(This measure has not been amended since the House agreed to Senate amendments with an amendment on December 12, 2013. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for procurement for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide activities, in amounts specified in the funding table set forth in Division D of this Act.
Subtitle B: Army Programs - (Sec. 111) Prohibits more than 75% of FY2014 funds authorized for the Stryker vehicle program from being obligated or expended until 15 days after the Secretary of the Army reports to the congressional defense and appropriations committees (such committees shall be the receiving committees for reports under this Act, unless otherwise stated) on the status of the Stryker vehicle spare parts inventory in Auburn, Washington.
(Sec. 112) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) budget uncertainty and reduced defense procurements have had negative impacts on the tactical vehicle industrial base; and (2) in such environment, the Army should consider innovative contracting and acquisition strategies to maximize cost savings, improve the sustainment of such industrial base, and reduce risk during the downturn in defense procurement. Directs the Secretary of the Army to conduct a study and report on the desirability and feasibility of requesting legislative authority to enter into one or more multiyear, multivehicle contracts for the procurement of tactical vehicles beginning in FY2015 or thereafter.
Subtitle C: Navy Programs - (Sec. 121) Amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Warner Act) to increase specified cost limits for the lead ship and follow-on ships in the CVN-78 class of aircraft carriers. Includes as an additional justification for cost increases under such program costs attributable to the shipboard test program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to report the most current cost estimate for the aircraft carrier designated as CVN-79.
(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2010 to repeal certain requirements and limitations on procurement programs for future naval surface combatants.
(Sec. 123) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, beginning with the FY2014 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of E-2D aircraft.
(Sec. 124) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY2014 funds for the littoral combat ships (LCS) designated as LCS 25 or 26 until the Secretary of the Navy submits: (1) a report on the current concept of operations and expected survivability attributes of each of such ship's seaframes, (2) a determination that successful completion of the test evaluation master plan for such seaframes will demonstrate operational effectiveness and suitability, (3) a certification of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council with respect to LCS current capabilities development, and (4) a report on the expected performance of each seaframe variant and mission module against the current or updated capabilities development document.
Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - (Sec. 131) Amends the Warner Act to remove the requirement that the Secretary of the Air Force maintain at least 74 of the KC-135E aircraft retired after September 30, 2006, in a condition that would allow their recall for reserve, National Guard, or aerial refueling purposes.
(Sec. 132) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force, beginning with the FY2014 program year, to enter into a multiyear contract for the procurement of C-130J aircraft for the Navy and Air Force.
(Sec. 133) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from: (1) canceling or modifying the avionics modernization program of record for C-130 aircraft, or (2) initiating an alternative program designed to replace such program. Requires the Comptroller General of the United States (CG) to submit a sufficiency review of the cost-benefit analysis of such program conducted pursuant to the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013.
(Sec. 134) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from obligating or expending any funds for procurement of C-27J aircraft not under contract as of June 1, 2013.
Subtitle E: Defense-Wide, Joint, and Multiservice Matters - (Sec. 141) Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to submit to Congress, for each fiscal year after FY2014, a consolidated budget justification display that covers all programs and activities associated with the procurement of personal protection equipment during the period covered by the future-years defense program submitted in that fiscal year.
(Sec. 142) Amends the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Skelton Act) to repeal certain report requirements with respect to a system management plan for the F-35 joint strike fighter aircraft program.
(Sec. 143) Prohibits any FY2014 DOD funds from being used to retire, prepare to retire, or place in storage an RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system or an A-10 aircraft. Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force, during the period preceding December 31, 2014, from taking any such action with respect to A-10 aircraft (with an exception). Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees on all high-altitude airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems operated or planned for future operation by DOD.
(Sec. 144) Authorizes the Secretary, on or after 60 days after submitting a report required under this section, to transfer MC-12 Liberty intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft from the Air Force to the Army in accordance with a plan developed for such transfer. Prohibits FY2014 Army funds from being obligated or expended to procure additional aircraft under the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System program during FY2014. Requires the Secretary of the Army to convert the MC-12 aircraft, as well as Army Medium Altitude Multi-intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance C-12 Quick Reaction Capability aircraft in order to meet Army requirements. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the plan developed under this section.
(Sec. 145) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) develop a plan to implement the new acquisition strategy for the expendable launch vehicle program, and (2) report and brief specified congressional committees on such plan.
(Sec. 146) Requires the Secretary to: (1) contract with a federally funded research and development center to conduct a study to identify and assess cost-effectiveness and alternative means for the procurement and research and development of personal protection equipment that supports and promotes competition in such equipment's industrial base, and (2) submit a report that includes study results. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit an assessment of the risks to the health and safety of members of the Armed Forces (members) of the ejection seats currently in operational use by the Air Force.
Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for DOD for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), in amounts specified in the funding table.
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - (Sec. 211) Revises, generally, elements of the biennial strategic plan of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Transfers from the Secretary to the Director of DARPA responsibility for the submission of each such plan.
(Sec. 212) Prohibits FY2014 Army funds from being obligated or expended for post-Milestone B engineering and manufacturing phase development activities for the ground combat vehicle program until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army submits an independent assessment of the documentation for such vehicle, as well as a certification as to program attributes.
(Sec. 213) Prohibits the Secretary from acquiring more than six air vehicles of the unmanned carrier-launched surveillance and strike system prior to receiving Milestone B approval for engineering and manufacturing development and low-rate initial production. Requires quarterly cost reports from the Secretary of the Navy until such system receives such approval. Directs the Secretary of Defense to include within FY2015 budget materials individual project lines for each segment of such system, as well as costs and other information associated with technology development for each segment. Requires the CG to conduct an annual review of the acquisition program for such system and submit review results to the committees. Provides a conditional delimiting date for such reviews and reports.
(Sec. 214) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 85% of the funds authorized for Air Force logistics information technology until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports on how such systems will be modernized and updated following the cancellation of the expeditionary combat support system.
(Sec. 215) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 90% of the funds authorized for Air Force defensive cyberspace operations until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports on the Application Software Assurance Center of Excellence.
(Sec. 216) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50% of the funds authorized for the precision extended range munition program until the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) certifies to the committees concerning the necessity of such program and that a sufficient business case exists to proceed with the development and production of such program.
(Sec. 217) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a follow-on air-launched cruise missile to the AGM-86 (long-range strike bomber) that achieves initial operating capability for both conventional and nuclear missions. Prohibits FY2014 funds earmarked for the offensive anti-surface warfare weapon from being used to enter into or modify a contract using other-than-competitive procedures, with an exception and a waiver for national security purposes.
(Sec. 218) Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Under Secretary) to establish an independent team to review the development of software for the F-35 aircraft program and to report review results. Requires an additional report on current plans for long-term sustainment of the autonomic logistics information system of such aircraft.
(Sec. 219) Requires, in DOD budget materials for FY2015 and thereafter, each capability component within the distributed common ground system program to be set forth as a separate project code and each project official to submit supporting justification for the project code. Directs the Under Secretary to analyze the capability components that are compliant with intelligence community data standards and that could be used to meet the requirements of such program. Requires the Under Secretary to report analysis results.
(Sec. 220) Expresses the sense of Congress confirming: (1) the policy to demonstrate, acquire, and deploy an effective capability for operationally responsive space to support military users and operations from space; and (2) that the Operationally Responsive Space Program Office has demonstrated an ability to accomplish many of the policy objectives, while not executing a mission that leverages all such objectives in a single mission. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50% of the FY 2014 funding for the space-based infrared systems space modernization initiative wide-field-of-view testbed until the Executive Agent for Space of DOD certifies that the Secretary is carrying out the Operationally Responsive Space Program Office in accordance with federal requirements. Requires a report from such Executive Agent regarding a potential mission that would seek to leverage all objectives in a single mission.
(Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) develop a plan to sustain the operational capabilities of the Blue Devil 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems; and (2) report to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees on the costs of sustaining or replacing such capabilities for FY2014-FY2019, as well as related matters. Requires such Secretary, in preparing such report, to coordinate with the Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Director of DARPA.
Subtitle C: Missile Defense Programs - (Sec. 231) Requires the MDA Director, in preparing acquisition and accountability reports on the ballistic missile defense (BMD) system, to improve the quality of cost estimates relating to operations and sustainment that are included in such reports. Requires the Director to ensure that each life-cycle cost estimate included in a BMD acquisition baseline includes all operational support costs for which the Director is responsible, as well as those functions and costs for which a military department is responsible. Requires the Director to report on plans to improve the quality of such cost estimates.
(Sec. 232) Prohibits FY2014 DOD funds from being obligated or expended for the medium extended air defense system (MEADS).
(Sec. 233) Expresses the sense of Congress that missile defense systems of the People's Republic of China (China) should not be integrated into the missile defense systems of the United States or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Prohibits FY2014 DOD funds from being obligated or expended to integrate U.S.-China missile defense systems. Requires a report from the Secretary on the status and progress of regional missile defense programs and efforts.
(Sec. 234) Earmarks specified FY2014 RDT&E funds for enhancing the capability for co-producing (between the United States and Israel) parts and components for the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program. Requires a report from: (1) the MDA Director on a plan for such co-production, and (2) the Secretary on the status of missile defense cooperation between the two countries. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) second-source production of such parts and components is based on the national security interest of both countries, and (2) the move toward such a second-source capacity for program integration and assembly will further enhance the security of Israel.
(Sec. 235) Requires the MDA Director to deploy a long-range discriminating radar against long-range missile threats from North Korea. Provides deployment funding from RDT&E funds. Directs the Secretary to ensure the ability to deploy additional tracking and sensor capabilities to support the defense of the U.S. homeland from future long-range missile threats from Iran.
(Sec. 236) Directs the Secretary to evaluate options and alternatives for future sensor architectures for BMD.
(Sec. 237) Directs the MDA Director to: (1) develop options and a plan to achieve an improved kill assessment capability for the ground-based midcourse defense system by the end of 2019, and (2) develop an interim capability for improved hit assessment for such system that can be integrated into near-term enhanced kill vehicle upgrades and refurbishment. Requires reports from: (1) the commanders of the U.S. Strategic Command and the U.S. Northern Command on the development of an improved hit assessment and kill assessment; and (2) the MDA Director on a plan to use funding to develop, test, and deploy an upgraded enhanced exo-atmospheric kill vehicle for such system, following specified priorities.
(Sec. 238) Requires the Secretary to report on potential future options for enhancing the BMD of the U.S. homeland.
(Sec. 239) Requires two annual briefings from the Secretary on the current status of efforts to complete a homeland missile defense site evaluation study as required under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013.
(Sec. 240) Expresses the sense of Congress that, due to declining defense budget resources and the sequestration, the importance of burden-sharing for missile defense among members of NATO is increasing. Requires the Secretary to report on the costs of such defense for NATO members, including the phased, adaptive approach to missile defense in Europe.
(Sec. 241) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States develops and deploys regional BMD capabilities to protect the forward-deployed forces, allies, and partners of the United States against regional ballistic missile threats; (2) the Secretary should give priority consideration to capabilities needed to deter and defend against the ballistic missile threat; (3) deployment decisions should take into account all of the ballistic missile threats in each region; (4) the United States should encourage its allies and partners to acquire and contribute to integrated and complementary regional BMD capabilities; and (5) the United States should cooperate closely with its allies and partners, including in East Asia, on missile defense deployments and cooperation that enhance their mutual security.
(Sec. 242) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should not procure a Capability Enhancement II exoatmospheric kill vehicle for deployment until after a successful operational flight test has occurred, unless such procurement is for test assets or to maintain a warm line for the industrial base.
Subtitle D: Reports - (Sec. 251) Directs the CG, through March 1, 2018, to annually review and report on the amphibious combat vehicle acquisition program.
(Sec. 252) Directs the CG to annually: (1) review the acquisition program for the VXX presidential helicopter, and (2) report review results. Terminates such requirements on the earlier of the date on which the Navy awards a contract for full-rate production of such aircraft or such acquisition program is terminated.
(Sec. 253) Directs the Secretary to report on the comprehensive research and development strategy to achieve significant reductions in the weight of body armor.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - (Sec. 261) Establishes in DOD a Communications Security Review and Advisory Board to review and assess the communications security, cryptographic modernization, and related key management activities of DOD and to advise the Secretary with respect to such activities.
(Sec. 262) Amends the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Hunter Act) to allow funds for specific defense laboratory infrastructure revitalization projects to remain available until expended (without fiscal year limits). Allows funds to be available for such projects only if the committees receive notification of the total project cost before project commencement. Allows funds to be accumulated for such projects only up to five years. Provides cost limits. Extends project authority through FY2020.
(Sec. 263) Extends through FY2018 DOD authority to award prizes for advanced technology achievements.
(Sec. 264) Amends the Skelton Act to extend until October 1, 2020, the pilot program to include technology protection features during the research and development of designated defense systems.
(Sec. 265) Directs the Secretary to brief the defense committees on the future program structure for biometrics oversight and execution and architectural requirements for biometrics-enabling capability.
(Sec. 266) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretaries of Defense and the Navy should ensure that the common missile compartment associated with the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine replacement program stays on schedule and is aligned with the Vanguard-successor program of the United Kingdom in order for the United States to fulfill its commitment in sea-based strategic deterrence.
(Sec. 267) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretary, in carrying out the non-kinetic counter-electronics development planning effort of the Air Force, should consider the results of the successful joint technology capability demonstration that the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project conducted in 2012; (2) an analysis of alternatives is an important step in the long-term development of a non-kinetic counter-electronic system (system); (3) the Secretary should pursue both near- and far-term joint systems; and (4) the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project should be considered among the options in response to near-term needs or combatant command integrated priority for a system.
Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 301) Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Armed Forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD.
Subtitle B: Energy and Environment - (Sec. 311) Provides an alternative deadline for required annual DOD reports on proposed budgets for activities relating to operational energy strategy.
(Sec. 312) Permits recipients of funds under interagency conservation cooperation agreements or under the Sikes Act (conservation programs on federal lands) to use such funds for matching funds or cost-sharing requirements of any conservation programs of the Departments of Agriculture or the Interior. Terminates the cooperative agreement authority on October 1, 2019, while allowing agreements entered into before such date to continue through their full term.
(Sec. 313) Reauthorizes the Sikes Act through FY2019.
(Sec. 314) Includes within the definition of "covered waste" for purposes of the DOD prohibition against disposal of certain waste in open-air burn pits:
(Sec. 315) Prohibits FY2014 DOD funds from being obligated or expended to make a bulk purchase of a drop-in fuel (a liquid hydrocarbon fuel designed as a replacement for traditional fuel, with comparable performance characteristics and compatible with existing infrastructure and equipment) for operational purposes unless the cost of the drop-in fuel is competitive with the cost of a same-purpose traditional fuel. Provides waiver authority.
Subtitle C: Logistics and Sustainment - (Sec. 321) Includes additional elements within a current strategic policy on the DOD programs for prepositioned materiel and equipment. Requires the policy to address how such programs align with national defense strategies and departmental priorities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish joint oversight of the military services' prepositioning efforts to maximize efficiencies across DOD, and (2) submit an implementation plan for such policy. Requires the CG to annually review the implementation plan and report review results.
(Sec. 322) Directs: (1) the Secretary to review current and expected manufacturing requirements across DOD to identify critical manufacturing competencies and supplies, components, end items, parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies for which no or a limited domestic commercial source exists; and (2) the CG to assess such review.
(Sec. 323) Requires a program executive officer or program manager of a military service or defense agency, when undertaking a make-or-buy analysis, to solicit information from all U.S.-owned arsenals regarding the capability of that arsenal to fulfill the manufacturing requirement.
(Sec. 324) Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a policy setting forth DOD's programs and priorities for the retrograde, reconstitution, and replacement of units and materiel used to support overseas contingency operations; (2) submit a plan for the implementation of such policy; and (3) submit annually for three years an update on progress made toward meeting plan goals. Requires the CG to review the implementation plan and each update, and report review results over the three-year period.
(Sec. 325) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to submit a strategic sustainment plan for the littoral combat ship.
(Sec. 326) Directs the Secretary to submit a comprehensive strategy for improving asset tracking and in-transit visibility across DOD, together with the plans of the military departments for implementing such strategy. Requires a related CG assessment of such strategy and its implementation.
Subtitle D: Reports - (Sec. 331) Requires each DOD report concerning personnel and unit readiness to include an assessment: (1) by each commander of a combatant command of that command's ability to successfully execute each of its assigned missions, (2) by the JCS Chairman of the level of risk incurred by using contract support in contingency operations as required under Department of Defense Instruction 1100.22, "Policies and Procedures for Determining Workforce Mix,"and (3) by the Secretary of the military readiness of the combat support agencies. Requires in combatant command reports an after-action assessment of each major exercise by the commander or service chief.
(Sec. 332) Amends the Warner Act to include Marine Corps requirements in a required prioritization of funds for equipment readiness and strategic capability.
(Sec. 333) Amends the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 to increase the information technology capital assets threshold for required report purposes.
(Sec. 334) Amends the Hunter Act to require each annual military department report concerning corrosion control and prevention to: (1) provide a clear link between such department's program and the overarching goals and objectives of the long-term corrosion control and prevention strategy developed and implemented by DOD, and (2) include performance measures to ensure that such program is achieving the long-term DOD goals and objectives.
Subtitle E: Limitations and Extensions of Authority - (Sec. 341) Directs the Secretary, prior to taking any action to realign forces at Lajes Air Force Base, Azores, to certify that the action is supported by a European Infrastructure Consolidation Assessment initiated by the Secretary on January 25, 2013.
(Sec. 342) Provides that if any performance by a military flight demonstration team in the United States is cancelled by reason of sequestration reductions during FY2014 or FY2015, no such team may perform outside the United States during that fiscal year.
(Sec. 343) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY2014 DOD funds for the U.S. Special Operations Command National Capital Region until 30 days after the Secretary reports on such Command.
(Sec. 344) Prohibits FY2014 DOD O&M funds from being obligated or expended to continue the Trans Regional Web Initiative. Provides an exception.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - (Sec. 351) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned (Secretary concerned) to accept gifts for the benefit of a military musical unit. Requires any gift made to be credited to the appropriation or account providing funds for such unit and to be merged with and used for the same purposes. Requires the Secretary concerned to report on any such gifts.
(Sec. 352) States that it is the policy of the United States that the Secretary shall eliminate the development and fielding of armed force-specific combat and camouflage uniforms in order to adopt and field a common uniform for specific combat environments to be used by all members. Prohibits the adoption of individual military service camouflage uniforms except under specific limited circumstances. Repeals inconsistent requirements under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010.
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 FY2014.
(Sec. 402) Revises permanent active-duty end strength minimum levels, as well as the maximum authorized Army and Marine Corps end strengths.
Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - (Sec. 411) Sets forth authorized end strengths as of the end of FY2014 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 FY2014 for Army and Air Force dual status military technicians.
(Sec. 414) Provides a FY2014 limitation on the number of non-dual status Army and Air Force military technicians.
(Sec. 415) Sets forth the maximum number of reserve personnel authorized to be on active duty for operational support during FY2014.
Subtitle C: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 421) Authorizes appropriations for FY2014 for military personnel.
Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy Generally - (Sec. 501) Prohibits an action proposed by a military department Secretary that would increase the number of general or flag officers within that department who would be on active duty above the statutory limit from taking effect until 60 days after such Secretary notifies the defense committees of the proposed action and its rationale. Requires the same prior notification with respect to a possible increase in the number of general and flag officers in joint duty assignments, as proposed by the Secretary, a department Secretary, or the JCS Chairman. Requires annual reports from the Secretary to such committees on the number of general and flag officers who counted toward such limits.
(Sec. 502) Authorizes a department Secretary, upon determining that the number of commissioned officers with cyberspace-related experience or advanced education serving on active duty in that armed force is critically below the number needed, to credit any person receiving an original appointment into that armed force with special experience or training or advanced education in a cyberspace-related field if such experience or training is directly related to the operational needs. Limits such credit to one year for each year of such special experience, training, or education and three years of total credit. Terminates such credit authority at the end of 2018.
(Sec. 503) Includes among officers subject to selective early retirement lieutenant colonels, colonels, commanders, and captains on the active-duty list who have failed for promotion at least once and whose names are not on a list of officers recommended for promotion. Requires the list of officers to be considered for selective early removal from the reserve active-status list to include each officer on the active-status list for that component in the same grade and competitive category whose position on such list is between that of the most junior and most senior officer in that grade and category whose name is submitted to the early removal selection board. Prohibits such list from including an officer who has been approved for voluntary retirement or is to be involuntarily retired under any provision of law during the year in which the board is convened or the following fiscal year. Requires the Secretary concerned to specify the number of lieutenant colonels, colonels, commanders, and captains that a board may recommend for separation.
Subtitle B: Reserve Component Management - (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary to share with a state adjutant general, upon request, information on members of that state's Individual Ready Reserve or individual mobilization augmentees in order for that adjutant general to include such members in suicide prevention efforts. Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013 to include suicide prevention efforts within authorized activities under the DOD community partnerships pilot program.
(Sec. 512) Allows, through 2016, an officer of the Army or Air National Guard to be transferred from the active to the inactive Army or Air National Guard, and vice versa, while filling a vacancy in a federally recognized unit of such National Guard.
(Sec. 513) Requires the Secretary's written approval for the cancellation of deployment of a unit of the reserves made within 180 days of the scheduled deployment when such cancellation is due to the deployment of an active-duty component to perform such mission. Directs the Secretary to notify the committees and appropriate state governors of such cancellation. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide to certain members of the reserves at least 120 days' advance notice of an involuntary mobilization.
(Sec. 514) Requires the Secretary to: (1) review the general and flag officer requirements for members of the reserves in an active status, and (2) report review results to the defense committees.
(Sec. 515) Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the feasibility of establishing a unit of the National Guard in each of American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, and (2) report study results.
Subtitle C: General Service Authorities - (Sec. 521) Requires DOD's Transition Assistance Program (employment and job training assistance and related services for members being separated from active duty and their spouses) to include information about disability-related employment and education protections.
(Sec. 522) Includes an administrative separation in lieu of court-martial as an event for which a medical examination for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) must take place.
(Sec. 523) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 1994 to add definitions of "gender-neutral occupational standard" and "military career designator" and apply such definitions to provisions concerning military gender-neutral occupational performance standards.
(Sec. 524) Expresses the sense of Congress that the military department Secretaries should : (1) no later than September 2015, develop, review, and validate individual gender-neutral occupational standards for assigning members to units, including special operations forces; and (2) no later than January 1, 2016, complete all related assessments.
(Sec. 525) Requires the Secretary to make the medical, personal, and unit records of members available to the VA Secretary in an electronic format within 90 days after such member's discharge or release. Directs the VA Secretary to make such records accessible to the Veterans Benefits Administration as soon as practicable thereafter.
(Sec. 526) Requires the Secretary to review improvements to the Integrated Disability Evaluation System, as well as its backlog of cases with respect to reserve members.
Subtitle D: Military Justice Matters, Other Than Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and Related Reforms - (Sec. 531) Allows a former commissioned officer to be appointed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, but only after at least seven years after his or her active-duty service.
(Sec. 532) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013 to provide an exception to the requirement that the Armed Forces accommodate individual expressions of belief of servicemembers when such an expression could have an adverse impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, and good order and discipline.
(Sec. 533) Directs the DOD Inspector General to submit the results of an investigation concerning adverse personnel actions against members based on their conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs.
(Sec. 534) Requires the Secretary to survey military chaplains on DOD restrictions placed on prayers offered by such chaplains in a public or non-religious setting.
Subtitle E: Member Education and Training - (Sec. 541) Requires educational institutions participating in DOD educational assistance programs to enter into and comply with educational program participation requirements of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and to meet certain instructional curriculum licensure or certification standards. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement in specified instances.
(Sec. 542) Directs the department Secretaries to make information on civilian credentialing opportunities available to members beginning with, and at every stage of, their training for military occupational specialities, in order to permit such members to: (1) evaluate the extent to which such training correlates with skills and training required for various civilian certifications and licenses, and (2) assess the suitability of such training for obtaining and pursuing such certifications and licenses. Requires the information made available to: (1) be consistent with the Transition Goals Plans Success program, and (2) include information on the civilian occupational equivalents of military occupational specialties. Requires such Secretaries to make available to civilian credentialing agencies specified information on the content of military training provided to, and skills developed by, such members.
(Sec. 543) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the troops-to-teachers program.
(Sec. 544) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the feasibility of requiring automatic operation of the current prohibition on the accrual of interest on direct student loans for certain military personnel.
Subtitle F: Defense Dependents' Education and Military Family Readiness Matters - (Sec. 551) Earmarks specified FY2014 DOD O&M funds for: (1) assistance to local educational agencies that benefit a significant number of dependents of members and civilian DOD employees, and (2) the DOD payment of impact aid for children with severe disabilities, as provided under the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001.
(Sec. 553) Requires tuition payments received by DOD for the enrollment of military and DOD civilian employee dependents in defense dependent elementary and secondary schools to be credited to an account designated for operation of the DOD virtual educational program.
(Sec. 554) Authorizes the Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, during FY2014-FY2016, to conduct up to three pilot programs to assess the feasibility and benefits of providing family support activities for the immediate family members of members assigned to special operations forces. Requires a pilot programs' report from the Commander to the committees.
(Sec. 555) Expresses the sense of Congress that state courts should not consider a military deployment as the sole factor in determining child custody in a proceeding involving a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces.
Subtitle G: Decorations and Awards - (Sec. 561) Authorizes a member to receive more than one Medal of Honor.
(Sec. 562) Changes the time limits for recommending (from two years to three years after the distinguished service) and awarding (from three years to five years after the date of the act justifying the award) a Medal of Honor, Service Cross, or Distinguished Service Medal to members of the Army and Air Force (thereby standardizing such limits for all military departments).
(Sec. 563) Establishes in each military department and the Coast Guard the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard Medal of Honor Roll. Directs: (1) the Secretary concerned to enter and record on such Honor Roll each person who has been awarded a Medal of Honor, and (2) each person listed to be issued a certificate of enrollment. Entitles each living listed individuals to a special pension of $1,000 a month. Allows such an individual to elect to decline the special pension.
(Sec. 564) Directs the Secretary concerned, when recipients of certain military decorations or medals (or in some cases, their immediate next of kin) request a replacement of such decoration (e.g., when the original medal is lost, stolen, or destroyed), to ensure that: (1) all actions to be taken with respect to the request, including verification of the service record of the recipient, are completed within one year; and (2) the replacement is mailed to the person making the request within 90 days after such verification.
(Sec. 565) Directs the Secretary concerned to award the Purple Heart to members of the Armed Forces determined to be eligible in connection with being killed or wounded in the attacks that occurred at the recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 1, 2009, and at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.
Requires the Secretary to review the criteria used to determine the eligibility of members of the Armed Forces for the Purple Heart.
(Sec. 566) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2002 to authorize the award of the Medal of Honor to a veteran who, although not a Jewish- or Hispanic-American veteran who was previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, or the Air Force Cross, was identified during a review of service records and regarding whom the Secretary submitted, before January 1, 2014, a recommendation that the President award the Medal of Honor to that veteran.
(Sec. 567) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Bennie G. Adkins and Donald P. Sloat of the U.S. Army for acts of valor during the Vietnam War.
(Sec. 568) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award the Distinguished Service Cross to: (1) Sergeant First Class Robert F. Keiser for acts of valor during the Korean War; and (2) Sergeant First Class Patrick N. Watkins, Jr., and Specialist Four Robert L. Towles for acts of valor during the Vietnam War.
(Sec. 569) Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to then First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing for acts of valor during the Civil War.
Subtitle H: Other Studies, Reviews, Policies, and Reports - (Sec. 571) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees an evaluation of including a 360-degree assessment approach (a multi-source assessment and feedback program currently used by the Army) as part of DOD performance evaluation reports.
(Sec. 572) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on DOD personnel policies regarding members infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B.
(Sec. 573) Directs the Secretary, in any test, assessment, or screening tool utilized for military recruitment and enlistment under provisions of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012, to: (1) implement a means for ensuring that graduates of a secondary school are required to meet the same standards, and (2) use uniform testing requirements and grading standards.
(Sec. 574) Directs the CG to report to the defense committees on the use by DOD since January 1, 2007, of the authority to separate members due to unfitness for duty based on a mental condition not amounting to disability.
Subtitle I: Other Matters - (Sec. 581) Directs the Secretary to report to specified committees on: (1) accounting for missing persons from U.S. conflicts from World War II through the Persian Gulf War, and (2) the POW/MIA accounting community.
(Sec. 582) Requires the Secretary concerned to withhold from a missing person's personnel files, as privileged information, any survival, evasion, resistance, and escape debriefing report obtained under a promise of confidentiality made for the purpose of ensuring the fullest possible disclosure of information.
(Sec. 583) Reflects the name change due to the consolidation of North Georgia College and State University and Gainesville State College ( senior military colleges) to the University of North Georgia.
(Sec. 584) Requires the Secretary to review security measures on U.S. military installations, specifically with regard to access to barracks, temporary lodging facilities, and multi-family residences.
(Sec. 585) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to: (1) contract with an appropriate entity for the provision of transportation, interpretative, or other necessary or appropriate concession services to visitors at the Army National Military Cemeteries; and (2) include in such contract requirements for the protection, dignity, and solemnity of the cemetery at which any such services are provided. Prohibits such a contract from including operation of the gift shop at Arlington National Cemetery without specific prior authorization by Congress. Requires all franchise fees to be deposited into a special account to be used to support activities there.
(Sec. 586) Allows members not in uniform and veterans to render the military salute during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance.
(Sec. 587) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the results of command climate assessments are provided to the relevant individual commander and to the next higher level of command. Requires each department Secretary to include in performance evaluations and assessments a statement by the commander regarding whether the commander has conducted the required assessments. Requires a commander's failure to conduct any such assessment to be noted in his or her performance evaluation.
Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - (Sec. 601) Extends through 2014 DOD authority to provide a temporary increase in the rates of basic allowance for housing for military housing in an area impacted by a natural disaster or experiencing a sudden influx of personnel.
(Sec. 602) Entitles a member of the National Guard who is called into federal service for a period of 30 days or less to basic pay for such service from the date on which the member first contacts the member's unit. (Under current law, such entitlement begins on the date on which the member appears at the place of company rendezvous.)
Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - (Sec. 611) Extends through 2014 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2013 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve Armed Forces.
(Sec. 617) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a bonus to a cadet or midshipman enrolled in the Senior ROTC to complete the appropriate training, accept a commission, and serve on active duty. Limits the bonus to $5,000. Requires pro rata repayment for failure to complete agreement requirements. Terminates the bonus program at the end of 2014.
(Sec. 618) Authorizes the payment of a health professions stipend to a nurse enrolled in a critical specialty and eligible for appointment as a reserve officer in any reserve component. Requires Selected Reserve stipend recipients to serve one year for each six months for which the stipend is provided.
Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - (Sec. 621) Makes technical and standardizing amendments to DOD travel and transportation provisions to conform with travel consolidation requirements provided under the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012. Repeals superseded federal provisions.
Subtitle D: Disability, Retired Pay, and Survivor Benefits - (Sec. 631) Prohibits the application of the military retired pay computation using the high-three years of pay to certain members who first entered into active duty on or after September 8, 1980, if such application will result in a lower retirement amount than a computation using final basic pay.
(Sec. 632) Directs the Secretary concerned to periodically notify members of the Ready Reserve of their current eligibility age for retirement pay, including the amount by which their eligibility retirement age (generally, 60) has been reduced by periods served after January 28, 2008, on active duty or in active federal status.
(Sec. 633) Requires each department Secretary to designate a member or civilian employee to assist spouses and other dependents of members who die on active duty through the provision of specified support services, including casualty assistance. Directs the Secretary to implement a standardized comprehensive training program for DOD casualty assistance officers and representatives, to be provided at least annually.
Subtitle E: Commissary and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality Benefits and Operations - (Sec. 641) Includes threatening to take an adverse personnel action within prohibited actions under whistleblower protections for nonappropriated fund instrumentality employees (thus affording them the same protections provided to military personnel under military whistleblower protections).
(Sec. 642) Replaces a reference to the Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service and the Navy Ship's Stores Ashore for purposes of certain civil service laws with a reference to the Navy Ship Stores Program.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - (Sec. 651) Authorizes DOD to provide certain expenses related to the recovery, care, and disposition of human remains when such remains are retained by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner for forensic pathology investigation.
(Sec. 652) Directs the Secretary to study the merits and feasibility of providing transitional compensation and other benefits to dependents or former dependents of members who are separated for a court-martial violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and required to forfeit all military pay and allowances.
Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: TRICARE and Other Health Care Benefits - (Sec. 701) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013 to direct the Secretary to ensure that each beneficiary other than an active-duty beneficiary who is enrolled in TRICARE Prime as of September 30, 2013, may make a one-time election to continue such enrollment, notwithstanding that an existing TRICARE contract does not allow for such enrollment based on the location in which the beneficiary resides. Allows the beneficiary to continue in such enrollment while residing in the same ZIP code in which the beneficiary resided at the time of election. Allows such beneficiary to elect, at any time, to instead enroll in TRICARE Standard.
(Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the transitional assistance management program, to extend such program's coverage by an additional 180 days for treatment provided through telemedicine. Requires a report from the Secretary if such coverage is so extended. Terminates extension authority at the end of 2018. Directs the Secretary to report on the use of telemedicine to improve the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD, TBI, and mental health conditions.
(Sec. 703) Requires the DOD and VA Secretaries to jointly develop, implement, and report to Congress on a comprehensive policy on improvements to the care, management, and transition of recovering servicemembers with urotrauma (injury to the urinary tract from a penetrating, blunt, blast, thermal, chemical, or biological cause).
(Sec. 704) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to establish a process for randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials of investigational treatments of TBI or PTSD received by members in facilities other than military treatment facilities.
Subtitle B: Health Care Administration - (Sec. 711) Authorizes the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to enter into contracts and agreements with, and make grants to, other nonprofit entities. (Under current law, such authority is permitted only with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.)
(Sec. 712) Requires the Secretary to carry out a three-year pilot program at a number of installations of different military departments to assess the feasibility of using revenue-cycle management improvement processes to increase the amounts collected from third party payees for health care charges incurred by the United States at a military medical treatment facility.
(Sec. 713) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the DOD and VA Secretaries have failed to implement a solution that allows for seamless electronic sharing of medical health care data, and (2) most of the information currently shared is not standardized or available in real time to support all clinical decisions. Requires such Secretaries to: (1) ensure that their respective electronic health records systems are interoperable; (2) each deploy modernized electronic health record software supporting their clinicians by December 31, 2016, while ensuring continued current interoperability; and (3) brief Congress on a detailed plan for the oversight and execution of interoperable health records. Provides program funding limitations and requires program financial reports. Requires that, by October 1, 2014, all health care data contained in the DOD AHLTA and VA VistA systems be computable in real time, comply with existing standards, and have a process in place to ensure data is standardized as national standards continue to evolve. Provides that, if the Secretaries do not meet such deadline requirement, the CG shall submit an assessment of their performance. Requires the Secretaries to jointly establish an executive committee to support the development and validation of adopted standards, required architectural platforms and structure, and capacity of such standards, platforms, and structure to ensure health care data interoperability. Requires: (1) an executive committee report, and (2) an independent annual review by the Defense Science Board of the Secretaries' progress under this section. Directs the Secretary to complete the implementation of the Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution program of DOD within 180 days after enactment of this Act.
Subtitle C: Reports and Other Matters - (Sec. 721) Directs the Secretary to submit, as part of the annual DOD budget justification materials, a display with respect to embedded mental health providers within each reserve component.
(Sec. 722) Directs the VA Secretary to report to the defense and veterans committees on the role of the VA in DOD centers of excellence for the treatment of TBI, PTSD and related mental health issues, and the treatment and rehabilitation of military eye injuries.
(Sec. 723) Directs the Secretary to report on how the Secretary will identify, refer, and treat TBIs of members who served in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom before the date in June 2010 on which the memorandum on using a 50-meter distance from an explosion as a criterion to properly identify, refer, and treat members for potential TBI took effect.
(Sec. 724) Directs the DOD and VA Secretaries to jointly report to the defense and veterans committees on their plans to ensure that the most clinically appropriate prosthetics and orthotics are made available to injured members and veterans using all appropriate technological advances.
(Sec. 725) Directs the CG to report: (1) evaluating similarities and differences of Medicare and TRICARE in identifying and recovering improper payments, and (2) on the availability of compounded pharmaceuticals in the military health care system.
Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Acquisition Policy and Management - (Sec. 801) Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of each military department to allow the heads of DOD laboratories to grant licenses for computer software and related documentation developed at a DOD laboratory, but only if: (1) such software and documentation would be a trade secret if the information had been obtained from a non-federal party, (2) the public is notified of such availability and has a fair opportunity to submit license applications, (3) such licenses comply with federal requirements for the licensing of federally owned inventions, and (4) the software was originally developed to meet DOD military needs. Requires such Secretaries to provide appropriate protections against the unauthorized disclosure of any such software or documentation. Provides for the DOD retention and use of royalties on such software and documentation. Terminates the authority under this section at the end of 2017.
(Sec. 802) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012 to extend through FY2014 a limitation on the aggregate amount available to DOD for contract services.
(Sec. 803) Directs the Secretary to implement a process for the expedited identification and replacement of obsolete electronic parts included in DOD acquisition programs.
Subtitle B: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations - (Sec. 811) Limits to $625,000 the DOD and other federal agency allowable cost for annual compensation to a single contractor. Limits any increases to such limit to the annual compensation baseline adjustment under the Employment Cost Index. Provides an exception with respect to positions in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medical, and cybersecurity fields, as well as other fields requiring unique areas of expertise.
(Sec. 812) Requires the inclusion in quarterly DOD selected acquisition reports of additional cost estimate information with respect to each major defense acquisition program or designated major subprogram included in such report. Requires the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation to: (1) annually review the cost estimates and associated information included in each report, and (2) include in the Director's required annual report on cost assessment activities a summary thereof, together with recommendations for improving such cost estimates.
(Sec. 813) Directs the Secretary to make publicly available electronically any determination of a compelling reason to solicit an offer from, extend, or approve a subcontract with an offeror or contractor that has been debarred or suspended by a federal agency.
(Sec. 814) Amends the Skelton Act to extend through 2019 a DOD pilot program on the acquisition of military purpose non-development al items.
Subtitle C: Provisions Relating to Major Defense Acquisition Programs - (Sec. 821) Requires a milestone decision authority, before Milestone B approval of a major defense acquisition program (MDAP), to certify that there is a plan to mitigate and account for costs in connection with any anticipated de-certification of cryptographic systems during MDAP production and procurement.
(Sec. 822) Requires such authority, before Milestone B approval of a space system, to perform a cost benefit analysis for any new or follow-on satellite system using a dedicated ground control system instead of a shared control system. Terminates such required analysis after December 31, 2019. Requires the Secretary to develop, and brief the committees on, a DOD-wide long-term plan for satellite ground control systems.
(Sec. 823) Requires product support managers for major weapon systems to ensure that each product support arrangement for such system describes how it will ensure efficient procurement, management, and allocation of government-owned parts inventory in order to prevent unnecessary parts procurement.
(Sec. 824) Directs the CG to review DOD processes and procedures for the acquisition of weapon systems, and report review results.
Subtitle D: Provisions Relating to Contracts in Support of Contingency Operations in Iraq or Afghanistan - (Sec. 831) Directs the Secretary to establish in each geographic combatant command a program to identify persons and entities within that command that: (1) provide funds received under a DOD contract or agreement to another person or entity that is actively opposing U.S. or coalition forces involved in a contingency operation, or (2) fail to exercise due diligence to ensure that such funds are not so used. Requires each such commander to be notified of the persons and entities identified, and to take specified responsive actions, including notifying appropriate contracting authorities. Directs the Secretary to revise the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (DOD-FAR) to: (1) authorize the head of a contracting activity to restrict, terminate, or void any contract, grant, or cooperative agreement in excess of $50,000 affected by the activities of identified persons and entities; and (2) require each contractor to exercise due diligence to ensure that DOD funds are not provided to such persons and entities. Requires combatant commanders to annually review the persons and entities so identified to determine whether they continue to warrant such identification. Directs the Secretary to report annually on the use of the authorities provided in this section.
(Sec. 832) Amends the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010 to extend through 2015 DOD authority to acquire products and services produced in countries located along a major supply route to Afghanistan.
Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense Management - (Sec. 901) Revises the definition of "legacy systems" for purposes of the transition plan under the defense business enterprise architecture.
(Sec. 902) Requires a report from the CG containing the results of a review of the potential for and obstacles to federal agencies other than DOD relocating onto military installations in order to save costs or enhance security. Requires the CG to specifically evaluate potential consolidation of federal tenants on Arctic-oriented installations.
(Sec. 903) Requires the Command Acquisition Executive of the U.S. Special Operations Command to be: (1) responsible for rapidly delivering acquisition solutions to meet validated special operations-peculiar requirements, (2) subordinate to the Defense Acquisition Executive in matters of acquisition, and (3) subject to the same oversight as the service acquisition executives.
(Sec. 904) Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for streamlining DOD management headquarters by changing or reducing the size of staffs, eliminating tiers of management, cutting functions that provide little or no added value, and consolidating overlapping and duplicative programs and offices. Requires the plan to include estimated total savings over a 10-fiscal-year period beginning with FY2015. Requires status reports for each of FY2016-FY2024 on such plan and any required modifications due to changing circumstances.
(Sec. 905) Requires the JCS Chairman to formulate policies for: (1) concept development and experimentation for the joint employment of the Armed Forces; and (2) gathering, developing, and disseminating joint lessons learned for the Armed Forces.
(Sec. 907) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a comprehensive analysis of the quality, cost, and timeliness of personnel security clearance investigations conducted by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for DOD employees and contractor personnel against those conducted by DOD components. Requires the Secretary, upon concluding that the current approach is not the most efficient and effective, to develop a plan, by October 1, 2014, for the transition of such investigations to the preferred approach.
Requires the Secretary, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) jointly develop, implement, and provide to Congress a strategy to modernize all aspects of personnel security for DOD; and (2) establish metrics to measure the effectiveness of the strategy. Requires the strategy to include risk-based monitoring with respect to personnel with the broadest access to classified information. Directs the Secretary and the DNI to ensure the reciprocity of clearances among positions holding secret, top secret, or sensitive compartmented information clearances to the maximum extent feasible consistent with national security requirements.
Requires the CG to review the personnel security process.
Requires the Suitability and Security Clearance Performance Accountability Council to establish a tas