Unlike a traditional budget, military funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill come with fewer legal strings attached for how the money is spent, prompting lawmakers to collect public pledges.
Republicans successfully batted down a number of Democratic amendments during the 14-hour markup session.
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
“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.
“You chose to give us a plan with few details, with no budgeting and a failure to answer a lot of our questions, and now [I’m] hearing about how this plan will be implemented from my own constituents, not from leadership,” said Rep. Eric Sorensen.
Effectively untouched after about four hours of debate, the bill will now go to the House Budget Committee.
"We intend to get this money out the door very quickly, working with the administration," said one senior congressional official.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
“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.
Sen. Wicker says he wants another $200B for defense through reconciliation, and John Ferrari of AEI is here to try and break down what that would look like.
"The safety of our sailors is our top concern, and we must immediately understand any risks associated with the faulty work,” said four top leaders of the House Armed Services Committee.
Many pro-defense Democrats voted against the traditionally bipartisan NDAA, after Republicans added conservative social riders to the bill.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers tells Breaking Defense that Guard advocates should not “waste their time” lobbying against the move.
The Minuteman III replacement’s costs ballooned by 37 percent and will take about two years longer than expected as officials reportedly discover hidden complications of silo construction.
The House and Senate are both expected to vote on the final bill next week.