The bill’s approval in the upper chamber came two months after the House
passed its $696.5 billion defense policy bill for fiscal 2018. From September 2017:
The Senate’s NDAA version would authorize the procurement of 10 more
Boeing-built
F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, 24 additional
Lockheed Martin-made
F-35 fighter jets and five more ships for the U.S. Navy.
The measure would also create a new chief information warfare officer at DoD and oppose the creation of a new space-focused service branch proposed in the House bill.
The Washington Post also
reported that the Senate bill would ban the use of software from Russian company
Kaspersky Lab across federal agencies, military branches and government contractors.