DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS.

SEC. 922. DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS. (a) Reduction.—The Secretary of Defense shall implement reductions during fiscal year 2000 in the defense acquisition and support workforce in a number not less than the number by which that workforce is programmed to be reduced during that fiscal year in the President’s budget for that fiscal year. (b) Administrative Flexibility.—If the Secretary determines and certifies to Congress that changed circumstances require, in the national security interest of the United States, that the reduction under subsection (a) be in a number less than the number applicable under that subsection, the Secretary may specify a lower number for that reduction, which may not be less than 10 percent less than the number applicable under subsection (a). (c) Report.—Not later than May 1, 2000, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the defense acquisition and support workforce. The Secretary shall include in that report— (1) the total number of personnel the Secretary expects to reduce from the defense acquisition and support workforce during fiscal year 2000 pursuant to subsection (a); and (2) the total number by which that workforce is programmed to be reduced for fiscal year 2001 in the President’s budget for that fiscal year. (d) Defense Acquisition Workforce Defined.—For purposes of this section, the term “defense acquisition and support workforce” has the meaning given that term in section 931(d) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261; 112 Stat. 2106).