The House Armed Services Committee advanced a defense policy bill that authorizes $1.15 trillion in spending, challenges the Pentagon on officer firings and military base renamings and formalizes the Department of War moniker.

The secretary of defense would have five days to explain to Congress why a senior military officer was removed from their position under the provision.

It was the fourth time the chamber voted on a resolution directing President Donald Trump to seek congressional authorization for military operations and the first time it succeeded. 

The secretary of state acknowledged during an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the technology — relatively cheap and easy to produce — remains a global threat that is difficult to address.

Senate Democrats are asking the Congressional Budget Office to account for “significant divergence” between the Pentagon’s cost estimate for the Iran war and independent reports.

The House Armed Services Committee’s draft defense policy bill authorizes $1 billion in advance procurement funding for the battleship but bars construction until the Navy can prove it has the technology to build it.

The lawmakers said the disclosure marked the first time the Defense Department had confirmed that adversaries were using commercial location data to target U.S. military personnel in an active war zone.

Lawmakers are renewing a push to award the Medal of Honor to Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a Marine who was killed in combat in the Iraq war and was repeatedly denied the nation’s highest military honor by the Pentagon.

The measure will be debated and amended by the committee next week as Congress tackles a record $1.5 trillion defense budget request from the Trump administration.

Warrior Right to Repair Act would require defense contractors to provide the Pentagon with technical data and materials needed for troops and military maintenance units to repair equipment without relying as heavily on outside companies.