Congressional Adds Methodology

Source documents

• Every add comes from DoD's DD 1414 Base for Reprogramming Actions, one PDF for each enacted defense appropriations act, published by the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). For each program element, procurement line and budget activity it prints the President's request, each change Congress made and the enacted amount. (DoD Comptroller, DD 1414 index)
• The act requires DoD to send this table to the defense committees within 60 days and allows no reprogramming until it does. (P.L. 119-75, secs. 8006-8007)
• DoD replaces a document at the same address when it revises it: the FY2023 entry on its index reads “Updated March 16, 2023”, and the FY2026 file changed on 2026-08-10 (2,650 items became 2,648; the adds did not change). We identify every version by its SHA-256 hash; earlier versions show under their year. (DoD index, archived 2026-06-15; FY2026 document, version of 2026-04-09)

What counts as an add

• An add is an item whose text is a program increase (“Program increase - …”, including the document’s misspellings such as “Program ncrease”) with an amount above zero.
• Each add counts once. When DoD moves an add to another line for execution, the document prints it three times: +A in the line Congress chose, −A in that line and +A in the receiving line. Only the first counts.
• The rule reads the item text, not the footnote flags, because the flags change meaning between years (see “How we read the documents”).
• The document prints thousands of dollars; our pages show dollars.

What we leave out

These increases and copies are in the documents but are not adds under the rule. Counts per year, from the current document of each year:

• Peer-reviewed medical research lines of the Defense Health Program are not worded as program increases, so the rule leaves them out; the table shows what they add up to.
• Bare “Classified adjustment” lines change classified programs. The classified annex that sets them has the force of law but is not public. (P.L. 119-75, secs. 8006-8007)
• “Project increase” lines are printed in FY2022 and FY2023 only; 20 of them are House Community Project Funding items (see “Who asked for this add?”).
• Reconciliation lines match DoD’s table to the act’s totals; realignment copies are DoD’s bookkeeping of a moved add. Neither adds money, so the table shows counts only.
• A line whose items do not add up to its printed change is not loaded. Three pages are misprinted in the documents: FY2021 page 96, FY2025 page 181 and FY2026 page 70.
• Funding blocks inside a line (overseas contingency, disaster relief, Ukraine supplementals) are subtotals, not items.

How we read the documents

• We read the DD 1414 text PDF, which carries the program element of every research line. The explanatory statement and the committee reports print the same tables as scanned images without program elements.
• Each number is placed by its printed column (request, congressional change, enacted, item); words are grouped into rows, lines, title wraps and funding blocks.
• Every line must reconcile: its items add up to the printed congressional change within $3 thousand, and budget activity, section and account subtotals equal the sum of their lines. The items of a line that does not reconcile are not loaded (the “Not loaded” column above).
• Footnote flags change meaning between years: flag 4/ marks a congressional add only from FY2024; in FY2020-FY2023 it marks other things, such as lines that need prior approval to reprogram. Each year’s legend is stored with its document.
• The parser version of each year is in the source table. A parser change reloads every year, so all years follow the same rule.

Congressional adds vs earmarks: what the DD 1414 shows

• Under House and Senate rules, an earmark is money for a named entity or place outside a formula-driven or competitive award process. The House calls its earmarks Community Project Funding; the Senate calls them Congressionally Directed Spending. Each one needs a named requesting member, a certification that the member has no financial interest, and public posting. (CRS RS22866; CRS R46722)
• Program increases are not earmarks. The defense explanatory statement says: “Except for projects contained in the table titled Community Project Funding, funding increases shall be competitively awarded, or provided to programs that have received competitive awards in the past.” The disclosure rules do not apply to them, and the DD 1414 names no requester. (FY2023 defense explanatory statement)
• Both chambers observed an earmark moratorium from 2011 to 2021. It was never written into law or the rules; the 117th Congress (2021-2022) brought earmarks back as Community Project Funding and Congressionally Directed Spending. (CRS RS22866; CRS R46722)
• Members request program increases privately. The House Defense subcommittee takes requests keyed by program element through a member portal; the requests are not published. (House Defense subcommittee, FY2024 member letter)
• Few increases trace to a named sponsor: 32 of 1,090 FY2026 procurement and research increases match House floor amendments, and 92 FY2026 increases ($5.9 billion) were in neither chamber’s bill. (Taxpayers for Common Sense, FY2026)

Who asked for this add?

• For 31 defense adds ($77.7M), the House published the requesting member. The House Defense subcommittee accepted Community Project Funding for research accounts in FY2022 and FY2023 only, and the Senate took no defense Congressionally Directed Spending in FY2022-FY2026. Most FY2022 defense earmarks were military construction, which a separate act funds. (CRS R46722; CRS R47896; H.Rept. 118-121; Senate FY2026 request guidance; GAO-23-105914)

We show the requester on these adds only, as the House printed the name, with the table it comes from. No public record names who asked for any other add, and we do not infer one.

Sources: FY2022 explanatory statement, House report; FY2023 explanatory statement, House report.

What the data can and cannot say

• It shows each add’s amount, fiscal year, service, appropriation account, budget activity, program element or line, item text, the line’s request and enacted amounts, and DoD’s footnote flags.
• It cannot show who requested an add (except the House-disclosed items above), who received the money, where the work happens, whether or when it was obligated, project-level requests, or classified amounts.
• Adds are not contracts. Contracts carry no program element, so a link from an add to an award would be an inference; we do not make one.
• “Requested” means the line’s request. 71 FY2026 adds sit in lines with no printed request. At project level, three-fourths of FY2026 increases funded projects with no requested funding; the DD 1414 does not show project-level requests. (Taxpayers for Common Sense, FY2026)
• Adds are increases only; Congress also made cuts. FY2026 adds total $30.3B, while the act ended about $8.4 billion above the request, net. 162 FY2026 adds sit in lines whose net change is negative. (Breaking Defense, 2026-01-20)
• FY2025 ran on a full-year continuing resolution (P.L. 119-4). Its document lists 577 adds, fewer than other years. (Taxpayers for Common Sense, FY2025)

Update schedule

DoD publishes

Within 60 days of each defense appropriations act or full-year continuing resolution; FY2020-FY2026 documents appeared 27 to 57 days after enactment.

Revisions

DoD replaces a revised document at the same address; we compare hashes and keep every version.

Data updated

Oct 11, 2026

Download the data

Every line of each year's current DD 1414, adds marked (Kind, Member add), in US$, with source page, hash, parser version and any disclosed requester. Free, under CC BY 4.0.

Other counts of FY2026 procurement and RDT&E increases

Counts differ by definition: which lines count as increases (for example reconciliation lines and items worded other than “Program increase”) and gross versus net amounts. We publish our rule with our numbers.

Changes

1. Oct 15, 2026 · Requesters shown for the 31 House Community Project Funding items

   Adds that the House disclosed as Community Project Funding in FY2022 and FY2023 now show the requesting member, as printed in the enacted explanatory statement, with a link to the table.

2. Oct 11, 2026 · Congressional adds FY2020 to FY2026 published

   Every program increase in the enacted defense funding tables for FY2020 through FY2026, read from the line items of each year.

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Corrections

We fix our reading of the documents: a misread amount, a wrong service or account, a missed or extra add. A fix reloads every year with the corrected parser and is listed under Changes.

A typo or error in a DoD document stays as DoD printed it until DoD revises the document; we load the revision when it appears.

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