- Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY24 Request
- FY24 requested levels other than the toplines come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2024 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book
- Numbers may not add due to rounding
Total National Defense Discretionary Spending (050)
*Does not include mandatory spending
DOD Nuclear Weapons Funding Request for Select Programs
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Request
DOE Nuclear Weapons Funding Request for Select Programs
Select Provisions Related to Nuclear Weapons
➤ Prohibition on New START Notification
House: Prohibits providing Russia with notifications under the New START Treaty (Sec. 1234)
Senate: No similar provision
➤ NC3 Major Force Program
House: Requires the Department of Defense to establish a major force program for nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) programs (Sec. 1631)
Senate: No similar provision
➤ MIRV Capability
House: Extends existing statutory requirements related to the ability of the current Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile to be capable of deploying multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles to the Sentinel (Sec. 1633)
Senate: No similar provision
➤Deployed ICBMs
House: Prohibits reducing the number of deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles below 400 (Sec. 1638)
Senate: Prohibits reducing the number of deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles below 400 (Sec. 1611)
➤ Sentinel ICBM Missile Silos
House: No similar provision
Senate: Requires refurbishment and operability of 150 ICBM silos each at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, and Minot Air Force Base (Sec. 1612)
➤ Sentinel ICBM Acquisition
House: No similar provision
Senate: Authorizes the use of multi-year procurement authority for the Sentinel ICBM program (Sec. 1613)
➤ Decreased ICBM Warhead Upload Time
House: No similar provision
Senate: Requires STRATCOM and the Air Force to develop a plan to decrease the upload time for warhead to the ICBM force to address identified limitations at Malmstrom, F.E. Warren, and Minot Air Force Bases (Sec. 1614)
➤ SLCM-N Program of Record:
House: Establishes a nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) program within the Department of Defense for the missile and its associated warhead, the W80-4 ALT (Sec. 1641)
Senate: Establishes a SLCM-N program within the Department of Defense for the missile and its associated warhead, the W80-4 ALT. Also requires initial operation capability for the SLCM-N no later than FY 2035 (Sec. 1618)
➤ SLCM-N Quarterly Reports
House: Requires quarterly reports on SLCM-N progress (Sec. 1642)
Senate: No similar provision
➤ Acceleration of Nuclear Modernization
House: Requires a DoD report on the ability to accelerate nuclear modernization (Sec. 1644)
Senate: No similar provision
➤ Annual Report on U.S. Nuclear Modernization
House: No similar provision
Senate: Requires an annual independent analysis of acquisition, construction, and recapitalization programs under the Department of Defense and NNSA to modernize U.S. nuclear forces (Sec. 1620)
➤ B83 Retirement
House: Prohibits retirement of more than 25% of B83-1 bombs until 90 days after the hard and deeply buried targets study required by the FY23 NDAA is completed (Sec. 1639)
Senate: Prohibits retirement of more than 25% of B83-1 bombs until the hard and deeply buried targets study required by the FY23 NDAA is completed (Sec. 1622)
➤ LEU Fuel Research
House: Prohibits use of funds for LEU naval fuel research (Sec. 1640)
Senate: Limits the use of funds for LEU naval fuel research until it is determined by DOE and DOD that LEU fuel should be pursued and will not impact operability of submarines and cost of refueling (Sec. 3111)
➤ ARIES Expansion Prohibition
House: No similar provision
Senate: Prohibits expansion of the Advanced Recovery and Integrated Extraction System (ARIES) process at Los Alamos until it reaches the capacity to produce 30 plutonium pits per year (Sec. 3112)
➤ Pit Modernization Management
House: No similar provision
Senate: Requires the NNSA Administrator to manage the Plutonium Modernization Program under the same management category as other weapons modernization programs to increase internal controls over the program (Sec. 3113)
➤ Pit Aging Study
House: Requires an independent assessment on plutonium aging (Sec. 3133)
Senate: No similar provision
➤ Plutonium Pit Re-Use for the W-93
House: Requires a briefing no later than February 1, 2024 on reusing plutonium pits for the W-93 warhead (Directive Report Language)
Senate: No similar provision
Missile Defeat and Defense Funding Authorization for Select Systems
Select Provisions Related to Missile Defense
➤ Indo-Pacific Integrated Air and Missile Defense Architecture
House: No similar provision.
Senate: Requires the establishment of an integrated air and missile defense architecture for the Indo-Pacific (Sec. 1637)
➤ Update to Missile Defense Policy:
House: Updates U.S. missile defense policy to identify credible nuclear capability as the foundation of strategic deterrence (Sec. 1662)
Senate: Updates U.S. missile defense policy to eliminate the reference to “rogue states” (Sec. 1638)
➤ Additional Homeland Missile Defense Site
House: Limits funding for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, for travel, pending submission of a report on an additional missile defense interceptor site at Fort Drum, New York required by the FY 2023 NDAA (Sec. 1665)
Senate: No similar provision
Miscellaneous Programs and Provisions of Interest
➤ Radiation Exposure Compensation
House: No similar provision.
Senate: Expands coverage under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to then-residents of Idaho, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Guam. Also extends the program for 19 years and expands the program to include uranium mining workers through 1990. (Subtitle I)
➤ Pay Raise: Authorizes a 5.2% pay raise for service members and civilians
➤ CTR Funds
House: Authorizes $351 million, the requested level, for the Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Sec. 1683)
Senate: Authorizes $351 million, the requested level, for the Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Sec. 1401)
Senate Passage
The bill was passed by the Senate in an 86-11 vote.
House Passage
The bill was passed by the House in a 219-210 vote.
