carrier service life extension program and ddg-2 destroyer conversion

carrier service life extension program and ddg-2 destroyer conversion Sec. 811. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary of the Navy may not take any action with respect to the use of either public shipyards or private shipyards for conversion, overhaul, or repair work under the Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) or under the program for the modernization of DDG-2 class guided missile destroyers, or for the employment of additional personnel for, or the transfer of additional personnel to, any public shipyard as a part of the necessary buildup of manpower for carrying out either such program, until— (1) the Secretary of the Navy conducts a comprehensive least-cost approach study (A) comparing the costs of carrying out such programs at public shipyards with the costs of carrying out such programs at private shipyards, and (B) evaluating such other factors as the Secretary of the Navy considers should be taken into account in assigning work in connection with the conversion, overhaul, repair, or modernization of vessels to public or private shipyards; (2) a written report containing the results of such study is submitted, after the date of the enactment of this Act, to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and (3) a period of sixty days of continuous session of congress expires following the date, on which such report is submitted to such committees. (b) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Navy from conducting advanced planning or purchasing long lead items in connection with either program described in subsection (a) so long as such planning or purchasing is not related to the performance of work in connection with either such program at any particular shipyard. (c) For purposes of subsection (a)(3), the continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die, and days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of such sixty-day period.