S. 4638 · 118th Congress

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025

Introduced on Jul 8, 2024 by Jack Reed (D-RI). Latest action (Jul 8, 2024): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 433.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
Jul 8, 2024
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

A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Adoption and foster care
  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Advisory bodies
  • Afghanistan
  • Agricultural trade
  • Alaska
  • Alliances
  • Appropriations
  • Arab-Israeli relations
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Armed Forces Retirement Home
  • Asia
  • Assault and harassment offenses
  • Aviation and airports
  • Border security and unlawful immigration
  • Building construction
  • California
  • Cancer
  • Caribbean area
  • Cemeteries and funerals
  • Chemical and biological weapons
  • Child care and development
  • Child health
  • China
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Coal
  • Coast guard
  • Collective security
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Conflicts and wars
  • Constitution and constitutional amendments
  • Correctional facilities and imprisonment
  • Costa Rica
  • Crime victims
  • Crimes against property
  • Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
  • Cuba
  • Defense spending
  • Dental care
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of Energy
  • Digital media
  • Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
  • District of Columbia
  • Domestic violence and child abuse
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Educational technology and distance education
  • El Salvador
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Employee hiring
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Europe
  • Evidence and witnesses
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family planning and birth control
  • Federal officials
  • Financial literacy
  • Firearms and explosives
  • Food assistance and relief
  • Food supply, safety, and labeling
  • Gaza Strip
  • Georgia (Republic)
  • Germany
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Guam
  • Hawaii
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Health care quality
  • Health facilities and institutions
  • Health personnel
  • Health technology, devices, supplies
  • Hearing, speech, and vision care
  • Higher education
  • Historic sites and heritage areas
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Industrial policy and productivity
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Infrastructure development
  • Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
  • International organizations and cooperation
  • Internet, web applications, social media
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Judges
  • Land use and conservation
  • Latin America
  • Law enforcement administration and funding
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
  • Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mental health
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Middle East
  • Military assistance, sales, and agreements
  • Military civil functions
  • Military education and training
  • Military facilities and property
  • Military law
  • Military medicine
  • Military operations and strategy
  • Military personnel and dependents
  • Military procurement, research, weapons development
  • Military readiness
  • Mining
  • Motor fuels
  • Motor vehicles
  • National Guard and reserves
  • Neurological disorders
  • North America
  • Nuclear power
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Nursing
  • Oklahoma
  • Organized crime
  • Panama
  • Panama Canal
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pest management
  • Poland
  • Prescription drugs
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Qatar
  • Radio spectrum allocation
  • Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Retail and wholesale trades
  • Right of privacy
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Seafood
  • Seashores and lakeshores
  • Selective Service System
  • Sex and reproductive health
  • Sex offenses
  • Small business
  • Smuggling and trafficking
  • South Korea
  • Space flight and exploration
  • Spacecraft and satellites
  • Strategic materials and reserves
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Teaching, teachers, curricula
  • Terrorism
  • Texas
  • Transportation costs
  • U.S. territories and protectorates
  • Ukraine
  • Veterans' medical care
  • Veterans' organizations and recognition
  • Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
  • Vietnam
  • Virginia
  • Wages and earnings
  • Water quality
  • Water use and supply
  • West Bank

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.

Jack ReedD-RISponsor

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 8, 2024Introduced in Senate
  2. Jul 8, 2024Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Reed. With written report No. 118-188. Additional views filed.
  3. Jul 8, 2024 · SenateCommittee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Reed. With written report No. 118-188. Additional views filed.
  4. Jul 8, 2024 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 433.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

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 CORPORATION18 reports
    $9.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: GENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.$29.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. RKT HOLDINGS12 reports
    $1M reported (all issues)
  3. DJI Technology, Inc.11 reports
    $1.1M reported (all issues)
  4. American Security Fund10 reports
    $400K reported (all issues)
  5. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION10 reports
    $12.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$13.3B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION10 reports
    $8.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  7. HANWHA Q CELLS AMERICA INC.9 reports
  8. Helicon Chemical Company9 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: HELICON CHEMICAL COMPANY LLC$500 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  9. BAE SYSTEMS8 reports
    $2.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BAE SYSTEMS PLCAI match · 99%
  10. BLUE ORIGIN, LLC8 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BLUE ORIGIN, LLC$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  11. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems8 reports
    $350K reported (all issues)
  12. LEIDOS, INC.8 reports
    $4M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LEIDOS, INC.$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  13. RTX CORPORATION8 reports
    $7.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: RTX CORPORATION$3.9B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  14. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE7 reports
    $700K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$313.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  15. DISH NETWORK CORPORATION7 reports
    $3M reported (all issues)
  16. DJI Technologies, Inc.7 reports
    $385K reported (all issues)
  17. HAWKEYE 3607 reports
    $550K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: HAWKEYE 360, INC.$23M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  18. MICROSOFT CORPORATION7 reports
    Federal contractor: MICROSOFT CORPORATION$443M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  19. ARIANESPACE, INC6 reports
    $180K reported (all issues)
  20. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.6 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$5.6B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  21. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL6 reports
    $2.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC$271.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  22. PARSONS CORPORATION6 reports
    $730K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.$748M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  23. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA6 reports
    $21.4M reported (all issues)
  24. ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO LLC6 reports
    $525K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC$500 in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  25. ROCKET LAB USA, INC.6 reports
    $660K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ROCKET LAB USA INC$20.1M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  26. SHIELD AI6 reports
  27. Tata America International Corporation6 reports
    $900K reported (all issues)
  28. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER6 reports
    $240K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$7M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  29. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.6 reports
    $8.4M reported (all issues)
  30. AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL5 reports
    $17.2M reported (all issues)
  31. DELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.5 reports
    $3.1M reported (all issues)
  32. EAGLEPICHER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC5 reports
    $350K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: EAGLEPICHER TECHNOLOGIES LLC$13.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  33. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.5 reports
    $170K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$1.8B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  34. HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY5 reports
    $1.5M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY$53.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  35. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.5 reports
    $980K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$115.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  36. NANA REGIONAL CORPORATION5 reports
    $250K reported (all issues)
  37. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS5 reports
    $11M reported (all issues)
  38. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.5 reports
    $762K reported (all issues)
  39. SAP AMERICA INC5 reports
    $1.2M reported (all issues)
  40. TenCate Protective Fabrics North America5 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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.