The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027 provides roughly $1 trillion in discretionary funding for the Pentagon for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, covering active-duty and reserve pay, day-to-day operations, weapons purchases, and research. The largest pieces include about $190 billion for military personnel across the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Guard, and Reserve; roughly $336 billion for operation and maintenance; about $247 billion for procurement (including $56.7 billion for Navy shipbuilding such as Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines and aircraft carriers); and roughly $221 billion for research, development, test and evaluation, including a new Golden Dome missile-defense fund. It funds military health care, including about $22 billion for the TRICARE private-sector care program, Fisher Houses for military families, $500 million in cooperative missile-defense programs with Israel, and $1 billion each for a Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative and a Taiwan weapons-replacement effort. Beyond the dollar figures, the bill carries hundreds of policy riders: it bars funds for gender-transition surgeries and hormone therapy, for diversity, equity, and inclusion or Critical Race Theory programs, for drag-themed events on bases, for research using fetal tissue from induced abortions, and for the UN Relief and Works Agency, while barring adverse federal action against people who hold that marriage is between one man and one woman. Other riders block the National Security Agency from using FISA Section 702 to target U.S. persons, prohibit large federal contractors from forcing arbitration of sexual-assault and harassment claims, continue limits on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees, reaffirm anti-torture and non-refoulement rules, restrict counter-child-soldier and War Powers spending, and rename the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" throughout U.S. law. The bill also rescinds about $405 million from prior-year accounts and cuts $1 billion citing artificial-intelligence and business-process savings, while adding multibillion-dollar funds for readiness, combatant-command contingencies, defense-industrial-base competition, and on-premises computing infrastructure.
Corporate Benefits
- Defense-industry credit program — $216 million subsidizes up to $2.16 billion in loans and loan guarantees for defense firms
- Defense Production Act purchases — $553 million directed to defense industrial-base production
- Defense-industrial-base competition funding — $2.75 billion added for contractor qualification and certification
- On-premises compute infrastructure — $5.25 billion added for DoD hardware, storage, and network capital
Civil Liberties
- Surveillance limits on U.S. persons — NSA barred from FISA Section 702 targeting of U.S. persons
- Fourth Amendment handling of intercepts — Foreign-intelligence data on U.S. persons confined to constitutional protections
- Sexual-assault and harassment claims — Forced arbitration barred for federal contractors over $1 million
- Religious-conviction protections — Adverse federal action barred over the view that marriage is one man and one woman
Environmental Concerns
- Environmental restoration funding — about $1.16 billion for cleanup of hazardous waste and contaminated defense sites
- Chemical-weapons stockpile destruction — $56 million for continued disposal of lethal agents and munitions
Transparency & Accountability
- Public grant-award disclosure — DoD required to post grant awards on a searchable public website
- Procurement and RDT&E reporting — Recurring 60-day financial and contracting reports at sub-activity and project level
- Inspector General oversight — $506 million appropriated for the DoD Office of Inspector General
- Spending-plan disclosure — Execution plans required before releasing new multibillion-dollar transfer funds
- Public disclosure of intelligence funding — Intelligence Community and classified-annex amounts kept out of public budget documents
Congressional Summary
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027This bill provides FY2027 appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for military activities.(The bill excludes military construction, military family housing, civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, and nuclear warheads, which are all included in other appropriations bills.)Within the DOD budget, the bill provides appropriations forMilitary Personnel;Operation and Maintenance;Procurement;Research, Development, Test and Evaluation; andRevolving and Management Funds.The bill provides appropriations for other DOD programs, includingthe Combat and Operational Medicine Program,the Private Sector Care Program,Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction,Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, andthe Office of the Inspector General.In addition, the bill provides appropriations for related agencies, including (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund, and (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account.The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-06-26
- Date Added
- 2026-07-07
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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