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Made-in-America Defense Act

Introduced Jun 27, 2025

Latest action (Sep 3, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Referred to
Foreign Relations Committee Foreign Affairs Committee
Policy area
International Affairs
Issues
Defense
Legislative subjects (4)
Congressional oversightForeign aid and international reliefMilitary assistance, sales, and agreementsTrade restrictions

Summary

The Made-in-America Defense Act directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to conduct annual reviews of the FMS-Only List, which contains defense articles and services that can only be transferred to allies through the foreign military sales program and not through direct commercial sales. The review must assess whether items on this list could appropriately be transferred through direct commercial sales instead, considering transfer timelines, workload impacts, and benefits to national security and competitiveness. Within 30 days of each review, the Secretary of State must report to Congress with findings on transfer times, causes of delays, and any changes made to the FMS-Only List. The bill aims to identify defense items that could be delivered more quickly to U.S. allies through direct commercial sales rather than the foreign military sales program.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Actions (13)
  1. Sep 3, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · senate
  2. Sep 2, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. Sep 2, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 395 - 20 (Roll no. 219). (text: CR H3727) · house
  4. Sep 2, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 395 - 20 (Roll no. 219). (text: CR H3727)
  5. Sep 2, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3741) · house
  6. Sep 2, 2025 At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. · house
  7. Sep 2, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4216. · house
  8. Sep 2, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3727-3728) · house
  9. Sep 2, 2025 Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
  10. Jul 22, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0. · house
  11. Jul 22, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  12. Jun 27, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
  13. Jun 27, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (3)
  • Referred in Senate · Sep 3, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · Sep 2, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Jun 27, 2025

Full text

AN ACT

To direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to carry out a review of the list of defense articles and services required to be transferred under the foreign military sales program as opposed to direct commercial sale (FMS-Only List).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Made-in-America Defense Act”.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

Congress—

(1) believes the expeditious delivery of defense articles and services to allies and partners strengthens American national security;

(2) notes that the Department of Defense contracting process often adds significant amounts of time to the delivery of defense articles and services to allies and partners, and in some cases these articles and services could be appropriately transferred more quickly using direct commercial sales; and

(3) supports the ongoing and periodic review of the FMS- Only List to ensure that defense articles and services that can be appropriately transferred using direct commercial sales are not included on the FMS-Only list.

SEC. 3. REVIEW AND REPORT.

(a) Review.—

(1) In general.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall carry out a review of defense articles and defense services that are eligible to be provided under the foreign military sales program under chapter 2 of the Arms Export Control Act, but not eligible to be provided under direct commercial sales under section 38 of such Act, in order to identify those articles and services that should also be eligible to be provided under direct commercial sales.

(2) Matters to be addressed.—The review required by this subsection shall address the following with respect to each defense article and defense services identified under this subsection:

(A) The average length of time to complete a transfer of the article or service under the foreign military sales program compared to such a transfer under a direct commercial sale, measured from the initial submission of the letter of request to the delivery of the article or service.

(B) The impact on the workload for the Department of State and Department of Defense by reason of a transfer of the article or service under a direct commercial sale.

(C) The benefits to United States national security and United States competitiveness by reason of a transfer of the article or service under a direct commercial sale.

(b) Report.—

(1) In general.—Not later than 30 days after the completion of each review required by subsection (a), the Secretary of State, in coordination of the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains the results of the review, including—

(A) the average time to transfer the reviewed defense articles or services during the previous reporting period through the foreign military sales program and through direct commercial sales and how those averages compare to the averages reported in the previous reporting period;

(B) the leading causes of delays;

(C) any steps taken to reduce those delays; and

(D) any defense articles and services added to or removed from the FMS-Only list during the preceding reporting period, as well as the justification for such decisions.

(2) Form.—The report required by this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.

(3) Definitions.—In this subsection—

(A) the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; and

(ii) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and

(B) the term “FMS-only list” means the list maintained by the Secretary of State of defense articles and defense services that are eligible to be provided under the foreign military sales program under chapter 2 of the Arms Export Control Act, but not eligible to be provided under direct commercial sales under section 38 of such Act.

Passed the House of Representatives September 2, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 4216

AN ACT

To direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to carry out a review of the list of defense articles and services required to be transferred under the foreign military sales program as opposed to direct commercial sale (FMS-Only List).

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