Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes fiscal year 2024 appropriations and sets forth policies for the Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, military construction, and the national security programs of the Department of Energy (DOE).

Highlights:

• Authorizes fiscal year 2024 appropriations and sets forth policies for the Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, military construction, and the national security programs of the Department of Energy (DOE) (Div. A, Title I).

• Specifies that this bill authorizes appropriations but does not provide budget authority, which shall be provided by seperate appropriations legislation (Div. A, Title I).

• Authorizes appropriations for the acquisition or modification of various military items (such as aircraft, ships, tracked combate vehicles, missiles, and ammunition) and sets policy for certain procurement programs (Div. A, Title I).

• Authorizes appropriations for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and sets policy for certain RDT&E activities, such as additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing (Div. A, Title II).

• Authorizes appropriations for operation and maintenance (O&M) and sets policy for certain O&M programs, such as sustainable aviation fuel and treatment of perfluroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (Div. A, Title III).

• Authorizes appropriations for military personnel and sets active component and reserve component and reserve end-strength levels (Div. A, Title IV).

• Establishes policies regarding officer personnel, reserve component management, military records, military justice and other legal matters, servicememeber education and training, transition programs, awards and decorations, and other personnel matters (Div. A, Title V).

• Establishes policies regarding various aspects of military compensation, including allowances, bonus and incentive pays, child care benefits, and education for military dependents (Div. A, Title VI).

• Specifies policies regarding military health care, including TRICARE (Div. A, Title VII).

• Specifies policies regarding acquisitions and acquisition management, general contracting authorities, domestic sourcing requirements, accelerated acquisition programs, industrial base matters, and small businesses (Div. A, Title VIII).

• Establishes policies regarding the Office of the Secretary of Defense and DOD organization and management, and establishes a Space National Guard (Div. A, Title IX).

• Establishes policies in various areas, including financial matters, counterdrug activities, naval vessels, and shipyards, and counterterrorism (Div. A, Title X).

• Establishes policies for various matters related to DOD civillan employees, such as a direct hire authorities, premium pay, certain limitations on dual pay, shore leave accrual for civilian mariners, and military spouse employment (Div. A, Title XI).

• Establishes policies for various matters related to DOD interactions with foreign nations, including cooperation initiatives, and includes subtitles related to Russia, Europe, NATO, Middle East and Central Asia, and Ukraine (Div. A, Title XII).

• Establishes policies for various matters related to the Pacific region, Indo-Pacific region, and China (Div. A, Title XIII).

• Authorizes appropriations for specified working capital and revolving funds and for other programs, including chemical agents and munitions destruction, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, and the defense health program (Div. A, Title XIV).

• Establishes policy regarding national defense stockpile requirements and membership on the Strategic Materials Protection Board (Div. A, TItle XIV).

• Establishes policy on cyberspace-related matters, such as defensive military cybersecurity cooperation with Taiwan and modifying rats of pay for specified DOD cyber positions (Div. A, Title XV).

• Establishes policy for various matters related to space activities, nuclear forces, missile defense, and intelligence (Div. A, Title XVI).

• Establishes policy regarding the management of Space Force military personnel, including transitions between active, inactive, and retired status, appointment and promotion of officers, enlistment qualifications, and separations (Div. A, Title XVII).

• Establishes policy on various matters, such as expanding efforts to eliminate reliance on Russian energy at military bases in the U.S. European Command (div. A, Title XVIII).

• Authorizes appropriations for specifies Army, Navy, and Air Force construction and land acquisition projects, and new construction improvements, and planning for Army, Navy, and Air Force family housing, and extends the authorization of certain from previous fiscal years (Div. B, Title XXI-XXIII).

• Authorizes appropriations for specifies Defense Agency construction and land acquisition projects, and specifies energy conservation and utility system projects, and extends or modifies the authorization of certain projects from previous fiscal years (Div. B, Title XXIV).

• Authorizes DOD to make specifies contributions to NATO for construction and land acquisition projects, and to accept specifies military construction projects from South Kora and Poland as in-kind contributions (Div. B, Title XXV).

• Authorizes appropriations for specifies construction and land acquisition projects for the Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve, and extends or modifies the authorization of certain projects from previous fiscal years (Div. B, Title XXVI).

• Authorizes appropriations for base realignment and closure activities as authorized by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (Div. B, Title XXVII).

• Establishes policy for military construction, military housing management, and adminstration of real property and facilities and authorizes specifies land acquisition and conveyances (Div. B, Title XXVIII).

• Authorizes appropriations for activities of the National Security Adminstration (NNSA), defense environmental cleanup, nuclear energy, and other defense activities, and establishes policy for certain nuclear related matters and authorizes new plant projects for the NNSA at specifies locations (Div. C, Title XXXI).

• Authorizes appropriations for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Div. C, Title XXXII).

• Authorizes appropriations for naval petroleum reserves (Div. C, Title XXXIV).

• Authorizes appropriations for the Maritime Adminstration for specifies activities, including support to the Merchant Marine Acadamy, state maritime academies, and Maritie Adminstration operations and programs, and establishes policy related to maritime matters, including maritime infrastructure and cargo preference (Div. C, Title XXXV).

• Specifies appropriation amounts for requested and authorized procurement (Div. D, Title XLI).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for research, development, test, and evaluation (Div. D, Title XLII).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for operation and maintenance (Div. D, Title XLIII).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for military personnel (Div. D, Title XLIV).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund, various working capital funds, chemical agents and munitions destructions, drug interdiction and counter drug activities, the Office of the Inspector General, and the defense health program (Div. D, Title XLV).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for military construction (Div. D, Title XLVI).

• Specifies appropriation amounts requested and authorized for DOE national security programs (Div. D, Title XLVII).

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