Money is appropriated for missiles and missile production capacity
What the document says“In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029--”
The section appropriates sixty-seven sums to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029. Nineteen go to missiles: $400,000,000 and $380,000,000 for long-range anti-ship missiles and their production capacity; $490,000,000 and $94,000,000 for long-range air-to-surface missiles and an alternative to them; $630,000,000 for long-range Navy air defense and anti-ship missiles; $688,000,000 and $250,000,000 for long-range multi-service cruise missiles and their production base; $70,000,000 for short-range Navy and Marine Corps anti-ship missiles; $100,000,000 for an anti-ship seeker for short-range Army ballistic missiles; $175,000,000 for next-generation Army medium-range ballistic missile capacity; $50,000,000, $250,000,000 and $225,000,000 for medium-range air-to-air missiles; $50,000,000 for second sources for short-range air-to-air missile components; $325,000,000 for air-launched anti-radiation missile capacity; and $50,000,000, $114,000,000, $300,000,000 and $85,000,000 for Army medium-range and long-range ballistic missiles.
What the document actually says“In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029--”
Money is set aside for the defense department. It is on top of what it already has. It is for fiscal year 2025 and can be spent through September 30, 2029.
Sixty-seven sums are named in all. Nineteen of them buy missiles or build the plants that make them. The rest cover other arms and supply lines.
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