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 PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

119 STAT. 3421

financing of major defense acquisition programs. Each such report shall address the following matters: (1) The potential long-term effect on the defense industrial base of the United States of continuing with the current full up-front funding system for major defense acquisition programs. (2) Whether use of a capital budgeting system could create a more effective decisionmaking process for long-term investments in major defense acquisition programs. (3) The manner in which a capital budgeting system for major defense acquisition programs would affect the budget planning and formulation process of the military departments. (4) The types of financial mechanisms that would be needed to provide funds for such a capital budgeting system. SEC. 1005. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO NATO COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS IN FISCAL YEAR 2006.

(a) FISCAL YEAR 2006 LIMITATION.—The total amount contributed by the Secretary of Defense in fiscal year 2006 for the commonfunded budgets of NATO may be any amount up to, but not in excess of, the amount specified in subsection (b) (rather than the maximum amount that would otherwise be applicable to those contributions under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation). (b) TOTAL AMOUNT.—The amount of the limitation applicable under subsection (a) is the sum of the following: (1) The amounts of unexpended balances, as of the end of fiscal year 2005, of funds appropriated for fiscal years before fiscal year 2006 for payments for those budgets. (2) The amount specified in subsection (c)(1). (3) The amount specified in subsection (c)(2). (4) The total amount of the contributions authorized to be made under section 2501. (c) AUTHORIZED AMOUNTS.—Amounts authorized to be appropriated by titles II and III of this Act are available for contributions for the common-funded budgets of NATO as follows: (1) Of the amount provided in section 201(1), $763,000 for the Civil Budget. (2) Of the amount provided in section 301(1), $289,447,000 for the Military Budget. (d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: (1) COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS OF NATO.—The term ‘‘common-funded budgets of NATO’’ means the Military Budget, the Security Investment Program, and the Civil Budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (and any successor or additional account or program of NATO). (2) FISCAL YEAR 1998 BASELINE LIMITATION.—The term ‘‘fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation’’ means the maximum annual amount of Department of Defense contributions for common-funded budgets of NATO that is set forth as the annual limitation in section 3(2)(C)(ii) of the resolution of the Senate giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (as defined in section 4(7) of that resolution), approved by the Senate on April 30, 1998.

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