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FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected

Weapon Systems

The second Trump Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2026

included $848.3 billion in discretionary funding and $113.3 billion in mandatory funding (DOD

is “using a secondary Department of War designation,” under Executive Order 14347, dated

September 5, 2025). Of the discretionary funding portion, DOD requested a combined total of

$295.3 billion in procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funding,

including proposed amounts for various weapon systems of congressional interest. Congress may

decide to approve, reject, or modify such proposals.

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Daniel M. Gettinger

Analyst in U.S. Defense

Policy

By way of background, in its FY2026 budget request, DOD included two types of funding: mandatory funding that DOD

assumed Congress would provide in an FY2025 reconciliation law (later enacted as P.L. 119-21) and discretionary funding

that DOD requested for Congress to authorize and appropriate for FY2026 as part of a base budget (i.e., recurring costs to

staff, train, and equip the armed forces). For FY2026, to varying degrees, DOD proposed allocating both mandatory and

discretionary funding for programs, projects, and activities associated with weapon systems procurement and RDT&E.

DOD has described its FY2026 budget request as making “generational investments” in Administration priorities, including

in air and missile defense, the Air Force’s F-47 next-generation fighter aircraft, and shipbuilding. Relative to amounts

Congress authorized and appropriated for FY2025, DOD’s FY2026 request also proposed increasing funding for certain

hypersonic weapons programs and space-based systems. At the same time, DOD’s FY2026 request proposed reducing

funding for other weapon systems, such as certain ground systems, the Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation fighter, and the Air

Force’s E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft—changes that could lead to program delays or cancellation.

During consideration of proposals for a National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (NDAA; later enacted as

P.L. 119-60) and a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (later enacted as Division A of P.L. 119-75), Members

of Congress proposed providing more funding, the same amount, or less funding than the President requested for selected

weapon systems. The enacted versions of the bills authorized and appropriated more funding than DOD requested for the

Virginia-class submarine, Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, and E-7A Wedgetail, and less funding than requested for the E-2D

Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, among other changes. Appropriators diverged from the amounts DOD requested and those

authorized for several weapon systems, including by providing more funding than DOD requested for the Medium Landing

Ship, C-130J Hercules cargo aircraft, and the F/A-XX fighter, among others.

Divergent views in the Administration and Congress over perceived threats, defense strategy and requirements, and program

performance generated debates over FY2026 funding for weapon systems procurement and RDT&E. Disagreements

accompanying Congress’s decision to use, for the first time, the reconciliation process to provide additional funding to DOD,

and DOD’s estimation of how such funds should be allocated to programs, contributed to changes to funding for certain

weapon systems. Authorizers and appropriators, for example, disagreed with the Navy’s plan to fund the procurement of

additional Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyers and a second Virginia-class submarine using resources provided in the

reconciliation process instead of the annual authorization and appropriation process. In the enacted NDAA and defense

appropriations act, Congress authorized and appropriated more discretionary funding than DOD requested for the destroyers

and the Virginia-class submarine.

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Contents

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1

Background ..................................................................................................................................... 1

DOD FY2026 Proposed Budget, Including Reconciliation Funding ........................................ 1

FY2026 DOD “Reconciliation Spend Plan” ....................................................................... 3

FY2026 Supplemental Funding Request ............................................................................ 4

Congressional Action on the DOD Discretionary Funding Request ......................................... 4

Funding for Selected Weapon Systems ........................................................................................... 5

Aircraft and Related Weapon Systems ...................................................................................... 6

Communications and Space-Based Systems ........................................................................... 12

Communications Systems ................................................................................................. 12

Space-Based Systems........................................................................................................ 12

Ground Systems ...................................................................................................................... 16

Hypersonic Weapons ............................................................................................................... 19

Missile Defense ....................................................................................................................... 21

Missiles and Munitions ........................................................................................................... 24

Shipbuilding and Maritime Systems ....................................................................................... 28

Tables

Table 1. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Aircraft ............ 8

Table 2. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD C4I and

Space-Based Systems ................................................................................................................. 14

Table 3. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Ground

Systems ...................................................................................................................................... 17

Table 4. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD

Hypersonic Weapons Programs .................................................................................................. 20

Table 5. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Missile

Defense Systems ........................................................................................................................ 22

Table 6. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Missiles

and Munitions............................................................................................................................. 25

Table 7. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD

Shipbuilding and Maritime Systems Programs .......................................................................... 29

Table A-1. FY2026 Funding for Selected Weapon Systems Provided in the FY2025

Reconciliation Law .................................................................................................................... 32

Appendixes

Appendix. FY2026 Funding for Selected Weapon Systems in the FY2025 Reconciliation

Law ............................................................................................................................................. 32

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Contacts

Author Information........................................................................................................................ 36

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Introduction

This report addresses actions by Congress on the Trump Administration’s FY2026 budget request

for Department of Defense (DOD) procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation

(RDT&E) funding related to programs, projects, and activities for selected weapon systems

(DOD is “using a secondary Department of War designation,” under Executive Order 14347,

dated September 5, 2025).1 The report provides background information on the Administration’s

FY2026 request and on defense funding provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law (P.L. 119-21).

It details the requested and enacted funding amounts for selected weapon systems and highlights

points of difference between the amounts requested and those authorized and appropriated.

Except as a matter of background, this report does not address the DOD budget at the account

level, nor funding for DOD operations and maintenance, military personnel, military

construction, other defense-related activities. The report does not address classified funding.

Background

DOD FY2026 Proposed Budget, Including Reconciliation Funding

On May 2, 2025, President Donald J. Trump submitted to Congress a “skinny budget” proposal

for FY2026 discretionary funding.2 For FY2026, the Administration stated that it intended to

allocate, in addition to $848.3 billion in discretionary funding for DOD, a total of $113.3 billion

for DOD from mandatory funding that it assumed Congress would provide through the budget

reconciliation process, for a total of $961.6 billion.3 On May 30, the Office of Management and

Budget released a budget appendix supplement that outlined discretionary funding requested by

the Administration for DOD appropriations accounts.4 On June 26, DOD submitted additional

information on its FY2026 budget proposal to Congress, including funding requested at the lineitem level for DOD programs, projects, and activities.5 Spreadsheets accompanying the

1 Executive Order 14347 of September 5, 2025, “Restoring the United States Department of War,” 90 Federal Register

43893, September 10, 2025, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/10/2025-17508/restoring-the-unitedstates-department-of-war.

2 White House, “The White House Office of Management and Budget Releases the President’s Fiscal Year 2026

Skinny Budget,” May 2, 2025, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/the-white-house-office-ofmanagement-and-budget-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2026-skinny-budget/. The term “skinny budget” has been

used to refer to a partial budget request containing discretionary funding, not mandatory funding.

3 According to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell T. Vought: “The Administration assumes enactment

of a reconciliation bill later this year that will include at least $325 billion in additional resources (including $175

billion for border/non-defense and $150 billion for defense) to supplemental certain discretionary activities. For 2026,

the Administration assumes a total of $163.1 billion will be allocation with $113.3 billion going to the Department of

Defense, $43.8 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, and $6 billion for NNSA.” Letter from Russell T.

Vought, Director, Office of Management and Budget, to Senator Susan Collins, Chair, Committee on Appropriations,

United States Senate, May 2, 2025, p. 46 (of the PDF), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/

Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf.

For the broader category of national defense funding, of which DOD funding is a part, the Administration identified

$1.01 trillion for FY2026, including $892.6 billion in discretionary funding and $119.3 billion in mandatory funding.

See p. 43 (of the PDF).

4 Office of Management and Budget, Technical Supplement to the 2026 Budget, Washington, DC, May 30, 2025, pp.

225-240, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/appendix_fy2026.pdf.

5 Department of Defense (DOD), “Senior Officials Outline President’s Proposed FY26 Defense Budget,” press release,

June 26, 2025, https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4227847/senior-officials-outline-presidentsproposed-fy26-defense-budget/. DOD released additional documents to accompany its FY2026 budget request in July

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department’s submission described such funding by type: “FY 2026 Disc Request” for

discretionary funding, “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” for mandatory funding, and “FY 2026

Total” as the sum total.6

DOD prepared and submitted its proposed budget for FY2026 before Congress passed the

FY2025 reconciliation law. The department stated that the House Armed Services Committee

(HASC) markup of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) served as the basis for, and mostly

aligned with, the “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” amounts in its budget submission.7

According to DOD, the mandatory funding provided in the reconciliation law was an “integral

part of the DOD FY 2026 topline of $961.6 billion and complements the $848.3 billion in

requested discretionary resources.”8 The latter figure included a combined total of $295.3 billion

for account types used to fund weapon systems, including $153.3 billion for procurement and

$142.0 billion for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).9

On July 3, 2025, the House passed the Senate-passed version of H.R. 1, which included various

changes from the version first introduced by the House.10 On July 4, President Trump signed the

bill into law (enacted as P.L. 119-21). The law included $156.2 billion for defense.11 All funds

carried a five-year period of availability, meaning they remain available for obligation until

September 30, 2029, and expenditure through FY2034.

P.L. 119-21 specified multiple purposes and dollar amounts for each of the 13 sections in Title II

of the act. Some of the funding provisions differed in key respects from the legislative language

of annual appropriations acts in that they did not specify the type of DOD appropriations account

(e.g., procurement, RDT&E, military construction [MILCON]) to which the funds were to be

allocated. Additionally, the enacted bill did not include an accompanying report or explanatory

statement linking each bill provision to budgetary line-item appropriation accounts, as has been

typical for annual appropriations acts.

Some Members of Congress have questioned the degree to which DOD’s proposed allocation of

reconciliation resources in its FY2026 budget request aligned with reconciliation legislation. For

example, in June 2025, Senator Roger F. Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee

(SASC), said the Administration’s FY2026 budget “seems to be written as if there are many items

and August. For example, see DOD, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer,

Defense Budget Overview, United States Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request, July 2025,

https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/FY2026_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf.

6 The website of the DOD Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer contains spreadsheets that summarize requested dollar

amounts at the line-item level (i.e., a particular program, project, or activity) for each budget category account. For

procurement and RDT&E, see Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer,

Procurement Programs (P-1), Department of Defense Budget, Fiscal Year 2026, June 2025,

https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/FY2026_p1.pdf; and RDT&E Programs (R1), Department of Defense Budget, Fiscal Year 2026, June 2025, https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/

Documents/defbudget/FY2026/FY2026_r1.pdf.

7 DOD, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer, Department of Defense Fiscal

Year 2026 Mandatory Funding Overview, July 2025, p. 2, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/

defbudget/FY2026/DoD_FY2026_Mandatory_Funding_Overview.pdf.

8 DOD, Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2026 Mandatory Funding Overview, p. 2.

9 DOD, Defense Budget Overview, Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request, p. A-5.

10 For more information, see CRS Insight IN12580, Defense Funding in the 2025 Reconciliation Law (H.R. 1; P.L. 11921, Title II), by Cameron M. Keys and Daniel M. Gettinger.

11 Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Estimated Budgetary Effects of P.L. 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation

Pursuant to Title II of H.Con.Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline, July 21, 2025, https://www.cbo.gov/

publication/61570.

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in the reconciliation package that simply are not in that bill.”12 Senator Mitch McConnell, chair of

the Senate Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee (SAC-D), questioned why the

Administration had not included investments in shipbuilding in its discretionary budget request

and instead relied on resources provided through the reconciliation process: “Why are we

allocating funds under extraordinary parliamentary authorities for capabilities that would

otherwise have been funded in an annual appropriation?”13

Some Members have reportedly asked that the department provide details concerning its plan for

allocating the resources provided in P.L. 119-21 to specific programs, projects, and activities.14 In

a reported July 22, 2025, letter to Secretary of Defense Peter B. Hegseth (who is using “Secretary

of War” as a “secondary title,” under Executive Order 14347, dated September 5, 2025),15 Senator

Wicker and HASC Chair Mike D. Rogers provided the secretary with guidance on how the

committees intended defense funding provided in the enacted reconciliation law to be allocated,

and requested that DOD submit a “spending, expenditure, or operating plan” for such funding by

August 22.16 In October 2025, DOD reportedly submitted a partial, classified spending plan for

approximately $90 billion of the $156.2 billion in defense reconciliation funding.17

FY2026 DOD “Reconciliation Spend Plan”

In May 2026, DOD sent a letter to the chairs of the congressional defense committees and an

accompanying “FY 2026 Reconciliation Spend Plan,” which the department also published on its

website.18 The plan included a “detailed breakout of the $153.3 billion” that Congress provided

DOD in P.L. 119-21.19 Although Congress provided the funds in P.L. 119-21 with a five-year

12 Senator Roger Wicker, “Chairman Wicker Leads SASC Hearing on the FY26 Defense Budget with Senior Pentagon

Leadership,” press release, June 18, 2025, https://www.wicker.senate.gov/2025/6/chairman-wicker-leads-sasc-hearingon-the-fy26-defense-budget-with-senior-pentagon-leadership.

13 Senator Mitch McConnell, “McConnell Opening Statement at SAC-D Hearing on FY 26 Budget Request for the

Navy,” press release, June 24, 2025, https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9028329A8D3B-44FF-A71C-77CF39A9FFD0.

14 For example, see Letter from Representative Mike D. Rogers, chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services,

and Senator Roger F. Wicker, chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, to Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of

Defense, July 22, 2025, as published on Inside Defense, https://insidedefense.com/sites/insidedefense.com/files/

documents/2025/jul/07252025_HASC_letter.pdf; and Tony Bertuca, “Senate Democrats raise ‘slush fund’ concerns,

want answers from Hegseth on reconciliation spending,” Inside Defense, February 5, 2026, https://insidedefense.com/

daily-news/senate-democrats-raise-slush-fund-concerns-want-answers-hegseth-reconciliation-spending

15 E.O. 14347.

16 Letter from Representative Mike D. Rogers and Senator Roger F. Wicker to Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense,

July 22, 2025, as published on Inside Defense; and “OBBB SASC/HASC Intent for DOD,” https://insidedefense.com/

sites/insidedefense.com/files/documents/2025/jul/07252025_HASC_attachment2.pdf.

17 Tony Bertuca, “DOD sends Congress first ‘tranche’ of budget reconciliation spending plan,” Inside Defense, October

21, 2025, https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/dod-sends-congress-first-%E2%80%98tranche%E2%80%99-budgetreconciliation-spending-plan.

18 For example, see letter from Jules W. Hurst III, Acting Under Secretary of War (Comptroller)/Chief Financial

Officer, to Representative Ken Calvert, Chair, Subcommittee of Defense, House Committee on Appropriations, May 3,

2026, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/news/FY2026_Mandatory_Funding_Allocation_Plan.pdf; and

DOD, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer, FY 2026 Mandatory Funding

Allocation Plan, May 2026, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/news/

FY2026_Mandatory_Funding_Allocation_Plan.pdf.

19 Letter from Jules W. Hurst III, Acting Under Secretary of War (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, to

Representative Ken Calvert, Chair, Subcommittee of Defense, House Committee on Appropriations.

In addition to funds provided in Title II of P.L. 119-21, the DOD reconciliation spend plan included funding for the

defense production act provided in Title III, Section 30004 of the act. The DOD spend plan did not include $3.9 billion

provided for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Section 20008(b) of the act.

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period of availability, DOD reported that it planned to allocate $151.5 billion of the $153.3 billion

to programs, projects, and activities in FY2026.20

In the letter to the committee chairs and in summary documents that accompanied its budget

request to Congress for FY2027, DOD specified the amount of funding it planned to allocate to

specific line items in FY2026 using funds provided by P.L. 119-21.21 The Appendix of this report

details FY2026 mandatory funding amounts and system quantities requested by DOD in its

FY2026 budget request and those subsequently reported as allocated in its FY2027 budget

request.

FY2026 Supplemental Funding Request

Congress may decide whether or not to provide supplemental FY2026 funding for DOD weapon

systems programs, which could affect the total amount appropriated for DOD weapon systems

programs in FY2026. In June 2026, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted to

Congress a supplemental funding request for costs associated with U.S. military operations

against Iran in 2026 and other Administration priorities.22 According to the letter, OMB requested

$67 billion for the department, including funding for “military personnel and readiness expenses,

operational costs to rebuild stocks expended by [DOD], classified programs, and other key

expenses.”23 In terms of identified types of weapons and equipment, the request identified $21

billion for munitions; $5.1 billion for cybersecurity and autonomy; $2.4 billion for drones; $4

billion for airborne moving target indication and space data network backbone.24 Congress may

decide whether to provide more, less, or the same amount of supplemental funding the

Administration requested for costs incurred by U.S. military operations against Iran.

Congressional Action on the DOD Discretionary Funding Request

Actions of the congressional defense committees on proposed legislation to authorize and

appropriate FY2026 funding for DOD weapon systems have included the following:

•

The House Committee on Appropriations (HAC) on June 16, 2025, reported a

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026, and accompanying committee

report (H.R. 4016; H.Rept. 119-162). This activity occurred before DOD released

on June 26, 2025, additional details of its budget request. HAC appears to have

based its markup on enacted appropriations for DOD for FY2025 and on the

20 DOD, FY 2026 Mandatory Funding Allocation Plan, p. 2.

21 For example, see DOD, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer, Procurement

Programs (P-1), Department War Budget, Fiscal Year 2027, April 2026, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/

Documents/defbudget/FY2027/FY2027_p1.pdf.

22 Letter from Russell T. Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to Representative Mike Johnson,

Speaker of the House, June 24, 2026, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026.06.24-Letter-tothe-Honorable-Mike-Johnson.pdf. For news coverage of the FY2026 supplemental request, see, for example, Tony

Bertuca, “White House Sends Congress $67B Defense Supplemental to Pay for Iran Conflict,” Inside Defense, June 24,

2026, https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/white-house-sends-congress-67b-defense-supplemental-pay-iran-conflict.

23 Letter from Russell T. Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to Representative Mike Johnson,

Speaker of the House, June 24, 2026, pp. 1, 3.

24 Letter from Russell T. Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to Representative Mike Johnson,

Speaker of the House, June 24, 2026, p. 3.

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department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated allocating in FY2026.25

The House on July 18, 2025, passed an amended version of H.R. 4016.

The Senate Committee on Appropriations (SAC) on July 31, 2025, reported a

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026, and accompanying committee

report (S. 2572; S.Rept. 119-52).

HASC on August 19 reported the Streamlining Procurement for Effective

Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

2026, and accompanying report (H.R. 3838; H.Rept. 119-231). The House on

September 10, 2025, passed an amended version of H.R. 3838.

SASC on July 15, 2025, reported a National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal

Year 2026 and accompanying report (S. 2296; S.Rept. 119-39). The Senate on

October 9, 2025, passed an amended version of S. 2296.

On December 7, 2025, HASC and SASC released a negotiated version of an FY2026 NDAA (S.

1071).26 The House passed the negotiated version, a House amendment in the nature of a

substitute to an unrelated Senate bill, on December 10, 2025. The Senate passed the House

amendment to S. 1071 on December 17, 2025, and the President signed the bill into law on

December 18, 2025 (enacted as P.L. 119-60).27

On January 20, 2026, HAC and SAC released a negotiated version of the Department of Defense

Appropriations Act, 2026 as Division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R.

7148).28 The House passed H.R. 7148 on January 22, 2026. The Senate passed an amended

version of H.R. 7148 on January 30, 2026; the House passed the amended the version of the bill

on February 3, 2026. The President the signed the bill into law on February 3, 2026 (enacted as

P.L. 119-75).

Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

This section details funding amounts and quantities for selected defense acquisition programs that

DOD requested as part of President Trump’s FY2026 budget. The requested figures include

discretionary amounts from DOD’s FY2026 budget request to Congress and mandatory amounts

25 CRS analysis of H.Rept. 119-162 and DOD budget request for FY2025. DOD’s projected figures for FY2026 may or

may not have aligned with its actual request for FY2026.

26 House Armed Services Committee, “House and Senate Armed Services Committees Release Final NDAA Text,”

press release, December 8, 2025, https://armedservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6359. On

December 10, the Congressional Record published a joint explanatory statement submitted by Representative Rogers

to accompany S. 1071. See “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the

House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208 (December 10, 2025), pp.

H5571-H5764, https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2025/12/10/171/208/CREC-2025-12-10-pt2-PgH5571-2.pdf.

27 For more information, see CRS Insight IN12653, FY2026 NDAA: Status of Legislative Activity, by Valerie

Heitshusen and Daniel M. Gettinger, and CRS Insight IN12641, FY2026 NDAA: Summary of Funding Authorizations,

by Daniel M. Gettinger and Cameron M. Keys.

28 United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, “Committee Releases Conferenced Defense, Homeland Security,

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban

Development, and Related Agencies Bills,” January 20, 2026, https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/

committee-releases-conferenced-defense-homeland-security-labor-health-and-human-services-education-and-relatedagencies-and-transportation-housing-and-urban-development-and-related-agencies-bills. On January 22, the

Congressional Record published a joint explanatory statement submitted by Representative Cole to accompany H.R.

7148. See “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland

Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15 (January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909,

https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/01/22/172/15/CREC-2026-01-22-pt2-PgH1353-2.pdf.

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from then-proposed FY2025 reconciliation funding that the department anticipated allocating in

FY2026.29 CRS based its analysis of funding for such programs in part on the “major weapons

system summary” table published in the FY2026 version of the annual DOD budget document

Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System,30 as well as on programs of congressional interest.

The amounts presented in this report may not include all costs associated with such programs.31

For example, amounts associated with military construction (MILCON) and operation and

maintenance (O&M) to house and sustain such systems, and for military personnel (MILPERS) to

operate such systems, are not included. In some cases, CRS included related programmatic

funding that was not included in the DOD document.

Aircraft and Related Weapon Systems

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $68.3 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for aircraft and related systems, including fighters, bombers, tankers and cargo

aircraft, attack and utility helicopters, and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS, commonly known as

drones).32 Of this amount, DOD requested a total of approximately $54.9 billion for the selected

aircraft and related systems detailed in Table 1.33 In its discretionary funding proposal, DOD

requested $44.0 billion in procurement and RDT&E funding for the selected aircraft and related

systems.34

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $45.0 billion in discretionary funding for the selected

aircraft, $1.0 billion more than DOD requested in discretionary resources for such systems (see

Table 1). The law authorized more funding than DOD requested for the Air Force E-7A

Wedgetail and C-130J Hercules, and less funding than DOD requested for the Navy E-2D

Hawkeye, among other changes.35 The enacted NDAA did not include proposals in the Senatepassed version of the NDAA to authorize more funding than DOD requested for certain aircraft

development programs, including for the Air Force F-47 and Navy F/A-XX next-generation

fighter programs.36

The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided $49.1 billion in discretionary funding for

the selected aircraft, $5.1 billion more than DOD requested (see Table 1). P.L. 119-75

appropriated more funding than DOD requested for the E-7A Wedgetail and C-130J Hercules,

29 CRS analysis of amounts for certain programs is based on additional DOD data provided to CRS in response to a

request for information on October 7, 2025, and on file with the author.

30 DOD, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, Program Acquisition Cost by

Weapon System, July 2025, https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/

FY2026_Weapons.pdf.

31 FY2026 enacted amounts for weapons systems listed in the following tables are based on information supporting the

FY2026 President’s budget request and may not reflect partial funding amounts subsequently identified in information

supporting the FY2027 President’s budget request.

32 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 1-1.

33 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the aircraft programs

identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System

document, as well as on aircraft programs that generated congressional interest. For the former, see DOD, Program

Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. vii.

34 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

35 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, pp. H5677, H5684, H5703.

36 S.Rept. 119-39, pp. 434, 443.

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and less funding than requested for the E-2D Hawkeye.37 The law also provided more funding

than DOD requested for the F/A-XX next-generation fighter aircraft program, among other

changes.38

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would provide $10.9 billion for the selected

aircraft in Table 1 in FY2026.39 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $12.1 billion in

mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected aircraft in

FY2026 (see Appendix).40

37 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, pp. H1448, H1471,

H1473, H1534, and H1539.

38 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, p. H1520.

39 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

40 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

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Table 1. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Aircraft

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Aircraft

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

Bomber (IF12945)

B-21 Raider

$4.49

B-1, B-2, B-52

$5.80

$6.68

$5.47

$5.59

$1.48

$1.39

$1.28

$1.47

Cargo

KC-46A Pegasus

(IF13157)

C-130J Hercules

(IF13184)

$3.28

$0.21

$0.82

$2.93

$0.82

$3.32

$2.98

$3.01

$3.18

$3.24

$1.19

$1.02

$1.65

$2.62

$2.57

$0.59

$1.79

$1.88

$0.61

$1.68

$0.90

$0.85

$0.50

$0.85

$1.10

$13.63

$12.04

Command and Control

E-2D Advanced

Hawkeye

$2.09

E-7A Wedgetail

$0.20

$1.79

$0.80

Fighter

F-35 Joint Strike

Fighter (R48304)

$1.00

$12.12

F-47 Next Generation

Air Dominance

(IF12805)

$0.90

$2.58

$3.08

$2.58

$3.19

$2.58

$3.08

$2.14

$2.30

$2.12

$2.14

$1.91

$1.61

$1.79

$1.85

$0.79

$0.97

$0.79

$0.89

$0.76

$0.88

F/A-18 Super Hornet

F-22 Raptor

$0.10

F-15 Eagle

$3.02

CRS-8

$12.42

$13.11

$12.32

$12.24

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

$0.85

$0.70

$0.57

$0.88

$0.68

Collaborative Combat

Aircraft (IF12740)

$0.68

$0.18

$0.86

$0.18

$0.49

$0.18

$0.17

$0.08

$0.15

$0.97

$1.47

$2.87

$2.47

$0.94

$1.25

F/A-XX Next

Generation Fighter

$0.07

$0.57

$0.16

$0.70

$0.16

$0.70

$0.07

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

$0.05

$0.16

S. 2572

F-16 Fighting Falcon

H.R. 4016c

$0.16

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

Aircraft

Armed Overwatch/

Targeting

Appropriation

$0.15

$0.97

Rotorcraft

CH-53K Heavy Lift

Replacement

Helicopter

$2.48

Future Long-Range

Assault Aircraft

(IF12771)

$1.25

UH-60 Black Hawk

$0.76

$0.86

$0.76

$0.86

$1.04

$0.87

$1.10

CH-47 Chinook

$0.71

$0.73

$0.71

$0.73

$0.72

$0.67

$0.46

$0.53

$0.31

$0.36

$0.17

$0.08

$0.60

V-22 Osprey

(R48703)

$0.14

AH-64 Apache

$2.48

$1.25

$0.68

$0.17

$0.26

$0.16

HH-60W Combat

Rescue Helicopter

$0.05

$0.16

MH-139A Grey Wolf

$0.15

$0.02

$3.03

$1.25

$2.61

$1.25

$0.68

$0.17

$0.26

$0.16

$0.02

$2.68

$1.25

$0.73

$0.54

$0.26

$0.08

VIP Aircraft

VC-25B Presidential

Aircraft (IF13184)

CRS-9

$0.68

$0.65

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Aircraft

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

C-40 Fleet Expansion

$0.30

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

$0.25

H.R. 4016c

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

$0.25

Trainer

T-7A Advanced Pilot

Training

$0.65

$0.44

$0.61

$0.64

$1.04

$0.98

$1.02

$1.03

Unmanned Aircraft (IF12797)

MQ-25 Stingray

(IF12972)

$0.10

MQ-4C/RQ-4 Triton/

Global Hawk/AGS

MQ-9 Reaper/USMC

Group 5 UAS

MQ-1C Gray Eagle

$0.01

$0.70

$0.80

$0.69

$0.35

$0.26

$0.34

$0.35

$0.02

$0.25

$0.02

$0.26

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint Explanatory

Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208

(December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, on

H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15

(January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. Figures include funding for aircraft spares and repair parts. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research,

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1), and in FY2026 military department budget justification books. See “Background” for more information. For amounts in

the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

c. HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

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CRS-11

H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Communications and Space-Based Systems

Communications Systems

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $23.2 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I)

systems.41 In its discretionary budget proposal, DOD requested $1.2 billion in base budget

procurement and RDT&E funding for the selected C4I systems detailed in Table 2 in FY2026.42

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated that it would not allocate reconciliation funds to the selected C4I systems.43

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized the amount of discretionary funding requested for the

selected C4I systems (see Table 2).44 The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided the

amount of funding requested for the selected C4I systems.

Space-Based Systems

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $34.0 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for space-based systems.45 Of this amount, DOD requested $16.2 billion for the

selected space-based systems detailed Table 2.46 In its discretionary budget proposal, DOD

requested $6.6 billion in base budget funding for the selected space-based systems.

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $7.1 billion for the selected space-based systems (see

Table 2), $0.5 billion more than DOD requested. The FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided

$7.4 billion for the requested space-based systems, $0.8 billion more than DOD requested. The

law provided more funding than DOD requested for the Position, Navigation, and Timing

program, among other changes.47

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would allocate $9.6 billion to the selected

space-based systems in FY2026.48 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $0.3 billion in

mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected space-based

41 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 2-1.

42 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the aircraft programs

identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System

document. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. vii.

43 CRS analysis of DOD’s “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in its June 26 budget request to Congress. Figures do not

reflect appropriated amounts in the 2025 reconciliation law (P.L. 119-21) and may be subject to change. See

“Background” for more information.

44 CRS was unable to determine how a proposed change to one relevant line item in H.R. 3838 would affect the funding

authorized for these programs. See H.Rept. 119-231, p. 445.

45 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 7-1.

46 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the space-based systems

programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System document. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. viii. CRS was unable to identify the

relevant line items for the Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Projects, for which DOD requested $5.9 billion,

according to the annual DOD Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System summary document.

47 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, pp. H1485, H1542,

and H1545.

48 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

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systems in Table 2 in FY2026 (see Appendix).49 DOD has stated that some initiatives that were

previously reported as part of the Missile Warning/Missile Tracking program “were realigned to

the Golden Dome for America fund.”50

49 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

50 DOD, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System,

April 2026, p. 7-4, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/FY2027_Weapons.pdf.

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Table 2. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD C4I and Space-Based Systems

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

Authorization

Base Requestb

H.R. 3838

S. 2296

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

C4I System

Handheld, Manpack,

and Small Form Fit

Radios

$0.72

$0.26

$0.56

$0.48

Tactical Networking

Technology

$0.48

$0.47

$0.48

$0.47

$0.56

$0.48

$0.72

$3.32

$3.53

$4.01

$4.19

$3.40

$3.87

$2.16

$2.29

$1.11

$0.67

Space-Based System

Missile Warning/Missile

Tracking (IF11697)

$9.44

$3.53

Launch Enterprise

(IF12900)

$0.14

$2.31

Position, Navigation,

and Timing

$0.73

$2.34

$1.09

$2.37

$0.73

$2.37

$0.75

$2.23

$1.33

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; S. 1071; “Joint

Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no.

208 (December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations,

on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no.

15 (January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

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CRS-15

HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Ground Systems

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $11.6 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for tactical vehicles, tracked combat vehicles, and weapon systems.51 Of this

amount, DOD requested a total of $4.6 billion for the selected ground systems detailed in Table

3.52

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $4.7 billion for the selected ground systems, including

more funding than DOD requested for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles program (see Table 3).53

The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided $5.0 billion for the selected ground

systems, $0.4 billion more than DOD requested (see Table 3). The law provided more funding

than requested for the Paladin Integrated Management the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles programs,

and less funding than DOD requested for the Armored Multipurpose Vehicle program, among

other changes.54

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would not allocate reconciliation funds to the

selected ground systems in FY2026.55 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $0.7 billion in

mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected aircraft in

Table 3 in FY2026 (see Appendix).56

51 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 3-1.

52 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the ground systems

programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System document, as well as on programs of congressional interest. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System, p. vii.

53 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, p. H5683.

54 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, pp. H1435, H1441,

H1504, and H1505.

55 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

56 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

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Table 3. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Ground Systems

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

Ground Systems

Authorization

Base Requestb

H.R. 3838

S. 2296

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

Joint Light Tactical

Vehicle (IF11729)

$0.21

138e

$0.21

138e

$0.41

362e

$0.29

138e

Family of Heavy

Tactical Vehicles

$0.15

Family of Medium

Tactical Vehicles

$0.11

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

$0.63

$0.14

138e

$0.50

$0.15

$0.18

$0.11

$0.14

$0.11

$0.10

Tactical Vehicles

Tracked Vehicles

M-1 Abrams Tank

Modifications/

Upgrades (IF12495)

$1.46

$1.48

$1.46

$1.48

$0.98

$1.66

$1.50

Amphibious Combat

Vehicle (IF11755)

$0.84

$0.82

$0.83

Armored MultiPurpose Vehicle

(IF11741)

$0.57

$0.43

XM30 Combat Vehicle

(IF12094)

$0.39

$0.38

Paladin Integrated

Management

$0.26

$0.73

$0.17

Stryker Family of

Armored Vehicles

(R44229)

$0.15

$0.54

$0.04

CRS-17

$0.39

$0.26

$0.15

$0.39

$0.26

$0.15

$0.39

$0.26

$0.15

$0.37

$0.73

$0.04

FY2026 DOD Request

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

Ground Systems

M10 Booker (IF11859)

Authorization

Base Requestb

H.R. 3838

S. 2296

$0.08

$0.39

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

$0.08

H.R. 4016c

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

$0.02

$0.01

$0.22

$0.52

$0.39

Weapons

Next Generation Squad

Weapon

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint Explanatory

Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208

(December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, on

H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15

(January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

c. HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

d. H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

e. Reflects only the Marine Corps’ quantity of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. The legislative funding tables did not include quantities for the Air Force, which

requested 105 vehicles, nor for the Army, which did not request funding to procure new vehicles.

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FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Hypersonic Weapons

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $13.4 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for offensive and defense hypersonic warfare programs.57 Of this amount, DOD

requested a total of $3.0 billion for the selected hypersonic warfare programs detailed in Table

4.58 In its discretionary budget proposal, DOD requested $2.9 billion in base budget funding for

the selected hypersonic warfare programs.

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $3.2 billion for the selected hypersonic weapons (see

Table 4), including more funding than DOD requested for the Air Force AGM-183A Air-Launch

Rapid Response Weapon.59 The FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided the amount requested

for the selected hypersonic weapons.

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would allocate $0.1 billion to the selected

hypersonic warfare programs in in FY2026.60 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $0.3 billion

in mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected

hypersonic weapons in Table 4 in FY2026 (see Appendix).61

57 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 8-1.

58 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the hypersonic weapon

systems programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by

Weapon System document. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. viii. CRS was unable to identify

certain line items for the Hypersonic Defenses program. DOD reported requesting $2.7 billion for such program,

according to the annual DOD Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System summary document.

59 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, p. H5685.

60 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

61 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

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Table 4. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Hypersonic Weapons Programs

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

Hypersonic

Weapons (R45811)

Long-Range Hypersonic

Weapon

$0.09

Authorization

Base Requestb

H.R. 3838

S. 2296

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

$0.89

$0.90

$0.89

$0.96

$0.89

Conventional Prompt

Strike

$0.87

$0.66

$0.77

$0.84

Hypersonic Attack

Cruise Missile

$0.80

$0.81

$0.80

$0.48

$0.80

$0.84

AGM-183A AirLaunched Rapid

Response Weapon

$0.39

$0.67

$0.62

$0.57

$0.36

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; and S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint

Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no.

208 (December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations,

on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no.

15 (January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation. CRS was unable to identify certain line items for the Hypersonic Defenses project.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

c. HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

d. H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

CRS-20

FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Missile Defense

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $40.2 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for missile defeat and defense programs.62 Of this amount, DOD requested a

total of $12.7 billion for the selected missile defeat and defense programs detailed in Table 5.63 In

its discretionary budget proposal, DOD requested $10.3 billion in base budget procurement and

RDT&E funding for the selected missile defense programs.

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $13.2 billion for the selected missile defeat and defense

programs (see Table 5), $2.9 billion more than DOD requested. The law authorized more funding

than DOD requested for the Army Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment

Enhancement (MSE), the Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, and the

Navy Aegis system, among other changes.64 The enacted NDAA did not include a HASC

proposal to authorize less funding than requested for the Air Force Ground-based Midcourse

Defense program, nor a SASC proposal to authorize more funding than requested for the

PATRIOT Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program.65

The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided $11.1 billion for the selected missile

defense programs (see Table 5), $0.8 billion more than requested. The law provided more

funding than DOD requested for the Army PAC-3 MSE program, among other changes.66

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would allocate approximately $2.4 billion to

the selected missile defense programs in FY2026.67 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $0.8

billion in mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected

missile defense programs in Table 5 in FY2026 (see Appendix).68

62 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 4-1.

63 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the missile defense

programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System document, as well as on programs of congressional interest. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System, p. vii.

64 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, pp. H5674, H5688.

65 H.Rept. 119-231, p. 515; and S.Rept. 119-39, p. 384.

66 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, p. H1432.

67 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

68 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

Congressional Research Service

Table 5. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Missile Defense Systems

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

Missile Defense

Authorization

Base Requestb

H.R. 3838

S. 2296

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

Ground-based

Midcourse Defense

$0.06

$2.45

$2.05

$2.45

PATRIOT Lower-Tier

Air and Missile Defense

Sensor (IF12297)

$0.67

$1.84

$2.45

Aegis (RL33745)

$0.45

$1.36

$1.76

Indirect Fire Protection

Capability (IF12421)

$0.19

$1.08

Terminal High Altitude

Air Defense (IF12645)

$0.46

$1.07

$1.08

$1.22

$1.79

PAC-3 Missile Segment

Enhancement

$0.41

12f

$0.95

233

$0.95

233

$1.49

233

Maneuver SHORAD

(IF12397; R48477)

$0.11

$0.92

Medium-Range

Intercept Capability

$0.06

$0.65

12e

$1.36

12e

$1.07

$0.65

S. 2572

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

$2.45

$1.98

$2.33

$1.84

$1.75

$1.73

12e

$1.76

$1.43

$1.78

$1.03

$0.92

$1.03

$1.95

$1.33

$2.69

233

$0.88

$3.04

233

$1.45

$0.92

$0.29

$0.87

$0.47

$0.65

$1.27

$0.65

H.R. 4016c

12e

$1.07

$0.65

12e

$1.79

$0.97

$0.65

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint Explanatory

Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208

(December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764, https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2025/12/10/171/208/CREC-2025-12-10-pt2-PgH5571-2.pdf; and “Explanatory Statement

Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147,

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15 (January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

CRS-22

CRS-23

CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

Reflects the quantity of Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missiles.

Figure reflects only Navy quantities of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles. The Army requested reconciliation funding to procure 96 PAC-3 Missile

Segment Enhancement missiles. For more information, see DOD, Department of Defense Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget Estimates, Missile Procurement, Army, Volume 1,

June 2025, p. 21.

FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Missiles and Munitions

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $35.7 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for missile and munitions programs.69 Of this amount, DOD requested a total of

$30.2 billion for the selected missile and munitions programs detailed in Table 6.70 In its

discretionary budget proposal, DOD requested $22.6 billion in base budget funding for the

selected missile and munitions programs.

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $25.0 billion for the selected missile and munitions

programs (see Table 6), $2.4 billion more than DOD requested. The law authorized more funding

than requested for the Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel and the Army Precision Strike Missile,

among other changes.71 The enacted NDAA did not include a SASC proposal to authorize more

funding than DOD requested for the Navy Tactical Tomahawk Cruise Missile program, among

other proposals.72

The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided $23.9 billion for the selected missile and

munitions programs (see Table 6), $1.3 billion more than DOD requested. The law provided

more funding than DOD requested for the ammunition procurement, among other changes.73 The

law did not include a SAC proposal to provide more funding than DOD requested for the Air

Force Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile.74

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would allocate $7.5 billion to the selected

missile and munitions programs in FY2026.75 In May 2026, DOD reported allocating $10.8

billion in mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law to the selected

missiles and munitions in Table 6 (see Appendix).76

69 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 5-1.

70 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the missile and munitions

programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon

System document, as well as selected programs of congressional interest. See DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by

Weapon System, p. viii.

71 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, p. H5674, H5704.

72 S.Rept. 119-39, p. 396.

73 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, pp. H1438-1439,

H1455, and H1479.

74 S.Rept. 119-52, p. 130.

75 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

76 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

Congressional Research Service

Table 6. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Missiles and Munitions

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Missile or Munition

(IF11353)

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

Air-to-Air

Joint Advanced Tactical

Missile

Advanced Medium

Range Air-to-Air

Missile

$1.10

$0.30

257

Air Intercept Missile

$1.10

$1.24

$1.10

$0.51

277

$0.51

277

$1.21

277

$0.59

277

$0.82

$1.03

277

$0.53

$0.31

319

$0.31

319

$0.31

319

$0.31

319

$0.24

$0.40

319

$0.31

$0.79

$0.64

Air-to-Surface

Long-Range Standoff

Weapon

Long-Range Anti-Ship

Missile

$1.05

$0.40

$1.05

$1.20

$1.05

$0.79

$0.76

149

$0.76

149

$0.98

169

$0.92

143

$0.95

$0.81

149

$1.13

$0.76

246

$0.76

246

$0.76

246

$0.76

246

$0.62

$0.66

246

$0.66

$0.56

144

$0.56

144

$0.89

144

$0.72

144

$0.86

$1.56

144

$0.56

Small Diameter Bomb II

$0.44

1079

$0.44

1079

$0.44

1079

$0.44

1079

$0.31

$0.61

1086

$0.44

Joint Air-to-Ground

Missile

$0.22

455

$0.22

455

$0.22

455

$0.22

455

$0.23

$0.22

455

$0.22

Small Diameter Bomb I

$0.04

511

$0.04

511

$0.19

511

$0.04

511

$0.04

$0.31

511

$0.04

Advanced AntiRadiation Guided

Missile Extended Range

Joint Air-to-Surface

Standoff Missile

CRS-25

$0.49

245

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Missile or Munition

(IF11353)

Family of Affordable

Mass Missile

$0.66

3010

Joint Strike Missile

$0.38

112

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

$4.79

$6.63

2298e

$6.65

$0.21

$0.17

Other

Ammunition

$0.13

$5.77

Chemical

Demilitarization

2298e

$0.21

$5.76

2298e

$0.21

$6.08

2298e

$0.21

$5.99

2298e

$0.21

Surface-to-Air

Standard Missile-6

$0.63

Sea Sparrow

Stinger

$0.08

Rolling Airframe Missile

129

$0.60

$0.49

$0.66

$0.55

$1.40

$0.60

$0.90

$0.58

305

$0.58

305

$0.58

305

$0.58

305

$0.54

$0.58

305

$0.58

$0.06

$0.46

$0.13

$0.14

$0.43

$0.14

$0.43

123

$0.14

$0.45

123

$0.14

$0.43

123

$0.14

123

$0.43

123

$0.14

Surface-to-Surface

Trident II Ballistic

Missile Modifications

(IF10519)

$0.06

$3.68

$3.21

$3.65

LGM-35A Sentinel

(IF11681)

$1.50

$2.65

$3.05

$4.65

$3.85

$2.04

$2.65

$1.24

$1.51

$0.24

$0.48

$0.36

$0.38

Guided Multiple Launch

Rocket System

$1.26

Strategic Mid-Range

Fires System / Typhon

$0.50

Javelin

$0.37

CRS-26

$1.26

$0.50

705

$0.37

$1.26

$0.60

705

$0.37

$1.26

$0.56

705

$0.37

705

$1.26

$0.50

705

$0.37

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Missile or Munition

(IF11353)

Tactical Tomahawk

Cruise Missile

$0.67

Naval Strike Missile

Precision Strike Missile

$0.40

Sea-Launched Cruise

Missile-Nuclear

(IF12084)

$1.93

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

$0.28

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

$0.51

$0.28

H.R. 4016c

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

$0.87

$0.26

$0.27

$0.22

106

$0.22

106

$0.22

106

$0.22

106

$0.25

$0.22

106

$0.26

$0.16

$0.48

299

$0.48

299

$0.36

$0.45

$0.27

$0.10

$0.32

$0.21

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint Explanatory

Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208

(December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, on

H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15

(January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest tenth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

c. HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

d. H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

e. Quantity figure reflects only the number of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs.

Marine Corps quantities only. The legislative funding tables did not include quantities of the GMLRS for the Army, which requested 5,976 GMLRS rockets, according

to Army budget justification documents.

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FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

Shipbuilding and Maritime Systems

In its FY2026 budget submission to Congress, DOD requested $65.0 billion in procurement and

RDT&E funding for shipbuilding and maritime systems programs.77 Of this amount, DOD

requested a total of $48.1 billion for the selected shipbuilding and maritime systems programs

detailed in Table 7.78 In its discretionary budget proposal, DOD requested $21.8 billion in base

budget funding for the selected shipbuilding and maritime systems programs (see Table 7).

The enacted FY2026 NDAA authorized $25.9 billion for the selected shipbuilding and maritime

systems programs (see Table 7), $4.1 billion more than DOD requested. The law authorized more

funding than DOD requested for the Virginia-class submarine, Columbia-class submarine, and

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, among other changes.79

The enacted FY2026 DOD appropriations act provided $26.9 billion for the selected shipbuilding

and maritime systems programs (see Table 7), $5.1 billion more than DOD requested. The law

provided more funding than DOD requested for the Virginia-class submarine, Arleigh Burke-class

destroyer, and Medium Landing Ship, among other changes.80

Of the funding that DOD assumed Congress would provide in the FY2025 reconciliation law,

DOD estimated in its FY2026 budget request that it would allocate $27.0 billion to the selected

shipbuilding and maritime systems programs in FY2026.81 In May 2026, DOD reported

allocating $22.6 billion in mandatory funds Congress provided in the FY2025 reconciliation law

to the selected shipbuilding and maritime systems programs in Table 7 in FY2026 (see

Appendix).82

77 DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. 6-1.

78 CRS analysis of DOD FY2026 budget documentation. CRS based its analysis in part on the shipbuilding and

maritime systems programs identified in the “major weapons system summary” table in the annual Program

Acquisition Cost by Weapon System document, as well as selected programs of congressional interest. See DOD,

Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, p. viii.

79 “Joint Explanatory Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on

Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, pp. H5679, H5680.

80 “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on

Appropriations, on H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, pp. H1457-H1458

81 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documentation.

82 CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documentation. For

more information, see Appendix.

Congressional Research Service

Table 7. FY2026 Funding Authorizations and Appropriations for Selected DOD Shipbuilding and Maritime Systems Programs

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Shipbuilding

Program

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

Amphibious Craft

San Antonio-class

Amphibious Ship

(R43543)

$2.69

$0.11

$0.10

$0.08

$0.20

$0.11

America-class

Amphibious Assault

Ship (R43543)

$3.99

$0.05

$0.06

$0.14

$0.05

Medium Landing Ship

(R46374)

$1.96

$0.01

$0.23

$0.01

$0.81

Gerald R. Ford-class

Nuclear Aircraft

Carrier (RS20643)

$3.62

$3.49

$3.63

$3.62

(Aircraft Carrier)

Refueling Complex

Overhaul

$2.27

$2.26

$2.27

$1.83

$2.07

$0.36

$0.86

$1.26

$5.46

$2.11

$0.08

$0.18

$0.43e

Carriers

Frigates/Destroyers

Arleigh Burke-class

Destroyer (RL32109)

Constellation-class

Guided Missile Frigate

(R44972)/FF(X) Frigate

Other

CRS-29

$5.58

$8.04

$0.08

System Type and

Name (relevant CRS

product, if available)

Shipbuilding

Program

FY2026 DOD Request

Authorization

Recon.

Requesta

S. 2296

Base Requestb H.R. 3838

Appropriation

Enacted

(P.L. 119-60)

H.R. 4016c

Enacted

(P.L. 119-75)

S. 2572

Unmanned Surface

Vessels (R45757)

$1.24

$0.36

$0.27

$0.41

$0.56

Unmanned Undersea

Vehicles

$0.54

$0.25

$0.26

$0.25

$0.26

$0.23

$0.19

$0.20

John Lewis-class Fleet

Replenishment Oiler

(R43546)

$1.93

$0.09

$1.69

$0.17

$0.09

$10.84

$12.95

$9.85

$11.98

$7.62

$7.01

Submarines

Columbia-class Ballistic

Missile Submarine

(R41129)

$1.93

Virginia-class

Submarine (RL32418)

$7.13

$9.55

$9.56

$10.26

$5.08

$6.08

$6.28

$7.62

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; H.Rept. 119-231; S.Rept. 119-39; H.Rept. 119-162; S.Rept. 119-52; “Joint Explanatory

Material Statement Submitted by Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services, on S. 1071,” Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 208

(December 10, 2025), pp. H5571-H5764; and “Explanatory Statement Submitted by Mr. Cole, Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, on

H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026; and H.R. 7147, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026,” Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 15

(January 22, 2026), pp. H1353-H1909.

Notes: Figures rounded to the nearest hundredth. “Recon.” stands for reconciliation.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1). See “Background” for more information. For amounts in the DOD “reconciliation spend plan,” see the Appendix.

b. CRS analysis of what DOD characterizes as its “FY 2026 Disc. Request,” or base budget, as in the discretionary funds that DOD requested Congress authorize and

appropriate for FY2026.

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HAC reported its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4016), before DOD released the details of its budget request on June 26,

2025. The committee appears to have based its markup on FY2025 enacted DOD appropriations and on the department’s FY2025 projection of what it anticipated

allocating in FY2026. DOD’s projected figures may or may not align with its actual request for FY2026. See “Background” for more information.

H.Rept. 119-162 and the explanatory statement that accompanied the negotiated version of the FY2026 DOD appropriations act did not include funding table

quantities.

On November 25, 2025, the Navy cancelled the Constellation-class frigate program. Figure includes funding for a different class of Navy frigates, the FF(X).

Appendix. FY2026 Funding for Selected Weapon Systems in the FY2025

Reconciliation Law

Table A-1. FY2026 Funding for Selected Weapon Systems Provided in the FY2025 Reconciliation Law

(in billions of dollars of budget authority and quantities, if available)

Recon. Requesta

Weapon System Category and Name

P.L. 119-21 Spend Planb

Aircraft and Related Systems

B-21 Raider

$4.49

F-15 Eagle

$3.02

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

$1.00

F/A-XX

$4.50

$3.09

$1.00

$0.75

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

$0.68

C-130J Hercules

$0.21

$0.46

F-47 (Next Generation Air Dominance)

$0.90

$0.40

Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft

$0.31

V-22 Osprey

$0.14

$0.25

MH-139A Grey Wolf

$0.15

$0.21

F-16 Fighting Falcon

$0.05

$0.19

MQ-25 Stingray

$0.10

F-22 Raptor

$0.10

MQ-9 Reaper

$0.01

HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter

$0.05

Ground Systems

Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle

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$0.25

Recon. Requesta

Weapon System Category and Name

P.L. 119-21 Spend Planb

Amphibious Combat Vehicle

$0.24

Stryker Family of Armored Vehicles

$0.23

Hypersonic Warfare

Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile

Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon

$0.13

$0.09

$0.13

Sea-based Weapon System (Aegis)

$0.41

$0.42

16c

PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement

$0.41

$0.20

47e

Maneuver SHORAD

$0.11

$0.14

Medium-Range Intercept Capability

$0.06

$0.04

PATRIOT Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense

Sensor

$0.67

$0.01

Indirect Fire Protection Capability

$0.19

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense

$0.46

Ground-based Midcourse Defense

$0.06

Missile Defense Programs

12d

Missiles and Munitions

LGM-35A Sentinel

$1.50

$2.37

Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear

$1.93

$1.68

Standard Missile-6

$0.63

129

$1.05

111

Tactical Tomahawk Cruise Missile

$0.67

$0.99

Ammunition

$0.13

Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile

$0.49

245

$0.69

237

Family of Affordable Mass Missile

$0.66

3,010

$0.62

1,000

Trident II Ballistic Missile Modifications

$0.06

CRS-33

$0.70

$0.61

Recon. Requesta

Weapon System Category and Name

P.L. 119-21 Spend Planb

Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile

$0.40

$0.58

Precision Strike Missile

$0.40

Joint Strike Missile

$0.38

112

$0.38

100

Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

$0.30

257

$0.30

186

$0.48

Joint Advanced Tactical Missile

$0.23

Naval Strike Missile

$0.05

Air Intercept Missile

$0.05

Rolling Airframe Missile

$0.02

Shipbuilding and Maritime Systems

Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer

$5.58

$5.40

Virginia Class Submarine

$7.13

$4.81

Unmanned Surface Vessels

$1.24

John Lewis Class Fleet Replenishment Oiler

$1.93

$2.73

Medium Landing Ship

$1.96

Columbia Class Ballistic Missile Submarine

$1.93

Unmanned Undersea Vehicles

$0.54

$1.21

San Antonio Class Amphibious Ship

$2.69

$0.88

America Class Amphibious Assault Ship

$3.99

$0.59

$3.06

Space Based Systems

Missile Warning / Missile Tracking

$9.44

$0.07f

Launch Enterprise

$0.14

$0.20

Source: CRS analysis of DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, July 2025; FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation

Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2026 military department budget justification books; DOD, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, April 2026; FY2027 Procurement

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Programs (P-1) and Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1) spreadsheets; FY2027 military department budget justification books; DOD, FY 2026 Mandatory

Funding Allocation Plan, May 2026.

Notes: Table reflects funding provided by Congress in the FY2025 reconciliation law (P.L. 119-21), sometimes known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and allocated by

DOD to the selected weapon systems programs previously identified in this report in FY2026. For more information, see the “Background” section. CRS analysis of

amounts for certain programs is based on additional DOD data provided to CRS in response to requests for information on October 7, 2025, and on May 4, 2026, and

on file with the author.

a. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 Reconciliation Request” in FY2026 DOD budget documents, FY2026 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1).

b. CRS analysis of the column entitled “FY 2026 P.L. 119-21 Spend Plan” in FY2027 DOD budget documents, FY2027 Procurement Programs (P-1) and Research

Development, Test & Evaluation Programs (R-1).

c. Figure reflects the quantity of SM-3 Block IB missiles.

d. Figure reflects only Navy quantities of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles. The Army requested reconciliation funding to procure 96 PAC-3 Missile

Segment Enhancement missiles. DOD, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO, Department of Defense Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget Estimates,

Missile Procurement, Army, Volume 1, June 2025, p. 21.

e. Figure reflects only Army quantities of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles. DOD did not report allocating reconciliation funding in FY2026 to the Navy

PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles.

DOD has stated that some initiatives that were previously reported as part of the Missile Warning/Missile Tracking program were “realigned to the Golden Dome

for America fund.” DOD, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, April 2026, p. 7-4.

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Author Information

Daniel M. Gettinger

Analyst in U.S. Defense Policy

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