H.R. 8800 (119th Congress) — FY2027 NDAA §219 (not enacted)

H.R. 8800 (119th Congress) — FY2027 NDAA §219 (not enacted). Every recorded vote below is cited to the official government record.

The instruments

H.R. 8800 (119th Congress) — Israel gets access to Intel/Mil Classified Networks & Israel gets US Military R&D budget

Foreign access to classified US networks — gives Israel access to classified US military systems and a share of US defense R&D money, embedding a foreign state inside US defense; House-passed, not yet law.

not_enacted · The official record

The provisions

SectionWhat it doesOfficial text
219Designates a single DoD executive agent to coordinate the initiative; requires an interim congressional briefing within 180 days, annual reports (through 2030 in the base text, unclassified with optional classified annexes), and coordination with State, Commerce, and other agencies for consistency with export controls. Enumerated cooperative domains include counter-unmanned systems; anti-tunneling; missile and air defense; AI, quantum, ML, and autonomous systems; directed energy and advanced sensing; cyber defense, electronic warfare, and digital resilience; biotechnology and medical defense; network integration, data fusion, and contested logistics; defense industrial base cooperation and co-production; and other emerging technologies as jointly agreed. The operative text should still be read from the bill itself at the text_url before this record is relied upon — see `gaps`. The text

Where Israel gets access to Intel/Mil Classified Networks & Israel gets US Military R&D budget was put to a vote

StageThe questionDateTallyWhat we could not get
House floorOn passage
House floor — related voteOn motion to recommit
Senate voteOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 4784

Sources

  1. The official record this row was taken from (www.congress.gov)
  2. Full text of H.R. 8800 (www.congress.gov)