Senator Moody Delivers Massive Wins, Lands Nearly $1 Billion in Authorized Funding for Florida Military Personnel, Installations, and Infrastructure in the Senate Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 National Defense Authorization Act

Home How Can I Help? News Contact Us Share Your Opinion Federal Nominations Scheduling Request Storm Preparation About Search for: Home How Can I Help? News Contact Us Share Your Opinion Federal Nominations Scheduling Request Storm Preparation About All News Senator Moody Delivers Massive Wins, Lands Nearly $1 Billion in Authorized Funding for Florida Military Personnel, Installations, and Infrastructure in the Senate Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 National Defense Authorization Act Jun 17, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the most recent member to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Ashley Moody released a statement following a massive slate of wins she worked to authorize funding for in this year’s Senate National Defense Authorization Act. “Supporting our armed forces is not just my job—as a mom in a military family, it is personal to me. These wins are not just allocated dollars; they are a down payment on the future of our military in Florida, aimed at strengthening the state’s installations and defense industrial base. It is such an honor to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee and deliver real, tangible wins back to our state. I have worked from day one on this committee to ensure our military remains the most capable and well supported fighting force in the world.” said Senator Ashley Moody. BACKGROUND: Senator Moody successfully secured nearly a billion dollars in authorized funding for Florida Military Bases, in addition to securing over a dozen other wins in this year’s SASC NDAA package to support Florida’s military personnel, installations, and the defense industrial base. The bill authorizes roughly $935 million in military construction at installations across Florida, with investments spanning the Space Coast, the Panhandle, North Florida, and South Florida. Key projects include: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station —supporting the Eastern Range and the nation’s busiest launch site. Projects include a new command facility, base support and communications warehouses, a launch support facility, a railhead and transfer facility, security forces, vehicle maintenance facilities, and a missile-defense test facility. Tyndall Air Force Base (Panama City) — continued rebuild investment, including a major AFCEC facilities and gate project and a fire and crash rescue station. Eglin Air Force Base (Fort Walton Beach) — ramp expansion and recruit training capacity, plus committee-added design funding for the King Hangar (Building 130) and a physical fitness complex. Homestead Air Reserve Base — a special operations climate-controlled tactical storage warehouse. Naval Air Station Jacksonville — an energy resilience project funding power generation and a microgrid. Naval Air Station Key West — funding to continue construction of a command-and-control facility. Camp Blanding (Florida National Guard) — an automated multipurpose training range. Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island (Jacksonville) — communications infrastructure modernization. SPACE LAUNCH ENTERPRISE BILLET REVIEW Senator Moody secured a provision requiring the Air Force to conduct a full review of whether the Space Force has enough personnel to keep pace with America’s surging launch tempo — and to deliver Congress a plan to fix any shortfalls. The review covers Space Launch Delta 45 at Cape Canaveral (the Eastern Range) and the functions that keep launches safe and on schedule, from range safety and mission assurance to cybersecurity and infrastructure. With launch demand projected to climb through 2032, this ensures Florida’s Space Coast has the manpower to remain the heart of national security space launches. STARCOM GUARDIAN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (Patrick Space Force Base) Senator Moody won report language directing sustained investment in Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. The provision recognizes that Florida’s Space Coast offers a training environment no purpose-built facility could replicate — Guardians learn alongside live launch operations, real-time space domain awareness, and operational space units. It directs the Air Force to report on STARCOM’s training infrastructure, identify gaps, and lay out a long-term plan to build STARCOM into a permanent center of excellence for the Space Force, cementing Patrick’s role in training the next generation of Guardians. EGLIN GULF TEST AND TRAINING RANGE Senator Moody secured a provision spotlighting the Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range as an irreplaceable national asset. The provision points to a Defense Department finding that no other place in the world gives the U.S. military comparable access to test and train over open water in a realistic, instrumented environment relevant to today’s threats. It directs a briefing on the range’s contribution to recent military operations and on the national security risks of shrinking the range or shifting the Military Mission Line — protecting Eglin’s mission against encroac