An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 112-485 to terminate the F-35B aircraft program. Would authorize the Secretary to procure an additional number of F/A-18E or F/A-18F aircraft to replace the F-35B aircraft.

1. Adds SEC. 132. TERMINATION OF THE F 35B AIRCRAFT PROGRAM at the end of subtitle C of title I

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   Inserted: SEC. 132. TERMINATION OF THE F 35B AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.

   Inserted: (a) Termination.--

   Inserted: (1) Procurement.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2013 or any year thereafter may be obligated or expended to procure an F 35B aircraft, including through advance procurement.

   Inserted: (2) R&D.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwide made available for fiscal year 2013 or any year thereafter may obligated or expended for research or development of F 35B aircraft.

   Inserted: (b) F/A 18E/F.--In accordance with section 128 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111 84; 123 Stat. 2217), as amended by section 123, the Secretary may procure an additional number of F/A 18E or F/A 18F aircraft, or combination thereof, that is equal to the number of F 35B aircraft that the Secretary planned to procure as of the date on which the budget of the President was submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 2013.

   Inserted: (c) Corresponding Funding Reduction, Increases, and Deficit Reduction.--

   Inserted: (1) Reduction.--

   Inserted: (A) Procurement.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the funding tables in division D, the amounts authorized to be appropriated in section 101 for aircraft procurement, Navy, as specified in the corresponding funding table in division D, is hereby reduced--

   Inserted: (i) by $1,404,737,000, with the amount of the reduction to be derived from F 35B aircraft under Line 007 JSF STOVL as set forth in the table under section 4101; and

   Inserted: (ii) by $106,199,000, with the amount of the reduction to be derived from F 35B aircraft under Line 008 Advance Procurement (CY) as set forth in the table under section 4101.

   Inserted: (B) R&D.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, development, test, and evaluation, Navy, as specified in the corresponding funding table in division D, is hereby reduced by $737,149,000, with the amount of the reduction to be derived from under Line 133, Program Element 0604800M, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) - EMD, as set forth in the table under section 4101.

   Inserted: (2) Increase.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be appropriated in section 101 for aircraft procurement, Navy, as specified in the corresponding funding table in division D, for Line 003 F/A 18E/F (Fighter) Hornet is hereby increased by $459,645,614.

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   Inserted: (3) Balance for deficit reduction.--Of the amounts reduced pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), $1,788,439,386 may not be made available for any purpose other than deficit reduction.

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   At the end of subtitle C of title I, add the following new section:

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