WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee today unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations bill.
I. Summary: FY 2010 Defense Appropriations
The bill:
- Provides $636.3 billion in new discretionary spending authority for the Department of Defense for functions under the Defense Subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including $128.2 billion for overseas contingency operations
- Recommendation is $3.9 billion below the President’s FY 2010 budget request
- Provides $4 billion in General Transfer Authority
Title I – Military Personnel: $124.8 billion
- Funds an active duty end strength of 1,425,000 and a reserve component end strength of 844,500
- Fully funds the Army’s request to grow its end strength by an additional 22,000 and sustains the grow the force end strength levels already reached by the Marine Corps and Army Guard and Reserve
Title II – Operation and Maintenance: $154 billion
Fully funds key readiness programs critical to prepare forces for combat operations and other peace time missions: OPTEMPO flying hours and steaming days, depot maintenance, training, spare parts, and base operations
Title III – Procurement: $108 billion
Aircraft
- Fully funds 22 EA-18G aircraft
- Fully funds the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Request for both Navy and Air Force
- Defers six aircraft in the UH-1Y/AH-1Z program due to funds provided in the FY2009 Supplemental and operational readiness concerns
- Fully funds V-22 procurement
- Funds procurement of six P-8A Poseidon aircraft
- Adds funds to procure two HH-60 helicopters for the Air Force
- Provides requested funding for procurement of UH-60 Black Hawk, CH-47 Chinook, and UH-72 Lakota helicopters
- Funds the MH-60S and MH-60R helicopter programs
- Funds procurement of two E-2D Hawkeye aircraft
- Funds 28 Joint Primary Air Training System (JPATS) aircraft for the Navy
- Adds 10 C-17 Globemaster strategic airlift aircraft
- Eliminates the HC-130/MC-130 aircraft already funded in the FY 2009 Supplemental
- Funds the request for three C-130J aircraft
- Defers funding for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program
- Funds the request for C-37 and C-40 aircraft
Weapons/Missiles
- Fully funds Standard Missile program
- Fully funds Tomahawk missile program
- Fully funds Minuteman III modifications and requested Solid Rocket Motor Warm Line Program
- Provides requested quantity for Joint Direct Attack Munitions
Shipbuilding
- Provides $170 million in advance procurement for LHA(R)
- Provides an additional $1.7 billion for a second DDG 51 destroyer
- Fully funds the budget request for the DDG 1000 program
- Provides the requested amount for DDG and CG Modernization
- Includes an additional $25 million to recapitalize the Navy’s training and weapons range support craft
- Eliminates funding for the terminated Advanced SEAL Delivery System
Vehicles/Force Protection
- Funds procurement of Future Combat System Spin Out equipment
- Funds the Army’s Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles Program
- Reduces funding for the Army’s Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles due to program execution
- Funds the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle program
- Funds modifications for the Stryker vehicle fleet
- Funds the Bradley Fighting Vehicle modification program
- Fully funds the Abrams Tank modification and upgrade programs
Other
- Provides an additional $1.5 billion for the National Guard and Reserve Equipment account
- Reduces funding for Night Vision Devices due to production delays
- Increases funding for training and weapons range readiness initiatives across the services
Title IV – Research, Development, Test and Evaluation: $78.5 billion
Aircraft
- Provides an additional $50 million for the continued development of the RTIP sensor for large aircraft
- Provides over $560 million for F-22 modernization initiatives
- Terminates the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program and transfers the funding to HH-60 replacement helicopters
- Provides $79.3 million for Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payload for Global Hawk to improve communications in theater
- Provides only the funds to restart a competition for the next generation presidential helicopter
- Fully funds research and development for the P-8A Poseidon, Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) UAV, and CH-53K
- Includes no funds for JSF alternate engine development
Shipbuilding
- Reduces funding for the delayed CG(X) program by $64 million
- Fully funds research for the next generation ballistic missile submarine
Missile Defense
- Provides $7.7 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, which matches the budget request; however, includes several changes to provide additional funding for MDA’s near-term programs — Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD), Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, and the TPY-2 radars that support the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries
- Provides an additional $50 million for GMD due to an MDA identified shortfall to maintain the Ground-Based Interceptor production line
- Provides an additional $57.6 million for 6 additional Standard-Missile-3 Block 1A interceptors, which maintains the program at the fiscal year 2009 production level
- Provides an additional $35 million for increased development of the future variants of the Standard Missile-3
- Provides an additional $41 million for advance procurement of a TPY-2 radar to support the THAAD batteries once they are fielded
- Provides $82.8 million for the Israeli cooperative programs, including Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense, Arrow-2, and Arrow-3
- Reduces funding for farther-term missile defense research in order to ensure that the near-term programs remain MDA’s highest priority
Other
- Includes the requested funds for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
- Fully funds the request to start development of the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV)
- Provides an additional $75 million for alternative energy research
- Provides an additional $50 million for next generation military communications satellite research and development
- Provides an additional $30 million for the Industrial Base Innovation Fund, as authorized
Title V – Revolving and Management Funds: $1.5 billion
Title VI – Other Department of Defense Programs:
Defense Health Programs $28.3 billion
- — Provides $407 million above the President’s budget request
- — Provides $240 million for cancer research. The total amount is distributed as follows:
- $150 million for the Breast Cancer Research Program
- $80 million for the Prostate Cancer Research Program
- $10 million for the Ovarian Cancer Research Program
- — Provides $50 million for a medical research fund
- — Provides $60 million for a Peer Reviewed Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program
- — Provides $307 million to address the TRICARE private sector shortfall in fiscal year 2010 as identified by the Department of Defense
Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction $1.5 billion
Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities $1.1 billion
- Provides $44 million above the President’s budget request
Office of the Inspector General $288 million
Provides an additional $15.6 million to accelerate the growth of the Office of the Inspector General in order to keep pace with the growth in the size of the defense budget and the number of defense contracts.
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