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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 law also authorizes "Department of Energy national security programs", benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes "authorities to facilitate" ongoing international operations for the Fiscal Year 2017. It includes a new bill passed against Russian propaganda to ...
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is any of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense. The first NDAA was passed in 1961.
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The chief of the National Guard Bureau, added to the JCS in 2008, inherited the four-year term limit set in 1920 for the chief of the Militia Bureau, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (2017 NDAA) gave a single four-year term to the remaining JCS members, starting in 2019 for the chairman and 2021 for the vice chairman.
In 2016 the punitive articles of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice were reformed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. Sodomy along with any consensual sexual activity was stricken from the punishable offences. The new article 125 covers kidnapping. [9]
On September 30, 2015, President Barack Obama threatened to veto the NDAA 2016. The reason for the veto threat by the Obama administration was that the bill H.R. 1735 bypassed the Budget Control Act of 2011 spending caps by allocating nearly $90 billion to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, designating routine spending as emergency war expenses exempted from the caps.
Kaptur votes for $874.2 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which includes $300 million in Ukraine aid.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 expanded GEC's mission by giving it the authority to address other foreign propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation operations, [9] following some Members of Congress' call for a stronger response to Russian interference in U.S. elections through propaganda.