One Big Beautiful Bill Act 2025, Section 40001 ("Coast Guard mission readiness")

Proposed 2025-05-20 | Enacted 2025-07-04 | Official source

Summary

Appropriates $75 million for the Coast Guard to contract, acquire, or procure autonomous maritime systems, enhancing AI and automated capabilities for maritime operations. Specifies funding to improve maritime domain awareness and upgrade technology infrastructure supporting AI-driven systems.

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(a) In General.--Chapter 11 of title 14, <<NOTE: 14 USC prec. 1181.>> United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Subchapter V--Coast Guard Mission Readiness ``Sec. 1181. <<NOTE: 14 USC 1181.>> Special appropriations ``In <<NOTE: Time period. Expiration date.>> addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $24,593,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1105(a) and sections 1131, 1132, 1133, and 1156, to use expedited processes to procure or acquire new operational assets and systems, to maintain existing assets and systems, to design, construct, plan, engineer, and improve necessary shore infrastructure, and to enhance operational resilience for monitoring, search and rescue, interdiction, hardening of maritime approaches, and navigational safety, of which-- ``(1) $1,142,500,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of fixed-wing aircraft, equipment related to such aircraft and training simulators and program management for such aircraft, to provide for security of the maritime border; ``(2) $2,283,000,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of rotary-wing aircraft, equipment related to such aircraft and training simulators and program management for such aircraft, to provide for security of the maritime border; ``(3) $266,000,000 is provided for procurement and acquisition of long-range unmanned aircraft and base stations, equipment related to such aircraft and base stations, and program management for such aircraft and base stations, to provide for security of the maritime border; ``(4) $4,300,000,000 is provided for procurement of Offshore Patrol Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to provide operational presence and security of the maritime border and for interdiction of persons and controlled substances; ``(5) $1,000,000,000 is provided for procurement of Fast Response Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to provide operational presence and security of the maritime border and for interdiction of persons and controlled substances; ``(6) $4,300,000,000 is provided for procurement of Polar Security Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to ensure timely presence of the Coast Guard in the Arctic and Antarctic regions; ``(7) $3,500,000,000 is provided for procurement of Arctic Security Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to ensure timely presence of the Coast Guard in the Arctic and Antarctic regions; ``(8) $816,000,000 is provided for procurement of light and medium icebreaking cutters, and equipment relating to such cutters, from shipyards that have demonstrated success in the cost-effective application of design standards and in delivering, on schedule and within budget, vessels of a size and tonnage that are not less than the size and tonnage of the cutters described in this paragraph, and for program management for such cutters, to expand domestic icebreaking capacity; ``(9) $162,000,000 is provided for procurement of Waterways Commerce Cutters, equipment related to such cutters, and program management for such cutters, to support aids to navigation, waterways and coastal security, and search and rescue in inland waterways;
``(10) $4,379,000,000 is provided for design, planning, engineering, recapitalization, construction, rebuilding, and improvement of, and program management for, shore facilities, of which-- ``(A) $425,000,000 is provided for design, planning, engineering, construction of, and program management for-- ``(i) the enlisted boot camp barracks and multi-use training center; and ``(ii) other related facilities at the enlisted boot camp; ``(B) $500,000,000 is provided for-- ``(i) construction, improvement, and dredging at the Coast Guard Yard; and ``(ii) acquisition of a floating drydock for the Coast Guard Yard; ``(C) not more than $2,729,500,000 is provided for homeports and hangars for cutters and aircraft for which funds are appropriated under paragraph (1) through (9); and ``(D) $300,000,000 is provided for homeporting of the existing polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025; ``(11) $2,200,000,000 is provided for aviation, cutter, and shore facility depot maintenance and maintenance of command, control, communication, computer, and cyber assets; ``(12) $170,000,000 is provided for improving maritime domain awareness on the maritime border, at United States ports, at land-based facilities and in the cyber domain; and ``(13) $75,000,000 is provided to contract the services of, acquire, or procure autonomous maritime systems.''.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 11 of title 14, United <<NOTE: 14 USC prec. 1101.>> States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``subchapter v--coast guard mission readiness ``1181. Special appropriations.''.