Summary

Authorizes major federal activities for fiscal year 2026 across defense, intelligence, energy security, foreign affairs, the Coast Guard, and housing, while setting many new policy requirements, reporting duties, and pilot programs. It directs the Department of Defense and contractors to remove certain foreign-adversary AI tools from systems, tightens procurement restrictions for certain China-linked products (including some IT, seafood, and drug supply-chain reporting), and creates new planning requirements for munitions demand, software test and evaluation, cyber modernization, and DoD–VA health care sharing. It also repeals the 1991 and 2002 Iraq authorizations for use of military force, adds foreign policy tools such as support to Ukraine to recover abducted children and expanded State Department anti-trafficking requirements, updates Coast Guard authorizations and reforms (including behavioral health pilots and sexual misconduct reforms), and launches significant HUD housing initiatives (zoning best practices, housing-supply incentive grants, pattern-book design grants, and reforms to disaster recovery grant rules and interagency streamlining).

Key Points

• Authorizes wide-ranging FY2026 defense, intelligence, Coast Guard, foreign affairs, and housing activities across multiple divisions.
• Requires DoD and contractors to rapidly remove and restrict use of specified foreign-adversary AI tools, with limited waivers and risk mitigation.
• Tightens supply-chain protections tied to China, including restrictions on certain IT products, seafood sourcing for military dining, and reporting on PRC-linked pharmaceuticals.
• Directs DoD and VA to create and implement action plans to improve sharing of health care services, with public transparency and facility coordinators.
• Repeals the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.
• Expands support to Ukraine for recovering children abducted by Russia, including technical assistance and congressional briefings.
• Extends and expands DOJ grant program authorities, adding allowable uses for substance use disorder services and reentry housing.
• Reorganizes intelligence community functions by reducing ODNI staffing and transferring a counterproliferation/biosecurity center to the CIA, with required status reporting.
• Authorizes Coast Guard funding and reforms, including behavioral health staffing pilots and strengthened sexual misconduct policies and accountability.
• Creates major HUD housing tools: zoning best practices, housing-supply incentive grants, pattern-book design grants, and tighter disaster recovery grant rules with interagency streamlining.

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