Breaking Defense
• Valerie Insinna
House FY27 NDAA chairman’s mark targets industrial-base resilience; adds Army Black Hawk/Chinook funding and challenges Space Fo
The House Armed Services Committee’s FY27 defense policy bill would authorize multiyear procurement spanning critical munitions, the F-35 and the Arleigh Burke destroyer, while probing industrial-base shortfalls. The chairman’s mark also injects $250m and $381m for additional Army Black Hawk and Chinook aircraft and scrutinizes Pentagon efforts to make commercial space capabilities available to warfighters.
