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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140221112156/http://hanabusa.house.gov/press-release/final-defense-bill-includes-provisions-championed-hanabusa-heads-presidents-desk | Final Defense Bill Includes Provisions Championed by Hanabusa; Heads to President's Desk for Signature | 2013-12-19 | 2013 | 2013-12 | Democrat | House | HI | Colleen Hanabusa | H001050 | web.archive.org | legacy | Washington, D.C. – The final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014 passed the Senate today and included a number of provisions championed by U.S. Representative Colleen Hanabusa (HI-01), a member of the House Armed Services Committee. “The NDAA affirms Hawaii’s continued importance as the doorstep to Asia and the Pacific, providing for Hawaii’s needs and our nation’s defense priorities. That has always been my goal,” said Hanabusa. “The bill includes vital funding for our state’s defense projects, which means jobs, infrastructure improvements, and investment in breakthrough research and development. I am proud that the final NDAA includes provisions I had inserted in the House Armed Services Committee, and thank my staff for all their hard work during the process.” The NDAA provides the budget authority of the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy. The Hanabusa provisions included in the final NDAA would: · Provide $400 million for military construction in Hawaii, as well as prohibit any additional rounds of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). · Authorize more than $72 million in new loan guarantees for new commercial ship construction, critical for upgrading and building new shipping vessels running to and from Hawaii. · Limit the funding for early retirement of Ticonderoga class cruisers, two of which are homeported at Pearl Harbor and currently conducting ongoing missions in the Asia Pacific. · Provide the Secretary of Defense with the authority to lease real estate property for military heritage sites for a term of more than 5 years, and for an amount that is less than the fair market value of the lease interest if it serves the public interest. This language will help leverage this authority for sites like the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum in Hawaii. · Require a report from the Secretary of Defense outlining the different savings initiatives that have been outlined and how they coincide with the Budget Control Act. The ultimate goal is to outline a path for how these initiatives can be used to offset sequestration. · Require the Department of Defense to consider the strategic value of venues when determining where to hold training and conferences. It is important that certain locations in line with initiatives, like Hawaii, not be excluded from consideration for training and conferences just because of optics. · Extend the authority to provide military transportation services to other federal agencies at the same rate the Department of Defense charges its own units for similar transportation. This enables public-private partnerships between TRANSCOM and other federal agencies. · Strengthen enforcement of a provision of the 2008 NDAA that requires that the Department of Defense eliminate unauthorized personal services contracts and contracts for the performance of inherently governmental functions, and to reduce the number of contracts for the performance of closely associated with inherently governmental functions. · Provide research funding to support the development of open source unmanned aerial systems architecture. Unmanned systems control segment software currently does not integrate with the numerous software applications employed by the Services, and the Services have little incentive to procure integrated solutions. Open source software is being demonstrated in Hawaii currently and this could help further our state’s case to be selected for future FAA test sites. · Direct the Office of Naval Research to consider funding initiatives that could lead to the development of a low-cost Array Burial Vehicle capable of installing acoustic intelligence systems. The ability to obtain acoustic intelligence on foreign submarines is a critical national security need. This research has been ongoing in Hawaii, conducted by local, small engineering businesses. · Fund further development of prepositioned expeditionary assistance kits (PEAK), which were successfully demonstrated in 2011. PEAKs provide an array of capabilities for field distributed essential services including potable water, power, communications and situational awareness that could allow expeditionary forces to provide effective and efficient operation beyond 72 hours after a disaster event. There is an ongoing effort to produce this capability in Hawaii. · Leverage state and local technology investments to encourage the Department of Defense to fund mechanisms for supporting the nation's industrial base for emerging technologies. For example, the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research provides some administrative support and subject matter expertise for small and emerging businesses in diverse fields such as agriculture, renewable energy and health information systems. Also, the Hawaii Technology Development Venture supports Hawaii-based technology businesses, as well as current and future Department of Navy and Department of Defense programs. The NDAA now heads to President Obama’s desk for his signature. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |