Subcommittee on Airland
- Responsibilities: Army planning and operations policy and programs (less space, cyber, and special operations); Air Force planning and operations policy and programs (less nuclear weapons, space, cyber, and special operations).
- Special additional area: National Guard and Reserve planning and operations policy and equipment.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Army and Air Force research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement (less technology base, space, cyber, nuclear weapons, special operations, and ammunition).
Senator Duckworth, Chair |
Senator Cotton, Ranking Member |
Senator King |
Senator Wicker |
Senator Peters |
Senator Tillis |
Senator Manchin |
Senator Sullivan |
Senator Rosen |
Senator Scott |
Senator Kelly |
Senator Hawley |
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Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
- Responsibilities: Policies and programs related to cyber forces and capabilities.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Information Technology base RDT&E; cyber-related operational test and evaluation; RDT&E and procurement supporting cyber capabilities; combating cyber threats and attacks; cyber-related train and equip programs.
- Oversight of DOD offices: Principal Advisor on Military Cyber Force Matters; Principal Cyber Advisors of military departments; Department of Defense Chief Information Officers; and Chief Information Officers of the military departments.
- Oversight of DOD commands and agencies: U.S. Cyber Command; the cyber capabilities of the DOD components, commands, and agencies.
Senator Manchin, Chair |
Senator Rounds, Ranking Member |
Senator Gillibrand |
Senator Wicker |
Senator Blumenthal |
Senator Ernst |
Senator Rosen |
Senator Blackburn |
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Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Responsibilities: Policies and programs related to science and technology, special operations, intelligence, counterterrorism, security cooperation, strategic and information operations, countering weapons of mass destruction, and homeland defense.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Technology base RDT&E; operational test and evaluation; RDT&E and procurement supporting special operations and low-intensity conflict capabilities; peacekeeping operations; chemical and biological warfare defense; chemical demilitarization; and security cooperation programs, including counter-narcotics.
- Oversight of DOD offices: Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Homeland Defense and Global Security); and Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict).
- Oversight of DOD commands and agencies: U.S. Special Operations Command; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Defense Security Cooperation Agency; National Security Agency; Defense Intelligence Agency; National Reconnaissance Office; and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Senator Kelly, Chair |
Senator Ernst, Ranking Member |
Senator Shaheen |
Senator Fischer |
Senator Gillibrand |
Senator Cramer |
Senator Kaine |
Senator Rick Scott |
Senator Warren |
Senator Blackburn |
Senator Peters |
Senator Tuberville |
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Subcommittee on Personnel
- Responsibilities: Military and DOD civilian personnel policies; end strengths for military personnel; military personnel compensation and benefits; military health care; and military nominations.
- Special additional areas: Professional Military Education; DOD schools; DOD child care and family assistance; civil-military programs; POW/MIA issues; Armed Forces Retirement Home; Morale, Welfare and Recreation; military commissaries and exchanges; and financial literacy and DOD implementation of the Military Lending Act.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Military personnel; military retirement; Defense Health Program; DOD Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund; and operation and maintenance for certain education and civil-military programs.
- Oversight of DOD offices: Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower & Reserve Affairs); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness).
- Oversight of DOD agencies: Defense Health Agency; Defense Commissary Agency; and Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency.
Senator Gillibrand, Chair |
Senator Tillis, Ranking Member |
Senator Hirono |
Senator Hawley |
Senator Warren |
Senator Tuberville |
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Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
- Responsibilities: Military readiness including training, logistics, and maintenance; military construction; housing construction and privatization; contracting and acquisition policy; business and financial management; base realignment and closure; and defense energy and environmental programs.
- Special additional areas: Conventional ammunition procurement; RDT&E infrastructure; National Defense Stockpile; defense industrial and technology base policies; facility and housing maintenance and repair; land and property management; information technology management policy (excluding cyber); and industrial operations, including depots, shipyards, arsenals, and ammunition plants.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Operation and maintenance; RDT&E support programs; conventional ammunition procurement; military construction and family housing; base realignment and closure; working capital funds; the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.
- Oversight of DoD offices: Undersecretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Sustainment); Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations, and Environment); Department of Defense Chief Management Officer; and the Chief Management Officers of the military departments.
- Oversight of DOD agencies and commands: U.S. Transportation Command; Defense Logistics Agency; Defense Finance and Accounting Service; Defense Investigative Service; Defense Contract Audit Agency; DOD Inspector General.
Senator Kaine, Chair |
Senator Sullivan, Ranking Member |
Senator Shaheen |
Senator Fischer |
Senator Blumenthal |
Senator Rounds |
Senator Hirono |
Senator Ernst |
Senator Duckworth |
Senator Blackburn |
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Subcommittee on Seapower
- Responsibilities: Navy planning and operations policy and programs (less nuclear weapons, space, cyber, and special operations); and Marine Corps planning and operations policy and programs (less space, cyber, and special operations).
- Special additional areas: Maritime issues.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Navy and Marine Corps procurement and RDT&E; National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund; and National Defense Sealift Fund (less technology base, space, cyber, nuclear weapons, special operations, and ammunition).
Senator Hirono, Chair |
Senator Cramer, Ranking Member |
Senator Shaheen |
Senator Wicker |
Senator Blumenthal |
Senator Cotton |
Senator Kaine |
Senator Tillis |
Senator King |
Senator Rick Scott |
Senator Peters |
Senator Hawley |
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Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- Responsibilities: Nuclear and strategic forces; arms control and non-proliferation programs; space programs; Department of Energy defense nuclear, and defense environmental management programs; and ballistic missile defense.
- Oversight of budget accounts: Procurement and RDT&E for DOD nuclear and strategic forces, missile defense, space systems, Department of Energy defense and non-proliferation programs.
- Oversight of DOD and DOE officials Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs; National Nuclear Security Administration; and Assistant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Management).
- Oversight of agencies, commands, and activities: U.S. Strategic Command; U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force as well as other components of the military departments; Space Development Agency; Missile Defense Agency; National Nuclear Security Administration; Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; and Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Senator King, Chair |
Senator Fischer, Ranking Member |
Senator Warren |
Senator Cotton |
Senator Manchin |
Senator Rounds |
Senator Duckworth |
Senator Sullivan |
Senator Rosen |
Senator Cramer |
Senator Kelly |
Senator Tuberville |
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Note: Senator Reed and Senator Inhofe, as Chair and Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, serve as ex-officio (non-voting) members of all Subcommittees.