PUBLIC LAW 108–87—SEPT. 30, 2003
117 STAT. 1097
funds in combination with these Federal funds to provide assistance for the authorized purpose, if the non-Federal entity requests such assistance and the non-Federal funds are provided on a reimbursable basis. SEC. 8103. None of the funds in this Act may be used to initiate a new start program without prior notification to the Office of Secretary of Defense and the congressional defense committees. SEC. 8104. The amounts appropriated in title II are hereby reduced by $372,000,000 to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in Department of Defense Working Capital Funds, as follows: (1) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $107,000,000. (2) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $45,000,000. (3) From ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $220,000,000. SEC. 8105. The amount appropriated in title II for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’ is hereby reduced by $44,000,000 to reduce excess funded carryover. SEC. 8106. (a) In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in this Act, the amount of $5,500,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard’’. Such amount shall be made available to the Secretary of the Army only to make a grant in the amount of $5,500,000 to the entity specified in subsection (b) to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry. (b) The entity referred to in subsection (a) is the Center for Military Recruitment, Assessment and Veterans Employment, a nonprofit labor-management co-operation committee provided for by section 302(c)(9) of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 186(c)(9)), for the purposes set forth in section 6(b) of the Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a note). SEC. 8107. FINANCING AND FIELDING OF KEY ARMY CAPABILITIES.—The Department of Defense and the Department of the Army shall make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field this system in the 2008 timeframe. As an interim capability to enhance Army lethality, survivability, and mobility for light and medium forces before complete fielding of the Objective Force, the Army shall ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams to be fielded between 2003 and 2008. SEC. 8108. Of the funds made available in this Act, not less than $40,600,000 shall be available to maintain an attrition reserve force of 18 B–52 aircraft, of which $3,800,000 shall be available from ‘‘Military Personnel, Air Force’’, $25,100,000 shall be available from ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, and $11,700,000 shall be available from ‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’’: Provided, That the Secretary of the Air Force shall maintain a total force of 94 B–52 aircraft, including 18 attrition reserve aircraft, during fiscal year 2004: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall include in the Air Force budget request for fiscal year 2005 amounts sufficient to maintain a B–52 force totaling 94 aircraft.
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