Congress approves over 800 billion dollars for military weapons and equipment.
S. 4784 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 · Filed by Roger Wicker (R-MS) · Introduced Jun 15, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill allows the Department of Defense to spend money on fighter jets, ships, and drones. It approves multiyear contracts that lock in purchases of certain aircraft like the F-35 and F-15EX. The bill sets rules for universities that receive defense money. Universities must avoid working with certain foreign groups. It creates a 20-year plan for how the Air Force will move troops and equipment.
Who it affects
Military members and defense workers build and operate these weapons systems. Universities that work with the Department of Defense must follow new rules about foreign partners. Taxpayers fund all of this spending through their taxes.
One thing to notice
The bill locks in weapons purchases for multiple years without new approval each year. The military keeps buying these systems even if costs go up or better options emerge.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 15, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Wicker. With written report No.”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
689 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 696 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $150,076,049 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 3 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 100% of bills with any report.
Roger Wicker, who sponsored the bill, received $116,200 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $16,950,000 in 1 report
- Business Roundtable Inc — $6,950,000 in 1 report
- Lockheed Martin Corporation — $4,180,000 in 1 report
- Rtx Corporation and Affiliates — $3,860,000 in 1 report
- Ctia-the Wireless Association — $3,640,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- multiyear contracts — Agreements to buy the same weapons or equipment for several years without stopping to check.
- Department of Defense — The part of the U.S. government that runs the military and buys weapons and equipment.
- foreign groups — Organizations or people from other countries that universities are told not to work with.
- 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 (50,094 characters) on Jul 5, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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