Pentagon must plan new aircraft crash-prevention technology.
H.R. 9620 — Military Next-Gen Collision Avoidance Act of 2026 · Filed by Tom Barrett (R-MI) · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Defense to make a plan. The plan covers new crash-prevention technology called ACAS-X. It must show how to pay for it. It must show how to make it work with old planes and if it is safe. The Secretary can then put the plan into action. The Secretary must tell Congress about it 30 days later.
Who it affects
Military pilots and planes get safer crash-prevention systems. People on the ground near military bases are safer too.
One thing to notice
The Secretary of Defense decides how fast to roll out the new technology after the plan is done.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $280,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 7 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Tom Barrett, who sponsored the bill, received $1,108,876 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Breakthrough T1d (formerly Known As Jdrf Intl.) — $220,000 in 1 report
- Appalachian Voices — $40,000 in 1 report
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- ACAS-X — A new type of crash-prevention system that is safer than older versions.
- Secretary of Defense — The government official who runs the military and makes big decisions about defense.
- Congress — The group of elected officials who make laws for the United States.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,532 characters) on Jul 22, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
- H.R. 9620 on Congress.gov
- Actions and status history
- Bill text the analysis read
- Breakthrough T1d (formerly Known As Jdrf Intl.) — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Appalachian Voices — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Tom Barrett — FEC candidate receipts, 2026 cycle
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