# 119-hr-5086: SkyFoundry Act of 2025

119-hr-5086, SkyFoundry Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Harrigan, Pat [R-NC-10] (R-NC); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5086
- Congress: 119
- Title: SkyFoundry Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-09-02
- Sponsor: Rep. Harrigan, Pat [R-NC-10] (R-NC)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Rapid development and mass production of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).** This bill would create the SkyFoundry Program inside the Department of Defense to accelerate R&D, testing, and scalable manufacturing of sUAS and related autonomous systems using faster acquisition tools and public private partnerships. - Military and defense planners: Would give the Army a government-run Innovation Facility for testing and a Production Facility to scale proven designs. The program would use rapid prototyping and fielding authorities to move designs faster into service. - Manufacturers and the industrial base: Would allow use of Title III authorities under the Defense Production Act to prioritize domestic capacity, fund production scale up, and treat sUAS and related energetics as essential to the defense industrial base. The United States must retain government purpose intellectual property rights for systems developed under the program. - Local communities and supply chain workers: The Production Facility is expected to reach a capacity of 1,000,000 sUAS annually once established. Site rules push use of existing Army Depots and specific acreage and facility size criteria to guide location and upgrades.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2025-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Army program to mass-produce small drones: benefit, medium. If enacted, DoD would set up the SkyFoundry Program run by the Army. It would build two government sites: an innovation lab and a production plant. The plant would aim to make up to 1,000,000 small drones a year when fully built. The Secretary would try to use existing Army Depots and pick two sepa…
- Defense Production Act boost for drones: benefit, medium. If enacted, the President or Defense Secretary would use Defense Production Act Title III to prioritize small drones and related energetics and autonomous systems. These items would be treated as essential to the defense industrial base. Actions could include funding to scale factories, build stock…

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- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6976: Duty Status Reform Act
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-5086 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5086)

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- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-6976: Duty Status Reform Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6976)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6900)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5086 (as of 2026-04-21).