{
  "report_slug": "q2-2026-defense-procurement",
  "date": "2026-09-30",
  "summary": "Section 849 is an equipment-procurement restriction on the Secretary of Defense, effective December 18, 2026. The report's earlier procurement-and-operation description has been corrected.",
  "changes": [
    "Equipment-procurement paragraph and methodology now use the enacted supplier-list, domicile and designated foreign-control criteria.",
    "Removed the software-development and networking-location criteria attributed to this section.",
    "The methodology includes related supplier services and equipment and all statutory purpose exceptions."
  ],
  "source_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/pdf/PLAW-119publ60.pdf#page=263",
  "data_snapshot_changed": false,
  "additional_changes": [
    "R17: distinguished announcement from award date for Colibrium; corrected Freemelt prototype development label and AML3D Danville commissioning status.",
    "Corrected the unused curated NDAA background label to enacted procurement scope; retained original label in the audit source backup."
  ],
  "superseded_background_label": "FY2026 NDAA enacted; Sec. 849 bars DoD procurement or operation of covered AM machines from covered AM companies (made in, software developed in, or networked through China, Russia, Iran or North Korea, plus ownership-control ties), with testing, intelligence and electronic-warfare exceptions, effective 2026-12-18"
}