Sec. 1025. LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR REMOVAL OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITIES FROM TICONDEROGA CLASS CRUISERS

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## SEC. 1025 LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR REMOVAL OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITIES FROM TICONDEROGA CLASS CRUISERS None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense may be used to remove ballistic missile defense capabilities from any of the 5 Ticonderoga class cruisers equipped with such capabilities until the Secretary of the Navy certifies to the congressional defense committees that the Navy has— ####

(1)obtained the ballistic missile defense capabilities required by the most recent Navy Force Structure Assessment; ####

(2)entered into a modernization of such cruisers that will provide an equal or improved ballistic missile defense capability; or ####

(3)obtained at least 40 large surface combatants with ballistic missile defense capability.