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HR 1748 - 100

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989

Became Public Law No: 100-180.

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48 Conference report filed in House Apr 6, 2005

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 100-446) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations -Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force for FY 1988 and 1989 for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Authorizes the transfer of prior-year unobligated funds for the above purposes. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1988. Authorizes appropriations to the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other miscellaneous equipment for such forces, such amounts to be in addition to any other amounts authorized to be appropriated by this or any other Act. Earmarks specified funds for the: (1) Army Mobile Subscriber Equipment program; (2) Army Tactical Missile System; (3) Trident II Missile; and (4) T-45 Training System. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into certain multiyear defense procurement contracts, under specified conditions. Extends through FY 1989 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary) in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Sets forth certain requirements, restrictions, and/or limitations with respect to specified Army, Navy, and Air Force programs. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to establish an initiative for maintaining cost discipline, contractor performance discipline, and management discipline within the Advanced Technology Bomber program. Requires specified reports from the Secretary to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) concerning such program. Limits funding and requires certain reports from the Secretary to the Congress concerning the procurement and operational difficulties encountered with the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being used for the procurement of chemical weapons antidote contained in automatic injectors determined to be critical under a specified DOD planning program. Directs the Secretary, by January 1, 1988, to issue an environmental impact statement concerning the chemical stockpile demilitarization program. Sets forth certain other requirements concerning the program. Prohibits the withdrawal of U.S. chemical munitions stored in Europe unless such munitions are replaced simultaneously with binary chemical munitions stationed on the soil of at least one European member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Requires specified reports from the Secretary to the defense committees concerning: (1) selected acquisition reports on specified defense acquisition programs; and (2) updating the 1986 Strategic Bomber Force study. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to procure, and provides funding for, a specified number of trucks under the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations and Program Limitations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation. Sets forth specified funding limitations for certain programs of: (1) the Army; (2) the Navy; (3) the Air Force; (4) the defense agencies; (5) technology base programs for FY 1988; and (6) cooperative projects with major non-NATO allies. Prohibits the Secretary, until October 1, 1988, or until the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union has done so, from conducting a test of the F-15 antisatellite weapon against objects in space. Part B: Program Policies - Establishes an Advanced Submarine Technology Program to be carried out by the Secretary of the Navy, and requires certain reports from the Secretary of Defense concerning such program. Prohibits funding for the Advanced Tactical Fighter aircraft until the Secretary completes certain reporting requirements concerning such aircraft. Limits funds and outlines other requirements concerning the electronic warfare programs, including congressional reporting requirements. Earmarks specified funds for each branch of the armed forces for the conventional defense initiative. Outlines a balanced technology initiative program (a program aimed at enhancing conventional defense capabilities), authorizes appropriations for such program, and explains such programs's relationship to the conventional defense initiative as enumerated under a specified Act. Earmarks specified funds for the Army Tactical Missile system, for the Trident II Missile, and for the T-45 training system. Earmarks specified funds for antitactical ballistic missile systems and extended air defense programs under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Earmarks specified FY 1988 and 1989 funds for research and development relating to superconductivity at high critical temperatures. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to research and development within each branch of the armed forces. Earmarks specified funds for FY 1988 and 1989 for the purchase of high technology manufacturing equipment and the installation of such equipment in a center of training in the use of such equipment. Sets forth certain funding limitations with respect to such equipment purchase and training program. Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning funding for certain SDI missile programs. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Subpart 1: SDI Funding and Program Limitations and Requirements - Specifies the FY 1988 funding level for the SDI program. Prohibits certain contracts with foreign entities in connection with the SDI program. Limits the transfer of SDI technology to the Soviet Union, unless certain conditions are met. Prohibits the direct firing of any SDI weapons except by affirmative human decision at an appropriate level of authority. Places specified limitations during FY 1988 on the development and testing of anti-ballistic missile systems and components. Prohibits the deployment of such systems unless specifically authorized by law. Establishes a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) for research support of the SDI program. Authorizes the use of DOD-SDI funds for the awarding of a contract to operate a FFRDC to support SDI, as long as the Secretary has taken specified action ensuring the competitiveness of such contract award, and has issued directives prohibiting or requiring specified action in connection with such FFRDC. Prohibits any funds from being available to such FFRDC five years after the awarding of its initial contract. Subpart 2: Report Requirements - Directs the Secretary, no later than March 15 of 1988 and 1989, to report to the Congress on SDI programs. Repeals a specified provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1985 relating to such program reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary, no later than six months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the defense committees on SDI development plans and costs. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the Congress on how the absence of limitations on strategic defense systems in force under the 1972 ABM Treaty would affect strategic offensive and defensive programs of the United States. Part D: B-1B Bomber Program - Earmarks specified FY 1988 funds for the B-1B bomber program. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1988 and 1989, to develop and conduct a comprehensive program for the systematic testing of the defense avionics system of the B-1B aircraft, and to report to the defense committees, no later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, a plan for such testing during FY 1988 and 1989. Requires bimonthly status reports concerning such program. Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent assessment of the capabilities of the B-1B aircraft to penetrate air defenses of potential enemies. Requires the Secretary to appoint a panel of experts to aid in such assessment, and requires various reports to the defense committees concerning such assessment. Provides funds for such assessment. Sets forth certain limitations on B-1B aircraft enhancement and modernization. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation within DOD to ensure the adequacy of the proposed test flight program for the B-1B aircraft. Part E: Miscellaneous - Earmarks specified funds for cooperative medical research to be administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into a specified contract for a modernization and expansion project at the Lincoln Laboratory complex at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, outlining project cost limitations, duration, and funding. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to evaluate the new high-speed naval patrol boat, and to report to the defense committees on such evaluation. Repeals a specified provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 earmarking specified funds for the Marine Corps Pegasus engine program. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees on the planned military use of the NASA manned space station. Places certain funding limitations on the Advanced Launch System (ALS). Earmarks specified funds for space launch recovery, requiring a congressional notice-and-wait period before any transfer of funds for such purpose. Authorizes the obligation of funds for studies and analyses of the nuclear warhead option of the Army Tactical System, limiting the obligation of such funds until the Secretary makes certain certifications and reports to the defense committees. Directs the Secretary to carry out a competitive evaluation for a heavy truck system configuration with a palletized loading system. Part F: Semiconductor Cooperative Research Program - Expresses the finding of the Congress that it is in the national economic and security interests of the United States for DOD to provide financial assistance to Sematech (a consortium of the U.S. semiconductor industry) for research and development activities in the field of semiconductor manufacturing technology. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Sematech for such purpose, in accordance with a specified memorandum of understanding entered into between Sematch and the Secretary requiring Sematech to work in cooperation with the Secretary and the Department of Energy, and requiring the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech to review the research activities of Sematech to take all necessary steps to ensure the expeditious transfer of technology developed and owned by Sematech to the private sector participants in Sematech research. Establishes the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech (the Council) to: (1) conduct an annual review of the activities of Sematech; and (2) submit to Sematech any recommendations for modifications of plans or the technological goals in the plan in the view of the Council. Outlines administrative provisions with respect to the Council. Directs the Comptroller General to review the annual reports of the independent auditor required by the Secretary in the memorandum of understanding, and to make comments to the defense committees concerning the accuracy and completeness of such reports, together with any additional comments as considered appropriate. Provides that any export of semiconductor manufacturing technology developed by Sematech under these provisions shall be subject to the Export Administration Act, and not to the Arms Export Control Act. Provides for the confidentiality of certain information concerning Sematech, as well as trade secrets developed by them. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorizations of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for operation and maintenance for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserve and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, and for environmental restoration, defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and increases as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Places certain limitations on the use of operation and maintenance funds to purchase investment items. Part B: Program Changes, Requirements, and Limitations - Requires the Secretary to ensure that U.S. wines are given equitable treatment when selling alcoholic beverage products in U.S. military installations located outside the United States. Requires the Secretary to establish uniform pricing policies for beer and wine products authorized to be sold on a foreign U.S. military installation. Earmarks specified funds for Army depot maintenance functions. Prohibits the management of civilian personnel by end strengths. Eliminates the requirement that civilian end strengths be authorized by law. Requires a certain report from the Secretary to the Congress concerning the operation and support costs of major weapons systems. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees on efforts to measure defense readiness. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide free shuttle bus service for military members and their families to military installations determined by such Secretary to be located in remote areas. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, under specified conditions, to operate the military education and training facility known as the United States Army School of the Americas. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repair and maintain certain memorials and historic sites on the Island of Corregidor in the Republic of the Philippines. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on allegations of censorship by military command of the DOD newspaper Stars and Stripes. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds for the overhaul, operation, maintenance, or deployment of the USS Andrew Jackson. Part C: Humanitarian and Other Assistance - Extends through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations for the provision of humanitarian assistance and the transportation of relief supplies to Afghan refugees. Outlines administrative details concerning the transportation of such supplies. Requires the Secretary to submit certain reports, in connection with the transportation of such supplies, to the defense and foreign relations committees of the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to transport to any country, without charge, supplies which have been furnished by a nongovernmental source and which are intended for humanitarian assistance. Outlines specified conditions for such transfers, and requires certain reports. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty personnel for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes an increase during FY 1988 in the total number of commissioned officers serving in the military departments as of the end of FY 1988, under specified conditions. Reduces certain amounts for military personnel based on prior-year reductions in the number of commissioned officers on active duty during FY 1987. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes the Secretary to vary such end strengths by not more than four percent. Authorizes appropriate adjustment to such numbers under certain circumstances. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1988 and 1989 for reserve members serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Revises the number of reserve personnel in each military department authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves for FY 1988. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for the armed forces, and Guard and reserve forces, for FY 1988 and 1989. Allows such student loads to be adjusted consistent with other personnel adjustments authorized under this Act. Part D: Appropriations Limitation - Limits the total appropriations for military personnel for FY 1988. Title V: Military Personnel - Extends through FY 1989 the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through FY 1989 the following: (1) certain reserve officer management programs; and (2) the authority under the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 for single parents to enlist in the reserves. Authorizes the Commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School of the Army to confer the degree of master of laws in military law, under appropriate circumstances. Provides a one-year delay (until the end of FY 1989) in the requirement that a certain minimum percentage of persons enlisted in the Air Force must be women. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress a plan to enable the Coast Guard to meet 95 percent of its wartime mobilization requirements by the end of FY 1998. Authorizes a member of the armed forces to wear an item of religious apparel while in uniform, except when the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that: (1) the wearing of the item would interfere with the performance of military duties; or (2) the item is not neat and conservative. Authorizes such Secretary to prescribe regulations concerning the wearing of such items. Provides that civilian technicians of the Army National Guard who are unable to complete required training under the Military Education Program for such technicians may not be denied promotions for failure to complete such training if the reason for such failure was lack of available training spaces. Directs the Comptroller General, no later than February 15, 1988, to report to the defense committees on the Military Education Program. Removes the per-department ceilings on the number of cadets and midshipmen authorized to receive financial assistance (instead providing one ceiling for all military department participants combined). Authorizes the President to make appointments in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in the grades of lieutenant general, general, vice admiral, or admiral in excess of the number of appointments authorized to be made by law. Requires a corresponding reduction in the number of appointments allowed to be made in the other branches of the armed forces on a one-to-one basis with the President's appointments. Limits the number of officers authorized to be so appointed. Authorizes an advancement to the highest active-duty grade held, for retired pay purposes, for certain members of the military departments whose active service plus service on the retired list totals 30 years. Provides for mandatory testing for a member of the armed forces, before entry into the armed forces, for drug, chemical, and alcohol use and dependency. Directs the Secretary to implement regulations relating to such testing within 45 days after enactment of this Act. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay (in conformity with annual GS-level increases), authorizing instead a three percent increase in basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, as well as a three percent increase in cadet and midshipman pay, all effective as of January 1, 1988. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review and report to the defense committees, by March 1, 1988, on the military housing allowance system and recommendations for changes in such system. Part B: Travel and Transportation - Entitles a member of the armed forces assigned to a permanent overseas duty station to a civilian clothing allowance if such member is required to wear such clothing for all or a substantial portion of the time that such member is on duty. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 relating to the reimbursement for actual lodging expenses plus per diem for members entitled to travel allowances. Revises effective dates set forth in that Act and another specified Act in relation to the effective date of this Act. Authorizes the payment of dislocation allowance in advance. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a transportation allowance to a member and his or her dependents if such member voluntarily agrees to extend his or her overseas tour of duty. Requires the Comptroller General to review implementation of such provision, and, no later than March 1, 1989, report to the defense committees concerning such review. Authorizes the payment of travel and transportation expenses of no more than two family members when the attending physician of a military member determines that the presence of such family member is necessary for the health and welfare of a member who is seriously ill or injured. Provides for the transportation at Government expense of one leased automobile of a member of the armed forces ordered to make a permanent change of duty station. (Current law provides only for the transportation of any vehicle that is owned by a member ordered to a change of station.) Authorizes the payment of travel and transportation expenses for civilian employees accompanying a member of the Congress or a congressional employee on official travel. Part C: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Increases the rate of monthly special pay for sea duty, and revises provisions concerning such career sea pay premium. Revises provisions concerning special pay for aviation career officers. Increases the special pay for members serving on submarine duty. Authorizes special pay for members of the National Guard or reserve components for diving duty performed. Requires at least 50 percent of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to be paid in a lump-sum initial payment. Extends the active-duty enlistment and reenlistment bonus authority through FY 1992, and the reserve component enlistment and reenlistment bonus authority through FY 1990. Part D: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the withdrawal of certain remarried persons from participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP). Revises provisions concerning occupancy by Coast Guard personnel of substandard family housing units. Authorizes the collection of amounts owed to service relief societies from the final pay of military members. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated during FY 1988 for reserve unit and individual training. Extends the military spouse employment preference as contained in the Military Family Act of 1985 to cover those military spouses attempting to obtain Federal positions at the GS-1 level or above (currently, such preference exists only for spouses seeking positions above GS-4). Reduces from age 60 to 55 the age at which a former spouse may remarry without losing their entitlement to SBP annuity benefits. Directs the Secretary, no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act, to prescribe regulations which establishes a policy that the decision by a military spouse to perform voluntary work related to the armed forces should not be influenced by any preferences or requirements of the armed forces, nor should such decision or the marital status of the member have any effect on the assignment or promotion opportunities of the members. Directs the Secretary to establish a test program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for certain qualifying expenses associated with the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides that such test program shall extend through FY 1988 and 1989. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Military Health Care Amendments of 1987 - Part A: Medical Readiness - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish and maintain a program to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in health professions training while a member of the reserve forces. Authorizes such Secretary to pay a stipend to physicians and graduate nurses engaging in specialties determined critical to wartime needs, and to baccalaureate students about to engage in such critical specialities upon graduation from accredited institutions. Sets forth provisions concerning such agreements, including the amounts to be paid to each such person, and the period required to be served after the provision of such financial assistance. Outlines penalties for the failure to complete any agreed-upon period of duty following such financial assistance, and repeals the prior financial assistance program established under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Sets forth funding limitations for such program during FY 1988. Revises provisions of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program to allow the Secretary of Defense to require, as part of an agreement under such program, that a person must agree to accept residency training in a skill designated by the Secretary as a critically needed wartime skill. Targets 2,500 of the 6,000 scholarships to be awarded under such program for critically needed wartime skills. Extends to October 1, 1990, the date for initial appointment under the Education Loan Repayment Program for health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserves. Authorizes constructive credit under each branch of the armed forces and the reserve forces for those entering such service with experience in the health professions. Removes a specified ceiling on the payment of special pay to medical officers serving in the armed forces. Requires military officers who are medical officers or dental officers to be retired on the first day of the month following the month in which such officer becomes 67 years of age. Directs the Secretary concerned, in prescribing age qualifications for reserve officers serving in critically needed wartime specialities, to prescribe a maximum age qualification (for initial entry into such service) of not less than 47 years of age. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to defer mandatory retirement (but not beyond the month after the officer achieves age 67) for medical officers involved in patient care or other clinical duties. Part B: Peacetime Health Care - Limits the per-family payment for catastrophic loss protection for dependents of active-duty personnel under CHAMPUS. Prohibits the Secretary, during FY 1988 and 1989, from imposing a fee for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military medical treatment facility. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to take certain action to ensure the proper representation of health profession personnel in naval officer appointments and end strength increases for the Navy during FY 1989 and 1990. Extends for one year the deadlines for the use of diagnosis-related groups as the primary criteria for the allocation of resources within medical facilities of the uniformed services. Provides for Federal preemption, with regard to contracts for medical and dental care, over any applicable State or local law. Provides for CHAMPUS coverage when the purchase of monitoring equipment for sudden infant death syndrome is required. Part C: Health Care Management - Directs the Secretary to conduct projects designed to demonstrate the alternative health care delivery system in which the commander of a military medical facility is responsible for all funding and all medical care of the covered beneficiaries of that facility. Requires the Secretary to conduct projects to demonstrate alternatives to providing health care under the military health care systems. Outlines project requirements, and directs the Secretary to make various reports to the defense committees relating to such projects, including interim and final reports. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to require the Secretary to develop a methodology to be used in the evaluation of a CHAMPUS reform demonstration project required under such Act. Provides limitations on: (1) contracts awarded; and (2) the issuance of requests for proposals for military health care contracts under CHAMPUS reform initiatives. Outlines requirements under the demonstration project and the reform initiative. Requires the Secretary to take action to provide those losing CHAMPUS coverage with the opportunity to purchase additional insurance through an insurance plan that meets specified requirements similar to those provided under regular CHAMPUS coverage. Requires various reports from the Secretary to the defense committees relating to such demonstration projects and reform initiatives. Amends the above Act to: (1) prohibit the Secretary from awarding a contract for the test and evaluation phase for the Composite Health Care System until certain testing and reporting requirements have been met; (2) direct the Secretary to conduct the test and evaluation phase for such system at no fewer than six sites, earmarking funds for such purpose and requiring specified reports by the Secretary and the Comptroller General concerning such test and evaluation; and (3) prohibit the Secretary from awarding a contract for the full production of a medical information system until certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements have been met. Directs the Comptroller General to review and evaluate the practices under various insurance plans with respect to payments to hospitals in cases where the hospital does not impose a legal obligation to pay for such services. Requires the Comptroller General, no later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the defense committees on the results of such review. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy - Part A: Acquisition Process - Limits the functions of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to the provision of advice to officials responsible for such testing. Directs the Secretary to provide that a covered product improvement program (part of a major weapons or munitions acquisition program) may not proceed beyond low-rate initial production until certain survivability and lethality testing has taken place. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees at the conclusion of such testing. Revises provisions relating to permissible variances in the costs of major defense acquisition programs. Amends Federal procurement provisions to further define what is to be included in "cost or pricing data" for purposes of truth-in-negotiations requirements under such provisions. Prohibits "golden parachute payments" from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost. Directs the Secretary to ensure that substantial progress is made in increasing awards of DOD contracts to minority and small business enterprises. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations which establish guidelines for the making of such contract awards to such businesses. Earmarks specified funds to carry out procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement programs during FY 1988 and 1989. Revises Federal provisions concerning a defense contractor's right to technical data accumulated while performing a defense contract to provide that nothing shall impair the right of a contractor or subcontractor to receive royalty fees from a third party for the use of technical data developed exclusively at private expense by the contractor or subcontractor. Prohibits the relinquishing of such rights to such exclusively-developed data from being a condition to the awarding of a defense contract. Revises provisions concerning goals for the participation by small business concerns, and small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, in procurement contracts of Federal agencies. Repeals a specified provision of the Small Business Act made inconsistent by the above changes. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations providing for payment to contractors for production special tooling and equipment acquired or fabricated in the performance of defense contracts. Outlines terms and conditions concerning the making of such payments to contractors. Part B: Other Acquisition Matters - Repeals prior law and sets forth new restrictions regarding retired military officers and certain matters affecting the Government. Provides that a retired officer who within two years after retirement receives payment in the sale of anything to the United States through the military department in which the officer is retired shall be fined or imprisoned, or both. Provides the same prohibition for officers who prosecute or act as attorneys against the Government in a case against the military department from which such officer is retired. Places certain restrictions on the purchase of foreign-made administrative motor vehicles. Prohibits the use of funds for the procurement of manual typewriters which contain components manufactured in a Warsaw Pact country. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 authorizing such procurement in limited circumstances. Expresses the sense of the Congress favoring the preparation of certain economic impact and employment information concerning new defense acquisition programs. Title IX: Matters Relating to Arms Control - Expresses congressional support for the Missile Technology Control Regime (an agreement between the United States and several European and Asian countries limiting the proliferation of nuclear missiles). Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees concerning implementation policies of the Regime. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union is in violation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in building and placing the Krasnoyarsk radar system (an early-warning ballistic missile detection radar) more in the interior of the Soviet Union. Directs the President to submit to the Congress, no later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, a report on the current method of estimating the yield of Soviet underground nuclear tests to determine the extent with which the Soviet Union is complying with the 150 kiloton limit on such tests contained in the Threshold Test Ban Treaty. Expresses certain congressional findings and declarations concerning current arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Declares, on the part of the Senate, that any agreement entered into must be: (1) effectively verifiable; and (2) enhancing to the strength and security of the United States and its allies. Requires specified reports on: (1) the military consequences of the elimination of ballistic missiles; and (2) the implications of certain arms control positions. Expresses congressional support on an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union establishing nuclear risk reduction centers. Title X: Matters Relating to NATO Countries and Other Allies - Part A: NATO Deterrence - Requires the Secretary, as of a specified conditional date, to report to the Congress regarding the ability of NATO to maintain its strategy of deterrence through the 1990s. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the current level of U.S. forces permanently stationed in Europe in support of NATO should be maintained. Directs the Secretary to contribute specified funds for a study on the future of NATO. Part B: Burden Sharing - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and report to the Congress within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, on the ways in which the United States may further its national security interests in the Far East. Expresses the sense of the Congress that it would welcome action by Japan to increase its role in maintaining global stability through increased defense spending and completion of its five-year defense program. Part C: Procurement Matters - Allows a firm of any member nation of NATO to bid on any contract for the maintenance, overhaul, or repair of DOD equipment as part of the DOD Overseas Workload Program. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on any plans to co-produce or co-assemble the M1A1 tank with a foreign country. Limits the installation by the United States of weapons storage and security systems in any European NATO-member country until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the Congress with respect to such program. Title XI: Department of Defense Management - Part A: Construction and Maintenance of Naval Vessels - Revises limitations on defense contracting for short-term naval vessel repair work. Directs the Secretary to provide specified rates for progress payments on contracts for the repair or maintenance of naval vessels. Part B: Contracting Out - Directs the Secretary to provide that the commanders of each military installation shall have the authority to contract out for commercial activities performed or carried out on such installation. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for such authority within 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the contracting-out for the performance of security guard functions within the military departments or defense agencies. Part C: Security and Counterintelligence Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program for the administration of counterintelligence polygraph examinations to persons whose duties involve access to information classified as top secret or are designated as being within a special access program. Provides exceptions to such examinations, and directs the Secretary to carry out a continuing research program to support the polygraph activities of DOD. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress, on January 15 of each year, on the polygraph program. Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 made inconsistent by the changes in this Act. Directs the Secretary to assess, and report to the Congress within 90 days after the enactment of this Act on, the capacilities of the Soviet Union to engage in U.S. intelligence espionage activities from their embassy facilities on Mount Alto in the District of Columbia. Directs the Secretary to prescribe necessary regulations to prohibit the unauthorized dissemination of unclassified information pertaining to security measures, including plans, procedures, and equipment for the physical protection of special nuclear material. Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the Congress concerning such protective measures. Part D: Special Access Programs - Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the disclosure of certain budget and schedule information about specified special access programs. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1 of each year, to report to the defense committees on special programs (programs the nature or scope of which are withheld from public explanation). Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever a change is made in the classification of a special access program, or whenever there is a modification or termination of the policy or criteria used for designating a program as a special access program. Directs the Secretary and the Comptroller General to submit specified reports to the defense committees on the criteria for designating a program as a special access program. Title XII: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, upon a determination that such action is necessary and in the national interest, to transfer amounts made available to DOD in titles I through III for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Limits the total amounts that may be so transferred, and directs the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfer. Limits the availability of funds appropriated to DOD to three years after such funds originally become available. Requires consistency in amounts presented by DOD in the annual budget presentation to the President. Directs the Secretary, no later April 1 of each year, to submit to the Congress the five-year defense program used to estimate budget expenditures and appropriations included in programs and activities of DOD. Part B: Force Structure and Policy - Outlines responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary of Defense with respect to special operations and low intensity conflict matters. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a directive setting forth a charter of the Assistant Secretary's duties with respect to such operations. Directs the Secretary to provide sufficient resources to the commander of the unified combatant command for the special operations forces established under prior Federal law. Requires a specified minimum number of personnel to be assigned to the staff of the unified combatant command. Outlines the acquisition authority available to the commander of the unified combatant command. Directs the Secretary to appoint within DOD a Conventional Defense Advisory Board (the Board) to review the report of the Conventional Defense Study Group. Requires various reports from the Group, the Board, and the Comptroller General to the Secretary and the defense committees. Directs the Secretary, no later than January 15, 1988, to submit to the defense committees a report on competitive strategies. Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a report on the defense capabilities of the United States in comparison with its potential adversaries. Part C: Miscellaneous Reports - Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense committees within 60 days after the enactment of this Act on, the establishment of an unmanned space operation as part of the Consolidated Space Operations Center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Energy to jointly report to the Congress on contingency plans of DOD and DOE to deal with significant disruptions in the supply to the United States of crude oil supplied by nations of the Persian Gulf region. Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive study, and report to the defense committees no later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, on the early decommissioning of two specified aircraft carriers. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to various Federal armed forces provisions, including military pay provisions. Part E: Miscellaneous Matters - Sets forth various miscellaneous matters, including the following: (1) a required study by the Comptroller General of the capabilities to control drug smuggling in the United States, requiring specified reports; (2) a fund transfer to the Coast Guard for FY 1988 and 1989 for the Law Enforcement Detachment program; (3) the requirement of a plan submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of DOD for assistance in drug law enforcement activities, including the lending of equipment and vehicles for such assistance, requiring specified reports by the Secretary and the Comptroller General; (4) the provision of drug interdiction assistance from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida which includes the provision of command and control data; (5) the establishment of the position of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, to advise the Secretary and the Nuclear Weapons Council on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons matters; (6) an amendment to the Export Administration Act of 1979 stating that shipments of U.S. crude oil to DOD or U.S.-supported installations overseas shall not be considered exports for purposes of the provisions of such Act; (7) directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified claim to the Merchants National Bank of Mobile, Alabama, for a loan guarantee claim; (8) the establishment of procedures by the Secretary for the examination of forensic evidence, including tests for the use of LSD; and (9) authorizing the Secretary to provide transportation on DOD aeromedical evacuation aircraft for veterans traveling to or from a VA medical facility. Title XIII: Amendments Related to Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act - Part A: Joint Officer Personnel Policy - Amends the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act to revise Federal provisions relating to the following: (1) the nomination and selection of officers for the joint specialty; (2) joint duty assignment positions, including the length of such assignments; (3) notice to the Congress of exceptions to the maximum number of officers in the armed forces, consisting of certain officers in joint officer management functions; and (4) special transitional rules applicable to nuclear propulsion officers in joint duty assignment positions. Part B: Other Matters - Authorizes, until January 20, 1989, a temporary increase (by one) in the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense. Excludes certain personnel transferred from GSA to DOD from a specified reduction required under the above Act in the number of personnel assigned to management headquarters positions. Title XIV: Foreign Relations Matters - Commends the armed forces in the Persian Gulf region for certain successful operations carried out by them. States that such forces are fully justified in sinking any Iranian ship which threatens the safe passage of any warship of the United States or any vessel known to have U.S. citizens on board. Expresses the policy of the United States that it should cease all military and economic assistance to the Government of Panama, until certain conditions are satisfied. Reaffirms the congressional condemnation of the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. Urges the Government of Japan to refrain from granting to Vietnam any economic assistance, trade financing, or private sector exportation to Vietnam of goods or services of Japan. Reaffirms the sense of the Congress that the United States should not introduce armed forces into Nicaragua for combat. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1988 and 1989 - Subdivision 1: Fiscal Year 1988 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1985 and 1986 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1984 and 1986 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Naval Weapons Station at Earle, New Jersey. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Havre Air Force Station, Montana, in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain specified military construction projects. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at classified locations. Directs the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Earmarks specified funds so authorized for the planning and design of a bridge over the Gladys Spellman Memorial Parkway providing access to the National Security Agency. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Extends certain FY 1985 and 1986 military construction projects. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees on certain cost estimates in connection with a construction project there. Revises a provision of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 relating to the construction of conforming storage facilities. Earmarks specified SDI funds for the planning and construction of a National Test Facility for the Strategic Defense Initiative at Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions to the NATO Infrastructure program, and authorizes additional appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for such purpose. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering design services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Provides that all authorizations contained in titles I through IV of this subdivision shall expire on October 1, 1989, or on the date of the enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1990, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Subdivision 2: Fiscal Year 1989 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire a specified number of military family housing units at Fort Drum, New York, and to carry out architectural planning and design services in a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units for a specified amount, earmarking some of such amount for energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, carry out architectural and engineering services and design, and improve existing military housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design activities, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized under this title. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, in a specified amount. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations for the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions to the NATO Infrastructure program, and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for such purpose, in a specified amount. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations and Effective Date - Provides that all authorizations contained in titles I through VI of this subdivision shall be effective only to the extent of the availability of appropriations, and shall expire on October 1, 1990, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1991, whichever is later. Subdivision 3: General Provisions - Title I: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into long-term contracts for the construction of hospitals or medical facilities. Extends through FY 1989 the authority to enter into such contracts contracts. Directs the Secretary entering into such a contract to report to the defense committees by February 15, 1989, concerning such contracts and recommendations as to whether such contract authority should be extended. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay meritorious contractor claims that arise under military construction contracts or military family housing contracts, using previously unobligated funds. Extends the per-project limit of guard and reserve minor construction projects for which operation and maintenance funds are authorized to be used. Increases the per-unit threshold limit permissible for family housing improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into a specifed number of family housing leasing contracts. Exempts military family housing units acquired at no cost from being counted in the limitation of such units authorized to be acquired by each department, as long as the Secretary concerned complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Increases the per-unit expenditure limit for the rental of family housing in foreign countries. Limits the amount a Secretary may use for exercise-related unspecified minor military construction projects coordinated or directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff outside the United States during any fiscal year. Increases the cost threshold for multiple unit family dwelling units in a foreign country. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out, during FY 1988 through 1990, a pilot program to assist units of general local government in increasing the amount of affordable family housing available to military personnel. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 15 of each of the years 1988 through 1991, to report to the defense committees on such activities. Restricts the use of funds for the following: (1) diminishing any part of the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; (2) to relocate certain parts of the Joint Tactical Command Control and Communications Agency at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; (3) strategic homeporting at the Naval Station at Everett, Washington, until certain action has taken place; and (4) certain military construction contracts if work on such contracts is to be performed by a non-immigrant. Directs the Secretary to use specified amounts to provide planning assistance to local communities located near certain homeports proposed under the Naval Strategic Dispersal Program at Everett, Washington. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to dispose of any U.S. interest to real property formerly used as Air Force missile sites. Outlines provisions regarding the conveyance of such property. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to pay a settlement claim to the Tulalip Indian Tribes of the State of Washington, in a specified amount, representing loss of access to certain fishing grounds caused by the construction of naval homeporting facilities. Outlines conditions for such claim settlement. Title III: Real Property Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to enter into a lease with the City and County of San Francisco, California, providing for the use by such City and County of a Public Health Service facility located in Presidio of California, to be used as an AIDS treatment facility. Outlines terms and conditions, authorizes appropriations, and requires specified reports concerning such lease. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell and replace certain property on the Kapalama Military Reservation, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell to Lawrence Township of Marion County, Indiana a specified portion of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certain portions of the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain property located near Fort Hamiliton, Brooklyn, New York, for use as military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to Orange County, California certain real property located in Mile Square Regional Park, Orange County, California. Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Administrator certain real property located on the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois, for use as a national cemetery. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease to the Port of Oakland, California, certain real property at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California. Provides for lease payments to the Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such lease until certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements have been met. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release all title and interest the United States may have in certain real property located in Tarrant County, Texas, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to grant to the State of New Mexico a mineral interest in land located within the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 to include an authorization of appropriations for a water system improvement project at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Navy to enter into agreements for the exchange of land and other real property interests at Hamilton Air Force Base, California, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to sell all or a portion of the land comprising the Chapman Court Housing Annex near Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions (including a specified congressional notice-and-wait period before such a sale may take place). Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to San Diego County, California, certain land adjacent to Air Force Plant 19 in San Diego, California, under specified terms and conditions (including a certain congressional notice-and-wait period before any such exchange is permitted.) Directs the Secretary of the Army to lease to the City of Barling, Arkansas, a certain portion of Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, for use by the City of Barling in the treatment of sewage. Outlines lease requirements, including reimbursement by the city for reasonable costs incurred by the Army in increasing the capacity of the sewage treatment facilities at Fort Chaffee to accommodate the use of such facilities by the City of Barling. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988 - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1988 in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) nuclear materials production: (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1988 for plant and capital equipment in carrying out the following programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) materials production; (3) defense waste and transportation management; (4) naval reactors development; and (5) capital equipment not related to construction. Sets forth funding limitations for programs, projects, and activities of DOE relating to SDI. Earmarks specified funds for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Limits the use of funds appropriated to DOE for the short-range attack missile II program. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this title where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this title, whichever is less. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this title for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Outlines other limits related to such funding. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design whenever he or she determines it to be appropriate. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Allows authorizations provided in this title to be adjusted for pay and benefits increases for Federal employees. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1986 to exclude from allowable contractor costs certain information provided to the Congress or a State legislature. Directs the President to conduct a study and formulate a plan for the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex in order to provide the overall size and productive capacity necessary to support national security objectives. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees no later than February 15, 1988, concerning such plan. Directs the Secretary of Energy to request the National Academy of Sciences (the Academy) to submit, by December 1, 1987, a report summarizing its findings relating to the safety of operation of the N Nuclear Reactor at the Hanford Reservation, Washington. Requires such report to be submitted to the Secretary and to specified congressional committees. Places certain restrictions on the operation of such reactor until the Secretary can certify to such congressional committees that the reactor is safe. Directs the Secretary to request the Academy to conduct two reviews, and report to the Secretary the results of such reviews on December 1 of the years 1988 and 1989, on the status of the nuclear weapons complex. Directs the Secretary to review the findings of the Academy, and provide to to the Congress, no later than 30 days after the receipt of each such report, a report on the Secretary's recommendations. Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1987 to provide for an expedient determination of property rights in discoveries and inventions made by Government contractors while under contract with DOE or any other Government agency. Requires a decision on the waiver of U.S. property rights to such invention of discovery to be made within 150 days after such waiver is requested by the contractor. Requires the Secretary, if the 150-day deadline is not met, to report to the defense committees on the reasons for such failure, and to continue to report at 30-day intervals after such date. Directs the Secretary of Energy, no later than February 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees describing the strategy for acquiring new reactor capacity for the production of nuclear materials. Part D: Department of Energy Semiconductor Technology Research Excellence Initiative - Makes certain congressional findings concerning semiconductor research and its importance to U.S. national security. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate and carry out a program of research on semiconductor manufacturing technology and on the practical applications of such technology (such program to be referred to as the Initiative). Requires each national laboratory of DOE to participate in research and development projects under the Initiative in conjunction with DOD and any consortium conducting such research. Requires the Secretary of Energy to enter into any appropriate agreements with the Secretary of Defense and any consortium as necessary to provide for the active participation of the national laboratories of DOE in the Initiative. Provides for the temporary exchange of personnel to carry out research programs under the Initiative. Directs the Secretary of Energy to make available to all appropriate parties any facilities, personnel, or equipment of DOE to conduct such research and development projects under the Initiative. Directs the Secretary of Energy, in preparing the research and development budget of DOE to be included in the President's annual budget, to provide for programs, projects and activities that encourage the development of new technology in the field of semiconductors. Outlines provisions concerning the entering into of cost-sharing agreements between directors of DOE national laboratories involved in Initiative projects and domestic firms involved in such projects. Limits the amount of available funding for each national laboratory that may be used for Initiative-related projects. Requires cost-sharing agreements to provide a 90-day period within which the Secretary of Energy may disapprove or require modification of any such agreement, if the Secretary so desires. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the Initiative, to ensure that unnecessarily duplicative research is not performed at the research facilities participating in such Initiative. Directs the Secretary to adopt procedures providing for the timely and efficient transfer of semiconductor technology developed under the Initiative. Requires the Secretary, no later than one year after funds are first appropriated to carry out the Initiative, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the transfer of semiconductor research technology and information generated by the Initiative. Title II: National Defense Stockpile - National Defense Stockpile Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide that a stockpile quantity may be changed only if the President includes a full explanation and justification for such change in the annual material plan submitted to the Congress as required under such Act. Allows a more-than-ten percent-change in any material only if expressly so authorized by law. Provides that: (1) the purpose of the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) is to serve national defense purposes only; and (2) quantities of materials stockpiled should be sufficient to sustain the United States for at least three years in the event of a war emergency. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to the Congress an annual report on stockpile requirements. Directs the President to designate a single Federal office to have responsibility for performing the functions of the President with regard to the NDS. Designates the individual holding such office as the National Defense Stockpile Manager. Repeals a specified provision of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act authorizing specified uses of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. Provides a February 15 deadline for the annual stockpile materials plan required to be submitted to the Congress by the President under the above Act. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to carry out certain civil defense functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits any funds made available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for civil defense assistance to States from being withheld from any State on the basis of such State's failure to participate in a simulated nuclear attack exercise.

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(Reported to House from the Committee on Armed Services with amendment, H. Rept. 100-58) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1988 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1988 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations to the Army for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and for other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of specified equipment, provided the cost is no more than 88 percent of the cost of such procurement through annual contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of specified equipment, provided the cost is no more than 88 percent of the cost of such procurement through annual contracts. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for Marine Corps procurement and for Navy procurement of aircraft, weapons, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement of the Navy. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the defense agencies for FY 1988. Authorizes appropriations for procurement of aircraft, vehicles, and communications and other miscellaneous equipment for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988. Authorizes additional appropriations and sets forth FY 1988. Authorizes additional appropriations and sets forth FY 1988 limitations on obligations for unbudgeted items of such reserve components. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1989 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Army to take specified action, on or place certain obligation limitations upon, specified Army procurement programs for FY 1988. Sets forth certain procurement limitations on specified Navy aircraft, programs. Transfers funds originally appropriated for the terminated Air Force T-46 program to naval aircraft procurement. Transfers certain other Air Force funds, sets forth certain limitations, and requires certain reports from the Secretary of the Air Force concerning specified Air Force programs. Directs the Secretary of Defense: (1) by January 1, 1988, to issue an environmental impact statement concerning the chemical stockpile demilitarization program; (2) by February 1, 1988, to decide how to carry out such program; (3) by March 15, 1988, to submit to certain congressional committees a revised concept plan for the program; and (4) to conduct an ongoing surveillance and assessment program of the stockpile. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations and Program Limitations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation, programs of the Army and the Navy. Requires certain studies and reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for unbudgeted amounts for salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits authorized by law for civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD). Establishes an Advanced Submarine Technology Program to be carried out by Secretary of the Navy. Requires certain reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees from the Secretary of Defense concerning the conduct of such program. Sets forth funding limitations and requires certain independent studies concerning specified submarine programs. Sets forth funding limitations concerning specified systems and components of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Sets forth funding and enhancement limitations and requires quarterly status reports in relation to the B-1B Bomber program. Requires an evaluation of the flight test program of such aircraft by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of DOD. Outlines funding limitations for various research, development, test, and evaluation programs of the defense agencies. Prohibits funding for the Advanced Tactical Fighter aircraft until the Secretary certifies that it will satisfy Navy requirements for aircraft carrier catapults and arresting gear. Limits funds and outlines other requirements concerning the electronic warfare programs, including congressional reporting requirements. Earmarks specified funds for each branch of the armed forces for: (1) technology base programs; and (2) conventional defense initiative programs. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 1988, from testing electromagnetic pulse in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with a specified program. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Specifies the funding level for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit specified congressional reports concerning such program. Prohibits any funds appropriated to DOD from being used to develop, test, or deploy an antiballistic missile (ABM) system or component which is sea-based, air-based, space-based, or mobile land-based. Removes such limitations upon certain certifications to the Congress by the President. Part C: Advanced Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Projects - Earmarks specified funds for certain demonstration projects under the SDI program, relating to anti-tactical ballistic missile systems. Part D: Miscellaneous - Earmarks specified funds for cooperative medical research to be administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for operation and maintenance funds for the Armed Forces, the Defense Agencies, the National Guard, the reserve components, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and military health care. Authorizes additional appropriations for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, unbudgeted increases as the result of inflation, and for unbudgeted amounts for salary, pay, retirement, and other employees benefits for civilian DOD employees. Limits the obligation of funds under this provision. Limits the use of such funds for the purchase of investment items. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for working capital funds for the armed forces. Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that U.S. wines are given equitable treatment when selling alcoholic beverage products in a U.S. military installation outside the United States. Requires certain reports from the Secretary to the Congress concerning implementation. Requires the Secretary to establish uniform pricing policies for merchandise authorized to be sold at commissaries on a foreign U.S. military installation. Earmarks specified funds and provides civilian personnel strengths for Army depot maintenance functions. Prohibits the managing of civilian personnel by end strengths. Eliminates the requirement that civilian personnel and strengths be authorized by law. Requires a certain report from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress concerning the operating and support costs of major weapons systems. Sets forth a funding limitation and requires a specified study on dual source maintenance for F-15 aircraft. Requires a report on the results of such study. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees on efforts to measure military readiness and related such measurement to the budget process. Extends through FY 1988 the authorization for the transportation of relief supplies of Afghan refugees under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization for the transportation of relief supplies to certain third-world countries under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Repeals a specified provision of Federal law requiring that reimbursement of incidental expenses incurred while providing certain voluntary services for the benefit of the armed forces shall be made only from nonappropriated funds. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide free shuttle service for military members and their families to military installations determined by such Secretary to be located in remote areas. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces as of September 30, 1988. Delays until the end of FY 1990 a required percentage reduction in the number of active-duty officers in the armed forces. Requires the comptroller General to complete a study regarding the growth in the size of such officer corps and to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) on such study no later than December 31, 1987. Reduces certain amounts authorized for military personnel for FY 1988 due to certain cost savings attributable to reductions in the size of the officer corps. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for selected reserve personnel of the reserve components for FY 1988, providing for certain adjustments to such end strengths. Authorizes end strengths for reserves on active-duty in support of the reserves for FY 1988. Increases the number of members in certain military grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1988, together with permissible adjustments to such loads. Title V: Military Personnel - Extends through FY 1989 the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through FY 1989 certain reserve officer management programs. Extends through FY 1990 the authority for the enlistment of single parents in the reserves. Authorizes the Commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School of the Army to confer the degree of master of laws in military under appropriate circumstances. Requires the withholding of State and local income taxes for National Guard and reserve drill pay. Provides a one-year delay (until the end of FY 1989) in the requirement that a certain minimum percentage of Air Force enlistees must be women. Prohibits certain interagency fund transfers within DOD. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress a plan to enable the Coast Guard to meet 95 percent of its wartime mobilization requirements by September 30, 1988. Requires such report to be submitted no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay (in conformity with annual GS-level increases), authorizing instead a three percent in basic pay, basic allowances for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, as well as a three percent increase in cadet and midshipman, all effective as of January 1, 1988. Part B: Travel and Transportation - Amends Federal military pay provisions to authorize the payment of a transportation allowance for members and their dependents if such member is stationed outside the United States and agrees to extend his or her tour of duty by at least one-half of the original enlistment period. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 requiring a congressional certification prior to the implementation of certain amendments allowing the payment of lodging plus per diem expenses for military members, in certain cases. Part C: Bonuses and Special Incentive Pays - Provides for the payment of special pay to members who are also entitled to basic pay while such member is performing sea duty, at specified rates. Extends through FY 1989 the payment of special pay for aviation officers who continue in the service beyond their duty period. Extends through FY 1992 and through FY 1990, respectively, the enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the performance of active and reserve duty. Part D: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the withdrawal of certain remarried persons from participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Revises Federal provisions concerning occupancy by Coast Guard personnel of substandard family housing units. Authorizes the collection of amounts owed to service relief societies from the final pay of military members. Limits the lump-sum amount authorized to be paid by the Secretary concerned during FY 1988 and 1989 under the Selected Reenlistment Program. Title VIII: Health Care Provisions - Defense Health Care Amendments of 1987 - Part A: Medical Readiness - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish and maintain a program to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in health professions training while a member of the reserve forces. Authorizes such Secretary to pay a stipend to physicians and graduate nurses engaging in specialties determined critical to wartime needs, and to baccalaureate students about to engage in such critical specialties upon graduation from accredited institutions. Sets forth provisions concerning such agreements, including the amounts to be paid to each such person and the period required to be served after the provision of such financial assistance. Outlines penalties for the failure to complete any agreed-upon training program or period of duty following such financial assistance, and repeals the prior financial assistance program established under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Sets forth funding limitations for such program during FY 1988. Revises provisions of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program to allow the Secretary of Defense to require, as part of an agreement under such program, that a person must agree to accept residency training in a skill designated by the Secretary as a critically needed wartime skill. Targets 2500 of the 6000 scholarships to be awarded under such program for critically needed wartime skills. Extends to October 1, 1990, the date for initial appointment under the Education Loan Repayment Program for health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserves. Authorizes constructive service credit under each branch of the armed forces and the reserve forces forthose entering such service with experience in the health professions. Removes a specified ceiling on the payment of special pay to medical officers serving in the armed forces. Part B: Peacetime Health Care - Limits the per-family payment for catastrophic loss protection for developments of active-duty personnel under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, during FY 1988 and 1989, from imposing a fee for the receipt or outpatient medical or dental care at a military medical treatment facility. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to take certain action to ensure the proper representation of health profession personnel in naval officer appointments and end strength increases for the Navy during FY 1988 and 1989. Part C: Health Care Management - Directs the Secretary of Defense to request, in the budget for each fiscal year, appropriations for the Military Health Care Account for the implementation of CHAMPUS programs. Deletes a specified provision of federal law describing the military health enrollment system. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct two projects, beginning in during FY 1988 and continuing for not less than two years, designed to demonstrate an alternative military health care delivery system in which the commander of a military medical facility is responsible for all funding and all medical care of the covered beneficiaries of that facility. Outlines other requirements and requires a report to the defense committees concerning such alternate system. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to require the Secretary of Defense to develop a methodology to be used in the evaluation of a CHAMPUS reform demonstration project required under such Act. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating or expending any funds for such demonstration project until a new solicitation is issued for the awarding of such project. Outlines additional requirements concerning the solicitation, the demonstration project, and the reform initiative. Amends such act further to: (1) add a requirement to the conduct of medical systems information operational tests by vendors of such systems; and (2) extend through FY 1988 the VA's decentralized hospital computer program. Prohibits acquisition funding for the Composite Health Care System until the operational testing referred to above is completed. Revises provisions under such Act concerning a reporting requirement on the operational testing of the medical information system. Title VIII: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer amounts authorized in titled I through III of this Act between DOD authorizations, as necessary, if the Secretary promptly notifies the Congress of any such transfer. Limits to 30 percent the portion of the total dollar amount of DOD clothing and textile supplies contracts that can be awarded through small business set-aside programs. Revises a certain limitation pertaining to the contracting-out for short-term naval vessel repair work. Sets forth the rate of progress payments to be made by the Secretary of the Navy for the repair or maintenance of naval vessels. Repeals the prohibition on the use of interport differential for certain ship maintenance contracts. Requires the Secretary of Defense, at the same time that the President's budget is submitted, to submit to the defense committees an unclassified report setting forth the total amount requested in that budget for special access programs of DOD (a program which in any manner conceals the existence or scope of the program). Requires annual notice of and justification for the designation of any special access programs, and authorizes access to such disclosed information to any member of the defense committees. Requires specified reports to the defense committees by the Secretary relating to such special access programs or changes in the criteria used to designate such programs. Establishes within DOD a Conventional Defense Advisory Board, which shall examine and survey all aspects of the conventional warfare capabilities of the armed forces and recommend changes for any deficiencies found in such capabilities. Outlines membership requirements for the Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary of Defense on March 1 annually on its findings and recommendations. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military construction Authorization Act, 1988 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units to carry out construction design activities, and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Earmarks a specified amount for certain community planning assistance near the Light Infantry Division Post at Ft. Drum, New York. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain fiscal year 1984, 1985, andd 1986 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out construction design activities, to improve existing units and to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation to construct defense access roads in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out specified construction projects and housing improvements for which funds have been appropriated prior to enactment of this Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for specified FY 1984 and 1986 military construction projects. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary or the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units to carry out construction design activities, and to improve existing units in specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Havre Air Force Station, Montana, in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carryout specified military construction projects for which funds have been appropriated prior to enactment of this Act. Extends the authorization of appropriation for certain specified Names military construction projects. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing and to improve such existing housing in specified amounts at classified locations. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Extends a prior-year authorization for the elementary and high school at Florennes, Belgium. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make limited contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Authorizes additional appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for such purpose. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the National Guard and reserve forces. Part A: Expiration of Authorization; Effective Date - Title VII: General Provisions - Provides that all authorizations contained in title I through V of this Act shall expire on October 1, 1989, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1990, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into long-term contracts for the construction of hospital or medical facilities. Extends through FY 1988 the authority to enter into all such authorize long-term contracts. Directs each Secretary entering into such a contract to report to the defense committees by February 15, 1988, concerning such contracts and recommendations as to whether such contract authority should be extended. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay meritorious contractor claims that arise under military construction contracts or military family housing contracts using previously unobligated funds. Increases the per-project limit of National guard and reserve forces minor construction projects for which operation and maintenance funds are authorized to be used. Increases the per-unit threshold limit permissible for family housing improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into a specified number of family housing leasing contracts. Exempts military family housing units acquired at no cost from being counted in the limitation of such units authorized to be acquired by each department, if the Secretary concerned complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Increases the per-unit expenditure limit for the rental of family housing in foreign countries. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and otherwise act to assist State and local governments and regional organizations in planning community adjustments necessitated by the closure or establishment of military installations, the cancellation of a defense contract or program, or the encroachment of the surrounding community on a military installation. Places specified restrictions (including a maximum funding limitation) on minor military construction projects performed outside the continental United States. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a pilot program to assist local governments in increasing the amount of affordable family housing available to military personnel. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the implementation of the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees no later than March 15 of the years 1988 through 1991 with respect to activities carried out under such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990, and terminates such program on September 30, 1990. Designates Fort DeRussey, Hawaii, as the primary Armed Forces Recreation Center for the Pacific. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to sell, lease, rent, or otherwise dispose of the land constituting for DeRussey. Prohibits FY 1988 DOD funds from being used for: (1) diminishing any part of the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; (2) the closure or realignment of Mather Air Force Base, California; or (3) relocating the headquarters and other parts of the Joint Tactical Command, Control, and Communications Agency at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Prohibits funds appropriated under specified provisions of this Act and the Military construction Authorization Act, 1987 from being used for strategic homeporting at the Naval Station in Everett, Washington, until specified conditions are met. Prohibits funding for military construction contracts on Guam using nonimmigrant workers. Repeals a provision of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 authorizing for the design of a Pentagon Annex. Part D: Real Property Transaction - Directs the Secretary of Defense to to enter into a lease with the City and County of San Francisco, California, providing for the use by such City and County of a Public Health Service facility located in the Presidio of San Francisco. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell and replace certain property on the Kapalama Military Reservation, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell to Lawrence Township of Marion County, Indiana, a specified portion of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certain portions of the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for cemeteries. Directs the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain property located near Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, for rehabilitation and use as military family housing. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988 - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1988 for operating expenses and for plant and capital equipment in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) naval reactors development; and (8) capital equipment not related to construction. Sets forth funding limitations for the research, development, and testing of nuclear-directed energy weapons. Earmarks specified funds for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title in excess of the lesser of: (1) 105 percent of the amount authorized for a program or (2) $10,000,000 over authorized amount. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have expired since such statement was submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of certain construction projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Outlines other limits related to such funding. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design whenever necessary to meet the needs of national defense or to protect human life. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Allows authorizations provided in this title to be adjusted for pay and benefits increases for Federal employees. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1986 to exclude from allowable contractor costs certain costs incurred to provide information to the Congress or a State legislature. Renames the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore, California, as the Livermore National Laboratory. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 which provides its current designation. Directs the President to conduct a study and formulate a plan for the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex in order to provide the overall size and productive capacity necessary to support national security objectives. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees concerning such plan no later than February 15, 1988. Provides that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition is to be chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council. (Currently, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering hold such position.) Establishes the position of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, who shall advise the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons matters. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue a reasonable nuclear test program, so long as the United States relies on nuclear deterrence as an element of national defense strategy. Title II: National Defense Stockpile - Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide that it is the intent of the Congress that: (1) the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) be used to serve national defense purposes only; and (2) quantities of materials stockpiled should be sufficient to sustain the United States for at least three years in the event of a war emergency. Requires stockpile requirements to be established by law. Transfers certain stockpiling functions under such Act from the President to the Secretary of Defense. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress annually a report on the stockpile requirements. Outlines stockpile matters to be included in each such report. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of any other department or agency for the performance of certain stockpiling functions. Provides that appropriations for the requirements of NDS and for deposit to the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund shall be made as appropriations to DOD for military functions. Extends the uses of such Fund to cover NDS acquisitions and upgrading. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to carry out certain civil defense functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits any funds made available for FY 1987 and 1988 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for civil defense assistance to States from being withheld from any State on the basis of such State's failure to participate in a simulated nuclear attack exercise.

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(Measure passed Senate, amended (Inserted Text of S. 1174), roll call #300 (56-42)) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1988 and 1989 - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Air Force for FY 1988 and 1989 for procurement. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes appropriations to the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other miscellaneous equipment. Extends through FY 1989 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary) in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Sets forth specified requirements, restrictions, and limitations with respect to certain Army, Navy, and Air Force procurement programs. Part C: Milestone and Multiyear Contract Authorizations - Earmarks FY 1988 and 1989 appropriations for the following programs and systems: (1) Mobile Subscriber Equipment; (2) the Army Tactical Missile System; (3) the Trident II Missile; (4) the T-45 Training System; and (5) the Medium Launch Vehicle. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for procurement of the mobile subscriber equipment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for procurement of the Army Tactical Missile System, the Trident II Missile, and the T-45 Training System. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to enter into multiyear contracts for specified programs. Prohibits the Secretary concerned from entering into such a multiyear contract unless certain cost savings are achieved over the making of annual contracts for such programs. Part D: Chemical Weapons - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 1988 for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons as required under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Requires the Secretary to issue a specified environmental impact statement concerning such program by January 1, 1988. Requires the Secretary to make certain certifications to the Congress before obligating any FY 1988 funds for any procurement or any construction project at a military facility within the continental United States for the disposal of stockpiled chemical weapons. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 15, 1988, to submit to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) an alternative concept plan for the chemical stockpile demilitarization program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations of Appropriations and Program Limitations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, testing, and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for unbudgeted amounts for salary, retirement, and other employee benefits of civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD). Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Sets forth specified requirements, restrictions, and limitations with respect to research, development, testing, and evaluation of certain Army, Navy, and Air Force programs. Repeals the Navy Pegasus Engine program. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to carry out a program for the modernization and expansion of the Lincoln Laboratory complex at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) extended air defense systems; and (2) a chemical weapons convention compliance program. Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act from being used in association with the Advanced Launch System until the Secretary makes certain certifications concerning such system to the defense committees. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) transfer to the Air Force for space launch recovery activities; (2) the cruise missile guidance program; and (3) the DOD high-temperature superconductivity research and development program. Outlines administrative provisions in connection with the DOD superconductivity program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is in the national economic and security interests of the United States for DOD to provide financial assistance to Sematech (a consortium of the U.S. semiconductor industry) for research and development activities in the field of semiconductor manufacturing technology. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Sematech for such purposes, in accordance with a specified memorandum of understanding entered into between Sematech and the Secretary requiring Sematech to work in cooperation with the Secretary and the Department of Energy, requiring the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech to review the research activities of Sematech and report on such to the defense committees, and requiring Sematech to take all necessary steps to ensure the expeditious transfer of technology developed and owned by Sematech to the private sector participants in the Sematech research. Establishes the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech to: (1) conduct an annual review of the activities of Sematech; and (2) submit to Sematech any recommendations for modifications of plans or the technological goals in the plan. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the Council. Directs the Comptroller General to review the annual reports of the independent auditor required by the Secretary in the memorandum of understanding, and make comments to the defense committees concerning the accuracy and completeness of such reports, together with any additional comments as considered appropriate. Provides that any export of semiconductor manufacturing technology developed by Sematech under these provisions shall be subject to the Export Administration Act, and not to the Arms Export Control Act. Provides for the confidentiality of certain information concerning Sematech, as well as trade secrets developed by it. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the above purposes. Earmarks specified funds for the nuclear monitoring research program, and limits funding for bioenvironmental hazards research and for the Center for Advanced Technologies. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified funds for research and development in connection with the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for FY 1988. Requires the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, no later than 90 days after the enactment of an Act authorizing funds for SDI for FY 1988, to report to the defense committees concerning such funds. Prohibits the use of DOD funds for FY 1988 or 1989 for the development or testing of space-based, sea-based, air-based, and other mobile land-based antiballistic missile systems, unless a joint resolution repealing such prohibition is enacted. Directs the Secretary, at the time of the annual submission of defense budget materials for FY 1989 and 1990 (but not later than March 15 of each such year), to report to the Congress on the programs that constitute the SDI and other programs, if any, relating to the defense against antiballistic missiles. Outlines detailed information to be included in each report. Repeals specified provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Acts of 1985 and 1987 made inconsistent by the above provision. Makes certain findings with regard to the establishment of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to DOD for SDI programs for the awarding of a contract to operate a FFRDC to support SDI, as long as the Secretary of Defense has taken certain actions ensuring the competitiveness of such contract award, and has issued directives prohibiting or requiring certain action in connection with such FFRDC. Prohibits any funds from being available to such FFRDC five years after the awarding of its initial contract. Part D: Milestone Authorizations - Earmarks specified funds as appropriated under this Act for FY 1988 and 1989 for the following programs: (1) the Army Tactical Missile System; (2) the Trident II Missile; (3) the T-45 Training System; and (4) the Medium Launch Vehicle. Authorizes appropriations for research, development testing, and evaluation for: (1) FY 1990 for the Army Tactical Missile System; (2) FY 1990 and 1991 for the T-45 Training System; and (3) FY 1990 through 1992 for the Trident II Missile and the Medium Launch Vehicle. Part E: Balanced Technology Initiative - States, as the purpose of this provision, to authorize funds for a Balanced Technology Initiative program. Focuses such program on the development of concepts and methods to enhance the U.S. conventional defense capabilities, including concepts and methods to take full advantage of the technological superiority of the United States and its allies as a means of increasing the rate of obsolescence of Soviet and Warsaw Pact equipment, doctrine, and tactics. Earmarks specified funds for research and development for innovative projects under such program. Requires the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to determine the appropriate amounts of such funds to be allocated to the military departments and the defense agencies. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this provision from being used for either the Conventional Defense Initiative or SDI. Requires the Director, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the defense committees on allocations of funds under such Initiative. Prohibits the obligation of any such funds until such report is received and 30 days have elapsed. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for operation and maintenance for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, and for environmental restoration, defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs, inflation, and salary, retirement, and other employee benefits for civilian DOD employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the Secretary to carry out procurement technical assistance cooperative agreements with various business entities. Earmarks specified funds for procurement technical assistance outreach programs targeted to assist Indian-owned enterprises located on or near Indian reservations. Directs the Secretary to defray the full cost of such a program when the cooperative agreement is made with a Federally-recognized tribe or Indian organization. Part B: Program Changes, Requirements, and Limitations - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to operate the United States Army School of the Americas to provide military education and training to military personnel of Central and South American and Caribbean countries. Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that package stores located on overseas military installations give U.S. wines equitable distribution, selection, and price as compared with wines of the country in which the military installation is located. Prohibits funds from being used for the overhaul, maintenance, or repair of any naval vessel unless the Secretary of the Navy complies with specified requirements. Earmarks specified funds for the operation and maintenance of the Primary Medical Care for the Uniformed Services (PRIMUS) clinics and the Naval Primary Care (NAVCARE) clinics. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use specified funds to repair and maintain memorial monuments and historic sites on the Island of Corregidor in the Republic of the Philippines. Prohibits funds used for the New Threat Upgrade overhaul program of the Navy from being used for work performed on a cost plus contract basis unless the Secretary of the Navy complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Part C: Humanitarian and Other Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for the transportation of humanitarian assistance to Afghan refugees. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for such purpose, giving the Secretary of State control over the administration of such transportation of relief supplies. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to the defense committees two reports, the first one required no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act and the other no later than June 1, 1988, concerning: (1) expenditures for and transportation of such assistance; and (2) nonlethal supplies of DOD made available for humanitarian relief purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to transport to any country goods and supplies which have been furnished by a nongovernmental source and which are intended for humanitarian assistance. Outlines further provisions concerning the transportation of such goods, and requires the Secretary, at the end of each 180-day period, to report to specified committees on the origin, contents, destination, and disposition of all such goods. Earmarks specified funds for the use of the North Atlantic Interparliamentary Assembly for a study on the future of NATO. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty personnel for FY 1988 and 1989. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to vary such end strengths by not more than two percent. Authorizes a proportionate reduction in such end strengths for reserve members serving on active duty at the end of the fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1988 and 1989 for reserve members serving on active-duty in support of the reserves. Revises the number of reserve personnel in each military department authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves for FY 1988 and 1989. Part C: Military Training - Authorizes the average military training student loads for the armed forces and Guard and reserve forces for FY 1988 and 1989. Allows such student loads to be adjusted consistent with other personnel adjustments authorized under this Act. Authorizes no more than 29,500 midshipmen and cadets to be in the ROTC financial assistance programs at any one time, with the Secretary of Defense to determine the number to be appointed in each military department. (Currently, there is a specified limit to the number of such students in each department, with the same maximum number of such students.) Part D: Civilian Personnel - Removes, for FY 1988 and 1989, the requirement that the Congress must authorize the end strength for civilian members of DOD as of the end of a fiscal year. Limits funds available for such personnel for FY 1988 and 1989. Title V: Military Personnel - Extends through FY 1989 the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through FY 1989 the following: (1) certain reserve officer management programs; and (2) the authority under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 for single parents to enlist in the reserves. Authorizes the President to make appointments in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in the grade of lieutenant general or general or in the grade of vice admiral or admiral in excess of the number of such appointments otherwise authorized by law. Requires a corresponding reduction in the number of appointments allowed to be made in the other branches of the armed forces on a one-to-one basis with the President's appointments. Limits the number of officers authorized to be so appointed. Requires the President, whenever making such an appointment, to specify the other branch of the armed forces in which the corresponding reduction is to be made. Permits an excess in the number of flag officers in the armed forces as of the beginning of FY 1988 until their duty assignments are completed, or they are retired. Authorizes a member of the armed forces to wear an item of religious apparel while wearing the uniform of the member's armed force, except in the following circumstances: (1) when the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that the wearing of the item would interfere with the performance of the members' military duties; or (2) when the Secretary concerned determines that the item is not neat and conservative. Directs the Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations concerning the wearing of such religious apparel, consistent with the above provisions, within 120 days after the enactment of this Act. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay (in conformity with annual GS-level increases), authorizing instead a four percent increase in basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, as well as a four percent increase in cadet and midshipman pay, effective January 1, 1988. Authorizes members of a certain pay grade and above who are assigned to sea duty and are married to another member of the armed forces on active duty to elect to receive a basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) in lieu of occupying assigned quarters adequate for only one member. Authorizes the payment of a variable housing allowance for members with dependents who are assigned to sea duty and who elect not to occupy assigned housing adequate only for such member. Revises standards for the payment of household goods weight allowances for senior enlisted personnel. Entitles a member of the armed forces assigned to a permanent overseas duty station to a civilian clothing allowance if such member is required to wear such clothing for all or a substantial portion of the time that such member is on duty. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 relating to reimbursement for actual lodging expenses plus per diem for members entitled to travel allowances. Revises effective dates set forth in that Act and the Defense Technical Corrections Act of 1987 in relation to the effective date of this Act. Part B: Travel and Transportation - Authorizes the payment of dislocation allowances in advance. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a transportation allowance to a member and his or her dependents if such member voluntarily agrees to extend his or her overseas tour of duty. Authorizes the payment of travel and transportation expenses of no more than two family members when the attending physician of a military member determines that the presence of such family members is necessary for the health and welfare of a member who is seriously ill or injured. Provides for the transportation at Government expense of one leased automobile of a member of the armed forces ordered to make a permanent change of duty station. (Current law only provides for the transportation of any one vehicle that is owned by a member ordered to a change of station.) Part C: Bonuses and Special Incentive Pays - Authorizes the payment of bonus pay, special incentive pay, or increases in such pay for the following members of the armed forces: (1) aviation career officers; (2) personnel performing submarine duty; (3) personnel performing sea duty; (4) reserve members performing diving duty; and (5) personnel reenlisting. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization for the payment of enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for members of the reserves. Part D: Miscellaneous - Extends the military spouse employment preference as contained in the Military Family Act of 1985 to cover those military spouses attempting to obtain Federal positions in grades GS-1 through GS-15. (Currently, such preference exists only for spouses seeking positions above GS-4.) Revises provisions concerning the definition of dependent for purposes of eligibility for military allowances. Authorizes an individual who is a participant in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP), with the consent of such individual's spouse, to withdraw from participation in such plan, under certain circumstances. Changes from 60 to 55 the age at which termination of SBP benefits will not occur simply because of the remarriage of the widow or widower for whom such benefits had been paid previously. Directs the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member of the armed forces for the qualifying adoption expenses (reasonable and necessary expenses directly related to the legal adoption of a child) incurred by the member in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits the per-child and per-year amounts to be paid to such members for such adoption expenses. Outlines those expenses which are and are not included as qualifying adoption expenses for such members. Authorizes the advancement, upon retirement, to the highest grade of active duty served for reserve members of the armed forces who, at the time of their retirement, are serving on full-time active duty, or, in the case of reserve duty with the National Guard, are serving full-time duty organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve forces. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Part A: Medical Readiness - Amends Federal military health care provisions to reduce from 6,000 to 5,000 the number of members who may be designated as members of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department, in order to obtain adequate numbers of reserve commissioned officers who are qualified in critically-needed health profession specialties, to establish and maintain a program to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in training in such specialties. Outlines further provisions concerning such program, including the payment of educational stipends to reserve members who are physicians or graduates in such critically-needed wartime specialties, and to baccalaureate students engaged in nursing or other health professions studies. Provides stipend amounts, as well as required reserve service time upon graduation from such scholarship program. Outlines penalties for failure to complete such educational training program, or for failure to complete the required period of post-graduation service in the reserves. Limits the total number of participants in such programs among all the military departments to 10,200. Repeals the prior Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program as contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through October 1, 1989, the authority to repay certain loans of certain health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department, with the officer's consent, to retain in an active status certain reserve officers even after they have achieved retirement age. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to determine a maximum age qualification for initial appointment as reserve members of the armed forces to serve in critical health profession specialities for which such Secretary has determined that there is a personnel shortage. Prohibits the maximum to be set at less than 47 years of age. Part B: Peacetime Health Care - Amends Federal provisions relating to the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to limit to $1,000 per year the amount an individual or family will be required to pay for the cost of certain health care for an active-duty member's spouse and children. Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, during FY 1988 and 1989, from imposing a fee for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military medical treatment facility. Provides for Federal preemption over any State or local law for the provisions of any contract which relates to the nature and extent of coverage or benefits in connection with the Military Health Care Account as currently provided under Federal law. Authorizes the provision of dental prostheses of military dependents. Revises certain provisions relating to the CHAMPUS reform initiative and certain demonstration projects under such initiative. Provides CHAMPUS coverage for certain equipment used in the monitoring of subsequent children in families who have had victims of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 120 days after the enactment of this Act and with the assistance of the Secretary of Energy, to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a report on DOD plans for dealing with significant disruptions in the supply of U.S. crude oil produced by the nations of the Persian Gulf region. Outlines other action required of the Secretary in preparing such report, including an assessment of current dependency on such oil and the development of contingency plans as a response to the loss of such oil. Part C: Miscellaneous - Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 relating to certain requirements concerning the acquisition of medical information systems. Title VIII: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit to the Congress, no later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, a report discussing the use of the current official U.S. method of estimating the yield of Soviet underground nuclear tests in order to determine the extent of Soviet compliance with the 150 kiloton limit on underground nuclear tests as contained in the Threshhold Test Ban Treaty. Outlines the form and content of, and specified information required to be included in, such report. Directs the Secretary, no later than January 15, 1988, to report to the defense committees on competitive strategies. Prohibits the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in DOD from being assigned any responsibility for developmental test and evaluation, other than giving advice to officials responsible for such testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, offers the U.S. Army a valuable training opportunity; (2) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military forces would greatly benefit from such a training facility; and (3) NATO should vigorously pursue the development of a new training center similar to the National Training Center. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prohibit the unauthorized dissemination of unclassified information with respect to security measures for the physical protection of special nuclear material, as long as the Secretary determines that the dissemination of such information could reasonably be expected to have a significantly adverse effect on the health and safety of the public or the common defense and security of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prepare quarterly reports, to be available to any interested persons, detailing the Secretary's application of regulations or orders issued under this provision. Repeals certain provisions of Federal law relating to the operational testing of major weapons systems and munitions programs. Revises other provisions concerning the oversight of cost or schedule variances in certain major defense acquisition programs. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to include as targets for minority contracting any nonprofit institution that was an integral part of a historically Black college or university before the date of enactment of this Act. Revises provisions concerning the adjudiciation of ineligibility for a position in the executive branch of Government on the basis of the failure to register with the Selective Service System under the Military Selective Service Act. Eliminates one of the two positions of the Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Makes the remaining Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy third in command in the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Office behind the Judge Advocate General and the Deputy Judge Advocate General. Authorizes any Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy serving in such position on the day before the date of enactment of this Act to continue serving until the end of his assignment detail. Declares that the Senate fully supports the efforts of the President to negotiate arms reduction treaties with the Soviet Union. Endorses the principles of mutuality and reciprocity in such negotiations and cautions against any U.S. actions which are unilateral concessions to the Soviet Union. Urges the President to ensure that no provisions are agreed to which would be harmful to the security of the United States or its allies. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union is in violation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in building and placing the Krasnoyarsk radar system (an early-warning ballistic missile detection radar) more in the interior of the Soviet Union. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD to be used for the procurement of manual typewriters which contain one or more components manufactured in a Warsaw Pact nation, unless such country has a most favored nation trading status with the United States. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, funds appropriated to DOD for any fiscal year from being used to enter into a contract with a foreign government or foreign firm if such contract calls for the conduct of research, development, test, or evaluation in connection with the SDI program. Prohibits any Federal agency from supporting the development of stragegic defenses against air-breathing or ballistic missile threats that would utilize damaging or lethal fire, except by an affirmative decision at an appropriate level of authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than March 1, 1988, to submit to the Congress a report on the effects of no ABM Treaty limitations on the SDI program. Requires consistency in budget information submitted to the Congress by DOD. Revises provisions concerning the rights of the United States to technical data pertaining to an item or process being manufactured or developed by a Government contractor or subcontractor. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations outlining U.S. rights to such technical data. Prohibits such regulations from denying the right of a contractor or subcontractor to receive a fee or royalty for the use of technical data developed exclusively at private expense by the contractor or subcontractor. Prohibits a contractor or subcontractor, as a condition of being responsive to a solicitation or as a condition for the awarding of a contract, from being required to sell or relinquish to the United States any rights in technical data, except under limited circumstances, or to refrain from using or selling an item or process developed exclusively at private expense. Authorizes a contractor or subcontractor to license directly to a third party the use of technical data pertaining to an item developed exclusively at private expense, if such licensing is necessary to develop alternative sources of supply and manufacture. Requires the Secretary to include, in each contract awarded by DOD that requires technical data to be delivered to the United States, a provision relating to the release or disclosure of technical data developed by a contractor or subcontractor exclusively at private expense. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to include as part of certain NATO cooperative project agreements the procurement by the United States of munitions from NATO or a subsidiary of NATO. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, in making nominations for selection to the joint officer management specialty, to delegate such nomination authority only to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a certain educational priority requirement in the case of an officer who has completed both the educational requirement and the full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment, or to waive the educational requirement for an officer who has completed two full tours of duty in a joint duty assignment. Authorizes the above waiver authority to also be delegated, but only to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Revises the definition of the average length of joint duty assignments and the full tour of duty in joint duty assignments. Requires a longer tour of joint duty (at least three years) for officers who are less than a general or flag officer (whose required tour of joint duty as such officers is only two years), unless such junior officers have a critical occupational speciality involving combat operations. (For such officers, the required tour of joint juty is also only two years.) Outlines further provisions concerning the determination of a full tour of joint duty. Directs the Secretary of Defense, in computing the average length of joint duty assignments, to exclude specified types of joint service. Directs the Secretary to include in his annual reports to the Congress the number of time the above waiver authorities were exercised, the reasons for exercising such waivers, and the number of times the waiver authority was not exercised. Authorizes the Secretary to include as joint duty assignments up to 100 assignments within an officer's own military department, as designated by the Secretary. Revises the prerequisite of a joint duty assignment, for purposes of promotion to general or flag officer grades, for qualified nuclear propulsion officers. Allows such officers, up to a specified date, to be promoted to a general or flag officer grade of rear admiral without joint duty experience. Prohibits such an officer from being promoted to full admiral until such officer has completed a full tour of joint duty. Directs the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ensure that an appropriate number of qualified nuclear propulsion officers serve in joint duty assignments. Requires the Chairman to submit to the defense committees at the earliest practicable date (but not later than one year after the enactment of this Act) a plan to ensure such joint duty assignments for such officers. Authorizes to DOD, until January 20, 1989, one additional Assistant Secretary of Defense (for a total of 12). Authorizes one more position of Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Executive Schedule. Amends the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 to exclude from certain management headquarters personnel reductions required under such Act not more than 1600 personnel transferred from General Services Administration to DOD in order to have DOD assume responsibility for the administration of certain real property under the jurisdiction of DOD. Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement that provides for the transportation of any primary beneficiary of the VA on any DOD aircraft operating under the aeromedical evacuation system of DOD. Outlines certain transportation requirements to be included in such provisions. Prohibits any charge from being imposed upon any such primary beneficiary for such transportation services. Directs such agreement to be entered into no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Makes certain findings regarding Japan's contributions to global stability. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States would welcome an initiative by Japan whereby Japan increases, expands, and further funds its Official Development Assistance program to include increased expenditures for national defense in order to meet increased threats to global security in the Far East areas. Directs the President to void the current embassy agreement with the Soviet Union (which provides the Soviet Union with an embassy in the United States located at nearly 350 feet above sea level, making for ideal conditions for Soviet espionage and electronic surveillance). Requires the embassy to be relocated to a site in the District of Columbia that is not more than 90 feet above sea level. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) cease all economic and military assistance provided to the Government of Panama, except assistance for humanitarian purposes; (2) suspend all shipments of military equipment and spare parts to the Government of Panama; and (3) prohibit the importation of sugars, syrups, or molasses that are products of Panama into the United States, unless, no later than 45 days after the enactment of this Act, the Government of Panama has demonstrated substantial progress in the effort to assure civilian control of the armed forces of Panama, the Government of Panama has established an independent investigation into allegations of illegal activities by members of the Panama Defense Forces, a nonmilitary transitional government is in power, and freedom of the press and all other constitutional guarantees to the Panamanian people are restored. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the U.S. Navy is fully justified in sinking any Iranian vessels which threatens the safe passage of any American warship or other vessel known to have U.S. citizens on board. Directs the Secretary of a military department to reimburse a contractor for the cost incurred by such contractor for the acquisition of production special tooling and production special test equipment necessary for the performance of a contract awarded by such Secretary. Outlines certain procedures to be followed by such Secretary in providing such reimbursement. Provides that, in any case in which the United States provides such reimbursement, it shall have the right to take title to the special tooling and special test equipment paid for by the United States. Directs the Secretary of Defense, before a specified conditional date and after consultation with the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to submit to the Congress a report on the options available to NATO to ensure continued deterrence against war in Europe and continued NATO unity in light of the proposed Intermediate Range Nuclear Treaty (INF) between the United States and the Soviet Union. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1, 1988, to submit to the defense committees a report identifying the functional responsibilities of DOD for implementing the Missile Technology Control Regime, which describes the numbers and skills of current DOD personnel able to perform various missile technology functions. Expresses the finding of the Congress that the use of salary remission arrangements (whereby nationals of United Nations member nations are required to turn over their salaries to their national governments, retaining only a portion of such salary for themselves) should be eliminated in order to assure the independence of the international civil service. Requires, under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, testing for drug, chemical, and alcohol use and dependency for any individual prior to entry into the armed forces. Provides that failure to consent to such testing shall disquality an individual for entry into service. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for such testing no later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study regarding illegal drug smuggling into the United States and the current capabilities to deter such smuggling. Outlines assessments to be made by the Comptroller General as part of such study. Authorizes the Comptroller General to contract out for the performance of any part or all of such study. Directs the Comptroller General, no later that March 31, 1988, to report the results of such study to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Transportation funds to provide for the Law Enforcement Detachment program of the Coast Guard, such funds being provided for both FY 1988 and 1989. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the spouses of military personnel are to be thanked and congratulated for their support and work on behalf of military personnel, their families, and the military community as a whole. Regards the decision of a spouse to be employed as a personal decision which is of no official consequence to the armed forces. Authorizes a civilian employee of DOD or a member of the armed forces, while accompanying a member of the Congress, an employee of such member, or an employee of the Congress on official travel, to be reimbursed for actual travel and transportation expenses when such travel is directed or approved by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the executive branch or military department having jurisdiction over the employee or member. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide to the Tulalip Tribes of the State of Washington a specified amount to settle claims for loss of fishing grounds and other areas as the result of the construction and operation of the Navy Homeport at Everett, Washington. Outlines administrative provisions relating to certain releases to be provided by the Tulalip Tribes in return for such payment. Directs the Comptroler General to conduct a study, and report to the Congress no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, on the allegations of censorship in the DOD newspaper, Stars and Stripes. Amends the Small Business Act to ensure that a fair proportion of contracts are awarded to small businesses utilizing the product and service codes established under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act. Directs the head of each Federal agency to establish goals for participation by small business concerns, and by such concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, in procurement contracts of such agency having values of $25,000 or more (currently, $10,000). Repeals a current requirement under the Small Business Act which requires the head of a Federal agency, within five days of the agency's decision to set aside a procurement for small business concerns, to provide to any requesting person the names and addresses of the small business concerns expected to respond to the procurement. Amends the Defense Acquisition Improvement Act of 1986 to extend until March 31, 1988, the date upon which the Administrator of the Small Business Administration must publish final regulations implementing revised size standards (for eligibility as a small business) under the Small Business Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense, at the same time that the President submits the budget to the Congress each year, to submit to the Congress: (1) a detailed list of all forms of assistance that are to be made available by DOD to civilian law enforcement and drug interdiction agencies; and (2) a detailed plan for lending equipment and rendering drug interdiction-related assistance included on such list during such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not earlier than 30 days nor later than 45 days after the Congress receives the above detailed list, to convene a conference of the heads of all Federal Government law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction over drug law enforcement (including the Customs Service, the Coast Guard, and the Drug Enforcement Administration) to determine the appropriate distribution of assets, items of support, or other assistance to be made available by DOD to such agencies during the fiscal year for which the list and plan are submitted. Directs the Secretary and the heads of such agencies, no later than 60 days after such conference convenes, to enter into a memorandum of agreement specifying the distribution of such assistance. Directs the Comptroller General to monitor the compliance of DOD under the above provisions, and, no later than 60 days after a conference is convened, report to the Congress on his or her findings regarding DOD compliance. Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the number of U.S. military personnel stationed in Europe should be continued at existing levels (even in light of the proposed INF Treaty); and (2) such number should fall below the existing level only because of administrative fluctuations or a determination by the President of other national security considerations. Expresses the sense of the Senate that authorization of funds for research and development of the small ICBM and the rail-mobile basing mode for the MX ICBM does not constitute a commitment or express an intent to procure and deploy either or both. Directs the President to include in each year's defense budget a separate report to specified congressional committees and subcommittees on each major defense acquisition program in each budget which is designated as a special access program (a program the scope and nature of which is not fully disclosed). Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive such report requirement when the Secretary determines that the disclosure of the existence of such program would adversely affect national security. Directs the President to submit to the defense committees, at the same time that the defense budget for FY 1989 is submitted, a report containing the policy for classifying a program as a special access program. Requires the President to promptly notify such committees of any modification of such policy. Directs the Secretary to prescribe procedures ensuring the preservation, timely examination, and the expedient reporting of results concerning the forensic examination of physiological evidence in connection with criminal proceedings. Directs the Secretary to also ensure the accuracy of laboratory tests done to determine the use of LSD by a person. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees on the procedures adopted under the above provision. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense should, within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, assign to one or more appropriate elements of DOD the mission of defending the United States from ballistic missiles and other aerial threats. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study, and report to the defense committees no later than November 15, 1987, on the early decommissioning of two U.S. aircraft carriers. Authorizes DOD or DOE funds to be used for studies and analyses in connection with the military utility and cost of a nuclear warhead option for the Army Tactical System (ATACMS). Prohibits funds from being obligated for developing, testing, producing, or integrating nuclear warheads for such system until the Secretary of Defense has made certain certifications and submitted specified reports relating to the ATACMS program. Directs the Secretary, no later than June 30, 1988, to report to the Congress on the defense implications of the strategic arms reduction talks. Makes certain findings relating to U.S. support of mutual defense alliances (particularly NATO). Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should enter into negotiations with mutual defense allies, especially NATO-member nations and Japan, to reach an agreement on a more equitable distribution of the burden of financial support of such allies; (2) the objective of such negotiations should be the increase of mutual defense spending by such allies; (3) the President should report to the Congress within one year of the enactment of this Act on the progress of such negotiations; and (4) if, in the judgment of the Congress, the President's report does not show substantial progress toward a more equitable distribution of mutual defense expenses among all participating nations, the Congress should review the problem and consider whether additional legislation is appropriate. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the members of the armed forces are to be commended for their action in thwarting Iranian forces in their attempt to mine the Persian Gulf region in order to disrupt American shipping interests and undermine U.S. national security. Directs the Secretary, by a specified conditional date, to report to the Congress on the ability of NATO to maintain its strategy of deterrence through the 1990s, including a specific discussion of such ability in the event of a U.S.-Soviet agreement which reduces or eliminates certain nuclear weapons and delivery systems deployed in western Europe. Directs the Secretary, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress a detailed report on any actual or proposed plans of DOD regarding the sale, co-production, or co-assembly of the M1 or M1A1 Abrams tank. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any agreement with any foreign country regarding such tanks until such report has been received by the Congress. Applauds the recent signing of an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on the establishment of nuclear risk reduction centers. States that the Congress: (1) renews its condemnation of the continued Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia; and (2) strongly urges the Government of Japan to prevent its private business sector from engaging in developmental trade with Vietnam and discontinue Japabese trading practices with Vietnam which provide long-term credits and developmental equipment. Prohibits the importation into the United States of all products of Iran. Requires the President to direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to establish regulations and procedures to implement the above prohibition. Allows the President, should he determine that such an import prohibition is not in the overall interest of the United States, to delay the implementation of the prohibition for up to 180 days following its enactment. Directs the President, if he utilizes such a delay, to submit a written report to the Congress explaining the reasons for such decision. Makes technical amendments to the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Establishes the position of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, to be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires such Assistant Secretary to advise the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons matters. Authorizes the person serving as Chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, DOD, to be appointed to the above position without the advice and consent of the Senate. United States Department of State Freedom of Expression Act of 1987 - States that it is not in the national security interest of the United States for the Department of State to declare, and it shall not declare, itself to be a foreign diplomatic mission. Requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the defense committees examining the military consequences of any arms control agreement that would provide for the elimination of all U.S. and Soviet strategic ballistic missiles. Prohibits the United States from abiding by the provisions of the SALT II Treaty until specified actions by the Senate, the Soviet Union, and the United States have taken place. Strategic Nuclear Weapons Interim Restraint Act - Limits, during FY 1988, the aggregate number of launchers for intercontinental ballistic and ballistic missiles to be deployed by the United States. Waives such limitations if the President, at any time more than 29 days after the enactment of this Act, certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union is deploying numbers greater than the above limitations. Waives the above restrictions if a new agreement is reached between the United States and the Soviet Union, before September 30, 1988, relating to the deployment of strategic offensive weapons. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1988 and 1989 - Title I: Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986, to increase the authorization for the U.S. Army Material Command, New Cumberland Army Depot, Pennsylvania. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1984, 1985, and 1986 military construction projects. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount, earmarking some of such funds for energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such products to amounts authorized in this title. Title II: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out military construction projects and acquire real property in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1984 and 1986 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property, carry out military construction projects, and improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts for projects for which funds have been appropriated prior to the enactment of this Act. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out military construction projects, acquire real property, and improve and maintain historic facilities in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Title III: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Extends certain prior year authorizations, and authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire four family housing units at classified locations for a specified amount, and to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987, to authorize the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for the construction of hazardous waste storage facilities, using specified FY 1987 and 1988 appropriated funds. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for a certain FY 1985 project, and certain FY 1986 projects. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at a specified location in a specified amount, and to improve existing military family housing units in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 -Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations (NATO) Infrastructure Program, and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for such contributions by the Secretary, in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions to the NATO Infrastructure Program, and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 for such contributions by the Secretary. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 to the Guard and reserve forces for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities, in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1988 to the Guard and reserve forces for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities, in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Part A: Fiscal Year 1988 - Provides that all authorizations contained in part A of titles I through V of this Act shall expire on October 1, 1989, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1990, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1989 - Provides that all authorizations contained in part B of titles I through VI of this Act shall expire on October 1, 1990, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1991, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Part A: Program Changes - Extends the per-project limit of guard and reserve minor construction projects for which operation and maintenance funds are authorized to be used. Clarifies a specified Federal provision concerning the interchange between military departments of supplies and real property. Waives certain limitations on leases entered into by the Government as they apply to leases of real property entered into by DOD if the Secretary determines that such lease limitation would interfere with an essential mission of DOD. Increases the per-project threshhold limit permissible for minor military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to undertake military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law in order to support mobilization of the armed forces if the President first determines that there is an imminent threat to national security and that mobilization of the armed forces may be required. Requires the Secretary, when such a decision is made, to notify the appropriate congressional committees of such decision and of the estimated cost of such projects. Limits the maximum amount that the Secretary may obligate in any fiscal year for such projects. Terminates the authority to initiate such projects 180 days after the date on which the determination is made by the President. Extends through FY 1989 the authority of the Secretary of Defense to enter into long-term facilities contracts. Exempts military family housing units acquired at no cost from being counted in the limitation of such units authorized to be acquired by each department, as long as the Secretary concerned complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Repeals the per-unit limit applicable to improvements to military family housing units. Increases the per-unit expenditure limit, and the cost threshhold limit for multiple-units, for military family housing units leased to members in foreign countries. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into a specified number of leasing contracts for military family housing units within the United States. Revises provisions relating to permissible cost variations in military construction projects. Authorizes the head of a defense agency to use one-step turn-key selection procedures for entering into contracts for military construction projects. (Currently, only the Secretaries of the military departments are permitted to use such procedures.) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay meritorious contractor claims that arise under military construction contracts or military family housing contracts, using previously unobligated funds. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, with respect to the Coast Guard, or the head of a defense agency to enter into agreements under the Military Housing Rental Guarantee program. (Currently, only the Secretaries of the military departments are authorized to enter into such agreements.) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987, to increase the authorization of appropriations to the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for the construction of certain medical facilities there. Increases the total cost of all projects authorized under such Act by the amount of the increase for the medical center. Prohibits funds authorized to be appropriated in this Act from being used for any military construction project of DOD which uses any services of a foreign country during any period in which such foreign country is listed by the United States Trade Representative as a country which denies fair and equitable market opportunities for services of the United States in either procurement or bidding. Requires such Trade Representative to maintain a list of all such countries for which such an adverse determination has been made, and to publish such list in the Federal Register. Requires a country to be kept on such list until it is determined that such country does permit fair and equitable market procurement and bidding opportunities for the United States. Part B: Real Property Transactions - Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Navy to enter into agreements for the exchange of land and other real property interests at Hamilton Air Force Base, California, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Orange County, California, all rights and interest to a parcel of land in the center of Mile Square Regional Park, Orange County, California, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a lease for certain storage facilities at the Port of San Diego, in San Diego, California, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, all rights and interest to a parcel of land within Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to grant to the State of New Mexico a mineral interest in land located within the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 to add to the appropriations authorized under such Act an authorization for certain water and housing improvements at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease to the Port of Oakland, California, certain real property together with improvements at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California, under specified terms and conditions (includinga specified congressional notice-and-wait requirement before such a lease may be entered into). Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell all or a portion of the land comprising the Chapman Court Housing Annex near Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions (including a specified congressional notice-and-wait requirement before such a sale may take place). Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to dispose of any interest of the United States in any tract of land currently owned by the Air Force that: (1) is no longer required by the Air Force; (2) does not exceed 25 acres; (3) was once used as part of missile launch operations; and (4) is surrounded by land owned in fee simple by private owners. Directs the Secretary, in selling such land, to give preference in such sale to owners of the surrounding land. Outlines further terms and conditions in connection with the sale of such property. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to San Diego County, California, certain land adjacent to Air Force Plant 19 in San Diego, California, in exchange for certain real property located in San Diego County, California, under specified terms and conditions (including a congressional notice-and-wait requirement before any such exchange is permitted). Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to either the State of Hawaii or the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, a specified portion of Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military to modify certain agreements authorized under the Military Construction Authorization Act, and amended by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1987, to permit a 25-year military housing rental guarantee period and to allow for cost escalation of the entire rental payment over the guarantee period. Earmarks specified funds for the replacement of asbestos insulation at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. Directs the Secretary of the Army to lease to the County of San Francisco a facility at the Presidio in San Francisco formerly operated as a hospital by the Public Health Service for use by such County as a facility for the care and treatment of AIDS patients, under specified terms and conditions. Directs the Secretary of the Army, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to determine the most economically feasible manner of transferring the Defense Language School and other activities at the Presidio in San Francisco (due to the creation of the AIDS treatment center there) to another appropriate location. Directs the Comptroller General, within 30 days after receiving such determination and cost estimate from the Secretary, to report to the defense committees with an analysis of such determination and estimate. Directs the Secretary to complete such transfer as soon as practicable. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any lease for such transfer until the County of San Francisco has certified to the Secretary that the County is financially prepared to assume possession and operate the facility for the care and treatment of AIDS patients. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to enter into discussions with the appropriate official representing the County concerning the feasibility of treating veterans and members of the armed forces afflicted with AIDS at such facility. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to expend specified funds to provide planning assistance to communities located near Gulf Coast homeports proposed under the Naval Strategic Dispersal Program, if the Secretary determines that the financial resources of such communities are inadequate. Title IX: Requirement to Lease Lands to the City of Barling, Arkansas - Directs the Secretary of the Army to lease to the city of Barling, Arkansas, specified tracts of land for use by such city in the treatment of sewage, under specified terms and conditions. Provides alternative lease options available to the Secretary for such facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the city of Barling to use the sewage treatment facilities at Fort Chaffee for a reasonable cost. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988 - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1988 in carrying out national security programs in the following areas;: (1) weapons activities; (2) materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste and transportation management: (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (6) security investigations (7) naval reactors development; and (8) capital equipment not related to construction. Limits the total amount authorized to be appropriated to DOE for FY 1988 for national security programs. Directs the Secretary of Energy to reduce certain listed projects in such amounts as determined appropriate to achieve a specified total reduction in such authorized amounts. Limits the amount of funds authorized to be obligated for research, development, test, and evaluation in connection with the Strategic Defense Initiative program. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is less. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have expired since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design whenever the Secretary determines such to be appropriate. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Allows authorizations provided in this title to be adjusted for pay and benefits increases for Federal employees. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 relating to certain funding restrictions placed on the MX missile warhead. Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1987 to revise provisions concerning the timeliness of the Secretary of Energy's decision to waive rights to scientific and technical discoveries made by Government scientists while working for DOE. Directs the Secretary of Energy, no later than February 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees describing the acquisition strategy of the Secretary for new production capacity for a nuclear reactor. Part D: The Department of Energy Semiconductor Technology Research Excellence Initiative - Makes certain congressional findings concerning semiconductor research and its importance to U.S. national security. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate and carry out a program of research on semiconductor manufacturing technology and on the practical applications of such technology (such program to be referred to as the Initiative). Requires each national laboratory of DOE to participate in research and development projects under the Initiative in conjunction with DOD and any consortium conducting any such research. Requires the Secretary of Energy to enter into any appropriate agreements with the Secretary of Defense and any consortium as necessary to provide for the active participation of the national laboratories of DOE in the Initiative. Requires semiconductor technology research to be included as part of any such agreements. Provides for the temporary exchange of personnel to carry out research programs under the Initiative. Directs the Secretary of Energy to make available to all appropriate parties any facilities, personnel, and equipment of DOE to conduct such research and development projects under the Initiative. Directs the Secretary of Energy, in preparing the research and development budget of DOE to be included in the President's annual budget submitted to the Congress, to provide for programs, projects, and activities that encourage the development of new technology in the field of semiconductors. Outlines provisions concerning the entering into of cost-sharing agreements between directors of DOE national laboratories involved in Initiative projects and domestic firms involved in such projects. Requires the director of each national laboratory of DOE that is participating in the Initiative to submit to the Secretary of Energy a proposal defining cost sharing arrangements and the appropriate level of funding for approval. Limits the amount of available funding for each national laboratory that may be used for Initiative-related projects. Requires cost-sharing agreements to provide a 90-day period within which the Secretary of Energy may disapprove or require modification of any such agreement, if the Secretary so desires. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the Initiative, to ensure that unnecessarily duplicative research is not performed at the research facilities participating in such Initiative. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1988 and 1989 to carry out the Initiative. Directs the Secretary to adopt procedures providing for the timely and efficient transfer of semiconductor technology developed under the Initiative. Requires the Secretary, no later than one year after funds are first appropriated to carry out the Initiative, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the transfer of semiconductor research technology and information generated by the Initiative. Title II: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide that a stockpile goal may be reduced by ten percent or less or increased only if the President has included a full explanation and justification for such reduction or increase in the annual material plan submitted to the Congress as required under such Act. Provides that a stockpile goal may be reduced by more than ten percent (or eliminated) only if the President includes a full and complete explanation in the annual material plan submitted to the Congress and the reduction (or elimination) has been expressly approved by law. Allows the quantity of any material in the stockpile to be increased any time the President determines that such increase is justified by national security. Prohibits the delegation of the President's authority with regard to stockpile determinations, except under limited circumstances. Changes the annual reporting deadline of the President with respect to stockpile transactions during the previous year and the current financial status of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to February 15. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for civil defense functions, as enumerated under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.

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(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #141 (239-177)) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1988 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1988 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations to the Army for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and for other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of specified equipment. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, weapons, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement of the Navy and Marine Corps. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft and for other procurement. Prohibits funds appropriated to the Air Force from being used for the mechanical diverters program. Authorizes appropriations for the defense agencies and the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1989 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Army to take specified action on, or place certain obligation limitations upon, specified Army program for FY 1988. Sets forth certain procurement limitations on specified Navy aircraft programs. Transfers funds originally appropriated for the terminated Air Force T-46 program to naval aircraft procurement. Transfers certain other Air Force funds, sets forth limitations, and requires certain reports from the Secretary of the Air Force concerning specified Air Force programs. Directs the Secretary of Defense, by January 1, 1988, to issue an environmental impact statement concerning the chemical stockpile demilitarization program. Sets forth certain other requirements concerning the program. Directs the Secretary to undertake an independent assessment of the capabilities of the B-1B aircraft to penetrate the air defenses of potential enemies, requiring specified reports from the Secretary to the defense committees of the Congress (the Senate and House Armed Services Committees). Expresses the sense of the Congress that certain information relating to the development and production of systems used in the Advance Technology Bomber program, the Advanced Cruised Missile program, and the Advanced Tactical Aircraft program should remain classified. Directs the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to establish a means for providing ongoing competition for production of the Advanced Technology Bomber. Makes specified funds available and requires certain reports in connection with such program. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a report updating the 1986 Strategic Bomber Force study. Prohibits funds from being used for the procurement of chemical weapons antidote contained in automatic injectors determined to be critical under the Industrial Preparedness Planning Program of the Department of Defense (DOD) unless certain specified action takes place. Places specified funding limitations on the procurement of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, requiring certain testing and congressional reports. Prohibits the withdrawal of chemical munitions stored in Europe until they are replaced with binary chemical munitions on the soil of at least one European member nation of NATO. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations and Program Limitations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation. Sets forth specified funding limitations for certain programs of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and requires certain studies and reports. Establishes an Advanced Submarine Technology Program to be carried out by the Secretary of the Navy, and requires certain reports from the Secretary of Defense concerning such program. Sets forth certain funding limitations and requires certain studies concerning specified programs, including the Space Defense System and the B-1B program. Outlines funding limitations for various programs of the defense agencies. Prohibits funding for the Advanced Tactical Fighter aircraft until the Secretary completes certain reporting requirements concerning such aircraft. Limits funds and outlines other requirements concerning the electronic warfare programs, including congressional reporting requirements. Earmarks specified funds for each branch of the armed forces for: (1) technology base programs, and (2) conventional defense initiative programs. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 1988, from testing electromagnetic pulse in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with a specified program. Authorizes additional appropriations for specified live fire (testing) programs of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Test, and Evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Specifies the funding level for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit specified congressional reports concerning such program. Prohibits any funds appropriated to DOD from being used to develop, test, or deploy an antiballistic missile (ABM) system or component which is sea-based, air-based, space-based, or mobile land-based. Removes such limitations upon certain certifications to the Congress by the President. Limits the transfer to the Soviet Union of SDI technology, unless the President makes certain certification to the Congress. Prohibits the development of an ABM unless authorized by law. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) in the development of the Krasnoyarsk radar, the Soviet Union is in violation of its legal obligations on the use of early warning radar systems under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; (2) vigorous research and technology development of a strategic defense system would leave the United States less dependent on Soviet decisions whether or not to employ nuclear weapons; (3) the Secretary of Defense should develop a well-defined plan of all phases of development of the SDI systems; and (4) the Secretary should submit annually, beginning on March 1, 1988, classified reports on SDI progress, together with any recommendations on revisions to the phase plans, above. Prohibits the use of funds for entering into contracts with a foreign country or firm if the contract provides for research or development in connection with the SDI program. Makes certain exceptions to such prohibition. States the purposes of the SDI program and requires the Secretary of Defense to include a report on such program in his annual report to the Congress. Reaffirms the right of the United States to protect itself from ballistic missile attack through the deployment of ballistic missile defenses. Part C: Advanced Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Projects - Earmarks specified funds for certain demonstration projects under the SDI program, and for the Army Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile program. Part D: Miscellaneous - Earmarks specified funds for cooperative medical research to be administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into a contract for a modernization and expansion project at the Lincoln Laboratory complex at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, outlining project cost limitations, duration, and funding. Earmarks specified funds for cooperative research projects with major non-NATO allies. Encourages the Secretary of the Navy to consider the possible procurement of a certain high-speed intercoastal patrol boat. Earmarks specified funds to develop and demonstrate compliance in support of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons proposed by the United States in the Conference on Disarmament. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct certain testing in connection with specified shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons, outlining test parameters and requiring specified reports concerning the results of such testing. Imposes until October 1, 1988, a moratorium on the testing by the United States of an anti-satellite weapon in space, unless the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union has conducted such tests. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for operation and maintenance funds for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the National Guard and reserves, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and military health care. Authorizes additional appropriations for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs and for other unbudgeted increases in the cost of activities due to inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for working capital funds for the armed forces. Limits the use of such funds for the purchase of investment items. Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that U.S. wines are given equitable treatment when selling alcoholic beverage products in a U.S. military installation outside the United States. Requires certain reports from the Secretary to the Congress concerning implementation of this provision. Requires the Secretary to establish uniform pricing policies for beer and wine products authorized to be sold at commissary stores. Earmarks specified funds and provides civilian personnel strengths for depot maintenance functions. Prohibits the management of civilian personnel by end strengths. Eliminates the requirement that civilian personnel end strengths be authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress concerning the operation and support costs of major weapons systems. Sets forth funding limitations and requires a study on dual source maintenance for F-15 aircraft. Requires a report on the results of such study. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the defense committees on efforts to measure military readiness. Extends through FY 1988 the authorization for the transportation of humanitarian relief supplies to Afghan refugees under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization for the transportation of relief supplies to certain third-world countries under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Repeals a specified provision of Federal law requiring that reimbursement of incidental expenses incurred while providing certain voluntary services for the benefit of the armed forces shall be made only from nonappropriated funds. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide free shuttle service for military members and their families to military installations determined by such Secretary to be located in remote areas. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1987 concerning the alteration, overhaul, and repair of naval vessels and aircraft in public and private repair facilities. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to enter into a contract for the performance by contractor personnel of any maintenance functions at specified Army installations, unless such a contract was already in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for the settlement of claims relating to the movement of household goods, allowing for the settlement of such claims directly between the contractor (shipper) and the owner of the goods. Applies such provisions to contracts with DOD for the shipment of household goods of members of the armed forces. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1988. Delays until the end of fY 1990 a required percentage reduction in the number of active-duty officers in the armed forces. Requires the Comptroller General to complete certain studies regarding the growth in the size of the officer corps, and to report to the defense committees on such study no later than December 31, 1987. Reduces certain amounts authorized for the use of military personnel for FY 1988 due to certain cost savings attributable to the reduction in the size of the officer corps. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for the Selected Reserve for FY 1988, providing for certain adjustments to such end strengths. Authorizes end strengths for reserves on active-duty in support of the reserves. Increases the number of members in certain military grades authorized to be on active-duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1988, together with permissible adjustments to such loads. Title V: Military Personnel - Extends through FY 1989 the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through FY 1989 certain reserve officer management programs. Extends through FY 1990 the authority for the enlistment of single parents in the reserves. Authorizes the Commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School of the Army to confer the degree of master of laws in military law, under appropriate circumstances. Provides a one-year delay (until the end of FY 1989) in the requirement that a certain minimum percentage of Air Force enlistees must be women. Prohibits certain interagency fund transfers within DOD. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress a plan to enable the Coast Guard to meet 95 percent of its wartime mobilization requirements by September 30, 1998. Requires such report to be submitted no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes a member of the armed forces to wear an item of religious apparel while in uniform, except when the Secretary of the military department determines that: (1) the wearing of the item would interfere with the performance of military duties; or (2) the item is not neat and conservative. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations concerning the wearing of such items. Provides that civilan technicians of the Army National Guard who are unable to complete required training under the Military Education Program for such technicians may not be denied promotions for failure to complete such training if the reason for such failure was lack of available training spaces. Directs the Comptroller General, no later than February 15, 1988, to report to the defense committees on the Military Education Program. Removes the per-department ceilings on the number of cadets and midshipmen authorized to receive Financial assistance (instead providing one ceiling for all military department participants combined). Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay (in conformity with annual GS-level increases), authorizing instead a three percent increase in basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, as well as three percent increase in cadet and midshipman pay, all effective as of January 1, 1988. Part B: Travel and Transportation - Amends Federal military pay provisions to authorize the payment of a transportation allowance for members and their dependents if such member is stationed outside the United States and agrees to extend his or her tour of duty by at least one-half of the original installment period. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 requiring a congressional certification prior to the implementation of certain amendments allowing the payment of lodging plus per diem expenses for military members. Part C: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Provides for the payment of special pay at specified rates to members who are also entitled to basic pay while such member is performing sea duty. Extends through FY 1989 the payment of special pay for aviation officers who continue in the service beyond their duty period. Extends through FY 1992 and 1990, respectively, the enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the performance of active and reserve duty. Part D: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the withdrawal of certain remarried persons from participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Revises Federal provisions concerning occupancy by Coast Guard personnel or substandard family housing units. Authorizes the collection of amounts owed to service relief societies from the final pay of military members. Limits the lump-sum amount authorized to be paid by the Secretary concerned during FY 1988 and 1989 under the Selected Reenlistment Program. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Defense Health Care Amendments of 1987 - Part A: Medical Readiness - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish and maintain a program to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in health professions training while a member of the reserve forces. Authorizes such Secretary to pay a stipend to physicians and graduate nurses engaging in specialties determined critical to wartime needs, and to baccalaureate students about to engage in such critical specialties upon graduation from accredited institutions. Sets forth provisions concerning such agreements, including the amounts to be paid to each person and the period required to be served after the provision of such financial assistance. Sets forth penalties for the failure to complete any agreed-upon period of duty following such financial assistance, and repeals the prior financial assistance program established under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Sets forth funding limitations for such program during FY 1988. Revises provisions of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program to allow the Secretary of Defense to require, as part of an agreement under such program, that a person must agree to accept residency training in a skill designated by the Secretary as a critically needed wartime skill. Targets 2,500 of the 6,000 scholarships to be awarded under such program for critically needed wartime skills. Extends to October 1, 1990, the date for initial appointment under the Education Loan Repayment Program for health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserves. Authorizes constructive credit under each branch of the armed forces and the reserve forces for those entering such service with experience in the health professions. Removes a specified ceiling on the payment of special pay to medical officers serving in the armed forces. Requires military officers who are medical officers or dental officers to be retired on the first day of the month following the month in which such officer becomes 67 years of age. Part B: Peacetime Health Care - Limits the per-family payment for catastrophic loss protection for dependents of active-duty personnel under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Unifomed Services (CHAMPUS). Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, during FY 1988 and 1989, from imposing a fee for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military medical treatment facility. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to take certain action to ensure the proper representation of health profession personnel in naval officer appointments and end strength increases for the Navy during FY 1988 and 1989. Part C: Health Care Management - Directs the Secretary of Defense to request, in the budget for each fiscal year, appropriations for the Military Health Care Account for the implementation of CHAMPUS programs. Deletes a specified provision of Federal law describing the military health care enrollment system. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct two projects, beginning during FY 1988 and continuing for not less than two years, designed to demonstrate an alternative military health care delivery system in which the commander of a military medical facility is responsible for all funding and all medical care of the covered beneficiaries of that facility. Outlines other requirements and requires a report to the defense committees concerning such alternate system. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to require the Secretary of Defense to develop a methodology to be used in evaluating a CHAMPUS reform demonstration project required under such Act. Provides limitations on contracts awarded, and provides limitations on the issuance of requests for proposals for military health care contracts under CHAMPUS reform initiatives. Outlines further requirements concerning the demonstration project and the reform initiative. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct specified demonstration projects for the purpose of demonstrating alternatives to health care under CHAMPUS and under the CHAMPUS reform initiative. Requires the Secretary, within 60 days after enactment of the Act, to report to the defense committees concerning such projects, and to evaluate the effectiveness of such projects in a follow-up report. Amends the above Act to: (1) add a certain requirement to the conduct of medical systems information operational tests by vendors of such systems; and (2) extend through FY 1988 the VA's decentralized hospital computer program. Prohibits acquisition funding for the Composite Health Care System until such operational testing is completed. Revises provisions under such Act concerning a report requirement on the operational testing of the medical information system. Amends CHAMPUS provisions to provide that a hospital that obtains six percent or more of its funding from contributions and that limits the care it provides to the treatment of heart and lung conditions may not be denied reimbursement under CHAMPUS for services it performs to patients eligible for CHAMPUS coverage solely on the basis that such hospital does not impose a legal obligation on patients to pay for such services. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate the practices under various insurance plans with respect to payment to hospitals in cases where the hospital does not impose a legal obligation to pay for such services. Requires the Comptroller General, no later than December 31, 1987, to report to the defense committees the results of such review. Title VIII: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer amounts authorized in titles I through III of this Act between DOD departments, as necessary, if the Secretary promptly notifies the Congress of such transfer. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to include among institutions to be targeted for consideration for the awarding of contracts for minorities any nonprofit research institution that was an integral part of an historically Black college or university before a specified date. Revises a certain limitation pertaining to the contracting-out for short-term naval vessel repair work. Sets forth the rate of progress payments to be made by the Secretary of the Navy for the repair or maintenance of naval vessels. Requires the Secretary of Defense, at the same time that the President's budget is submitted, to submit to the defense committees an unclassified report setting forth the total amount requested in that budget for the special access program of DOD (a program which in any manner conceals the existence or scope of the program). Requires annual notice of, and justification for, the designation of any special access program, and authorizes access to such disclosed information by any member of the defense committees. Requires specified reports to the defense committees by the Secretary relating to such special access programs or changes in the criteria used to designate such programs. Establishes within DOD a Conventional Defense Advisory Board examine and survey all aspects of the conventional warfare capabilities of the armed forces, and to recommend changes for any deficiencies found in such capabilities. Outlines membership requirements for the Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary of Defense on March 1 annually on their findings and recommendations. Directs the Secretary of the Army to reactivate Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, California, no later than September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of Defense to require that any payment which would normally be made to a defense contractor during the last 12 days of FY 1988 shall instead be made no earlier than October 1, 1988. Provides that any major non-NATO ally shall be eligible to compete on certain defense maintenance contracts. Prohibits, after the 60-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, funds from being obligated or expended for the deployment or maintenance of a specified number of MIRV launchers and MIRVs unless the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union has exceeded the limitations set forth in the SALT II agreement. Directs the Presient, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, to notify the Congress of his plans for carrying out this provision. Prohibits any funds authorized under this Act from being used during FY 1988 for reducing the number of U.S. military personnel stationed in countries which are NATO members to below the level of such personnel as of the end of FY 1987. Requires the Secretary of Defense to direct that the commanding officer of each military installation shall have specified authority with respect to the contracting-out for commercial activities on such military installations. Prohibits the contracting-out of security guard functions on such installations. Provides that a specified law limiting the retirement compensation of former Federal employees without loss of retirement benefits shall only apply to retired military officers for a two-year period beginning on their date of retirement. Repeals the prohibition on the use of interport differential for certain ship maintenance contracts. Sets forth provisions for the reorganization of the special operations forces under the direction of the Secretary of Defense. Provides for the appointment of civilian personnel to the headquarters of the special operations command, and outlines the authority and principal duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Sets forth provisions relating to the preference to be followed by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military department in the awarding of defense contracts. Directs the Secretary concerned, in evaluating a bid or proposal for such a contract, to give special consideration to a domestic firm if the product would be manufactured in an area with a surplus of labor. Defines a "qualifying country product" for purposes of such contract preference as a product which will be manufactured substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States or any other qualifying country. Defines "qualifying country" as a NATO member or a major non-NATO ally. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Defense to institute a program of counterintelligence polygraph examinations for military, civilian, and contractor personnel of DOD with specified limitations, including a limitation on the number of such examinations. Amends a reporting requirement on the use of polygraph examinations contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to require annual reports on December 31 (currently, the last such report was due on December 31, 1986). Amends Federal armed forces provisions concerning major weapons systems to direct the Secretary of Defense to provide that a covered product improvement program may not proceed initial low-rate production until certain prescribed testing occurs. Defines "covered product improvement program". Revises other provisions concerning live-fire testing of a major weapons system program. Requires certain reports to the Congress at the conclusions of such testing by those responsible for such testing. Defines a "qualifying country" for purposes of the preference used in awarding such defense contracts to require such a country to have in effect with the United States a reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding. Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from obligating or expending any amount appropriated to DOD for any program or activity that is in excess of the amount needed to carry out such program or activity. Terminates the availability of funds for a specified program or activity three years after the date on which such funds originally become available. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, upon request from a Federal agency having drug enforcement authority, to assign members of the armed forces to assist drug enforcement officials in searches, seizures, and arrests outside the land area of the United States. Provides conditions for the assignment of military personnel for such purposes. Directs the Secretary of Defense to review and assess the present and potential capacity of the Soviet Union to intercept U.S. communications from Soviet Embassy facilities in the District of Columbia. Directs the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the results of such review and assessment. Expresses congressional support for the Missile Technology Control Regime (a seven-nation pact designed to control proliferation of missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons throughout the world). Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to provide that shipments of crude oil, petroleum, or petroleum products for use by DOD shall not be considered exports for purposes of such Act. Prohibits DOD funds from being used for providing command and control data between the Sector Operations Control Center at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and any other drug interdiction operation or facility located adjacent to such Center. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the Merchants National Bank of Mobile, Alabama, for losses sustained from certain Government loan guarantees which resulted from actions and misrepresentations of the Defense Logistics Agency of DOD. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study for the purpose of declassifying, while maintaining national security, a substantial portion of the material which is classified information on the date of enactment of this Act, and to report to the defense committees on the results of such study. Directs the Secretary to publish, on an annual basis, a net assessment of the defense program and capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 1, 1988, and no later than February 1 annually thereafter, to report to the Congress on Soviet compliance with the ABM Treaty of 1972. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the ways in which the United States may further its national security interest in the Far East. Directs the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress concerning a plan to increase expenditures in the Far East in order to further such interests. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct a study, and report to the defense committees within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, on the requirements necessary to establish and conduct a certain military space operation as part of the Consolidate Space Operations Center near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Restricts DOD purchases of foreign-made (other than Canadian) administrative motor vehicles. Authorizes the Director of the Defense Logistics Ageny to surcharge DOD to recover the costs of certain maintenance, leasing, and repair facilities. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to require the Director of Central Intelligence (currently, the President) to report to the Congress on Soviet compliance with certain arms control agreements. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the defense committees on the activities planned by DOD in conjunction with, and operated by, NASA. Requires such report no later than January 1, 1988. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Defense should not prepare certain economic impact and employment information relating to new major defense acquisition programs before such a program has proceeded into full-scale development. Amends Federal procurment to further define what is to be included in "cost or pricing data" for purposes of truth-in-negotiations requirements under such provisions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to carry out procurement technical assistance under cooperative agreement programs. Prohibits "golden parachute payments" to be considered as an allowable defense contractor cost. Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that substantial progress is made in increasing awards of DOD contracts to minority and small business enterprises. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations which establish guidelines and provide guidance to contractors for the making of such contract awards to such businesses. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being obligated or expended to introduce U.S. armed forces into or over Nicaragua for combat, with specified exceptions such as a congressional declaration of war or if done in order to meet a clear and present danger. Terminates the application of this provision when Mig aircraft (or similar aircraft) or nuclear missiles or weapons are introduced into Nicaragua. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1988 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve such existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Earmarks a specified amount for certain community planning assistance near the Light Infantry Division Post at Ft. Drum, New York. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1984, 1985, and 1986 military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve such existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for specified FY 1984 and 1986 military construction projects. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve such existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain specified military construction projects. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing and to improve such existing housing in specified amounts at classified locations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Extends a certain prior-year authorization. Directs the Secretary, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees on certain cost estimates in connection with a construction project at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Repeals a provision of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 prohibiting the construction of facilities at such location. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions to the NATO Infrastructure program, and authorizes additional appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for such purpose. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for the costs of acquisition, architectural, and engineering design services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VII: General Provisions - Part A: Expiration of Authorizations; Effective Date - Provides that all authorizations contained in titles I through V of this Act shall expire on October 1, 1989, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1990, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into long-term contracts for the construction of hospital or medical facilities. Extends through FY 1988 the authority to enter into all such long-term contracts. Directs each Secretary entering into such a contract to report to the defense committees by February 15, 1988, concerning such contracts and recommendations as to whether such contract authority should be extended. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay meritorious contractor claims that arise under military construction contracts or military family housing contracts, using previously unobligated funds. Extends the per-project limit of guard and reserve minor construction projects for which operation and maintenance funds are authorized to be used. Increases the per-unit threshold limit permissible for family housing improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into a specified number of family housing leasing contracts. Exempts military family housing units acquired at no cost from being counted in the limitation of such units authorized to be acquired by each department, if the Secretary concerned complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Increases the per-unit expenditure limit for the rental of family housing in foreign countries. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and otherwise act to assist State and local governments and regional organizations in planning community adjustment necessitated by the closing or the establishing of military installations on or near community property, or the encroachment of the surrounding community on a military installation. Places specified restrictions (including a maximum funding limitation) on minor construction projects performed outside the continental United States. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a pilot program to assist local government in increasing the amount of affordable family housing available to military personnel. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the implementation of the pilot program, and directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees no later than March 15 of the years 1988 through 1991 with respect to the activities carried out under such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990, and terminates such program on September 30, 1990. Designates Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, as the primary Armed Forces Recreation Center for the Pacific. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to sell, lease, rent, or otherwise dispose of the land constituting Fort DeRussy. Prohibits FY 1988 DOD funds from being used for: (1) diminishing any part of the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; (2) the closure or realignment of Mather Air Force Base, California; (3) relocating the headquarters and other parts of the Joint Tactical Command Control, and Communications Agency, at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; (4) diminishing any part of the 5th Fighter Intercepter Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota; (5) diminishing certain specified air defense radar stations; and (6) taking, condemning, or closing any portion of a specified highway which lies within the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Concord, California. Prohibits funds appropriated under specified provisions of ths Act and the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 from being used for strategic homeporting at the Naval Air Station in Everett, Washington, until specified conditions are met. Prohibits funding for certain military construction contracts on Guam, with specified exceptions. Repeals a provision of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 authorizing plans for the design of a Pentagon annex. Limits the amount of funds for FY 1988 to provide community planning assistance for communities located near homeports proposed under the Naval Strategic Dispersal Program at Everett, Washington. Prohibits funding in connection with certain construction at the Norfolk Navy Steam Plant, Norfolk, Virginia. Part D: Real Property Transactions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into a lease with the City and County of San Francisco, California, providing for the use by such City and County of a Public Health Service facility located in Presidio of San Francisco. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell and replace certain property on the Kapalama Military Reservation, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell to Lawrence Township of Marion County, Indiana, a specified portion of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certain portions of the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Directs the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain property located near Fort Hamilton, New York, for rehabilitation and use as military housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to Orange County, California, certain real property located in Mile Square Regional Park, Orange County, California. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to grant a license to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America for the use of certain land and facilities at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, for use as a permanent site of the National Scout Jamborees. Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certain real property located on the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois, for use as a national cemetery. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease to the Port of Oakland, California, certain real property at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California. Provides for lease payments to the Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such a lease contract until certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements have been met. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release all title and interest the United States may have in certain real property located in Tarrant County, Texas, under specified conditions. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988 - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1988 for operating expenses and for plant and capital equipment in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology;(5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology programs; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Sets forth funding limitations for programs, projects, and activities of DOE relating to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Earmarks specified funds for the defensive inertial confinement fusion program. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1988 verification and control technology from being used for any other program. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is less. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriations is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Outlines other limits related to such funding. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design whenever he or she determines it to be appropriate. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security program of DOE. Allows authorizations provided by this title to be adjusted for pay and benefit increases for Federal employees. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1986 to exclude from allowable contractor costs certain information provided to the Congress or a State legislature. Renames the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore, California, as the Livermore National Laboratory. Directs the President to conduct a study and formulate a plan for the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex in order to provide the overall size and productive capacity necessary to support national security objectives. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees concerning such plan no later than February 15, 1988. Provides that the Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition is to be chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council. (Currently, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering holds such position.) Establishes the position of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons matters. Prohibits, effective 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the obligation or expenditure of funds to carry out a nuclear explosion with a yield exceeding one kiloton, or a nuclear explosion conducted outside a designated area, until the President has made a certain certification to the Congress that the Soviet Union has carried out such a test or refused to accept certain monitoring arrangements. Terminates such limitation if the United States and the Soviet Union reach an agreement or treaty establishing significant limits on nuclear explosions. Directs the Secretary of Energy to request the National Academy of Sciences (the Academy) to report to the Secretary on the status of the nuclear weapons complex. Requires such report to be submitted to the Congress and the Secretary concurrently no later than February 1 of each year, beginning with 1988. Directs the Secretary to review the findings of the Academy, and to provide to the Congress, no later than 30 days after the receipt of each such report, a report on the Secretary's recommendations. Directs the Secretary of Energy to request the Academy to submit, by October 1, 1987, a report summarizing its findings relating to the safety operation of the N Reactor at the Nashford Reservation, Washington. Requires such report to be submitted to the Secretary and to specified congressional committees. Places certain restrictions on the operation of such reactor until the Secretary can certify to the congressional committees that the reactor is safe. Title II: National Defense Stockpile - Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide that it is the intent of the Congress that: (1) the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) be used to serve national defense purposes only; and (2) quantities of materials stockpiled should be sufficient to sustain the United States for at least three years in the event of a war emergency. Requires stockpile requirements to be established by law. Transfers certain stockpiling functions under such Act from the President to the Secretary of Defense. Requires the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a report on the stockpile requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of any other department or agency for the performance of certain stockpiling functions. Provides that appropriations for the requirements of NDS and for deposit to the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund shall be made as appropriations to DOD for military functions. Extends the uses of such Fund to cover NDS acquisitions and upgrading. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to carry out certain civil defense functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits any FY 1987 or 1988 funds made available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for civil defense assistance to States from being withheld from any State on the basis of such State's failure to participate in a simulated nuclear attack exercise.

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Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1988/1989 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the following: (1) the defense agencies; (2) the chemical weapons demilitarization program; and (3) certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Authorizes additional appropriations for each such fiscal year for unbudgeted amounts for salary, retirement, and other employee benefits for certain civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DOD). Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, and for environmental restoration. Authorizes additional appropriations for such fiscal years for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, increases resulting from inflation, and for unbudgeted amounts for salary, retirement, and other employee benefits of certain DOD employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty and reserve components of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for each such fiscal year, as prescribed. Authorizes increases for each such fiscal year in the number of certain personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserve components. Title V: Civilian Personnel - Exempts civilian DOD employees from certain end strength limitations contained in Federal armed forces provisions, such exemption being in effect during FY 1988 and 1989. Title VI: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1988 and 1989. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title VII: General Provisions - Repeals the following: (1) the current Federal requirement of a separate budget request for the procurement of equipment for the reserve components of the armed forces; (2) the European troop strength limitation as contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985; (3) the limitation of expenditures under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 for development of the Bigeye binary chemical bomb, the Space Defense System, and the testing of anti-satellite weapons; and (4) the required reduction in the number of officers serving on active-duty in the armed forces, as contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 requiring the President to make certain certification to the Congress before certain amendments made under such Act concerning the payment of lodging and per diem expenses for military members can take effect. Provides, instead, that such amendments shall take effect no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act. Repeals specified provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 and the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1987 concerning certain limitations on the establishment of a federally-funded research and development center for the Strategic Defense Initiative program. Provides, instead, for the obligation and expenditure of funds for such program.

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Timeline

Dec 4, 1987

Signed by President.

Dec 4, 1987

Signed by President.

Dec 4, 1987

Became Public Law No: 100-180.

Dec 4, 1987

Became Public Law No: 100-180.

Nov 30, 1987

Measure Signed in Senate.

Nov 30, 1987

Presented to President.

Nov 30, 1987

Presented to President.

Nov 20, 1987

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Nov 19, 1987

Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk.

Nov 19, 1987

Conference report considered in Senate.

Nov 19, 1987

Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 86-9. Record Vote No: 384.

Nov 19, 1987

Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 86-9. Record Vote No: 384.

Nov 18, 1987

Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 264 - 158 (Record Vote No: 440).

Nov 18, 1987

House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 264 - 158 (Record Vote No: 440).

Nov 17, 1987

Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

Nov 17, 1987

Conferees agreed to file conference report.

Nov 17, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.309 Reported to House.

Nov 17, 1987

Conference report filed: Conference Report 100-446 Filed in House.

Nov 17, 1987

Conference Report 100-446 Filed in House.

Nov 17, 1987

Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement held at the desk.

Oct 23, 1987

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Oct 23, 1987

Conference held.

Oct 20, 1987

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Oct 20, 1987

Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

Oct 20, 1987

House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

Oct 20, 1987

House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Aspin, Price (IL), Bennett, Stratton, Nichols, Daniel, Montgomery, Schroeder, Byron, Mavroules, Hutto, Skelton, Leath (TX), McCurdy, Dyson, Hertel, Ray, Spratt, McCloskey, Darden, Robinson.

Oct 20, 1987

House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Dickinson, Spence, Badham, Stump, Courter, Hopkins, Davis (MI), Hunter, Martin (NY), Kasich, Martin (IL), Bateman, Sweeney, Blaz, Stokes, Kastenmeier, Cheney.

Oct 20, 1987

House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Rostenkowski, Gibbons, Jenkins, Downey (NY), Pease, Russo, Gephardt, Guarini, Matsui, Duncan, Crane, Frenzel, Schulze, Chandler, Fascell, Hamilton, Yatron, Solarz, Berman, Broomfield.

Oct 20, 1987

House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Gilman, Lagomarsino, Spratt, Mica, Snowe, Rodino, Hughes, Staggers, McCollum, Shaw, LaFalce, McDade, Dellums.

Oct 20, 1987

House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Brown (CA), Dicks, Downey (NY), AuCoin, Markey, Badham, Courter, Hyde, Solomon, Dornan (CA).

Oct 16, 1987

Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Nunn; Exon; Levin; Kennedy; Bingaman; Dixon; Glenn; Warner; Cohen; Quayle; Wilson; Gramm.

Oct 13, 1987

House Incorporated this Measure in S.1174 as an Amendment.

Oct 2, 1987

Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

Oct 2, 1987

Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1174.

Oct 2, 1987

Senate passed companion measure S. 1174 by Voice Vote.

Oct 2, 1987

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-42. Record Vote No: 300.

Oct 2, 1987

Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 56-42. Record Vote No: 300.

Jun 2, 1987

Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 141.

May 20, 1987

House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

May 20, 1987

Separate Vote Demanded on Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

May 20, 1987

Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 239 - 177 (Record Vote No: 141).

May 20, 1987

Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 239 - 177 (Record Vote No: 141).

May 20, 1987

Motion to Recommit (with Instructions) Failed in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 172 - 247 (Record Vote No: 140).

May 19, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 18, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 13, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 12, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 11, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 8, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 7, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.160 Reported to House.

May 7, 1987

Rule Passed House.

May 7, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 6, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.159 Reported to House.

May 6, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.157 Reported to House.

May 6, 1987

Rule Passed House.

May 6, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 5, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.156 Reported to House.

May 5, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

May 4, 1987

Called up by House by Rule.

May 4, 1987

Considered by House Unfinished Business.

Apr 28, 1987

Committee on Rules Granted a Modified Open Rule Providing for Seven and One Half Hours of General Debate; Making in Order a Committe Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute; Waiving Certain Points of Order.

Apr 28, 1987

Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.152 Reported to House.

Apr 15, 1987

Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 100-58.

Apr 15, 1987

Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 100-58.

Apr 15, 1987

Placed on Union Calendar No: 46.

Apr 8, 1987

Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

Apr 7, 1987

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Mar 23, 1987

Introduced in House

Mar 23, 1987

Introduced in House

Mar 23, 1987

Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

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