Defence

R. James Woolsey, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

United States · United States Senate · 11 October 1989

To amend title 38, United States Code, with respect to veterans vocational education.

United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1989

Amends provisions relating to veterans' educational assistance to delete provisions barring payment of such benefits: (1) to veterans enrolled in a course leading to a standard college degree; and (2) to any eligible veterans for specified periods of absence from such education or apprenticeship training. Makes three 50-minute courses the equivalent of three hours for purposes of course measurement. Requires that the number of credit hours represented by such unit courses be converted to equivalent clock hours and combined with actual weekly clock hours of training concurrently pursued to determine the total clock hours of enrollment. Provides for the determination of clock-hour equivalency of credit hours represented by a course.

Mental Health Professional Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1989

Mental Health Professional Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a Mental Health Professionals Scholarship Program. Requires an individual, in order to be eligible for the Program, to be accepted for enrollment or enrolled as a full-time student at a qualifying accredited school in a course of post-baccalaureate education or training that is approved by the Secretary and that leads toward completion of a degree in psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work, or psychiatry. Provides a full scholarship for qualifying individuals. Requires each participant receiving such a scholarship to provide service in the clinical practice of such participant's profession as a full-time employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs for a period of 18 months for each academic year for which a scholarship is provided. Authorizes the participant to complete one-half of such required service in a public health facility located in an economically depressed area. Establishes the liability to the United States of a participant who fails to meet the required period of service on a pro rata basis.

White Sands Fair Compensation Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1989

White Sands Fair Compensation Act of 1989 - Establishes the White Sands Fair Compensation Commission within the Department of the Interior to evaluate and pay claims filed by individuals who owned ranching units or mining claims on lands of the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, taken by the U.S. Government in 1975. Provides that U.S. lease payments between 1942 and 1975 shall not be considered in determining values. Allows such individuals to appeal decisions of the Commission to the Secretary of the Interior for a final ruling to determine the amount of such payment. Prohibits the filing of such claims one year after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the filing of such appeals 30 days after such an individual is notified of the determination of such payment amount. Terminates the Commission one year after completing action on all claims filed under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.

To amend Chapter 55 of Title 5 and Chapter 10 of Title 37, United States Code, to provide procedural due process in determining the status of missing persons and to require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study of the provisions of the Missing Persons Acts codified in titles 5 and 37, United States Code.

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1989

Requires the U.S. Government to exhaust all reasonable possibilities to obtain proof of the death of a missing person in order to establish a reasonable presumption that a member of the armed forces in a missing status is dead. Requires the head of the Federal agency concerned to provide certain procedural rights to the primary next of kin of a missing person when an action is to be undertaken by such agency to review the status of such missing person, including the right to review all information obtained by such agency with regard to the missing person's status. Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on current provisions of the Missing Persons Act.

A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that a blind or disabled child otherwise qualified may be eligible for SSI benefits even though not a resident of the United States, if such a child is accompanying a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces serving a tour of duty overseas.

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989

Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to make the U.S. residency requirement for SSI eligibility inapplicable to a child who is a U.S. citizen residing with a parent who is working outside the United States.

To provide for a bonus to veterans of World War II.

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989

Provides for a payment to each veteran of World War II. Specifies that the amount of any payment made under this Act shall be equal to the total amount appropriated to carry out this Act divided by the number of veterans eligible to receive such payment.

Concerning U.S. foreign assistance to Somalia.

United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989

Expresses the sense of the Congress that in determining the allocation of foreign assistance the Department of State should: (1) weigh heavily the persecution, torture, and execution of innocent Somalis by the armed forces of Siad Barre; and (2) insist upon significant improvements in human rights as a precondition to the resumption of foreign assistance to Somalia.

To amend title 38, United States Code, with respect to certain veterans' education programs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1989

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prepare a document containing a detailed description of the benefits, limitations, procedures, requirements, and other aspects of the education programs administered by the Department. Requires the Secretary to distribute the document: (1) to individuals applying for benefits under an education program administered by the Department and to such individuals receiving benefits at least annually thereafter; (2) to education and training institution officials on at least an annual basis; and (3) upon request, to other individuals affected by education programs administered by the Secretary, including military education personnel. Adds the chapter which pertains to training and rehabilitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities to existing law provisions which: (1) require the veteran and the educational institution offering a course in which such veteran is enrolled to report to the Secretary such enrollment and any interruption or termination of the education of such veteran; (2) require the Secretary, prior to making payment of a reporting fee to an educational institution, to require such institution to certify that it has exercised reasonable diligence in determining whether such institution or any course offered by such institution approved for the enrollment of veterans meets certain applicable requirements and that it will report any failure to meet any such requirement to the Secretary; and (3) authorize the Secretary to pay to any educational institution or to any joint apprenticeship training committee acting as a training establishment a reporting fee which will be in lieu of any other compensation or reimbursement for reports or certifications which such institution or training committee is required to submit to the Secretary. Repeals portions of the work-study allowance provision relating to the number of hours worked by veterans-students and the compensation received for such work. Changes the eligibility for such allowance from veteran-students who are pursuing full-time programs of rehabilitation, education, or training to individuals who are pursuing such programs at least half-time. Authorizes the Secretary to renew payment of previously discontinued educational assistance allowances only upon finding that: (1) the veteran will be resuming enrollment at the same educational institution in the same program and such institution has both approved the veteran's reenrollment and certified it to the Department of Veterans Affairs; or (2) in the case of a proposed change of either educational institution or program of education by the veteran, the cause of the unsatisfactory conduct or progress has been removed; the program proposed to be pursued is suitable to the veteran's aptitudes, interests, and abilities; and if a proposed change of program is involved, the change meets the requirements for approval under the change of program provisions of the Veterans' Benefits statute. Makes parallel changes with respect to the survivors' and dependents' educational assistance program. Provides that payment of an educational assistance allowance in the case of an eligible individual pursuing a program of education on less than a half-time basis shall be made in a lump-sum amount for the entire quarter, semester, or term not later than the last day of the month immediately following the month in which certification is received from the educational institution that such individual has enrolled and is pursuing a program at such institution. Provides for the reduction of the entitlement provided pursuant to the apprenticeship or other on-job training provisions.

A bill to provide interim extensions of Department of Veterans Affairs programs of respite care for certain veterans, community-based residential care for homeless chronically mentally ill veterans, State Home construction grants, and leave transfers for certain health-care professionals, and of department of Veterans Affairs home-loan fees.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1989

Extends Department of Veterans Affairs programs of: (1) respite care for certain veterans; (2) community-based residential care for homeless, chronically mentally ill veterans; (3) State home construction grants; and (4) leave transfers for certain health-care professionals. Extends the authorization to collect the Department's home-loan fees.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers to retain a portion of the amounts collected from third parties as reimbursement for the cost of health care and services furnished by such medical centers.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1989

Requires that the amount equal to one-third of the total amount collected or recovered in a fiscal year as reimbursement from third parties for care and services furnished by a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center be credited to the Department appropriation account for medical care and be available to such medical center for the provision of direct patient care.

A bill to add approximately 500 miles to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for construction of an interstate route to connect Memphis, Tennessee, with Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1989

Authorizes additional mileage for construction of an interstate route to connect interstate route I-40 in Memphis, Tennessee with interstate route I-24 near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and I-75 between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to authorize the use of funds under such Act for construction of such interstate route.

To add approximately 500 miles to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for construction of an interstate route to connect Memphis, Tennessee with Huntsville, Alabama and with Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1989

Authorizes additional mileage for construction of an interstate route to connect interstate route I-40 in Memphis, Tennessee, with Huntsville, Alabama, and with route I-24 near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and I-75 between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to authorize the use of funds under such Act for construction of such interstate route.

To reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, the Federal Crime Insurance Program, and the Defense Production Act of 1950, to extend certain housing programs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1989

Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program through FY 1991. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to update flood-risk zone data through FY 1991. Requires the Director to report to private insurance companies as well as to the Congress on the National Flood Insurance Program. Prohibits the Director from implementing the program until nine months after submission of the report unless it would be impossible to continue to carry out the program operations effectively. Authorizes appropriations for specified studies. Requires the Director to conduct a study to determine the impact of relative sea level rise on the flood insurance rate maps and economic losses associated with estimated sea level rise. Requires the Director to report the results of the study to the Congress. Amends the National Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to reauthorize the Federal Crime Insurance Program through FY 1991. Provides for continuation of existing contracts through FY 1992. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend specified rural housing assistance authorities through FY 1990. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to extend the emergency homeownership counseling program through FY 1990. Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend its programs through August 10, 1990. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990.

Designating March 3, 1990, as "United States Naval Reserve Day".

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1989

Designates March 3, 1990, as United States Naval Reserve Day in recognition of the Reserve's 75th anniversary.

Department of Defense Contractual Equity Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1989

Department of Defense Contractual Equity Act - Requires any Department of Defense contract for supplies or services, or for the construction or alteration of facilities owned or leased by the United States, to prohibit the contractor from entering into an arrangement with a labor union which requires that: (1) subcontractors who employ nonunion members shall be denied the right to work under such contract; (2) membership in such union is a condition of employment under any subcontract; (3) subcontractors must hire as their exclusive source of labor only persons belonging to such union; or (4) individuals not affiliated with such union shall be required to pay fees.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding requirements for the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Bases.

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1989

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should require the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Bases: (1) to submit by November 1, 1989, a list of military installations in the United States that possess the potential for use as prison facilities; (2) to actively assist States and localities with logistical and financial guidance on the utilization of military bases as prison facilities; and (3) to work with the Department of Defense, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the General Services Administration, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to assist States and localities in obtaining Federal land and facilities for use as prison facilities.

An original bill to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989

Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend the expiration date of such Act to September 30, 1990, from September 30, 1989. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for the purchase of metals, minerals, and other materials for Government use or resale. Limits the aggregate amount of certain loans, guarantees, and purchase agreements under the Act during FY 1990.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve procedural rights of persons whose claims for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs are denied in whole or in part.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989

Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in any case in which there has been either a disallowance of a veterans benefits claim or a partially awarded claim, to provide to the claimant a written statement setting forth notice of procedural rights of the claimant and the rationale for the disallowance. Requires that such statement: (1) be provided at each procedural stage relating to the disposition of a claim; (2) include a summary of the evidence supporting the disallowance or the partial award; (3) be in such forms as the Secretary prescribes by regulation; (4) include a description of each subsequent procedural stage before the Department of Veterans Affairs; (5) include a description of all rights of the claimant expressly provided for in the veterans' benefits code, the claimant's right to a hearing, to reconsideration, to appeal, and to representation, and any specific procedures necessary to obtain the various forms of review available for consideration of the claim; and (6) include such other information as the Secretary determines would be useful and practical to assist the claimant in obtaining full consideration of the claim. Adds parallel requirements with respect to the Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals.

A bill to establish a congressional commemorative medal for members of the Armed Forces who were present during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989

Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to present a bronze medal to individuals who: (1) were members of the armed forces and were present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941; and (2) participated in combat operations that day against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medals. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of the proceeds from sales of the medals.

A joint resolution designating October 28, 1989, as "National Women Veterans of World War II Day".

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989

Designates October 28, 1989, as National Women Veterans of World War II Day.

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1990, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989

Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1990 for programs, projects, or activities provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (2) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990; (3) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990; (5) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (6) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (7) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990; (8) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (9) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (10) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1990; and (11) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to initiate or resume any activity for which funds were not available during FY 1989. Provides for the continuation of projects or activities when the House of Representatives and the Senate differ in amounts or authority. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the Defense Department for new production of items not funded in FY 1989 or previous years, to increase production rates beyond those sustained with FY 1989 funds, for other specified activities not funded or authorized in FY 1989, or to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated subsequently. Makes appropriations as necessary for projects or activities under the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1990, as provided for in a specified conference report. Makes funds available under this Act until the earliest of: (1) October 25, 1989; (2) enactment of an appropriation for any activity or project provided for in this Act; or (3) enactment of the applicable appropriations without any provision for such activity or project.

David Jameison Smith, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Chief Negotiator for Defense and Space.

United States · United States Senate · 22 September 1989

To provide that $10,000,000 of the amount appropriated for fiscal year 1990 for drug interdiction activities of the National Guard shall be available only for drug interdiction activities of the California National Guard.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1989

Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that, of the amount appropriated in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990 for drug interdiction activities of the Department, $10,000,000 shall be available only for drug interdiction activities of the California National Guard.

An original bill to amend title 38, United States Code, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 regarding the use of Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration data for income verification for purposes of laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1989

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit disclosure to the Department of Veterans Affairs (Department) of income-related tax return information for the purpose of determining eligibility for specified veterans' pension and benefit programs. Amends Federal law to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from using this tax return information to terminate, deny, suspend, or reduce a person's benefits or services without first: (1) taking appropriate steps to verify independently the amount and accessibility of the income in question; and (2) providing the affected individual with notice and an opportunity to respond to the findings. Restricts the Secretary's right to verify or act upon information relating to disability compensation. Directs the Secretary to notify applicants for, and recipients of, Department benefits that income information they provide may be compared with tax return data.

Defense Production Act Amendment of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989

Defense Production Act Amendment of 1989 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend the expiration date of such Act to June 30, 1990, from September 30, 1989.

To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to require certain Department of Energy contractors to provide protection to their employees against reprisal for disclosure to an appropriate Government official of information which the employee reasonably believes evidences misconduct in carrying out contracts relating to atomic energy defense activities.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989

Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to promulgate regulations prohibiting a Department of Energy contractor from implementing reprisals against any employee because the employee disclosed to an appropriate Federal official that the employer's Federal contract evidences violations or misconduct regarding atomic energy defense activities.

To require the Secretary of Energy to give States the authority to monitor environmental compliance at certain Department of Energy nuclear facilities.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989

Requires the Secretary of Energy to grant authority to each State in which a nuclear facility of the Department of Energy weapons complex is located to have access to facility records and buildings without prior announcement and to continually monitor air and water emissions from such facility. Provides that: (1) such authority shall be provided under, and subject to, terms negotiated in an agreement between the Governor of the State and the Secretary; and (2) any such agreement shall require that each person who carries out activities authorized under this Act shall have an appropriate security clearance.

To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to award a Purple Heart posthumously to Salvatore Esposito.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989

Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award a Purple Heart posthumously to Salvatore Esposito in recognition of his injuries sustained during World War II.

To amend title 10, United States Code, and the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to provide authorization for the officer of the Department of Defense designated by the Secretary of Defense as a member of the Board of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate individuals for appointment to the United States service academies.

United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1989

Allows an officer of the Department of Defense designated by the Secretary of Defense as a member of the Board of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate one cadet to each of the three U.S. service academies. (Current law provides for the Commission's Administrator to make the nominations.) Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to include a parallel provision with respect to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Limits those eligible for nomination to the Academy to children of civilian personnel of the U.S. Government residing in Panama who are U.S. citizens.

Duane Perry Andrews, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Gordon A. Smith, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 8 September 1989

Christopher Jehn, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Grant S. Green, Jr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 6 September 1989

James R. Locher, III, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Charles S. Whitehouse, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 6 September 1989

Robert Clifton Duncan, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense, vice John E. Krings, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 4 August 1989

The following-named persons to be Members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for the terms indicated: (New Positions) For a term of one year: Edson G. Case, of Maryland. For a term of two years: John W. Crawford, Jr., of Maryland. For a term of three years: Herbert Kouts, of New York. For a term of four years: A. J. Eggenberger, of Montana. For a term of five years: John T. Conway, of New York.

United States · United States Senate · 4 August 1989

A joint resolution designating April 9, 1990 as "National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day".

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989

Designates April 9, 1990, as National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.

Veterans Health Professionals Educational Amendments of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989

Veterans Health Professionals Educational Amendments of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to institute a Reserve member stipend program under the Armed Forces Educational Assistance Program. Requires an individual, in order to be eligible for such assistance, to be accepted or enrolled as a full-time student at a qualifying educational institution in a course of education or training approved by the Secretary and that leads toward completion of a degree in a health profession involving direct patient care or care incident to such direct patient care. Prohibits the Secretary from approving the application of an individual applying for such assistance unless the individual is entitled to benefits under the Reserve GI Bill program and the individual achieved a certain qualifying score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test. Authorizes the Secretary to pay a qualifying individual $400 monthly under such program. Requires a period of obligated service as a full-time employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs from a participating individual in return for such assistance. Makes such an individual liable to the United States for failure to serve in the Department at a health-care facility for the agreed upon period. Increases the reserve member stipend amount whenever there is a general Federal pay increase.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the circumstances under which a member of the Armed Forces is eligible to receive the prisoner-of-war medal and to amend title 5, United States Code, to establish a prisoner-of-war medal for civilian employees of the Federal Government who are forcibly detained or interned by an enemy government or a hostile force under wartime conditions.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989

Authorizes the awarding of a prisoner-of-war medal to a member of the armed forces who was taken prisoner and held captive while engaged in the performance of official duties or because the person is a member of the armed forces or serving with the armed forces. Directs the President to issue a prisoner-of-war medal to a Federal official or employee who is forcibly detained or interned: (1) by a foreign government, agents of such government, or other hostile force during a period of war or as a result of hostile actions directed against the United States; and (2) while the person is engaged in the performance of official duties or because the person is an officer or employee of the United States. Provides exceptions. Sets forth limits for the awarding of such medals and conditions under which such medal will be awarded posthumously. Provides for replacement for lost or destroyed medals.

Childless Veterans Adoption Assistance Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989

Childless Veterans Adoption Assistance Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse an eligible veteran for qualifying adoption expenses. Prohibits the Secretary from providing such reimbursement for qualifying adoption expenses: (1) that are paid to such veteran under any other adoption benefits program administered by the Federal, State, or local government; or (2) in an amount greater than $2,000 per child or $4,000 per family. Defines "eligible veteran" as a married veteran with a service-connected disability which prevents or impairs the ability of the veteran and his or her spouse to conceive a child. Defines "qualifying adoption expenses" as reasonable and necessary expenses that are directly related to the legal adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Prohibits qualifying adoption expenses from including expenses incurred for any travel performed outside the United States, except under limited circumstances. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on findings and recommendations concerning such adoption expenses reimbursement program.

Acknowledging the sacrifices that military families have made on behalf of the Nation and designating November 20, 1989, as "National Military Families Recognition Day".

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1989

Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 20, 1989, as National Military Families Recognition Day.

Waiving certain points of order against consideration of the bill (H.R. 3072) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1989

Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 3072 (armed forces appropriations).

Terrence O'Donnell, of the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, vice Kathleen A. Buck, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 1 August 1989

An original bill to provide for certain Department of Defense personnel management initiatives.

United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1989

Directs the Secretary of Defense and, with respect to the Department of Energy's national security programs, the Secretary of Energy to develop and implement personnel demonstration programs. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide for the development and testing of an alternative employee compensation system in each demonstration program and to consider such options as: (1) annual pay adjustments that result in comparability between the total value of pay and benefits for Government service and that provided by individuals employed outside the Government for comparable work; (2) such adjustments that result in the payment of rates of basic pay consistent with that payable to individuals employed outside the Government within the same geographic region for comparable levels of work; (3) the establishment of conditions of employment through collective bargaining; and (4) special cash awards, lump-sum payments, pay increases, or nonmonetary recognition. Sets forth: (1) guidelines with respect to collective bargaining systems; (2) limitations relating to rates of basic pay and program cost; and (3) requirements for the number of program participants. Requires the Secretary concerned, prior to implementation of such demonstration programs, to develop and submit to the Comptroller General a plan to provide for program evaluation and to specify the number of employee positions covered by the program. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to plan development, the duties of the Secretary to notify the Congress and affected employees of plan implementation, and the responsibilities of the Comptroller General of the United States to review and report to specified congressional committees on plan implementation. Subjects implementation of such program to approval by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Provides for the termination of such programs not later than seven years after implementation. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to prescribe the rate of pay for a position which he designates as a critical position. Limits such rate to the rate provided for a comparable position in a Federally Funded Research and Development Center and to a rate not exceeding 150 percent of the rate applicable to executive level II under the Executive Schedule. Requires the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing discussions of future employment opportunities of Department of Defense (DOD) employees. Allows a covered acquisition official who contacts, or is contacted by, a covered contractor regarding future employment opportunities to continue to engage in such discussions if the official: (1) promptly reports the initial contact to his supervisor and to the designated agency ethics officials of the agency; and (2) disqualifies himself from all participation in the performance of procurement functions relating to such contracts for any period during which future employment opportunities for such official have been rejected by either the acquisition official or the contractor. Establishes procedures by which an employee or former DOD employee may request advice from the appropriate designated agency ethics official as to whether such employee or former employee participated personally and substantially in the conduct of any DOD procurement or otherwise personally reviewed and approved the award, modification, or extension of any contract in a manner that would preclude such individual from accepting employment from, or participating in the performance of a contract on behalf of, a covered contractor. Provides for the waiver of dual compensation provisions for up to 1,000 designated critical positions. Urges the Secretary of Defense to promote an increase in the number of U.S. citizens and nationals who pursue courses of study in science, engineering, and other technical disciplines. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to award National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowships for graduate students in science, engineering, or other fields designated to be of priority interest to DOD. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991.

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990

United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1989

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1990 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1990 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force (including a transfer of funds), and the defense agencies, including their respective reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration (including a transfer of funds), support and personnel services for the Goodwill Games, and for humanitarian assistance. Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1990 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition, and for other procurement. Appropriates funds to the Navy for procurement of aircraft and weapons, for shipbuilding and conversion , and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) National Guard and Reserve equipment; (2) procurement by the defense agencies; (3) Defense Production Act purchases (including a transfer of funds); and (4) the augmentation of space and related activities, defense. Title IV: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1990 for research, development, test, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Developmental Test and Evaluation, and the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for the armed forces and defense stock funds. Title VI: Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense - Appropriates funds for the destruction of the U.S. stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. Title VII: Office of the Inspector General - Appropriates funds to carry out provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) the Intelligence Community Staff; (3) the Mildred and Claude Pepper Foundation; and (4) drug interdiction, defense. Title IX: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the military departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Department of Defense (DOD) from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of DOD to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act may remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided. Prohibits the use of appropriations for proficiency flying. Prohibits the obligation of more than 20 percent of funds appropriated by this Act during the last two months of the fiscal year, except as specified. Permits DOD and defense agencies to accept the use of real property and services from foreign countries in accordance with mutual defense agreements or occupational arrangements or as reciprocal international courtesies. Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the properties and services received. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the procurement of any food, clothing, specified cloth (including cotton, silk, and wool) or synthetic fabrics, or specified metals not grown, produced, or processed within the United States, with specified exceptions. Permits the use of appropriations for uniforms or uniform allowances for civilian employees. Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest and with the approval of OMB, to transfer and merge specified working capital funds. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of all transfers. Limits the cash balances which may be maintained in such funds. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) the purchase of coal or coke from foreign nations for use at U.S. defense facilities when U.S. coal is available; (2) heating plant fuel conversion at defense facilities in Europe; (3) the initiation of a special access program without prior notification to the Appropriations and Armed Services Committees; (4) the preparation of a request to the Appropriations Committees for reprogramming of funds, except as specified; (5) certain claims for physicians or provider reimbursement for medical services provided under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); (6) planning or executing programs which utilize funds credited to DOD as payment for defense articles under provisions of the Arms Export Control Act; (7) programs of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) beyond FY 1991, with specified exceptions; and (8) recreational activities. Permits the Secretary to contract with collection agencies to recover indebtedness owed to the United States. Prohibits the use of appropriations for: (1) nonreimbursed medical care in the United States furnished to foreign military diplomatic personnel or their dependents; (2) certain multiyear contracts utilizing economic order quantity procurement or unfunded contingent liabilities in excess of a specified amount. Specifies defense articles which may be procured under multiyear procurement contracts using FY 1990 appropriations. Prohibits the use of appropriations for: (1) unjustified intelligence activity, unless the Appropriations Committees are notified; and (2) converting certain military technician positions to positions to be held by persons in active Guard or Reserve status if such conversions would reduce the number of military technicians below a specified amount. Eliminates during FY 1990 the requirement that the Congress must authorize by law the end-strengths for civilian personnel in DOD. Prohibits setting any end-strength limitations for such personnel during FY 1990. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) leasing DOD aircraft or vehicles to non-Federal agencies when commercial alternatives are available; (2) congressional lobbying; (3) the pay of certain nonmilitary Army Reserve technicians; (4) purchasing dogs or cats to study the medical treatment of wounds; and (5) the floating storage of petroleum in non-U.S. vessels. Permits the use of funds for removing feral burros and horses. Permits the appropriation of funds for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incident to authorized operations of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force to retain in active status certain officers who need such status in order to maintain employment as a National Guard or Reserve technician. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to make contributions to the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund for educational assistance for a member of the armed services who receives an enlistment bonus. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the basic pay and allowances of a member of the Army participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs when time spent as a full-time student is credited toward completion of a service commitment. Limits the availability of appropriations for postsecondary educational costs for off-duty training of military personnel to specified percentages of such costs. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for conversion to contractor performance of an activity or function of DOD that is currently performed by more than ten DOD civilian employees until a cost analysis on such performance is completed and certified to the Appropriations Committee. Prohibits the use of funds for the procurement of 120mm mortars or ammunition for such mortars if manufactured outside the United States. Permits the use of DOD funds at sites formerly used by DOD for removal of unsafe buildings or debris, under certain conditions. Prohibits the use of Army appropriations for depot maintenance of equipment unless the civilian personnel strengths at Army depots performing communications-electronics depot maintenance are greater than the strengths assigned those depots on September 30, 1985, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the acquisition of major automated information systems which have not successfully completed specified oversight reviews. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the payment of salaries of any persons who authorize the transfer of unobligated and deobligated funds into the Reserve for Contingencies of the CIA. Requires funds appropriated under this Act for CIA construction projects to remain available until expended. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to use specified funds to charter ships for use as auxiliary minesweepers, under specified conditions. Limits the amount of funds available from this Act for the execution of a contract for the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative. Permits the use of appropriated funds to fully utilize the facilities at the U.S. Army Engineer's Waterways Experiment Station, with a specified exception. Defines the phrase "program, project, and activity" for appropriations contained in this Act for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Earmarks specified funds appropriated to the Army under this Act for the Reserve Component Automation System (RCAS), with certain limitations on the expenditure of such earmarked funds. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) the procurement of Tactical Army Combat Service Support Computer Systems, unless a certain condition is met; (2) the procurement of mini- and micro-computers for the Army Reserve component, until the RCAS contract is awarded; and (3) fixed-price contracts exceeding $10,000,000 for the development of a major system or subsystem, unless the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and the Secretary of Defense take certain action. Provides that monetary limitations on the purchase price of passenger motor vehicles shall not apply to vehicles purchased for certain intelligence activities. Earmarks specified funds for the construction of classified military projects within the continental United States. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the procurement of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chains manufactured outside the United States. Authorizes DOD to transfer prior-year unobligated balances to the operation and maintenance appropriations of the reserve components in order to provide military technician pay the same exemption from the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act as is currently granted to other military personnel accounts, with specified exceptions. Prohibits any funds available to the Department of the Navy from being used to enter into any contract for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of any naval vessel on the west coast which includes interport differential charges as a factor for the award of such contract. Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being obligated or expended for the procurement of certain remote sensing data except by the Defense Mapping Agency. Requires the designs of specified military aircraft to incorporate certain standard avionics specifications no later than 1998. Requires FY 1990 pay raises to be absorbed within levels appropriated in this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to require that providers of services under CHAMPUS also provide services to active military members in accordance with the same reimbursement rules as apply under CHAMPUS. Authorizes the Secretary to make specified funds available to the Coast Guard to be used for operational support, exclusive of administrative costs. Transfers specified funds from working capital to the operations and maintenance appropriations contained in this Act to be merged with and be available for the same purposes and time period as the appropriations to which transferred. Directs the Secretary to ensure that at least 50 percent of the polyacrylonitrile carbon fiber requirement be procured from domestic sources by 1992. Provides for the accounting treatment of expenses incurred by the United States in monitoring Soviet implementation of the INF Treaty. Requires DOD to exclude from diagnosis-related groups regulations: (1) inpatient hospital services in a hospital whose patients are predominately under 18 years old; and (2) certain discharges involving children and newborn infants. Reduces the total amount appropriated to DOD by this Act to reflect savings resulting from the decreased use of consulting services by DOD. Provides funds from this Act for transportation for the next-of-kin of individuals who have been prisoners of war or missing in action from the Vietnam era to an annual meeting in the United States. Requires limited funds to be available to the Air Force to execute the cleanup of uncontrolled hazardous waste contamination at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. Prohibits the expenditure of such funds until DOD and the General Services Administration reach an agreement with the purchaser of the landfill at such site regarding the cleanup of such landfill. Requires such agreement to allow the purchaser to withdraw from the sales contract under certain conditions. Provides other terms and conditions for such landfill cleanup action, including reimbursement for the costs of such cleanup. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being available for: (1) conducting an environmental impact study on the feasibility of purchasing acreage in Georgia for the proposed Southeast Weapons Range; (2) establishing or operating certain placement billets or functions at the Naval Military Personnel Command headquarters or transferring certain personnel from the Naval Reserve Personnel Center and the Enlisted Personnel Management Center; or (3) offshore procurement of second or third generation night vision image intensifier tubes and devices. Prohibits DOD from carrying out a certain laser transmitter test against an object in space unless such testing is specifically authorized and appropriated by law. Prohibits Air Force funds in this Act from being available for the B-1B's ALQ-161A CORE programs unless approved in advance by the defense committees. Prohibits funds from this Act from being available for the procurement of multibeam sonar mapping systems which are not manufactured in the United States. Limits the amount authorized to be expended during FY 1990 from this or any prior DOD appropriations Act. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to ensure compliance with such limitation. Prohibits the reduction of funds for programs and projects which are designated or identified as congressional interest items. Waives the application of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 with respect to such limitation. Allows certain payments required to be made by DOD to business concerns during October 1990 to be delayed until October 31, 1990, in order to aid in reaching the required spending limitation. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the implementation of such limitation and actions taken to achieve such limitation. Directs the Secretary of the Army to release to the State of Minnesota all reversionary interest to a certain parcel of land in such State in exchange for a donation of equal acreage to the United States for Army use. Extends through FY 1990 a prior appropriation for shipbuilding and conversion for the Navy. Requires the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1990, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior wild horses and burros removed from the White Sands Missile Range. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to treat all animals so removed as excess animals removed under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.

An original bill relating the security relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea.

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should reassess the missions, force structure, and locations of its military forces in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and East Asia; (2) South Korea should assume increased responsibility for its own security; (3) South Korea should offset more of the direct costs incurred by the United States in deploying military forces for the defense of South Korea; and (4) the United States and South Korea should consult on the feasibility and desirability of partial, gradual reductions of U.S. military forces in South Korea. Directs the President to submit to the Congress specified reports on the status and results of such consultations. Requires the President to submit to specified congressional committees a report on the U.S. military presence in South Korea and East Asia, including: (1) a strategic plan relating to the continued U.S. presence in such areas; and (2) a five-year plan with respect to the U.S. military presence in South Korea.

An original bill relating to Japan's contributions to security.

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Expresses the sense of the Congress that Japan should: (1) assume increased responsibility for its own security; (2) offset the direct costs incurred by the United States in deploying military forces for the defense of Japan; and (3) assume a more significant security role consistent with its economic status by taking certain steps, including increasing expenditures for its Official Development Assistance (ODA) and defense programs devoting any increase in its spending for such ODA program primarily to the Philippines and to countries in regions of importance to global stability outside of East Asia, completing its five-year defense program for FY 1986 through 1990 and fulfilling Prime Minister Suzuki's pledge to defend the territory, airspace, and sea lanes of Japan to a distance of 1,000 miles, and acquiring "off-the shelf" military equipment from the United States. Requires the President to: (1) enter into negotiations with Japan to achieve an agreement under which Japan would make contributions sufficient to meet the direct cost of deploying U.S. forces for the defense of Japan; and (2) report to the Congress on the status and results of such negotiations.

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Title I: Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1989 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1985-1988 military construction projects. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title II: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1989 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized under such Act for the construction of a community support center at the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds paid to the United States in settlement of certain litigation proceedings solely for the construction of military family housing at such Air Station. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title III: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1989 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1986-1988 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the Douglas School District, South Dakota, for the construction of a school at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1990 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1989 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a military construction projects for the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia, under certain conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for the construction of a certain medical facility at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Extends certain FY 1987 and 1988 military construction projects. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1989 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1989 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1991, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 1992, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to provide that a contract assuring the occupancy of rental housing owned by DOD may: (1) provide that utilities, trash collection, snow removal, and entomological services will be furnished by the Government to the same extent that such services are provided to other occupants of government-owned housing; and (2) require that rent collection and the operation and maintenance of the housing be accomplished through the use of separate agreements or the use of Government personnel. Increases the leasing and the high-cost threshold amounts for military family housing as contained in Federal armed forces law. Adds potable waste water treatment services to the authorized uses of long-term defense facilities contracts. Extends through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary concerned to enter into all such contracts. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units for three units for each military department if done to make the unit suitable for habitation by a handicapped person. Places a maximum improvement-cost limitation on any such unit. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Navy and the Air Force to enter into contracts for a specified increased number of leased family housing units. Authorizes the use of such contracts through FY 1991. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use one-step turn-key selection procedures to enter into contracts for the construction of authorized military construction projects. (Currently, the Secretaries may use such procedures only with the approval of the Secretary of Defense.) Authorizes the use of such procedures through FY 1991. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authorized cost variations for a military construction project or for the construction, improvement, or acquisition of a military family housing project. Provides that certain defense contract limitations shall not apply to the acquisition of military construction projects or family housing projects obtained through governments of NATO subsidiary bodies for elements of the armed forces deployed in Europe and adjacent waters. Increases the amount authorized to be expended for minor military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a lease for a facility on or near a military installation for the provision of the following activities or services: (1) administrative office space; (2) troop housing; (3) energy production facilities; (4) potable and waste water treatment facilities; (5) hospital and medical facilities; (6) transient quarters; and (7) depot or storage facilities. Outlines lease provisions and conditions, including a congressional notice requirement. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer certain funds to the Homeowners Assistance Fund, Defense, as determined necessary to extend homeowners assistance benefits to eligible homeowners. Part B: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey all right, title, and interest to a parcel of real property located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, comprising the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Pittsburgh, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1988 and 1989 to revise provisions concerning the sale of land and replacement of facilities at the Kapalama Military Reservation, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States to certain land near Fort Knox, Kentucky, using competitive bidding procedures. Directs the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for the construction of additional family housing units at Fort Knox. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) sell and convey all right, title, and interest of the United States to specified real property comprising the Public Works Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, and (2) use the proceeds from such sale to construct additional military family housing units at the Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Directs the Secretary of the Army to modify the reversionary interest of the United States in specified real property conveyed to the Port of Benton, Washington, to permit a donation of real property to Washington State University for the establishment of a university branch on the donated land, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Hudson County, New Jersey, all right, title, and interest of the United States to a portion of the Naval Reserve Center, Kearney, New Jersey, in order to provide additional motor vehicle parking facilities for such Center. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey a portion of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, known as the Engineering Proving Ground to any grantee for the construction of such facilities and improvements as may be specified by the Secretary under an agreement concerning such conveyance. Requires the Secretary to submit any such agreement to the defense committees and wait 21 days before taking any action under such agreement. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the State of Georgia all right, title, and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Fort Gillem, Georgia, for use by the State for the administration of the Georgia Department of Defense, the Georgia National Guard, and other military activities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the State of Hawaii all right, title, and interest of the United States to certain real property located on Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, under specified terms and conditions. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Transfers to the Secretary of Defense jurisdiction, custody, and control of the operation and maintenance of the Pentagon office building and its related facilities with parking grounds (known as the Pentagon Reservation). Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel or contract employees to perform law enforcement and security functions for the Reservation. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations to ensure the safe, efficient, and secure operation of the Reservation. Provides fines and penalties for violations of such rules and regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with public or private entities willing to match Federal funds or efforts to maintain and improve natural resources or to benefit natural and historic research on DOD installations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to: (1) design and construct a multipurpose facility at Henderson Hall, Arlington, Virginia; (2) accept from the Navy Mutual Aid Association reimbursement for all costs of the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of such facility; and (3) lease to the Association at no cost approximately one-third of the square footage of the facility to be constructed. Outlines terms and conditions to such lease. Transfers from the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary of Energy jurisdiction and control of certain real property at Sandia, New Mexico, for use by the Department of Energy in providing a location for the Center for National Security and Arms Control. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse specified amounts to the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District, Lake Charles, Louisiana, for certain costs associated with the closing of a naval homeporting base at Lake Charles. Requires the Secretary to convey to such District the land constituting the proposed Lake Charles Navy Homeport, Louisiana.

Department of Energy National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act of 1989

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1990 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) new production reactors; (7) naval reactors development; and (8) capital equipment not related to construction. Places special funding limitations for DOE for FY 1990 on the following programs and projects: (1) SDI; (2) inertial confinement fusion; (3) special isotope separation; and (4) Lance Warhead follow-on. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified FY 1990 DOD research and development funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Defense Energy Technology Transfer - Directs the Secretary of Energy to ensure: (1) that by means of appropriate transfers of federally owned or originated technology to the public or private sectors the investment of research and development funds in the military application of atomic energy results in the development of civilian applications for, and commercialization of, advanced technologies; and (2) that such transfers do not interfere with the national security mission of DOE. Provides that, whenever in the course of a Government contract or subcontract entered into in connection with a DOE nuclear defense research program a contractor makes an invention or discovery which would normally vest as a property right of the United States, such contractor may submit a request to the Secretary of Energy for a waiver of any or all of such property right of the Government in such invention or discovery. Provides that, in the case of a granted waiver, all rights of the United States not reserved by the Secretary shall vest in the contractor. Authorizes the Secretary to deny the request for a waiver if the Secretary determines that such invention or discovery: (1) is covered by a provision of a funding agreement; (2) has been designated as sensitive technical information under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; or (3) is in the best interest of the United States to retain. Requires the Secretary to notify the contractor of such a denial in a timely manner. Outlines other matters to be considered by the Secretary in determining whether or not to grant or deny such a waiver request. Requires each DOE contract for the management and operation of a defense programs national laboratory to include a provision which authorizes the manager or operator of the laboratory to negotiate any cooperative research and development agreement with: (1) any other Federal department or agency; (2) any unit of State or local government; (3) any industrial organization; (4) any public or private foundation; (5) any institution of higher education or any other nonprofit organization; (6) any licensee of an invention or computer software owned by the laboratory manager or operator; and (7) any other person or entity. Outlines provisions authorized to be included in such cooperative research and development agreements. Provides that such agreement may not take effect unless the Secretary approves it or fails to take any action which indicates disapproval of such agreement. Requires the laboratory manager or operator to submit such agreement to the Secretary for approval or disapproval. Allows the Secretary 30 days to disapprove such an agreement. Requires written notice to the laboratory manager or operator of disapproval. Requires agreements between related persons or entities to be specifically approved by the Secretary before taking effect. Outlines factors to be considered by the Secretary in determining whether to approve, disapprove, or require the modification of a proposed cooperative research and development agreement. Outlines the effect of other laws on a specifically-approved agreement. Limits to ten percent of the revenue provided for in an annual budget of a defense programs national laboratory the amount which may be derived from nonappropriated funds pursuant to cooperative research and development agreements. Requires each DOE contract for the management or operation of a defense programs national laboratory to specify that: (1) any royalties or other income earned by the manager or operator of such laboratory from the licensing or assignment of intellectual property rights in any invention made in the course of a cooperative research and development agreement shall be used in the same manner as income under Federal funding agreements; (2) any such royalties obtained in like manner from the licensing or assignment of intellectual property rights in any computer software or other technical data made in the course of such an agreement shall also be used in the same manner as income under Federal funding agreements; and (3) the costs of obtaining, protecting, and licensing intellectual property rights in inventions, computer software, or other technical data made in the course of such an agreement shall be allowable costs under contracts for the management and operation of such a laboratory. Outlines additional intellectual property rights matters in relation to such agreements. Exempts the United States and any laboratory manager or operator from liability for damages resulting from the use of a product that is related to any invention, discovery, software, or other data in which the United States or such manager or operator has an intellectual property interest reserved or acquired pursuant to this Act. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act and to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees if regulations are not issued within 180 days after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to modify existing contracts with laboratory managers and operators in order to incorporate the changes made under this Act. Repeals a provision of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1987 relating to the protection of sensitive technical information in DOE inventions or discoveries (superseded by this Act). Part D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to require the Secretaries of Energy and Defense to jointly report to the Congress concerning the production of the 155-millimeter artillery-fired automatic projectile. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to designate not more than 25 positions in DOE as critical positions. Terminates such designation authority three years after enactment of this Act. Outlines provisions concerning the rates of pay for positions designated as critical. Authorizes the Secretary to designate not more 250 positions in DOE as special scientific, engineering, and managerial positions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to provide equal participation of the Secretary of Defense with the Secretary in the nuclear test ban readiness program outlined under such Act. Directs the Secretary of Energy to make necessary payments, and earmarks funds, for a Rocky Flats, Colorado, decontamination and cleanup agreement entered into between DOE and the State of Colorado. Title II: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title III: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the President to make specified changes in quantities of materials to be acquired for the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) as provided under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Authorizes the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to use specified amounts from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund for the purpose of stockpile acquisitions. Authorizes the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to dispose of specified materials in the NDS that have been determined to be excess to the current requirements of the stockpile. Title IV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for: (1) procurement for the defense agencies; and (2) the chemical demilitarization program. Specifies weapons programs for which the Secretary of the military department concerned may and may not use funds appropriated for FY 1990 and 1991 to enter into multiyear procurement contracts for specified defense procurement programs. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to reduce or increase various defense procurement program authorizations under such Act. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Places funding restrictions or limitations on the following programs: (1) the M-1 tank; (2) ten-ton trucks; and (3) procurement of V-22 aircraft. Part C: Strategic Program Test and Reporting Requirements - Earmarks specified FY 1990 funds for the procurement of missiles for the Trident II missile program. Directs the Secretary of Defense, during FY 1990 and 1991, to develop a program and plan for a defense avionics test and evaluation program in connection with the proposed modifications of the B-1B aircraft. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) concerning such plan. Outlines provisions relating to the availability of funds for modifications to such aircraft and requirements for bimonthly status reports on such aircraft and an independent assessment of the capabilities of such aircraft by a panel of experts appoined by the Secretary. Outlines certain flight test and other requirements to be satisfied before such funding is authorized for the B-2 bomber program, including an assessment of such aircraft by the Low-Observables Panel of the Defense Science Board. Requires the Secretary to certify annually to the Congress that the cost of such bomber program does not exceed specified amounts. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the correction of deficiencies clauses in B-2 aircraft procurement contracts. Sets forth certain testing and certification requirements to be satisfied before funding will be authorized in FY 1990 for the procurement of advanced cruise missiles. Part D: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs, with specified exceptions: (1) the F-14 aircraft, after FY 1989; (2) the AH-64 helicopter, after FY 1991; (3) the AHIP Scout helicopter, after FY 1989; (4) the F-15E aircraft, after October 1, 1991; and (5) the M88A2 recovery vehicle, after FY 1989. Part E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals the procurement requirement and limitation of funds for the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to report to specified congressional committees on current and projected Navy aircraft requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into contracts with U.S. citizens which allow such citizens to include or incorporate in their aircraft defense features which will ensure the interoperability of such aircraft with the Department of Defense (DOD) airlift system. Outlines contract terms and conditions. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations and Funding for Specific Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D funds) for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified R&D funds for research and development under the Balanced Technology Initiative program. Outlines administrative provisions concerning such funds. Requires the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees specified information concerning the Initiative. Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out advanced research projects through the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions with any Federal, State, local, educational, or other entity. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on any such agreements entered into during the prior fiscal year. Provides FY 1990 and 1991 funding for such cooperative agreements program. Authorizes the Secretary to use procedures other than competitive procedures in awarding grants to colleges and universities for the conduct of research and development. Requires the Secretary to report semiannually to the defense committees on the use of competitive procedures for R&D contracts with colleges and universities. Earmarks specified R&D funds for: (1) the integrated electric drive program; (2) the fast sealift technology development program; (3) the tactical oceanography program; (4) biodegradable materials research; and (5) the chemical weapons monitoring program. Prohibits any such funding from being used for Navy ship design. Increases by six months the time in which the Secretary must select a heavy truck system configured with a palletized loading system. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Specifies an amount to be used solely in connection with the construction of the National Test Bed project. Requires the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees on the allocation of funds appropriated for SDI for FY 1990. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports to the Congress on the programs and projects that constitute SDI and on any other program or project relating to defense against ballistic missiles. Places specified limitations on the development and testing of anti-ballistic missile systems or components. Earmarks specified FY 1990 and 1991 R&D funds for support of the medical free electron laser program. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency, to report to the Congress on the asymmetry in U.S. and Soviet near-term capabilities to deploy anti-ballistic missile defenses beyond those permitted under the 1972 ABM Treaty. Part D: Strategic Programs - Earmarks specified FY 1990 and 1991 R&D funds for the Trident II missile program. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to transfer specified R&D funds to fund priority security improvements at the Kwajalein Test Range, on Kwajalein Island. Amends the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 to restore certain reporting requirements under such Act relating to chemical and biological warfare agents. Part E: Allied Cooperative Research and Development - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into a memorandum of understanding (or other formal agreement) with one or more major allies of the United States for the purpose of conducting cooperative research and development projects on defense equipment and munitions. Outlines certain restrictions to be followed by the Secretary under such program. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to prepare a formal arms cooperation opportunities document for review by the Defense Acquisition Board at its formal meetings. Requires the Under Secretary to report to certain congressional committees describing the purpose, status, funding, and schedules of cooperative agreements carried out under this provision. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, whenever they consider it necessary, to report to certain committees enumerating those countries to be added to or deleted from the list designated as major non-NATO allies for purposes of this section. Expresses the sense of the Congress that DOD should perform more side-by-side testing of conventional defense equipment manufactured by the United States and other member nations of NATO. Authorizes the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering to acquire specified items for such testing. Requires the Deputy Director to report to certain congressional committees concerning funding and systems and munitions evaluated under such testing program. Repeals specified inconsistent provisions of prior defense authorization acts. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserves, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, the Goodwill Games (FY 1990 only), and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs and for unbudgeted increases as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for working capital funds for the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Department of Defense Base Closure Account. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, using the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Requires reports concerning the provision of such assistance. Repeals prior reporting requirements. Part B: Limitations - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 which limits the use of operation and maintenance funds for the purchase of investment items. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into a contract which would provide or permit joint use of the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, with civil aviation. Part C: Base Closure and Realignment Matters - Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Secretary and the defense committees on the methodology, findings, and recommendations of the Commission on Base Realignment and Closure. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the environmental contamination at the Jefferson Proving Ground, Indiana, resulting from activities of DOD. Part D: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements - Sets forth reporting requirements concerning: (1) military utilization of the inland navigation system; (2) long-range environmental challenges and goals of DOD; (3) the readiness of the armed forces in terms of manpower, mobility, sustainability, and equipment; and (4) the feasibility of restoring to the Secretary the responsibility for the administration of impact aid for schools affected by DOD activities. Part E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 concerning authorized uses of first-year energy cost savings from incentives implemented by DOD. Requires the amount of such energy cost savings to be determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned at the end of each of the first five years (currently, only at the end of the first year). Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to purchase a railroad structure and temporary right-of-way for rail line in Nevada for use in connection with the operation of the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, Nevada. Requires the Secretary to formulate and carry out a program to reduce the unnecessary release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons into the atmosphere in connection with maintenance operations and training and testing practices of DOD. Outlines report requirements in connection with such program. Requires the Secretary to appoint a CFC Advisory Committee to study the use of CFCs by DOD and by contractors in the performance of contracts for DOD and the cost and feasibility of using alternative compounds and technologies in lieu of CFCs. Outlines reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into a long-term lease for the provision of air transportation at Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, under specified conditions. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations For Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the number of active Army ground combat bridgades assigned to the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) before December 1, 1990. Allows Army end strengths to be increased in order to maintain such prohibition. Reduces, temporarily, the number of colonels authorized for active duty for FY 1991. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for each such fiscal year, as prescribed. Authorizes increases for each such fiscal year in the number of certain personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserve forces. Reallocates the positions of two naval reserve officers serving in medical profession capacities. Part C: Military Training - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1990 and 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Civilian Personnel - Repeals current Federal provisions concerning management constraints for DOD civilian personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to accept voluntary services from an individual for work in a natural resources program. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Matters Affecting the Reserve Components - Authorizes a person with no prior military service who is qualified for active-duty enlistment in the armed forces (regular) to be enlisted as a member of the reserves under a delayed entry program. Allows such person to be enlisted in a regular component of the armed forces within 365 days after enlistment in the reserves. Exempts members of the delayed entry program from otherwise-applicable Ready Reserve training requirements. Prohibits the period of enlisted service under the delayed entry program from being counted as part of the years of service for the computation of the basic pay of a member. Authorizes the Secretary to order a member of the Ready Reserve to muster duty one time each year without his or her consent. Authorizes a member of the Ready Reserve who is not a member of the National Guard or of the Selected Reserve to be entitled to an allowance for such muster duty if engaged in such duty for at least two hours. Repeals a provision of Federal law which allows a uniform and equipment reimbursement monthly for a reserve officer of the armed forces who has not become entitled to a uniform reimbursement or allowance as an officer for the preceding four years. Extends through FY 1992 certain expiring authorities relating to the reserves. Authorizes the payment of special pay for an enlisted member who is assigned to a high priority unit of the Selected Reserve and who performs inactive duty for training with such unit. Terminates such special assignment pay after FY 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the administration of such special pay program. Part B: Health Care Matters - Prohibits the Secretary, during FY 1990 and 1991, from charging for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military treatment facility. Revises a provision concerning the limitation on payments made to noninstitutional health-care providers by the Secretary concerned under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Authorizes the Secretary to increase the maximum amount of such payments whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services increases the amount payable to providers of services under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to require a private health-care provider which is also a health-care provider under CHAMPUS to provide such care under the same rules applicable under such program. Authorizes the provision of specialized training as another benefit under the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Allows a person participating in such specialized training, in addition to receiving a stipend under such Program, to be paid an annual grant of $15,000. Requires a pro rata refund of such grant amount from a person who voluntarily terminates the Program's specialized training. Expands the type of loans qualifying for repayment by the Secretary concerned for health professions who serve in the Selected Reserve as part of such loan repayment agreement, including any loan which was used to finance basic or advanced health professions education. Makes all members of the Ready Reserve (currently, only members of the Selected Reserve) eligible for such loan repayments and increases the yearly and total amount of such repayments. Repeals the current October 1, 1990, date for the termination of such loan repayments. Revises the deadline for the use of diagnosis-related groups for outpatient treatment. Increases from 67 to 68 the deferment age for retirement for regular commissioned officers of the armed forces. Part C: Personnel Management - States the conditions under which the President may vacate a promotion to the grade of major through general and lieutenant commander through rear admiral. Directs the Secretary to reduce by the end of FY 1992 the number of nonoperational flying duty positions in the armed forces by five percent. Prohibits any increase in the number of such positions after FY 1991. Outlines the minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions. Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a study, and report to the defense committees, on the aviator assignment policies and practices of the armed forces. Part D: Total Force Policy - Directs the Secretary to convene a study group to review the operation and soundness of the Total Force Policy (the force mix in each of the military departments) of DOD and to make recommendations for the improvement of such Policy. Requires the Secretary to report the study group's results to the defense committees. Part E: Miscellaneous - Increases the service obligations for graduates of: (1) the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and (2) the service academies. Revises the composition and term of members of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Revises provisions concerning: (1) the removal of judges from such Court; (2) incapacity of such judges; (3) service and pay of a senior judge of such Court; (4) the appointment and civil service status of legal staff of the Court; (5) retirement of judges of the Court; and (6) appellate review procedures of action taken by the Judge Advocate General under provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Directs the President to prescribe procedures for the investigation and disposition of charges, allegations, and information pertaining to the fitness of a military judge or military appellate judge to perform the duties of office. Requires such procedures to be transmitted to the defense committees. Makes permanent the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through October 1,1992, the authority for a test program for the reimbursement to members of the armed forces of qualifying adoption expenses. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to require each applicant for enlistment or appointment to undergo drug and alcohol abuse testing before becoming a member of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct the military records of promotion of enlisted members if the Secretary considers such action necessary to correct an error or injustice. Provides members of the National Guard, Reserves, retired military personnel, and civilian employees of DOD with the same relief from expenses incurred because of an error in the mandatory direct deposit of pay. Provides for the awarding of the degree of Master of Arts in Leader Development. Authorizes the Secretary to provide transportation to the next-of-kin of members of the armed forces who have been prisoners of war or missing in action as a result of service during the Vietnam era in order to attend an annual meeting of such families. Revises certain procedures regarding the solicitation and award of contracts for postsecondary education services for members of the armed forces, civilian DOD employees, or the dependents of such members and employees. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to employ civilian faculty at the United States Marine Corps University. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into contracts providing for the production and commercial sale of a certain recording made by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment authorized for military pay consistent with yearly increases in the GS Schedule of the Federal Government, authorizing instead a 3.6 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence. Increases cadet and midshipman pay. Makes each such increase effective as of January 1, 1990. Part B: Incentive Pay - Increases the flying duties required for an aviation officer to be entitled to aviation career incentive pay. Requires the President to increase such incentive pay by the percentage of any increase in basic pay. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay implementation of such increased flying duty when necessary to meet the needs of his department. Extends through FY 1992 the aviation retention bonus program. Outlines certain reporting requirements under such program and limits the total obligations permitted for the Navy and Air Force during FY 1990 for the payment of such bonuses. Increases the special pay for medical officers in the armed forces. Extends through FY 1990 the medical officer retention bonus program. Terminates such authority if a certain report is not made by a specified date. Provides for the payment of special pay in the form of an accession bonus for registered nurses who agree within a specified period to accept a commission and perform duty as a registered nurse in the armed forces for not less than four years. Outlines certain limitations and conditions under such program. Provides a nurse officer candidate accession bonus for individuals who execute a written agreement to accept an appointment as a nurse officer after completion of two years of a degree program in nursing and while enrolled as a full-time student in a nursing program in an institution that does not have a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Program. Outlines agreement terms. Requires a pro rata refund of any bonus paid when an individual fails to complete either the required period of education or the required period of military service after the completion of such education. Authorizes the payment of special incentive pay for nurse anesthetists who execute a written agreement to remain on active duty for at least one year after their initial required period of duty. Outlines terms of such bonus pay. Requires refunds on a pro rata basis for agreed-upon time not successfully served. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the use of certified registered nurse anesthetists by the military departments. Increases: (1) the special pay for reserve medical officers; and (2) the length and amount of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus program. Extends certain enlistment and reenlistment bonus authorities for reserve forces. Extends the bonus authority for certain nuclear career officer bonus programs. Part C: Travel and Transportation - Authorizes a travel and transportation allowance for a member of the armed forces who is assigned to permanent duty aboard a ship that is undergoing construction away from the designated home port or away from the area where the dependents of the member are residing. Outlines terms and conditions for such allowance. Authorizes reimbursement for parking fees, ferry fares, and tolls for any member of the armed forces entitled to general travel and transportation allowances. Authorizes student travel allowances for dependents of members stationed outside the continental United States. Prohibits such allowance for dependents of members permanently stationed in Alaska or Hawaii for a child attending a school in the State of the permanent duty station. Part D: Survivors Benefit Program - Revises the reduction in retired pay for participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Differentiates, in the level premium to be paid each month by participants in the Plan, as to whether the annuity being provided is a standard or reserve-component annuity and whether the person becomes an active participant in the Plan before or after the effective date of the Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act of 1989. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out a program, to be known as the Supplemental Survivor Benefit Plan (SSBP), which would enable participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) who are providing coverage for a spouse or former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to also provide a supplemental annuity for that spouse or former spouse beginning when the participant dies or when the spouse or former spouse becomes 62 years of age, whichever is later, in order to offset the effects of the two-tier annuity computation under the SBP. Outlines the following administrative provisions concerning the SSBP: (1) commencement of annuity; (2) the amount of such annuity for the beneficiary of a person providing the standard or the reserve-component annuity under the SBP (the latter annuity further defined by whether or not the beneficiary under the SSBP is initially under 62 years of age at the commencement of the annuity); and (3) adjustments in such annuities required by periodic adjustments in the cost-of-living index. Terminates a SSBP annuity when the beneficiary dies or otherwise becomes ineligible to continue to receive an annuity under the original SBP. Allows a person who provides an annuity for a spouse or former spouse under the SBP to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under these provisions. Requires a person providing a supplemental spouse annuity to be a participant in the SBP in order to cover a spouse or former spouse under the SSBP. Requires such election to be voluntary. Allows a person to make such an election only if the beneficiary of such person's annuity is not currently computed under the determination of spouse or former spouse beneficiary annuity under the SBP. Allows a person who anticipates becoming a participant in the SBP who has a spouse or former spouse to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the SSBP. Outlines conditions and requirements for such an anticipatory election. Requires a person to actually provide a spouse or former spouse annuity under the SBP in order to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the SSBP. Allows a person who elects to provide SBP coverage for a former spouse after having been an SBP participant without coverage for that former spouse to also provide a supplemental spouse annuity for such former spouse under the SSBP. Requires notice to a current spouse of a person providing coverage under the SBP and the SSBP to a former spouse. Provides for irrevocability after a specified period of time of the election to provide SSBP coverage under both a standard annuity and a reserve-component annuity. Authorizes provision of a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions by a person who is a participant in the SBP and is providing coverage for a spouse (or spouse and child) but is not a participant in the SSBP, who does not have an eligible spouse under that Plan, and who remarries, thereby allowing such person to elect to provide such coverage for the former spouse. Requires the person to be under the SBP in order to make the election for such coverage under the SSBP. Outlines conditions for such an election. Outlines administrative guidelines to be followed: (1) when there is a change of a former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to a current spouse or child beneficiary under the SBP; and (2) upon reinstatement of an SSBP annuity after discontinuance of an SBP annuity and reinstatement of such annuity. Requires a person who elects to provide a SSBP annuity to a former spouse to provide the Secretary concerned with a written statement as to whether the election being made is pursuant to a written agreement incident to a divorce, dissolution, or annulment that has been incorporated in, or ratified or approved by, a court order. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the enforcement of such voluntary written agreements ratified by a court order. Provides a time limit for the making of such an election of one year after the date of the court order or filing involved. Directs the retired pay of a person electing to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions to be reduced each month as required under prescribed regulations. Outlines considerations for the determination of such regulations by the Secretary of Defense. Prohibits any reduction during any month in which there is no eligible spouse or former spouse beneficiary. Requires the amount of the reduction to be adjusted whenever there is an adjustment to the reduction in retired pay for beneficiary coverage under the original SBP. Directs the President to prescribe regulations to implement the SSBP. Revises the annuity computation for the survivors of certain retirement-eligible officers who die while on active duty, making such an officer's retired pay rate the rate of pay applicable at the time of death. Defines those persons eligible for such recomputation. Authorizes an eligible retired or former member of the armed forces to participate in the SBP during an open enrollment period. Allows such person, at the same time, to also elect to participate in the SSBP. Defines as eligible a person who on the day before the first day of the open enrollment period is not a participant in the SBP and is either entitled to retired pay or would be so entitled but for the fact that such member or former member is under 60 years of age (for reserve members or former members). Allows a person who is a participant in the SBP but not at the maximum base amount while providing coverage for a dependent child but not for a spouse or former spouse to: (1) elect to participate in the SBP at a higher amount; or (2) elect to provide an annuity under the SBP for a spouse or former spouse. Authorizes current SBP participants to elect to participate in the SSBP during the open enrollment period. Outlines those persons eligible to make such an election and sets limitations on eligibility for certain SBP participants not affected by the two-tier annuity computation (a computation that differentiates in the annuity amount depending on whether the annuitant has attained the age of 65). Requires any SSBP election to be made in writing, signed by the person making the election, and received by the Secretary concerned before the end of the open enrollment period. Defines the open enrollment period as the one-year period beginning on the effective date of the Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act of 1989. States that if a person dies before the end of a two-year period after making such an election, the election is void and the amount of reduction in retired pay taken as a result of such election shall be paid in a lump sum to the person's beneficiary under the SBP. Part E: Miscellaneous - Increases the educational assistance allowance for persons in the armed forces with a critical skill or specialty. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to DOD to pay for student meals provided by DOD overseas dependents' schools. Outlines limits to such authority. Authorizes a reduction in the rates for meals sold in military dining facilities if the Secretary concerned determines that such rate reduction is in the best interest of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to pay a uniform allowance for any civilian DOD employee required to wear a prescribed uniform for the performance of official duties. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a legislative proposal for an accidental death insurance plan for aviators serving on active duty. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) establish a commission to study the reasons for shortages of qualified aviators in both the armed forces and in the commercial airline industry and the means for eliminating such shortages; (2) include representatives from both the commercial airline industry and the armed forces on such commission; and (3) appoint members to such commission no later than February 15, 1990. Requires the commission to report the results of its study to the President and the Congress no later than March 1, 1991, together with recommendations. Title VII: Department of Defense Management Matters - Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding actions taken and to be taken by the Secretary to implement a report from the Secretary to the President concerning defense management. Earmarks specified funds appropriated to DOD for FY 1990 for the estabishment of a fund under the management of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cover specified expenses of a unified or specified combatant command in performing its various duties and functions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to reduce the period before termination of a limitation on the alert status of any Air National Guard unit to 30 days after a certain report on the subject is transmitted to the Congress by the Secretary (currently, 180 days after such report). Establishes the position of Comptroller of DOD at level III of the Executive Schedule. Establishes the positions of the General Counsels of the military departments and the Assistant Secretary of Executive Schedule. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a panel of experts in advanced technology to prepare and submit to the President a report identifying the product technologies and process technologies most essential to develop in order to assure the long-term national security and economic prosperity of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into agreements with specified entities for reserach and development identified in the report as essential. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for developing the technologies considered by the Secretary and the Secretary of Energy to be the technologies most critical to ensure the long-term qualitative superiority of U.S. weapons systems. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to report to the defense committees on actions taken toward the improvement of the defense industrial base of the United States. Requires the Under Secretary to analyze the ability of the defense industrial base to fulfill the national security needs of the United States. Requires the Secretary of Defense, in the negotiation of any memorandum of understanding between the United States and one or more foreign countries relating to research, development, or production of defense equipment, to regularly solicit comments and recommendations from the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the commercial implications of such memoranda on the international competitive position of U.S. industry. Outlines memorandum review requirements and other limitations. Requires the Secretary of Defense, in the negotiation of such memorandum relating to the reciprocal procurement of defense equipment and supplies or research and development, to make every effort to achieve an agreement with the country concerned that would limit the adverse effects that offset arrangements have on the defense industrial base of the United States. Part B: Acquisition Policy Initiatives - Changes the title of senior procurement executive to senior service acquisition executive, for purposes of the defense acquisition process. Adds the concept demonstration validation stage as one of the stages to be considered for milestone authorizations within defense enterprise programs. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees a discussion of all regulatory reform actions taken or planned by DOD on the basis of experience under the defense enterprise programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations governing the acquisition of commercial products. Outlines provisions, regarding such acquisition, relating to contract and subcontract clauses, modified inspection clauses and warranties, cost and pricing data requirements, the training of contract officers in the acquisition of nondevelopmental items, and encouraging the acquisition of nondevelopmental items. Directs the Secretary to implement such regulations and contract clauses within 270 days after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single, uniform regulation for DOD regarding dissemination of, and access to, acquisition information. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program for the use of simplified procedures in the competitive awarding of a DOD contract for the procurement of property or services on the basis of design or technical quality factors. Outlines conditions under which the Secretary of a military department or a defense agency head may award a contract for the procurement of such services, as well as conditions under which such Secretary or agency head may award a contract for the procurement of commercial products under the test program. Outlines the length of the test program. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the test program. Revises Federal provisions concerning unit cost reports contained in Selected Acquisition Reports relating to defense procurement contracts as managed by program managers for major defense acquisition programs. Requires the service acquisition executive (currently, the Secretary concerned) to receive and tabulate information from such unit cost reports and Selected Acquisition Reports. Requires the Secretary concerned to take certain steps when the current program acquisition unit costs have increased by more than 15 percent with regard to a major defense acquisition program. Requires notification to the Congress when such increases exceed 25 percent. Requires justification by a specified senior procurement executive for a defense procurement contract for between $10,000,000 and $50,000,000 to be awarded without the use of competitive procedures. Limits the positions to which justification authority may be delegated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to ensure that a contractor does not assist in the test and evaluation of a weapons system if the contractor participated in the development, production, or testing of such weapon for any military department or defense agency unless the Director determines that sufficient steps have been taken to ensure the impartiality of the contractor in providing such assistance. Requires the Secretary to conduct a test program under which the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of the defense agencies may enter into master agreements for the procurement of advisory and assistance services. Outlines provisions concerning the scope of the program, the contents and awarding of the master agreements, the orders for specific advisory or assistance services, publication of notice, and limitations with respect to the commencement and termination of the test program. Directs the Secretary to establish a test program under which one contracting activity in each military department and defense agency is authorized to undertake one or more demonstration projects to determine whether the negotiation and administration of the small business subcontracting opportunities provided for small businesses under DOD contracts. Outlines administrative provisions, including contents for small business subcontracting plans. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and small business committees on the results of the test program. Revises provisions of the Small Business Act with regard to the requirement of a determination of responsibility of a small business to the Small Business Administration when a proposed contract is of a limited amount. Requires the Secretary to ensure that the DOD quality assurance program is managed in a manner that will result in the production of the highest quality weapon systems, both at the initial acquisition stage and during repair and maintenance of fielded weapon systems. Outlines the structure of such program. Extends through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program. Provides certain funding limitations with respect to such assistance in the case of programs operated within one or more service areas of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Requires, within two years after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of: (1) Defense to develop and implement four alternative personnel management demonstration programs within DOD; and (2) Energy to develop and implement one such demonstration program for the national security programs of the Department of Energy. Requires each Secretary to provide for the development and testing of an alternative employee compensation system in each demonstration project so conducted. Requires certain action to be taken if a demonstration program involves a collective bargaining system. Outlines further administrative provisions concerning program costs, participation requirements, and consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management with regard to the development and implementation of such plans. Requires the Secretary concerned to notify the Congress and employees concerned regarding the impending implementation of such plans. Directs the Comptroller General to review each plan and make certain reports and recommendations regarding such plans. Provides conditions under which such plans shall or may be terminated. Requires notification to covered employees of any plan termination. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to prescribe the rates of pay for up to 500 positions designated by the Secretary as critical. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to govern discussions of future employment opportunities of employees of DOD (post-employment restrictions). Outlines provisions concerning: (1) authorized discussions of possible future employment opportunities with a covered contractor by a covered acquisition official; and (2) the request of advice by an employee or former employee of DOD from the appropriate designated agency ethics official as to what constitutes proper and improper possible employment discussions. Defines "covered acquisition official" and "covered contractor" for purposes of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a certain prohibition against the receipt of dual compensation for not more than 1,000 DOD employee who are in scientific, engineering, professorial, or management positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary should take all necessary actions to promote and encourage, at all educational levees, an increase in the number of U.S. citizens and nationals who pursue courses of study in science, engineering, and other technical disciplines. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the award of fellowships to U.S. citizens and nationals who agree to pursue graduate degrees in science, engineering, or other fields of study designated by the Secretary to be of priority interest to DOD. Outlines fellowship award conditions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Title IX: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary, as necessary for the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in titles I through III between any such authorizations for that fiscal year. Limits the total amount that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress promptly of any such transfers made. Limits the total amount authorized to be appropriated for FY 1990 and 1991 for military personnel and operations and maintenance. Limits the total amount of funds available to DOD for FY 1990. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning actions taken to maintain such limited budget authority. Places certain limitations upon DOD relating to the restoration of withdrawn unobligated balances. Directs the President to report to the defense and intelligence committees on the types of measures that would be required to verify effectively the proposal for conventional arms reductions in Europe adopted by member nations of NATO in May, 1989. Commends the President's conventional arms initiatives announced on such date. Directs the President to report to the Congress on the foreign policy and military implications to NATO and to the Warsaw Pact of significant reductions of conventional forces by NATO and Warsaw Pact countries to a ceiling which is the same for both sides. Directs the President to report to the defense committees on the desirability of an agreement to impose limitations on anti-satellite capabilities. Establishes a Commission on National Service to conduct a thorough study of the need for and desirability disadvantages of, a national service program (a program which includes both military and civilian community services). Requires the Commission to report to the President and the Congress on its findings and recommendations. Specifies information to be included in such report if the Commission recommends the establishment of a national service program. Terminates such Commission 120 days after its report is received. Extends through FY 1991 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program. Revises certain provisions relating to the authority to enter into bilateral and multilateral for the procurement of communications support and related supplies and services from U.S.-allied countries. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) extend through FY 1994 the authority to use excess defense articles for the modernization of the defense capabilities of countries situated on the southern flank of NATO; and (3) prohibit the President from providing for the attendance of foreign military personnel without charge at the U.S. Army Russian Institute in West Germany. Authorizes the payment of travel and similar expenses for travel to Canada and Mexico in connection with bilateral and regional cooperation programs. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to admit temporarily workers entering this country in order to perform services as part of a governmental program of cooperative research, development, or coproduction projects. Increases from $10,000 to $100,000 the amount of an admiralty claim against the United States that may be settled by the Secretary of the military department concerned without certifying such payment to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to procure services for the publication of the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense through the Government Printing Office. Title X: Panama Canal Commission - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures, contracts, and commitments as may be necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1990 and 1991, with certain conditions. Requires the Commission to provide written advance notification to the defense and merchant marine and fisheries committees regarding certain rates, payments, and projects associated with the operation and maintenance of the Canal. Authorizes funds for pay increases of officers and employees of the Commission as administratively authorized.

An original bill to authorize the end strengths for the Armed Forces for fiscal years 1990 and 1991, to provide for certain matters relating to personnel management, to make certain changes in the pay and allowances and other benefits of members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1989

Title I: Military Personnel Authorizations For Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the number of active Army ground combat brigades assigned to the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) before December 1, 1990. Allows Army end strengths to be increased in order to maintain such prohibition. Reduces, temporarily, the number of colonels authorized for active duty for FY 1991. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes end strength reductions for the Selected Reserve components of the armed forces for each such fiscal year, as prescribed. Authorizes increases for each such fiscal year in the number of certain personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserve forces. Reallocates the positions of two naval reserve officers serving in medical profession capacities. Part C: Military Training - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1990 and 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Civilian Personnel - Repeals current Federal provisions concerning management constraints for DOD civilian personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to accept voluntary services from an individual for work in a natural resources program. Title II: Military Personnel - Part A: Matters Affecting the Reserve Components - Authorizes a person with no prior military service who is qualified for active-duty enlistment in the armed forces (regular) to be enlisted as a member of the reserves under a delayed entry program. Allows such person to be enlisted in a regular component of the armed forces within 365 days after enlistment in the reserves. Exempts members of the delayed entry program from otherwise applicable Ready Reserve training requirements. Prohibits the period of enlisted service under the delayed entry program from being counted as part of the years of service for the computation of the basic pay of a member. Authorizes the Secretary to order a member of the Ready Reserve to muster duty one time each year without his consent. Authorizes a member of the Ready Reserve who is not a member of the National Guard or of the Selected Reserve to be entitled to an allowance for such muster duty if engaged in such duty for at least two hours. Repeals a provision of Federal law which allows a uniform and equipment reimbursement monthly for a reserve officer of the armed forces who has not become entitled to a uniform reimbursement or allowance as an officer for the preceding four years. Extends through FY 1992 certain expiring authorities relating to the reserves. Authorizes the payment of special pay for an enlisted member who is assigned to a high priority unit of the Selected Reserve and who performs inactive duty for training with such unit. Terminates such special assignment pay after FY 1991. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the administration of such special pay program. Part B: Health Care Matters - Prohibits the Secretary, during FY 1990 and 1991, from charging for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military treatment facility. Revises a provision concerning the limitation on payments made to noninstitutional health-care providers from the Secretary concerned under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Authorizes the Secretary to increase the maximum amount of such payments whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services increases the amount payable to providers of services under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to require a private health-care provider which is also a health-care provider under CHAMPUS to provide such care under the same rules applicable under such program. Authorizes the provision of specialized training as another benefit under the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Allows a person participating in such specialized training, in addition to receiving a stipend under such Program, to be paid an annual grant of $15,000. Requires a pro rata refund of such grant amount from a person who voluntarily terminates the Program's specialized training. Expands the type of loans qualifying for repayment by the Secretary concerned for health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve as part of such loan repayment agreement, including any loan which was used to finance basic or advanced health professions education. Makes all members of the Ready Reserve (currently, only members of the Selected Reserve) eligible for such loan repayments and increases the yearly and total amount of such loan repayments. Repeals the current October 1, 1990, date for the termination of such loan repayments. Revises the deadline for the use of diagnosis related groups for outpatient treatment. Increases from 67 to 68 the deferment age for retirement for regular commissioned officers of the armed forces. Part C: Personnel Management - States the conditions under which the President may vacate a promotion to the grade of major through major general and lieutenant commander through rear admiral. Directs the Secretary to reduce by the end of FY 1992 the number of nonoperational flying duty positions in the armed forces by five percent. Prohibits any increase in the number of such positions after FY 1991. Outlines the minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions. Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a study, and report to the defense committees, on the aviator assignment policies and practices of the armed forces. Part D: Total Force Policy - Directs the Secretary to convene a study group to review the operation and soundness of the Total Force Policy (the force mix in each of the military departments) of DOD and to make recommendations for the improvement of such Policy. Requires the Secretary to report the study group's results to the defense committees. Part E: Miscellaneous - Increases the service obligations for graduates of: (1) the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; and (2) the service academies. Revises the composition and term of members of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Revises provisions concerning: (1) the removal of judges from such Court; (2) incapacity of such judges; (3) service and pay of a senior judge of such Court; (4) the appointment and civil service status of legal staff of the Court; (5) the retirement of judges of the Court; and (6) appellate review procedures of action taken by the Judge Advocate General under provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Directs the President to prescribe procedures for the investigation and disposition of charges, allegations, and information pertaining to the fitness of a military judge or military appellate judge to perform the duties of office. Requires such procedures to be transmitted to the defense committees. Makes permanent the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through October 1, 1992, the authority for a test program for the reimbursement to members of the armed forces of qualifying adoption expenses. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to require each applicant for enlistment or appointment to undergo drug and alcohol abuse testing before becoming a member of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct the military records of promotion of enlisted members if the Secretary concerned considers such action necessary to correct an error or injustice. Provides members of the National Guard, Reserves, retired military personnel, and civilian employees of DOD with the same relief from expenses incurred because of an error in the mandatory direct deposit of pay. Provides for the awarding of the degree of Master of Arts in Leader Development. Authorizes the Secretary to provide transportation to the next-of-kin of members of the armed forces who have been prisoners of war or missing in action as a result of service during the Vietnam era to attend an annual meeting of such families. Clarifies certain procedures regarding the solicitation and award of contracts for postsecondary education services for members of the armed forces, civilian DOD employees, or the dependents of such members and employees. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to employ civilian faculty at the United States Marine Corps University. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into contracts providing for the production and commercial sale of a certain recording made by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the U.S. Air Force Singing Sergeants. Title III: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment authorized for military pay consistent with yearly increases in the GS Schedule of the Federal Government, authorizing instead a 3.6 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence. Increases cadet and midshipman pay. Makes each such increase effective as of January 1, 1990. Part B: Incentive Pay - Increases the flying duties required for an aviation officer to be entitled to aviation career incentive pay. Requires the President to increase such incentive pay by the percentage of any increase in basic pay. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay implementation of such increased flying duty when necessary to meet the needs of his department. Extends through FY 1992 the aviator retention bonus program. Outlines certain reporting requirements under such program and limits the total obligations permitted for the Navy and Air Force during FY 1990 for the payment of such bonuses. Increases the special pay for medical officers in the armed forces. Extends through FY 1990 the medical officer retention bonus program. Terminates such authority if a certain report is not made by a specified date. Provides for the payment of special pay in the form of an accession bonus for registered nurses who agree within a specified period to accept a commission and perform duty as a registered nurse in the armed forces for not less than four years. Outlines certain limitations and conditions under such program. Provides a nurse officer candidate accession bonus for individuals who execute a written agreement to accept an appointment as a nurse officer after completion of two years of a degree program in nursing and while enrolled as a full-time student in a nursing program in an institution that does not have a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Program. Outlines agreement terms. Requires a pro rata refund of any bonus paid when an individual fails to complete either the required period of education or the required period of military service after the completion of such education. Authorizes the payment of special incentive pay for nurse anesthetists who execute a written agreement to remain on active duty for at least one year after their initial required period of duty. Outlines terms of such bonus pay. Requires refunds on a pro rata basis for agreed-upon time not successfully served. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the use of certified registered nurse anesthetists by the military departments. Increases: (1) the special pay for reserve medical officers; and (2) the length and amount of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus program. Extends certain enlistment and reenlistment bonus authorities for reserve forces. Extends the bonus authority for certain nuclear career officer bonus programs. Part C: Travel and Transportation - Authorizes a travel and transportation allowance for a member of the armed forces who is assigned to permanent duty aboard a ship that is undergoing construction away from the designated home port or away from the area where the dependents of the member are residing. Outlines terms and conditions for such allowances. Authorizes reimbursement for parking fees, ferry fares, and tolls for any member of the armed forces entitled to general travel and transportation allowances. Authorizes student travel allowances for dependents of members stationed outside the continental United States. Prohibits such allowance for dependents of members permanently stationed in Alaska or Hawaii for a child attending a school in the State of the permanent duty station. Part D: Survivor Benefit Program - Revises the reduction in retired pay for participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Differentiates, in the level premium to be paid each month by participants in the Plan, as to whether the annuity being provided is a standard or reserve-component annuity and whether the person becomes an active participant in the Plan before or after the effective date of the Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act of 1989. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out a program, to be known as the Supplemental Survivor Benefit Plan (SSBP), which would enable participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) who are providing coverage for a spouse or former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to also provide a supplemental annuity for that spouse or former spouse beginning when the participant dies or when the spouse or former spouse becomes 62 years of age, whichever is later, in order to offset the effects of the two-tier annuity computation under the SBP. Outlines the following administrative provisions concerning the SSBP: (1) commencement of annuity; (2) the amount of such annuity for the beneficiary of a person providing the standard or the reserve-component annuity under the SBP (the latter annuity further defined by whether or not the beneficiary under the SSBP is initially under 62 years of age at the commencement of the annuity); and (3) adjustments in such annuities required by periodic adjustments in the cost-of-living index. Terminates a SSBP annuity when the beneficiary dies or otherwise becomes ineligible to continue to receive an annuity under the original SBP. Allows a person who provides an annuity for a spouse or former spouse under SBP to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under these provisions. Requires a person providing a supplemental spouse annuity to be a participant in the SBP in order to cover a spouse or former spouse under the SSBP. Requires such election to be voluntary. Allows a person to make such an election only if the beneficiary of such person's annuity is not currently computed under the determination of spouse or former spouse beneficiary annuity under the SBP. Allows a person who anticipates becoming a participant in the SBP who has a spouse or former spouse to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the SSBP. Outlines conditions and requirements for such an anticipatory election. Requires a person to actually provide a spouse or former spouse annuity under the SBP in order to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the SSBP. Allows a person who elects to provide SBP coverage for a former spouse after having been an SBP participant without coverage for that former spouse to also provide a supplemental spouse annuity for such former spouse under the SSBP. Requires notice to a current spouse of a person providing coverage under the SBP and the SSBP to a former spouse. Provides for irrevocability after a specified period of time of the election to provide SSBP coverage under both a standard annuity and a reserve-component annuity. Authorizes provision of a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions by a person who is a participant in the SBP and is providing coverage for a spouse (or spouse and child) but is not a participant in the SSBP, who does not have an eligible spouse under that Plan, and who remarries, thereby allowing such person to elect to provide such coverage for the former spouse. Requires the person to be under the SBP in order to make the election for such coverage under the SSBP. Outlines conditions for such an election. Outlines administrative guidelines to be followed: (1) when there is a change of a former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to a current spouse or child beneficiary under the SBP; and (2) upon reinstatement of an SSBP annuity after discontinuance of an SBP annuity and reinstatement of such annuity. Requires a person who elects to provide a SSBP annuity to a former spouse to provide the Secretary concerned with a written statement as to whether the election being made is pursuant to a written agreement incident to a divorce, dissolution, or annulment that has been incorporated in, or ratified or approved by, a court order. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the enforcement of such voluntary written agreements ratified by a court order. Provides a time limit for the making of such an election of one year after the date of the court order or filing involved. Directs the retired pay of a person electing to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions to be reduced each month as required under prescribed regulations. Outlines considerations for the determination of such regulations by the Secretary of Defense. Prohibits any reduction during any month in which there is no eligible spouse or former spouse beneficiary. Requires the amount of the reduction to be adjusted whenever there is an adjustment to the reduction in retired pay for beneficiary coverage under the original SBP. Directs the President to prescribe regulations to implement the SSBP. Revises the annuity computation for the survivors of certain retirement-eligible officers who die while on active duty, making such an officer's retired pay rate the rate of pay applicable at the time of death. Defines those persons eligible for such recomputation. Authorizes an eligible retired or former member of the armed forces to participate in the SBP during an open enrollment period. Allows such person, at the same time, to also elect to participate in the SSBP. Defines as eligible a person who on the day before the first day of the open enrollment period is not a participant in the SBP and is either entitled to retired pay or would be so entitled but for the fact that such member or former member is under 60 years of age (for reserve members or former members). Allows a person who is a participant in the SBP but not at the maximum base amount while providing coverage for a dependent child but not for a spouse or former spouse to: (1) elect to participate in the SBP at a higher amount; or (2) elect to provide an annuity under the SBP for a spouse or former spouse. Authorizes current SBP participants to elect to participate in the SSBP during the open enrollment period. Outlines those persons eligible to make such an election and sets limitations on eligibility for certain SBP participants not affected by the two-tier annuity computation (a computation that differentiates in the annuity amount depending on whether the annuitant has attained the age of 65). Requires any SSBP election to be made in writing, signed by the person making the election, and received by the Secretary concerned before the end of the open enrollment period. Defines the open enrollment period as the one-year period beginning on the effective date of the Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act of 1989. States that if a person dies before the end of a two-year period after making such an election, the election is void and the amount of reduction in retired pay taken as a result of such election shall be paid in a lump sum to the person's beneficiary under the SBP. Part E: Miscellaneous - Increases the educational assistance allowance for persons in the armed forces with a critical skill or speciality. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to DOD to pay for student meals provided by DOD overseas dependents' schools. Outlines limits to such authority. Authorizes a reduction in the rates for meals sold in military dining facilities if the Secretary concerned determines that such rate reduction is in the best interest of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to pay a uniform allowance for any civilian DOD employee required to wear a prescribed uniform for the performance of official duties. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a legislative proposal for an accidental death insurance plan for aviators serving on active duty. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) establish a commission to study the reasons for shortages of qualified aviators in both the armed forces and in the commercial airline industry and the means for eliminating such shortages; (2) include representatives from both the commercial airline industry and the armed forces on such commission; and (3) appoint members to such commission no later than February 15, 1990. Requires the commission to report the results of its study to the President and the Congress no later than March 1, 1991, together with recommendations.