(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on September 29, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.
(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for defense-wide procurement.
Subtitle B: Army Programs - (Sec. 111) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Army should request from Congress authority to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (Family) program, and that such Secretary should submit necessary justification materials for such a contract. Requires any proposal by such Secretary to incorporate improvements from: (1) lessons learned from operations involving the Global War on Terrorism; and (2) product improvement programs carried out for the Family program.
(Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary of the: (1) Army to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of MH-60R helicopters; and (2) Navy to enter into such a contract for MH-60R related mission equipment, both beginning with the FY2007 program year.
(Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of the Army to set forth in Army budget materials for any fiscal year after 2007 all amounts for procurement for the M1A2 Abrams tank system enhancement program and for the Bradley A3 fighting vehicle as elements within amounts requested for the Army's Modular Force Initiative, in accordance with a specified Army report.
(Sec. 114) Limits the availability for obligation of funds for FY2007 for the Army's Bridge to Future Networks program until the Secretary of the Army reports to the congressional defense and appropriations committees an analysis of such program and related information.
(Sec. 115) Requires a report from the Comptroller General (CG) to the congressional defense and appropriations committees on the participation and activities of the lead systems integrator in the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program.
(Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to ensure that priority for the distribution of new and combat-serviceable replacement equipment acquired using funds authorized under this title is given to operational units based on combat mission deployment schedule.
Subtitle C: Navy Programs - (Sec. 121) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to incrementally fund procurement of a CVN-21 class aircraft carrier designated as CVN-78, 79, and 80, as applicable, over four-year periods.
(Sec. 122) Provides cost limits, out of Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds, for: (1) the Navy aircraft carrier designated as CVN-21; and (2) any ship of that class that is constructed after the CVN-21. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to adjust such amounts based upon specified factors, including inflation, changes in federal, state, or local laws, or the insertion of new technology. Allows technology insertion adjustments only if such Secretary makes specified certifications to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the need for such technology. Requires such Secretary to notify such committees of any ship cost limit adjustments made.
(Sec. 123) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the cost limitation on the procurement of the CVN-77 aircraft carrier.
(Sec. 124) Earmarks specified Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for construction of the first two vessels under the next-generation destroyer program. Provides contract authority. Expresses the sense of Congress supporting a one-time full funding exception with respect to follow-on ships under such program.
(Sec. 125) Provides a cost limit, out of Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds, for any ship constructed under the LHA Replacement amphibious assault ship program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to adjust such amounts based upon specified factors, including inflation, changes in federal, state, or local laws, or the insertion of new technology. Allows technology insertion adjustments only if such Secretary makes specified certifications to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the need for such technology. Requires such Secretary to notify such committees of any ship cost limit adjustments made.
(Sec. 126) Provides cost limits, out of Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds, for specified San Antonio-class naval amphibious ships. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to adjust such amounts based upon specified factors, including inflation, changes in federal, state, or local laws, or the insertion of new technology. Allows technology insertion adjustments only if such Secretary makes specified certifications to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to the need for such technology. Requires such Secretary to notify such committees of any ship cost limit adjustments made.
(Sec. 127) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of V-22 tiltrotor aircraft, beginning with the FY2008 program year.
(Sec. 128) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Navy should make greater use of alternative technologies, including nuclear power, as a means of propulsion for its future fleet of surface combatants. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to include integrated power systems, fuel cells, and nuclear power as propulsion alternatives for future major surface combatant ships.
(Sec. 129) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should accelerate the construction of Virginia class submarines to maintain the attack force structure at not less than 48 and to minimize any period that such force remains below 48.
(Sec. 130) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a quality control policy for the procurement of: (1) ship critical safety items; and (2) modifications, repair, and overhaul of such items.
Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - (Sec. 131) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force, before a specified conditional date, from retiring more than 18 B-52 aircraft. Requires such Secretary to maintain not less than 44 of such aircraft as combat-coded aircraft. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any Department of Defense (DOD) funds for retiring any of the 93 B-52H aircraft currently in service until 45 days after a report from the Secretary of the Air Force to the defense committees on the amount and type of Air Force bomber force structure.
(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, as of October 1, 2008, to maintain a total strategic airlift aircraft inventory of not less than 299.
(Sec. 133) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from retiring any U-2 aircraft in FY2007. Prohibits retiring such an aircraft after such fiscal year until 60 days following certification to Congress by the Secretary of Defense that the capabilities provided by U-2 aircraft no longer contribute to mitigating any gaps in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities identified in the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review.
(Sec. 134) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from using incremental funding for the procurement of F-22A fighter aircraft. Authorizes such Secretary to enter into a multiyear contract for procurement of up to 60 F-22A Raptor fighter aircraft, beginning with the FY2007 program year. Outlines certification requirements with respect to such procurement. Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide for a federally funded research and development center to report cost estimates for a three-year, 60-aircraft, F-22A multiyear procurement program, beginning in FY2007, compared to a corresponding annual procurement program.
(Sec. 135) Prohibits the number of: (1) KC-135E aircraft retired by the Secretary of the Air Force during FY2007 from exceeding 29; and (2) F-117A aircraft retired by the Secretary of the Air Force during FY2007 from exceeding ten.
(Sec. 137) Prohibits the number of C-130E tactical airlift aircraft retired by the Air Force during FY2007 from exceeding 51.
(Sec. 138) Requires any Joint Primary Aircraft Training System aircraft procured after FY2006 to be procured through a contract under provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) relating to acquisition by negotiated contract rather than FAR provisions relating to the acquisition of commercial items.
(Sec. 139) Directs the Air Force to modernize Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in U.S. inventory in order to maintain a sufficient supply of launch test assets and spares to sustain the deployed force of such missiles through 2030. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of DOD funds for the termination of any Minuteman III ICBM modernization program, or for the withdrawal of any such missile from the active force, until 30 days after the Secretary reports to the defense and appropriations committees certain justifications, analyses, and assessments with respect to the Minuteman III ICBM.
Subtitle E: Joint and Multiservice Matters - (Sec. 141) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to state that a limitation on the use of DOD funds for the procurement of a new unmanned aerial vehicle system applies only to DOD procurement funds.
Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for the Armed Forces for RDT&E. Earmarks specified amounts for the Defense Science and Technology Program.
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - (Sec. 211) Earmarks specified Navy and Air Force funds for continued development of an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (Fighter). Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for development and procurement of the Fighter propulsion system through the development and sustainment of two interchangeable propulsion systems; and (2) notify the defense and appropriations committees prior to any modification of the Fighter acquisition program that would result in propulsion system development or procurement in a manner other than the above process. Requires independent cost analyses of the Fighter's engine program by the CG, a federally funded research and development center, and the Secretary (with results reports by each to the defense and appropriations committees).
(Sec. 212) Authorizes the Director of Defense Research and Engineering and the service acquisition executives of the military departments (currently, only the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to award prizes for advanced technology achievements within their respective departments. Extends such program through FY2010. Modifies related reporting requirements.
(Sec. 213) Requires the Secretary, in response to a critical cost growth threshold breach in a major defense acquisition program (MDAP) under the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program, to address any design, engineering, manufacturing, or technology integration issues that contributed significantly to the cost growth of the MDAP. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Under Secretary) to: (1) establish procedures for the prompt issuance of a solicitation for challenge proposals addressing such cost growth increases; and (2) establish guidelines for covering the costs of the challenge proposals. Outlines authorized actions upon unfavorable full review and evaluation of challenge proposals. Requires the Under Secretary to: (1) evaluate incentives for encouraging the adoption of challenge proposals receiving favorable full review and evaluations, as well as possible additional incentives; and (2) report evaluation results to the defense committees. Authorizes the Under Secretary to establish procedures to ensure that the Challenge Program establishes appropriate priorities for proposals from businesses that are not major contractors with DOD. Extends the Challenge Program through FY2012.
(Sec. 214) Requires the Secretary, 120 days after the preliminary design review of the FCS program, to carry out a Defense Acquisition Board milestone review of such program, including a determination as to whether the program should continue. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on review findings and conclusions. Prohibits the obligation of program funds beginning in FY2009 until such report is received.
(Sec. 215) Earmarks specified defense-wide RDT&E funds to implement or evaluate certain Navy shipbuilding technology proposals under the Defense Acquisition Challenge Program.
(Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for an independent estimate by a federally funded research and development center of anticipated costs of systems development and demonstration with respect to the FCS; and (2) report the estimate to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 217) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2000 to extend through FY2012 the funding objectives of its defense science and technology programs. Outlines actions, including additional reports to the defense and appropriations committees, required of the Secretary following failure to comply with such objectives.
(Sec. 218) Directs the Secretary to establish within DOD a joint technology office on hypersonics in order to carry out a program for the development of hypersonics for defense purposes. Requires: (1) the office to develop a roadmap for DOD hypersonics programs; (2) the Secretary to submit the roadmap to the defense and appropriations committees; and (3) the office to annually review and certify consistent funding for research, development, test, evaluation, and demonstration programs within DOD for hypersonics.
(Sec. 219) Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a proposal to replace nuclear warheads on 24 Trident D-5 sea-launched ballistic missiles with conventional kinetic warheads.
Subtitle C: Missile Defense Programs - (Sec. 221) Allows FY2007 and FY2008 RDT&E funds for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to be used for the development and fielding of ballistic missile defense capabilities.
(Sec. 222) Prohibits any DOD funds from being obligated or expended for the testing or deployment of a space-based interceptor until 90 days after a report from the MDA Director to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 223) States as the policy of the United States that DOD accord a priority within its missile defense program to the development, testing, fielding, and improvement of specified near-term missile defense capabilities.
(Sec. 224) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year: (1) 2002 to extend by one year CG assessments of ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs; and (2) 2006 to provide submittal dates of plans for test and evaluation of the operational capability of the BMD system.
(Sec. 226) Requires annual reports, from 2007 through 2013, from the Under Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD plans for the transition of missile defense programs from the MDA to the military departments.
Subtitle D: Other Matters - (Sec. 231) Requires that if, before a final decision is made within DOD to proceed with a MDAP beyond low-rate initial production, a decision is made to proceed to operational use of the MDAP or to make procurement funds available for that MDAP, then the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation shall submit to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees a report with respect to the MDAP. Directs the Under Secretary and such Director to: (1) review DOD policies and practices on test and evaluation in light of emerging approaches to acquisitions; and (2) if necessary, issue new or revised guidance for DOD on test and evaluation. Requires the Director of the Defense Test Resource Management Center to ensure that the DOD strategic plan for test and evaluation resources reflects any DOD testing needs identified in the review, and includes an assessment of the resources and budgets required to meet such needs. Requires the Under Secretary and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to submit a review report to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 232) Extends through the end of FY2011 the Global Research Watch Program carried out by DOD's Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
(Sec. 233) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary should share U.S. joint strike fighter technology with the government of the United Kingdom consistent with national security interests of both nations.
(Sec. 234) Directs the Secretary to contract with an appropriate independent entity to assess various foreign and domestic vehicle-based active protection systems for defense against certain battlefield threats. Requires a results report from the entity chosen to the Secretary and the defense and appropriations committees.
Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Armed Forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.
(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for: (1) working capital funds; (2) the Defense Health Program; (3) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (4) defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; and (5) the Defense Inspector General.
Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - (Sec. 311) Establishes required qualifications for the DOD position of unexploded ordnance manager.
(Sec. 312) States that the two-year limitation for cooperative agreements entered into for environmental restoration at defense facilities shall not apply when the agreement is funded out of either the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 or the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 2005.
(Sec. 313) Directs DOD to set certain performance goals for the remediation unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents (munitions) at all active military installations and formerly used defense sites (other than operational ranges). Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) a comprehensive plan for addressing the remediation of such munitions at all such sites; (2) specified updates to such plan; and (3) a report on the status of DOD efforts to achieve agreement with relevant regulatory agencies on appropriate munitions reuse standards or principles.
(Sec. 314) Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a historical review of the number, size, and probable locations where the Armed Forces disposed of military munitions in coastal waters; (2) periodically release any new information obtained during such review; (3) include such information in the annual report on DOD environmental restoration activities submitted to Congress under current law; (4) complete the historical review and submit a final findings report to Congress; (5) provide information obtained in the review to the Secretary of Commerce to assist the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in preparing nautical charts and other navigational materials that identify known or potential hazards posed by such disposed munitions; (6) continue to inform potentially affected users of the ocean environment of such possible hazards; (7) continue to conduct research on the effects of such disposed munitions on ocean environment and those who use it; and (8) institute monitoring mechanisms if the review or research indicates that contamination is being released into ocean waters from disposed munitions at a particular site or that the site poses a significant public health or safety risk.
(Sec. 315) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified funds to the Moses Lake Wellfield Superfund Site, Washington, to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for costs incurred in overseeing a remedial investigation and feasibility study performed by the Army.
(Sec. 316) Requires the Secretary of the Army to transport to an authorized disposal facility all of the federal government-furnished uranium in the chemical and physical form in which it is stored at the Sequoyah Fuels Corporation site in Gore, Oklahoma.
(Sec. 317) Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize the EPA Administrator to extend an exemption from certain toxic disposal requirements for up to 60 days to allow the Secretary and the military department Secretaries to transport polychlorinated biphenyls generated by or under control of DOD inside the United States for their disposal, treatment, or storage, as long as the Administrator determines that they would not otherwise arrive within the period of the original exemption. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2012. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and environmental affairs committees on the status of foreign-manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls under DOD control outside the United States.
(Sec. 318) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a review and evaluation of scientific and medical evidence regarding associations between pre-natal, child, and adult exposure to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and birth defects or diseases and any other adverse health effects. Directs the: (1) Academy to submit review results to the Secretary and Congress; and (2) Commandant of the Marine Corps, after completion of a related study, to provide study results to former Camp Lejeune residents and employees who may have been exposed to such drinking water.
Subtitle C: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - (Sec. 321) Prohibits the Secretary from obligating or expending funds for any financial management improvement activity relating to the preparation, processing, or auditing of financial statements until the Secretary makes certain determinations to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to each activity proposed to be funded.
(Sec. 322) Earmarks specified Army O&M funds for contracts for the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of exhibits at the National Museums of the United States Army, United States Navy, Marine Corps and Heritage Center, and United States Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to accept from nonprofit entities amounts as reimbursement for costs at such Museums.
(Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to ensure that financial resources are provided to enable: (1) the Secretary concerned to meet requirements for the repair, recapitalization, and replacement of equipment used in the global war on terrorism; and (2) the Secretary of the Army to meet Army requirements for transforming to modularity, as well as the reconstitution of equipment and materiel in prepositioned stocks under the Army Prepositioned Stocks Strategy 2012 or any subsequent strategy. Requires the: (1) Secretary to report annually to Congress with respect to budget requirements necessary to meet the above requirements; (2) Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees on progress made in meeting the Army requirements; and (3) CG to report to such committees assessing the Army's progress.
(Sec. 324) Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from deploying the Marine Corps Total Force System to the Navy until the date on which the defense and appropriations committees and the Secretary of the Navy receive the determination of the Chairman of the Defense Business Systems Management Committee that such deployment is in the best interests of DOD. Requires a report from: (1) such Secretary to such committees and the CG analyzing alternatives, costs and benefits, and compatability aspects of such System; and (2) the CG to such committees and such Chairman assessing such Secretary's report.
Subtitle D: Workplace and Depot Issues - (Sec. 331) Makes permanent (currently limited to contracts entered into during FY2003-FY2009) the exclusion of certain contract expenditures from percentage limitations on the performance of depot-level maintenance by non-federal contractor personnel at a DOD Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence.
(Sec. 332) Requires the Secretary of a military department to invest in the capital budgets of the covered depots in that department at least six percent of the total combined workload funded at all the covered depots of that department for the preceding three fiscal years. Allows a waiver of such minimum investment for national security reasons if the Secretary of Defense notifies the defense and appropriations committees. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to such committees summarizing the level of capital investment for each military department for the preceding fiscal year. Specifies the depots covered. Provides a two year phase-in of the investment requirement with respect to the Army and Navy.
(Sec. 333) Amends the Bob Stump NDAA for Fiscal Year 2003 (Stump Act) to extend through FY2009 the temporary authority to contract for increased performance of security guard functions. Provides FY2007-FY2009 limits on the total number of personnel authorized to perform such functions. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on contractor performance of security guard functions under such Act, and prohibits any such contract from being entered into after September 30, 2007, until the report is submitted.
Subtitle E: Reports - (Sec. 341) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to report to the defense committees on the Navy's Fleet Response Plan. Requires a follow-up report from the CG containing a review of the Navy report. Prohibits such Secretary from expanding implementation of the Plan beyond the carrier strike groups until six months after such report is submitted.
(Sec. 342) Requires a report from the Secretary of the Navy to the defense committees on Navy surface ship rotational crew programs. Prohibits such Secretary from implementing any new surface ship rotational crew experiment or program during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on October 1, 2009. Provides for the treatment of four existing rotational crew experiments. Requires a follow-up report from the CG on an existing experiment known as the "sea swap." Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to report to the defense committees on the long-term implications of the use of crew rotations on Navy ships on the degree of forward presence provided by Navy ships.
(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to Congress on the adequacy of the live-fire Army ranges in Hawaii with respect to current and future training requirements.
(Sec. 344) Requires a report from the CG to the defense committees assessing the joint standards and protocols for access control systems at DOD installations.
(Sec. 345) Directs the CG to report to the defense committees on the readiness of the active and reserve ground forces of the Army and Marine Corps.
(Sec. 346) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense and appropriations committees on Air Force safety requirements for flight training operations at Pueblo Memorial Airport, Colorado.
(Sec. 347) Requires: (1) annual reports from the Secretary to Congress on future DOD requirements with respect to the Personnel Security Investigations for Industry and the National Industrial Security Program of the Defense Security Service; and (2) a follow-up report from the CG after the Secretary's initial report.
(Sec. 348) Amends the Stump Act to extend through FY2013 an annual reporting requirement on the DOD training range sustainment plan and inventory.
(Sec. 349) Requires: (1) a report from the Secretary concerned to the Secretary within 90 days after withdrawing equipment from a reserve unit to a unit being ordered to active duty or to a unit for the discharge of a mission; and (2) quarterly reports from the Secretary to Congress on all such reports submitted.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - (Sec. 351) Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain a strategic policy on DOD programs for the prepositioning of materiel and equipment; (2) notify the defense and appropriations committees prior to implementing any policy change; and (3) establish the strategic policy within six months after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the Secretary, from the date of enactment of this Act until the date on which policy change notification is submitted, from diverting materiel or equipment from prepositioned stocks except for directly supporting a contingency operation or providing humanitarian assistance.
(Sec. 352) Makes both military dogs (current law) and horses available for adoption at the end of their useful working life.
(Sec. 353) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a program to sell recyclable munitions materials resulting from the demilitarization of conventional military munitions and to use such proceeds for the reclamation, recycling, and reuse of such munitions.
(Sec. 354) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to recover from any country to which a grant of rifles, ammunition, repair parts, or other related supplies (munitions) is made under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 any such munitions that are excess to the needs of such country. Makes such munitions available for transfer to the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety.
(Sec. 355) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 to extend the termination date for the DOD telecommunications benefit under such Act from September 30, 2006, to 60 days after the date on which the Secretary determines that a contingency operation has ended. Extends such benefit to members who remain hospitalized as a result of wounds or injuries incurred while in direct support of a contingency operation, up until the end of such operation. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the implementation of the modified benefit.
(Sec. 356) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to extend through FY2007 the availability of funds for activities associated with the commemoration of success of the U.S. Armed Forces in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
(Sec. 357) Requires the Secretary to: (1) perform an annual accounting of DOD overseas staffing requirements in order to reconcile staffing cost-sharing fees levied by the Secretary of State under the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999; and (2) submit to the defense and appropriations committees an annual estimate of overseas military presence.
(Sec. 358) Directs the Secretary to consider the utilization of fuel cells as replacements for current back-up power systems in a variety of DOD operations and activities.
(Sec. 359) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security and state governments in developing concept plans for providing DOD support to civil authorities; and (2) provide for the prepositioning of pre-packaged or pre-identified basic response assets in order to improve such support.
(Sec. 360) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on DOD progress in implementing its policy to improve the fuel efficiency of weapons platforms, consistent with mission requirements.
(Sec. 361) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President's budget for FY2007 failed to fund the required number of ship steaming days per quarter for Navy ship operations as well as deferring projected depot maintenance for Navy ships and aircraft; and (2) the Secretary should ensure sufficient funding to support critical Navy training and depot maintenance accounts for readiness purposes. Directs the: (1) Secretary to certify to the defense and appropriations committees, for each of FY2008-FY2010, that the Navy has funding to fully meet such requirements; (2) Secretary of the Navy, during those same fiscal years, to report to such committees on progress made in achieving such funding; and (3) Secretary of the Navy to report to such committees on the Navy Riverine Squadrons.
(Sec. 362) Requires the Secretary concerned to provide, under certain conditions, adequate storage of personal possessions belonging to military personnel residing in military family housing who are assigned to a family-restricted area for a period of 180 days or more.
(Sec. 363) Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to include in contracts for the transportation of baggage and household effects for members of the Armed Forces (current law) and civilian DOD employees a clause requiring the carrier to pay the full replacement value of lost or damaged goods. Directs the: (1) Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the capabilities and costs of the DOD program known as the "Families First" program; and (2) CG to conduct a review and assessment, and submit an interim and final report to the defense committees, with respect to DOD progress in achieving the goals of the Families First program, as well as related matters.
Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - (Sec. 401) Sets forth authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY2007.
(Sec. 402) Revises the permanent active-duty end strength minimum levels for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
(Sec. 403) Amends the Ronald W. Reagan NDAA for Fiscal Year 2005 (Reagan Act) to authorize additional increases of active-duty end strengths for the Army and Marine Corps in FY2008 and FY2009 in order to support operational missions and achieve transformational reorganization objectives.
Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - (Sec. 411) Sets forth authorized end strengths as of the end of FY2007 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.
(Sec. 413) Sets forth minimum end strengths for FY2007 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians.
(Sec. 414) Provides a FY2007 limitation on the number of non-dual status Army and Air Force military technicians.
(Sec. 415) Provides, during FY2007, the maximum number of reserve personnel authorized to be on active duty for operational support.
Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2007 for: (1) military personnel; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Part I: Officer Personnel Policy Generally - (Sec. 501) States that general and flag officers assigned to senior level intelligence positions within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shall not be subject to the supervision or control of the Secretary of Defense and shall not exercise supervision or control over DOD military or civilian personnel. Provides that an officer's appointment to such a position shall not affect the officer's status, grade, rank, compensation, rights, or benefits, and that such officer's pay and allowances shall be reimbursed to DOD from funds available to the CIA or the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(Sec. 502) Increases from 62 to 64 the mandatory retirement age for general and flag officers. Authorizes the: (1) Secretary to defer the retirement of officers serving in grades above major general and rear admiral until age 66; and (2) President to defer the retirement for such officers until age 68. Eliminates the numerical limit on the number of deferments that may be in effect at any one time.
(Sec. 503) Increases the mandatory retirement age for: (1) major generals and rear admirals from 62 to 64; (2) brigadier generals and rear admirals (lower half) and all officers below such grades from 60 to 62; and (3) officers holding certain positions (chiefs of the reserves and National Guard, and state adjutant generals) from 64 to 66.
(Sec. 504) Requires the officer serving as the senior Air Force dental officer to be appointed in the grade of major general (currently, brigadier general).
(Sec. 505) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain chief warrant officers (W-4) who have twice failed for promotion without a mandatory selective continuation board (as required under current law). Allows such warrant officers retained on active duty to be further considered for promotion.
(Sec. 506) Extends through October 1, 2008, the temporary reduction of the time-in-grade requirement before eligibility for promotion for certain active-duty officers in the grades of first lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade).
(Sec. 507) States that an active-duty or reserve officer serving as Attending Physician to the Congress shall: (1) hold the grade of major general or rear admiral during such service; and (2) be exempt from end strength and distribution limits for officers serving in grades above brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half).
(Sec. 508) Revises the qualifications for leadership of the Naval Postgraduate School to allow in such position: (1) an officer in the Marine Corps (currently, only the Navy); or (2) a civilian, including an individual retired from the Navy or Marine Corps in a grade not below captain or colonel, respectively.
Part II: Officer Promotion Policy - (Sec. 511) Revises military promotion procedures to treat a promotion that requires Senate confirmation as being established upon approval by the President of a report of a selection board. Directs the Secretary (currently, the Secretary concerned), by March 1, 2008, to prescribe regulations controlling delays in appointment following Senate confirmation. Provides additional bases for delays in such appointments due to lack of qualifications.
(Sec. 512) Prohibits a promotion selection board from recommending an officer for promotion unless a majority of board members, after consideration of any adverse information, finds that the officer is among those best qualified for promotion to meet the needs of the department concerned.
(Sec. 513) Authorizes the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense (currently, only the President) to remove the name of an officer from the report of a selection board with respect to officers being recommended for promotion to grades below brigadier general and rear admiral (lower half).
(Sec. 514) Limits the availability of specialty selection boards to officers who are in or above the promotion zone.
(Sec. 515) Provides that, if an officer whose name is on a list of officers approved for promotion which requires the advice and consent of the Senate is not appointed during that officer's promotion eligibility period (generally 18 months after being put on the promotion list), then the officer's name shall be removed from the list. Allows the President to extend the promotion eligibility period by an additional 12 months. Provides the same requirements with respect to officers on the reserve active status list.
Part III: Joint Officer Management Requirements - (Sec. 516) Revises the system for the designation and management of joint qualified officers (JQOs) to replace the term "joint specialty officer" with "joint qualified officer." Requires the Secretary to establish different levels of joint qualification, as well as the criteria for qualification at each level, and requires each level to have joint education and joint experience criteria. Allows an officer to be designated as a JQO only if the officer successfully completes an appropriate program of joint professional military education and also successfully completes: (1) a full tour of duty in a joint assignment; or (2) such other assignments and experiences that demonstrates the officer's mastery of knowledge, skills, and abilities in joint matters (as prescribed by the Secretary). (Currently, an officer can only qualify if he or she completes such education and a full tour of duty in a joint assignment.) Authorizes the Secretary to waive the educational requirement in certain instances upon a determination that the officer has demonstrated joint knowledge, skills, and abilities, or when determined necessary to meet a critical need. Provides JQO numerical limits. Makes this section effective as of October 1, 2007. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for implementation of the joint officer management system.
(Sec. 517) Repeals the requirement for a separate promotion policy objective for joint officers. States as the policy objective that officers who are serving or have served in joint duty assignments are expected, as a group, to be promoted to the next higher grade at a rate not less than that for all officers of that armed force in that grade and competitive category.
(Sec. 518) Limits joint professional military education schools to schools under the National Defense University. Includes within such schools the National War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the Joint Forces Staff College.
(Sec. 519) Revises the definition of the term "joint matters" to mean matters related to the achievement of unified action by multiple military forces in operations conducted across land, sea, air, space, or the information environment. Includes under the definition of "critical occupational specialty" any occupational specialties within combat arms or its equivalent that the Secretary determines are experiencing severe shortages of trained officers.
Subtitle B: Reserve Component Matters - Part I: Reserve Component Management - (Sec. 521) Recognizes and commends former Representative G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery for his 30 years of service to benefit the people of Mississippi, members of the Armed Forces and their families, veterans, and the United States.
(Sec. 522) Extends from 270 to 365 days the maximum duration of service for members of the Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve called involuntarily to active duty to support operational missions. Requires, in determining which members will be ordered to active duty without their consent, appropriate consideration to be given to: (1) the length and nature of previous service; (2) the frequency of assignments; (3) family responsibilities; and (4) employment necessary to maintain the national health, safety, or interest.
(Sec. 523) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to authorize military retirement credit for emergency response service performed in specified New Jersey counties immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by members of the Army or Air National Guard.
Part II: Authorities Relating to Guard and Reserve Duty - (Sec. 525) Authorizes reserve personnel performing active Guard and reserve duty and military technicians (dual status) to also instruct or train active-duty personnel, members of foreign military forces, and DOD contractor personnel and civilian employees, as long as such instruction or training is performed in the United States, its possessions, or Puerto Rico.
(Sec. 526) Authorizes the governor of a state, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, to order a member of their National Guard to perform active Guard and reserve duty, including support of operations or missions and support of training operations and missions.
(Sec. 527) Includes under the types of emergencies to which reserve personnel assigned to weapons of mass destruction civil support teams may respond to: (1) a natural or manmade disaster in the United States; or (2) the intentional or unintentional release of nuclear, biological, radiological, or toxic or poisonous chemicals in the United States that results or could result in the catastrophic loss of life or property.
(Sec. 528) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2005 to authorize the Chairman of the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves to exercise with Commission members the same waiver regarding annuity eligibility upon reemployment as that available for the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with respect to former federal employees. Extends a Commission final report submission date.
(Sec. 529) Requires, as additional matters to be reviewed by the above Commission: (1) National Guard enhancement proposals; (2) a higher rank for the Chief of the National Guard Bureau; (3) National Guard officers authority to command; and (4) National Guard equipment and funding requirements. Requires Commission priority review with respect to the grade and functions of the Chief, and requires a report from the Commission to the defense committees on the results of the priority review.
Subtitle C: Education and Training - Part I: Service Academies - (Sec. 531) Increases from 24 to 100 the number of: (1) cadets and midshipmen at the military academies who may participate in exchange programs with foreign military academies; and (2) students from foreign military academies who may receive instruction at a U.S. military academy. Increases the annual funding for each of the military departments for such programs. Authorizes academies to use funds other than appropriated funds in support of such programs.
(Sec. 532) Codifies under federal armed forces provisions a section of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2004 concerning DOD actions to address sexual harassment and violence at the service academies.
(Sec. 533) Directs the Secretary to prescribe DOD policy on service academy and ROTC graduates seeking to participate in professional sports before the completion of their active-duty service obligation. Requires military department Secretaries, by December 1, 2007, to amend current or prescribe new regulations to implement the policy prescribed by the Secretary.
Part II: Scholarship and Financial Assistance Programs - (Sec. 535) Authorizes members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) who participate in the Guaranteed Reserve Forces Duty scholarship program to participate in the Health Professions scholarship program and serve on active duty as required by the latter program.
(Sec. 536) Authorizes each department Secretary to detail commissioned officers as students at accredited medical schools or schools of osteopathy in the United States for a period of training leading to the degree of doctor of medicine. Prohibits more than 25 officers from each military department from commencing such training in a fiscal year. Outlines eligibility requirements, including having served on active duty for a period of not less than two years nor more than six years, and agreeing to serve as a medical officer in that military department when such training is completed. Allows a portion of the service requirement to be performed in the Selected Reserve.
(Sec. 537) Increases from $22,000 to $60,000 the maximum amount of repayment by the Secretary under the education loan repayment program for officers in specified military health care professions.
(Sec. 538) Increases the monthly stipend and annual grant amounts under the Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program. Requires a Program report from the Secretary to Congress. Prohibits any additional adjustments during FY2007.
Part III: Junior ROTC Program - (Sec. 539) Requires that, in order for a retired or noncommissioned officer to be employed as a Junior ROTC (JROTC) instructor, the officer must be certified by the Secretary concerned as a qualified instructor in leadership, wellness and fitness, civics, and other courses related to JROTC program content. Requires senior military instructors to be retired officers and to serve as instructional leaders who oversee the program. Outlines senior military instructor qualifications. Requires non-senior military instructors to be retired noncommissioned officers and to serve as instructional leaders who teach independently of, but share program responsibilities with, senior military instructors. Outlines non-senior military instructor qualifications.
(Sec. 540) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to allow retired National Guard and reserve officers to provide JROTC instruction. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay to the educational institution at which the instruction is provided one-half of the amount paid by the institution to the officer for any period up to a maximum of one-half of the difference between the retired pay for an active duty officer of the same grade and years of service for such period and the active duty pay and allowances which the former officer would have received for such period if on active duty.
(Sec. 541) Requires the military department Secretaries to increase the number of secondary educational institutions at which a unit of the JROTC is organized. Outlines expansion within the various military departments.
(Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a review of a specified legal opinion issued by the DOD General Counsel regarding instruction of non-host unit students participating in JROTC programs; and (2) report review results to the defense committees. Allows a host school that is currently providing for the assignment of JROTC instructors to another school with 70 or more students to continue such support until 180 days following the committees' receipt of such report.
Part IV: Other Education and Training Programs - (Sec. 543) Allows all enlisted members (currently, only enlisted members of the Navy and Marine Corps) to participate in certain programs and courses offered by the Naval Postgraduate School in furtherance of the performance of required duties. Authorizes the Secretary to allow an enlisted member to receive graduate-level instruction at such School in a program leading to a master's degree in a technical, analytical, or engineering curriculum. Revises or repeals certain related report requirements under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006. Requires a new report from the Secretaries of the Navy and Air Force on the manner in which each Secretary intends to use such School during fiscal years 2008 through 2013 to meet the requirements of enlisted members with graduate degrees.
Subtitle D: General Service Authorities - (Sec. 546) Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a test of the utility of commercially available test preparation guides and education programs designed to assist recruit candidates to achieve scores on military recruit qualification testing that better reflect their full potential; and (2) report to the defense committees on test findings.
(Sec. 547) Prohibits the proceedings of selection boards convened for active-duty and reserve personnel actions (promotion, retention, retirement, etc.) from being disclosed to any person not a member of the board. Makes board records immune from legal process and inadmissible as evidence.
(Sec. 548) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the number of military personnel who, during the period beginning on January 1, 2005, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, have not received at least 30 days notice before a deployment that will last 180 days or more.
Subtitle E: Military Justice Matters - (Sec. 551) Requires the military department Secretaries to amend current or prescribe new regulations to subject military personnel who are ordered to active duty at locations overseas in an inactive duty for training status to the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) continuously from commencement to conclusion of such orders.
(Sec. 552) Applies UCMJ provisions to declared wars or contingency operations (currently, only "war").
Subtitle F: Decorations and Awards - (Sec. 555) Authorizes the presentation of a Medal of Honor flag to living Medal recipients or to the living next of kin of deceased Medal recipients.
(Sec. 556) Directs the President to report to the defense committees on the advisability of modifying the criteria for the award of the Purple Heart to authorize its award to members who die in captivity under unknown circumstances or as a result of conditions or treatment which currently do not qualify the decedent for the Purple Heart, and for members who survive captivity as prisoners of war, but die thereafter as a result of a disease or disability incurred during such captivity.
(Sec. 557) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review the policy, procedures, and processes of the military departments for awarding decorations to members of the Armed Forces; and (2) report review results to the defense committees.
Subtitle G: Matters Relating to Casualties - (Sec. 561) Authorizes severely injured or ill members who have been provided assistive technology or devices to retain such technology or devices after separation from service.
(Sec. 562) Directs the Secretary concerned to provide transportation of the remains of a member who dies in a combat theater of operations and whose remains are returned to the United States through the mortuary facility at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Requires a military escort to travel with the remains.
(Sec. 563) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress, as part of the annual defense budget request for a fiscal year, a consolidated budget justification display, in classified and unclassified form, that covers all programs and activities of DOD POW/MIA accounting and recovery organizations.
(Sec. 564) Directs the Secretary to establish within DOD a center to augment and support programs and activities of the military departments for the provision of assistance to severely wounded or injured servicemembers. Designates such center as the Military Severely Injured Center. Requires the Center to establish a database for tracking severely wounded or injured servicemembers.
(Sec. 565) Requires the Secretary, as soon as practicable after the completion of the comprehensive review of DOD procedures on mortuary affairs, to report to the defense committees on such review.
(Sec. 566) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2006 to require an additional element in the DOD policy of casualty assistance to survivors of military decedents.
(Sec. 567) Requires the Secretary concerned to ensure that each military health care professional within that department who is deployed to a theater of combat operations is trained, before such deployment, in the preservation of remains under combat or combat-related conditions.
Subtitle H: Impact Aid and Defense Dependents Education System - (Sec. 571) Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to allow the enrollment in the defense dependents' education system of children of a foreign military member assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, in a school of the defense dependents' education system in Mons, Belgium, through the 2010-2011 school year. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress evaluating alternatives for the education of U.S. military dependents and dependents of foreign military personnel assigned to such Headquarters.
(Sec. 572) Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for providing assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) that have military dependent students comprising at least 20% of the students in average daily attendance during a year. Provides further assistance to Leas that experience significant increases or decreases in average daily attendance of military dependent students due to military force structure changes, the relocation of military forces from one base to another, and base closures and realignments.
(Sec. 573) Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for impact aid payments for children with disabilities as authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
(Sec. 574) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on a plan to provide assistance to Leas that experience growth in the enrollment of military dependent students as a result of force structure changes, the relocation of a military unit, or the closure or realignment of a military installation pursuant to a defense base closure law. Requires annual plan updates. Directs the Secretary, from the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 2011, to work collaboratively with the Secretary of Education to ease the transition of military dependent students from attendance in DOD dependent schools to attendance in schools of Leas
(Sec. 575) Directs the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program on the provision of educational and support tools to promote early childhood education for dependent children affected by a military deployment or the relocation of a military unit. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees.
Subtitle I: Armed Forces Retirement Home - (Sec. 578) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees with respect to leadership and management of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, including the effect of changing the title of the Chief Operating Officer of the Home and the need for a greater role by active-duty military personnel in overall Home direction, operation, and management.
(Sec. 579) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the composition and activities of local boards of trustees of the Home.
Subtitle J: Reports - (Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on personnel requirements for airborne assets identified as low-density, high-demand airborne assets based on combatant commander requirements to conduct and sustain operations for the global war on terrorism.
(Sec. 582) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of establishing on Guam a station to process new U.S. military recruits drawn from the western Pacific region; and (2) report review results to the defense committees.
(Sec. 583) Amends the Reagan Act to include within a required annual report on sexual assaults in the military the results of any disciplinary actions taken.
(Sec. 584) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the feasibility and advisability of providing an electronic copy of military records to members upon their discharge or release from service.
(Sec. 585) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the feasibility of using military identification cards that do not contain, display, or exhibit the individual's Social Security number.
(Sec. 586) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on how the data contained in the DOD Joint Advertising, Market Research, and Studies program is maintained and protected.
(Sec. 587) Directs the CG to report to Congress concerning members of the Armed Forces claiming status as military conscientious objector between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2006.
Subtitle K: Other Matters - (Sec. 591) Reduces DOD's accrual contributions into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund by requiring the military department concerned to contribute at the lower, part-time rate for reserve personnel who are mobilized or serving on active duty for special work.
(Sec. 592) Revises the formula by which government contributions are made to the Medicare-Eligible Uniformed Services Retiree Health Care Fund (for the financing of health care for military retirees who are also eligible for health care under Medicare). Excludes, for purposes of the formula: (1) cadets and midshipmen at service academies; and (2) certain reserve personnel who are not counted against active-duty end strengths. Bases reserve personnel numbers on the number of members of the Selected Reserve (smaller) rather than the Ready Reserve.
(Sec. 593) Renames the Navy's Dental Division as the Dental Corps, under the direction of the Chief of the Dental Corps.
(Sec. 594) Makes permanent (currently, ends December 31, 2007) DOD authority to expend appropriated funds to present recognition items for military recruitment and retention purposes.
(Sec. 595) Allows the Secretary to designate a person to administer a military enlistment or appointment oath.
(Sec. 596) Repeals the requirement of periodic DOD Inspector General assessments of military installation compliance with requirements of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Rights Act. Requires a report from the CG to Congress on DOD programs and activities to facilitate voter registration and voting, including Internet-based electronic voting. Directs the Secretary to continue the Interim Voting Assistance System ballot request program with respect to all absent military voters, overseas DOD employees, and their dependents for all elections through December 31, 2006. Requires reports from the Secretary to Congress on: (1) assessments and recommendations with respect to the Interim Voting Assistance System; and (2) plans for expanding the use of electronic voting technology for individuals covered under the Uniformed Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act for elections through November 30, 2010.
(Sec. 597) Directs each military department Secretary to ensure, in the case of any member of the Armed Forces appearing before a physical evaluation board, that the board's decision conveys findings and conclusions with specific attention to each issue provided by the member in regard to that case. Requires the presence of physical evaluation board liaison officers to provide advice, counsel, and general information to such members on the operation of such boards. Requires the Secretary of Defense to assess military department compliance with such requirements, as well as with standards and guidelines for board training and staff, at least every three years.
(Sec. 598) Requires the Secretary concerned to issue a permanent military ID card to a permanently disabled dependent of a military retiree.
(Sec. 599) Outlines the composition of the United States Drum and Bugle Corps. Authorizes the President to appoint members of that Corps and the United States Marine Band to grades not above captain. Provides for the retirement of members of both groups.
Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - (Sec. 601) Waives any FY2007 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for government employees. Increases, effective January 1, 2007, by 2.2% the rates of basic pay for military personnel.
Revises, effective April 1, 2007, the rates of basic pay within each pay grade for commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel.
(Sec. 602) Increases maximum pay levels for general and flag officers to reflect increases in maximum salaries for Senior Executive Service personnel.
(Sec. 603) Extends through December 31, 2007, the prohibition against requiring certain injured military personnel to pay for meals provided by military treatment facilities.
(Sec. 604) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, as of October 1, 2006, to provide a second basic allowance for housing (BAH) to reserve members without dependents mobilized in support of a contingency operation and serving in a location that does not allow the member to reside at their permanent residence.
(Sec. 605) Authorizes the spouse of a member who dies while serving on active duty to receive a BAH for up to 365 days after the date of the member's death, even though the spouse is also a member of the Armed Forces.
(Sec. 606) Requires the Secretary concerned to pay the full premium (currently, only the premium required for the first $150,000 worth of coverage ) for coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program for members serving in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom.
(Sec. 607) States that the prohibition barring reserve personnel from receiving compensation for work or study p