National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

What this does

This is the Senate version of the annual defense bill, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. It authorizes spending and sets policy for the Department of Defense, military construction, and Department of Energy national security programs for fiscal year 2026. The bill is organized into ten divisions, and it folds several separate acts into the same measure. Bundled in are the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025, a Department of State authorization, and the ROAD to Housing Act, which addresses federal housing programs. A single yes vote on this bill carried the defense authorization and all of the attached acts together.

Senate vote · 77-20

Democrats

26-18

Republicans

50-1

Independents

1-1

How we know · 6 sourced claims

Section 2 organizes the Act into ten divisions, running from Division A through Division J.Source: Sec. 2 (Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents)
Division A, Section 101 authorizes funds to be appropriated for fiscal year 2026 for procurement for the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, the Air Force and Space Force, and Defense-wide activities.Source: Division A, Sec. 101 (Authorization of appropriations)
Division F is a stand-alone act that may be cited as the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, and its Section 101 authorizes appropriations for the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Federal Government.Source: Division F, short title and Sec. 101 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026)
Division H may be cited as the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025.Source: Division H (Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025), short title
Division I may be cited as the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025, or the ROAD to Housing Act of 2025.Source: Division I (ROAD to Housing Act), short title
Division J may be cited as the Department of State Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026.Source: Division J (Department of State Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026), short title

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Reported lobbying

At least

745

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 1,906 quarterly reports filed by 138 lobbying firms and by 285 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so 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 (a filer may describe one in its own words), so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking

MEDIATEK USA INC.
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
GLOBAL ARM
ML STRATEGIES, LLC (ON BEHALF OF DAIKIN U.S. CORPORATION)

Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 740 others are 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 and 2026 Q2. Our copy holds 2 fewer filings for 2025 Q4 and 7 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

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