National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

• Service members and military families: sets specific FY2026 active force end strengths (for example, Army 454,000 and Air Force 321,500), funds family housing projects, and expands child care and military education protections.
• Defense industry and acquisition workforce: rewrites procurement rules to speed delivery, allows multiyear missile buys, raises major system thresholds (to about $275 million and $1.3 billion), and creates Project Spectrum and other pilots to help small and mid‑size suppliers.
• Nuclear enterprise, biotech, and communities near DOE sites: authorizes DOE national security programs and NNSA reforms, funds stockpile stewardship, and sets plutonium pit production milestones including at least 80 pits by 2030.

*Authorizes roughly $193.2 billion for military personnel and about $34.3 billion for DOE national security programs for FY2026, increasing authorized federal outlays for those accounts.*