Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, tit. II, subtit. B, sec. 217
DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY PROGRAMS.
SEC. 217. DEFENSE NUCLEAR AGENCY PROGRAMS. (a) Agency Funding.— Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense in section 201, $241,703,000 shall be available for the Defense Nuclear Agency. (b) Tunnel Characterization and Neutralization Program.— Of the amount made available under subsection (a), $3,000,000 shall be available for a tunnel characterization and neutralization program to be managed by the Defense Nuclear Agency as part of the counterproliferation activities of the Department of Defense. (c) Long-Term Radiation Tolerant Microelectronics Program.— (1) Of the amount made available under subsection (a), $6,000,000 shall be available for the establishment of a long-term 110 STAT. 222 radiation tolerant microelectronics program to be managed by the Defense Nuclear Agency for the purposes of— (A) providing for the development of affordable and effective hardening technologies and for incorporation of such technologies into systems; (B) sustaining the supporting industrial base; and (C) ensuring that a use of a nuclear weapon in regional threat scenarios does not interrupt or defeat the continued operability of systems of the Armed Forces exposed to the combined effects of radiation emitted by the weapon. (2) Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on how the longterm radiation tolerant microelectronics program is to be conducted and funded in the fiscal years after fiscal year 1996 that are covered by the future-years defense program submitted to Congress in 1995. (d) Thermionics Program.— Of the amount made available under subsection (a), $10,000,000 shall be available for the thermionics program, to be managed by the Defense Nuclear Agency. (e) Electrothermal Gun Technology Program.— Of the amount made available under subsection (a), $4,000,000 shall be available for the electrothermal gun technology program of the Defense Nuclear Agency. (f) Counterterror Explosives Research Program.— Of the amount made available under subsection (a), $4,000,000 shall be available for the counterterror explosives research program of the Defense Nuclear Agency. (g) Transfer of Unobligated Balance.— The Secretary of Defense shall transfer to the Defense Nuclear Agency, to be available for the thermionics program, an amount not to exceed $12,000,000 from the unobligated balance of funds authorized and appropriated for research, development, test, and evaluation for fiscal year 1995 for the Air Force for the Advanced Weapons Program.