The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have rescheduled their respective full committee markups of the fiscal 12 months 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for June 21.
The update follows each committees’ decision to delay their original NDAA markup plans as a result of the debt ceiling negotiations, with President Biden now having signed a final bill on the matter.
“Annually, the National Defense Authorization Act provides our forces with the resources, training, equipment, and capabilities they should keep Americans protected. The importance of this mission has never been more urgent, as the safety challenges before our nation proceed to evolve at an alarming rate. The Armed Services Committee markup is a critical a part of the NDAA process, and I stay up for working with Rating Member Wicker and our colleagues to proceed our tradition of thoughtful deliberation and bipartisan collaboration,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the SASC chair, said in an announcement.
SASC’s Cybersecurity, Airland and Strategic Forces panels will hold their closed door subcommittee markups on June 20.
The Seapower, Readiness, Personnel and Emerging Threats and Capabilities panels’ markups might be conducted on June 21. SASC Seapower and Readiness’ markups might be conducted in closed session, Personnel might be open and a call has yet to be made on the Emerging Threats panel.
SASC may even take up its full committee markup on June 21, and June 22 and 23 if needed, with the proceedings conducted in a closed session.
HASC, meanwhile, will hold all of its subcommittee markups on June 13, aside from its Readiness Subcommittee, which can consider its portion of the bill on June 14.
The complete HASC committee may even hold its open NDAA markup on June 21, with the hearing often extending into late hours of the night because it considers a whole bunch of amendments.
HASC was originally scheduled to take up the NDAA markup on May 23 (Defense Each day, May 10).
The bill Congress passed last week to lift the debt ceiling locks in an $886 billion defense topline for fiscal 12 months 2024, while Senate leadership has offered commitment for the opportunity of supplemental funding measures so as to add a defense boost (Defense Each day, June 2).
