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 106 STAT. 1918 PUBLIC LAW 102-396—OCT. 6, 1992 (Computer technology. 10 USC 113 note. Small businesses. Contracts. (3) This provision does not apply to contracts for consumable supplies, provisions or services intended to be executed for the support of the United States or of allied forces in a foreign countiy, nor does it apply to contracts pertaining to any equipment, technology, data, or services for intelligence or classified purposes, or the acquisition or lease thereof by the United States (jovernment in the interests of national security. SEC. 9070. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where cost efTeclive, all Department of Defense souware shall be written in the programming language Ada, in the absence of special exemption by an ofi&cial designated by the Secretary of Defense. SEC. 9071. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or ref- lation, the Secretary of Defense may ac^ust wage rates for civilian employees hired for certain health care occupations as authorized for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by section 4107(g) of title 38, United States Code as in existence on October 1, 1990. SEC. 9072. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense shall be used for the training or utilization of psychologists in the prescription of drugs, except pursuant to the findings and recommendations of the Anny Surgeon General's Blue Ribbon Panel as specified in its February and August 1990 meeting minutes. SEC. 9073. During the current fiscal year, none of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to reduce the military or civilian medical and medical support personnel end strength at a base undergoing a partial closure or realignment, where more than one joint command is located, below the September 30, 1991 level. SEC. 9074. Of the funds made available in this Act, not less than $10,596,000 shall be available for the Civil Air Patrol, of which $4,471,000 shall be available for Operation and Maintenance. SEC. 9075. None of the funds appropriated or made available in this Act shall be used to reduce or disestablish the operation of the 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, if such action would reduce the WC-130 Weather Reconnaissance mission below the levels funded in this Act. SEC. 9076. During the current fiscal year, withdrawal credits may be made by the Defense Business Operations Fund to the credit of current applicable appropriations of an activity of the Department of Defense in connection with the acquisition by that activity of supplies that are repairable components which are repairable at a repair depot and tnat are capitalized into the Defense Business Operations Fund as the result of management changes concerning depot level repairable assets charged to an activity of the Department of Defense which is a customer of the Defense Business Operations Fund that became effective on April 1, 1992. SEC. 9077. (a) Of the funds for the procurement of supplies or services appropriated by this Act, qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall be afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors and suppliers in the performance of contracts let by the Department of Defense. (b) During the ciurent fiscal year, a business concern which has negotiated with a militery service or defense agency a subcontracting plan for the participation by small business concerns pursuant to section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)) shall be given credit toward meeting that subcontracting

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