DAILY ON DEFENSE: • NDAA focus shifts to Senate • Which provisions might not survive? • Shake-up in Ukraine
The House version of the bill passed last week 329-101, and the separate Senate version cleared the Armed Services Committee last month 23-3. The full Senate will take up the bill later this summer, and then the two versions must be reconciled in conference committee and reapproved by each chamber before being sent to the president to be signed into law.
Other provisions impose a temporary limit on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and require the secretary of state to develop guidance for “investigating indications that U.S.-origin defense articles have been used in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition.” SHAKE-UP IN UKRAINE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired his head of security services and his top prosecutor as he announced 651 criminal proceedings “regarding treason and collaboration activities of employees of prosecutor's offices, pretrial investigation bodies, and other law enforcement agencies.”
“ISW continues to forecast that the end of the operational pause will be characterized by a fluctuating and staggered resumption of ground offensives,” the Washington-based think tank says in its latest war assessment. Russian troops continue to face stiff resistance from Ukrainian forces, with the ISW reporting that Russian advances were repulsed near Siversk, Bakhmut, and Yakovlivka.
“Well, you can imagine how shocked we were to get the letter from the inspector general saying that he had been trying to get this information and that they had, in fact, been deleted after he asked for them,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren on ABC yesterday. “Then there was a statement made by the spokesperson for the department saying that it wasn't true, it wasn't fair, and that they, in fact, had pertinent texts — and we go, fine, if you have them, we need them.
Citing a Washington Post report that Chinese drone maker DJI, a leading supplier of drones to U.S. law enforcement, has obscured its Chinese government funding, Portman urged how critical it is for Congress to pass the United States Innovation and Competition Act bill, since it includes the bipartisan American Security Drone Act, which would prohibit U.S. federal agencies from purchasing Chinese-made drones.
Washington Examiner: Trump 'gleefully' watched TV on Jan. 6: Kinzinger previews summer hearings finale Air Force Magazine: Air Force Offering Even More Enlistment Bonuses for Certain Career Fields—Here They Are 2 p.m. — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomes Greek Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos to the Pentagon.
9:30 a.m. 2118 Rayburn — House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Readiness hearing: “Fiscal Year 2023 Readiness Program Update,” with testimony from Army Vice Chief Gen. Joseph Martin; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Vice Adm. Randy Crites; Assistant Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith; Air Force Vice Chief Gen. David Allvin; and Vice Chief of Space Operations, Gen. David Thompson https://armedservices.house.
6:30 p.m. 1221 Avenue of the Americas, N.Y. — International Institute for Strategic Studies virtual discussion: “Potential flashpoints in Asia: A recap of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2022," with Lisa Curtis, director of the Center for a New American Security's Indo-Pacific Security Program; Daniel Russel, vice president for international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute; David Gordon, senior adviser for geo-economics and strategy at IISS; and E.J.
9 a.m. — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace virtual discussion:"Does the War in Ukraine Herald a New European Era?" with Benedetta Berti, foreign policy and security analyst; Marc Pierini, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe; Sinan Ulgen, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe; and Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center https://carnegie-mec.org/2022/07/20
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