National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016


The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 is a United States purposed federal bill which specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2016. The law authorizes the $515 billion in spending for national defense and an additional $89.2 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, for a total of $604.2 billion for the Fiscal Year 2016.

Role of the bill

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

Bill vetoed

On September 30, 2015, President Barack Obama threatened to veto the NDAA 2016. The reason for the veto threat by the Obama administration was that the bill bypassed the Budget Control Act of 2011 spending caps by allocating nearly $90 billion to the Overseas Contingency Operations account, designating routine spending as emergency war expenses exempted from the caps. On October 22, 2015, Obama vetoed the bill.
However, after changes it became S. 1356 which was signed by the President on Nov 25, 2015.