Bill > S4921

This bill makes appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. * **National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund:** $600,000,000 from the General Fund, available until September 30, 2027, for activities related to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. $500,000,000 of this amount is designated as an emergency requirement. * **Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative:** $300,000,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, available until September 30, 2026, for assistance to Ukraine's military and national security forces. * **International Security Cooperation Programs:** $1,352,219,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, available until September 30, 2026, for programs supporting foreign security forces in counterterrorism, crisis response, and building partner capacity. * **Indo-Pacific Security Assistance Initiative:** $500,000,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, available until September 30, 2026, for assistance to Taiwan, including defense articles, services, and military education. * **Support for Countering ISIS:** $25,000,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, available until September 30, 2026, for reimbursements to cooperating nations for logistical and military support for operations against ISIS, and for specialized training and equipment for coalition forces. * **Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy:** $3,690,024,000 available until September 30, 2025, to fund prior year cost increases for various shipbuilding programs, including $1,000,000,000 designated as an emergency requirement for the Virginia Class Submarine Program. * **USINDOPACOM Theater Security Cooperation:** $8,132,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Navy, for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program to support Theater Security Cooperation activities. * **Civil Air Patrol Corporation:** $73,500,000, with $56,500,000 from Operation and Maintenance, Air Force, $15,000,000 from Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, and $2,000,000 from Other Procurement, Air Force. * **United Service Organizations (USO):** $24,000,000 appropriated to the Department of Defense for grants to the USO. * **Readiness Improvement:** $2,000,000,000 appropriated to the Department of Defense for transfer to operation and maintenance accounts of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force for improving military readiness. * **Tactical Artificial Intelligence:** $500,000,000 for improving tactical artificial intelligence at Combatant Commands. * **Fuel Costs:** An increase of $1,172,057,000 to title II appropriations due to higher than anticipated fuel costs, designated as an emergency requirement. * **U.S. Central Command Operations:** $800,000,000 for U.S. operations, force protection, deterrence, and replacement of combat expenditures in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. * **Global Counter-Terrorism Activities:** $250,000,000 for global U.S. counter-terrorism activities and force protection, including in the U.S. European Command area of operations. The bill also includes numerous provisions regarding the use of funds, transfer authorities, reporting requirements, and restrictions on certain activities and procurements, such as prohibiting the use of funds for propaganda, restricting the obligation of funds in the last two months of the fiscal year, and requiring notification to Congress for certain transfers and reprogrammings. It also includes provisions related to the Buy American Act, procurement of specific materials, and support for various programs and initiatives.