To authorize the National Security Agency to collect service charges for the certification or validation of information assurance products.

1. Adds SEC. 1035. COLLECTION BY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY OF SERVICE CHARGES FOR CERTIFICATION OR VALIDATION OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE PRODUCTS at the end of subtitle D of title X

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   (b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(3) for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Air Force is hereby decreased by $450,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be allocated to amounts available for a classified program as described on page 34 of Volume VII (Compartmented Annex) of the Fiscal Year 2007 Military Intelligence Program justification book.

   Inserted: SEC. 1035. COLLECTION BY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY OF SERVICE CHARGES FOR CERTIFICATION OR VALIDATION OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE PRODUCTS.

   Inserted: The National Security Agency Act of 1959 (50 U.S.C. 402 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

   Inserted: "Sec. 20. (a) The Director may collect charges for evaluating, certifying, or validating information assurance products under the National Information Assurance Program or successor program.

   Inserted: "(b) The charges collected under subsection (a) shall be established through a public rulemaking process in accordance with Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-25.

   Inserted: "(c) Charges collected under subsection (a) shall not exceed the direct costs of the program referred to in that subsection.

   Inserted: "(d) The appropriation or fund bearing the cost of the service for which charges are collected under the program referred to in subsection (a) may be reimbursed, or the Director may require advance payment subject to such adjustment on completion of the work as may be agreed upon.

   Inserted: "(e) Amounts collected under this section shall be credited to the account or accounts from which costs associated with such amounts have been or will be incurred, to reimburse or offset the direct costs of the program referred to in subsection (a).".

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   At the end of subtitle D of title X, add the following:

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