Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986

Summary

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement by the armed forces and the defense agencies of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Extends through FY 1986 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of the Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive reimbursement for the costs of specified functions performed by certain personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for operation and maintenance. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1986 as necessary for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs and as the result of inflation. Title IV: Working Capital Funds - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital fund of each of the armed forces and for the Defense Stock Fund. Title V: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. Title VI: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. Permits the reduction and increase in such strengths as specified. Authorizes a specified number of reserves to serve on full-time active duty in order to organize, administer, instruct, recruit, or train the reserve components. Permits the end strength levels to be increased by two percent in the national interest. Increases the number of certain personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Title VII: Civilian Personnel - Provides that Federal law requiring the authorization of end strengths by the Congress as of the end of each fiscal year before funds will be appropriated for the use of civilian personnel of any armed forces component for that fiscal year shall not apply with respect to FY 1986. Title VIII: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title IX: General Provisions - Removes the requirement that a specified percentage of industrial program funds be used for the acquisition of capital equipment during FY 1986 and 1987. Increases the amount of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Repeals the European troop strength limitation contained in the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985.

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Timeline

1. 2 April 1985

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 2 April 1985

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 2 April 1985

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 7 May 1985

   Committee

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

5. 8 May 1985

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

   Source: Committee

6. 10 May 1985

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 47.

   Source: Calendars

7. 10 May 1985

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 99-81.

   Source: Committee

8. 10 May 1985

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 99-81.

   Source: Committee

9. 14 May 1985

   Reported

   Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.169 Reported to House.

   Source: Floor

10. 15 May 1985

    Floor

    Called up by House by Rule.

    Source: Floor

11. 15 May 1985

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

12. 15 May 1985

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted an Open Rule Providing Three Hours of General Debate; Making In Order a Committee Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute; Waiving Certain Points of Order.

    Source: Floor

13. 13 June 1985

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.200 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

14. 13 June 1985

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Providing Additional Procedures During the Further Consideration of the Bill.

    Source: Floor

15. 18 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

16. 18 June 1985

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

17. 19 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

18. 20 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

19. 21 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

20. 25 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

21. 26 June 1985

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

22. 27 June 1985

    Floor

    Laid on Table in House by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

23. 27 June 1985

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 278 - 106 (Record Vote No: 208).

    Source: Floor

24. 27 June 1985

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 278 - 106 (Record Vote No: 208).

    Source: Floor

25. 27 June 1985

    Floor

    Separate Vote Demanded on Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

26. 27 June 1985

    Passed

    House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

27. 27 June 1985

    Floor

    Committee Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Considered as an Original Bill for the Purpose of Amendment.

    Source: Floor

Votes

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Documents

3 official files

• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 27 June 1985

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 10 May 1985

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Sponsors

• Rep. Aspin, Les [D-WI-1] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Dickinson, William L. [R-AL-2] · R · Sponsor
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Related records

• related to → National Security Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987
• related to → A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H. R. 1872) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1986 for the Armed Forces for procurement, for research, development, test, and evaluation, for operation and maintenance, and for working capital funds, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
• related to → A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1872) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1986 for the Armed Forces for procurement, for research, development, test, and evaluation, for operation and maintenance, and for working capital funds, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
• related to ← Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986
• amends ← An amendment to the Dickinson amendment setting the MX procurement fund level at 40 missiles and stating that it is the sense of Congress that not more than 40 missiles be deployed at any time. It sets funding for Air Force missiles at $7,842,700,000.
• amends ← An amendment to the Mavroules substitute to the Dickinson amendment to eliminate all FY 1986 MX missile procurement funding and all unobligated prior-year MX appropriations, thereby terminating the program. It requires that the funds saved be used only for conventional weapons.
• amends ← An amendment to the Mavroules substitute for the Dickinson amendment setting funding at $8,819,700,000. It strikes the language of the Mavroules amendment and substitutes a sense of Congress statement that 50 MX missiles should be deployed in existing Minutemen silos.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce MX missile procurement from 21 missiles to 12 in FY'86, to reduce procurement funding from $2.1 billion to $1.9 billion, to limit deployment of MX missiles to 50 in existing silos in FY'86, and to express the sense of Congress that there should be no increases beyond 50 in existing silos after FY'86.
• amends ← A substitute amendment to the bill reducing funding levels in the bill to match those of the House passed Budget Resolution. It takes $4.4 billion from prior year appropriations and $5.6 billion in post FY'87 spending based on inflation rates lower than originally projected.
• amends ← A substitute amendment to the Dickinson amendment reducing the MX procurement authorization to $921.0 million and decreasing the total deployment in Minuteman silos to 40. It permits acquisition of up to eight basing sets and allows DOD to maintain the program's production base.
• amends ← An amendment stating: From funds appropriated in years prior to 1986 for defense purposes but not now required for the specific purposes originally designated, there is hereby authorized to be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated for FY'86, $4 billion to be used for the acquisition of defense articles for the conventional forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force, equally divided among them. Funds thus transferred may be used for acquisition of conventional weapons, including but not limited to: ammunition, ships, tanks, vehicles and planes.

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