Murphy Applauds Passage of FY25 National Defense Authorization Act

Washington, D.C. —  Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. applauds the passage of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025. This legislation authorizes $883.7 billion for fiscal year 2025, including $849.9 billion for Department of Defense programs.  It will save taxpayers $31 billion by cutting out inefficient programs and government agency bureaucracy by 4%.

"I am pleased that Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 that empowers our military to safeguard the United States and takes care of our troops," said Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D."This package robustly funds and modernizes our armed forces to prepare us against threats abroad, improves the quality of life for service members and their families and refocuses the Pentagon’s mission on our national security and away from political distractions. It is an honor to represent some of our nation’s greatest warfighters at Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Stations Cherry Point and New River. North Carolina’s 3rd District will benefit greatly from the $208 million in funding secured for military construction projects on our bases and $50 million in Impact Aid that will help our military community."

Victories | By the Numbers:

• $53.52 million for the aircraft maintenance hangar at Cherry Point
• $20.02 million for the composite repair facility at Cherry Point
• $50 million for the F-35 Sustainment Center at Cherry Point
• $27.5 million for the SOF Armory at Camp Lejeune
• $57 million for the SOF Information Maneuver Facility at Camp Lejeune

Total for NC-03 Military Construction Initiatives in FY2025: $208.04 MILLION

• $50 million in Impact Aid and $20 million to local schools teaching children with severe disabilities
• $41 million for the SJAFB Combat Arms Training and Maintenance Complex
• $13 million for the SOF Arms Room Addition at Fort Liberty
• $34 million for the SOF Cam MacKall Company Operations Facilities at Fort Liberty

Background

• Improves quality of life for service members and families
  • Includes a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and supports a 4.5% pay raise for all other service members.
  • Requires the Department of Defense and Department of Education to streamline the process for educational assistance so America’s service members do not have to worry about student debt after service.
  • Supports the Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course and encourages the other Services to establish a similar course to improve recruitment.
  • Offers competitive pay for Child Development Center staff.
  • Provides service members with direct access to specialty medical providers by waiving the TRICARE referral requirement.
  • Authorizes $176 million for the design and construction of new childcare centers.
  • Establishes a pilot program to prevent and treat maternal mental health conditions for service members and their spouses.
  • Requires the Defense Health Agency to report on provider shortages at maternal health clinics in rural areas.
     
• Eliminates woke ideology and restores focus on lethality
  • Permanently bans DoD from funding transgender medical treatments for children.
  • Prohibits funding for the teaching, training, or promotion of Critical Race Theory in the military, including at service academies and DoD schools.
  • Guts DEI bureaucracy by extending the DEI hiring freeze, prohibiting DoD from contracting with advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources, and banning funding for DoD’s politically biased Countering Extremism Working Group.
     
• Deters Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggression
  • Prevents Chinese espionage by prohibiting contracting with the subsidiaries of any Chinese civil-military companies to include any subsidiaries, the sharing of sensitive missile defense information with China, and Chinese nationals from being admitted to nuclear facilities.
  • Mandates the DoD do a full teardown of Communist Chinese drones to ensure no U.S. technology is advancing their capabilities.
  • Prohibits the DoD from utilizing a Communist Chinese-owned tutoring service for service members and their families.
  • Requires the DoD to report on the proliferation and risks of Communist Chinese routers and modems in their systems.
  • Prohibits the DoD from operating or procuring light detection and ranging technology manufactured in Communist China.
  • Requires CCP-drone manufacturers DJI, Autel Robotics, and their subsidiaries and affiliates to be placed on FCC's Covered List within a year of the passage of the act unless a national security agency determines they do not pose an unacceptable national security risk.
     
• Improves military readiness and strengthens our industrial base
  • Requires the DoD to establish a strategy to build out the domestic drone industry and to work with industry to lower the cost of secure unmanned aircraft systems.
  • Ensures the DoD is examining the threat of artificial intelligence voice replication to trusted military communications and is identifying efforts to protect against these threats.
  • Requires the DoD to define “attritable unmanned aircraft system” to enable the DoD to acquire attritable systems at scale.
  • Requires the Chief Digital and AI Officer to develop a plan to scale Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control Mission Applications to enable global integration for early warning and detection.
  • Supports the Air Force’s Acquisition Instructor Course and examines how this program can be expanded across the DoD.
  • Ensures that the Army is considering soldier feedback when making a production decision on IVAS 1.2.
     
• Provides support for Israel and resources necessary to counter our adversaries
  • Authorizes robust funding for U.S-Israel anti-tunnel cooperation.
  • Authorizes $47.5 million for U.S.-Israel collaboration on emerging technologies like AI, c-UAS, and electronic warfare.
  • Authorizes full funding for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation.
  • Prohibits DoD from using or citing casualty data from Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
  • Prohibits the sale of goods at DoD commissaries and exchanges from any entities that have or are engaged in antisemitic BDS efforts.
  • Strengthens our nuclear posture, improves missile defense, and accelerates delivery of space capabilities.
  • Requires the establishment of a third continental missile defense site by 2030 to bolster defense of the homeland from long-range missile threats.
  • Requires the Department to designate a senior official responsible for establishing a national integrated air and missile defense architecture for the United States.
     
• Continues support for investments in innovative commercial space solutions that would increase our capacity and resilience in space.
  • Establishes a pilot program to demonstrate the ability to connect commercial and government systems in a hybrid space architecture.
  • Establishes the Commerical Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) to allow the Space Force to contract with private sector to rapidly acquire space capabilities on an as-needed basis.
     
• Continues DoD support of law enforcement operations along our borders.
  • Fully funds deployment of National Guard troops at the southwest border.
  • Authorizes $90 million for construction of a new Joint Inter-Agency Task Force South (JIATF-S) Command and Control Facility to detect and interdict illegal migrants and narcotics.
  • Increases funding by $10 million for DoD counternarcotics activities.
  • Expands DoD’s authority to assist law enforcement in the interdiction of narcotics traffickers.
  • Requires DoD to brief an independent review of ways to improve DoD’s ability to carry out its counternarcotics and counter-transitional organized crime mission.