Sec. 20005. Enhancement of Department of Defense resources for scaling low-cost weapons into production
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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— $25,000,000 for the Office of Strategic Capital Global Technology Scout program; $1,100,000,000 for the expansion of the small unmanned aerial system industrial base; $400,000,000 for the development and deployment of the Joint Fires Network and associated joint battle management capabilities; $400,000,000 for the expansion of advanced command-and-control tools to combatant commands and military departments; $100,000,000 for the development of shared secure facilities for the defense industrial base; $50,000,000 for the creation of additional Defense Innovation Unit OnRamp Hubs; $250,000,000 for the acceleration of Strategic Capabilities Office programs; $650,000,000 for the expansion of Mission Capabilities office joint prototyping and experimentation activities for military innovation; $500,000,000 for the accelerated development and integration of advanced 5G/6G technologies for military use; $25,000,000 for testing of simultaneous transmit and receive technology for military spectrum agility; $50,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of high-altitude stratospheric balloons for military use; $120,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of long-endurance unmanned aerial systems for surveillance; $40,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of alternative positioning and navigation technology to enable military operations in contested electromagnetic environments; $750,000,000 for the acceleration of innovative military logistics and energy capability development and deployment; $120,000,000 for the acceleration of development of small modular nuclear reactors for military use; $1,000,000,000 for the expansion of programs to accelerate the procurement and fielding of innovative technologies; $90,000,000 for the development of reusable hypersonic technology for military strikes and intelligence; $2,000,000,000 for the expansion of Defense Innovation Unit scaling of commercial technology for military use; $500,000,000 to prevent delays in delivery of attritable autonomous military capabilities; $1,000,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of low-cost cruise missiles; $500,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of exportable low-cost cruise missiles; $124,000,000 for improvements to Test Resource Management Center artificial intelligence capabilities; $145,000,000 for the development of artificial intelligence to enable one-way attack unmanned aerial systems and naval systems; $250,000,000 for the development of the Test Resource Management Center digital test environment; $250,000,000 for the advancement of the artificial intelligence ecosystem; $250,000,000 for the expansion of Cyber Command artificial intelligence lines of effort; $250,000,000 for the acceleration of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative; $500,000,000 for the expansion and acceleration of qualification activities and technical data management to enhance competition in defense industrial base; $400,000,000 for the expansion of the defense manufacturing technology program; and $685,000,000 for military cryptographic modernization activities.
In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029, $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: Provided , That— such amounts are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, and total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $100,000,000,000; and such amounts are available to cover all costs and expenditures as provided under section 149(e)(5)(B) of title 10, United States Code.