SPEED Act
What does the SPEED Act do?
HR 3838 is a House bill sponsored by Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-AL). The SPEED Act is the House procurement reform title of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. It rewrites the stated objective of the defense acquisition system to prioritize expeditious delivery of capabilities to the Armed Forces, creates two new DoD organizational bodies to integrate requirements and acquisition, raises most procurement dollar thresholds — some by 10x or more — to reduce paperwork on routine purchases, establishes a Defense Industrial Resilience Consortium, and requires GAO and DoD reviews of the acquisition workforce.
Did HR 3838 pass? Where it stands
As of July 17, 2026, HR 3838 has passed the House.
Status: Passed House
Latest vote: House Passed 231–196 on September 10, 2025
Outlook: In Play
Key provisions
- Acquisition Thresholds Raised
- Simplified acquisition threshold raised to $10M — set directly in statute replacing prior cross-reference to civilian federal standard
- Micro-purchase threshold raised from $10,000 to $100,000
- Major defense acquisition program threshold raised from $300M (FY1990 dollars) to $1B (FY2024 dollars)
- MDAP total-expenditure threshold raised from $1.8B (FY1990 dollars) to $5.5B (FY2024 dollars)
- Noncompetitive and Pricing Thresholds Raised
- Justification threshold for noncompetitive contracts raised from $10M to $100M
- Upper noncompetitive justification threshold raised from $75M to $500M
- Cost or pricing data submission threshold raised from $2M to $10M
- Simplified procedures for small purchases threshold raised from $5M to $50M
- Acquisition System Objective Rewritten
- 10 U.S.C. 3102 rewritten: primary objective changed to expeditious delivery of capabilities to the Armed Forces
- Secretary of Defense must revise DoD Directive 5000.01 within 30 days of enactment
- Service acquisition executives required to use iterative development and terminate programs with cost growth, performance deficiencies, or schedule delays
- New DoD Integration Bodies Created
- Requirements, Acquisition, and Programming Integration Directorate (RAPID) established to coordinate requirements, acquisition, and budget decisions
- RAPID must provide recommendation to Deputy Secretary within 30 days of receiving a joint capability requirement from the Joint Requirements Council
- Mission Engineering and Integration Activity (MEIA) established within 120 days to conduct cross-service technology integration
- Industrial Base and Commercial Tech
- Defense Industrial Resilience Consortium established within 90 days to address industrial base challenges
- Bridging Operational Objectives and Support for Transition (BOOST) program created under Defense Innovation Unit; sunsets December 31, 2030
- DoD required to negotiate data-as-a-service access rights before entering weapon system procurement contracts
Last updated July 15, 2026