H.R. 4016: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026

Bill · 119th Congress (2025–2026). Passed House, 18 Jul 2025. Introduced 16 Jun 2025.

Official title: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

Vote results

House, 18 Jul 2025: Passed, 221 Yea, 209 Nay, 0 Present, 2 Not voting. The House’s roll call
Senate: not yet considered.
President: Not before the President yet: both chambers must pass it first.

How each member voted

Senate

Not yet considered.

House

Yea (221): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Ken Calvert (R-CA-41); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-48); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-5); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); Tom McClintock (R-CA-5); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-9); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); David Schweikert (R-AZ-1); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Richard Hudson (R-NC-9); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-2); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); David G. Valadao (R-CA-22); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Darin LaHood (R-IL-16); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-21); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ron Estes (R-KS-4); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); Marlin A. Stutzman (R-IN-3); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT-1); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-4); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-18); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-28); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Young Kim (R-CA-40); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-9); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1); Barry Moore (R-AL-1); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Mark Alford (R-MO-4); Aaron Bean (R-FL-4); Josh Brecheen (R-OK-2); Eric Burlison (R-MO-7); Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6); Mike Collins (R-GA-10); Elijah Crane (R-AZ-2); Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1); Monica De La Cruz (R-TX-15); Chuck Edwards (R-NC-11); Mike Ezell (R-MS-4); Russell Fry (R-SC-7); Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3); Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL); Erin Houchin (R-IN-9); Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38); John James (R-MI-10); Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ-7); Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2); Kevin Kiley (I-CA-3); Nick LaLota (R-NY-1); Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23); Michael Lawler (R-NY-17); Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15); Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13); Morgan Luttrell (R-TX-8); Richard McCormick (R-GA-7); Max L. Miller (R-OH-7); Cory Mills (R-FL-7); Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1); Zachary Nunn (R-IA-3); Andrew Ogles (R-TN-5); Keith Self (R-TX-3); Dale W. Strong (R-AL-5); Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3); Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2); Vince Fong (R-CA-20); Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6); Tony Wied (R-WI-8); Tom Barrett (R-MI-7); Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5); Nicholas J. Begich III (R-AK-AL); Sheri Biggs (R-SC-3); Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (R-PA-8); Jeff Crank (R-CO-5); Troy Downing (R-MT-2); Gabe Evans (R-CO-8); Julie Fedorchak (R-ND-AL); Brandon Gill (R-TX-26); Craig A. Goldman (R-TX-12); Adam Gray (D-CA-13); Abraham J. Hamadeh (R-AZ-8); Mike Haridopolos (R-FL-8); Pat Harrigan (R-NC-10); Mark Harris (R-NC-8); Jeff Hurd (R-CO-3); Brian Jack (R-GA-3); Mike Kennedy (R-UT-3); Brad Knott (R-NC-13); Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7); Addison P. McDowell (R-NC-6); John J. McGuire III (R-VA-5); Mark B. Messmer (R-IN-8); Riley M. Moore (R-WV-2); Tim Moore (R-NC-14); Robert F. Onder, Jr. (R-MO-3); Derek Schmidt (R-KS-2); Jefferson Shreve (R-IN-6); David J. Taylor (R-OH-2); Randy Fine (R-FL-6); Jimmy Patronis (R-FL-1); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23).

Nay (209): Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-11); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Brad Sherman (D-CA-32); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Mike Thompson (D-CA-4); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-21); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Al Green (D-TX-9); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-7); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); André Carson (D-IN-7); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Judy Chu (D-CA-28); John Garamendi (D-CA-8); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-6); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Lois Frankel (D-FL-22); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-50); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25); Mark Takano (D-CA-39); Juan Vargas (D-CA-52); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-33); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6); Ted Lieu (D-CA-36); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Josh Harder (D-CA-9); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Lucy McBath (D-GA-6); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-4); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Cleo Fields (D-LA-6); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-18); Becca Balint (D-VT-AL); Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13); Greg Casar (D-TX-35); Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA-31); Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30); Christopher R. Deluzio (D-PA-17); Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC-4); Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10); Robert Garcia (D-CA-42); Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10); Val T. Hoyle (D-OR-4); Glenn Ivey (D-MD-4); Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL-1); Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37); Greg Landsman (D-OH-1); Summer L. Lee (D-PA-12); Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2); Morgan McGarvey (D-KY-3); Robert Menendez (D-NJ-8); Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23); Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15); Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7); Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL-3); Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6); Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI-3); Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17); Emilia Strong Sykes (D-OH-13); Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13); Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2); Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-2); Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4); Gabe Amo (D-RI-1); Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26); LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10); Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-3); Wesley Bell (D-MO-1); Janelle S. Bynum (D-OR-5); Herbert C. Conaway, Jr. (D-NJ-3); Maxine Dexter (D-OR-3); Sarah Elfreth (D-MD-3); Shomari Figures (D-AL-2); Laura Friedman (D-CA-30); Laura Gillen (D-NY-4); Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-2); Julie Johnson (D-TX-32); George Latimer (D-NY-16); Sam T. Liccardo (D-CA-16); John W. Mannion (D-NY-22); Sarah McBride (D-DE-AL); April McClain Delaney (D-MD-6); Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI-8); Dave Min (D-CA-47); Kelly Morrison (D-MN-3); Johnny Olszewski, Jr. (D-MD-2); Nellie Pou (D-NJ-9); Emily Randall (D-WA-6); Josh Riley (D-NY-19); Luz M. Rivas (D-CA-29); Lateefah Simon (D-CA-12); Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10); Derek Tran (D-CA-45); Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7); George Whitesides (D-CA-27); David Scott (D-GA-13); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14); Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20).

Not voting (2): Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7).

Not in office (13): James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11); Adelita S. Grijalva (D-AZ-7); Matt Van Epps (R-TN-7); Christian D. Menefee (D-TX-18); Clay Fuller (R-GA-14); Analilia Mejia (D-NJ-11); James Gallagher (R-CA-1); Everton Blair Jr. (D-GA-13); Aisha Wahab (D-CA-14); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-7); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Sylvester Turner (D-TX-18).

Summary

Main subject: Provides fiscal year 2026 appropriations for the Department of Defense, including military personnel, operations, procurement, research, health care and intelligence-related accounts, and sets conditions on how the funds may be used. Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, Title VI, Title VII, Title VIII

Its core areas: Military personnel pay and allowances; Operation and maintenance for the armed services and defense-wide activities; Procurement of aircraft, ships, missiles, vehicles and ammunition; Research, development, test and evaluation; Defense Health Program; Intelligence-related funding; Transfer authority, reporting requirements and limits on the use of funds.

Unexpected Items: 71 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (16)

Title II, “United states court of appeals for the armed forces”: Appropriates $21,243,000 for salaries and expenses of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, of which up to $10,000 may be used for official representation purposes. ($21,243,000)
Sec. 8020: Authorizes the Air Force to convey excess relocatable military housing units at five named Air Force bases at no cost to Indian tribes in eight named States, on requests submitted through the Operation Walking Shield Program.
Sec. 8038: Directs the Secretary of Defense to issue regulations barring sale of tobacco products in military resale outlets below the most competitive local price, with overseas prices kept within the range of U.S. stores.
Sec. 8126: Appropriates $97,770,000 to the Department of Defense Credit Program Account for a pilot program on capital assistance to the defense industrial base, with loan and loan guarantee principal not to exceed $4,390,000,000. ($97,770,000)
Sec. 8139: Bars funds from being used for any Federal Government action affecting tax treatment, grants, benefits, or accreditation of a person based on a sincerely held belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.
Sec. 8174: Bars use of funds to close three named museums: the Rock Island Arsenal Museum in Illinois, the Fort Sill museum in Lawton, Oklahoma, and the United States Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Sec. 8081: Bars use of funds for Federal contracts over $1,000,000 unless the contractor agrees not to require or enforce employee arbitration of certain civil rights and sexual assault or harassment claims, with a waiver for national security. ($1,000,000)
Sec. 8135: Bars use of funds in this Act to enforce any COVID-19 mask mandates.
Sec. 8136: Bars use of funds in this Act to require members of the Armed Forces or Department of Defense civilian employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Sec. 8137: Bars use of funds in this Act to require COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for student attendance at a Department of Defense Education Activity school.
Sec. 8140: Bars use of funds to classify communications by a United States person as mis-, dis-, or mal-information, or to fund organizations that recommend private companies censor lawful speech.
Sec. 8141: Bars use of funds for any program or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or teaches or trains on the listed race- and sex-related concepts.
Sec. 8144: Bars use of funds to promote, host or support events on military installations or in recruiting that violate the Joint Ethics Regulation or bring discredit upon the military, giving drag queen story hour as an example.
Sec. 8148: Bars use of funds in this Act for any office of diversity, equity, or inclusion.
Sec. 8149: Bars making funds in this Act available to NewsGuard Technologies Inc.
Sec. 8175: Bars use of funds to create, procure or display any map that shows Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu, Penghu, Wuciou, Green Island or Orchid Island as part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China.

Applies only to a specific place or group (5)

Sec. 8015: Bars purchase of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain unless manufactured in the United States from components substantially manufactured in the United States, with a case-by-case waiver.
Sec. 8017: Bars use of Department of Defense funds to demilitarize or dispose of listed rifle and pistol types unless certified unserviceable or unsafe.
Sec. 8041: Bars funds for establishing field operating agencies or paying certain headquarters staff, and exempts National Intelligence Program field operating agencies and three described Army and Air Force agencies.
Sec. 8163: Requires not less than $80,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Navy funds for a Platform Supply Vessel Pilot Program to time charter at least six vessels, with criteria describing existing U.S.-built, U.S.-owned vessels of set capacity. ($80,000,000)
Sec. 8060: Makes $194,452,598 of Operation and Maintenance, Army funds available until expended, transferable to other Federal Government activities, with real property and construction contracting authority for projects the text does not describe. ($194,452,598)

Funds a specific named project or event (21)

Title II, “Operation and maintenance, defense-Wide”: Sets aside not less than $70,000,000 of the defense-wide operation and maintenance appropriation for APEX Accelerators, of which not less than $5,000,000 is for centers with eligible entities defined in 10 U.S.C. 4951(1)(D). ($70,000,000)
Title VI, “Defense health program”: Requires not less than $15,000,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) of Defense Health Program research funds for HIV prevention educational activities tied to U.S. military training, exercises and humanitarian assistance conducted primarily in African nations. ($15,000,000)
Sec. 8023: Makes not less than $79,000,000 available for the Civil Air Patrol Corporation, split among Operation and Maintenance, Air Force ($57,900,000), Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ($17,800,000) and Other Procurement, Air Force ($3,300,000). ($79,000,000)
Sec. 8037: Makes up to $8,132,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Navy funds available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program for Theater Security Cooperation activities. ($8,132,000)
Sec. 8047: Appropriates an additional $49,000,000 to the Department of Defense for grants of $24,000,000 to the United Service Organizations and $25,000,000 to the Red Cross.
Sec. 8051: Lets the Chief of the National Guard Bureau permit others to use National Guard Distance Learning Project equipment on a reimbursable basis and credits the amounts collected to funds for that project.
Sec. 8062: Allows transfer of up to $11,000,000 from each of the Army, Navy and Air Force operation and maintenance accounts to the military department's central fund for Fisher Houses and Suites. ($11,000,000)
Sec. 8063: Appropriates $5,000,000, available until expended, for a grant to the Fisher House Foundation, Inc. for constructing and furnishing additional Fisher Houses. ($5,000,000)
Sec. 8064: Makes up to $1,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Navy funds available for transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Development Trust Fund. ($1,000,000)
Sec. 8067: Directs $500,000,000 from Procurement, Defense-Wide and RDT&E, Defense-Wide to the Israeli Cooperative Programs, including $60,000,000 for Iron Dome procurement and amounts for other named missile defense programs. ($500,000,000)
Sec. 8082: Makes up to $165,000,000 of Defense Health Program operation and maintenance funds available for transfer to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund, for operations of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. ($165,000,000)
Sec. 8086: Makes $206,019,000 of Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy funds available for purchasing two used sealift vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet and reimbursing a Maritime Administration account. ($206,019,000)
Sec. 8090: Makes $785,052,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Navy funds available until expended for purposes related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, including reimbursement of a Maritime Administration account. ($785,052,000)
Sec. 8105: Makes $500,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds available until September 30, 2027 for the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative. ($500,000,000)
Sec. 8117: Allows up to $500,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to be used to support the armed forces of Jordan. ($500,000,000)
Sec. 8162: Appropriates an additional $90,000,000 for the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund, available until September 30, 2028, of which $10,000,000 is for titanium requirements. ($90,000,000)
Sec. 8171: Directs $12,000,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to the Irregular Warfare Center. ($12,000,000)
Sec. 8098: Allows title IV funds to be used for agile research, procurement, production and operation and maintenance only for six listed Software and Digital Technology Pilot programs, and bars starting additional pilot programs in fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 8128: Allows amounts above the request on one Procurement, Defense-Wide line (APFIT) to also be used for software procurement, research and operation, and requires biannual briefings on transition outcomes through September 30, 2028.
Sec. 8164: Bars use of funds to move the headquarters functions of the United States Southern Command from Miami, Florida, including if it is merged with another combatant command.
Sec. 8121: Directs the Secretary of Defense to allocate fiscal year 2026 amounts from the CHIPS for America Defense Fund to the account, amounts, projects and activities listed in a table in the explanatory statement, and limits allocation of later-year amounts.

Different amount for specific places or groups (7)

Sec. 8018: Limits to $500,000 the funds used for any single relocation of a Department of Defense organization, unit, activity or function into or within the National Capital Region, with a waiver option. ($500,000)
Sec. 8019: Makes $35,169,000 of Procurement, Defense-Wide funds available only for incentive payments under section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974. ($35,169,000)
Sec. 8021: Requires not less than $19,861,000 of Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide funds to be used only for mitigating environmental impacts of Department of Defense activities on Indian lands, including training and technical assistance to tribes. ($19,861,000)
Sec. 8084: Sets a purchase limit of $450,000 per armored vehicle and $75,000 per passenger motor vehicle, with the passenger vehicle limit applying to use in the United States Central Command area of responsibility. ($75,000)
Sec. 8102: Authorizes the Department of Defense to incur obligations of up to $350,000,000 in anticipation of contributions received only from the Government of Kuwait, with contributions credited to the account that incurred the obligations. ($350,000,000)
Sec. 8104: Makes $267,298,000 available to reimburse countries other than Pakistan under section 1226 of the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, with not less than $150,000,000 for Jordan. ($150,000,000)
Sec. 8159: Limits the funds in this Act to salary and expenses for no more than 75 full-time equivalent personnel, including contractors, for Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, with exceptions for cost assessment and capability enabling functions.

Exception or delay for a subset (18)

Sec. 8002: Lifts laws barring pay to or employment of non-U.S. citizens for Department of Defense personnel, caps foreign national pay increases, and exempts foreign national employees in the Republic of Turkey from those limits.
Sec. 8007: Bars reprogramming or transfer of funds until a baseline report is submitted, but exempts transfers from six listed accounts (five environmental restoration accounts and the drug interdiction account).
Sec. 8011: Allows the Secretary of the Army to provide medical services and transportation at Army facilities in Hawaii on a nonreimbursable basis to civilian patients from six named places.
Sec. 8016: Requires malt beverages and wine sold by nonappropriated fund activities on U.S. installations to be procured within the same State, with different rules for contiguous States and the District of Columbia.
Sec. 8042: Limits conversion of Department of Defense civilian work to contractors, but exempts functions converted to certain nonprofit agencies, firms at least 51 percent owned by an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization, and depot contracts.
Sec. 8059: Allows the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive all or part of the payment otherwise required for leases of personal property of up to one year to specified youth organizations or other approved nonprofit organizations.
Sec. 8127: Notwithstanding section 8053, allows amounts for Defense Innovation Unit Fielding line 294A to be used for the initial acquisition of end-items for operational use, after a 15-day execution plan notice.
Sec. 8118: Starting 180 days after enactment, bars Northern Command funds for activities with respect to Mexico except those tied to Executive Order 14167, shifts unobligated funds to Southern Command, and does not apply if the President makes a stated determination.
Sec. 8004: Limits obligations in the last 2 months of the fiscal year to 20 percent of limited-obligation appropriations, but exempts obligations for active duty training of reserve components and Reserve Officers' Training Corps summer camp training.
Sec. 8024: Caps funding for professional technical staff costs of defense research centers, but the cap does not apply to staff years funded in the National Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program; board members acting in a technical advisory capacity are also excepted from the compensation bar.
Sec. 8029: Bars use of funds to buy carbon, alloy or armor steel plate not melted and rolled in the United States or Canada, with exceptions for case-by-case waivers and for contracts already in being on the date of enactment.
Sec. 8031: Requires domestic sourcing for ball and roller bearings, but exempts purchases of commercial products (except bearings purchased as end items) and allows case-by-case waivers.
Sec. 8033: Lets the Secretary of Defense waive limits on buying defense items from foreign countries case by case, but the waiver does not reach public vessel construction, ball and roller bearings, food, and listed clothing, textile and metal products.
Sec. 8044: Bars use of funds for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea unless specifically appropriated, but exempts activities incidental to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency mission to recover remains of U.S. Armed Forces personnel.
Sec. 8052: Bars use of funds to retire or store any C–40 aircraft, except an individual aircraft the Secretary of the Air Force finds no longer mission capable due to a Class A mishap; also requires a report on travel needs for members of Congress and the Cabinet.
Sec. 8053: Bars use of title IV funds to procure end-items for operational use, with exceptions for end-items used in development, prototyping and test activities, programs in the National Intelligence Program, and case-by-case waivers.
Sec. 8089: Bars paying salaries of officials who transfer program responsibilities or resources to agencies not funded by this Act without congressional authorization, but exempts transfers expressly provided for in Defense appropriations or supplemental appropriations Acts.
Sec. 8133: Bars use of funds to build, acquire or modify facilities in the United States, its territories or possessions to hold individuals who were held at Guantanamo Bay on or after June 24, 2009, but excepts modifications of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Delays or blocks a specific regulation (3)

Sec. 8142: Bars use of funds to implement or carry out a Department of Defense memorandum dated October 20, 2022, any successor, or any substantially similar rule or policy.
Sec. 8146: Bars use of funds to carry out section 147 of title 10, United States Code, or sections 554(a) or 913(b) of the fiscal year 2021 NDAA.
Sec. 8147: Bars use of funds to implement the Department of Defense Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan and Executive Orders 13985, 14035 and 14091, or to carry out activities promoting the listed divisive concepts.

Changes a government process (1)

Sec. 8027: Allows the Department of Defense to acquire depot maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels through competition between depots and private firms, and states that OMB Circular A–76 does not apply to those competitions.

What it does

Title I, “Military Personnel, Army”: Provides $52,502,044,000 for pay, allowances and related expenses of Army members on active duty, cadets, Reserve Officers' Training Corps members, and payments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund.
Title II, “Operation and maintenance, marine corps”: Provides $9,937,283,000 for the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps.
Title III, “Aircraft procurement, navy”: Provides $17,989,351,000 for procurement, production, modification and modernization of Navy aircraft and related equipment, available for obligation until September 30, 2028.
Title III, “Shipbuilding and conversion, navy”: Provides $36,935,236,000 in all for Navy shipbuilding and conversion, including the Columbia Class Submarine, Virginia Class Submarine and DDG–51 Destroyer programs, available for obligation until September 30, 2030.
Title IV: Provides funds for research, development, test and evaluation for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and defense-wide activities, available for obligation until September 30, 2027.
Title VI, “Defense health program”: Provides funds for the Defense Health Program, divided among operation and maintenance, procurement, and research, development, test and evaluation.
Title VII, “Intelligence community management account”: Provides $642,000,000 for necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community Management Account.
Sec. 8005: Allows the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to transfer not to exceed $6,000,000,000 between Department of Defense appropriations or funds for military functions.
Sec. 8119: Appropriates $1,500,000,000 for transfer to the military services' operation and maintenance accounts for improving military readiness, with no obligation until 30 days after an execution plan is provided to the Committees on Appropriations.
Sec. 8120: Reduces the amounts appropriated in title II by $750,000,000 to reflect excess cash balances in Department of Defense Working Capital Funds, taken from the Army, Navy and Air Force operation and maintenance accounts.

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