LIMITATION ON SUPPORT FOR UNITED STATES CONTRACTORS SELLING ARMS OVERSEAS.

SEC. 1082. LIMITATION ON SUPPORT FOR UNITED STATES CONTRACTORS SELLING ARMS OVERSEAS. (a) Support for Contractors.—In the event that a United States defense contractor or industrial association requests the Department of Defense or a military department to provide support in the form of military equipment for any airshow or trade exhibition to be held outside the United States, such equipment may not be supplied unless the contractor or association agrees to reimburse the Treasury of the United States for— (1) all incremental costs of military personnel accompanying the equipment, including food, lodging, and local transportation; (2) all incremental transportation costs incurred in moving such equipment from its normally assigned location to the airshow or trade exhibition and return; and (3) any other miscellaneous incremental costs not included under paragraphs (1) and (2) that are incurred by the Federal Government but would not have been incurred had military support not been provided to the contractor or industrial association. (b) Department of Defense Exhibitions.—(1) A military department may not participate directly in any airshow or trade exhibition held outside the United States unless the Secretary of Defense— 106 STAT. 2517 (A) determines that it is in the national security interests of the United States for the military department to do so; and (B) provides to the congressional defense committees at least 45 days before the opening of the airshow or trade exhibition a report detailing— (i) why the show or exhibition is in the national security interest; (ii) a description of the implications that promoting the sale of the weapons in question will have on arms control; and (iii) an estimate of any costs to be incurred. (2) The Secretary of Defense may not delegate the authority to make the determination referred to in paragraph (1)(A) below the level of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. (c) Definition.—In this section, the term “incremental transportation cost” includes the cost of transporting equipment to an airshow or trade exhibition only to the extent that the provision of transportation by the Department of Defense described in subsection (a)(2) does not fulfill legitimate training requirements that would otherwise have to be met.