Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Block the Use of Transatlantic Technology in Iranian Made Drones Act
The bill tightens U.S. and allied controls and outreach to block Iran's access to UAS-related technologies—lowering threats to Americans and partners—while imposing compliance costs, risking supply‑chain and civilian-technology disruption, and raising diplomatic and oversight trade-offs.
Maverick Act
The bill allows a museum to acquire and restore historic F–14D jets at no purchase cost and shifts post-transfer liability away from the federal government, but it places significant financial, compliance, and reversion risks on the local nonprofit responsible for the aircraft.
Recognizing the achievements and contributions of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter to the national defense of the United States and its allies and honoring the dedication, service, and sacrifice of the United States Army aviators, maintainers, and support personnel who operate and sustain the Apache.
The resolution raises the profile of the Apache and domestic aerospace suppliers—supporting military interoperability and local manufacturing visibility—while remaining purely honorary and creating no binding funding, policy changes, or taxpayer protections.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, targeted investments to strengthen U.S. military readiness, the defense industrial base, and service‑member benefits while imposing significant new budgetary commitments, compliance burdens, and policy tradeoffs that restrict some medical/research freedoms and complicate contractor/industry dynamics.
To direct the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of the value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria.
The bill could expand resilient trans‑Atlantic connectivity and strengthen secure communications while increasing private‑sector opportunities and transparency — but it also risks higher federal costs, vendor restrictions, and gaps in public oversight if reporting is voluntary or details are moved to a classified annex.
Fighter Force Preservation and Recapitalization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens near‑term fighter modernization, ANG parity, and transparency to boost readiness and preserve local force structure, but does so at higher taxpayer cost, with procurement and flexibility trade‑offs, potential short‑term capability and safety risks, and added administrative burdens.
United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
The bill significantly deepens U.S.–Israel defense collaboration and funds accelerated R&D and deployment of defensive and advanced technologies—boosting military readiness and industrial activity—while increasing federal spending, raising risks of technology exposure and political entanglement, and delaying some near‑term congressional re‑evaluation.
Unmanned System Command and Control Integration Assessment Act of 2026
The bill strengthens interoperability, cybersecurity, and standards for military and civil unmanned systems—improving operational effectiveness and oversight—but does so by reallocating existing RDT&E funds and imposing compliance, disclosure, and supplier constraints that could raise costs, slow deployments, and limit flexibility.
FUSE Act
The bill funds a pilot to test printable energetic feedstocks and create open standards that could strengthen munition performance and supply‑chain resilience, but doing so will raise costs, retain residual safety risks, and impose tight controls and compliance burdens that may slow research and industry participation.
Provide for a requirement for networked autonomous kinetic capability against small unmanned aircraft systems.
The bill strengthens brigade defenses and speeds sensor-to-shooter responses against small drones while increasing taxpayer costs, adding cyber/attack-surface risks, and raising the possibility of unintended kinetic engagements if safeguards are insufficient.
Require the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program to evaluate the safety, quality, and qualification pathways of printable energetic feedstocks for controlled additive manufacturing applications.
The bill launches a two-year pilot to evaluate and standardize printable energetic munitions, trading potential national-security and supply-chain benefits and reduced vendor lock-in against near-term taxpayer costs, limited participant access, constrained data sharing, and the risk that the short pilot will not fully validate safety and qualification pathways.
Strategic Unmanned Systems Partnership Act
The bill aims to speed U.S.–Ukraine co‑development and rapid fielding of Ukrainian‑tested defense systems—boosting military capability, industry ties, and supply‑chain resilience—while increasing taxpayer costs, procurement and legal complexity, and risks of exposing sensitive capabilities or operational harm.
UNLOCK AUKUS Act
The bill aims to speed and simplify AUKUS-related defense exports to improve cooperation, but it risks expanding sensitive transfers and creating legal and budgetary uncertainty without clear safeguards.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act of 2026
The bill strengthens privacy, human control, and oversight of Department of Defense AI/autonomy use—reducing catastrophic and privacy risks—but includes waiver authorities, broad exemptions, and provisions that could speed deployment and raise costs, creating tradeoffs between safety/oversight and operational flexibility and expense.
HALO Act of 2026
The bill raises DoD AI safety, testing, oversight, and civil‑liberties protections—improving reliability, human control, and transparency—but does so at the cost of higher program and administrative expenses, slower fielding and operational flexibility, and remaining risks from targeted exemptions and disclosure of sensitive vulnerabilities.
NEW HORIZON Act
The bill could improve military decision-making, resilience, and commercial space innovation by testing in-orbit data processing, but it creates significant security, cost, and operational risks that require careful mitigation and oversight.
Ultimate Human Responsibility in Defense Systems Act of 2026
The bill meaningfully increases safety, accountability, training, and oversight of autonomous weapons—reducing unintended harm and legal risk—while imposing higher costs, added bureaucracy, operational constraints in time‑critical scenarios, and potential security/transparency trade‑offs.
OASIS Act of 2026
The bill strengthens CENTCOM air and missile defenses and coalition interoperability—potentially protecting U.S. forces and supporting industry—but raises risks of higher taxpayer costs, technology exposure, and greater U.S. operational entanglement.
Secure and Accountable Military AI Act of 2026
The bill strengthens DoD oversight, human control, and incident reporting for high‑risk military AI—improving safety and accountability—but does so at the cost of significant compliance costs, potential delays to urgent deployments, and renewed civil‑liberty and transparency risks if carve‑outs or classified processes are overbroad.
Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Strategy Act of 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. and allied unmanned-system capabilities and supply‑chain resilience to improve mission effectiveness and maritime safety, but does so at higher taxpayer cost and with risks to privacy, partner diplomacy, and regional stability.
AIM HIGH Act
Creating a centralized aviation maintenance Center can raise maintainer proficiency, safety, and industry/academic collaboration, but it requires additional funding and risks local disruption and added bureaucracy.
IRONDOME Act of 2025
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. missile‑defense capacity and speeds delivery of new interceptors, sensors, and infrastructure—at the cost of large near‑ and long‑term taxpayer expenditures, environmental and community impacts, programmatic and technical risks from accelerated schedules, and potential geopolitical friction.
Blue Skies for Taiwan Act of 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. and allied resilience by prioritizing PRC‑independent UAS supply chains and accelerating U.S.–Taiwan industrial cooperation, but does so at the cost of higher federal and procurement expenses, increased administrative and export‑control complexity, and heightened risks of friction with the PRC.
American Security Robotics Act of 2026
The bill strengthens national-security and supply-chain protection by banning UGVs tied to hostile foreign actors while trading off near-term procurement costs, possible operational gaps for agencies, and negative impacts on some contractors and small suppliers.
Abraham Accords Defense Cooperation Act of 2026
The bill clarifies authorities and boosts regional air/missile defenses and military coordination to strengthen deterrence and oversight, but it increases the risk of higher U.S. defense costs, concentrates decision-making in DoD, and could escalate regional tensions or crowd out non‑military engagement.
Indo-Pacific Space Partnership Act of 2026
The bill requires a near‑term, detailed assessment that could improve allied deterrence and give policymakers clearer options for integrating Japan and South Korea into space‑defense efforts, balanced against modest administrative costs, the risk of future defense spending commitments, and potential diplomatic fallout in the Indo‑Pacific.
Defending Defense Research from Chinese Communist Party Espionage Act of 2025
The bill strengthens national security and public oversight of DoD-funded research by imposing restrictions, transparency, and conditional funding, but does so at the cost of economic disruption to universities and researchers, increased administrative burdens, and risks to commercial confidentiality and researcher mobility.
AI Guardrails Act of 2026
The bill strengthens safeguards and transparency around military AI to protect civilians and preserve human control, but it also gives the Secretary short-term waiver power and imposes constraints that may complicate interagency cooperation and slow AI adoption.
United States-Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research, and Enhanced Security (FUTURES) Act of 2026
The bill strengthens U.S.–Israel defense cooperation to speed deployment of advanced military technologies and boost industrial and research partnerships, at the cost of higher federal spending, competitive shifts in the U.S. defense industrial base, and increased security and administrative risks.
GUARD Act of 2025
The bill boosts U.S. AI capabilities and national-security readiness by funding institutes, testbeds, and workforce programs while trading off higher taxpayer costs, limits on international collaboration, and risks that defense priorities may crowd out civilian research and raise civil‑liberties concerns.
