RESTATEMENT AND CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR CONSISTENCY IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SEC. 1602. RESTATEMENT AND CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR CONSISTENCY IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (a) Restatement and Clarification.—(1) Chapter 2 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 114 the following new section: “§ 114a. Five-Year Defense Program: submission to Congress; consistency in budgeting “(a) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress each year, at or about the time that the President’s budget is submitted to Congress that year under section 1105(a) of title 31, the current five-year defense program (including associated annexes) reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations included in that budget. “(b) (1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that amounts described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) for any fiscal year are consistent with amounts described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) for that fiscal year. “(2) Amounts referred to in paragraph (1) are the following: “(A) The amounts specified in program and budget information submitted to Congress by the Secretary in support of expenditure estimates and proposed appropriations in the budget submitted to Congress by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31 for any fiscal year, as shown in the five-year defense program submitted pursuant to subsection (a). 103 STAT. 1597 “(B) The total amounts of estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations necessary to support the programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Defense included pursuant to paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31 in the budget submitted to Congress under that section for any fiscal year. “(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the inclusion in the five-year defense program of amounts for management contingencies, subject to the requirements of subsection (b).”. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 114 the following new item: “114a. Five-Year Defense Program: submission to Congress; consistency in budgeting.”. (b) Conforming Amendment.—Section 114 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out subsections (f) and (g).