[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 16, 2025)]
[Daily Digest]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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House of Representatives
Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 51 public bills, H.R. 4424-
4474; and 5 resolutions, H.J. Res. 107; H. Con. Res. 44; and H. Res.
585-587 were introduced.
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Additional Cosponsors:
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Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows:
H.R. 183, to amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to
provide for a lifetime National Recreational Pass for law enforcement
officers, with amendments (H. Rept. 119-207, Part 1).
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Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed
Representative Stutzman to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
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Recess: The House recessed at 11:24 a.m. and reconvened at 12 p.m.
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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026: The House considered
H.R. 4016, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Consideration is expected to
resume tomorrow, July 17th.
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Agreed to:
Calvert amendment en bloc No. 1 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Amo (No. 2) that
increases by $10 million Navy RDTE, for the certification of attritable
autonomous underwater vehicles. Decreases by $10 million Air Force RDTE
to offset; Bacon (No. 9) that increases and decreases funding by
$5,000,000 for the U.S. Air Force Infectious Disease Aerial Transport
training program; Balint (No. 12) that Increases and decreases funding
in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force by $10,000,000
for ``Realistic Training for Air Force Security Forces Perimeter
Defense Readiness'' in Line 87, Physical Security Equipment; Barragan
(No. 13) that increases and decreases by $10 million to support the
Metal Forging Innovation Initiative; Bergman (No. 20) that increases
and decreases funding to support continued modernization of Combatant
Craft Heavy vessels by accelerating hull design and performance
enhancements; Beyer (No. 24) that increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by
$5 million to continue funding for the Navy's Operational Energy in
Contested Logistics Program to enhance our military readiness and
improve our fuel security in our overseas operations; Brownley (No. 31)
that provides funding under Air Force RDT&E for development of a highly
efficient, high-cooling-capacity Thermal Management Systems (TMS) for
advanced military aircraft; Buchanan (No. 35) that increases and
decreases Operation and Maintenance, Army by $2 million to ensure the
continuation of the Army Body Composition Program; Castor (No. 47) that
increases and decreases funding for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide, to support a study regarding military bases located within the
``Rest of U.S.'' locality pay area; Crank (No. 51) that Increases and
decreases funding for Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation,
Army for the development of AI/ML Packet-based Cyber Anomaly Detection
software; Crank (No. 52) that increases and decreases funding for
Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation, Air Force for the
development of Advanced Thermal Materials with Embedded Sensors; (No.
53) that increases and decreases funding for Research, Development,
Testing, and Evaluation, Space Force for the development of a Very Low
Earth Orbit Persistent Surveillance System; Crank (No. 54) that
increases and decreases funding for Research, Development, Testing, and
Evaluation, Space Force for Accelerating Motion Control Solutions;
Crawford (No. 55) that increases RDT&E, Navy, PE0603654N, funding by
$3.5 million to provide funding for the EOD/Public Safety Bomb
Technician Technical Exchange Program within the Joint Service
Explosive Ordnance Development item; Downing (No. 71) that increases
and decreases funding for Army RDT&E, Program Element 0602144A, line
item 11, by $10 million to support the development of rare earth
element and critical minerals extraction demonstration for Army ground
technology applications; Feenstra (No. 81) that Increases and decreases
by $10 million for Army RDTE--Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advance
Technology, for a Discontinuous Thermoplastics Demonstration to
modernize combat vehicles for multi-domain operations; Fong (No. 94)
that increases and decreases Defense-wide, Operations & Maintenance by
$5,000,000 for DoD's Insider Threat Program to pilot AI enabled
software upgrades for enhanced threat monitoring tools; Graves (MO)
(No. 108) that increases and decreases RDT&E, Defense Wide to further
develop recuperated turbine energy solutions for Joint Force
expeditionary military operations in contested environments, in support
of the 2023 ``Operational Energy Strategy''; Graves (MO) (No. 109) that
increases and decreases RDTE, Space Force Line 8 by $8,400,000 to
sustain and expand the capability of the Dept of Air Force/Space
Force's Learning Management System's (LMS)-Digital University (DU);
Houlahan (No. 128) that increases the defense-wide
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RDT&E account specifically for PE 0607210D8Z, the Industrial Base
Analysis and Sustainment Support office, by $5,000,000, for the purpose
of establishing a Space Force workforce and supply chain consortium;
Huizenga (No. 139) that increases and decreases funding to address the
high-risk challenges for megawatt-scale electrical circuit protection;
Huizenga (No. 140) that increases and decreases RDTE, DW, Maritime
Systems by $5M for combatant craft vessel design improvements; Jackson
(TX) (No. 148) that redirects $5 million for the purpose of funding
modular, automated, low-cost radio sensing platforms with intelligent
edge processing to enable spectrum awareness without requiring
specialized personnel; Kelly (PA) (No. 162) that increases and
decreases by $10 million the RDT&E, Navy account for an ``Active Stator
Electric Naval Power and Propulsion System'' in Line 48 (Advanced
Surface Machinery Systems); Krishnamoorthi (No. 170) that increases Air
Force Research, Development Test and Evaluation account by $10 million,
line AFWERX Prime, for Low SWAP Multiband Antenna Payload
Demonstration; Offset is within the account; Liccardo (No. 177) that
increases and decreases funding in Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Air Force by $5,000,000 for ``AI robotic composites giga
factory for advanced applications'' in Line 27, Manufacturing
Technology Program; Liccardo (No. 178) that increases and decreases
funding for Line 8, Electromagnetic Systems Applied Research (PE
0602271N) by $4,200,000 to design and build a space-based distributed
AMTI RADAR prototype system; Luttrell (No. 180) that increases and
decreases funding to enable Space Force with the ability to research,
develop, test, and evaluate magnetically geared actuators for space
robotic manipulators; Mackenzie (No. 185) that increases and decreases
funding by $5,000,000 for Army RDT&E, Ground Technology (PE 0602144A),
Line 8 to support Rapid Hypersonic High-Entropy Alloy Deployment
(RHEAD); Magaziner (No. 187) that Increases and decreases Navy RDTE by
$7,800,000 to advance the development, qualification, and fielding of
improved anti-submarine warfare training target capabilities; Magaziner
(No. 188) that increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $5,000,000 to
support submarine carbon dioxide removal studies and demonstration
using the Carbon Dioxide Removal by Ionic Liquid System for US Navy
submersible use to eliminate odors, improve maintenance and life
cycles, and offer instantaneous responsiveness for changing needs;
McCormick (No. 197) that increases and decreases RDT&E Army by $4
million to support the Rapid Agile Manufacturing of Parachutes and
Soft-Goods (RAMPS) program through PE 0603118A, Line 42--Soldier
Lethality Advanced Technology; Miller (WV) (No. 219) that Increases and
decreases funding to support ``Phase II'' of a SOCOM RDT&E effort
titled Amorphous Silicon Oxycarbide (SiOC) Lithium-Ion Battery Anode
Research and Development in Support of United States Special Operations
Command (USSOCOM); Mills (FL) (No. 224) that increases and decreases
funding by $10 million to expand the testing infrastructure for quantum
communications; Mills (FL) (No. 226) that Increases and decreases $8
million in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy to the
further development, acquisition, and fielding of Tethered Unmanned
Aerial Systems (Te-UAS) on military installations as part of their
force protection measures; Nehls (No. 241) that increases and decreases
the RDT&E, Air Force account by $10 million for the development of a
high energy laser hybrid integrated turret beam director with improved
optical performance for high power aircraft missile defense missions
against advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic threats to reflect the
President's budget; Norton (No. 243) that Increases and decreases by $8
million for research, development, test and evaluation for the Space
Force with the intent it be used for High Energy Resilient Stage;
Panetta (No. 251) that Increases Operations and Maintenance, Navy, by
$10,000,000 to support the Naval Postgraduate School to enhance
instruction, research, and infrastructure; reduces excess OCO balances
in Operations and Maintenance, Navy; Austin Scott (GA) (No. 264) that
increases and decreases funding for Marine Corps RDT&E, page 30, line
3, by $8 million to procure specialized equipment and training devices
that will minimize the exposure of personnel to the physical effects of
blast overpressure during training activities; Austin Scott (GA) (No.
265) that increases and decreases page 27, line 1, by $17,000,000 for
the Army to procure specialized equipment and training devices that
will minimize the exposure of personnel to the physical effects of
blast overpressure during training activities; Steube (No. 276) that
increases and decreases funding to express Congressional support for
providing service-connected disabled veterans the eligibility to enroll
in TRICARE; Tenney (No. 289) that increases Air Force RDT&E, PE
0603680F, Line 29, Manufacturing Technology Program by $5 million for
additive manufacturing of Super Niobium refractory metal; reduces Air
Force RTD&E, PE 0604858F, Line 58, Technology Transition Program by $5
million; Titus (No. 302) that increases and decreases funding for Air
Force RDT&E to support salt hydrate phase change energy storage for
aircraft HEL pods; Tokuda (No. 304) that increases funding in Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $5,000,000 for
``Advanced
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Manufacturing Workforce Development in the Pacific'' in Line 214,
Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program; offset is within the
account; Turner (No. 312) that increases and decreases Defense Wide
RDTE by $10,000,000 to design and construct an initial pilot line/
demonstration unit to produce alloy grade cobalt metal; Turner (No.
313) that increases and decreases Space Force RDTE by $2,500,000 for
development of technology for super and hypersonic airbreathing
propulsion for use in attritable/reusable aircraft; and Van Orden (No.
319) that increases Defense-Wide RDT&E by $11,200,000 to support
domestic development of a cold weather layering system; reduces Army
RDT&E by $11,200,000 to offset the increase;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 2 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Barrett (No. 14) that
increases and decreases RDT&E Army, PE 0602141A, Line 8--Lethality
Technology by $10 million to support testing and evaluation of an
Advanced Direct Fire Control system that houses an AI algorithm to be
capable of accurately perceiving complex environments and making
nuanced decisions in real-time; Barrett (No. 15) that increases and
decreases RDT&E Army, PE 0203735A, Line 209--Combat Vehicle Improvement
Programs by $10 million to support testing and evaluation of Vehicle-
Based Unified Fire Control that interlinks all lethality systems on a
combat vehicle, allowing rapid fielding, vehicle based integrated
weapon coordination, simultaneous rapid engagement with multiple
lethality systems, and the ability to out-fight adversaries; Bilirakis
(No. 26) that increases and decreases funding for Army RDT&E, Line 9,
by $4.6 million to support continued development of the Advanced Optics
Program (AOP); Brownley (No. 30) that increases and decreases Navy
RDT&E by $5 million to support additional funds for Undersea Warfare
Submersible Launched UAS (Line 11); Carter (GA) (No. 43) that increases
and decreases funding by $4,500,000 to allow the Digital Persona
Protection Program (DP3) to expand to include all general officers
within the Air Force and the Navy, mirroring the comprehensive
protection offered to all general officers in the Army; Carter (GA)
(No. 44) that increases and decreases funding by $7,800,000 for the
Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center to receive Multi-Domain
Emitter Threat (MET) High systems that are software definable; Correa
(No. 50) that increases and decreases funding for congressionally
directed medical research programs under the Defense Health Agency by
$15 million to restore funding for the Department of Defense's Autism
Research Program; Ezell (No. 79) that increases and decreases Long
Range Precision Fires by $10,000,000 to support low-cost propulsion
development and design improvements for solid rocket motors (SRMs);
Fischbach (No. 87) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the
appropriation for ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army,''
to support the establishment of a new initiative for Collaborative
Robotics Payloads within the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced
Technology program; Fischbach (No. 88) that increases and decreases by
$4,000,000 the appropriation for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Navy'' to support the development and evaluation of the
MRZR Alpha 6x6 ULTV as an aerial loitering munition (ALM) launch
platform; Fong (No. 96) that Increases and decreases Air Force RDT&E by
$12,700,000 to help advance AI-powered command and control for global
mobility in contested environments; Fry (No. 97) that increases and
decreases funding for Navy RDT&E by $10.5 million to support additional
funds for Cyberphysical Resilience for Unmanned Platforms; Horsford
(No. 123) that increases and decreases RDT&E Navy, PE 0603640M, Line
19--MC Advanced Technology Demo by $12 million to ruggedize and improve
laser lethality and reliability of an existing high energy laser weapon
system integrated into a Joint Tactical Light Vehicle (JLTV) for
Counter Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) capability; Houlahan (No. 127)
that increases and decreases Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation, Air Force funds, specifically for the Base Support
enterprise information program, by $4.85 million, to expand the use of
zero trust, quantum-resistant, passwordless, data-centric cyber and
authentication solutions; Houlahan (No. 130) that increases funding in
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense Wide, by $6,000,000
for ``Modernization of Titanium Master Alloy Production for Defense
Applications'' in Line 214, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment;
offset is within the account; Hudson (No. 138) that increases and
decreases funding by $7,000,000 to R,D,T&E Defense-wide for a pilot
program using commercially available, API-driven, non-PKI reliant, zero
trust-based technology software to enable real-time, dynamic zero-trust
relationships across users, devices, networks, and data while
protecting user accounts, devices, applications, and data across all
operating environments; Johnson (SD) (No. 155) that increases and
decreases $3,000,000 in RDTE, AF for artificial intelligence-based
robotic technologies to automate airfield and flight line maintenance
operations such as FOD and snow removal, control invasive vegetation
growth around runway edges, mitigate bird-strikes, and provide
aerospace ground equipment towing capability, while reducing the number
of hours and airmen required to complete these necessary tasks; Kelly
(PA)
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(No. 163) that increases and decreases the Defense-Wide RDT&E account
by $10 million to invest in equipment for the production of high-
quality downstream materials required for defense Vacuum Induction
Melted (VIM) and castings products; Kennedy (No. 164) that increases
and decreases funding in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Defense-wide by $10M for ``High Temperature Advanced Materials
(HTAMP)'' (Line 55) Defense Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology
Program; Kiggans (VA) (No. 165) that increases and decreases funding
for the Defense Health Program to express the intent that TRICARE
reimbursement rates should be increased for mental health providers in
order to improve access to behavioral health services for service
members and their families; Leger Fernandez (No. 173) that increases
and decreases the Defense Health Agency Defense Health Program
Operations and Maintenance by $1,680,000 to support circuit rider
health programs at U.S. military bases to address the needs of service
members and their families and to improve mission readiness; Letlow
(No. 174) that increases and decreases by $5,000,000 to provide funding
for Securing 3D Packaging Against Adversaries (S3A2) within RDT&E Army,
Network C3I Technology (PE: 0602146A); Letlow (No. 175) that increases
and decreases by $5,000,000 to provide funding for MesoPitch Large-
scale Prototype Demonstration (M-LPD) within RDT&E Defense-Wide,
Manufacturing Technology Program (PE: 0603680S); Levin (No. 176) that
increases and decreases funding within Defense-Wide RDT&E by $3 million
to support Embedded Molecular Data as an authentication and
traceability solution for the Manufacturing Technology Program; McBride
(No. 192) that increases and decreases funding for Defense-Wide RDTE,
Line 56, by $5 million to support development of Two Phase Immersion
Cooling for Data Centers; McCormick (No. 199) that increases and
decreases Army RDT&E by $5 million to support development of the
Distributed Nexus for Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Tradecraft
through PE 0602146A, Line 13--Network C3I Technology; McGarvey (No.
204) that increases and decreases funding in the Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation, Defense Wide account by $12,500,000 for ``Domestic
Polymer Electrolyte Facility to Enhance Next-Generation Lithium-Ion
Batteries'' in Line 214, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment;
McGovern (No. 205) that increases and decreases funding for Army RDTE,
Line 39, by $8 million to support Therapeutic Targets for Warfighters
with Traumatic Brain Injury; Messmer (No. 213) that Increases and
decreases the Air Force Research, Development Test and Evaluation
account by $10 million, line Aerospace Technology DEV/DEM PE 0603211F,
for Turboelectric Adaptive Engine Research; Miller (No. 215) that
increases and decreases defense-wide procurement by $9.7 million to
enable SOCOM to acquire an additional 40 lightweight remote weapon
stations to equip a second squadron with this advanced capability;
Mills (No. 225) that increases and decreases funds to equip UC85 and
C12 aircraft that are used by Geographic Combatant Commanders (GCC),
and other government and diplomatic personnel who travel overseas, with
secure, resilient satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals which
allows them to maintain global connectivity; Moore (UT) (No. 231) that
decreases and increases funding for RDTE, Air Force, Future AF
Capabilities Applied Research by $12,000,000 so the Air Force Research
Laboratory can research, develop, and deliver a multi-functional
portable, self-power, ISR tactical system for future distributed force
capabilities in Great Power conflict; Norton (No. 242) that 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; Panetta (No. 250) that increases Operations and
Maintenance, Army (training and recruiting, specialized skill
training), by $30,871,000 to support foreign language training at the
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center; reduces unobligated
balances from Operations and Maintenance, Army; Scholten (No. 262) that
increases and decreases funding in Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army by $5,000,000 for ``Augmented Behavioral Analytics''
in Line 13, Network C3I Technology; Scholten (No. 263) that increases
and decreases funding in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Army by $3,000,000 for ``Packaging Surge Capacity for Munitions and
Maintenance'' in Line 9, Army RDTE; Steil (No. 272) that increases and
decreases funding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army,
by $10 million for advanced caliber munitions demonstration within the
Long Range Precision Fires Technology program; Steil (No. 273) that
increases and decreases funding for Other Procurement, Navy, by $1
million for the completion of the Navy Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA)
final review of centrifuge purifiers for surface combatant vessels;
Steil (No. 275) that increases and decreases funding for Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Army, by $10 million for the testing
of tethered unmanned aircraft system (T-UAS) prototypes within the Next
Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology program; Subramanyam (No.
280) that increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $4 million to support
weight reduction and modernization efforts for the Paladin family of
ground vehicles under PE 0604854A, Line 120--Artillery
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Systems; Subramanyam (No. 283) that increases and decreases Defense-
Wide Procurement by $5.9 million to support the Unified Video
Dissemination System (UVDS) PE 0303126K, Line 12--Defense Information
System Network; Swallwell (No. 284) that increases and decreases
funding for Army RDTE, Line 10, by $5 million to support continued
development of the Silent Soldier Wearable Power Generator with Multi-
Fuel Separator system for the dismounted soldier; Swalwell (No. 285)
that increases and decreases the RDT&E, Navy account by $5 million to
emphasize then need for Laser Peening of Navy Jet Engines to Improve
Reliability and Performance; Timmons (No. 294) that 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; Titus (No. 301) that increases and decreases funding for Army
RDT&E to support aviation status dashboard; (No. 321) that increases
and decreases funding to develop new Non-Alerting Techniques (NAT) for
cellular geolocation using software-defined receivers. Enhances the
ability of U.S. Special Operations and Intelligence personnel to locate
devices without detection; and Wagner (No. 323) that increases and
decreases by $6 million Army Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation (RDTE,A) to support the Isostatic Advanced Armor Production
program (RDT&E, Army, Ground Technology, Line 11, PE 0602144A), which
enables domestic development and production of stronger, lighter, and
more flexible armor;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 3 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Amo (No. 4) that
increases and decreases by $5 million Army RDTE for Soldier Lethality
Advanced Technology for Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Advanced
Tech; Alford (No. 5) that increases and decreases funding by
$10,000,000 in the Research, Development, Evaluation, and Test Army
account for Man-Portable Doppler Radar; Crow (No. 56) that increases
and decreases by $7.5 million for ``Expeditionary Area Air Defense
Systems'', a counter-small unmanned aerial systems project; Davis (NC)
(No. 61) that increases by $10M--Army RDT&E, Line 12--PE 0602145A--Next
Generation Combat Vehicle Technology--add as ``Advancing Autonomous
Capabilities for the Next Generation of Quadruped Unmanned Ground
Vehicles,'' and decreases $10M--Army RDT&E, Line 1, Defense Research
Sciences; Davis (NC) (No. 62) that increases and decreases Defense-wide
RDT&E by $10 million to plus up the Industrial Base Analysis funding
line, to shore up the domestic fiber industrial base and prevent
adversaries like the PRC from infiltrating supply chains for fiber used
in military and tactical gear; Davis (NC) (No. 63) that increases and
decreases $6 million for the Department of the Air Force to establish a
pilot program to further develop and evaluate innovative targeting
systems through the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC),
and integrate the realistic mobile live, fire aircrew training platform
within the Air Force training range's current capabilities; DesJarlais
(No. 66) that increases and decreases funding for Aircraft Procurement,
Army by $9,000,000 for the National Guard Aviation enterprise to
procure Aircraft Survivability Training Equipment for National Guard
Aviators through the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation,
Training and Instrumentation; Dingell (No. 67) that increases and
decreases by $8 million RDT&E, Army account to accelerate the design,
development, and production of advanced ceramic composites for U.S.
Army armor applications via AI/ML methodologies and advanced
manufacturing; Dingell (No. 70) that increases and decreases funding
for Air Force RDTE, by $5 million to support development of new stealth
or low observable technology using seamless morphing geometry
technology that simultaneously improves aerodynamic efficiency of both
manned and unmanned platforms; Gimenez (No. 102) that increases and
decreases by $10M for assisting in the acquisition of targeting
capabilities to support Administration and Department of Defense
priorities focused on countering Foreign Terrorist Organizations
(FTOs), Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC), Counter-Threat
Financing (CTF) using behavioral analytics; Gimenez (No. 103) that
increases and decreases Army Research Development Test and Evaluation
account by $10 million, PE 0604036A Line Multi-Domain Sensing Systems
(MDSS) for Secure Integrated Multi-Orbit Satellite Communications;
Gooden (No. 105) that increases and decreases Other Procurement, Army,
by $10,000,000 to support expeditionary tactical networkcommunications
through TRILOS HW; Hern (No. 119) that increases and decreases by $7.5
million Defense-Wide RDT&E for Attack Detection and Response Engine for
Integrated IoT, OT and IT Networks; Hern (No. 120) that increases and
decreases by $10 million Army RDT&E for the Army Pathfinder program
(Army, RDT&E, Line 12, 0602143A, Soldier Lethality Technology) for
Human-Machine Teaming; Hinson (No. 121) that increases funding by
$10,000,000 for RDT&E, Army (PE# 0603463A, Network C3I Advanced
Technology) to support development and pre-production prototyping of a
small form factor system
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that integrates Electronic Warfare (EW) and Assured Position,
Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) capabilities for Army ground vehicles;
offsets this increase by decreasing Operations & Maintenance, Defense-
Wide by $10,000,000; Hinson (No. 122) that increases funding by
$5,000,000 for RDT&E, Army (PE 0605625A, Manned Ground Vehicle) to
support configuration and demonstration of an over-the-air software
update capability for Army Ground Combat Systems; offsets this increase
by decreasing Operations & Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5,000,000;
Houchin (No. 125) that increases and decreases Defense-Wide
Manufacturing and Technology Program to support glass technology for
semiconductor packaging; Houchin (No. 126) that increases and decreases
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army (RDTE,A) for Advanced
Combat Engine by $20,000,000 to expedite the development of an opposed
piston powertrain to deliver enhanced mobility and performance for
current and next, generation combat vehicles; Issa (No. 143) that
increases and decreases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 for the maturation and
integration of the Fire Faster Integration program autoloading and
collateral systems for the M109A7 PIM; Issa (No. 144) that increases
and decreases Defense-wide RDT&E by $10,000,000 to support
Industrialization of ALON and Spinel Transparent Ceramics; Issa (No.
145) that increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $8,100,000 to provide
Unmanned Maritime Systems with hardware-agnostic software to enable
drones to execute coordinated, all-domain, collaborative autonomy
mission sets, including but not limited to search, track, deception,
and swarm; Issa (No. 146) that increases and decreases of Army RDT&E to
provide US Army DEVCOM SSD ADD to purchase and train with LRPADS in
PACOM theater; Kiggans (VA) (No. 167) that increases and decreases
RDTE-N funding by $9 million in to develop two Integrated Combat System
(ICS) hardware prototypes that enable roll-out optimization and
compatibility with Aegis Combat System (ACS) variants; Kim (No. 168)
that Increases and decreases funding for Defense-wide Operation and
Maintenance by $5 million to support additional resources and funding
for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to expedite and increase the
number of underwater and terrestrial survey and search operations, in
partnership with relevant foreign governments and local officials, in
support of Gold Star Families seeking answers for missing U.S.
servicemembers and civilians; Mackenzie (No. 186) that increases and
decreases funding by $5,000,000 in the Account Defense-Wide RDT&E, PE
0603680S, Manufacturing Technology Program, Line 56 in the Defense
Logistics Agency, to support the Defense Logistics Agency's Battery
Network Research and Development Program; McGovern (No. 206) that
increases and decreases by $11 million Army RDTE, Line 39, to support
Autonomous Vehicle Mobility; McGovern (No. 207) that increases and
decreases by $4.5 million Army RDTE, Line 39, to support Improved
Secondary Rotorcraft Turbine Lubrication System; McGovern (No. 208)
that increases and decreases by $9.7 million Army RDTE, Line 39, to
support Micro+ LED Soldier Systems Display Prototype; Meuser (No. 214)
that increases and decreases Army RDT&E, Line 12--PE 0602143A--soldier
Lethality Technology by $5 million to support testing and evaluating a
design for a 6.8x51mm improved upper receiver which modernizes the
existing M110 Squad Designated Marksman Rifle: Moore (AL) (No. 227)
that increases RDT&E, Defense-Wide, PE 0603680D8Z, Line 55, by $10
million for modernization of the Organic Industrial Base; reduces
RDT&E, Defense Wide by $10 million; Moore (NC) (No. 230) that increases
and decreases Defense Health Program RDT&E, PE 0603115DHA--Medical
Technology Development funds by $4,000,000 for musculoskeletal
regenerative medicine; Moore (WI) (No. 233) that increases and
decreases by $7 million the RDT&E, Army account for ``Water Quality and
Resiliency Technologies'' in Line 38 (Ground Advanced Technology);
Nehls (No. 239) that increases and decreases Army RDT&E for Explosive
Forensics Technology, Ground Technology by $3,900,000 to expedite the
leveraging of Waveguide--Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (WERS) in drone-
mounted Raman explosive and chemical threat detection; Panetta (No.
249) that increases Army RDTE (Line 37, PE 0603118A Soldier Lethality)
by $10,000,000 to support improvements to pilot situational awareness
through Night Vision Laboratory; reduces excess OCO balances in
Operations and Maintenance, Army, by $10,000,000; Patronis (No. 253)
that increases and decreases the research, development, test and
evaluation Army account to support additional funds for modernizing the
Gray Eagle fleet; Peters (CA) (No. 254) that increases and decreases
funds by $6.1 million for research, development, test, and evaluation,
Navy to support ruggedized artificial intelligence/machine learning
High-Performance Compute architectures to meet computational and
latency requirements for real-time sensor fusion in Navy platforms;
Pettersen (CO) (No. 256) that 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); Randall (No. 258) that increases and
decreases funding for the Department of
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the Navy--Environmental Programs by $5 million to support the
restoration and maintenance of treaty-reserved Tribal shellfish beaches
on Naval installations across the continental United States; Rouzer
(No. 259) that increases and decreases funding to support Tactical Mesh
Network--Data Transport to address critical communication gaps in
tactical operations and enable advanced testing and refinement of
proven communication technologies which currently support bandwidth-
intensive tools used by forward-deployed units and provide scalable,
cost-effective communication capabilities at the tactical edge,
consistent with Army modernization goals; Rulli (No. 260) that
increases and decreases funding in Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army by $10,000,000 for ``Piercing mill upgrades for
titanium tubing'' in Line 193, Weapons and Munitions Product
Improvement Programs; Sewell (No. 268) increases and decreases funding
in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account by
$10,000,000 for US Ferro Alloy Prototype Technology Initiative in Line
43, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology; Subramanyam
(No. 279) that increases and decreases Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Space Force, by $8,800,000 for ``Cognitive Alternate
Position, Navigation, and Timing (AltPNT)'' in Line 36A, Commercial
Services; Titus (No. 297) that increases and decreases funding for Navy
RDT&E to support higher performance and safer lithium-ion batteries;
Titus (No. 298) that increases and decreases funding for Space Force
RDT&E to support expeditionary space domain awareness; Turner (No. 307)
that increases and decreases funding for Air Force RDTE, Line 26, by
$10 million to support Collaborative Secure Digital Transformation with
the Air Force Digital Transformation Office; and Van Duyne (No. 315)
that increases and decreases funding by $10M to RDTE, DW line 47,
Defense Innovation Unit (HAC-D Line #47; FY26 PBR Line #51) for
compute- and energy-efficient AI training and inferencing;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 4 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Amo (No. 1) that
increases by $10 million Navy RDTE, for the certification of attritable
autonomous underwater vehicles; decreases by $10 million Air Force RDTE
to offset; Begich (No. 17) that increases Operation & Maintenance
budget by a total of $10 million to expand cybersecurity capabilities
through the automation of the Department of Defense's Cyber Operational
Readiness Assessment (CORA) process, reducing compliance burdens for
the Department's installations; Begich (No. 18) increases Air Force
Operations and Maintenance Cyberspace Sustainment, Air Force by $10.0
million; Bergman (No. 19) that transfers funds to establish a research
initiative to develop contested logistics solutions for multinational
operations, particularly within NATO, AUKUS, and ABCANZ frameworks;
Bergman (No. 23) that transfers funds to support Army development and
integration of a unified mission planning and operational platform for
the Warfighting Machine Interface (WMI) to enhance manned-unmanned
teaming and battlefield decision-making; Bilirakis (No. 27) that
increases Defense Wide Research Development Test and Evaluation account
by $10 million, line 56 Manufacturing Technology for Replenished Part
Modeling. Decreases Operations and Maintenance Defense Wide by same
amount; Buchanan (No. 33) that provides $1 million to Operation and
Maintenance, Navy to ensure the continuation of the Future Sailor
Preparatory Course; Buchanan (No. 34) that provides $3 million in
funding to the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide
to combat future military training accidents and research ways to
prevent them; Elfreth (No. 73) that increases RDT&E, Army by $5.0
million and reduces Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5.0
million; Elfreth (No. 74) that provides $4 million to Army's RDT&E
account to provide Army tactical networks with enabling infrastructure
to support operations in any environment, including operations where
the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded; Ezell (No. 77) that
furthers previous federal funding through the Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) and $2M through the FY20 Army Research Office SBIR
awards demonstrated preclinical efficacy data for arterial bleeding,
lung trauma (FDA Class III device) relative to QuickClot Combat Gauze;
Ezell (No. 78) that transfers funds to enable reliable seabed warfare
operations through intelligent Autonomous Systems; Ezell (No. 80) that
transfers funding for Center for the Study of the National Guard
consistent with FY26 NDAA; Finstad (No. 83) that Increases Research,
Development, Test & Evaluation, Army by $5.0 million and reduces
Operation & Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5.0 million to provide for
the accelerated establishment of a flexible chemical production
facility at Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA); Garbarino (No. 100)
that transfers $10 million for Military Alpine Recce System
Environmental Clothing Systems SOCOM; Garbarino (No. 101) that
increases RDT&E Navy, PE 0602123N, Line 4--Force Protection Applied
Research by $5 million to address vulnerabilities posed by cyber
threats, physical disruptions, and reliance on foreign-controlled
energy supplies; Harris (No. 118) that increases Army Research
Development Test and Evaluation account by $15 million, Line
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Blackhawk Product Improvement, for Blade Improvement Erosion Protection
System Development Decreases Operations and Maintenance Army by same
amount; Hudson (No. 131) that increases funding by $11.9 M to R,D,T&E
Defense-wide for Intel Systems Development to fund Natural Language
Command and Control of Uncrewed Systems for Special Operations Command,
offset by a decrease to Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the
same amount to support Voice-Controlled autonomy to reduce uncrewed
systems operator workload for special operations command; Hudson (No.
136) that transfers $8 million in funds for the Pathfinder Airborne
program to continue research, development and innovation activities to
support the 82nd Airborne Corps and other Army soldiers incorporating
soldier feedback into local teams for rapid innovation and high impact;
Hurd (No. 142) that increases Line 23, Warfighter Protection Advanced
Technology (PE 0603729N) by $3,500,000 for Mental Health of Elite
Performers Following Trauma Accelerating Recovery through Combinatorial
and Alternative Treatments; Johnson (SD) (No. 156) that increases Navy
RDT&E by $10,000,000 for development of common sensor platform for
strategic and distributed autonomous cyber and electronic warfare;
Keating (No. 160) that increases funding for Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation, Navy to bolster existing research efforts in a
number of key areas, focusing on sensing, communications, situational
awareness and unmanned systems and autonomy; Kelly (PA) (No. 161) that
increases Defense Wide Research, Development Test and Evaluation
account by $10 million, line Defense Wide Manufacturing Science and
Technology, for Robotics and Automation Manufacturing. Decreases
Operations and Maintenance Defense Wide, by same amount; Kiggans (VA)
(No. 166) that provides $4 million in FY2026 for the Navy to transition
successful Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) research into operational
support through the Naval Oceanographic Office; Langworthy (No. 172)
that transfers $7 million to the Navy, RDTE in FY 26 to close a gap and
establish a trusted process for Photonic Integrated Circuit production;
Mace (No. 182) that increases Navy RDT&E account by $15 million, Line
PE 0603563N Ship Concept Advanced Design for Large-Scale Maritime
Superstructures; decreases O&M Defense Wide by same amount; McCormick
(No. 195) that increases RDT&E Defense-wide, PE 0607210D8Z, Line 214--
Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support by $10,000,000 to
support domestic scale-up of novel high-char polymer composites for
hypersonics applications. Reduces Defense-wide Operations and
Maintenance by $10 million; McDowell (No. 203) that transfers $10
million from Defense-Wide O&M to the RDT&E, Army account to be used to
purchase microgrid technology; McGuire (No. 211) that Increases Army
RDT&E, Line 209, `Combat Vehicle Improvement Program' by $6 million for
funding for ``scaling cost-saving lightweight metallurgical
development'' to re-shore titanium metal production to the U.S. and
decreases Army O&M, Line 411, `Other Programs' by $6 million; Mills
(No. 223) that transfers funding to support the large-scale
manufacturing of next-generation ultra-high molecular weight
polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber that can be used to create durable and
lightweight armor plating; Obernolte (No. 245) that directs $1 million
in Army RDTE funding for artificial intelligence powered limb
restoration and exoskeleton enhancement research; Obernolte (No. 246)
that increases funding for RDT&E, Navy, Line 019, PE 0603640M, USMC
Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) to provide for the development
of hybrid-electric tactical vehicles with extended operational range
and reduced logistics requirements, enhanced stealth through minimized
acoustic and thermal signatures, and substantial exportable power for
mission-critical systems including counter-UAS and electronic warfare;
Obernolte (No. 247) that increases RDT&E Navy by $5 million to support
Advanced Bio-Integrated Prosthesis for Servicemembers through PE,
0604771N Line 151--Medical Development; reduces O&M Defense-Wide by $5
million; Tenney (No. 286) that transfers $5,000,000 from Defense-Wide
O&M to the Air Force RDT&E, PE 0602788F, Line 14, Dominant Information
Sciences and Methods, for Passive C-sUAS Target Detection and
Characterization; Tenney (No. 288) that transfers $5M from Defense-wide
O&M to Army RDTE, PE 060311 8A, Line 37, Soldier Lethality Advanced
Technology for Modular, Multi-Mission, Med-Lift UAS; Turner (No. 306)
that transfers $10 million for process improvements for small arms
munitions manufacturing; Van Orden (No. 318) that increases Defense-
Wide RDT&E by $11,200,000 to support domestic development of a cold
weather layering system; reduces Army RDT&E by $11,200,000 to offset
the increase; Wilson (SC) (No. 325) that decreases Defense-wide
Operations and Maintenance by $6,000,000 and Increases Navy RDT&E by
$6,000,000 for Unmanned Logistics for the United States Marine Corps;
Wilson (SC) (No. 326) that decreases Defense-wide O&M by $8,000,000 and
Increases Defense-wide RDT&E by $8,000,000 to develop a Regional
Cybersecurity Clinic that provides trustworthy and cost-effective
cybersecurity tools, education, and awareness to small businesses; also
provides a Small Business Cybersecurity Incubator that enables
collaboration amongst small businesses, researchers, and industry
experts, provides state-of-the-art facilities, conducts
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workshops and training programs, and connects small businesses to
potential investors and funding sources; and Wilson (SC) (No. 327) that
decreases Defense-wide O&M by $7,000,000 and increases Defense-wide
RDT&E by $7,000,000 to deliver a high-temperature material
manufacturing test bed that uses simulations, artificial intelligence,
and machine learning (AI/ML), and automation combined with advanced
sensors to enable rapid experimentation and development of new
materials and productionprocess;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 5 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Babin (No. 6) that
decreases the Operations and Maintenance, Defense Wide account by $10
million and increases RDT&E, Air Force by the same amount for the
purposes of increasing the pace of development of a cost-effective
rocket based combined cycle hypersonic engine prototype to benefit
multiple weapons programs; Bacon (No. 10) that increases Air Force
Operations & Maintenance by $4.8 million to support purchase of
commercial RO weather data for U.S. Air Force weather forecasting;
Boebert (No. 29) redirects $2 million from other wasteful spending in
the bill to increase funding for Counter Narcotics Support to enhance
DOD's role in countering the flow of illicit fentanyl and synthetic
opioids; Buchanan (No. 32) that transfers $8 million to the Defense-
Wide Procurement account for Warrior Systems for SOCOM Command Light
SATCOM, providing formations with access to resilient military and
commercial satellite connectivity while on-the-move; Buchanan (No. 36)
that provides $2 million in funding to the Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation, Defense-Wide to support research into technologies
aimed at how to prevent future friendly fire incidents; Buchanan (No.
37) that provides $1 million in funding to the Defense Health Program
to support research into effective strategies for reducing obesity
among service members, with the goals of improving military readiness
and capability; Carter (GA) (No. 42) that increases and decreases
funding by $4,500,000 for the Quantum-safe, Encrypted VoIP/PTT in
Denied Environments through a corresponding offset in Operation and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA); Carter (LA)
(No. 45) that transfers funds to develop a pilot program to deploy
autonomous hydrographic survey systems, retrofit current vessels with
autonomous systems, and integrate outputs into current NAVO systems;
DesJarlais (No. 64) that to increase by $7,000,000 for hypersonic
supply chain management; decrease by $7,000,000 (Operations and
Maintenance, Defense Wide); Finstad (No. 82) that increases by $7.0
million the Medical Technology Development program in Defense Health
Program, Defense-Wide and decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide by $7.0 million to provide for the development of Ionizing
Radiation Therapy; Fong (No. 95) that 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; Fry (No. 98) that
increases and decreases $5,000,000 in funding for Army Aircraft
Procurement for Powered Ascenders for Army aviation readiness;
Garbarino (No. 99) that increases RDT&E Air Force, PE 0604317F, Line
51--Technology Transfer by $6,500,000 to support development and
transition of nanofiber wound care technology to production readiness;
Hageman (No. 117) that transfers $10 million from the Defense-wide
Operations and Maintenance account to the Defense-wide Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation account for machine learning threat
detection demonstration activities under the Defense Technical
Information Center; Houlahan (No. 129) that increases funding for Space
Force, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E),[Line 77, PE
1208248SF], by $10,000,000, offset by a $10,000,000 reduction to
Defense-Wide, Operations and Maintenance (O&M); Hudson (No. 132) that
increases funding by $8,000,000 to R,D,T&E Army for Radios-as-a-Service
Initiative, offset by a decrease to Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
wide by the same amount; Hudson (No. 135) that increases funding by
$10,600,000 to R,D,T&E Army for tactical radio systems, offset by a
decrease to Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the same amount
for The Watchtower Expansion Initiative, specific to SOCOM, to enhance
cybersecurity, expand cross-platform capabilities, and streamline
tactical operations for warfighters, border security personnel, and
homeland defense forces; Hurd (No. 141) that increases funding for
General Purpose Bombs by $3,500,000 for the purchase of BSU-33 fins;
Jack (No. 147) that reduces $5M from Operation and Maintenance and adds
to Defense Health Program for administrative and technical costs
establishing cancer-related out-of-pocket expense coverage for U.S.
service personnel and dependents; James (No. 150) that increases
funding by $10 million for the Army's Directed Energy Strategy, as
executed by the Rapid Capability and Critical Technologies Office
(RCCTO; James (No. 152) that Increases Navy Research Development Test
and Evaluation account by $15 million, line 4 Force Protection Applied
Research for Extreme Environment Metallic Alloys; decreases Operations
and Maintenance Navy by same
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amount; LaHood (No. 171) that transfers $4.8 million in funding from
the Defense-Wide Operation and Maintenance account to the Army's
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation account for Drone Netting
Enclosure System for Counter UAS Testing, to advance counter-UAS defeat
mechanisms, technologies, and tactics; Loudermilk (No. 179) that
increases RDT&E/Defense-Wide/U.S. Special Operations Command/Line 32/
PE# 1160401 BB/SOF Technology Development by $3 million to research
Real-Time Resilience Optimization for Military Readiness wearable
technology for improved recognition of stress markers and suicidal
ideation precursors of US servicemembers; reduces Operations &
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $3 million; McClellan (No. 194) that
increases Navy Research Development Test and Evaluation account by $10
million, line Ship Concept Advanced for Hybrid Robotic Automation
Manufacturing; decreases Operations and Maintenance Navy by same
amount; McGuire (No. 209) that increases Navy RDT&E by $5 million, Line
179 ``ISR & Info Operations''; PE 0304785N for Space Based RF Signal
Detection and AIS Integration to allow the Navy to detect, track, and
respond to maritime threats worldwide by integrating intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities across multiple
domains; McGuire (No. 210) that increases RDT&E Army by $5 million PE#
44 0603463A for replacing RF cabling and retro-fitting the current
deployed and certified UAS with RF over Fiber to directly support Army
mission objectives by improving ISR and communication fidelity,
reducing operational constraints, and increasing mission effectiveness
in both contested and denied environments; decreases Defense Wide RDT&E
by the same amount; Messmer (No. 212) that increases Operations &
Maintenance, Navy by $7.0 million and reduces Operation & Maintenance,
Defense-Wide by $7.0 million; Miller (OH) (No. 218) that provides $7
million to Air Force Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation to
pursue a three-pronged research effort on counter autonomy, responsible
human-machine teaming, and ethical AI to meet the evolving needs of
tomorrow's military; Moore (AL) (No. 228) that increases Aircraft
Procurement, Army, 0023A01001, MQ-1 Payload, Line #12, by $5.7 million
for Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) procurement of
expeditionary ground control stations; reduces O&M, Defense Wide by
$5.7 million; Moore (UT) (No. 232) that decreases the O&M, Defense Wide
account by $5 million and increases RDT&E, Defense Wide by the same
amount to support data-driven F-16 supply chain management tools, which
will reduce aircraft downtime, strengthen operational readiness, and
increase overall fleet availability; Mullin (No. 236) that increases
Army Research Development Test and Evaluation account by $10 million,
Line PE 0603804A, for Tactical Microgrid Control Node. Decreases
Operations and Maintenance Defense Wide by same amount; Mullin (No.
237) that increases research, development, test and evaluation for the
Defense Health Program by $10 million for the Brain Injury and Disease
Prevention, Treatment and Research program to develop treatments to
prevent/treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and offsets by
decreasing the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $10
million; Mullin (No. 238) that increases funding for Research,
Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $6 million for the
development, integration, and testing of U.S.-made wireless power
transmission systems that enable in-flight recharging of drones and
remote powering of unattended ground sensors; offsets by decreasing the
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $6 million; Patronis
(No. 252) that transfers funds to support the development of a modular
temporary shade structure and a temporary relocatable Chemical,
Biological, Radiological and Nuclear operations center; Sessions (No.
267) that provides $7.5 million to the Defense-Wide RDT&E account for
Trusted and Assured Microelectronics to initiate a Phase 1 proof-of-
concept demonstration of an embedded on-chip physical security marker;
offsets funding by reducing $7.5 million from the Army RDT&E account
for University and Industry Research Centers; Subramanyam (No. 282)
that increases Air Force RDT&E by $2.5 million for the acquisition of
next-generation artificially intelligent campaign-level simulation for
operational research and analysis in Line 288--Air Force Studies and
Analysis Agency; Thompson (PA) (No. 291) that increases Army
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, PE 6652GM1900, Line
15--Vehicle Protection Systems by $10 million to support Signature
Paint Management; decreases Operations and Maintenance Army by the same
amount; Thompson (PA) (No. 292) that increases RDT&E Army, PE 0602787A,
Line 26--Medical Technology by $5,000,000 for Optimization of
Warfighters' Musculoskeletal Health and Military Readiness by
Leveraging Human Digital Twin Technology; reduces Defense-Wide O&M by
the same amount; Timmons (No. 295) that increases RDTE, Army by $3.3
million for the Geosynthetics Reinforced Performance pavement test;
reduces funding for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $3.3
million; Timmons (No. 296) that increases RDTE, Army by $6 million for
the Winter Tire Development; reduces funding for Operations and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $6 million; Trahan (No. 305) that
increases Research, Development, Test &
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Evaluation, Army by $5.0 million to provide for the Army's operational
evaluation of tactical throwable camera systems; and Van Drew (No. 314)
that increases funding by $9.9M to R,D,T&E, Army for Tactical
Electronic Surveillance System-Adv Dev to fund ``System of Systems for
Asset Optimization and Management of Uncrewed Systems'' offset by a
decrease to Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the same amount;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 6 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H. Rept. 119-199: Bacon (No. 7) that
increases Air Force RDTE by $4,500,000 for the National Strategic
Research Institute, USSTRATCOM's University Affiliated Research Center,
supporting strategic deterrence, nuclear command and control, and joint
electromagnetic spectrum operations; Bacon (No. 8) that Increases Air
Force Aircraft Procurement by $5,000,000 to improve data relay
capabilities for the RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft; Bean (No. 16)
Increases Navy RDT&E, PE 060356N, Line 43--Advanced Submarine System
Development--by $9,400,000 to support bow conformal array manufacturing
optimization; Bergman (No. 21) that transfers funds to support the
development and testing of an airgun-based hypersonic launch system by
the Air Force Research Laboratory to enable cost-effective, high-
frequency hypersonic testing; Biggs (No. 25) that Increases Army RDTE
by $6 million for Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology--
Airless Tire Demonstration for the Infantry Squad Vehicle; reduces
funding for Defense-Wide Operations and Maintenance by same amount;
Boebert (No. 28) that redirects $2 to increase funding for the National
Guard Counterdrug Program to train and equip our servicemembers to
transnational criminal organizations and prevent the flow of illicit
fentanyl and synthetic opioids into our communities; Cammack (No. 39)
that increases funding by $8,000,000 for Software-Enabled Weapon
Systems--Conventional Munitions; Cammack (No. 40) that increases
funding by $10,000,000 for multi-disciplinary research, development,
test & evaluation (RDT&E) focused on security and assurance for 3D
Heterogeneously Integrated (3DHI) microsystems; Cammack (No. 41) that
increases funding by $4,000,000 for Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL) 711th Human Performance Wing and Materials and Manufacturing
Directorate research and development of wearable technologies and
nanostructured/biological materials to protect and enhance performance
of Airmen and Guardians; Downing (No. 72) that increases funding for
Defense-wide RDT&E, Program Element 0607210D8Z, line item 214,
Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support, by $10 million for
pre-feasibility support for critical mineral extraction, including
resource expansion drilling, engineering, economic and metallurgical
studies, for platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and other
critical minerals; Escobar (No. 75) that increases Research,
Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army appropriations, specifically
for the Ground Advanced Technology line by $6 million, to further
develop and test the use of locally available materials in print mixes
for additive construction projects; Finstad (No. 84) that increases by
$10 million RDT&E, Defense-Wide, Industrial Base and Sustainment and
decreases Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $10 million to
provide for Ablative Material Sustainment; Finstad (No. 86) that
increases Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense Health
Agency by $10.0 million and reduces Operation & Maintenance, Defense-
Wide by $10.0 million to provide for the accelerated development and
deployment of freeze-dried hemostatic platelets to mitigate shortages
that threaten warfighter readiness and national security; Fitzgerald
(No. 89) that increases RDT&E, Army by $10 million for Non-Destructive
Testing and Advanced Manufacturing of Missiles and Hypersonics (Line
230, End Item Industrial Preparedness Activities); offset by a
reduction to O&M, Defense-Wide; Fitzgerald (No. 90) that increases
RDT&E, Air Force by $10 million for Next-gen Integrated Vehicle Power
Generation (Line 59, Operational Energy & Installation Resilience);
offset by a reduction to O&M, Defense-Wide; Fitzgerald (No. 92) that
increases RDT&E, Army by $6 million for Artificial Intelligence Enabled
Power Electronics (Line 43, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced
Technology); offset by a reduction to O&M, Defense-Wide; Fitzgerald
(No. 93) that increases RDT&E, Air Force by $6 million for Business and
Enterprise Systems Product Innovation (BESPIN) Authentication Platform
(Line 126, Cyber Network and Business Systems); offset by a reduction
to O&M, Defense-Wide; Gonzales (No. 104) that transfers funds to
support the development and testing of vertically integrated scramjet
supply chains to enable cost-effective, high-frequency hypersonic
testing and help restore U.S. leadership in scramjet technology;
Gottheimer (No. 107) that increases funding by $5,000,000 to Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide to increase funding for
the U.S.-Israel Counter-UAS and directed energy development program by
$5,000,000; offsets from Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide;
Houchin (No. 124) that increases and decreases Defense Wide RDT&E
funding by $7.5 million to support existing AFSOC air-frames, including
the C-130J, with autonomous flight controls that will provide SOCOM
with additional capability; Hudson (No. 137) that increases
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Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army (RDTE,A) by $5 million
Multifunctional Ballistic Battery, which supports testing and
development of a consolidated Conformal Wearable Battery and Anti-
Ballistic personnel armor plate. (Army RDT&E, PE 011 0602144A, Line 11,
Ground Technology). Offset by a $5 million reduction in Army RDT&E;
Jackson (TX) (No. 149) that increases the Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account by $10,000,000 to be used for
joint United States/Israel anti-tunneling programs and efforts; James
(No. 154) that increases Line 37, Soldier Lethality Technology (PE
0603118A) by $5,000,000 to develop Modular, Attritable, Small
Autonomous Robotic Systems and enhance the collaborative capabilities
of attritable swarms for autonomous ground vehicles; Joyce (No. 157)
that reduces Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $4 million;
increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army Line 26,
Medical Technology PE 0602787A by $4 million; Mace (No. 183) that
prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act
from being used to decommission any vessel that is part of the Army
Prepositioned Stocks-Afloat (APS-3); McClain (No. 193) that increases
Defense-Wide RDT&E by $3 million for sterilization and engraving
capabilities that use laser technology to put serial number on a
variety of military and products; McCormick (No. 196) that increases
RDT&E Army by $7 million to support domestic development of ultra-high-
efficiency radio frequency (RF) microelectronics such as Gallium
Nitride-based solid-state power amplifiers through PE 0603463A, Line
44--Network C3I Advanced Technology. Reduces O&M Army by $7 million;
McCormick (No. 201) that increases RDT&E Air Force by $15 million to
support predictive maintenance activities that leverage AI to increase
operational readiness for fixed-wing aircraft through the Condition-
Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) program under PE 0708051F, Line 77--Rapid
Sustainment Modernization (RSM). Reduces O&M Defense-Wide by $15
million; Miller (OH) (No. 216) that increases Air Force RDT&E budget
for Aerospace Propulsion research $6,000,000 and reduces Operations and
Maintenance, Defense-wide by $6,000,000 to address challenges for
electrical circuit protection in tactical aircraft by demonstrating
that ``software defined'' protection hardware can dynamically ``learn''
and adapt to different configurations of power distribution; Miller
(OH) (No. 217) that increases Army RDT&E by $6,000,000 and reduces
Operations and Maintenance, Defense-wide by $6,000,000 to support the
Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology program's vehicle
centric microgrid project to develop and demonstrate sensing and
control strategies to optimize export power capability and
availability; Miller-Meeks (No. 220) that prohibits funds from being
used to close the Rock Island Arsenal Museum, Fort Sill National
Historic Landmark and Museum, or the U.S. Army Transportation Museum;
Miller-Meeks (No. 222) that transfers funding to address an important
Department of Defense need to develop advanced air-to-air refueling
systems that improve pilot safety, increase mission effectiveness and
substantially reduce fuel usage; Moore (NC) (No. 229) that increases
Army RDT&E, PE #0603827A, Soldier Systems Advanced Development by
$5,000,000 to expand production capacity of ultra-high molecular weight
polyethylene (UHMWPE) used in the most technically advanced armor
solutions used by the U.S. warfighter; reduces the Defense-wide
Operations and Maintenance by $5,000,000; Nunn (No. 244) that MAPS Gen
II will also provide critical APNT and M-Code for Patriot battalions;
Sessions (No. 266) that increases funding by $5,000,000 to RDT&E, Army
for Spectrum Sharing and Management with Adaptable and Reconfigurable
Technology; offsets the increase with a $5,000,000 decrease to
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide; Stefanik (No. 271) that
increases Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Army by
$18,000,000 to advance the development of high-altitude precision
effects glide munitions; Subramanyam (No. 281) that increases Army
RDT&E by $4 million to support the Army Tactical Exploitation of
National Capabilities (TENCAP) program under Line 58: Tactical
Electronic Surveillance System-Adv Dev; offset from Defense-Wide O&M;
Van Duyne (No. 316) that transfers funding for Three Dimensional &
Extended Reality Instructions for Shipyard Maintenance; Veasey (No.
322) that increases Army Aircraft Procurement by $7.7 million for final
limited user testing and integration of a lightweight a Cockpit Voice
and Data Recorder (CVFDR) and a Health and Usage Monitoring System
(HUMS), both of which are standard equipment on all other Army
helicopters; decreases by $7.7M Procurement, Defense-Wide; Wasserman
Schultz (No. 324) that increases RDTE, Defense-Wide, by $10 million
within Manufacturing Technology Program for Rapid Additive
Manufacturing Critical Hardware; decreases O&M, Defense-Wide by $10
million; and Yakym (No. 330) that transfers $10 million from Defense
Wide O&M to the DIU for research, development, and deployment of
internet of bodies for covert wireless soldier communication;
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Calvert amendment en bloc No. 7 consisting of the following
amendments printed in part A of H.
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Rept. 119-199: Amo (No. 3) that increases and decreases by $10 million
Army RDTE, for Next Generation Fuel Cell Upgrades for Army helicopters;
Balderson (No. 11) that transfers funding to be used by the Navy for
continued research into solid-state circuit breaker technology to
support the development of future naval power systems that require
high-performance electrical protection for advanced weapons and
sensors; Bergman (No. 22) that transfers funding to direct the Air
Force to support the development of a Mobile Optical Air Mobility
System through AFWERX Prime; Carter (LA) (No. 46) that increases
funding in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense Wide, by
$10,000,000 for ``Domestically Produced Lithium and Electrolyte for
Defense Applications'' in Line 56, Manufacturing Technology Program;
offset is within the account; Davis (NC) (No. 59) that increases and
decreases Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army by
$10,000,000 to conduct Technology Development for Ground-to-ground
Vehicle Aided Target Recognition; Davis (NC) (No. 60) that increases
and decreases Army RDT&E to fund machine learning programs and optimize
the efficient delivery of advanced breakthrough technologies;
DesJarlais (No. 65) that transfers $8,000,000 million in funds for the
Pathfinder Air Assault program to continue research, development and
innovation activities to support soldiers; Dingell (No. 68) that
increases and decreased by $10 million RDT&E, Army account to expand
R&D in modeling and simulation and digital engineering for Army ground
vehicles to improve lethality, warfighter protection, and technological
edge; Dingell (No. 69) that increases and decreases funds by $15
million for the RDT&E, Navy account to support research, development,
and education in the areas of advanced materials development and
advanced manufacturing relevant to U.S. Navy ships and submarines;
Evans (No. 76) that increases and decreases Space Force RDT&E by
$25,000,000 for the intent it be used for the Air Force Research
Laboratory Oracle Prime cislunar space situational awareness, object
detection, and tracking demonstration program (Space Force RDT&E, Line
5, PE 1206616SF, Space Advanced Technology Development/Demo); Finstad
(No. 85) that increases and decreases O&M, Navy by $5.0 million and
increases and decreases O&M, Air Force by $5.0 million to provide for
Harmful Behaviors Software Implementation; Hudson (No. 133) that
Increases funding by $4.8 million to RDT&E, Army for the Construction
Scale 3D Printing project under PE 1160408BB/Line 283/Operational
Enhancements, offset by a decrease to Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-wide by the same amount to support military readiness, defense
innovation, and advanced manufacturing and 3D scale printing for
faster, more cost effective and resilient infrastructure solutions for
bases and military environments; Hudson (No. 134) that increases
funding by $5M to Procurement, Army Other Procurement for Modular
Networked Command Post Kits, offset by a decrease to O&M Defense-Wide
by the same amount; James (No. 151) that increases Line 218, Combat
Vehicle Improvement Program, by $5,000,000 to continue development of
Wireless Intercommunication for Army Ground Combat Vehicles through the
Dismounted Soldier Communication System; James (No. 153) that increases
and decreases Army Research Development Test and Evaluation account by
$12 million for the Ground Vehicle Enterprise Lifecycle System
Integration Laboratories (GV-ELSIL) Capability; Joyce (No. 158) that
increases Navy Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation account Line
4 Force Protection Applied Research PE 0602123N by $10 million for
Laser Powder Bed Fusion Research; reduces Operations and Maintenance
Navy, by $10 million; Krishnamoorthi (No. 169) that increases funding
in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army, by $10,000,000 for
``Automated Pilot for Small Tactical Universal Battery (STUB); offset
is within the account; Luttrell (No. 181) that increases and decreases
funds to fund Phase 1 and 2 of clinical trials for a groundbreaking,
non-hallucinogenic PTSD treatment developed specifically for military
use; Mackenzie (No. 184) that increases and decreases funding by
$16,000,000 in the COLUMBIA Shipbuilding and Conversion Navy (SCN)
Advanced Procurement Account to support the Heavy Forging Capacity
Improvement Project; Magaziner (No. 189) that increases and decreases
Army RDT&E by $13,300,100 to advance ocean and coastal security through
advanced ocean security research with innovative methods and
technologies; Magaziner (No. 190) that increases and decreases Navy
RDT&E by $3,000,000 to support scientific research on developing
lightweight polymer materials and structures that can maintain their
superior mechanical and structural performance over long seawater
exposure without strength degradation for maritime deployments;
Magaziner (No. 191) that increases and decreases Navy RDT&E by $10
million to support the development of a submarine extended length TB-
29C towed array underwater acoustic sensor towed behind a vessel to
improve detection ranges and localization; McCormick (No. 198) that
increases and decreases RDT&E Army, PE 0603118A, Line 37--Soldier
Lethality Advanced Technology by $7 million to support testing and
evaluation of Visual Simulation Systems that train pilots and aircrews
to recognize and survive the onset of spatial disorientation due to
unplanned degraded visual environments;
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McCormick (No. 200) that increases RDT&E Army by $8 million to support
dual-use autonomous and collaborative reconnaissance testing that
leverages unmanned ground vehicles through PE 0603462A, Line 43--Next
Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology; reduces O&M Army by $8
million; McDowell (No. 202) that increases and decreases funds to
provide for a research and development program to develop quadruped
unmanned ground vehicles within Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation, Army; Moulton (No. 234) that increases and decreases
funding for Marine Corps Procurement, Line 26, by $17 million to
procure additional small unmanned air systems; Moulton (No. 235) that
increases and decreases classified funding by $25 million to support
Small Batch; Nehls (No. 240) that increases and decreases Navy Other
Procurement, Ordnance Support Equipment, EOD Equipment by $13,900,000
for a one-for-one replacement of existing systems on Navy ships that
provide inadequate detection of explosives, chemical and emerging
synthetic threats; Pettersen (No. 255) that increases and decreases
funding within Army Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation to
conduct complex combinatorial search analyses to assess the risk of
simultaneous attacks across microgrids, installations, and other
critical energy infrastructure: Randall (No. 257) that increases
funding in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by
$10,000,000 for ``Steel Performance Initiative'' in Line 63,
Manufacturing Technology Program; decreases funding in Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-wide by $10,000,000; Scholten
(No. 261) that increases and deceases funding in Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide by $10,000,000 for ``U.S. Navy
Propeller Foundry Capability and Capacity Expansion'' in Line 214
(Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support); Soto (No. 269) that
decreases and then increases RDT&E, Defense Wide, PE 0607210D8Z, Line
214--Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support by $24.1 million
to expand domestic semiconductor Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging
capabilities; Stanton (No. 270) that increases and decreases funding
for Air Force RDT&E, Line 40, by $10 million to support development of
needled thermoplastic composite textiles; Steil (No. 274) that
increases and decreases funding for Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Navy, by $7.5 million for the continued research of
conductive pigments and coatings in batteries within the Warfighter
Sustainment Applied Research program; Stevens (No. 278) that increases
of $10 million to accelerate the procurement of portable water storage
and distribution systems for the Army to replace aging legacy
equipment; Tenney (No. 290) that transfers $14,200,000 from Defense-
Wide O&M to Aircraft Procurement, Army, Utility Helicopter Mods, Line
17, for UH-60 tail rotor drive shaft improvements; Titus (No. 299) that
increases and decreases funding for Space Force RDT&E to support
digital engineering and hardware for space domain awareness; Titus (No.
300) that increases and decreases funding for Army RDT&E to support
ground and air robotics lightweight hydrogen fuel cell; Turner (No.
308) that transfers $4.5 million to Army RDTE to accelerate the
integration of a new combat ground vehicle fuel tank; reduce Defense
Wide O&M by $4.5 million; Turner (No. 309) that increases and decreases
funding for Air Force RDTE, Line 26, by $7 million to support Secure
Domestic Battery Manufacturing for Defense and National Security effort
to accelerate development and manufacturing of advanced, higher
performance battery cells utilizing domestic materials for small UAS
and directed energy weapon systems; Turner (No. 310) that increases and
decreases funds by $12 million for Navy RDTE Line 183 Major T&E
Investment; Turner (No. 311) that increases Navy RDTE $7,000,000 and
Decreases Defense Wide O&M by $7,000,000 for Navy Strategic Systems
Supply Chain Management; Van Orden (No. 317) that increases and
decreases Navy RDT&E by $5 million to modify a low-cost, portable
autonomous underwater vehicle for military use; Van Orden (No. 320)
that increases funding by $10 million to deploy micro-sized aquatic
drones (dual USV/UUV) for automated surf zone and littoral hydrographic
surveys; Wilson (SC) (No. 328) that decreases Defense-wide O&M by
$5,000,000 and increases Army RDT&E by $5,000,000 to strengthen the
American high-performance glass fiber industry by increasing investment
to develop next-generation glasses capable of supporting emerging
technologies groups, such as ballistic protection, hypersonics, and
advanced computing; and Wilson (SC) (No. 329) that increases and
decreases Army RDT&E by $10,000,000 to fund continued development,
deployment, and operationalization of the Behavioral Analytics for
Security and Threat Intelligence in Operational Networks (BASTION)
initiative.
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The House agreed to H. Res. 580, the rule providing for consideration
of the bills (H.R. 4016), (H.R. 3633), (H.R. 1919), and (S. 1582) by a
recorded vote of 217 ayes to 212 noes, Roll No. 198, after the House
agreed to the Scalise motion to reconsider the resolution by a yea-and-
nay vote of 215 yeas to 211 nays, Roll No. 197. Proceedings began on
Tuesday, July 15th.
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Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that when the House adjourns
today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 17.
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Senate Message: Message received from the Senate appears on page H3329.
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and one recorded vote
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H3332 and
H3332-33.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 12:03 a.m.