The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $577.9 billion bill for funding the Defense Department in fiscal 2017, which began last October.
The Pentagon and all other federal agencies have operated under two separate continuing resolutions in this budget year. The latest resolution expires in late April.
The bill passed the house by a vote of 233 to 185, with only five Democrats in favor and three Republicans against.
The bill provides $516.1 billion in the DoD base budget and $61.8 billion for war funding under the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) and Global War on Terrorism account. In fiscal 2016 Congress appropriated $514.1 billion in base funding for DoD and $58.6 billion for the OCO account.
The legislation – the result of a conference agreement between both houses of Congress would provide $113.9 million for the Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent Program and $95.6 million for the service’s Long-Range Standoff nuclear cruise missile. Intercontinental ballistic missiles would receive $113.7 million and the Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program would receive $773.1 million.
The bill includes $6.7 billion for cyberspace operations, $992 million higher than in fiscal 2016 and in line with the request by former President Barack Obama. It also contains $600.7 million for the Israeli Missile Defense Cooperative program, which is $113 million above the fiscal 2016 level and $454.9 million more than Obama requested.
