
Many Markups. Three of the four congressional defense panels plan to mark up their respective annual defense bills during the last week in June. The House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee is scheduled to meet behind closed doors late June 26 to consider the fiscal year 2018 defense appropriations bill. On the same day, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) will begin a series of subcommittee markups, mostly in closed session, on the FY 2018 defense authorization bill. The SASC intends…