uted, advanced, or additive manufacturing to rapidly 
develop technologies and munitions critical for the 
strategy required by paragraph (1). 
(6) LEVERAGING COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS.—To 
the maximum extent practicable, the architectures 
developed by the Department of Defense as part of 
Golden Dome shall use commercial solutions, includ-
ing subcontracting by prime contractors at all tiers 
to incorporate commercial items or nondevelop-
mental items as components of items, supplied to 
the Department of Defense for rapid deployment. 
(7) TESTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of De-
fense and the Program Manager shall ensure 
that a robust testing regime is established for 
all kinetic and nonkinetic interceptors or similar 
systems throughout the system’s lifecycle. To 
the maximum extent practicable, testing shall 
include execution of end-to-end missile defense 
detection, tracking, and destruction techniques 
that exercise multiple components of the Golden 
Dome system. 
(B) TESTING SCHEDULE.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—In carrying out 
subparagraph (A), the Secretary and the 
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Program Manager shall ensure that, not 
later than 540 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, a demanding testing 
cadence begins, commencing with a virtual 
exercise commencing on or before the date 
that is 540 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(ii) TEST PLANS.—Not later than 90 
days before carrying out a test under this 
paragraph, the Secretary and the Program 
Manager shall present to the congressional 
defense committees a detailed plan for the 
test. 
(iii) BRIEFINGS.—In any case in 
which the Program Manager fails to con-
duct a test under this paragraph in accord-
ance with a timeline specified in this para-
graph, the Program Manager shall provide 
the applicable subcommittees of the con-
gressional defense committees an in-person 
briefing in each month for with the test is 
delayed. 
(C) 
LIVE-FIRE
EXERCISE
REQUIRE-
MENT.—At a minimum, kinetic and nonkinetic 
systems deemed to be mission essential by the 
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Secretary to the capabilities of Golden Dome 
shall be tested on a semiannual basis in a live- 
fire exercise, starting after the virtual test de-
scribed in clause (i). 
(D) PARTICIPANTS.— 
(i) REQUIRED PARTICIPATION.—Each 
exercise under this paragraph shall include 
the following participants: 
(I) The Program Manager. 
(II) A representative from the 
Office of the Secretary of Defense. 
(III) A representative from each 
of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Ma-
rines, and Space Force. 
(IV) A representative from the 
National Security Agency. 
(V) Representative from North 
American Aerospace Defense Com-
mand (NORAD) or United States 
Northern 
Command 
(USNORTHCOM). 
(VI) A representative from Indo- 
Pacific Command. 
(ii) INVITED
FOR
PARTICIPATION.— 
For each exercise under this paragraph, 
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the Program Manager shall invite the par-
ticipation of the following: 
(I) A representative from the 
Coast Guard. 
(II) A representative from the 
Federal Aviation Administration. 
(III) A representative from the 
congressional defense committees. 
(E) WAIVERS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to a re-
quest submitted to the Secretary under 
clause (ii), the Secretary may waive the re-
quirement in subparagraph (B) for an in-
dividual system. 
(ii) REQUESTS.—The Program Man-
ager may submit to the Secretary a re-
quest for a waiver of the requirement in 
subparagraph (B) for an individual system. 
(iii) 
CONGRESSIONAL
NOTIFICA-
TION.—Not later than 14 days after grant-
ing a waiver under clause (i), the Secretary 
shall provide the congressional defense 
committees an in-person briefing of the 
waiver with a detailed explanation of the 
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reasons for the decision of the Secretary to 
grant the waiver. 
(F) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and not less frequently than once each 
year thereafter, the Secretary shall, in consulta-
tion with the heads of such government agen-
cies as the Secretary considers relevant, submit 
to the congressional defense committees a re-
port detailing key regulations preventing rapid, 
iterative testing of systems vital to Golden 
Dome. 
(b) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT OF NON-KINETIC 
CAPABILITIES.—The Secretary shall use all authorities 
available to the Secretary to accelerate development of 
non-kinetic capabilities to negate missile or unmanned sys-
tem threats prior to launch or after launch. Such capabili-
ties may include cyber (offense and defense), supply chain 
interdiction, artificial intelligence-driven battle manage-
ment, electromagnetic spectrum, directed energy weapons, 
and high-power microwave defense options capable of de-
feating large-scale missile or unmanned system attacks. 
(c) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION 
FUSION PLATFORM USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO 
DETECT THREATS.—The Secretary shall use all authori-
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ties available to the Secretary to accelerate development 
and rapid prototyping of high technology readiness level 
(TRL) capabilities in order to acquire and field an infor-
mation fusion, software-centric platform that utilizes ma-
chine learning and artificial intelligence technologies capa-
ble of delivering air, land, space, and maritime domain 
awareness and early warning capabilities for homeland de-
fense across disparate novel and legacy systems. Such 
platform shall employ a common data layer that can sup-
port the rapid integration of new sensors and effectors 
across all tiers of the integrated air and missile defense 
system. 
(d) ACCELERATION
OF DEVELOPMENT
FOR PRO-
LIFERATED
WARFIGHTER
SPACE
ARCHITECTURE
OF 
SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In support of Golden Dome, 
the Director of the Space Development Agency shall 
use all authorities available to the Director to accel-
erate development and rapid fielding of satellites and 
associated systems for tranches 3, 4, and 5 of the 
proliferated warfighter space architecture of the 
Agency. 
(2) STATUS
OF
SPACE
DEVELOPMENT
AGEN-
CY.—The Space Development Agency shall remain 
an independent element of the United States Space 
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Force, and shall be exempt from the Joint Capabili-
ties Integration and Development System require-
ments process. 
(e) ACCELERATING
SPACE
SENSOR
LAYER
FOR 
GOLDEN DOME.—The Secretary of Defense shall, acting 
through the Program Manager and in coordination with 
the Director of the Missile Defense Agency and the Direc-
tor of the Space Development Agency, use all the authori-
ties available to the Secretary to accelerate the deployment 
of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor by 
procuring, not later than December 1, 2025, at least 40 
space vehicles with Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking 
Space Sensor payloads. 
(f) REQUIREMENT FOR NEXT GENERATION INTER-
CEPTOR FIELDING AND SILO CONSTRUCTION.—The Pro-
gram Manager shall, with support from the Missile De-
fense Agency, take such actions as may be necessary to 
expand Next Generation Interceptor production and silo 
construction at Fort Greely, Alaska, to field up to 80 
interceptors at Fort Greely for defense of the United 
States. Interceptor testing and initial fielding shall be 
completed not later than January 1, 2028. 
(g) REQUIREMENT FOR COMBATANT COMMANDS TO 
ACCOUNT FOR MISSILE DEFENSE INTERCEPTORS AND 
SENSOR
REQUIREMENTS
IN
THEIR
ANNUAL
RE-
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QUESTS.—For each fiscal year beginning after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, each commander of a com-
batant command shall include the missile defense inter-
ceptor requirements, terrestrial-based sensor require-
ments, space-based sensor requirements, and counter-un-
manned system requirements of the combatant command 
of the commander in the supporting information for the 
Department of Defense submitted along with the budget 
of the President to Congress for such fiscal year pursuant 
to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. 
(h) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT OF GLIDE PHASE 
INTERCEPTOR.— 
(1) USE OF AUTHORITIES TO ACCELERATE DE-
VELOPMENT.—The Program Manager shall use all 
authorities available to the Secretary to accelerate 
development of the Glide Phase Interceptor to de-
fend against hypersonic threats to the United States 
homeland. 
(2) REPORT ON POTENTIAL FOR PARALLEL DE-
VELOPMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Missile Defense Agency shall submit to the Sec-
retary and the Program Manager a report on the 
potential for parallel development of capabilities, re-
vised program schedule, and the risk associated with 
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pursuing only one alternative for the Glide Phase In-
terceptor. 
(i) ACCELERATING PRODUCTION AND FIELDING OF 
GROUND MOBILE INTERCEPTORS.—The Program Man-
ager shall use all authorities available to the Program 
Manager to accelerate the production and fielding of 
ground mobile interceptors and radars for forward deploy-
ment and homeland defense as the Secretary and Presi-
dent consider appropriate. 
(j) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT
OF RESILIENT 
POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING FOR MISSILE 
DEFENSE SYSTEMS.—The Program Manager shall use all 
authorities available to the Program Manager to accel-
erate development and fielding of resilient positioning, 
navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions that can operate 
effectively in ground positioning system (GPS)-denied en-
vironments. Such solutions may include the following: 
(1) Quantum-enhanced inertial navigation and 
atomic clock technologies to maintain continuous po-
sitioning, navigation, and timing functionality in 
ground positioning system-degraded or denied sce-
narios. 
(2) Enhanced terrestrial-based navigation sys-
tems for greater assured positioning in ground posi-
tioning system-contested environments. 
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(3) Robust data fusion techniques that inte-
grate multiple positioning, navigation, and timing 
sources, such as radar-based tracking, vision-aided 
navigation, and low-Earth orbit (LEO) signals, to 
sustain operational effectiveness during electronic 
warfare (EW) attacks or cyber intrusions. 
(4) Commercially available, field-proven alter-
native positioning, navigation, and timing solutions 
that leverage advanced sensor fusion, artificial intel-
ligence-driven error correction, and resilient posi-
tioning, navigation, and timing processing to provide 
assured navigation for mobile and fixed defense plat-
forms, 
including 
those 
currently 
deployed 
in 
hypersonic tracking and integrated air and missile 
defense applications. 
(k) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMOUS 
AGENTS TO DEFEND AGAINST CRUISE MISSILES AND 
UNMANNED SYSTEMS.—The Program Manager shall use 
all authorities available to the Program Manager to accel-
erate development of autonomous agents to cost-effectively 
defend the United States homeland and forward-deployed 
armed forces against raids of both large cruise missiles 
and unmanned systems as the Secretary considers appro-
priate. 
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(l) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT AND FIELDING 
OF LOW-COST SCALABLE INTERCEPTOR.—The Program 
Manager shall use all authorities available to the Program 
Manager to accelerate development, test, and fielding of 
a low-cost scalable interceptor that can augment existing 
production lines and provide resiliency to the integrated 
air and missile defense system. 
(m) ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOY-
MENT OF SPACE-BASED SENSORS AND INTERCEPTORS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Program Manager shall 
use all authorities available to the Secretary to accel-
erate development and deployment of proliferated 
space-based sensors and interceptors capable of bal-
listic and hypersonic missile intercept. 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—The Program Manager 
shall ensure that development and deployment de-
scribed in paragraph (1) will— 
(A) substantially avail itself of commercial 
space capabilities to reduce cost and time to de-
ploy; 
(B) ensure that space-based interceptors 
and ground-based interceptors are fully inte-
grated; and 
(C) provide an autonomy layer that sup-
ports time-critical targeting through advance-
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ments in information technology and mitigates 
latency issues. 
(n) REPORT TO REDUCE COST SAVINGS PER ROUND 
FOR SPACE-BASED INTERCEPTORS.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Pro-
gram Manager shall submit a feasibility study to the con-
gressional defense committees outlining multiple methods 
for reducing the cost per round of various space-based 
interceptors including kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities 
and informed by traditional and nontraditional defense 
technology companies. 
(o) ACCELERATING MODERNIZATION
OF CERTAIN 
TERRESTRIAL
DOMAIN
CAPABILITIES.—The Program 
Manager shall use all authorities available to the Program 
Manager to accelerate modernization of terrestrial-based 
radar capabilities, including those located at or known as 
Cobra Dane, Thule Ballistic Missile Early Warning Sys-
tem 
(BMEWS), 
Upgraded 
Early 
Warning 
Radar 
(UEWR) in Greenland and Cape Cod, Homeland Defense 
Radar and Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii, 
and the Alaska Radar System. 
(p) MODERNIZATION OF PERIMETER ACQUISITION 
RADAR ATTACK CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM.—The Pro-
gram Manager shall use all authorities available to the 
Program Manager to accelerate the modernization and 
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digitization of the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack 
Characterization System (PARCS) to improve detection of 
intercontinental and sea-launched missile threats, as well 
as improve space domain awareness capabilities. 
(q) SITE SELECTION
AND PROGRAM EXECUTION 
PLAN
FOR
SOUTHERN
HEMISPHERE-FACING
EARLY 
WARNING RADAR SYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Program 
Manager shall submit to Congress a report detailing a site 
selection and proposed program execution plan for a 
southern hemisphere-facing early warning radar system 
capable of detecting threats from next generation complex 
missile attacks. 
(r) SITE SELECTION
AND PROGRAM EXECUTION 
PLAN
FOR
HIGHLY
FLEXIBLE
MISSILE
DEFENSE 
SITES.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Program Manager shall submit 
to Congress a report detailing a plan for a highly flexible, 
and if necessary mobile, terrestrial missile defense network 
capable of defending critical nodes across the United 
States, including noncontiguous States and territories, 
from likely attack vectors. 
(s) SITE SELECTION
AND PROGRAM EXECUTION 
PLAN
FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF ALASKA-BASED AEGIS 
ASHORE SYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
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of the enactment of this Act, the Program Manager shall 
submit to Congress a report detailing a site selection and 
proposed program execution plan for an Alaska-based 
Aegis Ashore missile defense system. 
(t) COMPLETION
AND CERTIFICATION
OF AEGIS 
ASHORE SYSTEM IN HAWAII.—The Program Manager 
shall use all authorities available to the Program Manager 
to accelerate completion and certification of an Aegis 
Ashore system based in Hawaii. 
(u) ACCELERATION OF MUNITIONS PRODUCTION FOR 
MISSILE DEFENSE.—The Program Manager, working 
with the Services, shall use all authorities available to the 
Program Manager to accelerate production of critical mu-
nitions used for missile interception, including Standard 
Missile 3 Blocks IB and IIA and PAC–2 and PAC–3 mu-
nitions, to ensure their availability as an additional sub- 
layer of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. 
(v) EXPEDITED MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHOR-
ITY.— 
(1) 
WAIVER
OF
REGULATIONS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Defense may waive all legal requirements the Sec-
retary, in such Secretary’s sole discretion, deter-
mines necessary to ensure expeditious construction, 
deployment, testing, and operation of Golden Dome, 
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including mission and life support. Any such deci-
sion by the Secretary shall be effective upon being 
published in the Federal Register. 
(2) FEDERAL COURT REVIEW.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The district courts of 
the United States shall have exclusive jurisdic-
tion to hear all causes of action or claims aris-
ing from any action undertaken, or any decision 
made, by the Secretary pursuant to paragraph 
(1). A cause of action or claim may only be 
brought alleging a violation of the Constitution 
of the United States. The court shall not have 
jurisdiction to hear any claim not specified in 
this subparagraph. 
(B) TIME FOR FILING OF COMPLAINT.— 
Any cause or claim brought pursuant to sub-
paragraph (A) shall be filed not later than 60 
days after the date of the action or decision 
made by the Secretary. A claim shall be barred 
unless it is filed within the time specified. 
(C) ABILITY
TO
SEEK
APPELLATE
RE-
VIEW.—An interlocutory or final judgment, de-
cree, or order of the district court may be re-
viewed only upon petition for a writ of certio-
rari to the Supreme Court of the United States. 
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(w) ACCELERATION OF INTEGRATED AIR AND MIS-
SILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, in col-
laboration with the Secretary of State, look for and 
exploit opportunities to accelerate technology ex-
changes and transfers of integrated missile defense 
technology, including over the horizon radar with 
trusted allies under current defense agreements and 
arrangements. 
(2) UTILIZING
PARTNER
TECHNOLOGY.—The 
Secretary may utilize the technology of trusted part-
ners to fill capability gaps in Golden Dome that are 
identified as an urgent need by the Program Man-
ager. 
(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
subsection shall be construed to require the Sec-
retary to exchange technology with a foreign country 
if the President or the Secretary determines that 
doing so would present a grave national security 
threat to the United States. 
(x) DEVELOPMENT
AND
SECURING
OF
SUPPLY 
CHAINS CRITICAL TO MISSILE DEFENSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, in col-
laboration with the Secretary of State, the Secretary 
of Commerce, and the Secretary of the Interior, 
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identify critical shortages and vulnerabilities in sup-
ply chains critical to missile and unmanned system 
defense component production and shall use all au-
thorities available to the Secretaries to develop and 
secure such supply chains. 
(2) ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS TECHNIQUES 
AND
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN
SUPPLY 
CHAIN MAPPING TOOLS.—In carrying out paragraph 
(1), the Secretary may leverage advanced data ana-
lytics techniques and artificial-intelligence-driven 
supply chain mapping tools to assess supply chain 
vulnerabilities related to missile defense and un-
manned systems defense systems, and other critical 
technologies. 
(y) 
AUTHORIZATION
FOR
PROCUREMENT
AND 
FIELDING
OF DIRIGIBLES
TO SUPPORT MISSILE DE-
FENSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Army 
may procure and field such dirigibles, including air-
ships and aerostats, in support of the missile defense 
of the United States homeland from ballistic, 
hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and unmanned sys-
tems as the Secretary of Defense determines are 
necessary to the defense of the United States from 
long-range missile threats. 
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(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements of 
paragraph (1) cover— 
(A) high altitude air defense systems to de-
tect, characterize, track, and engage current 
and emerging advanced missile and unmanned 
system threats; and 
(B) both short-term and long-term solu-
tions that leverage the innovative dirigible and 
associated sensor development that the Armed 
Forces, partners of the United States, such as 
Israel, and United States industry have under-
taken during the 30-year period ending on the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(3) CONSIDERATION.—In carrying out para-
graph (1), the Secretary of the Army shall consider 
the use of dirigibles in supporting resilient military 
and emergency communication networks in a crisis. 
(z) REQUIREMENT
FOR ACCELERATION
OF PRO-
CUREMENT AND FIELDING OF AIR MOVING TARGET INDI-
CATOR SYSTEMS.—The Program Manager shall use all the 
authorities available to the Program Manager to accel-
erate the procurement and fielding of air moving target 
indicator (AMTI) systems capable of detecting, tracking, 
and distinguishing airborne moving targets from sta-
tionary or cluttered backgrounds. 
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(aa) REQUIREMENT FOR ACCELERATED DEVELOP-
MENT AND EXPANSION OF INTEGRATED UNDERSEA SUR-
VEILLANCE SYSTEM.—The Program Manager shall use all 
the authorities available to the Program Manager to accel-
erate the development and expansion of the Integrated 
Undersea Surveillance System to detect and track under-
sea threats like submersibles that carry missiles near 
United States shorelines. 
SEC. 5. PROTECTION OF THE SPACE INDUSTRIAL BASE. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that robust competi-
tion in the space industrial base is essential to assuring 
United States space superiority and the ability of the 
United States Space Force to provide national security 
mission-critical space warfighting systems and operations 
across the joint force. 
(b) REQUIREMENT TO MAXIMIZE COMPETITION.— 
Chapter 382 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 4821. Preservation of space industrial base 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The head of an agency shall, to 
the maximum extent practicable— 
‘‘(1) ensure that space acquisitions employ pro-
cedures that maximize competition; 
‘‘(2) ensure that mission-critical national secu-
rity space-based systems that deliver tactical data 
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from low Earth orbit within a program and across 
the Armed Forces shall be procured from an open 
competition allowing for competition between mul-
tiple vendors, and those vendors’ products shall com-
ply with interfaces and standards that maximize re-
silience and interoperability with Department of De-
fense systems; and 
‘‘(3) ensure that a contract or other agreement 
for a mission-critical space-based tactical data deliv-
ery system acquired or contracted as-a-service must 
require the performance, cost, and speed of delivery 
of the capability to be demonstrably competitive to 
any existing program currently delivering that capa-
bility which it seeks to replace or substitute, and use 
reasonable best efforts to avoid the as-a-service con-
tract if the agency head believes in good faith that 
it will result in a major contraction in the space an 
industrial base available to support the Department 
of Defense. 
‘‘(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The head of an agency 
shall, to the maximum extent possible, ensure that acquisi-
tion, contracting, and other procurement officials develop 
guidance— 
‘‘(1) to achieve and act in accordance with the 
requirements of subsection (a) and with the intent 
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to deliver mission-critical space-based tactical data 
delivery systems in accordance with government 
standards and interfaces; and 
‘‘(2) to prevent the major reduction and consoli-
dation of the space industrial base.’’. 
SEC. 6. PROTECTION OF UNITED STATES ASSETS FROM IN-
CURSIONS. 
Section 130i of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(1) Notwithstanding’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘any provision of title 18’’ 
and inserting ‘‘sections 32, 1030, and 1367 and 
chapters 119 and 206 of title 18’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall delegate the au-
thority under paragraph (1) to take actions described in 
subsection (b)(1) to the commander of a combatant com-
mand, the Secretary concerned, or such other official of 
the Department of Defense as the Secretary of Defense 
considers appropriate.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1)(B), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, including 
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through the use of remote identification broadcast or 
other means’’; 
(3) in subsection (e)(4)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘; 
or’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (D); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) would support another Federal agen-
cy with authority to mitigate the threat of un-
manned aircraft systems or unmanned aircraft 
in mitigating such threats; or’’; 
(4) by redesignating subsections (g), (h), (i), 
and (j) as subsections (h), (j), (k), and (l), respec-
tively; 
(5) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(g) EXEMPTION FROM DISCLOSURE.—Information 
pertaining to the technology, procedures, and protocols 
used to carry out this section, including any regulations 
or guidance issued to carry out this section, shall be ex-
empt from disclosure under section 552(b)(3) of title 5 
and any State or local law requiring the disclosure of in-
formation.’’; 
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(6) by inserting after subsection (h), as redesig-
nated by paragraph (4), the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(i) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER LAWS TO ACTIVITIES 
RELATED TO THE MITIGATION OF THREATS FROM UN-
MANNED
AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS
OR
UNMANNED
AIR-
CRAFT.—Sections 32, 1030, and 1367 and chapters 119 
and 206 of title 18, and section 46502 of title 49, may 
not be construed to apply to activities of the Department 
of Defense or the Coast Guard, whether under this section 
or any other provision of law, that— 
‘‘(1) are conducted outside the United States; 
and 
‘‘(2) are related to the mitigation of threats 
from unmanned aircraft systems or unmanned air-
craft.’’; 
(7) in subsection (k), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘subsection (j)(3)(C)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsection (l)(3)(C)’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2026’’ 
and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2030’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘180 days’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘one year’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘November 15, 2026’’ 
and inserting ‘‘November 15, 2030’’; and 
(8) in subsection (l), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs,’’ after ‘‘the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary,’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 
‘‘the Committee on Homeland Security,’’ 
after ‘‘the Committee on the Judiciary,’’; 
(B) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3) 
through (6) as paragraphs (4) through (7), re-
spectively; 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following new paragraph (3): 
‘‘(3) The term ‘combatant command’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 161 of this 
title.’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by 
subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in clause (viii), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
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(ii) in clause (ix), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new clauses: 
‘‘(x) protection of the buildings, 
grounds, and property to which the public 
are not permitted regular, unrestricted ac-
cess and that are under the jurisdiction, 
custody, or control of the Department of 
Defense and the persons on that property 
pursuant to section 2672 of this title; 
‘‘(xi) assistance to Federal, State, or 
local officials in responding to incidents in-
volving nuclear, radiological, biological, or 
chemical weapons, high-yield explosives, or 
related materials or technologies, including 
pursuant to section 282 of this title or the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq); 
‘‘(xii) activities permitted by section 
2692(b) of this title; or 
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‘‘(xiii) emergency response that is lim-
ited to a specified timeframe and loca-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $23,023,100,000 for fiscal year 2026, of which— 
(1) $500,000,000 shall be available for require-
ments of this Act relating to SM–3 Block 1B; 
(2) $500,000,000 shall be available for require-
ments of this Act relating to SM–3 Block IIA; 
(3) $1,000,000,000 shall be available for re-
quirements of this Act relating to development, test-
ing, and additional procurement of ground mobile 
interceptors and radars; 
(4) $1,500,000,000 shall be available for re-
quirements of this Act relating to PAC–2 and PAC– 
3 Munitions and MM–104 Patriot batteries; 
(5) $500,000,000 shall be available for require-
ments of this Act relating to Alaska-based Aegis 
Ashore station construction; 
(6) $460,000,000 shall be available for Next 
Generation Interceptor production and expansion of 
missile interceptor fields available at Fort Greely, 
Alaska, to up to 80 units with the Next Generation 
Interceptor; 
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(7) $260,000,000 shall be available for con-
struction of an additional Next Generation Inter-
ceptor site in the continental United States as the 
Secretary deems necessary; 
(8) $250,000,000 shall be available for require-
ments of this Act relating to completion and certifi-
cation of Hawaii Aegis Ashore system and upgrades 
to the Maui Space Surveillance Complex; 
(9) $100,000,000 shall be available for require-
ments of this Act relating to Space Development 
Agency satellite sensors; 
(10) $750,000,000 shall be available for re-
quirements of this Act relating to modernization of 
terrestrial-based domain awareness radars; 
(11) $2,500,000,000 shall be available for re-
quirements of this Act relating to research and de-
velopment relating to non-kinetic missile defense ca-
pabilities across the military departments; 
(12) $ 5,900,000,000 shall be available for re-
quirements of this Act relating to research and de-
velopment and deployment of space-based missile de-
fense and sensor networks; 
(13) $3,100,000,000 shall be available for the 
requirements of this Act relating to procurement of 
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