The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved more than $37.8 million in funding for construction projects at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade and the Naval Academy in Annapolis. It also moved up the schedule for building new barracks at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade.

The funding, part of a national$94 billion military construction project, must now go to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not been scheduled. Then the spending faces a conference committee with the House of Representatives to reconcile differences.