END STRENGTHS FOR MILITARY TECHNICIANS.

SEC. 413. END STRENGTHS FOR MILITARY TECHNICIANS. (a) Authorization for Fiscal Year 1997.— The minimum number of military technicians as of the last day of fiscal year 1997 for the reserve components of the Army and the Air Force (notwithstanding section 129 of title 10, United States Code) shall be the following: (1) For the Army Reserve, 6,799. (2) For the Army National Guard of the United States, 25,500. (3) For the Air Force Reserve, 9,802. (4) For the Air National Guard of the United States, 23,299. (b) Information To Be Provided With Future Authorization Requests.— Section 10216 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection (b): “(b) Information Required To Be Submitted With Annual End Strength Authorization Request.— (1) The Secretary of Defense shall include as part of the budget justification documents submitted to Congress with the budget of the Department of Defense for any fiscal year the following information with respect to the end strengths for military technicians requested in that budget pursuant to section 115(g) of this title, shown separately for each of the Army and Air Force reserve components: “(A) The number of dual-status technicians in the high priority units and organizations specified in subsection (a)(1). “(B) The number of technicians other than dual-status technicians in the high priority units and organizations specified in subsection (a)(1). “(C) The number of dual-status technicians in other than high priority units and organizations specified in subsection (a)(1). “(D) The number of technicians other than dual-status technicians in other than high priority units and organizations specified in subsection (a)(1). 110 STAT. 2508 “(2) (A) If the budget submitted to Congress for any fiscal year requests authorization for that fiscal year under section 115(g) of this title of a military technician end strength for a reserve component of the Army or Air Force in a number that constitutes a reduction from the end strength minimum established by law for that reserve component for the fiscal year during which the budget is submitted, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees with that budget a justification providing the basis for that requested reduction in technician end strength. “(B) Any justification submitted under subparagraph (A) shall clearly delineate— “(i) in the case of a reduction that includes a reduction in technicians described in subparagraph (A) or (C) of paragraph (1), the specific force structure reductions forming the basis for such requested technician reduction (and the numbers related to those force structure reductions); and “(ii) in the case of a reduction that includes reductions in technicians described in subparagraphs (B) or (D) of paragraph (1), the specific force structure reductions, Department of Defense civilian personnel reductions, or other reasons forming the basis for such requested technician reduction (and the numbers related to those reductions).”. (c) Technical Amendments.— Such section is further amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking out “section 115” and inserting in lieu thereof “section 115(g)”; and (2) in subsection (c), as redesignated by subsection (b)(1), by striking out “after the date of the enactment of this section” both places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “after February 10, 1996,”.