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handle is hein.crs/govefcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 Congressional *aResearch Service FY2022 NDAA: Strategic Context Updated January 6, 2022 Congressional consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA; H.R. 4350; S. 2792; S. 1605; P.L. 117-81) occurred as the Biden Administration was developing strategic guidance for national security and defense programs. By law, for example, the President is required to submit to Congress a National Security Strategy (NSS; 50 U.S.C §3043) and the Secretary of Defense a National Defense Strategy (NDS; 10 U.S.C. §113). The Biden Administration stated that efforts to align spending priorities with the President's Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (INSSG) helped shape its FY2022 defense budget request. Officials said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III planned to submit the NDS in early 2022. In March 2021, the President released the INSSG, which stated that the United States faces growing rivalry with China, Russia, and other authoritarian states, and would work to responsibly end America's longest war in Afghanistan. Elements of the INSSG appeared to build upon aspects of the Trump Administration's strategic guidance documents, including the 2017 NSS and 2018 NDS. The 2018 NDS unclassified summary emphasized retaining a U.S. strategic competitive edge relative to China and Russia rather than countering violent extremist organizations. This and the call for increased and sustained investment to counter evolving threats from China and Russia marked a change in emphasis from previous strategy documents. The 2018 NDS did not address the question of pandemics or climate change as national security threats. The INSSG referenced pandemics and other biological risks, the escalating climate crisis, cyber and digital threats, international economic disruptions, protracted humanitarian crises, among other threats. The INSSG pledged to prioritize new resources for diplomacy and development and identified defense priorities as follows: Military personnel. (... continue to invest in the people who serve in our all-volunteer forces and their families.); Readiness. (... sustain readiness and ensure that the U.S. Armed Forces remain the best trained and equipped force in the world.); Force structure. (... assess the appropriate structure, capabilities, and sizing of the force, and, working with the Congress, shift our emphasis from unneeded legacy platforms and weapons systems to free up resources for investments in the cutting-edge Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11788 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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