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To amend title 32, United States Code, to establish the FireGuard Program as a program of record of the National Guard.

To amend title 32, United States Code, to establish the FireGuard Program as a program of record of the National Guard.

Introduced Sep 26, 2025

Latest action (Sep 26, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Referred to
Armed Services Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Defense

Summary
  • The bill establishes the FireGuard Program as an official "program of record" of the National Guard, making it a permanent formal program.
  • The bill requires the National Guard to carry out the FireGuard Program (changing the previous authorization to a mandatory requirement).
  • The bill requires the Secretary of Defense to submit five annual briefings to Congress on the program, including data on affected jurisdictions, wildfire containment analysis, alert response times, and emerging technology integration.
  • The bill sets a sunset date of December 31, 2031 for the FireGuard 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)
4 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to George Whitesides’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY $31,495
  • GOOGLE LLC $27,766
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY $21,438
  • CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $19,734
  • MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL $16,400

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for George Whitesides → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 26, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. · house
  2. Sep 26, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • S 91 — Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 17, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 5782 — Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025 · Introduced Dec 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 4038 — Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 14, 2026 · Cong. 119 67%
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  • S 3190 — Fire Innovation Unit Act of 2025 · Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 527 — Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 26, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 26, 2025

Mr. Whitesides (for himself, Mr. Crank, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Garamendi, and Mr. Crow) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To amend title 32, United States Code, to establish the FireGuard Program as a program of record of the National Guard.

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

SECTION 1. FIREGUARD PROGRAM: PROGRAM OF RECORD; AUTHORIZATION.

(a) In General.—Section 510 of title 32, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subsection (a)—

(A) by striking “may” and inserting “shall”;

(B) by inserting “of record” after “carry out a program”; and

(C) by striking “Such a program” and inserting “Such program”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:

“(c) Annual Briefing.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives the first of five annual briefings regarding the FireGuard Program. Such a briefing shall include, with regards to the year preceding the date of the briefing, the following elements:

“(1) The States (as such term is defined in section 901 of this title), counties, municipalities, and Tribal governments that received information under the FireGuard Program.

“(2) A comparative analysis of a map of—

“(A) each wildfire, initially provided to an entity described in paragraph (1) through the FireGuard Program; and

“(B) the perimeter of such wildfire after containment.

“(3) An analysis of the time between the detection of a fire via raw satellite data and alerts being sent to local responders.

“(4) A review of efforts undertaken to integrate emerging satellite and aerial surveillance technologies from qualified private, nonprofit, and public sector sources.

“(d) Sunset.—The FireGuard Program shall terminate on December 31, 2031.”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.—The heading of such section is amended by striking “Authorization for”. <all>

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