Summary#
This bill provides specific spending authorizations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal year 2027. It sets amounts for military personnel pay and benefits, operation and maintenance, procurement of ships, aircraft, missiles, ammunition and other equipment, and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). The bill also creates or continues special funds and transfer authorities, directs many reporting requirements to Congress, and includes many specific limits on how funds may be used. It contains program-level instructions (for example for shipbuilding, missile and aircraft programs), environmental restoration funding, and funding for foreign security cooperation and assistance programs. The bill text also includes many prohibitions and conditions on funding for certain recipients, activities, or items and several one-time appropriations for readiness, industrial base activities, and computing infrastructure. Notably, it contains a section that would rename the Department of Defense and related titles in U.S. Code to the "Department of War" and "Secretary of War."
What it means for you#
- Military members and reservists: the bill authorizes pay, allowances, travel, and retirement fund payments under named appropriations for each service. Specific personnel accounts for Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Reserve, and National Guard are listed with amounts in the text.
- Communities near bases and environmental stakeholders: the bill funds environmental restoration accounts for military departments and formerly used defense sites, and includes funding for construction, facility work, and base-related projects.
- Defense industry and contractors: the bill provides procurement funding for many ship, aircraft, missile, and vehicle programs, directs Buy American and domestic sourcing requirements for many items, and creates or funds programs to strengthen industrial base capacity, workforce development, and technical data management.
- Foreign partners: the bill includes funds for foreign security cooperation and specified programs for allied partners (for example, funds for Israeli cooperative programs, a Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative, and other regional assistance), with conditions and reporting requirements.
- Taxpayers and oversight: the bill requires numerous reports, notifications, and limits on reprogramming and fund transfers to the congressional defense and intelligence committees.
Expenses#
This bill text lists many line-item appropriations and examples include:
- Military personnel accounts (examples in text): Army $56,363,343,000; Navy $43,292,981,000; Air Force $40,610,059,000; Marine Corps $17,815,905,000; Space Force $1,780,331,000.
- Operation and maintenance (examples): Operation and Maintenance, Army $63,994,579,000; Navy $81,673,408,000; Air Force $73,679,124,000; Space Force $8,800,801,000; Defense-Wide $64,165,575,000.
- Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy (detailed line items): total listed $56,673,695,000 with large program entries such as Columbia Class submarine amounts, Virginia Class, carriers, and others.
- Procurement and RDT&E (examples): Aircraft Procurement, Air Force $27,449,748,000; Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force $74,820,382,000; Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force $35,319,886,000.
- Special or additional appropriations and transfers: $2,950,000,000 for readiness transfers (Sec. 8148); $3,250,000,000 for a combatant commanders contingency fund (Sec. 8149); $2,750,000,000 for industrial base qualification and technical data activities (Sec. 8150); $5,250,000,000 for on-premises infrastructure and compute capital (Sec. 8151).
- Other named funds and programs: Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund $303,099,000; Cooperative Threat Reduction $221,332,000; National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account $1,000,000,000; Defense Production Act purchases $552,787,000.
The bill text contains many more program-level amounts and availability periods; the list above are examples taken directly from the provided text.
Proponents' View#
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Opponents' View#
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