[House Report 118-557]
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118th Congress }                                          { Report 
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2nd Session   }                                          { 118-557

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            DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2025

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                              R E P O R T

                                 OF THE

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                        [TO ACCOMPANY H.R. 8774]

[GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]


 June 17, 2024.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
              
              


118th Congress }                                          { Report 
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2nd Session   }                                          { 118-557

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            DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2025

                               __________

                              R E P O R T

                                 OF THE

                      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                        [TO ACCOMPANY H.R. 8774]

[GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT]


 June 17, 2024.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
              
              
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Bill Totals......................................................     1
Committee Budget Review Process..................................     3
Introduction.....................................................     3
Definition of Program, Project, and Activity.....................     5
Reprogramming Guidance...........................................     5
Funding Increases................................................     6
Congressional Special Interest Items.............................     6
Classified Annex.................................................     6
Committee Recommendations by Major Category......................     6
  Active, Reserve, and National Guard Military Personnel.........     6
  Operation and Maintenance......................................     6
  Procurement....................................................     6
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.....................     7
  Defense Health Program.........................................     8
Pay Raise for Military Personnel.................................     8
Innovation.......................................................     8
Defense Innovation Unit..........................................     9
Navy Littoral Combat Ships.......................................    10
Prohibition on Air Force Divestments.............................    10
Air Force Reoptimization for Great Power Competition.............    11
Civilian Workforce Optimization..................................    11
Civilian Pay and Contract Personnel Budget Justification 
  Materials......................................................    12
Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform...........    12
Space Force Overhead Costs.......................................    13
Space Force Mission Area Budget Report...........................    13
Pacific Deterrence Initiative Budgeting..........................    14
ISR Requirements.................................................    14
Climate Change...................................................    14
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility..................    14
Replicator.......................................................    15
Defense Industrial Base Health and Privity of Contract...........    15
Alternative Parts for Commercial Derivative Military Aircraft....    16
Financial Audit..................................................    16
Cybersecurity Risks from Commercial Information Technology.......    17
TITLE I. MILITARY PERSONNEL......................................    18
  Military Personnel Overview....................................    20
  Summary of End Strength........................................    20
  Overall Active End Strength....................................    20
  Overall Selected Reserve End Strength..........................    20
  Summary of Military End Strength...............................    20
  Reprogramming Guidance for Military Personnel Accounts.........    21
  Military Personnel Special Interest Items......................    21
  End Strength and Recruiting....................................    21
  Military Personnel, Army.......................................    21
  Military Personnel, Navy.......................................    24
  Military Personnel, Marine Corps...............................    27
  Military Personnel, Air Force..................................    30
  Military Personnel, Space Force................................    33
  Reserve Personnel, Army........................................    36
  Reserve Personnel, Navy........................................    38
  Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps................................    40
  Reserve Personnel, Air Force...................................    42
  National Guard Personnel, Army.................................    44
  National Guard Personnel, Air Force............................    46
TITLE II. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE..............................    48
  Reprogramming Guidance for Operation and Maintenance Accounts..    50
  Reprogramming Guidance for Special Operations Command..........    51
  Operation and Maintenance Special Interest Items...............    51
  Operation and Maintenance Budget Execution Data................    51
  Quarterly Operation and Maintenance Updates....................    52
  Depot and Industrial Facility Modernization....................    52
  Strategic Seaport Program......................................    52
  Electronic Device Detection in Sensitive Compartmented 
    Information Facilities and Special Access Program Facilities.    53
  Private Sector Employment Verification.........................    53
  Advertising....................................................    53
  Military Criminal Investigative Organizations..................    54
  Community Partnerships to Reduce Food Insecurity...............    54
  Pueblo of Isleta...............................................    54
  Vieques and Culebra............................................    54
  Photovoltaic Modules...........................................    55
  Partnership with Tribal Nations................................    55
  Meals Ready-to-Eat War Reserve.................................    55
  Women, Peace, and Security.....................................    56
  Operation and Maintenance, Army................................    56
    Credentialing Assistance Program.............................    60
    Ultra-Lightweight Camouflage Net Systems.....................    60
  Operation and Maintenance, Navy................................    60
    Ship Maintenance.............................................    64
    Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program.................    64
    Kennebec River Federal Navigation Channel....................    64
  Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps........................    64
  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force...........................    66
    Pilot Shortfall..............................................    70
  Operation and Maintenance, Space Force.........................    70
  Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide........................    72
    Expeditionary Fuel Systems for Contested Logistics...........    77
    All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.........................    77
    Incentive for Nontraditional Contract Expertise..............    77
    Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative............    77
    Emergencies and Extraordinary Expenses.......................    77
    Quarterly Reports on Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility.......    78
    Quarterly Briefings on Deployments of United States Armed 
      Forces.....................................................    78
    Foreign Bases................................................    78
    Notification of Pausing Assistance...........................    78
    Defense Security Cooperation Agency Programs.................    78
    Taiwan Defense Articles Report...............................    81
    Ukraine......................................................    81
    Drawdown Reporting Requirement...............................    81
  Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund..............................    81
  Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve........................    82
  Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve........................    84
  Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve................    86
  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve...................    88
    Logistics and Staging for Indo-Pacific Operations............    90
  Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard.................    90
  Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard..................    93
  United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces............    95
  Environmental Restoration, Army................................    95
  Environmental Restoration, Navy................................    95
  Environmental Restoration, Air Force...........................    95
  Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide........................    95
  Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites.........    95
  Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid.................    95
  Cooperative Threat Reduction Account...........................    96
Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Account..    96
TITLE III. PROCUREMENT...........................................    97
  Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts................    99
  Funding Increases..............................................    99
  Procurement Special Interest Items.............................    99
  Aircraft Procurement, Army.....................................    99
    MQ-lC Gray Eagle 25M Aircraft for the Army National Guard....   102
  Missile Procurement, Army......................................   102
  Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army.......   105
  Procurement of Ammunition, Army................................   108
    Smokeless Gunpowder..........................................   111
  Other Procurement, Army........................................   111
    Common Tactical Truck Analysis of Alternatives...............   117
  Aircraft Procurement, Navy.....................................   117
    Navy Adversary Aircraft for Training Purposes................   121
    E-2D Advanced Hawkeye........................................   121
  Weapons Procurement, Navy......................................   121
  Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps...............   125
  Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy..............................   128
    45-Day Shipbuilding Review...................................   131
    Submarine Construction.......................................   131
    Frigate Construction.........................................   132
    Medium Landing Ship..........................................   132
  Other Procurement, Navy........................................   132
  Procurement, Marine Corps......................................   139
  Aircraft Procurement, Air Force................................   143
  Missile Procurement, Air Force.................................   148
  Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force...........................   151
  Other Procurement, Air Force...................................   153
  Procurement, Space Force.......................................   157
    National Security Space Launch...............................   159
  Procurement, Defense-Wide......................................   159
    Defense Supply Chain Packaging...............................   163
    Ground Mobility Tactical Vehicles for Special Operations 
      Forces.....................................................   163
  Defense Production Act Purchases...............................   163
    Purchase Commitments.........................................   163
    Strategic and Critical Rare Earths...........................   164
    Chemical Supply Chain and Environmental Protection Agency 
      Engagement.................................................   164
    National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account.................   165
TITLE IV. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION.............   166
  Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts................   168
  Funding Increases..............................................   168
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Special Interest 
    Items........................................................   168
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army...............   168
    Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and 
      Information Advantage......................................   182
    Nitrocellulose Production....................................   182
    Heavy Vehicle Simulator......................................   182
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy...............   182
     Secure Testbed for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles...........   195
    Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure............................   195
    Coastal Environmental Research...............................   195
    Adaptive Future Force........................................   196
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force..........   196
    Fighter Aircraft Engine Development..........................   210
    Sentinel.....................................................   210
    Collaborative Combat Aircraft................................   211
    Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation...........   211
    Long Range Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance, and 
      Reconnaissance.............................................   212
    Ultra-Wideband Antenna Systems...............................   212
    Semiconductor Authentication.................................   212
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force........   212
    Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global.............................   217
    Operational Commercial Space Domain Awareness................   217
    Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking..........   217
    Resilient Global Positioning System..........................   218
    Extended Launch Vehicle Capabilities.........................   219
    Space Test Program...........................................   219
    Quarterly Reports............................................   219
    Cislunar Space...............................................   220
  Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide.......   220
    Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing....   236
    Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Activities.   236
    National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity.....   237
    Armstrong Test Facility......................................   237
    Light Detection and Ranging..................................   237
    Loitering Munitions..........................................   238
    Semiconductor Supply Chain Security..........................   238
    Digital Supply Chain Management..............................   238
    Combatant Craft Heavy........................................   239
  Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense.......................   239
TITLE V. REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS..........................   240
  Defense Working Capital Funds..................................   240
  National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund....................   240
TITLE VI. OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS...................   241
  Defense Health Program.........................................   241
    Reprogramming Guidance for the Defense Health Program........   244
    Carryover....................................................   244
    Stabilizing and Improving the Military Health System.........   245
    Military Medical Manpower....................................   245
    Electronic Health Records....................................   246
    Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Program........................   246
  Metastatic Cancer Research.....................................   247
  Peer-Reviewed ALS Research Program.............................   248
  Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program......................   248
  Combat Readiness Medical Research Program......................   248
  Peer-Reviewed Toxic Exposures Research Program.................   249
  Peer-Reviewed Arthritis Research...............................   249
  Medical Research...............................................   250
  Medical Health Professionals and Training......................   250
  Service Dogs...................................................   250
  Arthroscopic Surgical Training for Military Orthopedic Surgeons   251
  Oral Rehydration Solutions.....................................   251
  Incidence of Cancer Among Active Duty Aviation Pilots..........   251
  Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense.............   252
  Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense.........   252
  Office of the Inspector General................................   253
TITLE VII. RELATED AGENCIES......................................   254
  National and Military Intelligence Programs....................   254
  Classified Annex...............................................   254
  Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System 
    Fund.........................................................   254
  Intelligence Community Management Account......................   254
TITLE VIII. GENERAL, PROVISIONS..................................   255
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS..................   264
  Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives..........   264
  Program Duplication............................................   264
  Transfer of Funds..............................................   264
  Rescissions....................................................   266
  Disclosure of Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending 
    Items........................................................   266
  Changes in the Application of Existing Law.....................   266
  Appropriations Not Authorized by Law...........................   278
  Comparison with the Budget Resolution..........................   279
  Five-Year Outlay Projections...................................   279
  Financial Assistance to State and Local Governments............   279
  Committee Hearings.............................................   279
  Full Committee Votes...........................................   281
  Minority Views.................................................   301



118th Congress }                                          { Report 
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2nd Session   }                                          { 118-557

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            DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2025

                                _______
                                

 June 17, 2024.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

           Mr. Calvert of California, from the Committee on 
                Appropriations, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 8774]

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense, and for other 
purposes, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.

                              BILL TOTALS

    Appropriations for most military functions of the 
Department of Defense are provided for in the accompanying bill 
for fiscal year 2025. This bill does not provide appropriations 
for military construction, military family housing, civil 
defense, and military nuclear warheads, for which requirements 
are considered in connection with other appropriations Acts.
    The fiscal year 2025 President's budget request for 
activities funded in the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act totals $833,053,000,000 in new budget obligational 
authority.


                    COMMITTEE BUDGET REVIEW PROCESS

    During its review of the fiscal year 2025 President's 
budget request and execution of appropriations from prior 
fiscal years, the Subcommittee on Defense held five hearings 
and ten classified sessions during the period of March 2024 to 
June 2024. Hearings were held in open session, except when the 
security classification of the material to be discussed 
presented no alternative but to conduct those hearings in 
executive or closed session.

                              INTRODUCTION

    The Committee recommendation for fiscal year 2025 
Department of Defense discretionary funding is 
$833,053,000,000, which exceeds the President's budget request 
by $151,879,000.
    The Committee recommendation adheres to the overall defense 
discretionary spending limit imposed by the Fiscal 
Responsibility Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-5), which allowed 
for one percent growth over fiscal year 2024 discretionary 
spending levels.
    The prescribed defense topline, which fails to keep pace 
with inflation, along with a deteriorating global security 
environment and delays and cost overruns in several key weapon 
system acquisitions, posed a challenge for the Committee in 
balancing funding for the Nation's near-term and future defense 
needs.
    In the past year, the United States' adversaries have acted 
with impunity, pursuing their objectives without fear of 
consequences or concern for the Administration's strategy of 
integrated deterrence. The People's Republic of China (PRC) is 
brazenly advancing towards an invasion of Taiwan by 2027, while 
rapidly producing destabilizing military capabilities. Russia 
has intensified its brutal war of aggression in Ukraine with no 
signs of relenting. Iran has directly attacked our close ally 
Israel with a massive missile barrage. Meanwhile, on the 
southern border of the United States, Chinese fentanyl 
components distributed by Mexican drug cartels have killed over 
100,000 Americans in the past year alone.
    As the world celebrates the 80th anniversary of the D-Day 
operation along the beaches of Normandy that marked the 
beginning of the end of the Nazis' authoritarian vision, the 
Committee notes with grave concern the emboldened and 
aggressive actions of today's malign actors. The resulting 
instability is likely to persist, and the Committee takes 
seriously its task to provide the resources necessary for the 
United States military to create a credible deterrent, and if 
necessary, to decisively fight and win in war.
    Maintaining the Department's deterrence posture is further 
complicated by a troubling number of critical weapon systems 
experiencing delays and cost overruns. For instance, in the 
past year, modernization of two legs of the Nation's nuclear 
triad were delayed by at least a year. The cause of these 
mounting delays is challenging to pinpoint but stem from a mix 
of technical complexity, a shrinking industrial base, and 
bureaucratic inertia within the Department.
    To address these challenges, the Committee's top priorities 
for fiscal year 2025 include strengthening the United States 
military's position against any threat presented by the PRC, 
continuing to create an innovative and modern force by rapidly 
fielding capabilities using both traditional and nontraditional 
companies, optimizing the Department's workforce and business 
operations, enhancing the military's role in countering the 
flow of illicit fentanyl and synthetic opioids, and taking care 
of servicemembers and their families.
    Given the constraints of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the 
Committee's recommendation offers the best path to achieving 
these objectives.
    The Committee recommendation builds on the investments in 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024, to increase 
America's military superiority to counter China. The bill 
increases funding for International Security Cooperation 
Programs for Taiwan to $200,000,000; provides a $400,000,000 
increase to accelerate the delivery of the E-7 airborne early 
warning aircraft; prohibits the decommissioning of three ships; 
and prohibits the divestiture of the U-2 high altitude 
reconnaissance aircraft and certain F-15 fighter aircraft. The 
bill adds aircraft like the F-35, C-130J, Combat Rescue 
Helicopter, Blackhawk Helicopter, and MQ-1C Gray Eagle for the 
National Guard.
    To build on the foundational innovation measures created in 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024, the 
Committee recommendation continues to prioritize fostering a 
culture of innovation within the Department. The Committee 
prioritizes equipping our servicemembers with the best, most 
effective weapons and systems; ensuring these weapons and 
systems get to the warfighter as quickly as possible and avoid 
a ``Valley of Death''; and increasing competition by enabling 
nontraditional companies, including small and medium sized 
businesses to compete.
    To enhance the Department's counterdrug role, the Committee 
recommendation builds on last year's historic investment in the 
drug interdiction and counter-drug activities account by 
providing $1,143,269,000. This includes funding provided above 
the President's budget request for counter-narcotics support, 
demand reduction, the National Guard Counter-Drug Program, and 
National Guard Counter-Drug Schools. The Committee 
recommendation also moves Mexico into the United States 
Southern Command area of responsibility, where it will get the 
attention it requires.
    To optimize the Department's workforce and business 
operations, the Committee recommendation cuts over $916,000,000 
from the budget request for the civilian workforce, while 
exempting employees engaged in shipyard, depot, mental health, 
and sexual assault and response duties. The recommendation 
provides additional guidance on the Department's reassessment 
of manpower to ensure they are taking a hard look at how to use 
technology to reduce administrative tasks.
    Finally, to take care of servicemembers and their families, 
the Committee recommendation funds a 4.5 percent pay raise for 
all military personnel and includes $2,500,000,000 in support 
of an additional 15 percent pay raise for junior enlisted 
servicemembers.
    The Committee appreciates the input from the Department of 
Defense, the Intelligence Community, Members of Congress, 
industry, think tanks, and outside stakeholders as it worked to 
draft its recommendation for fiscal year 2025.

              DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY

    For the purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177), as amended by 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation 
Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-119), and by the Budget Enforcement 
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-508), the terms ``program, project, 
and activity'' for appropriations contained in this Act shall 
be defined as the most specific level of budget items 
identified in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2025, the related classified annexes and Committee reports, and 
the P-1 and R-1 budget justification documents as subsequently 
modified by congressional action.
    The following exception to the above definition shall 
apply: the military personnel and the operation and maintenance 
accounts, for which the term ``program, project, and activity'' 
is defined as the appropriations accounts contained in the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
    At the time the President submits the budget request for 
fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Defense is directed to 
transmit to the congressional defense committees budget 
justification documents to be known as the M-1 and O-1, which 
shall identify, at the budget activity, activity group, and 
sub-activity group level, the amounts requested by the 
President to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
military personnel and operation and maintenance in any budget 
request, or amended budget request, for fiscal year 2026.

                         REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE

    The Secretary of Defense is directed to continue to follow 
the reprogramming guidance for acquisition accounts as 
specified in the report accompanying the House version of the 
Department of Defense Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 
(House Report 110-279). The dollar threshold for reprogramming 
funds shall be $15,000,000 for military personnel, operation 
and maintenance, procurement, and research, development, test 
and evaluation.
    Additionally, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 
is directed to continue to provide the congressional defense 
committees annual DD Form 1416 reports for titles I and II and 
quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports for Service 
and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of this Act. 
Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with guidance 
specified in the explanatory statement accompanying the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The Department 
shall continue to follow the limitation that prior approval 
reprogramming actions are set at either the specified dollar 
threshold or 20 percent of the procurement or research, 
development, test and evaluation line, whichever is less. These 
thresholds are cumulative from the base for reprogramming value 
as modified by any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined 
value of transfers into or out of a military personnel (M-1); 
an operation and maintenance (O-1); a procurement (P-1); or a 
research, development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds 
the identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit 
a prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense 
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior 
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special 
interest items are established elsewhere in this statement.

                           FUNDING INCREASES

    The funding increases outlined in the tables for each 
appropriation account shall be provided only for the specific 
purposes indicated in the tables.

                  CONGRESSIONAL SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

    Items for which additional funds have been provided or 
items for which funding is specifically reduced as shown in the 
project level tables or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only 
for'' or ``only to'' in this report are congressional special 
interest items for the purpose of the Base for Reprogramming 
(DD Form 1414). Each of these items must be carried on the DD 
Form 1414 at the stated amount, as specifically addressed in 
the Committee report.

                            CLASSIFIED ANNEX

    Adjustments to the classified programs are addressed in the 
classified annex accompanying this report.

              COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS BY MAJOR CATEGORY

         ACTIVE, RESERVE, AND NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY PERSONNEL

    In title I of the Act, the Committee recommends a total of 
$183,701,827,000 for active, reserve, and National Guard 
military personnel, an increase of $1,821,288,000 above the 
budget request. The Committee recommendation provides full 
funding necessary to increase basic pay for all military 
personnel by 4.5 percent, effective January 1, 2025. The 
Committee recommendation also includes $2,500,000,000 for an 
additional 15 percent pay increase for junior enlisted 
personnel.

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

    In title II of the Act, the Committee recommends a total of 
$294,188,304,000 for operation and maintenance support to the 
military Services and other Department of Defense entities, a 
decrease of $2,146,200,000 below the budget request. The 
recommended levels will fund operational training, readiness, 
and facilities needs in fiscal year 2025.

                              PROCUREMENT

    In title III of the Act, the Committee recommends a total 
of $165,335,237,000 for procurement, a decrease of 
$1,435,524,000 below the budget request.
    Major initiatives and modifications include:
    $240,000,000 for MQ-1C Gray Eagle 25M aircraft for the Army 
National Guard;
    $50,000,000 for additional modernized Army National Guard 
HMMWVs;
    $1,956,668,000 for the procurement of the B-21 Raider;
    $9,183,731,000 for 76 F-35 aircraft, which is an increase 
of $964,550,000 for two additional F-35As for the Air Force for 
a total of 44 F-35As; 13 short take-off and vertical landing 
variants for the Marine Corps, and six additional F-35Cs for a 
total of 19 carrier variants for the Navy and Marine Corps;
    $2,695,728,000 for the procurement of 15 KC-46A tanker 
aircraft;
    $1,808,472,000 for the procurement of 18 F-15EX aircraft;
    $294,095,000 for the procurement of eight MH-139 aircraft;
    $261,000,000 for the procurement of two C-130Js aircraft 
for the Air National Guard;
    $120,000,000 for the procurement of two Combat Rescue 
Helicopters;
    $400,000,000 for the acceleration of the delivery of the E-
7 aircraft;
    $261,000,000 for the procurement of two KC-130Js aircraft 
for the Navy Reserve;
    $2,149,910,000 for the procurement of 20 CH-53K 
helicopters, an increase of one aircraft and $125,000,000 above 
the President's budget request;
    $501,000,000 for the procurement of three MQ-25 aircraft;
    $31,617,413,000 for the procurement of four Navy battle 
force ships, including two DDG-51 guided missile destroyers, 
one Virginia-class fast attack submarine, and one San Antonio-
class Amphibious Transport Dock ship;
    $2,141,614,000 for the procurement of 11 National Security 
Space Launches; and
    $200,000,000 for the Israeli Cooperative Programs under the 
Missile Defense Agency.

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

    In title IV of the Act, the Committee recommends a total of 
$146,022,915,000 for research, development, test and 
evaluation, an increase of $2,866,325,000 above the budget 
request.
    Major initiatives and modifications include:
    $1,253,637,000 to support Army Future Vertical Lift, 
including design, prototyping, and risk reduction for the 
Future Long Range Assault Aircraft;
    $538,017,000 for continued development and fielding of the 
Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon;
    $2,071,152,000 for the F-35 Continuous Capability 
Development and Delivery program;
    $1,546,875,000 for the continued development of the Air 
Force's Survivable Airborne Operations Center;
    $2,654,073,000 for the continued development of the B-21 
bomber;
    $3,275,435,000 for the continued development of the Air 
Force's Next Generation Air Dominance program;
    $623,491,000 for the continued development of the Air 
Force's Long Range Standoff Weapon;
    $3,397,024,000 for the continued development of the Air 
Force's Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program;
    $903,927,000 for the continued development of the Navy's 
conventional prompt strike program;
    $775,316,000 for Navy's TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) 
mission providing survivable communications links to strategic 
forces;
    $91,008,000 for the continued development of the Marine 
Corps ground-based anti-ship missile and long-range fires 
programs;
    $1,692,869,000 for Next Generation Interceptor Development;
    $2,071,248,000 for the continued development of the Next 
Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program;
    $2,426,900,000 for the continued development of the 
Resilient Missile Warning-Missile Tracking program; and
    $300,000,000 for the Israeli Cooperative Programs under the 
Missile Defense Agency.

                         DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends a total of $41,159,039,000 for the 
Defense Health Program to support worldwide medical and dental 
services for active forces and other eligible beneficiaries.

                    PAY RAISE FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL

    The House fiscal year 2024 appropriations bill included 
funding above the budget request in support of an average 30 
percent pay increase for junior enlisted servicemembers. This 
increase was designed to mitigate the ongoing military 
recruiting crisis and to improve the quality of life for our 
most vulnerable military personnel and their families. 
Unfortunately, the Biden Administration strongly opposed this 
pay raise for our servicemembers and it was not included in the 
final conference agreement.
    For fiscal year 2025, the Committee once again supports a 
significant increase in pay for our junior enlisted 
servicemembers. The recommendation fully funds the 4.5 percent 
pay increase for all military personnel requested in the fiscal 
year 2025 President's budget request, but also provides 
$2,500,000,000 in funding above the President's budget request 
in support of an additional 15 percent pay increase for junior 
enlisted servicemembers.
    A preliminary assessment of this junior enlisted pay raise 
by the Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation commission 
indicates that it will provide a much-needed boost to 
recruitment, while also significantly improving retention. Both 
are critical to reversing a declining end strength that 
threatens the ability of our military to successfully execute 
the National Defense Strategy.
    As such, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to 
implement this pay raise, effective January 1, 2025, consistent 
with the table for `Enlisted Members' included under the header 
`Reform of Rates of Monthly Basic Pay' in the Servicemember 
Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2025, as reported by the House Committee on 
Armed Services.

                               INNOVATION

    The Committee's prioritization of innovation aims to 
deliver acquisition solutions faster to rapidly field 
capabilities to the warfighter. Through increasing competition, 
as proven throughout history, technological advancement will 
accelerate and costs will decrease. The Committee recognizes 
the Department of Defense's efforts to comprehensively advance 
innovation. As evidenced by the Committee's recommendations for 
fiscal year 2025, the Committee largely supports Rapid Defense 
Experimentation Reserve (RDER), Office of Strategic Capital 
(OSC), Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative 
Technologies (APFIT), Rapid Integrated Scalable Enterprise 
(RISE), as well as process improvement and scaling efforts such 
as Competitive Advantage Pathfinders (CAP) and Replicator.
    Further, the Committee notes that defense acquisition 
efforts at any level are subject to multiple valleys of death. 
Valleys of death mostly, but not exclusively, negatively impact 
new technologies through delays and/or stoppage and the 
Committee recognizes that valleys of death are most acutely 
complicating for small businesses and nontraditional defense 
contractors. The Committee expects the Department to remain 
alert of a valley of death often overlooked, relating to 
doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, 
personnel, facilities, and policy (DOTMLPF-P), which remains 
critical to successful employment of newly fielded 
capabilities.
    The Committee encourages the Department to continue to 
strengthen innovation initiatives that reduce risk across 
requirements and acquisition value streams. Further, the 
Committee understands the dynamism inextricably linked to 
innovation initiatives and urges the Department to 
appropriately harness energy to allow for productive end-user 
outcomes. While innovation can come from anyone or anywhere, it 
is essential to emphasize and clarify the role of the Defense 
Innovation Unit (DIU) and collaborative Service, Principal 
Staff Assistant, and Joint Staff innovation hubs. As the 
Defense Innovation Community of Entities (DICE) organizes, the 
Committee expects DIU, supported by the Secretary of Defense, 
to promote DICE synergy, apply strategic focus, and promote 
best practices in leveraging commercial technology.

                        DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT

    The Committee is encouraged that the Department of Defense 
is accelerating the provision of manpower for the Defense 
Innovation Unit (DIU) to ensure execution of increased funding 
levels. The Committee notes the Commission on Planning, 
Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform recommends the 
Department more frequently share relevant information with 
Congress and pursue enhanced, institutionalized transparency. 
The Committee appreciates DIU's efforts to improve transparency 
and regular access to information across the Department and 
with Congress. By proving and scaling transparency efforts, the 
Committee expects to gain oversight through insight rather than 
requiring reports to Congress.
    Additionally, the Committee understands the strain and 
stress that commonly accompanies innovation efforts and 
appreciates the compounding challenges presented by significant 
investment growth over short periods of time. To smooth 
volatility associated with significant growth, extend 
additional flexibility based on DIU's willingness to advance 
transparency, and encourage Service demand signals for 
technologies of interest on the near horizon, although not yet 
programmed in the budget year, the Committee includes 
$240,000,000 for transition of projects with Service commitment 
to programming not later than the second outyear.
    Finally, the Committee notes the Defense Technical 
Information Center (DTIC) maintains an innovators information 
repository specific to the small business innovation research 
program and small business technology transfer program pursuant 
to section 220 of Public Law 115-232. The Committee is 
concerned the Department, and subordinate organizations, are 
not able to identify investment or technology trends through 
the acquisition life cycle, nor does the Department have a 
comprehensive repository to query general technology offerings. 
Therefore, the Committee includes $10,000,000 for innovation 
information repository expansion to include investments related 
to DIU and encourages DIU and DTIC to collaborate with the 
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office on the 
expansion. Once expansion is tested and validated, the 
Committee urges the Department to program funds for 
comprehensive expansion.

                       NAVY LITTORAL COMBAT SHIPS

    The Committee is incensed that, despite repeated rejections 
by Congress, the Navy is once again proposing to decommission 
several Independence Class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) well 
before the end of their expected service lives. The Committee 
strongly believes that these ships, though not aligned with the 
Navy's original plan, can provide operational value to the 
fleet in support of combatant commander requirements. Further, 
the Committee views the Navy's response to the Committee's 
concerns as inadequate. The Committee believes it is premature 
to divest these ships before the completion of a thorough 
assessment of the potential uses for these ships. Therefore, 
the Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit a 
report to the congressional defense committees, not later than 
30 days after the enactment of this Act, on the proposed 
alternative uses for the Independence Class LCS.

                  PROHIBITION ON AIR FORCE DIVESTMENTS

    The Committee notes with concern that the Air Force 
requested to divest 124 more aircraft than will be delivered in 
fiscal year 2025. This trend is projected to continue through 
fiscal year 2028 and would result in a fleet that, while more 
modern and capable, does not have the capacity to 
simultaneously defend the Homeland, meet combatant commander 
requirements, and execute combat operations against a near-peer 
adversary.
    Specifically, the Committee believes that plans to divest 
the     U-2 are premature given the range of airborne 
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) 
requirements, the timeline to field comparable space-based ISR 
capabilities, and the need for multi-domain collection 
platforms to complicate the adversary's calculus and support 
the joint force across the range of military operations.
    The Committee is also deeply concerned that the Air Force's 
current plan to replace F-15C/D model aircraft with F-15EX 
models will create a gap in capability at several Air National 
Guard units that, among other readiness impacts, will result in 
a lapse in pilot qualification.
    In future budget requests, the Committee expects the 
Secretary of the Air Force to better balance near-term 
readiness with modernization for the future.

          AIR FORCE REOPTIMIZATION FOR GREAT POWER COMPETITION

    The Committee appreciates the engagement with senior Air 
Force officials on both the driving forces behind and the 
intended goals of the reoptimization announced by the Secretary 
of the Air Force in February 2024. The Committee shares the Air 
Force's assessment that the status quo will not provide the 
airpower necessary for future high-end conflicts, though the 
Committee is skeptical of how the Air Force is pursuing a 
modern force. To this end, the Committee is particularly 
focused on the realization of the concepts for the Integrated 
Capability Command, Integrated Development Office, and 
Integrated Capabilities Office, and looks forward to future 
updates on all key decisions announced as part of the 
reoptimization.
    To continue requisite oversight of this key Air Force 
endeavor, any fiscal year 2025 funding that is utilized for 
this reorganization is designated a congressional special 
interest item for the purpose of the Base for Reprogramming (DD 
Form 1414). The Secretary of the Air Force is directed to 
provide to the congressional defense committees, 30 days prior 
to executing any organizational changes related to this 
reorganization, a notification describing how the current 
organizational construct differs from the proposed construct; a 
proposed phasing of this reorganization along with cost 
estimates to implement each phase; a proposed laydown of new 
offices, commands, or centers and whether the strategic basing 
process is required for their establishment; a description of 
impacts to military and civilians positions by location; and 
the programmatic impacts of such decisions. Additionally, the 
Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to provide an 
update not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, and 
quarterly updates thereafter, to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees on all reoptimization efforts.

                    CIVILIAN WORKFORCE OPTIMIZATION

    The Committee notes that the Department of Defense is 
drafting a civilian workforce optimization assessment as 
directed in House Report 118-121. The assessment will provide 
an important measure for whether the total force manpower is 
properly sized for the Department's core missions, tasks, and 
functions. Equally important will be the Department's goals and 
success criteria for adoption of emerging technologies and 
business process improvements. Use of such technologies, 
including but not limited to artificial intelligence and 
robotic process automation, can significantly reduce the 
manually intensive administrative workload that plagues the 
Department's business operations and frustrates its workforce. 
The efficiencies gained may be applied toward increasing 
manning in critical fields such as data science and systems 
engineering or applied towards key readiness priorities. To 
ensure a robust set of goals and metrics for technology 
adoption in its forthcoming civilian workforce optimization 
report, the Committee expects participation in the drafting of 
the report by the Department's experts in these technologies 
and modern business practices, including but not limited to the 
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Task Force 
Lima, the Chief Talent Management Officer, and the Performance 
Improvement Officer.
    Further, the Committee notes that the Department made a 
concerted effort in the fiscal year 2025 President's budget 
request to restrain growth in civilian pay and right-size its 
civilian workforce. As the Committee works with the Department 
on this effort, it will continue to closely scrutinize the 
President's budget request for civilian pay. For fiscal year 
2025 the Committee continues to direct the Secretary of Defense 
to exclude civilian positions supporting shipyard, depot, 
health care, and sexual assault and response duties from any 
reductions.

   CIVILIAN PAY AND CONTRACT PERSONNEL BUDGET JUSTIFICATION MATERIALS

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to consult 
with the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later 
than October 1, 2024, to develop comprehensive budget exhibits 
for funds requested by the Department for civilian pay and 
contract personnel working on behalf of the Department. These 
exhibits shall be provided with submission of the fiscal year 
2026 President's budget request.

         PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, BUDGETING, AND EXECUTION REFORM

    The Committee commends the efforts of the Commission on 
Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform. 
The PPBE Commission offered several recommendations aimed to 
improve the fielding of capabilities to the warfighter, 
increase insight to all parties involved in the PPBE process, 
and better align budget and strategy. The Committee takes 
seriously its responsibility to appropriate resources to the 
Department of Defense and Intelligence Community to credibly 
deter conflict, and when necessary, to decisively fight and 
win. To this end, and in part informed by the PPBE Commission's 
final report, the Committee recommends several actions.
    To increase flexibility within appropriations, the 
Committee recommends sustaining the increased prior approval 
reprogramming thresholds enacted in fiscal year 2024. The 
Committee also maintains the redefined prior approval 
reprogramming procedures for Service operation and maintenance 
accounts.
    The Committee recommendation also supports changes 
requested to the environmental restoration accounts to allow 
the collection and use of funds recovered by the Department 
through successful litigation. This will allow millions of 
dollars collected to be utilized toward cleanup of 
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances that plague many 
military installations and their communities.
    Additionally, the Committee continues its longstanding 
practice of appropriately addressing emerging program and 
budget requirements that occur after the President's budget 
request is submitted to Congress. For example, the Committee 
recommendation includes several transfers within Space Force 
accounts to realign funding from the Protected Tactical 
Satellite Communications-Global program to address requirements 
within the Global Positioning System program.
    Finally, the Committee continues to partner with the 
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to create and maintain a secure 
dashboard to provide the Committee with a real-time status of 
DIU funds execution, program progression, and transition 
partners. This builds upon the PPBE Commission's recommendation 
to establish communication enclaves between the Department and 
Congress. The Committee recommendation includes $5,000,000 
towards this effort. By proving and scaling this effort, the 
Committee expects to gain oversight through insight while 
potentially reducing the number of reports to Congress.
    The Committee will continue to monitor the Department's use 
of its increased flexibility and looks forward to discussing 
the Department's views on the PPBE Commission's final report. 
Until such a time, the Committee directs that, unless specified 
elsewhere in this report, no changes shall be made to the 
appropriations structure of future President's budget requests 
without prior consultation of the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees.

                       SPACE FORCE OVERHEAD COSTS

    The Committee notes that the Space Force funds a 
significant portion of its overhead expenses through taxes on 
programs in the procurement and the research, development, test 
and evaluation accounts. This practice distorts the budgets for 
the programs in these accounts and obscures the true overhead 
cost of the Space Force. Therefore, the Committee directs the 
Secretary of the Air Force to provide a report that includes a 
definition of overhead cost and a detailed breakout of the 
fiscal year 2025 President's budget request which identifies 
the amount and purpose of the overhead taxes in each program 
element within these accounts.
    Further, the report shall also address any policy, 
programming, and budgeting changes necessary to transition to a 
structure where such overhead costs are budgeted in a more 
clear and consistent manner in future budget submissions. The 
report shall be submitted to the congressional defense 
committees not later than 180 days after the enactment of this 
Act.

                 SPACE FORCE MISSION AREA BUDGET REPORT

    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to 
continue to submit a report for Space Force programs that 
organizes and aligns all budget lines for programs, projects, 
and activities into mission areas, such as missile warning, 
satellite communications, and position, navigation, and timing. 
The report shall also include separate mission areas for 
enterprise management, enterprise information technology, and 
facilities and logistics. Overhead costs for the Space Force 
shall be clearly accounted for in the appropriate mission areas 
without taxes being levied on programs. Each mission area shall 
include a clear statement of the mission goals and plans, a 
detailed and compelling justification for the requested budget, 
number of military and civilian personnel required to carry out 
each mission area, and an alignment of all the relevant 
individual budget line items without further consolidation from 
the traditional budget exhibits and activity groups of the 
various appropriations. The Secretary of the Air Force is 
directed to submit a fully completed report with the submission 
of the fiscal year 2026 President's budget request.

                PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE BUDGETING

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to, not 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, submit a 
report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 
detailing the criteria utilized to designate a budget activity 
as Pacific Deterrence Initiative, how the effectiveness of this 
initiative is assessed and incorporated into future budget 
submissions, and recommendations to better identify and budget 
for Department of Defense investments in the Indo-Pacific that 
are solely focused on the region.

                            ISR REQUIREMENTS

    The Committee is concerned that increased military activity 
by the People's Republic of China is stressing the capacity of 
the Department of Defense's organic intelligence, surveillance, 
and reconnaissance (ISR) assets leaving unmet requirements for 
the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The 
Committee recognizes that commercial assets can fulfill some of 
these collection capacity shortfalls. The Committee directs the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in coordination with the 
Commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command, to provide a 
briefing to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not 
later than 30 days after enactment of this Act, on the status 
of ISR support for INDOPACOM. The briefing shall describe 
current INDOPACOM ISR requirements; any shortfalls; an analysis 
of current organic and commercial capabilities to address such 
shortfalls; and a cost analysis of commercial options versus 
government-owned approaches to satisfy INDOPACOM ISR 
requirements.

                             CLIMATE CHANGE

    The Committee recommendation includes a reduction of 
$621,205,000 for unjustified requests that seek to mitigate 
climate risk but do not improve combat capability or capacity 
for the Department of Defense. The Committee notes with 
frustration that the Department did not produce a Department-
wide budget exhibit to consolidate and further justify its 
climate-related requests and did not respond in a timely manner 
to the Committee's requests for information on the climate-
related components of the President's budget request.

            DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCESSIBILITY

    The Committee continues to be concerned that Department of 
Defense programs operating under the auspices of diversity, 
equity, inclusion, and accessibility serve to divide the 
military along racial, ethnic, or gender lines rather than 
unite servicemembers to provide for the common defense. 
Further, grouping equal employment opportunity and 
accessibility with these divisive concepts may negatively 
impact minorities and people with disabilities, including 
disabled military veterans, and undermine fair competition for 
opportunities within the Department. Therefore, the Committee 
recommendation eliminates all funds requested for diversity and 
inclusion activities.

                               REPLICATOR

    The support for Replicator efforts is evidenced by the 
inclusion of funds in both the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2024, and the Committee recommendation. The 
Committee reminds the Department that appropriated funds in 
this Act for Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Prototyping, 
Fielding, or congressional increases shall not be used for 
Replicator tranche 1 requirements and may only be used for 
tranche 2 requirements with a submission of a detailed plan on 
all tranche 2 planned investments to the House and Senate 
Defense Appropriations Subcommittees not later than 30 days 
prior to first award.

         DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE HEALTH AND PRIVITY OF CONTRACT

    The Committee recognizes that small businesses and 
nontraditional defense contractors are critical to the defense 
industrial base, providing goods and services as both prime and 
subcontractors. Congress established agency contracting goals 
to ensure that the government leverages the capabilities and 
innovative solutions that small businesses and nontraditional 
defense contractors have to offer through fair and open 
opportunities to compete for government contracts. The 
Committee is concerned that despite an increase in defense 
obligations there has been a consistent decline in the number 
of such businesses contracting directly with the Department of 
Defense over the last 15 years. The Committee believes it is 
imperative to understand reasons for this decline to better 
inform policy and ensure that the federal government is 
effectively pursuing strategies that provide fair opportunity 
to small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Comptroller General of 
the United States to review the health of the defense 
industrial base, with regards to small businesses and 
nontraditional defense contractors contracting activity, 
agreements, and consortia with the Department. The review 
should incorporate inputs from a range of stakeholders 
including, but not limited to, academia, various agency small 
business advocates, such as the Department's Office of Small 
Business Programs, program managers, contracting officials, 
industry associations and representatives of small, 
nontraditional, and large companies. The analysis should 
address the following elements: (1) how the Office of the 
Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Military Departments are 
coordinating with small businesses and nontraditional defense 
contractors to communicate business opportunities and address 
challenges affecting vendors' willingness to work with the 
Department on a continuing basis; (2) how OSD and the Military 
Departments define the goals of small business subcontracting 
strategies, what metrics are used to measure success--including 
contract awards, contract costs, schedules, performance, and 
competition metrics--and what metrics could provide greater 
insight regarding the participation of small businesses and 
nontraditional defense contractors in the defense industrial 
base; and (3) how OSD and the Military Departments determine 
which contract opportunities shall be set aside for small 
businesses.
    The report should include assessments of data reflecting: 
(a) the total number of prime and subcontracts awarded by North 
American Industry Classification System (NAICS); (b) the number 
of unique vendors participating in prime and subcontracts; (c) 
the percentage of overall defense contracts awarded to small 
businesses and nontraditional defense contractors, and the 
dollar value of prime and subcontracts awarded; and (d) the 
impact of small business and/or nontraditional defense 
contractors prime contracting obligations on the number of 
incumbent small business and nontraditional defense 
subcontractors. The report should identify actions the 
Department is taking to address data quality issues affecting 
assessments of small business and nontraditional defense 
contractor participation in the defense industrial base, 
including through the Department's use of other transaction 
authority. The report should also include observations 
regarding the Department's ability to contract with small 
businesses and nontraditional defense contractors in relation 
to the Department's ability to contract with the large prime 
contractors. The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees not later than 270 days after the enactment of this 
Act.
    Additionally, the Committee directs the Comptroller General 
of the United States to review what legal and regulatory 
requirements govern privity of contract in defense acquisition, 
including to what extent privity of contract is: (a) commonly 
used in teaming arrangements; (b) a barrier to contract 
performance; (c) a barrier to understanding the health of the 
defense industrial base; (d) a benefit to the Department, prime 
contractors, and subcontractors; (e) an impairment to the 
Department's ability to manage programs; and (f) how, if at 
all, privity of contract limits the Department's ability to 
access subcontractor data or requirements through contract 
clauses. The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees not later than 270 days after the enactment of this 
Act.

     ALTERNATIVE PARTS FOR COMMERCIAL DERIVATIVE MILITARY AIRCRAFT

    The Committee believes that the Department of Defense may 
underutilize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved 
alternative parts to repair and maintain commercial derivative 
military aircraft. The Committee notes that such parts are 
cost-effective and certified by the FAA for commercial aviation 
use. The Committee encourages the Department to leverage pre-
existing FAA approvals and increase usage of these parts.

                            FINANCIAL AUDIT

    As the Committee awaits a briefing from the Secretary of 
Defense on implementation of the recommendations in the 
Government Accountability Office report entitled, ``DoD Needs 
to Improve System Oversight'' (GAO-23-104539), as directed in 
House Report 118-121, the Committee applauds the Marine Corps 
on becoming the first Military Service to achieve an unmodified 
audit opinion. The Committee encourages the remaining Services 
and Defense entities to benchmark the leadership focus and 
processes of the Marine Corps and achieve their own unmodified 
audit opinions with all due haste.

       CYBERSECURITY RISKS FROM COMMERCIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    As the Committee awaits the report directed by House Report 
118-121 under this heading, the Committee encourages the 
Department of Defense to fully implement all recommendations 
outlined in the Government Accountability Office report GAO-23-
105612 and take swift action to expand reviews on components 
used in end-use commercial information technology and hardware-
encrypted data storage products.

                                TITLE I

                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

    The fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense military 
personnel budget request and the Committee recommendation are 
summarized in the table below:
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                      MILITARY PERSONNEL OVERVIEW

    The Committee recommendation provides $183,701,827,000 for 
the military personnel accounts, which fund military pay and 
allowances, recruitment and retention initiatives, and overall 
quality of life programs for active duty, National Guard, and 
reserve personnel. The recommendation provides a 4.5 percent 
increase in basic pay for all military personnel, effective 
January 1, 2025, and $2,500,000,000 in funding above the 
President's budget request in support of an additional 15 
percent increase in pay for junior enlisted personnel. The 
Committee continues to encourage constructive evaluations of 
recruitment and retention programs, bonus and special pay 
incentives, and personnel benefit programs for fiscal year 
2025. The Committee remains supportive of programs intended to 
enhance the morale and quality of life of military personnel 
and their families.

                        SUMMARY OF END STRENGTH

    The fiscal year 2025 President's budget request includes a 
decrease of 7,800 in total end strength for the active forces 
and an increase of 2,100 in total end strength for the Selected 
Reserve as compared to the fiscal year 2024 authorized levels. 
The following tables summarize the Committee recommendations 
for end strength levels, both in the aggregate and for each 
active and Selected Reserve component.

                      OVERALL ACTIVE END STRENGTH

 
 
 
Fiscal year 2024 authorized...........................         1,284,500
Fiscal year 2025 budget request.......................         1,276,700
Fiscal year 2025 recommendation.......................         1,276,700
    Compared with fiscal year 2024....................            -7,800
    Compared with fiscal year 2025 budget request.....             - - -
 

                 OVERALL SELECTED RESERVE END STRENGTH

 
 
 
Fiscal year 2024 authorized...........................           763,600
Fiscal year 2025 budget request.......................           765,700
Fiscal year 2025 recommendation.......................           765,700
    Compared with fiscal year 2024....................             2,100
    Compared with fiscal year 2025 budget request.....             - - -
 


                                   SUMMARY OF MILITARY PERSONNEL END STRENGTH
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                                                                      Fiscal year 2025
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                                            Fiscal year                                              Change from
                                                2024        Budget        Committee     Change from  fiscal year
                                             authorized    Request     Recommendation     request        2024
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Active Forces (End Strength)
    Army..................................      445,000      442,300           442,300        - - -       -2,700
    Navy..................................      337,800      332,300           332,300        - - -       -5,500
    Marine Corps..........................      172,300      172,300           172,300        - - -        - - -
    Air Force.............................      320,000      320,000           320,000        - - -        - - -
    Space Force...........................        9,400        9,800             9,800        - - -          400
        Total, Active Forces..............    1,284,500    1,276,700         1,276,700        - - -       -7,800
Guard and Reserve Forces (End Strength)
    Army Reserve..........................      174,800      175,800           175,800        - - -        1,000
    Navy Reserve..........................       57,200       57,700            57,700        - - -          500
    Marine Corps Reserve..................       32,000       32,500            32,500        - - -          500
    Air Force Reserve.....................       69,600       67,000            67,000        - - -       -2,600
    Army National Guard...................      325,000      325,000           325,000        - - -        - - -
    Air National Guard....................      105,000      107,700           107,700        - - -        2,700
        Total, Selected Reserve...........      763,600      765,700           765,700        - - -        2,100
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Total, Military Personnel.................    2,048,100    2,042,400         2,042,400        - - -       -5,700
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         REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL ACCOUNTS

    The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit the Base for 
Reprogramming (DD Form 1414) for each of the fiscal year 2025 
appropriations accounts not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is prohibited 
from executing any reprogramming or transfer of funds for any 
purpose other than originally appropriated until the 
aforementioned report is submitted to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees.
    The Secretary of Defense is directed to use the normal 
prior approval reprogramming procedures to transfer funds in 
the Services' military personnel accounts between budget 
activities in excess of $15,000,000.

               MILITARY PERSONNEL SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

    Items for which additional funds have been provided or have 
been specifically reduced as shown in the project level tables 
or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' 
in this report are congressional special interest items for the 
purpose of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of 
these items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated 
amount as specifically addressed in the Committee report. Below 
threshold reprogrammings may not be used to either restore or 
reduce funding from congressional special interest items as 
identified on the DD Form 1414.

                      END STRENGTH AND RECRUITING

    The Committee remains very concerned about the inability of 
the Services to recruit sufficient personnel to meet end 
strength requirements and awaits the results from the 
independent survey that was directed in House Report 118-121. 
The Committee is doing its part to boost recruitment and end 
strength by providing $2,500,000,000 in funding above the 
President's budget request in support of a 15 percent junior 
enlisted pay raise.

                        MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Military Personnel, Army:


                        MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Military Personnel, Navy:


                    MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Military Personnel, Marine Corps:


                     MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Military Personnel, Air Force:


                    MILITARY PERSONNEL, SPACE FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Military Personnel, Space Force:


                        RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Reserve Personnel, Army:


                        RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Reserve Personnel, Navy:


                    RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps:


                      RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Reserve Personnel, Air Force:


                     NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
National Guard Personnel, Army:


                  NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
National Guard Personnel, Air Force:



                                TITLE II

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

    The fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense operation and 
maintenance budget request and the Committee recommendation are 
summarized in the table below:


     REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS

    The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit the Base for 
Reprogramming (DD Form 1414) for each of the fiscal year 2025 
appropriations accounts not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is prohibited 
from executing any reprogramming or transfer of funds for any 
purpose other than originally appropriated until the 
aforementioned report is submitted to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees.
    The Secretary of Defense is directed to use the normal 
prior approval reprogramming procedures to transfer funds in 
the Services' operation and maintenance accounts between O-l 
budget activities, or between subactivity groups in the case of 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, in excess of 
$15,000,000. ln addition, the Secretary of Defense shall follow 
prior approval reprogramming procedures for transfers in excess 
of $15,000,000 out of the following readiness activity groups 
or subactivity groups listed below:

    Army:
    Activity Group 11 Land Forces
    Activity Group 12 Land Forces Readiness
    Activity Group 13 Land Forces Readiness Support
    Activity Group 32 Basic Skill and Advanced Training

    Navy:
    Activity Group 1A Air Operations
    Activity Group 1B Ship Operations
    Activity Group 1C Combat Operations/Support
    Activity Group BS Base Support

    Marine Corps:
    Activity Group 1A Expeditionary Forces
    Activity Group BS Base Support

    Air Force:
    Activity Group ``Air Operations'', which includes 
subactivity groups 011A Primary Combat Force and 011C Combat 
Enhancement Forces
    Activity Group ``Weapons Systems Sustainment'', which 
includes subactivity groups 011M Depot Purchase Equipment 
Maintenance, 011V Cyberspace Sustainment, and 011W Contractor 
Logistics Support and System Support
    Activity Group ``Installations'', which includes 
subactivity groups 011R Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, 
and Modernization, and 011Z Base Support
    Activity Group ``Flying Hours'', which is only subactivity 
group 011Y Flying Hour Program

    Space Force:
    Subactivity Group 012A Global C3I & Early Warning
    Subactivity Group 013C Space Operations
    Subactivity Group 013W Contractor Logistics Support and 
System Support
    Subactivity Group 042A Administration

    Air Force Reserve:
    Subactivity Group 011A Primary Combat Forces

    Air National Guard:
    Subactivity Group 011F Aircraft Operations

    Additionally, the Secretary of Defense is directed to use 
normal prior approval reprogramming procedures when 
implementing transfers in excess of $15,000,000 into the 
following budget subactivity groups:

    Army National Guard:
    Subactivity Group 131 Base Operations Support
    Subactivity Group 132 Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, 
and Modernization
    Subactivity Group 133 Management and Operational 
Headquarters

    Air National Guard:
    Subactivity Group 011W Contractor Logistics Support and 
System Support

         REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a 
baseline report that shows the Special Operations Command's 
operation and maintenance funding by subactivity group for the 
fiscal year 2025 appropriation not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Defense is further 
directed to submit quarterly execution reports to the 
congressional defense committees not later than 45 days after 
the end of each fiscal quarter that addresses the rationale for 
the realignment of any funds within and between budget 
subactivities. Finally, the Secretary of Defense is directed to 
notify the congressional defense committees 30 days prior to 
the realignment of funds in excess of $15,000,000 between sub-
activity groups.

            OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

    Items for which additional funds have been provided or have 
been specifically reduced as shown in the project level tables 
or in paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' 
in this report are congressional special interest items for the 
purpose of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of 
these items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated 
amount as specifically addressed in the explanatory statement. 
Below threshold reprogrammings may not be used to either 
restore or reduce funding from congressional special interest 
items as identified on the DD Form 1414.

            OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE BUDGET EXECUTION DATA

    The Secretary of Defense and Service Secretaries are 
directed to provide the congressional defense committees with 
quarterly budget execution data. Such data should be provided 
not later than 45 days after the close of each quarter of the 
fiscal year and should be provided for each O-1 budget 
activity, activity group, and subactivity group for each of the 
active, defense-wide, reserve, and National Guard components. 
For each O-1 budget activity, activity group, and subactivity 
group, these reports should include the budget request and 
actual obligations amount, the distribution of unallocated 
congressional adjustments to the budget request, all 
adjustments made by the Department in establishing the Base for 
Reprogramming (DD Form 1414) report, all adjustments resulting 
from below threshold reprogrammings, and all adjustments 
resulting from prior approval reprogramming requests.

              QUARTERLY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE UPDATES

    The Committee directs the Director of each of the Services' 
Operations Divisions (Financial Management and Budget) to 
continue to provide quarterly briefings to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees on their respective operation and 
maintenance execution data in fiscal year 2025. These meetings 
shall take place the third full week of the month following the 
end of each fiscal quarter to the greatest extent possible.
    During these updates, the Committee directs Services to 
continue to provide the following information: (1) civilian 
personnel funding and United States Direct Hire Full Time 
Equivalent (USDH FTE) actual data by month; and (2) amounts and 
descriptions of below threshold transfers between subactivity 
groups. Additionally, the Under Secretary of Defense 
(Comptroller) shall provide civilian personnel funding and USDH 
FTE actual data by defense agency, by month, to the House and 
Senate Appropriations Committees within 30 days of the end of 
the fiscal quarter.

              DEPOT AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITY MODERNIZATION

    The Committee notes the importance of Department of Defense 
depots and industrial facilities to military readiness. Like 
much of the infrastructure across the Department, these 
facilities require regular sustainment and modernization. To 
ensure sufficient resources are requested to maintain this 
capability, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in 
coordination with the Service Secretaries, to submit a 5-year 
Department depot and industrial facility investment plan to the 
congressional defense committees not later than 90 days after 
enactment of this Act. The plan shall provide the 3-year 
rolling average of maintenance, repair, and overhaul workload 
funded at all covered depots of each respective military 
service; information on future technological demands, labor 
needs, and threats to facility security; and a minimum annual 
investment recommended to maintain depot and industrial 
facility capability and capacity.

                       STRATEGIC SEAPORT PROGRAM

    The Committee notes that strategic seaports designated 
under the Strategic Seaport Program (SSP) are critical 
transportation hubs necessary for United States military 
readiness and cargo handling capacity. The Committee directs 
the Comptroller General of the United States to provide a 
report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not 
later than 270 days after the enactment of this Act, on the 
programs and efforts of the Department of Defense related to 
the readiness of the ports as affected by dredging capacity to 
complete harbor and channel dredging. This shall include 
identification of dredging work, by seaport, required to ensure 
deep water access; review of domestic dredging industrial 
capacity to complete the identified dredging; assessment of 
time required to complete outstanding dredging work in SSP 
ports; and what federal policies, including contracting 
policies, can be implemented to support domestic manufacturers 
of critical components used in the manufacture of domestic 
dredger vessels. The report shall be completed in consultation 
with the National Port Readiness Network, the domestic dredging 
industry, and domestic critical component manufacturers. For 
purposes of this paragraph critical components shall include 
cranes, spring couplings, torque limiters, diesel engine 
clutches, clutch couplings, wet brakes, and combination 
gearbox, and such other items as determined by the agency.

  ELECTRONIC DEVICE DETECTION IN SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION 
            FACILITIES AND SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM FACILITIES

    The Committee notes that the Department of Defense has not 
programmed for appropriate electronic device detection systems 
and mitigating measures for all Department sensitive 
compartmented information facilities and special access program 
facilities, as required in the June 30, 2023, memorandum signed 
by the Secretary of Defense. The Committee encourages the 
Department to designate a lead office to implement this 
internal directive and ensure sufficient funding is provided to 
effectively carry out the Secretary's mandate.

                 PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION

    The joint explanatory statement accompanying the Department 
of Defense Appropriations Act, 2022, directed the Directors of 
the Defense Manpower Data Center and the Defense Civilian 
Personnel Advisory Service to utilize private sector technology 
solutions to provide verifications of the employment status and 
income of civilian and military personnel and retirees as 
permitted under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
    The Committee notes that, while the Department of Defense 
has taken steps to explore the use of private sector technology 
solutions, the Department has not fully implemented this 
directive. Therefore, the Committee directs the Directors of 
the Defense Manpower Data Center and the Defense Civilian 
Personnel Advisory Service to provide a briefing to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committees within 90 days of the 
enactment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter until complete, 
on the Department's plan and timeline for implementation of 
such private sector employment verification technology.

                              ADVERTISING

    The Committee understands the federal government, as the 
largest advertiser in the United States, should work to ensure 
fair access to its advertising contracts for small, 
disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by service-
disabled veterans, minorities, and women. The Committee directs 
each agency under jurisdiction of this Act to include the 
following information in its fiscal year 2026 budget 
justification: expenditures for fiscal year 2025 and expected 
expenditures for fiscal year 2026 for all contracts for 
advertising services; contracts for the advertising services of 
socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses 
concerns (as defined in section 8(a)(4) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(4)), and contracts for the advertising 
services of service-disabled veteran-, women-, and minority-
owned businesses.

             MILITARY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE ORGANIZATIONS

    The Committee directs the Service Secretaries to provide a 
briefing to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on 
the ongoing efforts to improve their military criminal 
investigative organizations not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act. The briefing should include the 
correlation between caseloads and the budget request, storage 
requirements for evidence, cold case units, staffing of hard to 
fill posts, and other budgetary considerations.

            COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS TO REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY

    The Committee continues to be concerned by food security 
issues that affect some servicemembers and their families. As 
noted elsewhere in this report, the Committee recommendation 
supports a historic pay increase for junior enlisted 
servicemembers and supports the President's budget request for 
the basic needs allowance. These funds will build upon 
appropriations made during fiscal year 2024 to create a pilot 
program to address food insecurity through collaboration with 
community partners to improve access to quality food. The 
Committee encourages the continuation of this pilot program 
alongside organic unit efforts, like the food pantry created by 
the 62nd Medical Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

                            PUEBLO OF ISLETA

    The Committee is concerned with the pace and scope of 
munitions and unexploded ordnance (UXO) removal on the Pueblo 
of Isleta, as well as the veracity of communications with the 
public on the types and amounts of debris and ordnance that 
might threaten public health. Therefore, the Committee directs 
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, 
Installations, and Environment and the Assistant Secretary of 
the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment to submit a 
report to the congressional defense committees, not later than 
90 days after the enactment of this Act, detailing all 
munitions and UXO removal and decontamination authorities and 
plans for Pueblo of Isleta; current and prospective tribal 
consultation and public communications in the survey and 
removal of munitions and UXO; and resources required from the 
Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program and the 
Defense Environmental Restoration Program to achieve a thorough 
restoration of the site.

                          VIEQUES AND CULEBRA

    The Committee remains concerned by the pace and scope of 
environmental restoration on the island municipalities of 
Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico. The Committee encourages 
the Secretaries of the Army and the Navy to work closely with 
the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, and the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality 
Board to maximize public participation and transparency in the 
decontamination process in order to achieve a thorough 
decontamination result on both islands.
    The Committee is also concerned about public safety on the 
northwest peninsula of Culebra due to unexploded ordnance 
identified there by the Army. The Committee encourages the 
Secretary of the Army to exercise available authorities, 
including the authority clarified through the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, to decontaminate the 
northwest peninsula. Additionally, the Committee directs the 
Secretaries of the Army and Navy each to submit a report to the 
congressional defense committees, not later than 90 days after 
the enactment of this Act, detailing all respective 
decontamination authorities and plans applicable to Vieques and 
Culebra, to include particular emphasis on the decontamination 
of the northwest peninsula of Culebra.
    The Committee also notes there are information gaps about 
the types and amounts of ordnance used on Vieques and Culebra, 
as well as about potential links between the ordnance used and 
present threats to public health. The Committee directs the 
Secretaries of the Army and the Navy to submit a report to the 
congressional defense committees, not later than 60 days after 
the enactment of this Act, on previously released information 
related to the ordnance on the two islands. The Committee also 
urges the Secretaries to publish the relevant documents on the 
internet in a single location and in a user-friendly format.

                          PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES

    The Committee is concerned that the Department of Defense 
is procuring and installing photovoltaic modules on military 
installations with components and rare earth minerals produced 
and refined by foreign entities rather than domestic sources. 
The Committee encourages the Department to maximize the use of 
domestically sourced materials for photovoltaic modules, to 
include energy supplied through Power Purchase Agreements, and 
to strengthen its process for assessing exemption requests to 
purchase such modules from foreign sources.

                    PARTNERSHIP WITH TRIBAL NATIONS

    The Committee commends the Department of Defense's 
partnership with Tribal Nations to coordinate proving grounds 
and testing ranges for active duty and National Guard troops in 
the Northern Rocky Mountains and Plains States. This 
cooperation provides increased opportunities to sustain 
military readiness while providing tangible benefit to the 
associated Tribal Nations. The Committee encourages the 
Department to identify and expand such agreements where 
practicable.

                     MEALS READY-TO-EAT WAR RESERVE

    The Committee recommendation supports the fiscal year 2025 
President's budget request for meals ready-to-eat and reaffirms 
its support for the Defense Logistics Agency War Reserve stock 
objective of 5,000,000 cases.

                       WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

    The Committee supports the implementation of the Women, 
Peace, and Security Act (P.L. 115-68) by the Department of 
Defense and the Services and recognizes the importance of 
advancing women's meaningful participation in the U.S. military 
and incorporation of its principles into engagements with 
partner nations around the world.

                    OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Army:


                    CREDENTIALING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

    The Committee is concerned by proposed changes to the 
Army's credentialing assistance program. While the Committee 
supports the involvement of commanders in the approval process, 
a decrease in funding, coupled with other changes to the 
program, will significantly reduce and restrict the use of this 
educational benefit by soldiers. The Committee finds it 
confusing that the Army will on one hand encourage the 
development of skills outside of a soldier's specialty at 
organizations such as the Army Software Factory, yet will on 
the other hand limit benefits for soldiers to pursue similar 
educational objectives through a professional credential. The 
Committee strongly encourages the Secretary of the Army to 
reconsider this proposed policy change.

                ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT CAMOUFLAGE NET SYSTEMS

    The Committee is disappointed that the Secretary of the 
Army has failed, despite repeated urging by this Committee, to 
divest of legacy Ultra-Lightweight Camouflage Net Systems 
(ULCANS). As the Committee awaits the ULCANS replacement plan 
directed in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024, the Committee 
encourages the Secretary of the Army to take swift action to 
recapitalize this capability.

                    OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Navy:


                            SHIP MAINTENANCE

    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to continue 
to submit quarterly reports to the congressional defense 
committees, beginning not later than 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act, regarding private contracted ship 
maintenance as directed in House Report 116-453 and to submit 
the annual report on ship maintenance required by section 1016 
of Public Law 117-81 to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees in conjunction with its submission to the House and 
Senate Armed Services Committees.

              SHIPYARD INFRASTRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM

    The Committee recognizes the critical role the four public 
shipyards play in readiness of the United States Navy and the 
security of the nation. To address chronically unmet 
infrastructure needs at the shipyards, in 2018 Congress 
directed the Department of Defense to create and implement a 
Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP). Since its 
inception, the Committee has strongly supported SIOP efforts to 
modernize and improve facilities at the Navy's public 
shipyards. Continued investments in shipyard infrastructure are 
critical if the Navy is to maximize the execution of 
maintenance availabilities within the funds requested, as 
directed in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024. For fiscal year 
2025, the Committee recommendation fully funds the Navy's SIOP 
request and encourages the Navy to continue to invest in these 
strategic naval assets.

               KENNEBEC RIVER FEDERAL NAVIGATION CHANNEL

    The Committee supports the Memorandum of Agreement signed 
in January 2020 denoting the responsibilities of the Department 
of the Army and the Department of the Navy for the regular 
maintenance of the Kennebec River Federal Navigation Channel. 
The Committee is concerned that the channel is not currently 
being maintained to the required depth on an annual basis, 
affecting the movement of Navy surface combatants, and 
encourages the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the 
Navy to respond with the appropriate resources and planning to 
ensure that the channel is passable annually, per the 
Memorandum of Agreement, to ensure the navigability of the 
Kennebec River for the test, trial and delivery of newly 
constructed Navy surface combatants to the Atlantic Ocean.

                OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps:


                  OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force:


                            PILOT SHORTFALL

    While the Air Force continues to fall short of its annual 
pilot training goal, the Committee notes, with cautious 
optimism, several positive actions that, when taken in concert, 
could increase capacity in the pilot training pipeline. The Air 
Force is reviewing the rated manpower ecosystem, increasing 
simulator instructor capacity through a mix of incentives and 
procurement of additional simulator training equipment, closely 
managing J-85 engine repairs, and accelerating transition to a 
more suitable T-6 maintenance contract. The Committee expects 
the Air Force to remain acutely focused on increasing pilot 
production to meet its stated goal of 1,500 pilots per year. To 
ensure continued oversight of this critical issue, the 
Committee directs the Commander of Air Education and Training 
Command and the Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations at Air 
Force Headquarters to provide quarterly updates to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committees, beginning not later than 
45 days after the enactment of this Act, on the Air Force's 
efforts to address the pilot shortfall.

                 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SPACE FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Space Force:


                OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide:


           EXPEDITIONARY FUEL SYSTEMS FOR CONTESTED LOGISTICS

    The Committee notes the release of the Department of 
Defense Operational Energy Strategy, which underscores the 
challenges of providing and sustaining power for United States 
operations under contested, degraded, or denied environments. 
As part of the employment of this strategy, the Committee 
encourages the Department to test a deployable expeditionary 
fuel system, as part of a future United States Indo-Pacific 
Command exercise, that assesses the Department's ability to 
provide reliable operational energy in contested environments.

                  ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE

    The Committee recognizes the importance of the All-domain 
Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in providing Congress and the 
public with transparency and improved understanding of 
unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). AARO works to minimize 
technical and intelligence surprises by synchronizing 
scientific, intelligence, and operational detection 
identification, attribution, and mitigation of unidentified 
anomalous phenomena in the vicinity of national security areas. 
The Committee continues to support AARO and its mission to 
improve national security and public understanding of UAP data.

            INCENTIVE FOR NONTRADITIONAL CONTRACT EXPERTISE

    The Committee recognizes the important role that Department 
of Defense acquisition professionals, including contracting 
officers and financial managers, play in building and executing 
strategies to assess and acquire unique capabilities offered by 
nontraditional defense contractors. To better promote the 
hiring and retention of this needed expertise, the Committee 
recommendation includes $5,000,000 to create monetary 
incentives for Department personnel with expertise and 
experience in nontraditional acquisition.

           READINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INITIATIVE

    To preserve Department of Defense installations and range 
capabilities that ensure realistic training and testing for the 
current and future force, the Committee supports the fiscal 
year 2025 President's budget request for the Readiness and 
Environmental Protection Initiative.

                 EMERGENCIES AND EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES

    The Committee is concerned that the Department of Defense 
is using funds provided for emergencies and extraordinary 
expenses for expenses that are neither emergencies nor 
extraordinary. Recent examples include the use of these funds 
for catering as well as the purchase of dress uniforms, 
including bush hats and berets, for a foreign military for a 
ceremony two years hence. Accordingly, the Committee recommends 
enhanced oversight of these funds and directs that any 
notification made pursuant to section 127 of title 10, United 
States Code include: (1) an explanation of the nature of the 
emergency and extraordinary expense; (2) a justification of why 
other funding available to the Department or other federal 
agencies, as appropriate, could not be used for such expense; 
and (3) a justification for why the expense could not have been 
paid for in future fiscal years using amounts requested and 
appropriated for that purpose. In no case should funds be used 
for any purpose for which funds have been requested and denied 
by the Congress.

         QUARTERLY REPORTS ON GUANTANAMO BAY DETENTION FACILITY

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to submit 
quarterly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees on the current number of detainees at the Guantanamo 
Bay detention facility; their legal status; a description of 
all Department of Defense costs associated with the facility 
during the last two fiscal years by program, account, and 
activity; and the status of funds for the current fiscal year.

    QUARTERLY BRIEFINGS ON DEPLOYMENTS OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES

    The Committee appreciates the Department of Defense's 
quarterly briefings to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees on the deployment of United States Armed Forces by 
geographic combatant command, which is important for 
congressional oversight, and directs that these briefings 
continue.

                             FOREIGN BASES

    The Act continues the requirement for the Secretary of 
Defense to notify the congressional defense committees of the 
opening or closing of foreign bases and directs the Secretary 
of Defense to keep the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees apprised of any ongoing discussions with foreign 
governments that may lead to the opening or closing of a 
foreign base.

                   NOTIFICATION OF PAUSING ASSISTANCE

    The Committee is concerned with the Department of Defense 
pausing assistance appropriated by prior acts without 
consultation or notice to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees. Over the past year, this has included several 
international security cooperation programs and humanitarian 
projects in multiple countries around the world. Accordingly, 
the Committee recommendation includes language requiring the 
Secretary of Defense to notify the Committees not less than 15 
days prior to taking any action to pause, suspend, or eliminate 
assistance to a country made available by this Act.

              DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION AGENCY PROGRAMS

    The Secretary of Defense shall, not later than 30 days 
after the enactment of this Act, submit to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees a detailed spend plan for amounts 
made available for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The 
plan shall include amounts planned for each program listed in 
the budget justification documents and, for International 
Security Cooperation Programs, amounts provided in the prior 
two fiscal years and planned for fiscal year 2025 by combatant 
command, country, and authority. The plan shall only reflect 
amounts requested in the fiscal year 2025 budget justification 
materials as modified by fiscal year 2025 appropriations, and 
the Secretary of Defense shall notify such Subcommittees in 
writing not less than 15 days prior to obligating funds in a 
manner that would deviate from the plan. A similar document 
with requested amounts shall be provided to such Committees 
concurrent with the submission of the fiscal year 2026 
President's budget request.
    The Committee recommendation includes $1,423,630,000 for 
International Security Cooperation Programs and directs that 
congressional notifications for these funds specify the fiscal 
year, whether funds support ongoing or new programs, and the 
duration and expected cost over the life of each program. The 
Committee recommendation includes $200,000,000 for Taiwan, 
which is $92,000,000 above the fiscal year 2024 level. Such 
funds are provided for urgent and high priority defense 
articles and defense services that strengthen United States 
national security and increase Taiwan's defense, readiness, and 
deterrence. The Committee expects these programs to be 
integrated with other security assistance programs in a manner 
that complements rather than duplicates efforts and directs the 
Secretary of Defense to submit a spend plan to the House and 
Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 60 days after 
the enactment of this Act.
    The Committee recommendation includes $12,220,000 above the 
budget request for Mexico for programs to counter illicit 
fentanyl and synthetic opioids and the transnational criminal 
organizations, particularly the Sinaloa and Jalisco drug 
cartels, that have perpetrated the fentanyl crisis. The 
Committee recommendation also includes language that transfers 
Mexico from United States Northern Command to United States 
Southern Command to enable better coordination and 
prioritization and to address the shared security challenges in 
Mexico and its Central and South American neighbors. The 
Committee recommendation supports programs to increase the 
proficiency of partner nations in the Southern Command area of 
responsibility in maintaining United States-provided defense 
articles.
    The Committee recommendation supports international 
security cooperation programs for Jordan, including measures to 
strengthen Jordan's integrated air and missile defense, 
including command, control, and communications as well as 
counter-unmanned aircraft systems. The Committee recommendation 
also supports programs that enhance Philippine maritime 
security. The Committee notes with concern the recent dangerous 
actions taken by China against lawful Philippine maritime 
operations in the South China Sea. Funding provided above the 
request is for programs that support Philippines resupply 
operations within its exclusive economic zone.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to consult 
with the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on amounts 
provided above the President's budget request for International 
Security Cooperation Programs not later than 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act.
    The Committee notes that international security cooperation 
programs funded under this heading are subject to 10 U.S.C. 
362, which prohibits assistance for a unit of a foreign 
security force if the Secretary of Defense has credible 
information that the unit has committed a gross violation of 
human rights. The Committee also expects the Secretary of 
Defense to withhold assistance for a unit of a foreign security 
force if the Secretary has credible information that the unit 
has used United States military assistance against United 
States personnel and directs the Secretary of Defense to inform 
the congressional defense committees of any such misuse. 
Further, the Committee is concerned about end-use monitoring of 
assistance provided under this heading and expects the 
Department of Defense to implement any outstanding Government 
Accountability Office recommendations related to end-use 
monitoring.
    The Committee remains interested in evaluations of security 
cooperation programs with Northern Triangle countries and 
expects the Secretary of Defense to keep the Committee apprised 
of any such evaluations. The Committee is also interested in 
Army Security Force Assistance Brigade deployments, and any 
congressional notification made pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 321 or 10 
U.S.C. 333 should include a description of the number of 
individuals deployed and their training; the amount, type, and 
purpose of the training and equipment to be provided to the 
recipient country's security forces; the timeline and source of 
funds; and how the proposed program would promote the overall 
security cooperation goals of the brigade or country.
    The Committee expects the Secretary of Defense to focus 
institutional capacity building on fewer programs, on deeper 
and more sustainable results, and on countries that have 
complementary training and equipment programs.
    The Committee directs that any notification submitted to 
the House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees, for 
support authorized by subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 
1226(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2016, indicate the costs for reimbursement, by category, 
and the dates on which such costs were incurred by the partner 
country and submitted to the United States government. The 
Committee also directs that any notification for transfer of 
excess defense articles identify any related security 
cooperation programs and explain how the proposed transfer 
would promote the overall security cooperation goals of the 
country.
    The Committee is concerned about the disposition of 
aircraft removed from Afghanistan and taken to Tajikistan. The 
Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to brief the House 
and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees not later than 
60 days after the enactment of this Act on the disposition of 
these aircraft and the costs of various courses of action 
associated with their preservation, removal, repurposing, or 
transfer to other partner countries for use towards shared 
security objectives.
    The Committee is concerned by proposals to extend the 
availability of funds outside of the appropriations process. 
These proposals obfuscate existing agency execution issues and 
may exacerbate the situation.The Committee notes the 
significant unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations, including $1,234,840,000 in fiscal year 2023 
appropriations as of as of April 30, 2024. Accordingly, the 
Committee recommendation includes a rescission of funds. The 
Committee directs that such funds not be derived from 
congressional priorities, including programs increased by 
fiscal year 2024 appropriations. The Secretary of Defense is 
directed to consult with the House and Senate Defense 
Appropriations Committees with respect to this rescission and 
agency execution issues not later than 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act.

                     TAIWAN DEFENSE ARTICLES REPORT

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to, not 
later than 45 days after the enactment of this Act, submit a 
report to the congressional defense committees describing 
urgent and high priority defense articles and defense services 
for fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026 and steps taken or 
planned by the Department of Defense to expedite the delivery 
of such articles and services. The report shall also contain a 
description of defense articles and services delivered in 
fiscal year 2024.

                                UKRAINE

    The Committee supports Ukraine's efforts to defend its 
sovereign territory from Russian aggression. The Committee 
recommendation does not include funding requested for the 
Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. Funding for this 
initiative was provided for in the Ukraine Security 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024. The Committee is 
concerned, however, with the level of detail provided in 
congressional notifications for this initiative, which is 
essential for oversight of funds. The Committee directs the 
Secretary of Defense to consult with the House and Senate 
Defense Appropriations Subcommittees not later than 30 days 
after the enactment of this Act on the Department's contracting 
and notification procedures to ensure it is meeting 
congressional intent.
    Not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of 
State, shall submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees on commitments and contributions of defense articles 
and defense services made by foreign governments to Ukraine 
since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine. The 
report shall include a brief description of each commitment and 
contribution, including the approximate value, by country and 
date; efforts to coordinate international commitments and 
contributions with United States security assistance; steps 
taken or planned by the Administration to increase 
international commitments and contributions; and any use of the 
contribution authority provided in prior appropriations acts. 
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form but may be 
accompanied by a classified annex.

                     DRAWDOWN REPORTING REQUIREMENT

    The Committee notes the significant increase in drawdown 
authority and related spending in recent years and the bill 
includes a general provision that requires certain information 
be submitted to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 
when drawdown authority is exercised.

                   COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Iraq Train and Equip...............................................      380,758         380,758               0
Syria Train and Equip..............................................      147,941         147,941               0
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
    TOTAL, COUNTER-ISIS TRAIN AND EQUIP FUND.......................      528,699         528,699               0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Committee recommendation continues support for the 
Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, and the Syrian 
Democratic Forces to participate in activities to counter the 
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Committee directs that 
congressional notifications for funds provided under this 
heading include a description of the amount, type, and purpose 
of assistance to be funded, and the recipient of the 
assistance; the budget and implementation timeline, with 
anticipated delivery schedule for assistance; and a description 
of any material misuse of assistance since the last 
notification was submitted, along with a description of any 
remedies taken.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to consult 
with the House and Senate Appropriations Committees prior to 
submitting any notification that includes construction for 
detention facilities or internally displaced persons camps. 
Such notifications shall include detailed information on the 
scope of proposed projects and any contributions from foreign 
governments. The Committee further directs the Secretary of 
Defense to brief the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 
on progress made under the Al-Hol Action Plan not later than 60 
days after the enactment of this Act, including an update on 
the milestones associated with the plan.
    The Committee notes the significant unobligated balances 
from prior year appropriations and the recommendation includes 
a rescission of funds. The Committee directs that such 
rescission not be derived from support planned for the Kurdish 
Peshmerga. The Secretary of Defense is directed to consult with 
the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with respect to 
the rescission not later than 30 days after the enactment of 
this Act.

                OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve:


                OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve:


            OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve:


              OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve:


           LOGISTICS AND STAGING FOR INDO-PACIFIC OPERATIONS

    The Committee notes that as exercises and operations in the 
Indo-Pacific increase there must be a commensurate investment 
in logistical nodes in and around the Pacific. For instance, 
the use of March Air Reserve Base as an intermediate staging 
base has grown significantly over the last three years due to 
its proximity to both United States-based forces and the Indo-
Pacific. Ensuring that such Air Force Reserve logistics nodes 
are properly staffed, maintained, and equipped to support the 
flow of forces into the Indo-Pacific is instrumental to swiftly 
projecting United States military power into this critical 
theater of operations. Therefore, the Committee directs the 
Chief of the Air Force Reserve to provide a report to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act, that assesses the manpower, 
equipment, and resource requirements necessary to enhance Air 
Force Reserve installations in the Western United States to 
capably provide logistics and intermediate staging in support 
of future operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

             OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard:


             OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard:


          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $21,035,000 
for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

                    ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $268,069,000 
for Environmental Restoration, Army.

                    ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $343,591,000 
for Environmental Restoration, Navy.

                  ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $320,256,000 
for Environmental Restoration, Air Force.

                ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $8,800,000 for 
Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide.

         ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITES

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $234,475,000 
for Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites. The 
Committee expects the Secretary of Defense and the Service 
Secretaries to execute the Military Munitions Response Program 
in a manner consistent with the budget request.

             OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOREIGN DISASTER RELIEF............................................       20,000          20,000               0
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE............................................       80,335          80,335               0
HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION PROGRAM...................................       15,000          15,000               0
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
    TOTAL, OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID..........      115,335         115,335               0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to include 
in its budget justification materials for Humanitarian 
Assistance and the Humanitarian Mine Action amounts planned for 
each combatant command, country, and program area, as well as a 
comparison to funding provided in the previous two fiscal 
years. The Committee also directs the Secretary of Defense to 
inform the House and Senate Appropriations Defense 
Subcommittees of any planned foreign disaster relief not later 
than 72 hours following a disaster declaration that involves a 
request for Department of Defense support.
    The Committee is concerned with the manner by which the 
Department of Defense redirected funds appropriated for 
humanitarian projects in multiple countries around the world in 
order to construct a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the 
Gaza coast. No funds were requested or appropriated for the 
pier project in fiscal year 2024 and the Committee was not made 
aware of the redirection of funds for weeks. These actions deny 
the Committee its oversight responsibilities and negatively 
impact the comity between the branches of government. The 
Committee notes that no funds were requested for the pier in 
fiscal year 2025 and none are provided by this Act.

                  COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Cooperative Threat Reduction Account:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Biological Threat Reduction Program................................      209,858         111,202         -98,656
    Program decrease--Gabon........................................  ...........         -98,656
Chemical Security & Elimination....................................       20,717          20,717               0
Delivery System Threat Reduction...................................        7,036           7,036               0
Proliferation Prevention Program...................................       45,610          41,026          -4,584
    Early to need--Bulgaria........................................  ...........          -4,584
Global Nuclear Security............................................       33,665          33,665               0
Other Assessments/Administrative costs.............................       33,230          33,230               0
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
    TOTAL, COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT....................      350,116         246,876        -103,240
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Committee notes that on October 23, 2023, the State 
Department concluded that a military coup d'etat had taken 
place in Gabon.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $56,176,000 
for the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development 
Account.

                               TITLE III

                              PROCUREMENT

    The fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense procurement 
budget request and the Committee recommendation are summarized 
in the table below:


            REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR ACQUISITION ACCOUNTS

    The Secretary of Defense is directed to continue to follow 
the reprogramming guidance as specified in the report 
accompanying the House version of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 (House Report 110-
279). Specifically, the dollar threshold for reprogramming 
funds shall be $15,000,000 for procurement and research, 
development, test and evaluation.
    Also, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) is 
directed to continue to provide the congressional defense 
committees quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports 
for Service and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of 
this Act. Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with the 
guidance specified in the explanatory statement accompanying 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The 
Department shall continue to follow the limitation that prior 
approval reprogramming actions are set at either the specified 
dollar threshold or 20 percent of the procurement or research, 
development, test and evaluation line, whichever is less. These 
thresholds are cumulative from the base for reprogramming value 
as modified by any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined 
value of transfers into or out of a procurement (P-1) or 
research, development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds 
the identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit 
a prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense 
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior 
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special 
interest items are established elsewhere in this report.

                           FUNDING INCREASES

    The funding increases outlined in these tables shall be 
provided only for the specific purposes indicated in the 
tables.

                   PROCUREMENT SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

    Items for which additional funds have been recommended or 
items for which funding is specifically reduced as shown in the 
project level tables detailing recommended adjustments or in 
paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' in this 
report are congressional special interest items for the purpose 
of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of these 
items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated amount, 
as specifically addressed elsewhere in this report.

                       AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Aircraft Procurement, Army:


       MQ-1C GRAY EAGLE 25M AIRCRAFT FOR THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

    The MQ-1C Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft system is 
essential for multi-domain operations (MDO) and a critical 
capability for the Army National Guard as the primary combat 
reserve of the Army. The National Defense Strategy calls for 
more than 16 MDO capable divisions. To meet this mandate, Army 
Guard Divisions must field MQ-1C 25M Gray Eagles to maintain 
training standards and to preserve the ability to deploy combat 
divisions.
    The Committee is aware of a pending decision by the Army 
regarding the number of aircraft necessary to equip a full Army 
National Guard Gray Eagle company. While that decision is being 
finalized, the recommendation includes an increase of 
$240,000,000 above the fiscal year 2025 President's budget 
request to procure eight MQ-1C Gray Eagle 25M aircraft only for 
the Army National Guard.

                       MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Missile Procurement, Army:


        PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army:


                    PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement of Ammunition, Army:


                          SMOKELESS GUNPOWDER

    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Army to submit a 
report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not 
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, on the 
United States supply chain for smokeless gunpowder, including 
nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and acid production, essential 
to ammunition manufacturing. The Secretary of the Army will 
identify not less than three potential locations to improve the 
sourcing of smokeless gunpowder.

                        OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Other Procurement, Army:


             COMMON TACTICAL TRUCK ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES

    The Committee supports efforts to maximize commonality and 
leverage commercial practices in Tactical Wheeled Vehicle 
procurements. However, the Committee is concerned by the Army's 
acquisition strategy for the Common Tactical Truck (CTT), 
including the decision to combine vehicles with different 
mission requirements into one configuration. The Committee 
believes this acquisition approach could unintentionally reduce 
competition and increase costs. Therefore, the Committee 
directs the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, 
Logistics and Technology), to conduct a formal Analysis of 
Alternatives for the CTT program, to include an option for 
modernizing the Family of Heavy Tactical Wheeled Vehicles via 
recapitalization, and submit a written report to the 
congressional defense committees not later than 120 days after 
the enactment of this Act.

                       AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Aircraft Procurement, Navy:


             NAVY ADVERSARY AIRCRAFT FOR TRAINING PURPOSES

    The Committee notes the growing requirement for near-peer 
representative air-to-air training using aggressor aircraft 
with capabilities similar to that of advanced adversaries. The 
Committee remains supportive of ongoing efforts to increase 
capabilities of aircraft assigned to aggressor squadrons; 
however, the Committee remains concerned about the overuse of 
some legacy aircraft to carry out this mission in the long-
term. To maintain strategic Navy Reserve air strike fighter and 
air aggressor capability, the Committee encourages the 
Secretary of the Navy to transition deployable F/A-18E/F 
aircraft considered for divestment, as available, from the 
Active Component to Navy Reserve aviation squadrons.

                         E-2D ADVANCED HAWKEYE

    The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft is an essential command 
and control element of the Carrier Strike Group's advanced 
capability to provide force protection and enable power 
projection for the United States and its allies. In 2019, the 
Navy approved an increase of 11 aircraft to the program of 
record, bringing the total warfighter requirement from 75 to 86 
aircraft. However, the fiscal year 2025 President's budget does 
not request any aircraft resulting in a shortfall of four 
aircraft. The E-2D is in high demand from the combatant 
commanders and has been integral to recent real-world 
operations around the globe. The Committee believes that 
fulfilling the authorized warfighter requirement will increase 
readiness, aircraft availability, and reduce operational risk. 
Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to 
submit a report to the congressional defense committees not 
later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act providing a 
plan to fund the remaining aircraft to meet its authorized 
warfighter requirement.

                       WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Weapons Procurement, Navy:


            PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps:


                   SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy:


                       45-DAY SHIPBUILDING REVIEW

    The Committee notes the findings of the Navy's 45-day 
Shipbuilding Review found significant delays to several 
critical shipbuilding programs. Notably, the review's findings 
revealed 12-16 months delay in lead boat construction of the 
Columbia-class submarine, 24-36 months delay in Virginia-class 
submarine construction, 18-26 months delay in delivering the 
third Ford-class carrier, and at least 3 years delay in the 
lead Constellation-class frigate. Recognizing the importance of 
fleet capacity in power projection and the Chief of Naval 
Operations' new force-level goal of 381 ships, the Committee is 
increasingly concerned by the long-term impacts of these 
delays. The Committee directs the Secretary of the Navy to 
submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees not later than 90 days after the enactment of this 
Act, on the Navy's recommended actions following the 45-day 
Shipbuilding Review and the Navy's follow-on Shipbuilding 
Review, outlining plans and funding requirements for 
implementation.

                         SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee is dismayed by delays in construction of the 
lead Columbia-class submarine. The program is the Navy's top 
priority and fundamental to the nuclear triad. The Committee 
recognizes the strategic importance of the Columbia-class 
program and has fully funded every shipbuilding construction 
request to ensure on time delivery of the lead boat and overall 
success of the program. The Committee is troubled that the Navy 
lacked the appropriate oversight of a program of such 
significance that it only learned of the year delay to the 
program in recent months.
    Further, the Committee notes the delays in the Columbia-
class program will undoubtably impact Virginia-class submarine 
construction. Virginia-class construction remains challenged 
with production hovering at a 1.2 submarine per year cadence 
versus the necessary cadence of two per year. The Committee 
believes that given the findings of the 45-day Shipbuilding 
Review showing a delay of upwards of 3 years in Virginia-class 
submarine construction, that the Committee recommendation of 
one Virginia-class submarine, coupled with robust investment in 
the submarine industrial base, appropriately reflects the 
current capacity for submarine construction and deliberately 
targets funding to the industrial base to achieve long-term 
sustainable production.
    The Committee believes that providing significant and 
strategic investment in the Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) is 
necessary to achieving the ``1+2'' production rate for the 
Columbia and Viriginia-class programs. Therefore, the Committee 
recommendation includes $4,004,400,000 for the SIB, including 
$2,134,000,000 in the Shipbuilding and Conversion account. This 
funding is in addition to the $3,013,400,000 included in the 
Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and 
the $1,188,000,000 provided in the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2024. The Committee believes investment in 
supplier capacity and capability, strategic domestic 
outsourcing, workforce development, and technology and 
infrastructure is key to achieving and sustaining the required 
submarine production cadence in the long-term and maintaining 
international commitments under the trilateral Australia, 
United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) security partnership.

                          FRIGATE CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee notes that despite findings in the 45-day 
Shipbuilding Review that show the Constellation-class frigate 
is at least three years behind schedule, the Navy continues to 
request funding to construct frigates at a rate that the 
program has demonstrated it is unable to meet. In addition to 
the delays found with lead-ship construction, the Committee 
notes the delivery dates for the three follow-on frigates 
currently under contract are unknown. The Committee is 
concerned by persisting design instability for the lead ship 
that may further impact construction. Therefore, the Committee 
recommendation provides no funding for the procurement of a 
frigate in fiscal year 2025.

                          MEDIUM LANDING SHIP

    The Committee remains supportive of the Marine Corps 
implementation of the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations 
concept to support military operations in a contested maritime 
environment. However, the Committee is concerned that the 
Medium Landing Ship program faces risk in both requirements and 
design stability. The Committee notes the negative impacts to 
shipbuilding programs in cases where the Navy has 
underestimated the requirements and stability of design for 
lead ship construction, resulting in significant cost 
increases, schedule delays, and instability in the shipbuilding 
industrial base. Therefore, the Committee recommendation 
includes $29,668,000 for the Medium Landing Ship to allow for 
the program to focus on achieving design stability and solidify 
requirements before making contractual commitment that funds 
construction of the lead ship.

                        OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Other Procurement, Navy:


                       PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement, Marine Corps:


                    AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:


                     MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Missile Procurement, Air Force:


                  PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force:


                      OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Other Procurement, Air Force:


                        PROCUREMENT, SPACE FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement, Space Force:


                     NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH

    The Committee supports the Space Force's acquisition 
approach for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program 
phase III launch service procurements. The dual-lane approach 
provides flexibility in Lane 1 for more risk-tolerant missions 
and provides an on-ramp for new providers when they are ready. 
Lane 2 provides assured access for the most critical national 
security payloads with full mission assurance via three 
certified providers, as proposed in the acquisition strategy. 
The Committee directs the Department of Defense and the 
Intelligence Community to utilize the NSSL program to the 
maximum extent possible for launch service procurements, unless 
the Secretary of the Air Force or the Director of the National 
Reconnaissance Office provides a written justification with 
supporting data to the congressional defense and intelligence 
committees that a commercial launch or delivery-in-orbit 
procurement for a designated mission is in the national 
security interest of the government or significantly less 
expensive than an NSSL procured launch.

                       PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Procurement, Defense-Wide:


                     DEFENSE SUPPLY CHAIN PACKAGING

    The Committee recognizes the critical importance of 
protective packaging to ensure the safe transport and storage 
of military equipment and goods. Packaging materials and 
solutions are specifically tailored based on detailed 
calculations for each requirement across the Department's 
logistics and supply chain. The Committee urges the Secretary 
of Defense, prior to proposing limitations or prohibitions on 
packaging materials, to evaluate adverse financial, 
performance, public safety impact, or unintended consequence 
from proposed alternative(s) or substitute packaging materials. 
The Committee further expects the Secretary to provide a 
combined list of packaging modernization focus areas for fiscal 
year 2026 to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees 
along with the submission of the President's budget request for 
fiscal year 2026.

    GROUND MOBILITY TACTICAL VEHICLES FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES

    Ground mobility is an essential element for the success of 
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF). The Family of Special 
Operations Vehicles offers differing capabilities depending on 
the mission and area of operations. The Committee is concerned 
with an apparent capability gap for ground combat vehicles, 
specifically the Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) 1.1. To date, 
procurement of the GMV 1.1 has fallen well short of the defined 
requirement. The Committee encourages U.S. Special Operations 
Command to review its acquisition strategy to determine if 
additional vehicles are necessary to deliver this critical 
capability to operators across the SOF enterprise.

                    DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Defense Production Act Purchases:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES                                         393,377         446,377          53,000
    Program increase--commercial market analysis on domestic                               1,000
     alternative investments to a foreign entity...................
    Program increase--domestic black powder advanced manufacturing.                       17,000
    Program increase--domestic boron processing and production.....                        5,000
    Program increase--expanding domestic solid rocket motors at                           15,000
     scale.........................................................
    Program increase--titanium sponge production...................                       15,000
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
        TOTAL, DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES....................      393,377         446,377          53,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          PURCHASE COMMITMENTS

    The Committee notes the Department of Defense fiscal year 
2025 legislative proposals to expand contracting throughput 
levels and increase the end of year fund balance from 
$750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Although the Committee is 
amenable to such legislative proposals, such proposals have not 
yet been supported by a committee of jurisdiction. The 
Committee remains concerned that continued restrictions on 
Defense Production Act Title III funds will impair efforts to 
support and expand the defense industrial base. Further, the 
Committee notes the Department's interest in expanding the 
defense industrial base in several critical areas, informed by 
the National Defense Industrial Strategy. Therefore, the 
Committee is not including a period of availability restriction 
allowing the Department to issue purchase commitments, creating 
guaranteed demand for industrial capacity, reducing risk to 
industry investments, and strengthening the defense industrial 
base.

                   STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL RARE EARTHS

    The Committee notes the Department is working to strengthen 
mining and processing capabilities integral to the defense 
enterprise that includes, but is not limited to, cobalt, 
lithium, graphite, and platinum, as well as rare earth elements 
(REEs), rare earth oxides (REOs), such as Neodymium-
Praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, and rare earth minerals. The 
Committee notes strategic and critical rare earths are 
essential to permanent magnets, jet engines, missile guidance 
systems, satellites, communication systems, and batteries. The 
Committee is concerned about the lack of a coherent plan to 
domestically source critical and rare earth elements, oxides, 
and minerals to meet defense production needs. Additionally, 
the Committee is concerned about fostering continued dependence 
on adversarial producers, such as China.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense 
to include a comprehensive plan to increase domestic sources of 
critical and rare earth elements, oxides, and minerals for 
defense production needs to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees during fiscal year 2026 budget reviews. The plan 
shall identify statutes, policies, regulations, and/or 
instructions that hinder development of robust domestic sources 
of critical REEs, REOs, and rare earth minerals for defense 
production. The plan shall also identify market trends in REEs, 
REOs, and rare earth minerals that are necessary for defense 
but also have civil and commercial application, which will have 
investment implications for the Department. While this plan may 
include options in ally or partner nations for near-term REE, 
REO, and rare earth minerals to facilitate a rapid move from 
adversarial producers, the recommendations and conclusions of 
this plan must exclusively address the needs for a domestic 
source for defense production.

  CHEMICAL SUPPLY CHAIN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ENGAGEMENT

    The Committee recognizes the role chemicals play in 
supporting America's defense industrial base and is aware of 
the risk to America's national security with offshore 
production of these substances and materials. The Committee 
notes the current Defense Production Act Title III priority is 
to onshore the top ten mission critical chemicals currently 
produced overseas as well as modernize the chemical 
manufacturing defense industrial base. For chemical substances 
undergoing risk evaluation by the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the 
Committee urges the Secretary of Defense to detail the 
necessity for, and uses of, such chemicals during fiscal year 
2026 budget reviews and implications to the Department and 
defense industrial base stemming from the EPA's risk 
evaluation.

              NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT ACCOUNT

 
 
 
Fiscal year 2025 budget request.......................             - - -
Committee recommendation..............................      $800,000,000
Change from budget request............................      +800,000,000
 

    The Committee recommends $800,000,000 for the National 
Guard and Reserve Equipment Account. Of that amount, 
$248,000,000 is for the Army National Guard; $240,000,000 is 
for the Air National Guard; $124,000,000 is for the Army 
Reserve; $45,600,000 is for the Navy Reserve; $18,400,000 is 
for the Marine Corps Reserve; and $124,000,000 is for the Air 
Force Reserve to meet urgent equipment needs in the coming 
fiscal year. This funding will allow the National Guard and 
reserve components to procure high priority equipment used by 
these components for both their military missions and missions 
in support of State governors. The funding within this account 
is not to be used to procure equipment designated as high-
density critical equipment, major weapon systems, aircraft, and 
other equipment central to a unit's ability to perform its 
doctrinal mission. The funding within this account is not to be 
used to procure equipment purchased by the senior Service, to 
expand or accelerate current Service procurement plans, to 
purchase expendable items, or to purchase facilities or 
equipment for any requirement able to be satisfied elsewhere.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure 
that the National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account is 
executed by the Chiefs of the National Guard and reserve 
components with priority consideration given to the following 
items: acoustic hailing devices; aircraft survivability 
equipment and weapons training aids; aviation status 
dashboards; cloud defense solutions; crash-survivable UH-60 
helicopter gunner seats; degraded visual environment systems; 
improved thermal acoustic blanket; emergency response refuel 
equipment kits for C-130/135 aircraft; internal auxiliary 
crashworthy, ballistically tolerant auxiliary fuel systems for 
UH-60 helicopters; KC-135 aircrew ground cooling units; land 
surveying systems; lightweight, rapidly deployable, computer-
based artillery call for fire training and simulation; litter 
stabilization systems; modular small arms ranges and small arms 
training simulators and tools; secure enterprise, emergency, 
and social communication; software defined radios; UH-72 Lakota 
mission equipment modernization; and upgraded commercial-off-
the-shelf ground mapping for C-130 aircraft.

                                TITLE IV

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

    The fiscal year 2025 Department of Defense research, 
development, test and evaluation budget request and the 
Committee recommendation are summarized in the table below:


            REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR ACQUISITION ACCOUNTS

    The Secretary of Defense is directed to continue to follow 
the reprogramming guidance as specified in the report 
accompanying the House version of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 (House Report 110-
279). Specifically, the dollar threshold for reprogramming 
funds shall be $15,000,000 for procurement and research, 
development, test and evaluation.
    Also, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) is 
directed to continue to provide the congressional defense 
committees quarterly, spreadsheet-based DD Form 1416 reports 
for Service and defense-wide accounts in titles III and IV of 
this Act. Reports for titles III and IV shall comply with the 
guidance specified in the explanatory statement accompanying 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. The 
Department shall continue to follow the limitation that prior 
approval reprogramming actions are set at either the specified 
dollar threshold or 20 percent of the procurement or research, 
development, test and evaluation line, whichever is less. These 
thresholds are cumulative from the base for reprogramming value 
as modified by any adjustments. Therefore, if the combined 
value of transfers into or out of a procurement (P-1) or 
research, development, test and evaluation (R-1) line exceeds 
the identified threshold, the Secretary of Defense must submit 
a prior approval reprogramming to the congressional defense 
committees. In addition, guidelines on the application of prior 
approval reprogramming procedures for congressional special 
interest items are established elsewhere in this report.

                           FUNDING INCREASES

    The funding increases outlined in these tables shall be 
provided only for the specific purposes indicated in the 
tables.

   RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

    Items for which additional funds have been recommended or 
items for which funding is specifically reduced as shown in the 
project level tables detailing recommended adjustments or in 
paragraphs using the phrase ``only for'' or ``only to'' in this 
report are congressional special interest items for the purpose 
of the Base for Reprogramming (DD Form 1414). Each of these 
items must be carried on the DD Form 1414 at the stated amount, 
as specifically addressed elsewhere in this report.

            RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, ARMY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army:


COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AND INFORMATION 
                               ADVANTAGE

    Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and 
Information Advantage (C-ISR/IA) capabilities deliver 
intelligence, informational, and decision-making advantages in 
multi-domain operations. C-ISR/IA superiority will be critical 
to deter and defeat near-peer adversaries. The Committee 
directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a combined, 
classified budget display for manpower, operations and 
maintenance, research, development, test and evaluation, and 
procurement in the fiscal year 2026 President's budget request 
focused on C-ISR/IA. This budget display is not intended to 
shift resources from their current budget lines but is intended 
to clearly present the Army's total investment in C-ISR/IA 
capability.

                       NITROCELLULOSE PRODUCTION

    The Committee is concerned about the domestic supply and 
production of nitrocellulose. Any failure or supply shortage 
could restrict ammunition manufacturing for large and small 
calibers, harming the commercial marketplace and placing 
servicemembers at risk. The Committee encourages the Secretary 
of the Army to explore options for increasing production of 
domestic nitrocellulose to meet demand.

                        HEAVY VEHICLE SIMULATOR

    The Committee is aware of the need to upgrade the existing 
Heavy Vehicle Simulator Mark IV-A at the Engineer Research and 
Development Center. Military infrastructure requires rapidly 
deployable solutions to enable effective maneuver of assets 
from U.S. bases to theaters of operation. This platform 
provides key research for evaluating airfield, rail, and 
pavement solutions for Department of Defense applications 
within both new and existing infrastructure. The Committee 
urges the Secretary of the Army to prioritize this upgrade to 
help address critical infrastructure requirements.

            RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, NAVY

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy:


           SECURE TESTBED FOR AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES

    The Committee recognizes the importance of testing 
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) in a secure maritime 
environment and notes that the current limited access to test 
ranges inhibits innovation and the pace of development of AUV 
technology. Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of 
the Navy to evaluate inland bodies of water for a viable and 
secure location for an AUV and maritime sensor testing range. 
The Secretary should consider secure bodies of water with 
depths of 400 meters, significant oceangoing maritime traffic, 
and climate conditions that can approximate a diverse continuum 
of environments including the Indo-Pacific, North Atlantic, and 
Arctic Oceans. The Secretary should also consider how the range 
would be utilized by the Department, industrial partners, 
academia, and allied nations. The Secretary shall provide a 
written report on the findings to the House and Senate Defense 
Appropriations Subcommittees not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act.

                   RAPID ANALYSIS OF THREAT EXPOSURE

    The Committee commends the Navy for their leadership in 
developing and testing real-time, artificial intelligence-
powered infection risk prediction scores using the Rapid 
Analysis of Threat Exposure, a machine-learning algorithm. The 
Committee recognizes the work of the Department of Defense, on 
a clinical trial to monitor vital biomarkers in 9,381 
Department personnel, including heart rate, inter-beat 
interval, respiration rate, pulse oxygenation, skin temperature 
and accelerometer data, collecting 201 million hours of data. 
The findings proved the ability to predict infection, on 
average, 48 hours before the onset of symptoms. The Committee 
recognizes that identifying changes in physiology early in the 
infection can be critical to containing the spread and 
maintaining military readiness. An early warning solution could 
potentially prevent outbreaks of contagious infections from 
spreading out of control on ships and submarines where options 
are more limited. The Committee urges further testing and 
possible expansion of the use of this innovative technology and 
directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to the 
congressional defense committees, not later than 90 days after 
enactment of this Act, that details the effectiveness and value 
of a larger deployment of the Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure 
technology to additional servicemembers or specific units.

                     COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

    The Committee understands the importance of the littoral 
region to Navy operations worldwide and believes that testing 
and training must take place at secured research, development, 
test, and evaluation facilities and replicate the operational 
and threat environments that Navy assets are likely to 
encounter. Research is needed to study seabed phenomenology and 
develop technologies for continuous monitoring and detection of 
encroachment threats to reduce seabed vulnerabilities at or 
near Navy critical ocean test and evaluation facilities. The 
Committee believes that additional research on the underwater 
signatures and ocean hydrodynamics in the littoral regions and 
the development of predictive techniques to ensure stealth 
superiority would be beneficial for naval operations. The 
Committee encourages the Navy to conduct additional research in 
this area.

                         ADAPTIVE FUTURE FORCE

    The Committee notes the importance of ensuring the 
warfighter is prepared for emerging technologies in the future 
fight. The Office of Naval Research's existing work with the 
Adaptive Future Force helps plan for innovative tactics related 
to artificial intelligence, human-machine teaming, and autonomy 
before the military faces an adversary in these types of 
scenarios. The Committee supports the broadening of the 
existing capability of human and robot systems to assist with 
validating concepts and future technologies and methods that 
would support the warfighter, including the development of 
training programs, partnerships with academic and commercial 
labs and institutions, and procurement of equipment, among 
other deliverables.

         RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force:


                  FIGHTER AIRCRAFT ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

    The Committee notes an Air Force-requested technical 
adjustment to the fiscal year 2025 President's budget request 
realigning $562,337,000 from the Advanced Engine Development 
(AED) program to the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) 
program. The steady progress toward meeting future Next 
Generation Air Dominance engine requirements is underscored by 
industrial base competition, which the Committee expects to 
last through future NGAP development phases. The Committee is 
supportive of NGAP and therefore recommends a realignment of 
$532,337,000 to the program.
    The Committee also remains supportive of a consistent 
pipeline of engine development for fighter aircraft and a 
healthy engine industrial base. The Committee directs that the 
$30,000,000 remaining in the AED program shall be used to 
develop advanced engine technologies for integration into 
future engine development programs. This can include 
investments in adaptive cycle engine technologies, improved 
manufacturing techniques for engine components, development of 
novel materials, integration of enhanced digital design 
capabilities into the engine development process, supply chain 
maturation, and risk reduction.
    These funds are not intended to incentivize the Air Force, 
or any other Service, to create an alternative engine program 
for the F-35, and a general provision is included in this Act 
that prohibits the use of funds to integrate an alternative 
engine on any F-35 aircraft.

                                SENTINEL

    The Committee notes its longstanding support for the land-
based leg of the nuclear triad, having appropriated more than 
$12,500,000,000 since fiscal year 2020 for Ground Based 
Strategic Deterrent (GBSD). For fiscal year 2025, the Committee 
recommendation includes $3,397,024,000 for GBSD, which is 
$324,000,000 less than the President's budget request. This 
decrease is the result of insufficient justification and 
program uncertainty for execution needs in fiscal year 2025. 
While supportive of the capability, the Committee was stunned 
to learn about the critical Program Acquisition Unit Cost 
breach of at least 37 percent, and an Average Procurement Unit 
Cost breach of at least 19 percent that were determined 
following a review of the program in December 2023. The 
Committee acknowledges the technical challenges and complexity 
of an undertaking of this magnitude. However, the Committee is 
concerned that the issues driving the critical overruns were 
not identified sooner, the level of flawed technical 
assumptions, and the management continuity of the program. The 
Committee is concerned that lack of continuity in program 
management for such a critical program as Sentinel is 
contributing to poor program performance, cost overruns, and 
schedule slips. Therefore, the Committee directs the 
Comptroller General of the United States to assess the impact 
of turnover in program managers on the performance of the 
Sentinel program and provide a report of this assessment to the 
congressional defense committees not later than 180 days after 
the enactment of this Act.
    Additionally, the Committee expects a full discussion on 
all statutorily required aspects of the Nunn-McCurdy review, 
specifically alternatives considered, including those 
recommended in the ``Congressional Commission on the Strategic 
Posture of the United States'' report dated October 2023. The 
Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Defense and Commander of 
United States Strategic Command, to submit a report to the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not later than 180 
days after the enactment of this Act, on the most feasible 
recommendations highlighted in the Commission's report related 
to interim capability to augment a potential capability gap 
caused by delays in Sentinel, to include the feasibility of 
fielding some portion of the future intercontinental ballistic 
missile force in a road mobile configuration. This report shall 
include, but is not be limited to, an assessment of technical 
attributes, cost, timeline, workforce limitations, and treaty 
considerations. The Committee further directs the Secretary of 
the Air Force to provide quarterly updates on the land-based 
nuclear capability to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees beginning not later than 90 days after the enactment 
of this Act.

                     COLLABORATIVE COMBAT AIRCRAFT

    The Committee recommendation includes $531,417,000 for the 
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in fiscal year 
2025, which is $25,730,000 less than the President's budget 
request. The Committee notes that the budget request is 
$164,937,000 above the amount appropriated in fiscal year 2024, 
and $43,395,000 above previous estimates for fiscal year 2025. 
The Committee remains supportive of the effort, and is pleased 
that CCA Increment 1 downselected after only two years, having 
demonstrated early and successful collaboration between 
operators, technologists, acquirers and industry.
    The Committee looks forward to continued updates on CCA 
operational concept refinement; fielding and training; the plan 
for CCA Increment 2, to include anticipated solicitation 
timeline; the status of international partnerships; and 
continued co-development with the Next Generation Air Dominance 
program. The Committee is also interested in the projected 
operational utilization of CCA, the assumptions on operator 
cognitive load and planned solutions to address operational and 
training challenges. Therefore, the Committee directs the 
Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Committee on these topics not later 
than 60 days after enactment of this Act.

           BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS PRODUCT INNOVATION

    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to 
provide a briefing not later than 180 days after enactment of 
this Act to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on 
the Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems Product 
Innovation (BESPIN) program. The briefing shall include how 
BESPIN is integrated into the Air Force organizational 
structure, projects and activities planned for fiscal year 
2025, and the funding profile from fiscal year 2020 through the 
fiscal year 2025 request. Further, the Secretary of the Air 
Force is directed to coordinate with the Under Secretary of 
Defense for Research and Engineering on whether elevating 
BESPIN to the Office of Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering would better support the Defense-Wide enterprise, 
and report back to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees not later than 120 days after the enactment of this 
Act.

  LONG RANGE PERSISTENT INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE

    The Committee recognizes the importance of long range 
persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance 
capabilities in providing real-time situational awareness to 
warfighters. The Committee notes current capabilities are 
costly and often limited by endurance and forward positioning. 
To meet the rapidly growing and anticipated demand from 
combatant commands, the Committee encourages accelerating and 
expanding Air Force Research Laboratory efforts to develop and 
deliver ultra-long range endurance unmanned reconnaissance 
aircraft.

                     ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNA SYSTEMS

    The Committee supports developing research on ultra-
wideband, ultra-wide scan, and reconfigurable antenna systems 
with suitable back-ends that will enable wireless systems to 
transmit and receive massive data in real-time in support of 
the Air Force, Space Force, and Department-wide missions. The 
same ultra-wideband systems will enable secure guidance in 
denied environments.

                      SEMICONDUCTOR AUTHENTICATION

    The Committee is aware of efforts to validate the 
authenticity of semiconductor chips in the defense network 
through a supply-chain verification system utilizing a diverse 
set of secure authentication hardware, software, and protocols, 
and encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to continue these 
efforts to mitigate the risk of counterfeit parts or theft of 
intellectual property.

        RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, SPACE FORCE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force:


                    PROTECTED TACTICAL SATCOM-GLOBAL

    The fiscal year 2025 President's budget request includes 
$247,997,000 to initiate a new program, Protect Tactical 
SATCOM-Global (PTS-G), to bridge the gap between resilient 
purpose-built communications satellite capabilities, 
implemented by the PTS-Resilient program, and the more broadly 
available capabilities offered by emerging commercial 
providers. Pursuing this hybrid architecture was a key 
recommendation of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center's study 
on satellite communication architectures. The Committee fully 
supports this hybrid architecture approach and the proposed 
plan to field an initial capability of PTS-G by 2027. The 
Committee encourages the Space Force to include commercial, 
nontraditional company participation in carrying out the PTS-G 
program.
    Following submission of the budget request, the Space Force 
requested a realignment of funds from PTS-G to address 
shortfalls in the Position, Navigation, and Timing portfolio. 
The Space Force has indicated that the proposed realignment 
would not impact plans for PTS-G and is consistent with the 
expected obligations and expenditures for fiscal year 2025 
based on the current acquisition strategy. Therefore, the 
recommendation realigns $55,000,000 to the Global Positioning 
System (GPS)--Operational Control Segment (OCX), and 
$15,000,000 to sustain the GPS Architecture Evolution Plan 
until the OCX program is delivered. Consequently, the Committee 
recommendation provides $177,997,000 for PTS-G and designates 
the program as a congressional special interest item.

             OPERATIONAL COMMERCIAL SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS

    The Committee notes the importance of space domain 
awareness as a foundational data set for security in space. 
While the Space Force is making substantial improvements in its 
ability to track objects in orbit, space domain awareness 
remains a critical gap, particularly the ability to provide 
real-time tracking and persistent custody across all orbital 
regimes. The Committee views the use of commercial space domain 
awareness data as a critical component and complement for an 
integrated approach to protecting and defending the space 
domain. The Committee notes the significant private investment 
in existing operational commercial capabilities and strongly 
encourages the Chief of Space Operations to initiate an 
operational commercial space domain awareness pathfinder 
program.

          TACTICAL SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE, AND TRACKING

    The Committee recognizes the increasing availability and 
value of high-quality commercial imagery and other types of 
data to support a wide range of national security applications, 
including intelligence and military operations.
    The Space Force's Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, 
and Tracking (TacSRT) initiative is aimed at rapidly delivering 
unclassified, fully releasable commercial sensing and analytic 
capabilities to combatant commanders. The Committee notes the 
contribution of the TacSRT pilot in supporting United States 
Southern Command and United States Africa Command. The 
Committee expects the Space Force to continue to coordinate and 
collaborate with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 
(NGA) on the TacSRT initiative to minimize redundancy and 
duplication of efforts. It is noted that Department of Defense 
Directive 5105.60 designates the Director, NGA as the principal 
advisor to the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, and the Combatant Commands for Geospatial 
Intelligence. Therefore, the Director of NGA is directed to 
provide a semiannual assessment, including recommendations, of 
the TacSRT initiative to the congressional defense committees 
beginning on January 15, 2025, and every 6 months thereafter.
    Further, the Committee is aware that there are existing 
contract vehicles for purchasing commercial remote sensing 
data, analytic tools, and services. It is the Committee's 
position that centralized purchase of commercial data and 
services with government-wide licenses is the most cost-
efficient way of acquiring these capabilities and that ad hoc, 
uncoordinated purchases is excessively costly as taxpayers are 
underwriting the purchase of the same capability more than 
once. Therefore, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Space Acquisition and Integration, and any official acting in 
an acquisition or contracting capacity within the Space Force, 
is directed to use existing contract mechanisms to the maximum 
extent possible for the purchase of commercial remote sensing 
data and services. The Committee recommendation provides 
$10,000,000 for TacSRT under the Commercial Services line for 
fiscal year 2025.

                  RESILIENT GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

    On April 5, 2024, the Committee received a letter from the 
Deputy Secretary of Defense approving the Secretary of the Air 
Force's determination to exercise newly granted rapid 
acquisition authorities under section 229 of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, also known as 
quick-start authorities, to immediately repurpose $40,000,000 
of fiscal year 2023 procurement funds to start a new initiative 
called Global Positioning System (GPS)-lite, which has since 
been renamed Resilient GPS (R-GPS). More recently, the Space 
Force requested a realignment of an additional $77,000,000 in 
the fiscal year 2025 President's budget request and is 
considering submitting a reprogramming for additional funds in 
September 2024. The Space Force estimates the total cost over 
the next five years will be $1,000,000,000.
    The Committee has several concerns about the R-GPS plan and 
the use of this authority for this project. First, the R-GPS 
initiative purports to provide greater resilience by 
proliferating a constellation of about 20 small satellites 
transmitting core GPS signals. While proliferation may provide 
some advantages, it is not clear how these additional 
satellites increase the resilience against the primary jamming 
threat to GPS, compared to alternative concepts for position, 
navigation, and timing systems being pursued elsewhere in the 
Department of Defense. Second, the initiative focuses solely on 
the space segment and does not address longstanding issues with 
the lack of M-code GPS user equipment, a critical link to 
enabling jam-resistant capabilities. Third, the initiative 
could have been considered prior to enactment of the fiscal 
year 2024 Defense Appropriations Act or submitted as part of 
the fiscal year 2025 budget request. Instead, the Department 
chose to bypass its own budget process and dodge the 
congressional appropriations process to exercise this new, 
extraordinary authority.
    Therefore, the Committee recommendation does not include 
the requested realignment of $77,000,000 in the fiscal year 
2025 budget request. Further, the Committee directs the 
Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation in 
consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Requirements 
Oversight Council to provide a report to the congressional 
defense committees not later than 180 days after enactment of 
this Act that includes an assessment of whether R-GPS is the 
best alternative to improve the resiliency of position, 
navigation, and timing services to support national security.

                  EXTENDED LAUNCH VEHICLE CAPABILITIES

    The Committee notes recent initiatives by the Space Force 
to enhance resiliency and effectiveness of on-orbit assets by 
pursuing capabilities for sustained space maneuver and dynamic 
space operations. The Committee supports these initiatives and 
strongly encourages the Space Force to broaden its scope to 
include greater investment in extended duration launch vehicle 
capabilities, such as high-energy upper stage systems. Such 
capabilities would enable orbit transfer advantages, unlock 
extended duration missions both in earth orbit and cislunar 
space, and enable new concepts of operation to protect against 
in-space threats, as space transitions from a strategic to a 
tactical domain.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of the Air 
Force to submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees, not later than 180 days after the enactment of this 
Act, on the mission utility and feasibility of extended 
duration launch vehicle capabilities, including an 
implementation plan for on-orbit demonstrations of capabilities 
enabled by such a system. The plan shall include a detailed 
schedule with milestones and estimates of funding required by 
fiscal year.

                           SPACE TEST PROGRAM

    For more than 50 years, the Space Test Program (STP) has 
provided vital support to the science and technology community 
through flight opportunities and mission support to demonstrate 
new technologies and carry out important scientific missions in 
support of national security. The Committee strongly supports 
the STP program and encourages the Commander of Space Systems 
Command to include innovative nontraditional commercial 
entities and small businesses to the greatest extent possible 
in the Space Test Experiments Platform 2.0 program.

                           QUARTERLY REPORTS

    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Air Force to 
continue to provide quarterly briefings on the status of its 
missile warning and missile tracking programs, to include the 
Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared programs and the 
Resilient Missile Warning-Missile Tracking Medium-Earth Orbit 
and Low-Earth Orbit programs.

                             CISLUNAR SPACE

    Developing capabilities and operating within cislunar space 
is imperative for the Nation to obtain national security, 
science and technology, and economic advantages. The Committee 
encourages the Secretary of the Air Force to increase 
investments in cislunar propulsion technologies, space domain 
awareness, resilient launch and ground capabilities, and other 
related activities.

        RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-wide:


       UNDEREXPLORED SYSTEMS FOR UTILITY-SCALE QUANTUM COMPUTING

    The Committee recognizes the importance of the Defense 
Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Underexplored 
Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) and is 
encouraged by the significant progress made in demonstrating 
technical feasibility of fault-tolerant utility-scale 
operations. The Committee expects the Department will expand 
activities to develop, test, and evaluate designs and 
prototypes for fault tolerant quantum computer prototypes. 
Given the significant level of investment required for fault-
tolerant, utility-scale systems, the Committee urges the 
Secretary of Defense to begin infrastructure planning and 
directs the Secretary to provide a briefing to the 
congressional defense committees on US2QC advancements and 
estimated infrastructure requirements not later than 60 days 
after the enactment of this Act.

      CHIEF DIGITAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ACTIVITIES

    The Committee recognizes the efforts underway by the Chief 
Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) and fully 
funds activities under CDAO's purview, including ALPHA-1 and 
Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2). The 
Committee urges the Secretary of Defense to increase resourcing 
for CDAO to facilitate advanced lethality and reform throughout 
the Department of Defense. Although the Committee appreciates 
the demand signal for employing artificial intelligence (AI) to 
improve lethality, the Committee urges the Department and 
Combatant Commanders to further prioritize AI for 
administrative functions and business systems to achieve 
measurable reform improvements.
    Additionally, the Committee understands the complexity of 
working toward a CJADC2 environment and believes Service-
initiated efforts have provided valuable insights essential to 
pursuing transformation of this scale. Such insights have 
revealed significant gaps likely to impair operational-level 
JADC2 efforts such as Joint Fires Network (JFN) as well as 
strategic CJADC2 goals. The Committee is encouraged by such 
discovery and is interested in the Department's actions to 
develop or acquire, maintain, and sustain a centralized 
repository of interfaces that allows third-party data consumers 
and data producers to access and register data interfaces 
without requiring intervention from the repository developer or 
maintainer.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Secretary of Defense, 
supported by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence 
Officer, to provide a briefing not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act on the Department's strategy and plan to 
organically develop or acquire, maintain and sustain a secure 
data integration layer in the next two future years defense 
programs that provides equal ability for third-party data 
producers to register data interfaces and equal data access for 
third-party data consumers, without requiring assistance from 
the repository developer or maintainer. This briefing shall 
include how the Department will prioritize data interfaces for 
inclusion and its approach to achieve discoverability of and 
access to Service and Intelligence Community data producers and 
data consumers. This briefing shall also include considerations 
needed for all levels of classification required in a CJADC2 
environment.

        NATIONAL CENTERS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN CYBERSECURITY

    The Committee's recommendation provides $25,000,000 above 
the request for the National Centers of Academic Excellence in 
Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program. The Committee intends that 
these funds be used, to the greatest extent practicable, to 
sustain NCAE-C broad agency announcement grants to centers of 
academic excellence to promote cybersecurity workforce 
development initiatives, advanced cyber research, and K-12 
pipelines. The Committee further encourages the expansion of 
the current NCAE-C Challenge and Workforce Assessment Tool to 
include the Department of Defense Cyber Workforce Framework for 
assessments required by law, as well as expansion of access to 
higher education institutions with students from underserved or 
underrepresented populations. The Committee directs the 
Secretary of Defense to submit a spend plan for these 
additional funds, as well as identification of the costs 
associated with administration of NCAE-C, to the House and 
Senate Appropriations Committees not later than 60 days after 
the enactment of this Act.

                        ARMSTRONG TEST FACILITY

    The Committee is closely monitoring the progress of the 
Department's programs regarding hypersonic weapons, satellites, 
space vehicles, and other national security space developments. 
The Committee is aware of the assistance that the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Neil Armstrong Test 
Facility (ATF) has provided to the Department on research and 
development programs in these areas and encourages the 
Department to assist NASA in providing the ATF with cyber 
security, physical security, and other necessary upgrades that 
will allow the Department continued access to ATF's world-class 
space, aeronautics, and hypersonic assets.

                      LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING

    The Committee is concerned with the pace of the People's 
Republic of China (PRC) access to the light detection and 
ranging (LiDAR) market and technology in the United States, 
given the commercial expansion of such technology since 1960. 
As noted by Congressional Research Service, the PRC's 
aggressive industrial policies are using United States capital 
markets to secure financing, enter the United States market, 
negotiate partnerships, and acquire United States technology.
    Therefore, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used to operate, procure, or 
enter into a contracting action related to the acquisition or 
operation of LiDAR technology manufactured by an entity that 
is: (1) included on the Consolidated Screening List maintained 
by the International Trade Administration of the Department of 
Commerce; (2) included in the Chinese Military-Industrial 
Complex list by the Secretary of the Treasury; (3) included in 
the 1260H list by the Secretary of Defense; (4) domiciled in 
the People's Republic of China; (5) subject to influence or 
control by the government of the People's Republic of China, as 
defined by the Secretary of Defense; or (6) a subsidiary or 
affiliate of an entity described in items (1) through (5), as 
defined by the Secretary of Defense.
    Furthermore, aforementioned restrictions shall not apply to 
an operation, procurement, or contracting action that: (1) is 
for researching, evaluating, training on, testing, or analyzing 
electronic warfare operations or cybersecurity systems; and (2) 
notification is provided in writing not later than 15 days 
after making an expenditure to such an operation, procurement, 
or contracting action to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees in a manner that identifies the LiDAR technology and 
intended use of such system. Notification may include a 
classified annex, as necessary.

                          LOITERING MUNITIONS

    The Committee continues to support Department of Defense 
efforts to develop new and innovative concepts for loitering 
munitions that counter the proliferation of lethal drones 
deployed by near-peer adversaries and non-state actors. The 
Committee is encouraged by the efforts of the Combating 
Terrorism Technical Support Office, within the Irregular 
Warfare Technical Support Directorate, to evaluate and mature 
technologies in this space, and remains interested in the 
development of the ROC-X VTOL Loitering Munition as it 
transitions through the operational test and evaluation phase.

                  SEMICONDUCTOR SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

    The Committee continues to believe that leading-edge 
semiconductors are vital to national security and that many 
critical systems use semiconductors that were fabricated solely 
in foreign countries. It is imperative that the Department of 
Defense gain greater insight into its semiconductor supply 
chain and reduce reliance on foreign produced semiconductors. 
The Committee believes major defense acquisition programs 
(MDAPs) and subsystems should use leading-edge semiconductors 
that are manufactured in the United States using secure 
manufacturing capabilities. Therefore, not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Defense shall submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees assessing the source of semiconductor procurements 
carried out in connection with MDAPs and a feasibility 
assessment on upgrading MDAPs to leading-edge semiconductors 
that are manufactured in the United States using secure 
manufacturing capabilities that increase domestic content 
percentages of MDAPs pursuant to section 835 of Public Law 118-
31.

                    DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

    The Committee recognizes the Department of Defense's goal 
to integrate advanced digital supply chain management 
capabilities to utilize secure, durable devices and 
technologies designed to continuously operate with limited or 
disrupted network connectivity. The Committee believes that 
enterprise capabilities are essential to support global 
operations and is concerned by the pace of the Department's 
implementation of advanced digital supply chain management. 
Therefore, the Committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to 
develop and implement a strategy to leverage commercial 
enterprise resilient logistics technology and business systems, 
capable of operating in a contested logistics environment.

                         COMBATANT CRAFT HEAVY

    The Committee remains supportive of United States Special 
Operations Command continued procurement of the Combatant Craft 
Heavy. The Committee is aware of multiple lines of effort to 
improve current and future designs. The Committee fully 
supports additional work for hull design and advanced material 
studies to inform trade space for increased mission capability, 
increased survivability, and increased material readiness for 
new craft.

                OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
 
                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
 
OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION....................................      136,226         136,226               0
LIVE FIRE TESTING..................................................      109,561         109,561               0
OPERATIONAL TEST ACTIVITIES AND ANALYSIS...........................      102,922         102,922               0
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
    TOTAL, OPERATIONAL TEST & EVALUATION, DEFENSE..................      348,709         348,709               0
 


                                TITLE V

                     REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

                     DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Defense Working Capital Funds accounts:

                EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Budget     Committee   Change from
                                     Request    Recommended    Request
------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, ARMY.......       23,604       23,604            0
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, NAVY.......       30,000       30,000            0
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, AIR FORCE..       86,874       86,874            0
WORKING CAPITAL FUND, DEFENSE-           2,256        2,256            0
 WIDE............................
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUND,        1,570,187    1,570,187            0
 DECA............................
                                  --------------------------------------
    TOTAL, DEFENSE WORKING           1,712,921    1,712,921            0
     CAPITAL FUNDS...............
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              NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE TRANSACTION FUND

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,629,000 for 
the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.

                                TITLE VI

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

                         DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Defense Health Program:


         REPROGRAMMING GUIDANCE FOR THE DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM

    The Act includes a general provision which caps the funds 
available for Private Sector Care under the TRICARE program 
subject to prior approval reprogramming procedures. The general 
provision and accompanying report language should not be 
interpreted as limiting the amount of funds that may be 
transferred to the In-House Care budget sub-activity from other 
budget sub-activities within the Defense Health Program. In 
addition, funding for the In-House Care and Private Sector Care 
budget sub-activities are designated as congressional special 
interest items. Any transfer of funds in excess of $15,000,000 
into or out of these sub-activities requires the Secretary of 
Defense to follow prior approval reprogramming procedures for 
operation and maintenance funds.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide 
written notification to the congressional defense committees of 
cumulative transfers in excess of $15,000,000 out of the 
Private Sector Care budget sub-activity not later than 15 days 
after such a transfer. Furthermore, the Committee directs the 
Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the congressional 
defense committees, not later than 30 days after the enactment 
of this Act, that delineates transfers of funds, and the dates 
any transfers occurred, from the Private Sector Care budget 
sub-activity to any other budget sub-activity.
    Additionally, the Committee remains concerned with funding 
for Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization 
(FSRM) being repurposed throughout the fiscal year. Deferring 
FSRM in favor of more immediate needs of the Defense Health 
Program may be seem prudent at the time but comes with costly, 
severe, and enduring ramifications. For this reason, the 
Committee directs the Secretary of Defense to provide written 
notification to the congressional defense committees of 
cumulative transfers in excess of $15,000,000 out of the Base 
Operations and Communications budget sub-activity not later 
than 15 days after such a transfer.
    The Committee further directs the Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Health Affairs to provide quarterly briefings to 
the congressional defense committees, not later than 30 days 
after the end of each fiscal quarter, on budget execution data 
for all Defense Health Program budget activities, and to 
adequately reflect changes to the budget activities requested 
by the Services in future budget submissions. These reports 
shall also be provided to the Government Accountability Office.

                               CARRYOVER

    For fiscal year 2025, the Committee recommends one percent 
carryover authority for the operation and maintenance account 
of the Defense Health Program. The Committee directs the 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to submit a 
detailed spending plan for any fiscal year 2024 designated 
carryover funds to the congressional defense committees not 
less than 30 days prior to executing the carryover funds.

          STABILIZING AND IMPROVING THE MILITARY HEALTH SYSTEM

    The Committee notes initial efforts beginning in fiscal 
year 2025 to attract servicemembers and beneficiaries back to 
Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) and Dental Treatment 
Facilities (DTFs) as outlined in the Deputy Secretary of 
Defense memorandum ``Stabilizing and Improving the Military 
Health System'', dated December 6, 2023. The Committee 
understands the magnitude of the task ahead as the reforms to 
the Military Health System (MHS), mandated by the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, have resulted 
in chronically understaffed MTFs and DTFs; an inability to 
maintain and sustain clinical skills of military medical 
personnel; an increased dependence on private sector care 
capacity exacerbated by a challenging healthcare economy; and 
an overall lack of quality and timely care via the MHS.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Health Affairs, in coordination with the Director 
of the Defense Health Agency and Services' Surgeons General, to 
provide a report not later than 180 days after the enactment of 
this Act to the congressional defense committees that details:
    (1) current and future medical and dental requirements that 
will inform programming, force design and structure, and risk 
tradeoffs to meet MHS demand;
    (2) medical and civilian manpower requirements to 
reattract, on average, 7 percent of available care from the 
private sector back to MTFs and DTFs, including assignments of 
uniformed medical and dental personnel by Service, as well as 
the identification of MTFs and DTFs at risk of not meeting 
established manpower requirements;
    (3) career development, education, and training 
opportunities for medical and dental personnel, targeted 
approaches to reduce civilian employee vacancies and hiring 
delays, and utilization of authorities to improve recruitment 
and retention of health professionals; and
    (4) the timeline to achieve the goals set forth in the 
December 6, 2023, memorandum, as well as any funding 
requirements across the future years defense program necessary 
to achieve such goals.

                       MILITARY MEDICAL MANPOWER

    The Committee remains concerned that the Department's 
handling of military medical billet reductions, in response to 
the reforms mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2017, has negatively impacted access to quality 
healthcare services for servicemembers and their beneficiaries, 
particularly in areas deemed high risk and health shortage 
areas by the Department of Health and Human Services. 
Therefore, in addition to the report directed in House Report 
118-121, the Committee directs the Director of the Defense 
Health Agency (DHA) to provide a briefing to the congressional 
defense committees, not later than 60 days after the enactment 
of this Act, on the progress of implementing the report 
recommendations, including an identification of any barriers to 
implementation.
    In addition, the Committee continues to direct the 
Services' Surgeons General to submit vacancy rates by 
occupational code to the congressional defense committees on a 
quarterly basis and further directs the Director of the DHA to 
submit vacancy rates among military and civilian medical 
personnel by location and specialty to the congressional 
defense committees on a quarterly basis.

                       ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

    The Committee continues to support efforts the Department 
of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have 
undertaken with regard to electronic health records and the 
health record system. It is the Committee's ongoing expectation 
that the Departments' electronic health record systems will be 
interoperable with seamless compatibility. The Committee 
directs the Director of the Federal Electronic Health Record 
Modernization (FEHRM) program office to continue to submit 
quarterly reports on the progress of interoperability between 
the two Departments to the House and Senate Defense 
Appropriations Subcommittees and the House and Senate Military 
Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Subcommittees.
    The Program Executive Officer of Defense Healthcare 
Management Systems (PEO DHMS), in coordination with the 
Director of the FEHRM and the Director of the Defense Health 
Agency, is directed to submit quarterly reports to the 
congressional defense committees on the cost of the program, 
including any indirect costs funded outside of the DHMS 
Modernization Electronic Health Record program; and the 
schedule of the program, to include milestones, knowledge 
points, and acquisition timelines, as well as quarterly 
obligations. In addition, the Committee directs the PEO DHMS to 
continue to brief the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees on a quarterly basis, coinciding with the report 
submission.
    The Department of Defense's electronic health record 
system, MHS GENESIS, completed full deployment and is 
transitioning into the Capability Support phase focused on end 
user experience. The Committee expects PEO DHMS to remain 
committed to providing continuous capability enhancement 
incorporating end user needs, increasing system availability, 
and conducting repeatable surveys, in coordination with the 
Defense Health Agency Health Informatics organization, 
measuring end user satisfaction of improvements and system 
overall. Therefore, the Committee directs the Comptroller 
General of the United States to continue quarterly performance 
reviews of MHS GENESIS with a focus on whether the program is 
meeting expected cost, schedule, scope, quality, and risk 
mitigation expectations, to include system enhancements, and 
expects the PEO DHMS will provide the Comptroller General of 
the United States regular and in-depth access to the program to 
facilitate these reviews.

                 PEER-REVIEWED CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends $150,000,000 for the peer-reviewed 
breast cancer research program, $110,000,000 for the peer-
reviewed prostate cancer research program, $50,000,000 for the 
peer-reviewed kidney cancer research program, $45,000,000 for 
the peer-reviewed ovarian cancer research program, $40,000,000 
for the peer-reviewed melanoma research program, $25,000,000 
for the peer-reviewed lung cancer research program, $17,500,000 
for the peer-reviewed rare cancers research program, 
$15,000,000 for the peer-reviewed pancreatic cancer research 
program, $10,000,000 for the peer-reviewed glioblastoma 
research program, and $130,000,000 for the peer-reviewed cancer 
research program that would research cancers not addressed in 
the aforementioned programs currently executed by the 
Department of Defense.
    The funds provided in the peer-reviewed cancer research 
program are directed to be used to conduct research in the 
following areas: bladder cancer; blood cancers; brain cancer 
(excluding glioblastoma); colorectal cancer; endometrial 
cancer; esophageal cancer; germ cell cancers; liver cancer; 
lymphoma; metastatic cancers; myeloma; neuroblastoma; pediatric 
brain tumors; pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancers; 
sarcoma; stomach cancer; and thyroid cancer. The inclusion of 
the individual rare cancers research program shall not prohibit 
the peer-reviewed cancer research program from funding the 
previously mentioned cancers or cancer subtypes that may be 
rare by definition.
    The funds provided under the peer-reviewed cancer research 
program shall be used only for the purposes listed above. The 
Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health 
Affairs to submit a report, not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act, to the congressional defense committees 
on the status of the peer-reviewed cancer research program. For 
each research area, the report shall include the funding amount 
awarded, the progress of the research, and the relevance of the 
research to servicemembers and their families.
    The Committee commends the Department of Defense for 
ensuring that projects funded through the various peer-reviewed 
cancer research programs maintain a focus on issues of 
significance to military populations and the warfighter. This 
includes promoting collaborative research proposals between 
Department of Defense researchers and non-military research 
institutions. These collaborations leverage the knowledge, 
infrastructure, and access to clinical populations that the 
partners bring to the research effort. Additionally, promoting 
these collaborations provides a valuable recruitment and 
retention incentive for military medical and research 
personnel. The Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Health Affairs to continue to emphasize the 
importance of these collaborations between military and non-
military researchers throughout the peer-review process.

                       METASTATIC CANCER RESEARCH

    Existing research suggests a genetic basis for 
susceptibility to metastatic cancer or resistance to 
metastasis. However, the Committee believes more research and 
data are required to develop a comprehensive understanding of 
this complex process. Clinical trials are an important aspect 
of that process, and a diverse representation of patients in 
clinical trials is integral to the development of medications 
and therapies that effectively treat disease.
    The Committee encourages the Director of the 
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to continue 
to partner with outside experts and other federal agencies to 
implement the recommendation from the April 2018 Task Force 
Report to Congress on Metastatic Cancer concerning diverse 
enrollment in clinical trials. The Committee also encourages 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to 
implement the recommendations to inform patients about risk 
factors for metastasis, increase cancer patient awareness of 
healthcare resources, and create standardized survivorship care 
plans for patients with metastatic cancer while validating 
whether their use improves outcomes for these patients. The 
Committee remains interested in areas where assistance from 
other federal agencies is required to fully implement the 
recommendations of the Task Force's report.

                   PEER-REVIEWED ALS RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The Committee notes that there is a well-documented 
correlation between military service and the development of 
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Servicemembers are twice 
as likely to develop ALS as the general population, although 
the etiology of ALS and its linkage to military service remains 
largely unknown. Therefore, the Committee recommendation 
includes $40,000,000 for the peer-reviewed ALS research 
program, and encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Health Affairs to prioritize research that can bring effective 
treatments to people living with ALS as soon as possible.

               JOINT WARFIGHTER MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The Committee recommendation includes $20,000,000 for the 
continuation of the joint warfighter medical research program. 
The funding shall be used to augment and accelerate high 
priority Department of Defense and Service medical requirements 
and to continue prior year initiatives that are close to 
achieving their objectives and yielding a benefit to military 
medicine. The funding shall not be used for new projects nor 
for basic research, and it shall be awarded at the discretion 
of the Secretary of Defense following a review of medical 
research and development gaps as well as unfinanced medical 
requirements of the Services. Further, the Committee directs 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to submit 
a report, not later than 180 days after the enactment of this 
Act, to the congressional defense committees that lists the 
projects that receive funding. The report should include the 
funding amount awarded to each project, a thorough description 
of each project's research, and the benefit the research will 
provide to the Department of Defense.

               COMBAT READINESS MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The Committee recommendation includes $5,000,000 for the 
Combat Readiness Medical Research program. The program should 
focus on medical needs of the warfighter on the battlefield, 
specifically including research to improve care during the 
``golden hour'' for servicemembers with life-threatening 
injuries, battlefield diagnostics, and medical threats and 
treatments for warfighters deployed around the world.
    The Committee expects the Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Health Affairs to identify current gaps in medical planning 
and resources, consider medical capabilities that may mitigate 
fatalities, enhance battlefield diagnostics, and identify 
solutions for life threatening complications after battlefield 
injury.
    The funding in the Combat Readiness Medical Research 
program should be used for battlefield wound care technologies, 
including therapies and devices; blast sensor technology; 
combat medical skills sustainment training; dietary 
interventions and non-invasive brain stimulation in support of 
post-traumatic stress disorder; eating disorders; freeze dried 
plasma and platelets; hemorrhage field care; highly infectious 
disease treatment and transport; infectious diseases; medical 
simulation technology; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic 
Fatigue Syndrome; purified exosomal product to treat 
battlefield orthopedic injuries; sarcoidosis; sleep disorders; 
TBI biomarkers; telemedicine; and Valley Fever.

             PEER-REVIEWED TOXIC EXPOSURES RESEARCH PROGRAM

    The Committee is concerned by the number of known and 
unknown toxins servicemembers are exposed to as part of their 
military service. The Committee remains committed to veterans 
affected by Gulf War Illness and acknowledges a commonality 
between this community and others exposed to substances, 
including burn pit exposure, that result in multiple, diverse 
symptoms and health abnormalities. Therefore, the Committee 
recommends $30,000,000 for the peer-reviewed toxic exposures 
research program. The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health 
Affairs is directed to select research projects of clear 
scientific merit and direct relevance to military exposures to 
toxic substances, including toxic industrial chemicals, 
materials, metals, and minerals. The inclusion of the toxic 
exposures research program shall not prohibit research in any 
other congressionally directed research program that may be 
associated with conditions or health abnormalities linked to 
toxic exposures.
    As with other research programs, the Committee expects 
projects funded through the peer-reviewed toxic exposures 
research program to maintain a focus on issues of significance 
to military populations and the warfighter and that the program 
shall promote collaborative research proposals between 
Department of Defense researchers and non-military research 
institutions.

                    PEER-REVIEWED ARTHRITIS RESEARCH

    The Committee remains concerned by the detrimental impact 
of arthritis on servicemembers and notes its impact on 
retention. Therefore, the Committee recommendation includes 
$10,000,000 for the peer-reviewed arthritis research program. 
Funding provided in the peer-reviewed arthritis research 
program shall be used to conduct research on all forms of 
arthritis including osteoarthritis, posttraumatic arthritis, 
and rheumatoid arthritis. Further, arthritis research shall not 
be provided for in other peer-reviewed research programs, and 
the inclusion of the peer-reviewed arthritis research program 
shall not prohibit research in any other congressionally 
directed research program that may be associated with 
conditions or health abnormalities related to arthritis.

                            MEDICAL RESEARCH

    The Committee continues to monitor the transition of 
medical research conducted by the United States Army Medical 
Research and Materiel Command to the Defense Health Agency 
Research and Development organization to ensure that core 
medical research funding is responsive to the needs of 
servicemembers. Additionally, the Committee recommendation for 
fiscal year 2025 includes $1,164,000,000 for the 
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) to 
fund high-risk, high-reward medical research. The Committee 
directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs 
to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a 
request for prior approval for any changes in management 
structure; functional alignment; or the two-tiered, peer-
reviewed process proposed for the CDMRP program, not less than 
30 days prior to any proposed changes taking place.
    Additionally, the Committee continues to support the use of 
agile contracting methods, such as other transaction 
agreements, that may help mitigate the impacts on medical 
readiness through public-private partnerships and encourages 
the Department to continue to leverage these mechanisms to 
ensure expeditious delivery of medical solutions.

                MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND TRAINING

    The Committee remains concerned about the shortage of 
current and prospective mental health care professionals, 
including social workers, clinical psychologists, and 
psychiatrists, for servicemembers and beneficiaries. To address 
the shortage across the Military Health System, the Committee 
urges the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, 
the Director of the Defense Health Agency, and the Services' 
Surgeons General, to review the tools available to the 
Department of Defense to increase the number of mental health 
professionals it educates, trains, and hires. This review 
should consider how the Health Professions Scholarship Program 
and programming through Uniformed Services University of the 
Health Sciences could be expanded to increase the number of 
mental health-related scholarships granted with the goal of 
increasing the pipeline of mental health providers. Further, 
the Committee encourages the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Health Affairs to exercise all available authorities to improve 
recruitment and retention of mental health providers.

                              SERVICE DOGS

    The Committee notes the vital support service dogs provide 
to our wounded warriors. In support of these programs, the 
Committee recommendation includes $16,000,000 in fiscal year 
2025 to increase the capacity to train and place service dogs 
with eligible servicemembers and veterans. Further, the 
Committee directs that none of the funds appropriated in this 
Act may be obligated or expended to cover overhead expenses 
associated with the programs.

    ARTHROSCOPIC SURGICAL TRAINING FOR MILITARY ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS

    The Committee recognizes the importance of utilizing 
partnerships with public, private, and non-profit organizations 
and institutions to provide short-term specialized medical 
training to advance arthroscopic surgical skills and 
capabilities of military medical providers. Delivery of direct 
training based on best practices related to orthopedic 
procedures not only increases the proficiency of military 
orthopedic health professionals to improve quality of care and 
address readiness issues related to musculoskeletal injuries, 
but also may lead to higher rates of retention among military 
medical providers.
    To address these gaps, Congress has previously appropriated 
resources beginning in fiscal year 2019 to develop military-
civilian partnerships to ensure military orthopedic health 
professionals are provided with advanced surgical training in, 
and best practices related to, arthroscopic surgery and 
techniques. Therefore, the Committee directs the Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to submit a report to 
the congressional defense committees, not later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act, that outlines a set of metrics 
to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Further, the 
Committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health 
Affairs to submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees, not later than 180 days after enactment of this 
Act, that includes a list of entities the Department has 
established partnerships with under the program, and an 
assessment of the effectiveness of the program based on 
physical health assessment data including questions related to 
the electronic physical health assessment survey, physical 
readiness test data, and postoperative survey data collected 
after musculoskeletal intervention.

                       ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTIONS

    The Committee remains concerned about the continued health 
risks posed to servicemembers by heat casualties during 
training and operational activities. The Committee notes with 
interest that Special Operations units have successfully 
leveraged the use of Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS) to 
optimize performance and believes that this practice could 
bring measurable benefits in the initial entry training setting 
and reduce the risk of heat-related casualties. The Committee 
encourages leadership from the Special Operations Command to 
share their techniques on the use of ORS with each of the 
Services, especially the Army. The Committee also encourages 
the Secretary of the Army to implement these techniques and 
directs the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of the use of 
ORS at the brigade level during the summer months and track 
data on the prevention of heat casualties and hyponatremia. The 
Secretary of the Army, or her designee, shall provide a 
briefing to the congressional defense committees on the results 
of this study not later than 120 days after the enactment of 
this Act.

         INCIDENCE OF CANCER AMONG ACTIVE DUTY AVIATION PILOTS

    The Committee is concerned by the increased rate of cancer 
among active duty fixed-wing aviators, particularly those 
assigned to tactical fighter, bomber, and aircraft carrier-
based aircraft. The Committee is aware that the ``Study on the 
Incidence of Cancer Diagnosis and Mortality among Military 
Aviators and Aviation Support Personnel'' is ongoing, and 
encourages the Director of the Defense Health Agency to conduct 
additional research examining the presence of certain 
chemicals, compounds, agents, or other phenomena found in 
fixed-wing aircraft, such as radiofrequency radiation, that may 
be associated with a higher incidence of cancer among this 
military population, and work with the Services to limit 
exposure to such agents.

           CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, DEFENSE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE..........................................       20,745          20,745               0
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION.........................      754,762         754,762               0
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    TOTAL, CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, DEFENSE......      775,507         775,507               0
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         DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                               Budget    Committee   Change from
                                                                              Request   Recommended     Request
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COUNTER-NARCOTICS SUPPORT..................................................    653,702      673,702       20,000
 Program increase--enterprise-wide intelligence programs...................                  10,000
 Program increase--Project 5111--NORTHCOM Counternarcotics Mission Support.                   6,000
 Program increase--Project 3309--Joint Interagency Task Force--West........                   4,000
DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION PROGRAM..............................................    135,567      139,567        4,000
 Program increase--Young Marines...........................................                   4,000
NATIONAL GUARD COUNTERDRUG PROGRAM.........................................    106,043      305,000      198,957
 Program increase..........................................................                 188,957
 Program increase--Standoff narcotics detection technology pilot program...                   7,500
 Program increase--Illicit drug deactivation and disposal at the border....                   2,500
NATIONAL GUARD COUNTERDRUG SCHOOLS.........................................      6,167       25,000       18,833
 Program increase..........................................................                  18,833
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    TOTAL, DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE..........    901,479    1,143,269      241,790
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    The Committee notes that over one hundred thousand 
Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023, including over 
seventy thousand deaths from illicit fentanyl and synthetic 
opioids. The fentanyl crisis is a national security issue that 
demands a whole-of-government approach, and the Department of 
Defense has an important role to play. The Committee 
recommendation builds upon significant investments made in the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024, which increased 
the Department's capabilities and support of law enforcement to 
counter the fentanyl crisis.
    The recommendation includes $673,702,000 for Counter-
Narcotics Support, including an additional $20,000,000 for 
programs to counter illicit fentanyl and synthetic opioids. 
This includes $10,000,000 for Department of Defense's 
intelligence programs; $6,000,000 for Joint Task Force-North's 
dedicated counter-fentanyl cell established by the fiscal year 
2024 Appropriations Act; and $4,000,000 to support Joint 
Interagency Task Force-West's activities to counter the 
smuggling of chemical precursors from Asia to the Western 
Hemisphere. The Secretary of Defense is directed to submit a 
spend plan for these additional funds to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act.
    The Secretary of Defense is directed to ensure that 
international programs requested and supported by this account 
do not duplicate programs funded by the Defense Security 
Cooperation Agency in the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide account. Any congressional notification submitted pursuant 
to 10 U.S.C. 284 shall identify any resources within the 
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account that are 
allocated for similar or related purposes.

                    OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

    The Committee recommends the following appropriations for 
the Office of the Inspector General:

                                    EXPLANATION OF PROJECT LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                        Budget       Committee      Change from
                                                                       Request      Recommended       Request
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE..........................................      544,095         536,533          -7,562
    Excess to need.................................................                       -3,000
    Program decrease...............................................                       -4,562
PROCUREMENT........................................................        1,336           1,336               0
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION.........................        1,900           1,900               0
                                                                    --------------------------------------------
        TOTAL, OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.....................      547,331         539,769          -7,562
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                               TITLE VII

                            RELATED AGENCIES

              NATIONAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS

    The National Intelligence Program and the Military 
Intelligence Program budgets funded in this Act consist 
primarily of resources for the Director of National 
Intelligence, including the Intelligence Community Management 
staff, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense 
Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the 
National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence 
Agency, the intelligence services of the Departments of the 
Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the CIA Retirement and 
Disability fund.

                            CLASSIFIED ANNEX

    Adjustments to classified programs are addressed in a 
separate, detailed, and comprehensive classified annex. The 
Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and other 
organizations are expected to fully comply with the 
recommendations and directions in the classified annex 
accompanying the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2025.

   CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM FUND

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $514,000,000 
for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 
System Fund. This is a mandatory account.
    This appropriation provides payments of benefits to 
qualified beneficiaries in accordance with the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain 
Employees (Public Law 88-643), as amended by Public Law 94-522. 
This statute authorized the establishment of the CIA Retirement 
and Disability System for certain employees and authorized the 
establishment and maintenance of a fund from which benefits 
would be paid to those beneficiaries.

               INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT

 
 
 
Fiscal year 2025 budget request.......................      $650,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       641,585,000
Change from budget request............................        -8,415,000
 

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $641,585,000 
for the Intelligence Community Management Account.

                               TITLE VIII

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Title VIII of the accompanying bill includes 170 general 
provisions. A brief description of each general provision 
follows.
    Section 8001 prohibits the use of funds for publicity or 
propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.
    Section 8002 provides for conditions and limitations on the 
payment of compensation to, or employment of, foreign 
nationals.
    Section 8003 limits the availability of funds.
    Section 8004 limits the obligation of funds during the last 
two months of the fiscal year.
    Section 8005 provides general transfer authority of funds 
to other military functions.
    Section 8006 provides that the tables titled ``Explanation 
of Project Level Adjustments'' shall be carried out in the 
manner provided by the tables to the same extent as if the 
tables were included in the text of this Act.
    Section 8007 provides for the establishment of a baseline 
for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the current fiscal year.
    Section 8008 provides for limitations on the use of 
transfer authority of working capital fund cash balances.
    Section 8009 prohibits the use of funds to initiate a 
special access program without prior notification to the 
congressional defense committees.
    Section 8010 provides limitations and conditions on the use 
of funds to initiate multiyear procurement contracts.
    Section 8011 provides for the use of funds for humanitarian 
and civic assistance costs.
    Section 8012 directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a 
report on excessive contractor payments.
    Section 8013 prohibits the use of funds to influence 
congressional action on any matters pending before the 
Congress.
    Section 8014 prohibits the use of funds to reduce the 
number of strategic delivery vehicles and launchers.
    Section 8015 provides for the transfer of funds for the 
Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program.
    Section 8016 provides for the Department of Defense to 
purchase anchor and mooring chains manufactured only in the 
United States.
    Section 8017 prohibits funds for any non-appropriated 
activity of the Department of Defense that procures malt 
beverages and wine except under certain conditions.
    Section 8018 prohibits the use of funds to demilitarize or 
dispose of certain surplus firearms and small arms ammunition 
or ammunition components.
    Section 8019 provides a limitation on funds being used for 
the relocation of any Department of Defense entity into or 
within the National Capital Region.
    Section 8020 provides for incentive payments authorized by 
Section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 
1544).
    Section 8021 provides for the conveyance, without 
consideration, of relocatable housing units that are excess to 
the needs of the Air Force.
    Section 8022 provides funds for the mitigation of 
environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from Department 
of Defense activities.
    Section 8023 prohibits funds for the Defense Media Activity 
from being used for national or international political or 
psychological activities.
    Section 8024 has been amended and provides funding for the 
Civil Air Patrol Corporation.
    Section 8025 prohibits funds from being used to establish 
new Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and 
Development Centers.
    Section 8026 defines the congressional defense committees.
    Section 8027 defines the congressional intelligence 
committees.
    Section 8028 provides for competitions between private 
firms and Department of Defense depot maintenance activities.
    Section 8029 requires the Department of Defense to comply 
with the Buy American Act.
    Section 8030 provides for the Department of Defense to 
procure carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate melted and rolled 
only in the United States and Canada.
    Section 8031 provides for the revocation of blanket waivers 
of the Buy American Act.
    Section 8032 prohibits the use of funds for the procurement 
of ball and roller bearings other than those produced by a 
domestic source and of domestic origin.
    Section 8033 prohibits the use of funds to purchase 
supercomputers which are not manufactured in the United States.
    Section 8034 provides a waiver of Buy American provisions 
for certain cooperative programs.
    Section 8035 prohibits the use of funds for the purchase or 
manufacture of a United States flag unless such flags are 
treated as covered items under Section 4862(b) of title 10 
United States Code.
    Section 8036 provides for the availability of funds 
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 
Facility Investment Recovery Account.
    Section 8037 provides authority to use operation and 
maintenance appropriations to purchase items having an 
investment item unit cost of not more than $350,000.
    Section 8038 has been amended and provides authority to use 
operation and maintenance appropriations for the Asia Pacific 
Regional Initiative Program.
    Section 8039 prohibits the sale of tobacco products in 
military resale outlets below the most competitive price in the 
local community.
    Section 8040 prohibits the use of Working Capital Funds to 
purchase specified investment items.
    Section 8041 provides limitations on the availability of 
funds appropriated for the Central Intelligence Agency.
    Section 8042 places limitations on the use of funds made 
available in this Act to establish field operating agencies.
    Section 8043 places restrictions on converting to 
contractor performance an activity or function of the 
Department of Defense unless it meets certain guidelines.
    Section 8044 provides for the rescission of $1,208,051,000 
from the following programs:

 
 
 
2023 Appropriations:
    Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
        MQ-25 (AP-CY).................................       $49,963,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
        F-22..........................................      $201,420,000
2024 Appropriations:
    Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide:
        DSCA Security Cooperation.....................       $50,000,000
    Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund:
        Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train        $50,000,000
         and Equip....................................
    Cooperative Threat Reduction:
        Cooperative Threat Reduction Account..........       $91,000,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
        CH-53K (AP-CY)................................       $17,468,000
    Other Procurement, Navy:
        Special Purpose Supply Systems................       $22,872,000
    Procurement, Marine Corps:
        Radio Systems.................................       $71,257,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
        F-15 EPAW.....................................       $90,000,000
    Other Procurement, Air Force:
        Classified adjustment.........................      $532,994,000
    Procurement, Defense Wide:
        DISA Teleport.................................        $6,077,000
    Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy:
        Warfighter Sustainment Applied Research.......       $25,000,000
 

    Section 8045 prohibits the use of funds to reduce 
authorized positions for military technicians (dual status) of 
the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, and 
Air Force Reserve unless such reductions are a direct result of 
a reduction in military force structure.
    Section 8046 prohibits funds for assistance to the 
Democratic People's Republic of Korea unless specifically 
appropriated for that purpose.
    Section 8047 provides for reimbursement to the National 
Guard and reserve when members of the National Guard and 
reserve provide intelligence or counterintelligence support to 
the combatant commands, defense agencies, and joint 
intelligence activities.
    Section 8048 prohibits the transfer of Department of 
Defense and Central Intelligence Agency drug interdiction and 
counter-drug activities funds to other agencies except as 
specifically provided in an appropriations law.
    Section 8049 provides funding for Red Cross and United 
Services Organization grants.
    Section 8050 provides funds for the Small Business 
Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology 
Transfer program.
    Section 8051 prohibits funds for contractor bonuses being 
paid due to business restructuring.
    Section 8052 provides transfer authority for the pay of 
military personnel in connection with support and services for 
eligible organizations and activities outside the Department of 
Defense.
    Section 8053 provides conditions for the use of equipment 
of the National Guard Distance Learning Project on a space-
available, reimbursable basis.
    Section 8054 prohibits funds to retire C-40 aircraft, with 
certain exceptions.
    Section 8055 prohibits the use of funds to procure end-
items for delivery to military forces for operational training, 
operational use or inventory requirements.
    Section 8056 prohibits funds for repairs or maintenance to 
military family housing units.
    Section 8057 provides obligation authority for new starts 
for defense innovation acceleration or rapid prototyping 
program only after notification to the congressional defense 
committees.
    Section 8058 requires a classified quarterly report on 
certain matters as directed in the classified annex 
accompanying this Act.
    Section 8059 provides for the use of National Guard 
personnel to support ground-based elements of the National 
Ballistic Missile Defense System.
    Section 8060 prohibits the use of funds to transfer certain 
ammunition.
    Section 8061 provides for a waiver by the Chief of the 
National Guard Bureau or his designee for all or part of 
consideration in cases of personal property leases of less than 
one year.
    Section 8062 provides for the transfer of funds made 
available in this Act under Operation and Maintenance, Army to 
other activities of the federal government for classified 
purposes.
    Section 8063 prohibits the use of funds to separate, or to 
consolidate from within, the National Intelligence Program 
budget from the Department of Defense budget.
    Section 8064 provides the authority to transfer funding 
from operation and maintenance accounts for the Army, Navy, and 
Air Force to the central fund for Fisher Houses and Suites.
    Section 8065 provides grant authority for the construction 
and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet the needs of 
military family members when confronted with the illness or 
hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary.
    Section 8066 provides for the authority to transfer funding 
made available in this Act under Operation and Maintenance, 
Navy to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service 
Development Trust Fund.
    Section 8067 prohibits the modification of command and 
control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command operational 
and administrative control of United States Navy forces 
assigned to the Pacific fleet.
    Section 8068 requires notification for the rapid 
acquisition and deployment of supplies and associated support 
services.
    Section 8069 provides funding for the Israeli Cooperative 
Programs.
    Section 8070 provides for the funding of prior year 
shipbuilding cost increases.
    Section 8071 provides authorization for funds for 
intelligence and intelligence related activities until the 
enactment of an Intelligence Authorization Act.
    Section 8072 prohibits funds to initiate a new start 
program without prior written notification.
    Section 8073 prohibits the use of funds for the research, 
development, test, evaluation, procurement, or deployment of 
nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
    Section 8074 has been amended and prohibits funds for the 
decommissioning of certain ships.
    Section 8075 provides limitations on the Shipbuilding and 
Conversion, Navy appropriation.
    Section 8076 prohibits the use of funds to reduce or 
disestablish the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance 
Squadron of the Air Force Reserve.
    Section 8077 prohibits funds for the integration of foreign 
intelligence information unless the information has been 
lawfully collected and processed during conduct of authorized 
foreign intelligence activities.
    Section 8078 limits the availability of funding provided 
for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence beyond 
the current fiscal year, except for funds appropriated for 
research and technology.
    Section 8079 provides for the establishment of a baseline 
for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the 
current fiscal year.
    Section 8080 places limitations on the reprogramming of 
funds from the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce 
Development Account.
    Section 8081 provides for limitations on funding provided 
for the National Intelligence Program to be available for 
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming or transfer 
of funds in accordance with the National Security Act of 1947.
    Section 8082 provides that any agency receiving funds made 
available in this Act shall post on a public website any report 
required to be submitted to Congress with certain exceptions.
    Section 8083 prohibits funds for federal contracts in 
excess of $1,000,000 unless the contractor meets certain 
conditions.
    Section 8084 provides funds for transfer to the Joint 
Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Facility Demonstration Fund.
    Section 8085 prohibits the use of funds in contravention of 
the provisions of Section 130h of title 10, United States Code.
    Section 8086 provides for the purchase of heavy and light 
armored vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for 
force protection purposes up to a limit of $450,000 per 
vehicle.
    Section 8087 provides the Director of National Intelligence 
with general transfer authority, with certain limitations.
    Section 8088 authorizes the use of funds in the 
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account to purchase two used 
auxiliary vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
    Section 8089 directs the Secretary of Defense to post grant 
awards on a public website in a searchable format.
    Section 8090 prohibits the use of funds by the National 
Security Agency for targeting United States persons under 
authorities granted in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 
Act.
    Section 8091 places restrictions on transfer amounts 
available to pay salaries for non-Department of Defense 
personnel.
    Section 8092 has been amended and provides that operation 
and maintenance funds may be used for any purposes related to 
the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
    Section 8093 prohibits the use of funds to award a new TAO 
Fleet Oiler or FFG Frigate program contract for the acquisition 
of certain components unless those components are manufactured 
in the United States.
    Section 8094 prohibits the use of funds for the development 
and design of certain future naval ships unless any contract 
specifies that all hull, mechanical, and electrical components 
are manufactured in the United States.
    Section 8095 prohibits certain transfers from the 
Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development 
Account.
    Section 8096 prohibits the use of funds for gaming or 
entertainment that involves topless or nude entertainers.
    Section 8097 prohibits the use of funds to maintain or 
establish a computer network that is not designed to block 
access to pornography websites.
    Section 8098 places restrictions on the use of funding for 
military parades.
    Section 8099 prohibits the use of funds to enter into a 
contract or provide a loan to any corporation that has any 
unpaid Federal tax liability.
    Section 8100 provides budget activity 8 for certain 
software pilot programs.
    Section 8101 prohibits the transfer of the National 
Reconnaissance Office to the Space Force.
    Section 8102 prohibits funding for moving National Guard 
missions, functions, or personnel to the Space Force in 
contravention of current law.
    Section 8103 prohibits the use of funds in contravention of 
the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
    Section 8104 prohibits funds to the Azov Battalion, the 
Third Separate Assault Brigade, or any successor organization.
    Section 8105 provides for the obligation of funds in 
anticipation of receipt of contributions from the Government of 
Kuwait.
    Section 8106 provides funding for International Security 
Cooperation Programs.
    Section 8107 provides funding to reimburse key cooperating 
nations for logistical, military, and other support.
    Section 8108 provides funding for support authorized by 
subparagraphs (A) through (E) of Section 1226(a)(1) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016.
    Section 8109 requires notification prior to taking any 
action to pause, suspend, or eliminate assistance to a country 
made available by this Act.
    Section 8110 prohibits the use of funds in contravention of 
the War Powers Resolution.
    Section 8111 prohibits the use of funds in violation of the 
Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.
    Section 8112 prohibits funds for any member of Hamas, 
Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Taliban.
    Section 8113 prohibits funds for the United Nations Relief 
and Works Agency.
    Section 8114 provides that certain support to friendly 
foreign countries be made in accordance with Section 8005 of 
this Act.
    Section 8115 prohibits the use of funds to enter into a 
contract with Rosoboronexport.
    Section 8116 requires notification of the receipt of 
contributions from foreign governments and notification prior 
to obligating such funds.
    Section 8117 requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to 
report on any unplanned activity or exercise.
    Section 8118 requires a report concurrent with any exercise 
of the drawdown authority provided by Section 506 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    Section 8119 requires notification if a foreign base is 
opened or closed.
    Section 8120 prohibits funds to establish permanent bases 
in Iraq or Afghanistan or United States control over Iraq or 
Syria oil resources.
    Section 8121 provides security assistance to Jordan.
    Section 8122 requires the United States Southern Command to 
assume combatant command responsibility for activities related 
to Mexico.
    Section 8123 limits excessive growth in the procurement of 
advisory and assistance programs.
    Section 8124 reflects savings attributable to efficiencies 
and management improvements in the military departments.
    Section 8125 reduces amounts appropriated in title II of 
this Act to reflect excess cash balances in Department of 
Defense Working Capital Funds.
    Section 8126 has been amended and reflects savings due to 
favorable foreign exchange rates.
    Section 8127 directs the Secretary of Defense to allocate 
amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to 
Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Defense Fund.

 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS: CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT FISCAL
                                YEAR 2025
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide
 Budget Activity 02, Applied Research:
    Microelectronics Commons............................      72,188,000
        Budget Activity 03, Advanced Technology
         Development:
    Microelectronics Commons............................     265,108,000
        Budget Activity 04, Advanced Component
         Development and Prototypes:
    Microelectronics Commons............................      62,704,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Section 8128 provides guidance on the implementation of the 
Policy for Assisted Reproductive Services for the Benefit of 
Seriously or Severely Ill/Injured Active Duty Service Members.
    Section 8129 provides the authority for the Secretary of 
Defense to obligate funds to modify up to six F-35 aircraft to 
a test configuration.
    Section 8130 prohibits the use of funds to integrate an 
alternative engine on any F-35 aircraft.
    Section 8131 provides up to $650,000,000 for the rapid 
acquisition and deployment of supplies and associated support 
services.
    Section 8132 enables the Office of Strategic Capital to use 
appropriated funds for loans and loan guarantees.
    Section 8133 provides the authority for Defense Innovation 
Unit Fielding funds for expenses related to agile, research, 
development, test and evaluation, procurement, production 
modification, and operation and maintenance requirements, 
including initial acquisition of end-items for operational use.
    Section 8134 prohibits the use of funds to support the 
Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory owned or 
controlled by the governments of foreign adversaries.
    Section 8135 prohibits the use of funds for any work to be 
performed by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
    Section 8136 prohibits the use of funds to transfer, 
release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within the 
United States of certain detainees.
    Section 8137 prohibits the use of funds to transfer any 
individual detained at United States Naval Station Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control of the individual's 
country of origin or any other foreign country.
    Section 8138 prohibits the use of funds to construct, 
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States to house 
any individual detained at United States Naval Station 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    Section 8139 prohibits the use of funds to carry out the 
closure of the United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba.
    Section 8140 prohibits funding to remove a Chinese military 
company from the list required by Section 1260H of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
    Section 8141 prohibits funding to enforce any COVID-19 mask 
mandates.
    Section 8142 prohibits funding to require a member of the 
Armed Forces or a civilian employee of the Department of 
Defense to receive a vaccination against COVID-19.
    Section 8143 prohibits funding for a COVID-19 vaccination 
requirement as a prerequisite for students to attend DODEA 
schools.
    Section 8144 prohibits funding to provide gender transition 
procedures, including surgery or medication, referrals for 
those procedures, or a change in duty station for these 
activities for a child through the Exceptional Family Member 
Program.
    Section 8145 prohibits funds to take any discriminatory 
action against a person, wholly or partially, on the basis that 
such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely 
held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, 
or should be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman.
    Section 8146 prohibits the use of funds to grant, renew, or 
maintain a security clearance for any individual listed as a 
signatory in the statement titled ``Public Statement on the 
Hunter Biden Emails'' dated October 19, 2020.
    Section 8147 prohibits the use of funds to label 
communications by United States persons as misinformation, 
disinformation, or malinformation, or to partner with or fund 
nonprofits or other organizations that pressure private 
companies to censor lawful and constitutionally protected 
speech.
    Section 8148 prohibits funds to carry out any program, 
project, or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race 
Theory or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory.
    Section 8149 prohibits the use of funds to finalize, 
implement, or promulgate the rule proposed by the Department of 
Defense on November 14, 2022, titled ``Federal Acquisition 
Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-
Related Financial Risk.''
    Section 8150 prohibits the use of funds for paid leave and 
travel or related expenses of a federal employee or their 
dependents for the purposes of obtaining an abortion or 
abortion-related services.
    Section 8151 prohibits the use of funds to recruit, hire, 
or promote any person who has been convicted of charges related 
to child pornography or other sexual misconduct.
    Section 8152 prohibits the use of funds to promote, host, 
facilitate, or support a drag queen story hour for children on 
United States military installations or for military recruiting 
programs that feature drag queens.
    Section 8153 prohibits the use of funds to perform surgical 
procedures or hormone therapies for the purposes of gender 
affirming care.
    Section 8154 prohibits funds to carry out Section d 554(a) 
and 913 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283).
    Section 8155 prohibits funds to implement, administer, 
apply, enforce, or carry out measures relating to the 
Department of Defense diversity, equity, inclusion, and 
accessibility strategy, certain executive orders, and execute 
activities that promote or perpetuate divisive concepts related 
to race or sex.
    Section 8156 prohibits funding to pay for the costs of 
teleworking or remote working for any employee or contractor of 
the Department of Defense on a regular and recurring base.
    Section 8157 prohibits funding to provide assistance to the 
Department of Homeland Security to house persons on a military 
installation located in the United States.
    Section 8158 prohibits funding for any office of diversity, 
equity, or inclusion.
    Section 8159 prohibits funding to NewsGuard Technologies 
Inc.
    Section 8160 prohibits funding to implement a series of 
climate change executive orders.
    Section 8161 prohibits the use of funds in contravention of 
Department of Defense Instruction 3216.01.
    Section 8162 provides that operation and maintenance funds 
may be used for land acquisition cost from the Federated States 
of Micronesia for defense sites in Yap.
    Section 8163 prohibits funding for the divestiture or 
prepared divestiture of U-2 aircraft.
    Section 8164 prohibits funding for the divestiture or 
prepared divestiture of F-15 aircraft.
    Section 8165 provides for special transfer authority for 
ship construction programs.
    Section 8166 contains several provisions to relating to the 
delivery of defense articles from the United States to Israel 
and the obligation of funds for assistance for Israel.
    Section 8167 prohibits funds for the Joint Logistics Over-
the-Shore capabilities in the vicinity of Gaza; or the 
construction, assembly, maintenance, or operation, of any pier, 
dock, landing, wharf, or any other structure in the vicinity of 
Gaza.
    Section 8168 prohibits funds for hiring practices based on 
gender, religion, political affiliation, or race.
    Section 8169 prohibits funds for use in contravention of 
section 1052 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 
Fiscal Year 2024.
    Section 8170 establishes a spending reduction account.

            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

    The following items are included in accordance with various 
requirements of the Rules of the House of Representatives:

         STATEMENT OF GENERAL PERFORMANCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is a statement of 
general performance goals and objectives for which this measure 
authorizes funding:
    The Committee on Appropriations considers program 
performance, including a program's success in developing and 
attaining outcome-related goals and objectives, in developing 
funding recommendations.

                          PROGRAM DUPLICATION

    No provision of this bill establishes or reauthorizes a 
program of the Federal Government known to be duplicative of 
another Federal program, a program that was included in any 
report from the Government Accountability Office to Congress 
pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111-139, or a program 
related to a program identified in the most recent Catalog of 
Federal Domestic Assistance.

                           TRANSFER OF FUNDS

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing 
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill.
    Language has been included under ``Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' which provides for the transfer of 
funds for certain classified activities.
    Language has been included under ``Environmental 
Restoration, Army'' which provides for the transfer of funds 
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for 
similar purposes.
    Language has been included under ``Environmental 
Restoration, Navy'' which provides for the transfer of funds 
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for 
similar purposes.
    Language has been included under ``Environmental 
Restoration, Air Force'' which provides for the transfer of 
funds for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for 
similar purposes.
    Language has been included under ``Environmental 
Restoration, Defense-Wide'' which provides for the transfer of 
funds for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris, or for 
similar purposes.
    Language has been included under ``Environmental 
Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites'' which provides for 
the transfer of funds for environmental restoration, reduction 
and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 
and debris, or for similar purposes.
    Language has been included under ``Drug Interdiction and 
Counter-Drug Activities, Defense'' which provides for the 
transfer of funds to appropriations available to the Department 
of Defense for military personnel of the reserve components; 
for operation and maintenance; for procurement; and for 
research, development, test and evaluation for drug 
interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Department of 
Defense.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8005'' which provides for the transfer of working capital funds 
to other appropriations accounts of the Department of Defense 
for military functions.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8008'' which provides for the transfer of funds between working 
capital funds and the ``Foreign Currency Fluctuations, 
Defense'' appropriation and the operation and maintenance 
appropriation accounts.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8015'' which provides for the transfer of funds from the 
Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program to any other 
appropriation for the purposes of implementing a Mentor-Protege 
Program development assistance agreement.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8052'' which provides for the transfer of funds from 
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' to appropriations 
available for the pay of military personnel in connection with 
support and services of eligible organizations and activities 
outside the Department of Defense.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8062'' which provides for the transfer of funds from 
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'' to other activities of the 
federal government.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8064'' which provides for the transfer of funds from 
``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', ``Operation and 
Maintenance, Navy'', and ``Operation and Maintenance, Air 
Force'' to the central fund established for Fisher Houses and 
Suites.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8065'' which provides for the transfer of funds for the 
construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet 
the needs of military family members when confronted with the 
illness or hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8066'' which provides for the transfer of funds from 
``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' to the John C. Stennis 
Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8087'' which provides for the transfer of funds for the 
National Intelligence Program.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8084'' which provides for the transfer of funds appropriated 
for operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Program to 
the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
    Language has been included under ``General Provisions, Sec. 
8165'' which provides for the transfer of funds from 
``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'' to any available Navy 
ship construction appropriation for the purpose of liquidating 
necessary changes from inflation, market fluctuations, or rate 
adjustments.

                              RESCISSIONS

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following table is submitted 
describing the rescissions recommended in the accompanying 
bill:

 
 
 
2023 Appropriations:
    Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
        MQ-25 (AP-CY).................................       $49,963,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
        F-22..........................................      $201,420,000
2024 Appropriations:
    Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide:
        DSCA Security Cooperation.....................       $50,000,000
    Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund:
        Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train        $50,000,000
         and Equip....................................
    Cooperative Threat Reduction:
        Cooperative Threat Reduction Account..........       $91,000,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Navy:
        CH-53K (AP-CY)................................       $17,468,000
    Other Procurement, Navy:
        Special Purpose Supply Systems................       $22,872,000
    Procurement, Marine Corps:
        Radio Systems.................................       $71,257,000
    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force:
        F-15 EPAW.....................................       $90,000,000
    Other Procurement, Air Force:
        Classified adjustment.........................      $532,994,000
    Procurement, Defense Wide:
        DISA Teleport.................................        $6,077,000
    Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy:
        Warfighter Sustainment Applied Research.......       $25,000,000
 

   DISCLOSURE OF EARMARKS AND CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

    Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives, neither the bill nor this report contains 
any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited 
tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives.

               CHANGES IN THE APPLICATION OF EXISTING LAW

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, the following statements are 
submitted describing the effect of provisions in the 
accompanying bill which directly or indirectly change the 
application of existing law.
    Language is included in various parts of the bill to 
continue ongoing activities which require annual authorization 
or additional legislation, which to date has not been enacted.
    The bill includes a number of provisions which place 
limitations on the use of funds in the bill or change existing 
limitations and which might, under some circumstances, be 
construed as changing the application of law.
    The bill includes a number of provisions which provide for 
the transfer of funds and which might, under some 
circumstances, be construed as changing the application of law.
    The bill includes a number of provisions, which have been 
virtually unchanged for many years that are technically 
considered legislation.
    The bill provides that appropriations shall remain 
available for more than one year for some programs for which 
the basic authorizing legislation does not presently authorize 
each extended availability.
    In various places in the bill, the Committee has allocated 
funds within appropriation accounts in order to fund specific 
programs.
    Language is included in various accounts placing a 
limitation on funds for emergencies and extraordinary expenses.
    Language is included that provides not more than $2,981,000 
for the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund.
    Language is included that provides not less than 
$27,738,000 for the Procurement Technical Assistance 
Cooperative Agreement Program, of which not less than 
$5,000,000 shall be available for centers.
    Language is included that prohibits the consolidation of 
certain legislative affairs or liaison offices.
    Language is included that makes available $26,777,000 for 
certain classified activities, allows such funds to be 
transferred between certain accounts, and exempts such funds 
from the investment item unit cost ceiling.
    Language is included under the heading ``Counter-ISIS Train 
and Equip Fund'' that provides for the use of funds for certain 
purposes, compliance with vetting standards, management of 
contributions, the submission of certain reports, and making 
certain funds unavailable until a report is submitted.
    Language is included that limits the use of funds for 
official representation purposes under the heading ``United 
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.''
    Language is included that limits funds credited or 
transferred under the heading ``Department of Defense 
Acquisition Workforce Development Account.''
    Language is included that provides for specific 
construction, acquisition, or conversion of vessels under the 
heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy.''
    Language is included that provides for the incurring of 
additional obligations for certain activities under the heading 
``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy.''
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds 
provided under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy'' for the construction of any naval vessel, or the 
construction of major components for the construction or 
conversion of any naval vessel, in foreign facilities or 
shipyards.
    Language is included under the heading ``National Guard and 
Reserve Equipment Account'' providing for the procurement of 
certain items and the submission of modernization priority 
assessments.
    Language is included under the heading ``Research, 
Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'' that provides funds 
for certain activities related to the V-22.
    Language is included that specifies the use of certain 
funds provided under the heading ``Defense Health Program.''
    Language is included that provides that not less than 
$12,000,000 of funds provided under the heading ``Defense 
Health Program'' shall be available for HIV prevention 
educational activities.
    Language is included under the heading ``Defense Health 
Program'' that provides that not less than $1,164,000,000 shall 
be made available to the Defense Health Agency to carry out 
congressionally directed medical research programs.
    Language is included that specifies the use of certain 
funds provided under the heading ``Chemical Agents and 
Munitions Destruction, Defense.''
    Language is included that specifies the use of certain 
funds provided under the heading ``Drug Interdiction and 
Counter-Drug Activities, Defense.''
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.
    Language is included that provides for conditions and 
limitations on the payment of compensation to, or employment 
of, foreign nationals.
    Language is included that limits the availability of funds.
    Language is included that limits the obligation of funds 
during the last two months of the fiscal year.
    Language is included that provides general transfer 
authority of funds to other military functions.
    Language is included that provides that the tables titled 
``Explanation of Project Level Adjustments'' shall be carried 
out in the manner provided by the tables to the same extent as 
if the tables were included in the text of this Act.
    Language is included that provides for the establishment of 
a baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer 
authorities for the current fiscal year.
    Language is included that provides for limitations on the 
use of transfer authority of working capital fund cash 
balances.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
initiate a special access program without prior notification to 
the congressional defense committees.
    Language is included that provides limitations and 
conditions on the use of funds to initiate multiyear 
procurement contracts.
    Language is included that provides for the use of funds for 
humanitarian and civic assistance costs.
    Language is included that directs the Secretary of Defense 
to submit a report on excessive contractor payments.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
influence congressional action on any matters pending before 
the Congress.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
reduce the number of strategic delivery vehicles and launchers.
    Language is included that provides for the transfer of 
funds for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege 
Program.
    Language is included that provides for the Department of 
Defense to purchase anchor and mooring chains manufactured only 
in the United States.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for any non-
appropriated activity of the Department of Defense that 
procures malt beverages and wine except under certain 
conditions.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
demilitarize or dispose of certain surplus firearms and small 
arms ammunition or ammunition components.
    Language is included that provides a limitation on funds 
being used for the relocation of any Department of Defense 
entity into or within the National Capital Region.
    Language is included that provides for incentive payments 
authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 
(25 U.S.C. 1544).
    Language is included that provides for the conveyance, 
without consideration, of relocatable housing units that are 
excess to the needs of the Air Force.
    Language is included that provides funds for the mitigation 
of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from 
Department of Defense activities.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for the Defense 
Media Activity from being used for national or international 
political or psychological activities.
    Language is included that has been amended and provides 
funding for the Civil Air Patrol Corporation.
    Language is included that prohibits funds from being used 
to establish new Department of Defense Federally Funded 
Research and Development Centers.
    Language is included that defines the congressional defense 
committees.
    Language is included that defines the congressional 
intelligence committees.
    Language is included that provides for competitions between 
private firms and Department of Defense depot maintenance 
activities.
    Language is included that requires the Department of 
Defense to comply with the Buy American Act.
    Language is included that provides for the Department of 
Defense to procure carbon, alloy, or armor steel plate melted 
and rolled only in the United States and Canada.
    Language is included that provides for the revocation of 
blanket waivers of the Buy American Act.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
the procurement of ball and roller bearings other than those 
produced by a domestic source and of domestic origin.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
purchase supercomputers which are not manufactured in the 
United States.
    Language is included that provides a waiver of Buy American 
provisions for certain cooperative programs.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
the purchase or manufacture of a United States flag unless such 
flags are treated as covered items under section 4862(b) of 
title 10 United States Code.
    Language is included that provides for the availability of 
funds contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 
Facility Investment Recovery Account.
    Language is included that provides authority to use 
operation and maintenance appropriations to purchase items 
having an investment item unit cost of not more than $350,000.
    Language is included that has been amended and provides 
authority to use operation and maintenance appropriations for 
the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program.
    Language is included that prohibits the sale of tobacco 
products in military resale outlets below the most competitive 
price in the local community.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of Working 
Capital Funds to purchase specified investment items.
    Language is included that provides limitations on the 
availability of funds appropriated for the Central Intelligence 
Agency.
    Language is included that places limitations on the use of 
funds made available in this Act to establish field operating 
agencies.
    Language is included that places restrictions on converting 
to contractor performance an activity or function of the 
Department of Defense unless it meets certain guidelines.
    Language is included that provides for the rescission of 
$1,208,051,000.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
reduce authorized positions for military technicians (dual 
status) of the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army 
Reserve, and Air Force Reserve unless such reductions are a 
direct result of a reduction in military force structure.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for assistance to 
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea unless specifically 
appropriated for that purpose.
    Language is included that provides for reimbursement to the 
National Guard and reserve when members of the National Guard 
and reserve provide intelligence or counterintelligence support 
to the combatant commands, defense agencies, and joint 
intelligence activities.
    Language is included that prohibits the transfer of 
Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency drug 
interdiction and counter-drug activities funds to other 
agencies except as specifically provided in an appropriations 
law.
    Language is included that provides funding for Red Cross 
and United Services Organization grants.
    Language is included that provides funds for the Small 
Business Innovation Research program and the Small Business 
Technology Transfer program.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for contractor 
bonuses being paid due to business restructuring.
    Language is included that provides transfer authority for 
the pay of military personnel in connection with support and 
services for eligible organizations and activities outside the 
Department of Defense.
    Language is included that provides conditions for the use 
of equipment of the National Guard Distance Learning Project on 
a space-available, reimbursable basis.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to retire C-40 
aircraft, with certain exceptions.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
procure end-items for delivery to military forces for 
operational training, operational use or inventory 
requirements.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for repairs or 
maintenance to military family housing units.
    Language is included that provides obligation authority for 
new starts for defense innovation acceleration or rapid 
prototyping program only after notification to the 
congressional defense committees.
    Language is included that requires a classified quarterly 
report on certain matters as directed in the classified annex 
accompanying this Act.
    Language is included that provides for the use of National 
Guard personnel to support ground-based elements of the 
National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
transfer certain ammunition.
    Language is included that provides for a waiver by the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau or his designee for all or 
part of consideration in cases of personal property leases of 
less than one year.
    Language is included that provides for the transfer of 
funds made available in this Act under Operation and 
Maintenance, Army to other activities of the federal government 
for classified purposes.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
separate, or to consolidate from within, the National 
Intelligence Program budget from the Department of Defense 
budget.
    Language is included that provides the authority to 
transfer funding from operation and maintenance accounts for 
the Army, Navy, and Air Force to the central fund for Fisher 
Houses and Suites.
    Language is included that provides grant authority for the 
construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet 
the needs of military family members when confronted with the 
illness or hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary.
    Language is included that provides for the authority to 
transfer funding made available in this Act under Operation and 
Maintenance, Navy to the John C. Stennis Center for Public 
Service Development Trust Fund.
    Language is included that prohibits the modification of 
command and control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command 
operational and administrative control of United States Navy 
forces assigned to the Pacific fleet.
    Language is included that requires notification for the 
rapid acquisition and deployment of supplies and associated 
support services.
    Language is included that provides funding for the Israeli 
Cooperative Programs.
    Language is included that provides for the funding of prior 
year shipbuilding cost increases.
    Language is included that provides authorization for funds 
for intelligence and intelligence-related activities until the 
enactment of an Intelligence Authorization Act.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to initiate a new 
start program without prior written notification.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
the research, development, test, evaluation, procurement, or 
deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense 
system.
    Language is included that has been amended and prohibits 
funds for the decommissioning of certain ships.
    Language is included that provides limitations on the 
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy appropriation.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
reduce or disestablish the operation of the 53rd Weather 
Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air Force Reserve.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for the 
integration of foreign intelligence information unless the 
information has been lawfully collected and processed during 
conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
    Language is included that limits the availability of 
funding provided for the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence beyond the current fiscal year, except for funds 
appropriated for research and technology.
    Language is included that provides for the establishment of 
a baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer 
authorities for the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence for the current fiscal year.
    Language is included that places limitations on the 
reprogramming of funds from the Department of Defense 
Acquisition Workforce Development Account.
    Language is included that provides for limitations on 
funding provided for the National Intelligence Program to be 
available for obligation or expenditure through areprogramming 
or transfer of funds in accordance with the National Security 
Act of 1947.
    Language is included that provides that any agency 
receiving funds made available in this Act shall post on a 
public website any report required to be submitted to Congress 
with certain exceptions.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for federal 
contracts in excess of $1,000,000 unless the contractor meets 
certain conditions.
    Language is included that provides funds for transfer to 
the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Facility Demonstration Fund.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in 
contravention of the provisions of section 130h of title 10, 
United States Code.
    Language is included that provides for the purchase of 
heavy and light armored vehicles for the physical security of 
personnel or for force protection purposes up to a limit of 
$450,000 per vehicle.
    Language is included that provides the Director of National 
Intelligence with general transfer authority, with certain 
limitations.
    Language is included that authorizes the use of funds in 
the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account to purchase two 
used auxiliary vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
    Language is included that directs the Secretary of Defense 
to post grant awards on a public website in a searchable 
format.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds by the 
National Security Agency for targeting United States persons 
under authorities granted in the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act.
    Language is included that places restrictions on transfer 
amounts available to pay salaries for non-Department of Defense 
personnel.
    Language is included that has been amended and provides 
that operation and maintenance funds may be used for any 
purposes related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
award a new TAO Fleet Oiler or FFG Frigate program contract for 
the acquisition of certain components unless those components 
are manufactured in the United States.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
the development and design of certain future naval ships unless 
any contract specifies that all hull, mechanical, and 
electrical components are manufactured in the United States.
    Language is included that prohibits certain transfers from 
the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development 
Account.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
gaming or entertainment that involves topless or nude 
entertainers.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
maintain or establish a computer network that is not designed 
to block access to pornography websites.
    Language is included that places restrictions on the use of 
funding for military parades.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
enter into a contract or provide a loan to any corporation that 
has any unpaid Federal tax liability.
    Language is included that provides budget activity 8 for 
certain software pilot programs.
    Language is included that prohibits the transfer of the 
National Reconnaissance Office to the Space Force.
    Language is included that prohibits funding for moving 
National Guard missions, functions, or personnel to the Space 
Force in contravention of current law.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in 
contravention of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to the Azov 
Battalion, the Third Separate Assault Brigade, or any successor 
organization.
    Language is included that provides for the obligation of 
funds in anticipation of receipt of contributions from the 
Government of Kuwait.
    Language is included that provides funding for 
International Security Cooperation Programs.
    Language is included that provides funding to reimburse key 
cooperating nations for logistical, military, and other 
support.
    Language is included that provides funding for support 
authorized by subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 
1226(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2016.
    Language is included that requires notification prior to 
taking any action to pause, suspend, or eliminate assistance to 
a country made available by this Act.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in 
contravention of the War Powers Resolution.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in 
violation of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for any member of 
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Taliban.
    Language is included that prohibits funds for the United 
Nations Relief and Works Agency.
    Language is included that provides that certain support to 
friendly foreign countries be made in accordance with section 
8005 of this Act.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
enter into a contract with Rosoboronexport.
    Language is included that requires notification of the 
receipt of contributions from foreign governments and 
notification prior to obligating such funds.
    Language is included that requires the Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs to report on any unplanned activity or exercise.
    Language is included that requires a report concurrent with 
any exercise of the drawdown authority provided by section 506 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    Language is included that requires notification if a 
foreign base is opened or closed.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to establish 
permanent bases in Iraq or Afghanistan or United States control 
over Iraq or Syria oil resources.
    Language is included that provides security assistance to 
Jordan.
    Language is included that requires the United States 
Southern Command to assume combatant command responsibility for 
activities related to Mexico.
    Language is included that reduces amounts appropriated in 
title II of this Act to reflect excess growth in the 
procurement of advisory and assistance programs.
    Language is included that reduces amounts appropriated in 
title II of this Act to reflect savings attributable to 
efficiencies and management improvements in the military 
departments.
    Language is included that reduces amounts appropriated in 
title II of this Act to reflect excess cash balances in 
Department of Defense Working Capital Funds.
    Language is included that has been amended and reflects 
savings due to favorable foreign exchange rates.
    Language is included that directs the Secretary of Defense 
to allocate amounts made available from the Creating Helpful 
Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 
Defense Fund.
    Language is included that provides guidance on the 
implementation of the Policy for Assisted Reproductive Services 
for the Benefit of Seriously or Severely Ill/Injured Active 
Duty Service Members.
    Language is included that provides the authority for the 
Secretary of Defense to obligate funds to modify up to six F-35 
aircraft to a test configuration.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
integrate an alternative engine on any F-35 aircraft.
    Language is included that provides up to $650,000,000 for 
the rapid acquisition and deployment of supplies and associated 
support services.
    Language is included that enables the Office of Strategic 
Capital to use appropriated funds for loans and loan 
guarantees.
    Language is included that provides the authority for 
Defense Innovation Unit Fielding funds for expenses related to 
agile, research, development, test and evaluation, procurement, 
production modification, and operation and maintenance 
requirements, including initial acquisition of end-items for 
operational use.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
support the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 
owned or controlled by the governments of foreign adversaries.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
any work to be performed by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or 
within the United States of certain detainees.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
transfer any individual detained at United States Naval Station 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control of the 
individual's country of origin or any other foreign country.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United States 
to house any individual detained at United States Naval Station 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
carry out the closure of the United States Naval Station 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to remove a 
Chinese military company from the list required by section 
1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2021.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to enforce any 
COVID-19 mask mandates.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to require a 
member of the Armed Forces or a civilian employee of the 
Department of Defense to receive a vaccination against COVID-
19.
    Language is included that prohibits funding for a COVID-19 
vaccination requirement as a prerequisite for students to 
attend DODEA schools.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to provide 
gender transition procedures, including surgery or medication, 
referrals for those procedures, or a change in duty station for 
these activities for a child through the Exceptional Family 
Member Program.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to take any 
discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on 
the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with 
a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, that 
marriage is, or should be recognized as, a union of one man and 
one woman.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
grant, renew, or maintain a security clearance for any 
individual listed as a signatory in the statement titled 
``Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails'' dated October 
19, 2020.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
label communications by United States persons as 
misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation, or to 
partner with or fund nonprofits or other organizations that 
pressure private companies to censor lawful and 
constitutionally protected speech.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to carry out any 
program, project, or activity that promotes or advances 
Critical Race Theory or any concept associated with Critical 
Race Theory.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
finalize, implement, or promulgate the rule proposed by the 
Department of Defense on November 14, 2022, titled ``Federal 
Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
and Climate-Related Financial Risk.''
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
paid leave and travel or related expenses of a federal employee 
or their dependents for the purposes of obtaining an abortion 
or abortion-related services.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
recruit, hire, or promote any person who has been convicted of 
charges related to child pornography or other sexual 
misconduct.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
promote, host, facilitate, or support a drag queen story hour 
for children on United States military installations or for 
military recruiting programs that feature drag queens.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds to 
perform surgical procedures or hormone therapies for the 
purposes of gender affirming care.
    Language is included that prohibits funds to carry out 
section d 554(a) and 913 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283).
    Language is included that prohibits funds to implement, 
administer, apply, enforce, or carry out measures relating to 
the Department of Defense diversity, equity, inclusion, and 
accessibility strategy, certain executive orders, and execute 
activities that promote or perpetuate divisive concepts related 
to race or sex.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to pay for the 
costs of teleworking or remote working for any employee or 
contractor of the Department of Defense on a regular and 
recurring base.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to provide 
assistance to the Department of Homeland Security to house 
persons on a military installation located in the United 
States.
    Language is included that prohibits funding for any office 
of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to NewsGuard 
Technologies Inc.
    Language is included that prohibits funding to implement a 
series of climate change executive orders.
    Language is included that prohibits the use of funds in 
contravention of Department of Defense Instruction 3216.01.
    Language is included that provides that operation and 
maintenance funds may be used for land acquisition cost from 
the Federated States of Micronesia for defense sites in Yap.
    Language is included that prohibits funding for the 
divestiture or prepared divestiture of U-2 aircraft.
    Language is included that prohibits funding for the 
divestiture or prepared divestiture of F-15 aircraft.
    Language is included that provides for special transfer 
authority for ship construction programs.
    Language is included that contains several provisions to 
relating to the delivery of defense articles from the United 
States to Israel and the obligation of funds for assistance for 
Israel.
    Language is included that establishes a spending reduction 
account.


                 COMPARISON WITH THE BUDGET RESOLUTION

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives and section 308(a)(1)(A) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the following table compares 
the levels of new budget authority provided in the bill with 
the appropriate allocation under section 302(b) of the Budget 
Act.

                                            [In millions of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                         302(b) Allocation                   This Bill
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      Budget                          Budget
                                                     Authority        Outlays        Authority        Outlays
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comparison of amounts in the bill with Committee
 allocations to its subcommittees: Subcommittee
 on Defense
Discretionary...................................         833,053               0         833,053      \1\839,340
Mandatory.......................................               0               0             514          \]\514
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

                      FIVE-YEAR OUTLAY PROJECTIONS

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII and section 
308(a)(1)(B) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 
following table contains five-year projections associated with 
the budget authority provided in the accompanying bill as 
provided to the Committee by the Congressional Budget Office.

                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                               Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Projection of outlays associated with the recommendation:
    2025...................................................   \1\492,019
    2026...................................................      205,708
    2027...................................................       64,046
    2028...................................................       31,638
    2029 and future years..................................       25,621
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

          FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII and section 
308(a)(1)(C) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 
Congressional Budget Office has provided the following 
estimates of new budget authority and outlays provided by the 
accompanying bill for financial assistance to State and local 
governments.

                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget
                                             Authority        Outlays
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Financial assistance to State and local             \1\0               0
 governments for 2025...................
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

                           COMMITTEE HEARINGS

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(6) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following hearings were used to 
develop or consider the Defense Appropriations Bill, 2025:
    The Subcommittee on Defense held a budget hearing on April 
10, 2024, entitled ``Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the United 
States Navy and Marine Corps.'' The Subcommittee received 
testimony from:
    The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, Secretary, Department of the 
Navy
    Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations, 
Department of the Navy
    General Eric M. Smith, Commandant of the Marine Corps
    The Subcommittee on Defense held a budget hearing on April 
10, 2024, entitled ``Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the United 
States Army.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    The Honorable Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary, Department 
of the Army
    General Randy A. George, Chief of Staff, Department of the 
Army
    The Subcommittee on Defense held a budget hearing on April 
17, 2024, entitled ``FiscalYear 2025 Request for the Department 
of Defense.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, Secretary of Defense, 
Department of Defense
    General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of 
Staff
    The Honorable Michael McCord, Under Secretary of Defense 
(Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, Department of Defense
    The Subcommittee on Defense held a budget hearing on April 
30, 2024, entitled ``Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the National 
Guard and Reserves Forces.'' The Subcommittee received 
testimony from:
    General Daniel R. Hokanson, Chief of the National Guard 
Bureau, Department of Defense
    Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniel, Chief of Army Reserve 
and Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command
    Vice Admiral John Mustin, Chief of Navy Reserve, Department 
of Navy
    Lieutenant General Leaonard F. Anderson IV, Commander, 
Marine Forces Reserve
    Lieutenant General John P. Healy, Chief of Air Force 
Reserve, Department of Air Force
    The Subcommittee on Defense held a budget hearing on April 
30, 2024, entitled ``Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the United 
States Air Force and Space Force.'' The Subcommittee received 
testimony from:
    The Honorable Frank Kendall III, Secretary, Department of 
the Air Force
    General David W. Allvin, Chief of Staff, Department of the 
Air Force
    General B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations, 
United States Space Force

          Compliance With Rule XIII, Cl. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule)

    In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, the Committee notes that the 
accompanying bill does not propose to repeal or amend a statute 
or part thereof.



                             MINORITY VIEWS

    The Fiscal Year 2025 Defense Appropriations Act totals $833 
billion. We appreciate that the bill conforms to the Fiscal 
Responsibility Act, however, we have deep concerns about the 
bill, and how it will impact our military's readiness and unit 
cohesion, since the bill repeats the same mistakes as the 
fiscal year 2024 House proposal.
    Once again, this bill includes partisan social policy 
riders that were rejected in the fiscal year 2024 conference 
agreement. And the inclusion of those riders in the process 
last year, led to several Continuing Resolutions that spanned 
over five months of this fiscal year.
    We all understand that we are in a new geopolitical era, 
where our nation faces grave threats--and they must be 
responded to swiftly. But including riders that the majority 
knows will not become law, will only serve to repeat a process 
that very nearly ended in a full year Continuing Resolution. 
Our national security cannot afford to waste another five 
months as we did previously.
    The bill, again, limits the ability of Service personnel 
and their families to receive the reproductive health care they 
deserve. Women make up almost 20% of the military services. And 
approximately 80,000 women service members live in a state that 
has limited or banned access to reproductive health care. 
Service members do not get to choose where they are stationed, 
and their duty station should not determine the type of health 
care they receive.
    Also, there are provisions that disenfranchise lesbian, 
gay, bisexual and transgender service members rather than 
making our military a welcoming and inclusive place for all 
those who wish to serve our country.
    There are provisions included in this bill that needlessly 
attack diversity and inclusion efforts at the Department. Our 
military is the institution in our country that most broadly 
reflects the entire American population. That includes the 33% 
of active-duty service members who identify with a minority 
group. The Services continue to face recruitment challenges. 
Why would the majority draft a bill to include provisions that 
might dissuade any American, regardless of background, from 
taking the oath of service?
    Beyond contentious social policy, there are other elements 
of this bill that we cannot support.
    First, the bill continues to treat climate change as if it 
is not happening and is not a national security threat--which 
we know for a fact that it is. And we've seen the impact of 
severe weather events on installations year after year--look to 
Guam as a recent example.
    Over $50 billion in repairs will be needed for the 
installations on Guam which were damaged by the typhoon last 
year. With all the military construction funding going into 
Guam, the evidence of infrastructure vulnerability on the 
island is even more clear. Cutting climate programs harms 
resiliency, and we will pay for it on the back end.
    Second, the bill cuts the funding for the Ukraine Security 
Assistance Initiative. We know this bill should include the 
long-term assistance that Ukraine needs. This funding signals 
that the West stands with them in their fight for their own 
self-determination. But failure to continue funding what has 
been a long-standing, bipartisan initiative to support Ukraine 
sends a terrible signal. It will only embolden Putin.
    Third, the bill again limits the ability for our government 
to address disinformation. Our foreign adversaries use social 
media to spread disinformation here at home in the United 
States. This bill deprives the Department of Defense of their 
responsibility to set facts straight. This is dangerous, and it 
would have real national security implications here at home and 
abroad.
    Fourth, the bill includes a new provision that would ban 
funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. This 
provision is not germane to this bill because the Department of 
Defense has never funded UNRWA.
    To be clear, the Hamas terrorist attacks of last October 
were barbaric. And we are deeply alarmed at the suffering of 
the civilian population in Gaza--where famine has taken hold.
    But, the majority needs to stop a pattern of including new 
general provisions that do not fall within our jurisdiction.
    Fifth, we want to address the need to make comprehensive 
investments in quality of life for our service members. The 
total compensation package for a newly enlisted soldier 
entering the military starts at $50,064. This includes basic 
pay, health care, dental care, housing, food, paid leave, and 
certain tax advantages.
    In a private sector job, a person might earn $20 an hour. 
But it may not include health care and leave. And of course, it 
would not include food and rent. The private sector simply does 
not provide the same holistic package of pay and benefits that 
the military does.
    We believe in the importance of taking care of our troops 
and of course there is always more we can do. We are very 
supportive of pay raises for the troops. Over the last 3 years 
Congress enacted a 4.6% pay raise in 2023, a 5.2% pay raise in 
2024, and the President has again proposed a 4.5% pay raise for 
2025 which this bill and we support.
    But on top of the 4.5% pay raise the Administration is 
requesting this year, the majority is proposing an additional 
15% pay increase for junior enlisted service members. This 
poses two problems that the Committee must consider as this 
bill moves forward:
          The majority fails to fully fund the pay raise 
        proposal. The bill falls nearly $800 million short of 
        the known $3.2 billion cost. By not fully funding this 
        proposal, it will cause a hole in the FY 2025 Services' 
        budgets. If enacted, the Services will be forced to 
        fill that hole themselves by making cuts elsewhere. We 
        don't know what is going to be sacrificed and that will 
        cause problems in fiscal year 2025 for both the 
        Department of Defense and the Services.
          And, it creates a disparity where pay raise does not 
        follow promotion. Under this proposal that promotion 
        will not come with the same associated pay bump as your 
        previous rank. A service member, confronted with this 
        situation, may decide to take their talents elsewhere--
        creating a retention issue. With the best of 
        intentions, we could be creating new problems for the 
        Services--and quite frankly for ourselves in future 
        fiscal years.
    That is why the Committee needs to analyze the 
Administration's Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, 
which is expected at the end of this year. That report will 
help us make informed decisions as we work to provide a better, 
holistic package of pay and benefits for our troops. We look 
forward to working with the majority to ensure that the 
conference report balances pay, benefits, and the other 
important programs in this bill that ensure our national 
security.
    Finally, the amendments adopted in full committee regarding 
prohibiting funding for the joint logistics over the shore/pier 
in Gaza, language in contravention of the Civil Rights Act and 
continued attacks on the LGBTQ+ community, only further our 
resolve to oppose the bill.
    In closing, regrettably at this time, we will be unable to 
support passage of this bill, but we look forward to working 
with the majority to enact a bipartisan bill that strengthens 
our national security.

                                   Rosa DeLauro.
                                   Betty McCollum.

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