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The House and Senate Armed Services Committees each finished their work on their respective versions of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act last week. Both bills include a 5.2% military pay raise, the largest since 2002.
A Defense Department proposal — now agreed to by a key House subcommittee — outlines a change in personnel management for the Space Force that would eliminate the need for a reserve component.
As the military continues to face serious recruiting challenges, the House's versions of its 2024 spending bills would raise military pay by more than 40 percent for some junior enlisted ranks.
DoD hasn't yet weighed in with an official position on whether a notional "cyber force" should become a new seventh branch of the armed services, despite years of Congress asking.
Howard University will partner with the Air Force as the first HBCU to host a University Affiliated Research Center.
Congress looks to DoD for more improvements to privatized military housing, and asks for more reports and oversight.
DoD pursues multiple paths to hire a new cybersecurity workforce including scholarships and a reserve program.
Military families will see an increase in what they pay for childcare as DoD looks to hire and retain more child care staff.
Many of DoD’s plans and programs will have to wait if the budget goes to a year-long continuing resolution.
What Congress will do about the budget when it comes back from recess after the elections
Contractors are nervous about the continuing resolution the government is operating under since Saturday
It’s that time of year when activity on Capitol Hill usually falls into a lull. But this year’s the rare occurrence when big legislative activity is happening in August. The Senate passed a huge reconciliation bill over the weekend; the House is expected to do the same later this week. Meanwhile both houses have a lot of work waiting for them to reconcile their versions of the annual appropriations and authorization bills.
The House is sticking closely to the Biden budget and to appropriators but the Senate Armed Services Committee is feeling bolder in what it is approving in its legislation.
In 20 years, the number of annual reports the Defense Department must make to Congress has nearly tripled to more than 1,400.