The bill forces the Pentagon to adopt a "portfolio acquisition executive model" for managing programs and makes it easier for commercial firms to do business with the department.
The National Defense Authorization Act authorizes $900.6 billion in defense funds, or about $8 billion more than the White House’s request.
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Air Force Chief of Staff nominee Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach also left the fate of the Air Force's wide-ranging "reoptimization" overhaul in the air.
Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Pentagon Golden Dome czar, said on Tuesday that the "real technical challenge" for the effort will be building space-based interceptors to knock down enemy missiles in their boost phase.
Republicans successfully batted down a number of Democratic amendments during the 14-hour markup session.
HASC’s version of the NDAA sticks closely to the Pentagon’s own FY26 budget — a departure from a typical year where lawmakers divert funding to bolster high-priority programs.
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“The fragility of today’s DIB [defense industrial base] is a direct consequence of decades of well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided, acquisition regulations,” a summary of the bill reads.
Troy Meink also said he “couldn’t guarantee” that a proposal to accelerate a separate and long-delayed Boeing program for two new Air Force Ones could achieve a delivery date of 2027.
Reps. Don Bacon and Richard McCormick shared concerns over the SOCOM-like model in today's hearing.
The US Air Force halted acceptance of the troubled tanker in February, following cracks discovered on the aircraft’s “outboard fixed fixed-trailing-edge support structure.”
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"We intend to get this money out the door very quickly, working with the administration," said one senior congressional official.
The House and Senate armed services committees have been directed to figure out how to spend extra defense funding, but have been given different monetary targets.
“Almost all the systems that we use for homeland defense rely on that part of the spectrum that's being considered to be either sold or shared,” Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command, said.
As the 119th Congress moves forward under a Republican-led majority party, Rogers returns as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, with oversight of the panel that drafts the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorization bill.