{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bridenstine.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=763", "National Defense Authorization Act Includes Bridenstine Provisions", "2016-12-02", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "OK", "Jim Bridenstine", "B001283", "bridenstine.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Today, Congressman Jim Bridenstine voted for the FY17 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report. The NDAA conference report reconciles differences in the House and Senate versions passed earlier this year.\u00a0 \u00a0NDAA is a bipartisan bill that authorizes funding for America\u2019s armed forces and sets Department of Defense policy.\u00a0 Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act 55 years in a row. \u00a0The NDAA conference report includes a number of critical provisions:\r\n \r\n    Pay raise for the troops above the President\u2019s request\r\n    Additional funding to stop the drawdown in Army soldiers and Marines\r\n    Expanded care at military hospitals\r\n    \r\n \r\nThe NDAA conference report rejects a number of controversial policy changes in the Senate NDAA including:\r\n \r\n    Requiring women to register with Selective Service\r\n    Cuts to housing allowance (including dual military families)\r\n    \r\n \r\nThe NDAA conference report includes several provisions from Rep. Bridenstine\u2019s\u00a0American Space Renaissance Act\u00a0(ASRA). \u00a0In April 2016, Congressman Bridenstine introduced ASRA, groundbreaking legislation to enact bold reforms across military, civil, and commercial space sectors.\u00a0 NDAA is the first step in Bridenstine\u2019s strategy to enact ASRA piece-by-piece using different legislative vehicles.\u00a0 The conference report includes ten ASRA provisions, including:\r\n \r\n    Section 1605 - Modifies the terms of the Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) to ensure DOD uses accurate cost estimates and fully considers commercial SATCOM technologies.\u00a0 The Pentagon uses AoAs to help select new weapons systems to replace old programs.\u00a0 DOD will start the SATCOM AoA shortly to help choose a successor system to the current Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation, which provides long-distance communications capabilities to our warfighter.\u00a0\r\n    Section 1606 \u2013 Redirects funding to jump start a pilot program to test next-generation SATCOM technologies.\u00a0 Private sector SATCOM companies are offering leap-ahead capacity for commercial customers.\u00a0 The Department of Defense should take advantage of this.\u00a0\r\n    Section 1613 - Establishes a pilot program for the Air Force to buy, test, and evaluate commercial weather data.\u00a0 Utilizing data provided by innovative private sector weather companies can lower costs to taxpayers, produce better weather products for the warfighter, and complicate the targeting solutions of our enemies by distributing space architectures.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bridenstine.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=763"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9898152202367783, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}