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114THCONGRESS " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ! REPORT
2d Session 114–577
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2017
R E P O R T
OFTHE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[TOACCOMPANYH.R. 5293]
MAY 19, 2016.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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114THCONGRESS " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ! REPORT
2d Session 114–577
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2017
R E P O R T
OFTHE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[TOACCOMPANYH.R. 5293]
MAY 19, 2016.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Bill Totals ................................................................................................................. 1
Committee Budget Review Process ........................................................................ 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3
Definition of Program, Project, and Activity ......................................................... 4
Funding Increases ................................................................................................... 4
Committee Recommendations by Major Category ................................................ 4
Active, Reserve, and National Guard Military Personnel ................................ 4
Operation and Maintenance ................................................................................ 5
Procurement ......................................................................................................... 5
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation ................................................... 6
Defense Health Program ..................................................................................... 7
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism Requirements ...... 7
Classified Programs ................................................................................................. 7
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism .............................. 7
Countering Russian Aggression in the Arctic ....................................................... 9
Readiness .................................................................................................................. 9
Cost of Nuclear Modernization ............................................................................... 10
Israeli Missile Defense Programs ........................................................................... 10
Recognition of Women’s Service in the Armed Forces .......................................... 11
Cyberspace Operations ............................................................................................ 11
TITLE I. MILITARY PERSONNEL ....................................................................... 15
Military Personnel Overview .............................................................................. 17
Summary of End Strength ............................................................................... 17
Overall Active End Strength ........................................................................... 17
Overall Selected Reserve End Strength ......................................................... 17
Full-Time Support Strengths ........................................................................... 18
Reprogramming Guidance for Military Personnel Accounts ......................... 19
Military Personnel Special Interest Items ..................................................... 19
Alternative Learning for Military Dependents .............................................. 19
Maternity Care ................................................................................................. 20
Suicide Prevention ............................................................................................ 20
Minority Outreach and Officer Accessions ..................................................... 20
Cultural Sensitivity Training .......................................................................... 20
Foreign Language Training ............................................................................. 21
Military Personnel, Army .................................................................................... 21
Military Personnel, Navy .................................................................................... 25
Military Personnel, Marine Corps ...................................................................... 29
Military Personnel, Air Force .............................................................................. 33
Reserve Personnel, Army .................................................................................... 37
Reserve Personnel, Navy ..................................................................................... 40
Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps ....................................................................... 43
Reserve Personnel, Air Force .............................................................................. 46
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TITLE II. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ................................................... 55
Reprogramming Guidance for Operation and Maintenance Accounts ......... 57
Operation and Maintenance Special Interest Items ...................................... 58
Operation and Maintenance Military Intelligence Program Budget Jus-
tification Material ......................................................................................... 58
Military Uniforms ............................................................................................. 59
Cyberspace Operations ..................................................................................... 59
Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve Cyberspace Operations. . 59
Information Technology Workforce Certification ........................................... 61
Cloud Computing .............................................................................................. 61
Quality of Life Programs ................................................................................. 61
African Americans Buried at the Normandy American Cemetery ............... 62
Operation and Maintenance, Army .................................................................... 62
Depot Maintenance—Productivity Enhancement Program .......................... 68
Operation and Maintenance, Navy ..................................................................... 68
Readiness Cost Assessment Tool ..................................................................... 75
Expeditionary Medical Facilities ..................................................................... 75
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps ....................................................... 75
Townsend Bombing Range ............................................................................... 79
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force .............................................................. 79
Air Education and Training Command Facilities .......................................... 84
Offutt Air Force Base ....................................................................................... 84
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide ....................................................... 84
Background Investigation Systems ................................................................. 89
Security Clearance Determinations ................................................................ 89
Base Security and Access Control Systems .................................................... 89
Performance-Based Logistics ........................................................................... 90
Meals Ready-To-Eat War Reserve .................................................................. 90
Defense Logistics Agency and the Federal Prison Industry Mission ........... 90
Improving Asset Tracking and In-Transit Visibility ..................................... 90
Department of Defense Education Activity .................................................... 91
Public Schools on Department of Defense Installations ................................ 91
Pilot Program to Assist Members of the Armed Forces ................................ 91
Social Media Analytical Cell ............................................................................ 92
Child Abuse and Neglect .................................................................................. 92
Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve ...................................................... 92
Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve ...................................................... 95
Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve ........................................ 98
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve ................................................ 101
Air Force Reserve Specialized Missions ......................................................... 104
Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard ......................................... 104
Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard ............................................. 107
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ..................................... 110
Environmental Restoration, Army ...................................................................... 110
Environmental Restoration, Navy ...................................................................... 110
Vieques and Culebra Environmental Restoration ......................................... 110
Environmental Restoration, Air Force ............................................................... 110
Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide ........................................................ 111
Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites .............................. 111
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid ............................................. 111
Cooperative Threat Reduction Account .............................................................. 111
TITLE III. PROCUREMENT .................................................................................. 113
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Classified Annex ............................................................................................... 115
Aircraft Procurement, Army ................................................................................ 115
Missile Procurement, Army ................................................................................. 120
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army ...................... 123
Procurement of Ammunition, Army ................................................................... 127
Ammunition Production Base Support ........................................................... 130
Other Procurement, Army ................................................................................... 130
Combat Support Hospital Infrastructure ....................................................... 139
Tactical Auditory Protection Systems ............................................................. 139
Aircraft Procurement, Navy ................................................................................ 139
Navy Reserve Combat Aircraft ........................................................................ 146
Weapons Procurement, Navy .............................................................................. 146
Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps .................................... 150
Improved Munitions on Naval Surface Combatants ..................................... 153
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy ................................................................... 153
Cruiser Modernization ..................................................................................... 156
Other Procurement, Navy ................................................................................... 156
Procurement, Marine Corps ................................................................................ 167
Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ......................................................................... 173
MQ–9 Fleet Size ............................................................................................... 179
Missile Procurement, Air Force .......................................................................... 179
Space Procurement, Air Force ............................................................................. 182
Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force ............................................................. 185
Other Procurement, Air Force ............................................................................ 188
Procurement, Defense-Wide ................................................................................ 193
SM–3 Block IB and IIA Inventories ................................................................ 198
Defense Production Act ....................................................................................... 198
Domestic Supply of Beryllium ......................................................................... 198
TITLE IV. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION ........... 199
Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts ..................................... 201
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Special Interest Items ......... 201
Funding Increases ............................................................................................ 201
Classified Annex ............................................................................................... 201
Joint Strike Fighter Follow-On Development ................................................ 201
Joint Strike Fighter Autonomic Logistics Information System .................... 202
Joint Strike Fighter Test Aircraft ................................................................... 202
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army ........................................ 203
Warfighter Lethality ........................................................................................ 215
Technology Advancement and Retention Center ........................................... 215
Army Net Zero Industrial Base Technology Program ................................... 215
Environmental Control Units .......................................................................... 215
Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Transparent Armor ........................ 216
Multi-Role Armament Systems ....................................................................... 216
Access to Contested Areas ............................................................................... 216
Subterranean and Dense Urban Complex Environment ............................... 216
Advanced Energetics ........................................................................................ 216
Directed Energy Armament Systems .............................................................. 217
Improved Turbine Engine Program ................................................................ 217
Active Response to Underbody Explosions ..................................................... 217
Ballistic Resistant Adaptive Seating System ................................................. 217
Technologies to Delay Ripening ...................................................................... 217
Materials and Metals Processing Science and Engineering ......................... 218
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Advanced Multi-Purpose Vehicle .................................................................... 219
Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories ........................................ 219
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy ........................................ 219
Condition-Based Maintenance for Navy Ships .............................................. 235
Navy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Development ............................................... 235
Marine Corps Performance and Resiliency Program ..................................... 235
Coastal Environmental Research .................................................................... 235
Active Protection Systems for Marine Corps Vehicles .................................. 235
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force ................................. 236
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System Recapitalization ............... 249
Presidential Aircraft Replacement .................................................................. 249
Improved Global Positioning System Receivers ............................................. 249
Space Based Infrared System .......................................................................... 250
Satellite Communications ................................................................................ 250
Weather Satellite Follow-On ........................................................................... 250
Antenna Research ............................................................................................ 251
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide .......................... 251
Manufacturing Innovation Institute for High Temperature Super-
conductors ...................................................................................................... 263
United States-Israeli Anti-Tunneling Technology ......................................... 263
National Security Education Program ............................................................ 263
Access to Trusted Microelectronics ................................................................. 263
High Energy Lasers .......................................................................................... 264
STEM Improvement within Historically Black Colleges and Universities
and Minority Serving Institutions ............................................................... 264
Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense ........................................................ 264
TITLE V. REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS ..................................... 267
Defense Working Capital Funds ......................................................................... 267
TITLE VI. OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS ...................... 269
Defense Health Program ..................................................................................... 269
Reprogramming Guidance for the Defense Health Program ........................ 273
Carryover .......................................................................................................... 273
Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Programs .................................................... 273
Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program ......................................... 274
Metastatic Cancer Research ............................................................................ 274
Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program ................................................. 275
Electronic Health Records ............................................................................... 275
Mental Health of Military Dependents ........................................................... 275
The Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ....... 276
Emerging Infectious Diseases .......................................................................... 276
Multi-Disciplinary Brain Research ................................................................. 276
Impact of Gut Microbiome on Chronic Conditions ......................................... 277
Combat Ocular Trauma ................................................................................... 277
Expanded Canine Therapy Research .............................................................. 277
Water Safety on Military Bases ...................................................................... 277
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ............................................................................ 278
Applied Biomedical Technology ....................................................................... 278
Service Records Loss through Fire .................................................................. 278
Burn Patient Transfer System ........................................................................ 279
Thermal Injury Protection Systems ................................................................ 279
Existing Research Needs ................................................................................. 279
HIV Testing ....................................................................................................... 279
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Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense ................................. 281
Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund ............................................................... 281
Office of the Inspector General ........................................................................... 281
TITLE VII. RELATED AGENCIES ....................................................................... 283
National and Military Intelligence Programs .................................................... 283
Classified Annex ............................................................................................... 283
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund ............ 283
Intelligence Community Management Account ................................................. 283
Wildlife Trafficking .......................................................................................... 284
TITLE VIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS .................................................................. 284
TITLE IX. OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON
TERRORISM ........................................................................................................ 295
Committee Recommendation ............................................................................... 295
Reporting Requirements ...................................................................................... 295
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Fund ...................................... 295
Southeast Asia ...................................................................................................... 296
Military Personnel ............................................................................................... 297
Operation and Maintenance ................................................................................ 304
Assistance to Ukraine ...................................................................................... 318
Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund ................................................................. 318
Direct Funding to the Kurdistan Regional Government ............................... 318
Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ..................................................................... 318
Women in the Afghan National Security Forces ........................................... 318
Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Train and Equip Fund ........... 318
Procurement ......................................................................................................... 318
National Guard and Reserve Equipment ....................................................... 334
Virtual Training and Simulation .................................................................... 334
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation ................................................... 334
Navy Underwater Test Ranges ....................................................................... 339
Revolving and Management Funds .................................................................... 339
Defense Working Capital Funds ..................................................................... 339
Other Department of Defense Programs ............................................................ 339
Defense Health Program .................................................................................. 339
Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense ............................. 340
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund ........................................... 340
Office of the Inspector General ........................................................................ 340
General Provisions ............................................................................................... 340
TITLE X. ................................................................................................................... 343
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ................ 343
Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ................................ 343
Rescissions ............................................................................................................ 343
Transfer of Funds ................................................................................................. 344
Earmark Disclosure Statement ........................................................................... 346
Compliance with Rule XIII, CL. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule) ..................................... 346
Changes in the Application of Existing Law ..................................................... 346
Appropriations not Authorized by Law .............................................................. 359
Comparison with the Budget Resolution ........................................................... 360
Five-Year Outlay Projections .............................................................................. 360
Financial Assistance to State and Local Governments ..................................... 360
Program Duplication ............................................................................................ 360
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