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Sen. Warner, John [R-VA] (Introduced 05/17/1999)

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

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Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Hea

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

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Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

There are 4 summaries for this bill. Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999)Passed House amended (06/14/1999)Passed Senate amended (05/27/1999)Introduced in Senate (05/17/1999)     Bill summaries are authored by CRS. $("#summarySelector").congress_dropDownNavigation({ stubUrl: '/bill/106th-congress/senate-bill/1059/summary', suffix: '' }); Shown Here:
Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

There are 4 summaries for this bill. Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999)Passed House amended (06/14/1999)Passed Senate amended (05/27/1999)Introduced in Senate (05/17/1999)     Bill summaries are authored by CRS. $("#summarySelector").congress_dropDownNavigation({ stubUrl: '/bill/106th-congress/senate-bill/1059/summary', suffix: '' }); Shown Here:
Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh

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Sen. Warner, John [R-VA] (Introduced 05/17/1999)

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

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Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Hea

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

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Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

There are 4 summaries for this bill. Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999)Passed House amended (06/14/1999)Passed Senate amended (05/27/1999)Introduced in Senate (05/17/1999)     Bill summaries are authored by CRS. $("#summarySelector").congress_dropDownNavigation({ stubUrl: '/bill/106th-congress/senate-bill/1059/summary', suffix: '' }); Shown Here:
Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh

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Summary: S.1059 — 106th Congress (1999-2000)

There are 4 summaries for this bill. Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999)Passed House amended (06/14/1999)Passed Senate amended (05/27/1999)Introduced in Senate (05/17/1999)     Bill summaries are authored by CRS. $("#summarySelector").congress_dropDownNavigation({ stubUrl: '/bill/106th-congress/senate-bill/1059/summary', suffix: '' }); Shown Here:
Conference report filed in House (08/06/1999) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) reserve procurements; (3) the Defense Inspector General; (4) the chemical demilitarization program; and (5) Department of Defense (DOD) health care programs.Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, for the Javelin missile system, the M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle, the AH-64D Apache longbow attack helicopters, and the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.(Sec. 112) Revises conditions for the award of any procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Repeals an inconsistent provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the Army's helicopter forces. Provides an Army spending limitation until such plan is submitted.(Sec. 114) Earmarks Army funds for certain tools and technologies used under the Army multiple launch rocket system.(Sec. 115) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program on sales of manufactured articles and services of certain Army industrial facilities without regard to their availability from domestic sources. Extends the deadline for a report from the Defense Inspector General under such program.(Sec. 116) Amends the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 to extend through FY 2001 the authority of the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY 2000 program year, to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the F-A 18E-F aircraft. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into such contract until a specified certification is made to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to: (1) increase from 12 to 18 the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers authorized to be procured under multiyear procurement contracts; (2) extend through FY 2003 the authorized period for such contracting program (authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for advance procurement of such destroyers for FY 2001 and to earmark other Navy funds for such procurement); and (3) repeal the requirement for annual reports from shipbuilders under certain nuclear attack submarine programs.(Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the amphibious assault ship LD-8. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for advance procurement and construction of components for such program.(Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning the D-5 missile program.Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from awarding a contract for low-rate initial production under the F-22 program until the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) makes a certain certification to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the test plan and engineering and manufacturing development of such program.(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study and report to the defense committees on replacement options for conventional air-launched cruise missiles.(Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a program to procure firefighting equipment for the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.(Sec. 134) Exempts funds authorized under this Act for F-16 tactical manned reconnaissance aircraft from certain limitations imposed under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997.Subtitle E: Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program - Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the current program for the destruction of the U.S. chemical agents and munitions stockpile in order to reduce significantly the cost of such program, ensure completion of the program under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and maintain maximum protection of the general public, the personnel involved in the demilitarization program, and the environment. Authorizes the Secretary, following such assessment, to take necessary actions to achieve such purpose. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to prohibit facilities constructed to carry out such demilitarization from being used for any other purpose, with an exception. Requires the Comptroller General to review the U.S. demilitarization program and report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.(Sec. 142) Requires a report from the Comptroller General to the defense committees on the anticipated effect of the proposal to reduce the Federal civilian workforce involved in the operation of eight storage sites for lethal chemical agents and munitions.Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).(Sec. 202) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for basic and applied research projects.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to provide for the evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army. Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to the defense and appropriations committees on program implementation. Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for such program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary has failed to comply with the funding objective for the Defense Science and Technology Program, thus jeopardizing the stability of the defense technology base and technological superiority in future weapons systems. Calls for an increase in such program budgeting for each of FY 2001 through 2009. Requires a certification from the Secretary to Congress concerning a budget justification for such program.(Sec. 213) Earmarks funds authorized under this title for: (1) continued implementation of the micro-satellite technology program under a prior national defense authorization Act; (2) space control technology development; and (3) the space maneuver vehicle program.(Sec. 216) Amends the defense manufacturing technology program to: (1) establish as the overall program purpose the development and application of advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to reduce acquisition and support costs, and manufacturing repair and cycle times, for defense weapons systems; (2) require participation of the prospective users of the technology in the establishment of program requirements and program review; (3) require each project to include an implementation plan for the transition of such technology or process to its prospective user; (4) revise factors to be considered when considering program cost-sharing proposals; and (5) require the program's five-year plan to include plans for the implementation of the advanced manufacturing technologies and processes being developed under the program.(Sec. 217) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to authorize the procurement of up to two (currently, not any) endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Designates as ballistic missile defense the primary mission of the Space Based Infrared System Low. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obtain the approval of the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization before taking certain actions with respect to such System. Transfers System management and funding budget activities from the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities budget to a nonintelligence budget activity of the Air Force. Requires System technical requirements to be defined no later than July 1, 2000.(Sec. 232) Directs the Secretary to establish an acquisition strategy for the upper tier missile defense system with specified requirements.(Sec. 233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) direct the Secretary to ensure the continued independent review of the Theater High Altitude Area Defense Program; (2) require (currently authorizes) the coordination of the development of system elements; and (3) revise a limitation on entering the manufacturing and development phase for the interceptor missile under the Program.(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to structure the space-based laser program to include: (1) a near-term integrated flight experiment; and (2) an ongoing activity for developing an objective system design. Requires a revised program baseline for the integrated flight experiment. Earmarks funds for such flight experiment. Outlines requirements for an objective system design (and provides funding). Requires annual reports, from 2000 through 2002, from the Secretary to the defense committees on the space- based laser program.(Sec. 235) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from making any modification under the Airborne Laser program until the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that such modification is justified on the basis of certain test and analysis. Outlines related program requirements.(Sec. 236) Expresses the sense of Congress calling for adequate future-years funding for ballistic missile defense technology.(Sec. 237) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress concerning a two-site deployment of a ground-based national missile defense system.Subtitle D: Research and Development for Long- Term Military Capabilities - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees every four years on emerging operational concepts. Requires each report to set forth the military capabilities necessary for meeting national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 242) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to require the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a summary of each technology area review and assessment conducted by DOD in support of the joint warfighting science and technology plan.(Sec. 243) Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to the defense and appropriations committees on necessary actions to ensure that the armed forces have the military capabilities necessary to meet national security requirements over the next two to three decades.(Sec. 244) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, advanced, and applied research technology development, and prototype development, that have the potential for application to the performance of the DOD military missions. Provides program total and per- award amount limits. Requires an annual program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Terminates such award authority on September 30, 2003.(Sec. 245) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to demonstrate improved efficiency in the performance of DOD RDT&E functions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such program at each selected laboratory for three years beginning no later than March 1, 2000.Subtitle E: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop a unified DOD plan for development of laser technology for potential weapons application. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the Secretary to recommend an executive agent to coordinate, implement, and oversee plan elements relating to solid state lasers. Provides funds.(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to Congress on the Air Force Distributed Mission Training program.Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2000.(Sec. 305) Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to transfer specified O&M funds within their departments to defense working capital funds to fund operations of the Defense Commissary Agency.Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified O&M funds for: (1) the American Red Cross to fund the Armed Forces Emergency Services; and (2) replacement of nontactical radios of the 82nd Airborne Division.(Sec. 313) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the large medium-speed roll-on roll-off ship, subject to the availability of appropriations. Earmarks specified O&M funds for the advance procurement and construction of components for such ship.(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the United Services Organizations (USO), Inc., to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund. Provides grant funds from O&M funds authorized under this title.Subtitle C: Environmental Provisions - Extends through FY 2010 a current limitation on the payment of environmental fines and penalties from the Environmental Restoration Account, Defense, or environmental restoration accounts of the military departments.(Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on progress made in carrying out activities under the environmental quality programs of DOD and the military departments. (Currently, an annual report concerning environmental compliance is required.)(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense technology planning process provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. Requires related planning and evaluation. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on progress made by DOD in achieving objectives and goals of its environmental technology program.(Sec. 324) Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology among the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council.(Sec. 325) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2001 a pilot program for the sale of air pollution emission reduction incentives.(Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary, using specified military environmental restoration account funds, to pay to the Fresno Drum Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund specified amounts to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental response activities undertaken at the Fresno Industrial Supply, Inc., site in Fresno, California.(Sec. 327) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, using Air Force environmental restoration account funds, to pay certain stipulated environmental civil penalties assessed against F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.(Sec. 328) Directs the Secretary to give appropriate consideration to existing contract vehicles to provide for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint at military installations within the United States, requiring the Secretary to select the most cost-effective means.(Sec. 329) Directs the Secretary, upon request by a government of a foreign country from which U.S. troops were withdrawn in 1992, to release to such country information regarding any environmental contamination at former U.S. military installations in that country.(Sec. 330) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense and appropriations committees concerning, the removal of ordnance infiltrating the Federal navigation channel and adjacent shorelines of the Toussaint River in Ottawa County, Ohio. Limits study costs.Subtitle D: Depot-Level Activities - Authorizes the Secretary to waive commercial nonavailability conditions in connection with the sale of articles and services of DOD industrial facilities to purchasers outside of DOD if the Secretary determines that such waiver is necessary for national security reasons and notifies Congress.(Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to use working capital-funded industrial facilities of that department to sell engineering services provided by such facilities to persons outside of DOD, under a DOD contract or subcontract.(Sec. 333) Adds additional reporting requirements with respect to fiscal year expenditures for the performance of depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and private sector.(Sec. 335) Prohibits the Secretary or the Secretary concerned from imposing on a public entity awarded a contract for the performance of any depot- level maintenance and repair workload any requirement regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or reporting different from that normally required to perform and manage such workloads by such entities, unless specifically provided in the solicitation for that contract or necessary to ensure compliance with contract terms.(Sec. 336) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide additional matters to be included in a reporting requirement before prime vendor contracts for depot-level maintenance and repair are entered into.Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources - Requires an evaluation of the impact on local economies and communities of decisions to convert the performance of functions being performed by 50 (currently 75) Federal employees to private sector performance.(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary, within ten days after a decision to waive a certain cost comparison study in connection with the conversion to contractor performance of any DOD commercial activity, to report to Congress describing the commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale therefor.(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the use during the previous fiscal year of non-Federal entities to provide services to DOD.(Sec. 344) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress an evaluation of Air Force programs that are managed under the Total System Performance Responsibility Program. Requires the Comptroller General to review and evaluate such report.(Sec. 345) Expresses the sense of Congress that any modernization of Army computer services in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, should have as a primary goal the sustainment of military readiness. Outlines related requirements concerning readiness sustainment in such systems.Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies that benefit military or Federal employee dependents under the defense domestic dependents elementary and secondary schools program. Authorizes the continued enrollment of such dependents at participating schools for the remainder of a school year, notwithstanding a change in the status of such member or employee that would otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent under the program.(Sec. 352) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a single school board for all domestic dependent schools in Puerto Rico and a single school board for all such schools in Guam.Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues - Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system for DOD as required under current law.(Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent study of DOD secondary inventory and parts shortages affecting readiness.(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the inventory and control of DOD military equipment as of the end of FY 1999. Requires DOD Inspector General review and comments.(Sec. 364) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of restructured sustainment and reengineered logistics product support practices within DOD to determine whether such practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment supplies to military units and installations should it ever be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).(Sec. 365) Directs the Comptroller General to review the impact that the consistent lack of adequate funding for real property maintenance of military installations during the five-year period ending on December 31, 1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of military personnel and their dependents, and the infrastructure on military installations.(Sec. 366) Directs the military department Secretaries to establish logistics standards for sustained military operations. Requires such standards to be considered in establishing annual DOD funding requirements.Subtitle H: Information Technology Issues - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to install telephone lines and other necessary telecommunications equipment in the private residences of designated persons providing voluntary services, and to pay charges for the use of such equipment. Requires the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report to Congress.(Sec. 372) Authorizes DOD disbursing officials to provide operating funds to automated teller machines on naval vessels and to accept transfers of funds made through such machines.(Sec. 373) Designates the Department of the Navy as the lead agency for the development and implementation of a Smart Card (a credit card-size device containing certain personal identifying information and technology) program for DOD. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to each establish Smart Card project offices within their departments, and to coordinate their activities with the lead agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a senior coordinating group to develop and implement DOD-wide interoperability standards for the use of Smart Card technology and a plan to use such technology to enhance readiness and improve business processes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to establish a business plan to implement the use of Smart Cards in one major naval region of the United States in the area of the U.S. Atlantic Command and one in the area of the U.S. Pacific Command. Earmarks funds authorized under this title for the increased use of such cards and for system conversion to meet such technology. Repeals a provision of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 requiring the establishment of an Automated Identification Technology Office.(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress evaluating the option of DOD using the Smart Card as a Public-Private Key Infrastructure authentication device carrier.Subtitle I: Other Matters - Extends to military honor guards and law enforcement agencies (currently, only veterans' organizations) the authority of the Secretary of the Army to lend M-1 rifles (currently, obsolete or condemned rifles). Directs the Comptroller General to review the exercise of such authority and report review findings to Congress.(Sec. 382) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend: (1) through FY 2000 a pilot program of using commercial sources to improve the collection of DOD claims under aircraft engine warranties; and (2) the reporting dates under such program.(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Chairman of the Retirement Home Board and the Director of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to apply for and accept a direct grant from the Secretary of the Interior under the National Historic Preservation Act for maintaining, repairing, and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of such Home that are included on the National Register of Historic Places.(Sec. 384) Authorizes the above Board to lease (currently, only to sell) certain real property in the District of Columbia near the Home. Provides additional terms and conditions for such sale or lease.(Sec. 385) Prohibits Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam from being considered as a point of origin in any test or demonstration program of DOD regarding the moving of household goods of military personnel.Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2000. Revises such minimum end strength levels.Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.(Sec. 413) Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for military technicians (dual status).(Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves.Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for military personnel.Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 1999 through 2002, to recall to active duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to fill staff positions normally filled by active-duty aviators. Requires release from such active duty period after one year. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the use of such authority.(Sec. 502) Increases from 35 to 55 the number of officers authorized to be frocked (to wear the insignia of a higher grade after selection for promotion to such grade but before the promotion date).(Sec. 504) Requires active-duty or retired officers serving on boards of inquiry to be serving in a grade above major or lieutenant commander, or, in the case of the senior officer of such board, in a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander, and to be senior to the grade of any officer being considered. Excludes retired officers serving on such boards from general and flag officer limitations. Requires officers serving on retention boards for reserve active status officers to hold the same grades as above and to be: (1) in the same armed force as the officer being considered; and (2) senior in rank to such officer.(Sec. 505) Authorizes a promotion selection board to recommend for promotion an officer from below the promotion zone for that position when the number of officers recommended is less than one.(Sec. 506) Prohibits civil employment for regular and reserve officers serving on active duty under a call or order for a period in excess of 270 (currently 180) days.(Sec. 507) Exempts Retiree Council members from recalled retiree limitations.(Sec. 509) Extends through FY 2003 certain provisions concerning a required competitive selection procedure for the designation of joint four-star officers. Revises, as a result of such extension, limitations on the authorized number of active-duty generals and flag officers.Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delay the separation or retirement of a reserve officer until the completion of court-martial disciplinary proceedings; and (2) order a reserve member to active duty, with his or her consent, to receive authorized medical care, to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, or to complete a required DOD health care study.(Sec. 513) Makes ineligible for promotion a reserve officer serving in an educational delay status in order to attend an approved educational institution in order to receive advanced training, when such training is subsidized by the military department concerned. Makes such provision retroactive with respect to promotion boards convened before the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 514) Requires a major or lieutenant commander who has twice failed to be selected for promotion to be removed from the reserve active status list on the later of the first day of the month after such member completes 20 years of service (current law) or seven months after the President approves the report of the board which considered such officer for the second time.(Sec. 515) Excludes from the computation of creditable years of service for a reserve officer service performed as a reserve commissioned officer while in a program of advanced education to receive the first professional degree required for appointment, designation, or assignment within various military medical specialties, or as a chaplain or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the officer commences initial active or reserve service in the specialty resulting from such degree.(Sec. 516) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain reserve officer chaplains until age 67 (currently age 60).(Sec. 517) Authorizes reserve personnel to travel in a space required status on military aircraft between the member's home and place of inactive-duty training outside the United States when there is no available road or rail transportation.Subtitle C: Military Technicians - Authorizes the Secretary to continue to pay compensation to a military technician (dual status) for up to 12 months (currently six months) after such individual loses membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss was not due to the failure to meet military standards.(Sec. 522) Requires military technicians (dual status) of the Army and Air Reserve who lose such dual status to either: (1) be separated from duty, if eligible for an unreduced annuity at the time; or (2) apply for either a return to dual status or employment in a civil service position that is not a technician position. Provides restrictions for a technician who continues employment as a non-dual status technician. Requires non-dual status technicians so employed who are eligible for an unreduced annuity to be separated from service within six months after enactment of this section. Requires technicians who are not eligible for an unreduced annuity to apply for either a dual status position or a civil service position that is not a technician position. Entitles to a retirement annuity an employee who was hired: (1) as a military reserve technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who is separated from such service after becoming 50 years of age and completing 25 years of service by reason of being separated from the Selected Reserve or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for such position; or (2) as a military technician (dual status) after such date and who is separated from such service or ceases to hold the necessary military grade after completing 25 years of service as a dual status technician or reaching 50 years of age and completing 20 years of such service. Entitles such personnel to appropriate disability retirement.(Sec. 523) Revises provisions concerning non-dual status technicians to: (1) define such a technician, among other things, as an individual who, when hired, was not required to maintain membership in the Selected Reserve; (2) prohibit, as of October 1, 2007, the total number of such technicians employed by the Army and Air Force Reserve from exceeding 175; and (3) prohibit, as of October 1, 2001, the total number of such technicians employed by the National Guard from exceeding 1,950.(Sec. 524) Revises provisions relating to National Guard technicians to: (1) require persons so employed to be dual status technicians and to hold the military grade specified for that position; (2) allow a person to be employed as a non-dual status technician if the position occupied has been designated to be filled only by a non-dual status technician; (3) implement the ceiling on such positions as established in the previous section; (4) provide for the prompt separation of persons who lose their dual status or cease to hold the necessary military grade; and (5) prohibit the Secretary concerned from prescribing a qualification applicable to such technicians (for Federal recognition purposes) that is not applicable to other members of the National Guard in the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or organization involved.(Sec. 526) Directs the Secretary to review the Army process for developing estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations required for civilian personnel of the Army generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians in particular. Requires appropriate revision to such process.(Sec. 527) Sets forth the end strengths as of the end of FY 2000 for civilian employees who are non-dual status technicians of the Army or Air Force Reserve and National Guards.Subtitle D: Service Academies - Requires the Secretary of the Army to take necessary action to ensure that the U.S. Military Academy is in compliance with the cadet end strength limitation not later than the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to vary such cadet limitation by: (1) up to five percent for the 1999-2000 year; and (2) up to two and one-half percent for the 2000-2001 year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a cadet or midshipman end strength limitation by up to one percent in any academic year.(Sec. 532) Directs the Secretary concerned to retire a military academy superintendent within that department upon the termination of a detail to such position. Requires those accepting a superintendent position to agree to accept retirement at the end of their detail. Excludes all officers serving as such superintendents from annual limits on three- and four-star generals or flag officers.(Sec. 533) Provides the authorized military grade for persons serving as Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy and Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy.(Sec. 534) Increases from: (1) 35 to 50 percent the amount of reimbursement authorized to be waived by the Secretary concerned for educational costs of foreign students at U.S. service academies; and (2) five to 20 the number of such students for whom all such costs may be waived.(Sec. 535) Authorizes up to 24 (currently ten) cadets or midshipmen from each service academy to participate in a service academy foreign exchange program. Increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the authorized fiscal year expenditures for each academy under such program.Subtitle E: Education and Training - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and instruction at senior military colleges of persons from foreign countries (the DOD international student program). Directs the Secretary to recommend students to such colleges. Requires the student to pay instruction costs. Provides FY 2000 funding for other program costs.(Sec. 542) Authorizes the Commandant of the United States Army War College to confer the degree of master of strategic studies.(Sec. 543) Authorizes the Commander of the Air University to confer the degrees of master of strategic studies and master of military operational art and science.(Sec. 544) Revises generally provisions concerning the award of reserve service credit for participation in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program.(Sec. 545) Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1999) the authority of the Secretary concerned to allow graduate students to receive financial assistance under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.(Sec. 546) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC cadets selected for advanced training.(Sec. 547) Makes yearly amounts for the National Guard Challenge Program in excess of $62.5 million available for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.(Sec. 548) Requires the report from the Secretary to Congress concerning operation of the Selected Reserve educational assistance program under the Montgomery GI Bill to be submitted biennially (currently, annually).(Sec. 549) Prohibits the availability of DOD and certain other funding to a covered educational entity if the Secretary determines that such entity has a policy or practice that either prohibits or prevents access to such campus for military recruitment purposes. Provides exceptions. Directs the Secretary to publish, every six months, a list of educational institutions currently ineligible for contracts or grants due to such determination.(Sec. 550) Includes the Coast Guard within armed forces provisions concerning funding for educational assistance benefits.Subtitle F: Reserve Component Management - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide up to $5,200 yearly in financial assistance to certain members of the Marine Corps Reserve for completion of: (1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an educational program that takes less than five years to complete; or (2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree requirements in programs that take no more than three years to complete. Outlines eligibility requirements, including selection as an officer candidate in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and completion of at least six weeks of military training. Requires graduates to serve at least five years of active duty upon graduation. Prohibits more than 1,200 individuals from participating in such program in any academic year. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to waive the period of obligated service for members unqualified for service due to a physical or mental condition that was not the result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct. Provides for the computation of creditable service for officers serving in such positions.(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve.(Sec. 553) Authorizes the JCS Chairman to designate up to ten general and flag officer positions within the unified and specified combatant commands as positions to be held only by reserve officers who are in a general or flag officer grade below lieutenant general or vice admiral. Considers each such position to be a joint duty assignment position. States that an officer serving in such position under a call or order to active duty that does not specify a period of 180 days or less shall not be counted against general and flag officer limitations. Outlines procedures for filling vacancies in such positions.(Sec. 554) Revises the authorized grades for the chiefs of the various reserve components and the directors of the Army and Air National Guard. Authorizes a higher grade for such individuals who are recommended by the Secretary of their military department and determined to have significant joint duty experience. Includes the officers serving in the higher grade within the numerical limitations for general and flag officers. Authorizes the Secretary, until October 1, 2002, to waive the joint duty experience requirements for such officers on a case-by-case basis, for the good of the service.(Sec. 555) Specifies the operations support and other duties authorized for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs the Secretary to review the use of such reserves and to report review results to the defense committees.(Sec. 556) Repeals a limitation on the number of reserves authorized to serve on full-time active duty in support of preparedness for responses to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction.(Sec. 557) Establishes within the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve, to be headed by a Director who: (1) has at least ten years of commissioned service; (2) is in a grade above captain; and (3) has been recommended by the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Director to report annually to such Secretary and the Secretary of Defense on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve.(Sec. 558) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to report to the Secretary on the feasibility and desirability of using National Guard facilities and electronic infrastructure to support the provision of services to veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Secretary to transmit such report to Congress, with comments.Subtitle G: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the: (1) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals recognized by the Secretary of the Navy for service during World War II or Korea; and (2) Coast Guard Commendation Medal to Mark H. Freeman of Seattle, Washington, for heroic achievements during a rescue operation in September, 1956.(Sec. 562) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Alfred Rascon for valor during the Vietnam conflict.(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to eliminate the backlog of requests made to DOD for the issuance or replacement of military decorations for current or former military personnel. Requires a backlog status report from the Secretary to Congress.(Sec. 564) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to award the Navy Combat Ribbon for participation in ground or surface combat during any period after December 6, 1941, and before March 1, 1961, if a member has not been previously recognized for such participation.(Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS in recognition of courage and skill throughout World War II.Subtitle H: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Requests each local educational agency to provide to DOD the same access to secondary school students and related enrollment information as is generally provided to post-secondary educational institutions or prospective employers.(Sec. 572) Increases from 180 to 365 days the period during which a potential recruit may be extended in the delayed entry program.(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary of the Army to establish a pilot program to assess whether the Army could increase the number and level of qualifications of Army inductees by encouraging recruits to pursue higher education or vocational or technical training before their induction. Authorizes under the program a delayed entry of up to two years in order to pursue such education or training, with a monthly allowance of $150 for persons enlisted in the Individual Ready Reserve during such time. Authorizes the program from October 1, 1999, to September 30, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.(Sec. 574) Authorizes the use for public relations purposes of advertising materials developed for military recruitment and retention.Subtitle I: Matters Relating to Missing Persons - Prohibits the disclosure of the contents of a record of a debriefing, made by an authorized U.S. official, of a missing person returned to U.S. control during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on February 10, 1996.(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary to make every reasonable effort to search for, recover, and identify the remains of U.S. servicemen lost while engaged in flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations (including in New Guinea) during World War II. Authorizes the Secretary of State to provide diplomatic intervention in countries of such area, if requested by the Secretary.Subtitle J: Other Matters - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to authorize special courts-martial to adjudicate and execute punishments which include confinement for up to one year (currently, six months).(Sec. 578) Allows two or more persons (currently, no less than three) to perform honor guard detail duty at funerals of veterans. Requires at least two members of such detail to be military personnel, and at least one member to be of the same service branch as the deceased veteran. Revises honor guard detail requirements (renaming it a funeral honors detail). Requires such detail, at a minimum, to perform the folding and presentation of the flag and the playing of Taps (requiring a recorded version of such song when no bugler is present). Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide certain support services to such details. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any requirements of this section to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, a contingency operation, or other military requirements (requiring notification to the defense committees). Includes decedents who were members of the Selected Reserve (currently, only veterans) among those eligible for such a funeral. Authorizes the acceptance of voluntary services of veterans support organizations with respect to such details. Authorizes members of the Army or Air National Guard to be ordered to perform such duty, with their consent and the consent of the governor or other appropriate official of the State involved. Requires a minimum of two hours of such duty in order to receive service credit and any authorized allowance. Authorizes members of the Ready Reserve to be ordered to such duty, with their consent, with the appropriate service crediting when performing a minimum of two hours on such detail. Authorizes medical treatment and disability benefits for any illness or injury incurred by a member during, or while traveling to or from, such detail. Authorizes a $50 allowance for members on such detail.(Sec. 579) Requires the National Guard Challenge Program to include at least a 22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential monitoring period. Increases the annual funding limit for such program.(Sec. 580) Authorizes the Secretary to conduct through the military departments a science, mathematics, and technology education improvement program known as the Department of Defense STARBASE Program in order to improve the knowledge and skills of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in such subject areas. Requires the establishment of at least 25 academies under the program, with specified academic requirements.(Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service by members who are discharged from such service or transfer to a reserve component during the period between January 1 and June 30, 2000.(Sec. 582) Requires the Navy Council of Personnel Boards to be professionally staffed by the Secretary of the Navy.(Sec. 583) Adds to the military welfare societies authorized to provide services to overseas U.S. military personnel certain overseas entities that promote understanding and tolerance between U.S. military personnel and the people of the host nation.(Sec. 584) Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to an eligible civilian provider of child care or youth program services that furnishes such services for military personnel and Federal employees if the Secretary determines that providing such assistance: (1) is in DOD's best interest; (2) enables supplementation or expansion of the furnishing of such services for military installations while not supplanting or replacing such services; and (3) ensures compliance with DOD standards for furnishing such care. Outlines provider eligibility requirements. Authorizes the use of any DOD-appropriated O&M funds to provide such assistance. Allows the Secretary to authorize participation in such programs by children and youth under 19 years of age who are not military or Federal employee dependents.(Sec. 585) Requires the Comptroller General to study the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between a military dependent who is a victim or perpetrator of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse and his or her therapist, counselor, or other person providing professional services. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress and the Secretary on the study's results, and a report from the Secretary to Congress on actions taken to provide the maximum possible protection of such confidentiality.(Sec. 586) Requires the lowest-ranking general or flag officer in the chain of command of a member to manage such member's deployment when the total number of days in which such member has been deployed out of the preceding 365 days is 182 or more. Limits such deployment to 220 out of the preceding 365 days unless a general or admiral in such chain of command approves a longer deployment. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe a definition of deployment other than that prescribed under this section, allowing such definition to take effect 90 days after notification of the defense committees. Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a $100 per diem allowance for members deployed in excess of 250 days out of the preceding 365 days (with a national security waiver of such allowance).Subtitle K: Domestic Violence - Directs the Secretary to establish the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, requiring the Task Force to submit to the Secretary a long-term strategic plan to more effectively address matters relating to domestic violence within the military. Requires the Task Force to undertake certain reviews concerning such domestic violence and to report annually to the Secretary on its activities and the activities of the military departments in response to such violence.(Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide funds and other incentives to commanders of military installations to: (1) coordinate efforts between military and civilian law enforcement authorities for improving policies, training, and responses to, and tracking of, cases involving military domestic violence; (2) improve court procedures for cases involving such violence; (3) develop, enlarge, and implement victims' services programs and primary prevention programs; and (4) improve the response of health care providers to incidents of domestic violence.(Sec. 593) Directs the Secretary to prescribe standard guidelines (and related requirements) to be used by the Secretaries of the military departments for negotiating agreements with civilian law enforcement authorities relating to acts of domestic violence within the military.(Sec. 594) Directs the Secretary to establish a central database of information on the incidence of domestic violence involving military personnel. Requires the Secretaries concerned to maintain and report annually to the administrator of such database certain information concerning reported incidents.Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2000 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 4.8 percent, effective January 1, 2000, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the rates of such pay for commissioned and warrant officers within specified grades. Requires increases in basic pay for each of FY 2001 through 2006 by a specified percentage based on the Economic Cost Index.(Sec. 603) Earmarks specified military personnel funds authorized under this Act for a FY 2000 increase in the basic allowance for military housing inside the United States.Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2000 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 1999 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces.(Sec. 614) Requires air battle managers entitled to aviation career incentive pay to receive the higher of such pay or the amount they were receiving prior to such entitlement.(Sec. 615) Revises provisions authorizing special pay to certain aviation career officers agreeing to extend their period of active duty to: (1) include officers below pay grade O- 7 (currently O-6); (2) remove the requirement that such officers be in a critical aviation specialty and have completed at least six but less that 13 years of active duty; (3) repeal the lower alternative amount of such bonus for officers agreeing to serve for three additional years or less; (4) allow the term of the agreement to be extended so long as it does not extend beyond the period on which the officer would complete 25 years of aviation service (currently, 14 years of commissioned service); and (5) repeal certain content requirements for an annual report from the Secretaries concerned on such special pay authority.(Sec. 616) Authorizes additional special pay for veterinarians in the armed forces and the Public Health Service who have been awarded a diploma in a specialty recognized by the American Veterinarian Medical Association.(Sec. 617) Increases: (1) the rate of diving duty special pay; (2) the reenlistment bonus for active-duty personnel (lowering from 21 to 17 months the required minimum period of active duty before eligibility for such bonus); and (3) the critical skills enlistment bonus (authorizing the lump-sum payment of such bonus).(Sec. 620) Amends provisions authorizing the payment of a Selected Reserve enlistment bonus to: (1) eliminate the six-year minimum period required to receive such bonus; and (2) increase such bonus from $5,000 to $8,000.(Sec. 621) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard reserve personnel assigned to high priority units of the Selected Reserve.(Sec. 622) Reduces from three to two years the minimum period of Army enlistment in a critical skill area before eligibility for an enlistment bonus.(Sec. 623) Authorizes payment of a prior service enlistment bonus to certain members of the Selected Reserve attaining or occupying positions designated as critically short.(Sec. 624) Increases: (1) certain special pay and authorized bonuses for nuclear-qualified officers; and (2) the foreign language proficiency special pay.(Sec. 626) Authorizes special pay for certain special warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty in such service for at least one additional year. Limits such payment to $15,000 for each year under the agreement. Prohibits such agreement from extending beyond the date on which the officer would complete 14 years of active commissioned service. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 627) Authorizes the payment of special pay of up to $50,000 for surface warfare officers who agree to remain on active duty to complete one or more tours of duty to which such officer may be ordered to serve as a department head on a surface ship. Requires the pro rata repayment of such bonus for periods not served.(Sec. 628) Authorizes the payment of career enlisted flyer incentive pay to enlisted personnel who: (1) are entitled to basic pay or inactive duty training pay; (2) hold or are training for a career enlisted occupational or flyer specialty; and (3) are qualified for aviation service. Outlines operational flying duty requirements. Provides for the monthly amounts of such pay, which increases with the years of creditable aviation service performed. Prohibits such pay for members already receiving either hazardous duty incentive pay or diving duty special pay.(Sec. 629) Authorizes the payment of judge advocate continuation pay for judge advocates who have completed their prior service commitment and agree to remain on active duty in such service for an additional period. Limits such pay to $60,000. Requires the pro rata repayment of such pay for periods not served. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the need for additional incentives to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates.Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the Secretary concerned, if transient Government housing is not available, to provide lodging-in-kind to reserve personnel performing training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances.(Sec. 632) Authorizes the payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making their first permanent change of duty station.(Sec. 633) Authorizes the use of any airport in the United States at which travel can be arranged at the same or lower cost in connection with emergency leave travel for military personnel. (Currently, only travel from the closest airport is authorized.)Subtitle D: Retired Pay Reform - Limits the application of a reduction in retired pay currently required for individuals who first became members of the armed forces after July 31, 1986, and retired with less than 30 years of creditable service to only those who have elected to receive a bonus added by this section. Makes eligible for such bonus those members who became members after the above date, have 15 years or more of active duty, and execute written agreements to complete at least five more years of continuous active duty service. Makes such bonus a lump-sum payment of $30,000.Subtitle E: Other Matters Relating to Military Retirees and Survivors - Repeals a Federal provision limiting the amount of retired pay a retired officer may receive while employed in a civilian position.(Sec. 652) Extends authority for the presentation of the U.S. flag upon retirement to: (1) reserve personnel transferred from an active status or discharged after completion of eligibility for reserve retired pay; and (2) commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.(Sec. 653) Provides disability retirement or separation for members with at least eight years of active service for pre-existing conditions incurred before the member became entitled to basic pay in such member's current period of active duty. Provides a special rule for Selected Reserve members with physical disabilities not incurred in the line of duty.(Sec. 654) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a credit toward Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage for months covered by premium payments made during an SBP open enrollment period for persons not previously participating in the SBP.(Sec. 655) Prohibits as of October 1, 2008, the reduction in military retired pay for persons electing to participate in a military annuity program for any month after the later of: (1) 30 years during which such retired pay is reduced; or (2) the month during which the annuitant reaches 70 years of age.(Sec. 656) Extends eligibility for an annuity for the surviving spouses of certain deceased former reserve personnel to those surviving spouses of individuals who died before March 21, 1974, while entitled to retired pay (current law) or who were members of a reserve component before October 1,1978 (currently, during the period between September 21, 1972, and October 1, 1978) and who would have been entitled to retired pay but for the fact of being under 60 years of age. Makes permanent (currently terminates on September 30, 2001) the authority for the payment of such annuities.(Sec. 657) Provides for the effectuation of an intended SBP annuity to a former spouse when not accomplished by a member due to his or her death within 21 days after entering into an agreement incident to a divorce to elect such annuity.(Sec. 658) Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the following monthly amounts to disabled military retirees who completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service: (1) $300 for any month for which the retiree has a service-connected disability rated as total; (2) $200 for months in which such rating is 90 percent; and (3) $100 for months in which such rating is 80 or 70 percent.Subtitle F: Eligibility to Participate in the Thrift Savings Plan - Authorizes participation in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for Ready Reserve members of any pay status. Authorizes all active- duty military personnel to participate in such Plan and to contribute participatory amounts to the Thrift Savings Fund, limiting the maximum annual contribution to five percent of the member's basic pay, as well as any special or incentive pay received. Prohibits matching agency contributions. Adds a representative of the armed forces to the Employee Thrift Advisory Council.(Sec. 662) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into an agreement with a member to make Fund contributions if such member: (1) is in a critical specialty; and (2) commits to continue to serve on active duty in that specialty for six years.(Sec. 663) Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the authority under this Subtitle if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to so participate would place an excessive burden on the administrative capacity of the Thrift Savings Board to accommodate participants. Makes the effectiveness of this Subtitle contingent on the President proposing, and Congress enacting, legislation which would offset the cost of such member participation.Subtitle G: Other Matters - Authorizes the lump-sum payment of accrued unused annual leave upon a member's reenlistment into the armed forces.(Sec. 672) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, under certain circumstances, to pay a per diem allowance to certain military technicians (dual status) serving on active duty without pay outside the United States.(Sec. 673) Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress assessing the effect that additional pay and benefits have had on military recruitment and retention.(Sec. 674) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to carry out a supplemental food benefits program for members on duty at stations outside the United States and eligible civilians accompanying such personnel. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if requested by the Secretary, to provide technical assistance in carrying out the program.(Sec. 675) Makes inapplicable to members deployed in a contingency operation or similar operational mission a required limitation on the amount of tuition costs that will be paid for education or training during off-duty periods.(Sec. 676) Includes within the educational loan repayment program members of the Selected Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserve when not operating as a service in the Navy.(Sec. 677) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel receiving special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care Services - Directs the Secretary, after specified consultation, to establish in DOD a pharmacy benefits program wh