
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will continue to work on building its version of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but a final bill passage is unlikely to occur before Oct. 1, the committee chairman said April 7. HASC has sufficient material to keep ploughing ahead with its markup of the FY ’21 presidential budget request and to craft its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash) said in…