Coast of the United States which includes charges for interport differential as an evaluation factor for award. SEC. 8038. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available for payments under the Department of Defense contract with the Louisiana State University Medical Center involving the use of cats for Brain Missile Wound Research, and the Department of Defense shall not make payments under such contract from funds obligated prior to the date of the enactment of this Act, except as necessary for costs incurred by the contractor prior to the enactment of this Act: Provided, That funds necessary for the care of animals covered by this contract are allowed. SEC. 8041A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each contract awarded by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 1995 for construction or service performed in whole or in part in a State which is not contiguous with another State and has an unemployment rate in excess of the national average rate of unemployment as determined by the Secretary of Labor shall include a provision requiring the contractor to employ, for the purpose of performing that portion of the contract in such State that is not contiguous with another State, individuals who are residents of such State and who, in the case of any craft or trade, possess or would be able to acquire promptly the necessary skills: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive the requirements of this section in the interest of national security. SEC. 8043. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to perform any cost study pursuant to the provisions of OMB Circular A-76 if the study being performed exceeds a period of twenty-four months after initiation of such study with respect to a single function activity or forty-eight months after initiation of such study for a multi-function activity. SEC. 8048.1 (a) Of the funds for the procurement of supplies or services appropriated by this Act, qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall be afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors and suppliers in the performance of contracts let by the Department of Defense. (b) During the current fiscal year, a business concern which has negotiated with a military service or defense agency a subcontracting plan for the participation by small business concerns pursuant to section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)) shall be given credit toward meeting that subcontracting goal for any purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped. 1 Section 8048 and similar provisions contained in previous appropriations Acts have been codified into section 2410d of title 10, United States Code, by section 808 of Public Law 102484 (effective October 1, 1993). (c) For the purpose of this section, the phrase "qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or other severely handicapped" means a nonprofit agency for the blind or other severely handicapped that has been approved by the Committee for the Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped under the Javits-WagnerO'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-48). SEC. 8050. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, ships designated T-AGS 63, T-AGS 64 and T-AGS 65 must utilize remanufactured milspec SASS multibeam sonars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may waive this restriction by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations that an alternative acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes. C. 8056. For the purposes of this Act, the term "congressional defense committees" means the Committees on Armed Services, the Committees on Appropriations, and the subcommittees on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, of the Senate and the House of Representatives. SEC. 8057. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the current fiscal year, the Department of Defense may acquire the modification, depot maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well as the production of components and other Defenserelated articles, through competition between Department of Defense depot maintenance activities and private firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Executive of the military department or defense agency concerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that successful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and indirect costs for both public and private bids: Provided further, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this section. SEC. 8058.2 [41 U.S.C. 10b-2] (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the United States Trade Representative, determines that a foreign country which is party to an agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain types of products produced in the United States that are covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with respect to such types of products produced in that foreign country. (2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding, between the United States and a foreign country pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospectively waived the Buy American Act for certain products in that country. (b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the amount of Department of Defense purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 1995. Such report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items for which the Buy American Act was 2 A provision similar to section 8058 is contained in section 849(c) of Public Law 103-160, set forth on page 360. waived pursuant to any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any international agreement to which the United States is a party. (c) For purposes of this section, the term "Buy American Act" means title III of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.). SEC. 8058A. [10 U.S.C. 2488 note] None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated funds activity of the Department of Defense that procures malt beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for resale (including such alcoholic beverages sold by the drink) on a military installation located in the United States unless such malt beverages and wine are procured within that State, or in the case of the District of Columbia, within the District of Columbia, in which the military installation is located: Provided, That in a case in which the military installation is located in more than one State, purchases may be made in any State in which the installation is located: Provided further, That such local procurement requirements for malt beverages and wine shall apply to all alcoholic beverages only for military installations in States which are not contiguous with another State: Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other than wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and the District of Columbia shall be procured from the most competitive source, price and other factors considered. SEC. 8075. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to procure aircraft fuel cells unless the fuel cells are produced or manufactured in the United States by a domestic-operated entity: Provided, That the Secretary of the military department responsible for the procurement may waive this restriction on a caseby-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes. SEC. 8089. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made available in this Act and in the fiscal year 1994 Department of Defense Appropriations Act (Public Law 103-139) under the heading "Procurement, Defense-Wide" shall be available to pay equitable adjustments to which the contractor is legally entitled for Coastal Patrol Craft that were procured in prior fiscal years. SEC. 8090. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated in this Act for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program shall be made available only for the upgrade, purchase, or modernization of supercomputing capability and capacity at Department of Defense (DoD) science and technology sites under the cognizance of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering and DoD test and evaluation facilities under the Director of Test and Evaluation, OUSD (A&T): Provided, That the contracts, contract modifications, contract options, or other agreements are awarded as the result of full and open competition based upon the requirements of the user. SEC. 8094. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, complies with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this subsection, the term "Buy American Act" means title III of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.). (b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a person has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a "Made in America" inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in America, the Secretary shall determine, in accordance with section 2410f of title 10, United States Code, whether the person should be debarred from contracting with the Department of Defense. SEC. 8095. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense in this Act shall be used by the Secretary of a military department to purchase coal or coke from foreign nations for use at United States defense facilities in Europe when coal from the United States is available. SEC. 8096. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for a defense technology reinvestment project that is not selected pursuant to the applicable competitive selection and other procedures set forth in chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the Advanced Research Projects Agency defense reinvestment program element under the heading "Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide" shall not be obligated until the Secretary of Defense has ensured that the Assistant Secretaries for Research, Development, and Acquisition of the separate Military Departments are full members of the Defense Technology Conversion Council and are fully integrated into the process of selecting dual-use technology focus areas for such programs and evaluating proposals for such projects: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds appropriated for defense reinvestment programs under the heading "Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide", $75,000,000 may only be obligated for projects selected as a result of a competition held by the Advanced Research Projects Agency in focus areas selected exclusively by the Assistant Secretaries for Research, Development, and Acquisition of the separate Military Departments: Provided further, That in addition to the restriction contained in the preceding provisos, the competition in focus areas shall be conducted in accordance with other unaffected statutory provisions of the Defense Conver sion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Amendments of 1993. SEC. 8098. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available for a contract for studies, analyses, or consulting services entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited proposal unless the head of the activity responsible for the procurement determines (1) as a result of thorough technical evaluation, only one source is found fully qualified to perform the proposed work, or (2) the purpose of the contract is to explore an unsolicited proposal which offers significant scientific or technological promise, represents the product of original thinking, and was submitted in confidence by one source, or (3) the purpose of the contract is to take advantage of unique and significant industrial accomplishment by a specific concern, or to insure that a new product or idea of a specific concern is given financial support: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to contracts in an amount of less than $25,000, contracts related to improvements of equipment that is in development or production, or contracts as to which a civilian official of the Department of Defense, who has been confirmed by the Senate, determines that the award of such contract is in the interest of the national defense. SEC. 8109. None of the funds provided in this Act may be expended for the refurbishment of M61/20 mm Gatling Gun assets for domestic or foreign military sales unless the Department of the Air Force competes this work among qualified depots and commercial contractors. SEC. 8114. The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence shall establish and implement a master plan for all acquisitions of automated document conversion systems, equipment, and technologies: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act may be used to develop technologies or to acquire new automated document conversion equipment, services, or systems which cost more than $5,000,000 after April 1, 1995 unless such acquisitions are approved in advance by the Assistant Secretary or his designee: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for Procurement, Defense-Wide, not less than $20,000,000 shall be used only to integrate the Automated Document Conversion System into the Joint Engineering Data Management and Information Control System. SEC. 8115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds provided in this Act may be used to procure vessel propellers six feet in diameter and greater unless such propellers are manufactured in the United States incorporating only castings which are poured and finished in the United States. Nor may any of the funds provided in this Act be used to procure ship propulsion shafting unless such ship propulsion shafting is manufactured in |