The Senate on Thursday passed the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill, sending it to President Barack Obama’s desk for signature into law.
The vote was 92-7. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted against the bill. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) abstained. The House passed the bill earlier in the week. 
The bill authorizes $619 billion for defense. This includes $60 billion in overseas contingency operations (OCO) funding. It also authorizes the $5.8 billion supplemental request and $3.2 billion for readiness stabilization funding.
The bill splits the current position of under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics (AT&L) into two starting Feb. 1, 2018: a chief technology officer (CTO) and chief acquisition officer. It also restricts funding for the Pentagon’s tech innovation outreach initative to 80 percent until Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, or his successor, submits a report on the “charter for and the use of funds to establish and expand” the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx). The Pentagon requested $45 million for this endeavor in FY ’17.