WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Secretary of Energy can suspend the ban, according to the bill, if such a waiver is in the national security interests of the United States.
The NDAA also prohibits providing Russia with “hit-to-kill” missile defense technology data and integration of Russian missile defense systems with US or NATO capabilities.
The defense budget bill authorizes defensive lethal assistance to Ukraine, will withhold funding for the US implementation of the new START nuclear reduction agreement and stipulates that US military leaders will develop a plan to defeat Russia’s Club-K cruise missile system.
On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed the NDAA 269-151, which appropriates a total of $611.8 billion in defense spending for the 2016 fiscal year.