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 PUBLIC LAW 99-500—OCT. 18, 1986

100 STAT. 1783-122

to counter expanded Soviet strategic capabilities, including the military impacts of such a diversion on the ability of United States conventional forces to meet the Nation's specific nonnuclear defense commitments as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and under the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with Japan; (5) in addition, this report shall address the military implications for the United States of determined Soviet violations of offensive arms control agreements. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds authorized or appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or expended, directly or indirectly, by the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for prospective studies and analyses to be accomplished by individual civilian contractors or civilian contractor entities, after October 14, 1986, if the report mandated in subsection (a) has not been received by the Congress; and (c) The prohibition contained in subsection Ob) on the obligation or expenditure of funds after October 14, 1986, shall cease to have effect upon the receipt by Congress of the report mandated in subsection (a). SEC. 9114. Subsection (b) of section 223 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (Public Law 99-145; 99 Stat. 613) is amended— (1) by designating the matter after the subsection caption as paragraph (1); and (2) by adding at the end the following: "(2) The report required by paragraph (1) shall include the following information: "(A) The cost goals or cost objectives— "(i) for the production and deployment of a Strategic >.j; Defense Initiative System; and "(ii) for the individual components of such system, determined on the basis of capabilities expected to be developed in the future. "(B) The estimated costs of^ "(i) the production and deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative System; and "(ii) the production and deployment of the individual components of such system, determined on the basis of prices in effect and capabilities in existence at the time of the preparation of the report.". SEC. 9115. (a) ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.—Section 136(b) of title 10, United States Code (as amended by section 106 of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986), is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(4) One of the Assistant Secretaries shall be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. He shall have as his principal duty the overall supervision (including oversight of policy and resources) of special operations activities (as defined in section 161Q) of this title) and low intensity conflict activities of the Department of Defense.". (b) UNIFIED COMBATANT COMMAND.—(1) Chapter 6 of such title (as added by section 211 of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

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