Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981

Summary

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for use by the armed forces for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons. Authorizes appropriations for the United States' share of the cost of NATO's Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for military research, development, test, and evaluation. Permits the use of unobligated or unexpended funds from fiscal year 1980 for the study of a logistic surface effect ship. Title III: Active Forces - Establishes the authorized end strength for active duty personnel for fiscal year 1981 for each of the armed forces. Title IV: Reserve Forces - Prescribes the average strengths for the reserve components of the armed forces for such fiscal year. Extends: (1) the educational assistance program for enlisted reserves; and (2) enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the Selected Reserve. Title V: Civilian Personnel - Sets forth the authorized end strength for civilian personnel within the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1981. Allows the Secretary of Defense to apportion such personnel among the various military departments. Authorizes the Secretary to employ civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized by this Act to the extent necessary to continue the performance of such functions by Department of Defense personnel. Excludes civilian personnel employed in industrially-funded activities of the Department of Defense from the calculation of the strength for civilian personnel for fiscal year 1981. Title VI: Military Training Student Loads - Prescribes the average military training student loads for each of the armed forces for fiscal year 1981. Title VII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to acquire fee title to parcels of real property currently leased by such agency in Olney, Maryland. Permits the Director to establish a pilot program of designing and constructing buildings to enhance the ability of the buildings to withstand nuclear explosions and to minimize the damage to such buildings caused by a nuclear explosion. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the pilot program. Title VIII: General Provisions - Increases the amount for independent research and development costs and bid and proposal costs. Requires annual authorization of appropriations for operation and maintenance of any armed force or of the activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments). Repeals the requirement for a reduction in the number of senior grade civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Strengthens restrictions on the conversion of performance of commercial and industrial type functions from Department of Defense personnel to private contractors. Requires the Secretary to submit a written report to Congress each year describing the extent to which commercial and industrial type functions were performed by Department of Defense contractors during the preceding fiscal year.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 9 September 1980

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 18 August 1980

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 2 July 1980

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 20 June 1980

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 21 May 1980

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 30 April 1980

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 31 March 1980

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