Rules Committee hears FY2026 NDAA, spotlighting Speed Act procurement reforms and service member pay and housing

The House Rules Committee met Oct. 10 to consider HR 3838, the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House Armed Services Committee framed as the Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery Act, or Speed Act, a package of acquisition reforms, service-member pay and housing measures, and global security provisions.

The Speed Act "includes a series of reforms to eliminate regulatory burdens in bureaucratic inertia and put in place a system that will deliver capability to the warfighter at the speed of scale," Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Rules Committee. "Fixing acquisitions will go a long way toward ensuring our warfighters are the most capable fighting force on the planet."

Why it matters: the bill aims to shorten the time between identifying a battlefield need and delivering capability, a gap speakers said can take…