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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5086 
To require the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a program 
to enable the rapid development, testing, and scalable manufacture of 
small unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025 
Mr. HARRIGAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry 
out a program to enable the rapid development, testing, 
and scalable manufacture of small unmanned aircraft 
systems, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SkyFoundry Act of 
2025’’. 
SEC. 2. SKYFOUNDRY PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
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(1) PROGRAM
REQUIRED.—The Secretary of 
Defense shall establish and carry out a program to 
enable the rapid development, testing, and scalable 
manufacture of small unmanned aircraft systems, 
with potential expansion to associated energetics and 
other autonomous systems as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The program established 
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be known as the 
‘‘SkyFoundry Program’’ (in this section the ‘‘Pro-
gram’’). 
(3) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall— 
(A) administer the Program through the 
Secretary of the Army; and 
(B) establish the Program as part of the 
Defense Industrial Resilience Consortium. 
(b) ALTERNATIVE ACQUISITION MECHANISM.—In 
carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall leverage al-
ternative acquisition mechanisms to accelerate develop-
ment and production. Such mechanisms shall include the 
use of other transaction authority under section 4022 of 
title 10, United States Code, and the use of the middle 
tier of acquisition pathway for rapid prototyping and rapid 
fielding as authorized by section 3602 of such title. 
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(c) COMPONENTS.—The Program shall have two 
components as follows: 
(1) INNOVATION
FACILITY.—A Government- 
owned innovation facility for the development of 
small unmanned aircraft systems that is operated by 
the United States Army Materiel Command in co-
ordination with United States Futures Command 
and serves as the research, development, and testing 
hub, integrating lessons learned from global conflicts 
to rapidly evolve United States small unmanned air-
craft systems designs. 
(2) PRODUCTION FACILITY.—The Commander 
of United States Army Materiel Command shall 
identify a Government-owned production facility 
with the competencies for producing various forms 
of small unmanned aircraft systems. The facility 
shall be operated by United States Army Materiel 
Command and have the capability to produce 
1,000,000 small unmanned aircraft systems annually 
once fully established. 
(d) GOVERNMENT OWNED GOVERNMENT OPERATED 
CONTRACTOR
AUGMENTED
MODEL.—The 
Secretary 
may— 
(1) enter into multiyear contracts or agree-
ments for contractor augmented support to the Pro-
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gram, including integrating specialized contractor 
personnel within Program facilities as part of hybrid 
teams alongside military and civilian personnel; and 
(2) enter into public-private partnership agree-
ments with private industry, academic institutions, 
and nonprofit entities in support of the Program. 
(e) FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—In carrying out the Pro-
gram, the Secretary shall prioritize utilizing or modi-
fying existing Army Depot facilities and select at 
least two separate sites for the Program, one to 
house the innovation facility required by subsection 
(b)(1) and one to house the production facility re-
quired by subsection (b)(2). 
(2) AUTHORITY TO RENOVATE, EXPAND, AND 
CONSTRUCT.—The Secretary may renovate, expand, 
or construct facilities for the Program using avail-
able funds, notwithstanding chapter 169 of title 10, 
United States Code. 
(3) SELECTION OF SITES.—When selecting sites 
for the Program, the Secretary shall consider that 
the production facility required by subsection (b)(2) 
shall be housed at an existing Army Depot that 
meets the following requirements: 
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(A) The Army Depot shall be comprised of 
15,000 acres of land. 
(B) The Army Depot shall have approxi-
mately 10,000 buildable acres of land. 
(C) The Army Depot shall have approxi-
mately 8,000,000 square feet of facilities. 
(D) The Army Depot shall be located with-
in 50 miles of four States. 
(f) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.—The Sec-
retary shall ensure that the United States retains appro-
priate intellectual property and technical data rights for 
any systems or technologies developed under the Program. 
At a minimum, the Secretary shall secure Government 
purpose rights in intellectual property developed jointly 
with contractors, to enable the Government’s continued 
production, sustainment, modification, and competitive 
procurement of such systems. 
(g) DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT DESIGNATION.— 
The President (or the Secretary of Defense under dele-
gated authority) shall utilize authorities under title III of 
the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4531 et 
seq.) to prioritize and support domestic industrial base ca-
pacity for small unmanned aircraft systems and associated 
energetics and autonomous systems. Such items shall be 
deemed essential for the national defense industrial base, 
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and Title III efforts may include investments in produc-
tion scale-up, establishment of strategic materials stock-
piles, and surge manufacturing capacity for these systems 
and components. 
(h) EXPEDITED APPROVALS
AND WAIVERS.—The 
Secretary, or the Secretary of the Army under explicit del-
egated authority, may expedite, and as appropriate to 
waive or modify Department of Defense regulatory re-
quirements and internal procedures that would otherwise 
impede the rapid development, acquisition, or production 
activities of the Program. 
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