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 PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 112 STAT. 1973 (8) An estimate of the total cost of making information technology and national security systems of the Department of Defense and the intelligence community year 2000 compliant. (9) The countries that have critical computer-based systems any disruption of which, due to not being year 2000 compliant, would cause a significant potential national security risk to the United States, (10) A discussion of the cooperative arrangements between the United States and other nations to assist those nations in identifying and correcting (to the extent necessary to meet national security interests of the United States) any problems in their communications and strategic systems, or other systems identified by the Secretary of Defense, that make the systems not year 2000 compliant. (IDA discussion of the threat posed to the national security interests of the United States from any potential failure of strategic systems of foreign countries that are not year 2000 compliant. (c) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS.— The Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, may enter into a cooperative arrangement with a representative of any foreign government to provide for the United States to assist the foreign government in identifying and correcting (to the extent necessary to meet national security interests of the United States) any problems in communications, strategic, or other systems of that foreign government that render the systems not year 2000 compliant. (d) DEFINITIONS.— In this section: (1) The term "year 2000 compliant", with respect to an information technology or national security system of the United States or a computer-based system of a foreign government, means that the system correctly recognizes dates in years after 1999 as being dates after 1999 for the purposes of system functions for which the correct date is relevant to the performance of the functions, consistent with certification level la, lb, or 2 (as prescribed in the April 1997 publication of the Department of Defense entitled "Year 2000 Management Plan"). (2) The term "information technology" has the meaning given that term by section 5002 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1401). (3) The term "national security system" has the meaning given that term by section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1452). Subtitle E—Defense Infrastructure Support Improvement SEC. 341. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTE- NANCE AND REPAIR. Section 2460(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the following: "or the location at which the maintenance or repair is performed".

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