Made-in-America Defense Act

This bill directs the Secretary of State, working with the Secretary of Defense, to review the list of defense articles and services that may only be transferred to allies through the government-run foreign military sales program and not through direct commercial sales (the FMS-Only List). The review, due one year after enactment and annually after that, must identify items on the FMS-Only List that could instead be made eligible for direct commercial sale. For each such item it must address how long a transfer takes under foreign military sales versus a direct commercial sale, the workload impact on State and Defense, and the benefits to U.S. national security and competitiveness. Within 30 days of completing each review, the Secretary must report the results to the congressional foreign affairs and armed services committees, including the average transfer times, leading causes of delay, steps taken to reduce delays, and any items added to or removed from the FMS-Only List with justification. The report is unclassified but may include a classified annex. The bill also states Congress's view that faster delivery of defense articles to allies strengthens U.S. security and that the FMS-Only List should be reviewed so items suited to direct commercial sale are not kept on it. It creates the review and reporting duty but does not itself move any item off the list.

At least 6 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 17 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 5 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Fdd Action; Clearview Ai; RTX Corporation and Affiliates; Lockheed Martin Corporation; J Street. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 1 other is not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.