The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (P.L. 99-500) prohibits shipments of chemical weapons, components, or agents to the Blue Grass Depot Activity for any purpose. 

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (P.L. 102-190) required the Secretary of Defense to develop a chemical weapons stockpile safety contingency plan. 

More recently, DARPA has been granted Experimental Personnel Hiring Authority under Section 1101 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999. Under this authority, DARPA can directly hire up to 40 eminent scientists and engineers from outside government service for term appointments up to 4 years. These appointments may be extended to 6 years in specific cases. This authority significantly streamlines and accelerates the hiring process. 

Brooks ( 90) Rear Admiral T.A. Brooks, Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 - H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs before the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives, Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials Subcommittee Hearings on Seapower, 101st Congress, first session, 22 February 1989, pp.38-9. 

B. Richardson, Statement included in Hearings on Department of Defense Appropriations for 1992 before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives, 102nd Congress, first session (23 April 1991), p.l74 G. Browder, Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993-H.R. 2100..., p.565. 

In the fiscal year 1993 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 102-484), the Congress directed the Army to report on its plans for disposing of all nonstockpile chemical warfare materiel within the United States. In 1933, the Army issued a report describing the nonstockpile chemical materiel, potential disposal methods, transportation alternatives, and disposal cost and schedule estimates. The report concluded that it would cost the Army 1.1 billion ( 930 million in direct project disposal costs and 170 million in programmatic costs) to destroy, primarily by incineration, demolition, and neutralization, the nonstockpile chemical materiel required by the convention within the required time frames. 

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