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 PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2629

more than 50 percent of the total quantity of the defense article (or major component) to be procured. (d) The study under subsection (a) shall consider circumstances and requirements under a war or national emergency of both a brief duration and a long duration. (e) A report of the study under subsection (a) shall be submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives not later than October 15, 1985.

Report.

REPORT ON USE OF AIR FORCE AIR REFUELING FLEET

SEC. 1523. Not later than March 1, 1985, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report analyzing the planned operational use of the Air Forces air refueling fleet throughout the remainder of the 1980's. This study shall include the planned use of the air refueling fleet for the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) and shall consider the growing number of potential contingency operations throughout the global spectrum of conflict to include multiple and simultaneous global threats.

Study.

STUDY BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OF CURRENT AND POTENTIAL EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SEC. 1524. (a)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a comprehensive study on how the Department of Defense can most effectively benefit from technology obtained from both cooperative and noncooperative foreign sources. In carrying out the study, the Secretary shall specifically consider— (A) the existing and any planned organizational changes within the Department of Defense with respect to the office or offices responsible for collecting and disseminating foreign technology; (B) whether additional funding is needed, and could be used in a cost-effective manner, for the collection of foreign technology by the various elements of the Department of Defense responsible for collecting and disseminating that technology; and (C) an evaluation of the effectiveness of the current programs of the Department of Defense for collecting and disseminating foreign technology. (2) Not later than March 1, 1985, the Secretary shall submit to the Report. Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the results of the study conducted under paragraph (1), together with such comments and recommendations as the Secretary considers appropriate. The Secretary shall also submit to such committees, at the same time as the report referred to in the preceding sentence is submitted, an unclassified report on the matters described in paragraph (1). (b) The Secretary of the Army may not transfer any of the functions now performed by the Foreign Science and Technology Center of the Material Development and Readiness Command of the Army to any other Office or agency within the Army until after the day on which the report referred to in subsection (a)(2) is received by the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives,

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