Rep. Kat Cammack secures 10 amendments in House-passed National Defense Authorization Act
Press release from U.S. Representative Kat Cammack
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Kat Cammack (FL-03) today announced that ten of her amendments were adopted in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800), which passed the House by a vote of 216-214. The legislation authorizes a pay raise for every service member and now advances to the Senate.
“Our troops deserve a raise, and our adversaries deserve a reason to think twice. This bill delivers on both,” said Congresswoman Cammack. “I fought to make sure it delivers accountability, too. We cannot just throw money at the Pentagon. My amendments force answers to hard questions about who is in our supply chains, whether we’re ready for tomorrow’s threats, and where American taxpayer dollars are going.”
Together, Rep. Cammack’s ten adopted amendments strengthen military readiness, reduce dependence on foreign adversaries, improve care for military families, accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, and strengthen America’s disaster response capabilities.
Congresswoman Cammack’s Ten Adopted Amendments
- Countering fentanyl and precursor chemicals. Requires the Department of War to expand coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to target fentanyl and precursor chemicals. Requires a report to Congress identifying gaps in detection, monitoring, and interdiction efforts.
- Combating foreign malign influence. Requires the Department of War to develop a strategy for identifying, assessing, and countering foreign malign influence activities in the cognitive warfare domain, including disinformation, propaganda, psychological operations, and other influence activities conducted by foreign adversaries.
- Reducing reliance on Chinese-sourced defense materials. Requires the Comptroller General to assess the Department of War’s reliance on Chinese-sourced materials used in munitions, microelectronics, and energy storage systems and recommend alternative sourcing strategies.
- Strengthening partnerships with research universities. Requires the Department of War to prioritize partnerships with institutions of higher education conducting research in hypersonics, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence while expanding reporting to Congress on those partnerships.
- Securing military medical supply chains. Requires the Secretary of War to assess vulnerabilities in military medical supply chains, including reliance on Chinese sources for active pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices, and report the findings to Congress within 180 days.
- Assessing threats from foreign-controlled digital platforms. Requires the Secretary of War to assess the risks posed by foreign adversary-controlled digital platforms to operational security, force protection, military personnel, and military installations, including threats related to data collection, cognitive warfare, foreign influence operations, and propaganda.
- Accelerating artificial intelligence adoption. Requires the Department of War, in coordination with the Department of Commerce, to develop a strategy for adopting, fielding, integrating, and scaling artificial intelligence across the military and the defense industrial base.
- Protecting military mothers during PCS moves. Requires the Department of War to establish procedures ensuring continuity of care for pregnant and postpartum service members and military spouses during permanent change of station moves, including timely transfers of medical records and assignment of receiving providers.
- Auditing Chinese Communist Party exposure in defense contracting. Requires the Comptroller General to audit the participation of entities owned, controlled by, affiliated with, or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party in Department of War contracts and supply chains, identifying risks to military readiness and national security.
- Strengthening National Guard disaster readiness. Requires the Department of War, in consultation with FEMA, to submit an annual report identifying National Guard equipment shortfalls in every state and assessing how those gaps affect disaster response capabilities, including hurricane response, while recommending equipment modernization and strategic prepositioning.
Taken together, these provisions position the Department of War to better compete in the era of cognitive warfare while strengthening America’s military readiness at home and abroad.
“Our adversaries wage cognitive warfare against the United States every single day, from propaganda to influence operations carried out through platforms they control,” Rep. Cammack continued. “My amendments require the Pentagon to build a real strategy to fight back. That is where this fight is going, and America will not show up unarmed.”
Rep. Cammack also secured provisions to improve care for military families and strengthen disaster preparedness by ensuring continuity of care for pregnant and postpartum service members during permanent change of station moves and requiring annual assessments of National Guard equipment shortfalls that affect disaster response.
“When a hurricane hits North Central Florida, our Guard shows up,” Rep. Cammack said. “My amendment makes Washington identify exactly what they need before the storm instead of after it.”
The full amendment text is available through the House Rules Committee at rules.house.gov.
Kat, along with a slight majority of congress, voted for this omnibus bill which does include many reasonable items as she outlines above. What she and other traitors remain silent about is section 219 of the NDAA. Section 219 was included and passed without any discussion allowed and without a separate vote allowed. Section 219 is the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, a provision that directs the Pentagon to expand and accelerate the integration of US and Israeli military technology, supply chains, and defense industrial capacity. Merging our military, or any part of it, with a foreign nation is absurd and traitorous. Why do Americans put up with this only when it’s with Israel…we all know this would never be acceptable with any other country. I pray more people come to their senses and fast!
There is nothing in the bill about merging our military with Israel’s. It’s an agreement to share technology and cooperate, not merge.
SEC. 219. UNITED STATES-ISRAEL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION
INITIATIVE.
(a) Establishment.–The Secretary of Defense shall designate an
executive agent, as such term is defined in Department of Defense
Directive 5101.01 (relating to DoD Executive Agent, issued February 7,
2022), responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the
United States and Israel, to expand and accelerate bilateral defense
technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and
industrial cooperation, by–
(1) identifying jointly developed or Israeli-origin
technologies with operational utility for potential integration
into United States systems and programs of record;
(2) ensuring collaborative research initiatives involving
government, private sector, and academic institutions in the
United States and Israel, is done in a manner that protects
sensitive technology and information and the national security
interests of the United States and Israel;
(3) facilitating the transition of technologies from
research and development into procurement and acquisition
pathways;
(4) establishing frameworks for joint ventures, licensing
agreements, and United States-based co-production or
manufacturing partnerships with Israeli industry;
(5) coordinating with relevant Department of Defense
components, including the Irregular Warfare Technical Support
Directorate, capability development and innovation divisions,
the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering,
the Defense Innovation Unit, the United States-Israel
Operations Technology Working Group, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, the
United States Space Command, the military departments, and
other Department of Defense entities, as appropriate, to align
efforts and avoid duplication; and
(6) promoting joint training exercises and information-
sharing mechanisms to enhance operational readiness to deploy
jointly developed technologies.
(b) Cooperative Efforts.–The synchronized cooperative efforts
under subsection (a) may be carried out through the following domains:
(1) Counter-Unmanned Systems including aerial, maritime,
and ground platforms.
(2) Anti-tunneling and subterranean threats.
(3) Missile and air defense technologies.
(4) Artificial intelligence, quantum, machine learning, and
autonomous systems.
(5) Directed energy and advanced sensing.
(6) Cyber defense, electronic warfare, and digital
resilience.
(7) Biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and medical defense.
(8) Network integration, data fusion, and contested
logistics.
(9) Defense industrial base cooperation, manufacturing, and
co-production.
(10) Other emerging technologies as jointly agreed by the
United States and Israel.
(c) Activities in Coordination With Other Federal Departments and
Agencies.–The Secretary of Defense shall coordinate activities, as
appropriate, with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce,
and the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, to
ensure consistency with existing laws and regulations.
(d) Interim Progress Update.–Not later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide
to the congressional defense committees an interim briefing on–
(1) the executive agent designated pursuant to subsection
(a) and the efforts undertaken by such executive agent to lead
Department of Defense implementation of the synchronized
cooperative efforts described in such subsection;
(2) the status of coordination, Department-wide, with
Israeli counterparts;
(3) initial technology areas identified for accelerated
cooperation and technologies with operational utility for
integration into United States systems and programs of record;
and
(4) any early transition, prototyping, or integration
activities initiated during the period covered by the update.
(e) Annual Report.–Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until 2030, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on implementation of the cooperative efforts
described in subsection (a). Each such report shall include–
(1) a description of activities conducted;
(2) an assessment of progress made in advancing shared
national security interests;
(3) an assessment of collaboration with other relevant
Federal programs;
(4) a description of technologies transitioned into United
States acquisition programs or fielded systems;
(5) a description of partnerships established with United
States and Israeli industry; and
(6) recommendations for future opportunities to promote the
long-term integration of joint capabilities between the United
States and Israel.
(f) Form.–Each report required under subsection (e) shall be
submitted in unclassified form and may include a classified annex.
(g) Public Transparency.–The Secretary of Defense shall make
available on a publicly accessible website of the Department of Defense
periodic, unclassified updates, to the maximum extent practicable, on
the synchronized cooperative efforts carried out under subsection (a),
including a description of how these efforts contribute to United
States technological and military supremacy. Such updates shall be made
in a manner that ensures that classified information or other
information that would compromise operational security, export
controls, or sensitive technology are not released.
I knew Hasbara Hannah would chime with the Official Israeli Narrative TM.
I realize what section 219 says. That why I used terms like “integrate” and “merge”. You call it “an agreement to share technology and cooperate”. Regardless, it is an unprecedented act of Congress that only serves to benefit Israel, a foreign nation.
You can downplay it, frame it how you please, and use whatever synonyms you fancy but that will not change the reality of situation.
Ten things people don’t care about. Personally I’m tired of Israel. Fix social security and get gas and food prices down.
Ten extra amendments. Let’s repeat that—ten additional amendments.
Those were added to a bill and still barely passed the House.
This is just one of the contributing factors that cause our dysfunctional federal government.
Is this the only useless legislation she has promoted since re-election?
I would stand to venture that these “adjustments’ are already part of the DOD play book.
Got to get her and Rutherford out of office.
Where’s Jake’s Virtue Signaling cartoon?
Apparently deficit spending only matters when democrats hold office.
FY2026 (current fiscal year): estimates vary by source but all point higher:
• CBO’s February 2026 baseline projected the deficit would reach $1.9 trillion in fiscal year 2026 
• Treasury’s own documents point higher — OMB projects $2.065 trillion, primary dealers surveyed by Treasury projected a median of $1.950 trillion, and CBO’s baseline was $1.853 trillion , roughly double the 3%-of-GDP target with bipartisan support in Congress
You can find all of Jake’s cartoons (he covers numerous federal topics) on his Facebook page, but we only publish the ones about local topics.
Thank you.
Appreciate your reporting on local government.