This legislation fully funds our space
requirements and authorizes additional funding for the military's
underfunded priorities for space. The NDAA also establishes a new DOD
Chief Information Warfare Officer--a position that would streamline a
current bureaucracy that is too often duplicative, inefficient, and
ineffective, and instead assigns responsibility and accountability to
one leader for all matters relating to the information environment--
including space, cyber security, electronic warfare, and the
electromagnetic spectrum. Finally, the legislation takes several steps to bolster border
security and homeland defense. It authorizes $791 million for the
Department of Defense Counterdrug Programs. It would authorize and
encourage the National Guard to enhance border security capabilities
while gaining effective unit and individual training. It continues to
support the United States-Israel anti-tunneling cooperation program,
which helps to improve our efforts to restrict the flow of drugs across
the U.S. southern border. This is an ambitious piece of legislation.
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