National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (H.R. 2670) is a proposed bill in the 118th United States Congress.[1]
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Background
The National Defense Authorization Act is an annual bill proposed in the United States Congress that redefines the United States military budget for the following year.[2] Each chamber of Congress introduced a version of the NDAA: H.R. 2670 (House) and S. 2226 (Senate) respectively. The House passed their version on July 14, 2023 by a vote of 219–210. The Senate passed theirs on July 27, 2023 by a vote of 86–11. By operation of the previously agreed order, the Senate then replaced H.R. 2670 with the text of S. 2226 and passed it by unanimous consent, and indefinitely postponed S. 2226.[3][4]
Provisions
The bill contains provisions to:
- Disestablish the regular Space Force in order to integrate both active duty and reserve personnel into one Space Force entity. This is to allow for better flexibility for the Space Force by replacing "active duty" with "sustained duty" or "full-time" status, and replacing "reserve" with "part-time" status.[5] This change would only pertain to the Space Force and not to the other armed services.[5]
- Make the vice chief of the National Guard Bureau hold a statutory rank of general while serving in that position.
- Permanently establish the titles of commissioned officer ranks of the Space Force to be the same as the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
- Authorize a $886 billion spending budget for national defense programs including:[6][7]
- A 5.2% pay increase for service members of the armed forces.[6][7]
- Procurement of up to 10 Virginia-class submarines.
The Senate amendment contains:
- UAP Disclosure Act: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 would direct the National Archives and Records Administration to collect and disclose records on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) no later than 25 years after enactment with a presumption of immediate disclosure, and give the federal government eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin (TUO) and biological evidence of non-human intelligence (NHI) that may be controlled by private persons or entities.[8]
- The Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) requires people currently or formerly under contract with the federal government to make all UFO/UAP material and information and a comprehensive list of all extraterrestrial or exotic UAP material available to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).[9]
References
- Demirjian, Karoun (July 14, 2023). "House Narrowly Passes Defense Bill, Setting Up Showdown Over Social Issues". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
- Demirjian, Karoun (July 11, 2023). "Hard Right Presses Culture War Fights on Defense Bill, Imperiling Passage". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
- 2023 Congressional Record, Vol. 169, Page S3725 (27 July 2023)
- 2023 Congressional Record, Vol. 169, Page S3730 (27 July 2023)
- Lohr, Alexandra (2023-06-19). "House Armed Services Committee endorses new management structure for Space Force". Federal News Network. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- Talbot, Clare Foran,Haley (2023-07-14). "House passes defense bill after adopting controversial amendments targeting abortion policy and other issues | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Wilson, Clare Foran,Morgan Rimmer,Kristin (2023-07-28). "Senate passes defense policy bill, setting up showdown with the House | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - "Schumer, Rounds Introduce New Legislation To Declassify Government Records Related To Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena & UFOs – Modeled After JFK Assassination Records Collection Act – As An Amendment To NDAA" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: Senate Democratic Caucus. 14 July 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- Vincent, Brandi (27 June 2023). "Senate's intelligence authorization bill questions 'reverse engineering' of government-recovered UAP". DefenseScoop. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
External links
- H.R. 2670 on Congress.gov
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 most recently available bill text (plain text/details) in the GPO Bills collection
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