Limitation on availability of funds for Missile Defense Agency pending arrangement for independent analysis of space-based missile defense capability

Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2026 for Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, for the Missile Defense Agency, not more than 90 percent may be obligated or expended until the date on which the Director of the Missile Defense Agency enters into an arrangement in accordance with section 1671(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118–31) and notifies the congressional defense committees of such arrangement.