The bill, which supports $778 billion for national security spending, was filed in lieu of a traditional conference report and combines the text passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee in July and the House bill passed in September.
As has been the case for the past few years, cyber governance provisions were featured in this year s must-pass defense policy bill moving through Congress, but a bipartisan breach notification measure was dropped from the bill to the chagrin of its supporters.
The House-passed compromise NDAA also has other workforce provisions, including a change to the probationary period for civilian feds at DOD and paid parental bereavement leave for federal employees.