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115th Congress } { REPORT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session } { 115-769
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2019
__________
R E P O R T
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[TO ACCOMPANY H.R. 6157]
[GRAPHIC NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]
June 20, 2018.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
30-477 WASHINGTON : 2018
C O N T E N T S
Page
Bill Totals...................................................... 1
Committee Budget Review Process.................................. 3
Introduction..................................................... 3
Definition of Program, Project, and Activity..................... 5
Reprogramming Guidance........................................... 5
Funding Increases................................................ 6
Congressional Special Interest Items............................. 6
Classified Annex................................................. 6
Committee Recommendations by Major Category...................... 6
Active, Reserve, and National Guard Military Personnel......... 6
Operation and Maintenance...................................... 6
Procurement.................................................... 6
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation..................... 7
Defense Health Program......................................... 8
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism
Requirements................................................... 8
Compliance with Congressional Direction.......................... 8
Army Out-Of-Cycle Program Decisions.............................. 9
Cloud Computing.................................................. 9
Other Transaction Authority for Follow-On Production............. 10
Quarterly Cyber Operations Briefing.............................. 10
Cyberspace Activities Budget Exhibits............................ 10
TITLE I. MILITARY PERSONNEL...................................... 13
Military Personnel Overview.................................... 15
Summary of End Strength...................................... 15
Overall Active End Strength.................................. 15
Overall Selected Reserve End Strength........................ 15
Reprogramming Guidance for Military Personnel Accounts....... 16
Military Personnel Special Interest Items.................... 16
Minority Outreach and Officer Accessions..................... 16
Cultural Sensitivity Training................................ 17
Trauma Training Program...................................... 17
Military Personnel, Army....................................... 17
Budget Justification......................................... 21
Military Personnel, Navy....................................... 21
Military Personnel, Marine Corps............................... 25
Military Personnel, Air Force.................................. 29
Reserve Personnel, Army........................................ 33
Reserve Personnel, Navy........................................ 36
Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps................................ 39
Reserve Personnel, Air Force................................... 42
National Guard Personnel, Army................................. 45
Suicide Prevention and Outreach.............................. 48
National Guard Personnel, Air Force............................ 48
TITLE II. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.............................. 51
Reprogramming Guidance for Operation and Maintenance Accounts.. 53
Reprogramming Guidance for Special Operations Command.......... 54
Operation and Maintenance Special Interest Items............... 54
Operation and Maintenance Quarterly Updates.................... 54
Restoring Readiness............................................ 55
Defense Foreign Language and Cultural Immersion Training....... 55
Pilot Shortages................................................ 55
Small Business Innovation Research Program..................... 55
Vieques and Culebra............................................ 56
National Security Education Program............................ 56
Indian Financing Act........................................... 57
Facility Demolition............................................ 57
Real Property.................................................. 57
Storm Water Conveyance Systems................................. 57
Child Care Programs............................................ 58
Operation and Maintenance, Army................................ 58
Physical Fitness............................................. 64
Operation and Maintenance, Navy................................ 64
Navy Training Flights........................................ 71
Submarine Maintenance Shortfalls............................. 71
Additive Technology for Sustainment of Navy Assets........... 71
Public Shipyards............................................. 71
Aegis Ashore Poland......................................... 71
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps....................... 72
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force.......................... 76
Air Education and Training Command.......................... 82
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide....................... 82
PFOS/PFOA Exposure Assessment............................... 88
Defense Commissary Agency................................... 88
Autism Spectrum Disorder.................................... 88
Meals Ready-To-Eat War Reserve.............................. 88
Youth Serving Organizations................................. 88
Joint Regional Security Stacks.............................. 89
Quality Assurance........................................... 89
Educational Opportunities on the Cotentin Peninsula......... 89
Sexual Assault and Juvenile Justice......................... 89
Defense Logistics Agency.................................... 90
Special Operations Command Pre-Deployment Training.......... 90
Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve....................... 90
Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve....................... 93
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve............... 96
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve.................. 99
Bird Strike Incidents....................................... 102
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard................ 102
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard................. 105
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces........... 108
Environmental Restoration, Army............................... 108
Environmental Restoration, Navy............................... 108
Environmental Restoration, Air Force.......................... 108
Granular Activated Carbon................................... 108
Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide....................... 108
Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites........ 109
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid................ 109
Cooperative Threat Reduction Account.......................... 109
Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund.. 109
TITLE III. PROCUREMENT........................................... 111
Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts............... 113
Funding Increases............................................. 113
Procurement Special Interest Items............................ 113
Aircraft Procurement, Army.................................... 113
AH-64 Apache................................................ 117
Apache Upgrades............................................. 117
UH-60M Black Hawk........................................... 117
Missile Procurement, Army..................................... 117
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army...... 121
Stryker..................................................... 125
Procurement of Ammunition, Army............................... 126
Other Procurement, Army....................................... 130
Land Mobile Radios for United States Army Europe............ 143
Aircraft Procurement, Navy.................................... 143
Navy Reserve Combat Aircraft................................ 150
Weapons Procurement, Navy..................................... 150
Tomahawk Production......................................... 154
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps.............. 154
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy............................. 158
Steam Turbine Production.................................... 162
Other Procurement, Navy....................................... 162
Electro-Optical Infrared Surveillance Sensors............... 174
Procurement, Marine Corps..................................... 174
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force............................... 180
MQ-9........................................................ 187
C-135B...................................................... 187
Battlefield Airborne Communication Node..................... 187
Compass Call................................................ 188
Light Attack................................................ 188
F-22........................................................ 189
Missile Procurement, Air Force................................ 189
Space Procurement, Air Force.................................. 192
Wideband Gapfiller Satellites............................... 195
Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force.......................... 195
Other Procurement, Air Force.................................. 198
Procurement, Defense-Wide..................................... 204
National Guard and Reserve Equipment.......................... 209
Defense Production Act........................................ 209
Rare Earth Elements......................................... 210
Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund........................... 210
TITLE IV. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION............. 211
Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts............... 213
Funding Increases............................................. 213
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Special Interest
Items........................................................ 213
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Developmental Test Fleet............ 213
Cost Estimates for Agile Software Development................. 214
Hypoxia and Physiological Episode Research.................... 214
Satellite Communications...................................... 215
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army.............. 215
Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments Program........... 232
Burn Patient Transfer System................................ 232
Army Lethality Improvements................................. 232
Advanced Development of Asset Protection Technologies....... 232
Domestic Supply of Novel Lightweight Transparent Armor
Materials.................................................. 233
Transformative Technologies for Propulsion Manufacturing
Processes.................................................. 233
Army Network Readiness...................................... 233
Metal Matrix Composite...................................... 233
Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Risk Management.............. 233
Industrial Base Resiliency.................................. 234
Precision Gun Launched Projectiles.......................... 234
Lightweight Protective Armor................................ 234
Batteries for Austere Locations............................. 234
Improved Turbine Engine Program............................. 234
Joint Multi-Role Program.................................... 235
Mobile Camouflage Systems................................... 235
Hercules Tow Vehicle/M88A2E1................................ 235
Army Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories........ 236
Long-Range Precision Fire Missile........................... 236
Integration of Iron Dome for Air and Missile Defense........ 236
Army Research Laboratory Open Campus Initiative............. 236
Cyber and Electronic Warfare for the Dismounted Soldier..... 237
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy.............. 237
Small Business Innovation Research Program.................. 255
Advanced Lightweight Polymer-Cased 7.62mm Ammunitions....... 255
Advanced Energetics Research................................ 255
DDG-51 Degaussing Standards................................. 255
Energy Storage Research..................................... 256
Coastal Environmental Research.............................. 256
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force......... 256
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
Recapitalization........................................... 271
F-15........................................................ 271
Test and Evaluation Support................................. 272
Adaptive Engine Transition Program.......................... 272
Space Solar Power Program................................... 272
Commercial Satellite Communications Services................ 273
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide...... 273
Defense Rapid Innovation Fund............................... 286
Reactive Material Structures................................ 286
Reclaimed Refrigerants...................................... 286
Trusted Foundry............................................. 286
Digital Manufacturing....................................... 286
Advanced Function Fabrics................................... 287
Cooperative Research........................................ 287
Unmanned Aircraft Systems................................... 287
Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense...................... 287
TITLE V. REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS.......................... 289
Defense Working Capital Funds................................. 289
TITLE VI. OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS................... 291
Defense Health Program........................................ 291
Reprogramming Guidance for the Defense Health Program....... 295
Carryover................................................... 295
Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Programs...................... 295
Metastatic Cancer Research.................................. 296
Electronic Health Records................................... 296
Advanced Orthopedic Surgical Training....................... 297
Traumatic Brain Injury...................................... 297
Opioid Abuse and Non-Opiate Pain Management................. 298
Collaboration with Minority Serving Health Institutions..... 298
Mental Health Providers..................................... 298
Impact of Gut Microbiome on Chronic Conditions.............. 299
Rare Cancers................................................ 299
Maternal and Child Health................................... 299
Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program................... 299
The Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical
Center..................................................... 300
Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense............ 301
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense........ 301
Office of the Inspector General............................... 301
TITLE VII. RELATED AGENCIES...................................... 303
National and Military Intelligence Programs................... 303
Classified Annex............................................ 303
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System
Fund......................................................... 303
Intelligence Community Management Account..................... 303
Credibility Assessment...................................... 304
TITLE VIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS................................... 305
TITLE IX. OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM 315
Committee Recommendation...................................... 315
Reporting Requirements........................................ 315
Military Personnel............................................ 315
Operation and Maintenance..................................... 321
Afghanistan Security Forces Fund............................ 330
Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and Equip Fund 330
Kurdish Peshmerga........................................... 330
Report on U.S. Defense Assistance to Saudi Arabia and United
Arab Emirates Coalition in Yemen........................... 330
Procurement................................................... 330
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.................... 342
Revolving and Management Funds................................ 346
Defense Working Capital Funds............................... 346
Other Department of Defense Programs.......................... 346
Defense Health Program...................................... 346
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense...... 346
Office of the Inspector General............................. 346
General Provisions............................................ 346
TITLE X.......................................................... 349
Additional General Provisions............................... 349
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.................. 349
Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives......... 349
Rescissions................................................... 349
Transfer of Funds............................................. 349
Earmark Disclosure Statement.................................. 352
Compliance with Rule XIII, Cl. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule)........... 352
Changes in the Application of Existing Law.................... 352
Appropriations Not Authorized By Law.......................... 364
Comparison with the Budget Resolution......................... 365
Five-Year Outlay Projections.................................. 365
Financial Assistance to State and Local Governments........... 365
Program Duplication........................................... 365
Directed Rule Making.......................................... 366
Full Committee Votes.......................................... 367
Additional Views.............................................. 389
115th Congress } { REPORT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session } { 115-769
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2019
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June 20, 2018.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
_______
Ms. Granger of Texas, from the Committee on Appropriations,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 6157]
The Committee on Appropriations submits the following
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making
appropriations for the Department of Defense, and for other
purposes, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
BILL TOTALS
Appropriations for most military functions of the
Department of Defense are provided for in the accompanying bill
for fiscal year 2019. This bill does not provide appropriations
for military construction, military family housing, civil
defense, and military nuclear warheads, for which requirements
are considered in connection with other appropriations Acts.
The President's fiscal year 2019 budget request for
activities funded in the Department of Defense Appropriations
Act totals $675,473,023,000 in new budget obligational
authority.
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COMMITTEE BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS
During its review of the fiscal year 2019 budget request
and execution of appropriations for fiscal year 2018, the
Subcommittee on Defense held a total of seven hearings and five
formal briefings during the period of February 2018 to May
2018. Hearings were held in open session, except when the
security classification of the material to be discussed
presented no alternative but to conduct those hearings in
executive or closed session.
INTRODUCTION
The Committee recommendation for total fiscal year 2019
Department of Defense funding is $674,591,000,000, which is an
increase of $19,973,481,000 above the fiscal year 2018 enacted
level and a decrease of $882,023,000 below the budget request.
The recommendation includes $606,512,000,000 in base funding
and $68,079,000,000 for overseas contingency operations/global
war on terrorism funding in title IX.
The Committee recommendation is constructed to assist the
Department with its strategy driven approach to achieve a more
lethal, resilient, and rapidly innovative Joint Force. When
combined with allies and partners, the Joint Force will sustain
American influence and ensure favorable balances of power that
safeguard the free and open international order. To achieve
these goals and to build on the well-guided appropriations
strategy of fiscal year 2018, the Committee has once again
sought the trained and experienced guidance of the Secretary of
Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
leadership of the military Services, and other national
security experts. It is the goal of the Committee to provide
sufficient, stable, and timely appropriations. The Committee
sees its fiscal year 2018 funding efforts as a turning point,
thus averting the decline of military readiness and rebounding
the legacy of ensuring that the United States military is the
strongest, most capable military in the world.
This recommendation continues to provide robust resources
needed to respond to and deter threats from adversaries,
including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and to counter
violent extremists throughout the world. The Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs requested that the Committee help ensure that the
Joint Force has the depth, flexibility, readiness, and
responsiveness to ensure that servicemen and women never face a
fair fight. This recommendation builds on the Committee's
commitment to financially resource the funding levels required
by the nation's fighting force and its leaders to accomplish
each mission without fail.
The Committee's recommendation is guided by the National
Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy, both of
which are designed to safeguard American prosperity, protect
the American people, homeland, and way of life, by preserving
peace through strength, and garnering American influence
throughout the globe.
After 17 years, the United States continues to be engaged
in its historically longest war. From the day the nation was
attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001, the operational
tempo of the military, the tools of national diplomacy, and
moreover, the American way of life has been challenged.
Throughout these expanded conflicts, the military strategy had
begun to atrophy and the competitive advantage erode. As
requested and provided with this appropriation, robust funding
will reverse that decline and place the military Services on a
continuing upward climb to global superiority and to address
the increasingly complex global security environment.
The Committee recommendation also addresses a new challenge
faced by the military and the Department of Defense--not that
of a kinetic enemy, but of a virtual cyber enemy. Adversaries
are advanced in the prospect of overcoming opponents via
virtual means by disrupting or even disabling computer/data
networks and the national telecommunications backbone.
Additionally, foes including Russia, China, Iran, and North
Korea use this virtual environment to spawn instability through
media, state-sponsored terrorist activities to garner influence
while vying for regional hegemony using a growing network of
proxies. Secure vital communications and data transmission is
at risk. This recommendation provides robust funding for
network resiliency and reliability.
The reserve component forces traditionally supported combat
operations as a strategic reserve, however, more recently,
reserve component forces have transitioned to an operational
force and have been vital while joining active component forces
in long-term engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout
the world. The Committee has once again addressed the needs of
the reserve components, investing in many unfunded priorities
not addressed by the budget request. For over 37 years Congress
has addressed the equipment needs of the National Guard and
reserves by providing funding for improved equipment needed but
not requested by the senior Service of each.
Fiscal responsibility and congressional oversight is
afforded across this recommendation while being mindful of
integrating the key elements of national power. In addition to
providing for military strength, the recommendation considers
the nation's reliance on soft power. Partnering with the
Department of State provides power through diplomacy by
achieving international strength deterrence, reliability, and
partner alliances throughout the world.
The Committee recommendation builds on prior year
investments in readiness and technological dominance to defend
the nation and to remain the preeminent military power in the
world. The Committee believes and has followed the
recommendation of the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the
balance of power remains favorable through a position of
strength, thus advancing international order and the security
and prosperity of the United States.
The Committee recommendation balances the needs of national
defense with the imperative of fiscal responsibility and
congressional oversight. The Committee has reviewed the budget
request in detail and identified programs where reductions are
possible without adversely impacting the warfighter or the
restoration of national defense. Examples of such reductions
include programs that have been terminated or restructured
since the budget was submitted, savings from favorable contract
pricing adjustments, contract or schedule delays resulting in
savings, unjustified new programs and cost increases, funds
requested ahead of need for the year of budget execution,
projected or historical underexecution, rescissions of unneeded
prior year funds, and reductions that are authorized in the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY
For the purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177), as amended by
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation
Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-119), and by the Budget Enforcement
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-508), the terms ``program, project,
and activity'' for appropriations contained in this Act shall
be defined as the most specific level of budget items
identified in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2019, the related classified annexes and Committee reports, and
the P-1 and R-1 budget justification documents as subsequently
modified by congressional action.
The following exception to the above definition shall
apply: the military personnel and the operation and maintenance
accounts, for which the term ``program, project, and activity''
is defined as the appropriations accounts contained in the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
At the time the President submits the budget request for
fiscal year 2020, the Secretary of Defense is directed to
transmit to the congressional defense committees budget
justification documents to be known as the ``M-1'' and ``O-1''
which shall identify, at the budget activity, activity group,
and sub-activity group level, the amounts requested by the
President to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for
military personnel and operation and maintenance in any budget
request, or amended budget request, for fiscal year 2020.
REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to continue
to follow the reprogramming guidance for acquisition accounts
as specified in the report accompanying the House version of
the Department of Defense Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year
2008 (House Report 110-279). The dollar threshold for
reprogramming funds shall be $10,000,000 for military
personnel; $15,000,000 for operation and maintenance;
$20,000,000 for procurement; and $10,000,000 for research,
development, test and evaluation.
Also, the Committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) to continue to provide the congressional defense
committees annual DD Form 1416 reports for titles I and II and
quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports for Service
and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of this Act.
Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with guidance
specified in the explanatory statement accompanying the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The Department
shall continue to follow the limitation that prior approval
reprogrammings are set at either the specified dollar threshold
or 20 percent of the procurement or research, development, test
and evaluation line, whichever is less. These thresholds are
cumulative from the base for reprogramming value as modified by
any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined value of transfers
into or out of a military personnel (M-1), an operation and
maintenance (O-1), a procurement (P-1), or a research,
development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds the
identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit a
prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special
interest items are established elsewhere in this report.
FUNDING INCREASES
The funding increases outlined in the tables for each
appropriation account shall be provided only for the specific
purposes indicated in the tables.
CONGRESSIONAL SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
Items for which additional funds have been provided or
items for which funding is specifically reduced as shown in the
project level tables or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only
for'' or ``only to'' in this report are congressional special
interest items for the purpose of the Base for Reprogramming
(DD Form 1414). Each of these items must be carried on the DD
Form 1414 at the stated amount, as specifically addressed in
the Committee report.
CLASSIFIED ANNEX
Adjustments to the classified programs are addressed in the
classified annex accompanying this report.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS BY MAJOR CATEGORY
ACTIVE, RESERVE AND NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY PERSONNEL
In title I of the bill, the Committee recommends a total of
$139,308,351,000 for active, reserve, and National Guard
military personnel, a decrease of $1,380,950,000 below the
budget request, and an increase of $5,940,954,000 above the
fiscal year 2018 enacted level. The Committee recommendation
provides full funding necessary to increase basic pay for all
military personnel by 2.6 percent, as authorized by current
law, effective January 1, 2019.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
In title II of the bill, the Committee recommends a total
of $197,551,742,000 for operation and maintenance support to
the military Services and other Department of Defense entities,
a decrease of $1,917,894,000 below the budget request, and an
increase of $9,306,159,000 above the fiscal year 2018 enacted
level. The recommended levels will robustly fund operational
training, readiness, and facilities needs in fiscal year 2019.
PROCUREMENT
In title III of the bill, the Committee recommends a total
of $133,040,027,000 for procurement.
Major procurement initiatives and modifications funded in
titles III and IX include:
$1,166,056,000 for the procurement of 58 UH-60 Blackhawk
helicopters, an increase of $156,000,000 and eight helicopters
above the President's request;
$1,125,662,000 for the procurement of 66 remanufactured and
new build AH-64 Apache helicopters, an increase of $87,727,000
and eight new build helicopters above the President's request;
$34,000,000 for the procurement of four UH-72A Lakota
helicopters, an increase of $34,000,000 and four aircraft above
the President's request;
$163,326,000 for the procurement of 10 MQ-1 Gray Eagle
unmanned aerial vehicles, the same as the President's request;
$1,530,999,000 for the upgrade of 135 Abrams tanks to the
M1A2 system enhancement package configuration, the same as the
President's request;
$1,881,304,000 for the procurement of 24 F/A-18E/F Super
Hornet aircraft;
$1,767,179,000 for the procurement of ten P-8A Poseidon
multi-mission aircraft;
$1,072,113,000 for the procurement of six E-2D Advanced
Hawkeye aircraft, an increase of two aircraft and $340,000,000
above the President's request;
$798,355,000 for the procurement of 25 AH-1Z helicopters;
$1,134,337,000 for the procurement of 13 V-22 aircraft, an
increase of six aircraft and $328,000,000 above the President's
request;
$1,027,729,000 for the procurement of eight CH-53K
helicopters;
$649,015,000 for the procurement of six VH-92 executive
helicopters;
$9,443,026,000 for the procurement of 93 F-35 Lightning
aircraft, an increase of $1,724,200,000 and 16 aircraft above
the President's request: 22 short take-off and vertical landing
variants for the Marine Corps, 15 carrier variants for the Navy
and Marine Corps, and 56 conventional variants for the Air
Force;
$22,708,767,000 for the procurement of 12 Navy ships,
including three DDG-51 guided missile destroyers, two SSN-774
attack submarines, three Littoral Combat Ships, one Towing,
Salvage, and Rescue Ship, two TAO fleet oilers, one
Expeditionary Sea Base, and the continued procurement of the
Columbia Class submarine, an increase of $837,330,000 and two
ships above the President's request;
$1,799,998,000 for the procurement of 18 C/HC/MC/KC-130J
aircraft, an increase of $604,069,000 and eight aircraft above
the President's request;
$487,707,000 for the procurement of 24 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned
aerial vehicles;
$2,293,623,000 for the procurement of 15 KC-46 tanker
aircraft;
$678,358,000 for the procurement of 10 combat rescue
helicopters;
$1,664,536,000 for the procurement of five space launch
services; and
$200,000,000 for the Israeli Cooperative Programs under the
Missile Defense Agency.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
In title IV of the bill, the Committee recommends a total
of $91,218,284,000 for research, development, test and
evaluation.
Major initiatives and modifications include:
$496,564,000 for the continued development of the Columbia
class ballistic missile submarine;
$413,529,000 for the continued development of the Next
Generation Jammer;
$1,262,044,000 for the continued development of the F-35
Lightning Joint Strike Fighter aircraft;
$2,314,196,000 for the continued development of the B-21
bomber;
$623,000,000 for the development of a new JSTARS aircraft;
$637,032,000 for the development of a Presidential Aircraft
Replacement;
$457,652,000 for the continued development of a new combat
rescue helicopter;
$245,447,000 for space launch services;
$433,889,000 for the Global Positioning System IIIC;
$513,235,000 for the Global Positioning System III
Operational Control Segment;
$633,126,000 for the next-generation Overhead Persistent
Infrared system;
$3,388,766,000 for the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency; and
$300,000,000 for the Israeli Cooperative Programs under the
Missile Defense Agency.
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
The Committee recommends a total of $34,047,018,000 in
title VI for the Defense Health Program to support worldwide
medical and dental services for active forces and other
eligible beneficiaries.
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM REQUIREMENTS
In title IX of the bill, the Committee recommends a total
of $68,079,000,000 for overseas contingency operations/global
war on terrorism (OCO/GWOT) requirements.
Military Personnel: The Committee recommends a total of
$4,660,661,000 for military personnel OCO/GWOT requirements in
title IX of the bill.
Operation and Maintenance: The Committee recommends a total
of $48,304,549,000 for operation and maintenance OCO/GWOT
requirements in title IX of the bill.
Procurement: The Committee recommends a total of
$12,745,120,000 for procurement OCO/GWOT requirements in title
IX of the bill.
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation: The Committee
recommends a total of $1,180,836,000 for research, development,
test and evaluation OCO/GWOT requirements in title IX of the
bill.
COMPLIANCE WITH CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTION
The Committee is extremely concerned with the increasing
willingness by the Department of Defense to disregard
congressional direction as provided in annual Department of
Defense Appropriations Acts. The perseverance by Congress and
this Committee in particular for additional funding for the
Department of Defense has been tireless for the past several
years. Thus, when the Department decides to use additional
funding for purposes other than the appropriated purpose, it
seems that the persistence to provide increased funding has
been taken for granted. General Provision 8006 states that
additional funding above the budget request for a particular
program or effort may be used only for that program or effort
which Congress directed. Any changes to this must be formally
requested on a reprogramming action submitted by the Under
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). However, there have been
several recent instances where congressional direction has been
disregarded by the Department in an effort to fund Department
priorities rather than those priorities directed by the
Congress. Additionally, there have been many occurrences in
which the Services attempt to ``buy back'' reductions to
programs rather than re-baseline those programs accordingly.
The Committee believes that the relationship between the
Department and the Congress must be seamless in order to
provide appropriate funding and direction for the military and
national security. The Committee believes the Department of
Defense needs to fully recognize the criticality of this
relationship and the role the Congress plays. The Committee
directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the
House and Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 90
days after the enactment of this Act on any funding added by
the Congress in the last five fiscal years that was not
executed in accordance with congressional direction and any
directed reductions of funding that were reimbursed with other
funding.
ARMY OUT-OF-CYCLE PROGRAM DECISIONS
The Committee has become increasingly concerned by the
number of out-of-cycle program decisions being made by the
Army. These decisions are too often disconnected from the
budget requests submitted to Congress and which the Committee
acts upon in its annual recommendations. In addition, the
Committee believes that the Army has not been forthcoming on
issues related to the executability of funds that were
requested by the Army as part of its fiscal year 2018 budget
submission or requested in its unfunded requirements list. The
Committee has learned of these issues only upon the
communication of the desire to reprogram funds to new
modernization priorities, even though in several instances
these priorities are not adequately supported by the fiscal
year 2019 budget request and future years defense plan. The
Committee expects the Army to improve the quality and
timeliness of its communications to the Committee, properly
align its programmatic decision making process to the budget
process, and ensure that its new or increased budgetary demands
upon the Congress are sustained in its future years defense
plan.
CLOUD COMPUTING
The Committee believes cloud computing, if implemented
properly, will have far-reaching benefits for improving the
efficiency of day-to-day operations of the Department, as well
as enabling important new military capabilities critical to
maintaining tactical advantage, such as artificial
intelligence. However, the Committee remains concerned that the
Department does not have a coherent strategy for how its
various cloud initiatives, such as the Joint Enterprise Defense
Infrastructure, the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, Mil-
Cloud, and other cloud efforts, are intended to work together
to form the seamless enterprise the Department espouses. The
Committee also has serious concerns with acquisition strategies
for cloud service contracts that limit competition throughout
the period of performance of the contract. This is especially
problematic in a rapidly changing field such as cloud
computing. Consequently, the Committee expects the Department
to develop a strategy that will delineate how it intends to
promote competition and innovation on an ongoing basis. The
Department also has not adequately addressed the
vulnerabilities and threats of adopting an enterprise-wide
cloud strategy, to include cyber threats, insider-threats,
potential conflicts from foreign ownership, and the need for
resiliency. Therefore, the Committee recommendation includes a
general provision directing the Secretary of Defense to provide
a comprehensive strategy for cloud computing across the
Department and to propose a plan to bring greater transparency
to the funding requested and expended for procuring cloud
computing services, including the funds to migrate legacy data
systems to the cloud computing environment. The plan should
address the acquisition strategy developed to procure cloud
services, to include all types of contracts and funding
vehicles considered for use.
OTHER TRANSACTION AUTHORITY FOR FOLLOW-ON PRODUCTION
The Committee supports the Department of Defense's use of
Other Transaction Authority (OTA) as an important tool to
provide flexibility and agility for cutting-edge research and
development projects and prototypes. However, the Committee is
concerned with the lack of transparency on the use of OTA
authority for follow-on production procurements. Therefore, the
Committee directs that no funds may be obligated or expended to
carry out a follow-on production contract or transaction under
Section 2371b(f) of title 10, United States Code, until 30 days
after the Secretary of Defense provides the congressional
defense committees with notification of the proposed contract
or transaction, including a determination and finding of the
facts and circumstances to clearly and convincingly justify the
specific determination made.
QUARTERLY CYBER OPERATIONS BRIEFING
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide
quarterly briefings to the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees on all named offensive and significant defensive
military operations in cyberspace carried out by the Department
of Defense not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal
quarter.
CYBERSPACE ACTIVITIES BUDGET EXHIBITS
The Committee repeats direction from fiscal year 2018
seeking additional details regarding the budget request for
cyberspace activities within the Department of Defense. The
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), the Department of
Defense Chief Information Officer, and the Service Secretaries
are directed, with the fiscal year 2020 budget submission, to
initiate the establishment of individual cyberspace activity
projects for research, development, test and evaluation
accounts; individual cyberspace activity sub-activity groups
for operation and maintenance accounts; and individual budget
line items for procurement accounts. Funds that cross
capability lines and are more appropriately documented within
non-cyberspace activity projects, sub-activity groups, and line
items may continue to be reported as such, but should include
specific cyber language and resource amounts within the
appropriate non-cyberspace operation and maintenance;
procurement; and research, development, test and evaluation
budget justification material and shall be referenced in any
cyberspace justification materials. Such inclusion of cyber
activities in non-cyber projects, sub-activity groups, and line
items shall be carried out in the most limited manner as
possible to meet congressional intent.
Funding appropriated for cyberspace activities as defined
by the classified cyberspace activities information technology
investment budget request for fiscal year 2019 may only be used
for such activities. The Secretary of Defense is directed to
use normal prior approval reprogramming procedures to obligate
funding appropriated to the operation and maintenance;
procurement; or research, development, test and evaluation
accounts for cyberspace activities for any other purpose.
TITLE I
MILITARY PERSONNEL
The fiscal year 2019 Department of Defense military
personnel budget request totals $140,689,301,000. The Committee
recommendation provides $139,308,351,000 for the military
personnel accounts. The table below summarizes the Committee
recommendations:
MILITARY PERSONNEL OVERVIEW
The Committee recommendation provides $139,308,351,000 for
the military personnel accounts, which funds military pay and
allowances, recruitment and retention initiatives, and overall
quality of life programs for active duty, National Guard, and
reserve personnel. The recommendation provides increased basic
pay for all military personnel by 2.6 percent as authorized by
current law, effective January 1, 2019. The Committee continues
to encourage constructive evaluations of recruitment and
retention programs, bonus and special pay incentives, and
personnel benefit programs for fiscal year 2019. The Committee
remains supportive of programs intended to enhance the morale
and quality of life of military personnel and their families.
SUMMARY OF END STRENGTH
The fiscal year 2019 budget request includes an increase of
15,600 in total end strength for the active forces and an
increase of 800 in total end strength for the Selected Reserve
as compared to the fiscal year 2018 authorized levels. The
following tables summarize the Committee recommendations for
end strength levels, both in the aggregate and for each active
and Selected Reserve component.
OVERALL ACTIVE END STRENGTH
Fiscal year 2018 authorized........................... 1,322,500
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,338,100
Fiscal year 2019 recommendation....................... 1,338,100
Compared with fiscal year 2018........................ +15,600
Compared with fiscal year 2019 budget request......... - - -
OVERALL SELECTED RESERVE END STRENGTH
Fiscal year 2018 authorized........................... 816,900
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 817,700
Fiscal year 2019 recommendation....................... 817,700
Compared with fiscal year 2018........................ +800
Compared with fiscal year 2019 budget request......... - - -
SUMMARY OF MILITARY PERSONNEL END STRENGTH
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Fiscal year 2019
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Fiscal year Change
2018 Budget Committee Change from
authorized request recommended from fiscal
request year 2018
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Active Forces (End Strength)
Army......................................... 483,500 487,500 487,500 - - - 4,000
Navy......................................... 327,900 335,400 335,400 - - - 7,500
Marine Corps................................. 186,000 186,100 186,100 - - - 100
Air Force.................................... 325,100 329,100 329,100 - - - 4,000
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Total, Active Forces..................... 1,322,500 1,338,100 1,338,100 - - - 15,600
Guard and Reserve Forces (End Strength)
Army Reserve................................. 199,500 199,500 199,500 - - - - - -
Navy Reserve................................. 59,000 59,100 59,100 - - - 100
Marine Corps Reserve......................... 38,500 38,500 38,500 - - - - - -
Air Force Reserve............................ 69,800 70,000 70,000 - - - 200
Army National Guard.......................... 343,500 343,500 343,500 - - - - - -
Air National Guard........................... 106,600 107,100 107,100 - - - 500
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Total, Selected Reserve.................. 816,900 817,700 817,700 - - - 800
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Total, Military Personnel........................ 2,139,400 2,155,800 2,155,800 - - - 16,400
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL ACCOUNTS
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit
the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414) for each of the
fiscal year 2019 appropriation accounts not later than 60 days
after the enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is
prohibited from executing any reprogramming or transfer of
funds for any purpose other than originally appropriated until
the aforementioned report is submitted to the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees.
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to use the
normal prior approval reprogramming procedures to transfer
funds in the Services' military personnel accounts between
budget activities in excess of $10,000,000.
MILITARY PERSONNEL SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
Items for which additional funds have been provided or have
been specifically reduced as shown in the project level tables
or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to''
in this report are congressional special interest items for the
purpose of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of
these items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated
amount as specifically addressed in the Committee report. Below
threshold reprogrammings may not be used to either restore or
reduce funding from congressional special interest items as
identified on the DD Form 1414.
MINORITY OUTREACH AND OFFICER ACCESSIONS
Minorities remain underrepresented in the general officer
ranks across the Services. To build a more diverse
organization, the Committee supports efforts to conduct
effective outreach and recruiting programs focused on
increasing officer accessions in minority communities and
encourages the Secretary of Defense and the Service Secretaries
to support efforts, with both personnel and resources, to
improve diversity in the military.
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY TRAINING
The Committee recognizes that the Department of Defense and
the Services have multiple cultural sensitivity training
programs for military personnel. The Committee also believes in
the importance of protecting servicemembers' rights regarding
religious exercise and ethnic heritage. As such, the Committee
supports efforts to identify resource and personnel gaps that
may exist in the Office of Diversity Management and Equal
Opportunity of the Department of Defense as well as efforts to
identify existing gaps in protections for new and prospective
servicemembers.
TRAUMA TRAINING PROGRAM
The Committee recognizes the valuable support that
universities, hospitals, and other military partners provide by
offering civilian-based emergency response trauma and critical
care training including public health, bio-environmental, and
biomedical instruction to sustain capabilities of the National
Guard Enhanced Response Forces Packages, National Guard
Homeland Response Forces, and Army Reserve Consequence
Management Response Forces. The Committee encourages the
Director of the National Guard Bureau and the Chiefs of the
reserve components to continue pursuing advanced trauma and
public health training with these civilian partners in order to
maintain unit readiness. The Committee also encourages the
development of enhanced medical and critical care preparedness
programs.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $41,628,855,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 43,670,542,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 43,093,752,000
Change from budget request............................ -576,790,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$43,093,752,000 for Military Personnel, Army which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
BUDGET JUSTIFICATION
The Committee is disappointed in the level of detail
provided in the Army's Military Personnel budget justification
for fiscal year 2019. While the President's Budget for fiscal
year 2019 was submitted prior to final consideration of the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, the Army was
given an opportunity to clarify the numbers that were used to
formulate the fiscal year 2019 request. In many cases the Army
failed to explain how changes in price and program were
reflected in the fiscal year 2019 request. For example, in
several instances the Army's response to Committee inquiries
did not adequately account for the differences in price and
program changes. In other cases it is unclear how the amounts
were derived, other than to match the fiscal year 2019 request.
The Committee supports the Army's requested fiscal year 2019
end strength levels, but is disappointed in the incomplete and
inadequate budget justification. As a result, the Committee
includes an overall reduction of $32,000,000 and expects the
fiscal year 2020 budget justification will provide the details
required for Congressional oversight.
Additionally, the Committee is disturbed by the
deficiencies in the Army's fiscal year 2019 budget process. The
Army learned of pricing modifications in January, and yet
submitted their fiscal year 2019 budget with outdated
information. The Army had more than two months to share these
price fluctuations with the Congress prior to enactment of the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, and failed to
do so. Additional program modifications were discovered in
April. Together, the price and program changes resulted in an
asset of $850,000,000 in fiscal year 2018, and a projected
$383,000,000 asset for fiscal year 2019. Instead, the Army is
now using these superfluous funds as a source for initiatives
which are both outside the normal budget cycle and unjustified
to the Congress. As a result, the Committee recommendation
includes a reduction of $400,000,000.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $28,772,118,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 30,426,211,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 30,254,211,000
Change from budget request............................ -172,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$30,254,211,000 for Military Personnel, Navy which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $13,231,114,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 13,890,968,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 13,770,968,000
Change from budget request............................ -120,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$13,770,968,000 for Military Personnel, Marine Corps which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $28,790,440,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 30,526,011,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 30,357,311,000
Change from budget request............................ -168,700,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$30,357,311,000 for Military Personnel, Air Force which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $4,715,608,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 4,955,947,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 4,848,947,000
Change from budget request............................ -107,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $4,848,947,000
for Reserve Personnel, Army which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,988,362,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,067,521,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,055,221,000
Change from budget request............................ -12,300,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,055,221,000
for Reserve Personnel, Navy which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $764,903,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 788,090,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 777,390,000
Change from budget request............................ -10,700,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $777,390,000
for Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,802,554,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,894,286,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 1,853,526,000
Change from budget request............................ -40,760,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,853,526,000
for Reserve Personnel, Air Force which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $8,264,626,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 8,744,345,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 8,589,785,000
Change from budget request............................ -154,560,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $8,589,785,000
for National Guard Personnel, Army which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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SUICIDE PREVENTION AND OUTREACH
The Committee is concerned by the number of suicides among
servicemembers. The Committee recognizes programs like the
National Guard Bureau's national counseling and suicide
prevention peer-to-peer outreach programs are vital to reducing
the number of suicides among guardsmen. The Committee
encourages the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to continue
supporting such programs.
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $3,408,817,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 3,725,380,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 3,707,240,000
Change from budget request............................ -18,140,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,707,240,000
for National Guard Personnel, Air Force which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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TITLE II
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
The fiscal year 2019 Department of Defense operation and
maintenance budget request totals $199,469,636,000. The
Committee recommendation provides $197,551,742,000 for the
operation and maintenance accounts. The table below summarizes
the Committee recommendations:
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit
the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414) for each of the
fiscal year 2019 appropriation accounts not later than 60 days
after the enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is
prohibited from executing any reprogramming or transfer of
funds for any purpose other than originally appropriated until
the aforementioned report is submitted to the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees.
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to use the
normal prior approval reprogramming procedures to transfer
funds in the Services' operation and maintenance accounts
between O-1 budget activities, or between sub-activity groups
in the case of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, in
excess of $15,000,000.
In addition, the Secretary shall follow prior approval
reprogramming procedures in excess of $15,000,000 out of the
following readiness sub-activity groups:
Army:
Maneuver units
Modular support brigades
Aviation assets
Land forces operations support
Force readiness operations support
Land forces depot maintenance
Base operations support
Facilities sustainment, restoration, and modernization
Specialized skill training
Navy:
Mission and other flight operations
Fleet air training
Aircraft depot maintenance
Mission and other ship operations
Ship depot maintenance
Facilities sustainment, restoration, and modernization
Marine Corps:
Operational forces
Field logistics
Depot maintenance
Facilities sustainment, restoration, and modernization
Air Force:
Primary combat forces
Combat enhancement forces
Depot maintenance
Operating forces depot maintenance
Facilities sustainment, restoration, and modernization
Contractor logistics support and system support
Flying hour program
Mobilization depot maintenance
Training and recruiting depot maintenance
Administration and service-wide depot maintenance
Air Force Reserve:
Depot maintenance
Air National Guard:
Depot maintenance
Additionally, the Secretary of Defense is directed to use
normal prior approval reprogramming procedures when
implementing transfers in excess of $15,000,000 into the
following budget sub-activities:
Operation and Maintenance, Army:
Other personnel support/recruiting and advertising
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard:
Other personnel support/recruiting and advertising
REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a
baseline report that shows the Special Operations Command's
operation and maintenance funding by sub-activity group for the
fiscal year 2019 appropriation not later than 60 days after the
enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is further
directed to submit quarterly execution reports to the
congressional defense committees not later than 45 days after
the end of each fiscal quarter that addresses the rationale for
the realignment of any funds within and between budget sub-
activities and the movement of any base funds used to support
Overseas Contingency Operations. Finally, the Secretary of
Defense is directed to notify the congressional defense
committees 30 days prior to the realignment of funds in excess
of $15,000,000 between sub-activity groups.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
Items for which additional funds have been provided or have
been specifically reduced as shown in the project level tables
or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to''
in this report are congressional special interest items for the
purpose of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of
these items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated
amount as specifically addressed in the Committee report. Below
threshold reprogrammings may not be used to either restore or
reduce funding from congressional special interest items as
identified on the DD Form 1414.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE QUARTERLY UPDATES
Regular interaction with each of the Service's financial
management offices enhances the ability of the Committee to
perform its essential oversight responsibilities. Through these
interactions, the Committee is able to gain a better
understanding of the challenges each of the Services face with
the obligation and execution of their programs and contracts.
The Committee notes the successful quarterly meetings with the
Navy throughout fiscal year 2018 and directs the Director of
each of the Service's Operations Divisions (Financial
Management and Budget) to provide quarterly briefings to the
House and Senate Appropriations Committees on their respective
operation and maintenance execution rates in fiscal year 2019.
RESTORING READINESS
The Committee recommends additional readiness funds for the
Services within the operation and maintenance accounts. This
funding shall be used only to improve military readiness,
including increased training, depot maintenance, and base
operations support. None of the funding provided may be used
for recruiting, marketing, or advertising programs. The
readiness funding provided is a congressional special interest
item. The Secretary of Defense and the Service Secretaries are
directed to submit a detailed spend plan by sub-activity group
not less than 30 days prior to the obligation of these funds.
DEFENSE FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL IMMERSION TRAINING
The Committee appreciates the continued emphasis the
Department of Defense places on advanced foreign language and
cultural immersion training. The Committee also supports the
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and its
efforts to ensure that necessary requirements for advanced
foreign language and cultural training and materials are being
met. Members of the military and intelligence community must be
able to communicate and interact directly with local
populations, guides, foreign allies, and contractors to fully
understand and respect their cultures. The Committee encourages
the Secretary of Defense to continue efforts to improve
existing capabilities and to ensure that requirements for
authentic advanced foreign language training and cultural
materials are being fully met.
The Committee also supports efforts to offer foreign
language and cultural training online to increase access for
servicemembers. The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense
to provide a report to the congressional defense committees not
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act on current
and future Department-wide efforts to offer foreign language
training online.
PILOT SHORTAGES
The Committee appreciates efforts throughout the Department
of Defense to address the shortage of pilots across the
Services. The Committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to
work with higher education institutions, including Historically
Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions,
and other Minority Serving Institutions, to develop programs
that will prepare more students to meet the eligibility
requirements for pilot training. In addition, the Secretary of
the Air Force is encouraged to examine university-based
training for Air Force ROTC cadets and civilian aviation
students as pilots and sensor operators for Remotely Piloted
Aircraft.
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
The Committee continues to support efforts in the
Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community to partner
with small businesses through the Small Business Innovation
Research Program and is aware of Departmental efforts to
provide mentoring and outreach services for small businesses
competing for contracts, with a focus on minority-owned and
HUBZone businesses. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
Defense to continue efforts to support these programs.
VIEQUES AND CULEBRA
The Committee remains interested in the pace and scope of
environmental restoration on the island municipalities of
Culebra and Vieques in Puerto Rico. The Committee encourages
the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy to work
closely with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and
Wildlife Service, and the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality
Board to maximize public participation and transparency in the
decontamination process in order to achieve a thorough
decontamination result on both islands.
The Committee is also concerned about public safety on the
northwest peninsula of Culebra due to unexploded ordnance
identified there by the Army. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Army to exercise available authorities,
including the authority clarified through the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, to decontaminate the
northwest peninsula. Additionally, the Committee directs the
Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy to each
submit a report to the congressional defense committees not
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act detailing
all respective decontamination authorities and plans applicable
to Culebra and Vieques, to include particular emphasis on the
decontamination of the northwest peninsula of Culebra.
The Committee also notes that there are gaps in information
about types and amounts of ordnance used on Vieques and
Culebra, as well as about potential links between the ordnance
used and present threats to public health. The Committee
directs the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy
to provide a report to the congressional defense committees not
later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act on
previously released information related to the ordnance on the
two islands. The Committee also urges the Secretaries to
publish the relevant documents on the internet in a single
location and in a user-friendly format.
NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Committee recognizes that the National Security
Education Program provides training for servicemembers and
civilians in languages and cultures critical to national
security. The Language Flagship Program has successfully
recruited language proficient students by utilizing
partnerships dedicated to creating pathways into the program.
The Committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to continue
supporting these programs to ensure warfighters receive the
language and culture training needed to effectively complete
missions. Additionally, the Committee directs the Secretary of
Defense to submit a report not later than 60 days after the
enactment of this Act which provides the percentage of
strategic language billets filled with level three foreign
language speakers and identifies additional resources that may
be required to address existing shortfalls in this skill set.
Furthermore, the Committee encourages the Director of the
National Security Education Program to find ways to work
collaboratively with Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and other Minority
Serving Institutions to ensure a diversity of analysts with
proficiency in critical languages.
INDIAN FINANCING ACT
The Committee recommendation includes funds for activities
authorized in the Indian Financing Act of 1974. The Committee
directs the Secretary of Defense to obligate funds for these
activities not later than 90 days after the enactment of this
Act.
FACILITY DEMOLITION
The Committee notes the increased budget request from each
of the Services for facilities sustainment, restoration, and
modernization. However, the additional funding requests for
facility reduction and demolition are concerning. While
demolition can be a useful tool for readiness, health, and
safety efforts, a prioritization process for site selection is
imperative. Prior to obligating funding for any facility
reduction or demolition activity, the Committee directs the
Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the congressional
defense committees that provides a spend plan for demolition
activities in fiscal year 2019 and explains the process used to
identify and prioritize demolitions across the Department of
Defense enterprise.
REAL PROPERTY
The Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Energy, Installations, and Environment), in conjunction with
the Service Secretaries, to submit a report to the
congressional defense committees not later than 90 days after
the enactment of this Act that outlines the Department of
Defense facilities with a category code related to
administration or warehouse space, are coded as active, and
have a zero percent utilization in the Department's real
property inventory database. The report should indicate the
feasibility of conveying or selling the facility or property.
STORM WATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEMS
The Committee is concerned with the maintenance and repair
of aging and stressed infrastructure by the Department of
Defense, especially during and after devastating weather events
producing excess storm water such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma,
and Maria in 2017. Military installations must be maintained
not only for training of servicemembers but to provide a
certain quality of life for all residents. A resilient
infrastructure able to handle storm water on its installations
is part of this quality of life. Therefore, the Committee
directs the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the
Service Secretaries, to provide a report to the congressional
defense committees not later than 180 days after the enactment
of this Act on the current state of military installation storm
water conveyance systems, current projects to repair or
strengthen these systems, and future plans to address any
shortcomings identified. The report shall include related
funding profiles.
CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
The Committee supports continued efforts by the Department
to improve and expand military child care programs. Providing
this benefit helps to ease the stress placed on military
families which positively impacts the readiness of our
servicemembers. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
Defense to evaluate all options which may further expand child
care opportunities, including the utilization of excess
infrastructure as child development centers (CDC) at
installations located in rural locations. The Committee also
encourages the Secretary of Defense to explore partnerships
with other federal agencies to coordinate joint accessibility
to CDCs.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $38,816,957,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 42,009,317,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 41,334,782,000
Change from budget request............................ -674,535,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$41,334,782,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Army which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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PHYSICAL FITNESS
The Committee believes that physical fitness prior to
mobilization is an important readiness tool. Accordingly, the
Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to make
necessary investments in physical fitness equipment at all
mobilization force generation installations to ensure the
physical readiness of all troops prior to deployment.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $45,384,353,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 49,003,633,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 48,963,337,000
Change from budget request............................ -40,296,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$48,963,337,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Navy which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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NAVY TRAINING FLIGHTS
The Committee fully supports training of naval aviators but
recognizes the impact this training often has on local
communities. In order to maximize awareness of flight
activities with the public and other federal agencies, the
Committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy to coordinate
with the Federal Aviation Administrator to clearly specify
flight parameters approaching, within, and leaving military
operational areas.
SUBMARINE MAINTENANCE SHORTFALLS
The Committee recognizes that the nuclear-capable public
naval shipyards are backlogged with submarine maintenance work,
while private nuclear-capable shipyards have underutilized
capacity. The Los Angeles (SSN-688) class submarines are
especially impacted by this backlog, which significantly
reduces their operational availability for missions in support
of combatant commanders. The Committee directs the Secretary of
the Navy to submit a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than 90 days after the enactment of this
Act that outlines a comprehensive, five-year submarine
maintenance plan that restores submarine operational
availability and fully utilizes both public and private
nuclear-capable shipyards in accordance with all applicable
laws. The plan should strive to provide both private and public
shipyards with predictable frequency of maintenance
availabilities and estimate any potential cost savings that
distributing the workload may deliver.
ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINMENT OF NAVY ASSETS
The use of high-pressure cold spray technology to repair
previously un-repairable assets may be an effective way to
reduce maintenance costs. This technology is capable of
applying new metal to highly worn or corroded metal surfaces
without damaging the base metal. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Navy to assess this technology for potential
use as a new repair process.
PUBLIC SHIPYARDS
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard,
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard each
play a vital role in the Navy's success, conducting the depot
maintenance and repairs that are crucial for the Navy to
operate safely at sea. The Navy's public shipyards, as well as
the Navy's piers, docks, and underwater ranges, require
facility improvements and modernization to ensure continuity of
performance for fleet maintenance schedules. Facility upgrades
and modernization will increase safety for federal employees
and contribute to the readiness of the fleet. As such, the
Committee recommendation includes additional funding for the
Navy's Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization
sub-activity.
AEGIS ASHORE POLAND
The Committee recognizes that the Aegis Ashore in
Redzikowo, Poland will provide critical missile defense
capability to defend deployed forces, allies, and partners from
ballistic missile threats. The site will be manned and operated
by sailors on rotating, unaccompanied tours. The Committee
provides for the use of up to $150,000 of Operation and
Maintenance, Navy funding to maintain the current containerized
handling units on site in Poland for housing.
The Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide
a report to the congressional defense committees not later than
60 days after the enactment of this Act on options to improve
long-term housing for sailors at the Aegis Ashore Poland site,
including estimated costs and schedule for completing the
possible improvements.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $6,605,546,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 6,832,510,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 6,824,269,000
Change from budget request............................ -8,241,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $6,824,269,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $39,544,193,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 42,060,568,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 41,465,107,000
Change from budget request............................ -595,461,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$41,465,107,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Air Force which
will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMAND
The Committee recognizes the adverse impact that flooding
and other infrastructure challenges have had on Air Education
and Training Command (AETC) facilities, equipment, operations,
and training. The Committee also recognizes the steps that the
Air Force has taken to begin mitigating the damage through
multi-year projects. The Committee supports these efforts and
encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to utilize a similar
approach in addressing additional mitigation efforts at the
AETC.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $34,059,257,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 36,352,625,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 35,676,402,000
Change from budget request............................ -676,223,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$35,676,402,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide
which will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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PFOS/PFOA EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
The Committee continues to be concerned about potential
perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid
(PFOA) contamination on military installations. The Committee
recommends $7,000,000 for an exposure assessment, which shall
be limited to current or former domestic military installations
known to have PFOS/PFOA contamination in drinking water, ground
water, and any other sources of water and relevant exposure
pathways. The Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Energy, Installations, and Environment) to provide a
report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees not
later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act on the
Department's strategy to execute this funding.
DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY
The Department of Defense recently announced its intention
to begin the sale of beer and wine in defense commissaries. The
Committee supports this decision as a measure to increase
customer convenience and satisfaction. However, the Committee
notes that the sale of distilled spirits is not included in the
new policy. Since military commissary stores are intended to be
similar to commercial grocery stores and roughly half of States
legally sell distilled spirits in grocery stores, the Committee
believes that the Department should have explored this option
to further improve customer convenience at all military
commissaries. The Committee directs the Undersecretary of
Defense (Personnel and Readiness) to review the policy for sale
of alcohol at military commissaries and submit a report to the
House and Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 90
days after the enactment of this Act on the decisions which led
to the exclusion of distilled spirits and whether the
Department will re-consider its decision to restrict the sale
of distilled spirits in military commissaries.
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA)
provides school-aged children of military families, including
those students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a high
level of education that prepares them for postsecondary
education and career success. To facilitate communication and
social skills development, the Committee encourages the
Director of DODEA to utilize new technologies and clinically
tested curriculums to improve social skills and generate
positive educational outcomes in students with ASD.
MEALS READY-TO-EAT WAR RESERVE
The Committee recommendation fully supports the fiscal year
2019 request for the Defense Logistics Agency to maintain
2,500,000 cases of meals ready-to-eat and reaffirms support for
the War Reserve stock objective of 5,000,000 cases.
YOUTH SERVING ORGANIZATIONS
The Committee recognizes the sacrifices made by
servicemembers and their families and supports the many
organizations around the world that provide assistance to them.
These organizations provide comfort, hope, and healing to
affected military families. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of Defense to consider programs that support
attendance at camps, or camp-like settings, of children of
military families who have experienced the death of a family
member or other loved one or who have a family member living
with a substance abuse disorder or post-traumatic stress
disorder.
JOINT REGIONAL SECURITY STACKS
The Committee recognizes the ongoing efforts of the Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA) to protect sensitive
government data from unauthorized access and disclosure.
Deployment of DISA's Joint Regional Security Stacks is expected
to improve the security, effectiveness, and efficiency of the
Department of Defense Information Network. The Committee
encourages the Director of DISA to assess whether a center
stack architecture could improve how network traffic is
delivered to cybersecurity tool components.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
The Department of Defense does not have an established
quality management policy to ensure the consistent application
of quality management system requirements across all
Departmental components. The Committee encourages the Secretary
of Defense to establish an overarching quality management
policy and to study the merits of requiring suppliers and
contractors to adopt electronic quality management systems
platforms that provide for the complete traceability of all
components, assemblies, and finished products.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA
The Committee recognizes the significance of the upcoming
75th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied invasion of
Normandy, France. Normandy, and specifically the Cotentin
Peninsula, is hallowed ground where thousands of allied
military members sacrificed their lives to bring freedom and
peace to the European continent. The Committee supports efforts
to develop an education program on the Cotentin Peninsula as a
location to grow global partnerships, strengthen alliances, and
understand the enduring legacy of the allied invasion of
Normandy. The Committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to
evaluate ways in which the Department can support these
efforts.
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
The Committee is concerned by reports of sexual assault and
harassment among students at schools managed by the Department
of Defense Education Activity. Local government officials do
not have uniformly established jurisdiction when dealing with
criminal offenses of juvenile members of the military community
on domestic military installations. The Committee directs the
Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the Department of
Justice, to explore opportunities to establish memorandums of
understanding with state and local prosecutors to adjudicate
juvenile criminal cases when the alleged offenses occurred
within the boundaries of a military installation. The Committee
directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the
congressional defense committees not later than 120 days after
the enactment of this Act which details efforts to establish
memorandums of understanding, successes and challenges with
implementation, whether additional authorities are necessary to
address this problem, actions that each Department is taking to
address, respond to, and prevent sexual assault cases, and each
Department's strategy related to misconduct by such juveniles.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
The Committee directs the Director of the Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) to submit a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than 90 days after the enactment of this
Act that describes the business practice for acquiring spare
parts, the database utilized by DLA to track inventory
processed within DLA, the system used by DLA to account for
interdepartmental purchase requests, the efforts made by DLA to
maximize savings across the Department of Defense, and any
better business practices adopted in fiscal years 2016 and
2017.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND PRE-DEPLOYMENT TRAINING
The Committee recognizes the importance of pre-deployment
training for all Special Operations Forces operators. The
recent 15-6 investigation regarding the events in Niger noted
deficiencies in pre-deployment training contributed to the
tragic events on October 4, 2017. The Committee recommends
fully funding training for the Special Operations Command and
expects the resource level will be sufficient. The Committee
will continue to monitor the training requirements and will
adjust funding levels as necessary prior to enactment.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $2,877,104,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,916,909,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,877,402,000
Change from budget request............................ -39,507,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,877,402,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,069,707,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,027,006,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 1,019,966,000
Change from budget request............................ -7,040,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,019,966,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $284,837,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 271,570,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 281,570,000
Change from budget request............................ +10,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $281,570,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $3,202,307,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 3,260,234,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 3,212,234,000
Change from budget request............................ -48,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,212,234,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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BIRD STRIKE INCIDENTS
The Committee is concerned that several Air Force Reserve
Command (AFRC) facilities are susceptible to bird strike
incidents due to poor drainage or as a result of drainage
systems that are ill-equipped to manage water. Given the risk
to loss of life and property, the Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Air Force to prioritize operation and
maintenance funding to installations with unfinished earthen
drainage channels to ensure the ability of the AFRC to achieve
its mission objectives.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $7,284,170,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 7,399,295,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 7,329,771,000
Change from budget request............................ -69,524,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,329,771,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $6,900,798,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 6,427,622,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 6,438,162,000
Change from budget request............................ +10,540,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $6,438,162,000
for Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $14,538,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 14,662,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 14,662,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $14,662,000
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $235,809,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 203,449,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 235,809,000
Change from budget request............................ +32,360,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $235,809,000
for Environmental Restoration, Army.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $365,883,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 329,253,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 365,883,000
Change from budget request............................ +36,630,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $365,883,000
for Environmental Restoration, Navy.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $352,549,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 296,808,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 376,808,000
Change from budget request............................ +80,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $376,808,000
for Environmental Restoration, Air Force.
GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON
The Committee is concerned by actual and potential
incidents of contaminated drinking water on and around military
bases. The Committee understands that in more than one
instance, the Services' use of firefighting foam during
training exercises may have caused perfluorinated chemicals
(PFCs) to enter the ground and drinking water supply. The
Committee recognizes that using granular activated carbon is an
effective way of removing PFCs from ground water and drinking
water and encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to explore
the use of granular activated carbon for the removal of PFCs
that impact environmental and human health standards at all Air
Force bases.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $19,002,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 8,926,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 19,002,000
Change from budget request............................ +10,076,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $19,002,000
for Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITES
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $248,673,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 212,346,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 248,673,000
Change from budget request............................ +36,327,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $248,673,000
for Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites.
OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $129,900,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 107,663,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 117,663,000
Change from budget request............................ +10,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $117,663,000
for Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid.
Specifically, $10,000,000 is provided as a program increase for
the Humanitarian Mine Action Program, of which $7,000,000 is
for activities in Southeast Asia.
COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $350,000,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 335,240,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 350,240,000
Change from budget request............................ +15,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $350,240,000
for the Cooperative Threat Reduction Account which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Budget Committee Change from
Request Recommended Request
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COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT
Strategic Offensive Arms Elimination........................... 2,823 2,823 - - -
Chemical Weapons Destruction................................... 5,446 5,446 - - -
Global Nuclear Security........................................ 29,001 44,001 15,000
Program increase--Global Nuclear Security.................. 15,000
Cooperative Biological Engagement.............................. 197,585 197,585 - - -
Proliferation Prevention....................................... 74,937 74,937 - - -
Other Assessments/Admin Costs.................................. 25,448 25,448 - - -
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TOTAL, COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT.................... 335,240 350,240 15,000
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FUND
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $500,000,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 400,000,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 400,000,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $400,000,000
for the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development
Fund which will provide the following program in fiscal year
2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Budget Committee Change from
Request Recommended Request
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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT........................................... 230,600 230,600 - - -
RETENTION AND RECOGNITION.......................................... 16,200 16,200 - - -
RECRUITING AND HIRING.............................................. 153,200 153,200 - - -
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TOTAL, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 400,000 400,000 - - -
FUND..........................................................
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TITLE III
PROCUREMENT
The fiscal year 2019 Department of Defense procurement
budget request totals $130,564,621,000. The Committee
recommendation provides $133,040,027,000 for the procurement
accounts. The table below summarizes the Committee
recommendations:
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR ACQUISITION ACCOUNTS
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to continue
to follow the reprogramming guidance as specified in the report
accompanying the House version of the Department of Defense
Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 (House Report 110-
279). Specifically, the dollar threshold for reprogramming
funds shall remain at $20,000,000 for procurement and
$10,000,000 for research, development, test and evaluation.
Also, the Committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) to continue to provide the congressional defense
committees quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports
for Service and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of
this Act. Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with the
guidance specified in the explanatory statement accompanying
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The
Department shall continue to follow the limitation that prior
approval reprogrammings are set at either the specified dollar
threshold or 20 percent of the procurement or research,
development, test and evaluation line, whichever is less. These
thresholds are cumulative from the base for reprogramming value
as modified by any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined
value of transfers into or out of a procurement (P-1) or
research, development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds
the identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit
a prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special
interest items are established elsewhere in this report.
FUNDING INCREASES
The funding increases outlined in these tables shall be
provided only for the specific purposes indicated in the
tables.
PROCUREMENT SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
Items for which additional funds have been provided as
shown in the project level tables or in paragraphs using the
phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' in this report are
congressional special interest items for the purpose of the
Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of these items must
be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated amount as
specifically addressed in the Committee report. These items
remain special interest items whether or not they are repeated
in a subsequent explanatory statement.
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $5,535,794,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 3,782,558,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 4,103,942,000
Change from budget request............................ +321,384,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $4,103,942,000
for Aircraft Procurement, Army which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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AH-64 APACHE
The Committee is aware that the Army is reviewing a
decision to increase the size of the four Army National Guard
AH-64 Apache battalions from 18 to 24 aircraft, and that as a
result, the acquisition objective for Apache aircraft will
increase. The Committee supports such an increase to maximize
the operational availability and lethality of the Army's Apache
fleet. The Committee further notes that the Department of
Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, fully funded the Army's pre-
existing acquisition objective for new build Apache aircraft.
The fiscal year 2019 request, which was submitted prior to the
final appropriation for fiscal year 2018, included a request
for 12 new build aircraft. The Committee recommends an increase
of six aircraft above the budget request and designates 12 of
the 18 total aircraft for the Army National Guard in order to
accelerate the enhancement of the Guard's Apache battalions.
The remaining six aircraft are available to the Army for fleet
management and replacement of recent operational losses. The
Committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a report
to the congressional defense committees on its plans with
respect to increasing the size of Army National Guard Apache
battalions not later than September 30, 2018.
APACHE UPGRADES
The Committee is aware that the Army has sought information
from industry on the state of technology that could be
incorporated into a potential materiel solution for replacement
of the targeting and pilotage sensor systems on the AH-64
Apache. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to
pursue upgrades to the Apache mission systems in order to close
existing capability gaps and mature technology which may be
adaptable for the Future Vertical Lift program. The Committee
further encourages the Secretary of the Army to acquire these
system upgrades using full and open competition.
UH-60M BLACK HAWK
To accelerate the recapitalization of the Army National
Guard's UH-60A fleet, the Committee recommends an increase of
eight UH-60M Black Hawk aircraft above the budget request of
50, and designates not fewer than 15 of the 58 total aircraft
for the Army National Guard.
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $3,196,910,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 3,355,777,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 3,074,502,000
Change from budget request............................ -281,275,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,074,502,000
for Missile Procurement, Army which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $4,391,573,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 4,489,118,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 4,590,205,000
Change from budget request............................ +101,087,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $4,590,205,000
for Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army
which will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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STRYKER
The recommendation includes $225,390,000 for the Stryker
Upgrade program, an increase of $203,490,000 above the budget
request. The recommendation funds the conversion of one-half of
the fifth Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) to the double-V
hull (DVHA1) configuration. The Committee notes that the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, provided
$300,000,000 in additional funding for Stryker lethality
pursuant to an Army unfunded requirement request. The Committee
understands that an early user test and evaluation report on
the turreted 30 millimeter solution set procured under the 2015
Operational Needs Statement will be finalized in June 2018 and
that the Army will achieve a decision by the end of fiscal year
2019 on the preferred course of action for further Stryker
lethality modifications.
At the same time, the Committee is aware that the Chief of
Staff of the Army has directed that all SBCTs be converted to a
DVHA1 configuration. Currently only three of Army's nine SBCTs
have vehicles in the DVHA1 configuration. The Army's fiscal
year 2019 budget request and future years defense plan does not
reflect or support this decision with the necessary budgetary
resources. The Committee understands that sufficient prior year
funding exists to complete the fourth SBCT conversion to DVHA1
and begin procurement of modifications for the fifth SBCT. The
Committee further understands that the Army expects to submit a
reprogramming request to the congressional defense committees
that would repurpose most of the funds previously appropriated
for Stryker lethality to further the conversion of the fifth
SBCT. The Army has also requested that the Committee realign
$149,390,000 within this account to support the new DVHA1
strategy. The recommendation realigns this funding per the
Army's request and provides additional funding of $54,100,000.
This combination of prior year and fiscal year 2019 funds are
sufficient to fund the conversion of one-half of the fifth SBCT
to the DVHA1 configuration.
At the same time, the Committee is concerned that the
Army's decisions on Stryker modifications, to include both
lethality and DVHA1, are not being synchronized with the budget
cycle, are currently under-resourced, and have been subject to
sudden change. The Army has indicated that the optimal pace for
Stryker DVHA1 conversion is one-half of a SBCT per year, but so
far the Army has not indicated a commitment to funding DVHA1 at
this pace. In addition, the Committee finds a lack of
consistency from the Army on its true requirements and plans
for Stryker lethality. Therefore, the Committee directs the
Secretary of the Army to submit a report on its plans for
Stryker vehicles, to include a resourcing strategy for funding
Stryker DVHA1 conversion at a rate of one-half of a SBCT per
year, an explanation of Stryker lethality requirements, an
acquisition and resourcing strategy for fielding required
lethality modifications, and an explanation and cost estimate
for any further known requirements for Stryker modifications.
This report shall be submitted to the congressional defense
committees not later than 90 days after the enactment of this
Act.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $2,548,740,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,234,761,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,255,323,000
Change from budget request............................ +20,562,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,255,323,000
for Procurement of Ammunition, Army which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $8,298,418,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 7,999,529,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 7,683,632,000
Change from budget request............................ -315,897,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,683,632,000
for Other Procurement, Army which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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LAND MOBILE RADIOS FOR UNITED STATES ARMY EUROPE
The Committee supports the Army's efforts to modernize the
Land Mobile Radio (LMR) network in Europe. Moving to a joint
United States Air Force in Europe-United States Army Europe LMR
system supports broader Joint Information Environment goals and
generates cost savings. Migration to the joint LMR network
allows for the reuse of system frequencies throughout the
theater, resulting in reduced spectrum use which is a host
nation imperative. However, the Committee remains concerned
about LMR shortfalls on some United States Army Europe
installations which increases the risk of ineffective force
protection in the case of a catastrophic event. The Committee
acknowledges important upgrades are underway in Germany, but
urges the Secretary of the Army to prioritize funding in fiscal
year 2019 for upgrades in Italy, Benelux, Bulgaria, Romania,
Lithuania, Poland, and Croatia.
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $19,957,380,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 19,041,799,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 20,107,195,000
Change from budget request............................ +1,065,396,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$20,107,195,000 for Aircraft Procurement, Navy which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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NAVY RESERVE COMBAT AIRCRAFT
The Committee remains concerned that the ageing aircraft of
the Navy reserve combat air fleet will further hamper the
mission of these vital tactical aviation squadrons. The Navy
reserve squadrons provide critical adversary support and strike
fighter weapons training to active duty forces and must
maintain a high mobilization readiness level for immediate
deployment in the event of war or national emergency.
Recapitalizing the two reserve F/A-18+ squadrons with newer
platforms would ensure that the Navy maintains dedicated
advanced adversary squadrons. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Navy, in coordination with the Chief of the
Navy Reserve, to maintain the Navy reserve combat air fleet and
not to divest the two reserve squadrons.
WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $3,510,590,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 3,702,393,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 3,555,587,000
Change from budget request............................ -146,806,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,555,587,000
for Weapons Procurement, Navy which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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TOMAHAWK PRODUCTION
The Committee is concerned by the Navy's mismanagement of
the Tomahawk missile program. In the previous two fiscal years,
the Congress has added funding above the budget requests for
the Tomahawk program due to the fact that the Navy has
requested fewer missiles than necessary to maintain a minimum
sustainment rate and that missiles have been expended in the
Central Command area of operations. The Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2018, included $102,000,000 above the
request to procure additional munitions, as requested by the
Navy in its updated unfunded requirements list. However,
despite the request by the Navy and the direction by the
Congress to procure additional Tomahawks, the Navy has now
proposed to not procure any missiles, but to use the funding to
purchase support and test equipment. Therefore, the Committee
recommendation includes a rescission of $115,657,000 of fiscal
year 2018 funds from the Tomahawk program and directs the
Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to the congressional
defense committees not later than 90 days after the enactment
of this Act that details the inventory requirement and current
level for the Tomahawk missile and the feasibility of
restarting missile production in fiscal year 2020.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $804,335,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,006,209,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 973,556,000
Change from budget request............................ -32,653,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $973,556,000
for Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $23,824,738,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 21,871,437,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 22,708,767,000
Change from budget request............................ +837,330,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$22,708,767,000 for Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy which
will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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STEAM TURBINE PRODUCTION
The Committee understands that the production of steam
turbines is vital for the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan and
has concerns that any disruption to this production could have
major ramifications. The Committee directs the Secretary of the
Navy to provide a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than 180 days after the enactment of this
Act that describes the current industrial base for steam
turbines for Navy ships, how a temporary halt in production
would impact shipbuilding, and any steps the Navy is taking to
increase the domestic steam turbine industrial base.
OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $7,941,018,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 9,414,355,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 9,093,835,000
Change from budget request............................ -320,520,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $9,093,835,000
for Other Procurement, Navy which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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ELECTRO-OPTICAL INFRARED SURVEILLANCE SENSORS
The Committee is concerned by the lack of modern electro-
optical infrared surveillance sensors installed upon forward
deployed minesweepers. Advanced systems would provide
situational awareness for ships that are continually relied
upon to perform critical missions. Therefore, the Committee
recommendation includes $5,000,000 for the procurement of
additional electro-optical infrared surveillance sensors and
the Committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy to
prioritize installation on forward deployed minesweepers.
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,942,737,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,860,410,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,647,569,000
Change from budget request............................ -212,841,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,647,569,000
for Procurement, Marine Corps which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $18,504,556,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 16,206,937,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 17,118,921,000
Change from budget request............................ +911,984,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$17,118,921,000 for Aircraft Procurement, Air Force which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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MQ-9
The Committee notes that in its fiscal year 2017 budget
request, the Air Force indicated no plans to procure MQ-9
Reaper aircraft in fiscal year 2018 and beyond. The fiscal year
2018 budget request included 16 aircraft, but again projected
no further aircraft procurement in fiscal year 2019 and beyond.
The fiscal year 2019 request includes 29 aircraft. The Air
Force now indicates plans to procure four aircraft per year in
fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022, and then increase to a
quantity of 13 in 2023. The Committee finds this procurement
profile to be neither sustainable nor sufficient to meet known
requirements. The Committee is aware that the Air Force
projects a need for further aircraft beyond the current future
years defense plan based on current requirements and projected
attrition. The Committee recommends funding MQ-9 procurement to
an efficient rate of 24 aircraft in fiscal year 2019. Further,
the Committee urges the Secretary of the Air Force to
reconsider the MQ-9 procurement profile and, beginning with the
fiscal year 2020 request, to budget for a steady, sustainable,
and economically efficient rate of MQ-9 procurement throughout
the future years defense plan.
C-135B
The Air Force budget request includes $222,176,000 for the
procurement of two aircraft to replace the OC-135 aircraft that
currently perform United States overflights under the Open
Skies Treaty. The recommendation does not include funding for
the procurement of the two aircraft for two reasons. First, the
Air Force has not finalized an acquisition strategy, to include
the vital decision of whether to pursue Open Skies
recapitalization as a sole-source acquisition or a full and
open competition. Second, the Air Force has not funded the
integration effort as indicated in the December 2017 decision
memorandum that recommended the acquisition of a new platform.
The Committee recommendation reflects neither a judgment on the
merit of the Open Skies Treaty nor a rejection of the valid
sustainability and aircraft performance concerns regarding the
OC-135 that are cited by the Air Force as a rationale for
recapitalization.
The Committee recommends transferring $21,374,000 from
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force to Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation, Air Force to fund integration and risk
reduction efforts for the eventual replacement aircraft. The
Committee understands that the acquisition strategy may be
finalized by August 2018. Therefore, the Committee directs the
Secretary of the Air Force to provide a report to the
congressional defense committees on the selected acquisition
strategy, as well as an updated cost estimate and schedule
pursuant to that strategy, not later than September 30, 2018.
BATTLEFIELD AIRBORNE COMMUNICATION NODE
The Committee is aware that the Air Force recently decided
to transfer the Battlefield Airborne Communication Node (BACN)
system to a program of record and is in the process of
documenting a requirement for one or more additional BACN
platforms. The Committee understands that a need for additional
BACN capacity could be satisfied with the acquisition of a new
RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft, the modification of an existing
Global Hawk Block 30 aircraft, or the acquisition of a new E-
11A aircraft. Therefore, the recommendation includes an
increase of $105,000,000 for BACN. Furthermore, the Committee
directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a report to
the congressional defense committees not later than 90 days
after the enactment of this Act on the updated BACN
requirement, the chosen course of action for meeting a
documented need for additional BACN aircraft, and a spending
plan for the additional funding recommended by the Committee.
COMPASS CALL
The recommendation includes an increase of $194,000,000
above the budget request to procure and modify one additional
EC-37B Compass Call aircraft, with the expectation that such
funds will allow the Air Force to accelerate the fielding of
the fourth such aircraft to meet combatant commander needs and
mitigate performance concerns regarding the legacy EC-130H
fleet. The Committee recommends that the Secretary of the Air
Force consider increasing the procurement of EC-37B aircraft to
two per year if such a pace of recapitalization can be achieved
without unduly disrupting the operational availability of
Compass Call capability for the combatant commanders.
LIGHT ATTACK
The Committee is aware that the Air Force has commenced a
second phase of experimentation with light attack aircraft. The
Committee believes that a light attack aircraft can provide a
cost-efficient capability to perform missions in permissive
environments and build capacity with international partners,
while preserving fourth and fifth generation assets for
scenarios involving peer and near-peer competitors and
increasing training opportunities for Air Force fighter pilots.
The Committee notes that while the Air Force may seek to
initiate an acquisition program in the near future, the fiscal
year 2019 budget request includes no funding to procure a light
attack aircraft. Therefore, the Committee recommendation
includes an increase of $40,000,000 above the request to
initiate an acquisition program for light attack aircraft
pending a decision by the Air Force. The Committee further
notes that the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018,
provided $100,000,000 to implement the experimentation campaign
for light attack in the Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Air Force account. Should funds from this previous
appropriation remain available upon the completion of the
experimentation campaign, the Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Air Force to submit a reprogramming request to
augment the funding for procurement provided in this Act.
The Committee further directs the Secretary of the Air
Force to brief the House and Senate Appropriations Committees
at the earliest possible date, but not later than 30 days
following a decision to proceed with procurement of a light
attack aircraft, on the proposed course of action for light
attack, to include the results of the experimentation campaign;
the objectives, cost estimates, schedule, and contracting
strategy for any proposed acquisition program; and an
integration strategy for effectively incorporating light attack
aircraft into the Air Force's force structure.
F-22
The Committee notes that in August 2017 the Air Force
submitted a report to the congressional defense committees on
the upgrade of 34 F-22 training and flight test aircraft from
their current Block 20 configuration to a Block 30 Increment
3.2B configuration. The Air Force estimated that such an effort
could require as much as $1,718,000,000 and eight years to
complete, and would carry significant technical and
programmatic risk. However, such an upgrade would increase the
effective number of available combat aircraft and allow pilots
to train and fight with the same configuration of aircraft,
should additional funding be made available for the effort.
With a fleet of just 186 F-22 aircraft, the Committee
believes that all possible efforts for maximizing operational
availability and realistic training should be considered,
including a potential Block 20 upgrade effort and other cost
effective options. Therefore, the Committee directs the
Secretary of the Air Force to submit a report to the
congressional defense committees not later than 120 days after
the enactment of this Act that includes an analysis of current
trends in F-22 availability and the major drivers of variance
in mission capable rates, options (including required funding)
for improving F-22 availability and mission capable rates, the
impact of the Block 20 configuration on the quality of both
pilot training and flight testing, and options (including
required funding) for material solutions other than a Block 20
upgrade to improving the quality of F-22 pilot training.
In addition, the Committee recommendation includes an
increase of $50,000,000 above the request for mission critical
spares, and $10,000,000 above the request for the F-22
Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Program, to
increase near-term F-22 availability and mission capability.
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $2,207,747,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,669,454,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,591,982,000
Change from budget request............................ -77,472,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,591,982,000
for Missile Procurement, Air Force which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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SPACE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $3,552,175,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 2,527,542,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 2,388,642,000
Change from budget request............................ -138,900,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,388,642,000
for Space Procurement, Air Force which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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WIDEBAND GAPFILLER SATELLITES
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018,
included $600,000,000 above the budget request for two
additional Wideband Gapfiller Satellites (WGS); however, the
funding has not yet been obligated for that purpose. The
Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to
expeditiously procure the two satellites and to budget for
launch and operation and maintenance costs in subsequent budget
requests. Further, none of the funds appropriated in the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, may be used to
procure any launch service for WGS space vehicles 11 and 12;
delivery on-orbit or otherwise.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,651,977,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,587,304,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 1,468,992,000
Change from budget request............................ -118,312,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,468,992,000
for Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
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OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $20,503,273,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 20,890,164,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 20,597,574,000
Change from budget request............................ -292,590,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$20,597,574,000 for Other Procurement, Air Force which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $5,429,270,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 6,786,271,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 6,711,225,000
Change from budget request............................ -75,046,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $6,711,225,000
for Procurement, Defense-Wide which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
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NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT
The Committee recommends $1,300,000,000 for National Guard
and Reserve Equipment. Of that amount, $421,000,000 is for the
Army National Guard; $421,000,000 is for the Air National
Guard; $180,000,000 is for the Army Reserve; $65,000,000 is for
the Navy Reserve; $13,000,000 is for the Marine Corps Reserve;
and $200,000,000 is for the Air Force Reserve to meet urgent
equipment needs that may arise in the coming fiscal year.
This funding will allow the National Guard and reserve
components to procure high priority equipment that may be used
by these units for both their combat missions and their
missions in support of State governors. The funding within this
account is not to be used to procure equipment that has been
designated as high density critical equipment, major weapon
systems, aircraft, and other equipment central to a unit's
ability to perform its doctrinal mission. The funding within
this account is not to be used to procure equipment that should
be purchased by the senior Service, to expand or accelerate
current Service procurement plans, to purchase expendable
items, or to purchase facilities or equipment for any
requirement that can be satisfied elsewhere.
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure
that the National Guard and Reserve Equipment account is
executed by the Chiefs of the National Guard and reserve
components with priority consideration given to the following
items: acoustic hailing devices; active electronically scanned
array radars; crashworthy, ballistically tolerant auxiliary
fuel systems for ground and air; fifth generation certified
wireless mobile mesh self-healing tamper-proof network systems;
HMMWV rollover mitigation; joint threat emitters; modular small
arms ranges/simulation; personal dosimeters; secure voice,
text, and data communications for joint response and
operations; sense and avoid systems; training systems and
simulators; and unstabilized gunnery trainers and upgrades.
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $67,401,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 38,578,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 68,578,000
Change from budget request............................ +30,000,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $68,578,000
for the Defense Production Act which will provide the following
program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES 38,578 68,578 30,000
Program increase............ 30,000
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TOTAL, DEFENSE 38,578 68,578 30,000
PRODUCTION ACT
PURCHASES..............
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RARE EARTH ELEMENTS
The Committee notes that certain elements such as lithium,
cobalt, and rare earth elements are critical to national
security and that maintaining a domestic supply is
strategically vital. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
Defense to invest in these important elements in order to
protect the nation's strategic interests.
JOINT URGENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS FUND
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ - - -
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... $100,025,000
Committee recommendation.............................. - - -
Change from budget request............................ -100,025,000
The Committee recommends no funding for the Joint Urgent
Operational Needs Fund.
TITLE IV
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
The fiscal year 2019 Department of Defense research,
development, test and evaluation budget request totals
$91,056,950,000. The Committee recommendation provides
$91,218,284,000 for the research, development, test and
evaluation accounts. The table below summarizes the Committee
recommendations:
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR ACQUISITION ACCOUNTS
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to continue
to follow the reprogramming guidance as specified in the report
accompanying the House version of the Department of Defense
Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 (House Report 110-
279). Specifically, the dollar threshold for reprogramming
funds will remain at $20,000,000 for procurement and
$10,000,000 for research, development, test and evaluation.
Also, the Committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) to continue to provide the congressional defense
committees quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports
for Service and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of
this Act. Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with the
guidance specified in the explanatory statement accompanying
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The
Department shall continue to follow the limitation that prior
approval reprogrammings are set at either the specified dollar
threshold or 20 percent of the procurement or research,
development, test and evaluation line, whichever is less. These
thresholds are cumulative from the base for reprogramming value
as modified by any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined
value of transfers into or out of a procurement (P-1) or
research, development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds
the identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit
a prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special
interest items are established elsewhere in this report.
FUNDING INCREASES
The Committee directs that the funding increases outlined
in these tables shall be provided only for the specific
purposes indicated in the tables.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS
Items for which additional funds have been provided as
shown in the project level tables or in paragraphs using the
phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' in this report are
congressional special interest items for the purpose of the
Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of these items must
be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated amount
specifically addressed in the Committee report. These items
remain special interest items whether or not they are repeated
in a subsequent explanatory statement.
F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER DEVELOPMENTAL TEST FLEET
The Director of the F-35 Joint Program Office has
communicated to the Committee a need to recapitalize the F-35
developmental test fleet due to the extensive flight hours
achieved during system development and demonstration. The
Committee further notes that the Director of Operational Test
and Evaluation has identified test infrastructure, including
aircraft, as a prerequisite for the success of the program's
continuous capability development and delivery approach to
warfighting improvements beyond the system development and
demonstration phase. Therefore, the Committee recommendation
includes a provision allowing the Secretary of Defense to
utilize funds appropriated in this or any other Act for F-35
procurement and research, development, test and evaluation to
modify up to six aircraft, including up to two aircraft of each
variant, to a test configuration. The Committee directs the
Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
the Air Force and the Secretary of the Navy, to notify the
congressional defense committees not fewer than 30 days prior
to obligating and expending funds for this purpose. The
notification shall contain the costs of modifying the aircraft,
the source of funding by fiscal year and account, and a
statement that the use of such funds will not adversely affect
the F-35 operational fleet. The Committee expects that any such
use of funds will not unduly hinder or harm other critical
aspects of the Joint Strike Fighter program.
COST ESTIMATES FOR AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
The Committee notes that an increasing number of weapon
systems programs within the Department of Defense have turned
to agile software development as a method for delivering new
and enhanced capabilities to the warfighter on a rapid and
repeatable basis, avoiding the delays and cost overruns
associated with previous methods variously described as
sequential, waterfall, or ``big bang'' approaches to software
development. The Committee agrees that agile methods are
required to keep pace with the evolving threat environment, but
finds that program managers have been unable to articulate the
changes in cost estimating practices needed to support this
approach while maintaining transparency and accountability for
the funds that are being requested. It is unclear to the
Committee whether agile software development will result in
significant savings as the transition to this method has
resulted in either unchanged or increased funding requests for
software development.
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a
report to the congressional defense committees not later than
180 days after the enactment of this Act on the cost estimating
methods being used by the Services and defense agencies for
agile software development. The report shall include, but not
be limited to, the different types of cost estimating methods
being used, an evaluation of the effectiveness of each of these
methods, whether emerging best practices are being collected
and disseminated at enterprise-wide levels, and whether these
methods have an impact on performance monitoring as well as
statutory cost and schedule reporting requirements such as
selected acquisition reports. Finally, the Secretary shall make
recommendations to improve the Department of Defense's cost
estimating methods for agile software development to both
improve program management and ensure the transparency of
budget requests.
HYPOXIA AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EPISODE RESEARCH
The Committee remains concerned about the recent Service-
wide incidents aboard multiple aircraft platforms in which
pilots reported symptoms of hypoxia or other physiological
events and recognizes that the Services are accelerating
efforts to reduce these occurrences. In order to capitalize on
the research and investment across weapons platforms and
Services, the Committee encourages the Secretaries of the Navy
and the Air Force to share positive outcomes related to
aircraft modifications, changes in crew training and education,
improved maintenance practices, and medical conclusions. The
Committee directs the Secretaries of the Navy and the Air
Force, in consultation with the Surgeons General of the Navy
and the Air Force, to provide a report to the congressional
defense committees not later than 90 days after the enactment
of this Act on these cross-Service collaboration efforts and
how fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019 funding is being
executed to support physiological episode reduction.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
The current military satellite communications architecture
is constructed with purpose-built equipment designed for
specific requirements that include a range of frequencies and
waveforms at varying levels of mission assuredness for
different environments. Unfortunately, the parts were designed
independently with proprietary technologies rather than part of
a single, well-planned interoperative architecture. This has
resulted in performance inflexibility and restricted the
architecture's ability to evolve as new bandwidth and
resilience requirements have emerged. For example, fifty
percent of communications funding is spent on terminals which
limits future architecture options.
As such, the Committee directs the Secretaries of the Army,
Navy, and Air Force to submit an integrated wideband and
narrowband communications architecture and acquisition strategy
to the congressional defense committees not later than 180 days
after the enactment of this Act. The architecture should
include government and commercial space systems as well as user
terminals and enterprise network management capabilities. It
should be based on flexible operations, open standards, and
commonality that has communications path diversity. Stovepipes,
proprietary approaches, and other restrictive architectural
characteristics should be avoided to the maximum extent
practicable. Modern technology such as mesh networks and laser
technology should be thoroughly reviewed for applicability to
resiliency requirements.
The Committee encourages the Secretaries of the Army, Navy,
and Air Force to establish a joint program office to manage
architecture development and adjudicate operational
requirements to facilitate creation of an acquisition strategy.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, ARMY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $10,647,426,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 10,159,379,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 10,108,108,000
Change from budget request............................ -51,271,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$10,108,108,000 for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Army which will provide the following program in fiscal year
2019:
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MATERIALS IN EXTREME DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS PROGRAM
The Committee recognizes the importance of the Army's
Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments program which expands
research, education, and technology development efforts in
protection materials. Strengthening the domestic capability to
develop and manufacture essential protection materials is vital
to national security. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
the Army to continue to support this important research.
BURN PATIENT TRANSFER SYSTEM
The Committee continues to support the development of
strategies and technologies to improve the efficiency of burn
patient care in military treatment facilities. The Committee
recognizes that, in the event of a mass casualty event,
military treatment facilities throughout the nation would
experience a significant increase in burn patient volume. Due
to the highly specialized nature of burn care, the limited
number of dedicated burn beds, and the fact that many military
bases are located near civilian trauma/burn centers, the
ability to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of care would
be critical to the management of an overwhelming surge in burn
patient volume and intensity. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Army to research the development of a burn
patient transfer system, including any required hardware and
software, that would provide a platform for reporting immediate
and surge bed availability, and would electronically match
patient acuity with open beds at other military and civilian
burn centers.
ARMY LETHALITY IMPROVEMENTS
The Committee acknowledges that state aggression,
terrorism, global weapons proliferation, and technological
evolution pose challenges to Army superiority over potential
peer adversaries. The Committee commends the Army's continued
attention to and action on the findings of the Army lethality
report that was required by the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2015. As a result, the Army has provided
resources for select mitigation activities that can be achieved
in the near term. However, the Committee notes that the study
identified specific areas of concern including loss of weapons
range overmatch, effects of enemy countermeasures to GPS,
defense against laser weapons, proliferation of low-cost
commercially available unmanned aerial systems, and sub-
optimization of weapon acquisition planning. The Committee
encourages the Secretary of the Army to continue the
advancement of armament systems integration capabilities
through existing capacity and mechanisms to advance and
coordinate armament systems development and effectiveness.
ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT OF ASSET PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
The Committee recognizes the Army's advancement in
developing successful technologies that support the warfighter.
The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to develop,
demonstrate, manufacture, and deploy advanced multi-functional
materials and technologies that can be combined for
customizable asset protection systems and increased weapon
systems capabilities.
DOMESTIC SUPPLY OF NOVEL LIGHTWEIGHT TRANSPARENT ARMOR MATERIALS
The Committee recognizes the national security need to
provide soldiers with advanced lightweight transparent armor
made of laminated films to improve face and eye protection. The
Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to ensure that a
secure, domestic source of high performance, strong,
transparent polymer films exists for the production of a new
generation of lightweight transparent armor that provides
superior ballistic protection, optical properties, and
operational capabilities.
TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROPULSION MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
The Committee recognizes the Army's progress in modeling,
simulating, and manufacturing cellulose-based products for
ammunition. These capabilities and materials offer enhancements
in performance, cost reduction, and process improvement and
control. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to
consider establishing an enduring capability for research,
development, modeling, and simulation that supports continued
improvement in ammunition manufacturing. The Committee also
encourages the Secretary of the Army to consider planning and
equipping for larger scale manufacturing of cellulose-based
materials in order to protect this industrial base capability.
ARMY NETWORK READINESS
The Committee encourages the Army to test and down-select
readily available non-developmental tactical communications
technologies that deliver the highest quality performance in
voice, video, and data dissemination at the squad and
individual soldier level. The Committee directs the Director,
Operational Test and Evaluation to provide an independent
written assessment of Army network readiness to the
congressional defense committees not later than 90 days after
the enactment of this Act, to include an examination and
analysis of existing Army systems and compare this to tested
and readily-available alternatives including commercial
technologies.
METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE
The Committee recognizes the versatility and broad
application that metal matrix composite technology provides for
the military by significantly reducing the weight of parts
while simultaneously increasing service life. The Committee
encourages the Secretary of the Army to continue to test,
develop, and field metal matrix composite components that can
reduce vehicle weight, reduce fuel consumption, increase
payload capacity, and extend service life.
CYBERSECURITY AND SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT
The Committee recognizes the critical need for
cybersecurity and supply chain risk management advanced
research because new capabilities are required to detect and
mitigate increasingly complex, stealthy, and advanced
persistent cyber and supply chain threats to Army weapons
systems and networks. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
the Army to focus on advancing research that provides improved
cybersecurity and supply chain risk management.
INDUSTRIAL BASE RESILIENCY
The Committee acknowledges the importance of maintaining a
robust industrial base for the development of future
technologies. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the
Army to support the continued development of methodologies and
technologies to preserve a flexible, secure, and resilient
industrial base to ensure continuity of operations.
PRECISION GUN LAUNCHED PROJECTILES
The Committee is aware of the Army's effort to develop
enhanced lethality and accuracy for dismounted soldiers. The
Committee believes that emerging manufacturing technologies
play a critical role in these efforts by enabling rapid
flexible munitions production and cost savings for advanced
projectile systems. The Committee encourages the Secretary of
the Army to continue development of extended range hybrid and
affordable precision gun launched projectiles.
LIGHTWEIGHT PROTECTIVE ARMOR
The Committee is concerned that the weight and bulk of body
armor can have a detrimental effect on soldier performance and
confidence when worn in active threat scenarios. Body armor
does not always fit all warfighters and any fluctuations in
weight add to this challenge. These variables often deter
warfighters from wearing the full body armor ensemble for
maximum protection while on active duty. While operational
threats increase in lethality, it is imperative that soldiers'
armor protection solutions are enhanced to decrease weight and
bulk and to increase strength, durability, and comfort.
Therefore, the Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army
to work with industry to research and develop lightweight
protective body armor.
BATTERIES FOR AUSTERE LOCATIONS
The Committee recognizes the danger often faced by
servicemembers in fuel resupply missions in remote outposts.
The Committee also notes the development of next generation,
high capacity, high power batteries, and their potential
ability to reduce fuel costs, increase dependability, and
reduce risks faced by servicemembers. The Committee encourages
the Secretary of the Army to assess the potential use of next
generation, high capacity, and high power batteries at remote
outposts in austere operating locations.
IMPROVED TURBINE ENGINE PROGRAM
The Committee understands the Army is advancing research
and development of the Improved Turbine Engine Program and is
exploring ways to accelerate the development and fielding of
this program. The Improved Turbine Engine Program is intended
to develop a more fuel efficient and powerful engine for the
current UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopter fleets.
This new engine will increase operational capabilities in high
and hot environments, increase range, and improve fuel
efficiency while reducing the Army's logistics footprint, and
operational and support costs. The Committee recommends fully
funding the Improved Turbine Engine Program in fiscal year 2019
and encourages the Secretary of the Army to ensure that the
program is funded appropriately in future years budget
submissions.
JOINT MULTI-ROLE PROGRAM
The Committee acknowledges that the development of a
helicopter emergency oil system under the Joint Multi-Role
program may increase the combat survivability of the platforms
under development. Such a system could potentially slow the
engine oil drain-out providing additional flight time and
offering the pilot and passengers the necessary time to carry
out evasive landing maneuvers to safely land the rotary wing
aircraft. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to
consider investing in the further development of this
technology.
MOBILE CAMOUFLAGE SYSTEMS
The Committee recognizes that mobile camouflage systems on
combat vehicles may provide enhanced signature management
protection, reduced temperatures inside and around combat
vehicles, and fuel savings without interfering with the
operation of the vehicles. The Committee is aware of the Army's
ongoing operational testing of mobile camouflage systems at the
National Training Center and encourages the Secretary of the
Army to accelerate those efforts. Given the potential
significant advantages of developing this capability, the
Committee directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a report
to the congressional defense committees not later than 60 days
after the enactment of this Act which outlines the mobile
camouflage system test results, as well as the timeline and
cost of developing, testing, and fielding these systems.
HERCULES TOW VEHICLE/M88A2E1
The Committee is concerned that two M88A2 recovery vehicles
must be used to tow or recover one M1A2 Abrams tank due to the
increased weight of the tank. The inability to tow a tank with
a single recovery vehicle degrades readiness and threatens to
slow the pace of an entire Armored Brigade Combat Team. The
Committee notes that the Chief of Staff of the Army has
approved an upgrade program called the M88A2E1 that would
improve vehicle power, traction, braking, and steering to
ensure single vehicle recovery. The Committee also notes that
the M88A2E1 development appears to be funded over six years, an
extensive period for what should be considered an urgent
engineering change proposal. The Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Army to develop and procure the M88A2E1 with
greater intent and expediency and directs the Secretary of the
Army to provide a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than 30 days after the enactment of this
Act on the acquisition and funding plan for the M88A2E1
program.
ARMY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REINVENTION LABORATORIES
The Committee notes the important work being conducted at
Army Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories around the
country but remains concerned about the current state of
research facilities, office space, and other infrastructure at
some premier Army laboratories. Modern buildings, equipment,
and other resources are vital to ensuring that the Army stays
at the cutting edge of technology and continues to recruit and
retain the most talented scientific personnel. The Committee
encourages the Secretary of the Army to prioritize
recapitalizing, refurbishing, and modernizing facilities at
Army research laboratories.
LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRE MISSILE
The Committee is encouraged by the Army's development of a
maneuverable long-range precision fire missile that will
provide additional capability to the Army munitions inventory.
The Committee also understands that topology optimization
design tools and additive manufacturing technologies could be
integrated into the production of long-range precision fires in
order to advance the capability and reduce the cost of these
critical missile systems. As such, the Committee encourages the
Secretary of the Army to continue development of this
technology and to incorporate low-cost, optimized components
into operational platforms.
INTEGRATION OF IRON DOME FOR AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE
The Committee recognizes that the Army has a critical
capability gap for air and missile defense and that the Army is
currently focused on accelerating the delivery of a maneuver
short-range air defense capability but is also reviewing other
air and missile defense capability gaps for the protection of
fixed and semi-fixed sites. The Committee notes that over the
past several fiscal years, Congress has provided more than
$1,300,000,000 for the development and procurement of the Iron
Dome missile defense system for the Government of Israel and
that the system is co-produced both in Israel and the United
States. The Iron Dome system has proven successful in defending
against a wide range of threats and the Committee believes that
the system could potentially meet the Army air and missile
defense requirement.
Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of the Army
to provide a report to the congressional defense committees not
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act that details
the possible integration of the Iron Dome system into the Army
air and missile defense architecture and an acquisition
strategy that includes cost and schedule.
ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY OPEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE
The Committee supports the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Open Campus Initiative which was created in 2014 to increase
collaboration with universities and other external research
stakeholders. Since that time, ARL Open Campus has established
a presence in geographic regions across the United States.
Through these extended campuses, Army researchers are able to
easily collaborate with and leverage scientific assets outside
ARL headquarters. The Committee encourages the Director of the
Army Reseach Lab to create additional opportunities for the
United States academic research and development community to
contribute to Department of Defense science and technology
efforts. The Committee recommendation includes $4,000,000 to
support the hiring of university faculty under joint
appointments with the laboratory at ARL extended campuses to
increase access to infrastructure, research staff, equipment,
concepts, and results.
CYBER AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE FOR THE DISMOUNTED SOLDIER
The Committee recognizes the need to provide dismounted
soldiers with cyber situational awareness and electronic
warfare capabilities at the tactical edge and encourages the
continued development and deployment of existing prototypes.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, NAVY
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $18,010,754,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 18,481,666,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 17,658,244,000
Change from budget request............................ -823,422,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$17,658,244,000 for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Navy which will provide the following program in fiscal year
2019:
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM
The Committee recognizes that the Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) program is a valuable tool to engage small
businesses and provide a pathway for innovators to conduct
business with the Department of Defense. According to SBIR law,
agencies are to use the SBIR awardee to the greatest extent
practicable, thus giving that awardee the opportunity to
perfect and scale their innovations. If an agency determines
that it is not practicable to pursue SBIR-developed
technologies with their SBIR awardee they are to notify the
Small Business Administration and allow for an appeal process.
The Committee is concerned about the Navy's adherence to
SBIR law, specifically as it pertains to the fully competed
Automated Test and Re-Test program. Despite communications from
the Navy that the technology has been successful; has led to an
``enterprise-wide'' approach; and can lower the time, cost, and
improve the quality of naval warfare systems, the Navy resists
deploying the technology beyond a few programs, while at the
same time pursuing other entities. The resistance to allow
innovators to participate in Department of Defense markets
directly impacts transformational efficiencies recommended by
military leadership.
As such, the Committee recommendation includes a transfer
of $30,000,000 from the Office of Naval Research management
headquarters to the Automated Test and Re-Test program for the
purpose of scaling and deploying the technology throughout the
Navy.
ADVANCED LIGHTWEIGHT POLYMER-CASED 7.62MM AMMUNITIONS
The Committee recognizes the progress made on the design,
development, and testing of advanced lightweight small arms
ammunitions. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy
to continue to explore and refine the use of advanced
lightweight polymer-cased 7.62mm ammunitions to reduce weight
burden, improve mobility, and enhance survivability of
warfighters.
ADVANCED ENERGETICS RESEARCH
The Committee recognizes the requirement for continued
investment in advanced energetics research and development to
increase the lethality, range, and speed of weapons; develop
new capabilities; and expand the domestic energetics workforce.
The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy to support
advanced energetics research and development efforts and to
incorporate successful technologies into advanced weapon
systems.
DDG-51 DEGAUSSING STANDARDS
The Committee recognizes that DDG-51 Destroyers account for
more than half of the Navy's surface combatant fleet and that
these ships operate daily in regions where mine warfare is a
significant threat. The Committee is concerned that the current
fleet of destroyers may not have the most current magnetic
signature requirements and in-service ship degaussing systems.
The Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide a
report to the congressional defense committees not later than
60 days after the enactment of this Act that details the
current state of degaussing systems in the DDG-51 fleet, the
most recent Navy degaussing standards, and a plan, including
cost and schedule, for incorporating such standards into both
new construction and in-service DDG-51s.
ENERGY STORAGE RESEARCH
The Committee supports continued research in power
generation and energy storage and notes that the development
and deployment of lithium ion batteries are critical to current
and future missions. However, the Committee understands that
safety concerns have often hindered the operational use of
lithium ion batteries. The Committee believes that the
development and qualification of materials technologies, such
as non-flammable electrolytes, aimed at improving lithium ion
battery safety and performance should be a research priority.
COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
The Committee understands the importance of the littoral
region to Navy operations worldwide and believes that training
must replicate the operational and threat environments that
submarines and unmanned systems are likely to encounter in
these areas. The Committee believes that additional research of
the magnetic, electric, and acoustic ambient fields in the
littoral regions and the development of predictive techniques
to distinguish ships and submarines from naturally occurring
background features would be beneficial for littoral
operations. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Navy
to conduct additional research in this area.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $37,428,078,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 40,178,343,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 40,939,500,000
Change from budget request............................ +761,157,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$40,939,500,000 for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Air Force which will provide the following program in fiscal
year 2019:
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JOINT SURVEILLANCE TARGET ATTACK RADAR SYSTEM RECAPITALIZATION
The fiscal year 2019 budget request proposes to terminate
the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS)
recapitalization program and removes all funding for the
program from the future years defense plan. The Committee
strongly supports the continuation of the JSTARS
recapitalization program and notes that the Department of
Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, provided $405,451,000 for
JSTARS recapitalization and prohibited the Secretary of the Air
Force from reprogramming or otherwise utilizing these funds for
any purpose other than the JSTARS recapitalization program of
record.
The Committee further notes that the House-passed version
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
would limit the use of certain funds until the Secretary of the
Air Force certifies that a contract has been awarded for JSTARS
recapitalization. The Committee believes that should the
Secretary of the Air Force decide to continue the JSTARS
recapitalization program and award a contract, the funding
previously appropriated is sufficient through fiscal year 2019
based on previous Air Force budget estimates. However, since
the Air Force removed funding for the program in the future
years defense plan and is in the process of formulating its
fiscal year 2020 budget request, the Committee recommends an
additional $623,000,000 to support potential continuation of
the JSTARS recapitalization program and designates this funding
as a congressional special interest item. In addition, the
Committee recommendation includes a provision that would
prohibit the divestment of more than one legacy E-8C JSTARS
aircraft unless the Secretary of the Air Force certifies to the
congressional defense committees that funds have been obligated
pursuant to a contract award for continuation of the JSTARS
recapitalization program.
The Committee further directs the Secretary of the Air
Force to submit a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than September 30, 2018, that provides
options for continuing the JSTARS recapitalization program with
an acquisition objective for fewer than 17 aircraft but which
can still fulfill known combatant commander requirements. The
report shall include estimated cost and schedule impacts,
available options for accelerating the delivery of new JSTARS
aircraft, and the timeline for achievement of initial operating
capability.
F-15
The Committee recommendation includes $50,000,000 above the
budget request to upgrade the F-15 electronic warfare warning
set in order to restore capability degraded by the fielding of
active electronically scanned array radars. In addition, the
Committee is concerned by the Air Force's decision to remove
funding for the procurement of Eagle Passive Active Warning and
Survivability System (EPAWSS) kits for the F-15C fleet. The
Committee understands that the Air Force intends to achieve a
production decision for EPAWSS in fiscal year 2019 and has
funded the development of the increment 1 capability for the F-
15C through preliminary design review. The Committee is also
aware that the Air Force continues to invest in F-15C
capability and sustainability, including critical structural
upgrades, as it considers options for the future of the fleet.
As such, the Committee directs the Secretary of the Air
Force to submit a report to the congressional defense
committees not later than 60 days after the enactment of this
Act that includes the impact that the lack of EPAWSS will have
on the F-15C fleet's mission capabilities for both homeland
defense and contested environments overseas; whether the Joint
Requirements Oversight Council has revalidated the reduced
scope of the EPAWSS program to verify its effect on warfighter
capabilities; the impact of the quantity for F-15C on EPAWSS
unit costs; and a cost estimate by year and account to fully
restore F-15C EPAWSS increment 1 modifications. To preserve the
option of continuing EPAWSS production for the F-15C, the
Committee also recommends an increase of $67,200,000 for F-15C
EPAWSS procurement in Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.
TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT
The budget request includes $111,000,000 in Test and
Evaluation Support funding for three major construction
projects pursuant to the Defense Laboratory Modernization Pilot
Program authorized under Section 2803 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016. The Committee
understands that the Air Force currently is not authorized to
initiate planning and design activities for these projects
using research, development, test and evaluation funds and thus
the projects cannot be executed in fiscal year 2019. Therefore,
the Committee recommendation reduces the request by
$106,000,000 as ahead of need and recommends $5,000,000 only to
initiate planning and design activities subject to
authorization. At the same time, the Committee recommends an
increase of $50,000,000 to support other needed enhancements to
the major range and test facility base and directs the
Secretary of the Air Force to provide a spending plan for these
funds to the congressional defense committees not later than 90
days after the enactment of this Act.
ADAPTIVE ENGINE TRANSITION PROGRAM
The Committee recommendation includes $790,355,000, the
same level as the budget request, for the Adaptive Engine
Transition Program (AETP). The AETP continues to mature engine
technologies to high readiness levels and reduce the risk for
the development of an adaptive cycle engine that will offer
significant performance and operational capability enhancements
and can be scaled to apply to existing and future combat
aircraft. The Committee encourages the Secretary of the Air
Force to continue investing in this technology to ensure the
achievement of an operational capability at the earliest
opportunity.
SPACE SOLAR POWER PROGRAM
The Committee understands that the Space Solar Power
program is an Air Force priority but has concerns about its
assignment to the recently created Space Rapid Capabilities
Office. Fiscal year 2019 budget justification materials do not
include sufficient requirements, schedules, or costs to merit
rapid acquisition. Therefore, the Committee designates this
program as a new start and congressional special interest item,
and directs the Secretary of the Air Force to assign all
programmatic responsibilities, including budget authority, for
the Space Solar Power program to the Air Force Research
Laboratory.
COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
The Committee is concerned about the Department of
Defense's approach to acquiring commercial satellite
communications services and is disappointed that the Department
has not articulated its needs in a consolidated budget request.
To increase visibility and oversight of this funding, the
Committee recommendation transfers $49,000,000 from the
Wideband Gapfiller Satellite program within the Space
Procurement, Air Force appropriation into a new program
element, Commercial Satellite Communications, within the
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force
appropriation. In addition, the Committee directs the Secretary
of the Air Force to transfer all future commercial satellite
communications integration funding into this new program
element and encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to
articulate and prioritize adequate funding in budget
submissions for the future years defense plan.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $22,010,975,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 22,016,553,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 22,291,423,000
Change from budget request............................ +274,870,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$22,291,423,000 for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Defense-Wide which will provide the following program in fiscal
year 2019:
DEFENSE RAPID INNOVATION FUND
The Committee recommendation includes $250,000,000 for the
Defense Rapid Innovation Fund. The Committee strongly
encourages the Secretary of Defense to focus this program on
the validation and transition of promising technologies
developed by small businesses from the research and development
stage through the prototype stage.
REACTIVE MATERIAL STRUCTURES
The Committee is aware of advances in reactive material
structures technology that show promise for enhancing explosive
capacity beyond existing capabilities. The Committee encourages
the Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) to
pursue efforts to test and evaluate these technologies in
support of increasing munitions lethality.
RECLAIMED REFRIGERANTS
Reclaiming refrigerants aids in the prevention of creating
new refrigerants and ensures the safe disposal of chemicals.
Considering the large number of Department of Defense
facilities and the widespread use of refrigerants, the
Committee directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition
and Sustainment) to submit a report to the congressional
defense committees not later than 120 days after the enactment
of this Act that examines the feasibility of giving preference
to the use of reclaimed refrigerants to service existing
equipment in Department of Defense facilities.
TRUSTED FOUNDRY
The Committee recognizes the importance of obtaining
microelectronics from trusted suppliers. The Committee urges
the Secretary of Defense to facilitate and encourage
competition in the fabrication of microelectronic devices when
two or more participants in the Trusted Foundry Program can
provide such devices and to expand opportunities for
participation in the Trusted Foundry program. Participants in
the Trusted Foundry Program should have the opportunity to
compete under full, open, and merit-based bidding, to the
extent practicable, for all Trusted Foundry contracts.
DIGITAL MANUFACTURING
The Committee recognizes the importance of digital
manufacturing and design in enabling new capabilities and
reducing system development costs and timelines. The Committee
supports the Department of Defense's efforts in strengthening
the United States manufacturing industrial base through
investments, including the Digital Manufacturing and Design
Innovation Institute. The Department's close collaboration with
industry and academia accelerates the research and development
of new digital manufacturing capabilities which directly
benefit both the defense industrial base and the Department.
ADVANCED FUNCTION FABRICS
The Committee notes the importance of developing advanced
function fabrics that are more lightweight and enhance
situational awareness on the battlefield. The Committee
encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and
Engineering) to support the development of an end-to-end fabric
product design that will provide benefits to the warfighter.
COOPERATIVE RESEARCH
The Committee is pleased with efforts by the Service
Secretaries to increase communication and cooperation among the
military services on science and technology investments.
Coordination of the respective research agendas and investment
plans will help reduce duplication, better leverage investments
in areas of mutual interest, and reduce gaps in promising areas
of technology. The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense
to submit a report to the congressional defense committees not
later than 120 days after the enactment of this Act which
identifies the strategy and goals for each specific area of
ongoing cooperative research, a five-year plan of prospective
areas of cooperative research, and an estimate of amounts and
sources of funding to carry out such research.
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
The Committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to
coordinate with the Federal Aviation Administrator on the use
of its designated Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) test sites for
the development and demonstration of common UAS standards,
architecture, and technologies to ensure a consistent,
nationwide approach to airspace integration across all airspace
users.
OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $210,900,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 221,009,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 221,009,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $221,009,000
for Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense which will provide
the following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION. 85,685 85,685 - - -
LIVE FIRE TESTING............... 64,332 64,332 - - -
OPERATIONAL TEST ACTIVITIES AND 70,992 70,992 - - -
ANALYSIS.......................
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TOTAL, OPERATIONAL TEST & 221,009 221,009 - - -
EVALUATION, DEFENSE........
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TITLE V
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $1,685,596,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 1,542,115,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 1,542,115,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,542,115,000
for the Defense Working Capital Funds accounts which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY...... 158,765 158,765 - - -
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE. 69,054 69,054 - - -
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DEFENSE- 48,096 48,096 - - -
WIDE...........................
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUND, 1,266,200 1,266,200 - - -
DECA...........................
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TOTAL, DEFENSE WORKING 1,542,115 1,542,115 - - -
CAPITAL FUNDS..............
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TITLE VI
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $34,428,167,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 33,729,192,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 34,047,018,000
Change from budget request............................ +317,826,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of
$34,047,018,000 for the Defense Health Program which will
provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR THE DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
The Committee includes a provision which caps the funds
available for Private Sector Care under the TRICARE program
subject to prior approval reprogramming procedures. The
provision and accompanying report language should not be
interpreted as limiting the amount of funds that may be
transferred to the In-House Care budget sub-activity from other
budget sub-activities within the Defense Health Program. In
addition, funding for the In-House Care budget sub-activity
continues to be designated as a congressional special interest
item. Any transfer of funds from the In-House Care budget sub-
activity into the Private Sector Care budget sub-activity or
any other budget sub-activity requires the Secretary of Defense
to follow prior approval reprogramming procedures for operation
and maintenance funds.
The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide
written notification to the congressional defense committees of
cumulative transfers in excess of $10,000,000 out of the
Private Sector Care budget sub-activity not later than fifteen
days after such a transfer. Furthermore, the Committee directs
the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to the
congressional defense committees not later than 30 days after
the enactment of this Act that delineates transfers of funds,
and the dates any transfers occurred, from the Private Sector
Care budget sub-activity to any other budget sub-activity.
The Committee further directs the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs) to provide quarterly reports to the
congressional defense committees on budget execution data for
all of the Defense Health Program budget activities and to
adequately reflect changes to the budget activities requested
by the Services in future budget submissions.
CARRYOVER
For fiscal year 2019, the Committee recommends one percent
carryover authority for the operation and maintenance account
of the Defense Health Program. The Committee directs the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to submit a
detailed spending plan for any fiscal year 2018 designated
carryover funds to the congressional defense committees not
less than 30 days prior to executing the carryover funds.
PEER-REVIEWED CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAMS
The Committee recommends $130,000,000 for the peer-reviewed
breast cancer research program, $100,000,000 for the peer-
reviewed prostate cancer research program, $20,000,000 for the
peer-reviewed ovarian cancer research program, $20,000,000 for
the peer-reviewed kidney cancer research program, $14,000,000
for the peer-reviewed lung cancer research program, and
$80,000,000 for the peer-reviewed cancer research program that
would research cancers not addressed in the aforementioned
programs currently executed by the Department of Defense.
The funds provided in the peer-reviewed cancer research
program are directed to be used to conduct research in the
following areas: bladder cancer, brain cancer, colorectal
cancer, listeria vaccine for cancer, liver cancer, lymphoma,
melanoma and other skin cancers, mesothelioma, pancreatic
cancer, stomach cancer, and cancer in children, adolescents,
and young adults.
The funds provided under the peer-reviewed cancer research
program shall be used only for the purposes listed above. The
Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health
Affairs) to provide a report not later than 180 days after the
enactment of this Act to the congressional defense committees
on the status of the peer-reviewed cancer research program. For
each research area, the report should include the funding
amount awarded, the progress of the research, and the relevance
of the research to servicemembers and their families.
The Committee commends the Department of Defense for
ensuring that projects funded through the various peer-reviewed
cancer research programs maintain a focus on issues of
significance to military populations and the warfighter. This
includes promoting collaborative research proposals between
Department of Defense researchers and non-military research
institutions. These collaborations leverage the knowledge,
infrastructure and access to clinical populations that the
partners bring to the research effort. Additionally, promoting
these collaborations provides a valuable recruitment and
retention incentive for military medical and research
personnel. The Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs) to continue to emphasize the
importance of these collaborations between military and non-
military researchers throughout the peer review process.
METASTATIC CANCER RESEARCH
The Committee appreciates the report provided by the
Department of Defense that contained recommendations on
research for metastatic cancer. The Committee directs the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to submit a
report to the congressional defense committees not later than
60 days after the enactment of this Act on the status of the
implementation of the recommendations contained in the report.
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
The Committee continues to support the efforts that the
Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs
are undertaking with regard to electronic health records and
the health record system. The Committee's ongoing expectation
is that the Departments' electronic health record systems must
be completely and meaningfully interoperable with seamless
compatibility. While the Committee acknowledges the significant
undertaking of the effort, the Committee is concerned with
aspects of the initial fielding of the electronic health
record, Military Health System (MHS) Genesis. The Committee
notes that a recent partial Initial Operational Test and
Evaluation (IOT&E) report described the fielding of MHS Genesis
as ``neither operationally effective nor operationally
suitable'' at this time. For this reason, the Committee directs
the Comptroller General to perform a review of the
implementation of MHS Genesis at the four currently active
sites: Fairchild Air Force Base, Naval Health Clinic Oak
Harbor, Naval Hospital Bremerton, and Madigan Army Medical
Center. The report should include, but not be limited to, how
MHS Genesis is addressing the concerns raised by the partial
IOT&E report; the performance of MHS Genesis in meeting the
demands of each of the medical facilities; underlying issues
with implementation; anticipated delays in implementation; and
impact on the execution of funds. As new military treatment
facilities are expected to start implementing MHS Genesis in
January 2019, the report should be submitted to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 180 days after
the enactment of this Act.
The Committee further directs the Comptroller General to
perform quarterly performance reviews of the Department of
Defense's electronic health record deployment so that the
Committee can further monitor implementation of the system and
if it is meeting predicted cost assumptions.
The Committee also directs the Director of the Interagency
Program Office (IPO) to continue to provide quarterly reports
on the progress of interoperability between the two Departments
to the House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees
and the House and Senate Military Construction, Veterans
Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittees. The
Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Defense Healthcare
Management Systems (DHMS), in conjunction with the Director of
the IPO, is directed to provide quarterly reports to the
congressional defense committees on the cost and schedule of
the program, to include milestones, knowledge points, and
acquisition timelines, as well as quarterly obligation reports.
The Committee directs the PEO DHMS to continue briefing the
House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees on a
quarterly basis, coinciding with the report submission.
ADVANCED ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL TRAINING
The Committee understands that servicemembers and their
families regularly undergo orthopedic procedures and that these
types of musculoskeletal injuries account for a significant
amount of medical separations or retirements from military
service. Delivery of direct training based on best practices
related to orthopedic procedures for injuries to the knee,
shoulder, and other extremities has become an increasingly
important readiness issue. The Committee encourages the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to ensure that
military orthopedic health professionals are provided with
opportunities for advanced surgical training in arthroscopic
techniques and to explore partnerships with medical
professional societies that maintain best practices related to
arthroscopic surgery and techniques.
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
The Committee recognizes recent efforts by the Department
of Defense to leverage partnerships with academia and the
private sector to understand and improve prevention and
treatment of traumatic brain injuries to servicemembers. The
Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health
Affairs) to continue to leverage partnerships with academia and
the private sector to support further studies of traumatic
brain injuries to gain a deeper understanding of concussive
injuries including how they impact the brain, how and to what
extent the brain recovers, and how prevention and treatment
methods may be improved.
OPIOID ABUSE AND NON-OPIATE PAIN MANAGEMENT
The Committee remains concerned by opioid abuse among
servicemembers, and the significant cost of opioid-based pain
medication to the Department of Defense. The Committee believes
that alternative forms of pain management have promise in
treating pain while reducing rates of addiction for
servicemembers, and that such alternatives may also be more
cost effective for the Department. The Committee is encouraged
by the strong commitment of the Department of Defense and the
Department of Veterans Affairs in researching improved pain
management protocols, and encourages the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs) to expand the Department's research
into the efficacy of opioid alternatives. The Committee also
encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
to ensure its prescribers are familiar with the guidelines
published by the Centers for Disease Control, and to prioritize
abuse-deterrent formulations of prescription opioids through
TRICARE formularies. Further, the Committee directs the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to conduct a
review of the Department's policies on pain management and
provide a report not later than 90 days after the enactment of
this Act to the congressional defense committees on current
policies on prescribing opioid-based pain medication; how the
Department is documenting instances of opioid abuse in the
military; current initiatives into alternative pain management
treatment; and the status of the Department's progress in
implementing the recommendations made by the 2015 National
Advisory Council on Complementary and Integrative Health
Working Group Report.
COLLABORATION WITH MINORITY SERVING HEALTH INSTITUTIONS
The Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Health Affairs) to work collaboratively in the health research
field with Historically Black Colleges and Universities,
Hispanic Serving Institutions, and other Minority Serving
Institutions. The Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs) to provide a report to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 90 days after
the enactment of this Act on the Department's efforts to
collaborate with these institutions in the health research
field.
MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS
The Committee supports the Department's continuing efforts
to ensure that servicemembers have access to high quality
mental health services and providers. In order to ensure that
the Department continues to have full access to qualified
clinical psychologists, the Committee encourages the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to review its regulations
regarding employment of clinical psychologists who graduate
from schools accredited by the Psychologist Clinical Science
Accreditation System.
IMPACT OF GUT MICROBIOME ON CHRONIC CONDITIONS
The Committee is concerned by the escalating cost of
managing chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and
kidney disease in active and retired military personnel. The
Committee believes that the role of the microorganisms of the
gut need to be more fully researched and strategies to control
these chronic conditions must be developed. The Committee
encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
to perform research aimed at better understanding the role of
the gut microbiome in chronic disease with an aim at developing
drug and nutritional regimens to enhance the well-being of
active and retired military servicemembers and dependents.
RARE CANCERS
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) defines rare cancers as
cancers that occur in fewer than 15 out of 100,000 people per
year. Over 500 rare cancers have been identified by the NCI.
Military personnel are uniquely exposed to carcinogens that may
increase the risk of certain cancers. The Committee is
concerned about the need for a better understanding of rare
cancers that may impact servicemembers, and therefore
encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
to collect data on the prevalence of rare cancers among
servicemembers, and consider ways that the Department can
improve the understanding of how rare cancers impact
servicemembers.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
The Committee expects that new mothers utilizing military
healthcare are receiving care and support during and after
their pregnancies. The Committee encourages the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to ensure that maternal
mental health services, mental health support services, and
screening procedures used to identify postpartum depression are
available to women at Department of Defense medical facilities.
JOINT WARFIGHTER MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
The Committee recommends $45,000,000 for the Joint
Warfighter Medical Research Program. The Committee appreciates
the program's focus on the medical needs of the warfighter on
the battlefield, and believes priority should be given for
research to address the ``golden hour'' for servicemembers with
life threatening injuries, battlefield diagnostics, and medical
threats and treatments for warfighters deployed around the
world.
The ``golden hour'' policy, which commits to getting
wounded servicemembers lifesaving care within the first hour
after an injury occurs, was initially put in place to address
battlefield casualties. With reports that the Department may
not be able to commit to the ``golden hour'' for servicemembers
in future conflicts, the Committee expects the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to identify current gaps
in medical planning and resources, and consider medical
capabilities that may mitigate fatalities, including enhancing
hemorrhage control research and development. In particular, the
Committee encourages research and development of freeze-dried
plasma and platelets, in addition to rapidly deployable, all-
in-one acute and chronic wound care therapy engineered to
address complex trauma and start tissue regeneration.
For injuries suffered on the battlefield, the Committee
believes that the Department of Defense should make enhancing
battlefield diagnostics a priority. The Committee is encouraged
by recent technological advances related to traumatic brain
injury, including magnetic resonance technology. The Committee
is pleased by the development of portable neurological devices
in support of mild traumatic brain injury assessment for
servicemembers in the field and supports the continued review
of benefits that could be gained from deployment of this
diagnostic tool. The Committee also notes that advances in
exposure science, including environmental and wearable sensors
technology and chemical surveillance, partnered with advanced
computing, allow for optimized exposure surveillance and health
monitoring through rapid and comprehensive measurement of
biosignatures, and believes these efforts should be explored.
Additionally, the Committee sees advantages to advancing
genomics work to identify and counter evolving chemical and
biologic threats, and developing medical countermeasures to
chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction.
Further, the Committee believes that additional research of
battlefield treatment is necessary and encourages the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to explore solutions for
life threatening battlefield complications such as sepsis. The
Committee also encourages the use of telemedicine and other
technologies that would allow for better collection,
integration, and transfer of patient data from battlefield
medical units through transport and treatment. In preparation
for environments military personnel may face while serving, the
Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health
Affairs) to establish protocols providing for the training,
transport, and treatment for servicemembers exposed to highly
infectious diseases. The Committee also encourages the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to continue
offering competitive grants to applicants from academia,
industry, and federal government agencies to expand the
chemical control toolbox, and to develop and validate vector
management strategies needed to protect deployed military
personnel.
THE CANCER CENTER AT WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER
The Committee recognizes that close cooperation between The
John P. Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health
Affairs) has fostered the partnership between the Murtha Cancer
Center and the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network
(ORIEN). The Murtha Cancer Center is the only center of
excellence for cancer care in the military health system. This
partnership allows the Murtha Cancer Center to collaborate in
cancer research with several academic cancer centers that all
use a single protocol for long-term health surveillance of
cancer patients to correlate patterns in cancer incidence,
treatment response, and survivorship with genetic information,
demographic data, and other factors. The Committee commends the
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) for assisting
the Murtha Cancer Center in this partnership and encourages
increased support to allow for continued expansion of this
effort to deliver enhanced cancer treatment for all
servicemembers and their families.
CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, DEFENSE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $961,732,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 993,816,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 993,816,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $993,816,000
for Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense which
will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE........ 105,997 105,997 - - -
PROCUREMENT...................... 1,091 1,091 - - -
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND 886,728 886,728 - - -
EVALUATION......................
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TOTAL, CHEMICAL AGENTS AND 993,816 993,816 - - -
MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION,
DEFENSE.....................
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DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $934,814,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 787,525,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 854,814,000
Change from budget request............................ +67,289,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $854,814,000
for Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense
which will provide the following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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COUNTER-NARCOTICS SUPPORT....... 547,171 530,285 -16,886
Transfer to National Guard -16,886
counter-drug program...........
DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION PROGRAM... 117,900 121,900 4,000
Program increase--young 4,000
Marines drug demand reduction..
NATIONAL GUARD COUNTER-DRUG 117,178 197,353 80,175
PROGRAM........................
Transfer from counter- 16,886
narcotics support..............
Program increase............ 63,289
NATIONAL GUARD COUNTER-DRUG 5,276 5,276 - - -
SCHOOLS........................
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TOTAL, DRUG INTERDICTION AND 787,525 854,814 67,289
COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES,
DEFENSE........................
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OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $321,887,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 329,273,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 329,273,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $329,273,000
for the Office of the Inspector General which will provide the
following program in fiscal year 2019:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Committee Change from
Budget Request Recommended Request
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.............................. 327,611 327,611 - - -
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION............. 1,602 1,602 - - -
PROCUREMENT............................................ 60 60 - - -
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TOTAL, OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL............. 329,273 329,273 - - -
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TITLE VII
RELATED AGENCIES
NATIONAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
The National Intelligence Program and the Military
Intelligence Program budgets funded in the Department of
Defense Appropriations Act consist primarily of resources for
the Director of National Intelligence including the
Intelligence Community Management staff, the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency, the
National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency,
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the intelligence
services of the Departments of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and
the CIA Retirement and Disability fund.
CLASSIFIED ANNEX
Adjustments to classified programs are addressed in a
separate, detailed, and comprehensive classified annex. The
Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and other
organizations are expected to fully comply with the
recommendations and directions in the classified annex
accompanying the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2019.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM FUND
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $514,000,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 514,000,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 514,000,000
Change from budget request............................ - - -
This appropriation provides payments of benefits to
qualified beneficiaries in accordance with the Central
Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain
Employees (P.L. 88-643), as amended by Public Law 94-522. This
statute authorized the establishment of the CIA Retirement and
Disability System for certain employees and authorized the
establishment and maintenance of a fund from which benefits
would be paid to those beneficiaries.
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $514,000,000
for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
System Fund. This is a mandatory account.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT
Fiscal year 2018 appropriation........................ $537,600,000
Fiscal year 2019 budget request....................... 539,124,000
Committee recommendation.............................. 512,424,000
Change from budget request............................ -26,700,000
The Committee recommends an appropriation of $512,424,000
for the Intelligence Community Management Account.
CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT
The Committee is concerned about the costs, complexity, and
timeliness of the current security clearance process across the
federal government. The National Center for Credibility
Assessment (NCCA) has been exploring less expensive
technologies and methods that may help target which individuals
require a polygraph. These technologies require rigorous
testing to evaluate their relative utility compared to the
polygraph. Therefore, the Committee directs the Director of
National Intelligence, acting as the federal government's
Security Executive Agent, and the NCCA to provide a report to
the congressional defense committees not later than 90 days
after the enactment of this Act on the effectiveness of
alternative technologies to the polygraph.
TITLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title VIII of the accompanying bill includes 130 general
provisions. A brief description of each provision follows.
Section 8001 provides that no funds made available in this
Act may be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not
authorized by Congress.
Section 8002 provides for conditions and limitations on the
payment of compensation to, or employment of, foreign
nationals.
Section 8003 provides that no funds made available in this
Act may be obligated beyond the end of the fiscal year unless
expressly provided for a greater period of availability
elsewhere in the Act.
Section 8004 has been amended and limits the obligation of
certain funds provided in this Act during the last two months
of the fiscal year.
Section 8005 provides for the general transfer authority of
funds to other military functions.
Section 8006 provides that the tables titled ``Explanation
of Project Level Adjustments'' in the Committee report and
classified annex shall be carried out in the manner provided by
the tables to the same extent as if the tables were included in
the text of this Act.
Section 8007 has been amended and provides for the
establishment of a baseline for application of reprogramming
and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year.
Section 8008 provides for limitations on the use of
transfer authority of working capital fund cash balances.
Section 8009 provides that none of the funds appropriated
in this Act may be used to initiate a special access program
without prior notification to the congressional defense
committees.
Section 8010 has been amended and provides limitations and
conditions on the use of funds made available in this Act to
initiate multiyear procurement contracts.
Section 8011 provides for the use and obligation of funds
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs.
Section 8012 has been amended and provides that civilian
personnel of the Department of Defense may not be managed on
the basis of end strength or be subject to end strength
limitations.
Section 8013 prohibits funding from being used to influence
congressional action on any matters pending before the
Congress.
Section 8014 prohibits compensation from being paid to any
member of the Army who is participating as a full-time student
and who receives benefits from the Education Benefits Fund when
time spent as a full-time student is counted toward that
member's service commitment.
Section 8015 provides for the transfer of funds
appropriated in title III of this Act for the Department of
Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program.
Section 8016 provides for the Department of Defense to
purchase anchor and mooring chains manufactured only in the
United States.
Section 8017 prohibits funds made available to the
Department of Defense from being used to demilitarize or
dispose of certain surplus firearms and small arms ammunition
or ammunition components.
Section 8018 provides a limitation on funds being used for
the relocation of any Department of Defense entity into or
within the National Capital Region.
Section 8019 has been amended and provides for incentive
payments authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act
of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544).
Section 8020 provides that no funding for the Defense Media
Activity may be used for national or international political or
psychological activities.
Section 8021 provides for the obligation of funds for
purposes specified in section 2350j(c) of title 10, United
States Code, in anticipation of receipt of contributions from
the Government of Kuwait.
Section 8022 has been amended and provides funding for the
Civil Air Patrol Corporation.
Section 8023 has been amended and prohibits funding from
being used to establish new Department of Defense Federally
Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), with certain
limitations and reduces funding provided for FFRDCs.
Section 8024 provides for the Department of Defense to
procure carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate melted and rolled
only in the United States and Canada.
Section 8025 defines the congressional defense committees
as the Armed Services Committees of the House and Senate and
the Subcommittees on Defense of the Committees on
Appropriations of the House and Senate.
Section 8026 provides for competitions between private
firms and Department of Defense depot maintenance activities.
Section 8027 has been amended and provides for the
revocation of blanket waivers of the Buy American Act.
Section 8028 provides for the availability of funds
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military
Facility Investment Recovery Account.
Section 8029 provides for the conveyance, without
consideration, of relocatable housing units that are excess to
the needs of the Air Force.
Section 8030 provides authority to use operation and
maintenance appropriations to purchase items having an
investment item unit cost of not more than $250,000.
Section 8031 prohibits the use of funds to disestablish,
close, downgrade from host to extension center, or place on
probation a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Section 8032 prohibits the sale of tobacco products in
military resale outlets below the most competitive price in the
local community.
Section 8033 has been amended and prohibits the use of
Working Capital Funds to purchase specified investment items.
Section 8034 has been amended and provides that none of the
funds appropriated for the Central Intelligence Agency shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for
Contingencies, the Working Capital Fund, or other programs as
specified.
Section 8035 provides for the availability of funds for the
mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting
from Department of Defense activities.
Section 8036 requires the Department of Defense to comply
with the Buy American Act, chapter 83 of title 41, United
States Code.
Section 8037 places certain limitations on the use of funds
made available in this Act to establish field operating
agencies.
Section 8038 places restrictions on converting to
contractor performance an activity or function of the
Department of Defense unless it meets certain guidelines
provided.
Section 8039 has been amended and provides for the
rescission of $492,954,000 from the following programs:
2017 Appropriations:
Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
F/A-18 E/F production support and ILS......... $69,140,000
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
KC-46......................................... 72,000,000
F-22 Increment 3.2b........................... 2,000,000
VC-25A Mods................................... 19,600,000
2018 Appropriations:
Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
E-2D Series................................... 11,761,000
Weapons Procurement, Navy:
Tomahawk...................................... 115,657,000
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
HC/MC-130 modifications....................... 88,400,000
F-16 modifications............................ 10,000,000
MQ-9.......................................... 36,500,000
Missile Procurement, Air Force:
Missile Replacement Equipment--Ballistic...... 5,200,000
Space Procurement, Air Force:
Air Force Satellite Communications System..... 5,000,000
Family of Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals...... 5,000,000
Spacelift Range System........................ 10,000,000
Spare and Repair Parts........................ 5,000,000
Procurement, Defense-Wide:
THAAD......................................... 14,000,000
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy:
Navy warfighting exp and demo................. 6,196,000
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air
Force:
B-2 Squadrons................................. 13,000,000
Special Tactics/Combat Control................ 4,500,000
Section 8040 prohibits funds made available in this Act
from being used to reduce authorized positions for military
technicians (dual status) of the Army National Guard, Air
National Guard, Army Reserve, and Air Force Reserve unless such
reductions are a direct result of a reduction in military force
structure.
Section 8041 prohibits funding from being obligated or
expended for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea unless specifically appropriated for that purpose.
Section 8042 provides for reimbursement to the National
Guard and reserve when members of the National Guard and
reserve provide intelligence or counterintelligence support to
the combatant commands, defense agencies, and joint
intelligence activities.
Section 8043 prohibits the transfer of Department of
Defense and Central Intelligence Agencies drug interdiction and
counter-drug activity funds to other agencies except as
specifically provided in an appropriations law.
Section 8044 prohibits funding from being used for the
procurement of ball and roller bearings other than those
produced by a domestic source and of domestic origin.
Section 8045 provides funding for Red Cross and United
Services Organization grants.
Section 8046 prohibits funding from being used to purchase
supercomputers which are not manufactured in the United States.
Section 8047 provides funds for the Small Business
Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology
Transfer program.
Section 8048 prohibits funding from being used for
contractor bonuses being paid due to business restructuring.
Section 8049 provides for prior congressional notification
of article or service transfers to international peacekeeping
organizations.
Section 8050 provides for the Department of Defense to
dispose of negative unliquidated or unexpended balances for
expired or closed accounts.
Section 8051 provides conditions for the use of equipment
of the National Guard Distance Learning Project on a space-
available, reimbursable basis.
Section 8052 provides funding for Sexual Assault Prevention
and Response Programs.
Section 8053 provides for the limitation on the use of
funds appropriated in title IV to procure end-items for
delivery to military forces for operational training,
operational use or inventory requirements.
Section 8054 provides for a waiver of ``Buy American''
provisions for certain cooperative programs.
Section 8055 prohibits funding in this Act from being used
for repairs or maintenance to military family housing units.
Section 8056 provides obligation authority for new starts
for advanced concept technology demonstration projects only
after notification to the congressional defense committees.
Section 8057 provides that the Secretary of Defense shall
provide a classified quarterly report on certain matters as
directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act.
Section 8058 provides for the use of National Guard
personnel to support ground-based elements of the National
Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Section 8059 prohibits the use of funds made available in
this Act to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammunition
held by the Department of Defense that has a center-fire
cartridge and is designated as ``armor piercing'' except for
demilitarization purposes.
Section 8060 provides for a waiver by the Chief of the
National Guard Bureau or his designee for all or part of
consideration in cases of personal property leases of less than
one year.
Section 8061 has been amended and provides for the transfer
of funds made available in this Act under Operation and
Maintenance, Army to other activities of the federal government
for classified purposes.
Section 8062 prohibits funding to separate, or to
consolidate from within, the National Intelligence Program
budget from the Department of Defense budget.
Section 8063 has been amended and provides grant authority
for the construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses
to meet the needs of military family members when confronted
with the illness or hospitalization of an eligible military
beneficiary.
Section 8064 requires that rapid acquisition authority
notifications be provided to the Subcommittees on Defense of
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of
Representatives concurrently with the Committees on
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives
as required under section 806(c)(4) of the Bob Stump National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
Section 8065 has been amended and provides funding and
transfer authority for the Israeli Cooperative Programs.
Section 8066 has been amended and provides for the funding
of prior year shipbuilding cost increases.
Section 8067 has been amended and provides that funds made
available in this Act for intelligence activities are deemed to
be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of section
504 of the National Security Act of 1947 until the enactment of
the Intelligence Authorization Act for the current fiscal year.
Section 8068 prohibits funding from being used to initiate
a new start program without prior written notification.
Section 8069 has been amended and provides that the budget
of the President for the subsequent fiscal year shall include
separate budget justification documents for costs of the United
States Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations.
Section 8070 prohibits funding from being used for the
research, development, test, evaluation, procurement, or
deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense
system.
Section 8071 has been amended and reduces appropriations to
reflect savings due to favorable exchange rates.
Section 8072 makes funds available for transfer for the
purposes of rapid acquisition and deployment of supplies and
associated support services pursuant to section 806 of the Bob
Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
Section 8073 prohibits funding from being used to reduce or
disestablish the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance
Squadron of the Air Force Reserve.
Section 8074 prohibits funding from being used for the
integration of foreign intelligence information unless the
information has been lawfully collected and processed during
conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
Section 8075 prohibits funding from being used to transfer
program authority relating to current tactical unmanned aerial
vehicles from the Army and requires the Army to retain
responsibility for and operational control of the MQ-1C
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Section 8076 has been amended and limits the availability
of funding provided for the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence beyond the current fiscal year, except for funds
appropriated for research and technology, which shall remain
available for the current and the following fiscal years.
Section 8077 provides limitations on the Shipbuilding and
Conversion, Navy appropriation.
Section 8078 has been amended and provides for the
establishment of a baseline for application of reprogramming
and transfer authorities for the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence for the current fiscal year.
Section 8079 prohibits the use of funds to modify Army
Contracting Command--New Jersey without prior congressional
notification.
Section 8080 places restrictions on the transfer of funds
for support to friendly foreign countries in connection with
the conduct of operations in which the United States in not
participating.
Section 8081 has been amended and places limitations on the
reprogramming of funds from the Defense Acquisition Workforce
Development Fund.
Section 8082 prohibits funding from being used to violate
the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.
Section 8083 provides for limitations on funding provided
for the National Intelligence Program to be available for
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming or transfer
of funds in accordance with section 102A(d) of the National
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403-1(d)).
Section 8084 directs the Director of National Intelligence
to submit a future-years intelligence program reflecting
estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations.
Section 8085 defines the congressional intelligence
committees as being the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House, the Select Committee on Intelligence
of the Senate, and the Subcommittees on Defense of the
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate.
Section 8086 provides the authority to transfer funding
from operation and maintenance accounts for the Army, Navy, and
Air Force to the central fund for Fisher Houses and Suites.
Section 8087 prohibits the use of funds for the purpose of
making remittances to the Defense Acquisition Workforce
Development Fund.
Section 8088 provides that any agency receiving funds made
available in this Act shall post on a public website any report
required to be submitted to Congress with certain exceptions.
Section 8089 prohibits the use of funds for federal
contracts in excess of $1,000,000 unless the contractor agrees
not to require, as a condition of employment, that employees or
independent contractors agree to resolve through arbitration
any claim or tort related to, or arising out of, sexual assault
or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or
negligent hiring, supervision, or retention, and to certify
that each covered subcontractor agrees to do the same.
Section 8090 has been amended and provides funds for
transfer to the Joint Department of Defense--Department of
Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
Section 8091 prohibits the use of funds providing certain
missile defense information to certain entities.
Section 8092 provides for the purchase of heavy and light
armed vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for
force protection purposes up to a limit of $450,000 per
vehicle.
Section 8093 has been amended and provides the Director of
National Intelligence with general transfer authority with
certain limitations.
Section 8094 prohibits funding to transfer or release any
individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United
States, its territories, or possessions. This language is
identical to language enacted in Public Law 112-74.
Section 8095 prohibits funding to modify any United States
facility (other than the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) to
house any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This
language is identical to language enacted in Public Law 112-74.
Section 8096 prohibits funding to transfer any individual
detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a country of origin or
other foreign country or entity unless the Secretary of Defense
makes certain certifications. This language is similar to
language enacted in Public Law 112-239.
Section 8097 prohibits funding from being used to violate
the War Powers Resolution Act.
Section 8098 prohibits funds from being used to enter into
a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative
agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan
guarantee to Rosoboronexport, except under certain conditions.
Section 8099 prohibits the use of funds for the purchase or
manufacture of a United States flag unless such flags are
treated as covered items under section 2533a(b) of title 10,
United States Code.
Section 8100 provides that funds may be used to provide ex
gratia payments to local military commanders for damage,
personal injury, or death that is incident to combat operations
in a foreign country.
Section 8101 prohibits the use of funds to reduce or
prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-deployed
strategic delivery vehicles and launchers.
Section 8102 directs the Secretary of Defense to post grant
awards on a public Web site in a searchable format.
Section 8103 places restrictions on transfer amounts
available in the Rapid Prototyping Fund.
Section 8104 prohibits the use of funds for flight
demonstration teams outside of the United States.
Section 8105 prohibits the use of funds by the National
Security Agency targeting United States persons under
authorities granted in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act.
Section 8106 prohibits the use of funds to implement the
Arms Trade Treaty until ratified by the Senate.
Section 8107 has been amended and prohibits the transfer of
administrative or budgetary resources to the jurisdiction of
another Federal agency not financed by this Act without the
express authorization of Congress.
Section 8108 prohibits the use of funds to provide
counterterrorism support to foreign partners unless the
congressional defense committees are notified accordingly.
Section 8109 prohibits the use of funds to contravene the
War Powers Resolution with respect to Iraq.
Section 8110 has been amended and prohibits the use of
funds to award a new TAO Fleet Oiler program contract for the
acquisition of certain components unless those components are
manufactured in the Unites States.
Section 8111 has been amended and reduces the total amount
appropriated to reflect lower than anticipated fuel prices.
Section 8112 prohibits the use of funds for gaming or
entertainment that involves nude entertainers.
Section 8113 prohibits the use of funds for Base
Realignment and Closure.
Section 8114 has been amended and grants the Secretary of
Defense the authority to use funds for Office of Personnel and
Management background investigations.
Section 8115 prohibits the use of funds to close facilities
at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.
Section 8116 prohibits the use of funding for information
technology systems that do not have sufficient pornographic
content filters.
Section 8117 places certain limitations on the transfer of
funds for Global Engagement Center activities.
Section 8118 has been amended and makes funds available
through the Office of Economic Adjustment for transfer to the
Secretary of Education, to make grants to construct, renovate,
repair, or expand elementary and secondary public schools on
military installations.
Section 8119 provides guidance on the implementation of the
Policy for Assisted Reproductive Services for the Benefit of
Seriously or Severely Ill/Injured Active Duty Service Members.
Section 8120 prohibits the use of funds to provide arms,
training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.
Section 8121 prohibits the use of funds to purchase heavy
water from Iran.
Section 8122 is new and reduces funding in title II of this
Act for Operation and Maintenance, Army to reflect excess cash
balances in Department of Defense Working Capital Funds.
Section 8123 is new and reduces funding in title II of this
Act for Operation and Maintenance, Navy to reflect excess cash
balances in Department of Defense Working Capital Funds.
Section 8124 is new and limits the availability of funds to
carry out changes to the Joint Travel Regulations of the
Department of Defense.
Section 8125 is new and prohibits the use of funds for the
divestiture of the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
System.
Section 8126 is new and places restrictions on the use of
funding for military parades.
Section 8127 is new and provides for the availability of
funds to implement cost-effective agreements for required
heating facility modernization in the Kaiserslautern Military
Community, Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center, and Ramstein
Air Base, Germany.
Section 8128 is new and provides for the use of funds to
modify two F-35 Joint Strike Fighters per variant to a test
configuration.
Section 8129 is new and makes funding available in the
Defense Health Program for death gratuity payments.
Section 8130 is new and places restrictions on the use of
funds to migrate data and applications to the proposed Joint
Enterprise Defense Infrastructure and the Defense Enterprise
Office Solutions cloud services.
TITLE IX
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
In title IX, the Committee recommends total new
appropriations of $68,079,000,000. A detailed review of the
Committee recommendation for programs funded in this title is
provided in the following pages.
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
The Committee recommendation includes a number of reporting
requirements related to contingency operations and building
capacity efforts. The Committee directs the Secretary of
Defense to continue to report incremental costs for all named
operations in the Central Command area of responsibility on a
quarterly basis and to submit, also on a quarterly basis,
commitment, obligation, and expenditure data for the
Afghanistan Security Forces Fund, the Counter-Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria Train and Equip Fund, and for all security
cooperation programs funded under the Defense Security
Cooperation Agency in the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide account.
MILITARY PERSONNEL
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$4,660,661,000 for Military Personnel. The Committee
recommendation for each military personnel account is as
follows:
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$48,304,549,000 for Operation and Maintenance. The Committee
recommendation for each operation and maintenance account is as
follows:
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AFGHANISTAN SECURITY FORCES FUND
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$5,199,450,000 for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund.
COUNTER-ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$1,400,000,000 for the Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Train and Equip Fund.
KURDISH PESHMERGA
The Committee is encouraged that the Department of Defense
has signed an updated memorandum of understanding with the
Kurdistan Regional Government. This memorandum allows the
Department to extend the payment of stipends through the
Kurdistan Regional Government to nearly 35,000 members of the
Kurdish Peshmerga. The Peshmerga are historic military forces
of the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan responsible for
security in that region. During the ISIS offensive in Iraq, the
Peshmerga effectively defended a 600 kilometer front and were
among the most effective Iraqi forces at defeating ISIS. In
addition, the Peshmerga played a key role in the mission to
capture Saddam Hussein and capturing key al Qaeda leadership
which eventually assisted in identifying the location of Osama
Bin Laden.
REPORT ON U.S. DEFENSE ASSISTANCE TO SAUDI ARABIA AND UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES COALITION IN YEMEN
The Committee is aware that U.S. military forces provide
assistance to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. The Committee
requests a classified report from the Secretary of Defense, no
later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
submitted to the congressional defense committees detailing
activities by the Department of Defense in providing assistance
to this coalition beginning in March 2015.
PROCUREMENT
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$12,745,120,000 for Procurement. The Committee recommendation
for each procurement account is as follows:
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$1,180,836,000 for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.
The Committee recommendation for each research, development,
test and evaluation account is as follows:
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REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$15,190,000 for the Defense Working Capital Funds accounts. The
Committee recommendation is as follows:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY....... 6,600 6,600 - - -
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DEFENSE- 8,590 8,590 - - -
WIDE............................
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TOTAL, DEFENSE WORKING 15,190 15,190 - - -
CAPITAL FUNDS...............
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OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$352,068,000 for the Defense Health Program. The Committee
recommendation is as follows:
EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
[In thousands of dollars]
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Change from
Budget Committee Request
Request Recommended
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IN-HOUSE CARE.................... 72,627 72,627 - - -
PRIVATE SECTOR CARE.............. 277,066 277,066 - - -
CONSOLIDATED HEALTH SUPPORT...... 2,375 2,375 - - -
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TOTAL, OPERATION AND 352,068 352,068 - - -
MAINTENANCE.................
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DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$153,100,000 for Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities
Defense.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of
$24,692,000 for the Office of the Inspector General.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title IX of the accompanying bill includes 22 general
provisions, many of which extend or modify war-related
authorities included in previous Acts. A brief description of
each provision follows:
Section 9001 has been amended and provides that funds made
available in this title are in addition to funds appropriated
or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for
the current fiscal year.
Section 9002 provides for general transfer authority within
title IX.
Section 9003 has been amended and provides that supervision
and administration costs associated with a construction project
funded with appropriations available for operation and
maintenance, Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund, or the
Afghanistan Security Forces Fund may be obligated at the time a
construction contract is awarded.
Section 9004 provides for the procurement of passenger
motor vehicles and heavy and light armored vehicles for use by
military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense in
the United States Central Command area.
Section 9005 has been amended and provides funding for the
Commanders' Emergency Response Program, with certain
limitations.
Section 9006 provides lift and sustainment to coalition
forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Section 9007 prohibits the establishment of permanent bases
in Iraq or Afghanistan or United States control over Iraq oil
resources.
Section 9008 prohibits the use of funding in contravention
of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Section 9009 limits the obligation of funding for the
Afghanistan Security Forces Fund until certain conditions have
been met.
Section 9010 provides for the purchase of items of a
particular investment unit cost from funding made available for
operation and maintenance.
Section 9011 provides security assistance to the Government
of Jordan.
Section 9012 prohibits the use of funds to procure or
transfer man-portable air defense systems.
Section 9013 has been amended and provides assistance and
sustainment to the military and national security forces of
Ukraine.
Section 9014 provides replacement funds for items provided
to the Government of Ukraine from the inventory of the United
States.
Section 9015 has been amended and prohibits the use of
funds to procure or transfer man-portable air defense systems
to Ukraine.
Section 9016 restricts funds provided in Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide for payments under Coalition Support
Funds for reimbursement to the Government of Pakistan until
certain conditions are met.
Section 9017 provides funds to the Department of Defense to
improve intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
capabilities.
Section 9018 prohibits the use of funds with respect to
Syria in contravention of the War Powers Resolution.
Section 9019 places restrictions on the transfer of
additional C-130 cargo aircraft to the Afghanistan National
Security Forces or Afghanistan Air Force.
Section 9020 has been amended and provides for the
rescission of $377,216,000 from the following programs:
2017 Appropriations:
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps:
Ammunition less than $5 million............... $2,216,000
2018 Appropriations:
Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund:
Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund............. 25,000,000
Coalition Support Fund:
Coalition Support Fund........................ 350,000,000
Section 9021 requires the Secretary of Defense to certify
the use of funds in the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund under
certain conditions.
Section 9022 is new and requires the President to designate
Overseas Contingency Operation/Global War on Terrorism funds.
TITLE X
ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title X of the accompanying bill includes the following
general provision:
Section 10001 is new and provides no funding for the
Spending Reduction Account.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
The following items are included in accordance with various
requirements of the Rules of the House of Representatives:
STATEMENT OF GENERAL PERFORMANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following is a statement of
general performance goals and objectives for which this measure
authorizes funding:
The Committee on Appropriations considers program
performance, including a program's success in developing and
attaining outcome-related goals and objectives, in developing
funding recommendations.
RESCISSIONS
Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House or Representatives, the following table is submitted
describing the rescissions recommended in the accompanying
bill:
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Aircraft Procurement, Navy, 2017/2019.......... $69,140,000
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 2017/2019..... 93,600,000
Aircraft Procurement, Navy, 2018/2020.......... 11,761,000
Weapons Procurement, Navy, 2018/2020........... 115,657,000
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 2018/2020..... 134,900,000
Missile Procurement, Air Force, 2018/2020...... 5,200,000
Space Procurement, Air Force, 2018/2020........ 25,000,000
Procurement, Defense-Wide, 2018/2020........... 14,000,000
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 6,196,000
Navy, 2018/2019...............................
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air 17,500,000
Force, 2018/2019..............................
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on
Terrorism:
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine $2,216,000
Corps, 2017/2019..........................
Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund, 2018/ 25,000,000
2019......................................
Coalition Support Fund, 2018/2019.......... 350,000,000
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TRANSFER OF FUNDS
Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill.
Language has been included under ``Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' which provides for the transfer of
funds for certain classified activities.
Language has been included under ``Environmental
Restoration, Army'' which provides for the transfer of funds
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for
similar purposes.
Language has been included under ``Environmental
Restoration, Navy'' which provides for the transfer of funds
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for
similar purposes.
Language has been included under ``Environmental
Restoration, Air Force'' which provides for the transfer of
funds for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for
similar purposes.
Language has been included under ``Environmental
Restoration, Defense-Wide'' which provides for the transfer of
funds for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for
similar purposes.
Language has been included under ``Environmental
Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites'' which provides for
the transfer of funds for environmental restoration, reduction
and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings
and debris, or for similar purposes.
Language has been included under ``Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' which provides for the
transfer of funds for the Defense Rapid Innovation Program to
appropriations for research, development, test and evaluation
for specific purposes.
Language has been included under ``Drug Interdiction and
Counter-Drug Activities, Defense'' which provides for the
transfer of funds to appropriations available to the Department
of Defense for military personnel of the reserve components;
for operation and maintenance; for procurement; and for
research, development, test and evaluation for drug
interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Department of
Defense.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8005'' which provides for the transfer of working capital funds
to other appropriations accounts of the Department of Defense
for military functions.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8008'' which provides for the transfer of funds between working
capital funds and the ``Foreign Currency Fluctuations,
Defense'' appropriation and the operation and maintenance
appropriation accounts.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8015'' which provides for the transfer of funds from the
Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program to any other
appropriation for the purposes of implementing a Mentor-Protege
Program development assistance agreement.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8049'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' to appropriations
available for the pay of military personnel in connection with
support and services of eligible organizations and activities
outside the Department of Defense.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8052'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' to the Department
of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of
the Air Force to support the Sexual Assault Special Victims'
Counsel Program.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8061'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'' to other activities of the
federal government.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8065'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Procurement, Defense-Wide'' and ``Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' for the Israeli Cooperative
Programs.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8066'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'' to fund prior year
shipbuilding cost increases.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8086'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', ``Operation and
Maintenance, Navy'', and ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
Force'' to the central fund established for Fisher Houses and
Suites.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8090'' which provides for the transfer of funds appropriated
for operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Program to
the Joint Department of Defense--Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8093'' which provides for the transfer of funds for the
National Intelligence Program.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8114'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' and ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' for background
investigation information technology systems of the Office of
Personnel Management or other federal agency responsible for
background investigations.
Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec.
8118'' which provides for the transfer of funds from
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' for elementary and
secondary public schools on military installations.
Language has been included under title IX ``Operation and
Maintenance, Navy'' for the transfer of funds to the Coast
Guard ``Operating Expenses''' account.
Language has been included under title IX ``General
Provisions, Sec. 9002'' which provides for the authority to
transfer funds between the appropriations or funds made
available to the Department of Defense in title IX, subject to
certain conditions.
Language has been included under title IX ``General
Provisions, Sec. 9017'' which provides for the transfer of
funds to the operation and maintenance, military personnel, and
procurement accounts, to improve the intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities of the Department
of Defense.
EARMARK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
Neither the bill nor the report contains any congressional
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as
defined in Clause 9 of Rule XXI.
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE XIII, CL. 3(E) (RAMSEYER RULE)
In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of
the House of Representatives, the Committee notes that the
accompanying bill does not propose to repeal or amend a statute
or part thereof.
CHANGES IN THE APPLICATION OF EXISTING LAW
Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of
the House of Representatives, the following statements are
submitted describing the effect of provisions in the
accompanying bill which directly or indirectly change the
application of existing law.
Language is included in various parts of the bill to
continue ongoing activities which require annual authorization
or additional legislation, which to date has not been enacted.
The bill includes a number of provisions which place
limitations on the use of funds in the bill or change existing
limitations and which might, under some circumstances, be
construed as changing the application of law.
The bill includes a number of provisions which provide for
the transfer of funds and which might, under some
circumstances, be construed as changing the application of law.
The bill includes a number of provisions, which have been
virtually unchanged for many years that are technically
considered legislation.
The bill provides that appropriations shall remain
available for more than one year for some programs for which
the basic authorizing legislation does not presently authorize
each extended availability.
In various places in the bill, the Committee has allocated
funds within appropriation accounts in order to fund specific
programs.
Language is included in various accounts placing a
limitation on funds for emergencies and extraordinary expenses.
Language is included that provides not more than $7,503,000
for the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund.
Language is included that provides not less than
$42,300,000 for the Procurement Technical Assistance
Cooperative Agreement Program, of which not less than
$4,500,000 shall be available for centers.
Language is included that prohibits the consolidation of
certain legislative affairs or liaison offices.
Language is included that makes available $19,160,000 for
certain classified activities, allows such funds to be
transferred between certain accounts, and exempts such funds
from the investment item unit cost ceiling.
Language is included that makes funds available to provide
support to foreign security forces and other groups, and makes
a portion of the funds available for two years.
Language is included that limits the use of funds for
official representation purposes under the heading ``United
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces''.
Language is included that limits funds credited or
transferred to the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce
Development Fund.
Language is included that provides for specific
construction, acquisition, or conversion of vessels under the
heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy''.
Language is included that provides for the incurring of
additional obligations for certain activities under the heading
``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy''.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
provided under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'' for the construction of any naval vessel, or the
construction of major components for the construction or
conversion of any naval vessel, in foreign facilities or
shipyards.
Language is included that allows funds to be available for
multiyear procurement of critical components to support the
common missile compartment of nuclear-powered vessels.
Language is included under the heading ``National Guard and
Reserve Equipment Account'' providing for the procurement of
certain items and the submission of modernization priority
assessments.
Language is included under the heading ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'' that provides funds
for certain activities related to the V-22.
Language is included under the heading ``Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' that provides
$250,000,000 for the Defense Rapid Innovation Program and
provides for the transfer of funds subject to certain
requirements.
Language is included that specifies the use of certain
funds provided under the heading ``Defense Health Program''.
Language is included that provides that not less than
$8,000,000 of funds provided under the heading ``Defense Health
Program'' shall be available for HIV/AIDS prevention
educational activities.
Language is included that provides for the carry-over of no
more than one percent of operation and maintenance funds
provided under the heading ``Defense Health Program''.
Language is included under the heading ``Defense Health
Program'' that provides that not less than $752,600,000 shall
be made available to the U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command to carry out congressionally directed medical
research programs.
Language is included that specifies the use of certain
funds provided under the heading ``Chemical Agents and
Munitions Destruction, Defense''.
Language is included that specifies the use of certain
funds provided under the heading ``Drug-Interdiction and
Counter-Drug Activities, Defense''.
Language is included that provides that no funds made
available in this Act may be used for publicity or propaganda
purposes not authorized by Congress.
Language is included that provides for conditions and
limitations on the payment of compensation to, or employment
of, foreign nationals.
Language is included that provides that no funds made
available in this Act may be obligated beyond the end of the
fiscal year unless expressly provided for in this Act.
Language is included that limits the obligation of certain
funds during the last two months of the fiscal year to no more
than 20 percent with certain exceptions.
Language is included that provides for incorporation of
project level adjustments specified in tables included in this
report.
Language is included that provides for the establishment of
a baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer
authorities for fiscal year 2019 and prohibits reprogramming
and transfers, with certain exceptions, until after submission
of a report.
Language is included that provides for limitations on the
use and transfer of working capital fund cash balances.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
appropriated by this Act to initiate a special access program
without prior notification to the congressional defense
committees.
Language is included that provides limitations and
conditions on the use of funds provided in this Act to initiate
multi-year contracts.
Language is included that provides for the use and
obligation of funds for humanitarian and civic assistance costs
under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code.
Language is included that provides that civilian personnel
of the Department of Defense may not be managed on the basis of
end strength or be subject to end strength limitations, sets
forth certain requirements related to end strength for the
budget submission, and requires that Department of Army Science
and Technology Reinvention Laboratories be managed based on the
available budget.
Language is included that prohibits funds made available in
this Act from being used to influence congressional action on
matters pending before the Congress.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to pay
compensation to any member of the Army participating as a full-
time student and receiving benefits from the Education Benefits
Fund when time spent as a full-time student is counted toward
that member's service commitment, with certain exceptions.
Language is included that provides for the transfer of
funds appropriated in title III of this Act for the Department
of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program.
Language is included that provides for the Department of
Defense to purchase anchor and mooring chains manufactured only
in the United States.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available to the Department of Defense to demilitarize or
destroy surplus firearms or small arms ammunition except under
certain circumstances.
Language is included that provides a limitation on the use
of funds for the relocation of any Department of Defense entity
into or within the National Capital Region.
Language is included that provides for incentive payments
authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974
(25 U.S.C. 1544).
Language is included that provides that no funds made
available by this Act for the Defense Media Activity may be
used for national or international political or psychological
activities.
Language is included that provides for the obligation of
funds for purposes specified in section 2350j(c) of title 10,
United States Code.
Language is included that provides funding for the Civil
Air Patrol Corporation.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
appropriated in this Act to establish a new federally funded
research and development center (FFRDC), pay compensation to
certain individuals associated with an FFRDC, construct certain
new buildings not located on military installations, or
increase the number of staff years for defense FFRDCs beyond a
specified amount.
Language is included that provides for the Department of
Defense to procure carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate melted
and rolled only in the United States or Canada.
Language is included that defines congressional defense
committees for the purposes of this Act.
Language is included that provides for competitions between
private firms and Department of Defense Depot Maintenance
Activities for modification, depot maintenance, and repair of
aircraft, vehicles, and vessels, as well as the production of
components and other Defense-related articles.
Language is included that provides for revocation of
blanket waivers of the Buy America Act upon a finding that a
country has violated a reciprocal trade agreement by
discriminating against products produced in the United States
that are covered by the agreement.
Language is included that provides for the availability of
funds for the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility
Investment Recovery Account established by section 2921(c)(1)
of the 1991 National Defense Authorization Act.
Language is included that provides for the conveyance,
without consideration, of excess relocatable housing units
located at Grand Forks, Malmstrom, Mountain Home, Ellsworth,
and Minot Air Force Bases to Indian tribes.
Language is included that provides for the availability of
operation and maintenance appropriations to purchase items
having an investment item unit cost of not more than $250,000.
Language is included that prohibits funds from being used
to disestablish, close, downgrade, or place on probation a
Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.
Language is included that provides for the issuance of
regulations placing certain limitations on the sale of tobacco
products in military resale outlets.
Language is included that limits the purchase of specified
investment items with Working Capital Funds.
Language is included that provides that none of the funds
appropriated for the Central Intelligence Agency shall remain
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year except
for funds appropriated for the Reserve for Contingencies, the
Central Services Working Capital Fund, or other certain
programs authorized under section 503 of the National Security
Act of 1947.
Language is included that provides that not less than
$12,000,000 appropriated under the heading ``Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' shall be for mitigation of
environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from Department
of Defense activities.
Language is included that provides for the Department of
Defense to comply with the Buy American Act (chapter 83 of
title 41, United States Code).
Language is included that limits the use of funds made
available in this Act to establish or support field operating
agencies.
Language is included that limits the use of funds
appropriated by this Act for the conversion of an activity or
function of the Department of Defense to contractor
performance.
Language is included in title VIII and title IX that
provides for the rescission of previously appropriated funds.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act from being used to reduce authorized
positions for military technicians (dual status) of the Army
National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, and Air Force
Reserve unless such reductions are a direct result of a
reduction in military force structure.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act for assistance to the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea unless specifically appropriated for that
purpose.
Language is included that provides for the use of operation
and maintenance funds appropriated in this Act for
reimbursement to the National Guard and Reserve when members of
the National Guard and Reserve provide intelligence or
counterintelligence support to the Combatant Commands, Defense
Agencies, and Joint Intelligence Activities.
Language is included that provides that funds made
available to the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence
Agency for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities may
not be transferred to other agencies except as specifically
provided in an appropriations law.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
appropriated by this Act for the procurement of ball and roller
bearings other than those produced by a domestic source and of
domestic origin.
Language is included to provide funding to make grants to
specified entities upon determination by the Secretary of
Defense that such grants serve the national interest.
Language is included that provides for the Department of
Defense to purchase supercomputers manufactured only in the
United States with an exception for certain circumstances.
Language is included to allow for Small Business Innovation
Research program and Small Business Technology Transfer program
set-asides.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act to pay contractor bonuses arising from a
business restructuring.
Language is included that provides for the transfer of
funds to be used in support of personnel supporting approved
organizations and activities outside the Department of Defense.
Language is included that provides for the Department of
Defense to dispose of negative unliquidated or unexpended
balances for expired or closed accounts.
Language is included that provides conditions for the use
of equipment of the National Guard Distance Learning Project on
a space-available, reimbursable basis.
Language is included that provides for the use of funds
made available under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide'' for high priority Sexual Assault Prevention and
Response program requirements, including the transfer of funds.
Language is included that provides a limitation on the use
of funds appropriated in title IV to procure end-items for
delivery to military forces for operational training,
operational use, or inventory requirements.
Language is included that provides for a waiver by the
Secretary of Defense of ``Buy America'' provisions for certain
cooperative programs.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act for repairs or maintenance to military
family housing units, for which funds are provided in other
appropriations acts.
Language is included that provides that funds for new
starts for advanced concept technology demonstration projects
may be obligated or expended only after notification to the
congressional defense committees.
Language is included that provides that the Secretary of
Defense shall continue to provide a classified quarterly report
on certain matters as directed in the classified annex
accompanying this Act.
Language is included that provides for the use of National
Guard personnel to support ground-based elements of the
National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
provided in this Act to transfer to any nongovernmental entity
ammunition held by the Department of Defense that has a center-
fire cartridge and is designated as ``armor piercing'' except
for demilitarization purposes.
Language is included that provides for a waiver by the
Chief of the National Guard Bureau or his designee for all or
part of consideration in cases of personal property leases of
one year or less to certain organizations specified by section
508(d) of title 32, United States Code.
Language is included that provides for the transfer of
funds made available in this Act under the heading ``Operation
and Maintenance, Army'' to other activities of the Federal
Government for certain purposes.
Language is included that prohibits the modification of the
appropriations account structure or presentation of the budget
request for the National Intelligence Program, or modification
of the process by which National Intelligence Program
appropriations are apportioned, allotted, obligated, and
disbursed.
Language is included that provides grant authority for the
construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet
the needs of military family members when confronted with the
illness or hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary.
Language is included that provides for certain
notifications to be submitted to congressional defense
committees.
Language is included that provides funding and transfer
authority for the Israeli Cooperative missile defense programs.
Language is included that provides for the availability and
transfer of funds to properly complete prior year shipbuilding
programs.
Language is included that provides that funds made
available by this Act are deemed to be specifically authorized
by Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National
Security Act of 1947 until enactment of the Intelligence
Authorization Act.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds
provided in this Act to initiate a new start program without
prior written notification.
Language is included that provides that the budget of the
President for fiscal year 2019 shall include separate budget
justification documents for costs of the United States Armed
Forces' participation in contingency operations that contain
certain budget exhibits as defined in the Department of Defense
Financial Management Regulation.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act for the research, development, test,
evaluation, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed
interceptors of a missile defense system.
Language is included that reduces the total amount of
funding in this Act to reflect savings due to favorable foreign
exchange rates.
Language is included that provides for prompt notification
of the use of funds for rapid acquisition and deployment of
supplies and support services.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act to reduce or disestablish the operation
of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air Force
Reserve.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act for the integration of foreign
intelligence information unless the information has been
lawfully collected and processed during conduct of authorized
foreign intelligence activities.
Language is included that prohibits the transfer of program
authorities related to tactical unmanned aerial vehicles from
the Army.
Language is included that limits the obligation authority
of funds provided for the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence to the current fiscal year except for research and
technology which shall remain available for the current and the
following fiscal years.
Language is included that provides for the adjustment of
obligations within the ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy''
appropriation.
Language is included that prohibits the reprogramming or
transfer of funds provided in this Act for the National
Intelligence Program until the Director of National
Intelligence submits a baseline for application of
reprogramming and transfer authorities.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available by this Act to eliminate, restructure, realign, or
reduce certain Army Contracting Command sites without prior
notification to the congressional defense committees.
Language is included that requires notification to the
congressional defense committees prior to the use of funds for
support to foreign countries in connection with the conduct of
certain operations.
Language is included that requires certain transfers of
funds from the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund
be made in accordance with reprogramming and transfer
procedures.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available by this Act for excess defense articles, assistance,
or peacekeeping operations for countries designated to be in
violation of the standards of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act
of 2008.
Language is included that sets forth reprogramming and
transfer procedures for the National Intelligence Program.
Language is included that provides that the Director of
National Intelligence shall submit budget exhibits identifying
the future-years intelligence program.
Language is included that defines the congressional
intelligence committees for the purposes of this Act.
Language is included that provides that funds from certain
operation and maintenance accounts may be transferred to a
central fund established for Fisher Houses and Suites pursuant
to section 2493(d) of title 10, United States Code.
Language is included that prohibits funds appropriated by
this Act from being used to make remittances to the Defense
Acquisition Workforce Development Fund.
Language is included that provides that agencies post
congressionally directed reports on a public website.
Language is included that provides limitations on the award
of contracts to contractors that require mandatory arbitration
for certain claims as a condition of employment or a
contractual relationship. The Secretary of Defense is
authorized to waive the applicability of these limitations for
national security interests.
Language is included that provides for the availability and
transfer of funds for the Joint Department of Defense-
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration
Fund.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in
contravention of section 130h of title 10, United States Code.
Language is included that provides for the purchase of
heavy and light armored vehicles for physical security or force
protection purposes.
Language is included that provides transfer authority for
the Director of National Intelligence for the National
Intelligence Program subject to certain limitations.
Language is included that prohibits funds to transfer or
release certain individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
into the United States, its territories, or possessions.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United
States, its territories, or possessions to house individuals
detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the
custody or control of the individual's country of origin, any
other foreign country, or any other foreign entity except in
accordance with sections 1034 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 and 1034 of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in
contravention of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541).
Language is included that prohibits the Department of
Defense from entering into certain agreements with
Rosoboronexport with certain waiver authorities.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for
the purchase or manufacture of a United States flag unless such
flag is treated as a covered item under section 2533a(b) of
title 10, United States Code.
Language is included that provides for the availability of
funds for ex gratia payments in certain circumstances subject
to certain conditions.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
reduce or prepare to reduce the number of deployed and non-
deployed strategic delivery vehicles and launchers below
certain authorized levels.
Language is included that requires grant awards to be
posted on a public website in a searchable format.
Language is included regarding the allocation of certain
reductions among programs, projects and activities, and
requires notifications regarding certain transfers.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for
the performance of a flight demonstration team at a location
outside the United States if a performance at a location within
the United States was canceled during the current fiscal year
due to insufficient funding.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds by the
National Security Agency for certain activities.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
implement the Arms Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a
resolution of ratification.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this or any other Act to pay the salary of any
officer or employee who approves or implements the transfer of
certain administrative responsibilities or budgetary resources
unless expressly provided for in Defense Appropriations Acts.
Language is included that requires certain notification on
the use of funds for activities authorized under section 1208
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005,
with a waiver for exigent circumstances.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds with
respect to Iraq in contravention of the War Powers Resolution
(50 U.S.C. 1541).
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
award a new contract for the T-AO Fleet Oiler program except
under certain circumstances.
Language is included that reduces the amount of funds
appropriated in title II of this Act due to lower than
anticipated fuel costs.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available by this Act to pay Government Travel Charge Card
expenses for gaming or certain entertainment activities.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available by this Act to propose, plan for, or execute a new
base realignment and closure round.
Language is included that makes available funds provided
under the headings ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'',
``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'',
and ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'' for purposes related to
Federal Government security and suitability background
investigations.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds made
available in this Act to carry out the closure or realignment
of United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Language is included that prohibits funding for computer
networks that do not block pornography, subject to certain law
enforcement and national defense exceptions.
Language is included that prohibits the transfer of
Department of Defense funds for certain purposes except in
accordance with reprogramming and transfer procedures.
Language is included that provides additional funds for
purposes of repairing schools on military installations subject
to certain requirements.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
implement changes to certain Department of Defense regulations.
Language is included that changes certain time limitations
on embryo cryopreservation and storage.
Language is included that reduces the amount of funds
appropriated in title II of this Act due to excess cash
balances in the Department of Defense Working Capital Funds.
Language is included that provides for a limitation on the
use of funds made available by this or any other Act for the
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization
program.
Language is included that prohibits funds to provide
certain equipment for customary ceremonial honors if the
Secretary determines that the provision of such equipment would
undermine readiness.
Language is includes that prohibits funds for energy
contracts for the new Rhine Ordnance Barracks Army Medical
Center until a written certification is provided to the
congressional defense committees.
Language is include that makes available funds to modify
certain F-35 aircraft to a test configuration, subject to
certain notification requirements.
Language is included that allows certain funds to be
obligated to make death gratuity payments if appropriations for
``Military Personnel'' are not available for obligation of such
payments.
Language is included that prohibits funds made available by
this or any other Act to migrate data and applications to
certain cloud computing enterprise systems until certain
notification requirements have been met.
Language is included under the heading ``Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' that provides for the use of funds
for certain purposes subject to certain requirements, and
requires the submission of certain reports.
``Afghanistan Security Forces Fund'' that provides for the
use of funds for certain purposes and the management of
contributions and returned items.
Language is included under the heading ``Counter-ISIS Train
and Equip Fund'' that provides for the use of funds for certain
purposes, compliance with vetting standards, management of
contributions, and the submission of certain reports.
Language is included that provides that funds made
available in title IX are in addition to amounts appropriated
or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for
the current fiscal year.
Language is included that provides for supervision and
administration costs for construction projects associated with
overseas contingency operations.
Language is included that provides for the availability of
funds to purchase passenger, heavy, and light armored vehicles
notwithstanding price or other limitations on the purchase of
passenger carrying vehicles for use in the U.S. Central Command
area of responsibility.
Language is included that provides funds and authority for
the Commanders' Emergency Response Program and establishes
certain reporting requirements.
Language is included that authorizes the use of funds to
provide certain assistance to coalition forces supporting
military and stability operations in Afghanistan and to counter
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria, and establishes
certain reporting requirements.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to
establish permanent bases in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in
contravention of certain laws or regulations promulgated to
implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Language is included that places limitations on the use of
Afghanistan Security Forces Funds and requires certain
certifications.
Language is included that provides for the availability of
funds appropriated in title IX of this Act for the purchase of
items having an investment unit cost of up to $500,000, subject
to certain conditions.
Language is included that provides for up to $500,000,000
of funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ``Operation
and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' to be used for assistance to
the Government of Jordan for certain purposes.
Language is included prohibiting the use of funds made
available by this Act under the heading ``Counter-ISIS Train
and Equip Fund'' to procure or transfer man-portable air
defense systems.
Language is included that provides for $250,000,000 for
assistance to the military and national security forces of
Ukraine for certain purposes and under certain conditions.
Language is included providing for the availability of
funds appropriated in title IX for replacement of items
provided to the Government of Ukraine from the inventory of the
United States to the extent provided for in this Act.
Language is included prohibiting the use of funds made
available by this Act for assistance to Ukraine to procure or
transfer man-portable air defense systems.
Language is included that places limitations on the use of
Coalition Support Funds under the heading ``Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' in title IX for the Government of
Pakistan.
Language is included that provides for additional funds and
transfer authority to improve the intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance capabilities of the Department of Defense,
subject to reporting requirements.
Language is included that prohibits the use of funds with
respect to Syria in contravention of the War Powers Resolution
(50 U.S.C. 1541).
Language is included that provides a limitation on the
transfer of certain aircraft to the Afghanistan National
Security Forces until submission of a report.
Language is included that rescinds certain funds made
available in prior years in title IX.
Language is included that places certain conditions and
reporting requirements on the use of the Afghanistan Security
Forces Fund.
Language is included that provides that amounts designed in
this Act as Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on
Terrorism shall be available only if the President subsequently
so designates all such amounts and transmits such designations
to the Congress.
Language is included that sets the amount by which
subcommittee allocation exceeds the amount of proposed new
budget authority at $0.
COMPARISON WITH THE BUDGET RESOLUTION
Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of
Representatives requires an explanation of compliance with
section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as
amended, which requires that the report accompanying a bill
providing new budget authority contain a statement detailing
how that authority compares with the reports submitted under
section 302 of the Act for the most recently agreed to
concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year from
the Committee's section 302(a) allocation. This information
follows:
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302(b) Allocation This Bill
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Budget Budget
Authority Outlays Authority Outlays
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Discretionary, Total.................................. 674,591 644,324 674,591 \1\625,863
General Purpose................................... (606,512) NA (606,512) \1\(589,142
)
Global War on Terrorism\2\........................ (68,079) NA (68,079) (36,721)
Mandatory............................................. 514 514 514 514
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\1\Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority.
\2\Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism.
FIVE-YEAR OUTLAY PROJECTIONS
In compliance with section 308(a)(1)(B) of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, the following table contains
five-year projections associated with the budget authority
provided in the accompanying bill.
[In millions of dollars]
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Non-GWOT GWOT
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2019.............................. \1\352,099 \1\36,721
2020.............................. 139,350 18,205
2021.............................. 54,919 7,395
2022.............................. 28,558 2,835
2023 and future years............. 21,321 1,558
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\1\Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.
Note: GWOT is Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 (Public Law
93-344), as amended, no new budget or outlays are provided by
the accompanying bill for financial assistance to State and
local governments.
PROGRAM DUPLICATION
No provision of this bill establishes or reauthorizes a
program of the Federal Government known to be duplicative of
another Federal program, a program that was included in any
report from the Government Accountability Office to Congress
pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111-139, or a program
related to a program identified in the most recent Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance.
DIRECTED RULE MAKING
This bill does not contain any provision that specifically
directs the promulgation or completion of a rule.
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ADDITIONAL VIEWS
With this bill, the Committee has carried out its
Constitutional responsibility to recommend the appropriations
necessary to provide for the common defense of our Nation. The
Committee did this in a collegial and bipartisan fashion
consistent with its long-standing traditions.
The base portion of this bill provides $674,591,000,000 in
discretionary funding covering all Department of Defense (DoD)
and Intelligence Community functions except for Military
Construction and Family Housing. This is $822,023,000 below the
President's budget request, and $19,973,481,000 above last
year's enacted level. The Overseas Contingency Operations/
Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) portion provides a total of
$68,079,000,000, an increase of $420,000,000 above the
President's budget request. The amount provided for Fiscal Year
2019 adheres to the Bipartisan Budget Act budget allocation for
Defense.
We appreciate how the Chairwoman has conducted the business
of the Defense Subcommittee and her abiding priority for the
safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of every man and woman in
uniform. Additionally, she fostered a thoughtful and bipartisan
approach to our work and fiercely defended oversight
responsibilities and the constitutional prerogative of the
Subcommittee.
Oversight of the management and expenditure of the $674
billion provided to the Department of Defense and the
Intelligence Community is a core function of the Defense
Subcommittee. That is why we are pleased with the inclusion of
report language strengthening the oversight of the agencies
funded in the bill. The report contains several sections
encouraging the Department, as a whole, and with a special
focus on the Army, to adhere to Congressional direction,
increase transparency for budget exhibits, and improve the
quality and timeliness of communication. The committee cannot
conduct effective oversight when proposals are presented at the
last minute with the intention of forcing a decision. Oversight
cannot be effective when complex changes to a program are first
communicated to the Legislative Branch through the media. It is
our intention that the language included in the report will
improve communication between the committee and the agencies.
In addition to strong oversight, we would like to highlight
several other efforts in the bill. We applaud the inclusion of
a new provision that will permit the use of funds to pay for
death gratuities if a shutdown in government occurs. While we
should never face government shutdowns, if we do, a deceased
service member's family should not face any barriers to
assistance while mourning the loss of a loved one.
Additionally, this bill increases funding by almost $200
million above the budget request for several important
environmental clean-up accounts. The Committee has been
proactive in addressing emerging environmental issues,
including those caused by firefighting chemicals, and was
disappointed that the Administration reduced funding for
environmental clean-up in its budget request. Those living on
and near military facilities, and everyone throughout our
country for that matter, should not have to worry about access
to clean drinking water.
Setting aside the bill, we reiterate our concerns from
prior years about the continued inability to enact
Appropriations bills anywhere close to the start of the fiscal
year. For the Department of Defense, and for any agency, the
lack of predictable appropriations is a major obstacle to the
planning and execution of programs.
We were cautiously optimistic that the Bipartisan Budget
Act, which provided relief from the Budget Control Act (BCA),
would provide a pathway for completing the FY 2019 bills in a
somewhat timely manner. Unfortunately, the next two fiscal
years present daunting obstacles that make it even more
important to complete our FY 2019 work as soon as possible.
Most obvious is the return of the BCA caps in FY 2020,
which, if left unchanged, will require the Department's base
funding for FY 2020 to be reduced by $71 billion from the level
provided in this bill. A reduction of that magnitude would
cause unfathomable disruption. Senior leaders in the Pentagon
are already identifying programs that have a lower return on
investment to cut if this scenario were to occur. Those leaders
should be focused on other matters, and the sooner Congress
provides a fifth round of statutory relief for the last two
years of the BCA, the better.
Additionally, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has
testified that arresting the erosion of our military's
competitive advantage requires real budget growth of at least
three percent above inflation through 2023. Increasing that
competitive advantage would require even higher growth.
We also must consider that maintaining our competitive
advantage in defense requires other investments that we do not
immediately equate with military matters. As only 29 percent of
Americans age 17-24 qualify for military service, investments
in our youth, difficult-to-retain populations, education, and
public health are equally important.
Finally, we remain concerned that while we have seen plenty
of long-awaited, long-term planning and strategy documents
generated by the Pentagon and the White House over the last 500
days, the bulk of our ongoing military operations continue to
be authorized by legislation from 17 years ago. There have been
four Presidential elections and eight Congressional elections
since the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force
(AUMF). Last year, the Committee showed leadership on this
matter when it agreed to an amendment offered by our colleague
Rep. Barbara Lee that would have repealed the 2001 AUMF 240
days after the bill was enacted. To our dismay, Republican
leadership in the House used the Rules Committee to remove
Representative Lee's language before the FY 2018 bill was
considered on the House floor and then prevented the
consideration of any amendments related to the AUMF.
Unfortunately, the desire to prevent the whole House from
debating the AUMF remains, and when Rep. Lee offered the same
amendment at markup this year, it was defeated. It is
reprehensible that Congress cannot muster the backbone to even
debate the legal justification for the conflicts in which we
are asking our men and women in uniform to fight in.
To reiterate, the Bipartisan Budget Act enacted earlier
this year provided relief from unworkable discretionary
spending caps. The agreement was supposed to provide the
country with stability following a year of shutdowns, last-
minute veto threats, and general uncertainty in government. It
was crafted to provide additional investments in both our
national security and economic security, and it was that
balance that led it to receive bipartisan support. That
stability lasted long enough for Congress to pass a bipartisan
Omnibus appropriations bill for FY 2018, and then Republican
chaos reigned again. The President threatened to veto the bill,
unhappy with Congress' large investments in programs to help
low- and middle-income Americans and rejection of his campaign-
promised border wall.
Even after the President signed the bill, the
Administration and Republican leadership in Congress who voted
for the Bipartisan Budget Act and the Omnibus bill have
continued to attempt to undo those bipartisan agreements. The
majority passed H.R. 3, a rescission bill to undo funding and
mollify an angry President. We have been told by OMB Director
Mick Mulvaney that this was the first of many rescission
packages meant to bring spending in line with the President's
priorities, ignoring Congressional action that dismissed the
President's draconian FY 2018 budget requests.
In addition to the unacceptable rescissions proposals, the
majority's lack of transparency in allocating the FY 2019
discretionary budget also endangers future bipartisan
compromise. The majority abandoned longstanding committee
practice to provide Members and the public with a budget
blueprint for domestic spending, known as 302(b) allocations.
Members were asked to vote on bills without having the full
picture on what impact each bill would have on the other bills.
This departure from regular order makes it more difficult for
this Defense Bill and the other eleven must pass bills to be
enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year, and runs counter
to the bipartisanship that led to the enactment of the FY 2018
Omnibus and the Bipartisan Budget Act.
In closing, despite some of the concerns we have expressed,
we appreciate our colleagues' commitment to our troops and to
our Nation's defense. We look forward to continuing work with
the Chairwoman, Members of the Committee, and staff in
completing this difficult task before us.
Nita M. Lowey.
Peter J. Visclosky.
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