H.R. 8774 – Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025
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En blocs receive up to twenty minutes of debate. Standalone amendments receive up to 10 minutes of debate.
Green & purple indicates amendments en bloc. Black indicates standalone amendments.
EN BLOC #1 Offered by Calvert (R-CA) ADOPTED BY VOICE
Amo (D-RI) – Amendment No. 3 – Increases and decreases by $8 million Navy RDTE, Force Protection Advanced Technology, for Deployable Additive Manufacturing of Composite Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Bacon (R-NE) – Amendment No. 6 – Increases and decreases Air Force O&M by $5,000,000 to implement the Air Force Rapid Response Language Training Pilot Program
Bilirakis (R-FL) – Amendment No. 14 – Increases funding by $4,500,000 for RDT&E, Air Force for the Advanced Coating Program (ACP) and decreases by $4,500,000 for RDT&E, Air Force general account
Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 18 – Increase and decrease Operation and Maintenance, Army by $2 million to ensure the continuation of the Army Body Composition Program
Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 28 – Increases and decreases funding for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, to support a study to determine if bases in the “rest of the country” locality pay category are having recruitment and retention issues, how that impacts readiness, and our National Security, particularly in bases that host military commands like MacDill AFB
Cohen (D-TN) – Amendment No. 31 – Increases RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $8 million to support the Rapid Advanced Manufacturing Processing (RAMP) program to develop the next generation of advanced manufacturing technologies and to provide the Navy with new manufacturing capabilities that will reduce costs and manufacturing/repair times. Reduces RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $8 million
Davis (D-NC) – Amendment No. 34 – Increases by $8,000,000 Defense-Wide RDT&E, Line 284 – PE 1160431BB – Warrior Systems Support – “Small Unmanned Systems (SUMS) – Quadruped Unmanned Ground Systems” and decreases by $8,000,000 – Defense-Wide RDT&E, Line 214, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support. The amendment will ensure robust funding for unmanned ground systems, which are becoming critical in 21st-century conflicts against the PRC and other bad actors
Fallon (R-TX) – Amendment No. 42 – Increases Other Procurement, Army by $25,000,000 to support HMMWV Anti-Rollover Safety Upgrades
Fallon (R-TX) – Amendment No. 43 – Increases Defense-Wide RDT&E by $26,000,000 to support Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems
Feenstra (R-IA) – Amendment No. 44 – Increases and decreases by $10 million Army RDTE, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advance Technology, for Discontinuous Thermoplastics Demonstration to modernize combat vehicles for multi-domain operations
Hern (R-OK) – Amendment No. 59 – Increases and decreases by $10 million Army RDT&E for the Army Pathfinder program (Army, RDT&E, Line 11, 0602143A, Soldier Lethality Technology) for Human-Machine Teaming. Builds the cross-communication and cooperation between human and technology needed to leverage AI, decision support, and machining to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and lethality of the individual soldier
Keating (D-MA) – Amendment No. 75 – Increases and decreases funding of RDT&E, Navy by $10 million to support undersea autonomy research facilities and to expand their capabilities to fulfill current and future ONR requirements
Kelly (R-MS) – Amendment No. 76 – Increases and decreases page 39, line 19 by $5,000,000 for the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer’s Information Systems Security Program
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 80 – Increases Air Force O&M, Line 11V, ‘Cyberspace Sustainment’ by $10 million for Cyber Operations for Base Resilient Architecture. Decreases Air Force O&M, Line 42A, ‘Administration’ by $10 million
LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 88 – Increases and decreases funding by $10 million to support developing & implementing a program to promote military recruitment and education at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 89 – Increases and decreases funding for the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer to submit a report to Congress on the DoD Manual 8140.03 implementation status for each of the components and recommendations for how to facilitate sharing effective best practices among components
Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 93 – Increases funding for the MultiService Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) Acceleration by 20 million
Landsman (D-OH) – Amendment No. 95 – Increases and decreases funding for RDTE, Space Force by $10,000,000 for development of technology for super and hypersonic airbreathing propulsion for use in attritable/reusable aircraft under Space Advanced Technology Development/Demo
Lawler (R-NY) – Amendment No. 98 – Increases and decreases funding for the Defense-wide O&M account to allow the Secretary of Defense to provide women who were members of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps with honorary veterans status
Letlow (R-LA) – Amendment No. 99 – Increases and decreases by $5,000,000 to provide funding for Intelligent Data Management for Distributed Naval Platforms within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy Force Protection Applied Research. This amendment will appropriate at the funding level that is included in the House passed NDAA
Letlow (R-LA) – Amendment No. 102 – Increases and decreases by $12,000,000 to provide funding for the Emergence Readiness Initiative within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army Solider Lethality Technology
Luttrell (R-TX) – Amendment No. 104 – Increases and decreases by $5 million for research, development, test and evaluation for the Army with the intent that the $5 million will be used for Magnetic Gear Research [Army, RDT&E, Line #12, PE# 0602145A, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology]
McGovern (D-MA) – Amendment No. 117 – Increases and decreases by $8.5 million Army RDTE, Line 57, to support Micro-LED Soldier Systems Display Prototype for night vision system advanced development
Miller (R-OH) – Amendment No. 119 – Increases and decreases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army by $10,000,000 to develop multi-layered, multifunctional elastomeric systems for next generation protective equipment and deployable sensors. (Army RDTE&E, Line 2, PE 0601102A)
Mills (R-FL) – Amendment No. 124 – Test and evaluate NDAA-compliant tethered small unmanned aerial systems (tethered-sUAS) capabilities in collaboration with the Army’s Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S-MET). Resources will establish a pilot program and report back to the committees of jurisdiction of the assessment for equipping a formation of SMET robotic vehicles with tethered sUAS to enhance soldier awareness and decision making
Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 125 – Increases and decreases $5 million in funding for the research, development, test and evaluation of the Army for Advanced Air Mobility
Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 131 – Offsets $800,000 for the Guam Missile Defense System
Norton (D-DC) – Amendment No. 134 – Increases and decreases by $4.5 million for research, development, test and evaluation for the Space Force with the intent it be used for High Energy Resilient Stage (Space Force RDT&E, Line 4, PE#1206601SF, Space Technology)
Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 141 – Recommends that the U.S. Army should not participate in the Eurosatory exhibition or any international defense exposition that restricts or threatens to restrict the full participation of Israeli-owned companies
Pence (R-IN) – Amendment No. 143 – Provides an additional $10 million to DefenseWide, Operational Energy Capability Improvement (Line 72, PE 0604055D8Z) for PELE Power Conversion Module Operational Enhancement and Risk-Reduction, fully offset by a decrease to Defense-Wide, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support Research Development and Test (Line 214, PE 0607210D8Z)
Peters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 144 – Increases Army Aircraft Procurement account by $5,800,000 to fund the procurement of Long-Range Precision Aerial Delivery Systems (LRPADS). Offset is in the same account line
Pfluger (R-TX) – Amendment No. 146 – Reduces Space Force RDT&E Narrowband Satellite Communications to allow the Space Force to accelerate the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) augmentation to add 5G low earth orbit capability to the exiting program
Scott (R-GA) – Amendment No. 149 – Increases by $10 Million a novel economic analysis capability for USINDOPACOM to systematically track and analyze adversary military-industrial complex companies. This program is #33 on USINDOPACOM’s Unfunded Priority List
Steil (R-WI) – Amendment No. 155 – Increases and decreases by $10 million Navy RDTE, Warfighter Sustainment Applied Research, for Advanced Missile Castings Demonstration
Strong (R-AL) – Amendment No. 160 – Increases Army RDT&E (H. Rept. 118-557: Line 172, Army Technical Test Instrumentation and Targets, PE 0605602A) by $5,000,000 for Rapid Assurance Modernization Program – Test (RAMP-T)
Strong (R-AL) – Amendment No. 161 – Increases Army RDT&E (H. Rept. 118-557: Line 166, Major T&E Investment, PE 0604759A) by $5,000,000 for Advanced Sensing Expanded Range Operations (ASERO)
Strong (R-AL) – Amendment No. 162 – Increases Defense-Wide RDT&E (H. Rept. 118- 557: Line 38, Advanced Research, PE 0603180C) by $5,000,000 for Nuclear Modernization Survivability Testing and Workforce Development and Training Program
Wenstrup (R-OH) – Amendment No. 182 – Increases funding in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $63,000,000 for the Improved Turbine Engine Program
Williams (R-NY) – Amendment No. 184 – Increases and decreases $4.5 million in funding for Air Force RDT&E for Electronic Warfare Development for tactical data analysis capabilities in support of cognitive electronic warfare (EW) to make real time decisions and operate safely against emerging threats
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 185 – Increases and decreases RDT&E, defense-wide by $5,000,000 for Hypersonic Advanced Composites Manufacturing
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 186 – Increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Talent and Technology for Navy Power and Energy Systems
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 189 – Increases and decreases RDT&E, Army by $15,000,000 for testing and development of Quadruped Unmanned Ground Systems
EN BLOC #2 Offered by Calvert (R-CA) ADOPTED BY VOICE
Amo (D-RI) – Amendment No. 2 – Increases and decreases by $3 million Defense-Wide RDTE, to develop and enhance the cost and payload capabilities of affordable attritable autonomous underwater vehicles
Bacon (R-NE) – Amendment No. 7 – Increases and decreases Air Force Procurement by $2,000,000 to integrate the RC-135 digital fleet maintenance management capability
Banks (R-IN) – Amendment No. 10 – Increases and decreases by $10M Navy RDT&E Future Naval Capabilities Applied Research to develop a quantum communications corridor connecting certain Department of Defense installations, national laboratories, and universities conducting Department of Defense research
Carey (R-OH) – Amendment No. 23 – Increases and decreases Air Force procurement by $2,300,000 for modern surveying equipment
Carter (R-GA) – Amendment No. 26 – Increases funding for the “Digital Persona Protection Program (DP3)” by $4.5 million and decreases funding by $4.5 million of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 27 – Increases and decreases funding for Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard to provide support for DoD to study if Reserve Forces are receiving adequate screening for Operator Syndrome and Clinical Burnout, and are adequately having their injuries documented in their military heath records
Cohen (D-TN) – Amendment No. 30 – Increases RDT&E, Navy by $8 million to support the Fight Facility to expand current congressionally supported work for the Unmanned Arial Systems (UAS) Degraded Environment Facility (UxSDEF). Reduces RDT&E, Navy by $8 million
Finstad (R-MN) – Amendment No. 45 – Increases by $2 million RDT&E, Defense-Wide, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support for a feasibility study on domestic refining of polymetallic nodules as a resource for critical mineral intermediates. Decreases the Defense Science Board in RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $2 million
Finstad (R-MN) – Amendment No. 48 – Increases by $5 million for Manufacturing Technology in RDT&E, Air Force for the additive manufacturing of Super Niobium Refractory Metal. Decreases the Technology Transition Program in RDT&E, Air Force by $5 million
Gimenez (R-FL) – Amendment No. 54 – Increases and decreases by $10 million Navy RDTE, Joint Tactical Radio Systems, for MEO Resilient Network Integration
Higgins (R-LA) – Amendment No. 60 – Specifies $19,440,000 to be used by the U.S. Navy for the procurement of 40-foot patrol boats
Jackson (R-TX) – Amendment No. 67 – Increases and decreases funding for Navy RDT&E to provide $5 million for continued HeVTOL development and engine development, building on funding provided in FY24 for Line 19, USMC Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD)
Kelly (R-MS) – Amendment No. 77 – Increases and decreases Page 38, line 9 by $2,500,000 for Geophysical Littoral Autonomous Detection and Exploitation (GLADE)
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 81 – Increases Navy RDT&E, Line 24, ‘Navy Warfighting Experiments & Demonstration’ by $5 million for testing and evaluation of uncrewed technologies with counter threat capabilities to detect, identify, and counter uncrewed aerial system threats. Decreases Navy RDT&E, Line 15, ‘Science and Technology Management’ by $5 million for general information technology-related cost increases
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 82 – Increases Army RDT&E, Line 45, ‘Long Range Precision Fires Advanced’ by $9 million for low-cost rocket propulsion for affordable mass on target. Decreases Army RDT&E, Line 78, ‘Maneuver – Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD)’ by $9 million for excessive contractor logistics support growth
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 86 – Increases Navy O&M, Line BSIT, ‘Enterprise Information Technology’ by $10 million to establish strategic mobile virtual network operator telecom network in INDOPACOM AOR utilizing commercial infrastructure. Decreases Navy O&M, Line BSIT, ‘Enterprise Information Technology’ by $10 million
LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 90 – Increases and decreases funding for the Department of Defense to submit a report to Congress on the percentage and number of contracts awarded to small business that are counted toward multiple agency small business contracting goals
LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 91 – Increases and Decreases funding to emphasize that submarine industrial base money should go to workforce development programs
Letlow (R-LA) – Amendment No. 100 – Increases and decreases by $19,000,000 to provide funding for Bomber Aircrew Supplemental Training within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force B-1B Squadrons
Letlow (R-LA) – Amendment No. 101 – Increases and decreases by $5,000,000 for Nuclear Transition within Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force Requirements Analysis and Maturation
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 110 – Increases and decreases RDT&E, Navy by $5,000,000 to support integration of aligned Carbon Nanotube Technology for mission critical Navy systems under RDT&E, Navy, Line 021, PE 0603673N
McGovern (D-MA) – Amendment No. 118 – Increases and decreases by $11 million for Army RDTE, Line 43, to support the Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI)
Miller (R-WV) – Amendment No. 120 – Increases and decreases by $25 million for research, development, test and evaluation for the Army with the intent that the $25 million will be used for funding for applied research into source characterization and recovery of Rare Earth Element domestic reserves (Army RDT&E, Line 52, PE 0603119A)
Mills (R-FL) – Amendment No. 122 – Increases funding in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy account by $10,000,000 for Icing Prediction and Wind Optimization for Marine Corps MQ9s in Line 9, Ocean Warfighting Environment Applied Research. Offset is undistributed within the same account
Napolitano (D-CA) – Amendment No. 132 – Increases and decreases funding for the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $37,411,000 to be used in support of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program
Norton (D-DC) – Amendment No. 135 – Increases and decreases by $8 million for research, development, test and evaluation for the Navy with the intent it be used for QuickStrike Kinetic Improvements (Navy, RDT&E, Line 12, PE# 0602750N, Future Naval Capabilities Applied Research)
Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 142 – Recommends that the Defense Security Cooperation Agency should not participate in the Eurosatory exhibition or any international defense exposition that restricts or threatens to restrict the full participation of Israeli-owned companies
Pettersen (D-CO) – Amendment No. 145 – Increases and decreases funding for the Air Force Research, Development, Test and Evaluation account in support of completing the delivery and deployment of Mobile Autonomous Robotic Swarms (MARS) that support lunar telecommunications and Space Situational Awareness (SSA)
Sewell (D-AL) – Amendment No. 151 – Increases funding for Department of Defense Software Factories by $5 million
Soto (D-FL) – Amendment No. 153 – Decreases and then increases RDTE, DW by $10.8 million for the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program (program element 0607210D8Z) for Advanced Packaging Infrastructure Enablement Standardized Assembly Design Kits
Steil (R-WI) – Amendment No. 156 – Increases and decreases the Defense-Wide RDTE account by $10 million for Fusion Linear Accelerator for Radiation Hardening of Microelectronics in Line 102, Trusted and Assured Microelectronics
Steil (R-WI) – Amendment No. 157 – Increase decrease amendment to the Navy RDTE account to support $12 million for Neutron Radiography Technologies for Energetic Devices in Line 91, Precision Strike Weapons Development Program
Strong (R-AL) – Amendment No. 158 – Increases Army RDT&E (H. Rept. 118-557: Line 16, Air and Missile Defense Technology, PE 0602150A) by $5,000,000 for Automated Software Weakness and Vulnerability Discovery for Binary Code
Strong (R-AL) – Amendment No. 159 – Increases Army RDT&E (H. Rept. 118-557: Line 164, Threat Simulator Development, PE 0604256A) by $5,000,000 for Threat Counter Artificial Intelligence (TCAI)
Timmons (R-SC) – Amendment No. 169 – Increases and decreases funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense Wide by $10 million to provide support for the Vendor Threat Mitigation Pilot Project, which ensures the compliance and security standards of vendors engaging with federal agencies are continuously monitored and re-assessed
Waltz (R-FL) – Amendment No. 180 – $10 million to Air Force RDTE Hypersonic Prototyping program (HACM), for Hypersonic Propulsion Additive Manufacturing
Williams (R-NY) – Amendment No. 183 – Increases and decreases $3 million in funding for Air Force RDT&E specifically to support enhanced capabilities integrating Advanced Air Mobility and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, including C-UAS efforts, with broader air traffic management in partnership with AFWERX to enhance military operations
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 187 – Increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Standardized Army Battery for Enhanced Performance and Safety
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 188 – Increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for High Performance Glass Fiber Melter
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 190 – Increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $5,000,000 for Unmanned Logistics for USMC
EN BLOC #3 Offered by Calvert (R-CA) ADOPTED BY VOICE
Alford (R-MO) – Amendment No. 1 – Increases funding for Man-Portable Doppler Radar by $5,000,000 in the Research, Development, Evaluation, and Test Army account and decreases funding for The Office of the Secretary of Defense by $5,000,000 in Operations and Maintenance, Defense Wide account.
Armstrong (R-ND) – Amendment No. 4 – Increases Defense-wide RDT&E, IBAS, by $7,500,000 for corrosion resistant magnesium coating for aircraft. Reduces Defense-wide RDT&E, Space Programs and Technology by $7,500,000
Bacon (R-NE) – Amendment No. 5 – Increases AF RDTE Line 137 by $16,000,000 to support USSTRATCOM nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) enterprise modernization programs allocating $15,000,000 for the NC3 Research Engineering Architecture and Collaboration Hub (REACH) and $1,000,000 for USSTRATCOM UARC priority research
Bergman (R-MI) – Amendment No. 12 – Provides $5 million for Small Unmanned Systems Hive Swarm for Special Operations Forces
Bost (R-IL) – Amendment No. 16 – Reduces Army Operations and Maintenance by $9,500,000 and increases Air Force RDT&E by $9,500,000 for mission critical secure collaboration solution
Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 17 – Provides $1 million to Operation and Maintenance, Navy to ensure the continuation of the Future Sailor Preparatory Course
Cammack (R-FL) – Amendment No. 21 – Directs $8 million from DefenseWide Operations and Maintenance to Air Force RDTE for the purpose of accelerating the development and use of Software-Enabled Weapons Systems
Carbajal (D-CA) – Amendment No. 22 – Decreases O&M, DW by $2.5 million and increases RDTE, DW by $2.5 million to support research for integrated silicon-based lasers through the Defense-Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology Program. This matches the authorized amount in the House passed FY25 NDAA
Carl (R-AL) – Amendment No. 24 – Increases funding by $10m to the Army RDT&E account to fund the development of a high energy laser maturation system, offset by a decrease to defense wide operations and maintenance by the same amount. Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert “(reduced by $10,000,000)”. Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $10,000,000)”
Dunn (R-FL) – Amendment No. 35 – Redirects funding to RDTE, Army (PE:0110602144A, Advanced Materials Under Extreme Conditions Data Driven) to be offset with a decrease to the topline O&M, Defensewide
Dunn (R-FL) – Amendment No. 37 – Increases funding by $6M to the Air Force RDT&E account to fund the Development of a University-led Hypervelocity Test Capability (PE: 0602602F), offset by a decrease to defense-wide operations and maintenance by the same amount
Ezell (R-MS) – Amendment No. 41 – Increases funding for Navy, Research Development Test and Engineering by $10,000,000 to support improved geophysical sensing and characterization of the mine hunting environment, while decreasing funding for Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance by $10,000,000
Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 49 – Increases RDT&E, Army, Line 230 (PE 0708045A) by $10 million to support Advanced Manufacturing and Inspection Techniques for Structural Missile Components. Decreases Defense-Wide O&M by $10 million to offset
Fong (R-CA) – Amendment No. 51 – Increases funding by $4,000,000 for RDT&E Air Force (page 39, line 1) for layered tanks for the Air Force Research Laboratory Rocket Propulsion Division (Air Force RDT&E, PE 0603216F, Line 20, Aerospace Propulsion and Power Technology account) and decreases Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide (page 9, line 19) by $4,000,000. This would help replace a nearly 70-year-old layered tank system that is needed for liquid rocket testing to continue to occur
Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 65 – Increases funding by $5M to the Marine Corps Procurement account to fund Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Technologies, offset by a decrease to defense wide operations and maintenance by the same amount
James (R-MI) – Amendment No. 69 – Offsets $10 million from Defense-Wide Operations and Management for Army RDTE, End Item Industrial Preparedness Activities for the Advanced Combat Transmission for combat vehicles including the M1 Abrams, the M2 Bradley Fighting vehicle and the upcoming XM-30 platform
James (R-MI) – Amendment No. 70 – Offsets $12 million from Defense-Wide Operations and Management for Defense-Wide RDTE, Cyber Security Research for establishing a Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity Center
Keating (D-MA) – Amendment No. 74 – Increases funding of RDT&E, Navy by $5 million to support existing research efforts in a number of key areas including sensing, communications, situational awareness and unmanned systems and autonomy. It reduces Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance by $5 million
Kelly (R-PA) – Amendment No. 78 – Increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense Wide by $5 million for the Defense Critical Alloy Production Capacity Expansion program. Offset by a $5 million reduction to Operations and Maintenance, (10 minutes) Defense-Wide
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 83 – Increases Navy RDT&E, Line 48, ‘Advanced Surface Machinery Systems’ by $2 million for Integration of Insulated Bus Pipe (IBP) into Warship Designs to support shipboard distribution of high-power energy and decreases Navy O&M, Line 4A1M, ‘Administration’ by $2 million
Langworthy (R-NY) – Amendment No. 97 – Increases Navy’s Science and Technology for Nuclear Re-entry line by $5,000,000 and decreases Defense OPM Account by $5,000,000
Luttrell (R-TX) – Amendment No. 106 – Provides for an additional $21 million Hypersonic Test Infrastructure
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 112 – Increases RDT&E Air Force (Line 61, PE 0605164F) by $8,000,000 to support equipping two KC-46A Air Refueling Tankers with a Hybrid Broadband Satcom Solution. Reduces O&M, Air Force by $8,000,000
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 114 – Increases RDT&E, Army by $7,700,000 to support accelerated development of a ruggedized Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) architecture that will provide high-performance computation and latency performance to enable simultaneous AI/ML instances in C5ISR platforms operating in contested environments. Reduces RDT&E, Defense-Wide by $7,700,000. (10 minutes)
Mills (R-FL) – Amendment No. 123 – Increases and decreases by $6M for Ground Vehicle Robotics for new technology to retrofit existing military vehicles with COTS autonomous solutions. (10 minutes)
Obernolte (R-CA) – Amendment No. 137 – Decreases funding by $5,000,000 for RDT&E, Navy for Innovative Naval Prototypes Advanced Technology Development, and increases Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $5,000,000 for the procurement of Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) 1.1 vehicles, which will help United States Army Special Operations Command incrementally bridge the ground mobility capability gap, maintain an active production line, and establish a new production line
Obernolte (R-CA) – Amendment No. 138 – Provides $4,000,000 to Navy’s Research, Development, Test and Evaluation account for the deployment of Kubernetes-based geospatial infrastructure to give commanders the ability to make faster, more precise decisions. Funding the continued R&D of the Kubernetes geospatial infrastructure and training will build an edge cloud-native geospatial Enterprise and answer unmet geographic information system (GIS) requirements
Scott (R-GA) – Amendment No. 148 – Increases $2.5M in Air Force RDT&E appropriations to 0605828F (Line#125) – Acquisition Workforce – Global Reach for the Digital Transformation of Aircraft Gun Systems for the F-15, F-16, and F-22 M61 gun systems
Sessions (R-TX) – Amendment No. 150 – Increases funding by $5,000,000 for RDTE, Army (Army RDTE Page 38, line 9) for spectrum sharing and management with adaptable and reconfigurable technology research and decreases Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance (page 9, line 19) by $5,000,000. This continues Army Research Lab work to develop electromagnetic spectrum dominance capabilities for the battlefield, which will protect warfighters and enable systems to operate in a congested spectrum environment
Sorensen (D-IL) – Amendment No. 152 – Increases the Air Force RDT&E account by $5 million offset by a $5 million reduction to the Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance account to support development, test and evaluation of rapidly additively manufactured skins for the CCA program. This capability will help to support cheaper and quicker development for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft using state-of-the-art rapid additive manufacturing capabilities
Steel (R-CA) – Amendment No. 154 – Increases the STARBASE fifth grade youth STEM education program found in Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Civil Military Programs by $7 million, and to reduce Operations and Maintenance, Army, Other Servicewide Activities by the offsetting amount
Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 166 – Moves $15,000,000 from Defense-Wide O&M to the Army RDT&E, PE 0602141A, Line 8 for the model and development of passive C-UAS technologies to detect unidentified and potentially adversarial UAS threats
Thompson (R-PA) – Amendment No. 168 – Increases funding for APEX Accelerators, formerly known as Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, to match the FY24 enacted level
Trahan (D-MA) – Amendment No. 172 – Increase funding for Soldier Lethality Technology Army RDT&E by $5 million for the Harnessing Emerging Research Opportunities to Empower Soldiers (HEROES) program
Trahan (D-MA) – Amendment No. 173 – Increases Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army by $5.0 million to provide for the Army’s operational evaluation of tactical throwable camera systems
Turner (R-OH) – Amendment No. 174 – Increases the Air Force’s Human Effectiveness Advanced Technology Development line by $5 million while reducing the Operations and Maintenance, Air Force account by an additional $5 million
Turner (R-OH) – Amendment No. 175 – Assists the Air Force’s Digital Transformation Office mission to coordinate digital efforts and fully exploit data across the domains of space readiness, intelligence surveillance & readiness, logistics, and data analysis through development of tools to accelerate data access, data analysis and data driven insights; preserve proprietary innovations; and increase interoperability and knowledge sharing to enhance the effectiveness of the warfighter
Van Drew (R-NJ) – Amendment No. 177 – Provides $1 million to RDT&E, Defense-Wide for the purposes of directing the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive investigation into instances of equipment loss due to improper storage practices. Reduces funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $1 million
Van Duyne (R-TX) – Amendment No. 178 – Increases funding in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by $7,500,000 for Pilot Production Line for Next Generation Battery Anode Materials in Line 10, Soldier Lethality Technology. Offset is undistributed within the same account
Wagner (R-MO) – Amendment No. 179 – Increases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army (RDTE,A) by $6 million for the Isostatic Advanced Armor Production program, which supports domestic development and production of stronger, lighter, and more flexible body armor. (Army RDT&E, PE 011 0602144A, Line 11, Ground Technology). Offset by a $6 million reduction to Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide
Yakym (R-IN) – Amendment No. 193 – Transfers $90 million from defense wide O&M to Army procurement for the purchase of High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) so the National Guard can begin replacing its aging fleet
EN BLOC #4 Offered by Calvert (R-CA) ADOPTED BY VOICE
Banks (R-IN) – Amendment No. 9 – Provides $10M in Navy O&M funding to accelerate the expansion of the Marine Corps’ current Nucleated Foam Engine Performance and Restoration Program to additional aircraft across the Marine Aircraft Wing fleets
Banks (R-IN) – Amendment No. 11 – Provides $2M for Army RDT&E for a federated data framework for Open Systems Multi-Intelligence Fusion to improve the speed at which U.S. Army forces can identify and neutralize threats in combat
Bergman (R-MI) – Amendment No. 13 – Funds Virtual Engineering for Army Readiness and Sustainment (VEARS) at $7 million for FY25
Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 19 – Provides $3 million in funding to the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, DefenseWide to combat future military training accidents and research ways to prevent them
Cammack (R-FL) – Amendment No. 20 – Increases the RDT&E, Air Force account by $8 million and decreases the Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance account by $8 million to address an urgent need to develop novel materials and wearable devices to assess and augment Airman performance in aerospace environments such as global multi-day logistic flights as well as long duration remotely piloted aircraft missions
Costa (D-CA) – Amendment No. 32 – Increases the Navy Research Development Test and Evaluation account by $5 million offset by a $5 million reduction to the Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance account to support research, development, test and evaluation to enhance battlespace awareness and support military aviation capabilities especially during Atmospheric River storm events
Curtis (R-UT) – Amendment No. 33 -Increases the Space Force’s Space Technology line by $5 million for Advanced Analog Microelectronics, offset from Defense-wide, O&M
Dunn (R-FL) – Amendment No. 36 – Redirects $5,000,000 of funding to RDT&E, “Force Protection Advanced Technology” for the adaptation, development, and testing of modern “Zero Trust Architectures for Naval Power Systems” (PE: 0603123N), to be offset with “O&M DefenseWide, ES18 Defense Media Activity”
Dunn (R-FL) – Amendment No. 38 – Provides an additional $10m for Facilities Restoration and Modernization – Test and Eval Support for Advanced Swarm Oversight Technology for Autonomous Airfield Operations
Ezell (R-MS) – Amendment No. 39 – Increases funding for Navy, Research Development Test and Engineering by $10,000,00 to support intelligent autonomous systems for seabed warfare, while decreasing funding for DefenseWide Operations and Maintenance by $10,000,000
Ezell (R-MS) – Amendment No. 40 – Increases funding for Navy RDT&E by $10,000,000 to support completing the development of Autonomous Surface & Underwater Dual-Modality Vehicles, while decreasing funding for DefenseWide Operations & Maintenance by $10,000,000
Finstad (R-MN) – Amendment No. 46 – Increases by $10 million RDT&E, Defense-Wide, Industrial Base and Sustainment for Ablative Material Sustainment. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10 million
Fitzgerald (R-WI) – Amendment No. 50 – Increases RDT&E, Defense-Wide, Line 214 (PE 0607210D8Z) by $5 million to support Advanced Electrification Demonstration under IBAS. Decreases O&M, Defense-Wide by $5 million to offset
Fong (R-CA) – Amendment No. 52 – Increases funding by $4,000,000 for Operations and Maintenance Navy (page 8, line 15) for the Naval Air Warfare Rapid Capabilities Office (OMN, Line 530, 4B3N, Acquisition, Logistics, and Oversight) and decreases the Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wide (page 9, line 19) by $4,000,000. With the Naval Air Warfare Rapid Capabilities Office authorized in P.L. 118-31 and funded in P.L. 118-47, this amendment ensures continuity and no gap in funding
Garbarino (R-NY) – Amendment No. 53 – Provides an additional $5 million to Navy RDT&E to address the corrosion of aircraft airframe structures
Graves (R-LA) – Amendment No. 55 – Increases funding by $9m to the Navy RDT&E account to fund a transportable nongeostationary satellite terminal for the Global Broadcast Service, offset by a decrease to defense wide operations and maintenance by the same amount
Himes (D-CT) – Amendment No. 61 – Increases Space Technology for Lunar Surface Based Space Domain Awareness by $5m and decreases the Operations and Maintenance, Defense Wide by $5m
Hinson (R-IA) – Amendment No. 62 – Increases funding by $12,500,000 for RDTE, Navy for the Marine Corps to expedite the development of an advanced intelligent gateway (AIG) capability, and decreases Defense-Wide Operations & Maintenance by $12,500,000. Expedites the development of an AIG that will provide JADC2 connectivity needed on the platforms of every military Department
Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 64 – Decreases Army Operations and Maintenance account by $10 million. Increases Army RDTE, by same amount , UH-60 Product Improvement program, for Blade Improvement Erosion Protection systems development
Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 66 – Increases funding by $10M to the R,D,T&E defense-wide for intel systems development, to fund systems operator workload for SOCOM, offset by a decrease to operation and maintenance, defense-wide by the same amount
James (R-MI) – Amendment No. 68 – Offsets $15 million from Army Operations and Management for Army RDTE, Ground Advanced Technology for Extreme Metallic Alloys (Hypersonic Testing)
Joyce (R-PA) – Amendment No. 73 – Increase and decreases funding by $5,000,000 to support additional GMV 1.1 vehicles to address the ground mobility capabilities gap
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 79 – Increases Army RDT&E, Line 11, ‘Ground Technology’ by $5 million for funding for scaling lightweight metallurgical development to re-shore titanium metal production to the U.S. and decreases Army O&M, Line 411, ‘Other Programs’ by $5 million
LaLota (R-NY) – Amendment No. 87 – Increases funding for Network Tactical Common Data Link – Phased Array Antenna Qualification by $10,000,000. Offsets by decreases funding for Office of Secretary of Defense by $10,000,000
Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 92 – Increases and decreases by $2,500,000 the “Program Increase: Commercial Physics-Based Digital Mission operations” is for funding to allow the Space Force to meet growing and urgent needs with capable software tools. Additional resources would provide an integrated physics-based, collaborative Digital Mission Operations environment that provides systems operators the ability to analyze system performance in a simulated mission environment. This amendment would increase base funding for Space Force, Operations and Maintenance, Space Operations, Line 13C by $2,500,000, offset by a $2,500,000 reduction to the Operations and Maintenance (O&M), Defense-Wide account
Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 94 – Provides $10 million to Space Force’s Research, Development, Test, Test and Evaluation account for Space Situational Awareness Operations to provide updated technology to support the Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System’s (SWAFS) and Unified Data Library (UDL)
Lieu (D-CA) – Amendment No. 103 – Increases Space Force RDT&E funding by $10 million for the new start Point to Point Delivery (P2PD) program for Space Assets for Rapid Materiel Delivery in Contested Logistics
Luttrell (TX) – Amendment No. 105 – Provides $9.5 million to SOF cold weather clothing
Mace (R-SC) – Amendment No. 107 – Increases funding by $20 million to the Army RDT&E account to fund a Department of Defense Quantum Computing Center of Excellence, offset by a decrease to Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance
McClellan (R-VA) – Amendment No. 108 – Increases funding to Army RTDE for development of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fiber (UHMWPE) and decreases funding for Other Army Procurement for Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV)
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 109 – Increases RDT&E, Army by $4,000,000 to support development by Combat Capability Development Command, Soldier Center of the Air-deployed Long-range Autonomous Resupply Aircraft (ALARA) to support sustainment in contested environments. Reduces RDT&E, Air Force by $4,000,000
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 111 – Increases RDT&E, Defense-wide by $10,000,000 to support domestic scale-up of novel high-char polymer composites for hypersonics applications conducted under RDT&E, D-Wide, Line 213, PE 0607210D8Z, Industrial Base and Sustainment. Reduces RDT&E Air Force by $10,000,000
Mills (R-FL) – Amendment No. 121 – Increases funding by $10M to the Air Force RDT&E account to fund the development of Quantum Communications and Sensing Test Infrastructure, offset by a decrease to defense wide operations and maintenance by the same amount
Nunn (R-IA) – Amendment No. 136 – Increases Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, DefenseWide by $10.0 million and reduces Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10.0 million. The increase provides for the advancement of high-performance wireless RFbased power-at-a-distance in creating a persistent tether-less drone capability
Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 165 – Moves $15,000,000 from Defense-Wide O&M to the Army RDT&E, PE 0603464A, Line 45 for the design and testing of advanced manufacturing of propellants needed for 155mm and other munitions
Timmons (R-SC) – Amendment No. 170 – Increases RDTE, Army by $6 million for the Airless Tire Demonstration for Infantry Squad Vehicles. Reduces funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $6 million
Turner (R-OH) – Amendment No. 176 – Provides additional funding for the Metals Affordability Initiative, a collaborative effort managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory to ensure the continued advancement of metals technologies for the betterment of the warfighter, industry, and the public consumer
Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) – Amendment No. 181 – Increases RDTE, Defense-Wide, by $10 million within Manufacturing Technology Program for Rapid Additive Manufacturing Critical Hardware. Decreases O&M, Defense-Wide
Wilson (R-SC) – Amendment No. 191 – Increases and decreases defense-wide RDT&E by $6,000,000 for Cyber Talent & Curriculum Development/ Platform & Critical Infrastructure Defense Cybersecurity Research.
Yakym (R-IN) – Amendment No. 192 – Allocates $8,000,000 to the Air Force research, development, test, and evaluation account for for rotary machines with advanced magnetic materials to secure U.S. critical mineral supply chains from China and other foreign adversaries. The cost is offset by further reducing the foreign currency exchange rate savings by $8 million
EN BLOC #5 Offered by Calvert (R-CA) ADOPTED BY VOICE
Banks (R-IN) – Amendment No. 8 – Provides $5M for a peer-reviewed dystonia research program
Blunt Rochester (D-DE) – Amendment No. 15 – Increases funding in the Defense Health Agency account by $1 million to support a report to Congress on the impact of menopausal symptoms on the working life of women in the military. Offsets within the same account
Finstad (R-MN) – Amendment No. 47 – Increases by $3 million the Medical Technology Development program in Defense Health Program, Defense-Wide for the development of Ionizing Radiation Therapy. Decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $3 million
Hudson (R-NC) – Amendment No. 63 – Increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $3,000,000 to support Intraosseous Antibiotics for Osseointegration in order to offer increased function to servicemembers with major limb amputations
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 84 – Increases and decreases funding for Tricare by $1,000,000 to express the intent that the Tricare reimbursement rate should be increased for mental health providers
Kiggans (R-VA) – Amendment No. 85 – Increases and decreases funding for medical and health programs at the Department of Defense by $1,000,000 to express the intent that the TRICARE reimbursement rate for pharmacies should be increased
Langworthy (R-NY) – Amendment No. 96 – Increases and decreases funding for the Defense Health Program to ensure development and procurement of medical devices for Osseointegrated Prosthetic Infection Treatments and Prevention in order to improve the quality of life of those in the military who have lost their limbs while serving our country
McCormick (R-GA) – Amendment No. 113 – Increases RDT&E, Army by $5 million to support the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) Mitochondria Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) program to enable continued research of mitochondria organelle transplantation as a treatment for TBI symptoms. Reduces RDT&E, Air Force by $5 million
McGovern (D-MA) – Amendment No. 115 – Increases and decreases funding for Army RDTE, Line 26, by $8 million to support Female Warfighter TBI Research
McGovern (D-MA) – Amendment No. 116 – Increases and decreases by $9.5 million Defense-Wide RDTE, Line 189, to support the development of a Novel PTS Biomarker Panel
Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 126 – Increases and decreases $4 million in funding for the Defense Health Programs to reinforce the importance of its work to ensure servicemembers and other eligible beneficiaries have access to comprehensive health services, especially those with disabilities
Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 127 – Increases and decreases $9 million in funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to emphasize the need to strengthen its innovative research that advances the understanding of autism and leads to improved outcomes for the autistic community
Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 128 – Increases and decreases $5 million in funding for the Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs to expand the Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders program and support its ongoing work to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths
Moore (R-UT) – Amendment No. 130 – Increases and decreases by $9.85 million for research, development, test, and evaluation for Army RDT&E, Medical Technology, Line 26, PE 0602787A with the intent that the $9.85 million will be used for development and transition of a rapid deployable synthetic peptide vaccine
Phillips (D-MN) – Amendment No. 147 – Increases and decreases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army by $5,000,000 for a Concussion Dosimeter Research Initiative (Army RDT&E, Advanced Medical Technology, Line 27, PE 0603002A)
Thompson (R-PA) – Amendment No. 167 – Increases Army RDT&E funding by $5,000,000 to support research for military optimization of warfighters’ musculoskeletal health & performance during deployment preparation and actual deployment
NOT OFFERED Carson (D-IN) – Amendment No. 25 – Strikes Sec. 8114, that prohibits funds to United Nations Relief and Works Agency
NOT OFFERED Clyde (R-GA) – Amendment No. 29 – Prohibit classifying low pressure M781 cartridges which have inert projectiles as explosives or propellant explosives
Greene (R-GA) – Amendment No. 56 – Requires the salary of Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, to be reduced to $1
Greene (R-GA) – Amendment No. 57 – Prohibits funding for Ukraine
Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 58 – Prohibits classified telework and remote work for DoD employees
NOT OFFERED James (R-MI) – Amendment No. 71 – Prohibits funds from being used to retire any fighter aircraft in the inventory of the regular or reserve components of the Air Force (including Air Force Reserve & Air National Guard) until the date on which the Secretary of the Air Force submits to the fighter recapitalization plan due from the FY24 NDAA
Jayapal (D-WA) – Amendment No. 72 – Prohibits funds from being used to carry out the unfunded priorities list
Moore (R-AL) – Amendment No. 129 – Reduces funding for Defense-Wide RDTE by $4,910,000 to defund DOD climate-change research and increases funding by $4,910,000 for Army RDTE to fund enhancements for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
NOT OFFERED Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 133 – Prohibits the use of funds for mask mandates on any military installation in the United States
Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 139 – Prohibits the removal of companies from the Section 1260H List of Chinese Civil-Military Fusion companies
Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 140 – Prohibits the use of funds from being used to enforce subsection (b) of Section 1259 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (defunds a waiver that could otherwise allow the PRC to participate in Rim of the Pacific naval exercises)
Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 163 – Prohibits funding for Executive Order 14019, relating to Promoting Access to Voting
Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 164 – Prohibits funding to finalize, implement, or enforce the FAR Council’s proposed “Federal Acquisition Regulation: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk” rule
Titus (D-NV) – Amendment No. 171 – Prohibits funds in the bill from being used to acquire, use, transfer, or sell cluster munitions