Jeremy Herb and Alicia Cohn write the bill include portions Obama objected to, including a block on funds for the Medium Extended Air Defense System and blocking Tricare fee increases.
The bill includes plans to study potential sites on the East Coast for a new missile defense shield, according to the report.
According to Defense News, the bill also gives the Pentagon authority to give the multi-year procurement designation to the CH-47 helicopter, Navy DDG-51 destroyer and V-22 tiltrotor programs.
John Bennett writes the bill’s total funding is $1.7 billion more than the White House’s request.
A joint House-Senate conference committee reached a deal on the defense bill in mid-December after both chambers passed different versions of it earlier in 2012.
What happened to all those cuts they were talking about?…