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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

Introduced: Jul 15, 2025

Latest action date: Nov 12, 2025

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Congress: 119th Congress
Introduced: Jul 15, 2025
Recorded roll calls: 12

Status detail: The full action history records passage in the Senate.

Plain-language overview

What this bill does

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

This bill sets forth policies and authorities for FY2026 for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, military construction, and the national security programs of the Department of Energy (DOE). It also authorizes the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for FY2026. The bill authorizes appropriations but it does not provide budget authority, which is provided by appropriations legislation.

Among other elements, the bill

authorizes the procurement of various items, including aircraft, ships, and missiles;
authorizes active duty and reserve component personnel strength levels;
authorizes specified military construction projects and extends the authorization of certain projects from previous fiscal years;
requires DOD to develop a strategy on the national security implications of emerging biotechnologies;
requires the Navy to implement certain processes to improve the material condition and combat readiness of Navy surface ships maintained and repaired at private shipyards;
extends the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (an initiative to enhance U.S. deterrence and defense posture, assure allies and partners, and increase capability and readiness in the Indo-Pacific region) through FY2026; and
repeals various statutory provisions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion within DOD, including a provision establishing the position of Chief Diversity Officer of DOD.

For additional information on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) see

Official summary from Congress.gov.

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What this legislation is about

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Official CRS policy area

Armed Forces and National Security

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Committee activity

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senateStanding

Armed Services Committee

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Reported Original MeasureJul 16, 2025

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Personnel Subcommittee

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Hearings By (subcommittee)Apr 9, 2025

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Cybersecurity Subcommittee

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Hearings By (subcommittee)Apr 9, 2025

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Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

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Hearings By (subcommittee)Apr 8, 2025

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Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee

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Hearings By (subcommittee)Mar 5, 2025

Amendments

Proposed changes to this measure, with their latest official outcome or action from Congress.gov.

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S.Amdt. 3928senateAgreed toOct 9, 2025

To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program for deploying microreactors.

Latest action: Amendment SA 3928 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

What this bill does

What this legislation is about

Committee activity

Armed Services Committee

Personnel Subcommittee

Cybersecurity Subcommittee

Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee

Amendments

To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program for deploying microreactors.

To limit the use of Federal law enforcement officers for crowd control, and for other purposes.

To protect the national security of the United States by imposing sanctions with respect to certain persons of the People's Republic of China and prohibiting and requiring notifications with respect to certain investments by United States persons in the People's Republic of China.

To increase the supply of affordable housing in America.

To require the President or his designee to certify whether the Government of Syria is meeting certain conditions following repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019.

To establish the SkyFoundry Program.

To combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing at its sources globally.

To require a report on the United States boot industrial base and Berry Amendment compliance.

To amend title 32, United States Code, to clarify certain limitations on full-time National Guard duty performed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.

To improve the bill.

To improve the bill.

To improve the bill.

To improve the bill.

To improve the bill.

To improve the bill.

To reduce the bloated Pentagon budget by 10 percent and instead expand veteran dental care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

To establish a military-civilian medical surge program.

To prohibit contracting with certain biotechnology providers.

To amend the Federal Credit Union Act to provide for certain ways in which credit unions may be Agent members of the National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility.

To modify and reauthorize the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act of 2018.

To authorize the establishment of a Baltic Security Initiative for the purpose of strengthening the defensive capabilities of the Baltic countries.

To modify the requirements for transfers of United States defense articles and defense services among the Baltic states.

To provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, and for other purposes.

To enhance United States support for identifying and recovering Ukrainian children who were abducted by the Russian Federation, and to hold accountable those who are responsible for such abductions.

To improve the availability of care for veterans from facilities and providers of the Department of Defense.

To require the provision of certain services to veterans in the Freely Associated States.

To strengthen relations between the United States and the countries in the Western Balkans, and for other purposes.

To require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review and prohibit certain transactions relating to agriculture.

To establish requirements and prohibitions relating to the provision of health care services at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

To make improvements to the AUKUS partnership.

To prohibit earnings on balances maintained at a Federal Reserve bank by or on behalf of a depository institution.

To modify the authority to protect certain facilities and assets of the United States from incursions.

To improve coordination of Federal efforts to identify and mitigate health and national security risks through a monitoring system to map essential medicine supply chains using data analytics.

To improve the safety and security of Members of Congress, immediate family members of Members of Congress, and congressional staff.

In the nature of a substitute.

To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard.

To improve the bill.

To require that additional factors be included in the design of counseling pathways under the Transition Assistance Program of the Department of Defense.

To allow the Secretary of the Interior to enter into memoranda of understanding for the purpose of scientific and technical cooperation in the mapping of critical minerals and rare earth elements.

To address disclosures by directors, officers, and principal stockholders of foreign private issuers.

To improve coordination between Federal and State agencies and the Do Not Pay working system.

To require a review of the methodologies used to determine the amounts of locality-based comparability payments and to require the President's Pay Agent to conduct a pilot program establishing alternative models for determining the amounts of those payments.

To clarify limitations applicable to the authority to transfer functions of the Air National Guard to the Space Force.

To establish the Commercial Space Activity Advisory Committee.

To require the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to conduct an audit of foreign exposure from Department of Defense cloud computing contracts and to require the Secretary of Defense to update guidance to reduce, mitigate, or eliminate risk.

To require Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation of the Inspector General of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

To provide for fairness in the issuance of tactical equipment to Diplomatic Security Service personnel.

To direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, to conduct a study of the national security risks posed by consumer routers, modems, and devices that combine a modem and router, and for other purposes.

To prohibit certain reductions to the inventory of E-3 airborne warning and control system aircraft.

To reauthorize the Second Chance Act of 2007.

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on casualty assistance and long-term care programs.

To require a plan to modernize the nuclear security enterprise.

To require a strategy for United States security assistance to Mexico.

To expand the authority of the Marshal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Police to protect retired and former Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

To authorize grants to implement school-community partnerships for preventing substance use and misuse among youth.

To repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

To address the treatment of funds received by National Guard Bureau as reimbursement from States.

To extend the prohibition on certain reductions to B-1 bomber aircraft squadrons.

To support law enforcement agencies and crime victims.

To prohibit the flying, draping, or other display of any flag other than the flag of the United States at covered public buildings.

To limit the provision of support by the Armed Forces to civilian law enforcement activities.

To include as an additional right or privilege of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service (and their beneficiaries) certain leave provided under title 10, United States Code, to commissioned officers of the Army (or their beneficiaries).

To require a report on the feasibility of implementing artificial intelligence into anti-money laundering investigations relating to activity by foreign terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations.

To prohibit the use of funds to procure or modify foreign aircraft for presidential airlift.

To authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to reimburse the Town of Chincoteague, Virginia, for costs directly associated with the removal and replacement of certain drinking water wells.

To require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a feasibility study on the removal of oil from sunken World War II vessels in waters near the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.

To exempt children of certain Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on immigrant visas.

To direct the Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice to continue implementing the anti-trafficking recommendations of the Government Accountability Office and to report to Congress regarding such implementation.

To require the Secretary of Defense to implement recommendations of the Comptroller General of the United States relating to critical military housing supply and affordability.

To make certain spouses eligible for services under the disabled veterans' outreach program.