S. 4784 (119th Congress) — FY2027 Senate NDAA §1217 / FUTURES Act (not enacted). Every recorded vote below is cited to the official government record.
US defense R&D budget steered toward Israel — the Senate NDAA would create a permanent US-Israel initiative binding US defense research, co-production, and network/data integration to a foreign state, negotiated with Israel's Minister of Defense; committee-reported, not yet law.
not_enacted · The official record
| Section | What it does | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| 1217 | Establishes the permanent bilateral initiative in consultation with Israel's Minister of Defense (no executive-agent designation, unlike House §219); enumerates cooperative domains including counter-unmanned systems, anti-tunneling, missile and air defense (including "Golden Dome for America"), AI/quantum/ML/autonomous systems, directed energy and advanced sensing, cyber defense and electronic warfare, biotechnology, network integration and data fusion, contested logistics, and industrial-base co-production; requires an interim congressional briefing within 180 days and annual reports thereafter, with optional classified annexes and periodic unclassified public updates. 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 |
| Stage | The question | Date | Tally | What we could not get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senate — motion to proceed | On the motion to proceed to the measure — the Senate's gate | |||
| Senate — cloture | On invoking cloture — deciding whether the body may vote at all |