launch campaigns overseas. Requires such Secretary and the Secretary of State to report annually on the implementation of certain satellite technology safeguards.
(Sec. 1071) Directs the Secretary of State to prescribe regulations providing timely notice to the manufacturer of a commercial satellite of U.S. origin of the reasons for denial of a license application involving the overseas launch of such satellite. Directs such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to consult with the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) throughout the review of such an application in order to assure that the launch of the satellite, if the license is approved, will meet requirements necessary to protect U.S. national security interests. Requires the DCI to: (1) establish within the intelligence community an advisory group to provide information and analysis to Congress with regard to such launches; and (2) report annually to Congress and appropriate executive officials on the efforts of foreign governments and entities to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and technical information.
(Sec. 1073) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should take appropriate action to obtain a bilateral agreement with China to adhere to the Missile Technology Control Regime and related Annex; and (2) such nation should not be permitted to join such Regime without having demonstrated a sustained and verified commitment to missile and missile technology nonproliferation and adopted an effective export control system for implementing Regime guidelines.
(Sec. 1074) Expresses the sense of Congress for stimulating and encouraging the expansion of a commercial space launch capacity in the United States and for a reexamination of current U.S. policy of permitting the export of U.S. commercial satellites to China for launch.
(Sec. 1075) Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees detailing the security situation in the Taiwan Strait.
(Sec. 1076) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require the page-by-page review of certain records for restricted or formerly restricted data, unless such records have been determined to be highly unlikely to contain such data.
(Sec. 1077) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. military readiness to execute the national strategy is being eroded from a combination of declining defense budgets and expanded missions; and (2) there may be missions to which the Unites States is supplying troops from which it can begin disengaging. Requires a report from the President to the defense and appropriations committees prioritizing the ongoing global missions to which the United States is contributing troops.
(Sec. 1078) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States, as a member of NATO, should not negotiate with Slobodan Milosevic, an indicted war criminal, or any other indicted war criminal for an end to the conflict in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
(Sec. 1079) Includes the Coast Guard within Federal provisions concerning the funding for armed forces educational assistance benefits.
(Sec. 1081) Directs the Secretary of each military department to give due consideration to according a high priority to the attendance of military personnel of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (new NATO member nations) at professional military education schools and training programs in U.S. service academies.
(Sec. 1082) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for increased U.S.-Russian cooperation in commercial space launch services.
(Sec. 1083) Directs the Secretary of the Army to make every reasonable effort, and place a high priority upon, the search, recovery, and identification of the remains of U.S. servicemen of U.S. aircraft lost in the Pacific theater of operations during World War II, including in New Guinea.
(Sec. 1084) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Attorney General quantities of lethal chemical agents required to support training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Fort McClellan, Alabama, for domestic preparedness training associated with potential terrorist incidents involving the use of lethal chemical weapons or agents. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress regarding such disposition.
(Sec. 1085) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for Russian implementation of the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives which called for reductions in both the United States and Russia in the inventory of tactical nuclear weapons. Requires information concerning Russia's arsenal of such weapons to be included in a currently-required annual report on CTR programs.
(Sec. 1086) Designates November 9, 1999, as "Victory in the Cold War Day." Authorizes the award of an appropriate decoration to all individuals who served honorably in the U.S. armed forces during the Cold War. Designates the Cold War period as the period between August 15, 1945, and ending on November 9, 1989. Earmarks funds authorized under this Act, with a limit of $15 million, for the costs of military participation in a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the end of the Cold War to be held in Washington, D.C., on November 9, 1999. Establishes the Commission on Victory in the Cold War to review and approve the expenditure of such funds and to design and award appropriate medals and decorations.
Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to change to October 1, 1999 (currently October 1, 2000) the effective date of revisions made to the voluntary early retirement program.
(Sec. 1102) Repeals a provision which authorized the investigation of a complaint of sexual harassment made by a civilian employee under the supervision of a commanding officer or officer in charge of a military unit, vessel, facility, or area (thereby requiring such employees to follow Federal sexual harassment investigatory procedures).
(Sec. 1103) Provides for the restoration of earned but unused annual leave in the case of DOD emergency essential employees serving in a combat zone. Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to make such designation, following specified criteria. Makes employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities eligible for such designation.
(Sec. 1104) Provides leave protection for dual-status military technicians participating in combat as well as noncombat operations outside the United States.
(Sec. 1105) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish work schedules and premium pay or compensatory time off provisions for civilian faculty members of the military service academies.
(Sec. 1106) Provides that certain Federal pay rate and total compensation limitations shall not apply to the authority of the Secretary to prescribe salary schedules and related benefits for faculty and staff of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
(Sec. 1107) Extends until October 1, 2003, the authority to provide lump-sum severance pay for DOD employees in connection with defense workforce reductions and restructuring.
Title XII: National Military Museum and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Commission on National Military Museum - Establishes the Commission on the National Military Museum to conduct a study and make recommendations to Congress regarding authorization for the construction of a national military museum in the National Capital area. Requires, after one year, a report to Congress on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Terminates the Commission 60 days after such report.
Subtitle B: Related Matters - Prohibits any transfer of Navy Annex property until two years after the later of: (1) the date of submission of a study on the expansion of Arlington National Cemetery (required under a prior joint explanatory statement); or (2) the date of the report of the Commission, above.
Title XIII: Military Voting Rights Act of 1999 - Military Voting Rights Act of 1999 - Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide that, for voting rights purposes, a person absent from a State in compliance with military orders shall not be deemed to have: (1) lost a residence in that State; or (2) acquired a residence in, or become a resident of, another State.
(Sec. 1303) Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act to require each State, in elections for State and local offices, to permit absentee military personnel to use absentee voter procedures to vote in such State elections and to accept and process military absentee voter registration applications if received not less than 30 days before such election.
Became Public Law No: 106-65.
Committee on Armed Services ordered to be reported an original measure.
Introduced in Senate
Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Warner. Without written report.
Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Warner. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 115.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S6274)
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1059 amended. (Division A of the bill).
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Held at the desk.
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