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 101 STAT. 1329-83

PUBLIC LAW 100-202—DEC. 22, 1987

(1) except as approved by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau; (2) unless RCAS resource management functions are performed by the National Guard Bureau; (3) unless the RCAS contract source selection official is the Chief of the National Guard Bureau; (4) to pay the salary of an RCAS program manager who has not been selected and approved by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and chartered by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and the Secretary of the Army; (5) unless the Program Manager (PM) charter makes the PM accountable to the source selection official and fully defines his authority, responsibility, reporting channels and organizational structure; (6) to pay the salaries of individuals assigned to the RCAS program management office, source selection evaluation board, and source selection advisory board unless such organizations are comprised of personnel chosen jointly by the Chiefs of the National Guard Bureau and the Army Reserve; (7) to award a contract for development or acquisition of RCAS unless such contract is competitively awarded under procedures of OMB Circular A-109 for an integrated system consisting of software, hardware, and communications equipment and unless such contract precludes the use of Government furnished equipment, operating systems, and executive and applications software; and (8) unless RCAS performs its own classified information processing. 0^) None of the funds appropriated in this Act are available for procurement of Tactical Army Combat Service Support Computer Systems (TACCS) unless at least fifty percent of the TACCS computers procured with Army fiscal year 1988 funds are provided to the Reserve Component. (c) None of the funds appropriated in this Act are available for procurement of mini- and micro-computers for the Army Reserve Component until the RCAS contract is awarded. SEC. 8116. Whereas a verifiable treaty eliminating United States and Soviet medium- and short-range nuclear ballistic missiles in Europe would enhance United States and European security; Whereas the Congress supports the President's goal of reducing United States and Soviet conventional forces in Europe and reducing United States and Soviet strategic nuclear forces; Whereas it is important the Congress and the President be in agreement on United States national security goals and objectives in order for the United States to be in the strongest possible position to negotiate with the Soviet Union future reductions in conventional and strategic nuclear forces; Whereas the Congress strongly opposes the undercutting of these arms reduction negotiations by either the United States or the Soviet Union through unnecessary military initiatives or counterproductive arms control proposals; Whereas no decision has been made on the development or deployment of strategic defenses; Therefore, it is the sense of the Congress that— (1) in order to maintain the basis for strong deterrence, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) should be a long-term and robust research program to provide the United States with

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