Enhancement of Department of Defense Resources for Scaling Low-Cost Weapons into Production

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 thirty-three sums to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029. Nineteen go to innovation, networks and new capabilities: $25,000,000 for the Office of Strategic Capital Global Technology Scout program and $20,000,000 for that office's workforce; $1,400,000,000 to expand the small unmanned aerial system industrial base; $400,000,000 for the Joint Fires Network and joint battle management; $400,000,000 to spread advanced command and control tools; $100,000,000 for shared secure facilities; $50,000,000 for more Defense Innovation Unit OnRamp Hubs; $600,000,000 for Strategic Capabilities Office programs; $650,000,000 for Mission Capabilities office prototyping; $500,000,000 for 5G and 6G technologies; $25,000,000 for simultaneous transmit and receive testing; $50,000,000 for high-altitude stratospheric balloons; $120,000,000 for long-endurance surveillance drones; $40,000,000 for alternative positioning and navigation; $750,000,000 for military logistics and energy capability; $125,000,000 for small portable modular nuclear reactors; $1,000,000,000 to speed procurement and fielding of innovative technologies; $90,000,000 for reusable hypersonic technology; and $500,000,000 to prevent delays in attritable autonomous capabilities.

What the document says

“$2,000,000,000 for the expansion of Defense Innovation Unit scaling of commercial technology for military use;”

Fourteen of the sums go to artificial intelligence, testing and production: $2,000,000,000 to expand Defense Innovation Unit scaling of commercial technology; $1,500,000,000 for low-cost cruise missiles; $124,000,000 for Test Resource Management Center artificial intelligence work, $250,000,000 for its digital test environment, $145,000,000 for artificial intelligence in one-way attack drones and naval systems, $250,000,000 for the artificial intelligence ecosystem and $250,000,000 for Cyber Command artificial intelligence; $250,000,000 for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative; $1,000,000,000 for qualification activities and technical data management; $400,000,000 for the defense manufacturing technology program; $1,685,000,000 for cryptographic modernization; $90,000,000 for APEX Accelerators, the Mentor-Protege Program and cybersecurity support to small contractors; $250,000,000 for Air Force low-cost counter-air capabilities; and $10,000,000 for Air Force wargaming.

What the document says

“$1,000,000,000 to the "Department of Defense Credit Program Account" to carry out the capital assistance program, including loans, loan guarantees, and technical assistance, established under section 149(e) of title 10, United States Code”

The section appropriates $1,000,000,000 to the Department of Defense Credit Program Account, available through September 30, 2029, to carry out the capital assistance program of loans, loan guarantees and technical assistance established under section 149(e) of title 10, United States Code. The money may subsidize direct loans and guaranteed loan principal up to $100,000,000,000 in total, and may cover all costs and expenditures provided for in section 149(e)(5)(B).