Top Line
Funding Totals
- Total funding: $750 billion (House Armed Services Committee level: $733 billion)
- $642.5 billion: Department of Defense discretionary base
- $23.3 billion: Department of Energy discretionary base
- $75.9 billion: Overseas Contingency Operations
- $8.4 billion: Other defense-related activities
Select Nuclear and Related Weapons Programs
A. Ohio Replacement Strategic Submarine (Columbia Class)
- $1.8 billion: Procurement, an increase of $125 million
- $434.1 million: Research and development, an increase of $15 million
B. Long range strike bomber B-21 (Conventional and Nuclear)
- $3.0 billion: Research and development, the requested amount
C. Long Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO)
- $712.5 million: Research and development, the requested amount
D. Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD – ICBM replacement)
- $592.4 million: Research and development, an increase of $22 million from request
E. Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile
- $1.2 billion: Procurement for modifications
F. Analysis of alternatives for Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N)
- $5.0 million: Research and development, an increase of $5 million; an ask to make the weapon a program of record, Section 241
G. W76-2 low-yield SLBM warhead in Department of Energy budget
- $10 million: the requested amount
H. Plutonium pits
- Retains requirement to build 80 pits: The core of a nuclear weapon (House Armed Services Committee cut the number to 30)
I. Deployed Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
- Bars reducing number of deployed ICBMs below 400: Section 1664
Missile Defense Programs
A. Ground-based Midcourse Defense (National Missile Defense)
- $1.2 billion: Research and development, the requested amount
B. Neutral particle beam missile defense program
- $0, a reduction of $34 million from the request
C. Space-based sensor program
- $108 million, and encourages acceleration of the program (Section 1673)
Select Conventional Programs
A. Aviation programs
- 94 F-35 aircraft, 16 more than the request ($10 billion)
- 8 F-15X aircraft, a reduction of $162 million from the request ($948 million)
- 15 KC-46A tanker aircraft, 3 more than the request ($2.8 billion)
- 66 UH-60M Blackhawk helicopters, 7 fewer than the request ($1.3 billion)
- 24 F/A-18 E/F Superhornet aircraft
- 6 P-8A Poseidon aircraft, the requested number
- 10 MV-22 Osprey aircraft, the requested number
- 8 MC-130J aircraft, the requested number ($871.2 million)
B. Shipbuilding
- 3 DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers
- 2 SSN-774 attack submarines
- 1 Frigate
- 2 towing, salvage, and rescue ships
- 2 Lewis class oilers
- 4 LCU-1700 amphibious landing craft
Other Programs of Interest
A. Prompt Global Strike Capability development
- $107.0 million: Research and development, the requested amount
B. Afghanistan Security Forces Fund
- $4.8 billion: the requested amount
C. Cooperative Threat Reduction
- $338.7 million: the requested amount
D. Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense
- $985.5 million: the requested amount
E. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
- $568.1 million: Base Budget, the requested amount
- $317.6 million: Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) Account, the requested amount
Military Personnel Levels
2,140,307 total military personnel
- 1,339,500 active duty end strength
- 800,807 guard and reserve end strength
Military Pay
- Military pay increase: 3.1%
Miscellaneous Provisions
- Establishes U.S. Space Force within the U.S. Air Force
- Bars for one year the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Europe if the U.S. withdraws from NATO (Section 1232)
- Bars reducing the number of U.S. forces in South Korea below 28,500 without prior Secretary of Defense certification (Section 1251)
- Transfers $97.9 billion from the administration’s proposed Overseas Contingency Operations “base” funding back to the base discretionary account.
- Requires a report describing Russia’s deployed non-strategic nuclear weapons; Russia’s nuclear weapons in development that would not be covered by the New START if deployed; Russia’s non-deployed strategic weapons; China’s nuclear modernization program; and the implications thereof on the New START central limits (Section 1243).
- Prohibits the transfer of F-35 fighters to Turkey if that country accepts the Russian S-400 air and missile defense system (Section 1236)
- Establishes a cost cap on the CVN-78 aircraft carrier of $13.0 billion (Section 123)
- Requires the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) (Section 128).
Note: The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the bill by a vote of 25-2, with only Senators Warren and Gillibrand voting no.
