Sponsor
Ken Calvert
Representative · R-CA
Representative · R-CA
Official title: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 26, 2026 by Ken Calvert
The bill directs substantial funding and industrial‑base support to strengthen readiness, shipbuilding, and near‑term modernization while increasing federal spending and imposing domestic procurement, oversight, and funding restrictions that can raise costs, constrain agility, and limit some research and personnel practices.
U.S. service members and the maritime/shipbuilding workforce receive major funding boosts and program support (shipbuilding appropriations, Ready Reserve Force reimbursements, naval procurement and sealift investments), strengthening naval readiness and sustaining domestic shipbuilding jobs.
Military units and defense R&D benefit from substantial near‑term operations, contingency, and modernization funding (O&M, contingency, compute, RDT&E transfers) that improves readiness and accelerates fielding of urgent capabilities.
U.S. manufacturers and procurement stability improve because the bill enables multiyear contracting for specified weapon systems and strengthens Buy American/domestic‑content requirements for ships and major components, supporting domestic suppliers and industrial base resilience.
All taxpayers face larger federal outlays and added deficit pressure because the bill authorizes substantial new defense and foreign assistance spending.
Congress, taxpayers, and program beneficiaries may see diminished legislative control and transparency in practice because expanded DoD transfer and reprogramming authorities centralize spending flexibility and can reduce Congress's granular control over appropriations.
Military programs and taxpayers could incur higher costs and procurement delays due to strict Buy American/domestic‑content mandates and other domestic sourcing rules when U.S. suppliers cannot meet demand or price, raising contract costs or slowing deliveries.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Sets DoD appropriations rules, funds strategic sealift, limits contractor conversions, requires U.S.-made ship components, restricts certain intelligence acquisitions, and expands DoD reporting and transfer authorities.
Provides appropriations-related rules and funding limits for Department of Defense programs, sets funding and buy‑American requirements for Navy shipbuilding and strategic sealift, authorizes limited fund transfers within DoD, and places controls on certain personnel conversions, pay caps for foreign national DoD employees, and intelligence acquisitions. It also requires new reporting and congressional notifications for selected transfers, program waivers, and DoD financial and contracting details, and reduces total available funds by a specified savings amount tied to modernization and AI. Includes detailed restrictions on contractor conversions of civilian functions, limits on obligations late in the fiscal year, prohibitions on particular surveillance-related acquisitions, targeted funding for strategic sealift and the National Defense Reserve Fleet, and conditions for use and transfer of working capital and other defense funds.