NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Senate Armed Services Committee releases summary of FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act
ECA Staff | 6/11/2020
Today the Senate Armed Services Committee released an executive summary of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). If passed, this year will mark the 60th consecutive year that Congress successfully approves the annual defense legislation.
The Senate's FY21 NDAA authorizes a total of $740.2 billion for national defense. Of that amount, the committee authorized a total of $25.9 billion for the Department of Energy's (DOE) national security programs.
Additionally, the summary includes a section regarding nuclear modernization: "Recognizing that a strong and secure nuclear deterrent will serve to counter threats from strategic competitors, the FY21 bill supports our nuclear triad, command and control, and infrastructure, and better aligns the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and DOD budget processes."
Among the nuclear modernization provisions are:
- Improving DOD coordination, insight, and participation in the NNSA budget development process and improves transparency of the NNSA budget for Congress and the public;
- Prohibiting the use of FY21 funding to reduce the quantity or alert status of intercontinental ballistic missiles below 400;
- Improves cybersecurity requirements for NNSA contractors and subcontractors;
- Clarifying the role of the Nuclear Weapons Council in validating nuclear weapons requirements;
- Authorizing certain military construction projects to convert Minuteman III launch facilities to GroundBased Strategic Deterrent configurations under certain conditions.
The House is expected to begin marking up its version of the bill the week of June 22.
ECA will continue to provide updates on the DOE provisions of the NDAA as the Senate's full markup is released.
Read the SASC executive summary here.
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