The topline is higher than either the HASC ($839 billion) or SASC ($847 billion) had sought in their initial versions of the language, and includes $816.7 billion for the Pentagon and $30.3 billion for nuclear activities in the Department of Energy.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's proposed topline figure would increase the already-historic Pentagon spending plan proposed by the Biden administration.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee named their selections to the NDAA-mandated Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform.
Expect the political battle over the island nations like Fiji or the Solomons to be a big part of Chinese-American geopolitics in the new year.
The legislation includes funding increases for deterrence initiatives in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, and approves Air Force efforts to divest of some legacy aircraft.
The new independent panel will make legislative and policy recommendations to reform the budgeting process “to enable the United States to more effectively counter near-peer competitors.”
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
The FY22 National Defense Authorization Act issues a challenge to the Pentagon: Lower F-35 sustainment costs, or the services won't be able to buy or fly as many as they want.
Until a program-by-program review is provided by the Defense Department, the armed services committees would limit spending on each one to no more than than 75% of its planned annual budget.
The A-10 lives, it BRRTs, it lives again!
Congress rebuked the Pentagon for "improperly focused" budget request for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“We need to make sure that we have a very … robust investment in our shipyards. I don't know if we can get that full amount," Luria said of a proposed shipyard supplemental.
The House version of the NDAA represents the largest package of legislation that restrict weapons transfers since the 1990s — a good first step.
SASC would transfer authority for F-35 acquisition from the DoD Joint Program Office to the Air Force and Navy no later than Oct. 1, 2027.
The NDAA easily passed and now heads to the Senate.