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Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003

Became Public Law No: 107-314.

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36 Passed House amended May 9, 2007

Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) defense health programs. Subtitle B: Navy Programs - Earmarks specified Navy procurement funds for either: (1) the procurement of one Arleigh Burke class DDG-51 destroyer (if a specified agreement is reached); or (2) the advance procurement of Virginia class submarines, cruiser conversion, and nuclear-powered submarine refueling overhaul. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of Virginia class submarines. (Sec. 112) Prohibits acquisition of a T-5 Champion-class fuel tanker which features a double hull and reinforcement against ice damage for the Military Sealift Command or for other Navy purposes. Subtitle C: Air Force Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of C-130J aircraft, after notifying the defense and appropriations committees and waiting 30 days thereafter. (Sec. 122) Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds for 36 Litening II modernization upgrade kits for the F-16 block 25 and 30 aircraft (rather than for Litening AT pods for such aircraft). Subtitle D: Other Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to obligate funds: (1) for procurement of a complete and usable end item under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property; and (2) appropriated for any fiscal year for advance procurement under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property only for the procurement of those long-lead items necessary to meet a planned delivery schedule for complete major end items that are programmed to be acquired with funds appropriated for a subsequent fiscal year. (Sec. 142) Directs the Secretary, by January 15, 2003, to enter into an agreement with an independent, nonprofit, technology-oriented entity that has demonstrated the ability to facilitate the transfer of defense technologies, developed by both the private and public sectors, to aid Federal, State, and local first responders in the support of homeland security. Directs the entity to develop a strategic plan to meet specified goals. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the chemical agents and munitions stockpile destruction program is managed as a major defense acquisition program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), beginning with the budget request for FY 2004, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a certification that the budget request for such program has been submitted in accordance with applicable Federal laws. (Sec. 144) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on unmanned aerial vehicle systems of the Department of Defense (DOD). (Sec. 145) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the defense committees on the requirements for Army National Guard aviation. Authorizes the Army Chief of Staff to submit view on such requirements. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program, including basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits the obligation of funds authorized for engineering and manufacturing development for the RAH-66 Comanche aircraft program until the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning program funding and time line requirements. Limits the total engineering and manufacturing development costs for the program, allowing for certain adjustments to such limit. Requires the DOD Inspector General to annually review such program and report review results to Congress. (Sec. 212) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2008 a requirement relating to management responsibility for naval mine countermeasures programs. (Sec. 213) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (the Thurmond Act) to: (1) authorize the Secretary, in connection with a pilot program for cooperative research and development activities with universities and other private entities, to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions; (2) extend the pilot program until March 1, 2008; (3) require annual reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on pilot program activities; and (4) require a report from the Secretary to such committees on whether and to what extent the authority to carry out the pilot program should be extended. (Sec. 214) Revises plan requirements under the DOD Manufacturing Technology Program. Changes report requirements from annually to biennially. (Sec. 215) Directs the Secretary to carry out a Technology Transition Initiative to facilitate the rapid transition of new technologies from DOD science and technology programs into DOD acquisition programs for the production of such technologies. Requires a Manager for such Initiative, with specified duties. Requires the acquisition executive of each military department to identify appropriate technology projects for Initiative participation. Requires Initiative amounts to be separately stated in each DOD budget. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program for the increased introduction of innovative and cost-saving technologies in DOD acquisition programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a panel of highly qualified scientists and engineers to evaluate Program proposals. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out each evaluation, to ensure the elimination of conflicts-of-interest. Requires reports during the Program period (until the end of FY 2007). Provides initial Program funding from FY 2003 defense-wide RDT&E funds. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Prohibits the use of FY 2003 Army missile procurement funds for the Patriot Advanced Capability missile program until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) criteria for the transfer of program responsibility from the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to the Secretary of a military department; and (2) a notice and certification of such transfer. Requires responsibility for RDT&E related to system improvements of such program to remain with the Director. (Sec. 233) Amends various Federal provisions and national defense authorization Acts to reflect the change in the name of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to the Missile Defense Agency. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow the incidental taking of a migratory bird by a member of the armed forces during an authorized military readiness activity. (Sec. 312) Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from designating as critical habitat any lands or other geographic areas owned or controlled by DOD, or designated for its use, that are subject to an integrated natural resources management plan prepared under terms of the Sikes Act, as long as such Secretary determines that the plan addresses special management considerations or protections. Requires such Secretary to consider the impact on national security when designating critical habitat. (Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary to establish a program manager to serve as the single point of contact in DOD for policy and budgeting issues involving the characterization, remediation, and management of explosive and related risks with respect to unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents at defense sites that pose a threat to human health or safety. Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide base operating support for Fisher Houses associated with health care facilities of that department. (Sec. 322) Authorizes a member of the National Guard called to duty during a national emergency to use commissary stores and morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) retail facilities during such duty on the same basis as active-duty military personnel. (Sec. 323) Allows DOD MWR funds to be treated as nonappropriated funds and expended in accordance with laws applicable to the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the Secretary to identify positions of employment within DOD MWR programs which are paid with appropriated funds whose status may be converted to positions of employment with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality. Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues - Requires the Secretary, upon completion of an analysis of a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function for possible conversion to performance by the private sector, to submit to Congress a report containing analysis results and related information. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to waive the prohibition against the contracting for the performance of security-guard functions at a military installation if such functions: (1) are or will be performed by members of the armed forces in the absence of a waiver; and (2) were not performed at the installation before September 11, 2001. (Sec. 333) Excludes permanently (currently only for FY 2002 through 2005) amounts expended for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workload by non-Federal personnel at a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence from a percentage limitation on the contracting-out for the performance of DOD depot-level maintenance and repair workloads. (Sec. 334) Repeals obsolete provisions concerning the use of competitive procedures in contracting for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads formerly performed at closed or realigned military installations. Subtitle E: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each educational agency eligible for such assistance. (Sec. 342) Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to authorize a military quarters allowance for teachers unaccompanied by dependents who are required to reside on a U.S. military installation overseas. (Sec. 343) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to allow individuals eligible for education under the defense dependents' education system to enroll without charge in a summer school program offered under such system. Subtitle F: Information Technology - Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (the Spence Act) to allow the base contract of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract to have a term of up to seven years. (Currently, as a DOD multiyear contract, such contract is limited to a five-year term.) (Sec. 352) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a description of, and relevant budget information on, each DOD information technology and national security capital asset that: (1) has an estimated life cycle cost in excess of $120 million; and (2) has a cost for the fiscal year in which the description is submitted in excess of $30 million. Requires other information with respect to each DOD information technology and national security system that has a cost for the fiscal year in excess of $2 million and $10 million, respectively. (Sec. 353) Requires the Secretary to implement a specified policy regarding the acquisition of certain commercial off-the-shelf information technology products. (Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish clear and uniform policy and procedures, applicable to the military departments and defense agencies, regarding the installation and connection of telecom switches to the Defense Switch Network; and (2) prepare and maintain an inventory of untested telecom switches that have been added to such Network. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Requires the defense and appropriations committees (currently, Congress) to receive monthly reports on the allocation of funds within DOD O&M budget subactivities. (Sec. 362) Raises the minimum monthly pay deduction of certain members of the armed forces for support of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 363) Prohibits the Secretary from converting the Defense Security Service to a working capital funded entity of DOD unless the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that such Service has the financial systems in place to fully support operations as a working capital funded entity. (Sec. 364) Amends the Spence Act to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the arsenal program support initiative (a program of support for Army manufacturing arsenals); and (2) extend and revise related reporting requirements. (Sec. 365) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for using existing military authorities to address problems created by limitations on the use of military lands, marine areas, and airspace reserved, withdrawn, or designated for military training and testing activities. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD plans to improve the Global Status of Resources and Training System. Requires the: (1) Secretary to develop and maintain a training range data bank for each military branch; and (2) Comptroller General (CG) to evaluate the plan and report submitted under this section. (Sec. 366) Amends the: (1) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make eligible for basic support payments made to local educational agencies those heavily impacted local educational agencies affected by the privatization of military housing; and (2) Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude, for purposes of eligibility for free and reduced-price meals, the amount of basic allowance for housing for an individual for housing acquired under alternative authority for the acquisition and improvement of military family housing. 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 2003. Increases certain permanent end strength minimum levels. (Sec. 403) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to increase by up to one percent their active-duty end strength in order to enhance manning and readiness in essential units or in critical specialties or ratings. (Sec. 404) Excludes from general and flag officer end strength limits the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Increases the number of lieutenant generals authorized for the Marine Corps. Provides the grade of brigadier general for the Chief of the Army Veterinary Corps. Directs the Secretary to review, and report to Congress on, current active-duty and reserve general and flag officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 405) Extends through December 31, 2004, certain authorities relating to the management of end strengths of general and flag officers in certain grades. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2003 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum end strength for FY 2003 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians. (Sec. 414) Places specified FY 2003 limitations on the number of non-dual status technicians employed by the Army and Air Force. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: General Personnel Management Authorities - Increases from five to six the number of authorized Deputy Commandants of the Marine Corps. (Sec. 502) Extends through December 31, 2004, the waiver from the requirement of significant joint duty experience for officers appointed to a reserve chief or Guard director position, when such waiver is exercised for the good of the service. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on steps being taken to ensure that no additional waiver will be required after such extension. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management - Requires the: (1) CG to report to Congress on the management of the National Guard, including reviews of National Guard strength accounting and management and related issues; and (2) Secretary to report to Congress on the differing Army and Air Force policies for taking adverse administrative actions against National Guard officers in a State status. (Sec. 512) Requires courts-martial for members of the National Guard when not performing in Federal service to be as provided by the laws of the respective State, territory, possession, or the District of Columbia. Provides convening authority for the courts-martial of National Guard when not performing in the Federal service for: (1) special and summary courts-martial by the respective State, territory, possession, and District of Columbia; (2) general courts-martial by the President; and (3) special courts-martial by the appropriate commanding officer. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare, for consideration of enactment by the States, a model State code of military justice and a model State manual of courts-martial for use with respect to the National Guard when not performing in Federal service; and (2) report to the defense committees on implementation of the model code and manual requirements. (Sec. 513) Requires matching funds requirements, as of October 1, 2002, under the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Subtitle C: Reserve Component Officer Personnel Policy - Exempts from active status end strength limitations reserve general and flag officers serving on active duty in certain joint duty assignments designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Sec. 522) Makes eligible for promotion to the grade of reserve Army or Air Force major general reserve brigadier generals not otherwise eligible for promotion because the officer's service does not meet the currently required one-year-of-continuous-service if: (1) the officer was transferred from an inactive status to the reserve active status during the one-year period preceding the convening of the promotion board; (2) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an active status, the officer had been in an inactive status for less than one year; and (3) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an inactive status, the officer had continuously served for at least one year on the reserve active status or active-duty list. (Sec. 523) Retains promotion eligibility for reserve general and flag officers transferred to an inactive status list after having been recommended for promotion or found qualified for Federal recognition to a higher grade. (Sec. 524) Provides a limited deferment of retirement or separation from service until 30 days after completion of a medical evaluation requiring hospitalization or medical observation. Subtitle D: Education and Training - Provides for a phased increase to 4,400 in the authorized end strengths for each of the military service academies. Prohibits any increases for any academic year after 2007-2008. Directs the Secretary of each military department to seek to achieve an increase, by the 2006-2007 academic year, of not less than 400 Reserve Officers' Training Corps participants. (Sec. 532) Increases from 270 days to one year the time allowed following enlistment in the reserve or National Guard prior to commencement of an initial period of active duty. (Sec. 533) Authorizes units and members of the National Guard to conduct and participate in small arms competitions and qualifying athletic competitions in conjunction with required training. Allows amounts appropriated for the National Guard to be used for costs and expenses incurred by Guard members engaging in such activities. Limits to $2.5 million per fiscal year the funds that may be obligated or expended for such activities. Subtitle E: Decorations and Awards - Waives time limitations for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for certain individuals for whom the Secretary concerned filed notice to the defense committees that such awards were warranted and for whom a time limit waiver was recommended. (Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned to award eligible Vietnam evacuation veterans the Vietnam Service Medal, notwithstanding other applicable requirements. Subtitle F: Administrative Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure sufficient staffing and funding for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. (Sec. 552) Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during FY 2003 through 2005, from reducing the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to the review and correction of military records until 90 days after a report is submitted to Congress explaining the reduction and its rationale. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the Secretary to provide either transportation and expenses or a prescribed daily stipend for civilians participating in a military funeral honors detail. (Sec. 554) Authorizes the use of volunteer proctors for the administration to secondary school students of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test). (Sec. 555) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the status of female military personnel, including access to health care, assignments, deployments, promotions, and cases of sexual harassment. Subtitle G: Benefits - Directs the Secretary concerned to establish a program under which accrued leave of a member may be transferred to another member of the same department who requires additional leave because of a qualifying emergency (one likely to require prolonged absence due to a medical condition of an immediate family member, or other hardship as determined by such Secretary). (Sec. 562) Repeals a provision which prohibits participants in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program from participation in the DOD medical loan repayment program. (Sec. 563) Authorizes, as between-tour leave travel for enlisted personnel stationed overseas who extend such tour of duty, round-trip transportation from such location to an alternate location at a cost not to exceed the cost of transportation to the nearest contiguous U.S. port. (Sec. 564) Authorizes vehicle storage in lieu of vehicle transportation when a member is ordered to a U.S. duty station in a nonforeign area outside the continental United States. Subtitle H: Military Justice Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to allow an accused convicted of an offense by a court-martial, upon request, to be sentenced by the military judge rather than the members of the court-martial. (Sec. 572) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the desirability and feasibility of consolidating the separate Army, Navy, and Air Force courses for judge advocates into a single course conducted at a single location. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2003 pay increase tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2003, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Expands the basic allowance for housing low-cost or no-cost moves authority for members assigned to duty outside the United States when the Secretary concerned determines that it would be inequitable to base the member's housing entitlement to, and amount of, a basic allowance for housing on the cost of housing in the area to which the member is reassigned. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2003 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2002 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Provides a minimum monthly level of hardship duty pay for ground duty in Antarctica or on the Arctic icepack. (Sec. 616) Increases the reenlistment bonus for persons with prior enlisted service. (Sec. 617) Makes limitations on the maximum bonus amount that may be paid to officers retained in a critical military skill inapplicable to an officer assigned duties as a health care provider. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Extends the authorized period for leave travel for members performing consecutive overseas tours of duty to any time before the end of the consecutive tour (currently, within one year after beginning the consecutive tour). Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Provides for the phase-in, during FY 2003 through 2006, of the full concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for military retirees with disabilities rated at 60 percent or higher. Repeals current provisions providing special compensation for certain severely service-disabled military retirees. Requires the Secretary to determine the amount of Treasury contribution required to be made into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund to cover such increased payments. (Sec. 642) Reduces from eight to six years the qualifying service requirement for eligibility for retired pay for non-regular service. (Sec. 643) Eliminates any possible inversion in the retired pay cost-of-living adjustment in the case of an initial adjustment using a retired member's final pay. (Sec. 644) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act and specified Federal law to make technical clarifications to the so-called "forgotten widows" military survivors' annuity program. Subtitle E: Reserve Component Montgomery GI Bill - Extends the period of eligibility for the use of Selected Reserve educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 (currently ten) years after the date on which a person first becomes so entitled. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Revises or adds definitions to Federal military pay provisions. Title VII: Health Care Matters - Subtitle A: Health Care Program Improvements - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to make the requirement of TRICARE preauthorization of inpatient mental health care inapplicable to Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. (Sec. 702) Extends eligibility for TRICARE Remote (a DOD managed health care plan for members residing more than 50 miles from a military medical facility) to a dependent of a member with a permanent duty assignment for which the dependent is not authorized to accompany the member when either: (1) the dependent continues to reside at the location of the former duty assignment which is more than 50 miles, or one hour's drive, from the nearest military medical facility; or (2) there is no reasonable expectation that the member will return to the location of the former duty assignment and the dependent moves to a location more than 50 miles or one hour's drive from the nearest military medical facility. (Sec. 703) Makes eligible for enrollment in the TRICARE dental program a dependent of a member who died while on active duty and while not enrolled in a dental plan due to being transferred. (Sec. 704) Provides as a new funding source for the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund the pay of participating members. Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into an agreement for participation in the health care program funded by such Fund. (Sec. 705) Requires the Secretary, in designating TRICARE Program health care providers, to prescribe regulations that will designate providers currently authorized under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of: (1) current impediments to a cost-effective and provider- and beneficiary-friendly system for claims processing under the TRICARE Program; and (2) the nature and extent of, reasons for, and trends regarding network provider instability under TRICARE, and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate such instability. (Sec. 713) Repeals a required report from DOD administering Secretaries on military health care program operations and costs. Subtitle C: Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Health Resources Sharing - Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Health Resources Sharing and Performance Improvement Act of 2002 - Urges the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) commit their departments to significantly improve mutually beneficial sharing and coordination of health care resources and services; (2) build supportive organizational cultures; and (3) establish and achieve measurable goals to facilitate increased sharing and coordination. (Sec. 723) Directs such Secretaries to enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of health care resources with the goal of improving access to, and quality and cost-effectiveness of, the health care provided to beneficiaries. Establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Health Executive Committee to recommend strategic direction for joint coordination and sharing efforts. Directs the Secretaries to carry out a program to identify, provide incentives to, implement, fund, and evaluate creative coordination and sharing initiatives at the facility, intraregional, and nationwide levels. Establishes in the Treasury a DOD-VA Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund. Terminates such program at the end of FY 2007. Provides guidelines and policies for implementing Committee recommendations and for carrying out related health care contracts and agreements. Requires the Secretaries to report annually to Congress on health care coordination and sharing activities. (Sec. 724) Directs the Secretaries to conduct at no less than five sites a health care resources sharing project to serve as a test for evaluating the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of measures and programs to improve the sharing and coordination of health care and resources. Requires testing of a pharmacy benefit program under which beneficiaries of either department have access to pharmaceutical services of the other department. Requires the Secretaries to provide for a joint review team to annually review and report on each of the participating sites. Terminates the pharmacy benefit program at the end of FY 2007. (Sec. 725) Directs the Secretaries to jointly review the adequacy of current processes and existing statutory authorities and policy governing the capability of the two departments to provide health care to members of the armed forces following domestic acts of terrorism or domestic use of weapons of mass destruction, before and after any declaration of national emergency. (Sec. 726) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt for use by the VA health care system the DOD system known as the Pharmacy Data Transaction System. Requires the: (1) adopted system to be fully operational by October 1, 2004; and (2) Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs an amount sufficient to cover three-fourths of the cost of implementing such system. (Sec. 727) Directs the Secretaries to carry out a pilot program under which graduate medical education and training is provided to DOD military physicians and VA physician employees through one or more programs carried out in DOD and VA medical facilities or centers. Terminates such program on July 31, 2008. (Sec. 728) Repeals current VA hospital bed limits. (Sec. 729) Requires: (1) an interim report on each program authorized under this Subtitle; (2) annual reports through the end of FY 2007 on either Secretary's use of administrative waivers under the pharmacy benefit program; (3) a report on pharmacy benefits cross-access; and (4) annual reports through 2009 on the medical education and training pilot program. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for an acquisition management professional exchange pilot program between DOD and the private sector. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to evaluate, and report to Congress on, the training, knowledge, and resources needed by DOD to effectively negotiate intellectual property rights using the principles of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, and to determine whether DOD currently has the training, knowledge, and resources to meet those needs. (Sec. 803) Requires the use of competitive procedures (unless an exception has been authorized) for DOD acquisition task and delivery order contracts. Limits to five years the base period for such contracts unless a longer period is specifically authorized. Makes task order contracts for the procurement of advisory and assistance services subject to such procedures and contract limits. (Sec. 804) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend until January 1, 2004, a program applying simplified acquisition procedures to certain commercial items. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on whether the authority to issue solicitations for purchases of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold should be made permanent. (Sec. 805) Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, every five years, to adjust for inflation the simplified acquisition threshold. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for improving the personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD civilian acquisition workforce based on the results of a demonstration project required under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. (Sec. 807) Revises the size and contract period for ball and roller bearings covered under DOD simplified acquisition limitations. (Sec. 808) Directs the Secretary to establish tailored rapid acquisition and deployment procedures for items urgently needed to react to an enemy threat or respond to significant and urgent safety situations. (Sec. 809) Directs the Secretary to establish a quick-reaction special projects acquisition team to advise the Secretary on appropriate actions to expedite the procurement of urgently needed systems. (Sec. 810) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD efforts on the development of anti-cyberterrorism technology. (Sec. 811) Authorizes DOD or one of the military departments to acquire a product or service from Federal Prison Industries, Inc., only if such acquisition is made through a procurement contract awarded and administered under current law, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Allows such corporation to be used as a subcontractor, but prohibits the use of such corporation as a subcontractor, supplier of products, or provider of services from being imposed upon prospective or actual defense prime contractors or subcontractors. Provides for the protection of classified and sensitive information that such corporation's inmate worker may have access to. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to strive to renew any successfully performed technical assistance cooperative agreement with DOD at a funding level at least equal to that of the previous agreement. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Redesignates the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 902) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees providing an implementation plan for the United States Northern Command. (Sec. 903) Requires the national defense mission of the Coast Guard to be included in future DOD quadrennial defense reviews. Changes the year for submission of such reviews. (Sec. 905) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the effect on combat readiness of operations other than war (humanitarian, counter-drug, or peace operations, or nation assistance) in which military personnel are participating. (Sec. 907) Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts for the operation or administration of the National Defense University. Establishes the National Defense University Gift Fund. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act for FY 2003 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2002 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased pursuant to supplemental appropriations during such fiscal year. Provides the same adjustment for amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for defense-related activities during such fiscal year. Prohibits the transfer of funds from DOD "transfer accounts" until the Secretary submits certain transfer information to the defense and appropriations committees. Allows adjustment of the above appropriations in the case of a pending contingent emergency supplemental appropriation for DOD military or atomic energy defense activities only if the President transmits to Congress an official budget request for that appropriation that designates it as an emergency requirement. (Sec. 1003) Allows any military officer or civilian DOD employee designated by the Secretary to act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under DOD control. Extends to members of the Navy and Marine Corps current authority for pay deductions for damage to or repair of arms and equipment. (Sec. 1004) Authorizes the Secretary to designate as a 'departmental accountable official' any member of the armed forces or DOD civilian employee responsible for providing to a certifying DOD official information, data, or services that are directly relied upon by such official in the certification of payment vouchers. Authorizes the Secretary to impose pecuniary liability upon such a designated official in the event of an illegal, improper, or incorrect payment. (Sec. 1005) Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations governing the use and control of all purchase cards and convenience checks issued to DOD personnel for official use. Outlines required safeguards and internal controls with respect to the use of such cards and checks, and provides penalties for violations. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts provided in an appropriations Act for procurement for a covered acquisition program to amounts provided in the same Act for RDT&E for that program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees 30 days in advance of such a transfer. Limits such transfers to $20 million per program and $250 million total. Requires unused transferred funds to be transferred back to their original purpose. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the modernization of DOD's financial management systems and operations. Prohibits the obligation of more than 75 percent of the funds authorized for the DOD Financial Modernization Program until such report is received. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the Secretary to report to the: (1) defense and appropriations committees on military operations conducted as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; and (2) the defense committees on biological weapons defense and counter-proliferation. (Sec. 1013) Requires (currently, only required upon request) DOD reports to Congress to be accompanied by an electronic version. (Sec. 1014) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly prepare, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a plan for the U.S. strategic force structure for nuclear weapons and their delivery systems for FY 2002 through 2012. Directs the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress on options for achieving prior to FY 2012 a posture under which the United States maintains a level of operationally deployed nuclear warheads of 1,700 to 2,200, as outlined in the Nuclear Posture Review. (Sec. 1015) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan to establish a joint national training complex. (Sec. 1016) Amends Federal armed forces provisions and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to repeal various reporting requirements. (Sec. 1017) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD responsibilities, missions, and plans for military support of homeland security. (Sec. 1018) Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on the anticipated short- and long-term effects of the use of a: (1) nuclear earth penetrator weapon on target areas; and (2) nuclear-tipped ballistic missile interceptor and of ballistic missiles not intercepted. Requires the Secretary to transfer each report to Congress. (Sec. 1020) Terminates any recurring congressional reporting requirement that applies only to DOD or one or more DOD offices five years after such requirement is enacted. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Expresses the sense of Congress requesting the President to take specified actions to ensure the maintenance of a reliable, flexible, and robust strategic deterrent. (Sec. 1022) Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress the annual defense authorization request for a fiscal year during the first 30 days after the President transmits to Congress the budget for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1024) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, upon request of the Secretary of Defense, to provide insurance for a vessel, regardless of its country of registration or the citizenship of its owners, that is supporting a military operation approved by the North Atlantic Council, including a vessel not operating under contract with a Federal department or agency. Authorizes such Secretary to seek claims indemnification from a country benefitting from such insurance coverage if the county is a party to an international agreement for the sharing of risks involved in mutual or joint operations. (Sec. 1025) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell Navy Drydock YFD-69 in Portland, Oregon, to the Portland Shipyard LLC (its current user). (Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) establish 23 additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (for a total of 55 of such teams); and (2) ensure that of such 55 teams there is at least one team established for each State and territory. (Sec. 1027) Requires a DOD element that maintains a repository of DNA samples for human remains identification purposes to make such samples available, pursuant to a court order, for the investigation or prosecution of a felony or any sexual offense for which no other source of DNA information is available. (Sec. 1028) Expresses the sense of Congress that the number of Navy aircraft carriers in active service should not be less than 12. Commends aircraft carrier crews that have participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and the homeland defense mission. (Sec. 1029) Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a secure National Foreign Language Skills Registry of linguistically qualified U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens willing to provide linguistic services in times of emergency to assist DOD and other Federal agencies with translation and interpretation in critical languages. Authorizes the Secretary to accept voluntary translation and interpretation services. (Sec. 1030) Directs the Secretary to review and report on the effect of the contract award for the lead design agent for the DD(X) ship program on the industrial base for ship combat system development. (Sec. 1031) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to engage the President of the Russian Federation for enhanced cooperation to promote mutual security of tactical nuclear weapons. Outlines appropriate cooperative activities. Requires a report from the President to Congress on the status of cooperation objectives. (Sec. 1032) Increases by: (1) $65 million the amount authorized for Army missile procurement, to be available for an additional 24 PAC-3 missiles; and (2) $70 million the amount authorized for the Missile Defense Agency, to be available only for the Israeli Arrow Ballistic Missile Defense System program. (Sec. 1033) Authorizes the Secretary, upon request, to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to assist the: (1) Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens; and (2) U.S. Customs Service (Customs) in the inspection of cargo, vehicles, and aircraft to prevent the entry of weapons of mass destruction and related components, prohibited narcotics or drugs, or other terrorist or drug trafficking items.. Requires each member performing such duties to be accompanied by a civilian law enforcement officer from the appropriate agency. Authorizes the Attorney General or Secretary of the Treasury to establish ongoing joint task forces for responding to a threat to national security posed by the entry of terrorists or drug traffickers. Terminates such assignment authority at the end of FY 2005. (Sec. 1034) Expresses the sense of Congress that no funds appropriated pursuant to the authorizations in this Act should be used for any assistance to, or cooperation with or support for, the International Criminal Court. Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters - Makes employees of a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality eligible for Federal long-term care insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to determine whether a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality shall be so covered or is already covered under an alternative program. (Sec. 1102) Extends until October 1, 2006, the authority to make lump-sum severance payments to DOD employees. (Sec. 1103) Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in conducting and analyzing data provided in wage surveys, to provide for wage differentials for any hardship or hazard related to asbestos and possible asbestos exposure. (Sec. 1104) Extends, for individuals separated through FY 2005 (currently, FY 2002), Federal Employee Health Benefits Program eligibility based on involuntary separation from military service, or voluntary separation from a surplus position, in the Departments of Defense or Energy due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 1105) Requires OPM to conduct full-scale Federal wage surveys to determine prevailing wage rates every three (currently two) years. (Sec. 1106) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) prescribe professional certification and credential standards for professional accounting positions within DOD; and (2) waive such standards when appropriate. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on plans to provide training to appropriate DOD personnel to meet the new standards. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Limits to $15 million the total assistance authorized for support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities. Extends such authority through FY 2003. (Sec. 1202) Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a comprehensive plan to conduct joint operational training for, and exchanges of senior officers between, U.S. military forces and the military forces of Taiwan; and (2) submit such plan to Congress. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary, through FY 2005, to provide administrative services and support for foreign liaison officers performing duties while temporarily assigned to U.S. components or commands. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1204) Authorizes the Secretary to include, under a program in which the Secretary issues loan guarantees arising out of the sale or long-term lease of defense articles or services, a country that assists in combating drug trafficking organizations or foreign terrorist organizations. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and State to report to specified congressional committees enumerating those countries so included. (Sec. 1205) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 funds made available for activities associated with the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow, Russia, until: (1) the United States and Russian Federation enter into cost-sharing and tax exemption agreements; and (2) 30 days after the Secretary submits such agreements to the defense committees. (Sec. 1206) Prohibits any DOD funds from being used to support or maintain more than 500 members of the armed forces on duty in the Republic of Columbia at any time. Provides exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitation in the national security interest. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on such purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification. (Sec. 1303) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 2003 CTR funds until the submission of specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts. (Sec. 1304) Amends the Spence Act to include in a required report information on the use of revenue generated by activities carried out under CTR programs. (Sec. 1305) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the design, planning, or construction of a second wing for a storage facility for Russian fissile material. (Sec. 1306) Expresses the sense of Congress recognizing the threat of Russian proliferation to Iran of nuclear and missile technology, materials, and information. Requires a report from the President to Congress, in each of 2003 through 2009, describing in detail Russian proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile goods and technology, and of dual-use items that may contribute to the development of such weapons and missiles to Iran and other countries. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits the use of CTR funds for threat reduction projects, programs, or activities in countries other than the states of the former Soviet Union. (Sec. 1308) Makes certain restrictions under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 concerning the use of CTR funds without compliance with all relevant arms control agreements inapplicable with respect to U.S. assistance to Russia if the President certifies to Congress that waiving such restrictions is important to U.S. national security interests. Terminates such waiver authority on December 31, 2005. Requires a report from the President to Congress on any use of such authority. (Sec. 1309) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 CTR funds for defense and military contacts activities until the Secretary reports to Congress describing the operation and success of such activities carried out under CTR programs during FY 2001 and 2002. Title XIV: Utah Test and Training Range - States that nothing in this Act, the Wilderness Act, or other Federal land management laws shall restrict or preclude: (1) low-level military overflights and operations of military aircraft, helicopters, or unmanned aerial vehicles over the Utah Test and Training Range, including the Dugway Proving Ground; or (2) the designation of new or expansion of existing units of special use airspace, or the use or establishment of military training routes over federally designated wilderness or wilderness study areas, within such Range. Prohibits the removal of existing communications, instrumentation, or electronic tracking systems from such areas, as well as any other equipment necessary to meet military testing and training requirements. Requires timely access to such areas to respond to emergency situations. Directs the Secretaries of the Air Force and Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding for access to the wilderness areas located beneath the airspace of the Range. Authorizes restricted or prohibited public access to such areas when required by national security or public safety. (Sec. 1403) Designates specified Federal lands within the Range as wilderness areas, and withdraws such lands from all forms or entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including mining and mineral and geothermal leasing. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer such wilderness areas. Authorizes fish and wildlife habitat restoration and livestock grazing within such areas, where appropriate. (Sec. 1404) Designates as wilderness certain Federal lands in: (1) Box Elder County, Utah, to be known as the Pilot Range Wilderness Area; and (2) Tooele County, Utah, to be known as the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - 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, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2002 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 2002 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at the Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those 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 carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2002 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2404) Amends various military construction authorization Acts to increase the amounts authorized for chemical demilitarization projects at the: (1) Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; (2) Newport Army Depot, Indiana; and (3) Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado. 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 and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2006, 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 - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in connection with any military housing acquired or constructed, to furnish firefighting, fire protection, and police protection services. Repeals the authority for interim leases of military family housing units or military unaccompanied housing units. Establishes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund. (Currently, there are two separate funds for improvements to military family housing and military unaccompanied housing.) Provides for Fund credits. Increases the total budget authority of contracts and investments using Fund authorities. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Fund unobligated amounts from the previous separate funds. (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary concerned (currently, the Secretary of Defense) to carry out construction projects as part of a required environmental response action, requiring congressional notification when amounts for such projects exceed the unspecified minor construction threshold. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease additional family housing units in Korea both at and above the current lease limit of $25,000 per year (to a maximum of $35,000 per year). (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) carry out up to three pilot projects to use the private sector for the acquisition or construction of military unaccompanied housing in the United States, including any U.S. territory or possession; and (2) assign members of the armed forces to such housing. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to set specific higher rates of partial basic allowance for housing for members assigned to such units. Utilizes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund to carry out activities under the pilot projects. Authorizes a transfer to such Fund, subject to 90 days prior notification of the appropriate congressional committees, from amounts appropriated for construction of military unaccompanied housing projects in military construction accounts. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Navy to the appropriate congressional committees on pilot project activities and related contractual information. Terminates pilot project authority at the end of FY 2007. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with private entities to limit space encroachments and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations on or in the vicinity of military installations. Outlines agreement requirements and conditions. Provides agreement funding through specified O&M funds. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convey surplus real property to eligible recipients to undertake natural resource conservation activities. Provides a reversionary interest if the property is not used and maintained for such purposes. Authorizes the release of covenants with respect to such property. (Sec. 2813) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to make certain screening requirements for property used in support of response actions inapplicable to excess or surplus DOD property used for responding to: (1) a war or national emergency; or (2) an emergency or major disaster. (Sec. 2814) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration program to assess the feasibility and desirability of including facility maintenance requirements in up to 12 military construction contracts to determine whether such requirements facilitate reductions in the long-term facility maintenance costs of the military departments. Requires a program report from the Secretary to Congress. Terminates program authority at the end of FY 2006. Provides funding from military construction funds. (Sec. 2815) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to repeal a provision which prohibits the Secretary from transferring certain property in exchange for military housing units if the property is identified in a redevelopment plan for a closed or realigned military installation as essential to that installation's reuse or redevelopment. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) any of certain eligible entities in Alaska certain Alaska lands determined to be no longer required for National Guard purposes; (2) the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, an abandoned railroad spur at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for storm water management, recreation, transportation, and other public purposes; (3) the Buffalo, Minnesota Independent School District 877 the former Army reserve training center in Buffalo; (4) El Paso County, Texas, a portion of Fort Bliss, Texas, for the construction of a veterans' nursing home; (5) the Veterans Land Board of the State of Texas a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, for establishing a State-run cemetery for veterans; and (6) a recipient under competitive bid procedures certain military family housing at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in order to build replacement military family housing or to rehabilitate existing housing units. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to ENPEX Corporation a portion of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, for the production of electric power and related activities. (Sec. 2832) Directs the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia, and Prince William Forest Park, Virginia, to conform to the boundaries depicted on a specified map depicting such boundary adjustments. Provides for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of specified portions of such areas following the boundary adjustment. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to West Wendover, Nevada, and Tooele County, Utah, specified portions of the Wendover Air Force Base auxiliary filed determined by the Secretary of the Air Force to be no longer required for Air Force purposes. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to a previously-specified entity for the construction and maintenance of a restricted access highway (current law), notwithstanding any State law that would otherwise prevent either such Secretary from granting the easement or the entity from constructing and maintaining such highway. (Sec. 2862) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell treated water and wastewater treatment services from facilities at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, if such Secretary determines that the provision of such water and services will be in the public interest and will not interfere with current or future Camp operations. (Sec. 2863) Ratifies a specified agreement regarding the conveyance of property at the Adak Naval Complex, Alaska. Removes such land, upon its conveyance, from the National Wildlife Refuge System. Authorizes related conveyances. (Sec. 2864) Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that: (1) any decision by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission to add an installation to the list for closure must be unanimous; and (2) at least two Commission members must have visited the added installation during the period of the Commission's list review. 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 2003 for: (1) activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for weapons activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, naval reactors, and the Office of the Administrator for Nuclear Security; and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities and other defense activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental restoration and waste management, defense environmental management cleanup reform, defense facilities closure projects, defense environmental management privatization, other defense activities, and defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions - Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions Act - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this subtitle for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, 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 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, or 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. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary 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 Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. (Sec. 3130) Directs the Secretary to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer weapons activities funds from a program or project of that office to another such program or project when such transfer is necessary to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or will result in cost savings and efficiencies. Limits such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the Thurmond Act to extend until April 1, 2003, the authority of a panel to assess the reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Extends a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 3142) Transfers from the Secretary of Defense to the Administrator for Nuclear Security the CTR program relating to the elimination of weapons grade plutonium in Russia, along with related activities and assets. (Sec. 3143) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to repeal report requirements on the obligation of funds for programs on fissile materials in Russia. (Sec. 3144) Requires the head of each DOE national security laboratory and the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command to report annually to the Secretary concerned (Defense or Energy) a certification regarding the safety, reliability, and performance of each nuclear weapon type in the active stockpile of the United States for which such official is responsible. Requires an annual report from such Secretaries to the President and Congress on certifications received. Requires each national security laboratory head to assemble "red teams" to provide oversight with respect to such certifications. Requires each laboratory head and the strategic commander to report on the stockpile stewardship and management program of DOE. (Sec. 3145) Directs the Secretary to prepare, and include within DOE budget justification documents for FY 2004, a plan for achieving a one-year readiness posture for U.S. resumption of underground nuclear weapons tests. (Sec. 3146) States it to be U.S. policy not to conduct development which could lead to the production of a new low-yield nuclear weapon, including a precision low-yield warhead. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting any such development which has not entered into production on the date of enactment of this Act. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Defense Environmental Management - Directs the Secretary, using funds made available under this title, to carry out a program to reform DOE environmental management activities. Requires a site performance management plan for each site for which the Secretary allocates funding for such program. (Sec. 3152) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of those environmental management initiatives being undertaken to accelerate the reduction of environmental risks and challenges that, as a result of the legacy of the Cold War, and faced by DOE, its contractors, and applicable Federal and State regulatory agencies. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2003, to obligate up to $76.4 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 Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 2003 to carry out activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3502) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the vessel USS SPHINX to the Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum upon certain conditions, including that: (1) the recipient uses the vessel as a nonprofit military museum and not for commercial transportation; and (2) the recipient makes the vessel available to the Government when required by such Secretary. (Sec. 3503) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide, to any State to which an obsolete ship is transferred, financial assistance to prepare the ship for use as an artificial reef, including costs for environmental remediation, towing, and sinking. (Sec. 3504) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to obtain independent analysis of an application for the guarantee or commitment to guarantee financing for the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of a covered vessel.

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Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) defense health programs. Subtitle B: Army Programs - (Sec. 111) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) extend through 2004 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources; (2) allow the use of a percentage of Army surplus funds for unutilized plant capacity to be transferred and used for the demilitarization of Army conventional ammunition; and (3) require the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD) to review the experience under the above pilot program and report review results to Congress. (Sec. 112) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to submit to the Chief of Staff of the Army a report on the requirements for Army National Guard aviation. Directs the Army Chief of Staff to forward such report, with recommendations, to the defense committees. (Sec. 113) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of vehicles under the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles program after making certain certifications to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to program parameters and total cost. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to waive the total cost limitations upon certification to such committees that the waiver serves national security interests. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - (Sec. 121) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to extend until October 1, 2007, multiyear procurement authority for DDG-51 class destroyers. (Sec. 122) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should maintain a scope of conversion for Ticonderoga-class cruisers so that all 27 cruisers are covered and modernized. (Sec. 123) Continues in effect a current Navy contract for the operation of five Champion-class T-5 fuel tanker vessels until either contract termination or until the vessels are no longer used. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - (Sec. 131) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of up to 64 C-130J aircraft after undertaking certain testing and software upgrades. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a list of Air Force programs designated as acquisition reform pathfinder programs. Sets forth provisions requiring program oversight and reports to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 133) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from entering into a lease under a multi-year pilot program for leasing general purpose Boeing 767 and 737 aircraft for the acquisition of Air Force tanker aircraft until: (1) such Secretary submits a required report; (2) authorization and appropriation of funds are provided by law; and (3) a new start reprogramming notification for necessary funding has been submitted. Subtitle E: Other Programs - (Sec. 141) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the chemical agents and munitions stockpile destruction program is managed as a major defense acquisition program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), beginning with the budget request for FY 2004, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a certification that the budget request for such program has been submitted in accordance with separate budgeting requirements under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. (Sec. 142) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on unmanned aerial vehicle systems of DOD. (Sec. 143) Prohibits the obligation of authorized funds for the Global Information Grid system until the Secretary submits to the defense and appropriations committees a plan relating to bandwidth expansion efforts. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program, including basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development projects. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for carrying out DOD health care programs, projects, and activities. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - (Sec. 211) Requires quarterly reports during FY 2003 from the Secretary of the Army to the defense committees on the progress of the restructured engineering and manufacturing development phase of the RAH-66 Comanche aircraft program. (Sec. 212) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2008 a requirement relating to management responsibility for naval mine countermeasures programs. Requires the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) to carry out responsibilities under such program. Prohibits the Secretary from carrying out any change with respect to such program's master plan or budget resource until the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Under Secretary) has notified the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 213) Revises plan requirements under the DOD Manufacturing Technology Program and requires reports biennially (currently, annually). (Sec. 214) Transfers funds authorized and appropriated for FY 2002 for procurement of the Advanced SEAL Delivery System to amounts to be used during FY 2003 for RDT&E for such System. (Sec. 215) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to Congress on the Army experimentation program regarding objective force design as required under a prior defense authorization Act. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to provide the Army, not later than FY 2008, with a self-propelled Future Combat Systems non-line-of-sight cannon indirect fire capability to equip the objective force. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Earmarks program funds from Army RDT&E funds. (Sec. 217) Prohibits the Medical Free Electron Laser Program from being transferred from DOD to the National Institutes of Health or any other Federal department or agency. (Sec. 218) Earmarks specified Navy RDT&E funds for requirements development for the littoral combat ship, but requires a development report from the Secretary of the Navy to the defense and appropriations committees before such funds may be obligated. Specifies requirements to be included under the acquisition strategy for such ship. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - (Sec. 221) Requires: (1) an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on requirements relating to ballistic missile defense programs; (2) RDT&E with respect to such programs to be separately budget-justified; (3) the JROC to review missile defense program criteria of the Missile Defense Agency; and (4) the Secretary to submit JROC review results to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 222) Requires responsibility for RDT&E related to system improvements of ballistic missile defense programs to remain with the Director of the Missile Defense Agency. (Sec. 223) Prohibits the obligation of more than 85 percent of the funds authorized for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense program until the Secretary submits to the defense and appropriations committees such program's estimated total life cost. (Sec. 224) Requires the Missile Defense Agency Director to provide the defense and appropriations committees information on the results of each flight of the Ground-based Midcourse national missile defense system. (Sec. 225) Amends various Federal provisions and national defense authorization Acts to reflect the change in the name of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to the Missile Defense Agency. (Sec. 226) Prohibits the obligation of funds available to DOD or the Department of Energy for RDT&E, or for procurement, of a nuclear armed interceptor as a component of a missile defense system. Subtitle D: Improved Management of Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Facilities - (Sec. 231) Establishes within DOD a Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center, headed by a Director and Deputy Director. Requires the Director, at least every two fiscal years, to complete a strategic plan reflecting DOD needs with respect to test and evaluation facilities and resources over a ten-year period. Requires the Director to submit each plan to the Secretary, to be forwarded to the defense and appropriations committees with comments and recommendations. Requires the Director to review each test and evaluation facility and resource budget submitted by each military department and defense agency and to report to the Secretary on budget accuracy and whether such budgets support the applicable strategic plan. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the proposed budgets. (Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an objective for institutional funding of test and evaluation facilities by FY 2006. (Sec. 233) Directs the Secretary to implement a single financial management and accounting system for all DOD test and evaluation facilities as soon as practicable, but by no later than September 30, 2006. (Sec. 234) Requires the Under Secretary to report to Congress on capabilities of the DOD test and evaluation workforce, including a plan to ensure that such workforce is of sufficient size and expertise to timely and accurately identify issues of military suitability and effectiveness of DOD systems through appropriate testing. (Sec. 235) Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to include in a required annual operational test and evaluation report an assessment of the waivers and deviations from DOD system test and evaluation master plans and other requirements. Subtitle E: Other Matters - (Sec. 241) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Requires reports from the Secretary to Congress on such program and the revitalization pilot programs (previously authorized). Extends the revitalization pilot programs for an additional three years. Authorizes laboratories and test centers participating in any of the pilot programs to enter into cooperative agreements with private-sector entities and institutions of higher education for the performance of work. (Sec. 242) Directs the Secretary to carry out a Technology Transition Initiative to facilitate the rapid transition of new technologies from science and technology programs of DOD into acquisition programs for the production of such technologies. Requires projects for the Initiative to be submitted by the military departments and defense agencies. Establishes a Technology Transition Council. Requires the Under Secretary to report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on Initiative activities. Earmarks DOD RDT&E funds for such Initiative. (Sec. 243) Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program for the increased introduction of innovative and cost-saving technologies in DOD acquisition programs. Requires the Under Secretary to establish one or more panels of highly qualified scientists and engineers to evaluate Program proposals. Provides for full review and evaluation of all Program proposals submitted by appropriate DOD officials. Directs the Under Secretary, in carrying out each evaluation, to ensure the elimination of conflicts of interest. Requires reports during the Program period (until the end of FY 2007). (Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to carry out a three-year program of outreach to small businesses and non-traditional defense contractors to review and evaluate activities and technologies that have the potential for meeting the DOD mission of combating terrorism. Requires a review panel to evaluate program proposals. (Sec. 245) Directs the Secretary to carry out a vehicle fuel cell technology development program in cooperation with the Secretary of Energy, appropriate Federal agencies, and industry. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the program. (Sec. 246) Requires the Secretary to carry out a defense nanotechnology research and development (R&D) program. Requires the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, during each of 2004 through 2007, to report to the defense and appropriations committees on such program. (Sec. 247) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to authorize additional activities under the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. (Sec. 248) Extends through FY 2007 the authority of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to award prizes for defense advanced technology development achievements. Requires a report from the Agency Director to the defense and appropriations committees on the Director's proposal for the administration of such program. Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of defense agencies to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements designed to promote science, mathematics, engineering, or technology education in support of DOD missions. Limits cash prizes to $1 million. Requires an annual report from each Secretary and agency head on the administration of the awards program. Terminates at the end of FY 2006 the authority to award such prizes. (Sec. 249) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for a five-year research program to provide for the incorporation of results of basic research on sensors into the measurement and signatures intelligence systems of the United States. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Earmarks specified O&M funds to make grants to the National Guard Youth Foundation. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - (Sec. 311) Authorizes the use of cross-fiscal year agreements under DOD cooperative agreements for environmental purposes. (Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary to establish a program manager to serve as the single point of contact in DOD for policy and budgeting issues involving the characterization, remediation, and management of explosive and related risks with respect to unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents at defense sites that pose a threat to human health or safety. (Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to carry out an environmental restoration project determined necessary as a DOD response under current requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Prohibits any project construction, development, conversion, or extension from being considered military construction. (Sec. 314) Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a tracking system to identify the extent to which the Defense Logistics Agency procures environmentally preferable procurement items or items made with recovered material; (2) assess the need to train and educate DOD procurement officials toward such procurement; and (3) report to the defense committees on the results of the tracking system. (Sec. 315) Makes specified provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act inapplicable to the incidental taking of a migratory bird by a member of the armed forces during an authorized military readiness activity for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the date that regulations concerning such taking have taken effect. Provides for incidental taking after the interim period. Limits judicial review with respect to such regulations. Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - (Sec. 321) Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide base operating support for Fisher Houses associated with health care facilities of that department. (Sec. 322) Authorizes a member of the National Guard called to duty during a national emergency to use commissary stores and morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) retail facilities during such duty on the same basis as active-duty military personnel. (Sec. 323) Allows DOD MWR funds to be treated as nonappropriated funds and expended in accordance with laws applicable to the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the Secretary to identify positions of employment within DOD MWR programs which are paid with appropriated funds whose status may be converted to positions of employment with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality. (Sec. 324) Includes Navy Exchange Markets in authorized rebate agreements under the DOD special supplemental food program. Allows such agreements to last up to three years. Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues - (Sec. 331) Requires the Secretary, upon completion of an analysis of a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function for possible conversion to performance by the private sector, to submit to Congress a report containing analysis results and related information. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to waive the prohibition against the contracting for the performance of security-guard functions at a military installation and to enter into such a contract when undertaken in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, if: (1) without the contract, members of the armed forces would be used; and (2) the Secretary concerned makes certain determinations concerning the use of contractor personnel for such purposes. Terminates such authority three years after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to develop a needs assessment and plan with respect to such contracting. (Sec. 333) Repeals obsolete provisions concerning the use of competitive procedures in contracting for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads formerly performed at closed or realigned military installations. Subtitle E: Defense Dependents Education - (Sec. 341) Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each educational agency eligible for such assistance. (Sec. 342) Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to authorize a military quarters allowance for teachers unaccompanied by dependents who are required to reside on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. (Sec. 343) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to fund summer school programs on the same basis as programs offered during the regular school year. (Sec. 344) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make eligible for basic support payments made to local educational agencies those heavily impacted agencies affected by the privatization of military housing. (Sec. 345) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to include within a required study by the Comptroller General (CG) whether the process for setting the compensation for teachers participating in the defense dependents' education program is efficient and cost-effective. Extends a related report requirement. Subtitle F: Information Technology - (Sec. 351) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a description of, and relevant budget information on, each DOD information technology and national security capital asset that, for the fiscal year in which: (1) the budget is submitted, has a cost in excess of $10 million; and (2) the description is submitted, has a cost in excess of $30 million and an estimated life cycle cost in excess of $120 million. Requires additional information with respect to such high-threshold assets. (Sec. 352) Directs the Secretary to establish a policy to limit the acquisition of information assurance technology products to those products that have been evaluated and validated in accordance with appropriate criteria, schemes, or programs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such policy for U.S. national security purposes. (Sec. 353) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish clear and uniform policy and procedures, applicable to the military departments and defense agencies, regarding the installation and connection of telecom switches to the Defense Switch Network; and (2) prepare and maintain an inventory of untested telecom switches that have been added to such Network. Subtitle G: Other Matters - (Sec. 361) Requires monthly reports to the defense and appropriations committees (currently, to Congress) on the allocation of funds within DOD O&M budget subactivities. (Sec. 362) Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Spence Act) to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the arsenal program support initiative (a program of support for Army manufacturing arsenals); (2) extend and revise related reporting requirements; and (3) extend through FY 2003 the defense employees work safety demonstration program. (Sec. 364) Prohibits the Secretary from authorizing the Defense Security Service to impose investigative fees on a fee-for-service basis unless the Secretary certifies in advance to the defense committees that the Service has the financial systems in place to accurately determine the cost of such services. (Sec. 365) Authorizes the Secretary to make available logistics support and services in support of contractor performance in a DOD contract for the construction, modification, or maintenance of a weapon system entered into by a DOD official. Limits the number of such contracts to five, the total estimated costs of all such contracts to $100 million, and contract duration to five years. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations ensuring that such services are provided only when in the best interests of the United States. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2007. (Sec. 366) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for using existing military authorities to address training restraint caused by limitations on the use of military lands, marine areas, and airspace that are available in the United States and overseas for training of the armed forces. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD plans to improve the Global Status of Resources and Training System. Requires the: (1) Secretary to develop and maintain a training range inventory for each military branch; and (2) Comptroller General (CG) to evaluate the plan and report submitted under this section. (Sec. 367) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a preliminary engineering study and environmental analysis to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a connector between Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 1) and Telegraph Road, in order to provide an alternative to certain roads closed as a force protection measure. Expresses the sense of Congress that the study should consider as one alternative the extension of Old Mill Road between Richmond Highway and Telegraph Road. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress. Provides funds through Army O&M funds. (Sec. 368) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2004 the warranty claims recovery pilot program. (Sec. 369) Includes nonprofit military aviation heritage foundations and associations among entities eligible to receive transfers of excess DOD materiel. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - (Sec. 401) Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2003. Revises certain permanent end strength minimum levels. (Sec. 403) Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to increase the active-duty end strength by up to three percent in the national security interest; and (2) the Secretary of the military department concerned to increase the authorized active-duty end strength by up to two percent in order to enhance manning and readiness in essential units or in critical specialties or ratings. (Sec. 404) Excludes from general and flag officer end strength limits the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Increases the number of lieutenant generals authorized for the Marine Corps. Directs the Secretary to review and report to Congress on current active-duty and reserve general and flag officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 405) Extends through December 31, 2004, certain authorities relating to the management of end strengths of general and flag officers in certain grades. (Sec. 406) Increases the authorized end strength for Marine Corps officers on active duty in the grade of colonel. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - (Sec. 411) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2003 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum end strength for FY 2003 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians. (Sec. 414) Places specified FY 2003 limitations on the number of dual-status and non-dual status technicians employed by the Army and Air Force. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 421) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - (Sec. 501) Extends through December 31, 2004, the waiver from the significant joint duty experience requirement for officers appointed to a reserve chief or Guard director position when such waiver is exercised for the good of the service. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on: (1) steps that have been taken to ensure that Reserve and National Guard officers receive significant joint duty experience; and (2) the date by which no further extension will be required. (Sec. 502) Excludes certain officers from the ten-percent limit on the authority to grant a waiver from the sequencing or completion of a program of joint professional military education for officers selected to the joint specialty. Terminates such exclusion on October 1, 2006. (Sec. 503) Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to order to active duty a retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill positions normally filled by aviators on active duty, with the officer's consent. Limits such authority to 500 officers at any one time. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2008. (Sec. 504) Requires the heads of the Nurse Corps for the Army, Navy, and Air Force to be appointed in the grade of major general (currently, brigadier general). Establishes the positions of: (1) Chief of Legislative Liaison in both the Army and Air Force in the grade of major general; (2) Chief of Legislative Affairs in the Navy in the grade of rear admiral; and (3) Legislative Assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in a grade above colonel. (Sec. 505) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the service Secretaries to reduce the time-in-grade requirement for retirement for active-duty or reserve officers to no less than two years for retirements effective between October 1, 2002, and December 31, 2003. Allows a service Secretary to approve an early retirement of a flag or general officer only if approved by the Secretary or a Senate-confirmed civilian official in the Office of the Secretary. Requires advance notice to the defense committees on the use of early retirement authority for flag or general officers. (Sec. 506) Allows the Secretary concerned to require an officer to take leave pending the completion of an action by a board of inquiry to determine whether the officer should be removed from active duty. Provides that when the leave such officer takes is charged as excess leave, and upon a subsequent determination to not remove such officer from active duty, the officer shall be paid for the period charged as excess leave. Accrues all pay and allowances such officer would have been entitled to during such leave period, reduced by any other Federal benefits received. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management - (Sec. 511) Requires the: (1) CG to report to Congress on the management of the National Guard, including reviews of National Guard strength accounting and management and related issues; and (2) Secretary to report to Congress on the differing Army and Air Force policies for taking adverse administrative actions against National Guard officers in a State status. (Sec. 512) Requires courts-martial for members of the National Guard when not performing in Federal service to be as provided by the laws of the respective State, territory, possession, or the District of Columbia. Provides convening authority for the courts-martial of the National Guard when not performing in the Federal service for: (1) general, special, and summary courts-martial by the respective State, territory, possession, and District of Columbia; (2) general courts-martial by the President; and (3) special courts-martial by the appropriate commanding officer. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare, for consideration of enactment by the States, a model State code of military justice and a model State manual of courts-martial for use with respect to the National Guard when not performing in Federal service; and (2) report to the defense committees on implementation of the model code and manual requirements. (Sec. 513) Authorizes the use of FY 2003 reserve military personnel funds for personnel expenses of reserve Special Operations forces incurred during such fiscal year in connection with landmine clearance assistance. Provides a limitation and requires reimbursement. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a legislative proposal to ensure that personnel expenses for both active and reserve personnel providing such assistance are specified in detail and specifically budgeted for authorization and appropriation from the appropriate military personnel accounts. (Sec. 514) Authorizes the use of Selected Reserve, certain Individual Ready Reserve, and full-time Guard and Reserve personnel in providing assistance in or responding to an emergency involving a threatened or actual terrorist attack in the United States that results, or could result, in catastrophic loss of life or property. (Sec. 515) Repeals provisions which prohibit the use of Air Force Reserve AGR personnel (recruiters, instructors, and trainers) for Air Force base security functions. Subtitle C: Reserve Component Officer Personnel Policy - (Sec. 521) Makes eligible for promotion to the grade of reserve Army or Air Force major general reserve brigadier generals not otherwise eligible for promotion because the officer' does not have the required one year of continuous service, if: (1) the officer was transferred from an inactive status to the reserve active status during the year preceding the convening of the promotion board; (2) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an active status, the officer had been in an inactive status for less than one year; and (3) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an inactive status, the officer had continuously served for at least one year on the reserve active status or active-duty list. (Sec. 522) Provides that in the case of a reserve officer required to be retired or separated, if the Secretary concerned determines that the evaluation of the physical condition of the officer and determination of the officer's entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization or medical observation that cannot be completed before the officer's retirement or separation date, such Secretary may defer such retirement or separation until 30 days after the completion of the hospitalization or medical observation. Subtitle D: Enlistment, Education, and Training Programs - (Sec. 531) Directs the Secretary to carry out an enlistment incentive program under which a National Call to Service participant shall be entitled to one of specified incentives (bonus payment, student loan repayment, educational assistance) in return for active-duty service in a military occupational specialty designated as facilitating pursuit of national service. Requires the participant to select which incentive to receive. Coordinates educational assistance chosen with Montgomery GI Bill benefits. Requires pro rata incentive repayment for active-duty periods not successfully served, but allows the Secretary concerned to waive such repayment when against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Requires: (1) the incentives program to begin no later than October 1, 2003; and (2) an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 532) Provides for a phased increase to 4,400 in the authorized end strengths for each of the military service academies. Prohibits any increases for any academic year after 2007-2008. Directs the Secretary of each military department to seek to achieve an increase, by the 2006-2007 academic year, of not less than 400 Reserve Officers' Training Corps participants. (Sec. 533) Increases from 270 days to one year the time allowed following enlistment in the reserve or National Guard prior to commencement of an initial period of active duty. (Sec. 534) Directs the Secretary to conduct and report to the defense committees on a review of the programs of the active and reserve forces for preparation for, participation in, and conduct of athletic competitions. (Sec. 535) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to repeal the bar to eligibility for educational loan repayment programs for persons receiving allowances for participation in the College First Program. Subtitle E: Decorations and Awards - (Sec. 541) Waives time limitations for the award of the Army Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals with respect to whom the Secretary of the Army determined that such awards were warranted. (Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned to award eligible Vietnam evacuation veterans the Vietnam Service Medal, notwithstanding other applicable requirements. (Sec. 543) Directs the Secretary concerned to issue a campaign medal, to be known as the Korea Defense Service Medal, to each member who served in the Republic of Korea or adjacent waters during a specified period and who meets appropriate service requirements. (Sec. 544) Expresses appreciation for, and requests the President to issue a proclamation recognizing, the outstanding contributions that all military chaplains make to members of the armed forces and their families. Subtitle F: Administrative Matters - (Sec. 551) Directs the Secretary to ensure sufficient staffing and funding for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. (Sec. 552) Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during FY 2003 through 2005, from reducing the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to the review and correction of military records until 90 days after a report is submitted to Congress explaining the reduction and its rationale. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the use of volunteer proctors for the administration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test) to secondary school students. (Sec. 554) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to extend until September 1, 2002, the active force drawdown period for purposes of the temporary authority to approve retirements of members with at least 15 but less than 20 years of active service. Subtitle G: Matters Relating to Minorities and Women in the Armed Forces - (Sec. 561) Directs the Secretary to carry out four quadrennial surveys to identify and assess racial and ethnic issues and discrimination, and gender issues and discrimination, among members of the armed forces. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress following each survey. Makes survey requirements inapplicable to the Coast Guard. (Sec. 562) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress in each of FY 2002 through 2006 on the status of female military personnel, including positions for which female members are ineligible, joint spouse assignments, and promotion and selection retention rates. (Sec. 563) Prohibits a superior officer from requiring a female member of the armed forces to wear the abaya garment or any part thereof while in Saudi Arabia pursuant to a permanent change of station or orders for temporary duty. Requires the Secretary to inform such personnel of such prohibition, orally and in writing, upon or within 48 hours prior to their arrival for such duty. Prohibits any funds made available to DOD from being used to purchase abayas for either such personnel or contractor personnel accompanying such forces. Subtitle H: Benefits - (Sec. 571) Authorizes the Secretary to provide either transportation and expenses or a prescribed daily stipend for civilians participating in a military funeral honors detail. (Sec. 572) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to grant a member emergency leave of absence for up to 14 days for a qualifying emergency (one that is due to a medical condition of an immediate family member or any other appropriate hardship as determined by such Secretary). (Sec. 573) Repeals a provision which prohibits participants in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program from participating in the DOD medical loan repayment program. (Sec. 574) Authorizes an alternative destination (other than home and back) allowance for enlisted personnel extending tours of duty at designated overseas locations. (Sec. 575) Authorizes vehicle storage in lieu of vehicle transportation when a member is ordered to a U.S. duty station in a nonforeign area outside the continental United States. Subtitle I: Reports - (Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary, every four years, to: (1) conduct a comprehensive examination of the quality of life of military personnel; and (2) report examination results to the defense committees. (Sec. 582) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the desirability and feasibility of consolidating the separate Army, Navy, and Air Force courses for judge advocates into a single course conducted at a single location. (Sec. 583) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress periodically on U.S. efforts to determine the status of Captain Michael Scott Speicher, U.S. Navy, whose aircraft was shot down over Iraq. Terminates the report requirement upon a final status determination. (Sec. 584) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on volunteer services of members of reserve components during the period of September 11-14, 2001. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - (Sec. 601) Waives any FY 2003 pay increase tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2003, the rates of basic pay for military personnel by a minimum of 4.1 percent. (Sec. 602) Expands the basic allowance for housing in cases of low-cost or no-cost moves for members assigned to duty outside the United States when the Secretary concerned determines that it would be inequitable to base the member's housing allowance on the cost of housing in the area to which the member is reassigned. (Sec. 603) Authorizes the Secretary, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, to pay double the normal rate of basic allowance for subsistence to enlisted personnel occupying single Government quarters which have no adequate food storage, preparation, or messing facility. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - (Sec. 611) Extends through 2003 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2002 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Increases the maximum rates of special pays, bonuses, or financial assistance for the following military health care officers: (1) medical and dental officers; (2) optometrists; (3) registered nurses and nurse anesthetists; (4) pharmacy officers; and (5) nurse officer candidates. (Sec. 616) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay monthly assignment incentive pay to a member for any period that the member performs service in an assignment designated by that Secretary. Requires the service period to be specified via written agreement. Provides a maximum rate of $1,500 monthly. Prohibits any such agreement from being entered into after December 31, 2005. Requires reports from the Secretary to the defense committees in 2004 and 2005 on the exercise of such authority. (Sec. 617) Increases the reenlistment bonus for persons with prior enlisted service. (Sec. 618) Makes limitations on the maximum bonus amount that may be paid to officers retained in a critical military skill inapplicable to an officer assigned duties as a health care provider. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - (Sec. 621) Extends the authorized period for leave travel for members performing consecutive overseas tours of duty to any time before the end of the consecutive tour (currently, within one year after beginning the consecutive tour). (Sec. 622) Authorizes two (currently one) privately owned vehicles to be transported for a member or dependent between a residence and duty station (and vice versa), but allows payment for late delivery only if both vehicles arrive after their delivery date. Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - (Sec. 631) Reduces from eight to six years the qualifying service requirement for eligibility for retired pay for non-regular service. (Sec. 632) Increases by ten percent the military retired pay for enlisted personnel credited with extraordinary heroism in the line of duty. (Sec. 633) Eliminates any possible inversion in the retired pay cost-of-living adjustment in the case of an initial adjustment using a retired member's final pay. (Sec. 634) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to make technical clarifications to the so-called "forgotten widows" military survivors' annuity program. (Sec. 636) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to each eligible combat-related disabled military retiree who elects such benefit a monthly amount for such disability. Prohibits individuals receiving such amount from also receiving special compensation for severely disabled military retirees as provided under Federal armed forces law. Subtitle E: Montgomery GI Bill - (Sec. 641) Extends the period of eligibility for the use of Selected Reserve educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 (currently ten) years after the date on which a person first becomes so entitled. (Sec. 642) States that a person's obligation to repay the amount of educational assistance received as a member of the Selected Reserve due to the failure to perform duty obligations, including training, shall be considered a debt owed to the United States which is not discharged in a bankruptcy that occurs less than five years after such person's entitlement or other service. (Sec. 643) Makes the monthly rate of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for dependents to whom assistance entitlement is transferred by members of the armed forces with critical skills the same rate as would have been provided to such members. Subtitle F: Other Matters - (Sec. 651) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay the interest and any special allowances that accrue on one or more student loans of a member who: (1) is serving on active duty in fulfillment of his or her first enlistment in the armed forces or who, in the case of an officer, has not completed more than three years on active duty; (2) is the debtor on one or more unpaid loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (3) is not in loan default. Provides a maximum period of 36 months for such payments. Requires the Secretary to transfer to the Secretary of Education funds sufficient for such payments. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow eligible loan debtors under such Act, including those receiving Perkins loans, to receive such payments and to allow the Secretary of Education to pay such interest and allowances for up to 36 months. (Sec. 652) Authorizes the Secretary to provide families of military personnel on active duty any assistance appropriate to ensure that children of such personnel obtain needed child care, education, and other youth services, with the primary focus of such assistance directed at children of personnel assigned to active duty in connection with a contingency operation. (Sec. 653) Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 which allows faculty members at certain DOD schools to accept honoraria for scholarly and academic activities. (Sec. 654) Revises or adds definitions to Federal military pay provisions. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Program Improvements - (Sec. 701) Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to make the requirement of TRICARE preauthorization of inpatient mental health care inapplicable to Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. (Sec. 702). Continues TRICARE eligibility for dependents of members residing at remote locations when the dependent resided with the member at one location but is not authorized to accompany the member to a new location, or when the dependent is residing with a member of the reserves ordered to active duty for more than 30 days in a residence located more than 50 miles or one hour's driving time from the nearest military medical treatment facility. (Sec. 703) Makes surviving dependents eligible for TRICARE dental benefits when the dependent is not enrolled in such plan by reason of discontinuance of a prior enrollment due to its required termination. (Sec. 704) Changes the source of funds for payments into the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund from DOD health care programs to pay of members. Requires all military departments to participate in payments to the Fund. (Sec. 705) Approves to provide CHAMPUS medical care a physician or other health care practitioner eligible to receive reimbursement for services provided under Medicare. (Sec. 707) Extends through 2003 the authority of DOD to enter into personal services contracts for the performance of health care services for members at locations other than military medical facilities. (Sec. 708) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a process for resolving issues relating to patient safety and continuity of care for covered beneficiaries who are concurrently entitled to TRICARE health care and health care services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires a process report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Requires the CG to study health care issues of covered beneficiaries and to report study results to the defense committees. (Sec. 709) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a comprehensive plan for the review, declassification, and submittal to the Department of Veterans Affairs of all DOD medical records and information on Project 112 (the DOD chemical and biological weapons vulnerability testing program) that are relevant to the provision of benefits by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to members who participated in the Project. Requires an implementation report from the CG and the Secretary. Subtitle B: Reports - (Sec. 711) Directs the Secretary to limit information requirements in support of claims for payment of TRICARE health care items and services to the same requirements for claims for reimbursement for such services under Medicare. Requires the: (1) Secretary to report to the defense committees any information that is excepted from such requirement; and (2) CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of continuing impediments to cost-effective claims processing under the TRICARE Program. (Sec. 712) Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of the nature and extent of, reasons for, and trends regarding network provider instability under TRICARE, and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate such instability. (Sec. 713) Repeals a required report from DOD administering Secretaries on military health care program operations and costs. Subtitle C: Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Health Resources Sharing - (Sec. 721) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of health care resources with the goal of improving access to, and quality and cost-effectiveness of, the health care provided to beneficiaries. Establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Health Executive Committee to recommend strategic direction for joint coordination and sharing efforts. Directs the Secretaries to carry out a program to identify, provide incentives to, implement, fund, and evaluate creative coordination and sharing initiatives at the facility, intraregional, and nationwide levels. Establishes in the Treasury a DOD-VA Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund. Terminates such program at the end of FY 2007. Provides guidelines and policies for implementing Committee recommendations and for carrying out related health care contracts and agreements. Requires the Secretaries to: (1) jointly develop and implement guidelines for a standardized, uniform payment and reimbursement schedule for shared health care services; and (2) report annually to Congress on health care coordination and sharing activities. (Sec. 722) Directs the Secretaries to conduct at no less than three sites a health care resources sharing project to serve as a test for evaluating the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of measures and programs to improve the sharing and coordination of health care and resources. Requires the Secretaries to test a coordinated management system for military and veterans' facilities participating in the project. Provides funding. Directs the CG to provide an annual on-site review at each project location and to report to the defense and veterans' committees on review results. Terminates the project at the end of FY 2007. (Sec. 723) Directs the Secretaries to jointly review the adequacy of current processes and existing statutory authorities and policy governing the capability of the two departments to provide health care to members of the armed forces following domestic acts of terrorism or domestic use of weapons of mass destruction, before and after any declaration of national emergency. (Sec. 724) Directs the Secretaries to ensure that on or before October 1, 2004, the pharmacy data systems of VA and DOD are interoperable for beneficiaries. Requires a specified DOD alternate system if the systems are not interoperable by such date. (Sec. 725) Directs the Secretaries to carry out a pilot program under which graduate medical education and training is provided to DOD military physicians and VA physician employees through one or more programs carried out in DOD and VA medical facilities or centers. Terminates such program on July 31, 2008. (Sec. 726) Repeals current VA hospital and nursing home bed limits. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Acquisition Policy and Management - (Sec. 801) Authorizes the head of a defense agency acquiring end items using DOD funds to acquire a higher quantity of the end item than specified if such agency head determines that: (1) the agency has an established requirement for such item expected to remain substantially unchanged throughout the period of acquisition; (2) it is possible to acquire the higher quantity without additional funding; (3) the amount of funds used for the higher quantity will not exceed the total amount provided for such acquisition; and (4) the amount provided is sufficient to ensure that each unit is fully funded as a complete end item. Requires the agency head to notify Congress within 30 days after such determination. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the approach planned to apply current Federal acquisition requirements to major defense acquisition programs that follow the evolutionary acquisition process. (Sec. 803) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct major defense acquisition programs as spiral development programs, but requires prior approval of a spiral development plan for the R&D phase of a major defense acquisition program. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress in each of 2003 through 2008 on each R&D plan that is a spiral development program. (Sec. 804) Directs the Secretary of each military department, and the head of each defense agency that manages a major defense acquisition program with a substantial software component, to establish a program to improve its software acquisition processes. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence to provide program guidance. (Sec. 805) Repeals goals established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 for savings through the use of multiple award contracts for the procurement of services. Establishes new goals, authorizing the Secretary to adjust any such goal determined to be too high and not reasonably able to be achieved. Extends certain performance goal reporting requirements. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to establish tailored rapid acquisition and deployment procedures for items urgently needed to react to an enemy threat or respond to significant and urgent safety situations. (Sec. 807) Directs the Under Secretary to establish a quick-reaction special projects acquisition team to advise on appropriate actions to expedite the procurement of urgently needed systems. Subtitle B: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations - (Sec. 811) Subjects multiyear task and delivery order contracts to the same requirements as other DOD multiyear contracts, including the five-year time limitation. Requires a report from the CG to the defense committees on contract periods. (Sec. 812) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend until January 1, 2004, a program applying simplified acquisition procedures to certain commercial items. Requires a report from the CG to Congress on the authority to issue solicitations for purchases of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. (Sec. 813) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for improving the personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD civilian acquisition workforce based on the results of a demonstration project required under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. (Sec. 814) Directs the Secretary, in conducting a competition for the award of procurement technical assistance cooperative agreements, to give significant weight to successful past performance of eligible entities under existing agreements. (Sec. 815) Increases from $300,000 to $600,000 the maximum authorized DOD assistance for tribal organizations or entities carrying out procurement technical assistance programs under cooperative agreements in two or more service areas. (Sec. 816) Extends through FY 2006 a contract goal for small disadvantaged businesses and certain institutions of higher education. (Sec. 817) Directs the Secretary to issue guidance on the circumstances under which it is appropriate to grant an exception or waiver with respect to DOD certified cost and pricing data and cost accounting standards. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on exceptions and waivers granted having a price or value greater than $15 million. (Sec. 818) Authorizes the Secretary to waive requirements for survivability and lethality testing of major defense systems and munitions programs if the Secretary: (1) determines that live-fire testing of such system or program would be unreasonably expensive and impractical; and (2) submits a certification of such determination to Congress before specified milestone approval of such system or program. (Sec. 819) Requires the Secretary, before purchasing a product listed in the latest Federal Prison Industries catalog, to conduct market research to determine whether such product is comparable to products available from the private sector that best meet DOD's needs in terms of price, quality, and time of delivery. Requires the Secretary, if a negative determination is made, to use competitive procedures for the procurement of such product or make an individual purchase under a multiple award contract. States that the market research determination shall not be subject to review. Prohibits requiring DOD contractors or potential contractors to use a product or service offered by the Federal Prison Industries in the performance of a DOD contract. Provides for the protection of classified and sensitive information. (Sec. 820) Authorizes the Secretary to obligate funds for procurement of an end item under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property only for procurement of a complete and usable end item. Allows the Secretary to make an advance procurement for only those long-lead items necessary to meet a planned delivery schedule for complete major end items that are programmed under the contract to be acquired with funds appropriated for a subsequent fiscal year. Subtitle C: Acquisition-Related Reports and Other Matters - (Sec. 821) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate and report to Congress on the training, knowledge, and resources needed by DOD to effectively negotiate intellectual property rights using the principles of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and (2) determine whether DOD currently has the training, knowledge, and resources to meet those needs. (Sec. 822) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to require the Secretary to identify, in certain reports concerning defense acquisition programs, each case in which an authoritative decision has been made within DOD not to conduct an independent technology readiness assessment for a critical technology on a major defense acquisition program. (Sec. 823) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Thurmond Act) to extend through 2006 a requirement for a report on defense commercial pricing management improvement. (Sec. 824) Directs the Secretary to carry out and report to the defense committees on an assessment of DOD purchases of products and services through contracts entered into with other Federal departments and agencies. (Sec. 825) Terminates at the end of FY 2002 the authority to transfer certain funds into the Defense Modernization Account. Repeals the: (1) requirement for CG reviews of such Account; (2) solutions-based contracting pilot program; and (3) requirement that the Administrator of General Services provide Government-wide online computer access to information on products and services available for ordering through the use of multiple award schedules. (Sec. 826) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract for up to ten years for the purchase of dinitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine, and hydrazine-related products for the support of a U.S. national security or space program. Allows such contract to be extended for up to ten additional years. (Sec. 827) Authorizes the use of multiyear procurement authority for environmental remediation services for military installations. (Sec. 828) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and small business committees on the effects of the establishment of an Army Contracting Agency on small business participation in Army procurements during the first year of such Agency's operation. (Sec. 829) Authorizes DOD to take actions to correct the industrial resource shortfall for radiation-hardened electronics, as long as such actions do not cause the aggregate outstanding amount of all such actions to exceed $106 million. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Duties and Functions of Department of Defense Officers - (Sec. 901) Establishes the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. (Sec. 902) Establishes the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Transfers to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy all responsibility for DOD policy, programming, and use of resources for combating terrorism. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to repeal a contingent reduction in the authorized number of assistant secretaries of defense. Subtitle B: Space Activities - (Sec. 911) Directs the Office of the Secretary to maintain oversight of acquisition for defense space programs. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees containing an oversight plan. (Sec. 912) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate all options for sustaining the U.S. space launch industrial base; (2) develop a plan for assuring U.S. access to space; and (3) report to Congress on such plan. Subtitle C: Reports - (Sec. 921) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees providing an implementation plan for the United States Northern Command. (Sec. 922) Revises the due date for submission of quadrennial defense review reports. (Sec. 923) Requires the national defense mission of the Coast Guard to be included in future DOD quadrennial defense reviews. (Sec. 924) Requires the commander of the United States Joint Forces Command to report to the Secretary a plan for the development and implementation of a joint national training complex. Subtitle D: Other Matters - (Sec. 931) Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts for the operation or administration of the National Defense University. Establishes the National Defense University Gift Fund. (Sec. 932) Authorizes the Secretary to accept foreign gifts and donations on behalf of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Requires the Secretary to notify Congress if the total amount of such gifts and donations exceeds $1 million in any fiscal year. (Sec. 934) Increases from five to six the authorized number of Marine Corps Deputy Commandants. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - (Sec. 1001) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act for FY 2003 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD and national security activities of the Department of Energy for FY 2002 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased pursuant to the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on all FY 2002 transfers to DOD through the Defense Emergency Response Fund or a similar account. (Sec. 1003) Provides a new limitation on the total amount authorized to be contributed by the Secretary for the common-funded budgets of NATO (rather than the maximum amount otherwise applicable under the 1998 baseline limitation). Allocates for such purpose amounts authorized in titles II and III of this Act. (Sec. 1004) Directs the Secretary to develop a proposed financial management enterprise architecture for all DOD budgetary, accounting, finance, enterprise resource planning, and mixed information systems, together with a transition plan for implementing such architecture. Places specified limitations on the obligation of more than $1 million for a defense financial system improvement. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees in each of 2004 through 2007 on DOD progress in implementing the architecture and transition plan. Requires: (1) CG review of each approved architecture and plan; and (2) review results to be provided to such committees. (Sec. 1005) Authorizes the Secretary to designate as a "departmental accountable official" any member of the armed forces or DOD civilian employee responsible for providing to a certifying DOD official information, data, or services that are directly relied upon in the certification of payment vouchers. Authorizes the Secretary to impose pecuniary liability upon such a designated official in the event of an illegal, improper, or incorrect payment. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes any designated officer or employee to act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, destruction of, or damage to property of the United States under DOD control. Extends to members of the Navy and Marine Corps current authority for pay deductions for damage to or repair of arms and equipment. (Sec. 1007) Requires additional information in audits and DOD policy with respect to the use of the Government Purchase Card and the management of such use. Requires regulations to provide penalties for violation of Card use requirements. (Sec. 1008) Authorizes the Secretary to require that any part of a travel and transportation allowance of a DOD employee or member of the armed forces be disbursed directly to the issuer of a Defense travel card in payment of official travel expenses charged on such card. Authorizes the withholding of pay amounts, or offsets from retired pay, from employees or members for delinquent travel card charges. Makes this section inapplicable to the Coast Guard. (Sec. 1009) Provides for: (1) the clearance of certain DOD financial transactions before March 1, 2001, under specified Treasury suspense accounts; and (2) the cancellation of any discrepancies between checks drawn on the Treasury and issued by or on behalf of DOD before October 31, 1998, and later paid for which no DOD appropriation can be associated. Requires DOD, before such check discrepancy cancellations can be made, to attempt to discover which appropriation should be charged and to determine that any further attempts are not in the best interests of the United States. Terminates all such authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1010) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) RDT&E for DOD ballistic missile defense programs; and (2) DOD activities for combating terrorism at home and abroad. Requires the authorized amount to be allocated between such purposes by the President based on U.S. national security interests and directs the President to report to the defense and appropriations committees within 15 days of such allocation. (Sec. 1011) Reduces by $1 billion the total amount authorized to be appropriated under titles I through III of this Act, to reflect savings resulting from lower-than-expected inflation. Directs the Secretary to allocate such reduction among appropriate military accounts. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - (Sec. 1021) Requires the Secretary of the Navy, if the total number of Navy ships comprising the force of surface combatants is less than 116, to report to the defense committees on the size of such force. Prohibits force reduction until 90 days after notification of such committees. States that when such force is below 116, such Secretary shall maintain on the Naval Vessel Register a sufficient number of such ships to enable the Navy to regain a total force of 116 within 120 days after the President decides to increase such force. (Sec. 1022) Directs the Secretary to include in annual defense budget materials: (1) a plan for the construction of combatant and support vessels for the Navy; and (2) a certification that both the defense budget for that year and the future-years defense program for that year provide appropriate funding for such construction. Directs the Secretary to include an assessment of risks caused by a reduced number of vessels when the budget for a year is insufficient to meet vessel construction costs. (Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit to Congress a feasibility assessment of expediently fielding a 155-millimeter gun on a Navy ship. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees on assessment results. (Sec. 1024) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense committees on DOD initiatives to increase the number of operational days of Navy ships without increasing either the total number of ships or the routine length of deployment. (Sec. 1025) Directs the Secretary to review and report on the effect of the contract award for the lead design agent for the DD(X) ship program on the industrial base for ship combat system development. (Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the number of Navy aircraft carriers in active service should not be less than 12. Commends aircraft carrier crews that have participated in Operations Enduring Freedom and Noble Eagle. (Sec. 1027) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell Navy Drydock YFD-69 in Portland, Oregon, to the Portland Shipyard LLC (its current user). Subtitle C: Strategic Matters - (Sec. 1031) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly prepare and report to the defense and appropriations committees on a plan for the U.S. strategic force structure for nuclear weapons and their delivery systems for FY 2003 through 2012, including options for achieving prior to FY 2012 a posture under which the United States maintains a level of operationally deployed nuclear warheads of 1,700 to 2,200, as outlined in the Nuclear Posture Review. (Sec. 1032) Requires an annual report from the above Secretaries and the Director of Central Intelligence to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees on R&D and other activities undertaken to develop a weapon to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets. Terminates the report requirement in 2007. (Sec. 1033) Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on the anticipated short- and long-term effects of the use of a: (1) nuclear earth penetrator weapon on target areas; and (2) non-penetrating nuclear weapon or a conventional high-explosive weapon on such targets or on facilities for the storage or production of weapons of mass destruction. Requires the Secretary to transfer each report to Congress. Subtitle D: Reports - (Sec. 1041) Amends Federal armed forces provisions, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 1995 to repeal or modify various DOD report requirements. Increases from $100,000 to $10 million the total annual contract award limit for foreign-controlled defense contractors on which database information is required to be maintained by the Secretaries of Defense and Energy. (Sec. 1042) Requires DOD reports to Congress to be accompanied by an electronic version (currently, required only upon request). (Sec. 1043) Requires the Secretary to report: (1) to the defense and intelligence committees annually on military operations conducted as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; and (2) to Congress on actions being undertaken to ensure the adequacy of firefighting staffs at military installations. (Sec. 1045) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees the results of a study on designating a specified portion of Louisiana Highway 28 as a defense access road. Subtitle E: Extension of Expiring Authorities - (Sec. 1051) Amends the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century to extend through FY 2006 the authority of the Secretary to sell aircraft and aircraft parts for use in responding to oil spills. (Sec. 1052) Continues through May 31, 2003 Federal information security requirements (currently terminate October 30, 2002). Continues such requirements with respect to DOD through FY 2004. Requires the Secretary, after such termination date, to perform such information security duties for DOD as are currently performed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (Sec. 1053) Extends through December 31, 2004, the authority of the Secretary to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection activities abroad. Subtitle F: Other Matters -(Sec. 1061) Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress the annual defense authorization request for a fiscal year during the first 30 days after the President transmits to Congress the budget for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1063) Requires a DOD element that maintains a repository of DNA samples for human remains identification purposes to make such samples available, pursuant to a court order, for the investigation or prosecution of a felony or any sexual offense for which no other source of DNA information is available. (Sec. 1064) Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a secure National Foreign Language Skills Registry of linguistically qualified U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens willing to provide linguistic services in times of emergency to assist DOD and other Federal agencies with translation and interpretation in critical languages. Authorizes the Secretary to accept voluntary translation and interpretation services. (Sec. 1065) Authorizes the Secretary to pay an individual a monetary award of up to $200,000 for providing U.S. personnel with information or nonlethal assistance that is beneficial to: (1) a U.S. military operation or activity conducted outside the United States against international terrorism; or (2) force protection of the armed forces. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of State regarding payment of any award in excess of $100,000. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the administration of such awards. (Sec. 1066) Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide, without charge, space and services to a military welfare society. (Sec. 1067) Directs the Secretary to designate a DOD officer or employee as the senior official responsible for the prevention and mitigation of corrosion of the military equipment and infrastructure of DOD. Outlines required duties. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a long-term strategy to reduce corrosion and its effects on such equipment and infrastructure. Requires an interim report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken. Requires the CG to monitor the strategy implemented and provide results to Congress. (Sec. 1068) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Women Airforce Service Pilots Museum in Quartzsite, Arizona, all U.S. rights and interest to a non-flyable DF-9E Panther aircraft. (Sec. 1069) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized for a DOD program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - (Sec. 1101) Makes employees of a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality eligible for Federal long-term care insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to determine whether a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality shall be eligible or is already covered under an alternative program. (Sec. 1102) Extends until October 1, 2006, the authority to make lump-sum severance payments to DOD employees. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees on whether such authority should be made permanent or should be expanded to all Government departments and agencies. (Sec. 1103) Extends, for individuals separated through FY 2005 (currently, FY 2002), Federal Employee Health Benefits Program eligibility based on involuntary separation from military service, or voluntary separation from a surplus position, in the Departments of Defense or Energy due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 1104) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) prescribe professional certification and credential standards for professional accounting positions within DOD; and (2) waive such standards when appropriate. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on plans to provide training to appropriate DOD personnel to meet the new standards. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - (Sec. 1201) Authorizes the Secretary to provide administrative services and support for the performance of duties by a liaison officer of another nation involved in a coalition with the United States while such officer is assigned temporarily to the headquarters of a combatant command, component command, or subordinate operational command of the United States in connection with the planning for or conduct of a coalition operation. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2005. Requires a report from the CG to the defense committees assessing the implementation of such authority. (Sec. 1202) Authorizes the use of funds under bilateral or regional cooperative programs to pay for travel expenses of defense personnel of a developing country which is not a member of NATO but is participating in the Partnership for Peace program. (Sec. 1203) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 funds made available for activities associated with the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow, Russia, until: (1) the United States and Russian Federation enter into cost-sharing and tax exemption agreements; and (2) 30 days after the Secretary submits such agreements to the defense committees. (Sec. 1204) Limits to $15 million the total assistance authorized for support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities. Extends such authority through FY 2003. (Sec. 1205) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to require the President to report annually to Congress on a plan for the coordination and cooperation with the Russian Federation for the disposition of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear material in Russia that is not retained in its nuclear arsenal. (Sec. 1206) Requires a report from the President to Congress, in each of 2003 through 2009, describing in detail Russian proliferation to Iran and other countries of proliferation concern of weapons of mass destruction; ballistic missile goods, technology, expertise, and information; and dual-use items that may contribute to the development of such weapons and missiles. (Sec. 1207) Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation of the Department of State to monitor the implementation of the 1979 United States-China Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology and its protocols and to keep a systematic account of the protocols. Requires biennial implementation reports from the Secretary of State to Congress. Directs the President to establish an interagency working group to oversee Agreement implementation by Federal departments and agencies. (Sec. 1208) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year: (1) 1994 to extend the termination date for the Interagency Counterproliferation Program Review Committee; and (2) 1995 to revise the due date of, and require certain additional information in, an annual report on counterproliferation activities and programs. (Sec. 1209) Amends the Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 to require the Director of Central Intelligence to report semiannually to Congress identifying foreign persons making a material contribution to the development, production, or acquisition by a country of weapons of mass destruction or ballistic or cruise missile systems. (Sec. 1210) Requires the President to report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of senior officer exchanges between the United States and Taiwan. (Sec. 1211) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD's plans to maintain adequate force structure in the Pacific. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - (Sec. 1301) Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on such purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification. (Sec. 1303) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 CTR funds until the submission of specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts. (Sec. 1304) Amends the Spence Act to include in a required report information on the use of revenue generated by activities carried out under CTR programs. (Sec. 1305) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the design, planning, or construction of a second wing for a storage facility for Russian fissile material. (Sec. 1306) Authorizes the President to waive certain assistance limits under programs to facilitate CTR and nonproliferation if the President certifies to Congress that such waiver is important to the national security interest. Limits such waiver authority to FY 2003 through 2005. Title XIV: Homeland Security - (Sec. 1401) Directs the Secretary to designate a senior DOD official to coordinate all DOD efforts to identify, evaluate, deploy, and transfer to Federal, State, and local first responders technology items and equipment in support of homeland security. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on actions taken. (Sec. 1402) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the defense committees a comprehensive plan for improving the preparedness of military installations for preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, including attacks involving the use or threat of use of weapons of mass destruction. Requires the CG to review such plan and submit a plan assessment to such committees. Requires the Secretary, in each of 2004 through 2006, to include reports on such plan within defense budget materials submitted by the President. (Sec. 1403) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish 23 additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, for a total of 55; and (2) ensure that of such 55 teams, there is at least one team established in each State and territory. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for establishing one such Team in every State and territory not currently having a Team. (Sec. 1404) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD responsibilities, missions, and plans for military support of homeland security. (Sec. 1405) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should provide assistance to local first responders of domestic terrorist incidents for improving their response capabilities. Title XV: Authorization of Appropriations for the War on Terrorism - (Sec. 1501) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 2003 for Operations Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom (counter-terrorism activities). Transfers specified amounts to appropriate DOD accounts for: (1) mobilization and personnel; (2) operations; (3) equipment replacement and enhancement; (4) classified activities; and (5) the procurement of munitions. (Sec. 1507) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to $1 billion of such authorized funds to DOD accounts that are reduced to reflect savings in management efficiencies if and to the extent that the Secretary determines such savings are not achievable. (Sec. 1508) Prohibits the transfer of any funds under this title until 15 days after the Secretary has notified the defense and appropriations committees of such transfer. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Title XXI (sic): Army - (Sec. 2101) 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, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2002 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 2002 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. (Sec. 2106) Replaces Camp Page, Korea, with Camp Stanley, Korea, as an authorized construction project under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001. Title XXII: Navy - (Sec. 2201) Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to: (1) increase the amount authorized for a construction project at the Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia; and (2) revise the number of certain military housing units at Quantico, Virginia. Title XXIII: Air Force - (Sec. 2301) Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under title XXI. (Sec. 2305) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a project to provide a public road and associated improvements to replace a public road adjacent to Aviano Air Base, Italy, that has been closed for force protection purposes. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - (Sec. 2401) 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 carry out certain energy conservation projects. (Sec. 2404) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2002 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends various military construction authorization Acts to increase the amounts authorized for chemical demilitarization projects at the: (1) Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; (2) Newport Army Depot, Indiana; and (3) Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - (Sec. 2501) Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - (Sec. 2601) Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - (Sec. 2701) Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2006, 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 - (Sec. 2801) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease additional family housing units in Korea both at and above the current lease limit of $25,000 per year (to a maximum of $35,000 per year). (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into contracts for the lease of housing units determined suitable for use as military family or military unaccompanied housing. Repeals interim lease authority. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) carry out up to three pilot projects to use the private sector for the acquisition or construction of military unaccompanied housing in the United States, including any U.S. territory or possession; and (2) assign members of the armed forces to such housing. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to set higher rates of partial basic allowance for housing for members assigned to such units. Utilizes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund to carry out activities under the pilot projects. Authorizes a transfer to such Fund, subject to 90 days prior notification of the appropriate congressional committees, from amounts appropriated for construction of military unaccompanied housing projects in military construction accounts. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Navy to the appropriate congressional committees on pilot project activities and related contractual information. Terminates pilot project authority at the end of FY 2007. (Sec. 2804) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to repeal U.S. source requirements for military family housing construction overseas. (Sec. 2805) Allows up to two-thirds of energy savings realized at military installations to remain available until expended (currently, available for up to two years). Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - (Sec. 2811) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with a State or political subdivision thereof or private entities to limit space encroachments and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations on or in the vicinity of military installations. Outlines agreement requirements and conditions. Provides agreement funding through specified O&M funds. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convey surplus real property to eligible recipients to undertake natural resource conservation activities. Provides a reversionary interest if the property is not used and maintained for such purposes. Authorizes the release of covenants with respect to such property. Requires 21 days' notification to the appropriate congressional committees prior to the reconveyance of any such property after operation of a reversionary interest. (Sec. 2813) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to authorize the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department (currently, only the Secretary of the Army) to conduct a demonstration program on the reduction of long-term facility maintenance costs. Allows each military department to enter into up to 12 (currently three total) contracts under such program. Requires the Secretary to undertake current program report requirements. (Sec. 2814) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to repeal provisions which prohibit the Secretary from transferring certain property in exchange for military housing units if the property is identified in a redevelopment plan for a closed or realigned military installation as essential to that installation's reuse or redevelopment. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - (Sec. 2821) Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over a portion of real property at Fort McClellan, Alabama, to be used by the latter Secretary to establish the Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge for protection of the unique mountain longleaf pine ecosystem on the property. (Sec. 2822) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) any of certain eligible entities in Alaska certain Alaska lands determined to be no longer required for National Guard purposes; (2) Madison County, Kentucky, specified portions of the Bluegrass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky, for construction of a veterans' center and for historical preservation and education purposes; (3) the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, an abandoned railroad spur at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for storm water management, recreation, transportation, and other public purposes; (4) the Buffalo, Minnesota, Independent School District 877 the former Army reserve training center in Buffalo; (5) a recipient under competitive bid procedures certain military family housing at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in order to build replacement military family housing or to rehabilitate existing housing units; (6) El Paso County, Texas, a portion of Fort Bliss, Texas, for the construction of a veterans' nursing home; (7) the Veterans Land Board of the State of Texas a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, for establishing a State-run cemetery for veterans; and (8) Fairfax County, Virginia, a portion of the Engineer Proving Ground at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for park and recreational purposes. (Sec. 2823) Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to convey to the Johnson County Park and Recreation District, Kansas, a portion of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, for public recreational purposes. Part II: Navy Conveyances - (Sec. 2831) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to ENPEX Corporation a portion of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, for the production of electric power and related activities. (Sec. 2832) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to allow the transfer of the Corea and Winter Harbor properties as part of a conveyance to the State of Maine or political subdivision or tax-supported agency thereof. Exempts such conveyances from a Federal screening requirement. (Sec. 2833) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to: (1) the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts, a portion of the Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, for economic development and other public purposes; and (2) the State of Rhode Island the Melville Marina site in Rhode Island. (Sec. 2835) Directs the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia, and Prince William Forest Park, Virginia, to conform. Provides for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of specified portions of such areas following the boundary adjustment. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - (Sec. 2841) Amends the Spence Act to extend from ten to 30 years the maximum authorized leaseback period with respect to a conveyance by the Secretary of the Air Force at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. (Sec. 2842) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the State of Colorado all or part of the Watkins Communications Site in Arapahoe County, Colorado, in exchange for certain lands adjacent to Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado. (Sec. 2843) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to West Wendover, Nevada, and Tooele County, Utah, specified portions of the Wendover Air Force Base Auxiliary Field determined by the Secretary of the Air Force to be no longer required for Air Force purposes. Subtitle D: Other Matters - (Sec. 2851) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to exclude references to the Commission on the National Military Museum from provisions concerning the transfer of the Navy Annex in Arlington, Virginia. (Sec. 2852) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell treated water and wastewater treatment services from facilities at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, if such Secretary determines that the provision of such water and services will be in the public interest and will not interfere with current or future Camp operations. (Sec. 2853) Provides a tax basis equal to the fair value of the property transferred in the case of certain property at the Adak Naval Complex, Alaska, recently transferred to the Aleut Corporation. (Sec. 2854) Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that at least two members of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission must have visited an installation before such installation is added to a list recommended for closure by the Commission under a required report. 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 - (Sec. 3101) Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2003 for: (1) activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for weapons activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, naval reactors, and the Office of the Administrator for Nuclear Security (Administrator); and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities and other defense activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental management, other defense activities, and defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - (Sec. 3141) Requires the head of each DOE national security laboratory and the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command to report annually to the Secretary concerned (Defense or Energy) and the Nuclear Weapons Council on an assessment regarding the safety, reliability, performance, or military effectiveness of each nuclear weapon type in the U.S. stockpile for which such official is responsible. Requires an annual report from such Secretaries to the President and Congress on assessments received. Requires each national security laboratory head to assemble "red teams" to provide oversight with respect to such assessments. (Sec. 3142) Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) to prepare and include within DOE budget justification documents for FY 2004 plans for achieving readiness postures of six, 12, 18, and 24 months for U.S. resumption of underground nuclear weapons tests. (Sec. 3143) Requires the Secretary, in any fiscal year after 2002 in which the Secretary plans to carry out activities relating to the development of a new or modified nuclear weapon, to specifically request funds for such activities in the budget submitted for that fiscal year. Provides exceptions: (1) for the nuclear weapons life extension program; (2) to modify an existing nuclear weapon solely to address safety or reliability concerns; or (3) to address proliferation concerns. (Sec. 3144) Makes DOE funds authorized for the NNSA available to the Deputy Administrator for Nuclear Security for Defense Programs for the development and implementation before the end of FY 2003 of a database for all national security laboratories to track the notification and resolution phases of Significant Finding Investigations. (Sec. 3145) Directs the Secretary, using funds made available under this title, to carry out a program to reform DOE environmental management activities. Requires a site performance management plan for each site for which the Secretary allocates funding for such program. (Sec. 3146) Prohibits the obligation of FY 2003 funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator program until 30 days after the Secretary of Defense submits a specified program report to the defense committees. Subtitle C: Proliferation Matters - (Sec. 3151) Transfers from DOD to the Administrator the CTR program and assets relating to the elimination of weapons grade plutonium production in Russia. Limits program funding until a report from the Administrator to specified congressional committees concerning any agreements reached with Russia to shut down three plutonium-producing reactors. (Sec. 3152) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to repeal report requirements on the obligation of funds for programs on fissile materials in Russia. (Sec. 3153) Amends the Spence Act to include within required reports on the status of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting programs information on all countries having such materials (currently, only Russia). (Sec. 3154) Amends the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 to extend through FY 2013 a program for testing and improving the response of Federal, State, and local agencies to emergencies involving nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapons and related materials. (Sec. 3155) Directs the Secretary to carry out with the Russian Federation a cooperative program on the research, development, and demonstration of technologies for protection from and response to nuclear or radiological terrorism. Provides program funding from funds authorized under this title. (Sec. 3156) Authorizes the Secretary to establish within DOE's International Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting program a program on the protection, control, and accounting of materials usable in radiological dispersal devices. Requires the Secretary to work cooperatively with the Russian Federation to develop a sustainable nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting system for nuclear materials of the Russian Federation. Provides program funding. (Sec. 3157) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to pursue with the Russian Federation options for blending highly enriched uranium so that the concentration of U-235 in such uranium is below 20 percent. Provides program funding. (Sec. 3158) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress on options for an international program to develop strengthened security for nuclear reactors and associated materials outside the United States; and (2) pursue with the Russian Federation joint programs on proliferation-resistant nuclear energy technologies. Provides program funding. (Sec. 3159) Authorizes the Secretary to pursue in the former Soviet Union and other regions of concern options for accelerating programs that assist countries in improving their domestic export control programs for materials, technologies, and expertise relevant to the construction or use of a nuclear or radiological dispersal device. Provides funding. (Sec. 3160) Directs the Secretary to work with the Russian Federation to develop a plan to accelerate the return to Russia of all weapons-usable nuclear materials located in research reactors and other facilities outside of Russia that were supplied to the former Soviet Union. (Sec. 3161) Expresses the sense of Congress that the: (1) President should encourage amendment of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials to apply it to both domestic and international use and transport of nuclear materials and to address protection against sabotage; and (2) Secretary should develop a comprehensive program of activities to encourage all countries with nuclear materials to adhere to, or adopt standards equivalent to, the International Atomic Energy Agency standard on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities relating to the security of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Subtitle D: Other Matters - (Sec. 3171) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to extend until December 31, 2004, a program under which the Secretary indemnifies DOE contractors who perform activities that involve the risk of public liability and are not subject to financial protection requirements of such Act. (Sec. 3172) Makes funds authorized under this title available for FY 2003 payments to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for the support of public education needs of children in the vicinity of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Authorizes the Secretary to extend through FY 2005 the contract for the provision of such support. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense and appropriations committees on options for funding such contract extension. (Sec. 3173) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide new requirements for worker health and safety rules for DOE nuclear facilities. Provides civil or contract penalties for persons who have entered into an indemnification agreement that violates rules or regulations relating to industrial or construction health and safety. Requires promulgation of initial regulations for such new requirements within one year after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 3174) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2004 DOE authority to appoint certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel. (Sec. 3175) Amends the Thurmond Act to: (1) extend until April 1, 2003, the authority of a panel to assess the reliability, safety, and security of a U.S. nuclear stockpile; and (2) require a follow-up report from the panel to the defense committees on progress under the U.S. stockpile stewardship program. (Sec. 3176) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of those environmental management initiatives being undertaken to accelerate the reduction of environmental risks and challenges that, as a result of the legacy of the Cold War, are faced by DOE, its contractors, and applicable Federal and State regulatory agencies. Subtitle E: Disposition of Weapons-Usable Plutonium at Savannah River, South Carolina - (Sec. 3182) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for the construction and operation at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, of a mixed-oxide fuel facility for converting weapons-grade plutonium to a mixed-oxide fuel for use in commercial nuclear power reactors. Provides a construction schedule and production deadline dates, with the goal of achieving facility construction by January 1, 2009, and of processing 34 metric tons of plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel by January 1, 2019. Requires: (1) annual progress reports; (2) the Secretary to submit corrective plans if facility construction and operation are more than 12 months behind schedule; (3) the removal or disposal of unprocessed plutonium from the Site if the schedule and deadlines are not met; and (4) payments to South Carolina of economic and impact assistance associated with not meeting such schedule and deadlines. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) a plan to address the failure to complete the planned removal or disposal; and (2) a report on the removal of mixed-oxide fuel upon completion of operations at the facility. (Sec. 3183) Requires the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board to study and report to Congress and the Secretary on the adequacy of the K-Area Materials Storage Facility and related facilities at the Savannah River Site for the storage of defense plutonium and related materials in connection with the plutonium disposition program. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - (Sec. 3201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - (Sec. 3301) Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2003, to obligate up to $76.4 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 Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - (Sec. 3401) Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 2003 to carry out activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - (Sec. 3501) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3502) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the vessel USS SPHINX to the Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum under certain conditions, including that: (1) the recipient uses the vessel as a nonprofit military museum and not for commercial transportation; and (2) the recipient makes the vessel available to the Government when required by such Secretary. (Sec. 3503) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to obtain independent analysis of an application forguaranteed financing for the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of a covered vessel. (Sec. 3504) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide to any State to which an obsolete ship is transferred financial assistance to prepare the ship for use as an artificial reef, including costs for environmental remediation, towing, and sinking. Directs such Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: (1) to jointly develop environmental best management practices to be used in the preparation of vessels for use as artificial reefs (requiring such practices to be submitted to Congress); and (2) and the Secretary of State to jointly carry out during FY 2003 one or more pilot programs to explore the feasibility and advisability of various alternatives for exporting obsolete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet for dismantlement and recycling. Requires a report from the Secretary of Transportation to Congress on the pilot program(s). Title XXXVI: Atomic Energy Defense Provisions - (Sec. 3601) Atomic Energy Defense Act - Subtitle A: [Reserved] Subtitle B: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions - (Sec. 3621) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this subtitle for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 115 percent of or $5 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress until the Secretary transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have expired. (Sec. 3622) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3624) 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. Requires notification to the defense committees of any such transfers. (Sec. 3625) 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 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. 3626) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, or 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. (Sec. 3629) Directs the Secretary 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 Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. (Sec. 3630) Directs the Secretary to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer weapons activities funds from a program or project of that office to another such program or project when such transfer: (1) is necessary to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment; or (2) will result in cost savings and efficiencies. Limits such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer.

40 House agreed to Senate amendment with amendment Nov 28, 2006

Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) defense health programs. Subtitle B: Navy Programs - Earmarks specified Navy procurement funds for either: (1) the procurement of one Arleigh Burke class DDG-51 destroyer (if a specified agreement is reached); or (2) the advance procurement of Virginia class submarines, cruiser conversion, and nuclear-powered submarine refueling overhaul. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of Virginia class submarines. (Sec. 112) Prohibits acquisition of a T-5 Champion-class fuel tanker which features a double hull and reinforcement against ice damage for the Military Sealift Command or for other Navy purposes. Subtitle C: Air Force Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of C-130J aircraft, after notifying the defense and appropriations committees and waiting 30 days thereafter. (Sec. 122) Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds for 36 Litening II modernization upgrade kits for the F-16 block 25 and 30 aircraft (rather than for Litening AT pods for such aircraft). Subtitle D: Other Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to obligate funds: (1) for procurement of a complete and usable end item under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property; and (2) appropriated for any fiscal year for advance procurement under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property only for the procurement of those long-lead items necessary to meet a planned delivery schedule for complete major end items that are programmed to be acquired with funds appropriated for a subsequent fiscal year. (Sec. 142) Directs the Secretary, by January 15, 2003, to enter into an agreement with an independent, nonprofit, technology-oriented entity that has demonstrated the ability to facilitate the transfer of defense technologies, developed by both the private and public sectors, to aid Federal, State, and local first responders in the support of homeland security. Directs the entity to develop a strategic plan to meet specified goals. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the chemical agents and munitions stockpile destruction program is managed as a major defense acquisition program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), beginning with the budget request for FY 2004, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a certification that the budget request for such program has been submitted in accordance with applicable Federal laws. (Sec. 144) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on unmanned aerial vehicle systems of the Department of Defense (DOD). (Sec. 145) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the defense committees on the requirements for Army National Guard aviation. Authorizes the Army Chief of Staff to submit views on such requirements. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program, including basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits the obligation of funds authorized for engineering and manufacturing development for the RAH-66 Comanche aircraft program until the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning program funding and time line requirements. Limits the total engineering and manufacturing development costs for the program, allowing for certain adjustments to such limit. Requires the DOD Inspector General to annually review such program and report review results to Congress. (Sec. 212) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2008 a requirement relating to management responsibility for naval mine countermeasures programs. (Sec. 213) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (the Thurmond Act) to: (1) authorize the Secretary, in connection with a pilot program for cooperative research and development activities with universities and other private entities, to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions; (2) extend the pilot program until March 1, 2008; (3) require annual reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on pilot program activities; and (4) require a report from the Secretary to such committees on whether and to what extent the authority to carry out the pilot program should be extended. (Sec. 214) Revises plan requirements under the DOD Manufacturing Technology Program. Changes report requirements from annually to biennially. (Sec. 215) Directs the Secretary to carry out a Technology Transition Initiative to facilitate the rapid transition of new technologies from DOD science and technology programs into DOD acquisition programs for the production of such technologies. Requires a Manager for such Initiative, with specified duties. Requires the acquisition executive of each military department to identify appropriate technology projects for Initiative participation. Requires Initiative amounts to be separately stated in each DOD budget. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program for the increased introduction of innovative and cost-saving technologies in DOD acquisition programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a panel of highly qualified scientists and engineers to evaluate Program proposals. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out each evaluation, to ensure the elimination of conflicts-of-interest. Requires reports during the Program period (until the end of FY 2007). Provides initial Program funding from FY 2003 defense-wide RDT&E funds. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Prohibits the use of FY 2003 Army missile procurement funds for the Patriot Advanced Capability missile program until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) criteria for the transfer of program responsibility from the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to the Secretary of a military department; and (2) a notice and certification of such transfer. Requires responsibility for RDT&E related to system improvements of such program to remain with the Director. (Sec. 233) Amends various Federal provisions and national defense authorization Acts to reflect the change in the name of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to the Missile Defense Agency. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow the incidental taking of a migratory bird by a member of the armed forces during an authorized military readiness activity. (Sec. 312) Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from designating as critical habitat any lands or other geographic areas owned or controlled by DOD, or designated for its use, that are subject to an integrated natural resources management plan prepared under terms of the Sikes Act, as long as such Secretary determines that the plan addresses special management considerations or protections. Requires such Secretary to consider the impact on national security when designating critical habitat. (Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary to establish a program manager to serve as the single point of contact in DOD for policy and budgeting issues involving the characterization, remediation, and management of explosive and related risks with respect to unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents at defense sites that pose a threat to human health or safety. Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide base operating support for Fisher Houses associated with health care facilities of that department. (Sec. 322) Authorizes a member of the National Guard called to duty during a national emergency to use commissary stores and morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) retail facilities during such duty on the same basis as active-duty military personnel. (Sec. 323) Allows DOD MWR funds to be treated as nonappropriated funds and expended in accordance with laws applicable to the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the Secretary to identify positions of employment within DOD MWR programs which are paid with appropriated funds whose status may be converted to positions of employment with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality. Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues - Requires the Secretary, upon completion of an analysis of a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function for possible conversion to performance by the private sector, to submit to Congress a report containing analysis results and related information. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to waive the prohibition against the contracting for the performance of security-guard functions at a military installation if such functions: (1) are or will be performed by members of the armed forces in the absence of a waiver; and (2) were not performed at the installation before September 11, 2001. (Sec. 333) Excludes permanently (currently only for FY 2002 through 2005) amounts expended for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workload by non-Federal personnel at a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence from a percentage limitation on the contracting-out for the performance of DOD depot-level maintenance and repair workloads. (Sec. 334) Repeals obsolete provisions concerning the use of competitive procedures in contracting for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads formerly performed at closed or realigned military installations. Subtitle E: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each educational agency eligible for such assistance. (Sec. 342) Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to authorize a military quarters allowance for teachers unaccompanied by dependents who are required to reside on a U.S. military installation overseas. (Sec. 343) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to allow individuals eligible for education under the defense dependents' education system to enroll without charge in a summer school program offered under such system. Subtitle F: Information Technology - Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (the Spence Act) to allow the base contract of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract to have a term of up to seven years. (Currently, as a DOD multiyear contract, such contract is limited to a five-year term.) (Sec. 352) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a description of, and relevant budget information on, each DOD information technology and national security capital asset that: (1) has an estimated life cycle cost in excess of $120 million; and (2) has a cost for the fiscal year in which the description is submitted in excess of $30 million. Requires other information with respect to each DOD information technology and national security system that has a cost for the fiscal year in excess of $2 million and $10 million, respectively. (Sec. 353) Requires the Secretary to implement a specified policy regarding the acquisition of certain commercial off-the-shelf information technology products. (Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish clear and uniform policy and procedures, applicable to the military departments and defense agencies, regarding the installation and connection of telecom switches to the Defense Switch Network; and (2) prepare and maintain an inventory of untested telecom switches that have been added to such Network. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Requires the defense and appropriations committees (currently, Congress) to receive monthly reports on the allocation of funds within DOD O&M budget subactivities. (Sec. 362) Raises the minimum monthly pay deduction of certain members of the armed forces for support of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 363) Prohibits the Secretary from converting the Defense Security Service to a working capital funded entity of DOD unless the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that such Service has the financial systems in place to fully support operations as a working capital funded entity. (Sec. 364) Amends the Spence Act to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the arsenal program support initiative (a program of support for Army manufacturing arsenals); and (2) extend and revise related reporting requirements. (Sec. 365) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for using existing military authorities to address problems created by limitations on the use of military lands, marine areas, and airspace reserved, withdrawn, or designated for military training and testing activities. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD plans to improve the Global Status of Resources and Training System. Requires the: (1) Secretary to develop and maintain a training range data bank for each military branch; and (2) Comptroller General (CG) to evaluate the plan and report submitted under this section. (Sec. 366) Amends the: (1) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make eligible for basic support payments made to local educational agencies those heavily impacted local educational agencies affected by the privatization of military housing; and (2) Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude, for purposes of eligibility for free and reduced-price meals, the amount of basic allowance for housing for an individual for housing acquired under alternative authority for the acquisition and improvement of military family housing. 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 2003. Increases certain permanent end strength minimum levels. (Sec. 403) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to increase by up to one percent their active-duty end strength in order to enhance manning and readiness in essential units or in critical specialties or ratings. (Sec. 404) Excludes from general and flag officer end strength limits the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Increases the number of lieutenant generals authorized for the Marine Corps. Provides the grade of brigadier general for the Chief of the Army Veterinary Corps. Directs the Secretary to review, and report to Congress on, current active-duty and reserve general and flag officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 405) Extends through December 31, 2004, certain authorities relating to the management of end strengths of general and flag officers in certain grades. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2003 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum end strength for FY 2003 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians. (Sec. 414) Places specified FY 2003 limitations on the number of non-dual status technicians employed by the Army and Air Force. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: General Personnel Management Authorities - Increases from five to six the number of authorized Deputy Commandants of the Marine Corps. (Sec. 502) Extends through December 31, 2004, the waiver from the requirement of significant joint duty experience for officers appointed to a reserve chief or Guard director position, when such waiver is exercised for the good of the service. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on steps being taken to ensure that no additional waiver will be required after such extension. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management - Requires the: (1) CG to report to Congress on the management of the National Guard, including reviews of National Guard strength accounting and management and related issues; and (2) Secretary to report to Congress on the differing Army and Air Force policies for taking adverse administrative actions against National Guard officers in a State status. (Sec. 512) Requires courts-martial for members of the National Guard when not performing in Federal service to be as provided by the laws of the respective State, territory, possession, or the District of Columbia. Provides convening authority for the courts-martial of National Guard when not performing in the Federal service for: (1) special and summary courts-martial by the respective State, territory, possession, and District of Columbia; (2) general courts-martial by the President; and (3) special courts-martial by the appropriate commanding officer. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare, for consideration of enactment by the States, a model State code of military justice and a model State manual of courts-martial for use with respect to the National Guard when not performing in Federal service; and (2) report to the defense committees on implementation of the model code and manual requirements. (Sec. 513) Requires matching funds requirements, as of October 1, 2002, under the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Subtitle C: Reserve Component Officer Personnel Policy - Exempts from active status end strength limitations reserve general and flag officers serving on active duty in certain joint duty assignments designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Sec. 522) Makes eligible for promotion to the grade of reserve Army or Air Force major general reserve brigadier generals not otherwise eligible for promotion because the officer's service does not meet the currently required one-year-of-continuous-service if: (1) the officer was transferred from an inactive status to the reserve active status during the one-year period preceding the convening of the promotion board; (2) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an active status, the officer had been in an inactive status for less than one year; and (3) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an inactive status, the officer had continuously served for at least one year on the reserve active status or active-duty list. (Sec. 523) Retains promotion eligibility for reserve general and flag officers transferred to an inactive status list after having been recommended for promotion or found qualified for Federal recognition to a higher grade. (Sec. 524) Provides a limited deferment of retirement or separation from service until 30 days after completion of a medical evaluation requiring hospitalization or medical observation. Subtitle D: Education and Training - Provides for a phased increase to 4,400 in the authorized end strengths for each of the military service academies. Prohibits any increases for any academic year after 2007-2008. Directs the Secretary of each military department to seek to achieve an increase, by the 2006-2007 academic year, of not less than 400 Reserve Officers' Training Corps participants. (Sec. 532) Increases from 270 days to one year the time allowed following enlistment in the reserve or National Guard prior to commencement of an initial period of active duty. (Sec. 533) Authorizes units and members of the National Guard to conduct and participate in small arms competitions and qualifying athletic competitions in conjunction with required training. Allows amounts appropriated for the National Guard to be used for costs and expenses incurred by Guard members engaging in such activities. Limits to $2.5 million per fiscal year the funds that may be obligated or expended for such activities. Subtitle E: Decorations and Awards - Waives time limitations for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for certain individuals for whom the Secretary concerned filed notice to the defense committees that such awards were warranted and for whom a time limit waiver was recommended. (Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned to award eligible Vietnam evacuation veterans the Vietnam Service Medal, notwithstanding other applicable requirements. Subtitle F: Administrative Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure sufficient staffing and funding for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. (Sec. 552) Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during FY 2003 through 2005, from reducing the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to the review and correction of military records until 90 days after a report is submitted to Congress explaining the reduction and its rationale. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the Secretary to provide either transportation and expenses or a prescribed daily stipend for civilians participating in a military funeral honors detail. (Sec. 554) Authorizes the use of volunteer proctors for the administration to secondary school students of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test). (Sec. 555) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the status of female military personnel, including access to health care, assignments, deployments, promotions, and cases of sexual harassment. Subtitle G: Benefits - Directs the Secretary concerned to establish a program under which accrued leave of a member may be transferred to another member of the same department who requires additional leave because of a qualifying emergency (one likely to require prolonged absence due to a medical condition of an immediate family member, or other hardship as determined by such Secretary). (Sec. 562) Repeals a provision which prohibits participants in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program from participation in the DOD medical loan repayment program. (Sec. 563) Authorizes, as between-tour leave travel for enlisted personnel stationed overseas who extend such tour of duty, round-trip transportation from such location to an alternate location at a cost not to exceed the cost of transportation to the nearest contiguous U.S. port. (Sec. 564) Authorizes vehicle storage in lieu of vehicle transportation when a member is ordered to a U.S. duty station in a nonforeign area outside the continental United States. Subtitle H: Military Justice Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to allow an accused convicted of an offense by a court-martial, upon request, to be sentenced by the military judge rather than the members of the court-martial. (Sec. 572) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the desirability and feasibility of consolidating the separate Army, Navy, and Air Force courses for judge advocates into a single course conducted at a single location. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2003 pay increase tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2003, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Expands the basic allowance for housing low-cost or no-cost moves authority for members assigned to duty outside the United States when the Secretary concerned determines that it would be inequitable to base the member's housing entitlement to, and amount of, a basic allowance for housing on the cost of housing in the area to which the member is reassigned. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2003 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2002 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Provides a minimum monthly level of hardship duty pay for ground duty in Antarctica or on the Arctic icepack. (Sec. 616) Increases the reenlistment bonus for persons with prior enlisted service. (Sec. 617) Makes limitations on the maximum bonus amount that may be paid to officers retained in a critical military skill inapplicable to an officer assigned duties as a health care provider. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Extends the authorized period for leave travel for members performing consecutive overseas tours of duty to any time before the end of the consecutive tour (currently, within one year after beginning the consecutive tour). Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Provides for the phase-in, during FY 2003 through 2006, of the full concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for military retirees with disabilities rated at 60 percent or higher. Repeals current provisions providing special compensation for certain severely service-disabled military retirees. Requires the Secretary to determine the amount of Treasury contribution required to be made into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund to cover such increased payments. (Sec. 642) Reduces from eight to six years the qualifying service requirement for eligibility for retired pay for non-regular service. (Sec. 643) Eliminates any possible inversion in the retired pay cost-of-living adjustment in the case of an initial adjustment using a retired member's final pay. (Sec. 644) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act and specified Federal law to make technical clarifications to the so-called "forgotten widows" military survivors' annuity program. Subtitle E: Reserve Component Montgomery GI Bill - Extends the period of eligibility for the use of Selected Reserve educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 (currently ten) years after the date on which a person first becomes so entitled. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Revises or adds definitions to Federal military pay provisions. Title VII: Health Care Matters - Subtitle A: Health Care Program Improvements - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to make the requirement of TRICARE preauthorization of inpatient mental health care inapplicable to Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. (Sec. 702) Extends eligibility for TRICARE Remote (a DOD managed health care plan for members residing more than 50 miles from a military medical facility) to a dependent of a member with a permanent duty assignment for which the dependent is not authorized to accompany the member when either: (1) the dependent continues to reside at the location of the former duty assignment which is more than 50 miles, or one hour's drive, from the nearest military medical facility; or (2) there is no reasonable expectation that the member will return to the location of the former duty assignment and the dependent moves to a location more than 50 miles or one hour's drive from the nearest military medical facility. (Sec. 703) Makes eligible for enrollment in the TRICARE dental program a dependent of a member who died while on active duty and while not enrolled in a dental plan due to being transferred. (Sec. 704) Provides as a new funding source for the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund the pay of participating members. Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into an agreement for participation in the health care program funded by such Fund. (Sec. 705) Requires the Secretary, in designating TRICARE Program health care providers, to prescribe regulations that will designate providers currently authorized under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of: (1) current impediments to a cost-effective and provider- and beneficiary-friendly system for claims processing under the TRICARE Program; and (2) the nature and extent of, reasons for, and trends regarding network provider instability under TRICARE, and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate such instability. (Sec. 713) Repeals a required report from DOD administering Secretaries on military health care program operations and costs. Subtitle C: Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Health Resources Sharing - Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Health Resources Sharing and Performance Improvement Act of 2002 - Urges the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) commit their departments to significantly improve mutually beneficial sharing and coordination of health care resources and services; (2) build supportive organizational cultures; and (3) establish and achieve measurable goals to facilitate increased sharing and coordination. (Sec. 723) Directs such Secretaries to enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of health care resources with the goal of improving access to, and quality and cost-effectiveness of, the health care provided to beneficiaries. Establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Health Executive Committee to recommend strategic direction for joint coordination and sharing efforts. Directs the Secretaries to carry out a program to identify, provide incentives to, implement, fund, and evaluate creative coordination and sharing initiatives at the facility, intraregional, and nationwide levels. Establishes in the Treasury a DOD-VA Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund. Terminates such program at the end of FY 2007. Provides guidelines and policies for implementing Committee recommendations and for carrying out related health care contracts and agreements. Requires the Secretaries to report annually to Congress on health care coordination and sharing activities. (Sec. 724) Directs the Secretaries to conduct at no less than five sites a health care resources sharing project to serve as a test for evaluating the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of measures and programs to improve the sharing and coordination of health care and resources. Requires testing of a pharmacy benefit program under which beneficiaries of either department have access to pharmaceutical services of the other department. Requires the Secretaries to provide for a joint review team to annually review and report on each of the participating sites. Terminates the pharmacy benefit program at the end of FY 2007. (Sec. 725) Directs the Secretaries to jointly review the adequacy of current processes and existing statutory authorities and policy governing the capability of the two departments to provide health care to members of the armed forces following domestic acts of terrorism or domestic use of weapons of mass destruction, before and after any declaration of national emergency. (Sec. 726) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt for use by the VA health care system the DOD system known as the Pharmacy Data Transaction System. Requires the: (1) adopted system to be fully operational by October 1, 2004; and (2) Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs an amount sufficient to cover three-fourths of the cost of implementing such system. (Sec. 727) Directs the Secretaries to carry out a pilot program under which graduate medical education and training is provided to DOD military physicians and VA physician employees through one or more programs carried out in DOD and VA medical facilities or centers. Terminates such program on July 31, 2008. (Sec. 728) Repeals current VA hospital bed limits. (Sec. 729) Requires: (1) an interim report on each program authorized under this Subtitle; (2) annual reports through the end of FY 2007 on either Secretary's use of administrative waivers under the pharmacy benefit program; (3) a report on pharmacy benefits cross-access; and (4) annual reports through 2009 on the medical education and training pilot program. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for an acquisition management professional exchange pilot program between DOD and the private sector. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to evaluate, and report to Congress on, the training, knowledge, and resources needed by DOD to effectively negotiate intellectual property rights using the principles of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, and to determine whether DOD currently has the training, knowledge, and resources to meet those needs. (Sec. 803) Requires the use of competitive procedures (unless an exception has been authorized) for DOD acquisition task and delivery order contracts. Limits to five years the base period for such contracts unless a longer period is specifically authorized. Makes task order contracts for the procurement of advisory and assistance services subject to such procedures and contract limits. (Sec. 804) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend until January 1, 2004, a program applying simplified acquisition procedures to certain commercial items. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on whether the authority to issue solicitations for purchases of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold should be made permanent. (Sec. 805) Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, every five years, to adjust for inflation the simplified acquisition threshold. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for improving the personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD civilian acquisition workforce based on the results of a demonstration project required under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. (Sec. 807) Revises the size and contract period for ball and roller bearings covered under DOD simplified acquisition limitations. (Sec. 808) Directs the Secretary to establish tailored rapid acquisition and deployment procedures for items urgently needed to react to an enemy threat or respond to significant and urgent safety situations. (Sec. 809) Directs the Secretary to establish a quick-reaction special projects acquisition team to advise the Secretary on appropriate actions to expedite the procurement of urgently needed systems. (Sec. 810) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD efforts on the development of anti-cyberterrorism technology. (Sec. 811) Authorizes DOD or one of the military departments to acquire a product or service from Federal Prison Industries, Inc., only if such acquisition is made through a procurement contract awarded and administered under current law, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Allows such corporation to be used as a subcontractor, but prohibits the use of such corporation as a subcontractor, supplier of products, or provider of services from being imposed upon prospective or actual defense prime contractors or subcontractors. Provides for the protection of classified and sensitive information that such corporation's inmate worker may have access to. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to strive to renew any successfully performed technical assistance cooperative agreement with DOD at a funding level at least equal to that of the previous agreement. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Redesignates the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 902) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees providing an implementation plan for the United States Northern Command. (Sec. 903) Requires the national defense mission of the Coast Guard to be included in future DOD quadrennial defense reviews. Changes the year for submission of such reviews. (Sec. 905) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the effect on combat readiness of operations other than war (humanitarian, counter-drug, or peace operations, or nation assistance) in which military personnel are participating. (Sec. 907) Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts for the operation or administration of the National Defense University. Establishes the National Defense University Gift Fund. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act for FY 2003 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2002 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased pursuant to supplemental appropriations during such fiscal year. Provides the same adjustment for amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for defense-related activities during such fiscal year. Prohibits the transfer of funds from DOD "transfer accounts" until the Secretary submits certain transfer information to the defense and appropriations committees. Allows adjustment of the above appropriations in the case of a pending contingent emergency supplemental appropriation for DOD military or atomic energy defense activities only if the President transmits to Congress an official budget request for that appropriation that designates it as an emergency requirement. (Sec. 1003) Allows any military officer or civilian DOD employee designated by the Secretary to act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under DOD control. Extends to members of the Navy and Marine Corps current authority for pay deductions for damage to or repair of arms and equipment. (Sec. 1004) Authorizes the Secretary to designate as a "departmental accountable official" any member of the armed forces or DOD civilian employee responsible for providing to a certifying DOD official information, data, or services that are directly relied upon by such official in the certification of payment vouchers. Authorizes the Secretary to impose pecuniary liability upon such a designated official in the event of an illegal, improper, or incorrect payment. (Sec. 1005) Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations governing the use and control of all purchase cards and convenience checks issued to DOD personnel for official use. Outlines required safeguards and internal controls with respect to the use of such cards and checks, and provides penalties for violations. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts provided in an appropriations Act for procurement for a covered acquisition program to amounts provided in the same Act for RDT&E for that program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees 30 days in advance of such a transfer. Limits such transfers to $20 million per program and $250 million total. Requires unused transferred funds to be transferred back to their original purpose. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the modernization of DOD's financial management systems and operations. Prohibits the obligation of more than 75 percent of the funds authorized for the DOD Financial Modernization Program until such report is received. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the Secretary to report to the: (1) defense and appropriations committees on military operations conducted as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; and (2) the defense committees on biological weapons defense and counter-proliferation. (Sec. 1013) Requires (currently, only required upon request) DOD reports to Congress to be accompanied by an electronic version. (Sec. 1014) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly prepare, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a plan for the U.S. strategic force structure for nuclear weapons and their delivery systems for FY 2002 through 2012. Directs the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress on options for achieving prior to FY 2012 a posture under which the United States maintains a level of operationally deployed nuclear warheads of 1,700 to 2,200, as outlined in the Nuclear Posture Review. (Sec. 1015) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan to establish a joint national training complex. (Sec. 1016) Amends Federal armed forces provisions and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to repeal various reporting requirements. (Sec. 1017) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD responsibilities, missions, and plans for military support of homeland security. (Sec. 1018) Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on the anticipated short- and long-term effects of the use of a: (1) nuclear earth penetrator weapon on target areas; and (2) nuclear-tipped ballistic missile interceptor and of ballistic missiles not intercepted. Requires the Secretary to transfer each report to Congress. (Sec. 1020) Terminates any recurring congressional reporting requirement that applies only to DOD or one or more DOD offices five years after such requirement is enacted. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Expresses the sense of Congress requesting the President to take specified actions to ensure the maintenance of a reliable, flexible, and robust strategic deterrent. (Sec. 1022) Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress the annual defense authorization request for a fiscal year during the first 30 days after the President transmits to Congress the budget for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1024) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, upon request of the Secretary of Defense, to provide insurance for a vessel, regardless of its country of registration or the citizenship of its owners, that is supporting a military operation approved by the North Atlantic Council, including a vessel not operating under contract with a Federal department or agency. Authorizes such Secretary to seek claims indemnification from a country benefitting from such insurance coverage if the county is a party to an international agreement for the sharing of risks involved in mutual or joint operations. (Sec. 1025) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell Navy Drydock YFD-69 in Portland, Oregon, to the Portland Shipyard LLC (its current user). (Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) establish 23 additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (for a total of 55 of such teams); and (2) ensure that of such 55 teams there is at least one team established for each State and territory. (Sec. 1027) Requires a DOD element that maintains a repository of DNA samples for human remains identification purposes to make such samples available, pursuant to a court order, for the investigation or prosecution of a felony or any sexual offense for which no other source of DNA information is available. (Sec. 1028) Expresses the sense of Congress that the number of Navy aircraft carriers in active service should not be less than 12. Commends aircraft carrier crews that have participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and the homeland defense mission. (Sec. 1029) Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain a secure National Foreign Language Skills Registry of linguistically qualified U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens willing to provide linguistic services in times of emergency to assist DOD and other Federal agencies with translation and interpretation in critical languages. Authorizes the Secretary to accept voluntary translation and interpretation services. (Sec. 1030) Directs the Secretary to review and report on the effect of the contract award for the lead design agent for the DD(X) ship program on the industrial base for ship combat system development. (Sec. 1031) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to engage the President of the Russian Federation for enhanced cooperation to promote mutual security of tactical nuclear weapons. Outlines appropriate cooperative activities. Requires a report from the President to Congress on the status of cooperation objectives. (Sec. 1032) Increases by: (1) $65 million the amount authorized for Army missile procurement, to be available for an additional 24 PAC-3 missiles; and (2) $70 million the amount authorized for the Missile Defense Agency, to be available only for the Israeli Arrow Ballistic Missile Defense System program. (Sec. 1033) Authorizes the Secretary, upon request, to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to assist the: (1) Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens; and (2) U.S. Customs Service (Customs) in the inspection of cargo, vehicles, and aircraft to prevent the entry of weapons of mass destruction and related components, prohibited narcotics or drugs, or other terrorist or drug trafficking items. Requires each member performing such duties to be accompanied by a civilian law enforcement officer from the appropriate agency. Authorizes the Attorney General or Secretary of the Treasury to establish ongoing joint task forces for responding to a threat to national security posed by the entry of terrorists or drug traffickers. Terminates such assignment authority at the end of FY 2005. (Sec. 1034) Expresses the sense of Congress that no funds appropriated pursuant to the authorizations in this Act should be used for any assistance to, or cooperation with or support for, the International Criminal Court. Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters - Makes employees of a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality eligible for Federal long-term care insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to determine whether a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality shall be so covered or is already covered under an alternative program. (Sec. 1102) Extends until October 1, 2006, the authority to make lump-sum severance payments to DOD employees. (Sec. 1103) Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in conducting and analyzing data provided in wage surveys, to provide for wage differentials for any hardship or hazard related to asbestos and possible asbestos exposure. (Sec. 1104) Extends, for individuals separated through FY 2005 (currently, FY 2002), Federal Employee Health Benefits Program eligibility based on involuntary separation from military service, or voluntary separation from a surplus position, in the Departments of Defense or Energy due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 1105) Requires OPM to conduct full-scale Federal wage surveys to determine prevailing wage rates every three (currently two) years. (Sec. 1106) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) prescribe professional certification and credential standards for professional accounting positions within DOD; and (2) waive such standards when appropriate. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on plans to provide training to appropriate DOD personnel to meet the new standards. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Limits to $15 million the total assistance authorized for support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities. Extends such authority through FY 2003. (Sec. 1202) Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a comprehensive plan to conduct joint operational training for, and exchanges of senior officers between, U.S. military forces and the military forces of Taiwan; and (2) submit such plan to Congress. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary, through FY 2005, to provide administrative services and support for foreign liaison officers performing duties while temporarily assigned to U.S. components or commands. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1204) Authorizes the Secretary to include, under a program in which the Secretary issues loan guarantees arising out of the sale or long-term lease of defense articles or services, a country that assists in combating drug trafficking organizations or foreign terrorist organizations. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and State to report to specified congressional committees enumerating those countries so included. (Sec. 1205) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 funds made available for activities associated with the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow, Russia, until: (1) the United States and Russian Federation enter into cost-sharing and tax exemption agreements; and (2) 30 days after the Secretary submits such agreements to the defense committees. (Sec. 1206) Prohibits any DOD funds from being used to support or maintain more than 500 members of the armed forces on duty in the Republic of Colombia at any time. Provides exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitation in the national security interest. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on such purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification. (Sec. 1303) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 2003 CTR funds until the submission of specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts. (Sec. 1304) Amends the Spence Act to include in a required report information on the use of revenue generated by activities carried out under CTR programs. (Sec. 1305) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the design, planning, or construction of a second wing for a storage facility for Russian fissile material. (Sec. 1306) Expresses the sense of Congress recognizing the threat of Russian proliferation to Iran of nuclear and missile technology, materials, and information. Requires a report from the President to Congress, in each of 2003 through 2009, describing in detail Russian proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile goods and technology, and of dual-use items that may contribute to the development of such weapons and missiles to Iran and other countries. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits the use of CTR funds for threat reduction projects, programs, or activities in countries other than the states of the former Soviet Union. (Sec. 1308) Makes certain restrictions under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 concerning the use of CTR funds without compliance with all relevant arms control agreements inapplicable with respect to U.S. assistance to Russia if the President certifies to Congress that waiving such restrictions is important to U.S. national security interests. Terminates such waiver authority on December 31, 2005. Requires a report from the President to Congress on any use of such authority. (Sec. 1309) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 CTR funds for defense and military contacts activities until the Secretary reports to Congress describing the operation and success of such activities carried out under CTR programs during FY 2001 and 2002. Title XIV: Utah Test and Training Range - States that nothing in this Act, the Wilderness Act, or other Federal land management laws shall restrict or preclude: (1) low-level military overflights and operations of military aircraft, helicopters, or unmanned aerial vehicles over the Utah Test and Training Range, including the Dugway Proving Ground; or (2) the designation of new or expansion of existing units of special use airspace, or the use or establishment of military training routes over federally designated wilderness or wilderness study areas, within such Range. Prohibits the removal of existing communications, instrumentation, or electronic tracking systems from such areas, as well as any other equipment necessary to meet military testing and training requirements. Requires timely access to such areas to respond to emergency situations. Directs the Secretaries of the Air Force and Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding for access to the wilderness areas located beneath the airspace of the Range. Authorizes restricted or prohibited public access to such areas when required by national security or public safety. (Sec. 1403) Designates specified Federal lands within the Range as wilderness areas, and withdraws such lands from all forms or entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including mining and mineral and geothermal leasing. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer such wilderness areas. Authorizes fish and wildlife habitat restoration and livestock grazing within such areas, where appropriate. (Sec. 1404) Designates as wilderness certain Federal lands in: (1) Box Elder County, Utah, to be known as the Pilot Range Wilderness Area; and (2) Tooele County, Utah, to be known as the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area. Title XV: Cost of War Against Terrorism Authorization - Cost of War Against Terrorism Authorization Act of 2002 - States that the $10 billion authorized to be appropriated in this Act is authorized for, and may be expended only for, the conduct of operations of the war on terrorism in accordance with the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Part I: Authorizations to Transfer Accounts - Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY 2003 for Operations Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom (counter-terrorism activities). Authorizes the Secretary to transfer authorized amounts to DOD military personnel or O&M accounts for such purposes. (Sec. 1512) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) emergency replacement of equipment and munitions as part of such Operations; or (2) enhancement of critical military capabilities necessary to carry out counter-terrorism operations. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer authorized amounts to DOD RDT&E accounts for such purposes. (Sec. 1513) Prohibits the transfer of authorized funds until 15 days after the Secretary has notified the defense committees. Part II: Authorizations to Specified Accounts - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide procurement; (2) defense-wide RDT&E; (3) unspecified intelligence and classified activities; (4) O&M; and (5) military personnel accounts. (Sec. 1527) Prohibits the obligation of authorized funds for the Global Information Grid system until the Secretary certifies to the defense and appropriations committees that such system is secure and protected from unauthorized access. Part III - Military Construction Authorizations - Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at specified military installations in Qatar, Cuba, Spain, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Wartime Pay and Allowance Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) the family separation allowance; (2) hazardous duty incentive pay for commissioned and warrant officers and enlisted personnel; (3) incentive pay for non-static-line parachute jumping; (4) incentive pay for various other hazardous duties; (5) diving duty special pay; (6) imminent danger pay; and (7) career enlisted flyer incentive pay. Increases from $6,000 to $12,000 the death gratuity payment. Removes air weapons controller crew service from the list of duties for which hazardous duty pay shall be provided. Subtitle C: Additional Provisions - Requires the Secretary to ensure that by the end of FY 2003 there is established at least one Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State. (Sec. 1552) Authorizes a DOD joint task force that provides support to law enforcement agencies conducting counter-drug activities to also provide support for counter-terrorism activities. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1553) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should use funds authorized in this Act to assist, train, and equip local fire and police departments that would be first responders to a domestic terrorist incident. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - 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, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2002 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 2002 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at the Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those 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 carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2002 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2404) Amends various military construction authorization Acts to increase the amounts authorized for chemical demilitarization projects at the: (1) Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; (2) Newport Army Depot, Indiana; and (3) Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado. 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 and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2006, 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 - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in connection with any military housing acquired or constructed, to furnish firefighting, fire protection, and police protection services. Repeals the authority for interim leases of military family housing units or military unaccompanied housing units. Establishes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund. (Currently, there are two separate funds for improvements to military family housing and military unaccompanied housing.) Provides for Fund credits. Increases the total budget authority of contracts and investments using Fund authorities. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Fund unobligated amounts from the previous separate funds. (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary concerned (currently, the Secretary of Defense) to carry out construction projects as part of a required environmental response action, requiring congressional notification when amounts for such projects exceed the unspecified minor construction threshold. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease additional family housing units in Korea both at and above the current lease limit of $25,000 per year (to a maximum of $35,000 per year). (Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) carry out up to three pilot projects to use the private sector for the acquisition or construction of military unaccompanied housing in the United States, including any U.S. territory or possession; and (2) assign members of the armed forces to such housing. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to set specific higher rates of partial basic allowance for housing for members assigned to such units. Utilizes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund to carry out activities under the pilot projects. Authorizes a transfer to such Fund, subject to 90 days prior notification of the appropriate congressional committees, from amounts appropriated for construction of military unaccompanied housing projects in military construction accounts. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Navy to the appropriate congressional committees on pilot project activities and related contractual information. Terminates pilot project authority at the end of FY 2007. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with private entities to limit space encroachments and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations on or in the vicinity of military installations. Outlines agreement requirements and conditions. Provides agreement funding through specified O&M funds. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convey surplus real property to eligible recipients to undertake natural resource conservation activities. Provides a reversionary interest if the property is not used and maintained for such purposes. Authorizes the release of covenants with respect to such property. (Sec. 2813) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to make certain screening requirements for property used in support of response actions inapplicable to excess or surplus DOD property used for responding to: (1) a war or national emergency; or (2) an emergency or major disaster. (Sec. 2814) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration program to assess the feasibility and desirability of including facility maintenance requirements in up to 12 military construction contracts to determine whether such requirements facilitate reductions in the long-term facility maintenance costs of the military departments. Requires a program report from the Secretary to Congress. Terminates program authority at the end of FY 2006. Provides funding from military construction funds. (Sec. 2815) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to repeal a provision which prohibits the Secretary from transferring certain property in exchange for military housing units if the property is identified in a redevelopment plan for a closed or realigned military installation as essential to that installation's reuse or redevelopment. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) any of certain eligible entities in Alaska certain Alaska lands determined to be no longer required for National Guard purposes; (2) the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, an abandoned railroad spur at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for storm water management, recreation, transportation, and other public purposes; (3) the Buffalo, Minnesota, Independent School District 877 the former Army reserve training center in Buffalo; (4) El Paso County, Texas, a portion of Fort Bliss, Texas, for the construction of a veterans' nursing home; (5) the Veterans Land Board of the State of Texas a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, for establishing a State-run cemetery for veterans; and (6) a recipient under competitive bid procedures certain military family housing at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in order to build replacement military family housing or to rehabilitate existing housing units. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to ENPEX Corporation a portion of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, for the production of electric power and related activities. (Sec. 2832) Directs the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia, and Prince William Forest Park, Virginia, to conform to the boundaries depicted on a specified map depicting such boundary adjustments. Provides for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of specified portions of such areas following the boundary adjustment. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to West Wendover, Nevada, and Tooele County, Utah, specified portions of the Wendover Air Force Base auxiliary filed determined by the Secretary of the Air Force to be no longer required for Air Force purposes. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to a previously-specified entity for the construction and maintenance of a restricted access highway (current law), notwithstanding any State law that would otherwise prevent either such Secretary from granting the easement or the entity from constructing and maintaining such highway. (Sec. 2862) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell treated water and wastewater treatment services from facilities at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, if such Secretary determines that the provision of such water and services will be in the public interest and will not interfere with current or future Camp operations. (Sec. 2863) Ratifies a specified agreement regarding the conveyance of property at the Adak Naval Complex, Alaska. Removes such land, upon its conveyance, from the National Wildlife Refuge System. Authorizes related conveyances. (Sec. 2864) Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that: (1) any decision by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission to add an installation to the list for closure must be unanimous; and (2) at least two Commission members must have visited the added installation during the period of the Commission's list review. 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 2003 for: (1) activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for weapons activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, naval reactors, and the Office of the Administrator for Nuclear Security; and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities and other defense activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental restoration and waste management, defense environmental management cleanup reform, defense facilities closure projects, defense environmental management privatization, other defense activities, and defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions - Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions Act - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this subtitle for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, 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 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, or 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. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary 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 Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. (Sec. 3130) Directs the Secretary to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer weapons activities funds from a program or project of that office to another such program or project when such transfer is necessary to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or will result in cost savings and efficiencies. Limits such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the Thurmond Act to extend until April 1, 2003, the authority of a panel to assess the reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Extends a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 3142) Transfers from the Secretary of Defense to the Administrator for Nuclear Security the CTR program relating to the elimination of weapons grade plutonium in Russia, along with related activities and assets. (Sec. 3143) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to repeal report requirements on the obligation of funds for programs on fissile materials in Russia. (Sec. 3144) Requires the head of each DOE national security laboratory and the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command to report annually to the Secretary concerned (Defense or Energy) a certification regarding the safety, reliability, and performance of each nuclear weapon type in the active stockpile of the United States for which such official is responsible. Requires an annual report from such Secretaries to the President and Congress on certifications received. Requires each national security laboratory head to assemble "red teams" to provide oversight with respect to such certifications. Requires each laboratory head and the strategic commander to report on the stockpile stewardship and management program of DOE. (Sec. 3145) Directs the Secretary to prepare, and include within DOE budget justification documents for FY 2004, a plan for achieving a one-year readiness posture for U.S. resumption of underground nuclear weapons tests. (Sec. 3146) States it to be U.S. policy not to conduct development which could lead to the production of a new low-yield nuclear weapon, including a precision low-yield warhead. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting any such development which has not entered into production on the date of enactment of this Act. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Defense Environmental Management - Directs the Secretary, using funds made available under this title, to carry out a program to reform DOE environmental management activities. Requires a site performance management plan for each site for which the Secretary allocates funding for such program. (Sec. 3152) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of those environmental management initiatives being undertaken to accelerate the reduction of environmental risks and challenges that, as a result of the legacy of the Cold War, are faced by DOE, its contractors, and applicable Federal and State regulatory agencies. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2003, to obligate up to $76.4 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 Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 2003 to carry out activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3502) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the vessel USS SPHINX to the Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum upon certain conditions, including that: (1) the recipient uses the vessel as a nonprofit military museum and not for commercial transportation; and (2) the recipient makes the vessel available to the Government when required by such Secretary. (Sec. 3503) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide, to any State to which an obsolete ship is transferred, financial assistance to prepare the ship for use as an artificial reef, including costs for environmental remediation, towing, and sinking. (Sec. 3504) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to obtain independent analysis of an application for the guarantee or commitment to guarantee financing for the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of a covered vessel.

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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) defense health programs. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to: (1) extend through 2004 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources; (2) allow the use of a percentage of Army surplus funds for unutilized plant capacity to be transferred and used for the demilitarization of Army conventional ammunition; and (3) require the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD) to review the experience under the above pilot program and report review results to Congress. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Earmarks specified Navy and Marine Corps procurement funds (with an offsetting reduction) for the procurement of the integrated bridge system. (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to extend until October 1, 2007, multiyear procurement authority for DDG-51 class destroyers. (Sec. 123) Sets forth the scope of the cruiser conversion program to be maintained by the Secretary of the Navy for the Ticonderoga class of AEGIS cruisers. (Sec. 124) Increases (with an offsetting reduction) the amount authorized for Marine Corps procurement, to be allocated to range training devices. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract (up to six years) for the procurement of C-130J aircraft and variants, with a limitation. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) identify among specified pathfinder programs each program that such Secretary shall conduct as a spiral development program; and (2) submit to the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) for each selected program a spiral development plan meeting specified requirements. Requires the Secretary to: (1) review and approve or disapprove each plan; and (2) submit to the congressional defense and appropriations committees a copy of each approved plan. Requires specified DOD officials to assess each pathfinder program not selected or approved for spiral development, and report to the defense and appropriations committees an assessment for an acquisition plan for such program. (Sec. 133) Directs the Office of the Secretary to maintain oversight of acquisition for defense space programs. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on an oversight plan. (Sec. 134) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from entering into any lease for tanker aircraft until such Secretary submits a specified report required under a prior defense appropriations Act and obtains authorization and appropriation of necessary funds to enter into such a lease. (Sec. 135) Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds for the Compass Call program within classified projects and not within the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Program. (Sec. 136) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Under Secretary of the Air Force should: (1) evaluate all options for sustaining the U.S. space launch industrial base; (2) develop a plan for assuring U.S. access to space; and (3) report to Congress on such plan as early as practicable. (Sec. 137) Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds (with an offsetting reduction) for the procurement of technical communications-electronics equipment for the Mobile Emergency Broadcast System. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for science and technology projects. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for RDT&E for carrying out DOD health care programs, projects, and activities. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to manage the DOD program of basic seismic research in support of national requirements for monitoring nuclear explosions. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such purpose. (Sec. 212) Authorizes the Secretary, for RDT&E for the Advanced SEAL Delivery System, to use any funds that were authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2002 for the procurement of that system, were so appropriated, and are no longer needed for such purpose. (Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to Congress on the Army experimentation program regarding design of the objective force required under a prior defense authorization Act. (Sec. 214) Reduces by $475.6 million the amount available for continued research and development of the Crusader artillery system. Increases by the same amount funds available for Army RDT&E for the Objective Force indirect fire systems (prohibiting obligation of the latter funds until 30 days after the Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning Army indirect fire alternative programs). (Sec. 215) Earmarks specified Navy RDT&E funds (with an offsetting reduction) for laser welding and cutting demonstration in force protection applied research. (Sec. 216) Increases (with an offsetting reduction) the amount of Navy RDT&E funds for Navy analysis of emerging threats. (Sec. 217) Prohibits the Medical Free Electron Laser Program from being transferred from DOD to the National Institutes of Health or any other Federal department or agency. (Sec. 218) Earmarks specified Navy RDT&E funds for the demonstration of renewable energy use program. (Sec. 219) Increases (with offsetting reductions): (1) Army RDT&E funds for Army radar power technology and for development of a prototype composite hull design to meet theater support vessel requirements; (2) Air Force RDT&E funds for Theater Aerospace Command and Control Simulation Facility upgrades; (3) Navy RDT&E funds for the DDG optimized manning initiative and for development and demonstration of a full-scale high-speed permanent magnet generator; and (4) defense-wide RDT&E funds for research, analysis, and assessment of efforts to counter potential agroterrorist attacks. Earmarks (with offsetting reductions) specified: (1) defense-wide RDT&E funds for critical infrastructure protection; (2) Navy RDT&E funds for the aviation-shipboard information technology initiative and for development of the littoral ship program; and (3) Air Force RDT&E funds for the Aerospace Relay Mirror System demonstration. Subtitle C: Missile Defense Programs - Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to perform annual operational assessments and reviews of ballistic missile defense programs, requiring reports to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Joint Requirements Oversight Council to: (1) review cost, schedule, and performance criteria for such programs, assessing criteria validity in relation to military requirements; and (2) report review results to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 222) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the: (1) Midcourse Defense program of the United States Missile Defense Agency; (2) Air-based Boost program (formerly the Airborne Laser program); and (3) Theater High Altitude Area Defense program. (Sec. 225) Amends specified Federal laws to change references to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to the United States Missile Defense Agency. (Sec. 226) Prohibits the use of any funds authorized by this or any other Act for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system. (Sec. 227) Requires the Director of the United States Missile Defense Agency to report to the defense and appropriations committees on each flight test of the Ground-based Midcourse national missile defense system. Subtitle D: Improved Management of Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Facilities - Establishes within DOD a Test and Evaluation Resource Enterprise to manage all DOD funds available for the support of investment in, or operation, maintenance, development, and management of, the test and evaluation facilities and resources of the Major Range and Test Facility Base. Outlines duties of the head of such Enterprise. Directs the Secretary to develop a transition plan to ensure that the Enterprise head is prepared to assume such duties. States that, until the Enterprise is established, all investments of $500,000 or more in such Base shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. (Sec. 232) Transfers from DOD program accounts to the major test and evaluation investment programs of the military departments and to the DOD Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program amounts authorized for DOD demonstration and validation, engineering and manufacturing development, and operational systems development. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to charge an entity for using for testing a facility or resource of that department within the Major Range and Test Facility Base. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to review the funding policies of each military department to ensure compliance with cost recovery requirements. (Sec. 233) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the DOD Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program. (Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to implement a single financial management and accounting system for all DOD test and evaluation facilities, with specified features. (Sec. 235) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to Congress on capabilities of the DOD test and evaluation workforce, including a plan to ensure that such workforce is of sufficient size and expertise to timely and accurately identify issues of military suitability and effectiveness of DOD systems through appropriate testing. (Sec. 236) Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to include in certain annual reports an assessment of the waivers and deviations from DOD system test and evaluation master plans and other requirements. (Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the extent of implementation of recommendations of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Test and Evaluation Capabilities. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Requires reports from the Secretary to Congress on such program and the revitalization pilot programs (previously authorized). Extends the revitalization pilot programs for an additional three years. Authorizes laboratories and test centers participating in any of the pilot programs to enter into cooperative agreements with private-sector entities and institutions of higher education for the performance of work. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint up to 30 individuals for excepted Federal service in scientific, engineering, and technology positions under the pilot programs. (Sec. 242) Directs the Secretary to carry out a Technology Transition Initiative to facilitate the rapid transition of new technologies from science and technology programs of DOD into acquisition programs for the production of such technologies. Requires jointly funded projects among the military departments under the Initiative. Establishes a Technology Transition Council. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 243) Directs the Secretary to carry out a three-year program of outreach to small businesses and non-traditional defense contractors to review and evaluate activities and technologies that have the potential for meeting the DOD mission of combating terrorism. Requires a review panel to evaluate program proposals. (Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to carry out a vehicle fuel cell technology development program in cooperation with the Secretary of Energy, the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, and industry. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for the program. (Sec. 245) Requires the Secretary to carry out a defense nanotechnology research and development program. Requires the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, during each of 2004 through 2007, to report to the defense and appropriations committees on such program. (Sec. 246) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to require the Secretary to contract with the National Research Council to assess the effectiveness of the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in achieving program objectives. (Sec. 247) Extends through FY 2007 the authority of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to award prizes for defense advanced technology development achievements. Requires a report from the Agency Director to the defense and appropriations committees on the Director's proposal for the administration of such program. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) working capital funds; (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (3) the Range Enhancement Initiative Fund for the purchase of restrictive easements. (Sec. 305) Earmarks specified O&M funds for the Navy Pilot Human Resources Call Center, Cutler, Maine. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to facilitate commencement of development for the National Army Museum at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Provides funding through O&M funds (with a corresponding offset). (Sec. 307) Earmarks specified O&M funds for the disposal of obsolete vessels of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Authorizes the use of cross-fiscal year agreements under DOD cooperative agreements for environmental purposes. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to carry out an environmental restoration project determined necessary as a response under the current DOD requirements or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Prohibits any project construction, development, conversion, or extension from being considered military construction. (Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary to establish goals for the increased DOD procurement of items that are environmentally preferable or made with recovered materials. Directs the Secretary to assess current training and education of DOD procurement officials and contractors, and to develop a tracking system to identify the extent to which DOD is procuring such items. Requires an initial report, and annual reports during 2004 through 2007, on progress made in achieving such goals. (Sec. 314) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to continue activities for the clearance and removal of unexploded ordnance on Kaho'olawe Island, Hawaii, and related remediation activities. Subtitle C: Defense Dependents' Education - Earmarks specified O&M funds for the continuation of a DOD program of financial assistance to local educational agencies that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each eligible local educational agency of the availability of such assistance. (Sec. 332) Earmarks specified O&M funds for DOD impact aid payments for children with severe disabilities as authorized under the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Spence Act). (Sec. 333) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to fund summer school programs on the same basis as programs offered during the regular school year. (Sec. 334) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to include within a required study by the Comptroller General (CG) whether the process for setting the compensation for teachers participating in the defense dependents' education program is efficient and cost-effective. Extends a related report requirement. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the use of specified humanitarian assistance funds provided in conjunction with military operations for the pay of reserve personnel of the Special Operations Command performing duty in connection with training and other activities related to the clearing of landmines for humanitarian purposes. (Sec. 342) Provides for the calculation of the beginning of the five-year period for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract. (Sec. 343) Makes funds appropriated or otherwise available to a military department, defense agency, or combatant command for O&M available for the pay, allowances, and other costs charged to appropriations for a reserve component for the performance of intelligence or counterintelligence support. (Sec. 344) Includes Navy Exchange Markets in authorized rebate agreements under the DOD special supplemental food program. Allows such agreements to last up to three years. (Sec. 345) Authorizes the Secretary to make available logistics support and services in support of contractor performance in a DOD contract for the construction, modification, or maintenance of a weapon system. Limits the number of contracts for which such support and services may be provided to five, the total estimated costs of all such contracts to $100 million, and the duration of such contracts to five years. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations ensuring that such contracts are entered into only when in the best interests of the United States. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2007. (Sec. 346) Amends the Spence Act to extend through FY 2004 the arsenal support program initiative (and related reporting requirements). (Sec. 347) Extends through December 31, 2004, the authority of the Secretary to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection activities abroad. (Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary to establish policy and procedures, applicable to the military departments and defense agencies, regarding the installation and connection of telecom switches to the Defense Switch Network. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare and maintain an inventory of all such switches that are connected to such Network but have not been tested, validated, and certified by the Defense Information Systems Agency; and (2) identify and assess switch interoperability risks. (Sec. 349) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a preliminary engineering study and environmental analysis to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a connector between Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 1) and Telegraph Road, in order to provide an alternative to certain roads closed as a force protection measure. Expresses the sense of Congress that the study should consider as one alternative the extension of Old Mill Road between Richmond Highway and Telegraph Road. (Sec. 350) Amends the Spence Act to extend through FY 2003 the defense employees work safety demonstration program. (Sec. 351) Earmarks specified Navy O&M funds (with offsetting reductions) for: (1) Navy requirements for providing lift support for mine warfare ships and other vessels; and (2) support of Navy data conversion activities. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2003. (Sec. 402) Authorizes an increase in active-duty end strength and grade limitations to account for reserve personnel on active duty in support of a contingency operation. (Sec. 403) Increases the: (1) number of Marine Corps officers authorized to serve on active duty in grades above major general; and (2) authorized end strength for Marine Corps officers on active duty in the grade of colonel. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2003 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum end strength for FY 2003 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians. (Sec. 414) Places specified FY 2003 limitations on the number of non-dual status technicians authorized to be employed by the Army and Air Force. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Extends from September 30, 2003, to December 31, 2003, certain requirements and exclusions applicable to the service of general and flag officers serving on active duty in joint duty assignments. (Sec. 502) Extends until December 31, 2003, the authority to waive the requirement of significant joint duty experience prior to appointment as a chief of a reserve component or a director of the National Guard. (Sec. 503) Repeals a limitation on the authority of the Secretary to grant officers in grades below brigadier general and rear admiral (lower half) a waiver of a required sequence of joint professional military education and joint duty service. (Sec. 504) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to extend through FY 2008 the authority for the recall of retired aviators. (Sec. 505) Increases the officer grade for persons serving as the head of the nurse corps of the various military departments. (Sec. 506) Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to reduce to not less than two years the period of service (currently, three years) required before retirement in specified officer grades in the case of retirements occurring between September 1, 2002, and December 31, 2004. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of the exercise of any such authority. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Extends from 270 days until one year after enlistment in the reserves the authorized delay prior to commencement of an initial period of active duty for training. (Sec. 512) Provides that, in the case of a reserve officer required to be retired or separated, if the Secretary concerned determines that the evaluation of the physical condition of the officer and determination of the officer's entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization or medical observation that cannot be completed before the officer's retirement or separation date, then such Secretary may defer such retirement or separation until 30 days after the completion of the hospitalization or medical observation. (Sec. 513) Repeals provisions which prohibit the use of Air Force Reserve AGR personnel (recruiters, instructors, and trainers) for Air Force base security functions. Subtitle C: Education and Training - Increases from 4,000 to 4,400 the authorized end strengths for each of the military service academies. Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives time limitations with respect to the award to specified individuals of the Army Distinguished Service Cross or Navy Distinguished Flying Cross. (Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to issue a campaign medal, to be known as the Korea Defense Service Medal, to each member who served in the Republic of Korea or adjacent waters during the period beginning on July 28, 1954, and ending on a period determined by the Secretary of Defense and meets appropriate service requirements. Subtitle E: National Call to Service - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to facilitate national service under which a National Call to Service participant is entitled to an enlistment incentive. Requires participants to: (1) first serve on active duty in the armed forces for 15 months in a military occupational specialty designated by the Secretary; and (2) upon completion of such service and without a service break, serve a minimum period of obligated service on active duty, in the Selected Reserve or Individual Ready Reserve, the Peace Corps, Americorps, or other national service program, or any combination thereof. Provides as incentives: (1) payment of a bonus of $5,000; (2) payment of qualified student loans of up to $18,000; or (3) a specified allowance for educational assistance. Requires the participant to elect one of the incentives. Prohibits participants from educational assistance eligibility under the Montgomery GI Bill. Requires pro rata repayment of incentive amounts for unsatisfied service. Provides program funding from military pay, allowance, and expense funds. (Sec. 542) Requires each institution receiving assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide: (1) to military recruiters the same access to students as is provided to prospective employers; and (2) access to student name, address, and telephone listings of such students. Prohibits an institution from releasing such access information without the prior consent of the student or parent if such student or parent has submitted a request that such information with respect to that student not be released. Requires the Secretary of Education to notify institutions of such requirements. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Changes from annual to biennial a survey requirement of the Secretary for identifying racial, ethnic, and gender issues and discrimination among military personnel serving on active duty and the extent of any activity that may be viewed as 'hate group' activity. Requires a separate biennial survey on: (1) racial and ethnic issues; and (2) gender issues. (Sec. 552) Allows the Secretary concerned to require an officer to take leave pending the completion of an action by a board of inquiry to determine whether the officer should be removed from active duty. Provides that when the leave such officer takes is charged as excess leave, and upon a subsequent determination to not remove such officer from active duty, the officer shall be paid for the period charged as excess leave. Accrues all pay and allowances such officer would have been entitled to during such leave period, reduced by any other Federal benefits received. (Sec. 553) Authorizes both military and civilian participants in funeral honors details to receive, in lieu of transportation expenses, a daily stipend designed to defray transportation and other costs incurred in connection with such participation. (Sec. 554) Prohibits a superior officer from: (1) requiring a female member of the armed forces to wear the abaya garment, or any part thereof, while in Saudi Arabia pursuant to a permanent change of station or orders for temporary duty; or (2) taking any adverse action against a member for choosing not to wear such garment during such service. Requires the Secretary to inform such personnel of such prohibition, both orally and in writing, immediately upon their arrival. Prohibits any funds made available to DOD from being used to purchase abayas for such personnel or for contractor personnel accompanying such forces. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2003 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2003, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Authorizes the Secretary, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, to pay double the normal rate of basic allowance for subsistence to enlisted personnel occupying single Government quarters which have no adequate food storage, preparation, or messing facility. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the Secretary, for contracts entered into until December 31, 2007, to pay higher rates of partial basic allowance for housing for certain members assigned to housing under DOD alternative authority for the acquisition and improvement of military housing. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2003 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2002 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Increases to: (1) $25,000 the maximum amount payable as a multiyear retention bonus for military medical officers; and (2) $50,000 for any 12-month period after FY 2002 the maximum amount payable as incentive special pay for such officers. (Sec. 617) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay monthly assignment incentive pay to a member for any period that the member performs service in an assignment designated by that Secretary. Terminates such authority three years after the enactment of this Act. Requires an annual report during such period from the Secretary to the defense committees on the exercise of such authority. (Sec. 618) Increases maximum amounts (depending on the period of reenlistment) for the prior service enlistment bonus. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises the date to which travel may be deferred in connection with authorized leave between consecutive overseas duty tours. (Sec. 632) Authorizes two (currently one) privately owned vehicles to be transported for a member or dependent between a residence and duty station (and vice versa), but allows payment for late delivery only if both vehicles arrive after their delivery date. (Sec. 633) Authorizes an alternative destination (other than home and back) allowance for enlisted personnel extending tours of duty at designated overseas locations. (Sec. 634) Authorizes vehicle storage, in lieu of transportation, in U.S. states, territories, and possessions outside the continental United States when such areas preclude vehicle transportation to a new station. Subtitle D: Retirement and Survivor Benefit Matters - Requires a member or former member who is entitled to retired pay and veterans' disability compensation to be paid both concurrently, without deduction. Provides a special rule with regard to retirement or separation due to physical disability. Makes such requirement inapplicable to those with less than 20 years of retirement-creditable service. Prohibits retroactive benefits. (Sec. 642) Increases by ten percent the military retired pay for enlisted personnel credited with extraordinary heroism in the line of duty. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to provide, for families of military personnel on active duty, any assistance appropriate to ensure that children of such personnel obtain needed child care, education, and other youth services, with the primary focus of such assistance directed at children of personnel assigned to active duty in connection with a contingency operation. (Sec. 652) Extends from ten to 14 years after first becoming entitled the time limit for the use of Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance by members of the Selected Reserve. (Sec. 653) States that a person's obligation to repay the amount of educational assistance received as a member of the Selected Reserve due to the failure to perform duty obligations, including training, shall be considered a debt owed to the United States which is not discharged in a bankruptcy which occurs less than five years after such person's entitlement or other service. (Sec. 654) Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 which allows faculty members at certain DOD schools to accept honoraria for scholarly and academic activities. (Sec. 655) Makes the monthly rate of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for dependents to whom assistance entitlement is transferred by members of the armed forces with critical skills the same rate as would have been provided to such members. (Sec. 656) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay the interest and any special allowances that accrue on one or more student loans of a member who is: (1) serving on active duty in fulfillment of his or her first enlistment in the armed forces or who, in the case of an officer, has not completed more than three years on active duty; (2) is the debtor on one or more unpaid loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (3) is not in loan default. Provides a maximum period of 36 months for such payments. Requires the Secretary to transfer to the Secretary of Education funds sufficient for such payments. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow eligible loan debtors under such Act, including those receiving Perkins loans, to receive such payments and to allow the Secretary of Education to pay such interest and allowances for up to 36 months. (Sec. 657) Amends the Spence Act to require the back pay for members of the Navy and Marine Corps selected for promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to be increased to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index during such period. Title VII: Health Care - Makes surviving dependents eligible for TRICARE (a DOD managed health care plan) dental benefits when the dependent is not enrolled in such plan by reason of discontinuance of a prior enrollment due to its required termination. (Sec. 702) States that pre-admission authorization for inpatient mental health services under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) is not required either for an emergency or any case in which any benefits are payable for such services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Requires such advance authorization when such benefits are no longer payable under Medicare. (Sec. 703) Continues TRICARE eligibility for dependents of members residing at remote locations when the dependent resided with the member at one location, but is not authorized to accompany the member to a new location. (Sec. 704) Approves to provide CHAMPUS medical care a physician or other health care practitioner eligible to receive reimbursement for services provided under Medicare. (Sec. 705) Directs the Secretary to limit information requirements in support of claims for payment of TRICARE health care items and services to the same requirements for claims for reimbursement for such services under Medicare. (Sec. 706) Changes from DOD health care programs to pay of members the source of funds for payments into the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund. Requires all military departments to participate in payments to the Fund. (Sec. 708) Extends through 2003 the authority of DOD to enter into personal services contracts for the performance of health care services for members at locations other than military medical facilities. (Sec. 709) Repeals a provision prohibiting DOD facilities from being used to perform an abortion other than where the life of the mother is endangered or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. (Sec. 710) Prohibits a covered beneficiary enrolled in the DOD TRICARE Program from being denied such care on the ground that the beneficiary is receiving ongoing health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs if such Department cannot provide the beneficiary with the particular care sought within the period applicable under the TRICARE Program policy. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Major Defense Acquisition Programs - Authorizes the head of a defense agency acquiring end items, using DOD funds, to acquire a higher quantity of the end item than specified if such agency head determines that: (1) the agency has an established requirement for such item expected to remain substantially unchanged throughout the period of acquisition; (2) it is possible to acquire the higher quantity without additional funding; (3) the amount of funds used for the higher quantity acquisition will not exceed the total amount provided for such acquisition; and (4) the amount provided is sufficient to ensure that each unit is fully funded as a complete end item. Requires the agency head to notify Congress within 30 days after such determination. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the approach planned to apply current Federal acquisition requirements to the incremental acquisition of major systems. (Sec. 803) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program for the spiral development of major systems and to designate research and development programs of the military departments and defense agencies for participation in the program. Requires: (1) secretarial approval of participating programs; and (2) submission of approved programs to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue specified guidance for pilot program implementation; and (2) report quarterly to Congress on each program participant. Provides for the termination of program participation, and terminates the pilot program three years after the enactment of this Act (while allowing activated programs to continue). (Sec. 804) Directs the Secretary of each military department, and the head of each defense agency that manages a major defense acquisition program with a substantial software component, to establish a program to improve its software acquisition processes. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence to provide program guidance. (Sec. 805) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to require the Secretary to identify, in certain reports concerning major defense acquisition programs, each case in which an authoritative decision has been made within DOD not to conduct an independent technology readiness assessment for a critical technology on a major defense acquisition program, and the reasons therefor. (Sec. 806) Authorizes the Secretary to waive requirements for survivability and lethality testing of major defense systems and munitions programs if the Secretary: (1) determines that live-fire testing of such system or program would be unreasonably expensive and impractical; and (2) submits a certification of such determination to Congress before specified milestone approval of such system or program. Subtitle B: Procurement Policy Improvements - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 with regard to specified savings goals for DOD under contracts for the procurement of services to outline specified ways to achieve such goals, including: (1) the gradual increase of contracts made on a competitive basis involving offers from two or more qualified contractors; and (2) the increased use of performance-based purchasing. Extends and revises related reporting requirements. (Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to issue guidance on the circumstances under which it is appropriate to grant exceptions to DOD cost or pricing data certification requirements and waivers of cost accounting standards, including a determination that the property or services cannot be obtained without granting such exception or waiver. Requires a semiannual report to the defense and appropriations committees on exceptions and waivers granted. Requires advance notification (ten days) to such committees on exceptions or waivers made in the case of contracts, subcontracts, or modifications expected to have a price of $75 million or more. (Sec. 813) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through 2006 a required report on defense commercial pricing management improvement. (Sec. 814) Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) appropriate internal controls for the use of purchase cards issued by the Federal Government to DOD personnel are in place throughout DOD; and (2) all DOD purchase card holders are aware of such controls. Requires the CG to review control actions taken and to report review results to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 815) Directs the Secretary to carry out, and report to Congress on, an assessment of the total fees paid by DOD for the acquisition of property and services under contracts between other Federal departments and agencies in FY 2000 through 2002. (Sec. 816) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to authorize the Secretary to carry out a pilot program for follow-on contracting for the production of items or processes that are developed by non-traditional defense contractors under prototype projects. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2005. (Sec. 817) Authorizes the Secretary to waive the application of any DOD domestic source or content requirement for the procurement of items grown, reprocessed, reused, produced, or manufactured in a foreign country which has a reciprocal defense procurement agreement with the United States. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement when: (1) its application would impede the reciprocal procurement of such items; and (2) such foreign country does not discriminate against defense items produced in the United States to a greater degree than the United States discriminates against defense items produced in that country. Provides exceptions to such waiver authority. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend until November 18, 2007, the applicability of certain personnel demonstration project exceptions to an acquisition workforce demonstration project. (Sec. 822) Prohibits the defense acquisition and support workforce from being reduced during FY 2003 through 2005 below the level as of September 30, 2002, as determined on the basis of full-time equivalent positions. Authorizes a waiver of such prohibition by the Secretary after certification to Congress that a reduced workforce will be able to efficiently and effectively perform required workloads. (Sec. 823) Extends through FY 2006 a contract goal for small disadvantaged businesses and certain institutions of higher education. (Sec. 824) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to include within its mentor-protege program: (1) a qualified HUBZone (heavily underutilized business zone) small business; or (2) a small business owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans. (Sec. 825) Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 calling for CG reviews of: (1) administration of the Defense Modernization Account; (2) solutions-based contracting for information technology acquisition; and (3) the procurement of information technology products and services through multiple award schedules. (Sec. 826) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract for up to ten years for the purchase of dinitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine, and hydrazine-related products for the support of a U.S. national security or space program. Allows such contract to be extended for up to ten additional years. (Sec. 827) Authorizes the use of multiyear procurement authority for environmental remediation services for military installations. (Sec. 828) Increases from $300,000 to $600,000 the maximum authorized DOD assistance for tribal organizations or entities carrying out procurement technical assistance programs under cooperative agreements in two or more service areas. (Sec. 829) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to authorize the Secretary to permit a business entity operating on a non-profit basis to self-certify its eligibility for treatment as a qualified organization employing the severely disabled, for purposes of eligibility under the mentor-protege pilot program. (Sec. 830) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and small business committees on the effects of the establishment of an Army Contracting Agency on small business participation in Army procurements during the first year of such Agency's operation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Revises the due date for submission of quadrennial defense review reports. (Sec. 902) Increases from five to six the authorized number of Marine Corps Deputy Commandants. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary concerned (currently, only the Secretary of the Navy with respect to the Navy) to provide base operating support for Fisher houses associated with health care facilities of that department. (Sec. 904) Directs the Secretary to designate a DOD officer or employee as the senior official responsible for the prevention and mitigation of corrosion of the military equipment and infrastructure of DOD. Outlines required duties. Requires an interim report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a long-term strategy to reduce corrosion and its effects on DOD military equipment and infrastructure. Requires the CG to monitor the strategy implemented and provide results to Congress. (Sec. 905) Authorizes the Secretary to accept foreign gifts and donations on behalf of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Requires the Secretary to notify Congress if the total amount of such gifts and donations exceeds $1 million in any fiscal year. (Sec. 906) Establishes a Veterinary Corps of the Army, with a Chief and Assistant Chief. (Sec. 907) Establishes the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2.5 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Reallocates $690 million from ballistic missile RDT&E to naval shipbuilding and conversion. Allocates such funds among specified naval advance procurement programs. (Sec. 1003) Authorizes $10 billion for FY 2003 for continued operations in the war on terrorism in accordance with the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Provides authorized activities. Makes such authorization contingent on a budget request stating that such amount is essential for the war on terrorism and specifying a proposed allocation and plan for the use of such funds. (Sec. 1004) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased in any law making supplemental appropriations for FY 2002 that is enacted during the 107th Congress, second session. (Sec. 1005) Provides a new limitation on the total amount authorized to be contributed by the Secretary for the common-funded budgets of NATO (rather than the maximum amount otherwise applicable under the 1998 baseline limitation). Allocates for such purpose amounts authorized in titles II and III of this Act. (Sec. 1006) Directs the Secretary to develop a proposed financial management enterprise architecture for all DOD budgetary, accounting, finance, and data feeder systems, together with a transition plan for implementing such architecture. Provides expenditure limitations during the development period with respect to defense financial system improvement funds. Requires the CG, during 2003 through 2005, to report to the defense and appropriations committees on defense financial management system improvements. (Sec. 1007) Authorizes the Secretary to designate as a departmental accountable official any DOD employee or member of the armed forces who: (1) has a duty to provide a DOD certifying official with information directly relied upon in the certification of vouchers for payment; and (2) is not otherwise accountable for payments made on the basis of the vouchers. Applies monetary liability for illegal, improper, or incorrect voucher payments made on the basis of information provided by a departmental accountable official, but allows the Secretary to relieve such person from liability when the payment was not a result of fraud or negligence. (Sec. 1008) Authorizes any designated officer or employee to act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under DOD control. Makes members of the Navy or Marine Corps (currently, only Army and Air Force) responsible, by way of pay deductions, for damage or repair of military arms and equipment. (Sec. 1009) Allows the Secretary to require that any part of the travel or transportation allowances of a DOD employee or member of the armed forces be distributed directly to the issuer of a defense travel card if such amount is a reimbursement for expenses of official travel charged by such employee or member. Authorizes pay offsets for delinquent travel card charges, with an offset limit of 15 percent of the disposable pay of such employee or member. (Sec. 1010) Provides for: (1) the clearance of certain DOD financial transactions before March 1, 2001, under specified Treasury suspense accounts; and (2) the cancellation of any discrepancies between checks drawn on the Treasury and issued by or on behalf of DOD before October 31, 1998, and later paid, for which no DOD appropriation can be associated. Requires DOD, before such check discrepancy cancellations can be made, to attempt to discover which appropriation should be charged and to determine that any further attempts are not in the best interests of the United States. Terminates all such authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1011) Authorizes appropriations (with an offsetting reduction) for FY 2003 for whichever of the following the President determines to be necessary to U.S. national security: (1) RDT&E for DOD ballistic missile defense programs; or (2) DOD activities for combating terrorism at home and abroad. (Sec. 1012) Increases (with corresponding offsets) amounts authorized for: (1) Army procurement for certain helicopter improvements; and (2) DOD military personnel for up to 26 additional personnel for the Oregon Army National Guard. Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires the Secretary of the Navy, if the total number of Navy ships comprising the force of surface combatants is less than 116, to report to the defense committees on the size of such force. Prohibits force reduction until 90 days after notification of such committees. States that when such force is below 116, such Secretary shall maintain on the Naval Vessel Register a sufficient number of such ships to enable the Navy to regain a total force of 116 within 120 days after the President decides to increase such force. (Sec. 1022) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit to Congress a plan for fielding, on an expedited schedule, the 155-millimeter gun on one surface combatant ship on active Navy service. (Sec. 1023) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense committees on DOD initiatives to increase the number of operational days of Navy ships without increasing either the total number of ships or the routine lengths of deployment. (Sec. 1024) Directs the Secretary to include in annual defense budget materials a plan for the construction of Navy combatant and support ships that either supports either the national security strategy or the ship force structure called for in the report of the latest Quadrennial Defense Review. Subtitle C: Reporting Requirements - Amends Federal armed forces provisions, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, and the Ballistic Missile Defense Act of 1995 to repeal or modify various DOD report requirements. Increases from $100,000 to $10 million the total annual contract award limit for foreign-controlled defense contractors before database information on such contractors is required to be maintained by the Secretaries of Defense and Energy. (Sec. 1032) Requires an annual joint report from the above Secretaries and the Director of Central Intelligence to the defense and appropriations committees on R&D activities undertaken to develop a weapon to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets. (Sec. 1033) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to revise the due date of an annual report on counterproliferation activities and programs. (Sec. 1034) Directs the Secretary, every four years and two years after each required quadrennial defense review, to: (1) conduct a comprehensive examination of the quality of life of military personnel; and (2) report examination results to the defense committees. (Sec. 1035) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress: (1) every 90 days on U.S. efforts to determine the whereabouts and status of Captain Michael Scott Speicher, U.S. Navy; and (2) on actions being undertaken to ensure the adequacy of fire fighting staffs at military installations. (Sec. 1037) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees the results of a study on the advisability of designating a specified portion of Louisiana Highway 28 as a defense access road. (Sec. 1038) Requires the Director of the Central Measurement and Signatures Intelligence Office to submit to Congress a plan for a five-year research program to provide for the incorporation of results of basic research on sensors into the measurement and signatures intelligence systems fielded by the Federal Government. (Sec. 1039) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on volunteer services of members of reserve components in emergency response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Sec. 1040) Requires biannual reports from the President to Congress identifying foreign persons making a material contribution to the development by a country of: (1) nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons; or (2) ballistic or cruise missile systems. Subtitle D: Homeland Defense - Authorizes a State governor, upon request by the head of a Federal law enforcement agency and with the concurrence of the Secretary, to order any State National Guard personnel to perform full-time duty in carrying out homeland security activities. Limits such duty to 179 days, with an extension of 90 days to meet extraordinary circumstances. Provides safeguards to ensure that such service does not degrade the training and readiness of such personnel. Requires the Secretary to provide funds to State governors for such personnel use. Directs the Secretary and each governor to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the head of each Federal law enforcement agency to which such personnel are to provide such support. Exempts personnel performing such activities from active-duty end strength limits. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress regarding any assistance provided and activities carried out. (Sec. 1042) Allows all assigned full-time reservists to perform duties relating to defense against weapons of mass destruction. (Currently, only reservists assigned to a specified Office or element team may be so used.) (Sec. 1043) Redefines "weapon of mass destruction," for purposes of the authority to use reservists to defend against them, to include any large conventional explosive designed to produce catastrophic loss of life or property. (Sec. 1044) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD actions necessary for homeland defense. Requires the report to contain: (1) a homeland defense campaign plan; (2) DOD homeland intelligence capabilities; (3) a national threat and vulnerability assessment; (4) homeland defense training and exercises; and (5) an evaluation of the need for a bioterrorism initiative and DOD regional chemical biological incident response teams. Requires the homeland defense campaign plan to contain DOD duties and capabilities in response to attack on critical infrastructure. (Sec. 1045) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the defense committees a comprehensive plan for improving the preparedness of military installations for preventing and responding to incidents involving the use or threatened use of weapons of mass destruction. Requires the CG to review the plan and submit review results to such committees. Requires such plan to be included in the defense budget submissions for 2004 through 2006. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Continues Federal information security requirements with respect to DOD, notwithstanding the current October 30, 2002, termination of such requirements. Requires the Secretary, after such termination date, to perform such information security duties currently performed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (Sec. 1062) Authorizes the use of voluntary proctors for the administration to secondary school students of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test). (Sec. 1063) Amends the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century to extend through FY 2006 the authority of the Secretary to sell aircraft and aircraft parts for use in responding to oil spills. (Sec. 1064) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make eligible for impact aid assistance, for any fiscal year after 2002, a heavily impacted local educational agency that receives a basic support payment for the prior fiscal year, but is ineligible in the current fiscal year by reason of the conversion of military housing units to private housing. (Sec. 1065) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a comprehensive plan for the review, declassification, and submittal to the Department of Veterans Affairs of all medical records and information of DOD on the Shipboard Hazard and Defense project of the Navy that are relevant to the provision of veterans' benefits to military personnel who participated in that project. Requires implementation reports. (Sec. 1066) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Women Airforce Service Pilots Museum in Quartzsite, Arizona, all U.S. rights and interest to a DF-9E Panther aircraft. (Sec. 1067) Authorizes the Secretary to pay a $200,000 reward to a person for providing U.S. personnel with information on nonlethal assistance that is beneficial to: (1) a U.S. military operation conducted outside the United States against international terrorism; or (2) force protection of the armed forces. Requires the Secretary to coordinate with the Secretary of State regarding payment of a award in excess of $100,000. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the administration of such awards. (Sec. 1068) Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide, without charge, space and services to a military welfare society. (Sec. 1069) Expresses appreciation for, and requests the President to issue a proclamation recognizing, the outstanding contribution that all military chaplains make to members of the armed forces and their families. (Sec. 1070) Grants a Federal charter to the Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of New York). Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Policy - Extends through FY 2006: (1) the authority for the lump-sum payment of severance pay to DOD civilian employees; (2) the authority for the payment of voluntary separation incentive pay; and (3) the cost-sharing authority for continued Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program coverage of certain persons after separation from employment due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 1104) Makes employees paid from nonappropriated funds eligible to participate in the Federal Employees Long-Term Care Insurance Program. (Sec. 1105) Amends the Thurmond Act to increase from four to five years the maximum appointment period for scientific and technical personnel under an experimental program to recruit personnel for research and development projects of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Sec. 1106) Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations that require a person employed in a professional accounting position within DOD to be a certified public accountant, and that apply such requirement to all or selected positions, as determined by the Secretary. Authorizes requirement waivers and exemptions. (Sec. 1107) Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to provide housing benefits of such Act for teachers assigned to Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, and unaccompanied by a dependent. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Subtitle A: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on such purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary to obligate and expend FY 2003 or earlier CTR funds for proliferation threat reduction projects and activities outside the states of the former Soviet Union if the Secretary determines that such projects and activities will: (1) assist the United States in the resolution of critical emerging proliferation threats; or (2) permit the United States to take advantage of opportunities to achieve long-standing U.S. nonproliferation goals. Limits such amount to $50 million per fiscal year. Requires amounts so used to be listed separately in the defense budget submitted for the next fiscal year. Directs the Secretary, before so obligating any such funds, to wait 30 days after notifying the defense and appropriations committees of the amount and purpose. Allows an exception to such notification if the Secretary determines that a critical emerging proliferation threat warrants immediate obligation and fund expenditure (in such case requiring notification within 72 hours thereafter). Requires the Secretary, if funds are so obligated and expended for two fiscal years, to report to Congress on the advisability of establishing one or more new CTR programs to account for such project or activity. (Sec. 1204) Amends the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993 to authorize the President to waive certain assistance limits under programs to facilitate CTR and nonproliferation if the President certifies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Senate that such waiver is important to the national security interest. Amends the FREEDOM Support Act to provide a similar national security waiver for the President in the case of funds used under such Act for an independent state of the former Soviet Union not otherwise eligible for such funds. (Sec. 1205) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) one of the most likely nuclear weapon attack scenarios against the United States would involve detonation of a stolen Russian tactical nuclear warhead smuggled into the country; (2) it is a top U.S. national security priority to accelerate efforts to account for, secure, and reduce Russia's stockpile of such warheads and associated fissile material; and (3) the imminent threat warrants a special nonproliferation initiative. Directs the President to report to Congress on efforts to reduce the particular threats associated with Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal and the outlines of a special initiative for reducing the threat from Russia's tactical nuclear stockpile. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to provide administrative services and support (including travel, subsistence, and related expenses) for the performance of duties by any liaison officer of another nation involved in a coalition while such officer is assigned temporarily to the headquarters of a combatant command, component command, or subordinate operational command of the United States in connection with the planning for or conduct of a coalition operation. (Sec. 1212) Authorizes the use of Warsaw Initiative funds for travel expenses of defense personnel of a country participating in the NATO Partnership for Peace program. (Sec. 1213) Limits to $15 million during FY 2003 the U.S. support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities. Extends through FY 2003 the authority to provide such support. (Sec. 1214) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, on a cooperative basis with countries located in the Arctic and Western Pacific regions, a program of environmental activities between DOD elements and military departments or agencies of participating countries, to be known as the Arctic and Western Pacific Environmental Cooperation Program. Limits funding for projects other than radiological projects. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 1215) Authorizes the Secretary to expand the DOD program of HIV/AIDS prevention educational activities undertaken in connection with the conduct of U.S. military training, exercises, and humanitarian assistance in sub-Saharan African countries. Provides funding. (Sec. 1216) Requires the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation of the Department of State to monitor the implementation of the 1979 United States-China Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology and its protocols and to keep a systematic account of the protocols thereto. Requires the Secretary of State to ensure that all Agreement activities comply with applicable laws and regulations concerning the transfer of military sensitive and dual-use technologies. Requires biennial implementation reports from such Secretary to Congress. Division B: Military Construction Authorization - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - 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, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2002 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 certain prior military construction authorization Acts to increase the amounts authorized for chemical demilitarization projects at: (1) Forts Carson and Jackson in Colorado; (2) the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; (3) the Newport Army Depot, Indiana; and (4) the Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado. (Sec. 2109) Replaces Camp Page, Korea, with Camp Stanley, Korea, as an authorized construction project under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001. (Sec. 2110) Increases (with a corresponding offset) the amount authorized for Army military construction planning and design for an anechoic chamber at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Title XXI: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to: (1) increase the amount authorized for a construction project at the Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia; and (2) revise the number of certain military housing units at Quantico, Virginia. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under title XXI. (Sec. 2305) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a project: (1) to provide a public road and associated improvements to replace a public road adjacent to Aviano Air Base, Italy, that has been closed for force protection purposes; and (2) for construction of a new air traffic control facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for such project (with an offsetting reduction). (Sec. 2307) Makes specified funds authorized under this title available (with offsetting reductions) for a military construction project for consolidation of the materials computational research facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 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 carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2002 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. 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 and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. (Sec. 2602) Increases (with offsetting reductions) the amount authorized for the: (1) Army National Guard for a military construction project for a Reserve Center in Lane County, Oregon; and (2) Air National Guard for construction of a Composite Support Facility for the 183rd Fighter Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2006, 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 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease additional family housing units in Korea both at and above the current lease limit of $25,000 per year (to a maximum of $35,000 per year). (Sec. 2802) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to repeal U.S. source requirements for military family housing construction overseas. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into contracts for the lease of housing units determined suitable for use as military family or military unaccompanied housing. Repeals interim lease authority. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to enter into agreements with private entities to address the use or development of real property in the vicinity of a military installation in order to: (1) limit any property development or use that is incompatible with the installation's mission; or (2) preserve habitat in a manner that is compatible with environmental requirements and current or anticipated military training, testing, or operations. Outlines agreement requirements and conditions. Provides agreement funding through funds of the Range Enhancement Initiative Fund of DOD. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convey to State or local governments or appropriate private entities surplus real property for the conservation of open space or natural resources. Provides a reversionary interest if the property is not used and maintained for such purposes. (Sec. 2813) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to authorize the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department (currently, only the Secretary of the Army) to conduct a demonstration program on the reduction of long-term facility maintenance costs. Allows up to 12 (currently three) contracts to contain requirements for such program. Provides transitional provisions for program contracts currently administered by the Secretary of the Army. Requires the Secretary to undertake current program report requirements. Provides funding from military construction funds defense-wide or of all the military departments (currently, only Army construction funds). Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the: (1) Army to convey to the State of Alaska or an Alaska Native Corporation or Indian tribe certain property formerly used for the Alaska National Guard; (2) Army to convey to the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, an abandoned railroad spur at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for storm water management, recreation, transportation, and other public purposes; (3) Navy to convey to the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts, a portion of the Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, for economic and other public purposes; (4) Navy to convey to the State of Rhode Island the Melville Marina site in Rhode Island; (5) Air Force to convey to the State of Colorado all or part of the Watkins Communications Site in Arapahoe County, Colorado, in exchange for certain lands adjacent to Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado; (6) Interior to convey to the city of West Wendover, Nevada, and Tooele County, Utah, specified portions of the Wendover Air Force Base auxiliary field determined by the Secretary of the Air Force to be no longer required for Air Force purposes; (7) Army to convey to the Veterans Land Board of the State of Texas specified property at Fort Hood, Texas, for a State-run veterans' cemetery; (8) Army to convey to Fairfax County, Virginia, a portion of the Engineer Proving Ground at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for park and recreational purposes; (9) Army or Administrator of General Services to convey to the Johnson County Park and Recreation District, Kansas, a portion of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, for public recreational purposes; and (10) Army to convey to Madison County, Kentucky, a portion of the Bluegrass Army Depot, Kentucky, for the construction of a veterans' center. (Sec. 2823) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to allow the transfer of the Corea and Winter Harbor properties as part of a conveyance to the State of Maine or political subdivision or tax-supported agency thereof. Exempts such conveyances from a Federal screening requirement. (Sec. 2827) Authorizes the Secretary to acquire all rights and interest to the Boundary Channel Drive Site, Arlington, Virginia, for inclusion in the Pentagon Reservation. (Sec. 2831) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to: (1) repeal provisions establishing the Commission on the National Military Museum; and (2) exclude references to such Commission under provisions authorizing the Secretary to transfer the Navy Annex to the Secretary of the Army. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force military construction funds, to transfer $15 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in lieu of the acquisition of replacement property required after a transfer of certain lands within the Nevada National Wildlife Refuge System. Allows the Service to grant such funds to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to acquire the replacement property. 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 2003 for: (1) activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for weapons activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, naval reactors, and the Office of the Administrator for Nuclear Security; and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental management, other defense activities, defense environmental management privatization, and defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this subtitle for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 115 percent of, or $5 million more than, the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, 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) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out minor construction projects using O&M funds or facilities infrastructure funds authorized by this title. (Sec. 3123) 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 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, or 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. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 2003, 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 any such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. (Sec. 3130) Directs the Secretary, during FY 2003, to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer weapons activities funds from a program or project of that office to another such program or project when such transfer is necessary to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or will result in cost savings and efficiencies. Limits any such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits funds authorized to DOE under this Act for environmental management cleanup reform activities from being obligated or expended until the Secretary publishes in the Federal Register, and submits to the defense and appropriations committees, a report setting forth project selection and priority criteria, or notifies such committees that such criteria will not be established. Outlines provisions for funding availability if such criteria are not established. (Sec. 3132) Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. (Sec. 3133) Makes DOE funds authorized for the National Nuclear Security Administration available to the Deputy Administrator for Nuclear Security for Defense Programs for the development and implementation before the end of FY 2003 of a database for all national security laboratories to track the notification and resolution phases of Significant Finding Investigations. (Sec. 3134) Requires that, in any fiscal year after 2002 in which the Secretary plans to carry out activities relating to the development of a new or modified nuclear weapon, the Secretary shall specifically request funds for such activities in the budget submitted for that fiscal year. Provides exceptions: (1) for the nuclear weapons life extension program; (2) to modify an existing nuclear weapon solely to address safety or reliability concerns; or (3) to address proliferation concerns. (Sec. 3135) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to prohibit DOE amounts for national security programs and activities or activities under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 from being obligated or expended unless funds therefor have been specifically authorized by law. (Sec. 3136) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than $100 million of the amounts authorized for the elimination of weapons grade plutonium production until 30 days after the Administrator for Nuclear Security submits to the defense and appropriations committees a copy of a United States-Russian Federation agreement to shut down the three plutonium-producing reactors in Russia. Subtitle D: Proliferation Matters - Transfers from DOD to DOE the program to eliminate weapons grade plutonium production in Russia. Transfers associated funds, making such funds available for related DOE purposes. ( (Sec. 3152) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to repeal required reports on the obligation of funds for programs on fissile materials in Russia. (Sec. 3153) Amends the Spence Act to include within required reports on the status of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting programs information on all countries having such materials (currently only Russia). (Sec. 3154) Amends the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 to extend through FY 2013 a program for testing and improving the response of Federal, State, and local agencies to emergencies involving biological and chemical weapons and related materials. (Sec. 3155) Directs the Administrator for Nuclear Security to carry out a program on research and technology for protection from nuclear or radiological terrorism, including technology for the detection, identification, assessment, control, disposition, consequences management, and consequences mitigation of the dispersal of radiological materials or nuclear terrorism. Requires the technology and information developed to be incorporated into the program on responses to emergencies involving nuclear and radiological weapons carried out under the above Act. Provides funding. (Sec. 3156) Authorizes the Secretary to expand the International Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting program of DOE to encompass countries outside the Russian Federation and the independent states of the former Soviet Union. Requires the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after obligating funds for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary, as part of such program, to provide technical assistance to the Secretary of State to assist other nuclear weapons states to review and improve their nuclear materials security programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a plan to accelerate the conversion or return to the country of origin of all weapons-usable nuclear materials located in research reactors and other facilities outside such country; (2) establish within the above program a program on the protection, control, and accounting of materials usable in radiological dispersal devices; (3) require the Office of International Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and advisability of developing a program to secure radiological materials outside the United States that pose a threat to U.S. national security; and (4) report such study's results to Congress. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should encourage amendment of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials in order to provide that the Convention shall: (1) apply to both domestic and international use and transport of nuclear materials; (2) incorporate fundamental practices for the physical protection of such materials; and (3) address protection against sabotage involving nuclear materials. Earmarks funds for such purpose. (Sec.3157) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should develop a comprehensive program of activities to encourage all countries with nuclear materials to adhere to, or adopt standards equivalent to, the International Atomic Energy Agency standard on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Nuclear Facilities relating to the security of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) carry out a program to pursue with the Russian Federation and any other nation that possesses highly enriched uranium options for blending such uranium so that its concentration of U-235 is below 20 percent; (2) provide financial and other incentives for the removal of all highly enriched uranium from any particular facility in the Russian Federation if such incentives will facilitate the consolidation of such uranium in the Russian Federation to the best-secured facilities; (3) purchase from another nation, and transfer to and store in the United States, highly enriched uranium or weapons-grade plutonium; (4) encourage other nations with such uranium to transfer it to the Russian Federation for disposition; and (5) enter into contracts with the Russian Federation for blending and storing highly enriched uranium in the Russian Federation. Limits the release for sale of such blended uranium. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of the standards adoption program. (Sec. 3158) Encourages the Secretary to continue to support the Secretary of State in negotiations with the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy to finalize a specified agreement between the two countries regarding the plutonium disposition program of the Russian Federation. Authorizes the Secretary to consider providing additional funds in order to reach a successful agreement. (Sec. 3159) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on options for an international program to develop strengthened security for all nuclear materials and safety and security for current nuclear operations. Requires the Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology to pursue with the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy joint programs on the development of proliferation-resistant nuclear energy technologies, including advanced fuel cycles. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide assistance to nuclear facilities abroad on the interdiction of hostile insiders at such facilities in order to prevent incidents arising from the disablement of vital facility systems; and (2) expand and accelerate DOE programs to support the International Atomic Energy Agency in strengthening international nuclear safety and security. Provides funding. (Sec. 3160) Authorizes the Secretary to pursue in the former Soviet Union and other regions of concern options for accelerating programs that assist countries in improving their domestic export control programs for materials, technologies, and expertise relevant to the construction or use of a nuclear or radiological dispersal device. Provides funding. (Sec. 3161) Directs the Secretary to work cooperatively with the Russian Federation to update and improve the Joint Action Plan for the Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting programs of DOE and the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) enhance such partnership to increase the pace and effectiveness of nuclear materials accounting and security activities at facilities in the Russian Federation; and (2) clearly identify the assistance required by, and contributions expected from, the Russian Federation, as well as the milestones that can be used to assess progress in meeting such requirements. (Sec. 3162) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to require the President to report annually to Congress on a plan for the coordination and cooperation with the Russian Federation on the disposition of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear material in Russia that is not retained in its nuclear arsenal. (Sec. 3163) Authorizes each Federal, State, or local department or agency that carries out work on counterterrorism and homeland security activities at a DOE national laboratory to be a joint sponsor, under a multiple agency sponsorship arrangement with DOE, with such laboratory in the performance of such work as if such site were a federally funded research and development center. Requires DOE to be the primary sponsor and the Administrator to act as lead agent. Provides funds, with a limitation. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to extend until August 1, 2012, a program under which the Secretary indemnifies DOE contractors who perform activities that involve the risk of public liability and are not subject to financial protection requirements of such Act. (Sec. 3172) Amends the above Act to provide new requirements for worker health and safety rules for DOE nuclear facilities. Provides civil penalties against persons who have entered into an indemnification agreement that violates rules or regulations relating to industrial or construction health and safety and a specified DOE Order. Requires such regulations to take effect within one year of promulgation, authorizing the Secretary to provide for regulation variances or exemptions to the extent necessary to avoid serious impairment of U.S. national security interests. Provides enforcement guidance with respect to structures to be disposed of due to industrial or construction health and safety requirements. Requires the Secretary to include in each DOE contract a provision that allows an appropriate reduction in contract fees or costs in the event of a contractor violation of DOE health or safety regulations or orders. (Sec. 3173) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to extend until January 1, 2005, the authority of DOE to pay voluntary separation incentive payments. (Sec. 3174) Makes funds authorized under this title available for FY 2003 payments to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation for the support of public education needs of children in the vicinity of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Subtitle F: Disposition of Weapons-Usable Plutonium at Savannah River, South Carolina - Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for the construction and operation at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, of a mixed-oxide fuel facility for converting weapons-grade plutonium to a mixed-oxide fuel for use in commercial nuclear power reactors. Provides a construction schedule and production deadline dates, with the goal of achieving facility construction by January 1, 2009, and of processing 34 metric tons of plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel by January 1, 2019. Requires: (1) the Secretary to submit corrective action plans if the schedule and deadlines are not met; (2) the removal or disposal of unprocessed plutonium from the Site if the schedule and deadlines are not met; and (3) payments to South Carolina of economic and impact assistance associated with not meeting such schedule and deadlines. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress: (1) a plan to address the failure to complete the planned removal or disposal; and (2) a report on the removal of the facility upon completion of operations. (Sec. 3183) Requires the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board to study and report to Congress and the Secretary on the adequacy of the K-Area Materials Storage Facility and related facilities at the Savannah River Site for the storage of defense plutonium and related materials in connection with the plutonium disposition program. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the: (1) Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; and (2) Department of the Army for the formerly used sites remedial action program of the Corps of Engineers.

17 Reported to House with amendment(s) Nov 28, 2006

Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) defense health programs. Subtitle B: Navy Programs - Earmarks specified Navy procurement funds for either: (1) the procurement of one Arleigh Burke class DDG-51 destroyer (if a specified agreement is reached); or (2) the advance procurement of Virginia class submarines, cruiser conversion, and nuclear-powered submarine refueling overhaul. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of Virginia class submarines. Subtitle C: Air Force Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY 2003 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of C-130J aircraft, after notifying the defense and appropriations committees and waiting 30 days thereafter. Subtitle D: Other Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to obligate funds: (1) for procurement of a complete and usable end item under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property; and (2) appropriated for any fiscal year for advance procurement under a multiyear contract for the purchase of property only for the procurement of those long-lead items necessary to meet a planned delivery schedule for complete major end items that are programmed to be acquired with funds appropriated for a subsequent fiscal year. (Sec. 142) Directs the Secretary, by January 15, 2003, to enter into an agreement with an independent, nonprofit, technology-oriented entity that has demonstrated the ability to facilitate the transfer of defense technologies, developed by both the private and public sectors, to aid Federal, State, and local first responders in the support of homeland security. Directs the entity to develop a strategic plan to meet specified goals. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 143) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the chemical agents and munitions stockpile destruction program is managed as a major defense acquisition program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), beginning with the budget request for FY 2004, to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a certification that the budget request for such program has been submitted in accordance with applicable Federal laws. (Sec. 144) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on unmanned aerial vehicle systems of the Department of Defense (DOD). (Sec. 145) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the defense committees on the requirements for Army National Guard aviation. Authorizes the Army Chief of Staff to submit view on such requirements. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program, including basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Prohibits the obligation of funds authorized for engineering and manufacturing development for the RAH-66 Comanche aircraft program until the Secretary of the Army reports to the defense and appropriations committees concerning program funding and time line requirements. Limits the total engineering and manufacturing development costs for the program, allowing for certain adjustments to such limit. Requires the DOD Inspector General to annually review such program and report review results to Congress. (Sec. 212) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to extend through FY 2008 a requirement relating to management responsibility for naval mine countermeasures programs. (Sec. 213) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (the Thurmond Act) to: (1) authorize the Secretary, in connection with a pilot program for cooperative research and development activities with universities and other private entities, to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions; (2) extend the pilot program until March 1, 2008; (3) require annual reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on pilot program activities; and (4) require a report from the Secretary to such committees on whether and to what extent the authority to carry out the pilot program should be extended. (Sec. 214) Revises plan requirements under the DOD Manufacturing Technology Program. Changes report requirements from annually to biennially. (Sec. 215) Directs the Secretary to carry out a Technology Transition Initiative to facilitate the rapid transition of new technologies from DOD science and technology programs into DOD acquisition programs for the production of such technologies. Requires a Manager for such Initiative, with specified duties. Requires the acquisition executive of each military department to identify appropriate technology projects for Initiative participation. Requires Initiative amounts to be separately stated in each DOD budget. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program for the increased introduction of innovative and cost-saving technologies in DOD acquisition programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a panel of highly qualified scientists and engineers to evaluate Program proposals. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out each evaluation, to ensure the elimination of conflicts-of-interest. Requires reports during the Program period (until the end of FY 2007). Provides initial Program funding from FY 2003 defense-wide RDT&E funds. Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Prohibits the use of FY 2003 Army missile procurement funds for the Patriot Advanced Capability missile program until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) criteria for the transfer of program responsibility from the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to the Secretary of a military department; and (2) a notice and certification of such transfer. Requires responsibility for RDT&E related to system improvements of such program to remain with the Director. (Sec. 233) Amends various Federal provisions and national defense authorization Acts to reflect the change in the name of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization to the Missile Defense Agency. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to allow the incidental taking of a migratory bird by a member of the armed forces during an authorized military readiness activity. (Sec. 312) Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from designating as critical habitat any lands or other geographic areas owned or controlled by DOD, or designated for its use, that are subject to an integrated natural resources management plan prepared under terms of the Sikes Act, as long as such Secretary determines that the plan addresses special management considerations or protections. Requires such Secretary to consider the impact on national security when designating critical habitat. (Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary to establish a program manager to serve as the single point of contact in DOD for policy and budgeting issues involving the characterization, remediation, and management of explosive and related risks with respect to unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents at defense sites that pose a threat to human health or safety. Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities - Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to provide base operating support for Fisher Houses associated with health care facilities of that department. (Sec. 322) Authorizes a member of the National Guard called to duty during a national emergency to use commissary stores and morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) retail facilities during such duty on the same basis as active-duty military personnel. (Sec. 323) Allows DOD MWR funds to be treated as nonappropriated funds and expended in accordance with laws applicable to the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the Secretary to identify positions of employment within DOD MWR programs which are paid with appropriated funds whose status may be converted to positions of employment with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality. Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues - Requires the Secretary, upon completion of an analysis of a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function for possible conversion to performance by the private sector, to submit to Congress a report containing analysis results and related information. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to waive the prohibition against the contracting for the performance of security-guard functions at a military installation if such functions: (1) are or will be performed by members of the armed forces in the absence of a waiver; and (2) were not performed at the installation before September 11, 2001. (Sec. 333) Excludes permanently (currently only for FY 2002 through 2005) amounts expended for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workload by non-Federal personnel at a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence from a percentage limitation on the contracting-out for the performance of DOD depot-level maintenance and repair workloads. (Sec. 334) Repeals obsolete provisions concerning the use of competitive procedures in contracting for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads formerly performed at closed or realigned military installations. Subtitle E: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit dependents of military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Requires the Secretary to notify each educational agency eligible for such assistance. (Sec. 342) Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to authorize a military quarters allowance for teachers unaccompanied by dependents who are required to reside on a U.S. military installation overseas. (Sec. 343) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to allow individuals eligible for education under the defense dependents' education system to enroll without charge in a summer school program offered under such system. Subtitle F: Information Technology - Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (the Spence Act) to allow the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract to have a term of up to seven years. (Currently, as a DOD multiyear contract, such contract is limited to a five-year term.) (Sec. 352) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a description of, and relevant budget information on, each DOD information technology and national security capital asset that: (1) has an estimated life cycle cost in excess of $120 million; and (2) has a cost for the fiscal year in which the description is submitted in excess of $30 million. Requires other information with respect to each DOD information technology and national security system that has a cost for the fiscal year in excess of $2 million and $10 million, respectively. (Sec. 353) Requires the Secretary to implement a specified policy regarding the acquisition of certain commercial off-the-shelf information technology products. (Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish clear and uniform policy and procedures, applicable to the military departments and defense agencies, regarding the installation and connection of telecom switches to the Defense Switch Network; and (2) prepare and maintain an inventory of untested telecom switches that have been added to such Network. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Requires the defense and appropriations committees (currently, Congress) to receive monthly reports on the allocation of funds within DOD O&M budget subactivities. (Sec. 362) Raises the minimum monthly pay deduction of certain members of the armed forces for support of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 363) Prohibits the Secretary from converting the Defense Security Service to a working capital funded entity of DOD unless the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that such Service has the financial systems in place to fully support operations as a working capital funded entity. (Sec. 364) Amends the Spence Act to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the arsenal program support initiative (a program of support for Army manufacturing arsenals); and (2) extend and revise related reporting requirements. (Sec. 365) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for using existing military authorities to address problems created by limitations on the use of military lands, marine areas, and airspace reserved, withdrawn, or designated for military training and testing activities. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD plans to improve the Global Status of Resources and Training System. Requires the: (1) Secretary to develop and maintain a training range data bank for each military branch; and (2) Comptroller General (CG) to evaluate the plan and report submitted under this section. (Sec. 366) Amends the: (1) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make eligible for basic support payments made to local educational agencies those heavily impacted local educational agencies affected by the privatization of military housing; and (2) Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to exclude, for purposes of eligibility for free and reduced-price meals, the amount of basic allowance for housing for an individual for housing acquired under alternative authority for the acquisition and improvement of military family housing. 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 2003. Increases certain permanent end strength minimum levels. (Sec. 403) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to increase by up to one percent their active-duty end strength in order to enhance manning and readiness in essential units or in critical specialties or ratings. (Sec. 404) Excludes from general and flag officer end strength limits the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Increases the number of lieutenant generals authorized for the Marine Corps. Provides the grade of brigadier general for the Chief of the Army Veterinary Corps. Directs the Secretary to review, and report to Congress on, current active-duty and reserve general and flag officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 405) Extends through December 31, 2004, certain authorities relating to the management of end strengths of general and flag officers in certain grades. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2003 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum end strength for FY 2003 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians. (Sec. 414) Places specified FY 2003 limitations on the number of non-dual status technicians employed by the Army and Air Force. Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: General Personnel Management Authorities - Increases from five to six the number of authorized Deputy Commandants of the Marine Corps. (Sec. 502) Extends through December 31, 2004, the waiver from the requirement of significant joint duty experience for officers appointed to a reserve chief or Guard director position, when such waiver is exercised for the good of the service. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on steps being taken to ensure that no additional waiver will be required after such extension. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management - Requires the: (1) CG to report to Congress on the management of the National Guard, including reviews of National Guard strength accounting and management and related issues; and (2) Secretary to report to Congress on the differing Army and Air Force policies for taking adverse administrative actions against National Guard officers in a State status. (Sec. 512) Requires courts-martial for members of the National Guard when not performing in Federal service to be as provided by the laws of the respective State, territory, possession, or the District of Columbia. Provides convening authority for the courts-martial of National Guard when not performing in the Federal service for: (1) special and summary courts-martial by the respective State, territory, possession, and District of Columbia; (2) general courts-martial by the President; and (3) special courts-martial by the appropriate commanding officer. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare, for consideration of enactment by the States, a model State code of military justice and a model State manual of courts-martial for use with respect to the National Guard when not performing in Federal service; and (2) report to the defense committees on implementation of the model code and manual requirements. (Sec. 513) Requires matching funds requirements, as of October 1, 2002, under the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Subtitle C: Reserve Component Officer Personnel Policy - Exempts from active status end strength limitations reserve general and flag officers serving on active duty in certain joint duty assignments designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Sec. 522) Makes eligible for promotion to the grade of reserve Army or Air Force major general reserve brigadier generals not otherwise eligible for promotion because the officer's service does not meet the currently required one-year-of-continuous-service if: (1) the officer was transferred from an inactive status to the reserve active status during the one-year period preceding the convening of the promotion board; (2) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an active status, the officer had been in an inactive status for less than one year; and (3) immediately before the date of the officer's most recent transfer to an inactive status, the officer had continuously served for at least one year on the reserve active status or active-duty list. (Sec. 523) Retains promotion eligibility for reserve general and flag officers transferred to an inactive status list after having been recommended for promotion or found qualified for Federal recognition to a higher grade. (Sec. 524) Provides a limited deferment of retirement or separation from service until 30 days after completion of a medical evaluation requiring hospitalization or medical observation. Subtitle D: Education and Training - Provides for a phased increase to 4,400 in the authorized end strengths for each of the military service academies. Prohibits any increases for any academic year after 2007-2008. Directs the Secretary of each military department to seek to achieve an increase, by the 2006-2007 academic year, of not less than 400 Reserve Officers' Training Corps participants. (Sec. 532) Increases from 270 days to one year the time allowed following enlistment in the reserve or National Guard prior to commencement of an initial period of active duty. Subtitle E: Decorations and Awards - Waives time limitations for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for certain individuals for whom the Secretary concerned filed notice to the defense committees that such awards were warranted and for whom a time limit waiver was recommended. (Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned to award eligible Vietnam evacuation veterans the Vietnam Service Medal, notwithstanding other applicable requirements. Subtitle F: Administrative Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure sufficient staffing and funding for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. (Sec. 552) Prohibits the Secretary concerned, during FY 2003 through 2005, from reducing the number of military and civilian personnel assigned to the review and correction of military records until 90 days after a report is submitted to Congress explaining the reduction and its rationale. (Sec. 553) Authorizes the Secretary to provide either transportation and expenses or a prescribed daily stipend for civilians participating in a military funeral honors detail. (Sec. 554) Authorizes the use of volunteer proctors for the administration to secondary school students of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test). (Sec. 555) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the status of female military personnel, including access to health care, assignments, deployments, promotions, and cases of sexual harassment. Subtitle G: Benefits - Directs the Secretary concerned to establish a program under which accrued leave of a member may be transferred to another member of the same department who requires additional leave because of a qualifying emergency (one likely to require prolonged absence due to a medical condition of an immediate family member, or other hardship as determined by such Secretary). (Sec. 562) Repeals a provision which prohibits participants in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program from participation in the DOD medical loan repayment program. (Sec. 563) Authorizes, as between-tour leave travel for enlisted personnel stationed overseas who extend such tour of duty, round-trip transportation from such location to an alternate location at a cost not to exceed the cost of transportation to the nearest contiguous U.S. port. (Sec. 564) Authorizes vehicle storage in lieu of vehicle transportation when a member is ordered to a U.S. duty station in a nonforeign area outside the continental United States. Subtitle H: Military Justice Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to allow an accused convicted of an offense by a court-martial, upon request, to be sentenced by the military judge rather than the members of the court-martial. (Sec. 572) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the desirability and feasibility of consolidating the separate Army, Navy, and Air Force courses for judge advocates into a single course conducted at a single location. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2003 pay increase tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2003, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Expands the basic allowance for housing low-cost or no-cost moves authority for members assigned to duty outside the United States when the Secretary concerned determines that it would be inequitable to base the member's housing entitlement to, and amount of, a basic allowance for housing on the cost of housing in the area to which the member is reassigned. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2003 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2002 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 615) Provides a minimum monthly level of hardship duty pay for ground duty in Antarctica or on the Arctic icepack. (Sec. 616) Increases the reenlistment bonus for persons with prior enlisted service. (Sec. 617) Makes limitations on the maximum bonus amount that may be paid to officers retained in a critical military skill inapplicable to an officer assigned duties as a health care provider. Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Extends the authorized period for leave travel for members performing consecutive overseas tours of duty to any time before the end of the consecutive tour (currently, within one year after beginning the consecutive tour). Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits - Provides for the phase-in, during FY 2003 through 2006, of the full concurrent receipt of military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for military retirees with disabilities rated at 60 percent or higher. Repeals current provisions providing special compensation for certain severely service-disabled military retirees. Requires the Secretary to determine the amount of Treasury contribution required to be made into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund to cover such increased payments. (Sec. 642) Reduces from eight to six years the qualifying service requirement for eligibility for retired pay for non-regular service. (Sec. 643) Eliminates any possible inversion in the retired pay cost-of-living adjustment in the case of an initial adjustment using a retired member's final pay. (Sec. 644) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act and specified Federal law to make technical clarifications to the so-called "forgotten widows" military survivors' annuity program. Subtitle E: Reserve Component Montgomery GI Bill - Extends the period of eligibility for the use of Selected Reserve educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 (currently ten) years after the date on which a person first becomes so entitled. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Revises or adds definitions to Federal military pay provisions. Title VII: Health Care Matters - Subtitle A: Health Care Program Improvements - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to make the requirement of TRICARE preauthorization of inpatient mental health care inapplicable to Medicare-eligible beneficiaries. (Sec. 702) Extends eligibility for TRICARE Remote (a DOD managed health care plan for members residing more than 50 miles from a military medical facility) to a dependent of a member with a permanent duty assignment for which the dependent is not authorized to accompany the member when either: (1) the dependent continues to reside at the location of the former duty assignment which is more than 50 miles, or one hour's drive, from the nearest military medical facility; or (2) there is no reasonable expectation that the member will return to the location of the former duty assignment and the dependent moves to a location more than 50 miles or one hour's drive from the nearest military medical facility. (Sec. 703) Makes eligible for enrollment in the TRICARE dental program a dependent of a member who died while on active duty and while not enrolled in a dental plan due to being transferred. (Sec. 704) Provides as a new funding source for the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund the pay of participating members. Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into an agreement for participation in the health care program funded by such Fund. (Sec. 705) Requires the Secretary, in designating TRICARE Program health care providers, to prescribe regulations that will designate providers currently authorized under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of: (1) current impediments to a cost-effective and provider- and beneficiary-friendly system for claims processing under the TRICARE Program; and (2) the nature and extent of, reasons for, and trends regarding network provider instability under TRICARE, and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate such instability. (Sec. 713) Repeals a required report from DOD administering Secretaries on military health care program operations and costs. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for an acquisition management professional exchange pilot program between DOD and the private sector. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to evaluate, and report to Congress on, the training, knowledge, and resources needed by DOD to effectively negotiate intellectual property rights using the principles of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, and to determine whether DOD currently has the training, knowledge, and resources to meet those needs. (Sec. 803) Requires the use of competitive procedures (unless an exception has been authorized) for DOD acquisition task and delivery order contracts. Limits to five years the base period for such contracts unless a longer period is specifically authorized. Makes task order contracts for the procurement of advisory and assistance services subject to such procedures and contract limits. (Sec. 804) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend until January 1, 2004, a program applying simplified acquisition procedures to certain commercial items. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on whether the authority to issue solicitations for purchases of commercial items in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold should be made permanent. (Sec. 805) Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, every five years, to adjust for inflation the simplified acquisition threshold. (Sec. 806) Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to Congress a plan for improving the personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD civilian acquisition workforce based on the results of a demonstration project required under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. (Sec. 807) Revises the size and contract period for ball and roller bearings covered under DOD simplified acquisition limitations. (Sec. 808) Directs the Secretary to establish tailored rapid acquisition and deployment procedures for items urgently needed to react to an enemy threat or respond to significant and urgent safety situations. (Sec. 809) Directs the Secretary to establish a quick-reaction special projects acquisition team to advise the Secretary on appropriate actions to expedite the procurement of urgently needed systems. (Sec. 810) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD efforts on the development of anti-cyberterrorism technology. (Sec. 811) Authorizes DOD or one of the military departments to acquire a product or service from Federal Prison Industries, Inc., only if such acquisition is made through a procurement contract awarded and administered under current law, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Allows such corporation to be used as a subcontractor, but prohibits the use of such corporation as a subcontractor, supplier of products, or provider of services from being imposed upon prospective or actual defense prime contractors or subcontractors. Provides for the protection of classified and sensitive information that such corporation's inmate worker may have access to. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Redesignates the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. (Sec. 902) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees providing an implementation plan for the United States Northern Command. (Sec. 903) Requires the national defense mission of the Coast Guard to be included in future DOD quadrennial defense reviews. Changes the year for submission of such reviews. (Sec. 904) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the effect on combat readiness of operations other than war (humanitarian, counter-drug, or peace operations, or nation assistance) in which military personnel are participating. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Act for FY 2003 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2002 by the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorization were increased or decreased pursuant to supplemental appropriations during such fiscal year. Provides the same adjustment for amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for defense-related activities during such fiscal year. Prohibits the transfer of funds from DOD "transfer accounts" until the Secretary submits certain transfer information to the defense and appropriations committees. Allows adjustment of the above appropriations in the case of a pending contingent emergency supplemental appropriation for DOD military or atomic energy defense activities only if the President transmits to Congress an official budget request for that appropriation that designates it as an emergency requirement. (Sec. 1003) Allows any military officer or civilian DOD employee designated by the Secretary to act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under DOD control. Extends to members of the Navy and Marine Corps current authority for pay deductions for damage to or repair of arms and equipment. (Sec. 1004) Authorizes the Secretary to designate as a 'departmental accountable official' any member of the armed forces or DOD civilian employee responsible for providing to a certifying DOD official information, data, or services that are directly relied upon by such official in the certification of payment vouchers. Authorizes the Secretary to impose pecuniary liability upon such a designated official in the event of an illegal, improper, or incorrect payment. (Sec. 1005) Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations governing the use and control of all purchase cards and convenience checks issued to DOD personnel for official use. Outlines required safeguards and internal controls with respect to the use of such cards and checks, and provides penalties for violations. (Sec. 1006) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts provided in an appropriations Act for procurement for a covered acquisition program to amounts provided in the same Act for RDT&E for that program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees 30 days in advance of such a transfer. Limits such transfers to $20 million per program and $250 million total. Requires unused transferred funds to be transferred back to their original purpose. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the modernization of DOD's financial management systems and operations. Prohibits the obligation of more than 75 percent of the funds authorized for the DOD Financial Modernization Program until such report is received. Subtitle B: Reports - Requires the Secretary to report to the: (1) defense and appropriations committees on military operations conducted as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; and (2) the defense committees on biological weapons defense and counter-proliferation. (Sec. 1013) Requires (currently, only required upon request) DOD reports to Congress to be accompanied by an electronic version. (Sec. 1014) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly prepare, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a plan for the U.S. strategic force structure for nuclear weapons and their delivery systems for FY 2002 through 2012. (Sec. 1015) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan to establish a joint national training complex. (Sec. 1016) Amends Federal armed forces provisions and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to repeal various reporting requirements. (Sec. 1017) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD responsibilities, missions, and plans for military support of homeland security. (Sec. 1018) Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on the anticipated short- and long-term effects of the use of a: (1) nuclear earth penetrator weapon on target areas; and (2) nuclear-tipped ballistic missile interceptor and of ballistic missiles not intercepted. Requires the Secretary to transfer each report to Congress. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Expresses the sense of Congress requesting the President to take specified actions to ensure the maintenance of a reliable, flexible, and robust strategic deterrent. (Sec. 1022) Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress the annual defense authorization request for a fiscal year during the first 30 days after the President transmits to Congress the budget for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1024) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, upon request of the Secretary of Defense, to provide insurance for a vessel, regardless of its country of registration or the citizenship of its owners, that is supporting a military operation approved by the North Atlantic Council, including a vessel not operating under contract with a Federal department or agency. Authorizes such Secretary to seek claims indemnification from a country benefitting from such insurance coverage if the county is a party to an international agreement for the sharing of risks involved in mutual or joint operations. (Sec. 1025) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell Navy Drydock YFD-69 in Portland, Oregon, to the Portland Shipyard LLC (its current user). (Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) establish 23 additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams (for a total of 55 of such teams); and (2) ensure that of such 55 teams there is at least one team established for each State and territory. Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters - Makes employees of a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality eligible for Federal long-term care insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to determine whether a DOD nonappropriated fund instrumentality shall be so covered or is already covered under an alternative program. (Sec. 1102) Extends until October 1, 2006, the authority to make lump-sum severance payments to DOD employees. (Sec. 1103) Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in conducting and analyzing data provided in wage surveys, to provide for wage differentials for any hardship or hazard related to asbestos and possible asbestos exposure. (Sec. 1104) Extends, for individuals separated through FY 2005 (currently, FY 2002), Federal Employee Health Benefits Program eligibility based on involuntary separation from military service, or voluntary separation from a surplus position, in the Departments of Defense or Energy due to a reduction in force. (Sec. 1105) Requires OPM to conduct full-scale Federal wage surveys to determine prevailing wage rates every three (currently two) years. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Limits to $15 million the total assistance authorized for support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities. Extends such authority through FY 2003. (Sec. 1202) Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a comprehensive plan to conduct joint operational training for, and exchanges of senior officers between, U.S. military forces and the military forces of Taiwan; and (2) submit such plan to Congress. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary, through FY 2005, to provide administrative services and support for foreign liaison officers performing duties while temporarily assigned to U.S. components or commands. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1204) Authorizes the Secretary to include, under a program in which the Secretary issues loan guarantees arising out of the sale or long-term lease of defense articles or services, a country that assists in combating drug trafficking organizations or foreign terrorist organizations. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and State to report to specified congressional committees enumerating those countries so included. (Sec. 1205) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 funds made available for activities associated with the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow, Russia, until: (1) the United States and Russian Federation enter into cost-sharing and tax exemption agreements; and (2) 30 days after the Secretary submits such agreements to the defense committees. (Sec. 1206) Prohibits any DOD funds from being used to support or maintain more than 500 members of the armed forces on duty in the Republic of Columbia at any time. Provides exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitation in the national security interest. Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union - Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&M funds provided under this Act. Makes funds appropriated for such purpose available for three fiscal years. Allocates such funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being used for purposes other than those specified until 30 days after the Secretary reports to Congress on such purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification. (Sec. 1303) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 2003 CTR funds until the submission of specified reports required under prior defense authorization Acts. (Sec. 1304) Amends the Spence Act to include in a required report information on the use of revenue generated by activities carried out under CTR programs. (Sec. 1305) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the design, planning, or construction of a second wing for a storage facility for Russian fissile material. (Sec. 1306) Expresses the sense of Congress recognizing the threat of Russian proliferation to Iran of nuclear and missile technology, materials, and information. Requires a report from the President to Congress, in each of 2003 through 2009, describing in detail Russian proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile goods and technology, and of dual-use items that may contribute to the development of such weapons and missiles to Iran and other countries. (Sec. 1307) Prohibits the use of CTR funds for threat reduction projects, programs, or activities in countries other than the states of the former Soviet Union. (Sec. 1308) Makes certain restrictions under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 concerning the use of CTR funds without compliance with all relevant arms control agreements inapplicable with respect to U.S. assistance to Russia if the President certifies to Congress that waiving such restrictions is important to U.S. national security interests. Terminates such waiver authority on December 31, 2005. Requires a report from the President to Congress on any use of such authority. (Sec. 1309) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the FY 2003 CTR funds for defense and military contacts activities until the Secretary reports to Congress describing the operation and success of such activities carried out under CTR programs during FY 2001 and 2002. Title XIV: Utah Test and Training Range - States that nothing in this Act, the Wilderness Act, or other Federal land management laws shall restrict or preclude: (1) low-level military overflights and operations of military aircraft, helicopters, or unmanned aerial vehicles over the Utah Test and Training Range, including the Dugway Proving Ground; or (2) the designation of new or expansion of existing units of special use airspace, or the use or establishment of military training routes over federally designated wilderness or wilderness study areas, within such Range. Prohibits the removal of existing communications, instrumentation, or electronic tracking systems from such areas, as well as any other equipment necessary to meet military testing and training requirements. Requires timely access to such areas to respond to emergency situations. Directs the Secretaries of the Air Force and Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding for access to the wilderness areas located beneath the airspace of the Range. Authorizes restricted or prohibited public access to such areas when required by national security or public safety. (Sec. 1403) Designates specified Federal lands within the Range as wilderness areas, and withdraws such lands from all forms or entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including mining and mineral and geothermal leasing. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer such wilderness areas. Authorizes fish and wildlife habitat restoration and livestock grazing within such areas, where appropriate. (Sec. 1404) Designates as wilderness certain Federal lands in: (1) Box Elder County, Utah, to be known as the Pilot Range Wilderness Area; and (2) Tooele County, Utah, to be known as the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - 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, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2002 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 2002 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at the Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those 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 carry out certain energy conservation projects. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2002 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2404) Amends various military construction authorization Acts to increase the amounts authorized for chemical demilitarization projects at the: (1) Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; (2) Newport Army Depot, Indiana; and (3) Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado. 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 and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for such Program. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2002 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2006, 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 - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in connection with any military housing acquired or constructed, to furnish firefighting, fire protection, and police protection services. Repeals the authority for interim leases of military family housing units or military unaccompanied housing units. Establishes the Department of Defense Housing Improvement Fund. (Currently, there are two separate funds for improvements to military family housing and military unaccompanied housing.) Provides for Fund credits. Increases the total budget authority of contracts and investments using Fund authorities. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Fund unobligated amounts from the previous separate funds. (Sec. 2802) Authorizes the Secretary concerned (currently, the Secretary of Defense) to carry out construction projects as part of a required environmental response action, requiring congressional notification when amounts for such projects exceed the unspecified minor construction threshold. (Sec. 2803) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to lease additional family housing units in Korea both at and above the current lease limit of $25,000 per year (to a maximum of $35,000 per year). Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with private entities to limit space encroachments and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations on or in the vicinity of military installations. Outlines agreement requirements and conditions. Provides agreement funding through specified O&M funds. (Sec. 2812) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to convey surplus real property to eligible recipients to undertake natural resource conservation activities. Provides a reversionary interest if the property is not used and maintained for such purposes. Authorizes the release of covenants with respect to such property. (Sec. 2813) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to make certain screening requirements for property used in support of response actions inapplicable to excess or surplus DOD property used for responding to: (1) a war or national emergency; or (2) an emergency or major disaster. (Sec. 2814) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration program to assess the feasibility and desirability of including facility maintenance requirements in up to 12 military construction contracts to determine whether such requirements facilitate reductions in the long-term facility maintenance costs of the military departments. Requires a program report from the Secretary to Congress. Terminates program authority at the end of FY 2006. Provides funding from military construction funds. (Sec. 2815) Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to repeal a provision which prohibits the Secretary from transferring certain property in exchange for military housing units if the property is identified in a redevelopment plan for a closed or realigned military installation as essential to that installation's reuse or redevelopment. Subtitle C: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) any of certain eligible entities in Alaska certain Alaska lands determined to be no longer required for National Guard purposes; (2) the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, an abandoned railroad spur at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for storm water management, recreation, transportation, and other public purposes; (3) the Buffalo, Minnesota Independent School District 877 the former Army reserve training center in Buffalo; (4) El Paso County, Texas, a portion of Fort Bliss, Texas, for the construction of a veterans' nursing home; and (5) the Veterans Land Board of the State of Texas a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, for establishing a State-run cemetery for veterans. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to ENPEX Corporation a portion of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, for the production of electric power and related activities. (Sec. 2832) Directs the Secretaries of the Navy and the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia, and Prince William Forest Park, Virginia, to conform to the boundaries depicted on a specified map depicting such boundary adjustments. Provides for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of specified portions of such areas following the boundary adjustment. Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to West Wendover, Nevada, and Tooele County, Utah, specified portions of the Wendover Air Force Base auxiliary filed determined by the Secretary of the Air Force to be no longer required for Air Force purposes. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to a previously-specified entity for the construction and maintenance of a restricted access highway (current law), notwithstanding any State law that would otherwise prevent either such Secretary from granting the easement or the entity from constructing and maintaining such highway. (Sec. 2862) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to sell treated water and wastewater treatment services from facilities at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, if such Secretary determines that the provision of such water and services will be in the public interest and will not interfere with current or future Camp operations. (Sec. 2863) Ratifies a specified agreement regarding the conveyance of property at the Adak Naval Complex, Alaska. Removes such land, upon its conveyance, from the National Wildlife Refuge System. Authorizes related conveyances. (Sec. 2864) Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to require that: (1) any decision by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission to add an installation to the list for closure must be unanimous; and (2) at least two Commission members must have visited the added installation during the period of the Commission's list review. 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 2003 for: (1) activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for weapons activities, defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, naval reactors, and the Office of the Administrator for Nuclear Security; and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities and other defense activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental restoration and waste management, defense environmental management cleanup reform, defense facilities closure projects, defense environmental management privatization, other defense activities, and defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions - Department of Energy National Security Authorizations General Provisions Act - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this subtitle for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, 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 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, or 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. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary 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 Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. (Sec. 3130) Directs the Secretary to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer weapons activities funds from a program or project of that office to another such program or project when such transfer is necessary to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or will result in cost savings and efficiencies. Limits such transfer to $5 million. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Amends the Thurmond Act to extend until April 1, 2003, the authority of a panel to assess the reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Extends a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 3142) Transfers from the Secretary of Defense to the Administrator for Nuclear Security the CTR program relating to the elimination of weapons grade plutonium in Russia, along with related activities and assets. (Sec. 3143) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to repeal report requirements on the obligation of funds for programs on fissile materials in Russia. (Sec. 3144) Requires the head of each DOE national security laboratory and the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command to report annually to the Secretary concerned (Defense or Energy) a certification regarding the safety, reliability, and performance of each nuclear weapon type in the active stockpile of the United States for which such official is responsible. Requires an annual report from such Secretaries to the President and Congress on certifications received. Requires each national security laboratory head to assemble "red teams" to provide oversight with respect to such certifications. Requires each laboratory head and the strategic commander to report on the stockpile stewardship and management program of DOE. (Sec. 3145) Directs the Secretary to prepare, and include within DOE budget justification documents for FY 2004, a plan for achieving a one-year readiness posture for U.S. resumption of underground nuclear weapons tests. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Defense Environmental Management - Directs the Secretary, using funds made available under this title, to carry out a program to reform DOE environmental management activities. Requires a site performance management plan for each site for which the Secretary allocates funding for such program. (Sec. 3152) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of those environmental management initiatives being undertaken to accelerate the reduction of environmental risks and challenges that, as a result of the legacy of the Cold War, and faced by DOE, its contractors, and applicable Federal and State regulatory agencies. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2003, to obligate up to $76.4 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 Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 2003 to carry out activities relating to the naval petroleum reserves. Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration. (Sec. 3502) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the vessel USS SPHINX to the Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum upon certain conditions, including that: (1) the recipient uses the vessel as a nonprofit military museum and not for commercial transportation; and (2) the recipient makes the vessel available to the Government when required by such Secretary. (Sec. 3503) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide, to any State to which an obsolete ship is transferred, financial assistance to prepare the ship for use as an artificial reef, including costs for environmental remediation, towing, and sinking. (Sec. 3504) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to obtain independent analysis of an application for the guarantee or commitment to guarantee financing for the construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning of a covered vessel.

00 Introduced in House Nov 28, 2006

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY 2003 for: (1) armed forces procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and chemical agents and munitions destruction; (2) research, development, test and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds; (4) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (5) active and reserve military personnel, including authorized end strengths. Increases as of January 1, 2003, the rates of military basic pay. Extends certain bonus and special and incentive pay authorities. Authorizes: (1) the payment of distribution incentive pay for service in less-than-desirable locations or in difficult-to-fill positions; and (2) certain travel and transportation allowances. Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) military spouse, retirement, and survivor benefit matters; (2) military health care; (3) acquisition policy and management, including the authority to waive domestic source or content requirements; (4) Department of Defense (DOD) organization and management, including the designation of departmental accountable officials; (5) general contracting and acquisition procedures and limitations; (6) the repeal of various DOD reporting requirements; (7) FY 2003 military construction and military family housing, including alternative authority for the acquisition and improvement of such housing; (8) the conveyance of military surplus real property for natural resource conservation purposes; and (9) the authority to carry out environmental response projects necessitated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

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Timeline

Dec 2, 2002

Signed by President.

Dec 2, 2002

Signed by President.

Dec 2, 2002

Became Public Law No: 107-314.

Dec 2, 2002

Became Public Law No: 107-314.

Nov 26, 2002

Presented to President.

Nov 26, 2002

Presented to President.

Nov 13, 2002

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

Nov 13, 2002

Conference report considered in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

Nov 13, 2002

Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.(consideration: CR S10858-10874)

Nov 13, 2002

Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S10858-10874)

Nov 13, 2002

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Nov 12, 2002

Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement held at the desk in Senate.

Nov 12, 2002

Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 107-772 filed.(text of conference report: CR H8092-8535)

Nov 12, 2002

Conference report H. Rept. 107-772 filed. (text of conference report: CR H8092-8535)

Nov 12, 2002

Mr. Hunter moved to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report, H. Rept. 107-772.

Nov 12, 2002

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the conference report on H.R. 4546.

Nov 12, 2002

Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

Nov 12, 2002

Conferees agreed to file conference report.

Nov 12, 2002

Conference report agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote.(consideration: CR H8535-8541)

Nov 12, 2002

Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Nov 12, 2002

On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote. (consideration: CR H8535-8541)

Oct 10, 2002

Mr. Taylor (MS) moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H7854-7859)

Oct 10, 2002

DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the House proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Taylor (MS) motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 4546. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to agree to the provisions contained in section 641 of the Senate amendment (relating to payment of retired pay and compensation to disabled military retirees).

Oct 10, 2002

On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by recorded vote: 391 - 0 (Roll no. 463). (text: CR H7854)

Oct 10, 2002

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Sep 12, 2002

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Sep 12, 2002

Conference held.

Sep 11, 2002

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Sep 11, 2002

Conference held.

Sep 10, 2002

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Sep 10, 2002

Conference held.

Sep 5, 2002

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Sep 5, 2002

Conference held.

Jul 27, 2002

APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL CONFEREES - The Chair announced additional conferees to H.R. 4546: For consideration of sections 243, 824, and 829 of the Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference.

Jul 26, 2002

Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to the Amendment of the House to the Senate Amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7397-7398)

Jul 26, 2002

Senate disagreed to the Amendment of the House to the Senate Amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7397-7398)

Jul 26, 2002

Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. Levin; Kennedy; Byrd; Lieberman; Cleland; Landrieu; Reed; Akaka; Nelson FL; Nelson NE; Carnahan; Dayton; Bingaman; Warner; Thurmond; McCain; Smith NH; Inhofe; Santorum; Roberts; Allard; Hutchinson; Sessions; Collins; Bunning.

Jul 26, 2002

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Jul 25, 2002

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 500 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 4546 with 1 hour of general debate.

Jul 25, 2002

Mr. Stump asked unanimous consent that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment.

Jul 25, 2002

Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection.(consideration: CR H5480-5608; text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H5602)

Jul 25, 2002

On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H5480-5608; text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H5602)

Jul 25, 2002

Mr. Stump asked unanimous consent that the House insist upon its amendment to the Senate amendment, and request a conference.

Jul 25, 2002

On motion that the House insist upon its amendment to the Senate amendment, and request a conference Agreed to without objection.

Jul 25, 2002

Mr. Taylor (MS) moved that the House instruct conferees.

Jul 25, 2002

DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Taylor (MS) motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist upon the provisions of section 1551 of the House amendment (relating to the establishment of at least one Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in each State).

Jul 25, 2002

The previous question was ordered without objection.

Jul 25, 2002

On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 419 - 2 (Roll no. 349).

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Armed Services for consideration of the House amendment and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Stump, Hunter, Hansen, Weldon (PA), Hefley, Saxton, McHugh, Everett, Bartlett, McKeon, Watts (OK), Thornberry, Hostettler, Chambliss, Jones (NC), Hilleary, Graham, Skelton, Spratt, Ortiz, Evans, Taylor (MS), Abercrombie, Meehan, Underwood, Allen, Snyder, Reyes, Turner, and Tauscher.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for consideration of matters within the jurisdiction of that committee under clause 11 of rule X: Goss, Bereuter, and Pelosi.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Education and the Workforce for consideration of secs. 341-343, and 366 of the House amendment, and secs. 331-333, 542, 656, 1064, and 1107 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Isakson, Wilson (SC), and Miller, George.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Energy and Commerce for consideration of secs. 601 and 3201 of the House amendment, and secs. 311, 312, 601, 3135, 3155, 3171-3173, and 3201 of the House amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Tauzin, Barton, and Dingell.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Government Reform for consideration of secs. 323, 804, 805, 1003, 1004, 1101-1106, 2811, and 2813 of the House amendment, and secs. 241 654 817, 907 1007-1009, 1061, 1101-1106, 2811 and 3173 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Burton, Weldon (FL), and Waxman.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on International Relations for consideration of secs. 1201, 1202, 1204, Title XIII, and sec. 3142 of the House amendment, and subtitle A of Title XII, secs. 1212-1216, 3136, 3151, and 3156-3161 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Hyde, Gilman, and Lantos.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on the Judiciary for consideration of secs. 811 and 1033 of the House amendment, and secs 1067 and 1070 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Sensenbrenner, Smith (TX), and Conyers.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Resources for consideration of secs. 311, 312, 601, Title XIV, secs. 2821, 2832, 2841, and 2863 of the House amendment, and secs. 601, 2821, 2823, 2828, and 2841 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Duncan, Gibbons, and Rahall.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Science for consideration of secs. 244, 246, 1216, 3155, 3163 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Boehlert, Smith (MI), and Hall (TX).

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed additional conferees - from the Committee on Small Business for consideration of secs. 243, 824, and 829 of the Senate amendment and modifications committed to conference: Manzullo, Kelly, and Velazquez.

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for consideration of sec. 601 of the House amendment, and secs. 601 and 1063 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Young (AK), LoBiondo, and Brown (FL).

Jul 25, 2002

The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs for consideration of secs. 641, 651, 721, 723, 724, 726, 727, and 728 of the House amendment, and secs. 541 and 641 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Smith (NJ), Bilirakis, Miller, Jeff, Filner, and Carson (IN).

Jul 25, 2002

Mr. Stump moved that the House close portions of the conference.

Jul 25, 2002

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Jul 25, 2002

Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate amendment and House requests a conference.

Jul 8, 2002

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Jun 27, 2002

Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S6225)

Jun 27, 2002

Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S.2514 amended.

Jun 27, 2002

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

Jun 27, 2002

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

Jun 27, 2002

Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Levin; Kennedy; Byrd; Lieberman; Cleland; Landrieu; Reed; Akaka; Nelson FL; Nelson NE; Carnahan; Dayton; Bingaman; Warner; Thurmond; McCain; Smith NH; Inhofe; Santorum; Roberts; Allard; Hutchinson; Sessions; Collins; Bunning.

Jun 27, 2002

See also S. 2514.

May 16, 2002

Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 379.

May 14, 2002

Received in the Senate.

May 10, 2002

On motion that the Committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 168 - 241 (Roll no. 152).

May 10, 2002

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 415, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Smith (NJ) amendment.

May 10, 2002

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.

May 10, 2002

The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 4546.

May 10, 2002

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

May 10, 2002

The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text: CR H2282-2330)

May 10, 2002

Mr. Spratt moved to recommit with instructions to Armed Services. (consideration: CR H2383-2385; text: CR H2383)

May 10, 2002

Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Spratt motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to add a new section to the bill prohibiting the use of funds for obligation or expenditure towards development or deployment of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile interceptor.

May 10, 2002

The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.

May 10, 2002

On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 223 (Roll no. 157).

May 10, 2002

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 359 - 58 (Roll no. 158).

May 10, 2002

On passage Passed by recorded vote: 359 - 58 (Roll no. 158).

May 10, 2002

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

May 10, 2002

The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.

May 10, 2002

The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 4546.

May 9, 2002

Rule H. Res. 415 passed House.

May 9, 2002

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 415. (consideration: CR H2265-2386)

May 9, 2002

Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4546 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Armed Services now printed in the bill. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.

May 9, 2002

House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 415 and Rule XXIII.

May 9, 2002

The Speaker designated the Honorable Dave Camp to act as Chairman of the Committee.

May 9, 2002

GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 4546.

May 9, 2002

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 415, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 40 minutes of debate on the Stump amendments en bloc.

May 9, 2002

On motion that the Committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 51 - 356 (Roll no. 138).

May 9, 2002

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 415, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Weldon (PA) amendment.

May 9, 2002

On motion that the Committee rise Failed by recorded vote: 49 - 352 (Roll no. 139).

May 9, 2002

DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed debate on the Weldon (PA) amendment, as modified.

May 9, 2002

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Weldon (PA) amendment, as modified, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Weldon (PA) demanded a recorded vote and pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 415, further proceedings on the amendment were postponed until later in the legislative day.

May 9, 2002

DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 415, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tauscher amendment.

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