DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—MILITARY

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—MILITARY OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Information Technology Systems and Security Transfer Account (including transfer of funds) For emergency expenses relating to Year 2000 conversion of information technology and national security systems, for information technology, and infrastructure protection to include computer security/information assurance programs, and for related expenses, $1,100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the funds made available shall be transferred, as necessary, by the Secretary of Defense to any account in any previously enacted Department of Defense Appropriations Act for expenses necessary to ensure the information technology that is used or acquired by the Federal government meets the definition of Year 2000 compliant under Federal Acquisition Regulations (concerning accurate processing of date/time data, including calculating, comparing, and sequencing from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations) and to meet other criteria for Year 2000 compliance as the Secretary considers appropriate: Provided further, That none of the funds provided under this heading may be transferred to any other account until fifteen days after the Secretary of Defense has submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, the House Committee on Science, and the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, a proposed allocation and plan for the Department of Defense to achieve Year 2000 compliance for technology information systems: Provided further, That the funds transferred shall be merged with and shall be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the appropriation to which transferred: Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under this heading is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense: Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 112 STAT. 2681–574shall be in addition to funds available in this or any other Act making appropriations for the Department of Defense for Year 2000 compliance and related activities: Provided further, That the entire amount made available under this heading is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount made available under this heading shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.