Defending Defense Research from Chinese Communist Party Espionage Act of 2025

Introduced

In Committee

Floor

Crossed Over

Passed

Enacted

Overview Bill text 1 History 2 Sponsors

Introduced in Senate Feb 5, 2025 · 3.1K words Open full page ↗

119TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION

S. 418

To prohibit contracts between certain foreign entities and institutions of

higher education conducting Department of Defense-funded research and

to impose post-employment restrictions for participants in certain re-

search funded by the Department, and for other purposes.

Sign in to read the full text

The document summary and details above are public. The full text is available to signed-in accounts.

Create a free account Sign in

PASSAGE PROBABILITY

1% Unlikely

Why this number

Stage base Introduced — base rate 2%, measured from US's completed sessions
Momentum -7 17/100 from the pace of recorded action
Time since last action -22 614 days quiet

A transparent scoring model over stage, momentum, recency, sponsorship and recorded votes — not a trained predictor. Treat it as a way to rank attention, not as a forecast.