The House Armed Services Committee was set Wednesday to begin its annual marathon markup of the bill that sets spending ceilings and defense policies for the coming fiscal year.
Committee debate of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was to begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Capitol Hill in Washington in room 2118 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The proceedings were to stream online at the committee’s website.
The draft 2024 NDAA would authorize about $23.86 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear-weapons programs, up a little from the roughly $23.85 requested.
However, the bill shuffles funding to plutonium pit and cruise-missile warhead programs, among others, from the NNSA’s Stockpile Research Technology and Engineering and Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation accounts, reflecting differences in priorities between the White House and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
The NDAA draft up for debate Wednesday would also withhold funding for retirement of the W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic-missile warhead and gate 20% of NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby’s travel budget until the agency delivers a pair of reports to Congress.
