CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEFENSE ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT.

SEC. 4214. CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEFENSE ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT. (a) Center for the Study of Defense Economic Adjustment.—Subchapter II of chapter 148, as amended by section 4213, is further amended by inserting after section 2503 the following: “§ 2504. Center for the Study of Defense Economic Adjustment “(a) Establishment.—The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council, shall establish within the National Defense University a Defense Economic Adjustment Center for the study of issues related to the conversion and reutilization of defense personnel, resources, and facilities. The Center shall be affiliated with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University. The activities of the Center shall be integrated with existing activities and studies regarding acquisition, mobilization, the defense industrial base, and reconstitution. “(b) Primary Responsibilities.—In conducting studies of economic conversion, the Center shall focus on the development of defense economic adjustment methods and the technical assistance necessary to implement these methods. In accordance with procedures established by the Secretary of Defense, the Center shall coordinate its activities with other education and training elements of the Department of Defense that the Secretary may establish or assign to assist in accomplishing the defense reinvestment, diversification, and conversion objectives set forth in section 2501(b) of this title. “(c) Staff and Facilities.—Upon the request of the Secretary of Defense, the head of a Federal agency may detail, on a reimbursable basis, personnel of the agency to serve on the staff of the Center. “(d) Other Services.—The Center may make office space available to personnel of universities and defense contractors invited to participate in defense economic adjustment activities of the Center, “(e) Additional Centers and Conversion Activities.—The Secretary of Defense may establish additional defense economic adjustment centers or similar entities within the educational and training structure of the Department of Defense or may assign 106 STAT. 2667additional economic conversion functions to existing organizations within such structure as may be necessary to assist the Center established pursuant to subsection (a). These additional functions may include the provision of training and technical assistance to implement economic adjustment methods developed by the Center.” (b) Time for Establishment.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish the Defense Economic Adjustment Center under section 2604 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Fiscal Year 1993 Funding.—Of the amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201 for Defense Agencies, $2,000,000 shall be available for the Center for the Study of Defense Economic Adjustment.