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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2509

High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) and other delivery vehicles* (6) $6,000,000 is available only for the development of the rotary engine for Army, Navy, and Marine Corps applications; (7) $26,603,000 is available only for the development of the Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket system; and (8) $2,500,000 is available only for the development of the Submarine Laser Communication System. (b) Of the amount authorized in section 201 for the Navy, not more than $100,000,000 may be obligated or expended for research and development of the new design submarine and its associated programs and projects unless and until the Secretary of the Navy provides to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives written certification that, based on current national intelligence estimates approved by the Director of Central Intelligence, the new design attack submarine will be capable under operational conditions of engaging the known Soviet submarine threat. LIMITATIONS ON FUNDS FOR THE AIR FORCE

SEC. 204. Of the amount authorized in section 201 for the Air Force— (1) $129,285,000 is available only for development of the C-17 cargo transport aircraft; (2) $2,000,000 is available only to complete test and evaluation of the C-5 cargo transport aircraft; and (3) $4,000,000 is available only for continued development of the low cost anti-radiation guidance and control system for the High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) and other delivery vehicles. POLICY GOVERNING THE TEST OF ANTI-SATELUTE WARHEADS

SEC. 205. Section 1235 of the Department of Defense Authorization President of U.S. Act, 1984 (Public Law 98-94; 97 Stat. 695), is amended to read as lo use 139 note. follows: "POLICY GOVERNING THE TEST OP ANTI-SATELLITE WARHEADS

"SEC. 1235. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated pursuant to an authorization contained in this or any other Act may be obligated or expended to test against an object in space the miniature homing vehicle (MHV) anti-satellite warhead launched from an F-15 aircraft unless the President determines and certifies to Congress— "(1) that the United States is endeavoring, in good faith, to negotiate with the Soviet Union a mutual and verifiable agreement with the strictest possible limitations on anti-satellite weapons consistent with the national security interests of the United States; "(2) that, pending agreement on such strict limitations, testing against objects in space of the F-15 launched miniature homing vehicle anti-satellite warhead by the United States is necessary to avert clear and irrevocable harm to the national security;