Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985

Summary

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for procurement by the armed forces and the defense agencies of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Extends through FY 1985 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive reimbursement for the cost 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 1985 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for research, development, test, and evaluation. Authorizes additional appropriations as needed for increases in civilian employee benefits. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for operation and maintenance. Authorizes additional appropriations as needed for increases in civilian employee benefits. Title IV: Working Capital Funds - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 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 1985. Title VI: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1985. 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 - Authorizes civilian personnel levels for the Department as of the end of FY 1985. Directs the Secretary to apportion such personnel among the various armed forces and defense agencies and to report to Congress within 60 days on such apportionment. Specifies which personnel shall be included in computing the strength for civilian personnel. Permits the Secretary to increase the strength by up to two percent in the national interest. Title VIII: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1985. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title IX: General Provisions - Amends the Selected Acquisition Reports provisions to: (1) redefine a major defense acquisition program to mean a Defense Department acquisition program with a firm program baseline and cost estimate that has received congressionally approved funding and a departmental decision to proceed with full-scale engineering development, in addition to current requirements; (2) establish in excess of $5,000,000 the floor for major contracts; (3) permit less than five percent changes in cost and performance and less than six months delay in a major defense acquisition program before second, third, and fourth quarter status reports are required; (4) increase the time allowed for the submittal of the comprehensive annual and the Quarterly Selected Acquisition Reports to Congress; and (5) terminate reporting requirements once 90 percent of planned deliveries or expenditures have been incurred. Amends the Unit Cost Report provisions to: (1) redefine Baseline Selected Acquisition Report to mean the first comprehensive Selected Acquisition Report prepared subsequent to the award of the first production contract rather than the selected Acquisition Report in which information on the program is first included; (2) define Baseline Report with respect to unit cost reports submitted during subsequent quarters of the preceding fiscal year, depending upon when or whether such reports were submitted; (3) require the program manager for a defense acquisition program to breakdown the quarterly and other required unit cost reports and determinations by constant base-year dollars as well as current dollars; (4) exclude from the prohibition on expending further funds when a major defense acquisition program overruns cost by a certain percentage when changes in the program are a result of congressional action and the Secretary concerned reports to Congress within 30 days; (5) require reports triggered by unit cost overruns to express such costs for the succeeding fiscal year in both base-year and current dollars; and (6) trigger reporting requirements only in the first quarter of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the first production contract is awarded. Permits the issuance of withdrawal credits to customer accounts in connection with the capitalization of aviation depot level repairable assets. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983, to repeal the prohibition against consolidating functions of the military transportation commands.

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Timeline

1. 15 March 1984

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 15 March 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 15 March 1984

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 19 April 1984

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 391.

   Source: Calendars

5. 19 April 1984

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 98-691.

   Source: Committee

6. 19 April 1984

   Reported

   Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Armed Services. Report No: 98-691.

   Source: Committee

7. 19 April 1984

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported (Amended).

   Source: Committee

8. 1 May 1984

   Reported

   Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.494 Reported to House.

   Source: Floor

9. 1 May 1984

   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 all Points of Order Against Said Substitute.

   Source: Floor

10. 15 May 1984

    Floor

    Called up by House by Rule.

    Source: Floor

11. 15 May 1984

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

12. 16 May 1984

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

13. 17 May 1984

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

14. 23 May 1984

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

15. 24 May 1984

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

16. 30 May 1984

    Floor

    Considered by House Unfinished Business.

    Source: Floor

17. 31 May 1984

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 298 - 98 (Record Vote No: 204).

    Source: Floor

18. 31 May 1984

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 298 - 98 (Record Vote No: 204).

    Source: Floor

19. 31 May 1984

    Floor

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

    Source: Floor

20. 31 May 1984

    Passed

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

    Source: Floor

21. 6 June 1984

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate, read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 951.

    Source: Calendars

22. 21 June 1984

    Passed

    House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Price, Bennett, Stratton, Nichols, Daniel, Montgomery, Aspin, Dellums, Dickinson, Whitehurst, Spence, Holt, Hillis, Badham, Boland, Mineta, Hamilton, McCurdy, Robinson, Stump, Perkins, Ford (MI), Andrews (NC), Miller (CA), Simon, Erlenborn, Goodling.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

23. 21 June 1984

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

24. 21 June 1984

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

25. 21 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Tower; Thurmond; Goldwater; Warner; Humphrey; Cohen; Jepsen; Quayle; East; Wilson; Nunn; Stennis; Hart; Exon; Levin; Kennedy; Bingaman; Dixon; Simpson; Cranston (Senators Simpson and Cranston were appointed solely for the consideration of any benefits to be paid by the Veterans' Administration).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

26. 21 June 1984

    Floor

    Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 2723 amended.

    Source: Floor

27. 21 June 1984

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2723 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 82-6. Record Vote No: 152.

    Source: Floor

28. 22 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

29. 22 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

30. 25 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

31. 25 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

32. 25 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Considered by House Speaker Appointed Additional Conferees: Edwards (CA), Edgar, Sam Hall, Leath, Shelby, Applegate, Hammerschmidt, Wylie, Solomon.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

33. 26 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

34. 26 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

35. 27 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

36. 27 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

37. 28 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

38. 28 June 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

39. 24 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

40. 24 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

41. 26 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

42. 26 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

43. 30 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

44. 30 July 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

45. 11 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Speaker Appointed Representative Hawkins as a Conferee in Lieu of the Late Representative Perkins.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

46. 20 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

47. 20 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

48. 24 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

49. 24 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

50. 25 September 1984

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

51. 25 September 1984

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

52. 26 September 1984

    Passed

    House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

53. 26 September 1984

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

54. 26 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 98-1080 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

55. 26 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 98-1080 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

56. 27 September 1984

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

57. 27 September 1984

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report considered in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

58. 10 October 1984

    Floor

    Measure Signed in Senate.

    Source: Floor

59. 11 October 1984

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

60. 11 October 1984

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

61. 19 October 1984

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 98-525.

    Source: President

62. 19 October 1984

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

63. 19 October 1984

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

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  Public Law · EN · 20 October 1984

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Sponsors

• Rep. Price, Melvin [D-IL-21] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Dickinson, William L. [R-AL-2] · R · Sponsor
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