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 PUBLIC LAW 95-79—JULY 30, 1977 (1) an evaluation of the basis for, and assumptions underlying, Department of Defense methods for conducting cost analyses with respect to decisions to contract for performance of commercial or industrial type functions; (2) an evaluation of the differences between private contractors and the Department of Defense in their procedures and policies relating to personnel compensation and other differences affecting their analysis of the cost of personnel; (3) identification of the defense mission essential functions identified by the Secretary of Defense as not suitable for performance by private contractors; and (4) an evaluation, to be made by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, of all aspects of OMB Circular A-76 and of the implementation of such circular. (b) A detailed repoii describing the results of the review required by subsection (a) shall be submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives before January 1, 1978. No commercial or industrial type function of the Department of Defense which on the date of enactment of this Act is being performed by Department of Defense personnel shall be converted to performance by private contractors before the earlier of March 15, 1978, or the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date the report required by this section is received by such committees. The prohibition in the preceding sentence shall not apply to the conversion to performance by private contractors of any commercial or industrial type function at any Department of Defense installation referred to in subsection (a) if such conversion would have been made under policies and regulations in effect before June 30, 1976. (c)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall, before January 1, 1978, submit a report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives (A) detailing the rationale of the Department of Defense for the establishment of goals for the percentage of work at defense research installations to be performed by private contractors, and (B) detailing the rationale for any direction in effect on the date of enactment of this Act (i) establishing a minimum or maximum percentage for the allocation of work at any defense research installation to be performed by private contractors, or (ii) directing a change in any such allocation in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Until March 15, 1978, or the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date the report required by this subsection is received by such committees, whichever is earlier, the percentage of all research and exploratory development work to be performed at or by any Department of Defense research installation which is to be performed by private contractors may not exceed the percentage of such work that was performed by private contractors during the period beginning on July 1, 1975, and ending on September 30, 1976. SEC. 810. N"o funds authorized or appropriated under this or any other Act shall be expended to purchase advertising of any sort for the purpose of advertising the existence of the special discharge review program for certain individuals who served in the Armed Forces of the United States between August 4, 1964, and March 28, 1973, which was established by order of the Secretary of Defense on April 5, 1977. SEC. 811. (a)(1) The total number of commissioned officers on active duty in the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force above the grade of

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Report to congressional committees. Private performance conversion, temporary prohibition.

Report to congressional committees.

Special discharge review program, advertising prohibition. 50 USC app. 462 note. Commissioned officers on active duty and civilians, ceilings. 10 USC 131 note.

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