A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2008 for military operations and military construction.
Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement; (2) the Rapid Acquisition Fund and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation, including ballistic missile defense; (4) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds, the defense health program, chemical agents and munitions destruction, and environmental restoration; (5) active and reserve military personnel, including end strengths; and (6) increased costs due to the Global War on Terror for military activities and military construction.
Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) active and reserve military personnel, including officer personnel policy; (2) military education and training, including military justice and defense dependents' education; (3) military pay and allowances; (4) retired pay and survivor benefits, including Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) matters; (5) military health care; (6) acquisition policy and management; (7) DOD organization and management, including intelligence-related matters; (8) financial, counterdrug, and homeland security matters; (9) civilian personnel matters; and (10) matters relating to other nations, including nonproliferation.
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007[sic] - (Text to be submitted at a later date.)
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1911-1912)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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