National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 authorizes defense, military construction, nuclear security, State Department, intelligence, Coast Guard, and related national-security programs for fiscal year 2026. It sets procurement and research authorities for the armed services, authorizes military personnel and family-support policies, codifies parts of the atomic energy defense enterprise, extends foreign-security assistance, and adds standalone policy titles on fentanyl sanctions, outbound investment controls, drone countermeasures, intelligence systems, and Coast Guard operations.
The bill is not only an appropriations authorization. It changes acquisition rules, imposes procurement bans on covered Chinese biotechnology and critical-material supply chains, expands oversight reports, creates or extends pilot programs, and gives the executive branch new restrictions and reporting duties tied to adversary technology, foreign investment, nuclear production, missile defense, and military quality-of-life programs.
Who Benefits and How
Defense contractors, shipbuilders, aircraft manufacturers, submarine suppliers, munitions producers, and the defense industrial base benefit from multiyear or advance procurement authority for UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft, future long-range assault aircraft, Ford-class aircraft carriers, Columbia-class submarines, Virginia-class submarine components, and Medium Landing Ships. The Department of Defense and the military departments benefit from clearer acquisition, testing, research, and force-structure authorities.
Service members and military families benefit from extended in-home child care assistance, a pilot increasing child care payments in high-cost areas, an increase in family separation allowance from $250 to $300, and transition-assistance language that captures child care needs. Taiwan benefits from up to $1 billion for the Taiwan security cooperation initiative and added medical and contingency-care capabilities. Israel and U.S. missile-defense suppliers benefit from up to $60 million for Iron Dome co-production and cooperative missile-defense work.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Savannah River Site, and nuclear-security contractors benefit from codified plutonium pit production targets and workforce authorities. Ukraine benefits from extended Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative authority and $400 million each for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Coast Guard programs, ports, maritime safety entities, and abandoned-vessel response partners benefit from the Coast Guard Authorization Act provisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, intelligence community, Coast Guard, State Department, Treasury, Commerce, and congressional defense committees must implement new reports, certifications, procurement controls, investment-screening rules, cybersecurity restrictions, and oversight processes. Contractors must satisfy new contract-document, sourcing, biotechnology, cloud, classified-access, and procurement-compliance conditions.
Chinese biotechnology companies of concern, adversary artificial-intelligence services such as DeepSeek, foreign opioid traffickers, covered Russian fossil-fuel operators, and companies tied to countries of concern face procurement bans, sanctions exposure, removal from federal or intelligence systems, and outbound-investment restrictions. United States persons investing in prohibited technologies in countries of concern face prohibition or notification rules under the new Defense Production Act investment title.
Federal taxpayers and appropriators bear the cost of the defense authorization, child care pilots, procurement authorities, Ukraine assistance, missile-defense programs, nuclear-security production, and Coast Guard authorizations. Covered military-age males bear a new automatic Selective Service registration requirement, and executive agencies must collect or transmit identifying information needed to administer it.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes fiscal year 2026 procurement, research and development, operation and maintenance, military personnel, and nuclear-security funding through the defense and Department of Energy funding tables.
- Authorizes or extends multiyear and advance procurement for UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft, future long-range assault aircraft, Ford-class carriers, Columbia-class submarines, Virginia-class submarine components, and Medium Landing Ships.
- Extends in-home child care assistance, creates a high-cost-area child care payment pilot, and raises family separation allowance from $250 to $300.
- Prohibits executive agencies from procuring covered biotechnology equipment or services from biotechnology companies of concern and restricts loan or grant recipients from using federal funds for those purchases.
- Extends and modifies the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative with $400 million authorized for each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and an extension through December 31, 2029.
- Expands the Taiwan security cooperation initiative, including medical equipment and contingency-care capabilities, with up to $1 billion for fiscal year 2026.
- Updates national missile defense policy for the Golden Dome architecture and requires annual reports on threats, architecture, costs, schedules, and funding.
- Provides up to $60 million for Iron Dome co-production in the United States and cooperative Israeli missile-defense programs.
- Codifies plutonium pit production capacity targets for Los Alamos and Savannah River and requires certification, planning, and reporting for the nuclear-security enterprise.
- Requires intelligence-community standards to remove DeepSeek or successor covered applications from national security systems, with limited exceptions and risk-mitigation rules.
- Expands fentanyl sanctions to cover certain People’s Republic of China entities and officials tied to opioid trafficking failures or aid.
- Adds a Defense Production Act outbound-investment title allowing prohibition or notification requirements for covered national-security transactions in prohibited technologies.
- Replaces Selective Service registration language with automatic registration for covered males ages 18 to 26 and authorizes information-sharing rules to administer the system.
- Enacts the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025 and related maritime, port, abandoned-vessel, and Coast Guard administrative reforms.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes fiscal year 2026 defense, nuclear-security, military construction, intelligence, State Department, Coast Guard, procurement, personnel, sanctions, and foreign-security policies while adding acquisition, technology, investment, and quality-of-life rules.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Military Personnel, Foreign Affairs, Nuclear Security, Intelligence, Transportation
Primary Purpose
Authorizes fiscal year 2026 defense, nuclear-security, military construction, intelligence, State Department, Coast Guard, procurement, personnel, sanctions, and foreign-security policies while adding acquisition, technology, investment, and quality-of-life rules.
Policy Domains
Division A - Department of Defense authorizations
Identified Gains
- Defense contractors
- Shipbuilders
- Aircraft manufacturers
- Submarine suppliers
- Military service members
- Military families
Identified Costs
- Department of Defense
- Military departments
- Defense contractors
- Executive agencies
- Chinese biotechnology companies of concern
Division C - Department of Energy national security authorizations
Identified Gains
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Savannah River Site
- Nuclear-security contractors
Identified Costs
- Secretary of Energy
- Nuclear Weapons Council
- Congressional defense committees
Foreign security, sanctions, investment, intelligence, and Coast Guard titles
Identified Gains
- Ukraine
- Taiwan
- Government of Israel
- U.S. missile-defense suppliers
- Coast Guard programs
- Maritime safety entities
Identified Costs
- Foreign opioid traffickers
- People's Republic of China entities
- DeepSeek application operators
- United States outbound investors
- Treasury Department
- Director of National Intelligence
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Signed into LawBecame Public Law No: 119-60.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
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Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Administration for the purposes of conducting research and development of artificial intelligence technologies, Administrator of the Administration, Afghanistan War Commission
Coast Guard, Congressional Intelligence Committees, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense acquisition workforce, Department of Defense, Department of Defense Components, Department of Energy, Department of State, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Intelligence Community, Intelligence Community elements, Intelligence community agencies, National Defense Stockpile Manager, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, United States Department of State face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Afghanistan War Commission, Agency employees, Air Force, Army Corps of Engineers, Army ammunition plants, Army real estate management, Biological threat reduction programs, Board of Directors of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Central Intelligence Agency, Chief Risk Officer role within the Corporation, Coast Guard Stations and Units listed in the bill, Coast Guard and related agencies, Coast Guard leadership and programs, Coast Guard personnel working with or regulating small uncrewed maritime systems, Coast Guard units and sectors located in tsunami inundation zones, Customs and Border Protection, Defense Innovation Unit, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Defense Science Board, Defense laboratories and relevant entities, Defense procurement officials, Defense research laboratories, Department of Defense (excluding military departments), Department of Defense acquisition executives, program managers, product support managers, Department of Defense acquisition workforce, Department of Defense and Armed Forces members, Department of Defense and National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Defense and other relevant Federal Government departments and agencies, Department of Defense civilian workforce, Department of Defense contracting officers, Department of Defense elements with Authorization to Operate responsibilities, Department of Defense facilities and assets at risk from unmanned aircraft systems, Department of Defense installations and locations inside the United States, Department of Defense installations and locations outside the United States, Department of Defense military installations, Department of Defense, United States allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region, Department of Energy and Department of Defense, Department of Energy and related agencies, Department of Energy facilities (Savannah River Site, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Department of Energy facilities and laboratories, Department of Energy national security programs, Department of Energy officials involved in nuclear safety oversight, Department of Energy projects with estimated costs exceeding $500,000,000, Department of State employees and programs, Department of State employees and related programs, Department of the Treasury, Department's CIO and CDAO, Development Finance Corporation, Diplomatic Security Service of the Department of State, Diplomatic Security special agents assigned to High or Critical Human Intelligence diplomatic posts, DoD civilian employees in combat zones, DoD installations, DoD public-private talent exchange participants, Elements of the intelligence community, Eligible entities (States, political subdivisions, Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, Tribal organizations), Energy Department, Entities subject to the repealed/revised sections, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and other relevant Federal agencies, Federal agencies handling classified information, Federal and State natural resource trustees for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, Five Eyes countries governments, Former or retired officials who served in specified positions and face serious threats, Funding for Servicewomen’s Commemorative Partnership, Government of Canada, Government of Ukraine, Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, States, and local governments, Intelligence agencies, Intelligence agencies and relevant departments, Law enforcement agencies involved in counter-terrorism activities, Legislative bodies and lawmakers, Maritime Administration programs and operations, Mexican civilian law enforcement agencies, Mexican courts, Mexican military institutions, Mexican prosecutors, Mexican security institutions, Military departments, other elements of DoD, Federal agencies outside DoD, and eligible non-Federal entities, Military depot maintenance facilities, Military installations and facilities undergoing replacement projects due to damage or destruction, Military procurement agencies, Missile Defense Agency, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, NOAA Fleet, NOAA officers, National Commission on the Future of the Navy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Security Laboratories and Nuclear Weapons Production Facilities, National security laboratories, Navy, Navy shipyards, Navy's Military Family Housing Units, Nuclear Energy Administration, Nuclear Weapons Council, Office of Strategic Capital, Pacific Island Parties, Public infrastructure projects and services, including health care, housing, defense critical infrastructure projects and services, Retired military members seeking DoD civilian employment, Security Cooperation Workforce, State and local governments with covered depots, States, District of Columbia, Indian Tribes, and territories of the United States, States, District of Columbia, Indian Tribes, territories of the United States, States, Territories, and government entities, U.S. Corporation for Public-Private Partnerships in Development, U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Development Finance Corporation, U.S. agencies involved in nuclear non-proliferation efforts, United States Coast Guard Yard, United States Government offices, United States Government personnel under Chief of Mission Authority in Australia, United States government and its contractors/subcontractors, Western Balkans countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia)
Negative-direction: Administration for the purposes of conducting research and development of artificial intelligence technologies, Administrator of the Administration, Agencies receiving counterdrug support, Air Force Secretary's Office, All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Board of the Development Finance Corporation, Capital assets acquisition projects with total project cost >$500,000,000, Cleared government contractors, Coast Guard Acquisition Programs (Level 1 & Level 2), Coast Guard Commandant, Coast Guard Sector San Diego, Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Coast Guard Sector Key West, and Coast Guard Station South Padre Island, Coast Guard and other relevant government agencies, Commandant of the Coast Guard, Comptroller General of the United States, Construction projects in support of national security programs by DOE, Defense acquisition program managers, Defense acquisition program offices, Defense acquisition workforce and program managers, Defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development program, Department of Defense Contractors, Department of Defense and its components, Department of Defense and military departments, Department of Defense and related entities, Department of Defense offices (Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering), Department of Defense personnel, Department of Defense personnel and AI/ML systems, Department of Defense personnel offices and finance departments, Department of Energy (DOE) Administrators and Secretaries, Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy laboratories, Department of Energy personnel involved in capital asset projects and nuclear weapon life extension programs, Department of Energy personnel involved in document review, Department of Energy project managers, Department of Energy project sponsors, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department personnel, Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Director of the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Executive branch agencies and departments, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal executive agencies, Foreign countries engaging in unlawful or wrongful detention of U.S. nationals, Foreign governments engaging in harmful intelligence activities and having excessive privileges, Government Accountability Office, Government agencies, Government agencies involved in past research (e.g., Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health), Government agencies responsible for counterterrorism reporting, Government agencies with classified access, Government contractors, Haitian political and economic elites with ties to criminal gangs, Individuals applying for commissioned officer positions in NOAA Corps, Intelligence analysts, Iraqi security forces (excluding Kurdish Peshmerga Forces), Members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, Military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force), Military installation commanders, Mission Assurance Coordination Board co-chairs, National Security Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Officials responsible for Federal oversight of funds in the Department of Energy Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, Political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities of foreign governments engaged in opioid trafficking, President of the United States, Procurement agencies, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury, Senior officials in anti-narcotics, regulatory, law enforcement, intelligence, or customs bodies of the People’s Republic of China, Senior officials of political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities of foreign governments engaged in opioid trafficking, Space Force, Syrian Government, The Corporation, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Coast Guard), U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and other relevant Federal agencies, U.S. Strategic Command, US Department of Defense and State
Academy cadets and midshipmen diagnosed with a medical condition, Active duty military personnel, Air Force
Air Force, Army, Department of Defense, Members of the Armed Forces, Members of the Armed Forces receiving beginner motorcycle safety training, Navy face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Active duty military personnel, Air Force and Space Force museums, Air Force personnel and related organizations, All members of the Coast Guard, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Armed forces of Lebanon, Army National Guard locations inside the United States, Army families, Army museums and related institutions, Army museums and related personnel, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Cadets and Midshipmen, Coast Guard Academy, Coast Guard Academy cadets, Coast Guard Academy personnel, Coast Guard Commandant, Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, Coast Guard Academy (including Officer Candidate School), other applicable Coast Guard training locations, Coast Guard members (active duty and reserve), Coast Guard members and civilian employees, Coast Guard members and units with high operational tempo or other force resiliency risks, Coast Guard members assigned to duty locations in Alaska, Coast Guard members who have reported covered misconduct and face involuntary separation, Coast Guard personnel responsible for victim care and support, Commanders of combatant commands, Covered nations (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom), Creech Air Force Base personnel, Defense laboratories and test organizations, Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) schools, Department of Defense and Nuclear Weapons Council, Department of Defense depots, Department of Defense military installations, Department of Defense military working dog facilities, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Department of the Air Force, E. Royce Williams, Enlisted military members, Fort Gillem, Georgia, Government of Jordan, Indo-Pacific region military operations, Isaac Ike Camacho (posthumous), Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, Missouri, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Members of the Armed Forces and their dependents enrolled in TRICARE, Members of the Armed Forces and their families, Members of the Armed Forces assigned to the United States Special Operations Command, Members of the Armed Forces on active duty and their dependents, Members of the Coast Guard who have experienced sexual assault within the past 5 years, Members or former members of the Armed Forces, Military JAG officers, Military branches and personnel involved in Tier 1 and Tier 2 joint training exercises, Military branches involved in Tier 1 and Tier 2 joint training exercises, Military chaplain community, Military commanders responsible for planning and organizing military operations, Military depots, Military dining facilities, galleys aboard naval vessels, and commissary stores, Military families in privatized housing, Military families needing child care, Military officers and enlisted members seeking chaplain roles, Military personnel experiencing family separation, Military servicemembers eligible for voluntary separation, National Guard Marksmanship Training Center, Arkansas, National Guard and Reserve Forces, Naval installations, Navy personnel in occupational specialties, Navy vessel maintenance, Navy's Oceanographic Research Vessels, Navy's TAGOS surveillance towed-array sensor system ship program, Officers and noncommissioned officers with >8 years of service, Pregnant officer personnel in the Coast Guard, Reserve components of the Armed Forces, Service members and civilians at Kwajalein Atoll, Space Force, Space Force personnel, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Department of Defense and Taiwan's military forces, U.S. military facilities in Germany, U.S. military facilities in Japan, Unaccompanied Armed Forces members assigned to Alaska, United States Armed Forces stationed or deployed in South Korea, United States Cyber Command, United States Department of Defense, United States European Command, Yemeni Coast Guard
Negative-direction: Air Force Office of the Secretary and Strategic Command, Air Force and Army personnel responsible for implementing the marker placement, All members of the Armed Forces, Applicants for military service, Army Depots listed in section 2476(f)(1) of title 10, United States Code, Army elements of the Major Range and Test Facility Base, Army leadership and budget office, Army personnel involved in Joint Munitions Command and Army Sustainment Command, Cadets at the Coast Guard Academy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Commander of US Strategic Command, Commander of US Space Command, Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Commandant and Coast Guard Academy Superintendent, Coast Guard commanding officers, Coast Guard members, Coast Guard members and Commandant, Commandant of the Coast Guard and Chief of Naval Operations, Commander of the United States Transportation Command, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretaries of military departments, commanders of combatant commands, Commanders of military installations under jurisdiction of Secretary of a military department, Companies directly or indirectly owned by Chinese military entities, Department of Defense (Army), Department of Defense Education Activity Schools, Department of Defense personnel conducting trauma training, Department of Defense personnel involved in Link 16 operations management and certification, Department of Defense personnel involved in global logistics, Department of Defense, Commander of the United States Central Command, Directors of Military Child Development Centers, Entities listed on the 1260H list engaged in biotechnology activities, Former Coast Guard members with honorable discharges, Government of Lebanon, Installation commanders and housing managers, Judge advocates in the Armed Forces, Male students enrolled at the United States Military Academy, Naval Academy, or Air Force Academy, Members of the Armed Forces appealing disability evaluations, Members of the Armed Forces undergoing a permanent change of station during fiscal year 2026 or 2027, Members of the Space Force, Members of the armed forces (including National Guard), Military departments and their respective Service Academies, Military recruitment agencies, Military recruitment contractors, National Guard Bureau, National Guard members performing Active Guard and Reserve duty, National Guard units in each State, Naval Support Activity Annapolis, Maryland, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, Registered sex offenders residing or working on military installations, Retired Coast Guard commissioned officers, Secretary of a military department, Selected weapon system platforms (initially MH–60R and MQ–9 aircraft fleets), Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) units of the Army, Space Force officers, U.S. Military Personnel, US Coast Guard Academy dormitories, United States Armed Forces stationed in Europe, United States Space Force members, United States Special Operations Command
Aerospace and defense contractors, Air Force, Air Force Secretary and B-21 bomber program team
Defense Acquisition Programs >$50M, Defense agencies, Defense contractors, Defense contractors and subcontractors, Defense contractors and suppliers, Department of Defense, Military departments and Defense Agencies, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Aerospace and defense contractors, Allied defense contractors, Allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region, Ammunition and munitions manufacturers, Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) portfolio, Civilian members of the acquisition workforce, Combat vehicle manufacturers, Companies applying for ITAR licenses, Contractors developing AI systems for DoD, Contractors performing classified work for DoD, Covered defense acquisition programs, Defense Acquisition Workforce engaged in foreign military sales planning and execution, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, Defense Personal Property Management Office and related offices, Defense acquisition contractors, Defense acquisition subcontractors, Defense contractors and eligible entities, Defense contractors and research institutions involved in unmanned systems development, Defense contractors and research institutions involved in unmanned systems technology, Defense contractors and suppliers of covered systems, Defense contractors and suppliers of small-UAS systems and components, Defense contractors in Pacific region, Defense contractors producing specified missile systems, Defense contractors with classified, fixed-price contracts, Defense industrial base, Defense industrial base facilities, Defense industries of the United States and allied/partner countries in Indo-Pacific region, Department of Defense enterprise, Department of Defense, Armed Forces reserve components, Department of Energy's Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and nuclear weapons programs, DoD contractors supporting counter-UAS operations, DoD depot maintenance facilities, Domestic defense industrial base manufacturers, Eligible Centers (Science & Tech Labs, Test & Evaluation Centers, DARPA, DIUx, SCO), Eligible Centers (Science and Technology Reinvention Labs, Test & Evaluation Centers, DARPA, DIUx, SCO), Entities that are members of the collaborative forum described in section 1844(a), Foreign Security Forces, Government contractors and subcontractors, Government of Israel, Government-owned, contractor-operated production facilities, Helicopter and VTOL aircraft developers, Hypersonic weapons developers, International defense contractors, Lockheed Martin (F-35 contractor), Long-range precision fires developers (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon), Manufacturers of Government-furnished equipment, Military construction contractors, Military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force), Military departments and branches, Military departments and their secretaries, Military departments concerned, Military forces of Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Military medical treatment facilities with excess capacity or space, Military personnel and health professionals in the Armed Forces, Military personnel and their pets, Missile defense contractors (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman), NC3 systems contractors, National Nuclear Security Administration facilities and national security laboratories/nuclear weapons production facilities, National security laboratories, Commander of the United States Strategic Command, Naval systems and components suppliers, Navy Senior Technical Authorities, Navy's unmanned surface vessel program, Non-government entities bidding on Army depot and arsenal workload sustainment projects, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries, Northrop Grumman (RQ-4 manufacturer), Projects under subparagraph (B)(ii), Projects under subparagraphs (B)(i) and (B)(ii), Regional Centers for Security Studies in developing countries, Small and medium defense contractors, Small business concerns and nontraditional defense contractors, Small innovative defense contractors, Space domain awareness contractors, Space launch providers (SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin), Submarine supply chain companies, Test and evaluation contractors, Test range operators, United States Air Force, United States Indo-Pacific Command, United States Air Mobility Command, Air Force Sustainment Center, United States Coast Guard and Taiwan Coast Guard Administration, Weather satellite users (military and civilian)
Negative-direction: Air Force, Air Force Secretary and B-21 bomber program team, Contractors engaged in undefinitized contractual actions, Contractors involved in atomic weapons testing programs, Contractors seeking nuclear risk indemnification, Contractors working with Department of Defense, Defense contractors and subcontractors (at any tier), Defense contractors handling controlled unclassified information, Defense contractors in major acquisition programs, Defense contractors using microelectronics, Defense logistics and sustainment contractors, Defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development projects focused on hardware production and deployment exceeding $500,000,000 over five years, Defense prime contractors, Defense procurement contractors, Defense procurement subcontractors, Defense producers, Defense subcontractors, Defense subcontractors with foreign ownership, Department of Defense (DoD) Secretaries, Department of Defense biotechnology personnel, Department of Defense officials issuing waivers under DoD Directive 3000.09, Department of Defense personnel, Department of Defense personnel issuing waivers under DoD Directive 3000.09, Director of Science, Technology, and Test Resource Management of the Air Force, Government of Australia, Government of the United Kingdom, eligible entities under section 126.7(b)(2) and their officers/employees, Military Installations with high water security risk, Military branches responsible for amphibious warfare ships, Military installations, National Security Laboratories and Nuclear Weapons Production Facilities, Naval contractors bidding for Modular Attack Surface Craft Block 0 contracts, Nuclear weapons complex contractors (national laboratories), Nuclear weapons complex management contractors, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense and Secretaries of military departments, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Operators of unmanned aircraft systems near nuclear facilities, Private entities offering subscription-based missile defense services, Private entities providing missile defense services, Private sector maintenance and repair contractors, Secretaries concerned of each military department, Secretaries of military departments and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, Secretaries of the military departments, Secretary concerned of the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense, Secretaries of military departments, combatant commanders, Secretary of the Air Force, United States prime contractors, Unmanned aircraft systems or unmanned aircraft operators
A-10 Aircraft Inventory, Air Force, Air Force Air Refueling Wings
Military departments of the Department of Defense, Owners/Operators of covered vessels, Vessel owners and operators face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Air Force Air Refueling Wings, Aviation industry, Department of Defense maintenance personnel, Educational institutions with aviation programs, Licensed maritime pilots, Mariners seeking merchant mariner credentials, Maritime Industrial Base Companies, Maritime industry participants, Maritime vessel crews (Military Sealift Command), Merchant mariners, National Transportation Safety Board, Private shipyards performing maintenance on covered vessels, Shipbuilders and vessel procurement entities, Small Uncrewed Maritime Systems operated by NOAA or contracted for oceanographic surveys, U.S. Department of Transportation, Vessels operating in Coast Guard District Arctic, Vessels operating in the Atlantic Coast region
Negative-direction: A-10 Aircraft Inventory, Air Force, Applicants for Merchant Mariner Credentials, Classification societies from the People’s Republic of China, Coast Guard and relevant stakeholders, Coast Guard maintained aids to navigation, Commercial vessel operators in Great Lakes, Facilities and vessels required to maintain a security plan under 46 U.S.C. §70103(c), Foreign vessels subject to chapter 3714 of title 46, United States Code, Maritime industry actors, Military Rotary-Wing Aircraft, Passenger vessels operating under U.S. flag, Transportation service providers and transportation officers, Vessel construction managers, Vessel operators, Vessels operating on the Hudson River
Contractors of the Administration for life extension programs, Contractors operating Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, Countries and international organizations
Positive-direction: Contractors operating Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, Countries with vulnerable nuclear sites, DOE and contractor employees in nuclear stewardship, Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, Department of Energy sites in South Carolina and Idaho, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, nuclear weapons production facilities, national security laboratories, Employees at Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Management and operating contractors at covered facilities, Managers of covered nuclear weapons facilities, NNSA contractors and national lab employees, NNSA scientific and engineering workforce, National security laboratories and related facilities, National security laboratories, nuclear weapons production facilities, and defense nuclear facilities of the Office of Environmental Management, Naval nuclear propulsion program participants, Nonoperational defense nuclear facilities, Nuclear Security Enterprise, Nuclear Weapon Systems undergoing life extension or major alteration projects, Nuclear weapon shipments planned to be in the active stockpile after 2025, Nuclear weapons industry, Nuclear weapons production facilities, Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, Aiken, South Carolina, The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program, Warhead development programs, life extension programs, and warhead major alteration programs
Negative-direction: Contractors of the Administration for life extension programs, DOE contractor employees, DOE emergency response contractors, DOE management operating contractors, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors
Academic institutions conducting research sponsored by the Department of Defense, Academic institutions with Chinese military ties, Accredited theology schools and seminaries
Positive-direction: Academic institutions conducting research sponsored by the Department of Defense, Accredited theology schools and seminaries, Coast Guard districts without a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Program, Community colleges and technical schools, Foreign Service Institute, Graduate students pursuing careers in the Foreign Service of the United States, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and other Minority-Serving Institutions, Local Educational Agencies with higher concentrations of military children with severe disabilities, Naval personnel attending the School, Research Universities and Small Businesses, Students enrolled in Defense Dependent Schools, Students of Defense Dependent Schools, US Air Force Institute of Technology, USUHS civilian faculty, Universities and colleges, Universities in the United States and Western Balkans, Universities without existing secure facilities and networks
Negative-direction: Academic institutions with Chinese military ties, Institutions of Higher Education and Nonprofit Organizations, Students and educators in DODEA schools
Construction projects, Construction projects with current estimated cost <$10,000,000, Contractors bidding on Level 1/2 acquisition projects
Positive-direction: Contractors bidding on military construction projects, Department of Defense shipyards (Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii; Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Washington), F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Military construction contractors, Military construction contractors (Pacific region), Military construction projects commencing after FY2026, Military housing construction companies, Military installations selected for the pilot program, Non-U.S. construction workers, Water infrastructure contractors
Negative-direction: Contractors bidding on Level 1/2 acquisition projects
AI testing and evaluation firms, Chinese entities on procurement prohibition list, Commercial defense suppliers
Positive-direction: AI testing and evaluation firms, Commercial defense suppliers, Commercial subcontractors to defense primes, Commercial technology companies, Commercial technology companies entering defense market, Companies producing commercial spyware tools, Counter-UAS technology providers, Covered partner countries, Cybersecurity assessment and remediation firms, Cybersecurity service providers, Defense technology startups, DevSecOps and cloud service providers, Diplomatic technology providers, Private entities in relevant industries, Private entities in technology industry, Security technology and counter-UAS providers, Technology transition partners, Western Balkans countries
Negative-direction: Chinese entities on procurement prohibition list, Defense AI developers and contractors, Defense software contractors, Persons engaging in covered national security transactions, Voting system hardware and software manufacturers
On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1071)
Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1071
On the Cloture Motion S. 1071
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1071
On the Motion to Proceed S. 1071
Motion to Proceed to the House Message to Accompany S. 1071
On Passage
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On Motion to Commit
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Defense or relevant military department secretary
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Energy
- "administrator"
- → Administrator for Nuclear Security
- "director"
- → Director of National Intelligence where intelligence systems are covered
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of State, Treasury, Commerce, Defense, or Homeland Security as applicable
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A covered biotechnology provider whose equipment or services become subject to federal procurement, loan, and grant restrictions.
The DeepSeek application or any successor application or service for intelligence-community removal rules.
A transaction in prohibited technologies involving countries of concern that can trigger outbound-investment prohibition or notification rules.
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