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 PUBLIC LAW 100-180—DEC. 4, 1987

101 STAT. 1037

(3) The Secretary of the Army may not obligate funds for advance Reports. 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). SEC. 112. NAVY PROVISIONS (a) H-53

SUPER STALUON HEUCOPTER AIRCRAFT.—(1) Of

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amount appropriated for procurement of aircraft for the Navy for fiscal year 1988, $25,000,000 shall be available only for safety-related modifications of the H-53 series aircraft. (2) Of the amount appropriated for the Navy for fiscal year 1988 Reports. for the procurement of H-53 aircraft, not more than 30 percent of such funds may be obligated until the Secretary of the Navy submits to Congress a report containing the preliminary results of dynamic structural tests on the H-53 aircraft and the recommendations of the Secretary regarding the advisability of continuing procurement of such aircraft. (3) The Secretary of the Navy may not accept delivery of any Super Stallion C/MH-53E helicopter contracted for using funds appropriated for a fiscal year after fiscal year 1987 unless the helicopter incorporates design chsmges to improve flight stability that are approved by the Secretary of the Navy based upon recommendations resulting from the flight stability deficiency correction program for such helicopter being carried out as of May 18, 1987. (b) P-3 AIRCRAFT.—From funds appropriated or otherwise made available for procurement of aircraft for the Navy or for procurement for the reserve components for fiscal year 1988, the Secretary of the Navy may not obligate more than a total of $207,011,000 for— (1) procurement of P-3C aircraft; and (2) modifications to existing P-3 aircraft. (c) LAND-BASED TANKERS.—Funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the Navy may not be obligated or expended for the purpose of acquiring or operating land-based tanker aircraft unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to Congress that the Department of the Air Force cannot support the requirements of the Navy for land-based tanker aircraft. For the purposes of this section, the KC-

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