To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

H.R. 8800 is legislation introduced in the House that authorizes fiscal year 2027 funding and sets policy for the Department of Defense, military construction, and defense activities of the Department of Energy. It also prescribes military personnel strengths for that year. The bill organizes these changes into divisions covering procurement, research, operations, personnel, health care, acquisition, cyber, space, nuclear forces, and the defense industrial base. This matters because it can affect what the United States military buys, how it trains and pays people, and what services military families and taxpayers see (Secs. 1-2).