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Last progress July 31, 2025 (6 months ago)
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Last progress July 16, 2025 (6 months ago)
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Provides and governs Department of Defense and related intelligence funding for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, 2026, while adding policy rules, restrictions, and transfer authorities affecting procurement, shipbuilding, foreign cooperative defense programs, and certain personnel and infrastructure programs. It also creates DoD incentives to contract with Indian organizations, allows the Air Force to transfer excess relocatable housing units to qualifying Indian tribes in specified states, and sets detailed limitations and reporting requirements on use and reprogramming of defense and intelligence funds. Includes targeted authorizations and prohibitions: support for specific allied missile-defense cooperation, funding lines for Fisher Houses and other trust funds, bans or conditions on certain program actions (for example disallowing specified ship decommissioning or certain capabilities development), and restrictions on contracting or assistance involving designated foreign organizations. The measure increases oversight and notification duties to Congress for budget and program changes and adds procurement and domestic-content conditions for some shipbuilding-related acquisitions.
Establishes the Title I heading: “MILITARY PERSONNEL.”
Appropriates funds from the U.S. Treasury (from money not otherwise appropriated) for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Designates the title/heading as “V.”
Makes $35,169,000 available only for incentive payments authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974.
For purposes of being allowed additional compensation under section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974, treats a prime contractor or any subcontractor at any tier as a “contractor” when it makes a subcontract award to (1) a subcontractor or supplier as defined in 25 U.S.C. 1544, or (2) a small business owned and controlled by an individual or individuals defined under 25 U.S.C. 4221(9), as long as the prime contract or subcontract is over $500,000 and involves spending funds appropriated in a Department of Defense appropriations act for any fiscal year.
Who is affected and how:
Active-duty service members, military families, and DoD personnel: funding and restrictions affect readiness, housing availability, shipbuilding timetables, and which programs may proceed or be paused. The Air Force transfer of excess relocatable housing to eligible tribes directly affects families needing housing near bases or training areas.
Department of Defense components and the intelligence community: new controls on reprogramming, notification, and certification increase congressional oversight and may slow internal budget shifts or development timelines for certain R&D items or classified budget restructures. Intelligence appropriations are treated as "specifically authorized" within this Act until a later authorization, changing administrative handling.
Federally recognized Indian tribes and Indian‑owned businesses: benefit from procurement incentives, broadened contractor definitions for incentive payments, and potential receipt of excess relocatable housing units; tribes in the named states are specifically eligible to request Air Force housing under the program.
Defense industrial base and shipbuilders/contractors: face new procurement conditions (domestic content/U.S.-made component requirements for certain ship programs), possible buy‑American-like constraints for particular acquisitions, and specific funding availability windows that affect planning and contracts.
Foreign partners and regional security programs: Israel (missile‑defense cooperation), Taiwan and Jordan (security support), and other partners see explicit funding or conditions; certain international organizations or groups named in the text are barred from receiving funds, which constrains specific assistance or contracting.
Congress and oversight actors: receive more frequent and detailed reporting, certifications, and notifications before budget reassignments, structural intelligence budget changes, or starting certain development programs.
Overall effect: the bill increases earmarked and targeted support for tribal contracting and housing, affirms funding for select allied defense cooperation, and tightens controls on how DoD and intelligence funds are moved and used, at the cost of additional administrative steps and potential program delays while certification/notification requirements are met. Some provisions (funding bans and contracting conditions) may affect partner organizations and private contractors' ability to participate in particular programs.
Last progress July 23, 2025 (6 months ago)
Introduced on June 16, 2025 by Ken Calvert
Received in the Senate.
