S. 2587 · 118th Congress

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024

Introduced on Jul 27, 2023 by Jon Tester (D-MT). Latest action (Jul 27, 2023): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 181.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
Jul 27, 2023
Cosponsors
0
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Afghanistan
  • Africa
  • American Samoa
  • Appropriations
  • Asia
  • Aviation and airports
  • Budget process
  • Buy American requirements
  • Caribbean area
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • Chemical and biological weapons
  • China
  • Conflicts and wars
  • Congressional oversight
  • Correctional facilities and imprisonment
  • Crime victims
  • Cuba
  • Defense spending
  • Department of Defense
  • Disability and paralysis
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Egypt
  • Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
  • Europe
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Federal-Indian relations
  • Firearms and explosives
  • Foreign aid and international relief
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government liability
  • Government trust funds
  • Guam
  • Hawaii
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Idaho
  • Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia
  • Middle East
  • Military assistance, sales, and agreements
  • Military education and training
  • Military facilities and property
  • Military law
  • Military medicine
  • Military personnel and dependents
  • Military procurement, research, weapons development
  • Minnesota
  • Montana
  • Motor vehicles
  • National Guard and reserves
  • Nevada
  • North Dakota
  • North Korea
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Oman
  • Oregon
  • Palau
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Research and development
  • Russia
  • Sex offenses
  • South Dakota
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Terrorism
  • Tunisia
  • Ukraine
  • Washington State

Summary

The Congressional Research Service has not summarized this measure yet.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Jon TesterD-MTSponsor

No cosponsors.

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Jul 27, 2023Introduced in Senate
  2. Jul 27, 2023Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Tester. With written report No. 118-81.
  3. Jul 27, 2023 · SenateCommittee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Tester. With written report No. 118-81.
  4. Jul 27, 2023 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 181.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION8 reports
    $5.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: GENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.$29.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. RTX CORPORATION8 reports
    $2.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: RTX CORPORATION$3.9B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  3. ROCKET LAB USA, INC.7 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ROCKET LAB USA INC$20.1M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  4. BILT Incorporated6 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BILT INCAI match · 99%
  5. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION6 reports
    $13.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$13.3B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION6 reports
    $5.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  7. 3M COMPANY5 reports
    $1.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: 3M COMPANY$28.7M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  8. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $3.3M reported (all issues)
  9. Amazon Web Services, Inc.5 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.$577.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  10. Association For Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International5 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  11. Association of American Universities5 reports
    $319.2K reported (all issues)
  12. BLUE ORIGIN, LLC5 reports
    $930K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BLUE ORIGIN, LLC$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  13. Defense Maritime Solutions Inc. f/k/a Wartsila Defense, Inc.5 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: DEFENSE MARITIME SOLUTIONS, INC.$18.5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  14. Elk Creek Resources Corp.5 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)
  15. GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA, INC.5 reports
    $3.2M reported (all issues)
  16. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS5 reports
    $50K reported (all issues)
  17. MICROSOFT CORPORATION5 reports
    Federal contractor: MICROSOFT CORPORATION$443M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  18. MILITARY PRODUCE GROUP, LLC5 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: MILITARY PRODUCE GROUP LLC$58K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  19. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA5 reports
    $2.6M reported (all issues)
  20. SparkCognition Government Systems5 reports
    $250K reported (all issues)
  21. XYLEM INC.5 reports
    $550K reported (all issues)
  22. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY4 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)
  23. ASTRANIS SPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP.4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ASTRANIS SPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP$100K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  24. American Superconductor Corporation4 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP$592.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  25. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE4 reports
    $220K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$313.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  26. BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC4 reports
    $190K reported (all issues)
  27. Biomason, Inc.4 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BIOMASON INCAI match · 99%
  28. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems4 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  29. Glass Aviation Holdings Inc4 reports
    $95K reported (all issues)
  30. HARVARD UNIVERSITY--PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE4 reports
    $710K reported (all issues)
  31. HDT Global4 reports
    $130K reported (all issues)
  32. IONQ, INC.4 reports
    $380K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: IONQ, INC.$500 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  33. Lattice Semiconductor4 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)
  34. PHLOW CORP.4 reports
    $830K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PHLOW CORP.$105.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  35. POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC4 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)
  36. PPG INDUSTRIES INC.4 reports
    $300K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.$8.6M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  37. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.4 reports
    $1.5M reported (all issues)
  38. TRUE ANOMALY, INC.4 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: TRUE ANOMALY, INC$100.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  39. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS4 reports
    $350K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$2.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  40. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON4 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$28.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%

Reports filed in 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.