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Defense Primer: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Process
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,335 words · PDF available
Introduction The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process is a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) system for allocating resources among the military departments, defense agencies, ...
Defense Primer: DOD Domestic School System
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,596 words · PDF available
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) manages federally funded school systems overseas and domestically that provide pre-kindergarten (pre-K) through grade 12 education, primarily for t...
Whole-of-society resilience: A new deterrence concept in Taipei
Brookings Institution · 2024-12-06 · Article · 2,751 words
The whole-of-society resilience effort is a substantial part of Taiwan’s overall approach to defense and deterrence.
Defense Primer: Defense and Intelligence Unfunded Priorities
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,509 words · PDF available
Introduction By law, certain U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) officials and other executive branch agency officials are required to submit reports to Congress describing defense and intelligence-relat...
U.S.-China Competition in Emerging Technologies: LiDAR
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,745 words · PDF available
The governments of the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) have both identified strategic and emerging technologies as a key element of economic competitiveness and nationa...
Defense Primer: Defense Appropriations Process
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,614 words · PDF available
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse in Article I, Section 9, which provides that “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” To fu...
Defense Primer: Concurrent Receipt of Military Retirement and VA Disability
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,216 words · PDF available
Concurrent receipt refers to a veteran’s simultaneous receipt of two types of monetary benefits: military retired pay from the Department of Defense (DOD) and disability compensation from the Departme...
U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,447 words · PDF available
Overview Congress, in both legislative and oversight capacities, may continue to be active in numerous trade policy issues related to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which entered i...
Defense Primer: DOD Transfer and Reprogramming Authorities
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,264 words · PDF available
In provisions of the United States Code (U.S.C.) and annual authorization and appropriations acts, Congress provides the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) limited authorities to obligate funds for purp...
USMCA: Automotive Rules of Origin
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,553 words · PDF available
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA; P.L. 116-113) entered into force on July 1, 2020, replacing the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA was viewed as instrumental in ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act): A Legal Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Reports · 17,449 words · PDF available
Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act or Act) in 1970 “to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women.” The Act created the Occupational Safety an...
Defense Primer: Military Retirement
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,242 words · PDF available
The military retirement system is a government-funded system that provides a defined benefit to all retirees and matching government contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for eligible service...
Defense Primer: Personnel Tempo (PERSTEMPO)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,459 words · PDF available
As a result of the nation’s extended involvement in contingency operations around the globe, some U.S. servicemembers have experienced prolonged, recurrent, and stressful deployments. In addition, pre...
Defense Primer: Defense Working Capital Funds
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,427 words · PDF available
Since 1870, the U.S. military has operated various types of working capital funds to procure and provide materiel and commercial products and services to its forces. Codified under Title 10, Section 2...
Defense Primer: Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,541 words · PDF available
Background The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) is a federally funded program of instruction for high school-aged students administered by the armed forces. The purpose of JROTC, accord...
Defense Primer: Military Separation and Severance Pay
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,587 words · PDF available
Congress has authorized separation or severance pay for involuntarily and voluntarily discharged servicemembers throughout most of the military’s history (see Table 1). The purposes for these authorit...
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Fact Sheet
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Reports · 993 words · PDF available
This fact sheet is designed to assist congressional offices with work related to the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It contains a brief history of the March, lists sample...
U.S.-North Korea Relations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-06 · Resources · 1,623 words · PDF available
Since 2016, North Korea’s advances in nuclear weapons and missile capabilities under leader Kim Jong-un have catapulted Pyongyang from a threat to U.S. interests in East Asia to a potential direct thr...