The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (S. 1356; NDAA 2016, Pub.L.

114-92) is a United States federal law which specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense (DOD) for Fiscal Year 2016.

[1] On September 30, 2015, President Barack Obama threatened to veto the NDAA 2016.

The reason for the veto threat by the Obama administration was that the bill H.R.

1735 bypassed the Budget Control Act of 2011 spending caps by allocating nearly $90 billion to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, designating routine spending as emergency war expenses exempted from the caps.