National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Bill: 108-s-747
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-03-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aggression
Air force
Air pollution control
Alliances
Ammunition
Animals
Archives
Arctic and polar regions
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Arms control
Army
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Authorization
Aviation insurance
Awards, medals, prizes
Ballistic missile defenses
Ballistic missiles
Bearings
Biennial budgets
Buy American
Carbon monoxide
Charter airlines
Checks
Chemical warfare
China
Civil service retirement
Claims
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Corrosion
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Defense industries
Defense procurement
Democracy
Department of Defense
Disability evaluation
Disabled
District courts
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drunk driving
Early retirement
Earnings
Easements
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Energy
Energy conservation
Enlisted personnel
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Europe
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Export controls
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fighter aircraft
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign exchange
Former Soviet states
Foundations
France
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government service contracts
Graduate education
Grievance procedures
Guided missiles
Hazardous wastes
Health
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Homeless
Hours of labor
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Inspectors general
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Land transfers
Language and languages
Latin America
Law
Leases
Liability for environmental damages
Logistics
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Marines
Married people
Middle East and North Africa
Military agreements
Military aircraft
Military and naval supplies
Military assistance
Military attaches
Military bases
Military command and control
Military construction operations
Military dependents
Military education
Military electronics
Military hospitals
Military housing
Military intelligence
Military leave
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Military readiness
Military research
Military sealift
Military strategy
Military training
Military vehicles
Military weapons
Motor vehicles
Municipal services
NATO countries
NATO military forces
National Guard
Nature conservation
Navy
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Officer personnel
Ordnance
Ozone
Part-time employment
Potable water
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Radiation
Reconnaissance aircraft
Reconnaissance satellites
Recruiting and enlistment
Reefs
Research and development
Research centers
Retired military personnel
Salaries
Salvage
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Security clearances
Severance pay
Shipbuilding
Smog
Social Welfare
Soldiers' homes
Space activities
Space warfare
Storage
Student employment
Student loan funds
Subcontractors
Submarines
Subpoena
Surplus government property
Tanks (Combat vehicles)
Tax administration
Tax returns
Taxation
Telecommunication rates
Terrorism
Texas
Torpedoes
Transport aircraft
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
United Nations
War casualties
Warships
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Weapons
Weapons of mass destruction
Wetlands
Wireless communication
Wiretapping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) and military construction for FY 2004.
Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, the defense health program, and chemical agents and munitions destruction; (2) research, development, test and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds and the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (4) active and reserve military personnel, including authorized end strengths.
Sets forth provisions governing continuing military readiness activities on military lands and range preservation.
Increases as of January 1, 2004, the rates of military basic pay. Extends certain bonus and special and incentive pay authorities. Authorizes an incentive bonus for conversion to undermanned military occupational specialties.
Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) active and reserve military personnel policy; (2) military education and training; (3) military health care; (4) acquisition policy and management, including Buy American requirements, the temporary assignment to DOD of certain non-Government personnel, and the extension of the Defense Production Act of 1950; (5) DOD organization and management, including protection of the operational files of the National Security Agency; (6) space activities, including the provision of space surveillance network services to non-U.S. Governmental entities and launch and reentry services to commercial entities; (7) DOD civilian personnel policy; (8) matters relating to other nations, including the recognition of superior noncombat achievements by friendly foreign forces or foreign nationals and the expanded use of cooperative threat reduction funds; (9) homeland security, including the sale of chemical and biological defense articles and services to State and local governments; and (10) military construction and military family housing.
Establishes a National Defense Heritage Foundation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Introduced in Senate