Washington, D.C. – Led by Ranking Member John Garamendi (D-CA) and Chairman Mike Waltz (R-FL), the Subcommittee on Readiness today released its proposals for the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Subcommittee will meet at 10:00am ET on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 in Rayburn 2118. The markup will be live streamed on the committee’s website. The Subcommittee's mark is available here. 

 
Maintaining Readiness

  • Directs GAO to review and assess DoD’s efforts to plan and execute fuel resupply needs in a contested Indo-Pacific environment.
  • Directs GAO to review and assess DoD’s strategy and oversight of its prepositioning program in the INDOPACOM region.
  • Invests in innovative technologies to efficiently store thermal energy created from directed energy weapons systems to provide US ships, vehicles, and installations with more effective defensive countermeasures and survivability.
  • Withholds funds from the Department of the Navy until they deliver an initial report on the maintenance and sustainment of amphibious warship fleet and then quarterly reports on their operational status thereafter.
  • Directs GAO to review the Navy’s approach to identifying and establishing sustainment funding requirements, developing and presenting its budget for ship sustainment, and executing appropriated funds for ship sustainment.
  • Supports and strengthens the organic industrial base by reforming the calculation of depot carryover to ensure stability in funding and workforce management by excluding foreign military sales work from carryover calculations.

 
Increasing Security

  • Requires the Secretaries of the military departments to develop and implement guidance on identifying, mitigating, and reporting harmful encroachment near military installations, particularly with regards to land purchases made by foreign entities.
  • Mandates DoD eliminate reliance on Russian energy for all DoD installations within European Command.
  • Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to report on foreign control and influence over the supply chain for critical minerals and metals used for defense technologies.

 
Infrastructure

  • Removes the sunset for the Defense Community Infrastructure Program that allows the Secretary of Defense to provide grants and other support to eligible infrastructure projects that benefit military installations.
  • Permanently increases the minor military construction threshold to give the services greater flexibility to build out necessary infrastructure; demolition is also added to the definition of minor military construction projects to allow removal of obsolete facilities and facilitate future operations.