Updated: AI Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act  into law. The law includes the following AI-specific provisions:

• Department of Defense (DOD):
  • $450M for application of autonomy and artificial intelligence to naval shipbuilding;
  • $124M for improvements to Test Resource Management Center AI capabilities;
  • $145M for the development of artificial intelligence to enable one-way attack unmanned aerial systems and naval systems;
  • $250M for the advancement of the artificial intelligence ecosystem;
  • $250M for the expansion of Cyber Command AI lines of effort; and
  • $200M for the deployment of automation and AI to accelerate audits of the financial statements of the DOD.
• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA): $115M for accelerating nuclear national security missions through artificial intelligence.
• S. Customs and Border Protection: $6.168B for various purposes, including “[p]rocurement and integration of new nonintrusive inspection equipment and associated civil works, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, as well as other mission support, to combat the entry or exit of illicit narcotics at ports of entry and along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders.”
• Department of Energy:  $150M to carry out the following provisions:
  • “The Secretary of Energy shall -- (1) mobilize National Laboratories to partner with industry sectors within the United States to curate the scientific data of the Department of Energy across the National Laboratory complex so that the data is structured, cleaned, and preprocessed in a way that makes it suitable for use in artificial intelligence and machine learning models; and (2) initiate seed efforts for self-improving artificial intelligence models for science and engineering powered by the data described in paragraph (1).”
  • The curated data “may be used to rapidly develop next-generation microelectronics that have greater capabilities beyond Moore’s law while lowering energy consumption,” and the AI models developed under paragraph (2) “shall be provided to the scientific community through the American science cloud to accelerate innovation in discovery science and engineering for new energy technologies.”
• Rural Health Transformation Program: Allocates $10B per year in 2026-2030 to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide allotments to States for the purposes of carrying out certain health-related activities, including “training and technical assistance for the development and adoption of technology-enabled solutions that improve care delivery in rural hospitals, including remote monitoring, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies.”

Notably, the final bill did not include the 10-year moratorium on State and local laws and regulations regulating AI models, systems, or automated decision systems that was included in the House version of the bill. The moratorium was removed in the Senate version of the bill after facing bipartisan opposition.

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