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Imposes FY2026 appropriations conditions and policy riders for the Department of Defense and certain intelligence activities, including limits on transfers and reprogramming, domestic sourcing and procurement rules, program-by-program funding allocations and prohibitions, and many reporting and notification requirements. It also sets ceilings and availability periods for certain accounts, requires detailed budget justifications and quarterly execution reports, restricts specific program actions (aircraft divestitures, base relocations, housing work), and places policy limits on DoD offices and activities (e.g., diversity/equity programs, COVID/vaccine mandates, gender‑affirming care for certain dependents). A wide array of procurement, workforce, research, and security cooperation rules are included: large temporary transfer authority among DoD appropriations (with conditions), Buy American and domestic-source requirements, limits on multiyear and large contracts, designated funding amounts for allied/partner programs (including Israel, Taiwan, DSCA programs), pilot programs (Platform Supply Vessel), and caps on certain staffing and contract categories. The bill creates extensive congressional notification and reporting obligations and ties some obligations to submission of execution plans or baseline reports before funds may be reprogrammed or obligated.
The bill shifts significant resources and protections toward near‑term readiness, key platform procurement, and domestic industrial resilience while tightening oversight in some areas — but it concentrates transfer authority, imposes many policy and partnership prohibitions, and adds administrative and programmatic constraints that could raise costs and limit DoD flexibility and service member supports.
Service members and units: faster near-term access to funds and protected/accelerated procurement for key platforms improves readiness, training, and capability fielding.
U.S. taxpayers and Congress: new baseline reports, detailed budget justifications, and quarterly reporting increase transparency and congressional visibility into DoD reprogramming and spending.
U.S. manufacturers and the domestic defense industrial base: Buy‑American sourcing, a capital assistance pilot and loan/guarantee authority, plus strategic materials stockpile funding bolster domestic suppliers and supply‑chain resilience.
Military personnel and installations: across‑the‑board reductions and account cuts reduce O&M and readiness balances, risking delayed maintenance, training, and degraded local readiness.
Taxpayers and congressional appropriators: concentrating up to $6.0B of transfer authority in the Secretary of Defense risks eroding congressional control over appropriated funds and shifting money from intended priorities.
Service members and families: bans on DoD diversity/equity/inclusion offices, restrictions on 'divisive concepts,' and prohibition of gender‑affirming care for EFMP minor dependents reduce support services and protections that affect retention and family welfare.
Introduced June 16, 2025 by Ken Calvert · Last progress July 23, 2025
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