Bill > HR5009

This bill, the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, authorizes appropriations for military activities of the Department of Defense, military construction, and defense activities of the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2025. The key provisions of the bill include: - Authorizing appropriations for procurement, research, development, test, and evaluation, operation and maintenance, military personnel, and other defense-related activities. - Establishing a Centralized Security Monitoring Program for Army facilities within the United States to modernize and centralize security operations. - Authorizing a pilot program to incorporate the use of moving robotic target systems into live fire training for Army reserve and National Guard infantry units to enhance lethality. - Extending prohibitions on certain reductions to inventory of E-3 AWACS aircraft and C-130 aircraft assigned to the National Guard. - Establishing a strategic plan for quantum information science technologies within the Department of Defense. - Extending requirements for the Department of Defense to establish a schedule of black start exercises to assess energy resilience and security of military installations. - Expanding eligibility for certain benefits arising from the death of a member of the Armed Forces to additional survivors. - Establishing a program to provide paid fellowships to military spouses with employers in various industries to support their employment. - Authorizing school meal programs at Department of Defense domestic dependent schools and overseas dependent schools. - Expanding eligibility for enrollment in Department of Defense domestic dependent elementary and secondary schools. - Reforming basic pay rates for members of the uniformed services. - Expanding the Basic Needs Allowance for members on active duty to those with household incomes up to 200% of the federal poverty level. - Establishing a pilot program to reimburse certain members of the Armed Forces for expenses related to cryopreservation and storage of their gametes. - Prohibiting coverage under TRICARE of certain medical procedures for children that could result in sterilization. - Codifying the Joint Energetics Transition Office and providing dedicated budget line items for the Office. - Establishing the National Defense Economic Competition Research Council to identify, evaluate, and coordinate research on adversarial uses of economic tools. - Expanding authorities related to the acquisition of software and commercial items for the Department of Defense.

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