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Less Procurement Funds, More Oversight In SASC’s Defense Bill

Valerie Insinna

Friday, May 13th, 2016

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Less Procurement Funds, More Oversight In SASC’s Defense Bill

A pilot from of 1st Squadron, 229th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., flies the new AH-64E Apache Longbow Photo: U.S. Army

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) $602 billion defense authorization bill, agreed to Thursday afternoon in a 23-3 vote, contains less procurement funding—and far more provisions curtailing programs—than the legislation that will be debated on the House floor next week.From a surface view, the SASC and House Armed Services Committee (HASC) versions of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Acts conform to the exact same top lines: $543 billion for base expenses and $59 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)…

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