ARMY PROGRAMS

SEC. 111.ARMY PROGRAMS (a) AHIP Scout Helicopter.—Funds appropriated or otherwise made available for fiscal year 1988 for advance procurement of AHIP aircraft may not be obligated unless the Secretary of Defense, based on operational test results, determines that the AHIP aircraft is the most cost-effective scout helicopter available to the Army and certifies that determination to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. (b) Stinger Missile.—Section 107(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (Public Law 99–661; 100 Stat. 3827) is repealed. (c) RDX Facility.—The Secretary of the Army may award one or more contracts, in advance of appropriations therefor, for the design and construction of an RDX manufacturing plant if each such contract limits the amount of payments that the United States is obligated to make under such contract to the amount of appropriations available, at the time such contract is awarded, for obligation under such contract. Such design and construction may be accomplished by using one-step turn-key selection procedures, or other competitive contracting methods. (d) Forward Area Air Defense Heavy System.—(1) Funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the Army for procurement may not be obligated or expended for the procurement of any air defense system submitted to the Army for evaluation in response to any Army request for proposal for the Forward Area Air Defense Line-of-Sight Forward-Heavy (LOS-F-H) system unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that the system has met or exceeded full system requirements. (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “full system requirements” means the most stringent system requirements specified by any request for proposal for accuracy, range (detection, tracking and engagement), reaction time, and operations in the presence of electronic countermeasures. 101 STAT. 1037 (3) The Secretary of the Army may not obligate funds for advance procurement of the system referred to in paragraph (1) until— (A) the operational tests of the system are completed and the Secretary of Defense reports to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the results of such testing and the evaluation of such testing; (B) the Secretary of Defense certifies to those committees that the system satisfactorily demonstrates that it meets or exceeds all of the operational performance criteria established for the system; (C) the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense submits to the Secretary of Defense and those committees a report giving the Director's evaluation of the results of such testing and evaluation; and (D) the Comptroller General submits a report to those committees giving his assessment of the operational tests and the system performance. (e) A-6 Aircraft Configuration.—None of the funds appropriated for the procurement of aircraft for the Navy for fiscal year 1988 or 1989 may be obligated or expended for procurement of any A-6 aircraft configured in the F model configuration (as described in connection with the A-6E/A-6F aircraft program in the Selected Acquisition Report submitted to Congress for the quarter ending December 31, 1986).