The NDAA earmarks $841.5 billion for the Department of Defense-nearly $32 billion, or 3 percent, more than the FY23 NDAA-$32.26 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration, and $12.1 billion in defense-related allocations for other federal agencies.
The NDAA includes a 5.2-percent pay raise for service members, $145 billion for research into artificial intelligence and hypersonics, investments in Space Force and many, many things-$886.3 billion worth.
Below are 10 takeaways from the slow-walked NDAA's sudden Dec. 13-14 rocket-docket dash through the Senate and House, three months after the federal fiscal year began, and six months after both chambers passed seminal budgets.
The budget boosts Taiwan's and Guam's defense, requests an analysis of a how a 2030 war with China would unfold, tracks defense contractors' investments in China and China's investments in defense contractors, and mandates an adjusted Navy shipbuilding plan that emphasizes platforms geared to thwart China's projected 500-ship navy.
The budget commits billions to Guam's defense with deployment of a Marine regiment and Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow 3 missile defense systems.
Mr. Gaetz said the NDAA was a good bill in July but is now something else.
"We were told over and over again there would be back-pay, reparations, and restoration-of-rank for people improperly told they could not express their patriotism through military service because they didn't want to take an experimental vaccine," he said, but those provisions are "Totally absent" in the "Watered-down NDAA." Marines Get Their Amphib The NDAA requires the Navy and Air Force to build more ships and aircraft than initially requested, and delays or prohibits planned retirements of several ships and warplane types.
The NDAA includes a statute mandating the Navy maintain 11 aircraft carriers and 31 amphibious warfare ships with at least 10 being LHA/LHD "Big deck" ships.
600 Million for Ukraine While Ukraine must wait until 2024 to secure $61 billion in aid the Biden administration is seeking in its stymied $106 billion supplemental request, Kyiv will receive at least two years of funding for the next two years under the defense bill.
A Major Naval Treaty The NDAA ratifies the newly-signed U.S., Australia, and UK agreement, a trilateral treaty the Pentagon says will foster "Game-changing defense advantages in building, deploying, and jointly operating attack submarines."
The FY24 NDAA earmarks more than $70 billion for theater-range, tactical missile defense, primarily the MIM-104 Patriot missile, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor, and Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system.
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