S. 2342 · 119th Congress

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

Introduced on Jul 17, 2025 by Tom Cotton (R-AR). Latest action (Jul 29, 2025): By Senator Cotton from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 119-51. Minority views filed.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
Jul 17, 2025
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 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Accounting and auditing
  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Administrative remedies
  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Advisory bodies
  • Africa
  • Alliances
  • Asia
  • Aviation and airports
  • Brazil
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory health
  • Caribbean area
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • Chemical and biological weapons
  • China
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Collective security
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Crimes against property
  • Criminal procedure and sentencing
  • Cuba
  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of Transportation
  • Department of the Treasury
  • Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
  • Director of National Intelligence
  • Disability assistance
  • Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
  • Drug trafficking and controlled substances
  • Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Employee benefits and pensions
  • Employee hiring
  • Employee performance
  • Employment and training programs
  • Employment discrimination and employee rights
  • Espionage and treason
  • Europe
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Family relationships
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • Federal Reserve System
  • Federal officials
  • Foreign language and bilingual programs
  • Fraud offenses and financial crimes
  • Genetics
  • Geography and mapping
  • Government buildings, facilities, and property
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Government trust funds
  • Health information and medical records
  • Higher education
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Infrastructure development
  • Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
  • International organizations and cooperation
  • Iran
  • Latin America
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Medical research
  • Mental health
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
  • Military personnel and dependents
  • Mining
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • National Security Agency
  • North Korea
  • Nuclear power
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Organized crime
  • Performance measurement
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Public participation and lobbying
  • Real estate business
  • Religion
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Right of privacy
  • Russia
  • Sanctions
  • Small business
  • Smuggling and trafficking
  • Space flight and exploration
  • Spacecraft and satellites
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Sudan
  • Technology assessment
  • Technology transfer and commercialization
  • Telecommunication rates and fees
  • Telephone and wireless communication
  • Terrorism
  • Travel and tourism
  • U.S. and foreign investments
  • Ukraine
  • Venezuela
  • Visas and passports

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.

Tom CottonR-ARSponsor

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 17, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Jul 17, 2025Select Committee on Intelligence. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Cotton. Without written report.
  3. Jul 17, 2025 · SenateSelect Committee on Intelligence. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Cotton. Without written report.
  4. Jul 17, 2025 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 120.
  5. Jul 29, 2025By Senator Cotton from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 119-51. Minority views filed.
  6. Jul 29, 2025 · SenateBy Senator Cotton from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 119-51. Minority views filed.

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. Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Inc.6 reports
    $320K reported (all issues)
  2. LEIDOS, INC.5 reports
    $5.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LEIDOS, INC.$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  3. NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION5 reports
    $8.4M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$1.1B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  4. Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (d/b/a Airlines for America)4 reports
    $4.7M reported (all issues)
  5. NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION4 reports
    $13.6M reported (all issues)
  6. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.4 reports
    $6.3M reported (all issues)
  7. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE3 reports
    $600K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$313.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  8. CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION3 reports
    $9.4M reported (all issues)
  9. HAWKEYE 3603 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: HAWKEYE 360, INC.$23M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  10. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION3 reports
    $12.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$13.3B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  11. MICROSOFT CORPORATION3 reports
    $7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: MICROSOFT CORPORATION$444.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  12. PERATON CORP.3 reports
    $390K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PERATON INC.AI match · 99%
  13. RTX CORPORATION3 reports
    $10.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: RTX CORPORATION$3.9B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  14. ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.2 reports
    $960K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.$89.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  15. Amazon.com Services LLC2 reports
    $8.9M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC$285.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  16. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.2 reports
    $650K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$5.6B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  17. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.2 reports
    $31.6M reported (all issues)
  18. CloudFactors LLC2 reports
  19. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.2 reports
    $440K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$115.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  20. Planet Labs PBC2 reports
    $610K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PLANET LABS INC.AI match · 100%
  21. Stanford University2 reports
    $270K reported (all issues)
  22. THE BOEING COMPANY2 reports
    $5.5M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: THE BOEING COMPANY$9B in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  23. UNITED STATES TELECOM ASSN2 reports
    $1.3M reported (all issues)
  24. AMENTUM HOLDINGS, INC.1 report
  25. Accrete AI Government, LLC1 report
    $50K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ACCRETE AI GOVERNMENT LLC$8.5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  26. Amazon Web Services, Inc.1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.$582.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  27. American Civil Liberties Union1 report
    $400K reported (all issues)
  28. BAE SYSTEMS1 report
    Federal contractor: BAE SYSTEMS PLCAI match · 99%
  29. CAPELLA SPACE CORP.1 report
    Federal contractor: CAPELLA SPACE CORPORATION$209.9K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  30. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.1 report
    Federal contractor: CISCO SYSTEMS INC$1.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  31. Danti AI Inc.1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: DANTI AI INCAI match · 100%
  32. Demand Progress Action, Inc1 report
    $40K reported (all issues)
  33. GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION1 report
    Federal contractor: GENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.$29.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  34. GEODEX INC. DBA DANTI1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)
  35. Lanteris Space Systems (formerly Maxar Space Systems)1 report
    $10K reported (all issues)
  36. ORACLE AMERICA, INC.1 report
    $60K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: ORACLE AMERICA, INC$53.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  37. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.1 report
    $653K reported (all issues)
  38. SHIFT51 report
    $180K reported (all issues)
  39. Vantor Holdings (fka Maxar Intelligence)1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)
  40. Vantor Parent Inc (formerly reported as Maxar Intelligence)1 report
    $230K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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.