FY2027 Defense · Request → House → Senate · Tracker as of August 18, 2026
One page tracking the fiscal 2027 defense appropriation across its versions so far: the Administration's request and the committee-reported H.R. 9495 (the House has not yet voted on the floor, and the Senate has not marked up). The two versions agree on the total to the dollar — $1,072.7 billion — so the negotiation lives entirely in the mix. The department now operates as the Department of War under Executive Order 14347; its statutory name remains the Department of Defense, and a provision of this bill would change that. A title-level section places the bill against FY2025 and FY2026 enacted, and a separate section compares the major policy provisions.
The Administration's request
The President's budget asks $1,072.7 billion for the annual defense bill. The scale reflects a structural change: spending that FY2026 carried through the reconciliation law, outside its $839.2 billion regular appropriation, now sits in the annual bill. The request also asks for $10 billion in general transfer authority.
The House committee answer — same total, different mix
H.R. 9495, approved in committee 34–27 on June 24 and reported June 26, matches the request's total exactly and renegotiates what it buys: procurement comes down $10.0 billion and working capital funds $2.7 billion, while RDT&E rises $2.2 billion and a new $12.9 billion Title VIII holds four committee-created funds. Transfer authority is set at $3 billion, not the $10 billion requested.
The floor and the Senate — pending
The bill awaits a House floor vote, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has not marked up a defense bill as of August 18. Both chambers have moved continuing resolutions for the year's start: the House passed one through December 4 on July 21, and the Senate passed one through December 11 on August 8 by a 90–6 vote.
The defense appropriation has a reputation for being unreadable. Most of the difficulty is structural, and four ideas make it readable: money comes in colors with expiration dates; programs live across many accounts; authorizing and appropriating are separate tracks; and part of what the Administration asked for is not in this bill at all.
"How much does the F-35 get" has no one answer in the bill's legal structure: airframes sit in three procurement accounts, upgrades in RDT&E, spares in O&M. The account table below is the bill as written; the programs section reassembles the reader's view from CRS's program totals.
The NDAA (authorization) sets policy and recommends levels; this bill provides the actual money. Each program below shows both House marks — the Armed Services number and the Appropriations number — which routinely differ. Only the appropriation spends.
The report certifies the bill contains no congressional earmarks as House rules define them. Congressional direction now travels as program-level increases and decreases in the report's tables — the committee adding $620M above the request for UH-60 Black Hawks works like an earmark's successor, in the open.
The FY2027 request also proposes mandatory funding outside this appropriation: $53.6B for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, $29.5B for an Artificial Intelligence Arsenal, $17.5B for Golden Dome, $12.6B for PAC-3 interceptors, $12.3B for the F-35. Those sums would need a separate law; this bill's small lines for the same programs are the discretionary slice only.
Each tile is an appropriation account, sized by dollars; regions are the bill's titles, shaded light to dark. The one gold region is Title VIII — money that exists only in the House version, because the committee created it. Switch versions and watch it appear. Hover for the two-column card; click a tile to jump to its table row. Rescissions and the Sec. 8144 savings reduction are negative and don't map spatially; they appear in the table.
Toggle between the title-level view and the largest accounts. Hollow bars are the request; gold bars are the House committee level. All figures come from the committee report's comparative statement, in millions.
The bill against the last two enacted years, at the title level. The two grays are FY2025 and FY2026 enacted (CRS accounting, bill-title conventions); hollow is the FY2027 request, gold the House committee. The step change is structural: procurement moves from $167.5B enacted to $257.5B requested and RDT&E from $145.9B to $218.8B, as spending the reconciliation law carried outside the annual bills folds into this one. That reconciliation money — $152.3 billion for the department, appropriated as FY2025 dollars with five-year availability — is drawn as the dashed extension on the FY2025 total, not blended into any column. Where a value is negative (FY2026 general provisions, net of rescissions) the chart says so in place of a bar.
The gap between the request and the committee bill, account by account, inside the matched topline. Gold means the committee funded above the request — led by its four new Title VIII funds and Army aviation and RDT&E. Iron means below — led by shipbuilding, working capital funds, and Space Force RDT&E.
This is the reader's view: 102 weapon systems and initiatives, reassembled across accounts by CRS. For each program: the discretionary request, the House Appropriations mark (this bill, gold), and both Armed Services marks from the separate NDAA track. Any mandatory ask sits outside this bill and is noted in the row's tooltip. Dollar figures are CRS's program totals in billions — approximate assemblies of budget lines, on a different basis from the account table above.
The comparative statement's account table: the FY2027 request and the FY2027 House committee level, with the Senate column awaiting markup. Indented rows are components of the account above them. Negative values are rescissions of prior-year money or assumed savings.
Funding is half the bill. The other half sets the terms: what the department is named, who approves moving money, which combatant command covers Mexico, and what strings attach to the committee's new funds.
All figures come from the committee report's comparative statement (pages 248–250), converted from thousands to millions. The 302(b) table splits the total into $1,072.21B discretionary and $514M mandatory (the CIA retirement fund).
FY2025 and FY2026 enacted appear at the title level only, from CRS R48891 Table 1 on matching bill-title conventions. The committee report prints no prior-year account column, and no single source provides one on a consistent basis — so the account table stays two-column. Reconciliation funding ($152.3B, P.L. 119-21) sits outside every column as FY2025 dollars with five-year availability.
The act funds most military functions but not military construction, family housing, or nuclear warheads — those ride on other appropriations bills. This total is therefore smaller than the full "national defense" topline.
Title VII carries the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund ($514M, mandatory) and the Intelligence Community Management Account ($575M). Classified intelligence program funding is distributed unmarked through the bill's other accounts.
The report's back statement prints the Title III committee total once as $247,522.7M; the recapitulation (printed twice) and the sum of the account lines both give $247,552.7M. This page uses the arithmetic-consistent figure.
Senate columns and a third policy column activate when the Senate Appropriations Committee reports. Until then the operative vehicle for October 1 is a continuing resolution — the House version runs to December 4, the Senate version to December 11.
Both versions of this bill agree on the total to the dollar. Every disagreement in it is about what $1.072 trillion should buy — and who decides.