Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 1.djvu/262

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110 STAT. 238 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 (c) REPORT. —(1) Not later than March 1, 1996, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth in detail the findings of the review required by subsection (b). (2) The report shall include the following: (A) The options for providing affordable, operable, reliable, and responsive long-term aeronautical research and test capabilities for military and civilian purposes and for the organization and conduct of such capabilities within the Department or through shared operations with other Government agencies, academic institutions, and private industry. (B) The projected costs of such options, including costs of acquisition and technical and financial arrangements (including the use of Government facilities for reimbursable private use). (C) Recommendations on the most efficient and economic means of developing, maintaining, and continually modernizing aeronautical research and test capabilities to meet current, planned, and prospective military and civilian needs. Subtitle F—Other Matters SEC. 271. ADVANCED LITHOGRAPHY PROGRAM. Section 216 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 2693) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking out "to help achieve" and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting in lieu thereof "to ensure that lithographic processes being developed by United States-owned companies or United States-incorporated companies operating in the United States will lead to superior performance electronics systems for the Department of Defense."; (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(3) The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may set priorities and funding levels for various technologies being developed for the ALP and shall consider funding recommendations made by the Semiconductor Industry Association as being advisory in nature."; (3) in subsection (c)— (A) by inserting "Defense" before "Advanced"; and (B) by striking out "ARPA" both places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "DARPA"; and (4) by adding at the end the following: "(d) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: "(1) The term 'United States-owned company' means a company the majority ownership or control of which is held by citizens of the United States. "(2) The term 'United States-incorporated company' means a company that the Secretary of Defense finds is incorporated in the United States and has a parent company that is incorporated in a country— "(A) that affords to United States-owned companies opportunities, comparable to those afforded to any other company, to participate in any joint venture similar to