Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Army Programs Subtitle C: Navy Programs Subtitle D: Air Force Programs Subtitle E: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense Subtitle D: Other Matters Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions Subtitle D: Information Technology Issues Subtitle E: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement Subtitle F: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Subtitle G: Other Matters Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Military Education and Training Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records Subtitle F: Reports Subtitle G: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Services Subtitle B: TRICARE Program Subtitle C: Health Care Services for Medicare-Eligible Department of Defense Beneficiaries Subtitle D: Other Changes to Existing Laws Regarding Health Care Management Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Subtitle A: Department of Defense Officers and Organization Subtitle B: Department of Defense Financial Management Subtitle C: Joint Warfighting Experimentation Subtitle D: Other Matters Title X: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards Subtitle C: Counter Drug Activities and Other Assistance for Civilian Law Enforcement Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals Subtitle E: Armed Forces Retirement Home Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Defense Property Subtitle G: Other Department of Defense Matters Subtitle H: Other Matters Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations Subtitle A: United States Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina Subtitle B: Matters Relating to Contingency Operations Subtitle C: Matters Relating to NATO and Europe Subtitle D: Other Matters Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union Title XIV: Domestic Preparedness for Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Title XV: Matters Relating to Arms Control, Export Controls, and Counterproliferation Subtitle A: Arms Control Matters Subtitle B: Satellite Export Controls Subtitle C: Other Export Control Matters Subtitle D: Counterproliferation Matters Division B: Military Construction Authorizations Title XXI(sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment Subtitle D: Land Conveyances Subtitle E: Other Matters Title XXIX: Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle D: Other Matters Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration Title XXXVII: Increased Monitoring of Products Made With Forced Labor Title XXXVIII: Fair Trade in Automotive Parts Title XXXIX: Radio Free Asia Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) defense-wide and reserve procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) the defense export loan guarantee program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multi-year contract for procurement of the AGM-114 Longbow Hellfire missile. (Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award a second-source procurement contract for production of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles only after a certification to the congressional defense and appropriations committees concerning the quantity and cost of such vehicles. (Sec. 113) Limits the obligation of funds appropriated for certain armored system modernization programs until the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning such programs. (Sec. 114) Prohibits the obligation of funds for the procurement of reactive armor tiles until 30 days after the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) reports to the defense and appropriations committees on armored system modernization. (Sec. 115) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 the authority to carry out the armament retooling and manufacturing support initiative. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Earmarks funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for the CVN-77 nuclear aircraft carrier program. (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized to be excluded from certain cost limitations under the Seawolf submarine program. (Sec. 123) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multi-year contract for procurement of: (1) the AV-8B, the T-45TS, and the E-2C aircraft; and (2) the Marine Corps Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement. (Sec. 124) Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to review and report to the Congress annually on the F-A 18E-F fighter aircraft. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the obligation of funds available for the F-22 aircraft program for advance procurement for the six Lot II F-22 aircraft until the Secretary submits to the defense and appropriations committees a certification of the completion of a specified amount of flight testing for such aircraft. Requires a related flight test certification from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to review and report to the defense and appropriations committees on the C-130J aircraft program. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under agreements entered into with the Secretary of the Army, to carry out a program to provide assistance to State and local governments in developing capabilities to respond to emergencies involving risks to public health or safety that are identified by such Secretary as risks resulting from the storage or destruction of chemical agents and munitions at U.S. military installations or facilities. Requires an annual report from the Director. Provides program funding. Directs the Secretary of Defense to include information on such program within a required annual report concerning the defense chemical agents and munitions destruction program. (Sec. 142) Directs the program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program to continue to manage the development and testing of technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical munitions that are potential or demonstrated alternatives to the baseline incineration program. Authorizes the program manager to carry out implementation of chemical munitions destruction alternative technologies immediately after the successful demonstration of such technology and a demonstration report to the Congress by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. Requires an independent evaluation of the cost and schedule of such program. Requires the Secretary, if he proceeds with a pilot program concerning chemical weapons assessment under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, to submit to the Congress a plan for that program. Provides program funding. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), including activities of the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Earmarks funds for basic research and applied research projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2003 the Secretary's responsibilities for management of the Navy countermeasures program. (Sec. 212) Earmarks authorized funds for RDT&E into the CVN-77 nuclear aircraft carrier program for its transition to CV(X) aircraft carrier technologies. (Sec. 213) Amends Federal provisions concerning the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) require the ratio of contract recipient cost to Government cost to be determined under competitive procedures; (2) require that a transaction file for every contract or agreement under the program awarded on other than a cost-sharing basis include the rationale for such determination; (3) remove a provision allowing a contractor-Federal cost share percentage of less than two to one; and (4) require additional cost-sharing information to be included in a required five-year plan for such program. (Sec. 214) Expresses the sense of the Congress: (1) that for each of FY 2000 through 2008 it should be an objective of the Secretary to increase the budget for the Defense Science and Technology Program by at least two percent over the previous year, after inflation; and (2) enumerating key objectives for the Program. Directs the Secretary to attempt to leverage commercial research, technology, products, and processes for the benefit of the Department of Defense (DOD). Authorizes the Secretary to allocate DOD basic and applied research funds to support any individual project or program under such Program. Outlines objectives with respect to Program management within the various military departments. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the DOD technology base. (Sec. 215) Earmarks authorized funds for the Next Generation Internet program, with a limitation. (Sec. 216) Prohibits more than $233 million from being obligated for the Crusader self-propelled artillery system program until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army submits to the defense and appropriations committees an assessment of such system. (Sec. 217) Directs the Secretary to assess and report to the Congress on the technical and operational aspects of the Airborne Laser program. Earmarks program funds, with a limitation on such funds until after the report is received. (Sec. 218) Designates as a national security priority and directs the Secretary to develop an enhanced Global Positioning System (GPS). Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) future-year defense program funding should provide sufficient funds for GPS development; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation should provide sufficient funding to support additional civil frequencies for the GPS and other GPS civil enhancements. Requires the Secretary to submit a GPS plan to the Congress. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Expresses the sense of th Congress that: (1) any national missile defense system deployed by the United States must provide effective defense against limited, accidental, or unauthorized ballistic missile attack for all 50 states; and (2) U.S. territories should be afforded effective protection against such attack. (Sec. 232) Prohibits funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)from being obligated for the Medium Extended Air Defense System until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the future-years defense program includes sufficient System funding to complete its design and development phase. (Sec. 233) Withholds $5 million of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Russian-American Observational Satellite until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that DOD has received detailed information concerning the nature, extent, and implications of the transfer of ballistic missile technology from Russian sources to Iran. (Sec. 234) Urges the United States to seek to foster a climate of cooperation with Russia on matters relating to ballistic missile defense, especially in such areas as early warning. (Sec. 235) Sets forth program elements for purposes of budget requests for BMDO. Requires that amounts requested for theater and national missile defense major defense acquisition programs be specified in individual program elements, and that amounts appropriated for such programs be available only for ballistic missile defense activities. (Sec. 236) Directs the Secretary to implement technical and price competition for the development and production of the interceptor missile for the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and to ensure that the prime contractor for THAAD provides the cooperation needed to establish such competition. Provides for: (1) a cost-sharing arrangement with such prime contractor for certain flight test failures under THAAD; (2) an engineering and manufacturing development phase for other THAAD elements; (3) development by the Secretary of a plan for THAAD deployment in response to theater ballistic missile threats that evolve before U.S. military forces are equipped with the objective configuration of those missiles and elements; and (4) a prohibition against the commencement of the THAAD interceptor missile engineering and development phase until there have been three successful tests of such missile. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency to carry out certain prototype projects. (Sec. 242) Earmarks RDT&E funds for: (1) a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance ground surveillance concept definition based on the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Technology Insertion Program sensor of the United States; and (2) contributions for the common-funded Civil Budget of NATO. (Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to be the executive agent for the Cooperative Research Program of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. (Sec. 245) Directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to review and report to the Congress on research on pharmacological interventions for reversing brain injury. (Sec. 246) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to demonstrate improved cooperation with universities and other private entities for the performance of research and development functions. Requires participation consideration to be given to labs and centers where innovative management techniques have been demonstrated. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the Congress. Commends the Secretary on progress made by DOD science and technology laboratories and test and evaluation centers toward superior quality and work. (Sec. 247) Directs the Secretary to review and modify DOD policies and doctrines on chemical warfare defense in order to achieve specified objectives, including the adequate protection of U.S. personnel from such exposure. Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a plan to establish a research program for determining the effects of exposure to chemical warfare agents. Requires a report to the defense committees on review and research program results. (Sec. 248) Earmarks RDT&E funds for research for discovering a combat capability that is comparable to that provided by anti-personnel land mines, anti-personnel submunitions, and current mixed mine systems. Directs the Secretary to include with FY 2000 budget materials submitted to the Congress an explanation of any funds requested for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to enter into two contracts for studies by appropriate scientific organizations relating to such research. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees in 2000 and 2001 describing the progress made in identifying such technologies. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified O&M accounts. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks O&M funds for: (1) the refurbishment of up to 70 M1-A1 tanks under a specified program; (2) paying operational costs of the prepositioned fleet of equipment during training rotations at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California; (3) relocating the U.S.S. Wisconsin from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia; and (4) contributions for the common-funded Military Budget of NATO. Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Directs the President to notify the Congress before entering into negotiations for the ex-gratia settlement of foreign claims against the United States for environmental cleanup of former DOD installations in a foreign country. Requires such fund use to be specifically authorized by law, treaty, or international agreement. (Sec. 322) Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to Canada in each of FY 1999 through 2008 for the environmental cleanup of formerly used defense sites there. Provides funding for such payments from amounts authorized for DOD defense-wide O&M. (Sec. 323) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use specified O&M funds for the removal of underground storage tanks. (Sec. 324) Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the status of foreign-manufactured polychlorinated biphenyl waste. Requires such report to include recommendations for the disposal of such waste in an environmentally sound manner and an explanation of how changes in U.S. law regarding such disposal would be consistent with international law. (Sec. 326) Amends the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships to allow Navy submersible ships to discharge non-plastic garbage that has been compacted and weighted to ensure negative buoyancy. (Sec. 327) Requires activities under the Arctic Environmental Cooperation Program to include cooperative activities on environmental matters in the Arctic region with the military departments and agencies of other countries, including the Russian Federation. Prohibits Program activities from including any activities for which Cooperative Threat Reduction funds have been denied or are prohibited. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees at least 15 days in advance of the obligation of funds for Program activities. Earmarks O&M funds for such Program. Prohibits funding obligation until 45 days after the Secretary submits a Program plan to such committees. (Sec. 328) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should take immediate action to significantly reduce the risk of naval vessel oil spills. Subtitle D: Information Technology Issues - Outlines additional information technology responsibilities of the chief information officers of DOD and each military department, including compliance with applicable standards and interoperability among such departments and DOD. (Sec. 332) Directs DOD's Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office to develop a single, defense-wide electronic mail system for supply purchases. Outlines responsibilities of the DOD Chief Information Officer with respect to such system. (Sec. 333) Prohibits authorized funds from being obligated or expended on the development or modernization of any information technology or national security system of DOD if the data processing capability of that system does not meet level 1a, 1b, or 2 certification, with exceptions. Excepts from such prohibition funds allocated for mission control systems. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis, after notification to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to such committees on the testing of such systems for year 2000 compliance; and (2) have in place, no later than December 31, 1998, contingency plans to ensure the continuity of operations for every critical mission or function of DOD that is dependent on such a system. Requires the DOD Inspector General to evaluate such systems to ensure year 2000 compatibility (Y2K problem). (Sec. 334) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to include a simulated year 2000 as part of military training exercises. Requires: (1) such tests to be incorporated in at least 25 of such exercises; and (2) each mission critical system expected to be used in any major theater war to be tested in at least one of the exercises. Provides for an alternative testing method. Authorizes the Secretary to exclude from such tests a system which would be incapable of performing reliably during such testing and requires notification to the Congress of any system so excluded. Requires CG review. (Sec. 335) Directs the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to jointly report to the defense committees on the plans of DOD and the intelligence community for ensuring the continuity of performance of essential operations that are at risk of failure due to computer systems and other information and support systems that are not year 2000 compliant. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative arrangement with a foreign government under which the United States assists such government in identifying and correcting any problems in communications, strategic, or other systems of such government that make their computer systems not year 2000 compliant. Subtitle E: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement - Prohibits a DOD commercial or industrial type function that, as of October 1, 1980, was being performed by DOD civilian employees from being changed to performance by private contractor until the Secretary undertakes an analysis of such function and reports results to the Congress, together with a certification that such function performance change is not precluded by any end strength or related constraints. Allows an employee or representative entity to object to such a change on the grounds that the required analysis and certification were not performed. (Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of the determination of each military item which for the first time is being listed as a commercial item for core logistics capability purposes. (Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary to establish within DOD an Automated Identification Technology Office to be responsible for: (1) overseeing the development and implementation of all DOD automated identification technology programs; and (2) coordinating such programs with the Joint Staff, the Secretaries of the military departments, and the directors of the defense agencies. Prohibits funds from being approved for such a program unless it is previously reviewed by such Office. Earmarks FY 1999 Navy funds for the issuance of smart cards (multitechnology automated reader cards). Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan for the use of smart card technology by each military department. (Sec. 345) Prohibits a civil engineering supplies function currently performed by a contractor-operated civil engineering supply store from being combined with another supply or service function unless: (1) the Secretary reports such proposed combination to the Congress, with an explanation; and (2) the CG reviews the report and reports an opinion to the Congress. (Sec. 346) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department from entering into a prime vendor contract for depot-level maintenance or repair of a weapon system until 30 days after a report to the Congress describing the competitive procedures to be used to award the contract and analyzing the costs and benefits that will result in savings to the Government over the life of the contract. (Sec. 347) Directs the Secretary of each military department to develop and submit to the Congress an implementation schedule for the best commercial inventory practices within such department for the acquisition and distribution of secondary supply items. Directs the CG to report to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) each Secretary has complied with such requirement; and (2) best commercial inventory practices are being implemented in the Defense Logistics Agency. (Sec. 348) Directs the CG to report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning proposed personnel reductions in the Army Materiel Command. (Sec. 349) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to ensure visibility over all in-transit end items and secondary items. Requires CG review and comments. (Sec. 350) Directs the Secretary to review, through an independent entity, and report to the defense committees on the functions of the Defense Automated Printing Service. Requires the Secretary to submit the entity's report to the Congress, together with a plan to outsource from such Service functions that are not inherently national security functions that the Secretary determines should be performed outside of DOD. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 the requirement for the competitive procurement of services under such Act. (Sec. 351) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the Congress a plan for the establishment of the core logistics capabilities for the C-17 aircraft consistent with current requirements. Requires CG review. Subtitle F: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Requires, unless specifically otherwise enacted by law, the continuation of Defense Commissary Agency (DCA) management and funding through the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Secretary to establish a governing board for the defense commissary system. (Sec. 362) Increases from 12 to 24 days per year the eligibility for commissary privileges for members of the Ready Reserve with 50 or more credit points. Makes eligible for commissary privileges and use of morale, welfare, and recreation facilities members and dependents of National Guard personnel called to duty during a federally declared disaster. (Sec. 363) Provides a limitation on the cost of services provided to the DCA to provide for the efficient management and operation of the commissary system. (Sec. 364) Authorizes the Secretary to impose a charge for the collection of dishonored checks presented at commissary stores. (Sec. 365) Authorizes the Secretary to establish restrictions on the ability of eligible patrons of commissary stores located outside the United States to purchase certain items if such restrictions are considered necessary to prevent the resale of such items in violation of host nation laws or U.S. treaty obligations. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain a controlled items list for such determinations. Outlines reporting requirements. (Sec. 366) Repeals a provision requiring the Air Force to sell, upon request, up to 16 ounces of tobacco to each Air Force enlisted member serving on active duty. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 a demonstration project for the uniform funding of morale, welfare, and recreation activities. (Sec. 367) Prohibits consolidation or other organizational changes in the defense retail systems. (Sec. 368) Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe DCA authority to meet its telecommunications requirements by obtaining services and related items under the FTS-2001 contract through a frame relay system procured for the DCA. (Sec. 369) Directs the Secretary to contract with a commercial survey firm to survey eligible commissary patrons to determine patron satisfaction with merchandise sold in commissary stores. Requires survey results to be reported to the Secretary and the defense committees. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Provides that, if a member is assigned to a remote location or unaccompanied tour of duty, a dependent of such member who resides in a U.S. territory, commonwealth, or possession may be enrolled in an educational program provided under the defense dependents' educational system. Allows such student to be so enrolled for more than five consecutive years if the dependent is otherwise qualified, space is available, and the Secretary will be reimbursed for the services provided. Allows the dependent of a U.S. Customs employee who resides in Puerto Rico but not on a military installation to enroll in an educational program provided by the Secretary in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 372) Continues through FY 1999 the provision of financial assistance to local educational agencies that provide education to dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each agency of its eligibility for such assistance. (Sec. 373) Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive readiness reporting system with respect to DOD's ability to carry out national security strategy. Directs the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), at least quarterly, to conduct a joint readiness review. Directs the Secretary to report monthly to the defense and appropriations committees on review results. Directs the Secretary to establish and implement such system so as to ensure that such capabilities are attained no later than January 15, 2000. Requires an implementation plan. Repeals, on such attainment date, the quarterly readiness reports. (Sec. 374) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to specifically authorize the investigation of possible fraud, waste, and abuse concerning overpayments made to vendors by DOD. (Sec. 375) Adds a competitive source selection process to required conditions for providing financial assistance for the support of additional duties assigned to the Army National Guard. (Sec. 376) Directs the Secretary to complete by October 1, 1999, the current demonstration program to improve the quality of personal property shipments within DOD. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on evaluations of current and alternative demonstrations with respect to such shipments. (Sec. 377) Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to carry out a pilot program during FY 1999 and 2000 to demonstrate the use of landing fees as a source of funding for the O&M of airfields of such department. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform landing fees for such departments. Requires such fees to be used for landing field O&M. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on the pilot programs. (Sec. 378) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the Congress a five-year plan for guiding and expanding distance learning initiatives within DOD. (Sec. 379) Requires public availability of any agreement entered into between the commander of a military installation and a financial institution which authorizes the provision of financial services on a military installation. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 402) Reduces by specified amounts among the service branches the number of military personnel authorized to serve on active duty at the end of a fiscal year. (Sec. 403) Revises the due date of an annual manpower requirements report. (Sec. 404) Increases from six to seven the number of positions within the Joint Staff that may be excluded from annual general and flag officer limitations. (Sec. 405) Extends through FY 2001 (currently ends October 1, 1998) the authority of the JCS Chairman to designate up to 12 general and flag officers serving in joint duty positions for exclusion from general and flag officer grade limitations. (Sec. 406) Exempts the position of Chief of the National Guard Bureau from the limitation on the number of officers above major general authorized to serve on active duty in that military department. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for Army and Air Force military technicians (dual status). (Sec. 414) Increases the number of officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 415) Consolidates the end strength authorizations for active-status Naval Reserve flag officers of the Navy Medical Department Staff Corps. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 1999 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to convene a special selection board if such Secretary determines that a person was not selected for promotion due to material unfairness or administrative error, whether or not that person is then on active duty. Provides for the determination of material unfairness. (Sec. 502) Denies entitlement to involuntary separation pay for an officer discharged for failure to be selected for promotion when the officer requested not to be so selected. Requires the appropriate selection board to submit to the Secretary concerned the name of any officer making such request. (Sec. 503) Eliminates the requirement for a board of review after a board of inquiry's determination relating to an officer's substandard performance of duty or certain other findings. (Sec. 504) Provides a permanent exception to the requirement for retirement for years of service for certain Navy and Marine Corps officers designated for limited duty assignments. (Sec. 506) Requires the Air Force Assistant Surgeon General for Dental Services to be appointed in the grade of brigadier general. (Sec. 507) Urges the Secretary of the Navy to review the process by which the Navy allocates Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarships. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Authorizes the President to order members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category into active duty to respond to an emergency involving the use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. Authorizes the use of active-duty reserve and National Guard personnel for such purpose. (Sec. 512) Provides for the crediting for retirement purposes of service in the higher position for a reserve officer who, after being found qualified for Federal recognition in a higher grade by an appropriate personnel board, serves in a position for which that grade is the minimum authorized grade. (Sec. 513) Allows a reserve officer who, after successfully serving on active duty in a grade above colonel or captain (Navy) for at least six months, is involuntarily transferred from active status to be credited with satisfactory service in such position for retirement purposes. (Sec. 514) Provides active status service requirements, for promotion consideration purposes, for Army and Air Force reserve brigadier generals. (Sec. 515) Provides for the composition of selective early retirement boards for Naval Reserve rear admirals and Marine Corps Reserve major generals. (Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to waive, on a case-by-case basis for a two-year period, the requirement that Army Reserve officers commissioned through the Army Officer Candidate School possess a baccalaureate degree before promotion to the grade of captain. Terminates such waiver authority on September 30, 2000. (Sec. 517) Provides for the issuance of burial flags for members and certain former members of the Selected Reserve. Subtitle C: Military Education and Training - Requires the Secretary concerned to provide separate and secure housing for male and female recruits, with the sleeping areas separated by permanent walls and access limited to separate entrances. Requires that, if an installation cannot meet such requirements by October 1, 2001, then males and females must be housed in separate facilities at such installation. Requires all future construction of barracks at basic training facilities to accommodate separate and secure housing for such recruits. (Sec. 522) Directs each Secretary to ensure that access to recruits after the end of a training day, other than for emergency or exigent circumstances, is limited to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed on that floor, or to members in the chain of command who are accompanied by a member who is not a recruit but is of the same gender as the recruits housed in that area. (Sec. 523) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretaries concerned should require males and females to be assigned to separate units at the platoon, division, or flight level during recruit basic training. (Sec. 524) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend certain reporting dates for the Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues. (Sec. 525) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to improve the oversight and cost accounting of innovative readiness training projects. Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the need for, and the criteria to be used to establish, two new decorations, one to be awarded to military personnel, and the other to U.S. civilian nationals, who are killed or injured in the line of duty as a result of noncombat circumstances occurring: (1) as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a friendly foreign nation; or (2) while engaged in, training for, or traveling to or from a peacetime or contingency operation or service as part of a peacekeeping force. (Sec. 532) Waives time limitations with respect to the award to certain individuals of specified military service medals for service during World War II, Korea, or Vietnam. (Sec. 533) Commends Navy and Marine Corps personnel who served in the Navy's Asiatic Fleet between 1910 and 1942 and honors those who gave their lives in the line of such duty. (Sec. 534) Expresses appreciation for the service during World Wars I and II of Navy personnel assigned as gun crews on board merchant ships as part of the Naval Armed Guard Service. (Sec. 535) Recognizes and honors: (1) members and former members of the military forces of South Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines, as well as certain indigenous military groups, for their heroism, sacrifice, and service in connection with U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam conflict; and (2) former South Vietnamese commandos for their service during such conflict. (Sec. 537) Prohibits a member of the armed forces from entering into a Federal, State, or local correctional facility to present a military decoration to a person who has been convicted of a serious violent felony. Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records - Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2001, from carrying out any reduction in the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to duty with the department's military service review agency below a specified baseline number until: (1) such Secretary reports to the Congress on the proposed reduction and its rationale; and (2) 90 days has elapsed since such report. Directs each Secretary to assign to its service review agency staff at least one attorney and one physician. Requires each Secretary to ensure that an applicant seeking correction of his or her military records through the appropriate review agency is provided a copy of all correspondence and communications to or from such agency with an entity or person outside the agency, with exceptions. Provides timeliness standards, for FY 2001 and beyond, for the final disposition of military record review cases considered by a corrections board. Redefines "military record" for purposes of corrections to such record. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the effect of the six-year bar to retroactive payments when relief is granted by a military records corrections board. Subtitle F: Reports - Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress: (1) information on the retention during FY 1989 through 1998 of military personnel on active duty in the combat, combat support, and combat service support forces of the military departments; (2) on the methods of selection of personnel to serve on courts-martial; and (3) on the decision of the Secretary of the Army in 1994 to transfer approximately 500 prisoners from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Requires the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1999 through 2003, to track such prisoners' parole and recidivism rates. (Sec. 554) Directs the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to review and report to the Secretary on the process used for allocating and distributing resources among the States for the National Guard. Requires such report to be transmitted to the defense committees. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Extends through FY 2001 certain force reduction transition management and benefits authorities, including early retirement and voluntary separation incentive programs and certain time-in-grade requirements. (Sec. 562) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to place on involuntary leave without pay a cadet or midshipman pending separation from the academy, pending return to the academy to repeat a semester or year, or for other good cause. (Sec. 563) Continues eligibility for the voluntary separation incentive program after the involuntary loss of membership in the Ready or Standby Reserve. (Sec. 564) Defines a financial institution, for purposes of reimbursement of civilian employees for expenses due to government error, as a bank, savings and loan or similar institution, or a credit union chartered by the United States or a State. (Sec. 565) Increases the maximum amount of monthly basic educational assistance available to members with a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel or for which it is difficult to recruit. (Sec. 566) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii, is an important element of DOD and critical to the full accounting of military personnel who have been classified as prisoners of war or missing in action. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide sufficient personnel to fill all authorized positions at the Laboratory; and (2) develop and implement a joint Laboratory manning plan. Prohibits any Laboratory personnel reductions until the plan is submitted. (Sec. 567) Directs the Secretary to convene and preside over a conference to determine means to improve and increase the availability of military burial honors for veterans. Requires a report to the Congress on such conference. Directs the Secretary concerned, upon request, to provide, for the funeral of any veteran that occurs after December 31, 1999, an honor guard detail to consist of at least three persons with the capacity to play a recorded version of Taps (unless a bugler is part of such detail). Requires an annual report for FY 2001 through 2005 from the Secretary to the defense committees on funerals performed, their cost, and related information. Prohibits the performance of honor guard functions by reserve personnel from being considered a period of required drill or training. Repeals a current limitation on the availability of funds for honor guard functions performed by the National Guard. (Sec. 568) Considers any U.S. citizen appointed as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve and therefore eligible for a military ID card. (Sec. 569) Repeals a current limitation on the civilian employment of enlisted personnel when such employment interferes with the customary or regular employment of local civilians. (Sec. 570) Provides transitional compensation authority for abused dependent children of military personnel when such children reside with the spouse or former spouse of a member convicted of dependent abuse. (Sec. 571) Directs the Secretary to establish a five-year pilot program to assess whether the armed forces could better meet recruiting requirements by treating GED and home school diploma recipients as having graduated from high school for purposes of enlistment eligibility. Limits to 1,250 annually the total number of individuals authorized to be so considered. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on such pilot program, including a separate evaluation of the performance of GED and home school participants. (Sec. 572) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the New Parent Support Program that was begun as a pilot program of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, California, has been an effective tool in curbing family violence within the military community; (2) such Program is a model for future similar programs throughout the military departments; and (3) future funding should be made available for such programs. Requires a Program report from the Secretary to the Congress. (Sec. 573) Authorizes the President to advance Benjamin O. Davis, Junior, to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Prohibits the accrual of additional benefits for any person as a result of such promotion. (Sec. 574) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that civilians in the military chain of command should: (1) show in themselves a good example of virtue, honor, and patriotism and subordinate themselves to those ideals; (2) be vigilant in inspecting the conduct of persons under their command; (3) end all dissolute and immoral practices; and (4) promote the morale, physical well-being, and welfare of persons under their command. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Increases the rate of basic pay of members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1999, by the greater of 3.6 percent or the average percentage increase in the General Schedule rates of basic pay for civilian employees. (Sec. 602) Increases to $600 the monthly pay for cadets and midshipmen at the service academies. (Sec. 603) Authorizes payment by the Secretary concerned of certain housing expenses of personnel assigned to duty outside the United States. (Sec. 604) Provides a basic allowance for subsistence for reserve personnel whose instruction or duty period totals at least eight hours in a day. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through December 31, 1999, specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of FY 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 614) Increases the hazardous duty pay for aerial flight crew members in pay grades E-4 to E-9. (Sec. 615) Revises generally provisions concerning aviation career inventive pay and the aviation officer retention bonus. (Sec. 616) Authorizes the payment of diving duty special pay for periods during which a member meets diving proficiency requirements during an assignment that includes diving duty other than as a primary duty. (Sec. 617) Repeals a provision which prohibits individuals receiving career sea pay from also receiving hardship duty pay. (Sec. 619) Repeals a provision which allows only ten percent of all selective reenlistment bonuses paid in a fiscal year to exceed $20,000. (Sec. 620) Increases from $4,000 to $6,000 the maximum bonus for Army enlistment. (Sec. 622) Directs the Secretary to establish and provide for members qualified in critically short military occupational specialties a series of new incentives for increasing the rates at which such members are retained for service in such specialties. Expresses the sense of the Congress specifying proposed incentives. Requires implementation reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Allows a member entitled to the transportation of baggage and household effects due to a change of station to, as an alternative, reimbursement or payment of a monetary allowance in advance of a move arranged by such member. (Sec. 632) Provides an exception to the maximum weight allowance for the overseas transportation of household effects when the additional allowance is intended to permit the shipping of consumables that cannot be reasonably obtained at the member's new station. (Sec. 633) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use Government or commercial carriers for travel performed by members in connection with rest and recuperative leave from overseas stations. (Sec. 634) Authorizes payment for the temporary storage of baggage of students not taken on an annual trip to an overseas duty station of such student's sponsor. (Sec. 635) Authorizes commercial travel under Federal supply schedules for the travel of a member of the reserves to or from the location of inactive duty training. Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters - Considers, beginning on October 1, 2008, coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to be paid in full when a member's pay has been reduced for such coverage for 30 years or when the member has attained 70 years of age. (Sec. 642) Authorizes eligible retired or former members to elect to participate in the SBP during its open enrollment period and to participate in the Supplemental Survivor Benefit Plan. Includes as an eligible member an individual who is not a current SBP participant and who is entitled to retired pay or would be entitled to such pay except for being under 60 years of age. Provides SBP status for individuals making such elections and outlines election requirements. Defines the open enrollment period as the one-year period beginning on March 1, 1999. Voids such election if the person dies within two years after making such election. Requires premiums to be charged to persons making such elections. (Sec. 643) Provides an effective date for the court-ordered election of a spouse's or former spouse's coverage under the SBP. (Sec. 644) Directs the Secretary concerned to present a U.S. flag to a member of any military component upon his or her release from active duty for retirement. Allows such presentations only to the extent that funds are appropriated in advance. (Sec. 645) Provides for the recovery, care, and disposition of remains of medically retired members who die during hospitalization that began while such members were on active duty. (Sec. 646) Prohibits the highest applicable rate of basic pay from being used, for retirement computation purposes, in the case of a member who, after serving as the senior enlisted member of an armed force, is reduced in grade due to a court-martial sentence, nonjudicial punishment, or other administrative process. (Sec. 647) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of unpaid Army military retired pay and to report to the Congress. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Deletes the Panama Canal Zone from inclusion within the definition of a U.S. possession. (Sec. 652) Provides for the accounting treatment of obligations and expenditures incurred for advance payments. (Sec. 653) Provides for the reimbursement of rental vehicle and related costs incurred by military personnel in connection with a permanent change of duty station when a motor vehicle transported at Government expense is late. (Sec. 654) Includes within the defense educational loan repayment program a person enrolled in a program of education leading to professional qualifications. Increases the educational loan amounts authorized to be repaid under such program to a maximum of $20,000 per year and $50,000 total per individual. (Sec. 655) Provides Federal employees' compensation for the period during which student members attend training or a practice cruise. (Sec. 656) Provides that the entitlement of an individual to basic educational assistance benefits shall not be affected by the receipt of an enlistment bonus. (Sec. 657) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating under the Navy, to provide financial assistance to sponsors of dependents in overseas areas where defense dependent schools are not reasonably available. (Sec. 658) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to authorize the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the surviving parents or siblings of decedents who were captured and interned during the Vietnam conflict and were unmarried and childless at the time of death. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to provide for an inflation-indexed premium under the defense dependents' dental program. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing benefits under such program until one year after notifying the defense committees of such reduction. (Sec. 702) Includes as eligible dependents under a dental program for military retirees those dependents enrolled under a dental program provided through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs or a plan available as a result of non-military employment. (Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan that would provide for a system-wide redesign of the military and contractor retail and mail-order pharmacy system of DOD by incorporating best business practices of the private sector. Requires the Secretary to suspend any plan to establish a DOD national retail pharmacy program until such plan is submitted and the Secretary has implemented cost-saving reforms with respect to the current system. (Sec. 704) Provides limited continued CHAMPUS coverage with regard to health care provided between October 1, 1998, and July 1, 1999, for persons unaware of the loss of such coverage due to their recent eligibility for Medicare. Subtitle B: TRICARE Program - Allows the Secretary to authorize a contractor under the TRICARE Program (a DOD managed health care program) to pay a claim submitted for payment for health care services provided to a covered beneficiary for which a third party may be liable before seeking recovery from such third party. Provides a right of reimbursement from such third party. (Sec. 712) Provides for the automatic enrollment under TRICARE Prime for each dependent of a member in grade E4 and below who is entitled to CHAMPUS medical and dental care and who resides in the catchment area of a facility offering TRICARE Prime. Provides for the automatic renewal of enrollments and premium payment options under such coverage. Sets an implementation deadline of September 30, 1999. (Sec. 713) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for tracking data and measuring performance in meeting TRICARE access standards. (Sec. 714) Directs the Secretary to establish and report to the Congress on an appeals process in cases of denials through the ClaimCheck computer software system (or any other computer processing system) of claims by civilian providers for payment for health care services provided under TRICARE. (Sec. 715) Directs the Secretary to review: (1) TRICARE program policies to determine if policies addressing the availability of rehabilitative services for TRICARE patients suffering from head injuries are adequate and appropriately address consideration of a certification by an attending physician that such services would be beneficial for such patient; and (2) the administration of the TRICARE Prime health care plans to determine whether, for each region, there is a sufficient number, distribution, and variety of qualified participating health care providers to ensure that covered health care services are accessible and available in a timely manner. Subtitle C: Health Care Services for Medicare-Eligible Department of Defense Beneficiaries - Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct a demonstration project under which not more than 66,000 eligible covered beneficiaries may be enrolled in health benefits plans offered through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). Defines as eligible covered beneficiaries: (1) a CHAMPUS-eligible member or former member who is entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Part A of Medicare; (2) an unremarried spouse of a member when the marriage lasted for a certain qualifying period or when the member served a specified number of years of retirement-creditable service; (3) a dependent of a member who died while on active duty for more than 30 days; or (4) a CHAMPUS-eligible dependent who is entitled to Medicare hospital insurance benefits, regardless of the member's or former member's eligibility for such benefits. Prohibits a covered beneficiary from being required to satisfy any FEHBP enrollment criteria as a condition to such enrollment. Directs the Secretary and the OPM Director to jointly identify and select the geographic areas in which the demonstration project will be conducted, requiring the establishment of at least six, but no more than ten, of such areas. Requires: (1) the demonstration project to be conducted for a three-year period; and (2) eligible beneficiaries to enroll during an open enrollment period for the year 2000. Prohibits enrollees from receiving health care at a military treatment facility or from enrolling in the TRICARE Program during such demonstration project. Requires: (1) an interim and final joint report from the Secretary and the OPM Director on project costs, effectiveness, and the feasibility of making the programs permanent; and (2) a follow-up report by the CG. Applies Medigap protection to project enrollees. (Sec. 722) Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project, to be known as the TRICARE Senior Supplement, to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing health care under CHAMPUS to current and former military personnel and their dependents, or dependents of military personnel who died while on active duty for more than 30 days, who: (1) are 65 years old or older; (2) are entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare Part A; (3) are enrolled in the Medicare supplemental medical insurance program; and (4) reside in an area of a demonstration project. Requires the Secretary to commence the project no later than January 1, 2000, and to terminate it no later than December 31, 2002. Requires the payment of an enrollment fee and prohibits participants from using other military health care facilities during the project. Requires project evaluation by an independent entity. Directs the CG to review such evaluation and report review results to the defense committees. Requires the project to be conducted in two separate areas selected by the Secretary under specified selection criteria. (Sec. 723) Directs the Secretary to implement no later than October 1, 1999, with respect to the eligible individuals described above, the redesign of the TRICARE pharmacy system to incorporate best business practices of the private sector in providing pharmaceuticals. Requires: (1) independent evaluation of such program; (2) an interim and final report from the Secretary to the defense committees; and (3) the program to be conducted in two separate areas selected by the Secretary under specified criteria. (Sec. 724) Directs the CG to submit to the defense committees a comprehensive analysis of the projects and programs described in this Subtitle. Subtitle D: Other Changes to Existing Laws Regarding Health Care Management - Allows the requirement of prior consent before the administration to military personnel of an investigational new or unapproved drug in connection with participation in a particular military operation to be waived only by the President, and only if he determines that obtaining such consent is not feasible or is contrary to the best interests of either the member or national security. Authorizes the Secretary to request the President to waive the prior consent requirement. Directs the Secretary, if such request is granted, to notify the defense and appropriations committees of the waiver, together with its justification. Provides transitional requirement for waivers sought before the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 732) Provides medical, dental, and mental health services for abused dependents of military personnel during the period that such dependents are in receipt of monthly transitional compensation. (Sec. 733) Extends through December 31, 2000, the authority for the use of personal services contracts for the provision of health care at military entrance processing stations and at other locations which are outside of military medical treatment facility areas. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test of alternative methods for conducting medical screenings for enlistment qualification and to report test results to the defense committees. (Sec. 734) Prohibits any physician from providing military health care unless his or her current medical license is an unrestricted license not subject to limitations on the scope of practice ordinarily granted to other physicians for a similar specialty. Directs the Secretary to establish a mechanism for ensuring that each physician that provides military health care satisfies all applicable continuing medical education requirements. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the advanced systems developed for recording military personnel data and information include the capability to record organ and tissue donation elections. Outlines responsibilities of the military department Secretaries and surgeons general with respect to the collection of such information. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 742) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a Level 1 Trauma Training Center to provide the Army with a trauma center capable of training forward surgical teams. (Sec. 743) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a center devoted to a longitudinal study to evaluate data on the health conditions of military personnel returning from deployment in a military operation to ensure the rapid identification of any trends in diseases, illnesses, or injuries among such personnel as a result of such operations. (Sec. 744) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the potential impact of using an enrollment-based capitation methodology to allocate funds for military medical treatment facilities. (Sec. 745) Commends and encourages continuation of the cooperative efforts of DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the delivery of medical care. Directs the DOD and VA Secretaries to jointly conduct: (1) a survey of their respective medical care beneficiary populations to identify the expectations of, requirements for, and behavior patterns of such beneficiaries with respect to medical care; and (2) a review of impediments to cooperation in the delivery of such care. Requires a joint report to the defense and veterans' committees on survey results. Requires such Secretaries to review and report semiannually to such committees identifying opportunities for increased VA participation in the TRICARE program. Directs the Federal Pharmaceutical Steering Committee to: (1) undertake a comprehensive examination of existing pharmaceutical benefits and programs for beneficiaries of DOD medical care programs; (2) review the existing methods for contracting for and distributing medical supplies and services; and (3) report examination results to such committees. Directs the Secretaries to submit to such committees a report on the status of DOD and VA efforts to standardize physical examinations administered to determine or rate disabilities. (Sec. 746) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the current and recommended levels of research and surveillance activities regarding Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases among military personnel. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations - Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a DOD contract for a price exceeding fair market cost in a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which DOD attains its contracting goal for participation by small disadvantaged businesses and certain minority institutions. (Sec. 803) Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to clarify the procedures and methods for determining the reasonableness of prices of items which are exempt from DOD requirements for the submission of certified cost or pricing data. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement procedures: (1) to ensure that a single item manager or contracting officer is responsible for negotiating and entering into all contracts for the procurement of such items from a single contractor; and (2) that provide for the collection and analysis of information on price trends for categories of such items. Requires reports concerning such procedures from the Secretary to the defense committees during FY 2000 through 2002. (Sec. 804) Revises as of January 1, 1999, the definition of "senior executive" for purposes of a DOD limitation on the allowability of compensation for certain contractor personnel. (Sec. 805) Requires separate determinations of waivers of certified cost or pricing data requirements for subcontracts under a DOD or Federal agency prime contract unless the head of the agency involved determines that such requirements should also be waived for the subcontracts and justifies in writing the reasons for such determination. (Sec. 806) Authorizes the DOD single manager for conventional ammunition to restrict its procurement to sources within the national technology and industrial base. (Sec. 807) Authorizes the Secretary to procure articles containing para-aramid fibers and yarns manufactured in a foreign country when: (1) procuring such articles from suppliers in the national technology and industrial base would result in sole-source contracts for such items; and (2) such sole-source contracts would not be in the best interests of the Government. Requires notification to the Congress when such a determination is made. (Sec. 808) Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be amended to require: (1) a defense contractor's compliance with requirements to submit pricing data; and (2) such submission to be a condition to the award of a contract or subcontract. (Sec. 809) Requires specified small arms purchases to be made only from firms in the small arms industrial base, unless the Secretary determines that such requirement is not necessary to preserve such base. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Continues eligibility for membership in the defense acquisition corps for persons serving in a position below GS-13 due to a reduction in force, the closure or realignment of a military installation, or any reason other than for cause. (Sec. 813) Authorizes the head of an agency to enter into a contract for travel-related services that provides for the contractor to furnish services for both official and non-official travel. Makes such provision inapplicable to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service under the Navy. (Sec. 814) Directs the Secretary to revise certain procurement regulations to cover all purchases of goods and services by DOD greater than the micro-purchase threshold under contracts entered into or administered by another Federal agency. (Sec. 815) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology to prescribe policies and requirements for educational programs of the defense acquisition university structure. (Sec. 816) Authorizes the Secretary to designate ten acquisition programs of the military departments as pilot programs on program manager responsibility for product support. (Sec. 818) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for facilitating the rapid transition into DOD acquisition programs of successful first and second phase activities of the Small Business Innovative Research Program under the Small Business Act. (Sec. 819) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1998, to enter into a barter agreement to exchange trucks and other tactical vehicles in exchange for the repair and remanufacture of Marine Corps ribbon bridges. (Sec. 820) Extends permanently (currently expires on September 30, 2002) the authority for the use by commercial entities of DOD major range and test facility installations. Terminates a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 821) Directs the Secretary to provide, under any contract between the DOD Defense Energy Supply Center and a refiner that qualifies as a small disadvantaged business for the delivery of fuel by barge to the Defense Energy Supply Point-Anchorage, that such contract may be performed by an inventory exchange of fuel barrels when the refiner is unable to deliver fuel due to ice conditions in Cook Inlet. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense Officers and Organization - Reduces from ten to nine the number of Assistant Secretary of Defense positions. Deletes the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force of the Defense Science Board to examine the appropriateness of the current organization of DOD for preparing for a transformation in the conduct of war. Requires a report from the task force to the Secretary, who shall forward the report, together with recommendations, to the defense committees. (Sec. 904) Authorizes the Secretary to include within the National Defense University any educational institution that the Secretary considers appropriate and so designates. (Sec. 905) Provides funding for the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary of each military department to administer all of its Fisher houses as nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. Provides, with respect to such instrumentalities, for: (1) a system of governance; (2) the establishment of a central fund as a funding source; and (3) the acceptance of contributions and the imposition of fees for use of such houses. Requires an annual report from each Secretary on Fisher house operations. Provides transitional funding. (Sec. 907) Directs the Secretary to analyze the structures and processes of DOD for the management of its laboratories and test and evaluation centers and to develop a plan for improving such management. Requires the Secretary to develop and submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan and schedule for establishing a cost-based management information system for such laboratories and test centers. Subtitle B: Department of Defense Financial Management - Directs the Secretary to ensure that, in reporting to the Office of Management and Budget DOD obligations for contract services, no more than 15 percent of the total amount of such obligations is reported in the miscellaneous services object class. Requires the Secretary to apply specified definitions of various types of "advisory and assistance services" in complying with such requirement. Requires the classification of such defined services in the future as advisory and assistance services, rather than miscellaneous services. Requires an annual report to the Congress by the Secretary and a review and report by the CG. Directs the Secretary to review DOD contract services performed or expected to be performed during FY 1999 to ensure that those services that are advisory and assistance services are properly classified as such. Reduces by $240 million the total amount that may be obligated by the Secretary during FY 1999 for contracted advisory and assistance services. (Sec. 912) Requires the CG to submit to the Congress an analysis of a biennial financial management improvement plan currently required to be submitted by the Secretary. (Sec. 913) Directs the Secretary to carry out a study of the feasibility and advisability of selecting on a competitive basis the source(s) for performing DOD finance and accounting services from among private sector sources, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), the military departments, and other Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to perform market research in connection with the study. (Sec. 914) Prohibits any DFAS operating location from being closed until 90 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a strategic plan for improving the financial management operations at each of the operating locations of DFAS. (Sec. 915) Requires the inclusion in an annual report required by the Secretary to the Congress in support of the DOD budget of information on DOD resources allocated to support and mission activities. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees the definitions of "support" and "mission" for such purposes. Subtitle C: Joint Warfighting Experimentation - Expresses the sense of the Congress: (1) supporting the initiative of the Secretary to designate a commander of a combatant command to have the mission of joint warfighting experimentation; and (2) that the Congress should review the adequacy of the process of such experimentation to meet future challenges to national security and, if determined inadequate, consider appropriate legislation. (Sec. 923) Requires initial and annual reports from the designated commander to the Secretary on the implementation of joint experimentation. Directs the Secretary to submit such reports to the defense committees. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Requires a reduction during FY 1999 of 25,000 personnel in the defense acquisition work force. Allows such reduction to be decreased to not less than 12,500 if the Secretary determines and certifies to the Congress that a greater reduction would be inconsistent with cost-effective management and with ensuring military readiness. Limits the reduction of core acquisition work force positions to a level proportionate with other occupational elements within defense acquisition and support positions. (Sec. 932) Limits the obligation of operation and support funds for the Office of the Secretary until specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts have been submitted to the Congress. (Sec. 933) Empowers inspectors general of the military departments with responsibilities concerning military personnel whistle blower protections. (Currently, such responsibilities exist solely under the DOD Inspector General.) Provides simplified whistle blower reporting and notice requirements. Repeals a requirement for a post-investigation interview. (Sec. 934) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal a provision concerning the authority to waive certain requirements prior to the transfer of the tactical airlift mission to the reserve components. (Sec. 935) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to ensure that the views of the Commandant of the Marine Corps are appropriately considered before a major decision is made by a Navy element outside of the Marine Corps that directly concerns Marine Corps aviation. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD under this Division for FY 1999 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with a total transfer limit of $2 billion. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. (Sec. 1002) Incorporates into this Act the Classified Annex prepared by the conference committee to accompany this Act and transmitted to the President. (Sec. 1003) Adjusts the amounts authorized to DOD for FY 1998 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorizations were increased or decreased in the 1998 Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act. (Sec. 1004) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 1999 for the incremental costs of U.S. peacekeeping operations in Bosnia, allocated among the military departments. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of amounts in excess of such authorization for such purposes, with a waiver if the President certifies to the Congress that such waiver is in the national security interest or that exercising the waiver will not affect U.S. military readiness (requiring a related report). (Sec. 1005) Makes a specified amount of the RDT&E and O&M funds under this Act available for the Partnership for Peace Information Management System. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes contributions for FY 1999 for the common-funded budgets of NATO out of funds available to DOD for such purpose. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to administer DOD working capital funds during FY 1999 so as to ensure that the total amount of cash balances in such funds as of September 30, 1999, exceeds the total amount of such balances on September 30, 1998, by $1.3 billion. Requires certain actions by the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to achieve such increase. Authorizes the waiver of such requirement to meet a contingency operation or an operation commenced before October 1, 1998, and continuing during FY 1999. Limits: (1) the total amount of advance billings rendered or imposed for DOD working capital funds and the Defense Business Operations Fund in FY 1999; and (2) to $1 billion the total amount of such billings for all DOD working capital funds in a fiscal year. Requires a semiannual report from the Under Secretary to the defense committees on the administration of the balance increase. (Sec. 1008) Requires amounts charged for depreciation of capital assets to be credited to a separate capital asset subaccount established within a working-capital fund. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and the military departments to provide for separate accounting, reporting, and auditing of funds and activities managed through working-capital funds. Allows charges for goods and services provided through such funds to include amounts for depreciation of capital assets. Requires such Secretaries to: (1) establish billing procedures to ensure that balances in working-capital funds do not exceed requirements; and (2) submit to the Congress detailed annual reports of working-capital fund account and subaccount receipts and disbursements, as well as a proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Repeals the authority to manage working-capital accounts and subaccounts through the Defense Business Operations Fund. Revises the authority of a working-capital fund to retain recovered costs of property disposals. (Sec. 1010) Provides for the crediting of amounts recovered from claims against third parties for loss or damage to personal property of military personnel shipped or stored at Government expense. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires: (1) the U.S.S. Iowa and U.S.S. Wisconsin to be listed and maintained on the Naval Vessel Register; and (2) the U.S.S. New Jersey to be stricken from such Register and sold to a nonprofit entity. (Sec. 1013) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S.S. Iowa should be homeported at the Port of San Francisco, California. (Sec. 1014) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the next unnamed LPD-17 class vessel should be named the U.S.S. Clifton B. Cates in honor of the most decorated Marine Corps officer of World War I. (Sec. 1015) Directs the: (1) Secretary of the Navy to report to the defense committees on battleship readiness for meeting military requirements for naval surface fire support; and (2) CG to report to such committees on the naval surface fire support capabilities of the Navy. (Sec. 1016) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the long-term charter of three specified vessels to support the rescue, escort, and towing of submarines. (Sec. 1017) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to substitute the obsolete tugboat Attleboro for the tugboat Normandy in carrying out an authorized transfer of tugboats under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998. Subtitle C: Counter Drug Activities and Other Assistance for Civilian Law Enforcement - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 2002 the authority for DOD support to Federal agencies for certain counter-drug activities. (Sec. 1022) Requires a National Guard member serving on full-time duty relating to drug interdiction and counter-drug activities to perform his or her regularly required drill and exercises training in addition to the training required for such activities. Outlines requirements to ensure that the use of units or personnel of a State National Guard for such activities does not degrade the training and readiness of such units or personnel. Authorizes units or members of a State National Guard, under specified conditions, to provide assistance to youth and charitable organizations as part of the drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. (Sec. 1023) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should ensure that DOD international drug interdiction and counter-drug activities are accorded adequate financial resources to execute the drug interdiction and counter-drug mission under the DOD Global Military Force Policy. Requires the Secretary during FY 1999 to make available such naval and maritime patrol aircraft and crews of the Navy as necessary to conduct the final phase of the counter-drug operation known as Caper Focus. Provides funds. Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) certain support of the drug interdiction efforts of the United States Southern Command in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean areas; and (2) Special Operations Command counterproliferation and counterterrorism activities. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Repeals certain reports and reporting requirements under Federal armed forces provisions and the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989. (Sec. 1032) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees regarding the use of a tagging system to identify hydrocarbon fuels used by DOD. Subtitle E: Armed Forces Retirement Home - Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to require the Director and Deputy Director of the Naval Home to be appointed by the Secretary from certain persons recommended by the Secretaries of the military departments. (Sec. 1042) Requires inspectors general of the military departments to conduct Armed Forces Retirement Home inspections at least every three years. (Currently, only the DOD Inspector General conducts such inspections at six-year intervals). Requires such inspections to be performed on a rotating basis. (Sec. 1043) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the sale of a specified parcel of land at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, D.C., to a neighboring non-profit or related entity. Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Defense Property - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to address problems with the sale or other disposal of excess and surplus defense materials. Requires related reports. (Sec. 1052) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts, all U.S. rights and interest to one surplus F-4 Phantom II aircraft. Requires the Foundation to alter such aircraft so that it no longer has any combat capability. Subtitle G: Other Department of Defense Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program on alternative notice procedures concerning the withholding or garnishment of pay of military personnel for the payment of child support and alimony under provisions of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 1062) Requires prior approval by the Secretary of DOD training of special operations forces with friendly foreign forces. Adds elements to a required report on the experiences of such joint training. (Sec. 1063) Authorizes service academy superintendents to accept a research grant that is awarded on a competitive basis for a research project carried out by a professor or instructor at such academy for a scientific, literary, or educational purpose. (Sec. 1064) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the costs to DOD associated with frequency spectrum allocations. Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require any person on whose behalf a Federal entity incurs costs from the relocation of Federal frequencies to compensate the Federal entity in advance for such costs. Requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission to develop procedures for the implementation of this section, which shall include a process for resolving differences between the Government and commercial licensees regarding estimates of frequency relocation or modification costs. Requires the head of each Federal department or agency to include in his or her annual budget submission a report on costs to be incurred as a result of anticipated frequency relocations. (Sec. 1065) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress on the roles of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and of the Joint Staff in the investigation of DOD aviation accidents; and (2) prescribe regulations for the provision of accident investigation update information. (Sec. 1066) Requires the DOD Inspector General to conduct a new investigation into the circumstances that led to the December 1, 1995, grounding of the 174th fighter wing of the New York Air National Guard and to report results to the defense committees. (Sec. 1067) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) increase the FY 1999 authorized expenditures for a DOD program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War; and (2) change references to the Korean conflict to references to the Korean War. (Sec. 1068) Designates the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and the South Street Seaport Museum buildings on Front Street, New York, as America's National Maritime Museum. Provides criteria for future additions to such Museum. Subtitle H: Other Matters - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to state that a presidential signature shall constitute approval of vessel war risk insurance requested by the Secretary. (Sec. 1072) Extends through FY 1999 the authorization of appropriations under the Defense Production Act of 1950. (Sec. 1073) Requires flags furnished at veterans' burials to be wholly produced in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to waive such requirement upon a determination that it cannot be easily met or that compliance would not be in the U.S. national interest. Requires such Secretary to notify the Congress of any such determination. (Sec. 1074) Expresses the sense of the Congress that a member of an armed force should be treated as using property as a principal residence during any period in which such member is serving on active duty of 180 days or more, but only if such member used that property as a principal residence during or before such duty period. (Sec. 1075) Provides for the tax treatment of pay and other compensation received by: (1) certain civilians employed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; and (2) Federal employees at Federal hydroelectric power facilities on the Columbia and Missouri Rivers. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary, during the five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to carry out a program of experimental use of special personnel management authority (the authority to hire up to 20 individuals from outside the civil service and armed forces) to facilitate the recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for research and development projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Limits the period of appointment (four years) and the amount of compensation to be paid to such employees. Requires annual reports from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1103) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to release to the Commandant of the Coast Guard the results of drug tests of any Navy employee who is employed in any capacity on board a vessel of the Military Sealift Command. (Sec. 1104) Provides certain limitations on back pay awards made in connection with an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action. (Sec. 1105) Restores accumulated annual leave that otherwise would be lost by civilian employees at installations in the Republic of Panama to be closed pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. (Sec. 1106) Repeals a provision requiring the Secretary to conduct a program under which qualified spouses of military personnel are given a hiring preference for DOD child care positions. (Sec. 1107) Provides for an alternative day of observance of holidays occurring on a Monday in the case of Federal employees at installations outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday. (Sec. 1108) Directs the Secretary to: (1) continue to carry out a test program, originally required by executive order, involving civilian DOD employees occupying sensitive positions; and (2) ensure that such program authorizes the testing of civilian DOD employees for illegal drug use when there is a reasonable suspicion of such use. Requires employee applicants to be notified of such authority. (Sec. 1109) Amends Federal provisions concerning the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System to provide voluntary early retirement authority for DOD civilian employees who either complete 25 years of service or, after becoming 50 years of age, complete 20 years of service. Outlines voluntary separation requirements, including that: (1) such employee has not received a notice of separation for misconduct or unacceptable performance; and (2) DOD or the military department involved is undergoing a major reorganization, reduction in force, or transfer of functions. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Subtitle A: United States Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. ground combat forces should not remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina indefinitely; (2) the President should work with NATO allies and other nations to withdraw such troops within a reasonable period of time; (3) a NATO-led force in such region without the participation of U.S. ground combat forces might be suitable if the European Security and Defense Identity is not sufficiently developed or is otherwise inappropriate for such a mission; and (4) the United States may decide to provide appropriate support to a Western European Union-led or NATO-led follow-on force for such region. Requests the President to: (1) inform European NATO allies of the above findings and consult with congressional leadership toward achieving a sustainable peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina while withdrawing U.S. ground combat forces; and (2) include in the DOD budget request for each fiscal year sufficient amounts to pay for such U.S. participation. (Sec. 1203) Directs the President to: (1) ensure that semiannual reports concerning such participation as required under the 1998 Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act are submitted in a timely manner; and (2) include a supplemental report whenever he requests funds for continued participation of U.S. ground combat forces in such region. Outlines additional information required in such reports. (Sec. 1204) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the effects of military operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans region on the capabilities of U.S. military forces. Requires additional reports whenever the number of U.S. ground combat forces there increases or decreases by 20 percent or more. Subtitle B: Matters Related to Contingency Operations -Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on U.S. military involvement in major contingency operations and major ongoing operations since the end of the Persian Gulf War. (Sec. 1212) Requires that, whenever the President requests appropriations for costs associated with a contingency operation that involves or likely will involve the deployment of more than 500 U.S. military personnel, the Secretary shall report to the Congress on the objectives of such operation. Subtitle C: Matters Relating to NATO and Europe - Limits the U.S. share of the commonly-funded NATO expansion costs (the costs of the inclusion of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) to the lesser of 25 percent of such costs or $2 billion. (Sec. 1222) Directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress a report on the planned future military capabilities of NATO in light of the proposed inclusion of such countries. (Sec. 1223) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees reports on the development of the European Security and Defense Identity within the NATO alliance that would enable the Western European Union to assume the political control and strategic direction of NATO assets and capabilities made available by the alliance. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Prohibits more than eight U.S. military personnel from being assigned during FY 1999 to the United Nations Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters. Prohibits DOD funds from being used: (1) for a monetary contribution to the United Nations (UN) for the establishment of a standing international force under the UN; or (2) to assign or detail any member of U.S. military forces to duty with a UN Stand By Force. (Sec. 1232) States that no provision of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or any related regulation shall restrict the procurement, training, or O&M of U.S. armed forces. (Sec. 1233) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to revise goals with respect to U.S. efforts to increase its allies' share of the common defense burden. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress under such Act to include information on progress made toward achieving such increased burdensharing. Extends a current report deadline. (Sec. 1234) Directs the Secretary to ensure that any excess Huey or Cobra helicopters that are to be transferred to a foreign country for flight operations meet certain requirements relating to depot-level maintenance and repair in the United States prior to transfer. (Sec. 1235) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain vessels to specified foreign countries on a grant basis under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, on a sale or lease basis under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, or on a combined sale-lease basis under the latter Act. Requires authority to effectuate such transfers, together with necessary appropriations, to be provided in advance in an appropriations Act. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Vessels Transfer Program Account. Requires congressional notification of any such transfer. Provides that transfers made on a grant basis shall not be counted against a limitation on the aggregate value of excess transferred defense articles under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires as a condition of such transfers that any vessel repair or refurbishment needed prior to such transfers be performed at a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Terminates transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1236) Amends the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 1996 to repeal a moratorium on the use of antipersonnel land mines except in specified areas. (Sec. 1237) Authorizes the President to exercise authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in the case of any commercial activity in the United States by a person that is on a list of persons who are Communist Chinese military companies, including companies owned or controlled by the People's Liberation Army. Requires the Secretary to compile, publish and continually update such list. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union - Specifies the programs to be included within Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs. Provides FY 1999 CTR funding allocations. Allows the Secretary to vary such amounts in the national interest, requiring a justification to be submitted to the Congress followed by a 15-day waiting period. Prohibits the use of CTR funds for peacekeeping exercises or activities with Russia, housing, environmental restoration assistance, job retraining assistance, or the provision of assistance to Russia or any other state of the former Soviet Union to promote defense conversion. (Sec. 1304) Prohibits FY 1999 CTR funds from being used for: (1) chemical weapons destruction activities in Russia until the President certifies to the Congress that Russia is making reasonable progress toward implementation of a bilateral destruction agreement and that Russia and the United States have made substantial progress toward resolution of outstanding nuclear compliance issues; or (2) biological weapons proliferation prevention activities in Russia until 15 days after the Secretary reports to the defense committees concerning the possible previous use of CTR funds by Russia to develop new strains of anthrax. (Sec. 1306) Authorizes the Secretary to use CTR funds to provide a country of the former Soviet Union with emergency assistance for removing or obtaining from such country weapons of mass destruction or materials, equipment, or technology related to their delivery. Requires a certification from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to such assistance. (Sec. 1307) Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a breakdown of CTR program amounts requested by project category under each CTR program element. (Sec. 1308) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on biological programs in Russia. (Sec. 1309) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the number of individuals in the former Soviet Union who have significant expertise in the research, development, production, testing, and operational employment of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Title XIV: Domestic Preparedness for Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction - Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1998 - Directs the President to increase the effectiveness at the Federal, State, and local level of the domestic emergency preparedness program (program) for response to terrorist incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by developing an integrated program that builds on the program established under the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996. (Sec. 1403) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to direct the President to include in a required report additional information on the program. (Sec. 1404) Directs the Attorney General to develop and test methodologies for assessing the threat and risk of terrorist employment of WMDs against cities and other local areas. (Sec. 1405) Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with a federally funded research and development center to establish a panel to assess the capabilities for domestic response to terrorism involving WMDs. Requires an initial findings report from such panel, followed by annual reports during 1999 through 2001. Provides funding. Terminates the panel three years after the appointment of its chairman. Title XV: Matters Relating to Arms Control, Export Controls, and Counterproliferation - Subtitle A: Arms Control Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 1999 a limitation concerning the retirement or dismantlement of strategic nuclear delivery systems. (Sec. 1502) Requires the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to transmit to the Congress on a periodic basis reports containing classified summaries of arms control developments. (Sec. 1503) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the status and adequacy of current direct communications capabilities between the Governments of the United States and Russia. (Sec. 1504) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should call on Russia to expedite reduction of its tactical nuclear arsenal in accordance with promises made in 1991 and 1992. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal. Subtitle B: Satellite Export Controls - Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning a desire to establish missile technology and advanced communications satellite export controls, especially with respect to China. (Sec. 1512) Directs the President to certify at least 15 days in advance of any export to China of missile equipment or technology that such export is not detrimental to the U.S. space launch industry and that the missile equipment or technology involved will not measurably improve Chinese missile or space launch capabilities. (Sec. 1513) Requires all satellites and related items on the Commerce Control List to be transferred to the U.S. Munitions List and controlled under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to: (1) allow its Office of Defense Trade Controls to retain 100 percent of all collected registration fees (currently limited to $70,000); and (2) direct the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on steps necessary to implement the orderly transfer of such satellites and the processing of applications for satellite export licenses. (Sec. 1514) Directs the President to implement specified requirements for improving national security controls in the export licensing of satellites and related items, including: (1) the development of mandatory technology control plans; (2) the monitoring of proposed foreign launches of satellites; (3) mandatory licensing for U.S. persons involved in the investigation of the failure of a launch in a foreign country of a satellite of U.S. origin; (4) intelligence community review of all export license applications and technical assistance agreements to verify the legitimacy of stated end-users; (5) mandatory notification to the Congress of the approval of a license for the export of a U.S. satellite; (6) an annual report from the Secretary to the Congress on the monitoring of all launches in a foreign country of a U.S. satellite; and (7) a program for recruiting, training, and maintaining a staff dedicated to monitoring such launches. Provides exceptions to the above requirements with respect to NATO members or major non-NATO U.S. allies. (Sec. 1515) Requires each report submitted under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1990 and 1991 concerning the waiver of restrictions on the export of satellites for launch by China to be accompanied by a detailed justification, including a detailed description of all militarily sensitive characteristics integrated within, or associated with, such satellite. Subtitle C: Other Export Control Matters - Establishes the position of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Technology Security Policy, with responsibility for assisting the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in DOD activities relating to export controls and policies. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on implementing such position. (Sec. 1522) Requires the Secretary of Commerce to release within ten days export information held by the Department of Commerce that is requested for assessing national security risks. (Sec. 1523) Directs the President to notify the Congress upon the granting of a license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the export of any nuclear-related technology or equipment when the country involved has exploded a nuclear device and is not a NATO member. (Sec. 1524) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to delegate within DOD the Secretary's authority to object to the export to certain countries of high performance computers. Subtitle D: Counterproliferation Matters - Limits to $15 million the amount of funds authorized to be used in FY 1999 for DOD activities in support of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. Amends the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 counter-proliferation authorities in support of such Commission. (Sec. 1532) Condemns the decisions by India and Pakistan to conduct nuclear tests in May 1998 and calls upon such countries to engage in discussions aimed at prohibiting further tests and reducing tensions between the countries. Encourages the President, the UN, and the leaders of all nations to work toward a diplomatic, negotiated solution to such tensions. Urges the United States to reevaluate its bilateral relationship with India and Pakistan with the goal of preventing further nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation. (Sec. 1533) Directs the President to study and report to the defense committees on the architecture requirements for the establishment and operation of a theater ballistic missile defense system in the Asia-Pacific region capable of protecting key U.S. regional allies. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Title XXI(sic): 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 such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and construction design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the authorized amounts for construction projects at Fort Drum, New York, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to accept from the State of North Carolina a road construction project which is to be constructed at Camp Lejune, North Carolina. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary 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. (Sec. 2403) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military housing functions. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2405) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to reduce funding for the Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund. (Sec. 2406) Increases amounts authorized under prior military construction authorization Acts for projects at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon, and Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1998 for Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Directs the Secretary of the Army, in connection with an Army Reserve military construction project at or near Salt Lake City, Utah, to enter into an agreement under which the State of Utah agrees to provide financial or in-kind contributions in connection with the project. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2001, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for military construction for FY 2002, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Increases the amount authorized to be expended for architectural and engineering services and construction design before congressional notification is required. (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease up to 500 military family housing units in Italy and up to 800 of such units in Korea. (Sec. 2803) Includes within the authority for the acquisition and improvement of military housing the acquisition of facilities to provide or support elementary or secondary education. (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to purchase from its developer the entire 366-unit military family housing project at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, if determined to be in the best economic interests of the Air Force. (Sec. 2805) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress concerning plans for the improvement of unaccompanied family housing within the military departments. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Provides an exception to real property transaction reporting requirements of the Secretary concerned during declarations of war, a national emergency or major disaster, the use of riot militia, or a contingency operation. Requires such notification within 30 days after such event. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, as a condition of a lease, permit, license, or other grant of access entered into with another Federal agency for military department property, to require such agency to agree to remove any improvements and to restore such land to its condition before such use. Provides for cost reimbursement in lieu of such removal and restoration. (Sec. 2813) Amends the Sikes Act to direct the Secretary, in developing facilities and conducting programs for outdoor recreation at military installations, to ensure that recreation opportunities made available to the public also provide equal access, without substantial modification to the natural environment, to disabled veterans, military dependents with disabilities, and other disabled persons. (Sec. 2814) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees regarding the authority of the military departments and defense agencies to lease to the private sector non-excess real and personal property. (Sec. 2815) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on criteria and procedures used by the Secretary of each military department for the selection of utility systems of such department for conveyance to other utility companies or entities and on the manner in which each Secretary can ensure that such conveyance will not adversely affect U.S. national security. Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Waives applicability of Federal property disposal regulations under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 with respect to leases entered into at military installations being closed or realigned under the base closure laws. (Sec. 2822) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to eliminate certain waiver authority with respect to a prohibition against conveyances of property at Naval Station Long Beach, California. (Sec. 2823) Authorizes the Secretary to use amounts from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 to pay stipulated damages assessed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 against McClellan Air Force Base, California. Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to require the Army Reserve Center in Youngstown, Ohio, conveyed under such Act to be developed for educational purposes. (Sec. 2832) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release all interests in the former Kennebec Arsenal in Augusta, Maine. (Sec. 2833) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release the U.S. reversionary interests in the former Redstone Army Arsenal property in Alabama which were retained when the property was conveyed to the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission. Provides additional release, waiver, or conveyance conditions. (Sec. 2834) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the redevelopment authority for the Red River Army Depot, Texas, all U.S. rights to any utility system at the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texas. (Sec. 2835) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city and county of Denver, Colorado, U.S. water rights and related interests in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, in order to acquire permanent contracts for the delivery of water to the Arsenal and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. (Sec. 2836) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Massena, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (2) Ogdensburg, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (3) the Greeneville Local School District the Army Reserve Center in Jamestown, Ohio; (4) the Peoria School District the Army Reserve Center in Peoria, Illinois; (5) Bridgton, Maine, the Army Reserve Center; (6) Lake Forest, Illinois, the Army Reserve enclave in Lake Forest; (7) Skaneateles, New York, the Federal Farm located there; (8) the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Authority the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown; (9) Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant in Chattanooga; and (10) New Windsor, New York, the Stewart Army Sub-Post. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) grant an easement to the Foothill Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency over specified real property at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a restricted access highway; (2) convey to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation in Portland, Maine, the Naval Reserve Readiness Center in Portland; (3) convey to Youngstown, Ohio, the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve facility in Youngstown; and (4) convey to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission the Naval Air Reserve Center in Minneapolis. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979 to authorize the conveyance of two additional parcels of land at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, to the Air Force Enlisted Men's Widows and Dependents Home Foundation, Inc., of Washington, D.C. (Sec. 2862) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to modify a conveyance of land of Finley Air Force Station to Finley, North Dakota, to: (1) include additional parcels of land; (2) remove the limitation on the authorized period of conveyance; and (3) provide for reversion to the United States if such land is not used for economic development. (Sec. 2863) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to: (1) McNeese State University of Louisiana specified real property at the Lake Charles Air Force Station in Louisiana; and (2) La Junta, Colorado, the unused Air Force housing facility in La Junta. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to add additional program and reporting requirements under the Department of Defense Laboratory Revitalization Demonstration Program. Extends such Program through FY 2003. (Sec. 2872) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to repeal a prohibition on the joint military-civilian use of the Robert Gray Army Airfield, Fort Hood, Texas. (Sec. 2873) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2000 a demonstration project for the purchase from local government agencies of fire, security, police, public works, and utility services. (Sec. 2874) Designates the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center at 2869 Central Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, as the A. James Dyess Building. Title XXIX: Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal - Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal Act - Withdraws the Juniper Butte Range, Idaho, from all forms of appropriation under the public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Reserves such land to the Air Force for a high hazard training area, dropping training ordnance, electronic warfare and tactical maneuvering and air support, and other defense-related purposes. Endorses an agreement between the Bureau of Land Management and the Air Force concerning additional mitigation measures for such lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to process and grant to the Secretary of the Air Force rights-of-way upon certain range areas conducting Air Force electronic warfare training activities. Requires the Air Force, to the extent practicable, to protect Indian sacred sites on the range. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conclude and implement agreements with grazing permittees to provide appropriate consideration, including future grazing arrangements. (Sec. 2908) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to manage the reserved lands and to close such lands to public access in appropriate circumstances. Authorizes such Secretary to enter into leases with the State of Idaho in support of the range and its operations. Directs such Secretary to suppress brush and range fires caused by Air Force operations. Requires such Secretary to develop an integrated natural resources management plan for the natural resources of the withdrawn lands, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Idaho, and Owyhee County, Idaho. Requires plan review for environmental compliance. (Sec. 2910) Directs the Secretaries of the Air Force and the Interior and the Governor of Idaho to enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement the plan. Directs the Secretary of the: (1) Air Force to maintain roads within the area; and (2) Interior to manage withdrawn and acquired mineral resources within the area. Outlines water rights. (Sec. 2915) Terminates the withdrawal and reservation 25 years after the enactment of this Act, with relinquishment before such date if the Air Force has no continuing military needs for such lands. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force, at least two years before such termination date, to notify the Congress and the Secretary of the Interior as to whether the Air Force has such a continuing need for such lands after the termination date. Limits any extension to an additional 25 years. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, at least two years before any such termination date, to complete a review that fully characterizes the environmental conditions of such lands in order to identify any contamination. Requires the review to be submitted to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Congress. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to complete the environmental remediation of such lands before the transfer date. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) jurisdiction over such lands upon termination of the withdrawal; and (2) authorized delegation of authority under this title by each of the Secretaries. (Sec. 2918) Requires U.S. indemnification against any party conducting any mining, mineral, or geothermal leasing activities on the withdrawn lands. (Sec. 2919) Authorizes appropriations. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1999 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (3) other defense activities; (4) defense nuclear waste disposal; and (5) defense environmental management privatization initiatives. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and available for the same purposes as the authorizations to which transferred. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for such designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, and construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used. Makes funds for management and support and for general plant projects under this subtitle available for all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 1999, to empower each DOE field office manager to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfers to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend permanently a prohibition against the use of DOE funds to conduct activities associated with international cooperative stockpile stewardship. (Sec. 3132) Earmarks DOE funds for research, development, and demonstration activities to support the mission of DOD's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Requires such activities to be undertaken in accordance with a memorandum of understanding entered into by the Secretaries of Energy and Defense for the use of national laboratories for ballistic missile defense programs. (Sec. 3133) Earmarks DOE funds for the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of DOE funds for the Nuclear Cities Initiative until the Secretary has reported its objectives to the defense and appropriations committees, and 20 days have elapsed. (Sec. 3134) Prohibits any person from constructing or operating a facility under contract with DOE for fabricating mixed plutonium-uranium oxide nuclear reactor fuel for use in a commercial nuclear reactor without first obtaining a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Sec. 3135) Directs the Secretary to continue operations and maintain a high state of readiness at the F- and H-canyon facilities at the Savannah River site and to provide technical staff to operate and maintain such facilities. (Sec. 3136) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to authorize DOE federally funded research and development centers to participate in merit-based technology research and development activities conducted under contract with or on behalf of DOD. (Sec. 3137) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct research and other activities through contractor-operated facilities of DOE on behalf of other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments and agencies, and private persons and entities, and to impose charges to conduct such activities; and (2) carry out during FY 1999 through 2003 a pilot program under which the Secretary and such contractors reduce the facility overhead charges imposed for conducting such activities. Requires an interim report from the Secretary to the Congress on the pilot program. (Sec. 3138) Directs the Secretary to establish a target for the overhead and service center costs for the Project Hanford Management Contractor for FY 1999 that is less than the established baseline for such costs for that fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to use any funds resulting from such reduction to perform additional cleanup work at Hanford. Requires the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency to: (1) review the Hanford Contract for compliance with Federal cost accounting standards; and (2) report review results to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 3139) Directs the Secretary to establish at the Hanford Reservation in Richland, Washington, the Office of River Protection, to be headed by a senior DOE official who shall be responsible for managing all aspects of the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and commerce committees an integrated management plan for all aspects of the Hanford Tank Farm operations. Requires a report from the Secretary to such committees after two years on the success of the System and the Office. Terminates the Office after five years of operation, unless the Secretary determines that termination would disrupt effective management of Hanford Tank Farm operations. (Sec. 3140) Earmarks DOE funds for: (1) activities relating to the Hanford Health Information Network as established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991; and (2) payment to the educational foundation chartered to enhance educational activities in the public schools in the vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. (Sec. 3141) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into partnership arrangements with Federal and non-Federal entities to share the costs of operating the hazardous materials management and emergency response training program authorized under a prior defense authorization Act. (Sec. 3143) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan to relocate the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Sec. 3144) Prohibits the Secretary from obligating or expending FY 1999 DOE funds to implement a final decision on the technology to be utilized for tritium production made under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, until October 1, 1999. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Directs the CG to conduct, and report to the Congress on, a study on the effects of work force restructuring plans for defense nuclear facilities developed pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan to terminate the Office of Worker and Community Transition. (Sec. 3152) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2000 the authority for the appointment within DOE of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel. (Sec. 3153) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress a plan to modify the Federal employment system used within DOE defense environmental management programs to allow for work force restructuring. (Sec. 3154) Authorizes the Secretary to determine and fix the maximum age limit for an original appointment as a DOE nuclear materials courier. Adds such position to Federal employee classification provisions. Makes such provisions applicable to individuals employed as couriers after the later of September 30, 1998, or the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 3155) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to increase compensation levels for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel responsible for safety at DOE nuclear facilities. (Sec. 3156) Authorizes DOE to pay incentive payments to qualifying employees who voluntarily separate before January 1, 2001. (Sec. 3157) Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 setting forth policy under the stockpile stewardship program. (Sec. 3158) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on whether the science-based tools being used by DOE for determining the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile are performing in a safe and reliable manner. (Sec. 3159) Directs the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary, to contract with a federally funded research and development center to establish a panel for the assessment of the certification process for the reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Requires the panel to report annually to the defense committees on such assessment. Requires each Secretary to contribute 50 percent of the required funding for the panel. Terminates the panel three years after the appointment of its chairman. (Sec. 3160) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should prepare and submit to the defense committees a report on: (1) the possible establishment of an international project to facilitate the international exchange of information relating to nuclear waste technologies; (2) whether such project could be funded privately; and (3) a description of Federal programs that facilitate such exchange. (Sec. 3161) Directs the Secretary and the Archivist of the United States to develop and submit to the defense committees and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs a plan to prevent the inadvertent release of records containing restricted data or formerly restricted data during the automatic declassification of records under a specified Executive order. Prohibits, until 60 days after submission of such plan, any record from being declassified unless the agency having custody reviews such record to ensure that it does not contain such data. Directs the Secretary to submit to such committees and Assistant: (1) the results of periodic plan reviews and evaluations; and (2) a report on inadvertent releases of either of such data. (Sec. 3162) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Office of Management and Budget should, beginning with FY 2000, transfer the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program from the defense 050 budget function to a non-defense discretionary budget function. (Sec. 3163) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force of the Defense Science Board to examine tritium production technology options. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) a report on the results of the tritium production test program at the Watts Bar Nuclear Station, Tennessee; and (2) an interim report concerning such program. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 1999, to obligate up to $83 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses. Authorizes the obligation of amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying the Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. (Sec. 3303) Directs the President to dispose of NDS materials. Specifies disposal limits. (Sec. 3304) Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to authorize the use of NDS funds for the performance of environmental remediation, restoration, waste management, or compliance activities required under Federal law or undertaken by administrative decision or negotiated agreement. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. (Sec. 3403) Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of that portion of Naval Petroleum Reserve (Reserve) Number 2 located within the town lots in Ford City, California. Mandates disposal requirements. Requires the Secretary to continue to administer the remaining portions of such Reserve until all oil and gas operations are abandoned, at which time the Secretary is authorized to transfer jurisdiction to the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 3404) Directs the Secretary to continue to administer Reserve Number 3 until such time as all oil and gas operations there are abandoned, at which time the Secretary may dispose of such Reserve. (Sec. 3405) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over all public domain lands included within Oil Shale Reserve Number 2 for management in accordance with the general land laws. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and administration of the Panama Canal for FY 1999, with specified funding limits. (Sec. 3503) Requires Commission funds to be made available for the purchase and transportation to the Republic of Panama of passenger motor vehicles built in the United States, with a per vehicle cost limit of $23,000. (Sec. 3504) Requires expenditures authorized under this title to be in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and any laws implementing those treaties. (Sec. 3505) Authorizes the Commission to seek and accept donations to carry out Commission promotional activities. (Sec. 3506) Authorizes the Secretary of State to: (1) enter into one or more agreements under which the United States furnishes administrative services relating to Commission pension, disability, medical benefits, and workmen's compensation after December 31, 1999; and (2) establish appropriate procedures for providing advance funding for such services. (Sec. 3507) Repeals on December 30, 1999, current Federal provisions concerning rights of and benefits accruing to Commission employees at the Canal. (Sec. 3508) Repeals a Federal provision establishing a Commission central examining office. (Sec. 3509) Authorizes the Commission by regulation to require, as a condition of passage through the Canal, that any potential claimants be covered by insurance of up to $1 million against the injuries claimed. Limits Commission liability to amounts in excess of any required insurance. (Sec. 3510) Provides compensation levels for members of the Commission's Board of Contract Appeals. (Sec. 3511) Requires a DOD officer designated by the Secretary of Defense to be one of the members of the Panama Canal Commission Supervisory Board. Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3602) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to transfer: (1) the vessel M-V Bayomon to a purchaser for use as a floating trade exposition; (2) the vessels Benjamin Isherwood and Henry Eckford to a purchaser for vessel reconstruction for sale or charter; and (3) the vessel ex-U.S.S. Lorain County to the Ohio War Memorial, Inc., for use as a memorial to Ohio veterans. (Sec. 3604) Earmarks authorized funds for the establishment at a State Maritime Academy of a clearinghouse for maritime information that makes such information publicly available, including by use of the Internet. Title XXXVII: Increased Monitoring of Products Made With Forced Labor - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for monitoring by the U.S. Customs Service of the importation into the United States of products made with forced labor, the importation of which violates the Tariff Act of 1930. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to report to the Congress on products made with forced labor that are destined for the U.S. market. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President: (1) should determine whether any country with which the United States has a reciprocal trade memorandum of understanding that involves goods made with forced labor is frustrating implementation of the memorandum; and (2) if so, should commence negotiations for a new memorandum which provides effective procedures for monitoring such labor. Title XXXVIII: Fair Trade in Automotive Parts - Fair Trade in Automotive Parts Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) reestablish the initiative to increase the sale of U.S.-made automotive parts and accessories to Japanese markets; and (2) establish a Special Advisory Committee to advise, assist, and report on issues relating to sales of U.S. automotive parts and accessories in Japanese and other Asian markets. Terminates the initiative on December 31, 2003. Title XXXIX: Radio Free Asia - Radio Free Asia Act of 1998 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for Radio Free Asia. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a significant amount of authorized funds should be directed towards broadcasting to China and Tibet in the appropriate languages and dialects. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for: (1) international broadcasting activities, to be available only for enhanced Voice of America broadcasting to China; and (2) radio construction, to be available only for construction in support of enhanced broadcasting to China. (Sec. 3903) Directs the Broadcasting Board of Governors to prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees an assessment of the Board's efforts to increase broadcasting by Radio Free Asia and Voice of America to China and Tibet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Army Programs Subtitle C: Navy Programs Subtitle D: Air Force Programs Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Other Matters Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions Subtitle D: Counter-Drug Activities Subtitle E: Other Matters Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Title X: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Naval Vessels Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals Subtitle D: Other Matters Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Title XII: Joint Warfighting Experimentation Division B: Military Construction Authorizations Title XXI(sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration Subtitle C: Land Conveyances Subtitle D: Other Matters Subtitle E: Base Closures Title XXIX: Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle D: Other Matters Subtitle E: Maximum Age for New Department of Energy Nuclear Materials Couriers Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission Title XXXVI: Commercial Activities of People's Liberation Army Title XXXVII: Forced or Indentured Labor Title XXXVIII: Fair Trade in Automotive Parts Title XXXIX: Radio Free Asia Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for procurement by the armed forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) defense-wide procurements; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; (5) the Defense Health Program; and (6) the defense export loan guarantee program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of the Longbow Hellfire missile, with a contract term of five years. (Sec. 112) Provides required conditions prior to the award of a multiyear procurement contract for the production of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles to more than one contractor under the previous national defense authorization Act. (Sec. 113) Prohibits the obligation of funds authorized for a certain armored tank modernization kit until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees on armored system modernization. (Sec. 114) Prohibits the obligation of funds for the procurement of reactive armor tiles until 30 days after the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) submits to the defense and appropriations committees a study of the present and future Army and Marine Corps operational requirements for such tiles. (Sec. 115) Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to add certain advisory commission travel cost information to a required report on the chemical demilitarization program. (Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 the authority to carry out the armament retooling and manufacturing support initiative. (Sec. 117) Directs the program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment to continue to manage the development and testing of technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical munitions that are potential or demonstrated alternatives to incineration. Authorizes such program manager to undertake activities to: (1) ensure that an alternative technology for such destruction can be implemented immediately after the technology has been demonstrated successful and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology has submitted a report on the demonstration to the Congress; and (2) take certain steps during FY 1998 and 1999 to prepare for the immediate implementation of any such technology. Requires the Under Secretary to: (1) provide for an independent evaluation of the costs and schedules of the Assessment; and (2) determine whether to proceed with pilot-scale testing of such a technology no later than December 30, 1999. Requires a certification from the Under Secretary to the Congress with respect to the new technology. Earmarks funds for such development and testing. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Earmarks funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for the CVN-77 nuclear aircraft carrier program. (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized to be excluded from certain cost limitations under the Seawolf submarine program. (Sec. 123) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of: (1) the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement, with a contract term of five years; and (2) AV-8B, E-2C, and T-45 aircraft. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Earmarks funds for certain follow-on options under the joint surveillance target attack radar system. Prohibits the availability of such funds until 30 days after the Secretary reports to the Congress on fund use. (Sec. 132) Prohibits the obligation of funds for the replacement of engines on aircraft of the Department of Defense (DOD) that are derived from Boeing 707 aircraft until the Secretary has submitted a certain analysis required under the prior defense authorization Act. (Sec. 133) Prohibits the obligation of any funds available for the F-22 aircraft program for advance procurement for the six Lot II F-22 aircraft until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense and appropriations committees a certification of the completion of a specified amount of flight testing for such aircraft. Requires a related flight test certification from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to review and report to the defense and appropriations committees on the C-130J aircraft program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks funds for basic research and applied research projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits more than $233 million from being obligated for the Crusader self-propelled artillery system program until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees on an assessment of such system. (Sec. 212) Earmarks funds for RDT&E and acquisition of technologies for the transition from the CVN-77 aircraft carrier program to the CV(X) aircraft carrier program and for enhancements to the latter program. (Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary to terminate the Dark Star unmanned aerial vehicle program. Earmarks funds formerly set aside for such program for the procurement of three Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles. Requires specified prior testing of the latter vehicles. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to assess and report to the Congress on the technical obstacles and operational shortcomings expected for the Airborne Laser program. Earmarks program funds, with a limitation on such funds until after the report is received. (Sec. 215) Designates as a national security priority the development of an enhanced Global Positioning System (GPS). Directs the Secretary to develop a GPS in accordance with certain congressionally-mandated priorities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that future-year defense program funding provide sufficient funds for GPS development, and that the Secretary of Transportation should provide sufficient funding to support additional civil frequencies for the GPS and other GPS civil enhancements. Requires the Secretary to submit a GPS plan to the Congress. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to delay until the end of FY 2005 a limitation on the procurement of systems not GPS-equipped. Earmarks funds for an enhanced GPS. (Sec. 216) Amends Federal provisions concerning the DOD manufacturing technology program to require the sharing by DOD and non-Federal sources of costs for projects carried out under such program if any of the project results are likely to have an immediate and direct commercial application. Revises related cost-sharing requirements. Requires information concerning project cost-sharing to be included in a required five-year plan for such program. (Sec. 217) Extends permanently (currently expires on September 30, 2002) the authority for the use by commercial entities of DOD major range and test facility installations. Terminates a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 218) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency to carry out certain prototype projects. (Sec. 219) Earmarks RDT&E funds for: (1) a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance ground surveillance concept definition based on the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Technology Insertion Program sensor of the United States; and (2) contributions for the common-funded Civil Budget of NATO. (Sec. 221) Increases amounts authorized for research and development relating to Persian Gulf illnesses and decreases correspondingly the amount authorized for the Army Commercial Operations and Support Savings program. (Sec. 222) Earmarks funds for the: (1) DOD-VA Cooperative Research Program; and (2) Low Cost Launch Development Program. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Urges the United States to seek to foster a climate of cooperation with Russia on matters relating to missile defense, especially in such areas as early warning. (Sec. 232) Directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to review, and report to the Congress on, research on pharmacological interventions for reversing brain injury. (Sec. 233) Earmarks RDT&E funds for research relating to discovering a combat capability that is comparable to that provided by anti-personnel landmines and that complies with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti- Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. Requires related studies and reports. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million to FY 1999 O&M accounts from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks funds authorized under this title for increasing training and related operations in support of the Special Operations Command's counterproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism activities. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program using existing technology to determine the feasibility of tagging hydrocarbon fuels used by DOD to analyze and identify such fuels and their possible theft and misuse. Earmarks O&M funds for the pilot program. (Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate the use of landing fees as a source of funding for the O&M of airfields of such department. Authorizes the imposition of landing fees at military airfields under the program through FY 2000. Allows fee proceeds to be used for landing field O&M. (Sec. 314) Earmarks O&M funds for contributions for the common-funded NATO Military Budget. Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and the military departments to provide for the transportation into U.S. customs territory of polychlorinated biphenyls generated by or under the control of DOD for purposes of their disposal, treatment, or storage in such customs territory. Outlines transportation and disposal requirements and limitations. (Sec. 323) Amends the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships to allow Navy submersible ships to discharge non-plastic garbage that has been compacted and weighted to ensure negative buoyancy. (Sec. 324) Authorizes the Secretary to pay up to $15,000 from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 as payment for stipulated civil penalties assessed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) against McClellan Air Force Base, California. (Sec. 325) Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to Canada in each of FY 1999 through 2008 as part of a negotiated settlement for the environmental cleanup of formerly used defense sites there. Provides funding for such payments from amounts authorized for DOD defense-wide O&M. (Sec. 326) Directs the President to notify the Congress before entering into negotiations for the ex-gratia settlement of foreign claims against the United States for environmental cleanup of former DOD installations in a foreign country. Requires such fund use to be specifically authorized by law, treaty, or international agreement. (Sec. 327) Requires activities under the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation Program to include cooperative activities on environmental matters in the Arctic region with the military departments and agencies of other countries, including the Russian Federation. Earmarks O&M funds for such Program. Prohibits funding obligation until 45 days after the Secretary submits to the defense and appropriations committees a Program plan. (Sec. 328) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Navy should take immediate action to significantly reduce the risk of naval vessel oil spills. Subtitle D: Counter-Drug Activities - Earmarks specified O&M funds for certain support of the drug interdiction efforts of the United States Southern Command in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean areas. (Sec. 332) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 2004 the program authority for DOD support of certain counter-drug activities. Requires the Secretary, at least 21 days before obligating funds for the modification of a DOD facility for counter-drug purposes, to notify the defense and appropriations committees of such project and its estimated total cost. (Sec. 333) Prohibits any DOD funds authorized under this Act from being used to expand the Southwest border fence until the Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees on the extent to which such fence has reduced the illegal transportation of narcotics and other drugs into the United States. (Sec. 334) Requires a National Guard member serving on full-time duty relating to drug interdiction and counter-drug activities to perform his or her regularly required drill and exercises training in addition to the training required for such activities. Authorizes units or members of a State National Guard, under specified conditions, to provide assistance to youth and charitable organizations as part of the drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. (Sec. 335) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should: (1) revise the DOD Global Military Force Policy to elevate the priority given to drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; and (2) allocate DOD assets accordingly. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to administer DOD working capital funds during FY 1999 so as to ensure that the total amount of cash balances in such funds on September 30, 1999, exceeds the total amount of such balances on September 30, 1998, by $1.3 billion. Outlines actions to be taken by the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to achieve such increase. Authorizes the waiver of such requirement to meet a contingency operation or an operation commenced before October 1, 1998, and continuing during FY 1999. Limits: (1) the total amount of advance billings rendered or imposed for DOD working capital funds and the Defense Business Operations Fund in FY 1999; and (2) to $1 billion the total amount of such billings for all DOD working capital funds in a fiscal year. Requires a semiannual report from the Under Secretary to the defense committees on the administration of the balance increase. (Sec. 342) Requires amounts charged for depreciation of capital assets to be credited to a separate capital asset subaccount established within a working-capital fund. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and the military departments to provide for separate accounting, reporting, and auditing of funds and activities managed through working-capital funds. Allows charges for goods and services provided through such funds to include amounts for depreciation of capital assets. Requires such Secretaries to: (1) establish billing procedures to ensure that balances in working-capital funds do not exceed requirements; and (2) submit to the Congress detailed annual reports of working-capital fund account and subaccount receipts and disbursements, as well as a proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Repeals the authority to manage working-capital accounts and subaccounts through the Defense Business Operations Fund. Revises the authority of a working-capital fund to retain recovered costs of property disposals. (Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of each military department to develop and submit to the Congress an implementation schedule for the best commercial inventory practices within such department for the acquisition and distribution of secondary supply items. Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to report to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) each Secretary has complied with such requirement; and (2) best commercial inventory practices are being implemented in the Defense Logistics Agency. (Sec. 345) Earmarks FY 1999 Navy O&M funds for the increased use of smart cards (multitechnology automated reader cards) issued throughout the Navy and Marine Corps. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to take certain steps to increase the issuance of such cards throughout such service branches. Limits procurement funds for the Joint Uniformed Services Identification card until such Secretary has made certain certifications with respect to the issuance of smart cards. Requires such Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan for equipping all naval operational units with smart card technology. (Sec. 346) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Defense should initiate public-private competitions for DOD functions involving not fewer than a number of employees equivalent to 30,000 full-time employees for each of FY 1999 through 2004. Increases to 50 (currently 20) or fewer the number of DOD employees that may be affected in the conversion of a DOD function to contractor performance for which certain congressional notification and reporting requirements may be waived. (Sec. 347) Adds a competitive source selection process to required conditions for providing financial assistance for the support of additional duties assigned to the Army National Guard. (Sec. 348) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to repeal a prohibition on the joint military-civilian use of the Robert Gray Army Airfield at Fort Hood, Texas. (Sec. 349) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to address DOD problems with management of inventories of in-transit secondary items. Requires a CG review and report on such plan. (Sec. 350) Directs the CG to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a report concerning proposed personnel reductions in the Army Materiel Command. (Sec. 351) Prohibits the Secretary or any other DOD official from conducting a demonstration project or survey of commissary users to determine interest in having such stores sell malt beverages and wine as exchange store merchandise. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Provides the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 402) Increases from six to seven the number of officer positions within the Joint Staff that may be excluded from annual general and flag officer limitations. Extends through FY 2002 the authority for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to designate up to 12 general and flag officer joint duty positions for exclusion from general and flag officer limitations. (Sec. 404) Repeals the requirement that minimum end strengths be sufficient to support two simultaneous major regional contingency operations. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for reserve military technicians (dual status). (Sec. 414) Excludes certain temporary active-duty general and flag officers from annual general and flag officer limitations. (Sec. 415) Increases the number of certain reserve officers and enlisted personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 416) Consolidates the end strength authorizations for active-status Naval Reserve flag officers of the Navy Medical Department Staff Corps. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Repeals a requirement that the Secretary of the military department concerned convene boards to review the cases of officers determined to have failed to establish that they be retained on active duty. (Sec. 502) Provides a permanent exception to the requirement for retirement for years of service for certain Navy and Marine Corps officers designated for limited duty assignments. (Sec. 503) Denies entitlement to involuntary separation pay for an officer discharged for failure to be selected for promotion when the officer requested not to be so selected. Requires the appropriate selection board to submit to the Secretary concerned the name of any officer making such request. (Sec. 504) Increases from three to four years the authorized term of appointment for the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps when the Secretary of the Air Force determines that the longer term is justified. (Sec. 505) Authorizes Navy ROTC scholarship recipients in a State which has already filled its quotas of such scholarships in its State colleges and universities to attend any college in such State that participates in the ROTC program. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Provides for the crediting for retirement purposes of service in the higher position for a reserve officer who, after being found qualified for Federal recognition in a higher grade by an appropriate personnel board, serves in a position for which that grade is the minimum authorized grade. (Sec. 512) Allows a reserve officer who, after successfully serving on active duty in a grade above colonel or captain (Navy) for at least six months, is involuntarily transferred from active status to be credited with satisfactory service in such position for retirement purposes. (Sec. 513) Provides eligibility for consideration for promotion for certain Army and Air Force reserve brigadier generals. (Sec. 514) Provides for the composition of selective early retirement boards for Naval Reserve rear admirals and Marine Corps Reserve major generals. (Sec. 515) Authorizes the President to order members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category into active duty to respond to an emergency involving the use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. Authorizes the use of active-duty members of the National Guard for such purpose. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Extends through FY 2003 certain force reduction transition management and benefits authorities, including early retirement and voluntary separation incentive programs and certain time-in-grade requirements. (Sec. 523) Continues eligibility for the voluntary separation incentive program after the involuntary loss of membership in the Ready or Standby Reserve. (Sec. 524) Revises current limitations on the authority of the Secretaries concerned to set rates and waive requirements for reimbursement of expenses incurred for foreign student instruction at U.S. military service academies. (Sec. 525) Repeals a current limitation on the civilian employment of enlisted personnel when such employment interferes with the customary or regular employment of local civilians. (Sec. 527) Prohibits any DOD official from implementing any change of policy regarding the separation or integration of military personnel on the basis of gender that is within the responsibilities of the Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues before the termination of such Commission. (Sec. 528) Provides transitional compensation authority for abused dependent children of military personnel when such children reside with the spouse or former spouse of a member convicted of dependent abuse. (Sec. 529) Directs the Secretary to establish a five-year pilot program to assess whether the armed forces could better meet recruiting requirements by treating GED and home school diploma recipients as having graduated from high school for purposes of enlistment eligibility. Limits to 1,250 of each type of recipients annually the number of individuals authorized to be so considered. (Sec. 530) Waives time limitations for the award to specified individuals of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, or the Distinguished Flying Cross for certain service during World War II, Vietnam, or Korea. (Sec. 531) Prohibits a member of the armed forces from entering into a Federal, State, or local correctional facility to present a military decoration to a person who has been convicted of a serious violent felony. (Sec. 532) Authorizes the President to advance Benjamin O. Davis, Junior, to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Prohibits the accrual of additional benefits for such promotion. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 1999 military pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases the rates of basic pay by 3.6 percent, effective January 1, 1999. Reduces by $425 million the total amount authorized to be appropriated under title II. (Sec. 602) Increases to $600 the monthly pay for cadets and midshipmen at the service academies. (Sec. 603) Allows a member entitled to the transportation of baggage and household effects due to a change of station to, as an alternative, reimbursement or payment of a monetary allowance in advance of a move arranged by such member. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the Superintendent of a service academy to order a cadet or midshipman suspended from duty at such academy to be placed on involuntary leave without pay. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through December 31, 1999, specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of FY 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Repeals a provision which allows only ten percent of selective reenlistment bonuses paid in a fiscal year to exceed $20,000. (Sec. 616) Increases to $6,000 the maximum authorized Army enlistment bonus. (Sec. 617) Includes within the defense educational loan repayment program a person enrolled in a program of education leading to professional qualifications. Increases the educational loan amounts authorized to be repaid under such program to a maximum of $20,000 per year and $50,000 total per individual. (Sec. 618) Increases to $950 the monthly amount of basic educational assistance to military personnel possessing critically short skills or specialties. (Sec. 619) Provides that the entitlement of an individual to basic educational assistance benefits shall not be affected by the receipt of an enlistment bonus. (Sec. 620) Repeals a provision which prohibits individuals receiving career sea pay from also receiving hazardous duty pay. (Sec. 620A) Increases the hazardous duty pay for aerial flight crewmembers in pay grades E-4 to E-9. (Sec. 620B) Authorizes the payment of diving duty special pay for periods during which a member meets diving proficiency requirements during an assignment that includes diving duty other than as a primary duty. (Sec. 620C) Directs the Secretary to establish and provide for members qualified in critically short military occupational specialties a series of new incentives for increasing the rates at which such members are retained for service in such specialties. Expresses the sense of the Congress specifying proposed incentives. Requires implementation reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay for or provide transportation to a member as part of a program of rest and recuperation in connection with contingency operations or unusual conditions at a duty station. (Sec. 622) Authorizes payment for the temporary storage of baggage of military dependent students not taken on an annual trip to an overseas duty station of such student's sponsor. (Sec. 623) Authorizes commercial travel under Federal supply schedules for the travel of a member of the reserves to or from the location of inactive duty training. Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters - Considers, beginning on October 1, 2003, coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to be paid in full when a member's pay has been reduced for such coverage for 30 years or when the member has attained 70 years of age. (Sec. 632) Provides an effective date for the court-ordered election of a spouse's or former spouse's coverage under the SBP. (Sec. 633) Provides for the recovery, care, and disposition of remains of medically retired members who die during hospitalization that began while such members were on active duty. (Sec. 634) Authorizes eligible retired or former members to elect to participate in the SBP during its open enrollment period and to participate in the Supplemental Survivor Benefit Plan. Includes as an eligible member an individual who is not a current SBP participant and who is entitled to retired pay or would be entitled to such pay except for being under 60 years of age. Provides SBP status for individuals making such elections, and outlines election requirements. Defines the open enrollment period as the one-year period beginning on March 1, 1999. Voids such election if the person dies within two years after making such election. Requires premiums to be charged to persons making such election. (Sec. 635) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to authorize the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the surviving parents or siblings of decedents who were captured and interned during the Vietnam conflict and were unmarried and childless at their time of death. (Sec. 637) Directs the Secretary concerned to present a U.S. flag to a member of any Army component upon his or her release from active duty for retirement. Allows such presentations only to the extent that funds are appropriated in advance. (Sec. 638) Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to eliminate the backlog of unpaid Army military retired pay and report to the Congress. Earmarks funds for such activities. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Excludes the Panama Canal from the definition of a U.S. territory or possession for purposes of military pay and allowance provisions. (Sec. 642) Provides Federal employees' compensation coverage for the period during which student members attend training or a practice cruise. (Sec. 643) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating under the Navy, to provide financial assistance to sponsors of dependents in overseas areas where defense dependent schools are not reasonably available. (Sec. 644) Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to prohibit a person who is absent from a State in compliance with military orders from being deemed to have lost a residence in a State, acquired a residence in another State, or become a resident of another State for purposes of voting for an office of the United States or a State. Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens' Absentee Voting Act to: (1) permit absent military voters to vote by absentee ballots; and (2) accept from such individuals an otherwise valid voter registration application if received at least 30 days before an election. Title VII: Health Care - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to provide for an inflation-indexed premium under the defense dependents' dental program. (Sec. 702) Extends through June 30, 1999, the authority for the use of personal services contracts for the provision of health care at military entrance processing stations and at other locations which are outside of military medical treatment facility areas. (Sec. 703) Provides for the automatic enrollment under TRICARE Prime (a DOD managed health care program) for each dependent of a member in grade E4 or below who is entitled to CHAMPUS medical and dental care and resides in the catchment area of a facility offering TRICARE Prime. Provides for automatic renewal of enrollments and premium payment options under such coverage. Requires such coverage to take effect no later than January 1, 1999. (Sec. 704) Provides limited continued CHAMPUS coverage, with regard to health care provided between October 1, 1998, and July 1, 1999, for persons unaware of the loss of such coverage due to their recent eligibility for Medicare. (Sec. 705) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the advanced systems developed for recording military personnel data and information include the capability to record organ and tissue donation elections. Outlines responsibilities of the military department secretaries and the Surgeon General with respect to the collection of such information. (Sec. 706) Commends and encourages continuation of the cooperative efforts of DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the delivery of medical care. Directs the DOD and VA Secretaries to jointly conduct: (1) a survey of their respective medical care beneficiary populations to identify the expectations of, requirements for, and behavior patterns of such beneficiaries with respect to medical care; and (2) a review of impediments to cooperation in the delivery of medical care. Requires the Secretary of Defense to review and report semiannually to the congressional defense and veterans' affairs committees (committees) on the TRICARE program to identify opportunities for increased program participation by the VA. Directs the Federal Pharmaceutical Steering Committee to: (1) undertake a comprehensive examination of existing pharmaceutical benefits and programs for beneficiaries of Federal medical care programs; (2) review the existing methods for contracting for and distributing medical supplies and services; and (3) report examination results to the committees. Directs the Secretaries to submit to the committees a report on the status of DOD and VA efforts to standardize physical examinations administered to determine or rate disabilities. Specifies deadlines for required reports. (Sec. 707) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct three demonstration projects to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing health care under CHAMPUS to current and former military personnel and their dependents or dependents of military personnel who died while on active duty for more than 30 days, and who: (1) are 65 years old or older; (2) are entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Part A of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; (3) are enrolled in the Medicare supplemental medical insurance program; and (4) reside in an area of a demonstration project. Requires the Secretary under one such project to permit eligible individuals to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. Prohibits eligible individuals from being required to satisfy any FEHB eligibility criteria as a condition of enrollment. Provides for participation management under the FEHB enrollment program. Requires the Secretary, under another project, to permit eligible individuals to enroll in the TRICARE program, with an enrollment fee. Requires the Secretary, under the third project, to permit eligible individuals to participate in the mail order pharmacy benefit under the TRICARE program, with appropriate premiums, deductibles, or copayments. Requires an independent evaluation of each project. Directs the CG to review such evaluations and report review results to the defense committees. Requires the Secretary to commence the FEHB project no later than July 1, 1999. Requires the FEHB project to be carried out in four separate areas, evaluated annually, and reviewed by the CG. Requires reports on such project from the Secretary and the CG to the defense committees. (Sec. 708) Prohibits any physician from providing military health care unless his or her current medical license is an unrestricted license not subject to limitations on the scope of practice ordinarily granted to other physicians for a similar specialty by the granting jurisdiction. Directs the Secretary to establish a mechanism for ensuring that each physician that provides military health care satisfies all applicable continuing medical education requirements. (Sec. 709) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) or other appropriate organization under which the NAS assesses the need for and feasibility of establishing an independent entity to: (1) evaluate and monitor interagency coordination on issues relating to post-deployment health concerns of military personnel; (2) evaluate the health care provided to military personnel both before and after such deployment; (3) provide for the rapid identification of any trends in diseases or injuries among such members as a result of such operations; (4) provide and direct the ongoing training of DOD health care personnel in the evaluation and treatment of such post-deployment conditions; and (5) make recommendations to DOD and VA regarding improvements in the provision of such care. Requires an NAS report on assessment results. (Sec. 710) Earmarks funds for research and surveillance activities relating to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. (Sec. 711) Directs the Secretary to revise the TRICARE policy manual to state that rehabilitative services are available to a patient for a head injury when the treating physician certifies that such services would be beneficial for the patient and that there is potential for the patient to recover from the injury. Directs the Secretary to review the administration of the TRICARE Prime health plans to ensure that all covered health care services, including specialty services, are available and accessible in a timely manner to all persons covered by the plan. (Sec. 712) Provides medical, dental, and mental health services for abused dependents of military personnel during the period that such dependents are in receipt of monthly transitional compensation. (Sec. 713) Prohibits an investigational new or unapproved drug from being administered to a member of the armed forces unless: (1) the member provides prior consent; or (2) the Secretary obtains a waiver of such requirement and a written statement from the President concurring in such waiver. Allows the Secretary to seek such a waiver when he determines that obtaining consent is not feasible or is contrary to the best interests of the members involved or national security. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees of each waiver granted. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to procure articles containing para-aramid fibers and yarns manufactured in any foreign country which: (1) is a party to a defense memorandum of understanding; or (2) permits U.S. firms that manufacture such fibers and yarns to compete with foreign firms in that country. (Sec. 802) Authorizes the head of an agency to enter into a contract for travel-related services that provides for the contractor to furnish services for both official and non-official travel. Makes such provision inapplicable to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service under the Navy. (Sec. 803) Prohibits the head of a defense agency from entering into a contract for a price exceeding fair market cost in the fiscal year following a fiscal year in which DOD attains its contracting goal for participation by small disadvantaged businesses and certain minority institutions. (Sec. 804) Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary to allocate available technical assistance funds equally among Defense Contract Administration Services regions. (Sec. 805) Defense Commercial Pricing Management Improvement Act of 1998 - Directs the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to clarify the procedures and methods used to determine the reasonableness of prices of items which are exempt from DOD requirements for the submission of certified cost or pricing data. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement procedures: (1) to ensure that a single item manager or contracting officer is responsible for negotiating and entering into all contracts for the procurement of such items from a single contractor; and (2) that provide for the collection and analysis of information on price trends for categories of such items. Requires a defense agency head or military department Secretary to address any unreasonable escalation in prices paid for such items. Requires reports concerning such procedures from the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (Under Secretary) to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to revise certain procurement regulations to cover all purchases of goods and services by DOD under contracts entered into or administered by another Federal agency. (Sec. 807) Requires the Under Secretary to prescribe policies and requirements for educational programs of the defense acquisition university structure. (Sec. 808) Repeals the requirement that the Director of Acquisition Education, Training, and Career Development be located within the Office of the Under Secretary. (Sec. 809) Continues eligibility for membership in the defense acquisition corps for persons serving in a position below GS-13 due to a reduction in force, the closure or realignment of a military installation, or any reason other than for cause. (Sec. 810) Authorizes the Secretary to designate ten acquisition programs of the military departments as pilot programs on program manager responsibility for product support. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for facilitating the rapid transition into DOD acquisition programs of successful first and second phase activities under the Small Business Innovative Research Program under the Small Business Act. (Sec. 813) Revises the definition of "senior executive" for purposes of a DOD limitation on the allowability of compensation for certain contractor personnel. (Sec. 814) Requires separate determinations of waivers of certified cost or pricing data requirements between a DOD prime contract and its subcontracts unless the head of the agency involved determines that such requirements should also be waived for the subcontracts and justifies in writing the reasons for such determination. (Sec. 815) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1998, to enter into a barter agreement to exchange trucks and other tactical vehicles for the repair and remanufacture of Marine Corps ribbon bridges. (Sec. 817) Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress recommending alternative means through which a refiner that qualifies as a small disadvantaged business and that delivers fuel by barge to Defense Energy Supply Point-Anchorage can fulfill its contractual obligation, maintain its status as such a business, and receive the small disadvantaged business premium for the contract fuel when ice conditions in Cook Inlet threaten physical delivery of such fuel. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Reduces from ten to nine the number of Assistant Secretary of Defense positions. Renames the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space and Information Superiority, with specified duties. (Sec. 903) Authorizes the Secretary to include within the National Defense University any educational institution that the Secretary considers appropriate and so designates. (Sec. 904) Provides for specified percentage reductions in the number of Federal employees and military personnel on the headquarters staffs of various DOD organizations. Allows for the waiver of the prohibition on the management of personnel by end strengths in order to achieve such reductions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan to implement such reductions. (Sec. 905) Directs the Secretary to conduct in each year in which a President is inaugurated a comprehensive examination of the defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and related matters with a view toward determining and expressing the U.S. defense strategy, establishing a revised defense plan for the ensuing ten years, and another for the ensuing 20 years. Directs the Secretary, immediately preceding an inaugural year, to establish a nonpartisan, independent panel to be known as the National Defense Panel to: (1) conduct a comprehensive assessment of the above strategies, structures, and plans; and (2) recommend a ten- and 20-year defense strategy after such assessment. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to analyze the structures and processes of DOD for the management of its laboratories and test and evaluation centers and to develop a plan for improving such management. Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the defense and appropriations committees a plan and schedule for implementing a cost-based management information system for such laboratories and test centers. (Sec. 907) Directs the Secretary of each military department to administer all of its Fisher houses as nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. Provides, with respect to such instrumentality, for: (1) a system of governance; (2) the establishment of a central fund as a funding source; and (3) the acceptance of contributions and the imposition of fees for use of such houses. Requires an annual report from each Secretary on Fisher house operations. Provides transitional funding. (Sec. 908) Redesignates the Director of Defense Research and Engineering as the Director of Defense Technology and Counterproliferation, with appropriate duties. Abolishes the position of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. (Sec. 909) Provides funding for the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. (Sec. 910) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to evaluate and identify mechanisms for improving DOD aviation accident investigation procedures. Requires an interim and final report from the task force to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations that provide for the release to the family members of personnel involved in military aviation accidents, and to the public, of interim safety investigation reports. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD under this Division for FY 1999 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with a total transfer limit of $2 billion. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. (Sec. 1002) Authorizes appropriations for DOD for FY 1999 for incremental costs of military operations in and around Bosnia and Herzegovina. Authorizes the transfer of O&M funds for such purpose. (Sec. 1003) Adjusts the amounts authorized to DOD for FY 1998 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased in the 1998 Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act. (Sec. 1004) Makes funds authorized under titles II and III available for Partnership for Peace information management systems. (Sec. 1005) Reduces by $421.9 million the total amount authorized to be appropriated under this Division to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions. Provides for the distribution of such reduction among specified accounts. Increases the authorization of appropriations for: (1) O&M, Army National Guard; and (2) Other Defense Programs, Department of Energy. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes contributions for FY 1999 for the common-funded budgets of NATO out of funds available to DOD for such purpose. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels - Requires: (1) the U.S.S. Iowa to be listed and maintained on the Naval Vessel Register; and (2) the U.S.S. New Jersey to be stricken from such Register. (Sec. 1012) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into one or more long-term charters for three specified vessels to support the rescue, escort, and towing of submarines. Provides funding. (Sec. 1013) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified vessels to specified foreign countries on a grant basis under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, on a sale or lease basis under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, or on a combined sale-lease basis under the latter Act. Requires authority to effectuate such transfers, together with necessary appropriations, to be provided in advance in an appropriations Act. Requires congressional notification of any such transfer. Provides that transfers made on a grant basis shall not be counted against a limitation on the aggregate value of excess transferred defense articles under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires as a condition of such transfers that any vessel repair or refurbishment needed prior to such transfers be performed at a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Terminates the transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1014) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the next unnamed LPD-17 class vessel should be named the U.S.S. Clifton B. Cates in honor of the most decorated Marine Corps officer of World War I. (Sec. 1015) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to transfer all U.S. rights and interest to the vessel ex-U.S.S. Lorain County to the Ohio War Memorial, Inc., for use as a memorial to Ohio veterans. (Sec. 1016) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S.S. Iowa should be homeported at the Port of San Francisco, California. (Sec. 1017) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to carry out within the United States a vessel scrapping pilot program during FY 1999 and 2000. Requires an interim and final report from such Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Repeals various reports and reporting requirements under Federal armed forces provisions and the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989. (Sec. 1022) Requires the CG to submit to the Congress an analysis of a biennial financial management improvement plan currently required to be submitted by the Secretary. (Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to carry out a study of the feasibility and advisability of selecting on a competitive basis the source or sources for performing DOD finance and accounting services from among private sector sources, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), the military departments, and other Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to perform market research in connection with the study. (Sec. 1024) Prohibits any DFAS operating location from being closed within six months after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a strategic plan for improving the financial management operations at such location. (Sec. 1025) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1998, addressing each military department separately. Directs the Inspector General to review the report and submit comments to such committees. (Sec. 1026) Directs the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to jointly submit to the defense committees a report on the plans of DOD and the intelligence community for ensuring the continuity of performance of essential operations that are at risk of failure due to computer systems and other information and support systems that are not year 2000 compliant. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative arrangement with a foreign government under which the United States assists such government in identifying and correcting any problems in communications, strategic, or other systems of such government that make their computer systems not 2000 year compliant. (Sec. 1027) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to report to the defense committees on battleship readiness for meeting military requirements for naval surface fire support. (Sec. 1028) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the roles of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff in the investigation of DOD aviation accidents. (Sec. 1029) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the Congress a plan for guiding and expanding distance learning initiatives within DOD. (Sec. 1030) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on U.S. military involvement in major contingency operations and major ongoing operations since the end of the Persian Gulf War, including involvement in the Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Operations Southern Watch and Northern Watch. (Sec. 1031) Directs the President to submit to the Congress a report on operation objectives with any request for appropriations for costs associated with a military contingency operation involving the deployment of more than 500 military personnel. (Sec. 1032) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees reports on the development of the European Security and Defense Identity within the NATO alliance that would enable the Western European Union to assume the political control and strategic direction of NATO assets and capabilities made available by the alliance. (Sec. 1033) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense and appropriations committees on means of reducing significantly the infrastructure costs at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, while also maintaining or improving the support for DOD missions and personnel provided through such base. (Sec. 1034) Directs the CG to annually review the F-A 18E-F fighter aircraft and submit review results to the Congress. (Sec. 1035) Directs the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to review, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, the process used for allocating and distributing resources among the States for the National Guard. (Sec. 1036) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the need for and feasibility of programs to further U.S. nonproliferation objectives regarding former Soviet experts in ballistic missiles or weapons of mass destruction. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to provide a foreign country or any of its instrumentalities with assistance for destroying, removing, or obtaining from such country: (1) weapons of mass destruction; or (2) materials, equipment, or technology for the delivery or development of such weapons. Requires a certification from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees at least 15 days in advance that such materials, equipment, or technology meet specified requirements. Waives the certification requirement when compliance would compromise U.S. national security objectives. Requires annual reports concerning such activities. (Sec. 1042) Amends the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 certain counterproliferation authorities for support of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. (Sec. 1043) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 1999 a limitation concerning the retirement or dismantlement of strategic nuclear delivery systems. (Sec. 1044) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the feasibility of initiating discussions concerning the possibility of direct-line communications between the commanders in chief of the U.S. Strategic and Space Commands and the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. (Sec. 1045) Directs the Secretary to review and report to the defense committees on DOD policies and doctrines on chemical warfare defense. Requires the Secretary to modify such policies and doctrines in order to provide adequate protection of military personnel from low-level exposure to a chemical warfare agent. Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a plan to establish a research program for determining the effects of chronic and low-dose exposures to such agents. (Sec. 1046) Provides for the accounting treatment of the advanced payment of military personnel. (Sec. 1047) Defines a financial institution, for purposes of the reimbursement of military and civilian DOD personnel for Federal errors in direct deposits of pay, as a bank, savings and loan association, or a credit union chartered by the U.S. Government or a State. (Sec. 1048) Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program on alternative notice procedures concerning the withholding or garnishment of pay of military personnel for the payment of child support or alimony under provisions of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 1049) Provides a limitation on the cost of services provided to the Defense Commissary Agency (DCA) to provide for the efficient management and operation of the commissary system. (Sec. 1050) Authorizes the Secretary to impose a charge for the collection of dishonored checks presented at commissary stores. (Sec. 1051) Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe in regulations DCA authority to meet its telecommunications requirements by obtaining services and related items under the FTS-2001 contract through a frame relay system procured for the DCA. (Sec. 1052) Authorizes service academy superintendents to accept a research grant that is awarded on a competitive basis for a research project carried out by a professor or instructor at such academy for a scientific, literary, or educational purpose. (Sec. 1053) Empowers inspectors general of the military departments with responsibilities concerning military personnel whistleblower protections. (Currently, such responsibilities exist solely under the DOD Inspector General.) Provides simplified whistleblower reporting and notice requirements. Repeals a requirement for a post-investigation interview. (Sec. 1054) Provides for the crediting of amounts recovered from claims against third parties for loss or damage to personal property of military personnel shipped or stored at Government expense. (Sec. 1055) Authorizes the Secretary to permit a dependent of a member of the armed forces to enroll in an elementary or secondary education program on a military installation within the United States while the member is assigned away from such jurisdiction on a remote or unaccompanied assignment under permanent change of station orders. Allows an enrollment to be extended for more than five years if the dependent is still eligible, space is available, and adequate arrangements are made for reimbursement of the Secretary for the costs of the educational services provided. Allows the dependent of a U.S. Customs employee who resides in Puerto Rico but not on a military installation to enroll in an educational program provided by the Secretary in Puerto Rico. (Sec. 1056) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to charge a fee for providing historical information to the public from the United States Army or Air Force Military History Institutes and the United States Naval or Marine Corps Historical Centers. (Sec. 1057) Requires the inspector general of an armed force to inspect the Armed Forces Retirement Home at least every three years. (Currently, the DOD Inspector General conducts such inspections at least every six years.) Requires the duty of such inspection to alternate among such inspectors general, and requires each inspection to be followed by a report to the Retirement Home Board, the Secretary, and the Congress. (Sec. 1058) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts, all U.S. rights and interest to one surplus F-4 Phantom II aircraft. Requires the Foundation to alter such aircraft so that it no longer has any combat capability. (Sec. 1059) Amends the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to state that a presidential signature shall constitute approval of vessel war risk insurance requested by the Secretary. (Sec. 1060) Requests the President to issue a proclamation designating March 1, 1999, as "United States Navy Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day." (Sec. 1061) Revises provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) redesignate the Korean Conflict as the Korean War, for purposes of a program commemorating such War; and (2) provide a limitation on expenditures under the program. (Sec. 1062) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the costs to DOD associated with frequency spectrum allocations. Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require any person on whose behalf a Federal entity incurs costs from the relocation of Federal frequencies to compensate the Federal entity in advance for such costs. Requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission to develop procedures for the implementation of this section which shall include a process for resolving differences between the Government and commercial licensees regarding estimates of frequency relocation or modification costs. Requires the head of each Federal department or agency to include in his or her annual budget submission a report on costs to be incurred as a result of anticipated frequency relocations. (Sec. 1064) Extends through FY 1999 the authorization of appropriations under the Defense Production Act of 1950. (Sec. 1065) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should include in the annual budget sufficient amounts to pay for any proposed continuation of U.S. participatory forces in NATO operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and (2) such amounts should not be obtained from other DOD accounts, but instead should be an overall DOD budget increase. (Sec. 1066) Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. military forces should not serve as civil police in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Requires a report from the President to the Congress on the status of NATO paramilitary forces in such areas. (Sec. 1067) Commends the Secretary on progress made by DOD science and technology laboratories and test and evaluation centers toward superior quality and work. Encourages the continued progress of such labs and centers in developing cooperative relationships with universities and private sector facilities for the performance of research and development functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to demonstrate improved cooperative relationships for the performance of such functions. Requires participation consideration to be given to labs and centers where innovative management techniques have been demonstrated. (Sec. 1068) Recognizes and honors former South Vietnamese commandos for their service in connection with U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam conflict. (Sec. 1069) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretaries of Defense and Energy should report to the Congress a request for funds for FY 2000 for activities relating to the declassification of information. (Sec. 1070) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should request the Russian Federation to expedite reduction of its tactical nuclear arsenal. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on the number and implications of such weapons. (Sec. 1071) Condemns the decisions by India and Pakistan to conduct nuclear tests in May 1998. Supports the President's decision to impose sanctions as a result of such tests. Calls upon members of the international community to impose similar sanctions. Urges India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to reduce tension between the countries. Calls upon the President to seek diplomatic solutions to such tensions, including resolution of the 50-year conflict over the disputed territory in Kashmir. Requests the United States to review its bilateral relationship with India and Pakistan. (Sec. 1072) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. ground combat forces should not remain indefinitely in Bosnia and Herzegovina; (2) the President should work with NATO allies and other nations to withdraw such forces within a reasonable period; (3) a NATO-led force without U.S. ground combat forces might be suitable as a follow-on force; (4) a Western European- or NATO-led force is an appropriate stabilizing force for such areas; and (5) the President should consult closely with congressional leadership toward achieving peace and eliminating U.S. ground combat forces there. Requires related reports, including plans on phased U.S. troop reduction and the status of paramilitary forces in such areas. Requires the President to include in each request for funding for such troops a report on the mission of such forces. (Sec. 1073) Establishes the Commission for Assessment of the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Deterrent to assess and make annual certifications with respect to such reliability, safety, and security. Terminates the Commission three years after appointment of its chairman. (Sec. 1074) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 to authorize the waiver of a moratorium against U.S. military use of antipersonnel landmines upon a presidential determination of the national security interest of such waiver. Requires the President to notify the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore on the use of such waiver. (Sec. 1075) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to require the Director and Deputy Director of the Naval Home to be appointed by the Secretary from certain persons recommended by the Secretaries of the military departments. (Sec. 1076) Expresses the sense of the Congress that for each of FY 2000 through 2008 it should be an objective of the Secretary to increase the budget for the Defense Science and Technology Program by at least two percent over the previous year, after inflation. Outlines key objectives for the Program, including the sustaining of appropriate Program relationships with university research initiatives and commercial research and technology. Directs the Secretary to attempt to leverage commercial research, technology, products, and processes for the benefit of DOD. Requires funds available for Program projects and programs to be used only for DOD's benefit. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate DOD basic and applied research funds to support any individual project or program under such Program. (Sec. 1077) Directs the Secretary to: (1) assign demilitarization codes to appropriate DOD excess personal property; and (2) demilitarize such property. Requires reports in 1999 and 2000 on such assignment and demilitarization. Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for any person to fraudulently or knowingly export from the United States any merchandise contrary to any U.S. law or to receive such merchandise prior to its exportation knowing that it is so intended. (Sec. 1078) Designates the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and the South Street Seaport Museum buildings on Front Street, New York, as America's National Maritime Museum. Provides criteria for future additions to such Museum. (Sec. 1079) Directs the Secretary to convene and preside over a conference to determine means to improve and increase the availability of military burial honors for veterans. (Sec. 1080) Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to carry out a program to provide assistance to State and local governments in developing capabilities to respond to emergencies involving risks to public health or safety that are identified by the Secretary as risks resulting from the storage or destruction of chemical agents and munitions at U.S. military installations or facilities. (Sec. 1081) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should: (1) urge the Russian Federation to extradite the former chief of the Georgian National Security Service, Lieutenant General Igor Giorgadze, to Georgia to stand trial for his role in the August 1995 attempted assassination of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze; (2) take steps to ensure that Russian military bases on Georgian territory are no longer used to facilitate the escape of such suspected assassins; and (3) ensure to the maximum extent practicable the personal security of President Shevardnadze. (Sec. 1082) Provides for the issuance of burial flags for deceased members and certain former members of the Selected Reserve. (Sec. 1083) Mandates as a standing order of the Senate that a Senator who provides notice to leadership of his or her intention to object to proceeding to a motion or matter shall disclose such objection or hold in the Congressional Record not later than two session days after the date of such notice. (Sec. 1084) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to revise goals with respect to U.S. efforts to increase its allies' share of the common defense burden. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress under such Act to include progress on achieving such increased burdensharing. Extends a current report deadline under such Act. (Sec. 1085) Directs the Secretary to review, through an independent entity, and report to the defense committees on the functions of the Defense Automated Printing Service. Requires the Secretary to submit the entity's report to the Congress, together with a plan to outsource from such Service functions that are not inherently national security functions that the Secretary determines should be performed outside of DOD. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 the requirement for the competitive procurement of services under such Act. (Sec. 1086) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on the architecture requirements for the establishment and operation of a theater ballistic missile defense system in the Asia-Pacific region capable of protecting key U.S. regional allies. (Sec. 1087) Requires DOD, in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to report to the defense and appropriations committees on responsibilities associated with U.S. international obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention to destroy the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile, technical assistance provided DOD by the EPA in meeting such obligations, and related matters. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary to conduct a program under which qualified spouses of military personnel are given a hiring preference for DOD child care positions. (Sec. 1103) Extends through FY 2003 the authority for the DOD voluntary separation incentive pay program. (Sec. 1104) Amends Federal provisions concerning the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System to provide voluntary early retirement authority for DOD civilian employees who either complete 25 years of service or, after becoming 50 years of age, complete 20 years of service. Outlines voluntary separation requirements, including that: (1) such employee has not received a notice of separation for misconduct or unacceptable performance; and (2) DOD or the military department involved is undergoing a major reorganization, reduction in force, or transfer of functions. (Sec. 1105) Authorizes the Secretary, during the five-year period commencing on the date of enactment of this Act, to carry out a program of experimental use of special personnel management authority (the hiring of up to 20 individuals from outside the civil service and armed forces) to facilitate the recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for research and development projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Limits the period of appointment (four years) and the amount of compensation to be paid to such employees. Title XII: Joint Warfighting Experimentation - Expresses the sense of the Congress supporting the initiative of the Secretary and the JCS Chairman to designate a commander of a combatant command to have the mission for joint warfighting experimentation, the development and validation of new joint warfighting concepts and capabilities, and related DOD strategy for transforming U.S. armed forces to meet future national security threats. Request such commander to have sufficient freedom of action, authority, and resources to establish and conduct the joint warfighting experimentation process. Requests: (1) continued intraservice and multiservice warfighting experimentation, and related experimentation by the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; and (2) congressional review of the initial and annual reports on joint warfighting experimentation to determine the adequacy of the scope and pace of U.S. military forces to meet future national security challenges. (Sec. 1203) Requires an initial and annual reports from the appointed commander to the Secretary on the implementation of joint experimentation. Directs the Secretary to submit such reports to the chairmen of the defense committees. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Title XXI(sic): 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 such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under the previous title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary 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. (Sec. 2403) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2405) Increases amounts authorized under prior military construction authorization Acts for projects at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon, and Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Security Investment Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1998 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1998 for Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to reduce the authorization of appropriations for Army Reserve military construction. (Sec. 2603) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the planning and design of the National Guard Military Educational Facility at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2001, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for military construction for FY 2002, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. (Sec. 2704) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to acquire additional real property, carry out additional specified military construction projects, and improve existing military family housing units at specified locations. Increases amounts authorized to be appropriated under this Act for Army, Navy, and Air Force military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Revises Federal provisions concerning authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design to: (1) allow such services and design without regard to whether the military construction projects themselves are authorized by law; and (2) increase from $300,000 to $500,000 the amount authorized to be expended for such services before congressional notification is required. (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease up to 500 family housing units in Italy and up to 800 family housing units in Korea. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Increases from $200,000 to $500,000 the amount authorized to be expended by the Secretary concerned for a real property lease, acquisition, or transfer before congressional notification is required. Provides an exception to real property transaction reporting requirements during declarations of war, national emergency, major disaster, the use of riot militia, or a contingency operation. Requires such notification within 30 days after any such event. (Sec. 2813) Waives applicability of Federal property disposal regulations under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 with respect to leases entered into at military installations being closed or realigned under the base closure laws. (Sec. 2814) Authorizes the Secretary, as a condition of a lease, license, or other grant of access entered into with another Federal agency for military property, to require such agency to remove any improvements and to restore such land to its condition before such use. Provides for cost reimbursement in lieu of such removal or restoration. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Authority the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown, Indiana; (2) Bridgton, Maine, the Army Reserve Center there; and (3) Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Authorizes the Secretary of the: (1) Army to release all interests in the former Kennebec Arsenal in Augusta, Maine; (2) Navy to convey to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation in Portland, Maine, the Naval Reserve Readiness Center in Portland; and (3) Air Force to convey to McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the Lake Charles Air Force Station. (Sec. 2827) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1979 to include two additional parcels in a land conveyance with respect to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Sec. 2828) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city and county of Denver, Colorado, U.S. water rights and related interests in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado, in order to acquire permanent contracts for the delivery of water to the Arsenal and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. (Sec. 2829) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey or lease to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis the Naval Air Reserve Center in Minneapolis. (Sec. 2830) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Peoria School District #150, Illinois, the Army Reserve Center in Peoria; (2) Skaneateles, New York, the Federal Farm located there; (3) Youngstown, Ohio, the Army Reserve Center there; and (4) the redevelopment authority for the Red River Army Depot, Texas, all U.S. rights to any utility system at the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texas. (Sec. 2830D) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to modify a land conveyance with respect to Finley Air Force Station, Finley, North Dakota. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to purchase from its developer the entire 366-unit military family housing project at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, if determined to be in the best economic interests of the Air Force. (Sec. 2832) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out beach replenishment in and around San Diego, California. Provides funding and cost limitations. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress 30 days in advance of any such action. (Sec. 2833) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to add additional program and reporting requirements under the Department of Defense Laboratory Revitalization Demonstration Program. Extends such Program through FY 2003. (Sec. 2834) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the costs and benefits of implementing the initiative to build single occupancy barracks rooms having a shared bath. Prohibits the Secretary from requesting funding for such initiative in FY 2000 unless he certifies that further implementation of such initiative is necessary to ensure the retention in adequate numbers of first-term enlisted personnel. (Sec. 2835) Directs the Secretary to submit to the President and the defense and appropriations committees a report on the potential for development of Ford Island within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex in Oahu, Hawaii, through an integrated resource plan incorporating both appropriated funds and one or more public-private ventures. (Sec. 2836) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on leasing and other alternative uses of non-excess military property. (Sec. 2837) Earmarks authorized funds for emergency repairs and stabilization measures at the Forest Glen Annex of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maryland. Subtitle E: Base Closures - Revises the number and percentages of civilian personnel that must be affected before a base closure or realignment will be prohibited. (Sec. 2852) Prohibits any DOD action from being taken, or DOD funds from being obligated or expended, to effect or implement the closure of a military installation within four years after a realignment that reduces the number of civilian personnel employed there below 225. (Sec. 2853) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Congress should not authorize another round of base closures and realignments until all actions authorized by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 are completed; and (2) DOD should submit immediately to the Congress a previously required report analyzing the effect of such closures and realignments on the ability of the armed forces to remobilize. Title XXIX: Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal - Juniper Butte Range Withdrawal Act - Withdraws the Juniper Butte Range, Idaho, from all forms of appropriation under the public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Reserves such land to the Air Force for a high hazard training area, dropping training ordnance, electronic warfare and tactical maneuvering and air support, and other defense-related purposes. Endorses an agreement between the Bureau of Land Management and the Air Force with respect to additional mitigation measures for such lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to process and grant the Secretary of the Air Force rights- of-way upon certain range areas conducting Air Force electronic warfare training activities. Requires the Air Force, to the extent practicable, to protect Indian sacred sites on the range. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conclude and implement agreements with grazing permittees to provide appropriate consideration, including future grazing arrangements. (Sec. 2908) Requires such Secretary to manage the reserved lands and to close such lands to public access in appropriate circumstances. Authorizes such Secretary to enter into leases with the State of Idaho in support of the Range and its operations. Directs such Secretary to suppress brush and range fires caused by Air Force operations. Requires such Secretary to develop an integrated natural resources management plan for the natural resources of withdrawn lands, requiring the Secretaries of the Air Force and the Interior and the governor of Idaho to enter into a memorandum of understanding for the development of the plan. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to maintain roads and manage withdrawn and acquired mineral resources within the area of the range lands. Outlines water rights. (Sec. 2915) Terminates the withdrawal and reservation 25 years after the enactment of this Act, with relinquishment before such date under appropriate circumstances. Requires such Secretary, at least two years before such termination date, to notify the Congress and the Secretary of the Interior as to whether the Air Force has a continuing military need for such lands after the termination date. Limits any such extension to an additional 25 years. Outlines provisions concerning the environmental remediation of such lands and authorized delegation of authority by each of the Secretaries. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that Air Force budgetary planning makes available sufficient funding to assure Air Force participation in cooperative efforts developed by the Air Force, Bureau of Land Management, and the State of Idaho to monitor the impact of military activities on natural, cultural, and other resources and values of the withdrawn lands, as well as other Federal and State lands affected by military activities associated with the range. (Sec. 2917) Authorizes appropriations. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1999 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) environmental restoration and waste management; (3) other defense activities; (4) defense nuclear waste disposal; and (5) defense environmental management privatization initiatives. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and available for the same purposes. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for such designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, and construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used. Makes funds for management and support and for general plant projects under this Subtitle available for all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 1999, to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfers to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits, with specified exceptions, FY 1999 DOE funds from being obligated or expended to conduct any activities: (1) associated with international cooperative stockpile stewardship; or (2) relating to ballistic or theater missile defense. (Sec. 3133) Prohibits any person from constructing or operating a facility under contract with DOE for fabricating mixed plutonium-uranium oxide nuclear reactor fuel for use in a commercial nuclear reactor without first obtaining a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Sec. 3134) Directs the Secretary to continue operations and maintain a high state of readiness at the F- and H-canyon facilities at the Savannah River site and to provide technical staff to operate and maintain such facilities. (Sec. 3135) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to authorize DOE federally funded research and development centers to participate in merit-based technology research and development programs. (Sec. 3136) Earmarks authorized funds for payment to the educational foundation chartered to enhance educational activities in the public schools in the vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. (Sec. 3137) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into partnership arrangements to share the costs of operating the hazardous materials management and emergency response training facility in Richland, Washington, as authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995. (Sec. 3138) Earmarks DOE funds for: (1) activities relating to the Hanford Health Information Network as established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991; (2) the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program; and (3) the nuclear cities initiative. (Sec. 3140) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct: (1) research and other activities through contractor-operated facilities of DOE on behalf of other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments and agencies, and private persons and entities and to impose charges to conduct such activities; and (2) during FY 1999 through 2003 a pilot program under which the Secretary and such contractors reduce the facility overhead charges imposed for conducting such activities. Authorizes contractors involved in the program to enter into partnerships with small businesses at such facility relating to technology. (Sec. 3140A) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for the design, construction, and relocation of the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 setting forth policy under the stockpile stewardship program. (Sec. 3142) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to increase compensation levels for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel responsible for safety at DOE nuclear facilities. (Sec. 3143) Expresses the sense of the Senate that OMB should, beginning with FY 2000, transfer the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program from the defense 050 budget function to a non-defense discretionary budget function. (Sec. 3144) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2000 the authority for the appointment within DOE of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel. (Sec. 3145) Authorizes DOE to pay incentive payments to qualifying employees who voluntarily separate before January 1, 2001. (Sec. 3146) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to allow Federal agencies, including the National Archives and Records Administration, to conduct a visual inspection of all permanent records of historical value which are 25 years old or older prior to declassification to ascertain that they contain no pages with Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data markings. (Sec. 3147) Expresses the sense of the Senate encouraging DOE and the State of Washington to implement a memorandum of understanding for the continued involvement by the State of Oregon in decisions of concern to Oregon regarding the Hanford Reservation in Washington. (Sec. 3148) Directs the CG to review and report to the Congress on the calculation of overhead costs of cleanup at DOE sites. (Sec. 3149) Expresses the sense of the Congress that for each of the fiscal years 2000 through 2008 it should be an objective of the Secretary to increase the budget for nonproliferation science and technology activities by at least two percent over the previous year, after inflation. (Sec. 3150) Requires the Secretary to select a tritium production technology no later than December 31, 1998. Subtitle E: Maximum Age for New Department of Energy Nuclear Materials Couriers - Authorizes the Secretary to determine and fix the maximum age limit for an original appointment as a DOE nuclear materials courier. Adds such position to Federal employee classification provisions. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 1999, to obligate up to $83 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses, including the disposal of hazardous materials that are environmentally sensitive. Authorizes the NDS Manager to obligate amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying the Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. (Sec. 3303) Directs the President to dispose of NDS materials. Specifies disposal limits. (Sec. 3304) Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to authorize the use of NDS funds for the performance of environmental remediation, restoration, waste management, or compliance activities required under Federal law or undertaken by administrative decision or negotiated agreement. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1999, with specified funding limits. (Sec. 3503) Requires Commission funds to be made available for the purchase and transportation to the Republic of Panama of passenger motor vehicles, with a per vehicle cost limit of $23,000. (Sec. 3504) Requires expenditures authorized under this title to be in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and any laws implementing those treaties. (Sec. 3505) Authorizes the Commission to seek and accept donations to carry out Commission promotional activities. (Sec. 3506) Authorizes the Secretary of State to enter into one or more agreements under which the United States furnishes administrative services relating to Commission pension, disability, and medical benefits, as well as workmen's compensation, after December 31, 1999, and establishes appropriate procedures for providing advance funding for such services. (Sec. 3507) Repeals on December 30, 1999, current Federal provisions concerning rights of and benefits accruing to Commission employees at the Canal. (Sec. 3508) Repeals a Federal provision establishing a Commission central examining office. (Sec. 3509) Revises provisions concerning Commission liability for vessel accidents to require claimants to be covered by one or more insurance policies totaling at least $1 million against the injuries claimed. Limits Commission liability to amounts in excess of any insurance amounts recovered. (Sec. 3510) Makes a Commission employee eligible, upon request, for appointment on a noncompetitive basis to vacant positions in the competitive civil service within: (1) an area determined by the OPM Director as being within a reasonable commuting distance of the employee's residence; or (2) any Standard Federal Region designated by such employee. Outlines eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship and a notice of separation by reason of a reduction in force. (Sec. 3511) Provides compensation levels for members of the Commission's Board of Contract Appeals. (Sec. 3513) Requires a DOD officer designated by the Secretary of Defense to be one of the members of the Panama Canal Commission Supervisory Board. Title XXXVI: Commercial Activities of the People's Liberation Army - Directs the Secretary of Defense to compile, publish, and update continuously a list of persons who are Communist Chinese military companies owned or controlled by the People's Liberation Army and who are operating directly or indirectly in the United States or any of its territories and possessions. Authorizes the President to exercise authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act with respect to any U.S. commercial activity of such a company, except authorities relating to importation. Title XXXVII: Forced or Indentured Labor - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the U.S. Customs Service to monitor the importation of products made with forced labor or indentured labor, including forced or indentured child labor, the importation of which violates the Tariff Act of 1930. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to prepare and transmit to the Congress a report on products made with such labor that are destined for the U.S. market. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should determine whether any country with which the United States has a memorandum of understanding with respect to reciprocal trade that involves goods made with forced or indentured labor is frustrating implementation of the memorandum, and, if so, to commence negotiations for a new memorandum which provides effective procedures for the monitoring of such labor. Title XXXVIII: Fair Trade in Automotive Parts - Fair Trade in Automotive Parts Act of 1998 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) reestablish the initiative to increase the sale of U.S.-made automotive parts and accessories to Japanese markets, including appropriate consultation and the exchange of information; and (2) establish a Special Advisory Committee to advise, assist, and report on issues relating to sales of U.S. automotive parts and accessories in Japanese and other Asian markets. (Sec. 3805) Terminates the initiative on December 31, 2003. Title XXXIX: Radio Free Asia - Radio Free Asia Act of 1998 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1998 and 1999 for Radio Free Asia, a program offering free broadcasting services to China and Tibet. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a significant amount of authorized funds should be directed towards broadcasting to such countries in the appropriate languages and dialects. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal years for: (1) international broadcasting activities, to be available only for enhanced Voice of America broadcasting to China; and (2) radio construction, to be available only for construction in support of enhanced broadcasting to China. (Sec. 3904) Directs the Broadcasting Board of Governors to prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees an assessment of the Board's efforts to increase broadcasting by Radio Free Asia and Voice of America to China and Tibet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Army Programs Subtitle C: Navy Programs Subtitle D: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Information Technology Issues Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions Subtitle D: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement Subtitle E: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Subtitle F: Other Matters Subtitle G: Demonstration of Commercial-Type Practices to Improve Quality of Personal Property Shipments Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Military Education and Training Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records Subtitle F: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Services Subtitle B: TRICARE Program Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Title X: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals Subtitle E: Other Matters Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union Title XIV: Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Subtitle A: Domestic Preparedness Subtitle B: Advisory Commission to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction Division B: Military Construction Authorizations Title XXI(sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment Subtitle D: Land Conveyances Subtitle E: Other Matters Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle D: Other Matters Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) defense-wide and reserve procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) the defense export loan guarantee program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for procurement of the AGM-114 Longbow Hellfire missile. (Sec. 112) Earmarks authorized Army funds for the M1A2 System Enhancement Program. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for procurement of: (1) the AV-8B, the T-45TS, and the E-2C aircraft; and (2) the Marine Corps Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Directs the program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program to continue to manage the development and testing of technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical munitions that are potential or demonstrated alternatives to the baseline incineration program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology and the Secretary of the Army to jointly submit to the Congress a plan for the transfer of Program oversight from the Under Secretary to the Secretary. Authorizes the program manager to carry out implementation of chemical munitions destruction alternative technologies immediately after the successful demonstration of such technology and a demonstration report to the Congress by the Under Secretary. Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary), if he proceeds with a pilot program concerning chemical weapons assessment under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, to submit to the Congress a plan for that program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), including activities of the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2003 the Secretary's responsibilities for management of the Navy countermeasures program. (Sec. 212) Earmarks authorized funds for RDT&E into the CVN-77 nuclear aircraft carrier program for its transition to DC(X) aircraft carrier technologies. (Sec. 213) Amends Federal provisions concerning the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) require the ratio of contract recipient cost to Government cost to be determined under competitive procedures; (2) require that a transaction file for every contract or agreement under the program awarded on other than a cost-sharing basis include the rationale for such determination; (3) remove a provision allowing a contractor-Federal cost share percentage of less than two to one; and (4) require additional cost-sharing information to be included in a required five-year plan for such program. (Sec. 214) Expresses the sense of the Congress that at least ten percent of the RDT&E funds of each of the military departments should be dedicated to science and technology, especially to address technological challenges of air, space, and information technology. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the DOD technology base. (Sec. 215) Earmarks authorized funds for the Next Generation Internet program, with a limitation. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any national missile defense system deployed by the United States must provide effective defense against limited, accidental, or unauthorized ballistic missile attack for all 50 states; and (2) U.S. territories should be afforded effective protection against such attack. (Sec. 232) Prohibits funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization from being obligated for the Medium Extended Air Defense System until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the future-years defense plan includes sufficient System funding to complete its design and development phase. (Sec. 233) Withholds $5 million of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Russian-American Observational Satellite until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the (DOD) has received detailed information concerning the nature, extent, and implications of the transfer of ballistic missile technology from Russian sources to Iran. (Sec. 234) Prohibits the obligation of certain FY 1999 counterproliferation support funds until the Secretary submits to the Congress a report required under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 on threats posed by weapons of mass destruction and ballistic and cruise missiles. (Sec. 235) Sets forth ballistic missile defense program elements. Requires that amounts requested for theater and national missile defense major defense acquisition programs be specified in individual program elements, and that amounts appropriated for such programs be available only for ballistic missile defense activities. (Sec. 236) Directs the Secretary to select an alternative contractor as a potential source for the development and production of the interceptor missile for the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system within a "leader-follower" acquisition strategy. Increases the amount authorized for the Demonstration-Validation phase of THAAD. Provides for: (1) a cost-sharing arrangement with the prime contractor for certain flight test failures under THAAD; (2) an engineering and manufacturing development phase for other THAAD elements; (3) a requirement of two successful tests prior to the acquisition of certain interceptor missiles under THAAD; and (4) a prohibition against the commencement of the THAAD interceptor missile engineering and development phase until there have been two successful tests of such missile. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (3) the operation of Fisher houses, to be derived from the Fisher House Trust Fund. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified O&M accounts. (Sec. 305) Earmarks O&M funds for: (1) the refurbishment of up to 70 M1-A1 tanks under a specified program; (2) paying operational costs of the prepositioned fleet of equipment during training rotations at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California; and (3) relocating the U.S.S. Wisconsin from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia. Subtitle B: Information Technology Issues - Outlines additional information technology responsibilities of the chief information officers of DOD and each military department, including compliance with applicable standards and interoperability among such departments and DOD. (Sec. 312) Requires the Defense Logistics Agency to develop a single, defense-wide electronic mall system (a system for displaying, ordering, and purchasing supplies and material available from DOD and private sources). (Sec. 313) Earmarks specified funds authorized to DOD for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Army Force XXI program, Navy Information Technology for the 21st Century programs, Air Force Communications Infrastructure programs, and Marine Corps Telecom and Computing Infrastructure programs. (Sec. 314) Authorizes the use of 25 percent of the funding for information and technology and national security programs under this Act to ensure that the year 2000 conversion of such information is completed. Authorizes the Secretary to expend more than such percentage if necessary to prevent the failure of such information due to the use of the year 2000 in computer systems. Requires the Comptroller General (CG) to submit to the Congress by January 30, 1999, a briefing on the status of the year 2000 conversion. (Sec. 315) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to include a simulated year 2000 as part of military training exercise programs. Requires CG review. Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to pay $100 million to Canada to cover the cost of environmental cleanup at former U.S. military sites there. (Sec. 322) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use specified funds authorized under this title for the removal of underground storage tanks at the Authorities Allied Industrial Park in Macon, Georgia. Subtitle D: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement - Prohibits a DOD commercial or industrial type function that, as of October 1, 1980, was being performed by DOD civilian employees from being changed to performance by private contractor until the Secretary undertakes a study of such function and reports study results to the Congress, together with a certification that such function performance change is not precluded by any end strength or related constraints. (Sec. 332) States that the requirement that DOD maintain a Government-owned and operated core logistics capability is not satisfied when a core logistics workload is converted to contractor performance even though actual performance of the workload will take place in a Government-owned and operated facility of DOD as a subcontractor of the private contractor. (Sec. 333) Prohibits any DOD funds from being obligated for a smartcard (automated identification technology card) program unless the program is reviewed and approved by the Smartcard Technology Office of DOD. (Sec. 334) Sets forth conditions for the expansion of functions performed under prime vendor contracts. (Sec. 337) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the Congress a plan for the establishment of the core logistics capabilities for the C-17 aircraft consistent with current requirements. Requires CG review. (Sec. 338) Prohibits a civil engineering supplies function currently performed by a contractor-operated civil engineering supply store from being combined with another supply or service function unless: (1) the Secretary reports such proposed combination to the Congress, with an explanation; and (2) the CG reviews the report and reports an opinion to the Congress. (Sec. 339) Directs the CG to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the effect that proposed personnel reductions in the Army Materiel Command will have and the likelihood that cost savings projected from such reduction will actually be achieved. (Sec. 340) Directs the Secretary of each military department to develop and submit to the Congress a schedule for implementing, with respect to secondary supply items managed by that department, best commercial inventory practices for the acquisition and distribution of such items consistent with military requirements. Requires CG reports: (1) evaluating each Secretary's compliance with such requirements; and (2) on the extent to which best inventory practices are being implemented in the Defense Logistics Agency. Subtitle E: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Requires, unless specifically otherwise enacted by law, the continuation of Defense Commissary Agency management and funding through the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 342) Increases from 12 to 24 days per year the eligibility for commissary privileges for members of the Ready Reserve with 50 or more credit points. Makes eligible for commissary privileges and use of morale, welfare, and recreation facilities members and dependents of National Guard personnel called to duty during a federally declared disaster. (Sec. 343) Repeals a provision requiring the Air Force to sell, upon request, up to 16 ounces of tobacco to each Air Force enlisted member serving on active duty. (Sec. 344) Authorizes the Secretary to establish restrictions on the ability of eligible patrons of commissary stores located outside the United States to purchase certain items if such restrictions are considered necessary to prevent the resale of such items in violation of host nation laws or U.S. treaty obligations. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain a controlled items list for such determinations. Provides special rules with respect to the purchase of alcoholic beverages in commissary stores in Korea. Outlines reporting requirements. (Sec. 345) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 a demonstration project for the uniform funding of morale, welfare, and recreation activities. (Sec. 346) Prohibits consolidation or other organizational changes in the defense retail systems. (Sec. 347) Prohibits the Navy Exchange Service Command from being required to reimburse the United States for costs incurred by the Command in relocating to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and leasing headquarters space there. (Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary to contract with a commercial survey firm to survey eligible commissary patrons to determine interest in having such commissaries sell malt beverages and wine as regular merchandise. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project at seven military installations to evaluate the merit of such sales. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Provides that, if a member is assigned to a remote location or unaccompanied tour of duty, a dependent of such member who resides in a U.S. territory, commonwealth, or possession may be enrolled in an educational program provided under the defense dependents' educational system. Allows such student to be so enrolled for more than five consecutive years if the dependent is otherwise qualified, space is available, and the Secretary will be reimbursed for the services provided. (Sec. 362) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to specifically authorize the investigation of possible fraud, waste, and abuse concerning overpayments made to vendors by DOD. (Sec. 363) Requires inspector generals of the military departments to conduct Armed Forces Retirement Home inspections at least every three years. (Currently, only the DOD Inspector General conducts such inspections at six-year intervals). Requires such inspections to be performed on a rotating basis. (Sec. 364) Continues through FY 1999 the provision of financial assistance to local educational agencies that provide education to dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each agency of its eligibility for such assistance. (Sec. 365) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the Congress a plan for guiding and expanding distance learning initiatives in DOD over the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1999. (Sec. 366) Requires public availability of any agreement entered into between the commander of a military installation and a financial institution which authorizes the provision of financial services on a military installation. (Sec. 367) Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive readiness reporting system with respect to DOD's ability to carry out national security strategy. Directs the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), at least monthly, to conduct a joint readiness review. Directs the Secretary to report monthly to the defense and appropriations committees on review results. (Sec. 368) Authorizes reserve members who require transportation in order to perform inactive duty training to use a carrier under contract with the General Services Administration. Subtitle G: Demonstration of Commercial-Type Practices to Improve Quality of Personal Property Shipments - Directs the Secretary to conduct the Commercial-Like Activities for Superior Quality Demonstration Program to test the use of commercial-style practices to improve the quality of personal property shipments within DOD. Requires the Program to: (1) maximize the testing of modern customer service techniques, such as in-transit shipment tracking and the availability of toll-free telephone numbers; (2) provide for the settlement of claims for personal property lost or damaged directly with the firm providing the services; and (3) include the development of criteria to evaluate overall Program performance and effectiveness. Prohibits the Program from impairing members from shipping such property through the Do-It-Yourself Program or the Direct Procurement Method Program. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 402) Reduces by specified amounts among the service branches the number of military personnel authorized to serve on active duty at the end of a fiscal year. (Sec. 403) Revises the due date of an annual manpower requirements report. (Sec. 404) Extends through FY 2001 (currently ends October 1, 1998) the authority of the JCS Chairman to designate up to 12 general and flag officers serving in joint duty positions for exclusion from general and flag officer grade limitations. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for Army and Air Force military technicians (dual status). (Sec. 414) Increases the number of officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 1999 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to convene a special selection board if such Secretary determines that a person was not selected for promotion due to material unfairness. Provides for the determination of material unfairness. (Sec. 503) Eliminates the requirement for a board of review after a board of inquiry's determination relating to an officer's substandard performance of duty or certain other findings. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the posthumous appointment of officer commissions and warrants, making the date of appointment the date of death. (Sec. 505) Requires the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps to serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Air Force. (Currently, such term is limited to three years without the posibility of reappointment.) Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to convene a continuation board to recommend for early retirement an appropriate number of reserve general and flag officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 512) Provides active status service requirements, for promotion consideration purposes, for Army and Air Force reserve brigadier generals. (Sec. 513) Allows a person who is commissioned through the Army Officer Candidate School before October 1, 2000, to be promoted above the grade of first lieutenant even though such person is without a baccalaureate degree from a qualifying educational institution. Subtitle C: Military Education and Training - Requires the Secretary concerned to provide for separate training or flight instruction, as well as separate housing, for male and female recruits of such service branch. Provides interim authority, during the period beginning on April 15, 1999, and extending through FY 2001, for the housing of such recruits on separate floors. Directs each Secretary to ensure that access to recruits after the end of a training day, other than for emergency or exigent circumstances, is limited to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed on that floor. (Sec. 524) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program to improve the oversight and cost accounting of innovative readiness training projects. Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a legislative proposal to establish two new decorations, one to be awarded to military personnel, and the other to U.S. civilian nationals, who are killed or injured in the line of duty as a result of noncombat circumstances occurring: (1) as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a friendly foreign nation; or (2) while engaged in, training for, or traveling to or from a peacetime or contingency operation or service as part of a peacekeeping force. (Sec. 532) Waives time limitations with respect to the award to certain individuals of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service during World War II or Korea. (Sec. 533) Commends Navy and Marine Corps personnel who served in the Navy's Asiatic Fleet between 1910 and 1942 and honors those who gave their lives in the line of such duty. (Sec. 534) Expresses appreciation for the service during World Wars I and II of Navy personnel assigned as gun crews on board merchant ships as part of the Naval Armed Guard Service. (Sec. 535) Recognizes and honors: (1) members and former members of the military forces of South Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines, as well as certain indigenous military groups, for their heroism, sacrifice, and service in connection with U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam conflict; and (2) former South Vietnamese commandos for their service during such conflict. Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records - Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during fiscal years 1999 through 2001, from carrying out any reduction in the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to duty with the department's military service review agency below a specified baseline number until: (1) such Secretary reports to the Congress on the proposed reduction and its rationale; and (2) 90 days has elapsed since such report. Directs each Secretary to assign to its service review agency staff at least one attorney and one physician. Requires each Secretary to ensure that an applicant seeking correction of his or her military records through the appropriate review agency is provided a copy of all pertinent correspondence and communications to or from such agency with an entity or person outside the agency, with exceptions. Provides timeliness standards, for fiscal years 2001 and beyond, for the final disposition of military record review cases considered by a corrections board. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Extends through FY 2000 certain force reduction transition management and benefits authorities, including early retirement and voluntary separation incentive programs and certain time-in-grade requirements. (Sec. 552) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to place on involuntary leave without pay a cadet or midshipman when the superintendent of the service academy: (1) has recommended that the cadet or midshipman be dismissed or discharged; (2) has directed a cadet or midshipman to repeat an academic semester or year; or (3) has otherwise recommended for good cause that a cadet or midshipman be placed on such leave. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide for the recovery, care, and disposition of the remains of any retired member who becomes a patient in any hospital (currently, such hospitalization must take place in the United States) while on any period of active duty (currently, at least 30 continuous days of active duty is required) and continues to be a patient until his or her death. (Sec. 554) Provides temporary continued eligibility under the voluntary separation incentive program for certain members who involuntarily lose membership in a reserve component. (Sec. 555) Defines a financial institution, for purposes of reimbursement of civilian employees for expenses due to government error, as a bank, savings and loan or similar institution, or a credit union chartered by the United States or a State. (Sec. 556) Increases the maximum amount of monthly basic educational assistance available to members with a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel or for which it is difficult to recruit. (Sec. 557) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii, is an important element of DOD and critical to the full accounting of military personnel who have been classified as prisoners of war or missing in action. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide sufficient personnel to fill all authorized positions at the Laboratory; and (2) develop and implement a joint Laboratory manning plan. Prohibits any Laboratory personnel reductions until the plan is submitted. (Sec. 558) Directs the Secretary concerned, upon request, to provide for the funeral of any veteran an honor guard detail to consist of at least three persons with the capacity to play a recorded version of Taps (unless a bugler is part of such detail). Requires an annual report for FY 2001 through 2005 from the Secretary to the defense committees on funerals performed, their cost, and related information. Prohibits the performance of honor guard functions by reserve personnel from being considered a period of required drill or training. Repeals a current limitation on the availability of funds for honor guard functions performed by the National Guard. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on alternative means for the provision of honor guard details at funerals of veterans, after appropriate consultation with veterans service organizations. (Sec. 559) Includes the President and the Secretary within certain behavior requirements with respect to exemplary conduct by commanding officers and others in authority in the armed forces. (Sec. 560) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the decision of the Secretary of the Army in 1994 to transfer approximately 500 prisoners from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Requires the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1999 through 2003, to track such prisoners' parole and recidivism rates. (Sec. 561) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the methods of selection of personnel to serve on courts-martial; and (2) the desirability of revising the term of appointment of judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to a term of 15 years or attainment of age 65, whichever is later. (Sec. 563) Considers any U.S. citizen appointed as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve and therefore eligible for a military ID card. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Increases the rate of basic pay of members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1999, by the greater of 3.6 percent or the average percentage increase in the General Schedule rates of basic pay for civilian employees. (Sec. 602) Authorizes payment by the Secretary concerned of certain housing expenses of personnel assigned to duty outside the United States. (Sec. 603) Provides a basic allowance for subsistence for reserve personnel whose instruction or duty period totals at least eight hours in a day. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through FY 2000 certain bonuses and special pay authorities for reserve personnel. (Sec. 612) Extends through FY 2001 the special pay authority for nurse officer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse anesthetists. (Sec. 613) Extends through FY 2001 certain bonuses and special pay for specially skilled military personnel, including nuclear-qualified personnel. (Sec. 614) Revises generally provisions concerning aviation career inventive pay and the aviation officer retention bonus. (Sec. 615) Allows the payment of special pay for diving duty without the requirement of frequent and regular dives. (Sec. 616) Provides reenlistment bonus eligibility for reserve personnel who perform active National Guard and Selected Reserve duty. (Sec. 617) Repeals a provision which allows only ten percent of all selective reenlistment bonuses paid in a fiscal year to exceed $20,000. (Sec. 618) Increases from $4,000 to $6,000 the maximum bonus for Army enlistment. (Sec. 620) Repeals a Federal provision that prohibits the payment of hazardous duty pay to members already receiving career sea pay. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Provides an exception to the maximum weight allowance for the overseas transportation of household effects when the additional allowance is intended to permit the shipping of consumables that cannot be reasonably obtained at the member's new station. (Sec. 632) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use Government or commercial carriers for travel performed by members in connection with rest and recuperative leave from overseas stations. (Sec. 633) Authorizes payment for the temporary storage of baggage of students not taken on an annual trip to an overseas duty station of such student's sponsor. Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters - Provides an effective date for the court-ordered election of a spouse's or former spouse's coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan. (Sec. 642) Prohibits the highest applicable rate of basic pay from being used, for retirement computation purposes, in the case of a member who, after serving as the senior enlisted member of an armed force, is reduced in grade due to a court-martial sentence, nonjudicial punishment, or other administrative process. Revises generally the computation of retired pay for enlisted personnel whose pay is reduced and who became enlisted members after September 7, 1980. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Deletes the Panama Canal Zone from inclusion within the definition of a U.S. possession. (Sec. 652) Provides for the accounting treatment of obligations and expenditures incurred for advance payments. (Sec. 653) Provides for the reimbursement of rental vehicle and related costs incurred by military personnel in connection with a permanent change of duty station when a motor vehicle transported at Government expense is late. (Sec. 654) Increases the educational loan amounts authorized to be repaid under the defense educational loan repayment program to a maximum of $20,000 per year and $50,000 total per individual. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to include as eligible dependents under a dental program for military retirees those dependents enrolled under a dental program provided through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs or a plan available as a result of non-military employment. (Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress: (1) a plan under which the Secretary would guarantee access for certain covered beneficiaries to health care comparable to that provided to covered beneficiaries under TRICARE Prime (a DOD managed health care plan); and (2) a legislative proposal and cost estimate for implementing such plan. Defines as a covered beneficiary a covered beneficiary under CHAMPUS who is a member or former member entitled to retired pay or a dependent of such a member. (Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan that would provide for a system-wide redesign of the military and contractor retail and mail-order pharmacy system of DOD by incorporating best business practices of the private sector. Requires the Secretary to suspend any plan to establish a DOD national retail pharmacy program until such plan is submitted and the Secretary has implemented cost-saving reforms with respect to the current system. (Sec. 704) Provides limited continued CHAMPUS coverage with regard to health care provided between October 1, 1998, and July 1, 1999, for persons unaware of the loss of such coverage due to their recent eligibility for Medicare. Subtitle B: TRICARE Program - Allows the Secretary to authorize a contractor under the TRICARE Program to pay a claim submitted for payment for health care services provided to a covered beneficiary for which a third party may be liable before seeking recovery from such third party. Provides a right of reimbursement from such third party. (Sec. 712) Directs the Secretary to establish procedures under which dependents of military personnel on active duty who reside in the catchment area of a military medical treatment facility shall be automatically enrolled in TRICARE Prime at such facility. Provides for the automatic continuation of such enrollment. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Provides for an inflation-indexed premium under the defense dependents' dental program. (Sec. 722) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for tracking data and measuring performance in meeting TRICARE access standards. (Sec. 723) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct research, development, training, and education on exposure to chemical, biological, and radiological hazards. (Sec. 724) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a Level 1 Trauma Training Center to provide the Army with a trauma center capable of training forward surgical teams. (Sec. 725) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the potential impact of using an enrollment-based capitation methodology to allocate funds for military medical treatment facilities. (Sec. 726) Prohibits a military medical physician from providing health care unless his or her current license is unrestricted and not subject to limitation on the scope of practice ordinarily granted to other physicians for a similar specialty by the jurisdiction granting the license. (Sec. 727) Directs the Secretary to establish a mechanism to ensure that each person under the jurisdiction of a military department who provides health care as a physician completes all Continuing Medical Education requirements. (Sec. 728) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a proposal to establish an appeals process in cases of denials through the ClaimCheck computer software system of claims by civilian providers for payment for health care services provided under TRICARE. (Sec. 729) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct a demonstration project under which not more than 70,000 eligible covered beneficiaries may be enrolled in health benefits plans offered through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). Defines as eligible covered beneficiaries: (1) a CHAMPUS-eligible member or former member who is entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Part A of Medicare; (2) a dependent of a CHAMPUS-eligible member or former member; (3) a dependent of a member who died while on active duty for more than 30 days; or (4) a CHAMPUS-eligible dependent who is entitled to Medicare hospital insurance benefits, regardless of the member's or former member's eligibility for such benefits. Prohibits a covered beneficiary from being required to satisfy any FEHBP enrollment criteria as a condition to such enrollment. Requires the demonstration project to be conducted for a three-year period. Requires: (1) a joint report from the Secretary and the OPM Director on project implementation, experiences, and recommendations; and (2) a follow-up report by the CG. Directs the President to dispose of specified materials in the National Defense Stockpile and to use disposal proceeds to offset demonstration project costs. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Limits DOD procurements of ammunition and ammunition components to procurements from manufacturers who are part of the national technology and industrial base. (Sec. 802) Makes eligible for the defense acquisition corps certain personnel who served as a GS-13 or above but were downgraded below such level due to a reduction in force, a base closure, or reason other than for cause. (Sec. 803) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to procure small arms parts and modifications from firms in the small arms production industrial base. Adds additional covered property and services to such requirement. (Sec. 805) Directs the CG to conduct a study of, and report to the defense and small business committees on, an assessment of the impact of the current micro-purchase program and the advisability of increasing to $10,000 the micro-purchase threshold under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Requires a reduction of 70,000 personnel in the defense acquisition workforce between October 1, 1998, and October 1, 2001. (Sec. 902) Limits the obligation of operation and support funds for the Office of the Secretary until specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts have been submitted to the Congress. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to issue a revision to a specified DOD directive to incorporate a certain threshold with respect to management headquarters or headquarters support activity. (Sec. 904) Makes the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy responsible for overall supervision of DOD activities relating to export controls. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 905) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force of the Defense Science Board to examine the appropriateness of the current organization of DOD for preparing for a transformation in the conduct of war. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to ensure that, in reporting to the Office of Management and Budget DOD obligations for contract services, no more than 15 percent of the total amount of such obligations is reported in the miscellaneous services object class. Requires the Secretary to apply specified definitions of various types of "advisory and assistance services" in complying with such requirement. Requires the classification of such defined services in the future as advisory and assistance services, rather than miscellaneous services. Directs the Secretary to assess the total non-federal effort that resulted from the performance of service contracts for such services during the preceding fiscal year as compared with the expected non-federal effort for the current and next fiscal year. Requires an annual report to the Congress by the Secretary and a review and report by the CG. Reduces by $500 million the total amount that may be obligated by the Secretary during FY 1999 for contracted advisory and assistance services. (Sec. 907) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal a provision concerning the authority to waive certain requirements prior to the transfer of the tactical airlift mission to the reserve components. (Sec. 908) Amends DOD whistleblower protection provisions to repeal the requirement: (1) of a notification by the Defense Inspector General that an investigation of a complaint of employer reprisal action will take more than 90 days; and (2) for a post-disposition interview with the complainant. (Sec. 909) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to solicit the views of the Commandant of the Marine Corps prior to the making of a milestone decision or other major decision by an element of the Navy outside the Marine Corps in a procurement matter, an RDT&E matter, or a depot-level maintenance matter that concerns Marine Corps aviation. (Sec. 910) Directs the Secretary to implement an information system for the collection and reporting of information by the military department Secretaries, directors of the defense agencies, and heads of other DOD organizations concerning the quantity and value of non-federal services they acquired. Requires: (1) the heads of each DOD organization to report annually to the Secretary detailing such information; (2) the Secretary to annually report such information to the Congress; and (3) the CG to review the Secretary's report and report review results to the Congress. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD under this Division for FY 1999 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with a total transfer limit of $2 billion. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. (Sec. 1002) Incorporates into this Act the Classified Annex prepared to accompany this Act and transmitted to the President. (Sec. 1003) Limits: (1) DOD FY 1999 outlays for military functions to $252.65 billion; and (2) FY 1999 Department of Energy national security program outlays to $11.772 billion. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires: (1) the U.S.S. Iowa and U.S.S. Wisconsin to be listed and maintained on the Naval Vessel Register; and (2) the U.S.S. New Jersey to be stricken from such Register and sold to a nonprofit entity. (Sec. 1013) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the long-term charter of three specified vessels to support the rescue, escort, and towing of submarines. (Sec. 1014) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to substitute the obsolete tugboat Attleboro for the tugboat Normandy in carrying out an authorized transfer of tugboats under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998. (Sec. 1015) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, after FY 1998, to enter into a contract for the long-term lease or charter of a newly built surface vessel to act as an auxiliary vessel for DOD. Requires such contract to be specifically authorized by law. Provides contract funding. Requires the vessel to be constructed within a U.S. shipyard and documented under U.S. laws. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a lease or charter of another DOD auxiliary support vessel for in excess of 17 months unless the vessel is constructed in a U.S. shipyard. Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 2000 the authority for DOD support of certain counter-drug activities. (Sec. 1022) Requires the Secretary during FY 1999 to make available such naval and maritime patrol aircraft and crews of the Navy as necessary to conduct the final phase of the counter-drug operation known as Caper Focus. Provides funds. (Sec. 1023) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should continue negotiations with Panama for the establishment there of a counter-drug center to be used by U.S. military forces in cooperation with Panamanian forces and military personnel of other friendly nations. (Sec. 1024) Authorizes the Secretary to assign U.S. military personnel to the: (1) Immigration and Naturalization Service for preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens; and (2) U.S. Customs Service for the inspection of cargo, vehicles, and aircraft at points of entry into the United States. Provides a training program for such personnel. Requires notification to States and local governments concerned of the use of such personnel for such purposes. Prohibits any such assignment after September 30, 2001. (Sec. 1025) Directs the Secretary to expand the drug testing program required of civilian DOD employees to include random testing for the use of illegal drugs. Requires employees appointed after the enactment of this Act to be notified of the random drug tests. Prohibits additional funding for such program. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Requires the inclusion in an annual report required by the Secretary to the Congress in support of the DOD budget of information on DOD resources allocated to support and mission activities. (Sec. 1032) Requires the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to transmit to the Congress on a periodic basis reports containing classified summaries of arms control developments. (Sec. 1033) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress information on the retention during FY 1989 through 1998 of military personnel on active duty in the combat, combat support, and combat service support forces of the military departments. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the conveyance of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in the District of Columbia for a purchase price of no less than fair market value. (Sec. 1042) Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified alternative notification to a garnishee before garnishment of pay or benefits in connection with child support or alimony obligations. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on DOD's experience under such notification requirements. (Sec. 1043) Requires prior approval by the Secretary of DOD training activities conducted by special operations forces in conjunction with friendly foreign forces. Adds elements to a required report on the experiences of such joint training. (Sec. 1044) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to assign or detail U.S. military personnel to the United Nations (UN) Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters or similar UN military operations headquarters. (Sec. 1045) Provides for the tax treatment of pay and other compensation received by: (1) certain civilians employed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; and (2) Federal employees employed at Federal hydroelectric power facilities on the Columbia and Missouri Rivers. (Sec. 1046) Requires flags furnished at veterans' burials to be wholly produced in the United States. (Sec. 1047) Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate and report to the defense committees on the grounding of the 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National Guard and the subsequent dismissal, demotion, or reassignment of 12 decorated combat pilots of such wing. (Sec. 1048) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to allow Edwards Air Force Base (California) equipment, facilities, personnel, and other resources to be used for the efficient operation and support of either or both of the parties to the Edwards Air Force Base Alliance Agreement. Requires an implementation report. (Sec. 1049) Expresses the sense of the Congress that a member of an armed force should be treated as using property as a principal residence during any period in which such member is serving on extended active duty, but only if such member used that property as a principal residence during or before such duty period. (Sec. 1050) Prohibits funds appropriated pursuant to authorizations under this Act for certain Air Force space launch facilities from being obligated for any other purpose. (Sec. 1051) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the New Parent Support Program that was begun as a pilot program of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, California, has been an effective tool in curbing family violence within the military community; (2) such Program is a model for future similar military programs throughout the military departments; and (3) future funding should be made available for such programs. Requires a Program report from the Secretary to the Congress. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to release to the Commandant of the Coast Guard the results of drug tests of any Navy employee who is employed in any capacity on board a vessel of the Military Sealift Command. (Sec. 1102) Provides certain limitations on back pay awards made in connection with an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action. (Sec. 1103) Restores accumulated annual leave that otherwise would be lost by civilian employees at installations in the Republic of Panama to be closed pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. (Sec. 1104) Repeals a provision requiring the Secretary to conduct a program under which qualified spouses of military personnel are given a hiring preference for DOD child care positions. (Sec. 1106) Provides for an alternative day of observance of holidays occurring on a Monday in the case of Federal employees at installations outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Limits FY 1999 DOD funding for U.S. participation in Bosnia peacekeeping operations, with an exception for the protection of U.S. forces. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress with respect to such operations. (Sec. 1202) Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the presence of U.S. ground combat forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Directs the President to assess whether progress is being made toward implementation of the civilian goals of the Dayton Accord based upon an assessment of specified goals and related matters. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the effects of military operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans region on the capabilities of U.S. military forces, especially the capability to conduct two nearly simultaneous major theater wars. Requires an additional report from the Secretary whenever the number of U.S. ground combat forces in such areas increase or decrease by ten percent or more. (Sec. 1203) Directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress a report on the planned future military capabilities of NATO in light of the proposed inclusions in NATO of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. (Sec. 1204) Limits to $15 million the amount of funds authorized to be used in FY 1999 for DOD activities in support of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. Amends the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 counter-proliferation authorities in support of such Commission. (Sec. 1205) Amends the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 1996 to repeal a moratorium on the use of antipersonnel landmines except in specified areas. (Sec. 1206) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. business interests should not be placed above U.S. national security interests; and (2) the President should indefinitely suspend the export of satellites of U.S. origin to the People's Republic of China, including those licensed in February 1998 as part of the Chinasat-8 program. Prohibits any U.S. person from participating in any investigation of the failure of a launch from China of a satellite of U.S. origin. Prohibits the export to China of: (1) missile equipment or technology; (2) satellites of U.S. origin; and (3) any information, equipment, or technology that could be used in the acquisition, design, or production of any satellite or launch vehicle. (Sec. 1210) States that no provision of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or any related regulation shall restrict the procurement, training, or O&M of U.S. armed forces. (Sec. 1211) Limits total U.S. costs for NATO expansion to ten percent of such costs or $2 billion, whichever is less, for FY 1999 through 2011. (Sec. 1212) Requires: (1) all satellites of U.S. origin to be placed on the U.S. Munitions List; and (2) the export of such satellites to be controlled under the Arms Export Control Act. (Sec. 1213) Requires the Secretary of Commerce to release to the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretaries of Defense and Energy any export-related information requested for the purpose of assessing national security risks. (Sec. 1214) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to delegate within DOD the Secretary's authority to object to the export to certain countries of high performance computers. (Sec. 1215) Directs the Secretary to ensure that any excess Huey or Cobra helicopters that are to be transferred to a foreign country for flight operations meet certain requirements relating to depot-level maintenance and repair in the United States prior to transfer. (Sec. 1216) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit, until specified conditions are met, a license from being issued for the export of any production or utilization facility, source or special nuclear material, or component, substance, or item that has been determined under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to be especially relevant because of its significance for nuclear explosive purposes. Prohibits the United States from approving the retransfer of any such facility, material, or items. Prohibits authorization from being given for any person to engage in the production of special nuclear material. Outlines export or retransfer conditions, including a report to specified congressional committees describing such export or retransfer and the basis for its approval, followed by a 30-day waiting period (unless the President determines that an emergency exists requiring immediate approval). Requires that a joint resolution be enacted approving such export or retransfer. Requires the publication of unclassified texts of such reports. Provides export prohibition exceptions. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union - Specifies the programs to be included within Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs. Provides FY 1999 CTR funding allocations. Allows the Secretary to vary such amounts, requiring a justification to be submitted to the Congress followed by a 15-day waiting period. Prohibits the use of CTR funds for peacekeeping exercises or activities with Russia, housing, environmental restoration assistance, job retraining assistance, or the provision of assistance to Russia or any other state of the former Soviet Union to promote defense conversion. (Sec. 1304) Prohibits FY 1999 CTR funds from being used for construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility. (Sec. 1305) Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out CTR programs during any fiscal year, to use only funds appropriated for such programs for that fiscal year or either of the two preceding fiscal years. (Sec. 1306) Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a breakdown of CTR program amounts requested by project category under each CTR program element. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits FY 1999 CTR funding for the following projects, facilities, or activities until the Secretary has completed certain reporting and notification requirements prescribed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998: (1) strategic offensive arms elimination projects in Russia related to the START II Treaty; (2) a chemical weapons destruction facility; (3) the destruction of chemical weapons; (4) a storage facility for Russian fissile material; and (5) weapons storage security activities. (Sec. 1308) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on biological programs in Russia. (Sec. 1309) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1999 CTR funds for biological weapons proliferation prevention activities in Russia until 15 days after the Secretary submits to either: (1) the Congress a certification that no such funds have been used to support activities that have resulted in the development of a new strain of anthrax or for any other purposes inconsistent with CTR goals; or (2) the defense and appropriations committees notification that the United States has examined and tested the new strain of anthrax reportedly developed at the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology in Obolensk, Russia. (Sec. 1310) Prohibits the use of FY 1999 CTR funds for strategic arms elimination in Russia or Ukraine until 30 days after the Secretary notifies the defense and appropriations committees on the manner in which such funds are to be used. (Sec. 1311) Allows CTR funds appropriated pursuant to authorizations under this Act to be available for obligation for three fiscal years. Title XIV: Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction - Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1998 - Subtitle A: Domestic Preparedness - Directs the President to increase the effectiveness at the Federal, State, and local level of the domestic emergency preparedness program (program) for response to terrorist incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by developing an integrated program that builds on the program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997. (Sec. 1412) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to direct the President to include in a required report additional information on the above program. (Sec. 1413) Mandates that assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies under the program include the performance by the Department of Justice of assessments of the threat and risk of terrorist use of WMDs against cities and other local areas. Subtitle B: Advisory Commission to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction - Establishes the Advisory Commission on Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction to: (1) assess Federal efforts, programs, and strategies for domestic preparedness for incidents involving WMDs; and (2) report to the President and the Congress its findings and recommendations. Terminates the Commission 60 days after such report. Provides Commission funding from FY 1999 DOD O&M funds. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Title XXI(sic): 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 such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and construction design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the authorized amounts for construction projects at Fort Drum, New York, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to accept from the State of North Carolina a road construction project which is to be constructed at Camp Lejune, North Carolina. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary 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. (Sec. 2403) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military housing functions. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2405) Increases amounts authorized under prior military construction authorization Acts for projects at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon, and Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1998 for Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Directs the Secretary of the Army, in connection with an Army Reserve military construction project at or near Salt Lake City, Utah, to enter into an agreement under which the State of Utah agrees to provide financial or in-kind contributions in connection with the project. Increases the amount authorized for such project. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2001, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for military construction for FY 2002, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Includes within the authority for the acquisition and improvement of military housing the acquisition of facilities to provide or support elementary or secondary education. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, as a condition of a lease, license, or other grant of access entered into with another Federal agency for military department property, to require such agency to agree to remove any improvements and to restore such land to its condition before such use. Provides for cost reimbursement in lieu of such removal and restoration. (Sec. 2812) Amends the Sikes Act to direct the Secretary, in developing facilities and conducting programs for outdoor recreation at military installations, to ensure that recreation opportunities made available to the public also provide equal access, without substantial modification to the natural environment, to disabled veterans, military dependents with disabilities, and other disabled persons. (Sec. 2813) Directs the Secretary of each military department to report to the Congress on criteria and procedures for the selection of utility systems of such department for conveyance to other utility companies or entities and on the manner in which each Secretary can ensure that such conveyance will not adversely affect U.S. national security. Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Authorizes the Secretary to use amounts from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 to pay stipulated damages assessed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 against McClellan Air Force Base, California. (Sec. 2822) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to eliminate certain waiver authority with respect to a prohibition against conveyances of property at Naval Station Long Beach, California. Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Massena, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (2) Ogdensburg, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (3) the Greeneville Local School District of Jamestown, Ohio, the Army Reserve Center in Jamestown; (4) New Windsor, New York, the Stewart Army Sub-Post; (5) the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Authority the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown; (6) Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant in Chattanooga; and (7) Lake Forest, Illinois, the Army Reserve enclave in Lake Forest. (Sec. 2837) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release the U.S. reversionary interests in the former Redstone Army Arsenal property in Alabama which were retained when the property was conveyed to the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission. Provides additional release, waiver, or conveyance conditions. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) grant an easement to the Foothill Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency over specified real property at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a restricted access highway; (2) convey to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation in Portland, Maine, the Naval Reserve Readiness Center in Portland; and (3) convey to Youngstown, Ohio, the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve facility in Youngstown. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to: (1) McNeese State University of Louisiana specified real property at the Lake Charles Air Force Station in Louisiana; and (2) La Junta, Colorado, the unused Air Force housing facility in La Junta. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to repeal a prohibition on the joint military-civilian use of the Robert Gray Army Airfield, Fort Hood, Texas. (Sec. 2862) Designates the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center at 2869 Central Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, as the A. James Dyess Building. (Sec. 2863) Directs the Secretary to provide for the transfer to the Secretary of the Army of administrative jurisdiction over specified parcels of land in Arlington, Virginia, near or adjacent to the Arlington National Cemetery, to be incorporated into such Cemetery. Requires: (1) the remediation of such land for Cemetery use; and (2) a report from the Secretary of the Army to the Congress describing additional parcels of land at Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia, that may be suitable for expansion of the Cemetery. (Sec. 2864) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through December 31, 2000, a report required in connection with a demonstration project for the purchase from local government agencies of fire, security, police, public works, and utility services. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1999 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (3) other defense activities; and (4) defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and available for the same purposes as the authorizations to which transferred. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for such designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, and construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used. Makes funds for management and support and for general plant projects under this subtitle available for all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 1999, to empower each DOE field office manager to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfers to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) prohibit the Secretary from guaranteeing any loan made by a private entity to a contractor to pay for costs under defense environmental management privatization projects; and (2) extend permanently a prohibition against the use of DOE funds to conduct activities associated with international cooperative stockpile stewardship. (Sec. 3133) Earmarks DOE funds for the development, demonstration, and testing of hit-to-kill interceptor vehicles for theater missile defense systems. (Sec. 3134) Directs the Secretary to select a primary technology for the production of tritium no later than December 31, 1999, with conditions. Requires a report on results of the test program at the Watts Bar Nuclear Station in Tennessee. (Sec. 3135) Prohibits the use of certain DOE authorized funds until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that DOE does not intend to pay certain excess overhead costs for the Project Hanford Management contractors. Expresses the sense of the Congress that DOE should take all possible actions to minimize any increased costs of contractor overhead attributable to unnecessary DOE regulation. (Sec. 3136) Directs the Secretary to establish at the Hanford Reservation in Richland, Washington, the Office of River Protection, to be headed by a senior DOE official who shall be responsible for managing all aspects of the Hanford Tank Waste Remediation System. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees an interim management plan for the Hanford Tank Farm operations. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress after two years on the success of the System and the Office. Terminates the Office after five years of operation, unless the Secretary determines that termination would disrupt effective management of Hanford Tank Farm operations. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Prohibits the Secretary after FY 2000 from providing worker or community transition assistance with respect to nuclear facilities. Directs the CG to conduct, and report to the Congress on, a study on the effects of workforce restructuring plans for defense nuclear facilities developed pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. (Sec. 3152) Directs the Secretary to report to: (1) the Congress a plan to modify the Federal employment system used within DOE defense environmental management programs to allow for workforce restructuring; and (2) the defense committees on whether the science-based tools being used by DOE for determining the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile are performing in a safe and reliable manner. (Sec. 3154) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the use for nuclear explosive purposes of tritium produced in facilities licensed under such Act. (Sec. 3155) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into partnership arrangements with Federal and non-federal entities to share the costs of operating the hazardous materials management and emergency response training program authorized under a prior defense authorization Act. (Sec. 3156) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the Secretary to consider the Advanced Technology Research Project and submit to the defense committees a report on: (1) whether the United States should encourage the establishment of an international project to facilitate the exchange of information relating to advanced nuclear waste technologies; (2) whether such a project could be funded privately; and (3) recommendations for enabling legislation. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 1999, to obligate up to $82.647 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses. Authorizes the obligation of amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying the Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. (Sec. 3403) Requires during FY 1999 that any sale of any part of the U.S. share of petroleum produced from Naval Petroleum Reserve (Reserve) Numbers 2 or 3 be made at a price not less than 90 percent of the current sales price of comparable petroleum in the same area. (Sec. 3404) Directs the Secretary to dispose of that portion of Reserve Number 2 located within the town lots in Ford City, California. Mandates disposal requirements. Requires the Secretary to continue to administer the remaining portions of such Reserve until all oil and gas operations are abandoned, at which time jurisdiction shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 3405) Directs the Secretary to continue to administer Reserve Number 3 until such time as all oil and gas operations there are abandoned, at which time the Secretary may dispose of such Reserve. (Sec. 3406) Directs the Secretary, effective September 30, 1999, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over all public domain lands included within Oil Shale Reserve Number 2 for management in accordance with the general land laws. (Sec. 3407) Empowers the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior to contract for the acquisition of all necessary services to implement this title. (Sec. 3408) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to state that amounts for payment to California for its Teachers' Retirement Fund are not required to be provided in appropriation Acts, but instead are to be expended from a contingent fund of proceeds from the sale of Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and administration of the Panama Canal for FY 1999, with specified funding limits. (Sec. 3503) Requires Commission funds to be made available for the purchase and transportation to the Republic of Panama of passenger motor vehicles built in the United States, with a per vehicle cost limit of $23,000. (Sec. 3504) Requires expenditures authorized under this title to be in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and any laws implementing those treaties. (Sec. 3505) Authorizes the Commission to seek and accept donations to carry out Commission promotional activities. (Sec. 3506) Repeals on December 30, 1999, current Federal provisions concerning rights of and benefits accruing to Commission employees at the Canal. (Sec. 3507) Repeals a Federal provision establishing a Commission central examining office. (Sec. 3508) Revises provisions concerning Commission liability for vessel accidents to require claimants to be covered by one or more insurance policies totaling at least $1 million against the injuries claimed. Limits Commission liability to amounts in excess of any insurance amounts recovered. (Sec. 3509) Provides compensation levels for members of the Commission's Board of Contract Appeals. Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3602) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to transfer: (1) the vessel M-V Bayomon to the Trade Fair Ship Company for use as a floating trade exposition; (2) the vessels Benjamin Isherwood and Henry Eckford to a purchaser for vessel reconstruction for sale or charter; and (3) the vessel ex-U.S.S. Lorain County to the Ohio War Memorial, Inc., for use as a memorial to Ohio veterans. (Sec. 3604) Earmarks authorized funds for the establishment at a State Maritime Academy of a clearinghouse for maritime information that makes such information publicly available, including by use of the Internet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Army Programs Subtitle C: Navy Programs Subtitle D: Other Matters Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense Title III: Operation and Maintenance Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Information Technology Issues Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions Subtitle D: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement Subtitle E: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Subtitle F: Other Matters Subtitle G: Demonstration of Commercial-Type Practices to Improve Quality of Personal Property Shipments Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters Subtitle C: Military Education and Training Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records Subtitle F: Other Matters Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters Subtitle E: Other Matters Title VII: Health Care Provisions Subtitle A: Health Care Services Subtitle B: TRICARE Program Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Title X: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals Subtitle E: Other Matters Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union Division B: Military Construction Authorizations Title XXI(sic): Army Title XXII: Navy Title XXIII: Air Force Title XXIV: Defense Agencies Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations Title XXVIII: General Provisions Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment Subtitle D: Land Conveyances Subtitle E: Other Matters Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations Subtitle D: Other Matters Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) defense-wide and reserve procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) the defense export loan guarantee program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for procurement of the AGM-114 Longbow Hellfire missile. (Sec. 112) Earmarks authorized Army funds for the M1A2 System Enhancement Program. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 1999 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for procurement of: (1) the AV-8B, the T-45TS, and the E-2C aircraft; and (2) the Marine Corps Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Earmarks authorized funds for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology and the Secretary of the Army to jointly submit to the Congress a plan for the transfer of Program oversight from the Under Secretary to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary), if he proceeds with a pilot program concerning chemical weapons assessment under the National Defense Authorization Act of 1996, to submit to the Congress a plan for that program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), including activities of the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2003 the Secretary's responsibilities for management of the Navy countermeasures program. (Sec. 212) Earmarks authorized funds for RDT&E into the CVN-77 nuclear aircraft carrier program for its transition to DC(X) aircraft carrier technologies. (Sec. 213) Amends Federal provisions concerning the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) require the ratio of contract recipient cost to Government cost to be determined under competitive procedures; (2) require that a transaction file for every contract or agreement under the program awarded on other than a cost-sharing basis include the rationale for such determination; (3) remove a provision allowing a contractor-Federal cost share percentage of less than two to one; and (4) require additional cost-sharing information to be included in a required five-year plan for such program. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any national missile defense system deployed by the United States must provide effective defense against limited, accidental, or unauthorized ballistic missile attack for all 50 states; and (2) U.S. territories should be afforded effective protection against such attack. (Sec. 232) Prohibits funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization from being obligated for the Medium Extended Air Defense System until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the future-years defense plan includes sufficient System funding to complete its design and development phase. (Sec. 233) Withholds $5 million of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 for the Russian-American Observational Satellite until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the Department of Defense (DOD) has received detailed information concerning the nature, extent, and implications of the transfer of ballistic missile technology from Russian sources to Iran. (Sec. 234) Prohibits the obligation of certain FY 1999 counterproliferation support funds until the Secretary submits to the Congress a report required under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 on threats posed by weapons of mass destruction and ballistic and cruise missiles. (Sec. 235) Sets forth ballistic missile defense program elements. Requires that amounts requested for theater and national missile defense major defense acquisition programs be specified in individual program elements, and that amounts appropriated for such programs be available only for ballistic missile defense activities. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (3) the operation of Fisher houses, to be derived from the Fisher House Trust Fund. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified O&M accounts. (Sec. 305) Earmarks O&M funds for: (1) the refurbishment of up to 70 M1-A1 tanks under a specified program; (2) paying operational costs of the prepositioned fleet of equipment during training rotations at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California; and (3) relocating the U.S.S. Wisconsin from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia. Subtitle B: Information Technology Issues - Outlines additional information technology responsibilities of the chief information officers of DOD and each military department, including compliance with applicable standards and interoperability among departments and DOD. (Sec. 312) Requires the Defense Logistics Agency to develop a single, defense-wide electronic mall system (a system for displaying, ordering, and purchasing supplies and material available from DOD and private sources). (Sec. 313) Earmarks specified funds authorized to DOD for FY 1999 through 2001 for the Army Force XXI program, Navy Information Technology for the 21st Century programs, Air Force Communications Infrastructure programs, and Marine Corps Telecom and Computing Infrastructure programs. (Sec. 314) Authorizes the use of 25 percent of the funding for information and technology and national security programs under this Act to ensure that the year 2000 conversion of such information is completed. Authorizes the Secretary to expend more than such percentage if necessary to prevent the failure of such information due to the use of the year 2000 in computer systems. Requires the Comptroller General (CG) to submit to the Congress by January 30, 1999, a briefing on the status of the year 2000 conversion. (Sec. 315) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan to include a simulated year 2000 as part of military training exercise programs. Requires CG review. Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to pay $100 million to Canada to cover the cost of environmental cleanup at former U.S. military sites there. (Sec. 322) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use specified funds authorized under this title for the removal of underground storage tanks at the Authorities Allied Industrial Park in Macon, Georgia. Subtitle D: Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement - Prohibits a DOD commercial or industrial type function that, as of October 1, 1980, was being performed by DOD civilian employees from being changed to performance by private contractor until the Secretary undertakes a study of such function and reports study results to the Congress, together with a certification that such function performance change is not precluded by any end strength or related constraints. (Sec. 332) States that the requirement that DOD maintain a Government-owned and operated core logistics capability is not satisfied when a core logistics workload is converted to contractor performance even though actual performance of the workload will take place in a Government-owned and operated facility of DOD as a subcontractor of the private contractor. (Sec. 333) Prohibits any DOD funds from being obligated for a smartcard (automated identification technology card) program unless the program is reviewed and approved by the Smartcard Technology Office of DOD. (Sec. 334) Sets forth conditions for the expansion of functions performed under prime vendor contracts. (Sec. 337) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the Congress a plan for the establishment of the core logistics capabilities for the C-17 aircraft consistent with current requirements. Requires CG review. (Sec. 338) Prohibits a civil engineering supplies function currently performed by a contractor-operated civil engineering supply store from being combined with another supply or service function unless: (1) the Secretary reports such proposed combination to the Congress, with an explanation; and (2) the CG reviews the report and reports an opinion to the Congress. (Sec. 339) Directs the CG to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the effect that proposed personnel reductions in the Army Materiel Command will have and the likelihood that cost savings projected from such reduction will actually be achieved. Subtitle E: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Requires, unless specifically otherwise enacted by law, the continuation of Defense Commissary Agency management and funding through the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 342) Increases from 12 to 24 days per year the eligibility for commissary privileges for members of the Ready Reserve with 50 or more credit points. Makes eligible for commissary privileges and use of morale, welfare, and recreation facilities members and dependents of National Guard personnel called to duty during a federally declared disaster. (Sec. 343) Repeals a provision requiring the Air Force to sell, upon request, up to 16 ounces of tobacco to each Air Force enlisted member serving on active duty. (Sec. 344) Authorizes the Secretary to establish restrictions on the ability of eligible patrons of commissary stores located outside the United States to purchase certain items if such restrictions are considered necessary to prevent the resale of such items in violation of host nation laws or U.S. treaty obligations. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain a controlled items list for such determinations. Provides special rules with respect to the purchase of alcoholic beverages in commissary stores in Korea. Outlines reporting requirements. (Sec. 345) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 a demonstration project for the uniform funding of morale, welfare, and recreation activities. (Sec. 346) Prohibits consolidation or other organizational changes in the defense retail systems. (Sec. 347) Prohibits the Navy Exchange Service Command from being required to reimburse the United States for costs incurred by the Command in relocating to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and leasing headquarters space there. (Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary to contract with a commercial survey firm to survey eligible commissary patrons to determine interest in having such commissaries sell malt beverages and wine as regular merchandise. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project at seven military installations to evaluate the merit of such sales. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Provides that, if a member is assigned to a remote location or unaccompanied tour of duty, a dependent of such member who resides in a U.S. territory, commonwealth, or possession may be enrolled in an educational program provided under the defense dependents' educational system. Allows such student to be so enrolled for more than five consecutive years if the dependent is otherwise qualified, space is available, and the Secretary will be reimbursed for the services provided. (Sec. 362) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to specifically authorize the investigation of possible fraud, waste, and abuse concerning overpayments made to vendors by DOD. (Sec. 363) Requires inspector generals of the military departments to conduct Armed Forces Retirement Home inspections at least every three years. (Currently, only the DOD Inspector General conducts such inspections at six-year intervals). Requires such inspections to be performed on a rotating basis. (Sec. 364) Continues through FY 1999 the provision of financial assistance to local educational agencies that provide education to dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each agency of its eligibility for such assistance. (Sec. 365) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the Congress a plan for guiding and expanding distance learning initiatives in DOD over the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1999. (Sec. 366) Requires public availability of any agreement entered into between the commander of a military installation and a financial institution which authorizes the provision of financial services on a military installation. (Sec. 367) Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive readiness reporting system with respect to DOD's ability to carry out national security strategy. Directs the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), at least monthly, to conduct a joint readiness review. Directs the Secretary to report monthly to the defense and appropriations committees on review results. (Sec. 368) Authorizes reserve members who require transportation in order to perform inactive duty training to use a carrier under contract with the General Services Administration. Subtitle G: Demonstration of Commercial-Type Practices to Improve Quality of Personal Property Shipments - Directs the Secretary to conduct the Commercial-Like Activities for Superior Quality Demonstration Program to test the use of commercial-style practices to improve the quality of personal property shipments within DOD. Requires the Program to: (1) maximize the testing of modern customer service techniques, such as in-transit shipment tracking and the availability of toll-free telephone numbers; (2) provide for the settlement of claims for personal property lost or damaged directly with the firm providing the services; and (3) include the development of criteria to evaluate overall Program performance and effectiveness. Prohibits the Program from impairing members from shipping such property through the Do-It-Yourself Program or the Direct Procurement Method Program. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 402) Reduces by specified amounts among the service branches the number of military personnel authorized to serve on active duty at the end of a fiscal year. (Sec. 403) Revises the due date of an annual manpower requirements report. (Sec. 404) Extends through FY 2001 (currently ends October 1, 1998) the authority of the JCS Chairman to designate up to 12 general and flag officers serving in joint duty positions for exclusion from general and flag officer grade limitations. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for Army and Air Force military technicians (dual status). (Sec. 414) Increases the number of officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 1999 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to convene a special selection board if such Secretary determines that a person was not selected for promotion due to material unfairness. Provides for the determination of material unfairness. (Sec. 503) Eliminates the requirement for a board of review after a board of inquiry's determination relating to an officer's substandard performance of duty or certain other findings. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the posthumous appointment of officer commissions and warrants, making the date of appointment the date of death. (Sec. 505) Requires the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps to serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Air Force. (Currently, such term is limited to three years without the possibility of reappointment.) Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to convene a continuation board to recommend for early retirement an appropriate number of reserve general and flag officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 512) Provides active status service requirements, for promotion consideration purposes, for Army and Air Force reserve brigadier generals. (Sec. 513) Allows a person who is commissioned through the Army Officer Candidate School before October 1, 2000, to be promoted above the grade of first lieutenant even though such person is without a baccalaureate degree from a qualifying educational institution. Subtitle C: Military Education and Training - Requires the Secretary concerned to provide for separate training or flight instruction, as well as separate housing, for male and female recruits of such service branch. Provides interim authority, during the period beginning on April 15, 1999, and extending through FY 2001, for the housing of such recruits on separate floors. Directs each Secretary to ensure that access to recruits after the end of a training day, other than for emergency or exigent circumstances, is limited to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed on that floor. (Sec. 524) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program to improve the oversight and cost accounting of innovative readiness training projects. Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a legislative proposal to establish two new decorations, one to be awarded to military personnel, and the other to U.S. civilian nationals, who are killed or injured in the line of duty as a result of noncombat circumstances occurring: (1) as a result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a friendly foreign nation; or (2) while engaged in, training for, or traveling to or from a peacetime or contingency operation or service as part of a peacekeeping force. (Sec. 532) Waives time limitations with respect to the award to certain individuals of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service during World War II or Korea. (Sec. 533) Commends Navy and Marine Corps personnel who served in the Navy's Asiatic Fleet between 1910 and 1942 and honors those who gave their lives in the line of such duty. (Sec. 534) Expresses appreciation for the service during World Wars I and II of Navy personnel assigned as gun crews on board merchant ships as part of the Naval Armed Guard Service. (Sec. 535) Recognizes and honors: (1) members and former members of the military forces of South Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines for their heroism, sacrifice, and service in connection with U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam conflict; and (2) former South Vietnamese commandos for their service during such conflict. Subtitle E: Administration of Agencies Responsible for Review and Correction of Military Records - Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during fiscal years 1999 through 2001, from carrying out any reduction in the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to duty with the department's military service review agency below a specified baseline number until: (1) such Secretary reports to the Congress on the proposed reduction and its rationale; and (2) 90 days has elapsed since such report. Directs each Secretary to assign to its service review agency staff at least one attorney and one physician. Requires each Secretary to ensure that an applicant seeking correction of his or her military records through the appropriate review agency is provided a copy of all pertinent correspondence and communications to or from such agency with an entity or person outside the agency, with exceptions. Provides timeliness standards, for fiscal years 2001 and beyond, for the final disposition of military record review cases considered by a corrections board. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Extends through FY 2000 certain force reduction transition management and benefits authorities, including early retirement and voluntary separation incentive programs and certain time-in-grade requirements. (Sec. 552) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to place on involuntary leave without pay a cadet or midshipman when the superintendent of the service academy: (1) has recommended that the cadet or midshipman be dismissed or discharged; (2) has directed a cadet or midshipman to repeat an academic semester or year; or (3) has otherwise recommended for good cause that a cadet or midshipman be placed on such leave. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide for the recovery, care, and disposition of the remains of any retired member who becomes a patient in any hospital (currently, such hospitalization must take place in the United States) while on any period of active duty (currently, at least 30 continuous days of active duty is required) and continues to be a patient until his or her death. (Sec. 554) Provides temporary continued eligibility under the voluntary separation incentive program for certain members who involuntarily lose membership in a reserve component. (Sec. 555) Defines a financial institution, for purposes of reimbursement of civilian employees for expenses due to government error, as a bank, savings and loan or similar institution, or a credit union chartered by the United States or a State. (Sec. 556) Increases the maximum amount of monthly basic educational assistance available to members with a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel or for which it is difficult to recruit. (Sec. 557) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii, is an important element of DOD and critical to the full accounting of military personnel who have been classified as prisoners of war or missing in action. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide sufficient personnel to fill all authorized positions at the Laboratory; and (2) develop and implement a joint Laboratory manning plan. Prohibits any Laboratory personnel reductions until the plan is submitted. (Sec. 558) Directs the Secretary concerned, upon request, to provide for the funeral of any veteran an honor guard detail to consist of at least three persons with the capacity to play a recorded version of Taps (unless a bugler is part of such detail). Requires an annual report for FY 2001 through 2005 from the Secretary to the defense committees on funerals performed, their cost, and related information. Prohibits the performance of honor guard functions by reserve personnel from being considered a period of required drill or training. Repeals a current limitation on the availability of funds for honor guard functions performed by the National Guard. Requires the Secretary to study and report to the defense committees on alternative means for the provision of honor guard details at funerals of veterans, after appropriate consultation with veterans service organizations. (Sec. 559) Includes the President and the Secretary within certain behavior requirements with respect to exemplary conduct by commanding officers and others in authority in the armed forces. (Sec. 560) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the decision of the Secretary of the Army in 1994 to transfer approximately 500 prisoners from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Requires the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1999 through 2003, to track such prisoners' parole and recidivism rates. (Sec. 561) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) the methods of selection of personnel to serve on courts-martial; and (2) the desirability of revising the term of appointment of judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to a term of 15 years or attainment of age 65, whichever is later. (Sec. 563) Considers any U.S. citizen appointed as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve and therefore eligible for a military ID card. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Increases the rate of basic pay of members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1999, by the greater of 3.6 percent or the average percentage increase in the General Schedule rates of basic pay for civilian employees. (Sec. 602) Authorizes payment by the Secretary concerned of certain housing expenses of personnel assigned to duty outside the United States. (Sec. 603) Provides a basic allowance for subsistence for reserve personnel whose instruction or duty period totals at least eight hours in a day. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through FY 2000 certain bonuses and special pay authorities for reserve personnel. (Sec. 612) Extends through FY 2001 the special pay authority for nurse officer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse anesthetists. (Sec. 613) Extends through FY 2001 certain bonuses and special pay for specially skilled military personnel, including nuclear-qualified personnel. (Sec. 614) Revises generally provisions concerning aviation career inventive pay and the aviation officer retention bonus. (Sec. 615) Allows the payment of special pay for diving duty without the requirement of frequent and regular dives. (Sec. 616) Provides reenlistment bonus eligibility for reserve personnel who perform active National Guard and Selected Reserve duty. (Sec. 617) Repeals a provision which allows only ten percent of all selective reenlistment bonuses paid in a fiscal year to exceed $20,000. (Sec. 618) Increases from $4,000 to $6,000 the maximum bonus for Army enlistment. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Provides an exception to the maximum weight allowance for the overseas transportation of household effects when the additional allowance is intended to permit the shipping of consumables that cannot be reasonably obtained at the member's new station. (Sec. 632) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use Government or commercial carriers for travel performed by members in connection with rest and recuperative leave from overseas stations. (Sec. 633) Authorizes payment for the temporary storage of baggage of students not taken on an annual trip to an overseas duty station of such student's sponsor. Subtitle D: Retired Pay, Survivor Benefits, and Related Matters - Provides an effective date for the court-ordered election of a spouse's or former spouse's coverage under the Survivor Benefit Plan. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Deletes the Panama Canal Zone from inclusion within the definition of a U.S. possession. (Sec. 652) Provides for the accounting treatment of obligations and expenditures incurred for advance payments. (Sec. 653) Provides for the reimbursement of rental vehicle and related costs incurred by military personnel in connection with a permanent change of duty station when a motor vehicle transported at Government expense is late. (Sec. 654) Increases the educational loan amounts authorized to be repaid under the defense educational loan repayment program to a maximum of $20,000 per year and $50,000 total per individual. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to include as eligible dependents under a dental program for military retirees those dependents enrolled under a dental program provided through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs or a plan available as a result of non-military employment. (Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress: (1) a plan under which the Secretary would guarantee access for certain covered beneficiaries to health care comparable to that provided to covered beneficiaries under TRICARE Prime (a DOD managed health care plan); and (2) a legislative proposal and cost estimate for implementing such plan. Defines as a covered beneficiary a covered beneficiary under CHAMPUS who is a member or former member entitled to retired pay or a dependent of such a member. (Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan that would provide for a system-wide redesign of the military and contractor retail and mail-order pharmacy system of DOD by incorporating best business practices of the private sector. Requires the Secretary to suspend any plan to establish a DOD national retail pharmacy program until such plan is submitted and the Secretary has implemented cost-saving reforms with respect to the current system. (Sec. 704) Provides limited continued CHAMPUS coverage with regard to health care provided between October 1, 1998, and July 1, 1999, for persons unaware of the loss of such coverage due to their recent eligibility for Medicare. Subtitle B: TRICARE Program - Allows the Secretary to authorize a contractor under the TRICARE Program to pay a claim submitted for payment for health care services provided to a covered beneficiary for which a third party may be liable before seeking recovery from such third party. Provides a right of reimbursement from such third party. (Sec. 712) Directs the Secretary to establish procedures under which dependents of military personnel on active duty who reside in the catchment area of a military medical treatment facility shall be automatically enrolled in TRICARE Prime at such facility. Provides for the automatic continuation of such enrollment. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Provides for an inflation-indexed premium under the defense dependents' dental program. (Sec. 722) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for tracking data and measuring performance in meeting TRICARE access standards. (Sec. 723) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct research, development, training, and education on exposure to chemical, biological, and radiological hazards. (Sec. 724) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to establish a Level 1 Trauma Training Center to provide the Army with a trauma center capable of training forward surgical teams. (Sec. 725) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the potential impact of using an enrollment-based capitation methodology to allocate funds for military medical treatment facilities. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Limits DOD procurements of ammunition and ammunition components to procurements from manufacturers who are part of the national technology and industrial base. (Sec. 802) Makes eligible for the defense acquisition corps certain personnel who served as a GS-13 or above but were downgraded below such level due to a reduction in force, a base closure, or reason other than for cause. (Sec. 803) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to procure small arms parts and modifications from firms in the small arms production industrial base. Adds additional covered property and services to such requirement. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Requires a reduction of 70,000 personnel in the defense acquisition workforce between October 1, 1998, and October 1, 2001. (Sec. 902) Limits the obligation of operation and support funds for the Office of the Secretary until specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts have been submitted to the Congress. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to issue a revision to a specified DOD directive to incorporate a certain threshold with respect to management headquarters or headquarters support activity. (Sec. 904) Makes the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy responsible for overall supervision of DOD activities relating to export controls. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 905) Directs the Secretary to establish a task force of the Defense Science Board to examine the appropriateness of the current organization of DOD for preparing for a transformation in the conduct of war. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to ensure that, in reporting to the Office of Management and Budget DOD obligations for contract services, no more than 15 percent of the total amount of such obligations is reported in the miscellaneous services object class. Requires the Secretary to apply specified definitions of various types of "advisory and assistance services" in complying with such requirement. Requires the classification of such defined services in the future as advisory and assistance services, rather than miscellaneous services. Directs the Secretary to assess the total non-federal effort that resulted from the performance of service contracts for such services during the preceding fiscal year as compared with the expected non-federal effort for the current and next fiscal year. Requires an annual report to the Congress by the Secretary and a review and report by the CG. Reduces by $500 million the total amount that may be obligated by the Secretary during FY 1999 for contracted advisory and assistance services. (Sec. 907) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal a provision concerning the authority to waive certain requirements prior to the transfer of the tactical airlift mission to the reserve components. (Sec. 908) Amends DOD whistleblower protection provisions to repeal the requirement: (1) of a notification by the Defense Inspector General that an investigation of a complaint of employer reprisal action will take more than 90 days; and (2) for a post-disposition interview with the complainant. (Sec. 909) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to solicit the views of the Commandant of the Marine Corps prior to the making of a milestone decision or other major decision by an element of the Navy outside the Marine Corps in a procurement matter, an RDT&E matter, or a depot-level maintenance matter that concerns Marine Corps aviation. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD under this Division for FY 1999 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with a total transfer limit of $2 billion. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. (Sec. 1002) Incorporates into this Act the Classified Annex prepared to accompany this Act and transmitted to the President. (Sec. 1003) Limits: (1) DOD FY 1999 outlays for military functions to $252.65 billion; and (2) FY 1999 Department of Energy national security program outlays to $11.772 billion. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires: (1) the U.S.S. Iowa and U.S.S. Wisconsin to be listed and maintained on the Naval Vessel Register; and (2) the U.S.S. New Jersey to be stricken from such Register and sold to a nonprofit entity. (Sec. 1013) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the long-term charter of three specified vessels to support the rescue, escort, and towing of submarines. (Sec. 1014) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to substitute the obsolete tugboat Attleboro for the tugboat Normandy in carrying out an authorized transfer of tugboats under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998. (Sec. 1015) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, after FY 1998, to enter into a contract for the long-term lease or charter of a newly built surface vessel to act as an auxiliary vessel for DOD. Requires such contract to be specifically authorized by law. Provides contract funding. Requires the vessel to be constructed within a U.S. shipyard and documented under U.S. laws. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a lease or charter of another DOD auxiliary support vessel for in excess of 17 months unless the vessel is constructed in a U.S. shipyard. Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 2000 the authority for DOD support of certain counter-drug activities. (Sec. 1022) Requires the Secretary during FY 1999 to make available such naval and maritime patrol aircraft and crews of the Navy as necessary to conduct the final phase of the counter-drug operation known as Caper Focus. Provides funds. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Requires the inclusion in an annual report required by the Secretary to the Congress in support of the DOD budget of information on DOD resources allocated to support and mission activities. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the conveyance of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in the District of Columbia for a purchase price of no less than fair market value. (Sec. 1042) Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified alternative notification to a garnishee before garnishment of pay or benefits in connection with child support or alimony obligations. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on DOD's experience under such notification requirements. (Sec. 1043) Requires prior approval by the Secretary of DOD training activities conducted by special operations forces in conjunction with friendly foreign forces. Adds elements to a required report on the experiences of such joint training. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to release to the Commandant of the Coast Guard the results of drug tests of any Navy employee who is employed in any capacity on board a vessel of the Military Sealift Command. (Sec. 1102) Provides certain limitations on back pay awards made in connection with an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action. (Sec. 1103) Restores accumulated annual leave that otherwise would be lost by civilian employees at installations in the Republic of Panama to be closed pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. (Sec. 1104) Repeals a provision requiring the Secretary to conduct a program under which qualified spouses of military personnel are given a hiring preference for DOD child care positions. (Sec. 1106) Provides for an alternative day of observance of holidays occurring on a Monday in the case of Federal employees at installations outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Limits FY 1999 DOD funding for U.S. participation in Bosnia peacekeeping operations, with an exception for the protection of U.S. forces. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress with respect to such operations. (Sec. 1202) Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the presence of U.S. ground combat forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Directs the President to assess whether progress is being made toward implementation of the civilian goals of the Dayton Accord based upon an assessment of specified goals and related matters. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the effects of military operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans region on the capabilities of U.S. military forces, especially the capability to conduct two nearly simultaneous major theater wars. Requires an additional report from the Secretary whenever the number of U.S. ground combat forces in such areas increase or decrease by ten percent or more. (Sec. 1203) Directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress a report on the planned future military capabilities of NATO in light of the proposed inclusions in NATO of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. (Sec. 1204) Limits to $15 million the amount of funds authorized to be used in FY 1999 for DOD activities in support of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. Amends the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992 to extend through FY 1999 counter-proliferation authorities in support of such Commission. (Sec. 1205) Amends the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 1996 to repeal a moratorium on the use of antipersonnel landmines except in specified areas. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of Former Soviet Union - Specifies the programs to be included within Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs. Provides FY 1999 CTR funding allocations. Allows the Secretary to vary such amounts, requiring a justification to be submitted to the Congress followed by a 15-day waiting period. Prohibits the use of CTR funds for peacekeeping exercises or activities with Russia, housing, environmental restoration assistance, job retraining assistance, or the provision of assistance to Russia or any other state of the former Soviet Union to promote defense conversion. (Sec. 1304) Prohibits FY 1999 CTR funds from being used for construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility. (Sec. 1305) Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out CTR programs during any fiscal year, to use only funds appropriated for such programs for that fiscal year or either of the two preceding fiscal years. (Sec. 1306) Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Congress a breakdown of CTR program amounts requested by project category under each CTR program element. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits FY 1999 CTR funding for the following projects, facilities, or activities until the Secretary has completed certain reporting and notification requirements prescribed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998: (1) strategic offensive arms elimination projects in Russia related to the START II Treaty; (2) a chemical weapons destruction facility; (3) the destruction of chemical weapons; (4) a storage facility for Russian fissile material; and (5) weapons storage security activities. (Sec. 1308) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on biological programs in Russia. (Sec. 1309) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1999 CTR funds for biological weapons proliferation prevention activities in Russia until 15 days after the Secretary submits to either: (1) the Congress a certification that no such funds have been used to support activities that have resulted in the development of a new strain of anthrax or for any other purposes inconsistent with CTR goals; or (2) the defense and appropriations committees notification that the United States has examined and tested the new strain of anthrax reportedly developed at the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology in Obolensk, Russia. (Sec. 1310) Prohibits the use of FY 1999 CTR funds for strategic arms elimination in Russia or Ukraine until 30 days after the Secretary notifies the defense and appropriations committees on the manner in which such funds are to be used. (Sec. 1311) Allows CTR funds appropriated pursuant to authorizations under this Act to be available for obligation for three fiscal years. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Title XXI(sic): 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 such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, to carry out architectural planning and construction design activities, and to improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the authorized amounts for construction projects at Fort Drum, New York, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to accept from the State of North Carolina a road construction project which is to be constructed at Camp Lejune, North Carolina. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations for purposes paralleling those for which authorizations are provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary 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. (Sec. 2403) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 1998 for military construction, land acquisition, and military housing functions. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2405) Increases amounts authorized under prior military construction authorization Acts for projects at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon, and Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program. Authorizes appropriations. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1998 for Guard and Reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Directs the Secretary of the Army, in connection with an Army Reserve military construction project at or near Salt Lake City, Utah, to enter into an agreement under which the State of Utah agrees to provide financial or in-kind contributions in connection with the project. Increases the amount authorized for such project. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2001, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for military construction for FY 2002, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Includes within the authority for the acquisition and improvement of military housing the acquisition of facilities to provide or support elementary or secondary education. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, as a condition of a lease, license, or other grant of access entered into with another Federal agency for military department property, to require such agency to agree to remove any improvements and to restore such land to its condition before such use. Provides for cost reimbursement in lieu of such removal and restoration. (Sec. 2812) Amends the Sikes Act to direct the Secretary, in developing facilities and conducting programs for outdoor recreation at military installations, to ensure that recreation opportunities made available to the public also provide equal access, without substantial modification to the natural environment, to disabled veterans, military dependents with disabilities, and other disabled persons. (Sec. 2813) Directs the Secretary of each military department to report to the Congress on criteria and procedures for the selection of utility systems of such department for conveyance to other utility companies or entities and on the manner in which each Secretary can ensure that such conveyance will not adversely affect U.S. national security. Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Authorizes the Secretary to use amounts from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 to pay stipulated damages assessed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 against McClellan Air Force Base, California. (Sec. 2822) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to eliminate certain waiver authority with respect to a prohibition against conveyances of property at Naval Station Long Beach, California. Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) Massena, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (2) Ogdensburg, New York, the Army Reserve Center; (3) the Greeneville Local School District of Jamestown, Ohio, the Army Reserve Center in Jamestown; (4) New Windsor, New York, the Stewart Army Sub-Post; (5) the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Authority the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown; and (6) Hamilton County, Tennessee, the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant in Chattanooga. (Sec. 2837) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release the U.S. reversionary interests in the former Redstone Army Arsenal property in Alabama which were retained when the property was conveyed to the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission. Provides additional release, waiver, or conveyance conditions. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) grant an easement to the Foothill Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency over specified real property at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a restricted access highway; and (2) convey to the Gulf of Maine Aquarium Development Corporation in Portland, Maine, the Naval Reserve Readiness Center in Portland. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to: (1) McNeese State University of Louisiana specified real property at the Lake Charles Air Force Station in Louisiana; and (2) La Junta, Colorado, the unused Air Force housing facility in La Junta. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to repeal a prohibition on the joint military-civilian use of the Robert Gray Army Airfield, Fort Hood, Texas. (Sec. 2862) Designates the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center at 2869 Central Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, as the A. James Dyess Building. (Sec. 2863) Directs the Secretary to provide for the transfer to the Secretary of the Army of administrative jurisdiction over specified parcels of land in Arlington, Virginia, near or adjacent to the Arlington National Cemetery, to be incorporated into such Cemetery. Requires: (1) the remediation of such land for Cemetery use; and (2) a report from the Secretary of the Army to the Congress describing additional parcels of land at Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia, that may be suitable for expansion of the Cemetery. (Sec. 2864) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through December 31, 2000, a report required in connection with a demonstration project for the purchase from local government agencies of fire, security, police, public works, and utility services. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1999 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (3) other defense activities; and (4) defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE to be merged with and available for the same purposes as the authorizations to which transferred. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for such designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, and construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used. Makes funds for management and support and for general plant projects under this subtitle available for all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 1999, to empower each DOE field office manager to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfers to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) prohibit the Secretary from guaranteeing any loan made by a private entity to a contractor to pay for costs under defense environmental management privatization projects; and (2) extend permanently a prohibition against the use of DOE funds to conduct activities associated with international cooperative stockpile stewardship. (Sec. 3133) Earmarks DOE funds for the development, demonstration, and testing of hit-to-kill interceptor vehicles for theater missile defense systems. (Sec. 3134) Directs the Secretary to select a primary technology for the production of tritium no later than December 31, 1999, with conditions. Requires a report on results of the test program at the Watts Bar Nuclear Station in Tennessee. (Sec. 3135) Prohibits the use of certain DOE authorized funds until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that DOE does not intend to pay certain excess overhead costs for the Project Hanford Management contractors. Expresses the sense of the Congress that DOE should take all possible actions to minimize any increased costs of contractor overhead attributable to unnecessary DOE regulation. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Prohibits the Secretary after FY 2000 from providing worker or community transition assistance with respect to nuclear facilities. Directs the CG to conduct, and report to the Congress on, a study on the effects of workforce restructuring plans for defense nuclear facilities developed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. (Sec. 3152) Directs the Secretary to report to: (1) the Congress a plan to modify the Federal employment system used within DOE defense environmental management programs to allow for workforce restructuring; and (2) the defense committees on whether the science-based tools being used by DOE for determining the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile are performing in a safe and reliable manner. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 1999, to obligate up to $82.647 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses. Authorizes the obligation of amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying the Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. (Sec. 3403) Requires during FY 1999 that any sale of any part of the U.S. share of petroleum produced from Naval Petroleum Reserve (Reserve) Numbers 2 or 3 be made at a price not less than 90 percent of the current sales price of comparable petroleum in the same area. (Sec. 3404) Directs the Secretary to dispose of the portion of Reserve Number 2 located within the town lots in Ford City, California. Mandates disposal requirements. Requires the Secretary to continue to administer the remaining portions of such Reserve until all oil and gas operations are abandoned, at which time jurisdiction shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 3405) Directs the Secretary to continue to administer Reserve Number 3 until such time as all oil and gas operations there are abandoned, at which time the Secretary may dispose of such Reserve. (Sec. 3406) Directs the Secretary, effective September 30, 1999, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over all public domain lands included within Oil Shale Reserve Number 2 for management in accordance with the general land laws. (Sec. 3407) Empowers the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior to contract for the acquisition of all necessary services to implement this title. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and administration of the Panama Canal for FY 1999, with specified funding limits. (Sec. 3503) Requires Commission funds to be made available for the purchase and transportation to the Republic of Panama of passenger motor vehicles built in the United States, with a per vehicle cost limit of $23,000. (Sec. 3504) Requires expenditures authorized under this title to be in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and any laws implementing those treaties. (Sec. 3505) Authorizes the Commission to seek and accept donations to carry out Commission promotional activities. (Sec. 3506) Repeals on December 30, 1999, current Federal provisions concerning rights of and benefits accruing to Commission employees at the Canal. (Sec. 3507) Repeals a Federal provision establishing a Commission central examining office. (Sec. 3508) Revises provisions concerning Commission liability for vessel accidents to require claimants to be covered by one or more insurance policies totaling at least $1 million against the injuries claimed. Limits Commission liability to amounts in excess of any insurance amounts recovered. (Sec. 3509) Provides compensation levels for members of the Commission's Board of Contract Appeals. Title XXXVI: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3602) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to transfer: (1) the vessel M-V Bayomon to the Trade Fair Ship Company for use as a floating trade exposition; (2) the vessels Benjamin Isherwood and Henry Eckford to a purchaser for vessel reconstruction for sale or charter; and (3) the vessel ex-U.S.S. Lorain County to the Ohio War Memorial, Inc., for use as a memorial to Ohio veterans. (Sec. 3604) Earmarks authorized funds for the establishment at a State Maritime Academy of a clearinghouse for maritime information that makes such information publicly available, including by use of the Internet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Procurement Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Multi-Year Contract Authorizations Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations Subtitle B: Other Matters Title III: Operation and Maintenance Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Subtitle C: Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance Fund Title V: Military Personnel Policy Subtitle A: Active Forces Subtitle B: Reserve Forces Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits Subtitle A: Military Pay Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays Subtitle C: Other Matters Title VII: Acquisition Policy and Management Title VIII: Department of Defense Management Subtitle A: General Management Subtitle B: Department of Defense Personnel Management Title IX: General Provisions Subtitle A: Financial Matters Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Terrorism Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Operations Subtitle E: Other Matters National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Multi-Year Contract Authorizations - Authorizes the use of multiyear contracts by the Army and Navy for the procurement of certain vehicles, weapons, and aircraft. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation, including activities of the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Adds additional requirements for inclusion in the low-rate initial production of weapon systems. (Sec. 212) Extends through FY 2003 the authority of the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to contract with commercial entities to conduct commercial test and evaluation activities at a major range and test facility installation. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD). (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (3) the operation of Fisher houses, to be derived from the Fisher House Trust Fund. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified O&M accounts. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the Secretary, using available amounts from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990, to pay stipulated damages under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 assessed against McClellan Air Force Base, California. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 1999. (Sec. 402) Repeals a requirement that such end strengths be sufficient to support two simultaneous major regional contingencies. (Sec. 403) Revises the due date of an annual manpower requirements report. (Sec. 404) Exempts from general and flag officer grade limits the position of Director, National Imagery and Mapping Agency. Makes permanent (currently ends October 1, 1998) the authority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to designate up to 12 general and flag officers serving in joint duty positions for exclusion from such limits. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 1999 for Army and Air Force military technicians (dual status). (Sec. 414) Increases the number of officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 415) Excludes from active-duty end strength limitations certain reserve personnel on active duty for 181 days or more in support of peacetime requirements of the military services and combatant commands. Subtitle C: Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance Fund - Authorizes appropriations for the Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance fund. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Authorizes the Secretary to determine the composition of selective early retirement boards convened for determining retirement status with respect to Naval Reserve rear admirals or Marine Corps Reserve major generals. (Sec. 503) Provides active status service requirements, for promotion consideration purposes, for Army and Air Force Reserve brigadier generals. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the posthumous appointment of officer commissions and warrants, making the date of appointment the date of death. (Sec. 505) Excludes regular chief warrant officers in the W-4 grade from provisions requiring involuntary retirement due to non-selection for promotion. (Sec. 506) Adds required procedures for the selection of judge advocate generals and assistant or deputy judge advocate generals of the military departments. (Sec. 507) Establishes a three-year term of office for the Chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps. (Sec. 508) Provides time-in-grade requirements for reserve general and flag officers who are involuntarily transferred from an active status. (Sec. 509) Eliminates the requirement for a board of review after a board of inquiry determination relating to an officer's substandard performance of duty or certain other findings. (Sec. 510) Authorizes retired and former officers to be considered for promotion by special promotion selection boards. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to order members under his jurisdiction to perform functions in support of the defense agencies and either the active or reserve components. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Military Pay - Waives any FY 1999 military pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases the rate of basic pay of members of the uniformed services by 3.1 percent, effective January 1, 1999. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through FY 2001 certain bonuses and special pay for specially skilled military personnel, including nuclear-qualified personnel. (Sec. 612) Extends through FY 2000 certain bonuses and special pay authorities for reserve personnel. (Sec. 613) Extends through FY 2001 the special pay authority for nurse anesthetists. (Sec. 614) Provides reenlistment bonus eligibility for reserve personnel who perform active National Guard and Selected Reserve duty. (Sec. 615) Increases from $4,000 to $6,000 the maximum bonus for Army enlistment. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating under the Navy, to provide a transportation allowance for rest and recuperation travel during a period in which personnel perform at a duty station within a contingency operation, or in other appropriate circumstances as determined by such Secretary. Provides allowance limits. (Sec. 622) Deletes the Panama Canal Zone from inclusion within the definition of a U.S. possession. (Sec. 623) Allows for the storage of unaccompanied baggage of military dependent students. (Sec. 625) Provides for the restoration of annual leave lost due to the closure of an installation in the Republic of Panama in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Extends through December 31, 2003, the period during which annual leave lost due to the closure of a military installation under a base closure law will be restored. (Sec. 627) Authorizes the Superintendent of a U.S. military academy to order a cadet or midshipman to be placed on involuntary leave without pay: (1) after a suspension pending separation; (2) to repeat an academic semester or year; or (3) for other good cause. (Sec. 628) Repeals the requirement that no more than ten percent of reenlistment bonuses paid during a fiscal year exceed $20,000. (Sec. 629) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard in appropriate circumstances, to provide an educational allowance to the sponsors of military dependent students in overseas areas in which DOD has not established defense dependents' schools. (Sec. 630) Amends the Civilian Health Medical Program of the the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) concerning the defense plan for military dependents to: (1) revise the premium amount; and (2) authorize the integration of a basic dental benefit plan into the TRICARE Program (a DOD managed care program). (Sec. 631) Provides for the recovery, care, and disposition of remains of military personnel who die while hospitalized after having been retired by reason of medical disability for an injury, illness, or disease incurred while on active duty, as long as the hospitalization has been continuous since such retirement. (Sec. 632) Revises the voluntary separation incentive program to ensure continued eligibility for members who involuntarily lose membership in a reserve component due to age, years of service, failure of promotion, or medical disqualification. (Sec. 633) Revises the defense domestic dependent elementary and secondary school program to: (1) allow dependents of Federal employees not residing on a military installation to be enrolled in a school program for more than five consecutive school years, at the discretion of the Secretary, where the dependent is qualified, space is available, and the Secretary will be reimbursed for educational services provided. Authorizes the enrollment in such school of the dependent of military personnel assigned to a remote or unaccompanied assignment when such dependent is residing in a U.S. territory, commonwealth, or possession. (Sec. 634) Extends until October 1, 2003: (1) the period during which the Secretary concerned may reduce the required term of active service before qualification for retirement for regular or reserve commissioned officers; (2) the period of exemption from required retirement for certain limited duty Navy commanders and captains; and (3) the exemption from mandatory retirement for failure of promotion for certain Navy and Marine Corps officers designated for limited duty. Title VII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Limits the authority of the head of a defense procuring activity to delegate the approval of the use of noncompetitive procedures in the procurement process. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to set similar limits with respect to the head of a Federal procuring activity. (Sec. 702) Repeals a provision stating that a defense contractor or subcontractor who is granted a waiver from procurement cost or pricing data requirements shall be considered to have met such requirements for purposes of tiered contracts (contracts having one or more contractors and subcontractors). Makes a similar repeal under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 with respect to nondefense contractors or subcontractors. (Sec. 704) Repeals a provision requiring equal allocation of procurement technical assistance program funding among Defense Contract Administrative Services regions. (Sec. 705) Amends the Defense Acquisition Improvement Act of 1986 to repeal the requirement of certain Defense Inspector General oversight of undefinitized contractual actions. (Sec. 706) Amends the Contracts Disputes Act of 1978 to specify the date for the Government payment of interest on contractor cost claims. (Sec. 707) Requires personnel to be assigned to the following positions for no fewer than three years: (1) program manager or deputy manager for a significant nonmajor defense acquisition program; (2) program executive officer; (3) general or flag officer or equivalent position; or (4) senior contracting official. (Currently, such requirement extends only to critical acquisition positions.) (Sec. 708) Makes eligible for the defense acquisition corps certain personnel who served as a GS-13 or above but were downgraded below such level due to a reduction in force, a base closure, or reason other than for cause. (Sec. 709) Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act with respect to a test program within the Office of Federal Procurement Policy of alternative and innovative procurement procedures to: (1) remove the requirement that no more than one such test be conducted in any single procuring agency; (2) allow two (currently, one) contracts awarded for such tests to exceed $5 million; (3) reduce from 270 to 120 days before the conduct of a test the date by which a detailed test plan is required to be submitted to specified congressional committees; and (4) extend until January 1, 2003, the termination of the test program. (Sec. 710) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) remove the word "Pilot" from the Mentor-Protege Pilot Program; (2) authorize DOD to conduct an initiative that would allow DOD to participate in the mentoring of women-owned small business proteges; and (3) expand the definition of a disadvantaged small business concern for purposes of such Program. (Sec. 711) Authorizes holding General Accounting Office protest proceedings in abeyance when the agency involved has agreed to suspend contract award or performance pending completion of any agency protest procedure and any subsequent protest timely filed before the Comptroller General. (Sec. 712) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 to revise restrictions on DOD procurement from foreign sources of cotton, silk, wool and other natural fibers and specified derivative products. Title VIII: Department of Defense Management - Subtitle A: General Management - Increases from $5 million to $10 million the authorized annual DOD expenditures for the humanitarian clearance of landmines. Prohibits more than ten percent of such funds from being used to pay reserve personnel performing duty in connection with landmine clearing training and related activities. (Sec. 802) Authorizes the Secretary to impose a surcharge for dishonored checks issued to the Defense Commissary Agency and to deposit collected amounts in the commissary trust revolving fund for payment of costs incurred in collecting on such checks. Provides authorized means of collection, including military pay or entitlements deductions, Federal withholdings, or the use of private collection agencies. (Sec. 803) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to revise generally the retirement home inspection requirements of the DOD Inspector General. (Sec. 804) Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to exempt operational files of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) from certain public search, review, publication, and disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. Provides for: (1) exceptions; and (2) judicial review of contested cases of withheld records. Requires the Directors of NIMA and Central Intelligence, at least every ten years, to review exempted records to determine whether they may be removed from exemption. Provides for judicial enforcement of such review requirement. (Sec. 805) Authorizes the Secretary to withhold from public disclosure any geodetic product that the Secretary has determined would, if disclosed, interfere or unfairly compete with an emerging or existing commercial industry or market operation. (Sec. 806) Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 which requires certain prior approval procedures with respect to the export of high performance computers. (Sec. 807) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal a provision concerning the authority to waive certain requirements prior to the transfer of the tactical airlift mission to the reserve components. (Sec. 808) Requires funds received from the Federal Republic of Germany representing its share of the costs of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies to be used for Center costs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive reimbursement of certain Center costs for military officers and civilian officials of cooperation partner states of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council or the Partnership for Peace when determined to be in the national security interest. Provides a similar waiver with respect to the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies for military officers and civilian officials of the Asia Pacific Region. Subtitle B: Department of Defense Personnel Management - Authorizes the Secretary to commence a demonstration project of proposals for improving the personnel management policies or procedures for the Defense Commissary Agency. Provides project terms and conditions, limiting the project's scope to the Agency's workforce. Provides project conditions with respect to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement. (Sec. 812) Eliminates an employment preference program for the hiring of military spouses as DOD child care employees. (Sec. 813) Preserves certain civil rights protection for former Defense Mapping Agency employees who continue such employment with NIMA. (Sec. 815) Authorizes (currently requires) the Secretary to establish a program for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. (Sec. 816) Authorizes the Secretary, for five years, to appoint scientific and engineering personnel to conduct experimental research and development through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the use of such authority. Title IX: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Repeals the requirement for a: (1) separate budget request for the procurement of reserve equipment; and (2) two-year DOD budget cycle. (Sec. 903) Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to administer a program to provide off-post emergency preparedness to protect the public in the vicinity of installations where lethal chemical agents and munitions are stored. Authorizes the Director to establish an incentive program to encourage States and local governments to achieve early, efficient, and cost-effective preparedness. Requires the Director to report annually to the Congress on program activities. Requires program funds to be set out in a separate defense-related FEMA account. (Sec. 904) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds from specified defense accounts for combating terrorism or for force protection. (Sec. 905) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds between DOD investment appropriations within acquisition category I and II programs or clearly defined groups of associated acquisition programs, with transfer limits of $500 million per year and $20 million per program. (Sec. 906) Requires annual amounts requested for activities of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to be set forth in accordance with specified program elements. Requires amounts requested for Theater and National Missile Defense major defense acquisition programs to be specified in individual dedicated program elements, and to be available only for Ballistic Missile Defense activities. Requires management and support requests to be included within the program elements. (Sec. 907) Authorizes the Secretary, after 30 days' prior notification to the appropriate congressional committees, to transfer funds from DOD O&M accounts to military personnel accounts, to be used for military family housing privatization projects. (Sec. 909) Authorizes the Secretary to pay licensing or other fees to foreign countries or international organizations in connection with the sale there of maps, charts, and navigational books. (Sec. 910) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to charge and retain fees for providing historical information to public requesters from the United States Army or Air Force Military History Institute or the Naval or Marine Corps Historical Center. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Report Requirements and Repeals - Repeals a report: (1) concerning a NATO conventional defense assessment of allied performance, NATO conventional defense capabilities, and allied burdensharing; (2) relating to the joint training of special operations forces with friendly foreign forces; (3) on the Defense Business Operations Fund; (4) on the Defense Contract Audit Agency's authority to subpoena records of defense contractors; (5) on the use of funds from the lease of non-excess DOD property; (6) concerning the alternative utilization of military facilities; and (7) concerning a proposed contract for the sale of Gregg Circle Area, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. (Sec. 918) Requires the report on demonstration projects relating to the military health care delivery system to be submitted annually (currently, semiannually). (Sec. 922) Provides an exception from the requirement for a report from the Secretary concerned to the defense committees before entering into certain real property transactions with respect to any such transaction made in connection with a declaration of war, national emergency, or major disaster, a riot, or a contingency operation. Requires such a report within 30 days after entering into such a transaction. (Sec. 923) Repeals certain notification requirements with respect to DOD Inspector General investigations. (Sec. 924) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1989 to repeal the reporting of certain elements of DOD overseas basing costs. (Sec. 925) Directs the Secretary concerned to notify the appropriate congressional committees in the case of architectural and engineering services and construction design for which the estimated costs exceed $500,000 (currently $300,000). Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Terrorism - Authorizes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (currently, only the Secretaries of Defense and the military departments) to purchase right-hand drive motor vehicles for use in a foreign country. Authorizes each such official to purchase nontactical armored passenger vehicles under emergency situations for combating terrorism and for military force protection support. (Sec. 932) Authorizes the Secretary to make DOD personnel available to operate equipment with respect to a foreign or domestic counterterrorism operation or a rendition of a suspected terrorist from a foreign country to the United States for trial. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Counter Drug Operations - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 2004 DOD's authority to provide support to other Federal agencies and law enforcement officials for counter-drug activities. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct domestic outreach programs to reduce the demand for illegal drugs among youths. (Sec. 942) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) authorize DOD to provide counter-drug support for specified Caribbean countries; (2) extend through FY 2004 the authority to provide such support; and (3) increase the amount authorized for such purpose. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Redefines "financial institution" for purposes of Federal Government reimbursement of charges incurred by military personnel or Federal employees because of Government error in the direct deposit of pay. (Sec. 952) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1987 to authorize drug test results of civil service mariners of the Military Sealift Command to be released to the Coast Guard to the same extent that similar submissions are required from commercial vessel operators. (Sec. 953) Provides for the disposition of amounts collected through military claims services from third parties for loss or damage to personal property shipped or stored at Government expense. (Sec. 954) Allows polychlorinated biphenyls located outside of U.S. customs territory but in U.S. possession and control to be imported for disposal within U.S. customs territory. (Sec. 955) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease up to 500 units in Italy and 800 units in Korea, subject to the maximum lease amount, for military family housing purposes. (Sec. 956) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program under which the Secretary's agent would be exempt from providing a copy of notice or service as currently required when providing notice and taking action to enforce obligations for child support and alimony payments among military personnel under provisions of the Social Security Act. Requires a report describing the program from the Secretary to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate. Terminates the program at the end of FY 2000. (Sec. 957) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into the long-term charter of three specified vessels in support of Navy submarine rescue, escort, and towing.