House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday evening on a $1.01-trillion spending bill that funds most of the government through the end of September and provides the Defense Department $490.2 billion in the base budget and $64 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund. Included in the spending bill is $93.8 billion for procurement, $63.7 billion for research and development and $161.7 billion for operations and maintenance in the base budget. In the Navy procurement budget, appropriators provided $848.5 million for…
