MILITARY TECHNICIAN FULL-TIME SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVE COMPONENTS.

SEC. 513. MILITARY TECHNICIAN FULL-TIME SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVE COMPONENTS. (a) Requirement of Annual Authorization of End Strength.— (1) Section 115 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(g) Congress shall authorize for each fiscal year the end strength for military technicians for each reserve component of the Army and Air Force. Funds available to the Department of Defense for any fiscal year may not be used for the pay of a military technician during that fiscal year unless the technician fills a position that is within the number of such positions authorized by law for that fiscal year for the reserve component of that technician. This subsection applies without regard to section 129 of this title.”. (2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to fiscal year 1995. (b) Authorization for Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997.— For each of fiscal years 1996 and 1997, the minimum number of military technicians, as of the last day of that fiscal year, for the Army and the Air Force (notwithstanding section 129 of title 10, United States Code) shall be the following: (1) Army National Guard, 25,500. (2) Army Reserve, 6,630. (3) Air National Guard, 22,906. (4) Air Force Reserve, 9,802. 110 STAT. 306 (c) Administration of Military Technician Program.— (1) Chapter 1007 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 10216. Military technicians “(a) Priority for Management of Military Technicians.— (1) As a basis for making the annual request to Congress pursuant to section 115 of this title for authorization of end strengths for military technicians of the Army and Air Force reserve components, the Secretary of Defense shall give priority to supporting authorizations for dual status military technicians in the following high-priority units and organizations: “(A) Units of the Selected Reserve that are scheduled to deploy no later than 90 days after mobilization. “(B) Units of the Selected Reserve that are or will deploy to relieve active duty peacetime operations tempo. “(C) Those organizations with the primary mission of providing direct support surface and aviation maintenance for the reserve components of the Army and Air Force, to the extent that the military technicians in such units would mobilize and deploy in a skill that is compatible with their civilian position skill. “(2) For each fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall, for the high-priority units and organizations referred to in paragraph (1), seek to achieve a programmed manning level for military technicians that is not less than 90 percent of the programmed manpower structure for those units and organizations for military technicians for that fiscal year. “(3) Military technician authorizations and personnel in high-priority units and organizations specified in paragraph (1) shall oe exempt from any requirement (imposed by law or otherwise) for reductions in Department of Defense civilian personnel and shall only be reduced as part of military force structure reductions. “(b) Dual-Status Requirement.— The Secretary of Defense shall require the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force to establish as a condition of employment for each individual who is hired after the date of the enactment of this section as a military technician that the individual maintain membership in the Selected Reserve (so as to be a so-called ‘dual-status’ technician) and shall require that the civilian and military position skill requirements of dual-status military technicians be compatible. No Department of Defense funds may be spent for compensation for any military technician hired after the date of the enactment of this section who is not a member of the Selected Reserve, except that compensation may be paid for up to six months following loss of membership in the Selected Reserve if such loss of membership was not due to the failure to meet military standards.”. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: “§ 10216. Military technicians (d) Review of Reserve Component Management Head-quarters.— (1) The Secretary of Defense shall, within six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, undertake steps to reduce, consolidate, and streamline management headquarters operations of the reserve components. As part of those steps, the Secretary shall identify those military technicians positions in such 110 STAT. 307headquarters operations that are excess to the requirements of those headquarters. (2) Of the military technicians positions that are identified under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall reallocate up to 95 percent of the annual funding required to support those positions for the purpose of creating new positions or filling existing positions in the high-priority units and activities specified in section 10216(a) of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (c). (e) Annual Defense Manpower Requirements Report.— Section 115a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(h) In each such report, the Secretary shall include a separate report on the Army and Air Force military technician programs. The report shall include a presentation, shown by reserve component and shown both as of the end of the preceding fiscal year and for the next fiscal year, of the following: “(1) The number of military technicians required to be employed (as specified in accordance with Department of Defense procedures), the number authorized to be employed under Department of Defense personnel procedures, and the number actually employed. “(2) Within each of the numbers under paragraph (1)— “(A) the number applicable to a reserve component management headquarter organization; and “(B) the number applicable to high-priority units and organizations (as specified in section 10216(a) of this title). “(3) Within each of the numbers under paragraph (1), the numbers of military technicians who are not themselves members of a reserve component (so-called ‘single-status’ technicians), with a further display of such numbers as specified in paragraph (2).”.