1 115THCONGRESS " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ! REPORT 1st Session 115–219 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2018 R E P O R T OFTHE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS [TOACCOMPANYH.R. 3219] JULY 13, 2017.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6012 Sfmt 6012 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 E:\Seals\Congress.#13 D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N S E A P P R O P R I A T I O N S B I L L , 2 0 1 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 1 115THCONGRESS " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ! REPORT 1st Session 115–219 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2018 R E P O R T OFTHE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS [TOACCOMPANYH.R. 3219] JULY 13, 2017.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 25–997 WASHINGTON : 2017 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4012 Sfmt 4012 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 E:\Seals\Congress.#13 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4012 Sfmt 4012 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 CONTENTS Page Bill Totals ................................................................................................................. 1 Committee Budget Review Process ........................................................................ 3 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 National Defense Restoration Fund ....................................................................... 4 Definition of Program, Project, and Activity ......................................................... 5 Reprogramming Guidance ...................................................................................... 5 Funding Increases ................................................................................................... 6 Congressional Special Interest Items ..................................................................... 6 Classified Annex ...................................................................................................... 6 Committee Recommendations by Major Category ................................................ 6 Active, Reserve, and National Guard Military Personnel ................................ 6 Operation and Maintenance ................................................................................ 6 Procurement ......................................................................................................... 7 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation ................................................... 8 Defense Health Program ..................................................................................... 8 Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism Requirements ...... 8 Budget Juitification Material ................................................................................. 9 Service Unfunded Requirements List .................................................................... 9 Cyberspace Activities .............................................................................................. 9 Quarterly Cyber Operations Briefing ..................................................................... 12 Persistent Cyber Training Environment ............................................................... 12 Big Data Analytics Strategy ................................................................................... 12 TITLE I. MILITARY PERSONNEL ....................................................................... 13 Military Personnel Overview .................................................................................. 15 Summary of End Strength ...................................................................................... 15 Overall Active End Strength .................................................................................. 15 Overall Selected Reserve End Strength ................................................................. 15 Reprogramming Guidance for Military Personnel Accounts ................................ 17 Military Personnel Special Interest Items ............................................................. 17 Sexual Assault Prevention and Response .............................................................. 17 Minority Outreach and Officer Accessions ............................................................ 17 Cultural Sensitivity Training ................................................................................. 18 Trauma Training Program ...................................................................................... 18 Army National Guard and Army Reserve Cyber Protection Teams .................... 18 Reserve Components Full-Time Support ............................................................... 18 Military Personnel, Army ........................................................................................ 19 Military Personnel, Navy ........................................................................................ 23 Military Personnel, Marine Corps .......................................................................... 27 Military Personnel, Air Force ................................................................................. 31 Cyber Air Force Specialty Code .......................................................................... 35 Reserve Personnel, Army ........................................................................................ 35 Reserve Personnel, Navy ......................................................................................... 38 Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps .......................................................................... 41 Reserve Personnel, Air Force .................................................................................. 44 (III) VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 0483 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 IV Page National Guard Personnel, Army ........................................................................... 47 National Guard Personnel, Air Force .................................................................... 50 TITLE II. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ................................................... 53 Reprogramming Guidance for Operation and Maintenance Accounts ................ 55 Special Operations Command Budget Execution .................................................. 56 Operation and Maintenance Special Interest Items ............................................. 56 Innovative Readiness Training Program ............................................................... 57 Online Education ..................................................................................................... 57 Base Supply Centers ............................................................................................... 57 Defense Language Institute .................................................................................... 57 National Security Education Program ................................................................... 58 Maintenance of Real Property ................................................................................ 58 Tuition Assistance and Military Spouse Career Advancement ........................... 58 Cyberspace Operations ............................................................................................ 58 Joint Regional Security Stacks ............................................................................... 59 Energy Security of Overseas Military Installations ............................................. 59 Operation and Maintenance, Army ........................................................................ 60 Operation and Maintenance, Navy ........................................................................ 65 Aircraft Depot Maintenance ................................................................................ 72 Public Shipyards .................................................................................................. 72 Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization .................................. 72 Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps .......................................................... 72 Operation and Maintenance, Air Force ................................................................. 76 Air Education and Training Command .............................................................. 82 Combined Air Operations Center ....................................................................... 82 Advanced Tactical Air Training .......................................................................... 82 Remotely Piloted Aircraft .................................................................................... 82 Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide .......................................................... 82 Energy Efficiency Projects ................................................................................... 88 Defense Contracting Management Agency ........................................................ 88 Digital Workspace Technologies ......................................................................... 88 Defense Logistics Agency ..................................................................................... 88 Defense Logistics Agency ..................................................................................... 88 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency .............................................................. 89 Meals Ready-To-Eat War Reserve ...................................................................... 89 Youth Serving Organizations .............................................................................. 89 Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve ......................................................... 89 Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve .......................................................... 92 Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve ............................................ 95 Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve ................................................... 98 Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard ............................................ 101 Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard ................................................ 104 United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ......................................... 107 Environmental Restoration, Army ......................................................................... 107 Environmental Restoration, Navy .......................................................................... 107 Vieques and Culebra Environmental Restoration ............................................. 107 Environmental Restoration, Air Force ................................................................... 107 Granular Activated Carbon ................................................................................. 107 Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide ............................................................ 108 Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites .................................. 108 Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid ................................................. 108 Cooperative Threat Reduction Account ................................................................. 108 Operation and Maintenance, National Defense Restoration Fund ...................... 109 TITLE III. PROCUREMENT .................................................................................. 111 Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts ............................................ 113 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 0483 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 V Page Funding Increases ................................................................................................... 113 Procurement Special Interest Items ....................................................................... 113 Joint Strike Fighter Economic Order Quantity Procurement .............................. 113 Cyber Defense Procurement ................................................................................... 113 Support For Industrial Base Diversity .................................................................. 114 Aircraft Procurement, Army ................................................................................... 114 UH-60 Black Hawk .............................................................................................. 118 Missile Procurement, Army .................................................................................... 118 Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army .......................... 122 Procurement of Ammunition, Army ....................................................................... 126 Other Procurement, Army ...................................................................................... 130 Land Mobile Radio Network in Europe .............................................................. 141 Soldier Borne Sensor ........................................................................................... 141 Aircraft Procurement, Navy .................................................................................... 141 Navy Reserve Combat Aircraft ........................................................................... 148 V-22 Osprey Multiyear Procurement .................................................................. 148 MH-60R Aircraft .................................................................................................. 148 Weapons Procurement, Navy .................................................................................. 149 Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps ........................................ 154 Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy ....................................................................... 158 Virginia Class Submarine Advance Procurement ............................................. 162 Icebreakers ........................................................................................................... 162 DDG-51 Destroyer ................................................................................................ 162 Other Procurement, Navy ....................................................................................... 162 Crew-Served Weapon Stations ............................................................................ 175 Procurement, Marine Corps .................................................................................... 175 Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ............................................................................. 181 A-10 Wing Replacement ...................................................................................... 188 F-15 Infrared Search and Track ......................................................................... 188 F-15C and Air Force Fighter Mix ....................................................................... 188 Special Airlift Mission ......................................................................................... 188 Missile Procurement, Air Force .............................................................................. 189 Space Procurement, Air Force ................................................................................ 192 Global Positioning System III ............................................................................. 195 Space-Based Infrared System ............................................................................. 195 Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force ................................................................. 195 Other Procurement, Air Force ................................................................................ 198 Procurement, Defense-Wide .................................................................................... 203 Secure Supply Chain for Beryllium .................................................................... 208 Defense Production Act ........................................................................................... 208 Procurement, National Defense Restoration Fund ............................................... 208 TITLE IV. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION ........... 209 Reprogramming Guidance for Acquisition Accounts ............................................ 211 Funding Increases ................................................................................................... 211 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Special Interest Items ................ 211 Lightweight, Long-Dwell Unmanned Aerial Systems ........................................... 211 Cost of Nuclear Modernization ............................................................................... 212 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers ........................................ 212 Advanced Lightweight Polymer Cased Small Arms Ammunitions ..................... 212 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army ........................................... 212 Army Lethality Improvements ............................................................................ 224 Multi-Role Armament Systems ........................................................................... 224 Multi-Role Munition Technologies ...................................................................... 224 Peer-Reviewed Neurofibromatosis Research Program ...................................... 224 Next Generation Munition Technologies ............................................................ 224 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 0483 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 VI Page Net Zero ................................................................................................................ 225 Technology Advancement and Retention Center ............................................... 225 Advanced Development of Asset Protection Technologies ................................ 225 Advanced Lightweight Transparent Armors with Multi-Functional Capa- bility ................................................................................................................... 225 Domestic Supply of High Performance Material for Soldier Protection .......... 225 Improved Turbine Engine Program .................................................................... 226 Precision Gun Launched Projectiles ................................................................... 226 Army Research Laboratory Open Campus Initiative ........................................ 226 Army Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories ................................. 226 Burn Patient Transfer System ............................................................................ 227 Next Generation Signature Management System ............................................. 227 Common Fire Control System ............................................................................. 227 Lethality Overmatch ............................................................................................ 227 Enhanced Propulsion for Gun Launched Munitions ......................................... 228 Advanced Energetics ............................................................................................ 228 Enhanced Non-Destructive Testing Capacity .................................................... 228 Human Simulation Research .............................................................................. 228 Joint Multi-Role Program .................................................................................... 228 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy ............................................ 229 Surface Ship Torpedo Defense ............................................................................ 244 Silicon Carbide Power Electronics ...................................................................... 244 Autonomous Survey Ship .................................................................................... 244 Advanced Combat Systems Technology ............................................................. 244 Energy Storage Research .................................................................................... 245 Coastal Environmental Research ........................................................................ 245 Expanded Hypoxia Research ............................................................................... 245 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force ..................................... 245 Presidential Aircraft Replacement ...................................................................... 258 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ............................................... 258 Antenna Research ................................................................................................ 258 Materials for Extreme Environments ................................................................. 258 Aircraft Light Weighting Efforts ........................................................................ 259 Development of Government-Owned Observation Assets ................................. 259 Refractory Metal Alloys ....................................................................................... 259 Air-To-Ground Tactical Weapon Systems .......................................................... 259 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ally Launch Services .............................. 260 Laser Technology for Aircraft Sustainment ....................................................... 260 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide .............................. 260 Identity Threat Management .............................................................................. 272 Reclaimed Refrigerants ....................................................................................... 272 Advanced Defense Technologies Clusters .......................................................... 272 Advanced Material Solutions for Defense Applications .................................... 272 Conventional Prompt Global Strike Weapon System ........................................ 273 Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense ............................................................ 273 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, National Defense Restoration Fund ...................................................................................................................... 273 TITLE V. REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS ..................................... 275 Defense Working Capital Funds ............................................................................. 275 National Defense Sealift Fund ............................................................................... 275 TITLE VI. OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS ...................... 277 Defense Health Program ......................................................................................... 277 Reprogramming Guidance for the Defense Health Program ............................ 281 Carryover .............................................................................................................. 281 Peer-Reviewed Cancer Research Programs ....................................................... 281 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 0483 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 VII Page Metastatic Cancer Research ................................................................................ 282 Electronic Health Records ................................................................................... 282 The Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ........... 283 Emerging Infectious Diseases ............................................................................. 283 Combat Ocular Trauma ....................................................................................... 284 Expanded Canine Therapy Research ................................................................. 284 Opioid Abuse in the Military .............................................................................. 284 Chronic Kidney Disease ....................................................................................... 285 Mental Health Providers ..................................................................................... 285 Military Medical Professionals and the Department of Veterans Affairs ....... 285 Advanced Orthopedic Surgical Surgery ............................................................. 285 Impact of Gut Microbiome on Chronic Conditions ............................................ 285 Non-Opiate Pain Management ............................................................................ 286 Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Pilot Program 286 Mild Traumatic Brain Injury .............................................................................. 286 Medical Instrument Inspection ........................................................................... 286 Messenger RNA .................................................................................................... 287 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Diagnoses ...................................................... 287 Peer-Reviewed Lupus Research .......................................................................... 287 Technology Solutions for Psychological Health ................................................. 287 Minority Serving Institutions ............................................................................. 288 Military Healthcare Navigator ............................................................................ 288 Highly Infectious Disease Treatment and Transport ........................................ 288 Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense ........................................ 288 Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense ..................................... 289 Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Fund ................................................................... 289 Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund .................................................................. 289 Office of the Inspector General ............................................................................... 290 TITLE VII. RELATED AGENCIES ....................................................................... 291 National and Military Intelligence Programs ....................................................... 291 Classified Annex ................................................................................................... 291 Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund ............... 291 Intelligence Community Management Account .................................................... 291 Wildlife Trafficking .............................................................................................. 292 TITLE VIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS .................................................................. 293 TITLE IX. OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM ........................................................................................................ 303 Committee Recommendation .................................................................................. 303 Reporting Requirements ......................................................................................... 303 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Fund .......................................... 303 Military Personnel ................................................................................................... 303 Military Personnel, National Defense Restoration Fund .................................. 308 Operation and Maintenance ................................................................................... 308 Counterterrorism Efforts to Build Partnership Capacity in the United States Southern Command Area of Responsibility ........................................ 316 United States Support to Afghan National Defense Forces and Iraqi Secu- rity Forces ......................................................................................................... 316 Operation and Maintenance, National Defense Restoration Fund .................. 317 Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ..................................................................... 317 Vetting of Foreign Security Forces ..................................................................... 317 Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Train and Equip Fund ........... 317 Procurement ............................................................................................................. 317 National Guard and Reserve Equipment ........................................................... 327 Procurement, National Defense Restoration Fund ............................................ 327 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation ....................................................... 327 VerDate Sep 11 2014 11:13 Jul 14, 2017 Jkt 025997 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 0483 E:\HR\OC\HR219.XXX HR219 VIII Page Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, National Defense Restoration Fund .................................................................................................................. 331 Revolving and Management Funds ........................................................................ 331 Defense Working Capital Funds ......................................................................... 331 Other Department of Defense Programs ............................................................... 331 Defense Health Program ..................................................................................... 331 Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense ................................. 332 Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Fund ................................................................ 332 Office of the Inspector General ........................................................................... 332 General Provisions ................................................................................................... 332 TITLE X .................................................................................................................... 335 Additional General Provisions ............................................................................ 335 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ................ 335 Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ................................ 335 Rescissions ............................................................................................................ 335 Transfer of Funds ................................................................................................. 336 Earmark Disclosure Statement ........................................................................... 338 Compliance with Rule XIII, Cl. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule) ...................................... 338 Changes in the Application of Existing Law ..................................................... 339 Appropriations Not Authorized By Law ............................................................. 339 Comparison with the Budget Resolution ........................................................... 352 Five-Year Outlay Projections .............................................................................. 352 Financial Assistance to State and Local Governments ..................................... 352 Program Duplication ............................................................................................ 352 Directed Rule Making .......................................................................................... 353 Full Committee Votes .......................................................................................... 354 Additional Views 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