NDAA FY2021 Amendment to Prohibit Certain IHEs from R&D Awards (S4424)

Current understanding

S4424 (introduced) would amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to prohibit certain institutions of higher education from receiving federal research and development awards. The bill appears to be a companion measure to S4423 (which pursues a similar objective through the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act via a branch-campus certification requirement), extending existing foreign-influence and research-security policy into the NDAA framework. Status: introduced; no committee action reported yet.

Evidence log

• 2026-04-28 — A bill to amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to prohibit certain institutions of higher education from receiving research and development awards, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with s4423-branch-campus-certification-rd-awards: Companion Senate bills (sequential numbering) both restricting federal R&D awards to certain IHEs — S4423 works through an R&D Competition and Innovation Act branch-campus certification, while S4424 amends the FY2021 NDAA to impose an outright prohibition. (novelty: 2)

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