H.R. 1585 would authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2007.

== Detailed Summary ==

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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 - <b>Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 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 FY2008 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; and (2) National Guard and reserve equipment.the Rapid Acquisition Fund.

<b>Subtitle B: Army Programs </b>- (Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, beginning with the FY2008 program year, to enter into a multiyear contractscontract for the procurement of: (1) M1A2 Abrams system enhancement package vehicles;upgrades; and (2) M2A3M2A3/M3A3 Bradley fighting vehicles, M3A3 Cavalry fighting vehicles, and M2A3 Bradley fire support team vehicles; and (3) CH-47F helicopters.vehicle upgrades.

(Sec. 113) AuthorizesProhibits Army weapons and tracked combat vehicle funds from being obligated or expended for procurement of the Stryker Mobile Gun System until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army certifies to enter into a multiyear contract forCongress its operational effectiveness in anticipated deployment missions. Authorizes the conversionSecretary of CH-47D helicoptersDefense (Secretary) to waive such certification requirement in the CH-47F configuration.national security interest, after congressional notification.

(Sec. 115) Places an FY2008 limitation on114) Directs the obligation or expenditureSecretary of funds forthe Army to: (1) consolidate the Joint Network Node Program until the Secretary of theprogram and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program into a single Army makes certain certifications concerning such Programtactical network program; and (2) report to the congressional defense and appropriations committees.committees on such consolidation.

(Sec. 116) Prohibits the use of specified115) Increases (with a corresponding offset) Army fundsresearch, development, test and evaluation (RDT&amp;E) funds, to commence, continue, or complete the closure of the production linebe available for the Army Tactical Missile System program until at least 120 days after the Secretary of the Army reports specified System information to the defense and appropriations committees.Army's General Fund Enterprise Business System.

<b>Subtitle C: Navy Programs </b>- (Sec. 121)131) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary)the Navy, beginning with the FY2009 program year, to transfer funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD)enter into multiyear contracts for FY2008 or thereafter for costsprocurement of submarine engineered refueling overhaulsVirginia-class submarines and conversions or aircraft carrier refueling complex overhauls. Requires transfer notificationgovernment-furnished equipment. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such a contract until 30 days after certification to the defense and appropriations committees. Limits each overhaul or conversioncommittees with respect to $20 million.contract specifications.

(Sec. 122)132) Outlines specified costs and government liability limits under the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program, including a cost limit of $460 million per vessel. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a multiyear contract foradjust such limit by the procurement of Virginia-class submarines and government-furnished equipment associatedamounts of: (1) increases or decreases in costs attributable to compliance with such submarines. Requires 30 days' advance certificationchanges in federal, state, or local laws enacted after September 30, 2007; and (2) outfitting costs and costs required to the defensecomplete post-delivery test and appropriations committees.trials.

(Sec. 123) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of133) Earmarks specified Navy aircraft procurement funds for advanced procurement for the final assembly of more than five VH-71 Presidential transport helicopters. Provides an exception when final helicopter assembly is carried out in the United States. Virginia class submarine program.

(Sec. 124)<b>Subtitle D: Air Force Programs </b>- (Sec. 141) Prohibits FY2008 DOD funds from being obligated or expended for operational deploymentthe Secretary of a weapons system that uses Trident missiles converted to carry conventional payloads. Directs the Air Force from retiring C-130E/H tactical airlift aircraft during FY2008. Requires such Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees within 30 days of determiningmaintain each such aircraft retired during FY2007 in a condition that such system is fully functional and its fielding is necessarywill permit recall to meet military requirements.future service.

(Sec. 125) Authorizes142) Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy to use shipbuilding and conversion funds to carry out a program to provide contractors with capital expenditure incentives to support investmentAir Force from retiring any KC-135E aerial refueling aircraft in facilities and process improvements for current and future Navy vessel construction contracts. Requires each contractor to submit an analysis thatFY2008 unless such investment would lead to ship construction or life cycle savings to the federal government. Requires an annual report from the Secretary provides written notification to the defense and appropriations committees on program activities.committees.

(Sec. 126) Prohibits Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds from being used for ship construction at143) Expresses the facilitysense of Congress that the Air Force should: (1) hold a contractor employing or contracting for foreign workers who are legally present in the United States under an H2B visa. Requires the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development,full and Acquisitionopen competition to maintain a five-year forecast of potential labor surplus for each ofchoose the shipyards that construct ships underbest possible joint aerial refueling capability at the Navy's annual vessel construction plan. Authorizesmost reasonable price; and (2) be discouraged from limiting the Secretaryability of either of the Navy to waiveteams seeking the prohibition due to a shortagecontract for procurement of U.S. workers, upon certain certifications.KC-X tanker aircraft from competing for that contract.

(Sec. 127) Provides that, for any shipbuilding program that is a major defense acquisition program (MDAP), the start of construction of a first ship may not occur until144) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy certifiesAir Force to transfer to the defense and appropriations committees thatgovernment of Iraq not more than three C-130E tactical airlift aircraft which were allowed to be retired under the ship's design is completed and approved by the relevant design certification agents to a level acceptableJohn Warner National Defense Authorization Act for commencement of construction.Fiscal Year 2007 (Warner Act).

<b>Subtitle D: Air Force Programs </b>- (Sec. 131) Prohibits(Sec. 145) Amends the Warner Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of the Air Force from proceeding with a decision to retire C-5Amaintain a primary B-52 bomber aircraft in any number that would reduce their total below 111 untilinventory of not less than 63 and a backup inventory of not less than 11; and (2) increase from 45 to 60 days after such Secretary submits certain certificationsthe required prior notification to the defense and appropriations committees, including a cost analysiscommittees before Department of aircraft being retired.Defense (DOD) funds may be used for the retirement of any such aircraft.

(Sec. 132) Prohibits146) Expresses the obligation or expendituresense of certain funds forCongress that: (1) the Joint Cargo Aircraft until 30 days aftertimely modernization of the Secretary has submitted specified assessments and studies, andAir Force aerial refueling tanker fleet is a related certification,vital national security priority; and (2) to meet such priority, the defenseSecretary of the Air Force has initiated, and appropriations committees.Congress approves of, a comprehensive strategy for replacing such fleet.

(Sec. 134) Amends147) Expresses the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Warner Act) to repeal the requirementsense of Congress that DOD should: (1) rapidly field innovative logistic systems such as the Secretary of the Air Force maintain retired C-130E tactical airlift aircraft for possible recall.associated intermodal platform pallet system; and (2) seek to fully procure such systems in future budgets.

<b>Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for the Armed Forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&amp;E).RDT&amp;E. Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program.

<b>Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary of the ArmyEarmarks specified defense-wide RDT&amp;E funds for transfer to complete an operational test and evaluation of the Future Combat Systems (FCS) network in a realistic environment simulating operational conditions. Requires a test and evaluation report from the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (OTE)Advanced Sensor Applications program. Reassigns such program to the defense and appropriations committees. Provides certain FCS funding limitations until submission of such report (with an authorized waiver of such limitations by the Secretary of Defense for national security purposes).Threat Reduction Agency.

(Sec. 212) ProhibitsRequires the obligation or expenditureSecretary to: (1) undertake comparative tests and a comprehensive assessment of fundsforeign and domestic active protection systems for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program beyond design readiness review forconsideration of the acquisition program phaseadoption of such systems developmentin defense acquisition programs; and demonstration until after certification of such program is made and submitted (as required under current law) and a progress(2) report is received byto the defense and appropriations committees.committees on such assessment.

(Sec. 213) AuthorizesRequires the SecretarySecretary, with respect to obligate RDT&amp;E funds authorized after FY2007 for the Joint Strike Fighter program, to developensure the obligation and procure a competitiveexpenditure of sufficient funds for the development and procurement of two options for the propulsion system for such Fighter, thereby giving a choice of engines to the Joint Strike Fighter.growing number of nations expressing an interest in procuring such aircraft.

(Sec. 214) ProhibitsEarmarks specified Army RDT&amp;E funds from being used forto carry out a manufacturing scienceprogram for Gulf War illnesses research. Outlines program activities, and technology project until the Director of Defense Researchrequires competitive selection and Engineering makes certain project assurances.peer review to identify research activities having the most substantial scientific merit.

<b>Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense Programs </b>- (Sec. 221) Requires231) Prohibits the Directorobligation or expenditure of funds for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to report promptlyprocurement, construction, or deployment of a long-range missile defense system in Europe until specified conditions have been met, including that the Secretary: (1) has certified to Congress the Directorreliability of OTE on all operational testthe proposed interceptor to be deployed; and evaluation conducted with respect(2) select a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) to any MDAP.conduct an independent assessment of options for ballistic missile defense for forward deployed forces of the United States and its allies in Europe. Requires the FFRDC to report assessment results to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 222) States that232) Prohibits funds appropriated for FY2009 for RDT&amp;E for the MDA: (1) may be used for the development and fielding of ballistic missile defense (BMD) capabilities; and (2) may not be used for operations and support activities. Requires: (1) a separate budgeting account for operations and support for FY2009; (2) a plan from the MDA Directorbeing obligated or expended to the defense committees for transitioning the MDA from using RDT&amp;E funds for missile fielding activities to using procurement funds for such activities where practicable; and (3)deploy more than 40 ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska, until the Secretary certifies to contract with a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) to studyCongress that the long-term structure, roles, and missionsBlock 2006 ground-based midcourse defense element of the MDA. RequiresBallistic Missile Defense (BMD) system has demonstrated a study results report from the FFRDC to the defense committees.high probability of working in an effective manner.

(Sec. 223) Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended233) Requires the budget justification materials submitted to replaceCongress in support of the unitary warhead on the SM-3 Block IIA missile with the Multiple Kill Vehicle untilDOD budget for any fiscal year after 2008 to set forth separately requested amounts for the Secretary makes certain certifications to Congress.Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for: (1) RDT&amp;E; (2) procurement; (3) operation and maintenance; and (4) military construction. Outlines objectives for MDA acquisition activities. Specifies BMD system elements.

(Sec. 224) Amends234) Requires the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2002MDA Director to extend through FY2010 Comptroller General (CG) assessmentsreport promptly to the Director of BMD programs.Operational Test and Evaluation on the results of all tests, evaluations, and studies conducted by the MDA.

(Sec. 225) Directs235) Amends the SecretaryNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2002 to contract with an FFRDC to study the political, technical, operational, force structure, and budgetary implicationsextend through FY2013 Comptroller General (CG) assessments of deploying a long-range missile defense system in Europe. Requires a study results report from the FFRDC to the defense and appropriations committees and the Secretary.BMD programs.

(Sec. 226) Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) fully supporting DOD efforts<b>Subtitle D: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 251) Reduces from 30 to develop, test, and field an effective layered BMD system capable7 days after notification of intercepting ballistic missiles in various phases of flight; and (2) that it is in the U.S. national security interest to continue such development, testing,defense and fielding to hedge against uncertainty inappropriations committees the development, testing, and fieldingwait required before the obligation of ballistic missile capabilities by rogue nations.funds for the foreign comparative test program.

(Sec. 227) Increases (with a corresponding offset) defense-wide RDT&amp;E funds, to be available for a program element of252) Modifies the X Lab battlespace laboratory.cost-sharing requirement under the Technology Transition Initiative.

(Sec. 228)253) Directs the Secretary to expand the BMD system to better integrate with the defenses of Israel to provide robust, layered protection against ballistic missile attack. Requires a progress report from the Secretary to the appropriations, defense,develop, and foreign relations committees. Increases (withupdate on a corresponding offset) defense-wide RDT&amp;E funds, to be usedbiennial basis, a strategic plan for such defense integration purposes.the Manufacturing Technology program.

<b>Subtitle D: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 231) Directs(Sec. 254) Amends the SecretaryNDAA for Fiscal Year 1995 to coordinateauthorize (under current law, requires) all solicitations under the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research to be made to, and manage human systems integration activities throughoutawards made through, the acquisition programs of DOD.state committees established for such Program.

(Sec. 232) Authorizes255) Amends the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Stump Act) to: (1) revise program purposes under the defense laboratories andnanotechnology research centers,and development program; (2) replace the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Under Secretary) as the program's administrator; (3) include under program activities the development of a strategic plan for the National Nanotechnology Initiative; (4) require the Under Secretary to encourage technology transfer between DOD and other federal departments and agencies,report on the program to provide facilities, services,the defense and equipment to private industryappropriations committees, in order to promote accelerated developmenteach of critical technologies2009, 2011, and technology transfer initiatives that support DOD.2013; and (5) require a one-time report from the CG to such committees assessing DOD progress made in achieving program purposes.

(Sec. 233) Reduces by $10 million Army RDT&amp;E funds for256) Directs the Army Venture Capital Fund demonstration.CG to submit to the defense committees an assessment of the effectiveness of the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

(Sec. 234) Earmarks specified defense-wide RDT&amp;E funds to carry out257) Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a test and evaluationstudy on the feasibility of including specified additional elements in the development of combat helmet pad suspension systems. Requires a resultspilot program for a DOD soldier patient tracking system; and (2) report from the Secretarystudy results to the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 235) Requires a report from258) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on implementationa cost-benefit analysis of the technologies and processes developed underproposed funding reduction for the Manufacturing Technology Program.high energy laser systems test facility.

(Sec. 236) Requires the OTE Director to assess<b>Title III: Operation and report on the sufficiencyMaintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of such Director's testAppropriations </b>- (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for operation and evaluation staff.maintenance (O&amp;M) for the Armed Forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.

(Sec. 237) Amends<b>Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions </b>- (Sec. 311) Authorizes the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006Secretary to transfer specified funds to repeal the requirement for reports from the SecretaryMoses Lake Wellfield Superfund Site Special Account to reimburse the defenseEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) for costs incurred in overseeing a remedial investigation and appropriations committees on each technology area review and assessment.feasibility study performed by the Army.

(Sec. 238) Finds that: (1) modeling, analysis, and simulation technology has become essential to meeting the defense challenges of312) Authorizes the 21st century; (2) current and future military operations, as well as emergency management of natural and man-made disasters, do and will continueSecretary to involve operations in highly complex, urban environments; and (3) it is important for DODtransfer specified funds to study and understand the effects of warfare and disasters onHazardous Substance Superfund to reimburse the resiliency of urban environments, and to develop a computer modeling and simulation decision-making toolEPA for emergency consequence management of military operations and natural and man-made disasterscosts incurred in complex urban environments.connection with the Arctic Surplus Superfund Site, Fairbanks, Alaska.

<b>Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 301)(Sec. 313) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for operation and maintenance (O&amp;M) for the Armed Forces and specified activities and agenciesSecretary of DOD.the Navy to transfer specified funds to the Hazardous Substance Superfund to pay a stipulated penalty assessed by the EPA against the Jackson Park Housing Complex, Washington.

(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for: (1) working capital funds; (2)314) Directs the Secretary to report to the Defense Health program; (3) defense chemical agents and munitions destruction; (4) defense drug interdictionappropriations committees on current and counter-drug activities;planned future actions to control the brown tree snake (an invasive species currently on Guam) and (5)to ensure that it is not introduced into Hawaii, the Defense Inspector General.Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the continental United States as a result of the movement from Guam of military aircraft, personnel, and cargo, including household goods.

<b>Subtitle B: Environmental ProvisionsC: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 311) Authorizes321) Allows funds in the SecretaryDefense Information Systems Agency Working Capital Fund to transfer specified fundsbe used for expenses directly related to the Moses Lake Wellfield Superfund Site, Washington,technology upgrades to reimburse the Environmental ProtectionDefense Information Systems Network, with limitations. Requires an annual report on the use of such authority from the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (EPA) for costs incurred in overseeing a remedial investigationto the defense and feasibility study performed byappropriations committees. Terminates the Army.authority on October 1, 2011.

(Sec. 312) Authorizes322) Amends the SecretaryStump Act to transfer specified funds to the Hazardous Substance Superfund to reimburseextend through FY2012 the EPAtemporary authority for costs incurred in connection with the Arctic Surplus Superfund Site, Alaska.contractor performance of DOD security guard functions.

(Sec. 313) Authorizes323) Amends the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified fundsWarner Act to include, in a required report, the Hazardous Substance Superfund to pay an EPA penaltyreporting of additional incremental costs resulting from the deployment of forces in connection with remedial investigation activities atIraq and Afghanistan above the Jackson Park Housing Complex, Washington.levels deployed to such countries on January 1, 2007.

<b>Subtitle C: Workplace(Sec. 324) Requires the Directors of Operational Test and Evaluation and Defense Research and Depot Issues </b>- (Sec. 321) Increases from $100,000Engineering to $250,000 the threshold amountjointly: (1) conduct an assessment of various domestic technological approaches for DOD contractsbody armor systems for protection against ballistic threats at or above military requirements; and (2) report assessment results to the procurement of capital assets in advance ofSecretary and the availability of working capital funds for such procurement.defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 322) Authorizes<b>Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues </b>- (Sec. 341) Extends through FY2014 the authority for Army industrial facilities to engage in cooperative activities with non-Army entities to carry out specified military or commercial projects. Requires: (1) annual reports from the Secretary of the Army to Congress on the use of working capital funds for certain product improvements for weapon systems, major end items,such authority; and related components.(2) a one-time report from such Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the advisability of making such authority permanent and eliminating the limitation on the number of contracts that may be entered into under such authority.

(Sec. 323) Authorizes342) Amends the use of working capital fundsFloyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Spence Act) to extend through FY2010 the acquisition of weapon system modification, improvement, and life cycle extension, as long as the item hasarsenal support demonstration program (and a unit cost of no more than $500,000. Allows such limit to be increased to up to $1 million if the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) determines that the increase is necessary to maintain required core logistics capabilities, and notifies Congress of such increase and the reasons therefor.related report requirement).

(Sec. 324) Modifies provisions343) Requires: (1) information concerning required public-private competition prior to the conversionuse of DOD functionsNational Guard equipment to contractor performancerespond to exclude health care and retirement costsdomestic emergencies to be included in an annual report from the cost-comparison process used in conjunction with such competitions. Requires monthly consultation with affected DOD civilian employees by DOD officers or employees responsibleSecretary to Congress on National Guard and reserve personnel equipment; (2) an assessment of National Guard readiness to support the National Response Plan for determining whethersupport to convertcivil authorities to contractor performance any function performed by DOD employees.be included in quarterly National Guard personnel and unit readiness reports; and (3) a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the implementation of this section.

(Sec. 325) Allows DOD managers to determine whether to recompete (after five years) for344) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Air Force should work being performed by federal employees that was awardedclosely with Congress as the Air Force continues to such employees under a public-private competition.develop and implement the Global Logistics Support Center concept.

(Sec. 326) Directs<b>Subtitle E: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 351) Replaces provisions requiring the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to devise and implement guidelines to ensure that consideration is given to regularly usingdesignate a DOD civilian employees to perform new functionsofficer, employee, or standing board or committee as the official or organization responsible for the prevention and functions performed by contractors which could be performed by such employees. Requires special consideration to be given for certain functions, including: (1) one performed by civilianmitigation of corrosion of DOD employees on or after October 1, 1980;military equipment and (2) one associatedinfrastructure with the performance ofprovisions establishing an inherently governmental function. Excludes certain functions from the public-private competition process, including: (1) those associated with the performanceOffice of an inherently governmental function;Corrosion Policy and (2) those performedOversight (headed by a contractor under a contract that was awarded on a noncompetitive basis. Provides limitations on competitions for new and expanded functions. Prohibits competitions untilDirector) within the required guidelines are implemented. Requires: (1) DODOffice of the Under Secretary. Gives the Director additional authorities relating to establish an inventorythe oversight of corrosion-related training, the development of functions currently performed by contractors;directives, and (2)interaction with non-DOD corrosion prevention activities, organizations, and research institutions. Includes the use of cooperative corrosion research agreements within the DOD Inspector General to report tocorrosion reduction strategy. Requires annual reports from the defenseSecretary and appropriations committees on the implementationCG concerning the use of this section.DOD funds for corrosion prevention and mitigation activities.

(Sec. 327) Requires including in annual reporting requirements concerning public-private competitions: (1) for any function converted352) Directs the Secretary to require a federal agency to contractor performance, the effect of the conversion on the quality of performance of the function; and (2) for any function for which law enforcement support or support to a public-private competitionnational special security event is anticipated, an assessmentprovided by National Guard personnel to reimburse DOD for the costs of whether any method of business reform or reengineering other than a public-private competition could achieve any anticipated or budgeted savings.that support.

(Sec. 328) Prohibits353) Extends through 2013 the Directorauthority of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from directing or requiring the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to prepare for, undertake, continue, or complete a public-private competition or direct conversion of a DOD functionTransportation to performance by a contractor under OMB Circular A-76, or any other successor regulation, directive, or policy. Prohibits any such Secretary from undertaking such action. Requires the Secretary, during the 90-day period following the enactment of this Act, to suspend,provide insurance and determine whether to cancel or continue, any review or public-private competition being conducted. reinsurance for commercial air carriers supporting DOD transportation activities.

(Sec. 329) Provides354) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe regulations for the expedited review byaccounting for property of the CGNavy and Marine Corps and for the fixing of protests by interested parties (federal employees or their representatives)responsibility for such property. Prohibits members of public-private competitions conducted under OMB Circular A-76the Navy or otherwise. ProvidesMarine Corps from selling, lending, or giving any clothing, arms, or equipment obtained by or furnished to such member to any person other than a rightmember of interested partiesthe Navy or Marine Corps, other military officer, or other individual authorized to intervenereceive it. Allows for the seizure and retention of property disposed of in civil actions concerning a competition.violation of such requirements. Standardizes the language of current provisions relating to the unauthorized disposition of Army and Air Force clothing, arms, or equipment with the language of the Navy and Marine Corps requirements.

(Sec. 330) Amends355) Authorizes the Office of Federal Procurement Policy ActSecretary to make applicable to all federal civilian agencies the public-private competition requirements currently applicable to the DOD conversion to contractor performance of functions performed by tenrequire compliance with reasonable conditions before a member or more DOD employees. Includes under the competition requirements a formal examination and comparison of the cost of performance of the function by agency civilian employees with the cost of performance by oneemployee receives full replacement value for personal property lost or more contractors in order to demonstrate whether converting will result in savings to thedamaged while being transported at government over the life of the contract. Requires: (1) monthly consultation with affected civilian employees by those responsible for determining whether to convert function performance; and (2) congressional notification of such competitions. Makes such requirements inapplicable with respect to the purchase of products and services of the blind and other severely handicapped persons.expense.

(Sec. 331) Amends356) Permits the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to allow (under current law, requires) the SecretariesSecretary of the Navy and Air Forcemilitary department concerned (Secretary concerned) to conduct demonstration projectsauthorize members to evaluate the benefitsretain combat uniforms and individual equipment issued in connection with their deployment in support of promoting workers who perform multiple trades. Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on projects conducted.contingency operations.

<b>Subtitle D: Extension of Program Authorities </b>- (Sec. 341)(Sec. 357) Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense AuthorizationWarner Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Spence Act) to extend through FY2010and expand the Arsenal Support Initiative program.elements required in a report from the General Accountability Office (GAO) relating to readiness of Army and Marine Corps ground forces.

(Sec. 342) Amends the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Reagan Act) to:358) Authorizes DOD to provide assistance for: (1) allow members ofa sporting event sanctioned by the Armed Forces deployed in contingency operations untilU.S. Olympic Committee through the end of FY2007 to purchase protective helmet pads; andParalympic Military Program; or (2) give such members upcertain national or international paralympic sporting events. Limits to one year following$1 million the total amount of such purchase to submit a cost reimbursement claim to DOD.assistance per fiscal year.

<b>Subtitle E: Reports </b>- (Sec. 351)(Sec. 359) Requires a report from the inclusion in quarterly personnel and unit readiness reports of assessments of National Guard readiness to perform National Response civil support missions. Directs the Secretary to include in the budget justification documents submittedDOD Inspector General to Congress for FY2009 a report on implementationthe physical security of such additional requirement.DOD installations and resources.

(Sec. 352) Requires360) Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on methods for improving the readinesschallenges of active and reserve componentsimplementing the transfer of U.S. ground forces. Directsdepot functions and the impacts on production, including parts reclamation and refurbishment. Requires the CG to review each such report and report review resultsprovide to such committees.committees an independent assessment of the matters addressed therein.

(Sec. 353)361) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to developreport to specified congressional committees on Air Force search and implement a plan to optimizerescue capabilities in the use of strategic ports by the Surface Distribution and Deployment Command.northwestern United States.

(Sec. 354) Directs362) Requires a report from the Secretary to provide for an independent assessment of the viability ofArmy to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, to be conducted by a FFRDC selected bydefense and appropriations committees on the Secretary.High-Altitude Aviation Training Site at Gypsum, Colorado.

(Sec. 355) Requires363) Expresses that it is the Secretarysense of Congress to report annuallyencourage DOD to continue and accelerate, as appropriate, the defensetesting and appropriations committees on the statuscertification of the materielsynthetic fuels for use in the prepositioned stocks as of the end of the prior fiscal year. Directs the CG to review each such reportall military air, ground, and report review results to such committees.sea systems.

(Sec. 356) Prohibits364) Requires: (1) three reports from the Secretary from commencing or continuing the relocation of the North American Aerospace Defense command center and related functions from Cheyenne Mountain to Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, until 180 days after submitting to Congress: (1) an analysis comparing relocation coststhe defense and appropriations committees on efforts made to anticipated operational benefits;provide the highest level of safety by all of the military departments using the Warren Grove (New Jersey) Gunnery Range; and (2) the final plans fora study on encroachment issues at such relocation. Directs the CG to review such report and report review results to Congress.Range.

(Sec. 357) Requires the Secretary365) Requires, with respect to reportpublic-private competition requirements prior to the defense committees regarding public-private partnerships at Centersconversion to contractor performance of Industrial and Technical Excellence.certain functions currently performed by DOD civilian employees, a comparison of retirement system costs relating to employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Requires consultation with affected DOD employees by DOD officers making such conversion determinations.

<b>Subtitle F: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 361)(Sec. 366) Includes within DOD authorityas an &quot;interested party&quot; for purposes of submitting bid protests with respect to support certain sporting events a sporting event sanctioned bypublic-private competitions conducted under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76: (1) any official who submitted the U.S. Olympic Committee through the Paralympic Military Programagency tender in such competition; and certain other national(2) any individual representing the federal employees engaged in the performance of the activity or international paralympic sporting events. Limits to $1 millionfunction for which the fiscal year fundingpublic-private competition is conducted in a protest that relates to such competition. Provides for expedited action in such events.protests, and authorizes an interested party to intervene in any related civil action.

(Sec. 362) Allows DOD367) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require compliance with reasonable conditions for militaryprohibit any function of an executive agency performed by ten or more agency civilian DOD employees from being converted to receive full replacement value coverage for lostperformance by a contractor unless the conversion is based on the results of a public-private competition that, among other things: (1) formally compares the cost of performance by agency employees with the cost of performance by a contractor; and (2) would require continued performance by agency personnel unless the cost difference the lesser of 10% of the personnel-related costs of performance or damaged personal property.$10 million. Requires each employee determining whether such performance should be converted to consult with affected agency civilian employees at least monthly during such determination. Requires the head of an executive agency, before commencing a required public-private competition, to notify Congress. Exempts from the public-private competition requirements procurements of products and services of the blind and other severely handicapped persons.

(Sec. 363)368) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to provide transportation on DOD aircraft,prescribe specified guidelines and procedures for ensuring that consideration is given to using federal employees on a space-available basis,regular basis for a members or former member who: (1)new work and work that is entitled to retired or retainer pay;performed under DOD contracts and could be performed by federal employees. Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) implement such guidelines and procedures within 60 days after the enactment of this Act; and (2) resides inestablish an inventory of DOD contracts to determine which contracts could meet the guidelines. Limits requiring public-private competitions prior to the commencement by civilian DOD employees of a commonwealthnew DOD function, or possessionthe expansion of the United States; and (3) is referredscope of any DOD function performed by a primary care physiciancivilian DOD employees. Directs the Secretary to a specialty care providerensure that federal employees are fairly considered for servicesthe performance of new DOD requirements, with special consideration to be provided outsidenew requirements that commonwealthinclude functions that are: (1) similar to functions performed by federal employees at any time on or possession. Requiresafter October 1, 1980; or (2) associated with the Secretary to provide such transportation for one dependentperformance of each member, ifinherently governmental functions. Requires a report from the dependent is neededDOD Inspector General to accompany the member.defense committees on the Secretary's compliance with requirements of this section.

(Sec. 364) Authorizes369) Prohibits the OMB from directing or requiring the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations for the accounting of propertyundertake, continue, or complete a public-private competition or direct conversion of that department and the fixing of responsibility for that property. Prohibits any member from sellinga DOD function to performance by a contractor under OMB Circular A-76 or giving any clothing, arms,successor regulation, directive, or equipment furnished bypolicy. Prohibits the United States to any person other than another member under the same jurisdiction,Secretary or to an officer authorized to receive it. Authorizes the seizureSecretary concerned from taking such action by reason of property improperly soldany directive or given away.requirement provided by OMB.

(Sec. 365) Allows the Secretary of the Army370) Prohibits a military department or defense agency from being required to authorizeconduct such a memberpublic-private competition at the end of the Army who has been deployedperiod specified in support of a contingency operationthe performance agreement for at least 30 days to retain, after such deployment, the exterior articles of uniform that were issued as part of the Army combat uniform.any DOD function performed by DOD civilian employees.

(Sec. 366) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to issue arms, tentage, and equipment appropriate<b>Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces </b>- (Sec. 401) Sets forth authorized end strengths for military training to any educational institution at which no unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is maintained, but which has a course in military training attended by at least 50 physically fit students over 14 years of age. Authorizes such Secretary to issue: (1) rifles and appendages that are not existing service models to any educational institution having a uniformed corps of midshipmen of sufficient numbers for target practice; and (2) to any educational institution at which a naval officer is detailedactive-duty forces as a professor of naval sciences, necessary supplies to establish and maintain a camp for the military instructionend of students.FY2008.

(Sec. 367) Directs<b>Subtitle B: Reserve Forces </b>- (Sec. 411) Sets forth authorized end strengths as of the Secretary to ensure that no action is taken to deactivate the 36th Rescue Flight assigned to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, or to reassign or reorganize anyend of FY2008 for members of the searchSelected Reserve and rescue capabilitiesreserve personnel on active duty in support of that unit.the reserves.

(Sec. 368) Limits the expenditure of funds appropriated413) Sets forth minimum end strengths for initial flight screening at Pueblo Memorial Airport, Colorado, until the Secretary of the Air Force has submitted a certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to meeting Air Force crash, fire,FY2008 for Army and rescue requirements to support Air Force flight operations there.dual status military technicians.

<b>Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces </b>- (Sec. 401) Sets forth authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of(Sec. 414) Provides a FY2008 limitation on the endnumber of FY2008.non-dual status Army and Air Force military technicians.

(Sec. 402) Revises415) Sets, during FY2008, the permanent active-duty end strength minimum levelsmaximum number of reserve personnel authorized to be on active duty for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.operational support.

(Sec. 403) Authorizes416) Increases from 2% to 3% the Secretary, for FY2009 and FY2010, to establish specified higher levels for Army and Marine Corps active-dutyauthorized fiscal year variance in end strengths in order to support operational missions and achieve transformational reorganization objectives.for Selected Reserve personnel.

(Sec. 404) Increases the authorized end strengths for: (1) Army officers on active duty in the grade<b>Subtitle C: Authorization of major; and (2) Navy officers on active duty in the grades of lieutenant commander, commander, and captain.Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for military personnel.

<b>Subtitle B: Reserve Forces<b>Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy </b>- (Sec. 411) Sets forth501) Increases, in order to meet increased force structure requirements, the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY2008strength limits for members ofactive-duty Army officers in the Selected Reservegrade of major and reserve personnel on active dutyactive-duty Navy officers in support of the reserves.grades of lieutenant commander, commander, and captain.

(Sec. 413) Sets forth minimum503) Increases from 50 to 85 the number of permanent military professors that may be excluded from active-duty, commissioned officer end strengthsstrength limits for FY2008 for Armyofficers below general and Air Force dual status military technicians.flag grades.

(Sec. 414) Provides a FY2008 limitation on505) Authorizes the numberSecretary to waive the eight-year minimum service obligation in the case of initial appointments of commissioned officers in critically short health professional specialties. Makes such minimum service period two years or the period of obligated service associated with receipt of non-dual status Army and Air Force military technicians.an accession bonus or special pay.

(Sec. 415) Provides, during FY2008,506) Increases from 22 to 28 the maximumauthorized number of reserve personnel authorized to be on active duty for operational support.permanent professors at the U.S. Military Academy.

(Sec. 416) Directs the Secretary to conduct,507) Allows regular Army and report to Congress on, a review of the long-term operational support missions performed byAir Force officers (under current law, allows only reserve personnel authorizedofficers) to be on active duty or full-time National Guard duty to provide such support. Requires information on such support personnel to be includedreenlist (under certain conditions) in the annual budget justification documents submitted to Congress for FY2009 and thereafter.their former enlisted grade.

(Sec. 417) Increases508) Excludes from 2% to 3% the authorized variance for Selected Reserveactive-duty general and flag officer end strengths.strength limitations certain reserve general and flag officers serving on active duty for not more than 365 days.

<b>Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 421)(Sec. 509) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for: (1)the promotion of Navy career military personnel; and (2)professors to the Armed Forces Retirement Home.grade of captain or colonel.

(Sec. 423) Directs<b>Subtitle B: Enlisted Personnel Policy </b>- (Sec. 521) Authorizes an increase in the Secretary to transfer $150 millionmaximum authorized daily average of active-duty enlisted members in pay grade E-9 from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund1% to the Miscellaneous Receipts fund1.25% of the Treasury to offset anticipated costs due to a temporary prohibition on the increase in copayments under the DOD's pharmacy benefits program, as required under this Act.enlisted force.

<b>Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy<b>Subtitle C: Reserve Component Management </b>- (Sec. 501) Allows officers serving531) Redesignates the Reserve Forces Policy Board as a lieutenant general, general, vice admiral, or admiralthe Reserve Policy Advisory Board. Restructures Board membership and experiential requirements. Requires the Board to provide the Secretary independent advice and recommendations on strategies, policies, and practices to improve the capability, efficiency, and effectiveness of the reserve components. Directs the Secretary to continuereport to hold such position for upthe defense committees concerning the appropriate roles and missions and membership of, and procedures to 60 days following reassignment from such position, unless placed sooner in another designated position. be followed by, the Board.

(Sec. 502) Increases from five to six years532) Requires the probationary periodSecretary (under current law, the Secretaries of commissioned service for active dutythe Army and reserve officers priorAir Force) to dischargeprescribe a charter for failure of promotion.the National Guard Bureau.

(Sec. 503) Allows permanent or career military professors533) Elevates from lieutenant general to begeneral the grade of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. Requires that an officer appointed to such position be recommended by his or her governor and by the higher gradeSecretary of captainthe Army or colonel after completing sixAir Force, have at least ten years of federally recognized active-status commissioned service in the National Guard, be in the grade of major general or above, have significant joint duty experience, and have a detailed understanding of the status and capabilities of National Guard forces and National Guard Bureau missions. Repeals the 64-year age limit for service in such position. Makes the Chief an advisor to the Secretary on matters involving the National Guard not employed in a federal status. Authorizes the President to defer until age 68 the retirement of an officer serving as Chief.

<b>Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters </b>- (Sec. 511)(Sec. 534) Requires the transfer of reserve officers serving as a lieutenant general or vice admiral to be separatedthe Retired Reserve, or discharge from active statusthe officer's reserve appointment, within 30 days after completingcompletion of 38 years of commissioned service.service, or five years after appointment as a lieutenant general or vice admiral, whichever is later.

(Sec. 512) Provides that if535) Increases from 6 to 12 months the Secretary determines that the numberperiod of officers serving in specified health positions within DOD while serving on active status in grades below major or lieutenant commander is critically below the number needed, then the Secretary may authorize the Secretary concerned to credit suchtemporary recognition as an officer with a period of constructive servicethe Army or Air National Guard that will result incan be granted during the officer being appointedperiod that the individual's appointment as a reserve Army or Air officer in the grade of captain or lieutenant.is pending.

(Sec. 513) Extends from six months536) Provides an additional 24-month period before retraining of nurse aides is required under the Medicare and Medicaid training and competency evaluation programs in the case of members of the National Guard and reserves ordered to one yearactive duty for a period of at least 12 months who complete such duty during the period thatbeginning on July 1, 2007, and ending on September 30, 2008. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on recommendations to provide for the exemption or tolling of professional or other licensure or certification requirements for the practice of a profession, trade, or occupation for members of the National Guard members may be granted temporary federal recognition.or reserves who are on active duty for an extended period of time.

(Sec. 514) Allows a military technician who loses dual (military<b>Subtitle D: Education and civilian) status asTraining </b>- (Sec. 551) Requires medical students at the resultUniformed Services University of a combat-related disability to be retained as a non-dual status technician as long as: (1) the disability does not prevent the person from performing the non-dual status function or position;Health Sciences and (2) the person is not disqualified from performing the non-dual status functionparticipants in military health professions scholarship and financial assistance programs who have prior commissioned service to serve, while on active duty, in pay grade O-1, or position because of performance, medical, or other reasons. Requires removal from such position no later than 30 days after becoming eligible for an unreduced annuity and attaining 60 years of age.in pay grade O-2 if they meet specified promotion criteria.

Authorizes(Sec. 552) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or Air Force to fill a military technician (dual status) position that is vacant due to support, with DOD funds, the mobilization in support of a contingencyestablishment and operation of the original technician with a person who is notup to four (under current law, two) STARBASE academies in a dual status technician.state.

Authorizes the deferment of mandatory separation of(Sec. 553) Repeals a dual status technician until that person becomes eligible for an unreduced annuity, but not beyond age 62.provision prohibiting any increase in cadet end strength limits at the U.S. Military Academy after the 2007-2008 academic year.

(Sec. 515) Directs the: (1) Secretary554) Allows three named high schools in Suffolk County, New York, to establishbe treated as a working group to identify and assess the reintegration needssingle institution for purposes of reserve personnel who return from overseas operational deployment; and (2) working group to report to the Secretary and Congress on its activities.maintaining a Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) unit.

(Sec. 516) Directs555) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a national combat veteran reintegration program (to be known ascommander of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program)Air University to provide National Guard members and their families with information, services, referral, and outreach opportunities throughout the entire deployment cycle. Requires the program to consist of informational events and activities for such members, their families, and community members throughconfer the following phasesadditional degrees: (1) doctor of the deployment cycle: (1) pre-deployment;philosophy in strategic studies; (2) deployment; (3) demobilization;master of air, space, and cyberspace studies; and (4) post-deployment-reconstitution. Requires the: (1) National Guard Bureau to establish the Office for Reintegration Programs to administer state National Guard reintegration programs; (2) Bureau Chief to establish a Center for Excellence in Reintegration; (3) Bureau Chief to appoint an advisory board to analyze and report areasmaster of success and areas for necessary improvements; and (4) advisory board to submit an initial and annual report to the defense committees. Describes each deployment phase and authorized activities during such phase. Provides Program funding (with an equivalent offset).flight test engineering science.

(Sec. 517) Directs556) Authorizes the Secretary to ensure thatcarry out each of the following nurse programs: (1) a reserve memberprogram in which covered commissioned officers with a graduate degree in nursing who will be called or ordered to activeare in the nurse corps of an armed force serve a tour of duty forof two years as a periodfull-time faculty member of more than 30 days in supportan accredited school of nursing; (2) a contingency operation is givenprogram in which covered commissioned officers with such credentials serve while on active duty a minimumtour of 30 days' advance notice, withtwo years as a goalfull-time faculty member of providing 90 days' advance notice. Authorizesan accredited school of nursing in return for nurse officer scholarship benefits; (3) a program in which the Secretary provides scholarships to commissioned officers who have served not less than 20 years of active duty and are eligible for retirement in order to participate in an educational program leading to waive such requirement, or provide a shorter notice, duringgraduate degree in nursing; and (4) a warprogram in which the Secretary provides career placement, continuing education, or national emergencystipend assistance to retiring commissioned officers of the nurse corps who possess a doctoral or master degree in nursing which qualify such officer to meet mission requirements.discharge the position of nursing instructor at an accredited school of nursing. Provides benefits and agreement requirements under each program. Requires each program to continue for at least two years, after which the Secretary shall assess program results to determine whether to continue the program.

<b>Subtitle C: Education and Training </b>- (Sec. 521) Authorizes(Sec. 557) Repeals the 416-person annual limit on the Secretarynumber of Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarships authorized under the Army to modify requirements entered into by cadets in the ROTC who participate in the Guaranteed Reserve Forces Duty Scholarship program to allow the member to meet previously-required reserve service commitments by fulfilling active-duty service commitments as a physician upon graduation from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. and Army National Guard financial assistance program.

(Sec. 522) Increases from 416 to 424<b>Subtitle E: Defense Dependents' Education Matters </b>- (Sec. 561) Earmarks specified FY2008 DOD O&amp;M funds for the annual limitcontinuation of ROTC scholarships under the Army Reserve and Army National Guard.DOD assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) that have significant numbers of military dependent students or experience significant enrollment changes due to base closures, force structure changes, or force relocations.

(Sec. 523) Revises562) Earmarks specified DOD authority to pay tuition expensesO&amp;M funds for off-duty training or education to authorize the Secretaries concerned to pay tuition assistance to certain members who serve in critical occupational specialties and agree to a specified periodimpact aid for children with severe disabilities under provisions of additional service in the Ready Reserve. Directs the Secretary to carry out,Elementary and report to the defense committees on, a studySecondary Education Act of the tuition assistance program.1965.

(Sec. 524) Authorizes563) Amends the National Defense UniversityWarner Act to award a masterinclude dependents of arts degreenon-DOD employees employed on federal property in Strategic Security Studies to graduates fulfilling requirements at the School for National Security Executive Education.plan and annual reports required to identify and assist Leas experiencing growth in enrollment due to force structure changes, relocation of military units, or base closures and realignments.

(Sec. 525) Recodifies under federal veterans' benefits provisions current armed forces provisions concerning educational assistance programs for: (1) members of564) Amends the Selected Reserve; and (2) reserve personnel supporting contingency operations and certain other operations. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement to transfer funds from the DepartmentDependents' Education Act of Defense Education Benefits Fund1978 to authorize the Readjustment Benefits Account of the Department of Veterans AffairsSecretary to pay private boarding school tuition for benefits undermilitary dependents in overseas areas not served by the transferred programs.defense dependents' school system.

(Sec. 526) Requires565) Directs the Secretary of Education, for FY2008 and thereafter, to: (1) carry outdeem each LEA that was eligible to receive an evaluation of the degree-granting authorities of certainFY2007 basic support payment for heavily impacted (by military universities anddependent students) LEAs as eligible to receive educational institutions;assistance payments due to such status; and (2) report evaluation results to the defense committees.make such payment.

(Sec. 527) Allows three named high schools in Suffolk County, New York,566) Help for Military Children Affected by War Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary to be treated as a single institutionprovide assistance to eligible LEAs for purposesadditional education, counseling, and other needs of maintainingmilitary dependent children who are affected by war-related action. Makes eligible for such assistance LEAs which: (1) have a Navy Junior ROTC unit.number of military dependent children in schools served by the LEA which either exceeds 20% of the attendance of all students in schools served by that LEA, or is 1,000 or more; and (2) are designated by the Secretary as impacted by Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, or the DOD global rebasing plan. Includes under authorized assistance tutoring, dropout prevention, professional development of school staff, and counseling and other comprehensive support services.

(Sec. 528)<b>Subtitle F: Military Justice and Legal Assistance Matters </b>- (Sec. 571) Authorizes judges of the SecretaryU.S. Court of Appeals for the NavyArmed Forces to establish and maintain a Senior ROTC program at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.administer oaths.

(Sec. 529) Directs572) Allows the Secretary concerned to ensure that Army National Guard and Reserve ROTC scholarships providedprovide legal assistance to civilian DOD employees in this title are available to students attending historically black colleges and universities that are part B institutions as defined under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as well as minority and Hispanic-serving institutions.locations where legal assistance from non-military providers is not reasonably available.

(Sec. 530) Expresses573) Requires judge advocate generals to serve in the sensegrade of Congress that the time limitations on the use of educational assistance by members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnellieutenant general or vice admiral. Excludes such judges from end strength limits for officers serving in support of contingency operations should be extended to allow an affected individual to use such assistance during the ten-year period following separation from the Ready Reservegrades above major general or Selected Reserve.rear admiral. Redesignates assistant judge advocate generals as deputy judge advocate generals.

<b>Subtitle D: General Service Authorities </b>- (Sec. 531) Authorizes the SecretaryEstablishes a Legal Counsel to waive the mandatory periodChairman of initial obligated service in the caseJoint Chiefs of appointment of a commissioned officer in a critically short health professional specialty, but prohibits such service period from being less than two years.Staff (JCS).

(Sec. 532) Authorizes officers in<b>Subtitle G: Military Family Readiness </b>- (Sec. 581) Establishes the regular ArmyDepartment of Defense Military Family Readiness Council to provide certain advisory, monitoring, and Air Forceassessment services with respect to reenlist in their former enlisted grade when separation as an officer is under honorable conditionsDOD military family readiness programs and activities. Requires annual reports from the officer is otherwise qualified forCouncil to the reenlistment.Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees.

<b>Subtitle E: Military Justice and Legal Assistance Matters </b>- (Sec. 541) Authorizes(Sec. 582) Directs the provision ofSecretary to: (1) develop policy and plans for DOD legal assistance to federal civilian employees serving or preparing to serve with an armed force infor the support of a contingency operation.military family readiness; and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on the policy developed.

<b>Subtitle F: Decorations and Awards </b>- (Sec. 551) Authorizes and requests(Sec. 583) Requires the President to award the Medal of HonorSecretary to: (1) Leslie H. Sabo, Jr.,enhance and improve current DOD programs to provide support for actsfamilies of valor during the Vietnam War; (2) Henry Svehla for actsdeployed members of valor during the Korean War; (3) Woodrow W. Keeble for actsArmed Forces (including deployed members of valor during the Korean War; (4) Private Philip G. Shadrach for acts of valor duringNational Guard and Reserve) in order to improve the Civil War;assistance available to such families before, during, and (5) Private George D. Wilsonafter the member's deployment cycle; and (2) provide post-deployment assistance for actsspouses and parents of valor during the Civil War.returning members.

(Sec. 556)584) Directs the Secretary concerned to issue a Cold War Victory Medal to any person who served honorably on active dutyprovide specified information, programs and activities, training, and other support services for a minimumthe parents, children, infants, and toddlers of 180 days duringmembers undergoing deployments. Requires periodic reports from the period beginningSecretary to Congress on September 2, 1945, and ending on December 26, 1991.the services provided.

(Sec. 557)585) Directs the Secretary concerned to issue a Combat Medevac Badgestudy and report to each person who served in combatCongress on or after June 25, 1950, as a pilot or crew memberthe feasibility and advisability of contracting with a helicopter medical evacuation ambulance.private sector entity to enhance and develop support services for children of members of active and reserve components who are deployed.

<b>Subtitle G: Impact Aid and Defense Dependents Education System </b>- (Sec. 561) Amends(Sec. 586) Requires the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978Secretary to authorizestudy and report to Congress on the paymentfeasibility and advisability of tuition assistanceestablishing a pilot program on family-to-family support for military dependents attending private boarding schools in areas where schools operated byfamilies of deployed members of the Defense Dependents' Education System are not reasonably available.active and reserve components.

(Sec. 562) Earmarks specified DOD O&amp;M funds for587) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing assistance and support to local educational agencies experiencing: (1) significant numbersthe Adjutant General of military dependent students;a U.S. state or territory to create comprehensive soldier and family preparedness and reintegration outreach programs for members and their families. Designates the pilot program as the National Military Family Readiness and Servicemember Reintegration Outreach Program. Authorizes the following types of assistance: (1) marriage counseling; (2) significant enrollment changes due to base closures, force structure changes,services for children; (3) suicide prevention; (4) substance abuse awareness and treatment; (5) mental health awareness and treatment; (6) financial counseling; (7) anger management counseling; (8) domestic violence awareness and prevention; (9) employment assistance; and (10) assistance in living with a member with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or force relocations.traumatic brain injury.

<b>Subtitle H: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 571) Extends through 2010 DOD authority591) Increases from 60 to accept gifts, devises, or bequests90, for all military personnel, the number of days of accumulated leave they may carry over from one fiscal year to benefit membersthe next. Allows personnel serving in support of contingency operations an additional fiscal year after the current fiscal year to retain (without losing) any accumulated leave in excess of 90 days. Allows enlisted personnel who have accumulated more than 120 days of leave to sell back, on a one-time basis, up to 30 days of any leave in excess of the Armed Forces, their dependents, and civilian DOD employees.120-day limit.

(Sec. 572) Revises federal provisions concerning performance policies for military bands and other military592) Prohibits DOD bands, choruses, or similar musical units to allow bandfrom: (1) engaging in the performance of music in competition with local civilian musicians; or (2) receiving remuneration for official performances. Authorizes members of such a unit to perform music in their personal capacity, with or without compensation, while acting exclusively outside their official positions. Prohibits such members from wearingcapacity if the member does not wear a military uniform while engaging in such private performances. Allows military bands or otherwise identify their self as a member of DOD. Allows such units to produce and distribute musical recordings for distribution to the publicpublic, at a cost not to exceed production and distribution expenses.

(Sec. 573) Repeals593) Authorizes the two-per-state limit onPresident to award the numberMedal of DOD Starbase academies.Honor to: (1) Woodrow W. Keeble, for acts of valor during the Korean War; (2) Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., for acts of valor in Vietnam; (3) Philip G. Shadrach, for acts of valor during the Civil War; (4) Henry Svehla, for acts of valor during the Korean War; and (5) George D. Wilson, for acts of valor during the Civil War.

(Sec. 574) Directs594) Authorizes the Secretarypayment of rest and recuperative leave for up to institute20 days for members with a program to give veterans who have served in combatspecialty designated by the opportunity to meet, inform, exchange ideas, and mentor current membersSecretary concerned whose qualifying tour of the Armed Forces.duty is longer than 12 months.

(Sec. 575) Recognizes595) Authorizes the members ofSecretary to conduct one or more demonstration projects to evaluate improved approaches to the Monuments, Fine Arts,provision of education and Archives program undertreatment services to military dependent children with autism. Requires the Civil Affairs and Military Government SectionsSecretary, as part of any such project, to conduct a review of best autism-related education and treatment practices in the United States Armed Forces for their service inStates. Outlines program elements and services. Requires any demonstration program conducted to be commenced within 180 days after the preservation, protection,enactment of this Act, and restorationto have a minimum period of monuments, works of art,two years. Directs the Secretary to evaluate and other artifacts in Europe and Asia during and following World War II.report to the defense committees on any program conducted.

(Sec. 576) Directs596) Requires the Secretary to conductmodify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (a DOD document) in order to permit a programmember to commemorateelect the 50th anniversaryforwarding of such Certificate to: (1) the Vietnam War. Requires the program to commence within 180 days after the enactmentCentral Office of this Act and continue through December 31, 2025. Establishes the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration Fund. DirectsVeterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, D.C.; or (2) the Secretary, after the endappropriate VA office of the commemorative period, to submit to Congress a final report onstate in which the accounting of all program funds. Authorizes appropriations.member will reside.

(Sec. 577) Amends597) Prohibits, beginning 30 days after the Servicemembers Civil Reliefenactment of this Act to provide forand continuing until the protectionSecretary submits a report required under this section, a member of child custody arrangements for parentsthe active or reserve forces who are members deployedhas served on active duty in supportIraq or Afghanistan since October 2001 from being administratively separated from the Armed Forces on the basis of a contingency operation. States that ifpersonality disorder unless a motion for changeclinical review of custody of a child of such a member is filed while the membercase is so deployed, no court may enterconducted by an order modifying or amending a previous child custody judgment, except if there is clear and convincing evidence that it is inappropriately credentialed senior officer of the best interestSurgeon General of the child. Prohibits any court from considering a member's absence dueArmed Forces to deployment in support ofdetermine, among other things, whether the diagnosis is correct and fully documented. Requires a contingency operation in determiningreport from the: (1) Secretary to the best interestdefense committees on all cases of separations under such basis; and (2) CG to Congress on policies and procedures of DOD and the child. military departments relating to the separation of military personnel based on a personality disorder.

(Sec. 578) Provides that,<b>Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances </b>- (Sec. 601) Waives any FY2008 pay increases tied to increases in the caseGeneral Schedule of a member with minor dependents who has a spouse who is also a member and that spouse is deployed in an areaCompensation for which imminent danger pay is authorized,government employees. Increases by 3.5%, effective January 1, 2008, the member may request a deployment deferment from such an area until the spouse returns from such deployment.rates of basic pay for military personnel.

(Sec. 579) Requires602) Authorizes a member of the SecretaryIndividual Ready Reserve to revisebe paid a specified DOD directivestipend for participation in electronic screening for force readiness purposes. Limits to include membership in a criminal street gang within$50 the list of prohibited activities bymaximum stipend amount. Prohibits members of the Armed Forces.from receiving retirement credit for such participation.

(Sec. 580) Directs the Secretary603) Authorizes DOD to study and reportmake bimonthly payments to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of: (1) establishing a pilot programThrift Savings Plan (TSP) on family-to-family support for familiesbehalf of members of the National Guard and reserves undergoing deployment; and (2) entering into an agreement with a private entity to enhance and develop support services for children of deployed members of the National Guard and reserves.participating members.

(Sec. 582) Prohibits604) Authorizes the unauthorized useSecretary concerned to reimburse inactive duty training travel costs of the names or images of current members of the Armed Forces or any person who was a member of the Armed Forces after April 5, 1917, and, if not living, hasSelected Reserve who is: (1) qualified in a surviving spouse, child, parent, grandparent,skill designated as critical; (2) assigned to a unit or sibling, in connectiona reserve pay grade with any merchandise, solicitation,a critical manpower shortage; or commercial activity designed(3) assigned to connecta unit or position that is disestablished or relocated due to defense base closure or realignment or other force structure reallocation. Sets at $300 the individual with their military service.maximum amount of such reimbursement, and terminates the reimbursement authority after December 31, 2010.

<b>Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances </b>- (Sec. 601) Waives any FY2008 pay increases tied(Sec. 605) Extends: (1) from 20 to increases in60 days the General Schedule of Compensationauthorized period for government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2008, by 3.5% the ratespayment of temporary lodging expenses for members in areas subject to declaration as a major disaster or for installations experiencing sudden increases in personnel levels due to force reallocations; and (2) through 2009 the authority for an increase in certain basic payallowance for military personnel.housing inside the United States.

(Sec. 602) Allows reserve members without dependents<b>Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays </b>- (Sec. 611) Extends through 2008 specified authorities currently scheduled to receive basic allowance for housing when attending accession training while maintaining a primary residence.expire at the end of 2007 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve Armed Forces.

(Sec. 603) Describes when income replacement payments are required for reserve personnel experiencing extended615) Increases from $50,000 to $75,000 the incentive special pay and frequent mobilizationmultiyear retention bonus for active-duty service. Makes eligible for such payments members who are retained on active duty for authorized medical care, or for medical evaluation for a disability.officers in the Armed Forces.

(Sec. 604) Requires mid-month federal contributions on behalf of616) Increases from: (1) $4,000 to $10,000 the maximum special pay for military personnel who electdental officers with less than three years of retirement-creditable service; and (2) $6,000 to participate in$12,000 the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).maximum special pay for such officers with more than three but less than ten years of service.

(Sec. 605) Amends617) Increases from $750 to $1,500 the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to authorizemaximum monthly amount of hardship duty pay. Allows such payment of an Army referral bonus toin a member or employee who refers an officer candidatelump sum (under current law , the bonus is paidlaw, only for enlistments) who is later appointed inon a designated health profession.monthly basis).

(Sec. 606) Requires that618) Makes eligible for career sea pay raises for members of all military components during FY2009-FY2012 shall be one-halfoff-cycle crewmembers of one percent higher than the percentage increase in the Employment Cost Index.multi-crewed ships.

<b>Subtitle B: Bonuses(Sec. 619) Eliminates the: (1) six-year Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus option; and Special and Incentive Pays </b>- (Sec. 611) Extends through 2009 specified authorities currently scheduled(2) tiered bonus amounts (instead having one bonus not to expire at the end of 2007 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve Armed Forces.exceed $15,000).

(Sec. 615) Increases620) Extends from $50,00026 to $75,00030 years of commissioned service the incentive special pay and multiyear retention bonusperiod of eligibility for military medical officers.nuclear officer continuation pay.

(Sec. 616) Increases621) Authorizes the special pay for military dental officers: (1) with less than three yearsSecretary, or the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service from $4,000in the Navy, to $10,000; and (2) with more than three but less than ten years ofwaive the 25-year service from $6,000limitation on the eligibility to $12,000.receive the retention bonus for certain members with designated critical military skills.

(Sec. 617) Makes eligible622) Codifies provisions of the NDAA for career sea pay members assigned toFiscal Year 2006 which authorized a crewbonus to encourage Army personnel to refer other individuals for a multi-crewed class of vessels.enlistment in the Army. Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum bonus amount, and extends the bonus authority through 2008 (under current law, 2007).

(Sec. 618) Sets at three years623) Authorizes the required minimum periodSecretary concerned to pay a bonus of obligated service, and at $15,000 the maximum amount,up to $2,000 to current or former military personnel or DOD civilian employees who refer for appointment as military health profession officers a person who has not previously served in the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus.Armed Forces. Prohibits payment for referral of an immediate family member. Authorizes bonus payments through 2008.

(Sec. 619)624) Authorizes payment of a Selected Reserve enlistmentthe Secretary to pay an accession bonus of up to persons who had enlisted previously, but were unable$20,000 to complete basic training requirementsparticipants in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and whose service was characterized as honorable or uncharacterized.Financial Assistance Program.

(Sec. 620) Extends eligibility for nuclear officer continuation pay from 26<b>Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances </b>- (Sec. 641) Authorizes the Secretary to 30 yearspay travel and related expenses of commissioned service.a dependent of a member assigned to a very remote location outside the United States, for travel for obstetrical purposes to a location inside the United States.

(Sec. 621)642) Authorizes eitherDOD to reimburse the Secretary, or the Secretarymoving expenses of Homeland Security with respectJROTC instructors who agree to the Coast Guard when not operating asserve at least two years at an educational institution in a service in the Navy,position that is hard to waivefill for geographic or economic reasons, as determined by the maximum years of service eligibility requirement for a critical skill retention bonus for members with more than 25 years of service.Secretary concerned.

(Sec. 622) Authorizes an accession bonus<b>Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits </b>- (Sec. 651) Revises the prioritized list of upbeneficiaries to $20,000 for participants inwhich a member's death gratuity shall be payable to place at the Armed Forces Health Professional Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.top of such list any individual designated by the member in writing.

(Sec. 623) Authorizes the Secretary concerned652) Allows an unmarried member with one or more dependent children to pay assignment incentive payelect to provide a reserve member for each month, during the period beginning on January 1, 2005, through the end of any active-duty service inSurvivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity to a combat zone associated with Operations Enduring Freedomperson who acts as guardian or Iraqi Freedom, thatcaretaker to such member served in excess of 22 months of qualifying service. Makes such monthly incentive pay $1,000.child or children.

(Sec. 624) Increases from $750653) Expands eligibility for combat-related special compensation to $1,500 the maximum monthly rateinclude all servicemembers eligible for retirement pay who have a combat-related disability, including those retired or separated, or transferred to a temporary disability retired list, due to physical disability. Reduces such compensation amount with respect to retirees with fewer than 20 years of hardship duty pay.retirement-creditable service.

<b>Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances </b>- (Sec. 631) Authorizes(Sec. 654) Revises the Secretary concernedretired pay multiplier percentage with respect to provide a $50 stipend to reserve members who participate in an electronic screening to verify contact information and determine individual readiness. Prohibits the dual receiptwith over 30 years of inactive-duty training compensation for members receiving the stipend.retirement-creditable service.

(Sec. 632) Authorizes655) Reduces below 60 the Secretary of the military department concerned to furnish up to $250 worth of civilian clothing and luggage toage at which a member of the Armed Forces, or to reimburse the member up to such amountReady Reserve may receive retired pay by three months for the purchaseevery aggregate of such civilian clothing and luggage, for use for travel in connection with90 days of active-duty service performed under certain mobilization authorities, including responding to a medical evacuation. (Under current law $250 is allowed, but only for furnishing civilian clothing or reimbursement fornational emergency. Prohibits such clothing.)eligibility age from being reduced below age 50.

(Sec. 633) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse educational institutions656) Includes as additional individuals eligible for moving expenses paid to Junior ROTC instructors whena travel and transportation allowance for survivors of deceased members attending the member's burial ceremony: (1) any child of the parent(s) of the deceased member who is under 18 years old if such Secretary determineschild is attending the position as a hard-to-fill positionservice with the parent(s) and would otherwise be left unaccompanied by the instructor has agreed to serve inparent(s); and (2) the position for at least two years.person who directs the disposition of the remains of the deceased member.

(Sec. 634) Authorizes members with at least one driver-eligible family member to ship two privately owned vehicles during657) Provides that, when transportation of the remains of a permanent changedeceased member includes transportation by aircraft, the Secretary concerned shall provide for delivery of station movethe remains to non-foreign duty locations located outside the continental United States (such as Alaska, Hawaii,commercial, general aviation, or U.S. territories and possessions).military airport nearest to the place designated by the deceased's designee, or nearest to the cemetery selected by the Secretary.

(Sec. 635) Authorizes658) Repeals the Secretary concerned to reimburse up to $300 of the travel expenses ofrequirement for a Selected Reserve member who servesreduction in a specialty designatedSBP annuities by the Secretary when that travel for the performanceany amounts of inactive duty training or unit training assembly is outsideveterans' dependency and indemnity compensation received. Prohibits the commuting limitsrecoupment of certain amounts previously (and inadvertently) refunded to SBP recipients. Repeals the member and the training is necessary to maintain mission readiness.authority for an optional SBP annuity for dependent children.

<b>Subtitle D: Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits </b>- (Sec. 641) Allows periods of confinement prior to convening authority action(Sec. 659) Changes from October 1, 2008, to October 1, 2007, the effective date on or after which no reduction may be consideredmade in determining certain benefits for dependents who are victimsthe retired pay of abuse byan SBP participant for any month after the member.later of: (1) the 360th month for which such pay was so reduced; and (2) the month during which the participant attains 70 years of age.

(Sec. 642) Extends permanently (under current law, ends on September 30, 2007) the authority660) Allows veterans with service-connected disabilities rated as total by reason of unemployability who are also eligible for members to designate a personretired pay, except for the period beginning on January 1, 2004, and ending on December 31, 2004, to receive up to 50% of the member's death gratuity.full amount, without reduction, of retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for which such person is eligible.

(Sec. 643) Provides limitations (designed661) Allows up to protect a surviving or former spouse) on130 days in the recoupmentyear of Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity amounts previously paid, but subject to offset for the paymentmilitary service that includes October 30, 2007, and any subsequent year of dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC). Requires the Secretaryservice to notifybe used in the spouse or former spouse concernedcomputation of the net amount in question, the statutory requirementsyears of service for the recoupment, an accountingpurposes of the offset calculation, and contact information.retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service.

(Sec. 644)<b>Subtitle E: Education Benefits </b>- (Sec. 671) Authorizes a special survivor indemnity allowance, determined by formula, for spousesthe Secretary concerned to pay tuition and former spouses affected byrelated expenses of members of the DIC offsets from SBP annuities. Makes such allowance effectiveSelected Reserve, or members of the Individual Ready Reserve in designated military occupational specialties, for off-duty training or education. Requires a member receiving such assistance to agree to serve at least four years after completion of the period beginning on October 1, 2008, and ending on March 1, 2016.training or education. Requires repayment of unearned benefits.

(Sec. 645) Authorizes disabled military retirees with fewer than 20 years of service to receive payments672) Includes within loans eligible for repayment under the combat-related special compensationSelected Reserve education loan repayment program as long as they have 15 years of creditable serviceany loan incurred for educational purposes and their levelmade by a lender that is: (1) an agency or instrumentality of disability is rated at 60%a state; (2) a financial or more.credit institution subject to examination and supervision by a federal or state agency; (3) an approved pension fund; or (4) a nonprofit private entity designated and regulated by a state and approved by the Secretary. Makes such authority effectiveSelected Reserve officers (under current law, only enlisted personnel) eligible for the period beginning on October 1, 2008, and ending on October 1, 2015.such loan repayment.

<b>Subtitle E: Commissary and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality Benefits </b>- (Sec. 651)(Sec. 673) Requires a report from the Secretary to revise DOD regulations to provide for access toof each military commissarydepartment to the defense and exchange stores for surviving spouses and dependentsappropriations committees on the utilization of veterans who were posthumously determined to possess service-connected disabilities rated as 100% (total).tuition assistance during FY2007 by military personnel of that department.

(Sec. 652)674) Authorizes payment on an accelerated basis of educational assistance for members involuntarily separated from active dutyof the Selected Reserve, or reserve members supporting contingency and certain combat operations, who are: (1) enrolled in an approved program of education not exceeding two years and not leading to an associate, bachelor, masters, or other degree; and (2) charged tuition and fees that exceed 200% of the monthly rate of educational assistance allowance otherwise payable for members of the Selected ReserveReserve. Sets the authorized amount of such assistance at the lesser of: (1) 60% of the established charges for that program of education; or (2) the aggregate amount of educational assistance to continuewhich the person remains entitled. Requires such accelerated payments to use commissarybe charged against any remaining educational assistance of such members. Authorizes educational assistance for reserve members supporting contingency and exchange storescertain combat operations if such members accumulate three years of such service. (Current law allows such educational assistance for such members who perform two or more continuous years after separation. Makesof such authority effectiveservice.) Allows reserve members eligible for the period beginning on October 1, 2007, and ending on December 31, 2012.educational assistance to contribute additional amounts in order to receive an increased amount of such assistance.

(Sec. 653) Authorizes executive departments or agencies to utilize employee pay deductions to collect indebtedness owed675) Entitles to educational assistance certain members of the United States.Selected Reserve affected by force shaping initiatives during FY2007-FY2014.

<b>Subtitle F: Consolidation(Sec. 676) Allows a person who separates from the Selected Reserve after completion of Special Pay, Incentive Pay, and Bonus Authorities </b>- (Sec. 661) Consolidates into the following eight categories various current federal provisions concerning special and incentive pays: (1) bonuses for enlisted members; (2) bonuses for officers; (3) bonuses and incentive pays for nuclear officers; (4) bonuses and incentive pays for aviation officers; (5) bonuses and incentive pays for officersactive service in health professions; (6) hazardous duty pays; (7) assignment pays and special duty pays; and (8) skill incentive pays and proficiency bonuses. Continues current separate authorities for 15-year career status bonuses, critical skill retention bonuses, and the continuationsupport of combat zone-related payscontingency and allowances for members hospitalized as a result of combat-related wounds, injuries, or illnesses.certain other operations under other than dishonorable conditions up to ten years after such separation to utilize their authorized educational assistance entitlement.

(Sec. 662) Directs the Secretary to develop<b>Subtitle F: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 681) Revises eligibility criteria for income replacement payments for reserve members experiencing extended and submit tofrequent mobilizations for active-duty service. Changes the defense and appropriations committees a plan to implement the consolidationmethod for measuring cumulative periods of special, incentive, and bonus pays referred to in the previous section.qualifying service by counting cumulative days rather than months. Allows for a transition period of up to ten years after the enactmentcontinuation of this Act. Prohibits the consolidation from having any effectsuch payments for reserve members who are retained on FY2008 obligationsactive duty to receive authorized medical care or be evaluated for such special, incentive, or bonus pay.disability.

<b>Subtitle G: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 671) Expands(Sec. 682) Amends the types of educational loans authorizedImmigration and Nationality Act to be repaid underallow the Selected Reserve loan repayment program. Makes eligibleoverseas naturalization of any person who is: (1) lawfully admitted for permanent residence; (2) a spouse or child of a member of the Armed Forces; (3) authorized to accompany such loan repayments Selected Reserve officers (under current law, only Selected Reserve enlisted members).member in a foreign country pursuant to the member's official orders; and (4) residing with the member.

(Sec. 672) Amends683) Directs the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) allow readmission intoSecretary to establish a national combat veteran reintegration program (to be known as the United States of lawful U.S. permanent resident spousesYellow Ribbon Reintegration Program) to provide National Guard and children ofreserve members stationed abroad after the spouse and children have residedtheir families with information, services, referral, and outreach opportunities throughout the member duringentire deployment cycle. Requires the Program to consist of informational events and activities for such members, their service abroad;families, and community members through the following phases of the deployment cycle: (1) pre-deployment; (2) provide overseas naturalization eligibilitydeployment; (3) demobilization; and (4) post-deployment-reconstitution. Requires the: (1) establishment of an Office for Reintegration Programs; (2) Office to such spousesestablish a Center for Excellence in Reintegration; and children by treating their period(3) Secretary to appoint an advisory board to analyze and report areas of residence abroad as residence withinsuccess and areas for necessary improvements (requiring annual reports from the United States.advisory board). Defines the periods of each phase of the deployment cycle for purposes of the Program. Requires the Office to offer a monthly reintegration program for members released from active duty or formerly in a medical hold status.

(Sec. 674) Directs684) Authorizes the Secretary to provideSecretary, on a postal benefits program for members: (1) serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; or (2) hospitalized at a military medical facility as a result of a disease or injury incurred as a result of such service. Provides such benefits in the form of a voucher which entitles the bearer or usercase-by-case basis, to make qualified mailings freewaive suspension of postage. Allows the usepayment of one voucher for every second month of such duty or hospitalization. Provides program funding (with a corresponding offset). (Sec. 675) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993federal annuities with respect to allow the use of leave for any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the spouse, son, daughter, or parent of an employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty)individual who becomes employed in the Armed Forces in support of a contingency operation. Allows an affected employer to require that a request for such leave be supported by a certification of its necessity.position within DOD following retirement from federal service.

<b>Title VII: Health Care Provisions </b>- (Sec. 701) Extends through FY2008(Sec. 685) Directs the prohibition on increases in certain chargesSecretaries of Defense and premiums for care and coverage under TRICAREVeterans Affairs to jointly submit to Congress a plan to maximize access to the benefits delivery at discharge program (a DOD managed care program) Prime, TRICARE Standard, and TRICARE Reserve Select.program currently jointly administered by such Secretaries) for members of the reserves who have been called or ordered to active duty at any time since September 11, 2001.

(Sec. 702) Limits, during FY2008,686) Amends the copaymentSpence Act to increase amounts under the retail pharmacy system of the DOD pharmacy benefits program to $3back pay for generic drugs, $9 for formulary drugs,members of the Navy and $22Marine Corps selected for non-formulary drugs. promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II, to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Requires the recalculation of previous payments.<br>

(Sec. 703) Authorizes the Secretary<b>Title VII: Health Care Provisions </b>- (Sec. 701) Provides that, with respect to exclude fromany prescription filled on or after October 1, 2007, the TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program) retail pharmacy benefits program drugs that are not provided toshall be covered by the Secretary at the same or lower price than that chargedfederal pricing limits applicable to covered drugs under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).(VA) retail pharmacy program.

(Sec. 704) Prohibits702) Directs the Secretary concerned from converting any military medical or dental positionto: (1) conduct surveys on the current and future viability of the TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra health care programs; (2) establish benchmarks for primary and specialty care providers to determine the adequacy of health care provided to TRICARE beneficiaries; and (3) designate a civilian medical or dental position on or after October 1, 2007. Requiressenior DOD official to take necessary actions to achieve and maintain the participation of health care and mental health care providers in TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra throughout TRICARE in a report frommanner adequate to ensure the Secretaryviability of TRICARE Standard for TRICARE beneficiaries. Requires the CG to: (1) conduct an ongoing review of DOD processes, procedures, and analyses to determine the defenseadequacy of health care and appropriations committees on conversions made during FY2007.mental health care providers; and (2) report review results biannually to the defense committees.

(Sec. 705)703) Directs the Secretary to establish atreport to the Uniformed Services University ofdefense committees on the Health Sciences a graduate education program for advanced-practice nursing for instruction leadingongoing patient satisfaction surveys taking place in DOD inpatient and outpatient settings at military treatment facilities, and to designationuse information in the report as the basis for a Nurse Practitioner.plan for improvements in such satisfaction.

(Sec. 706) Allows704) Requires the Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, or another similarly qualified organization, to: (1) conduct a study of the credentials, preparation, and training of individuals practicing as mental health counselors: (1) without prior physician referral or supervision, to be reimbursed by DOD for services provided tocounselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists under the TRICARE beneficiaries;program to provide mental health services; and (2) to enter into personal contracts with DODmake recommendations for permitting such professionals to practice independently under the provisionTRICARE program. Expresses the sense of mentalCongress that the study should focus only on those practitioners of each health servicescare profession mentioned above who are permitted to such beneficiaries. Requires such counselorspractice under TRICARE regulations. Directs the Secretary to meet appropriate licensure or certification requirements established by DOD for a &quot;health care professional.&quot;report to the defense committees on study results.

(Sec. 707) Amends705) Expresses the Reagan Act to extend through FY2010 a pilot programsense of cooperative health care arrangementsthe Senate that DOD should continue collaboration between military installationsthe Army and localthe VA in treating America's wounded warriors and, when appropriate and regional nonmilitary health care systems. Extends related report requirements.available, provide additional support and resources for the development of such collaborations.

(Sec. 708) Authorizes706) Expands eligibility for temporary health benefits coverage under federal civilian employee provisions to include any person specified in regulations prescribed by the Secretary to pay a stipend to a reserve member who is called or orderedloses entitlement to active duty for a period of more than 30 days so that such member may maintain civilianDOD health care services. Allows such temporary coverage for a dependent whomup to 36 months after the Secretary determines possesses a special health care need that would be best met by remaining in the member's civilian health plan.loss of such entitlement.

(Sec. 709) Directs707) Amends the SecretaryWarner Act to establish a Joint Pathology Center, located atcontinue eligibility for TRICARE Standard coverage for certain members of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, that shall function as the DOD reference center in pathology.Selected Reserve.

(Sec. 710)708) Includes mental health care services within the authority for special reimbursement rates under the TRICARE program. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on requirements outlined in the Warner Act concerning training in the preservationadequacy of remainsaccess to mental health services under combat or combat-related conditions.the TRICARE program.

(Sec. 711)709) Directs the Secretary to: (1) implement recommendations of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health to establishensure a computer-based program that assesses the cognitive functioningfull continuum of psychological health services and care for members priorof the Armed Forces and their families; (2) submit to the defense and after returning from deployments in supportappropriations committees a description of any legislative action required to implement such recommendations, as well as a list of recommendations the Global War on Terror, including Operations Iraqi FreedomSecretary has determined not to implement; and Enduring Freedom. Requires an implementation(3) report from the Secretarysemiannually to such committees on the defense committees.status of implementation of such recommendations.

(Sec. 712) Requires that710) Directs the funds available for Walter Reed Army MedicalSecretary to establish within DOD a Center forof Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries to, among other things, develop, implement, and oversee a fiscal year beMilitary Eye Injury Registry tracking each case of eye injury incurred by a member in combat that requires surgery or other operative intervention. Requires the same amount asSecretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that expended byRegistry information is available to appropriate VA personnel for encouraging and facilitating the commanderconduct of research and the Center in FY2006 untildevelopment of best practices and clinical education with respect to such injuries. Requires the Secretary certifiesto: (1) include in the Registry records of members incurring an eye injury in combat in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom; and (2) report to Congress thaton the expanded facilities atstatus of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, have sufficient staff, equipment, and capacityCenter. Requires the Secretaries to jointly provide at least the same levelfor a cooperative study on neuro-optometric screening and diagnosis of care provided at Walter Reed during FY2006.members with traumatic brain injury by DOD military medical treatment facilities and VA medical centers. Provides Center funding.

(Sec. 713) Requires: (1) a report from711) Requires the Secretary to the defense committeesreport to Congress on DOD's policies for administering and evaluating the vaccination of members of the Armed Forces; and (2) a study (with study results submitted to such committees) by the Secretary examining the safetyfeasibility and efficacyadvisability of administering multiple vaccinations to members withinestablishing a 24-hour period.scholarship program for civilian mental health professionals.

<b>Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Acquisition Policy and Management </b>- (Sec. 801) Requires(Sec. 712) Directs the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to: (1) revise the definition of &quot;commercial services&quot; in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)Secretary to conform itreport to such definition under the OfficeCongress on medical physical examinations of Federal Procurement Policy Act (OFPPA); and (2) analyze and choose the best of two options for the procurement of non-commercial services similar to commercial services.members before their deployment.

(Sec. 802) Amends the OFPPA to: (1) repeal the termination of (and thereby make permanent) the acquisition workforce training fund; and (2) require the Secretary to include713) Extends through FY2008 a separate sectionDOD prohibition on the acquisition workforceincreases in the nextcontract medical care and subsequent DOD strategic human capital plans required under the NDAAinpatient care costs for Fiscal Year 2006.certain regular and reserve personnel.

(Sec. 803) Directs the Under Secretary of Defense714) Provides copayment limits, for Acquisition, Technology,the period beginning on October 1, 2007, and Logistics (Under Secretary) to issue guidanceending on September 30, 2008, for the DOD usereceipt of interagency contracting.generic, formulary, and nonformulary agents under the retail pharmacy system of the DOD pharmacy benefits program.

(Sec. 804) Prohibits715) Expresses the Secretary from contracting for the procurementsense of goods or services from any foreign personCongress that DOD has options to whichconstrain the governmentgrowth of a foreign countryhealth care spending in ways that is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has provided a subsidy if the United States has requested consultations with that foreign country on the basis that the subsidy is a prohibited subsidy and either: (1) the issue hasdo not been resolved; or (2) the WTO has ruled that the subsidy provided is a prohibited subsidy. Applies such prohibition also to joint venturesdisadvantage retired military personnel, and subcontractsshould pursue any and task orders. Makesall such prohibition inapplicable to any contract under an MDAP that has received Milestone B approval.options as a first priority.

(Sec. 805) Prohibits the use of DOD funds for the procurement of goods or services from716) States that a source subjectmember who has a medical condition relating to sanctionsservice on active duty that warrants further medical care shall be entitled to receive medical and dental care for violations ofsuch condition as if the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act, or from any source thatmember were still on active duty, until such medical condition is owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity. Provides an exception forresolved. Requires the Secretary for compelling reasons, after notificationconcerned to ensure that the defense committees.Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System is continually updated to reflect the continuing entitlement of such members to such services.

(Sec. 806) Prohibits DOD from awarding any new contracts for lead systems integrator functions<b>Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Major Defense Acquisition Programs </b>- (Sec. 801) Directs the Secretary to define in defense contracting regulations the acquisitionterm &quot;substantial savings&quot; under multiyear contracts awarded by DOD, requiring to be considered as substantial savings, savings that exceed 10% of the total anticipated costs of carrying out a major systems, effective October 1, 2011.defense acquisition program (MDAP) through annual contracts. Requires the Secretary to develop a plan for establishing the appropriate sizehead of the acquisition workforcedefense agency seeking the multiyear contract to accomplish inherently governmental functions relatedreport to acquisition of major weapons systems. Authorizes DOD, if specified conditions are met, to award contractsthe defense and appropriations committees specific facts demonstrating that the statutory requirements for entering into such a contract have been met. Requires a report from the procurementSecretary to such committees, in each of goods or services2008 through 2010, on savings achieved through the primary purposeuse of which is to perform acquisition support functions with respect to the development or production of a major system.multiyear contracts.

(Sec. 807) Extends to Native Hawaiian-serving and Alaska Native-serving institutions802) Requires the federal contract goalsprogram manager for small disadvantaged businesses and certain institutionsan MDAP that has received Milestone B certification to immediately notify the milestone decision authority of higher education.any changes to the MDAP that: (1) are inconsistent with such certification; or (2) deviate significantly from the certification material provided to the milestone decision authority. Requires the milestone decision authority to receive a business case analysis prior to making a certification.

(Sec. 808)803) Directs the Under SecretaryCG to report to issue guidance requiring that all DOD solicitations for proposals for major systems that could contain strategic materials clearly specify that an evaluation criteria for such proposals will be the extent to which each prospective strategic material supplier demonstrates a record of sustained reinvestment in processes, infrastructure, workforce training,defense and facilities for domestic productionappropriations committees on potential modifications of such material, as well as a plan for continued reinvestment. Requires the Strategic Materials Protection Board to annually reviewDOD organization and report to Congress on proposals submittedstructure for major systems that could contain strategic materials.MDAPs.

(Sec. 809) Defines804) Requires the term &quot;required form&quot;Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on: (1) DOD strategies for purposes of restrictions on the procurementallocation of specialty metals. Includes as a &quot;commercial item&quot; commercial off-the-shelf items. Requires any domestic non-determinations made between December 6, 2006,funds and 60 days afterother resources under MDAPs; and (2) the enactmentextent of this Act to comply with this section.implementation of recommendations contained in the February 2003 report of the GAO entitled &quot;Setting Requirements Differently Could Reduce Weapon Systems' Total Ownership Costs.&quot;

(Sec. 810)<b>Subtitle B: Amendments Relating to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 821) Requires that, if the Secretary determines that a contractorDOD task or prospective contractor has been convicteddelivery order contracts in excess of a criminal violation$100 million be awarded to multiple contractors (with certain exceptions). Establishes additional competition requirements (including requirements for debriefings and authorization of the Arms Export Control Act, the Secretary shall debar such contractor from contracting with DODbid protests) for up to five years. Provides an exception when the Secretary determines a compelling reason, after notifying the Administratortask or delivery orders in excess of General Services.$5 million under such multiple award contracts.

<b>Subtitle B: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures,(Sec. 822) Outlines conditions under which a subsystem of, or component or spare part for, a major weapon system shall be treated as a commercial item and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 811)purchased under procedures established for the procurement of commercial items. Requires the submissioncontractor, in the case of a subsystem, component, or spare part purchased under commercial item authority, to provide data other than certified cost or pricing data under the Truth in Negotiations Actthat is adequate for sole-source contracts for commercial items ifevaluating the reasonableness of the contracting officer is otherwise unable to locate sufficient sales to determine that a price is fair and reasonable.of the contract, subcontract, or modification under which which such system, subsystem, component, or spare part will be purchased.

(Sec. 812) Requires submission823) Prohibits the use of costtime and materials contracts or pricing data on noncommercial modifications oflabor-hour contracts to purchase as commercial items to include the total priceany category of the contract at the timecommercial services other than: (1) commercial services procured for support of contract award. Raises from $500,000 to $650,000a commercial item, as defined under the total contract price threshold after which submissionOffice of costFederal Procurement Policy Act; or pricing data is required.(2) emergency repair services.

(Sec. 813)824) Directs the Under SecretarySecretary, before purchasing a product listed in the latest edition of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI) catalog for which FPI does not have a significant market share, to developconduct market research to determine whether the product is comparable to products available from the private sector that best meet the needs of DOD in terms of price, quality, and implement a plantime of delivery. Authorizes the Secretary to minimizepurchase a product listed in the numberlatest edition of government-uniquethe FPI catalog for which FPI does have a significant market share only if the Secretary uses competitive procedures for the procurement of the product or makes an individual purchase under a multiple award contract clauses used in commercial contracts by restricting such clauses to: (1) those authorized by law or regulation; and (2) ones relevant and necessaryaccordance with applicable competition requirements. Requires the Secretary to publish a specific contract.list of product categories for which FPI's share of the DOD market is greater than 5%.

(Sec. 814)825) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996NDAA for Fiscal Year 1994 to extend until January 1, 2010, thethrough FY2013 DOD authority to use simplified acquisition procedures for the purchase of property or services that are commercial items valued at no more than $5 million.carry out certain prototype projects.

(Sec. 815) Amends826) Authorizes the NDAASecretary to enter into multiyear contracts, for Fiscal Year: (1) 2004up to extend through FY2012ten-year periods, for the authority to fill shortage category positionspurchase of electricity from sources of renewable energy. Provides circumstances under which the Secretary may enter into such multiyear contracts for periods in the acquisition workforce; and (2) 1994 to extend through FY2013 the authority to carry out certain prototype projects.excess of five years.

(Sec. 817) Codifies827) Authorizes the positions and dutiesSecretary to procure from foreign manufacturers fire-resistant rayon fiber for the production of military uniforms if, among other things, such fiber is not available from sources within the acquisition executivenational technology and senior procurement executive withinindustrial base. Requires congressional notification. Terminates such authority five years after the U.S. Special Operations Command. Allows the Command commander to designate the same individual for both positions.enactment of this Act.

(Sec. 818) Exempts828) Requires all contracts awarded by DOD to implement new programs or projects pursuant to congressional initiatives (earmarks) to be awarded using competitive procedures, and prohibits the Commandaward of such a contract unless more than one contract bid is received. Prohibits DOD grants or cooperative agreements from certain leasing requirementsbeing used for contracts relatingsuch purposes unless the process used to vessels, aircraft,award such grant or agreement uses competitive or merit-based procedures to select the recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the more-than-one-bid requirement if the Secretary: (1) determines that the new program or project cannot be implemented without a waiver and combat vehicles.will help meet important national defense needs; and (2) notifies the defense committees within ten days after exercising the waiver. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on congressional initiatives for which DOD amounts were made available.

(Sec. 819) Allows<b>Subtitle C: Acquisition Policy and Management </b>- (Sec. 841) Directs the CommanderUnder Secretary and the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to serve as advisors to the U.S. Joint Forces CommandRequirements Oversight Council. Requires the Secretary to provide funding forconsult with the maintenance of items procured under such Command's limited acquisition authority.Council regarding MDAP requirements before certifying a program to Congress.

(Sec. 820) Revises requirements842) Authorizes each senior official responsible for market research for procurements in excessthe management of the simplified acquisition threshold to require the use of an appropriately tailored search enginecontract services to identify capabilities available in the commercial marketplace. Directs the Under Secretaryestablish a Contract Support Acquisition Center to evaluate optionsact as executive agent for preference for contractors that maximize the useacquisition of commercial marketplace capabilities.contract services. Outlines provisions concerning Center direction, staff, and support.

<b>Subtitle C: Accountability in Contracting </b>- (Sec. 821)(Sec. 843) Requires FARdefense budget justification materials submitted for any fiscal year after 2008 to be revised to restrictclearly and separately identify amounts requested in each budget account for the contract periodprocurement of any contract greater than $1 million entered into by an executive agency under procedures other than competitive procedures pursuant to the procedures exception provided within the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.services.

(Sec. 822) Requires844) Directs the headsSecretary to establish the Department of federal agencies making procurements of at least $1 billion inDefense Acquisition Workforce Fund for the previous fiscal year,recruitment, training, and retention of DOD acquisition personnel. Requires an annual report from the Under Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on Fund operations. Provides expedited hiring authority with respect to DOD, toDOD acquisition positions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop an assessment and implement a plan to maximize the use of fixed-price type contracts for addressing gaps in the procurement of goodsDOD acquisition workforce; (2) update such assessment and services by that agency or DOD. Requires the: (1) plan to be submitted to specified congressional committeesannually from 2009 through 2012; and the CG;(3) report each assessment, plan, and (2) CGupdate to reviewthe defense and report to Congress on such plans.appropriations committees.

(Sec. 823) Amends845) Requires: (1) the Federal Property and Administrative Services ActSecretary of 1949 to requireeach military department and the head of an executive agency, including aeach defense agency,agency to make certain justification and approval documents relatingsubmit annually to the useSecretary a list of noncompetitive procedures in contracting availableactivities performed pursuant to contracts for services for or on behalf of such department or agency under which the websitecontractor is paid on the basis of cost or time of performance, rather than specific tasks performed or results achieved; (2) such lists to be made available to the agencypublic; and through(3) the Federal Procurement Data System within 14 days after contract award.Secretary to review the contracts and activities included on the list to, among other things, ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and ensure that such activities do not include inherently governmental functions. Authorizes interested parties to submit a challenge to the omission of a particular activity from, or inclusion on, a list. Provides for challenge resolution.

(Sec. 824) Requires846) Prohibits any DOD official from placing an order or otherwise procuring property or services for DOD in an amount in excess of $100,000 through a non-defense agency in any fiscal year if: (1) the head of each federal agency, and the Under Secretarynon-defense agency has not certified that it will comply with respect to DOD, to report quarterly todefense procurement requirements; (2) a determination of noncompliance with defense procurement requirements has not been terminated; or (3) in the chairmancase where a memorandum of understanding is required, the DOD Inspector General and ranking memberthe inspector general of specified congressional committees on audits of contractors completed bythe non-defense agency have not yet entered into such memorandum. Provides an exception when procurement through the non-defense agency oris necessary in the interest of DOD. Outlines provisions concerning inspector general reviews and determinations concerning non-defense agency compliance with applicable defense procurement policies, procedures, and internal controls, and the resolution of disagreements.

(Sec. 825) Directs847) Requires the AdministratorSecretary to: (1) issue guidance (with detailed implementation instructions) for Federal Procurement PolicyDOD to study,provide for periodic independent management reviews of contracts for services; and (2) report to relevant congressionalthe defense and appropriations committees on,on the composition, scope,guidance and functionsinstructions. Directs the CG to report to such committees on the implementation of the government-wide acquisition workforce.guidance and instructions.

(Sec. 826)848) Requires a report from the Director ofSecretary to: (1) issue guidance (with detailed implementation instructions) for DOD to ensure the Officeimplementation and enforcement of Government Ethicsrequirements applicable to Congressundefinitized contractual actions; and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees on requiring government contractors that advise one or more federal agencies on procurement policy,the guidance and requiring FFRDCs,instructions. Directs the CG to comply with restrictions relatingreport to personal financial interests, such as those that apply to federal employees. committees on the effect of the guidance and instructions.

<b>Subtitle D: Contracts Relating to Iraq and AfghanistanDepartment of Defense Contractor Matters </b>- (Sec. 831) Directs the Secretary, the Secretary861) Includes, among others, a representative of State,a committee of Congress, an Inspector General, and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)GAO among those to enter intowhom a memorandum of understanding regarding matters relating to contracting for contracts in Iraqcontractor employee may disclose information concerning contractor fraud, waste, or Afghanistan. Prohibits further contractsabuse while being protected from being awarded by their department or agency until: (1) the memorandum has been signed by all three parties; and (2) the department or agency concerned has initiated usereprisals for such disclosure (whistleblower protections). Provides for expedited determinations of the common database identified in the memorandumalleged contractor reprisals. Establishes a private right of action for contractor employees subjected to track contractsreprisals. Requires each DOD contract in Iraq or Afghanistan. Authorizesexcess of $5 million, other than a contract for the waiverpurchase of such requirements by the President forcommercial items, to include a 45-day period (with one additional 45-day period) ifclause requiring the President determines and notifies specified congressional committees that, but for such waiver, there would be substantial harmcontractor to critical national security objectives. Outlines matters to be coveredprovide an employee notice of rights under the memorandum.contract, including rights related to protection from reprisal.

(Sec. 832) Directs862) Requires each DOD contract for the CG, every six months,procurement of goods or services in excess of $10 million, other than a contract for the procurement of commercial items, to review contractsinclude a provision under which the contractor agrees to submit to the Secretary, for each year for which the contract is in Iraq or Afghanistan, and report review resultseffect, information concerning compensation paid by the contractor to specified congressional committees.certain former senior military personnel and DOD officials.

(Sec. 834)863) Directs the SecretaryCG to ensure, with respectreport to the procurement of pistols and other weapons supplied todefense committees on the military forcesinternal ethics programs of Iraq and Afghanistan, that: (1) full and open competition is obtained; (2) no responsible U.S. manufacturer is excluded from competing for such procurements; and (3) products manufacturedmajor defense contractors (those that received more than $500 million in the United States are not excluded from the competition.DOD contract awards during FY2006).

<b>Subtitle E: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 841) Requires(Sec. 864) Directs the Secretary to establish the Rapid Commercial Information Technology Identification Demonstration Pilot,to: (1) conduct a three-year project to develop, implement,study on contracting with DOD by actual and assesspotential contractors and subcontractors who employ members of the effectiveness of a comprehensive approach to identifying, assessing, stimulating investment in, rapidly acquiring,Selected Reserve; and coordinating the use of commercial information technologies. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a project(2) report from the Secretarystudy results to the defense and appropriations committees.Congress.

(Sec. 842) Provides that, in the case of any major automated information system program, if there is a delay in meeting any of three specified deadlines865) Requires DOD joint policy for a phaserequirements definition, contingency program management, and contracting to provide for: (1) training of military personnel outside the acquisition process,workforce who are expected to have acquisition responsibility during combat operations, post-conflict operations, and contingency operations; and (2) the Secretary shallincorporation of contractors and contract operations in mission readiness exercises for operations that will include contracting and contractor support. Amends the Warner Act to require a CG review and report to the defense and appropriations committees on such delay. Requires such report 30 days afterconcerning the joint policies developed by the delay occurs.Secretary.

(Sec. 843) Directs the<b>Subtitle E: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 871) Requires the: (1) Secretary concerned to license trademarks, service marks, certification marks,prescribe regulations on the selection, training, equipping, and collective marks relating to military designationsconduct of personnel performing private security functions under a federal contract or subcontract in an area of combat operations; and likenesses(2) Federal Acquisition Regulation to be revised to require the insertion into each covered contract or subcontract of military weapons systemsa clause addressing such selection, training, equipping, and conduct. Requires a report from the DOD Inspector General to any qualifying company, upon their request. Defines &quot;qualifying companies&quot; as any small business that isCongress on the feasibility and advisability of a toypilot program for the imposition of fines on contractors or hobby manufacturer, distributor,subcontractors for personnel who violate or fail to comply with such regulations or merchant.requirements.

(Sec. 844) Amends the Warner Act to allow872) Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prohibition against entering intoestablish a preference for the acquisition of products and services that are produced in Iraq and Afghanistan if: (1) the product or service contractis to acquire a military flight simulator if granting the waiver would be used only by military forces, police, or other security forces in Iraq or Afghanistan; (2) the national interest (currently, ifpreference is necessary for national security purposes).to provide a stable source of jobs and employment in Iraq or Afghanistan; and (3) the preference will not have an adverse effect on U.S. military operations or the U.S. industrial base.

(Sec. 845)873) Requires that costs related to compliance with the DOD requirementSecretary to: (1) direct the Defense Science Board to buy certain articles from American sources (Buy American requirement) be excluded from consideration inreview DOD policies and procedures for the evaluationacquisition of bid offers provided by U.S firmsinformation technology; and foreign sources benefiting from exceptions provided for reciprocal access agreements with foreign countries.(2) report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 846) Allows a domestic non-availability determination (a determination that no American sources are available for an acquisition) that would apply874) Revises the acquisition authority provided to more than one DOD prime contract to be made only if the determination:U.S. Joint Forces Command to: (1) has been proposed and finalized under a formal rulemaking; (2) specifies thatinclude the determination will expire 30 days after the Secretary concerned finds it is no longer justified; and (3) requires an accountingsustainment of all end items, components, or specialty metals that do not comply with the Buy American requirement. Requires the Secretary to ensure, in the case of waivers affecting a single DOD prime contract, that: (1) information used in making the determination is made available to the public;equipment; and (2) the contracting officer receives an accounting of all end items, components, or specialty metals that do not comply with the Buy American requirement.extend such authority through FY2010.

(Sec. 847) Requires each DOD component to annually evaluate875) Amends the NDAA for the preceding fiscal year: (1) the number of acquisition programs that experienced significant and critical cost threshold breaches; and (2) the number of technology development programs that, priorFiscal Year 2004 to repeal a Milestone B decision, required recertification byannual report from the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. Requires each component that has identified more than two such programs to identify,Secretary listing essential items, assemblies, and outline a plancomponents of correction for, systemic deficiencies in its acquisition policies or practices that may have contributed to such excessive cost growth. Requires the Secretary to provide an assessment of the adequacy of such corrective actions to the defensemilitary systems and appropriations committees.identifying where they are produced.

(Sec. 848) Provides that, when876) Expresses the Secretary considers it necessarysense of the Senate that DOD should establish a system to provide morale, welfare,document and recreation telephone services for military personnel serving in combat zones,track the Secretary shall use competitive procedures when entering into a contractof environmentally preferable (green) products. Directs the Secretary to provide such services.submit to Congress its plan to increase the use of environmentally friendly products at all DOD facilities inside and outside the United States.

(Sec. 849) Amends877) Requires the Contract DisputesCG to: (1) review the application of the Defense Production Act of 19781950 since the date of enactment of the Defense Production Act Reauthorization of 2003, in light of amendments made by the latter Act; and (2) report to extend such Act's coverage to maritime contracts.the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on review results.

(Sec. 850) Provides that any actions arising out878) Requires the Secretaries of a maritime contract shall be subject toDefense, State, and the jurisdictionInterior, the Administrator of the U.S. CourtUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Director of Federal Claims,National Intelligence (DNI) to each report to Congress specified information concerning transparency and shall not be heardaccountability in military and security contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Expresses the sense of the Senate that such officials should make their best efforts to compile the most accurate accounting of the number of civilian contractors killed or wounded in such countries since October 1, 2001. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress a U.S. district court underDOD strategy for the Suitsuse of, and a description of the activities being carried out by, contractors and subcontractors working in Admiralty Act orIraq and Afghanistan in support of DOD missions and the Public Vessels Act.Global War on Terrorism.

<b>Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense Management </b>- (Sec. 901) Allows(Sec. 879) Directs the Secretary to annually update the definition of &quot;major headquarters activities&quot; as long as any changes are submitted to Congress at the same time as the submission of defense budget materials. Allows the Secretary concerned or the head of Energy to: (1) develop a combatant commandstrategy to waivecomplete the limitation on headquarters personnel if such Secretary or commander certifies to the Secretaryremediation of Defense that the waiver is necessaryMoab and Crescent Junction sites, Utah, by January 1, 2019; and (2) report to reduce costs to or to bring back into the government a position that carries out inherently governmental functions. Requires the Secretary to report annuallyspecified congressional committees on the use of such waiver authority.strategy developed.

(Sec. 902) Authorizes the Secretaries concerned to choose any number<b>Title IX: Department of deputyDefense Organization and assistant chiefsManagement - Subtitle A: Department of staff, as long asDefense Management </b>- (Sec. 901) Repeals a provision limiting the total number does not exceed eight. (Currently, such Secretaries are limited to five deputies and three assistants.)of DOD headquarters activities personnel.

(Sec. 903) Reduces from ten years to five902) Designates the period thatDeputy Secretary of Defense as Chief Management Officer of DOD. Outlines required duties, including a regular commissioned officer must wait after being relieved from active duty in order to become eligiblestrategic plan for appointment asDOD business reform and performance goals to improve the overall economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of DOD business operations. Designates an Under Secretary orof Defense for Management to assist the Deputy Secretary in the performance of Defense, orChief Management Officer duties. Makes the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.each military department the Chief Management Officer of that department, with specified duties.

(Sec. 904) States as an additional principal function of903) Removes the U.S. Special Operations Command, if directed by the President or the Secretary, to plan, synchronize, and carry out global missions against terrorists. Requiresrequirement that the Under Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) a plan to meet future requirements of unconventional warfare;Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and (2) an annual report on the adequacy of DOD personnelLogistics (Under Secretary) have extensive management programs to meet the needs ofexperience in the special operations command.private sector.

(Sec. 905) Redesignates: (1) the904) Establishes a Department of Defense Board of Actuaries to review, and report to the Navy asPresident and Congress on, valuations of the Department of the NavyDefense Military Retirement Fund, Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund, and Marine Corps; and (2) as appropriateany related DOD funds. Requires annual Board reports to the SecretarySecretary. Terminates the Department of Defense Retirement Board of Actuaries and other statutory offices within such departments.the Department of Defense Education Benefits Board of Actuaries.

(Sec. 906) Directs the905) Designates one Assistant Secretary to: (1) assign duties relating to strategic level oversight of all significant DOD management issues to a senior official of a rank not lower than an Underthe: (1) Army as the Assistant Secretary of Defense; (2) adopt a DOD management structure which defines roles and processesthe Army for achieving essential DOD management goals; (3) establish those DOD essential management goals;Acquisition, Technology, and (4) report toLogistics; (2) Navy as the defense committees onAssistant Secretary of the implementationNavy for Research, Development, and Acquisition; and (3) Air Force as the Assistant Secretary of such requirements.the Air Force for Acquisition. Outlines duties for each position.

(Sec. 907) Amends906) Authorizes the Warner Act to eliminate the requirement that the acquisition programsSecretary of the U.S. Special Operations Command must supportArmy to determine the acquisition prioritiesnumber of deputy chiefs of staff and assistant chiefs of staff on the respective military departments. Requires the senior DOD acquisition officialArmy staff, not to encourage the heads of defense agenciesexceed eight total positions. (Current law provides for up to support the acquisition priorities of the respective military departments.five deputy chiefs and three assistant chiefs.)

(Sec. 908) Establishes a Department907) Expresses the sense of Defense Board of Actuaries. RequiresCongress that the Board to report annually to the Secretary, and at least every four years to the President and Congress, on the actuarial statusterm of office of the DepartmentDOD Director of Defense Military Retirement FundOperational Test and the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund.Evaluation should not be less than five years.

<b>Subtitle B: Space ActivitiesMatters </b>- (Sec. 911)921) Requires the Secretary and the DNI to conduct, and report to develop the Space Protection Strategy for the developmentdefense and fieldingintelligence committees on, a joint review of the space capabilities necessary to ensure freedomposture of action in space for the United States through FY2025. Requires an initial report, and biennial updates, with respect toover the Strategy.ten-year period beginning on February 1, 2009.

(Sec. 912) Directs922) Amends the Secretary and each department SecretaryStump Act to develop metrics to identify, track, and manage space cadre personnel within DOD to ensure sufficient personnel with the expertise, training, and experience to meet current and future national security space needs. Requiresextend into 2008 a biennial report from the Secretary to thereporting requirement concerning oversight of acquisition for defense and appropriations committees on the management of the space cadre.programs.

<b>Subtitle C: Chemical Demilitarization ProgramOther Matters </b>- (Sec. 921) Amends931) Requires the NDAAfirst national security strategy and national defense strategy prepared after the enactment of this Act to include guidance for Fiscal Year 1993 to: (1) makemilitary planners for consideration of the Assistant Secretaryeffect of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics,projected climate change on DOD facilities, capabilities, and Technology) the Army's representative to local chemical demilitarization citizens advisory commissions; and (2) allow such commissions to remain in existence until all closure activities are completed at a chemical agent destruction facility pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act.missions.

(Sec. 922) Expresses932) Authorizes the sense of Congress that DOD should: (1) continueSecretary (under current law, the President, by and with its planthe advice and consent of the Senate) to appoint members for on-site disposalthe Board of Regents for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives-managed stockpiles located at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, and Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; and (2) ensure that extensive consultation and notification processes exist between representativesUniformed Services University of DOD and relevant states and local communities.the Health Sciences (University). Redesignates the Dean of the University as the President of the University.

<b>Subtitle D: Intelligence-Related Matters </b>(Sec. 931) Requires the: (1)(Sec. 933) Directs the Secretary concerned to report annually to establish in the SecretaryUniversity the United States Military Cancer Institute, headed by a Director, to: (1) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of data on the foreign language proficiencyincidence and prevalence of personnel in that department;cancer among members and former members of the Armed Forces; and (2) Secretaryconduct research that contributes to the detection or treatment of cancer among such members and former members. Requires the Director to: (1) carry out collaborative research with other cancer research organizations; and (2) report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on such reports, together with informationUniversity President on the current and future foreign language proficiency needs instatus of research studies. Requires such President to submit each report to the military departments.Secretary and Congress.

<b>Subtitle E: Roles and Missions Analysis </b>- (Sec. 941) Directs(Sec. 934) Authorizes the Secretary, every four years, to: (1) conduct a comprehensive assessmentwith the concurrence of DOD rolesthe Secretary of State, to establish and missions (to be known asoperate the quadrennial rolesWestern Hemisphere Center for Excellence in Human Rights to facilitate education, training, research, strategic planning, and missions review);reform on the respect for human rights into all aspects of military operations, education, etc., and (2) report to the defense committeessponsor conferences, symposia, and other events on each review.such matters. Requires such Secretaries to jointly formulate and coordinate human rights programs undertaken through the Center.

(Sec. 942) Requires the Secretary to identify core competencies for: (1) each military department; (2)(Sec, 935) Includes on the OfficeBoard of the SecretaryVisitors of Defense; (3) each defense agency; (4) each DOD Field Activity; and (5) each combatant command with acquisition authority. Requires a report from the Secretary toWestern Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation the defense committees oncommanders of the combatant commands having geographic responsibility for the core competencies.Western Hemisphere.

(Sec. 943) Directs936) Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a reviewCG to submit to the defense and appropriations committees an assessment of the capabilities that eachproposed reorganization of the above entities is performing or developing; and (2) report review results tooffice of the defense committees.Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

(Sec. 944) Requires937) Authorizes the Joint Requirements Oversight CouncilSecretary to assist the Chairmanenter into a service agreement with a current or new DOD physician or health care professional which requires such individual to complete a specified period of service within DOD in return for an allowance for the Joint Chiefsduration of Staff (JCS)such agreement in identifying joint military requirements and core mission areas associated with each requirement. Addsan amount to be determined by the Under Secretary of Defense(with specified annual limits). Makes ineligible for Acquisition, Technology, and Logisticssuch allowance a physician or health care professional who: (1) is employed on less than a half-time or intermittent basis; (2) occupies an internship or residency training position; or (3) is fulfilling a scholarship obligation. Prohibits the service period from being less than one or more than four years. Requires: (1) pro rata allowance repayment for unserved periods; and (2) an annual report from the Director ofSecretary to the Office of Program Analysisdefense and Evaluation tohomeland security committees on the membershipoperation of the Council. Directs the Council to organize its activities according to DOD core mission areas.program. Prohibits any such agreement from being entered into after September 30, 2012.

(Sec. 945) Requires: (1)<b>Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters </b>- (Sec. 1001) Authorizes the Council, beforeSecretary, in the start of technology development for a major system,national interest, to certify that the system meets specified requirements concerning capabilities, execution, and costs; (2) notificationtransfer up to the Council by the appropriate entity when the projected cost$5 billion of a system, prior to Milestone B approval, exceeds by at least 25% the estimated cost submittedamounts made available to the Council at the timeDOD in this Act between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of system certification; and (3) the Council to then consider whether to recommend that the development program be continued or terminated.each transfer.

(Sec. 946) Requires the DOD future-years mission budget1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be organizedappropriated to DOD in the Warner Act by core mission areas.the amount by which appropriations pursuant to such authorizations are increased or decreased pursuant to the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007.

(Sec. 947) Requires the: (1) Secretary1003) Amends the Warner Act to direct the commandersexempt transfers of combatant commandsfunds to prepare extended planning annexes to all operationalthe Iraq Security Forces Fund and contingency plans; and (2) annexes to be submitted biannually toJoint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund from dollar limits on the Secretary and JCS Chairman. Outlines Council responsibilities with respect togeneral transfer authority of such annexes.Act.

<b>Subtitle F: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 951) Requires all future national security strategies and(Sec. 1004) Provides the next quadrennial defense reviewtotal amount to include guidance onbe contributed by the effect of climate change on DOD facilities, capabilities, and missions, including preparednessSecretary in FY2008 for natural disasters from extreme weather events.the common-funded budgets of NATO (rather than the maximum amount otherwise applicable under the FY1998 baseline limitation).

(Sec. 952) Directs1005) Requires DOD's Director of the SecretaryBusiness Transformation Agency to: (1) carry out an initiative for financial management transformation in the defense agencies in order to, among other things, eliminate or replace defense agency financial management systems that are duplicative, redundant, or fail to developcomply with current standards; and (2) submit to Congressthe defense and appropriations committees a plan to improvefor development and reformimplementation of the interagency coordination process on national security issues.initiative.

(Sec. 953)1006) Amends the David L. Boren National Security Education ActDepartment of 1991Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to include as a service option underrepeal the National Security Education Program those who serve at least one year in an educational position related to the study supported by the Program after being unable to find other federal employmentrequirement that fulfills Program requirements.DOD submit a biennial budget.

(Sec. 954) Authorizes1007) Extends from two to four fiscal years the Secretarylength of time by which funds can be transferred back to enter into an agreement with an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization to conduct a study on the national security interagency system. Requires a results report from the organizationForeign Currency Fluctuations, Defense account to Congress and the President.offset losses caused by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

<b>Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters </b>- (Sec. 1001) Authorizes(Sec. 1008) Requires the Secretary, in the national interest,President to transfer upsubmit a justification report to $4.5 billion ofCongress if the amounts made available to DODArmed Forces are involved in this Act between any such authorizationsa major military conflict in a fiscal year and the aggregate amount included in the DOD budget for health care for that fiscal year is less than the aggregate amount provided by Congress for DOD for health care for the preceding fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. and the total allocation from the Defense Health Program to any military department is less than that total allocation for the previous fiscal year.

(Sec. 1002) Provides<b>Subtitle B: Counter-Drug Activities </b>- (Sec. 1011) Amends the NDAA for the determination of the total amountFiscal Year 1998 to be contributed byinclude the Secretary in FY2008Dominican Republic and Mexico among countries for the common-funded budgets of NATO (rather than the maximum amount otherwise applicable under the FY1998 baseline limitation).which DOD may provide support for foreign counter-drug activities.

<b>Subtitle B: Policy Relating(Sec. 1012) Directs the President to Vessels and Shipyards </b>- (Sec. 1011) Prohibits the Secretary concerned from contractingreport to Congress on counternarcotics assistance for a lease or charter of a vessel for a term of more than 24 months if the hull or componentgovernment of the hull and superstructure of that vessel is constructed in a foreign shipyard. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition in the national security interest after 30 days' prior congressional notification.Haiti.

(Sec. 1012) States that it is<b>Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Authorities and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 1021) Increases during FY2008, from $200,000 to $5 million, the policytotal amount of the United Statesmonetary rewards available to constructDOD for assistance in combating terrorism. Increases from $50,000 to $1 million the major combatant vessels oftotal amount available, also during FY2008, for the naval strike forces, including all new classescommanders of combatant commands for such vessels, with integrated nuclear power systems.purpose. Requires the Secretary, with respectSecretary to a budget submission for construction of a new class of major combatant vessel for the naval strike force, to request a vesselconsult with an integrated nuclear power system, unless the Secretary notifies Congress thatof State regarding an integrated system in such vessel is not in the national interest.award of over $2 million during FY2008.

<b>Subtitle C: Counter-Drug Activities </b>- (Sec. 1021) Amends(Sec. 1022) Repeals federal provisions, which includes an amendment under the NDAA for Fiscal Year: (1) 2004Warner Act, which modified presidential authorities relating to extend through FY2008 the authority for DOD joint task forces to provide support to law enforcement agencies conducting counterterrorism activities; and (2) 1998 to include the governmentsuse of Mexico and the Dominican Republic within DOD authority to provide support for counter-drug activitiesArmed Forces in foreign countries.major public emergencies.

<b>Subtitle D: Reports </b>- (Sec. 1031) Amends(Sec. 1023) Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Stump Act)Attorney General (AG) to extend into 2013 required reports fromprovide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the Secretarycriminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that: (1) constitutes a crime of violence or a felony under state, local, or Indian tribal laws; and (2) is motivated by prejudice based on the Directoractual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of National Intelligence (previously, the Secretary and the Directorvictim, or is a violation of Central Intelligence) concerning research on military capabilities to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets. state, local, or tribal hate crime laws.

(Sec. 1032) DirectsDirects the CGAG to reviewgive priority for such assistance: (1) with respect to crimes committed by offenders who have committed crimes in more than one state; and report(2) to rural jurisdictions that have difficulty covering the defense and appropriations committees onextraordinary investigation or prosecution expenses. Authorizes the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat OrganizationAG to award grants to assist state, local, and its activities.Indian law enforcement agencies with such expenses.

(Sec. 1033) Requires Directs the SecretaryOffice of Justice Programs to reportwork closely with funded jurisdictions (hate crimes prosecution grant recipients) to ensure that the defenseconcerns and appropriations committees onneeds of all affected parties are addressed. Outlines grant application requirements, requiring a national joint modeling and simulation development strategy, including a plan that details DOD's modeling and simulation coordination efforts.report from the AG to Congress on applications submitted. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Office of Justice Programs to award grants for such purposes. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1034) Directs the SecretaryAuthorizes appropriations to report to Congress regarding the impactDepartments of multiple overseas deployments on the familiesTreasury and Justice to increase the number of members serving such deployments as part of Operations Iraqi Freedompersonnel to prevent and Enduring Freedom.respond to alleged incidents of hate crimes.

(Sec. 1035) RequiresAmends the Secretaryfederal criminal code to study and reportimpose criminal penalties for causing (or attempting to cause) bodily injury to any person using fire, a firearm, or any explosive or incendiary device because of the defense committees on methods by which U.S. air carriers and aviation technology companies research, develop, and deploy commercial aviation technologies, and the applicabilityactual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of such technologies to military use.person.

(Sec. 1036) DirectsAmends the SecretaryHate Crimes Statistics Act to require the AG to: (1) review the procedures by which DOD classifies defense articlesacquire data on crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender and gender identity; and services containing military technology components as excess to the needs of DOD(2) include in order to identify the extent to which such procedures have failed to prevent the transferan annual summary of such articles and services to terrorists, state sponsors of terrorism, and other unfriendly countries or groups; and (2) report to Congress on review resultsdata crimes committed by and appropriate corrective measures.against juveniles.

<b>Subtitle E: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 1041) Establishes(Sec. 1024) Directs the CG to select ten jurisdictions with laws classifying certain types of offenses as relevant offenses (those that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender or age) and ten jurisdictions without such laws in order to collect data on: (1) the Officenumber of such offenses reported and investigated; (2) the Under Secretary an Officepercentage of Corrosion Policyrelevant offenses that are prosecuted and Oversight, headed by a Director, for the preventionpercentage that result in conviction; and mitigation of(3) the corrosionduration of DOD military equipment and infrastructure.sentences imposed. Requires the: (1) Secretary to submit annually with defense budget materials funding requirements for the Office; and (2) CG to study and report to Congress the defenseresults of such data collection. Authorizes the AG, at the request of a state or local law enforcement official, to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or any other assistance in the investigation or prosecution of crimes that: (1) constitute a crime of violence; (2) constitute a felony under state law; and appropriations committees an analysis(3) are motivated by animus against the victim as a member of a particular class or group. Authorizes the AG to make grants to states and local subdivisions for such funding requirements.purposes. Limits grant amounts to $100,000 for any single case. Requires the AG to: (1) report to Congress on grant applications; and (2) audit the grants awarded. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1042) Authorizes a state governor, at1025) Makes permanent (under current law terminates December 31, 2007) the requestauthority of a federal department or agency head and when authorized by the Secretary,Secretary concerned to employ unitsaccept gifts on behalf of certain members, DOD civilian employees, and members oftheir dependents. Directs the National Guard of that stateSecretary to provide defense supportprescribe regulations prohibiting the solicitation by DOD of civil authorities toany gift if the requesting departmentnature or agency. Outlines authorized typescircumstances of civil support, and provides support cost reimbursement requirements. Characterizes support duty provided as full-time National Guard duty, and limits duty periods to 180 days. Prohibits performance of support activities from: (1) adversely affecting quality of training or interfering with the member's ability to perform military functions of that unit;solicitation would compromise the integrity, or (2) degrading the military skillsappearance of the membersintegrity, of any DOD program or the military preparedness of the United States.official.

(Sec. 1043) Increases the size of payments permitted under DOD's authority1026) Allows DOD to provide rewardsenter into a cooperative agreement for assistance in combating terrorism. Allows such rewards to be provided to government personnelthe preservation, management, maintenance, and improvement of cultural resources located outside of allied forces participating in a combined operation with U.S. Armed Forces. Terminates the rewards programmilitary installation if such agreement would relieve or eliminate current or anticipated restrictions on September 30, 2010. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees.military training, testing, or operations. Includes Indian sacred sites as a covered cultural resource for such agreements.

(Sec. 1045)1027) Authorizes the Secretary to make availableaward to air carriers participating in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program on a state, unit of local government, or private U.S. entity small quantities offiscal year basis a toxic chemical or precursorone-year contract for the development or testing in the United Statesairlift services with a minimum purchase amount of material designedup to be used80% of the annual average DOD expenditure for protective purposes. Requiresairlift during the recipient to payprior five-year period. Provides for all costs associated with providing the chemicals or precursors. Requires U.S. compliance, in providing such agents, with the Convention on the Prohibitionadjustment of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Useminimum purchase amounts for periods of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, entered into force on April 29, 1997.air carrier unavailability for airlift.

(Sec. 1046) Establishes1028) Authorizes the Congressional Commission on the Strategic PostureSecretary of the United States to: (1) examine and make recommendations with respectAir Force to the U.S. long-term strategic posture; (2) conduct a strategic threat assessmentprovide to military and detailed reviewother state aircraft of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, strategy,a foreign country, on a reimbursable basis, routine airport services and force structure;miscellaneous supplies, if similar services and (3) report findings, conclusions, and recommendationssupplies are furnished on a reimbursable basis to military and state aircraft of the President,United States by that foreign country. Authorizes the Secretariesprovision of Defense, Energy, and State, andsuch services on a non-reimbursable basis if: (1) providing such services does not result in direct costs to the defense committees. Provides funding. TerminatesAir Force; or (2) the Commission on June 1, 2009.services are provided under a reciprocal agreement authorizing the provision of such services by that country to U.S. military and state aircraft.

(Sec. 1048) Amends1029) Authorizes the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006Secretary to: (1) enter into a multilateral memorandum of understanding authorizing the Strategic Airlift Capability Partnership to repealconduct the requirement for a certificationacquisition, equipping, and operation of strategic airlift aircraft; and (2) pay from DOD funds the U.S. equitable share of the costs of such activities and operations. Allows the Secretary to transfer one U.S. strategic airlift aircraft to the Partnership after notifying the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bydefense and appropriations committees of the Abraham Lincoln National Airport Commission, Illinois.aircraft chosen.

(Sec. 1049) Prohibits: (1) DOD from selling any F-14 fighter aircraft parts, except1030) Requires the Secretary to a U.S. museum or similar organization involved inprescribe directives to provide that the preservation of such aircraftAir Force shall have responsibility for historical purposes;the missions and (2) the U.S. government from issuing any licensefunctions of fixed-wing support for the export of such parts to a non-U.S. person or entity.Army intra-theater logistics.

(Sec. 1050) Directs1031) Prohibits DOD from selling any parts for the Secretary to maintain the capabilityF-14 fighter aircraft. Provides an exception for space-based nuclear detection atthe sale of parts to a level that meetsmuseum or exceeds that level as ofsimilar organization involved in the datepreservation of enactment of this Act.such aircraft for historical purposes.

(Sec. 1051) Amends1032) Requires the Stump ActSecretary, upon request of a member prior to increaseseparation or detachment from 55the member's regular unit while awaiting medical separation or retirement, to 57provide the total numberaddress and other appropriate contact information of Weaponsthe member to the veterans agency of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.the state in which the member will reside after separation or retirement.

(Sec. 1052) Expresses1033) Directs the sense ofSecretary to report to Congress thaton the Army: (1) has not been timely in procuring a replacement forfeasibility of establishing an association between the M109 self-propelled howitzer;120th Fighter Wing of the Montana Air National Guard and (2) should transition toactive-duty personnel stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. Prohibits more than 40 missiles from being removed from the NLOS-C as its replacement.564th Missile Squadron until 15 days after such report is submitted.

(Sec. 1053) Expresses<b>Subtitle D: Reports </b>- (Sec. 1041) Amends the sense of Congress that: (1) the Nation is gratefulNDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to the military personnel who guard and interrogate detainees at the Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; (2) the international community and home countries of such detainees should work with DOD to facilitate and expedite their repatriation; (3) such detainees should be charged and expeditiously prosecutedextend through 2009 an annual report on plans for their crimes; and (4) operations at such Naval Station should be carried out in a way that upholds the national interest and core value of the United States.prompt global strike capability.

(Sec. 1054) Revises federal provisions concerning1042) Requires the useSecretaries of the Armed Forces in major public emergenciesDefense and State to discontinue the executive authorityjointly report to deploy active and reserve personnel during domestic response incidents. Repeals the authority of the PresidentCongress on threats posed to direct the Secretary to provide supplies, services, and equipment to persons affectedUnited States from ungoverned areas, including threats posed by major public emergencies.terrorist groups.

(Sec. 1055) Expresses1043) Directs the sense of Congress thatSecretary to enter into an appropriate site in Arlington National Cemetery should be provided foragreement with an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization to conduct a memorial markerstudy on the national security interagency system. Requires the organization chosen to honorreport study results to Congress and the memory ofPresident. Requires the 40 membersstudy to include, among other things: (1) a synthesis of the U.S. Armed Forces who lost their livespast studies evaluating previous interagency efforts at planning and executing post-conflict contingency relief and reconstruction operations, including those in Iraq; and (2) recommendations for legislation that would improve interagency cooperation in the air crash at Bakers Creek, Australia, on June 14, 1943.planning and execution of such operations.

(Sec. 1056) Prohibits any unescorted civilian seeking access to1044) Requires, within a military installation or facility, or any civilian employeecurrent annual report concerning veterans' reemployment rights, the number of a contractor or vendor of a military installation or facility, from entry onto such installation or facility unless a background investigation on such person has been conductedcases reviewed by DOD. Allowsthe Secretary under the National Committee for Employer Support of the waiverGuard and Reserve of such prohibition by the base commanderDepartment of such installation or facility for persons attending base-sponsored community activities.Defense.

(Sec. 1057) Requires1045) Directs the SecretarySecretaries of Defense and Energy to submiteach report to Congress on the defense and appropriations committees a planrequirements for a workforce to support the transfernuclear missions of each individual presently detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under the controlNavy and the Department of Energy during the ten-year period beginning on the Joint Task Force, Guantanamo, who is or ever has been classified as an &quot;enemy combatant.&quot;report date.

(Sec. 1058) Directs1046) Requires the SecretaryCG to study and report to Congress on the usedefense and appropriations committees assessing the response of power management software by DOD civilianthe Defense Finance and military personnel and facilitiesAccounting Service to reduce the use of electricitydecision in computer monitors<i>Butterbaugh vs. Department of Justice</i> (concerning compensation claims of certain former and personal computers.current reserve personnel).

<b>Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters </b>- (Sec. 1101) Authorizes compensation for Federal Wage System employees who are exempt from(Sec. 1047) Directs the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act for time spent travelingSecretary to report to the defense and from an administratively uncontrollable event (thus providing themappropriations committees assessing the facilities and operations of the same treatment as is provided General Schedule employees).Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood Military Reservation, Texas.

(Sec. 1102) Authorizes1048) Requires the headSecretaries of the Army and Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a federal agencyjoint report on plans to provide quarters, rations, and storagereplace the monument at the Tomb of a personal vehicle during an extended (more thanthe Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Prohibits either Secretary from replacing such monument until 180 days) contingency operations deployment.days after the report is submitted.

(Sec. 1103) Allows senior-level federal employees (above GS-15)1049) Directs the Secretary to accumulate annual leave inconduct a study (through a federally funded research and development center [FFRDC]) on alternatives for the same manner as employeessize and mix of assets for the Senior Executive Service,Air Force intertheater airlift force, with an emphasis on current and planned capabilities and costs of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service,C-5 and certain other senior government officials.C-17 aircraft fleets. Requires the: (1) FFRDC to develop a methodology for the conduct of such study; (2) CG to review such methodology; (3) FFRDC to modify the methodology to address flaws and weaknesses identified by the CG; (4) FFRDC to report study results to the Secretary, CG, and the defense and appropriations committees; (5) CG to review study results and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees; and (6) Secretary to report study results to the defense committees.

(Sec. 1104) Allows prevailing rate employees1050) Requires the Secretary of: (1) Defense to receive compensatory time off for each hour spentreport to Congress on official travel which is not otherwise compensable.the relocation of the North American Aerospace Defense command center and related functions from Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colorado, to Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado; and (2) the Air Force to submit to Congress a master infrastructure recapitalization plan for the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station.

(Sec. 1105) Directs<b>Subtitle E: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 1061) Requires the United States to paySecretary to: (1) conduct a death gratuitycomprehensive review of $100,000 upon the death of a civilian employee who dies of injuries in connection with service with an armed force in a contingency operation or in connection with a terrorist incident during the employee's service with an armed force. Makes this section effective for deaths occurring on or after October 7, 2001, in connection with service in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom. Provides a priority for survivorsU.S. nuclear posture for the receipt of such gratuity. Allows the employeenext five to designate another personten years; and (2) report review results to receive up to 50%Congress. Expresses the sense of Congress that such payment, with the balance toreview should be paid according to the survivor priority.used as a basis for establishing future U.S. arms control objectives and negotiating positions.

(Sec. 1106) Provides1062) Amends the NDAA for employees of the National Security Personnel System: (1) a pay-for-performance evaluation systemFiscal Year 2006 to reward individual or group performance; and (2) access to an employee appeals process. Requiresterminate the decision to collectively bargain at a level aboveCommission on the levelImplementation of exclusive recognition to be mutually agreed to by the SecretaryNew Strategic Posture of Labor and the labor organization representing such employees. Guarantees for such employees a veterans' preference in hiring, as well as bargaining when the agency undertakes a reduction-in-force.United States.

(Sec. 1107) Allows annuity payments under1063) Requires the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to commence on eitherDirector of the day after retirementNational Counterterrorism Center, the director of a national intelligence center, or head of any department, agency, or element of the dayintelligence community, within 15 days after age and service requirements are met.receiving a request from the defense committees for any intelligence assessment, report, or other intelligence information, to provide such information. Requires such information to be provided unless the President certifies that the information is not being provided because the President is asserting a privilege pursuant to the U.S. Constitution. Allows intelligence officials to provide testimony before such committees without having to seek approval or clearance of such testimony.

(Sec. 1108) Authorizes1064) Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to prohibit the head of a federal agency from granting or renewing a security clearance of a covered person who is: (1) an unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance; or (2) mentally incompetent, as determined by an appropriate adjudicating authority. Defines a &quot;covered person&quot; as: (1) an officer or employee of a DOD or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality to voluntarily transfer, withoutfederal agency; (2) a breakmember of the Armed Forces on active duty or in servicean active status; or (3) an officer or employee of more than three days,a contractor of a federal agency. Prohibits the head of a federal agency, after January 1, 2008, and absent a waiver, from granting or renewing a clearance to any covered person who has been: (1) convicted of a civil service appropriated fund positioncrime for which the sentence was imprisonment for more than one year, and was so incarcerated for at least one year; or (2) discharged or dismissed from the lowest pay withinArmed Forces under dishonorable conditions. Provides a waiver for the appropriate gradelatter prohibition when mitigating factors are present. Requires an annual report from the head of any federal agency that equalsemploys or exceeds the employee's previous pay level.employed a person for whom a waiver was granted.

(Sec. 1109) Allows1065) Directs the dependents ofSecretary and the DNI to: (1) implement a civilian employee who dies while on deployment in a combat zonedemonstration project that applies new and innovative approaches to be relocated to their homeimprove the processing of record at government expense, notwithstanding thatrequests for security clearances; (2) evaluate the dependents were residing withincurrent process for issuing such clearances and develop a specific plan and schedule for replacing such process; and (3) report to Congress on the continental United States atdemonstration project, the timeresults of the employee's death.evaluation, and the plan and schedule developed.

(Sec. 1110) Allows federal employees who sustain a combat-related injury while on active duty in1066) Directs the National Guard or reservesSecretary to accept donated leave without depleting their own accrued annual leave. Limits such authorityestablish an advisory panel to assess DOD capabilities to provide support to U.S. civil authorities in the period that the employee undergoes medical treatment for the injury,event of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive incident. Requires: (1) interagency cooperation with the panel; and (2) a five-year limit.panel findings report to the Secretary and the defense committees.

(Sec. 1111) Directs1067) Expresses the Secretary to: (1) fully implement the project first authorized undersense of Congress that the NDAAWestern Hemisphere Institute for Fiscal Year 1995 to carry out personnel management demonstration projects at DOD laboratories that are exempt from inclusion in DOD's National Security Personnel System; (2) expand the authority to give laboratory directors enhanced abilityCooperation, which provides security education and training to make program, funding,military personnel, law enforcement officials, and other decisions to carry outcivilians of nations of the laboratory mission;Western Hemisphere that support democratic principles, is an invaluable education and (3) report annually to Congress a listtraining facility in fostering partnership and description ofinteroperability among the demonstration project notices, amendments,U.S. military and changes requested by laboratories.the militaries of participating nations.

(Sec. 1112) Amends1068) Makes technical amendments necessitated by the federal information technology exchange program (a program allowing federal information technology employees to be transferred to a private sector organization for up to two years duringenactment of the five-year period after December 17, 2002) to allow a DOD information technology employee to be transferred during the eight-year period after such date. Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

<b>Title XII: Matters Relating to(Sec. 1069) Establishes in the Executive Office of the President a National Foreign Nations - Subtitle A: AssistanceLanguage Coordination Council to, among other things, oversee, coordinate, and Training </b>- (Sec. 1201) Allowsimplement the Secretary to assign personnel for military-to-military contact and other personnel exchange programsNational Security Language Initiative announced by the President on a non-reciprocal basis, ifJanuary 5, 2006. Requires an annual report from the Secretary determines it is inCouncil to the President and specified congressional committees. Establishes the best interestsposition of National Language Director to, among other things, develop and monitor the United States.implementation of a national foreign language strategy.

(Sec. 1202) Amends1070) Authorizes the Reagan ActSecretary to extend through FY2010determine whether an operational support mission can be conducted by aircraft under contract with the authority for the DOD support of military activities of foreign forces, groups, or individuals to combat terrorism. Extends related report requirements.Armed Forces as a civil operation in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations.

(Sec. 1203) Authorizes1071) Directs the Secretary to paydevelop a form for the medical expenses incurred by a liaison officer from a developing country who is temporarily assigned to a headquartersdesignation of a combatant command, component command, or subordinate operational command in connection withrecipient for funds distributed under the planning for, or conduct of, a coalition operation. Authorizes the SecretaryServicemembers' Group Life Insurance program to pay such officer's temporary duty expenses when requestedbe used by the commanderfiduciary of onea member who is medically incapacitated or experiencing an extended loss of such commands to travel in support of the United States. Extends permanently (previously expired on December 31, 2005) the Secretary's authority to provide administrative services and support to such officers.consciousness.

(Sec. 1204) Amends1072) Expresses the Warner Act to extend through FY2008sense of Congress that: (1) single parents who are members of the authority of,Armed Forces with minor dependents, and dual-military couples with minor dependents, should develop and maintain effective family care plans; and increase(2) the authorizationSecretary should establish procedures to ensure that if the single parent or both spouses of appropriations for, DODa dual-military couple are required to enter into agreements with NATO members, major non-NATO allies, and friendly foreign countriesdeploy to participate in centersan area of excellencehostile fire or imminent danger, appropriate steps are taken to enhance interoperability, develop military doctrine, and develop and test new concepts.ensure adequate care of the minor dependents.

(Sec. 1205) Amends1073) Allows members and veterans who are present but not in uniform during the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006hoisting, lowering, or passing of the flag to extend through FY2009render the Commander's Emergency Response program (DOD provision of humanitarian and related relief to Iraq and Afghanistan).military salute.

(Sec. 1206) Amends1074) Delays until October 1, 2011, (current law delays until October 1, 2008) the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to use existing authority for specified assistance to Pakistan to provide assistance to buildapplication of the capacity of Pakistan's other security forces that are criticalNational Security Personnel System to the success of counterterrorist operations. Requires congressional notification 30 days in advance of the use of such authority.defense laboratories.

(Sec. 1207) Authorizes1075) Allows the Secretary to authorize qualified members of the Armed Forces and civilian DOD employees to provide assistancephysical protection and security within the United States to foreign nations to assist DOD in recoverythe: (1) Secretary and accounting activitiesDeputy Secretary of Defense; (2) JCS Chairman and Vice Chairman; (3) Secretaries of the military departments; (4) Chiefs of the services; and (5) commanders of combatant commands. Authorizes protection and security for missing U.S. government personnel. Limits such assistancecertain other individuals when determined necessary (requiring a written determination, and submission to $1 million per fiscal year.the defense and appropriations committees, of such need).

(Sec. 1208) Allows1076) Amends the SecretarySpence Act to authorize a department Secretary or combatant command commanderextend until November 30, 2008, the due date of the final report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to exchange or furnish automatic identification system data broadcast by merchant or private ships and collected by the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack. Requires the Commission and the Secretary of Homeland Security to a foreign country or international organization pursuantjointly ensure that the Commission's work with respect to an agreement forelectromagnetic pulse attack on electricity infrastructure, and protection against such an exchange.attack, is coordinated with Department of Homeland Security efforts on such matters. Limits DOD funding to the Commission for preparation and submission of its final report.

(Sec. 1209) Requires a report from1077) Expresses the Secretary tosense of the appropriations, defense,Senate that the Senate commends, and foreign relations committees describing all foreign assistance-related programs, projects,the people of the United States owe the deepest gratitude toward, Kaziah M. Hancock and activities carried out by DOD.the members of Project Compassion, who have presented over 700 museum-quality original oil portraits to the families of members of the Armed Forces who have died during active duty since September 11, 2001.

<b>Subtitle B: Matters Relating(Sec. 1078) Grants a federal charter to Iraq </b>- (Sec. 1221) Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and forKorean War Veterans Association, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the Reconstructionlaws of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 to extend the responsibilities of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction to include authority over all reconstruction funding provided, regardless of its source or fiscal year availability.New York).

(Sec. 1222) Amends1079) Expresses the Warner Actsense of the Senate: (1) reaffirming its support for all men and women of the Armed Forces, including General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq; (2) strongly condemning any effort to make permanentattack the prohibition onhonor and integrity of General Petraeus and the establishmentmembers of permanent military installations in Iraq or U.S. control over oil resources of Iraq.the Armed Forces; and (3) specifically repudiating the unwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist group Moveon.org.

(Sec. 1223) Requires a biannual report from1080) Directs the Secretary to Congress on DOD effortsreport to build the capacity ofdefense and appropriations committees on the governmentfeasibility of Iraqutilizing existing infrastructure or installing new infrastructure at Kelly Air Field, San Antonio, Texas, to carry out reconstruction activitieshouse a National Disaster Response Center for responding to man-made and natural disasters in Iraq.the United States.

(Sec. 1224) Directs1081) Expresses the Secretary to report tosense of the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees detailingSenate that the implementation status of the Multi-National Forces-Iraq/United States Embassy Baghdad Joint Campaign Plan since January 1, 2007,Army and efforts by the government of IraqAir National Guard should have sufficient equipment available to achieve political reform in Iraq. Requiresaccomplish their missions inside the Commander, Multi-National Forces-IraqUnited States and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq to jointly submit to protect the Secretaries of Defense and State an assessment of the situation in Iraq, including an assessment of the effectiveness of the Iraqi Security Forces. Requires an update of such report every 180 days until U.S. combat forces have been redeployed from Iraq.homeland.

(Sec. 1225)1082) Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary of the Navy to identify and notify directly any individuals who were served by the defenseTarawa Terrace water distribution system at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during the years 1958 through 1987 that they may have been exposed to drinking water contaminated with tetrachloroethylene (PCE). Requires such Secretary to also: (1) notify individuals who were served by the Hadnot Point water distribution system of contaminated drinking water to which they may have been exposed; and foreign relations committees assessing(2) identify and notify directly civilian employees who worked at Camp Lejeune during the period identified in the study by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the drinking water contamination to which they may have been exposed. Requires the ATSDR to develop a health survey of individuals possibly contaminated, to be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy in connection with the Iraqi Security Forces.required notifications.

(Sec. 1226)1083) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Iraqi Council of Representatives should not recess for an extended period of time without first making substantial progress toward: (1) enacting a law that equitably shares oil revenue among all Iraqis; (2) adopting laws forSenate encouraging the conduct of provincial and local elections; (3) reforming laws governing the de-Baathification process; (4) amending the Iraq ConstitutionAir Force to encourage national reconciliation; and (5) enacting legislation that helpsgive full consideration to begin the process of political reconciliationpotential operational utility, cost savings, and reduce support forincreased safety afforded by the insurgency in Iraq.utilization of towbarless aircraft ground equipment.

<b>Subtitle C: Matters Relating to Afghanistan </b>- (Sec. 1231) Establishes(Sec. 1084) Designates the OfficeDepartment of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction to: (1) provide independent and objective audits and investigations relating to Afghanistan reconstruction programs and operations funded with DOD funds; (2) provide leadership and coordinationVeterans Affairs Medical Center at 1 Freedom Way in the administration of such programs and operations; and (3) keep the Secretary fully informed about problems and deficiencies in the administration of such programs and operations,Augusta, Georgia, as well as appropriate corrective actions. Requires the Special Inspector General to appoint an Assistant Inspector General for: (1) Auditing; and (2) Investigations. Requires: (1) quarterly reports from the Special Inspector General to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees; (2) semiannual reports meeting requirements&quot;Charlie Norwood Department of the Inspector General Act of 1978; and (3) the public availability of such reports. Allows the President to waive the public availability requirement for national security purposes. Provides Office funding. Terminates the Office ten months after 80% of the funds made available to DOD for the reconstruction of Afghanistan have been expended. Requires a final report from the Special Inspector General prior to such termination.Veterans Affairs Medical Center.&quot;

(Sec. 1232) Directs1085) Amends the Secretary to reportSmall Business Act to prohibit the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees on progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan. Outlines mattersauthority to be included increate and administer the commercialization pilot program under such report, including:Act from being being construed to eliminate or replace any other small business innovation research (SBIR) program that enhances the insertion or transition of SBIR technologies. States that, for any SBIR program contract valued at not less than $100 million, the Secretary is authorized to: (1) Afghanistan National Security Forces capacity-building;establish goals for transitioning phase III technologies in subcontracting plans; and (2) provincial reconstruction teams and other reconstruction and development activities; (3) regional (geographic) considerations;require a prime contractor to report the number and (4) performance indicators and measuresdollar amount of progress toward sustainable long-term securitycontracts entered into by that contractor for phase III SBIR projects. Directs the Secretary to set goals and stability in Afghanistan. Requires ause incentives with respect to SBIR technology insertion, and to report update every 90 days.annually to the defense and small business committees on SBIR program contracts awarded. Extends the commercialization pilot program through FY2012.

(Sec. 1233)1086) Requires: (1) a report from the Secretary to Congressthe defense and appropriations committees on DOD counter-narcotics objectives for Afghanistan, as well as the strategy for implementing such objectives;status, capability, viability, and capacity of the solid rocket motor industrial base in the United States; and (2) a CG review of such report update every 90 days.to such committees.

(Sec. 1234) Directs1087) Justice for Marines and Other Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act - States that a foreign state shall not be immune from an action in a U.S. court in any case in which money damages are sought for personal injury or death that was caused by an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, hostage taking, or the Secretary to submitprovision of material support or resources for any such act engaged in by an official, employee, or agent of such foreign state while acting within the scope of such office, employment, or agency. Allows a U.S. court to hear such a claim if: (1) the defense, appropriations, foreign relations, and judiciary committeesstate was designated as a plan for sustainingstate sponsor of terrorism at the Afghanistan National Army andtime the Afghanistan National Policeact occurred; (2) the claimant was a U.S. national, member of the Afghanistan National Security ForcesArmed Forces, or employee of the government acting within the scope of such employment; or (3) the claimant has afforded the foreign state a reasonable opportunity to ensure long-term security and stability in Afghanistan.arbitrate the claim. Requires actions to brought no later than the latter of ten years after: (1) April 24, 1996, or (2) the cause of action arose. Allows: (1) a plan update every 90 days.private right of action; and (2) U.S. courts to appoint special masters to hear such claims. Provides application to pending cases.

(Sec. 1235) Expresses1088) Amends the sense of Congress thatSmall Business Act to extend through FY2010 the United States should help provide for necessary upgradesauthorization for the airfield located in Abeche, Chad, in order to support potential NATO operations, facilitate a possible UN deployment to Chad and the Darfur region, and support humanitarian operations. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the current operational status of the airfield and recommendations for appropriate upgrades.SBIR program.

<b>Subtitle D: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 1241) Redesignates certain terms relating(Sec. 1089) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2002 to DOD cooperative researchincrease the amount authorized for repair, restoration, and development agreements with NATO countries and other allied and friendly foreign nations.preservation of the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-Lacoquette, France.

(Sec. 1242) Amends the NDAA1090) Provides for Fiscal Year 1994 to: (1) replace the DirectorDOD retention of Central Intelligence withfunds received for the Directorprovision of National Intelligence on the Counterproliferation Program Review Committee; (2) add to such Committee the Secretaries of State, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services, as well as the EPA Administrator; (3) extend the Committee through FY2013; and (4) make related reports biennial rather than annual.reciprocal fire protection services.

(Sec. 1243) Expresses1091) Designates the sensescientific institute of Congress that: (1) the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation is succeedingresearch and education in providing security educationmedicine and trainingrelated sciences to eligible Western Hemisphere military personnel, law enforcement officials, and civilians; and (2) therefore,enhance human performance located at the Institute should continue to be utilized.Texas Medical Center as the &quot;National Center for Human Performance.&quot;

(Sec. 1244)1092) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to add a definition of &quot;alternative fueled vehicle.&quot;

(Sec. 1093) Authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a program to allow a caregiver (a federal employee at least 21 years of age capable of providing care to a child or other dependent family member of a member of the Armed Forces) to use any available sick or any other federal leave available to that caregiver for the provision of such care. Requires the servicemember: (1) for whom the caregiving is provided to be performing service in support of a contingency operation or in situations for which hostile fire or imminent danger pay is authorized; and (2) to designate the caregiver for his or her family. Terminates the program on December 31, 2010.

Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to authorize employees of private businesses to use sick or any other leave for caregiving in the same manner as above. Directs such Secretary to solicit businesses to voluntarily participate in the program. Requires caregiver designation. Terminates the program on December 31, 2010. Requires a Government Accountability Office report to Congress on such programs.

(Sec. 1094) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) conduct a five-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of utilizing commercial fee-for-service air refueling tanker aircraft for Air Force operations; and (2) report annually to the defense and appropriations committees on such program.

(Sec. 1095) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Joint Pathology Center at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, to function as the DOD reference center in pathology.

(Sec. 1096) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the feasibility of establishing a Border State Aviation Training Center to support the current and future requirements of the existing RC-26 site for counterdrug activities located at the Fixed Wing Army National Guard Aviation Training Site.<br>

<b>Title XI: Civilian Personnel Matters </b>- (Sec. 1101) Authorizes the compensation of federal wage system employees for time spent returning from an event that cannot be scheduled administratively.

(Sec. 1102) Ensures retirement service credit for service as a cadet or midshipman at a military service academy.

(Sec. 1103) Authorizes federal civilian employees who are members of a reserve component called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 consecutive days to continue coverage under Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance for up to 24 months after discontinuance of federal pay by reason of the performance of such duty.

(Sec. 1104) Revises provisions concerning the National Security Personnel System to: (1) exclude DOD wage-grade employees; and (2) terminate immediately (currently scheduled to terminate November 24, 2009) provisions allowing the Secretary to adjust the DOD labor relations system to address the role played by civilian personnel in DOD's national security mission.

(Sec. 1105) Authorizes the head of an executive agency to waive current limitations on total compensation paid to an employee who performs overseas work related to a military operation or in response to a declared emergency within an area of responsibility of the U.S. Central Command. Limits to $212,100 the total compensation that may be paid to an employee pursuant to the waiver.

(Sec. 1106) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Thurmond Act) to include within an experimental personnel program for DOD scientific and technical personnel not more than 20 scientific and engineering positions in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.

(Sec. 1107) Repeals the authority to pay a uniform allowance to DOD civilian employees.

(Sec. 1108) Authorizes increased annual compensation (up to $400,000) for faculty and staff of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

<b>Title XII: Matters Relating to Foreign Nations - Subtitle A: Assistance and Training </b>- (Sec. 1201) Authorizes the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to provide equipment, supplies, services, and personnel training to a foreign nation to assist DOD with recovery of and accounting for missing U.S. personnel. Limits to $1 million the amount of any such assistance provided in a fiscal year. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on assistance provided.

(Sec. 1202) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 concerning a program under which the Secretary provides funds to the Secretary of State for the provision of reconstruction, security, or stabilization assistance to a foreign country to: (1) increase from $100 million to $200 million the total funds that may be provided by the Secretary; (2) require the Secretary of State to coordinate with the Secretary in the formulation of a plan on the use of such funds; and (3) extend program authority through FY2008.

(Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified FY2008 DOD O&amp;M funds to fund the Commander's Emergency Response program (DOD provision of humanitarian and related relief to Iraq and Afghanistan). Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the source and allocation of such funds.

(Sec. 1204) Requires a report from the CG to the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees assessing the Global Peace Operations Initiative.

(Sec. 1205) Amends the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 to repeal the prohibition on U.S. military assistance to parties to the International Criminal Court.

<b>Subtitle B: Other Authorities and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 1211) Renames &quot;arms cooperation opportunities documents&quot; as &quot;cooperative opportunities documents&quot; for purposes of cooperative research and development agreements between the United States, NATO organizations, and other allied and friendly foreign countries.

(Sec. 1212) Amends the Warner Act to: (1) allow DOD to lend certain military equipment to military forces of a nation participating with the United States in a United Nations (UN) or other international agreement. (Under current law, such equipment may be provided to foreign military forces of nations participating with the United States in military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan.) Extends the overall lending authority through FY2009.

(Sec. 1213) Authorizes the Secretary to accept specified funds from the government of Palua to defray the costs of DOD military civic action teams there.

(Sec. 1214) Amends the Warner Act to: (1) extend through FY2008 authorized DOD participation in multinational military centers of excellence; and (2) extend related reporting requirements.

(Sec. 1215) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S.Thailand should restore democratic rule and hold free and fair national elections as soon as possible, and no later than December 2007; and (2) once Thailand has fully reestablished democratic rule, it will be both possible and desirable for the United States to reinstate a full program of military warfighting capabilitiesassistance to the government of Thailand. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to provide direct assistance to the government of Thailand until 15 days after the Secretary notifies the defense and foreign relations committees of such assistance. Provides an exception for certain humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid.

(Sec. 1216) Prohibits the Secretary from obligating more than 75% of the funds authorized for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy until the President submits to Congress a report required under the Warner Act concerning policy objectives and U.S. strategy for Iran.

(Sec. 1217) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of DOD funds provided to certain foreign countries for security and stabilization assistance until the President certifies to Congress that all provisions of the Warner Act concerning the appointment of a North Korea Policy Coordinator have been or are potentially threatenedbeing carried out.

(Sec. 1218) States that it is the policy of the United States to: (1) develop and deploy an effective defense against the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles; and (2) make such missile defenses fielded by the strategicUnited States in Europe integrated with or complimentary to such missile defenses fielded there by NATO.

(Sec. 1219) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to direct the Secretary of State to authorize a $50 million award for the capture or death, or information leading to the capture or death, of Osama bin Laden. Requires a report from the Secretaries of State and Defense on progress made in bringing bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders to justice.

<b>Subtitle C: Reports </b>- (Sec. 1231) Requires semiannual reports through 2009, from the President to the defense and appropriations committees, on U.S. policy and military capabilitiesoperations in Afghanistan.

(Sec. 1232) Directs the President to report to the defense and intentionsappropriations committees describing the long-term U.S. strategy to engage with the government of Pakistan to: (1) prevent the People's Republicmovement of China;Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other violent extremist forces across the border of Pakistan into Afghanistan; and (2) iteliminate safe havens for such forces within Pakistan. Provides that, for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the government of Pakistan may not be reimbursed through DOD coalition support funding unless the President certifies to such committees that Pakistan is inmaking substantial and sustained efforts to eliminate its terrorist safe havens. Authorizes the President to waive the reimbursement prohibition after certifying to such committees that it is important to U.S. national security interest to understand China's military capabilitiesdo so.

(Sec. 1233) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to extend to January 7, 2008, a required update of a report on claims relating to the bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in Berlin, Germany, in April 1986.

(Sec. 1234) Requires a report from the Secretaries of State and intentions;Defense to the defense and (3)foreign relations committees on U.S. policy to address the crisis in Darfur, in eastern Chad, and in northeastern Central African Republic, and on U.S. contributions in support of the current African Union Mission in Sudan or any covered UN mission. Repeals superseded report requirements under the Warner Act.

(Sec. 1235) Expresses the sense of Congress on the possible significant role of the airfield located in Abeche, Republic of Chad, in providing stability in the Darfur region. Requires a report from the Secretary should expand efforts to accurately assess China's strategicthe appropriate congressional committees on such airfield and upgrades necessary to achieve stability purposes, as well as related matters.

(Sec. 1236) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 to include information on asymmetric capabilities, including cyberwarfare, in an annual report of military modernization, particularly with regardpower of the People's Republic of China.

(Sec. 1237) Requires a report from the Secretary to its sea-the defense committees on the status of implementation of provisions of the Warner Act relating to the application of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to military contractors during a time of war or a contingency operation.

(Sec. 1238) Directs the President to report to Congress on family reunions between U.S. citizens and space-based strategic capabilities.their relatives in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

(Sec. 1239) Requires the Secretaries of State and Defense to each report to the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees assessing the capabilities of each of their departments to provide training and guidance to the command of an international intervention force that seeks to prevent mass atrocities.

<b>Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet Union </b>- (Sec. 1301) Specifies the cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs to be funded through O&amp;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 the new purposes. Provides limited authority to vary allocated amounts in the national interest, after congressional notification.

(Sec. 1303) ExpressesAmends the sense of Congress thatNDAA for Fiscal Year: (1) 1997 to authorize the Secretary to carry out specified CTR program should be strengthened and expanded,programs in part by developing new CTR initiatives. Outlines CTR goalsstates outside the former Soviet Union; and objectives(2) 2004 to allow the Secretary, with the concurrence of such initiatives. Requires the Secretary to: (1) arrange forof State (under current law, allows the National Academy of SciencesPresident) to carry out a studyexercise the emergency authority to analyze optionsuse prior-year CTR balances for strengthening and expanding the CTR program; and (2) report to the defense, appropriations, and foreign relations committees ona proliferation threat reduction project or activity outside the new initiatives. Provides funding.former Soviet Union.

(Sec. 1304) Directs the Secretary to:1305) Repeals provisions of the: (1) notifySoviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, the defense and appropriations committees within 30 days after the commencementCooperative Threat Reduction Act of negotiations for,1993, and finalization of, an agreement with the Russian FederationNDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 which transfers to Russiarequire a number of annual certifications before any remaining DOD responsibilities with respect to the project for chemical weapons destruction at Shchuch'ye, Russia;CTR funds may be obligated in a fiscal year; and (2) reportNDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 which authorize the President to such committees on such project.waive the annual certification requirements.

(Sec. 1305) Amends various Acts to repeal:1306) Requires the Secretary to: (1) certain presidential certification requirements relatingenter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to assistancecarry out a study to identify areas for cooperation with states other than states of the Russian Federationformer Soviet Union under the CTR program;program for the prevention of proliferation of biological weapons; and (2) a limitation onreport study results to the use of CTR funds for chemical weapons destruction in Russia.defense committees. Provides funding.

(Sec. 1306) Amends the NDAA<b>Title XIV: Other Authorizations - Subtitle A: Military Programs </b>- (Sec. 1401) Authorizes appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004 to:DOD for FY2008 for: (1) authorizeDefense Working Capital Funds; (2) the Secretary (under current law,National Defense Sealift Fund; (3) the President)Defense Health Program; (4) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (5) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities (earmarking a specified amount for such activities with respect to use CTR funds outside the former Soviet Union;Afghanistan); and (2) repeal its funding limitation.(6) the Defense Inspector General.

(Sec. 1307) Increases1407) Reduces by $48,000 CTR funding provided in this title,$1.627 billion the aggregate amount authorized to be usedappropriated by this Division, to expand staff capacitybe allocated from the following: (1) procurement; (2) RDT&amp;E; (3) O&amp;M; and resources(4) other authorizations. States that such reductions shall be derived from lower-than-expected inflation than assumptions used in the Concurrent Budget Resolution for activities related to new CTR initiatives.Fiscal Year 2008.

<b>Title XIV: Wounded Warrior Assistance - Subtitle A: Improved Assistance for Wounded Warriors<b>Subtitle B: National Defense Stockpile </b>- (Sec. 1411) Requires a member ofAuthorizes the Armed Forces in an outpatient status at a military medical treatment facilitySecretary to be assigned a medical care case manager to: (1) assist in understanding the member's medical status; (2) assist the member in receiving prescribed medical care; and (3) conduct a review, at least once a week,dispose of the member's medical status. Allows each case manager to be assigned to no more than 17 members, with a waiver by the Secretary concerned for up to 120 days due to unforeseen circumstances. Directs50,000 tons of ferromanganese from the SecretaryNational Defense Stockpile (NDS) during FY2008. Authorizes the Secretary, if such disposal is completed before September 30, 2008, to establish a standard training program and curriculumdispose of up to be completed by each case manager. Requires each outpatient member to also be assigned a service member advocate.50,000 additional tons before such date. Allows each advocate to be assigned to no more than 30 members (with the same authorized waiver as above). Requires the Secretary to provide informationdispose of the additional amounts only after certifying to each memberthe defense committees, at least 30 days in advance, that the additional disposal: (1) is in an outpatient status (and their family members) on the availabilityinterest of services provided by case managers and advocates. Directs the Secretary concernednational defense; (2) will not cause disruption to conduct semiannual surveys of such members, which shall include an assessment of the qualityusual U.S. markets or producers and processors of care, adequacy of living facilities,ferromanganese; and fairness(3) is consistent with NDS requirements and timeliness of the physical disability evaluation system.purposes.

(Sec. 1412) RequiresAuthorizes the Secretary to establish a DOD-wide Ombudsman Officedispose of up to provide policy guidance to, and oversight of, ombudsman offices in500 short tons of chrome metal from the military departments. NDS during FY2008. Authorizes the Secretary, if such disposal is completed before September 30, 2008, to dispose of up to 500 additional short tons, requiring the same certification as above.

(Sec. 1413) DirectsAmends the Secretary to establish a toll-free hotlineNDAA for use by membersFiscal Year 2000 and their dependents for reporting deficiencies in medical-related support facilities. Requires individuals providing information to be notified of the optionThurmond Act to have their identity remain confidential. Requires the Secretary to ensure that, not later than 96 hours after a report of deficiencies is received by way of the hotline or other source: (1) the deficiencies are investigated; and (2) if substantiated, a plan of action for remediation is developed and implemented. Authorizes temporary member relocation in the case of conditions that violate healthincrease FY2000 NDS disposal authority and safety standards.FY2015 disposal receipt objectives.

(Sec. 1414) Requires<b>Subtitle C: Civil Programs </b>- (Sec. 1421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for the Secretary concerned to notify the appropriate Members of Congress of the hospitalization of any member evacuated from a theater of combat. Allows such notification only with the consent of the evacuated member.Armed Forces Retirement Home (Home).

(Sec. 1415)1422) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to require the Home to be treated as a DOD military facility for purposes of entering into Home real property and facilities transactions. Requires Home administration to remain under direct control of the Secretary. Requires services provided to Home residents to include nonacute medical and dental services, pharmaceutical services, and resident transportation to acute medical and dental services and after-hours routine medical care. Directs the Secretary concerned to ensure thatappoint a Chief Medical Officer of the Home, with specified duties and qualifications. Requires the DOD Inspector General to: (1) conduct Home inspections every two years; (2) advise the Secretary and the director of each member appearing beforeHome facility on matters relating to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of the Home; and (3) provide reports on inspection results. Requires the Chief Operating Officer of the Home, every two years in a medical evaluation board has accessyear in which the Inspector General does not perform an inspection, to request an independent medical advocate.inspection of each Home facility by a nationally recognized accrediting organization. Requires reports concerning the latter inspections.

(Sec. 1416) Prohibits physical evaluation board liaison officers from being assigned more than 20 members at<b>Subtitle D: Chemical Demilitarization Matters </b>- (Sec. 1431) Allows a time (withchemical demilitarization citizens' advisory commission to remain in existence until the same authorized waiver as under section 1411, above). Requiresearlier of: (1) the Secretary to establish a standardized training program and curriculum to be completed by each officer.completion of closure activities for the chemical agent destruction facility in the commission's state; or (2) the request of that state's governor.

(Sec. 1417) Directs1432) Amends the SecretaryDepartment of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to establish a standardized training program and curriculumrepeal specified qualification requirements for military personnel, health care professionals, and other staff involved in the DOD disability evaluation system.Army's Director of the Chemical Materials Agency.

(Sec. 1418) Requires1433) Expresses the Secretary to submit to the appropriate congressional committees recommendations for improvementsense of Congress that: (1) the training providedUnited States remain committed to health care professionals, medical care case managers,dispose of its entire chemical weapons stockpile by April 2012, the current deadline, or as soon thereafter as possible; and member advocates who provide care(2) the Secretary should make every effort to plan for, or assistance to, members recoveringand request in the annual DOD budget, sufficient funding to complete such disposition in a manner that will protect public health, safety, and the environment. Requires annual reports, until the year such disposition is completed, from service-related illnesses or injuries (recovering members). Directs the Secretary to: (1) annually review such training;to specified Members and (2) develop a tracking systemcommittees of notifications made by such health care personnel regarding early warning signsCongress on the U.S. implementation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide in recovering members assigned to such personnel.its chemical weapons destruction obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

(Sec. 1419) Directs1434) Amends the SecretaryDepartment of the ArmyDefense Authorization Act, 1986 to establishextend until a one-year pilot program, at an appropriate active-duty base with a major medical facility, based onspecified conditional date the Wounded Warrior Regiment programtermination of the Marine Corps. Requires: (1) the programassistance to trackstate and assist members in an outpatient status who are still in need of medical treatment; and (2) such Secretarylocal governments for responding to report to Congress onemergencies involving the pilot program.storage or destruction of lethal chemical agents at DOD installations or facilities.

(Sec. 1420) Revises the criteria<b>Title XV: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom - Subtitle A: Authorization of Additional War-Related Appropriations </b>- (Sec. 1501) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for removalFY2008 for incremental costs of a member fromOperations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, specifically for: (1) procurement; (2) RDT&amp;E; (3) O&amp;M; (4) military personnel; (5) the Defense Health Program; (6) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (7) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (8) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; (9) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (10) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (11) Defense Working Capital Funds; (12) the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (13) the temporary disability retired list.Defense Inspector General.

(Sec. 1421)1517) Requires from the Secretary to ensure that each member who is being separated or retired due to a physical disability receives a written transition plan that includes a coordinated transition from the DOD disability system to the VA health caredefense and disability system. Requiresappropriations committees: (1) bimonthly reports on explosively formed projectiles; (2) monthly reports on mine resistant ambush protected vehicles; (3) a formal process forreport on the transitionnear- and long-term tactical wheeled vehicle fleet modernization strategies of appropriate member records to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Secretaries of DefenseArmy and Veterans Affairs to establishMarine Corps; and implement(4) a single DOD-VA medical information system for ensuring system interoperabilityreport on the Army and the exchange of critical medical information.Marine Corps long-term armoring strategy.

(Sec. 1422) Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Medical Support Fund<b>Subtitle B: General Provisions Relating to support programs: (1) relatingAuthorizations </b>- (Sec. 1522) Treats amounts authorized to the medical treatment and support of wounded and injured members and their returnbe appropriated by this title as in addition to military service or transition to civilian society; and (2) intended to support the families of wounded and injured members. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense and appropriations committees five days before transferring Fund amounts for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to ensure that a certain amount is transferred from the Fund to support programs, activities, and facilities associated with the Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment Program, with further allocations for specified purposes. Provides funding.otherwise authorized by this Act.

(Sec. 1423) Establishes1523) Authorizes the Oversight Board for Wounded WarriorsSecretary, in the national interest, to provide advice and consultationtransfer up to $3.5 billion of the Secretary and the defense committeesamounts made available to DOD in this title between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with respect to the disability evaluation systemslimitations. Requires congressional notification of the military departments and the overall treatment and care of recovering members. Requires: (1) each Board member to visit no less than three military medical treatment facilities each year; (2) the Board to conduct one meeting each year at such a facility; and (3) annual Board reports to the Secretary and the defense committees.transfer.

(Sec. 1424) Permits, in<b>Subtitle C: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 1531) Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to: (1) establish any military installation or base for providing for the casepermanent stationing of reserve personnel returning from a combat theater andU.S. Armed Forces in needIraq; or (2) exercise U.S. control of treatment on an outpatient basis for injuries or wounds sustained in such theater, treatment to be provided at the military medical facility closest to the member's home rather than closest to the base from which the member was deployed.oil resources of Iraq.

(Sec. 1425) Directs the Secretary to develop1532) Earmarks DOD O&amp;M funds for reimbursing any key cooperating nation for logistical and periodically update a plan to incorporate evidence-based preventive and early-intervention measures, practices, or procedures that reduce the likelihood that personnelmilitary support provided in combat will develop PTSDconnection with U.S. military operations in Operations Iraqi Freedom or other stress-related psychopathologies into: (1) basic and pre-deployment training for enlisted members and noncommissioned and commissioned officers; (2) combat theater operations; and (3) post-deployment service. Requires: (1) a study ofEnduring Freedom. Limits to $1.2 billion the feasibilityamount of establishing a working group for researching and developing such measures, practices, and procedures; (2)reimbursements during FY2008. Requires 15 days' advance notification of the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for peer-reviewed research of such measures, practices,defense and procedures; and (3) a report from the Secretaryappropriations committees prior to Congress on the plans and studies required under this section.any reimbursement.

<b>Subtitle B: Studies(Sec. 1533) Allows DOD O&amp;M funds to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting U.S. military and stabilization operations in Iraq and Reports </b> - (Sec. 1431)Afghanistan. Requires an annual reportquarterly reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the adequacy, suitability, and qualityprovision of medical facilities and medical-related support facilities at each DOD military installation.such support.

(Sec. 1432) Requires: (1) all military quarters1534) Requires the Secretary, with respect to the procurement of small arms (pistols and housing facilities occupied by recovering membersweapons less than 0.50 caliber) to be inspected on a semiannual basissupplied to Iraq and Afghanistan for the first two years after enactment of this Actassistance to their army, police, and annually thereafter by the inspectors general of the regional medical commands;other security organizations, to ensure that: (1) full and open competition is obtained; (2) eachno responsible U.S. manufacturer is excluded from such inspector general to report inspection results to specified officialscompetition; and (3) products manufactured in the Oversight Board for Wounded Warriors.United States are not excluded from the competition.

(Sec. 1433) Directs1535) Expresses the Secretariessense of Defense and Veterans Affairs to:Congress that: (1) conduct a joint evaluationthe murder of their respective disability evaluation systems;members of U.S. Armed Forces by a foreign government or its agents is an intolerable and unacceptable act against the United States; (2) report resultsthe government of Iran must take immediate action to end any training, arming, equipping, funding, advising, and other forms of support to Iraqi militias and insurgents who are contributing to the destabilization of Iraq and are responsible for the murder of members of the U.S. Armed Forces; (3) the U.S. executive and legislative branches must have accurate intelligence on Iran and therefore the intelligence community should produce the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran without further delay; and (4) Congress supports U.S. diplomacy with Iran in order to stop actions by the Iranian government or its agents against U.S. servicemembers in Iraq. Requires bimonthly reports concerning such matters from the Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq and the U.S. Ambassador to Congress.Iraq.

(Sec. 1434) Directs1536) Expresses the Secretarysense of the Senate that the Senate should: (1) commit itself to studya strategy that will not leave a failed state in Iraq; and report(2) not pass legislation that will undermine our military's ability to the defense committees on the provision of support services for families of recovering members.prevent a failed state in Iraq.

(Sec. 1435) Requires an interim and final report from1537) Expresses the Secretary tosense of Congress calling for: (1) the defense committees on DOD changesUnited States to ensure that traumatic brain injury victims receiveactively support a proper medical designation concomitant with such injury, as opposed topolitical settlement in Iraq based on the current designation which assignscreation of a generic &quot;organic psychiatric disorder&quot; classification.federal system of government and federal regions; and (2) the government of Iraq to quickly agree upon and implement a law providing for the equitable distribution of its oil revenues.

(Sec. 1436) Directs1538) Expresses the Secretary to conduct, and report to Congress on, an evaluationsense of the Polytrauma Liaison Officer/Non-Commissioned Officer program operated by each ofSenate that: (1) the manner in which the United States transitions and structures its military departmentspresence in Iraq will have critical long-term consequences for the future of the Persian Gulf and the VA in orderMiddle East; (2) it it critical to assist in the seamless flowU.S. national interest to prevent the government of information and communications between treatment facilitiesIran from turning Shi'a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve Iranian interests inside Iraq; (3) the United States should designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization and place them on the transitionlist of members fromspecially designated global terrorists; and (4) the DOD health care system toTreasury Department should expediently complete the VA system.listing of entities targeted as terrorist organizations under specified UN Security Council resolutions.

(Sec. 1437) Directs1539) Establishes the Secretary of: (1) DefenseCommission on Wartime Contracting to study and report toinvestigate federal agency contracting for: (1) the defense committees onreconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan; (2) the feasibilitylogistical support of developing a joint soldier tracking system for recovering members; (2) Veterans Affairs to studycoalition forces in Operations Iraqi Freedom and report to Congress onEnduring Freedom; and (3) the average lengthperformance of time between the desired date for which a veteran seeks to schedule an appointment for health care at a VA facilityintelligence and the date on whichsecurity functions in such appointment is completed;Operations. Requires interim reports and (3) Defense to conduct a study onfinal report from the feasibility of measuring family member satisfaction withCommission to Congress. Terminates the quality of health care services provided to patients, particularly those patients unable to respond to surveys on their own.Commission 60 days after its final report.

<b>Subtitle C:Directs the Special Inspector General Provisions </b> - (Sec. 1451) Prohibits, for one year after the enactmentIraq Reconstruction to conduct a series of this Act, any study or competition from being begun or announced relatingaudits to identify potential waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in the possible conversion to contractor performance of any DOD function carried out at a military medical facility. Requires a report fromand federal agency contracts and subcontracts in support of coalition forces in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and in the Secretary to the defense committees on the public-private competitions being conducted forperformance of security and reconstruction functions carried out atin such facilities by each military departmentOperations. Continues the Office of the Special Inspector General until 60 days after submission of the final report of the Commission, above. Reaffirms certain Special Inspector General duties and defense agency.responsibilities. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1452) Prohibits1540) Amends the Secretary orEmergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Secretary concerned from transferringReconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 to terminate the Office of the Special Inspector General 90 days after the balance of funds or personnel from medical care functionsappropriated for the reconstruction of Iraq is less than $250 million. Deems any funds appropriated during FY2006-FY2008 for Iraq reconstruction as amounts made available to administrative functions within DOD in order to comply with new administrative requirements imposed, or amendments made, by this title.the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.

(Sec. 1453)1541) Directs the SecretaryPresident to implement a policy to control the export and transfer of Veterans Affairsdefense articles into Iraq, and to increaseimplement a defense articles registration and monitoring system. Requires: (1) periodic review of the numberitems subject to such registration; and (2) the reporting of resident physicians at VA hospitals.review results to the Speaker of the House and specified congressional committees.

(Sec. 1454) Provides that, when transportation1542) Establishes the Office of the remainsSpecial Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, headed by a Special Inspector General, who shall conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits and investigations of membersthe treatment, handling, and certain civilian personnel who died in a combat theaterexpenditure of operations includes transportation throughfunds appropriated by the mortuary facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, the Secretary concerned shall provide for deliveryU.S. government, and of the programs, operations, and contracts carried out utilizing such remains by airfunds in Afghanistan, in order to prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse. Requires Special Inspector General quarterly reports to the commercial, general aviation,appropriations, defense, foreign relations, and homeland security committees on activities conducted, and a semiannual report meeting the reporting requirements of the Inspector General Act of 1978. Requires each report to be made public (with exceptions for national security or military airport nearestcriminal investigatory reasons). Allows the President to waive any report requirement under this Act for national security reasons. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the place selected byOffice on September 30, 2010, with transition operations authorized until December 31, 2010. Requires a final accountability report from the deceased's designee.Special Inspector General on all referrals made to the Department of Justice or any other U.S. law enforcement entity for the investigation of any potential unethical or illegal actions of federal employees, contractors, or affiliated entities.

<b>Title XV: Authorization of Additional Appropriations(Sec. 1543) Increases the amount authorized for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom </b>- (Sec. 1502) Authorizes appropriations for DOD for FY2008Army procurement under this title, to provide additional fundsbe available for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, specifically for: (1) procurement; (2) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (3) RDT&amp;E; (4) O&amp;M; (5) working capital funds; (6) the Defense Health Program; (7) defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (8) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (9) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; (10) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (11) military personnel; and (12) the National Nuclear Security Administration.procurement of 15,200 mine resistant ambush protected vehicles.

(Sec. 1515) Authorizes1544) Expresses the Secretarysense of Congress that it should be the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations outsidepolicy of the United States. Authorizes appropriations toU.S. government that the Army for fiscal years after 2007 for military construction, land acquisition,foremost objective of U.S. counterterrorist operations is to protect U.S. persons and military family housing functionsproperty from terrorist attacks by capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahari, and other leaders of al Qaeda, and destroying the Army.al Qaeda network.

(Sec. 1516) Authorizes<b>Subtitle D: Iraq Refugee Crisis </b>- Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act - (Sec. 1572) Directs the Secretary of the NavyState (Secretary, for purposes of this Subtitle only) to acquire real property and carry out military construction projectsestablish or use existing refugee processing mechanisms in specified amounts at specified installationsIraq and locations in Californiacountries in the region for eligible Iraqis to apply and North Carolina.interview for U.S. admission as refugees or as special immigrants. Authorizes appropriations to the NavySecretary to suspend in-country processing for fiscal years after 2007 for military construction, land acquisition,up to 90 days, and military family housing functionsto extend such suspension upon notification of the Navy.judiciary and foreign relations committees. Requires the Secretary to report to such committees: (1) plans to establish the processing mechanisms; (2) an assessment of in-country processing that utilizes videoconferencing; and (3) efforts to improve issuance of entry and exit visas or permits to U.S. personnel and refugees.

(Sec. 1517) Authorizes appropriations1573) Includes among refugees of special humanitarian concern: (1) Iraqis who were employed by, or worked for FY2008 to the DepartmentU.S. government in Iraq; (2) Iraqis who were employed in Iraq by a U.S.-based media or nongovernmental organization or an organization that has received U.S. government funding; (3) spouses, children, sons, daughters, siblings, and parents of EnergyIraqis who worked for the National Nuclear Security Administration for defense nuclear nonproliferation.U.S. government; and (4) Iraqis who are members of a religious or minority community and have close family members in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to identify other priority groups in Iraq.

(Sec. 1518) Treats amounts authorized1574) Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to be appropriated by this title as additionalprovide special immigrant status to amountsan otherwise authorizedadmissible Iraqi national (and spouse and children) who was employed by, or worked for or directly with the U.S. government in Iraq for at least one year in or after 2003, and has or is experiencing an ongoing serious threat as a consequence of such employment. Limits the number of such special immigrants to be appropriated by5,000 per year for each of the five years beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. Prohibits the charging of visa or passport fees in connection with such immigrants.

<b>Title XVI: National Guard Enhancement - </b>National Guard Empowerment Act - <b>Subtitle A: National Guard Bureau </b>- (Sec. 1611) Makes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Bureau) the principal adviser to(Sec. 1575) Directs the Secretary (throughto: (1) establish in the JCS Chairman) on National Guard matters, as well as an adviser on such matters to the Commander ofU.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, a Minister Counselor for Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons; and (2) designate in the U.S. Northern Commandembassies in Cairo, Egypt; Amman, Jordan; Damascus, Syria; and the Secretary of Homeland Security. Raises the grade of the Chief from lieutenant general to general. Requires the Secretary to establishBeirut, Lebanon a processMinister Counselor to identify the best qualified officer(s) to recommend for presidential consideration for appointment as Chief. Repeals a provision prohibiting an officer from holding the positionoversee U.S. resettlement of Chief after becoming 64 yearspersons considered refugees of age. Requires the Secretary to submit to the President recommendations regarding the best qualified officer(s) for appointment as the next Chief.special humanitarian concern.

(Sec. 1612) Establishes1576) Directs the Bureau asSecretary, with respect to each country with a joint activitysignificant population of DOD (under current law, a joint bureaudisplaced Iraqis, including Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon, to: (1) consult with other countries regarding resettlement of the Departmentsmost vulnerable members of the Armysuch refugee populations; and (2) develop mechanisms in and provide assistance to countries with a significant population of displaced Iraqis to ensure their well-being and Air Force).safety in their host environments.

(Sec. 1613) Directs1577) Amends the BureauImmigration and Nationality Act to facilitate and coordinate with the following entities in the use of National Guard personnel and resourcespermit a qualifying Iraqi applicant for operations conductedasylum or in supportwithholding of state missions: (1) other federal agencies; (2) state adjutant generals; (3)removal whose claim was denied on the U.S. Joint Forces Command; and (4) the combatant command the geographic areabasis of responsibilitychanged country conditions on or after March 1, 2003, to file for reopening of which includes the United States. Requires the Secretary under current law, the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force) to develop and prescribe the Bureau charter.his or her claim.

(Sec. 1614) Directs the:1578) Requires reports from: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security on plans to prepareexpedite the processing of Iraqi refugees for resettlement; (2) the President assessing the financial, security, and personnel considerations and submitresources necessary to Congress a plan for coordinatingcarry out this Subtitle; (3) the useSecretaries of National GuardDefense, State, the Treasury, and members ofHomeland Security, as well as the Armed ForcesUSAID Administrator, on active duty when responding to natural disasters, acts of terrorism,Iraqi nationals employed by the U.S. government and other man-made disasters identifiedfederal contractors in national planning scenarios;Iraq; and (2) Bureau Chief to provide(4) the Secretary of Defense on the establishment of a classified database of information related to contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements entered into by executive agencies for the Secretary relatingperformance of work in Iraq since March 2003, to such plan.be used by relevant federal departments and agencies to adjudicate refugee, asylum, special immigrant visa, and other immigration claims and applications.

(Sec. 1615) Requires the Secretary to: (1) determine the military-unique capabilities needed to be provided by DOD to support civil authorities in an incident of national significance or a catastrophic incident; and (2) develop and implement a plan for providing the funds and resources necessary to provide such support.1579) Authorizes appropriations.

<b>Subtitle B: Additional Reserve Component Enhancement<b>Title XVI: Wounded Warrior Matters </b>- Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act - <b>Subtitle A: Policy on Care, Management, and Transition of Servicemembers With Serious Injuries or Illnesses</b> - (Sec. 1621)1611) Directs the: (1) JCS Chairman to submit to the Secretary a reviewSecretaries of the civilianDefense and military positions, job descriptions,Veterans Affairs (Secretaries) to: (1) jointly develop and assignments withinimplement a comprehensive policy on the U.S. Northern Command with the goalcare and management of significantly increasing the numbermembers of reserve personnel assigned to and civilians employed by such Commandthe Armed Forces (members) who have experienceare undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, are in medical hold or holdover status, or are otherwise on the planning, training, and use of forcestemporary disability retired list for homeland defense missions, domestic emergency response, and providing military support to civil authorities;a serious injury or illness (recovering members); (2) jointly update the Secretary to submit to Congresspolicy on a copy of the review results;periodic basis (at least annually); and (3) the Secretary to establishjointly and separately review all DOD and VA policies and procedures under which an officer on active dutythat apply to, or full-time National Guard duty may command mixed-status forces forare covered by, the comprehensive policy. Requires such missions, responses,review to be completed within 90 days after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretaries, in developing the policy, to take into account specified findings, recommendations, and support.practices, including those of the Independent Review Group on Rehabilitative Care and Administrative Processes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center.

(Sec. 1622) RequiresRequires the Presidentpolicy developed to establish a bipartisan Council of Governorsinclude: (1) mechanisms to adviseensure responsibility for recovering members in medical hold or holdover status or on the Secretary,temporary disability retired list; (2) processes, procedures, and standards for medical evaluations and physical disability evaluations of recovering members; (3) standards for determinations of the Secretaryreturn of Homeland Security,recovering members to active duty; (4) standards for the transition of recovering members from care and treatment by DOD to care and treatment by the White House Homeland Security Council on matters relatedVA before, during, and after separation from service; (5) VA access to military health records of recovering members; and (6) surveys and other mechanisms to measure patient and family satisfaction with the National GuardDOD and VA provision of care and civil support missions.services.

(Sec. 1623) Establishes inRequires a report from: (1) the OfficeSecretary of Defense to the Secretarydefense committees on instances in which a Reserve Components Policy Boarddisability rating assigned to provide independent advicea member by an informal DOD physical evaluation board was reduced upon appeal, and recommendationsthe reasons therefor; (2) the Secretaries to improvethe defense and enhance reserve component capabilities, efficiency,veterans committees on the policy developed, as well as on policy updates; and effectiveness.(3) the Comptroller General (CG) annually to the defense and veterans committees assessing DOD and VA progress in developing and implementing the policy.

(Sec. 1624) Increases from 10 to 151612) Requires the number of generalSecretaries, in developing and flag officer joint duty positions belowimplementing the gradepolicy, to: (1) take into account and fully address any unique needs of lieutenant general or vice admiral that the JCS Chairman may designate to be filled only by reserve officers. Requires the JCS Chairman to designate up to three generalwomen members and flag officer joint duty positions in the grade of lieutenant general or vice admiral to be held only bywomen veterans; and (2) include a reserve officer. Requires onedescription of such needs, and the latter positions to bemanner in which they are addressed, in any reports required under the Deputy Commander of the Northern Command unless the Commander is a reserve officer.previous section.

(Sec. 1625) Increases from 62 to 64 the mandatory retirement age<b>Subtitle B: </b> <b>Health Care - Part I: Enhanced Availability of Care for reserve major generalsServicemembers</b> - (Sec. 1621) Entitles any recovering member and rear admirals, as well as reserve generals and admirals. Allows the Presidentany former member with a severe injury or illness to defer until age 68,medical and dental care in any military medical facility or through any civilian health care provider authorized by the Secretary to defer until age 66, the mandatory retirement of reserve generalsDefense (Secretary) to provide health and admirals. Requires:mental health services, including services for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Authorizes such medical and dental care for three years beginning on the date: (1) mandatory retirement at age 66of enactment of this Act, for designated lieutenant generalthose whose injury or vice admiral positions held by reserve officers;illness was incurred on or after October 7, 2001, and before the enactment of this Act; and (2) retirementon which the injury or illness is incurred, for those whose injury or illness occurs on or after completionthe enactment of 40 yearsthis Act. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any limitation on the provision of service for reserve generalssuch care if considered appropriate to assure the maximum feasible recovery and admirals.rehabilitation of the member or former member. Prohibits the Secretary from providing such medical and dental care after December 31, 2012, if the Secretary has not provided such care to such member or former member before that date.

(Sec. 1626) Requires two additional reporting requirements in an annual reportEntitles members with a severe injury or illness to rehabilitation and vocational benefits from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to Congress regarding National Guardreimburse recovering members and reserve equipment.former members with a severe injury or illness for certain expenses incurred in connection with the receipt of required medical care.

<b>Title XVII: Defense Readiness Production Board </b>- (Sec. 1702) Establishes in the Office of(Sec. 1622) Requires the Secretary a Defense Readiness Production Board to: (1) monitorto provide reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses for follow-on specialty care and assess the readinessrelated services of the Armed Forces; (2) assist the Secretary and Congressa former member (and one accompanying adult) who incurred a disability while on active duty in identifying readiness deficiencies caused by shortfallsa combat zone or in weapons systems, equipment, and supplies; and (3) identify and formally designate critical readiness requirements. Requires the Board to: (1) monitor and assess the industrial capacity of all elements of DOD, the defense industrial base, and non-traditional supplierscombat-related operations, is entitled to DOD;retired or retainer pay, and (2) report to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees on all findings and recommendations. Terminatesrequires follow-up care, services, or supplies at a specific military treatment facility located more than 100 miles from the Board five years after its establishment.member's residence.

(Sec. 1703) Directs<b>Part II: Care and Services for Dependents</b> - (Sec. 1626) Makes a family member of a recovering member eligible for medical care at a military treatment facility if the Secretary to establishfamily member is: (1) on invitational orders while caring for the member; (2) a Defense Production Industry Advisory Council to advise and assistnon-medical attendee caring for the Board in fulfilling its industrial base-related functions and duties. Terminatesmember; or (3) receiving per-diem payments from DOD while caring for the Council five years after its establishment.member. Makes a family member who is eligible for medical care under (1), above, for more than 45 days during a one-year period also eligible for job placement services offered by DOD. Requires a report on the need for additional employment services and job protection for family members who are placed on leave or displaced from employment while caring for a recovering member.

(Sec. 1704) Requires1627) States that the Board Chairman to be included in certain annual reports concerning joint readiness, military readiness, and funds transfers.program of benefits for eligible dependents under TRICARE shall include extended benefits for the primary caregivers of members who incur a serious injury or illness on active duty.

(Sec. 1705) Authorizes<b>Part III: Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder</b> - (Sec. 1631) Directs the Secretary concerned to enter into a multiyear contractreport to procure an item if such item will fill, or substantially fill, a critical readiness requirement designated by the Board. Outlines procurement limitations.defense and appropriations committees one or more comprehensive plans for DOD programs and activities to prevent, diagnose, mitigate, treat, and otherwise respond to TBI and PTSD in members.

(Sec. 1706) Authorizes1632) Directs the Secretary to transfer from amounts appropriated to DODto: (1) establish a protocol for FY2008the predeployment assessment and thereafterdocumentation of the cognitive functioning of a member who is deployed outside the United States, in order to facilitate the assessment of the postdeployment cognitive functioning of such member; (2) conduct up to $1 billionthree pilot projects to address critical readiness requirements designated byevaluate various mechanisms for use in the Board.protocol; (3) report to the defense and veterans committees on the pilot projects; and (4) after completion of the pilot projects, establish the appropriate mechanism for use in the protocol. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1707)1633) Requires the Secretary concerned to notify the Secretary if the Secretary concerned determines that costs will be incurred for work onestablish in DOD a critical readiness program in excesscenter of amounts availableexcellence in the working capital fundprevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of that military department. AllowsTBI and PTSD. Requires reports on the Secretary, after receiving such notification, to transfer amounts available to DOD for FY2008establishment and thereafter to cover such costs.operation of each center. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1708)1634) Directs the Secretaries to jointly: (1) conduct a comprehensive review of the need for mental health treatment and services, and the adequacy of existing treatment and services, for female members and veterans; (2) report on the review; and (3) develop a comprehensive policy to address the treatment and care of female members and veterans who experience mental health problems and conditions, including PTSD.

(Sec. 1635) Authorizes appropriations to DOD for FY2008 for activities related to the improved diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of members with TBI or PTSD.

(Sec. 1636) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on progress in implementing requirements under the Warner Act relating to: (1) a study on TBI incurred by members participating in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom; (2) enhanced mental health screening and services for members; and (3) early diagnosis and treatment of PTSD and other mental health conditions of members. Requires an annual report to such committees, during 2008 through 2013, on amounts expended by DOD for the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of members with TBI or PTSD.

<b>Part IV: Other Matters</b> - (Sec. 1641) Directs the Secretaries to: (1) develop and implement a joint electronic health record (joint record) for use by DOD and VA; and (2) accelerate the exchange of health care information between the two departments. Establishes the Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Interagency Program Office for a Joint Electronic Health Record, with a Director and Deputy Director. Requires the Office to develop and prepare for deployment by September 30, 2010, a joint record which complies with applicable federal interoperability standards. Authorizes the Secretaries to carry out pilot projects of various technological approaches to the achievement of the joint record. Requires: (1) annual reports from the Office Director to the Secretaries and the defense and veterans committees on Office activities (to be made available to the public); and (2) semiannual reports, until joint record implementation, from the CG on DOD-VA progress in developing and implementing the Treasuryjoint record. Provides funding.

(Sec. 1642) Allows the Secretary to exercise any DOD authority for the appointment and pay of health care personnel in order to provide or enhance DOD capacity to provide care and treatment for members who are wounded or injured on active duty, and to support ongoing DOD patient care and medical readiness, education, and training requirements. Directs the military department Secretaries to: (1) develop a strategy of best practices for the recruitment of such medical and health professionals within their department; and (2) report on such strategy to the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 1643) Requires the Secretary to: (1) recommend to the defense committees legislative or administrative actions to address shortages in health care professionals within DOD; and (2) implement programs to recruit qualified individuals to serve as health care and mental health care personnel.

<b>Subtitle C: Disability Matters - Part I: Disability Evaluations</b> - (Sec. 1651) Authorizes the retirement or separation for disability of members, under provisions applicable to members on active duty for more than 30 days, if the member has six months or more of active service and the disability was not noted at the time of the member's entrance into active duty, unless medical evidence or judgment warrants a finding that the disability existed before the member's entrance into active duty.

(Sec. 1652) Requires the Secretary concerned, in making disability determinations, to utilize (without deviating from) the schedule for rating disabilities in use by the VA. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to utilize criteria other than the VA schedule if such utilization will result in a determination of a greater percentage of disability than in the use of the schedule.

(Sec. 1653) Directs the Secretary to establish within the Office of the Secretary the Physical Disability Board of Review to review disability determinations made by DOD physical evaluation boards of members who, during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on December 31, 2009, are: (1) separated from the Armed Forces as unfit for duty due to a medical condition with a disability rating of 20% or less; and (2) found to be ineligible for retirement. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct the military records of such individuals in light of any Board of Review findings.

(Sec. 1654) Directs the Secretary to carry out pilot programs on the revision and improvement of the disability evaluation system for members. Requires under the pilot programs that: (1) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs assign a member a VA-schedule rating of disability, upon which the Secretary concerned shall make a disability determination of the member; (2) disability determinations are made utilizing joint DOD/VA-assigned disability ratings; and (3) the Secretary establishes and operates a single Internet website for the DOD disability evaluation system that enables participating members to utilize such system through the website. Outlines related pilot program purposes. Requires the Secretaries to jointly incorporate any findings and recommendations arising under the pilot programs when updating the comprehensive policy on the care and management of recovering members as required under section 1611. Requires: (1) each pilot program to be completed within one year after its commencement; and (2) an interim and final report on the pilot programs from the Secretary to the defense and veterans committees.

(Sec. 1655) Requires triannual reports from the Secretary until March 1, 2009, on the implementation of DOD corrective measures with respect to the physical disability evaluation system in response to the report of: (1) the Inspector General of the Army; (2) the Independent Review Group on Rehabilitation Care and Administrative Processes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center; and (3) the Department of Defense Strategic Readiness FundVeterans Affairs Task Force on Returning Global War on Terror Heroes. Requires such reports to cover costsbe posted on the public DOD Internet website.

<b>Part II: Other Disability Matters</b> - (Sec. 1661) Increases from 12 to 19 the maximum number of critical readiness requirements determinedyears of service authorized to be used as a multiplier to determine military disability severance pay. Provides minimum years of service for purposes of such determination. Prohibits any deduction from such pay due to payments received as veterans' disability compensation in the case of pay received by a member for a disability incurred in the line of duty in a combat zone or in combat-related operations as designated by the Secretary.

(Sec. 1662) Directs the Secretaries to jointly develop and implement a mechanism to provide for the electronic transfer from DOD to VA of any DOD documents necessary to establish or support the eligibility of a member for benefits under laws administered by the VA at the time of the member's retirement, separation, or release from service.

(Sec. 1663) Requires the Secretary and the CG to report to the defense and appropriations committees an assessment of the continuing utility of the temporary disability retired list.

<b>Subtitle D: Improvement of Facilities Housing Patients</b> - (Sec. 1671) Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the accreditation of medical facilities with respect to DOD military medical treatment facilities, specialty medical care facilities, and military quarters or leased housing for patients. Requires that such standards be uniform and consistent across such facilities and across DOD and the military departments. Directs the Secretary to specify a deadline for standards compliance for each facility and report on actions taken to carry out this title.section.

(Sec. 1672) Requires triannual reports from the Secretary until March 1, 2009, on implementation of the Army's action plan to correct deficiencies identified in the condition of facilities, and in the administration of outpatients in medical hold or holdover status, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other applicable Army installations. Requires such report to be posted on the public DOD Internet website.

(Sec. 1673) Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the feasibility of accelerating the construction and completion of new facilities required to facilitate the closure of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as directed under the 2005 round of defense base closures and realignments under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990; (2) develop and carry out a plan for the construction and completion of the replacement facilities; (3) submit such plan to the defense and appropriations committees; and (4) make certain certifications to such committees with respect to the plan submitted.

<b>Subtitle E: Outreach and Related Information on Benefits</b> - (Sec. 1681) Requires the Secretary to develop, maintain, and update at least annually in handbook and electronic form a description of the compensation and other benefits available to a member (and his or her family members) upon the member's separation or retirement as a result of a serious injury or illness. Directs the Secretary concerned to furnish the handbook to a member (or, if incapacitated, their next of kin) as soon as practicable following such an injury or illness.

<b>Subtitle F: Other Matters</b> - (Sec. 1691) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a study on the physical and mental health and other readjustment needs of members and former members who deployed in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom (and their families) as a result of such deployment. Requires the: (1) NAS to report to the Secretaries upon the completion of each of the two phases of such study; (2) Secretaries to develop a preliminary and final DOD-VA plan to address the NAS report findings and recommendations; (3) Secretaries to report each plan to Congress; (4) CG to submit to Congress an assessment of each plan; and (5) public availability of each plan. Authorizes appropriations.

<b>Title XVII: Veterans Matters </b>- (Sec. 1701) Expresses the sense of Congress concerning VA efforts toward the rehabilitation and community reintegration of veterans with TBI.

(Sec. 1702) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary, for purposes of this title only), for each veteran or member who receives inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation care from the VA for a TBI, to: (1) develop an individualized plan for the rehabilitation of such individual and their reintegration into the community; and (2) provide the plan to such individual before their discharge from inpatient care, following transition from active duty to the VA for outpatient care, or as soon as practicable following diagnosis. Requires each developed plan to be based upon the physical, cognitive, vocational, and neuropsychological and social impairments of the individual, as well as their family education and support needs after discharge from inpatient care. Directs the Secretary to: (1) designate a case manager for each individual; (2) ensure that such case manager has appropriate skills; (3) involve each individual and their family or guardian in the development of their rehabilitation and reintegration plan; (4) periodically review the effectiveness of each plan; and (5) conduct a plan review if requested by the individual.

(Sec. 1703) Requires the Secretary to use non-VA facilities to implement the TBI rehabilitation and reintegration plans described in the previous section when the Secretary: (1) is unable to provide the treatment or services at the frequency or for the duration prescribed in such plan; or (2) determines it to be the best option with respect to the recovery and rehabilitation of the individual. Requires the facilities used to maintain appropriate standards for the provision of such treatment or services.

(Sec. 1704) Directs the Secretary to establish a program of research, education, and clinical care to provide intensive neuro-rehabilitation to veterans with a severe TBI, including veterans in a minimally conscious state who would otherwise receive only long-term residential care. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a program report from the Secretary to Congress.

(Sec. 1705) Requires the Secretary, in collaboration with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, to carry out a five-year pilot program to assess the effectiveness of providing assisted living services to veterans with TBI to enhance their rehabilitation, quality of life, and community integration. Requires: (1) at least one part of the pilot program to be carried out in a region of the Veterans Health Administration that contains a VA polytrauma center; (2) special consideration to be given to veterans in rural areas; and (3) the Secretary to report to the veterans committees on the pilot program. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1706) Directs the Secretary, in carrying out specified VA research programs and activities, to: (1) ensure that such programs and activities include research on the sequelae (aftereffects) of mild to severe forms of TBI; and (2) report to the veterans committees on any research carried out.

(Sec. 1707) Requires the Secretary to ensure that veterans' nursing home care is provided in an age-appropriate manner.

(Sec. 1708) Extends from two to five years after their release from service the period of eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care in the case of veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations during a period of war after the Persian Gulf War, or in combat against a hostile force after November 11, 1998.

(Sec. 1709) Replaces the word &quot;psychosis&quot; with &quot;mental illness&quot; as it pertains to the presumption of service-connection for veterans' disability compensation purposes. Directs the Secretary, upon request of a veteran described in the previous section, to provide such veteran with a preliminary mental health evaluation as soon as practicable, but no later than 30 days after the request.

(Sec. 1710) Authorizes outpatient dental services for veterans with a service-connected dental condition or disability as long as the veteran's certificate of discharge or release does not include a certification that such veteran was provided a complete dental examination within 180 (under current law, 90) days before such discharge or release.

(Sec. 1711) Requires the Secretary to carry out, in at least three locations, a demonstration program on preventing veterans at-risk of homelessness from becoming homeless. Terminates program authority at the end of FY2011. Authorizes appropriations.

(Sec. 1712) Includes recently released members of the National Guard or Reserves under a program of outreach services on the availability of VA readjustment and other benefits and services.

<b>Title XVIII: National Guard Bureau Matters and Related Matters </b>- National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007 - (Sec. 1802) Expands the: (1) authority of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Bureau) to include membership on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) (and raises the grade of the Chief from lieutenant general to general); and (2) functions of the Bureau to include facilitating and coordinating, with other federal agencies and the states, the use of Guard personnel and resources for, and in, contingency operations, military operations other than war, natural disasters, and support of civil authorities. Requires an annual report from the Chief to Congress on validated Bureau requirements concerning military assistance to federal and state authorities to prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Directs the Chief to: (1) identify gaps between federal and state capabilities to prepare for and respond to emergencies; and (2) make recommendations to the Secretary on Guard programs and activities to address such gaps.

Requires annual DOD budget justification documents to include separate amounts for Guard training and equipment for military assistance to civil authorities and other domestic operations.

(Sec. 1803) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for consideration of eligible reserve officers for promotion to the grades of lieutenant general or vice admiral on the active duty list. Directs the: (1) Secretary to submit to Congress a proposal for mechanisms to achieve such objective; and (2) President to certify that reserve officers were considered when making promotion nominations.

(Sec. 1804) Treats service as a Bureau adjutant general as joint duty experience. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each: (1) review promotions of reserve officers in their departments from major general to lieutenant general; and (2) report review results and related recommendations to the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 1805) Requires the position of Deputy Commander of the U.S. Northern Command to be filled by a qualified Guard officer eligible for promotion to the Fund.grade of lieutenant general.

(Sec. 1806) Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress an annual plan for the use of the Armed Forces and National Guard for responding to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.

(Sec. 1807) Outlines additional report requirements relating to National Guard equipment.

<b>Division B: Military Construction Authorizations </b>- Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 - <b>Title XXI [<i>sic</i>]: Army </b>- (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 2007 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 (MCAA) for Fiscal Year 2007 to terminate the authority to carry out specified FY2007 Army construction projects for which no funds were appropriated.

(Sec. 2106) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

(Sec. 2107) Extends an FY2005 construction project at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

(Sec. 2109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use specified Florida property for constructing a consolidated headquarters facility for the United States Southern Command.

<b>Title XXII: Navy </b>- (Sec. 2201) Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title.

(Sec. 2205) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 20042007 to repealterminate the authorizationauthority to carry out specified FY2007 Navy construction projects for which no funds were appropriated.

(Sec. 2206) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to increase the amount authorized for a construction ofproject at the Navy Outlying Field in Washington County, North Carolina.Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific, Bangor, Washington.

<b>Title XXIII: Air Force </b>- (Sec. 2301) Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title XXI.

(Sec. 2305) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 20062007 to increaseterminate the amount authorized for a construction project at MacDillauthority to carry out specified FY2007 Air Force Base, Florida.construction projects for which no funds were appropriated.

<b>Title XXIV: Defense Agencies </b>- (Sec. 2401) Authorizes(Sec. 2306) Amends the SecretaryMCAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to acquire real property and carry out militaryincrease the amount authorized for a construction projects in specified amountsproject at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects.MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

(Sec. 2403) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out base closure and realignment activities authorized by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 and funded through the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 2005.2307) Extends certain prior-year military construction projects.

(Sec. 2404)<b>Title XXIV: Defense Agencies </b>- (Sec. 2401) Authorizes appropriationsthe Secretary to DODacquire 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 for fiscal years after 2007 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title.

(Sec. 2405) Authorizes2404) Terminates or revises the Secretaryauthority to carry out specifiedcertain FY2007 DOD construction projects.

(Sec. 2405) Extends certain FY2005 military construction projects.

(Sec. 2406) Increases the amount authorized for construction projects at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland,munitions demilitarization facilities at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, and Fort Belvoir, Virginia,the Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado, both of which were authorized under prior military construction authorization Acts. Requires, with respect to each project, a certification of the necessity of such increases from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Directs that: (1) DOD complete the destruction of the entire U.S. stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions by the deadline established in connectionthe Chemical Weapons Convention, and under no circumstances later than December 31, 2017; and (2) a report on DOD progress with deadline compliance from the wounded warrior facility support program.Secretary be submitted to the above committees, the Speaker of the House, and the majority and minority leaders of both Houses.

<b>Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program </b>- (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 2007 for such Program.

<b>Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities </b>- (Sec. 2601) Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2007the Secretary concerned to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for the National Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities.reserves.

<b>Title XXVII: Expiration(Sec. 2606) Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2007 for National Guard and Extension of Authorizations </b>- (Sec. 2701) Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 2010, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing fundsreserve forces for militaryacquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction for FY2011, whichever is later, with exceptions.of facilities.

(Sec. 2702) Extends certain prior-year military construction projects.2607) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 2007 to terminate the authority to carry out specified FY2007 National Guard and reserve projects for which no funds were appropriated.

<b>Title XXVIII: Military Construction General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes </b>- (Sec. 2801) Authorizes(Sec. 2608) Amends the Secretary concerned to use specified O&amp;M or military construction funds to carry out unspecified minor military construction projectsMCAA for the revitalization and recapitalization of DOD laboratories under their jurisdiction. Requires a report from the SecretaryFiscal Year 2006 to terminate the defense and appropriations committees on the use of such authority.authority for an FY2006 Air Force reserve project at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.

(Sec. 2802) Increases from $500,000 to $1 million the threshold prior to required congressional notification of leases for DOD2609) Extends certain prior-year National Guard and reserve military family housing in foreign countries.construction projects.

(Sec. 2803) Limits the privatization of temporary lodging facilities to a pilot program to be conducted by2611) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army at 13 specified Army installations in the United States. Requires a report from: (1) such Secretaryto use land adjacent to the defenseBaton Rouge airport, Louisiana, for siting an Army Reserve Center and appropriations committees on the pilot program; and (2) the CG to such committees on a review of the pilot program.Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Center in Baton Rouge.

(Sec. 2804) Authorizes the Secretary to exchange reserve component property<b>Title XXVII: Base Closure and facilitiesRealignment Activities </b>- (Sec. 2701) Authorizes: (1) appropriations for facilitiesfiscal years after 2007 for military base closure and realignment activities authorized under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of an executive agency or1990 and funded through the U.S. Postal Service.Department of Defense Base Closure Accounts of 1990 and 2005; and (2) the Secretary to carry out such activities.

(Sec. 2805) Amends2704) Provides the MCAA for Fiscal Year: (1) 2005 to extend through FY2010 DOD authority to make or accept cash equalization payments in reserve facility exchanges;authorized cost and (2) 2004 to extend through FY2008 DOD authority to use O&amp;M fundsscope of work variations for military construction projects outside the United States which are necessary due to a declaration of war, national emergency, or contingency operation. Requires that, when the latter involves a construction projectcarried out in connection with an estimated cost in excess of the minor military construction threshold, the Secretary shall provide advance notification to specified congressional committees.base closure and realignment activities.

<b>Subtitle B: Real Property<b>Title XXVIII: Military Construction General Provisions - Subtitle A: Effective Date and Facilities AdministrationExpiration of Authorizations </b>- (Sec. 2811) Consolidates federal armed forces provisions concerning2801) Makes the authorityeffective date of Titles XXI through XXVII, and Title XXIX, of this Division the military departments to acquire land in advancelater of October 1, 2007, or the date of enactment of military construction projects.this Act.

(Sec. 2812) Includes sites outside2802) Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI, and Title XXIX of a military installation within the authority of the Secretarythis Act on October 1, 2010, or the Secretary concerned to enter into cooperative agreements for the preservation, maintenance, and improvementdate of enactment of cultural resources. Includes an Indian sacred site as one of the covered cultural resources.Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY2011, whichever is later, with exceptions.

(Sec. 2813) Allows DOD, under cooperative agreements to limit encroachments<b>Subtitle B: Military Construction Program and other constraints on military training, testing, and operations by acquiring property,Military Family Housing Changes </b>- (Sec. 2811) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in the national interest, to transfer up to manage natural resources on$200 million of the acquired property when there is a demonstrated needamounts made available to preservethat military department or restore the habitat to further agreement purposes. Limits the portiondefense agency for FY2008 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of acquisition costs to be borne by the United States.each transfer.

(Sec. 2814) Amends2812) Authorizes the Reagan ActSecretary of the Army to expandlease up to all military departments an Army pilot program600 additional rental units in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Guam for family housing purposes. Sets the purchaseper-unit annual rental limit at $18,620, with a lease term of certain municipal servicesup to two years. Authorizes the maximum annual rental amount for military installations. Terminatesfamily housing in foreign countries (under current law, $25,000 per year) to be waived and increased to up to $100,000 per unit per year, if the pilot program atSecretary concerned has notified the enddefense and appropriations committees of FY2012.the reasons therefor, and 21 days have passed since such notification. Increases: (1) the number of rental units authorized to be leased, and the annual rental amount limit, for military housing in Italy; and (2) from $500,000 to $1 million the threshold prior to required congressional notification of leases for DOD military family housing in foreign countries.

(Sec. 2815) Prohibits the proceeds from the execution of an enhanced use lease at Selfridge Air National Guard Base from being disbursed outside of that2813) Increases thresholds for unspecified minor military installation. Requires the Secretary to prohibit the use of such Base by commercial aircraft.construction projects.

(Sec. 2817) Directs2814) Amends the Secretary to submitMCAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to: (1) extend through FY2008 the temporary, limited DOD authority to use O&amp;M funds for military construction projects outside the defense and appropriations committees a planUnited States in support of the currenta war, national emergency, or other contingency; and future aviation assets expected(2) remove the authority to be based at Niagara Air Reserve Base, New York.waive the annual monetary limit on the use of such authority.

<b>Subtitle C: Base Closure and Realignment </b>- (Sec. 2821) Allows(Sec. 2815) Authorizes the transfer ofSecretary concerned to obligate and expend specified O&amp;M and military construction funds fromfor the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 2005 to DOD's Family Housing Improvement Fundrevitalization and Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund (requiring congressional notificationcapitalization of each transfer).defense laboratories under that Secretary's jurisdiction. Terminates on September 30, 2012, the authority to enter into such projects.

(Sec. 2822) States that2816) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to: (1) extend the Secretary's temporary authority to use higher minor military personnel and civilian DOD employees scheduled to be relocated to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as a result ofconstruction thresholds in the closureconstruction of leased office spacechild development centers; and (2) require reports in Arlington, Virginia, may not be so relocated until: (1)2007 and 2009 from the Secretary of the Army certifies to Congress that the necessary transportation infrastructure to accommodate the increased number of membersdefense and employees assigned to Fort Belvoir is substantially completed; and (2) 60 days have elapsed sinceappropriations committees on such certification.construction program.

<b>Subtitle D: Land Conveyances </b>- (Sec. 2831) Provides conditions, including expansion methods, certain arbitration, and access, on(Sec. 2817) Amends the acquisition by the Secretary of the Army of real property near the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in Colorado.MCAA for Fiscal Year 2005 to extend through FY2010 DOD authority to accept equalization payments for facility exchanges.

(Sec. 2832) Directs2818) Includes land acquisitions and defense access road projects as military construction projects authorized to be undertaken by the Secretary ofand the Air Force to grant to the Mid Bay Bridge Authority a roadway right-of-way easement over land at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.military department Secretaries.

(Sec. 2833) Authorizes<b>Subtitle C: Real Property and Facilities Administration </b>- (Sec. 2831) Requires the Secretary ofSecretary, the Air Forcemilitary department Secretaries, or their designees to conveynotify Congress prior to Florida State University specifiedentering into a transaction or contract that results in or includes the acquisition, lease, license, or other use by DOD entities of real property at the Lynn Haven Fuel Depot, Florida, for the developmenthaving an estimated annual rental cost of a satellite campus.more than $750,000.

(Sec. 2834) Provides additional conditions for2832) Requires the Secretary of the Army with respectconcerned to use competitive procedures in the leaseselection of property in Floridalessees for non-excess DOD real property. Eliminates the authority to receive in-kind consideration or to use rental and other proceeds for a headquarters facility for the U.S. Southern Command.operation support.

(Sec. 2835) Transfers from the EPA Administrator2833) Revises DOD authority to enter into partnerships with non-federal entities to create or expand buffer zones around DOD military installations to allow such agreements to provide for ongoing upkeep and management of buffer zones. Authorizes DOD entities to acquire an interest in property proximate to an installation where the cost of the interest exceeds the fair market value of the property, if the Secretary or Secretary concerned certifies to the defense committees that the military value of the Interioracquisition provides benefits that justify the former Nike missile site in Grosse Isle, Michigan, for fish and wildlife habitat, recreation, and outdoor educational purposes.excess payment.

(Sec. 2836) Authorizes2834) Amends the SecretaryMCAA for Fiscal Year 2007 to require additional information within reports on Army and Marine Corps operational ranges, including the impact of permanently increasing by 65,000 the Army to convey tosize of the cityactive-duty component of Copperas Cove, Texas,the Army. Requires a parcelnew report from the Secretary of Fort Hood, Texas,the Navy to bethe defense and appropriations committees assessing the operational ranges used for arterial transportation routes.to support Marine Corps training and range activities.

(Sec. 2837) Provides for a land exchange between the Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of the Army under which the Administrator transfers to such Secretary2835) Consolidates in one provision (without substantive change) certain DOD real property in the Springfield, Virginia, area near Fort Belvoir in exchange for current Army property in the National Capital Region.acquisition authorities.

(Sec. 2838) Allows California law<b>Subtitle D: Base Closure and Realignment </b>- (Sec. 2841) Directs the Secretary to submit to be considered in the process useddefense and appropriations committees a plan for determining the final disposition of an access road across the northern portion of Camp Pendleton, California.current and future aviation assets expected to be based at Niagara Air Reserve Base, New York.

<b>Subtitle E: Energy Security </b>- (Sec. 2851) Removes(Sec. 2842) Requires the $7 million ceilingSecretary to submit with the DOD budget materials for congressional notification regardingFY2009 a comprehensive accounting of funding required to ensure that the cancellationplan for implementing the final recommendations of a DOD energy savings performance contract (thereby establishing the $10 million ceiling used by all other federal agencies).2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission remains on schedule.

(Sec. 2852) Directs2843) Authorizes the Secretary to report toSecretary, if deemed in the defensebest interest of national security and appropriations committees onthe physical protection of DOD approaches to contribute fundspersonnel and other resourcesmissions, to prevent disruption incarry out an agreement to relocate the event of major electric gridJoint Spectrum Center from Annapolis, Maryland, to Fort Meade, Maryland, or natural gas or petroleum pipeline failures.another military installation. Terminates the existing lease for the Center upon completion of its relocation.

(Sec. 2853) Requires: (1) each building constructed or significantly altered by<b>Subtitle E: Land Conveyances </b>- (Sec. 2851) Authorizes the Secretary or a military department Secretaryof the Air Force to be equippedconvey to Florida State University specified real property at the maximum extent possible with energy-efficient lighting fixtures and bulbs; and (2) other lighting fixtures and bulbs replacedLynn Haven Fuel Depot in Lynn Haven, Florida, for the normal coursedevelopment of maintenance to be replaced by energy-efficient fixtures and bulbs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if necessary to protect U.S. national security.a satellite campus.

(Sec. 2854) Makes it a DOD requirement (under current law, makes it a goal)2852) Amends the MCAA for Fiscal Year 1998 to produce or procure from renewable energy sources at least 25%authorize the Secretary of the total electric energy it consumes during FY2025 and thereafter. Requires the Secretary, in orderArmy to achieve such requirement,convey to establish annual incremental DOD goals for the production or procurementHarnett County, North Carolina, a tract of electric energy from renewable energy sources. Prohibitsreal property at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, without consideration (under current law, at fair market value). Directs the use of any means of third-party financingSecretary to achieverequire such requirement. Allows the SecretaryCounty to waive the requirement if it is in the best interests of DOD and after notification to the defensepay administrative and appropriations committees.other conveyance costs.

<b>Subtitle F: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 2861) Amends(Sec. 2853) Authorizes the MCAA for Fiscal Year 2000Administrator of General Services to extend the deadline for the transfer to the Secretary of Arlington Naval Annexthe Army certain property in Springfield, Virginia, known as the &quot;GSA Property&quot; in order to Arlington National Cemetery.permit the Secretary to construct facilities to support administrative functions to be located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Requires the Administrator and Secretary to report jointly to the defense and appropriations committees on the status of such transfer.

(Sec. 2862) Transfers to2854) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force administrative jurisdiction overArmy to convey to the Air Force Memorial.United Tribes Technical College specified real property at the Lewis and Clark United States Army Reserve Center, Bismarck, North Dakota, to support Native American education and training.

(Sec. 2863)2855) Authorizes the Secretary to permitCommandant of the National War Dogs Monument, Inc.,Coast Guard to establish a national monumentconvey to honor U.S. Armed Forces working dog teams that have participatedthe Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit, Michigan, the current federal property at 2660 Atwater Street in U.S. military operations.Detroit.

(Sec. 2864) Requires2856) Transfers from the EPA Administrator to the Secretary of the Army to designate one ofInterior administrative jurisdiction over the military family housing areas or facilities constructedformer Nike missile site in Grosse Ile, Michigan, for Fort Carson, Colorado, under the military housing privatization initiativeuse as the &quot;Joel Hefley Village.&quot;a habitat for fish and wildlife and as recreational property for outdoor education and environmental appreciation.

(Sec. 2865) Designates the: (1) Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center at Rock Island, Illinois, as2857) Amends the &quot;Lane Evans Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center;&quot; (2) new laboratory building atMCAA for Fiscal Year 2001 to modify provisions concerning the Air Force Rome Research Site in Rome, New York, as the &quot;Sherwood L. Boehlert Centerlease of Excellence for Information Science and Technology;&quot; (3) administration building under constructionproperty at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, as the &quot;Michael G. Oxley Administration and Technology Center;&quot; and (4) Logistics Automation Training FacilityNational Museum of the Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, Virginia, as the &quot;General Richard H. Thompson Logistics Automation Training Facility.&quot;Naval Aviation, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida.

<b>Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and<b>Subtitle F: Other Authorizations - Title XXXI [<i>sic</i>]:- Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs AuthorizationsMatters </b>- (Sec. 3101) Authorizes appropriations2861) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the conditions of schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Energy (DOE)Defense Education Activity. Requires the report to be used as a master plan for FY2008 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,repair, upgrade, and the Officeconstruction of schools that support dependents of members of the Administrator for Nuclear Security (Administrator); and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities in carrying out national security programs, with specified allocations for defense environmental cleanup, other defense activities, defense nuclear waste disposal, and energy securityArmed Forces and assurance programs.civilian DOD employees.

<b>Subtitle B: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 3111) Directs(Sec. 2862) Amends the AdministratorNDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 to reportmodify land management restrictions applicable to thenational defense and appropriations committees on: (1) an analysis of the feasibility of using existing pits to remanufacture warheads for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program; (2) the composition of the workforce providing protective services at the nuclear weapons complex; (3) the retirement and dismantlement of nuclear warheads that are not part of the enduring stockpile but have not yet been retired or dismantled; and (4) an assessment of the physical and cyber security risks posed to the nuclear weapons complex.lands in Utah.

(Sec. 3115) Directs the Secretary of Energy2863) Extends a previously authorized Army construction project in Rhode Island to submit to Congressinclude a plan to strengthen and expand the DOE: (1) international radiological threat reduction program within the Global Threat Reduction Initiative; and (2) materials protection, control, and accounting program.local protection project in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

(Sec. 3117) Amends2864) Expresses the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to authorize the Secretarysense of Congress that DOD should: (1) develop additional policy guidance on further implementation of Energy (under current law, the President) to notifyRange and make certain certifications to the defenseEnvironmental Protection Initiative; (2) cooperate and foreign relations committeescollaborate with respect toother federal agencies charged with managing federal land; (3) ensure that each military department takes full advantage of DOD authorities in addressing encroachment adversely affecting the useinstallations, ranges, and military airspace of international nuclear materials protectionthat department; and cooperation program funds outside the states of(4) provide significant additional resources to the former Soviet Union. Repealsencroachment protection program. Requires a funding limitationreport from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on such fund use.steps taken to address issues raised in this section.

(Sec. 3118)2865) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the funding and effectiveness of water conservation projects at DOD facilities.

(Sec. 2866) Requires a report from the CG to the defense committees on housing privatization transactions carried out by DOD that are behind schedule or in default.

(Sec. 2867) Requires the: (1) Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees on training facilities at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado; and (2) CG to submit to Congress a review of the report and of the Army's justification for expansion at the Site.

(Sec. 2868) Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation ProgramSpence Act to repeal a provision establishing a moratorium on any acquisitions, construction, or improvements of 2000 to:any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico.

<b>Title XXIX: War-Related Military Construction Authorizations </b>- (Sec. 2901) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out war-related military construction projects at specified installations and locations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Authorizes appropriations for the Army for fiscal years after 2007 for war-related military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army.

<b>Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI [<i>sic</i>]: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations </b>- (Sec. 3101) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2008 for: (1) add dutiesactivities 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, the Office of the Ombudsman underAdministrator for Nuclear Security, and the International Atomic Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation ProgramAgency Nuclear Fuel Bank; and (2) environmental restoration and waste management activities in carrying out national security programs, with respectspecified allocations for defense environmental cleanup, other defense activities, and defense nuclear waste disposal.

<b>Subtitle B: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations </b>- (Sec. 3111) Authorizes specified DOE funds to benefitsbe obligated or expended for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, but not beyond phase 2A activities.

(Sec. 3112) Prohibits any FY2008 fissile materials disposition program funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title only) submits to the defense and claims underappropriations committees a plan for the expenditure of such Program;funds that remain available as of October 1, 2007. Prohibits the aggregate amount that may be obligated for such program within FY2008 program funds from exceeding the amount that the Secretary certifies to such committees will be obligated for that program in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Provides conditions for the availability of unutilized funds: (1) absent the latter certification; and (2) under certification of partial use.

(Sec. 3113) Amends the Warner Act relating to the availability of funds for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization plant to: (1) remove the requirement that the Defense Contract Management Agency review and recommend for implementation the earned value management system to be used by the construction contractor at the plant; and (2) instead require an independent entity to conduct such review.

<b>Subtitle C: Other Matters </b>- (Sec. 3121) Amends the: (1) NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to repeal certain requirements with respect to the October 28, 2007, termination datenuclear test readiness posture; and (2) Atomic Energy Defense Act to require the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on U.S. nuclear test readiness. (Under current law, the Secretary is required to report to Congress on costs and programmatic and other issues associated with the conduct of nuclear tests within specified time frames.)

(Sec. 3122) Expresses the sense of Congress that, among other things: (1) the United States should reaffirm its commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Treaty) and initiate talks with Russia to reduce its number of strategic and non-strategic nuclear weapons; (2) the United States and other Treaty parties should work to reduce the total number of nuclear weapons in their respective stockpiles; (3) the United States, Russia, and other states should work to negotiate and ratify a treaty for the cessation of production of fissile material; (4) the Senate should ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty; (5) the United States should commit to dismantle as soon as possible all retired warheads; and (6) the United States and other Treaty parties should work to decrease the reliance on, and importance of, nuclear weapons.

(Sec. 3123) Directs the: (1) Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees and the CG on the status of environmental initiatives undertaken to accelerate the reduction of environmental risks and challenges posed by the legacy of the Cold War; and (2) CG to review the report and report results to such Office. Authorizescommittees.

(Sec. 3124) Requires a report from the OmbudsmanCG to contractthe defense committees on the management of the protective forces of DOE.

<b>Subtitle D: Nuclear Terrorism Prevention </b>- (Sec. 3133) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should make the prevention of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States of the highest priority; (2) the President should accelerate programs to prevent nuclear terrorism; (3) the United States should take a comprehensive approach to reducing the danger of nuclear terrorism, with a high priority on ensuring that all nuclear weapons worldwide are secure and accounted for expert servicesand that all strategic special nuclear materials are eliminated, removed, or secure and accounted for; and (4) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should be funded to assistfulfill its role in Ombudsman duties, when appropriate. Requires specific appropriationscoordinating international efforts to protect nuclear material and combat nuclear smuggling.

(Sec. 3134) States as the policy of the United States that all possible steps are taken to ensure that all nuclear weapons are secure and accounted for, and that all strategic special nuclear materials are eliminated, removed, or secure and accounted for to a level sufficient to defeat the threats posed by terrorists and criminals. Directs the President to work with other countries and the IAEA to seek the broadest possible international agreement on a global nuclear security standard that achieves such policy objectives.

(Sec. 3135) Requires an annual report from the President to Congress on the security of nuclear weapons, special nuclear materials, radiological materials, and related equipment worldwide.

(Sec. 3136) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to extend through 2013 report requirements concerning the reliable replacement warhead program.

(Sec. 3137) Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to extend until October 28, 2012, the Office of the Ombudsman under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program.

(Sec. 3138) Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) enter into an agreement with an independent entity to evaluate the NNSA's strategic plan for FY2008advanced computing; and thereafter.(2) report evaluation results to the defense and appropriations committees.

(Sec. 3139) Authorizes appropriations.the Secretary of Energy to enter into international agreements on: (1) the source of any components of, or fissile material used in, a nuclear device or weapon; and (2) information on radioactive materials produced, used, or stored at various locations. Requires reports from such Secretary to Congress on: (1) such agreements; and (2) standards and capabilities for determining any country or group that provides to another country or group a nuclear device or weapon (or component thereof) or fissile materials that could be used in such a device or weapon.

<b>Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board </b>- (Sec. 3201) Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

<b>Title XXXIII:<b>Division D: Veteran Small Businesses </b>- Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business Reauthorization and Opportunity Act of 2007 - <b>Title XLI: Veterans Business Development </b>- (Sec. 4101) Authorizes appropriations (with a funding offset) for FY2008-FY2010 for the Office of Veterans Business Development of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Expresses the sense of Congress that amounts provided to the Office in excess of that provided in FY2007 should be used to support veterans business outreach centers.

(Sec. 4102) Amends the Small Business Act to direct the President to establish an interagency task force to coordinate federal efforts to increase capital and business development opportunities for, and increase the award of federal contracting and subcontracting to, small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans and veterans. Requires the task force to report annually to the small business and veterans' committees on its activities.

(Sec. 4103) Extends permanently the SBA's Advisory Committee on Veterans Business Affairs. (Current law terminates such Committee at the end of FY2006.)

<b>Title XLII: National Defense StockpileReservist Enterprise Transition and Sustainability </b>- National Reservist Enterprise Transition and Sustainabiilty Act of 2007 - (Sec. 3301)4203) Authorizes the SBA Administrator to make grants, under the small business development center (SBDC) program, to any SBDC, women's business center, veterans business outreach center, or center operated by the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager,Veterans Business Development Corporation providing enterprise and sustainability assistance to reservists.

Directs the Administrator to establish a program to provide business planning assistance (through grants) to small businesses owned and operated by reservists. Authorizes appropriations (with a funding offset).

<b>Title XLIII: Reservist Programs </b>- (Sec. 4301) Increases from 90 days to one year after release from active duty the period during FY2008,which a reservist may apply for a small business disaster loan due to obligate upsuffering substantial economic injury as a result of being ordered to $44,825,000active military duty during a period of conflict.

Directs the fundsAdministrator to: (1) establish a loan pre-consideration process for small business loans to reservists who are key employees of a business that will suffer economic injury in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund)absence of the reservist; (2) develop an outreach and technical assistance program with respect to loans and grants made to reservists; and (3) report to Congress on the technical assistance program.

(Sec. 4302) Increases the loan limit for authorized Fund uses, includingloans to reservists. Directs the disposition of hazardous materialsAdministrator and the Secretary to develop a joint website to provide information regarding any program for small businesses that are environmentally sensitive.available to veterans or reservists.

(Sec. 4303) Authorizes the NDS ManagerAdministrator to obligate amountsmake noncollateralized small business loans of up to $50,000 to reservists. Authorizes the Administrator to defer loans of reservists who are key employees of a small business and are called or ordered to active duty.

(Sec. 4304) Directs the Administrator to give priority to reservists' loan applications.

(Sec. 4305) Provides relief from SBA time limits in excessthe case of such amount 45 days after notifying Congress that extraordinarycertain veteran or emergency conditions necessitateservice-disabled veteran small business loans.

(Sec. 4306) Requires the additional obligations.CG to: (1) report to the small business committees on types of assistance needed by service-disabled veterans who wish to become entrepreneurs; and (2) conduct a study of, and report to the defense and small business committees on, options for promoting positive working relations between employers and their reservist employees.

<b>Division E: Maritime Administration </b>- Maritime Administration Authorities Act of 2007 - <b>Title LI: General </b>- (Sec. 5101) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to enter into agreements to purchase, charter, operate, or otherwise acquire the use of any vessels and any other related real or personal property.

(Sec. 5102) Subjects to prior consent by the Secretary of Defense the use or transfer by the Secretary of Transportation of any vessel in the Ready Reserve Force or National Defense Reserve Fleet which is maintained in a retention status for DOD.

(Sec. 3302)5103) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 andMerchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 to allow the Strom ThurmondSecretary of Transportation to charter to any U.S. state, locality, or territory any vessel of the Ready Reserve Force or National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Thurmond Act) to increase required receipt objectives for previously-authorized NDS disposals.Reserve Fleet described above.

<b>Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves </b>- (Sec. 3401) Authorizes appropriations to(Sec. 5104) Amends the SecretaryNational Maritime Heritage Act of Energy for FY2008 to carry out activities relating1994 to modify requirements regarding the disposal of certain National Defense Reserve Fleet vessels that are not in the naval petroleum reserves.Ready Reserve Fleet.

(Sec. 3402) Amends the Thurmond Act to require5105) Authorizes the Secretary of EnergyTransportation to complete, by no later than October 1, 2019, remediation at the Moab uranium milling site, Utah, and removal of the tailingscharter or otherwise make available a vessel under such Secretary's jurisdiction to the Crescent Junction site (also in Utah).any other federal department.

<b>Title XXXV: Maritime Administration </b>- (Sec. 3501) Authorizes appropriations(Sec. 5106) Amends the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary, for purposes of this title) for FY2008 for the Maritime Administration for: (1) operations and training; and (2) the disposition of obsolete vesselsTransportation, in the National Defenseorder to ensure Ready Reserve Fleet.Fleet vessel readiness, to active and conduct sea trials on such vessel at least once every 30 (under current law, 24) months.

(Sec. 3502)5107) Directs the SecretaryAdministrator of the Maritime Administration to transferdevelop and report to the Secretary of the Navy during FY2008,specified congressional committees a comprehensive plan for disposal by the Navy, no less than three combatant vessels in the nonretention fleetreview of the Maritime Administration.traditional and non-traditional vessel or fishery facility purchase, construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning loan applications.

(Sec. 3503) Requires<b>Title LII: Technical Corrections </b>- (Sec. 5201) States that the Secretary to submit to the defenseamendments made by this title make no substantive change in existing law and transportation committees the current plan for the disposal of non-retention vesselsmay not be construed as making a substantive change in the National Defense Reserve Fleet.existing law. Makes various technical corrections.
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Latest Major Action: 12/19/2007: Presented to President.
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