{"id":28996,"date":"2025-12-18T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=28996"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:46:17","slug":"sen-ossoff-helps-pass-annual-defense-authorization-bill-with-key-georgia-wins","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-helps-pass-annual-defense-authorization-bill-with-key-georgia-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Helps Pass Annual Defense Authorization Bill with Key Georgia Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 This week, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff voted to pass this year&#8217;s <em>National Defense Authorization Act<\/em>, which passed the U.S. Senate yesterday and now heads to the President&#8217;s desk to become law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s NDAA includes a pay raise for junior-enlisted personnel and several key authorizations for projects across Georgia installations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please find a summary below of wins Sen. Ossoff helped secure for Georgia in this year&#8217;s NDAA<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Military Pay Raise<\/strong>: Authorizes a 3.8% pay raise across the board for military personnel.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay<\/strong>: Authorizes $119.03 million for the construction of a Trident Refit Facility at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $119.03 million for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Moody AFB<\/strong>: Authorizes $35 million for the construction of an 23rd Security Forces Squadron Operations Facility at Moody AFB. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $17.5 million for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Robins AFB<\/strong>: Authorizes $28 million for the construction of an Air Traffic Control Tower at Robins AFB. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $28 million for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ft. Benning<\/strong>: Authorizes $22.375 million for the construction of the Dexter Elementary School at Ft. Benning. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $127.35 million for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Savannah Air National Guard Base<\/strong>: Authorizes $11.4 million for the construction of a C-130J Corrosion Control Facility; $27 million for the construction of a Dining Hall and Services Training Facility; and $3.8 million in planning and design funds for a Troop Camp&nbsp;at Savannah Air National Guard Base.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dobbins ARB<\/strong>: Authorizes $3.2M in planning and design funds for an Entry Control Facility at Dobbins ARB. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $3.2 million for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gillem Enclave<\/strong>: Authorizes $45 million for the construction of an Evidence Storage Building at Gillem Enclave. As Ranking Member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, Sen. Ossoff previously secured $166 million in funding for this project in the bipartisan military construction funding bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 This week, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff voted to pass this year&#8217;s National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the U.S. Senate yesterday and now heads to the President&#8217;s desk to become law.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s NDAA includes a pay raise for junior-enlisted personnel and several key authorizations for projects across Georgia installations.&nbsp; Please find [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28996","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28998,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/28996\/revisions\/28998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}