AIR TRAVEL EXPENSES OF DEFENSE CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL

SEC. 833. AIR TRAVEL EXPENSES OF DEFENSE CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL (a) Air Fare Discount Agreements.—The Administrator of General Services shall enter into negotiations with commercial air carriers with a view to achieving agreements that permit personnel of contractors who are traveling solely in the performance of covered contracts to be transported by such carriers at the same discount air passenger transportation rates as such carriers charge for travel by Federal Government employees traveling at Government expense. (b) Allowable Costs.—Not later than 120 days after the first agreement goes into effect between the Administrator of General Services and a commercial air carrier under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations that provide that costs for travel by commercial air carrier by an employee of a defense contractor that exceed the air passenger transportation rates established under the agreement are not allowable costs under section 2324 of title 10, United States Code, under a covered contract if— (1) the rate was available; and (2) travel could have reasonably been performed under the conditions required by the air carrier to qualify for such rate. (c) Covered Contract.—In this section, the term “covered contract” has the meaning given such term by section 2324(k) of title 10, United States Code. (d) Expiration.—This section shall cease to be effective three years after the date of the enactment of this Act