Pentagon tests 3D-printed bombs for five years.
S. 4894 — FUSE Act · Filed by Ted Cruz (R-TX) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Defense to run a five-year test. The test checks if 3D-printed bombs work better than bombs made the old way. The program will check risks and make new test methods. It will run small tests at safe places. It will report to Congress every year.
Who it affects
The Pentagon and defense firms that make bombs will run the tests. Congress will get yearly reports.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say what happens to the method after five years. The bill does not explain who owns the method or keeps it safe if a firm gets hacked.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the 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
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Ted Cruz, who sponsored the bill, received $526,115 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Fka U.S. Chamber of Commerce-institute for Legal Reform — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of Defense — The top official in charge of the U.S. military.
- 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 (5,169 characters) on Aug 12, 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 19, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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