by ADC | Jun 29, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, NDAA, On Base
The House will consider the fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill the week of July 11, CQ reported. As usual, the floor debate is likely to stretch for days and include hundreds of amendments. The House Armed Services Committee’s bill authorizes up to $850.4...
by ADC | Jun 24, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Housing, Infrastructure, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base, PFAS, Veterans
House appropriators approved a military construction/VA spending bill Thursday that would provide $15 billion for military construction, which is higher than the current spending year and President Biden’s budget request for next year. Here’s how the military...
by ADC | Jun 24, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Despite the lack of a bicameral, bipartisan deal on topline spending figures, the Senate Appropriations Committee will begin marking up its fiscal year 2023 spending bills after the July 4th recess, Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Thursday, according to CQ. “I’m just...
by ADC | Jun 23, 2022 | Defense Budget, NDAA, On Base
The House Armed Services Committee added $37 billion to the Biden administration’s defense budget request at its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act, despite opposition from Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.), who said money isn’t necessarily the answer...
by ADC | Jun 23, 2022 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, Defense Budget, DOD Civilian, Energy, Infrastructure, Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, NDAA, On Base
On Base previously reported on some of the items included in House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) draft National Defense Authorization Act. Here are some of the provisions the committee added during its markup of the bill Wednesday, before...
by ADC | Jun 22, 2022 | Congress/DoD, DCIP, Defense Budget, Infrastructure, NDAA, On Base
The House Armed Services Committee will mark up the fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill at 10 a.m. Eastern time today. The hearing, expected to stretch into the evening, will be streamed online. “This year’s NDAA brings together ideas from across the Armed...
by ADC | Jun 22, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Housing, Infrastructure, Military Families, NDAA, On Base, Water
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday will consider Chair Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) version of the fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill. Here are some of the provisions included in his bill, based on the text, a summary and media reports: 6% pay increase...
by ADC | Jun 22, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Military Families, On Base
The Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has initially rejected the Biden administration’s request to close the Combat Readiness Training Center in Savannah, Georgia, AP reported. “This is a major win for the first district, our military service members and national...
by ADC | Jun 21, 2022 | Defense Budget, Military Families, NDAA, On Base
The defense authorization bill approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week includes a provision to expand the “basic needs allowance” that helps lower-income military families, CQ reported. The allowance was enacted in the fiscal year 2022 defense bill....
