{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-priorities-included-national-defense-authorization-act-0", "Rep. Calvert Priorities Included in National Defense Authorization Act", "2025-12-10", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Ken Calvert", "C000059", "calvert.house.gov", "calvert", "https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-41) voted along with a majority (312 to 112) of the House of Representatives to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. The NDAA includes critical national security program authorizations and policy provisions. Rep. Calvert serves as the Chairman of the Defense Appropriations Committee, which provides funding for our national security programs through the defense appropriations bill.\n\n\u201cThe NDAA advances critical national security policies that are essential for achieving our defense goals,\u201d said Rep. Calvert. \u201cThe bill takes care of our most precious national security assets, our servicemembers, by giving them a 3.8% pay raise as well as authorizing funding increases to build or make upgrades to barracks, family housing, healthcare, and childcare facilities. To ensure America has the defense manufacturing capabilities necessary to win a future conflict, the bill establishes a Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network. As China continues to outpace the US in manufacturing capacity, it is past time to address this glaring capability gap.\u201d\n\nThe following provisions were supported by Rep. Calvert and included in the FY26 NDAA:\n\nIndustrial Base & Small Business\n\nCivil Reserve Manufacturing Network (CRMN): Establishes a model for a broader network of dual-use manufacturing firms capable of rapidly shifting from commercial to defense production when needed. Modeled after existing programs like the Air Force\u2019s Civil Reserve Air Fleet and the Navy\u2019s National Defense Reserve Fleet, the CRMN aims to establish \u201cready-to-scale defense production\u201d to address the crisis of offshored defense manufacturing.\n\nProject Spectrum: Formally establishes Project Spectrum to help small and medium businesses meet cybersecurity and acquisition requirements and stay in the defense supply chain.\n\nSmall-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) industrial base: Creates a small-UAS industrial base working group to map capacity, fix fragile supply chains, and scale domestic drone production.\n\nHomeland Missile Defense \u2013 Golden Dome\n\nGolden Dome: Updates national missile defense policy to support a next-generation \u201cGolden Dome\u201d shield against ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic threats to the homeland.\n\nEnduring oversight: Requires recurring Golden Dome architecture reports to Congress until fully fielded.\n\nShipbuilding & Shipyard Modernization\n\nMaritime industrial base strategy: Requires the Navy to adopt a data and AI-driven strategy to fix cost and schedule problems in surface and submarine shipbuilding.\n\nDesign & automation: Mandates standard design metrics and a pilot for automated shipbuilding technologies to shorten construction timelines.\n\nAuthorizes $26 billion in shipbuilding funding for the construction and support of:\n\nThe third Columbia-class Ballistic Missile Submarine and advanced procurement for future submarines\n\nOne Virginia-class Submarine and advanced procurement for future submarines\n\nAdvanced procurement for future DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyers\n\nSupporting Allies", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://calvert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-calvert-priorities-included-national-defense-authorization-act-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5350133180618286, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}