Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027

Key Points

• This bill sets the entire Department of Defense budget for fiscal year 2027, covering military pay, operations, procurement of ships and aircraft, and research. It appropriates hundreds of billions of dollars across all military branches including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force.
• The bill would rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War and change the Secretary of Defense title to Secretary of War, reversing the name change made in the late 1940s. All references in federal law would be updated accordingly.
• The bill provides major international security funding including $1 billion for the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative and $500 million for Israeli cooperative missile defense programs like Iron Dome, Arrow, and short-range ballistic missile defense.
• Several social policy provisions are included: the bill bans funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, blocks money for gender-transition surgeries or hormone therapies for service members, and protects those who act on religious beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman.
• The bill adds $5.25 billion for on-premises computing infrastructure and hardware, $3.25 billion for a combatant commanders contingency fund, $2.95 billion for military readiness, and $2.75 billion to boost competition in the defense industrial base, all as additional appropriations beyond base accounts.
• The bill includes a $1 billion across-the-board reduction attributed to savings from business process modernization and artificial intelligence deployment, though it specifies this cut cannot come from federal civilian employee salaries or expenses.

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