Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984

Summary

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for procurement by the Navy and Marine Corps of aircraft, weapons, missiles, torpedoes, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other procurement. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for the United States contribution for FY 1984 for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) acquisition of the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Earmarks funds for the procurement of 240 missiles under the AGM-86B air-launch cruise missile program. Permits the use of multiyear procurement contracts for procurement of the B-1B aircraft program. Authorizes appropriations for procurement by the Defense agencies. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1982 to extend through FY 1984 the Secretary of Defense's authority to waive reimbursement for the cost of specified functions performed by other than AWACS personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified changes during FY 1984 under the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between NATO Ministers of Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program. Authorizes the Secretary to procure secure telephone equipment during FY 1984 to support a national program to provide secure telephone service for the Department and other Government agencies. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from establishing a second source for the production of the M-1 tank engine. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from obligating funds for the strategic sealift ready reserve program acquisition of a specific vessel until the appropriate congressional committees have been given 30 days notice. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from obligating funds for the LCAC landing craft air cushion program until the Secretary has submitted specified information concerning the procurement source selection to the appropriate congressional committees. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for use of the armed forces and defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Sets forth specific limitations on the use of these funds, including earmarking certain amounts for specified weapons systems. Prohibits the use of funds for the Army's Military Computer Family System and specified Navy computers until the Secretary of Defense gives the Armed Services Committees a plan for the introduction and integration of advance micro-electronic computers into weapons systems. Prohibits the use of funds by the Air Force for the Airborne Laser Laboratory program or the Law Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infared Night (LANTIRN) system. Prohibits the use of funds by the Defense agencies for fifth-generation artificial intelligence computers until the Secretary reports a comprehensive plan to Congress. Title III: Land-Based Strategic Ballistic Missile Modernization Program - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1984 for the Air Force for the MX Missile program. Sets forth specific limitations on the use of these funds concerning the size of the missile, the number of warheads carried, and the conditions which must be met before certain numbers of missiles may be deployed. Title IV: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for the armed forces, including the reserves and national guards, and defense agencies for operation and maintenance. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) expenses of the Secretary of the Army related to the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice; (2) payment of Department claims; and (3) the United States Court of Military Appeals. Authorizes appropriations for pay raises, fuel costs, and inflation adjustments. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide logistical support, equipment, and personnel services to the 1984 games of the XXIII Olympics. Authorizes appropriations. Places restrictions on the use of such funds, including presidential approval of a justification by the Olympic Law Enforcement Coordinating Council for Olympic arrangements concerning logistical responsibilities and needs. Prohibits the long-term leasing of a naval vessel if the lease includes a substantial termination liability and a vessel with a major component not built in the United States. Title V: Active Forces - Authorizes end strength levels for active duty personnel for the armed forces for FY 1984. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to extend through FY 1984 the limitation on the enlistment and induction of persons into the armed forces whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level. Limits the funds available to the Department for permanent change of station travel. Directs the Secretary of Defense to take measures to reduce the number of permanent changes. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of personnel assigned to headquarters staffs. Title VI: Reserve Forces - Establishes average strength for FY 1984 for: (1) the Army National Guard; (2) the Army Reserve; (3) the Naval Reserve; (4) the Marine Corps Reserve; (5) the Air National Guard; (6) the Air Force Reserve; and (7) the Coast Guard Reserve. Permits the adjustment of average strength levels in the national interest and as specified. Sets forth the number of reserves serving on full-time active duty to administer, recruit, or train the reserve components. Increases the number of enlisted personnel who may be on active duty in support of the reserve components. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization, 1983 to include the National Guard within certain FY 1983 duty status provisions. Entitles members of the National Guard serving in a full-time duty status to organize or train to the same rights and benefits as those of members on active duty. Title VII: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department for FY 1984. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on such allocation within 60 days. Specifies the types of civilian employees to be included in such end strengths. Permits the Secretary to increase the number of such personnel if in the national interest. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress of any such increase. Eliminates any civilian personnel ceilings for FY 1983. Title VIII: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for FY 1984. Requires that any adjustments in such loads be apportioned among the armed forces and reserve components. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to extend through August 31, 1984, the reduction in the number of students required to be in a unit of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). Title IX: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, including amounts for State personnel and administrative expenses. Title X: Military Personnel and Compensation Matters - Part A: Compensation Matters - Increases the pay of the uniformed services by four percent, effective January 1, 1984. Includes time spent as an enlisted member as well as a warrant officer when computing the basic pay of certain commissioned officers. Authorizes hazardous duty pay for persons involved in testing aircraft or missile systems during which highly toxic fuels or propellants are used. Revises eligibility criteria for certain members' separation pay. Freezes the variable housing allowance during FY 1984 at the end of FY 1983 levels. Entitles members of reserve component on active duty for 140 days or more to a variable housing allowance. Revises the rules for payment of a per diem for performing travel under orders away from a designated post of duty. Permits the payment of travel and transportation allowances for travel from overseas for education purposes of dependent children of a member of the uniformed services permanently assigned outside the United States. Part B: Retired Pay Matters - Makes permanent a six-month delay in cost-of-living adjustments for military pensions. Provides for a reduction by one-half in the cost-of-living adjustment made for military retirees under 62 if a similar reduction is made in the civil service retirement system. Requires that years of service for computing military pensions be determined by considering any full month of service as one-twelfth of a year, whether or not a member has more or less than six full months. Part C: Personnel Management Matters - Modifies the ROTC's Scholarship Program to extend eligibility to students whose approved program includes a fifth academic year. Extends eligibility for a subsistence allowance to members of precommissioning programs from 20 to 30 months. Permits the President, with the consent of the officer involved, to transfer a commissioned officer from one branch of the uniformed services to another. Credits officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service with the number of years in service for retirement purposes and, with regard to the Public Health Service only, for purposes of grade and rank when transferred to an armed force. Authorizes the appointment of one cadet from American Samoa and one from the children of U.S. civilian personnel in Panama to each of the military academies. Permits citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands to be appointed as officers in the U.S. armed forces. Part D: Health-Care Matters - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to limit the provision of inpatient mental health services to 60 days a year except as specified. Prohibits CHAMPUS from paying for benefits covered by another plan a patient is enrolled in except for a plan administered under title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid). Applies the same reimbursement standards to CHAMPUS as are applied to the Medicare program (title XVIII of the Social Security Act). Increases the amount of pay for a contract surgeon serving full time with a uniformed service. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct studies and demonstration projects on the health care delivery system of the uniformed services with a view to improving its quality and cost effectiveness. Requires that alternative programs for medical care for dependents be studied and suggests that alternative methods of payment for services and cost-sharing by eligible beneficiaries also be included. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress periodically on such studies and projects. Extends medical malpractice protection for health-care personnel of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Adjusts the rate of stipend paid to recipients of Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarships. Part E: Survivor Benefits - Amends the Survivor Benefit Plan to permit a participant to change coverage under the Plan from a spouse or spouse and child to a former spouse as specified. Extends coverage to include additional, specified widows within the minimum income provisions of the Plan. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay an annuity to survivors of a member or former member who died during a specified period and who would have been eligible for a military pension if he had been 60. Part F: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to accept voluntary services for a museum or a family support program. Deems such volunteers Federal employees only for workmen's compensation purposes. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to extend through FY 1984 the Department of Defense Educational Assistance Loan Repayment Program. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund to be used for the accumulation of funds to finance on an actuarially sound basis the military pension and survivor benefit programs. Establishes in the Department of Defense a Department of Defense Retirement Board of Actuaries to: (1) review valuations of the Fund; (2) make annual reports to the Secretary of Defense on the actuarial status of the Fund; and (3) report at least quadrenially to the President and Congress on the status of the Fund. Directs the Board to determine present value of future benefits not later than six months after the Board's appointment. Requires the Board to determine an amortization schedule for the liquidation of the original unfunded liability. Requires the Secretary to determine the amount of Department contributions to the Fund on an annual basis for inclusion in budget requests for the following fiscal year. Directs the President to include the full amount in the budget transmitted to Congress. Directs the Secretary to actuarially value the military pension and survivors' benefits programs at least quadrenially. Requires the Secretary to amortize changes in benefits since the last valuation. Directs the Secretary to make monthly payments to the Fund in specified amounts. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make annual payments, at the beginning of the fiscal year. Requires the Secretary of Defense to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury each year the amounts under the amortization schedules. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest certain portions of the Fund in public debt securities. Directs the Secretary of Defense to require the payment of fees for veterinary care provided pets by armed forces personnel. Authorizes the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, Rear Admiral Edward A. Burkhalter to the grade of vice admiral while Director of the Intelligence Community Staff. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport to the place of burial the remains of a military retiree who dies in a military medical facility. Title XI: General Provisions - Permits the Secretary of Defense to transfer up to $1,500,000,000 of the funds authorized among categories as specified. Requires the Secretary to notify Congress immediately of any transfers. Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the lease of a vessel if the contract is for a long term or the termination liability of the United States is large. Permits a Secretary to enter such a contract if specifically authorized to do so and the appropriate committees of Congress are given 30 days notice of such contract. Establishes the Commission on Defense-Related Aspects of the United States Merchant Marine to study the capability of the U.S. merchant marine to transport cargo necessary to the national defense during times of war or national emergency. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the production of binary weapons unless the President certifies to Congress that a unitary artillery shell will be rendered militarily useless for each binary artillery shell produced. Eliminates certain restrictions under the Arms Export Control Act concerning cost-recovery requirements and foreign military sales. Permits the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the F/A-18 aircraft program without regard to specified restrictions. Designates the School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. Prohibits the procurement of manual typewriters manufactured within Warsaw Pact nations. Requires that appropriations for the working capital funds be specifically authorized.

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 27 July 1983

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  summary · EN · 11 May 1983

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