| Department of Defense – Military, Base Budget (051) | |
| House | Senate |
| $496.1 billion | $496.5 billion |
| Atomic Energy Defense Activities (053) | |
| House | Senate |
| $18.9 billion | $18.7 billion |
| Overseas Contingency Operations | |
| House | Senate |
| $89.2 billion | $88.9 billion |
| TOTAL: National Defense (Budget Function 050) | |
| House | Senate |
| $604.2 billion | $604.1 billion |
| Sea-Based Deterrence Fund | |
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| Expands the transfer authority provided for the Sea-Based Deterrence Fund from the Department of Navy to the Department of Defense (section 1051). Permits the Pentagon to tap unobligated funds from across the Defense Department and authorizes transferring $1.4 billion from research and development accounts (section 4501). | Authorizes up to $3.5 billion for the Sea-Based Deterrence Fund from unobligated funds authorized to be appropriated throughout the Department of Defense (section 1022). |
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Long-Range Strike Bomber |
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| Authorizes $786.2, $460 million less than the President’s request for the long-range strike bomber program. | Authorizes $786.2, $460 million less than the President’s request for the long-range strategic bomber program. |
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Requires the Comptroller General of to conduct a review of the U.S. Air Force bomber acquisition program as it pertains to the new bomber. |
Requires a report on the technological readiness level of the technologies and capabilities of the LRS-B. |
| No Provision. |
Limits the retirement of B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers to pay for a new long-range bomber (section 131). |
| New START | |
| House | Senate |
| Bars funds to implement the New START nuclear reductions treaty until the Russians leave Ukraine, stop cheating on the INF, and other conditions (floor amendment). | No provision. |
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Missile Defense |
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Authorizes $679.4 million for 58 Aegis BMD missiles – $120.5 million and 18 more missiles than the Administration request. |
Authorizes $706.7 million for 49 Aegis BMD missiles – $147.8 million and 18 more missiles than the Administration’s request. |
| Requires the modification of the Aegis Ashore site in Romania, and the planned site in Poland, to provide enhanced Anti-Air Warfare capability for defense against Russian aircraft and cruise missiles. | No provision.
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| Requires the relocation of the Sea-based X-band Radar from Hawaii to a site on the East Coast by 2020, with the plan to homeport the radar on the East Coast (section 1673). | Requires a report on whether Hawaii is adequately protected from present and future North Korean missile threats. |
| No Provision. | Authorizes $266.7 million, an increase of $20 million, for an redesigned kill vehicle (RKV) to replace the kill vehicles presently mounted on interceptors in Alaska and California. Schedules a first flight test in FY 2018, a first intercept test in FY 2019, limited initial production in FY 2020 and four production RKV’s by the end of FY 2021. |
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Multiple-Option Kill Vehicle |
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The committee recommends $86.5 million, an increase of $40.0 million over the president’s request, for the MOKV program. Also requires that the Director of the Missile Defense Agency conduct rigorous flight testing by not later than 2020, and deployment of such vehicle as soon as practicable there- after (section 1671). |
The committee recommends an increase of $20.0 million over the President’s request for a total of $66.7 million for the MOKV development program. Also requires a provision that would require the Director of the Missile Defense Agency to conduct rigorous flight testing of the multi-object kill vehicle by not later than 2020 and field such vehicle as soon as technically practicable (section 1646). |
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East Coast Missile Defense |
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| Provides $30 million for planning an East Coast missile defense site (section 4601). |
No funding.
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| Requires the Missile Defense Agency to tell Congress its preferred location of an East Coast missile defense within 30 days of the publishing of the draft environmental impact statement was approved by voice vote. | Finds that the currently deployed ground-based midcourse defense system is sufficient to protect the East Coast from North Korea and Iran. Recommends deploying by 2020 a new long-range tracking and discrimination sensor capabilities. While not insisting on a new East Coast missile defense, if the Pentagon does determine it needs an additional missile defense site after completing environmental reviews by 2016, it should plan to do on an expedited basis within three years of that decision (section 1641). |
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Boost Phase Missile Defense |
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| Requires development and fielding of a boost phase missile defense system by 2022 (section 1672). | Directs development of a boost phase defense system by Fiscal Year 2025 (section 1648). |
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Space-Based Missile Defense |
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Requires launching research and development, and engineering evaluation for space-based missile defense (section 1675).
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Acknowledges that the Pentagon has in the past rejected space-based missile defense due to “certain challenges”; requires a report on the need for a space-based missile defense, the current technologies and life cycle costs for such a system (section 4201). |
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Long-range standoff weapon |
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| Requires a Pentagon report on plans, cost and strategy to increase the number of nuclear-armed cruise missiles known as Long Range Standoff Weapon. | Establishes a deadline to make a Milestone A (early stage of weapons acquisition) decision on the cruise missile by no later than May 31, 2016 (section 1634). |
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Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force |
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Prohibits the reduction of the alert posture of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) force (floor amendment). |
No provision. |
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Nuclear Weapons |
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Senate |
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The committee “strongly supports the nuclear triad and is aware of the urgent need for modernization of all three legs of the triad.” It also “seeks to further understand opportunities to accomplish this effort at reduced cost and without reducing capability or delaying modernization plans.”
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Sense of Congress endorsing the nuclear triad of nuclear weapons on land, at sea and in the air as “the highest priority mission of the Department of Defense,” that it is the policy of the United States to sustain and modernize or replace the entire triad plus “operate, sustain, and modernize or replace forward-deployed nuclear weapons and dual capable fighter-bomber aircraft” (section 1636). |
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Non-Proliferation Funding and Programs |
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Authorizes $358.5 million for the Cooperative Threat Reduction non-proliferation program (section 1301). |
Authorizes $358.5 million for the Cooperative Threat Reduction non-proliferation program (section 1301). |
| Continues a ban on Fiscal Year 2016 funding defense nuclear nonproliferation programs from being spent in Russia, although waivers are allowed if the Energy Department deems it in U.S. security interests (section 3118). | No provision.
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| Prohibits any funding for research programs for arms control treaty verification and monitoring beyond what is required for New START unless a number of conditions are met (committee amendment). | No provision. |
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National Nuclear Security Agency Funding |
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Authorizes $12.8 billion for the National Nuclear Security Agency of the Department of Energy, a $204.7 million increase compared to the President’s request (section 4701).
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Authorizes $12.8 billion for the National Nuclear Security Agency of the Department of Energy, a $204.7 million increase compared to the President’s request (section 3101).
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Of that, authorizes $9.1 billion for NNSA weapons activities ($237.7 million more than the President’s request); $1.9 billion for Defense nuclear non-proliferation (DNN) ($50 million less than the President’s request).
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Of that, authorizes $9.0 billion for NNSA weapons activities ($237.7 million more than the President’s request); $1.9 billion for Defense nuclear non-proliferation (DNN) ($50 million less than the President’s request).
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Authorizes for DNN subprograms: $336.8 million for Global Material Security, $331.6 million for Material Management and Minimization, $126.7 million for Nonproliferation and arms control, and $439.3 million for Research and Development (section 4701).
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Authorizes for DNN subprograms the same amounts as the President’s request: $426.8 million for Global Material Security, $311.6 million for Material Management and Minimization, $126.7 million for Nonproliferation and arms control, and $419.3 million for Research and Development (section 4701).
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Adds $150 million to infrastructure recapitalization to address the infrastructure problems within the NNSA.
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Adds $150 million to infrastructure recapitalization to address the infrastructure problems within the NNSA. |
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Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication |
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Authorizes $345 million for MOX (the same as the President’s request) (section 3116). |
Authorizes $345 million for MOX (the same as the President’s request), plus an additional $5 million to research alternatives for a total of $350 million. The committee notes the recent report estimated that the MOX plant could cost $51 billion and requires further study of downblending as an alternative (section 4701). |
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Radiological Portals |
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Cuts funding from fixed-site radiological portals designed to intercept nuclear weapons and nuclear materials from being shipped from other countries to the U.S. |
No provision. |
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Nuclear Weapons Dismantlement |
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Limits $50 million annually for dismantlement of nuclear weapons (committee amendment). |
No provision. |
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F-35 |
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Authorizes $2.5 billion for the F-35 Marine Corps variant ($98 million and six more planes than the President’s request)
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Authorizes $2.5 billion for the F-35 Marine Corps variant ($103 million and six more planes than the President’s request).
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Requires an independent review of the F-35 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (section 214).
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Limits the availability for F-35A (Air Force) procurement to $4.3 billion until all F-35As delivered in Fiscal Year 2018 are deemed combat capable, but authorizes $5.2 billion in procurement for 44 F-35As ($99 million less than the request) (section 133). Also authorizes $873.0 million in procurement for four F-35C (carrier variant) aircrafts, and $2.5 billion in procurement for 15 F-35B (Navy) aircraft, an increase of six aircraft and $1.1 billion from the request. |
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Ukraine |
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Senate |
| Authorizes up to $200 million to provide the Ukrainian military with lethal defensive weapons (section 1532). | Authorizes $300 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative to provide aid, including lethal military assistance, to Ukraine’s military and other security forces (section 1251). |
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Counterterrorism Partnership Fund |
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Blocks $2.1 billion requested for a counterterrorism partnership fund (section 4302).
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Authorizes $1.0 billion for the Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund, $1.1 billion less than the President’s request because the budget justification detail is not sufficient (section 1511). |
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Pentagon Audit |
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Senate |
| The committee stresses the importance of the Department of Defense’s financial management and audit efforts, and notes that the Department has 2 fiscal years remaining to complete its audit readiness work in preparation for meeting its goal of full financial statement auditability by September 30, 2017. | Permits independent auditors to aid the Pentagon attempts to prepare annual audits (section 1002). |
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Aid to Syrian Opposition |
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Authorizes $600 million to train and equip Syrian opposition forces (section 1225). |
Authorizes $600 million to train and equip Syrian opposition forces (section 4302). |
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Aid to Iraq |
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Senate |
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Authorizes $715 million to train and equip Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State (section 4302).
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Authorizes $715 million to train and equip Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State (section 4302).
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Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to submit to Congress an assessment of the extent to which the Government of Iraq is meeting certain conditions relating to political inclusion of ethnic and sectarian minorities within the security forces of Iraq (section 1223).
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Prohibits funds intended for the Iraq Train and Equip fund from the FY 2015 NDAA to be implemented until “the Secretary of Defense certifies that appropriate steps have been taken by the Government of Iraq to safeguard against transferring to or acquisition by violent extremist organizations of such equipment or supplies” (section 1225).
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| Extends the authority for the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq; authorizes $143 million (section 1221). | Extends the authority for the Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq; authorizes $80 million (section 1228). |
| No less than 12.5% of FY16 Iraq aid goes to the Kurds; Require that the Kurdish Peshmerga, the Sunni tribal security forces with a national security mission, and the Iraqi Sunni National Guard be deemed a country, which would allow these security forces to directly receive assistance from the United States under this section. | Requires a provision that would express the sense of the Senate urging the United States to provide security assistance to the security forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (section 1229). |
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Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) |
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Bars a new round of base closings (BRAC): “nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize a future Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round” (section 2702) |
Bars a new round of base closings (BRAC): “nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize a future Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round” (section 2702). |
