The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 () is a proposed bill in the 118th United States Congress.

Background
The National Defense Authorization Act is an annual bill proposed in the United States Congress that redefines the United States military budget for the following year. Each chamber of Congress introduced a version of the NDAA: H.R. 2670 (House) and  (Senate) respectively. The House passed their version on July 14, 2023 by a vote of 219–210. The Senate passed theirs on July 27, 2023 by a vote of 86–11. By operation of the previously agreed order, the Senate then replaced H.R. 2670 with the text of S. 2226 and passed it by unanimous consent, and indefinitely postponed S. 2226.

Provisions 

The bill contains provisions to:

 Disestablish the regular Space Force in order to integrate both active duty and reserve personnel into one Space Force entity. This is to allow for better flexibility for the Space Force by replacing "active duty" with "sustained duty" or "full-time" status, and replacing "reserve" with "part-time" status. This change would only pertain to the Space Force and not to the other armed services.
 Make the vice chief of the National Guard Bureau hold a statutory rank of general while serving in that position.
 Permanently establish the titles of commissioned officer ranks of the Space Force to be the same as the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
 Authorize a $886 billion spending budget for national defense programs including:
 A 5.2% pay increase for service members of the armed forces.
 Procurement of up to 10 Virginia-class submarines.

The Senate amendment contains:

 UAP Disclosure Act: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 would direct the National Archives and Records Administration to collect and disclose records on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) no later than 25 years after enactment with a presumption of immediate disclosure, and exercise eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin (TUO) and biological evidence of non-human intelligence (NHI) that may be controlled by private persons or entities.
 The Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) requires people currently or formerly under contract with the federal government to make all UFO/UAP material and information and a comprehensive list of all extraterrestrial or exotic UAP material available to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

References

External links
  on Congress.gov
 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 most recently available bill text (plain text/details) in the GPO Bills collection 

U.S. National Defense Authorization Acts
Proposed legislation of the 118th United States Congress
United States government responses to UFOs