SkyFoundry Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5086 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5086 To require the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a program to enable the rapid development, testing, and scalable manufacture of small unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 2, 2025 Mr. Harrigan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a program to enable the rapid development, testing, and scalable manufacture of small unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes. 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 ``SkyFoundry Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. SKYFOUNDRY PROGRAM. (a) Establishment.-- (1) Program required.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish and carry out a program to enable the rapid development, testing, and scalable manufacture of small unmanned aircraft systems, with potential expansion to associated energetics and other autonomous systems as determined by the Secretary. (2) Designation.--The program established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be known as the ``SkyFoundry Program'' (in this section the ``Program''). (3) Administration.--The Secretary shall-- (A) administer the Program through the Secretary of the Army; and (B) establish the Program as part of the Defense Industrial Resilience Consortium. (b) Alternative Acquisition M