While the bill includes thousands of provisions addressing issues across the DoD, its biggest impact on climate security this year is its broad support of the efforts the DoD proposed in its budget request.

While the bill includes thousands of provisions addressing issues across the DoD, its biggest impact on climate security this year is its broad support of the efforts the DoD proposed in its budget request.
In this backgrounder, we track key provisions that have been included in NDAAs from Fiscal Year FY18 through FY22, building from the initial, bipartisan declaration in 2017 that climate change was a direct threat to national security, to requirements for vulnerability assessments, resilience authorities, strategy requirements, and mainstreaming consideration of climate impacts on mission.