“A bill to protect the United States and assets of the United States from incursions.”
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This section amends DoD authority under 10 U.S.C. 130i to mitigate unmanned aircraft system (UAS) threats to covered facilities or assets—allowing detection, disruption, seizure, or destruction notwithstanding specified criminal (Title 18) and aviation (49 U.S.C. 46502) laws—as follows: (1) expands the Title 18 notwithstanding clause to explicitly list sections 32, 1030, and 1367 and chapters 119 and 206 and requires the Secretary of Defense to delegate such authority to unified combatant command commanders, service secretaries, or other appropriate DoD officials; (2) authorizes UAS operator warnings, including via remote identification broadcasts; (3) permits such actions to support other federal agencies mitigating UAS threats; (4) exempts related technologies, procedures, protocols, regulations, and guidance from disclosure under FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3)) and state/local laws (new subsection (g)); (5) exempts DoD and Coast Guard UAS mitigation activities conducted outside the U.S. from the specified Title 18 provisions and 49 U.S.C. 46502 (new subsection (i)); (6) extends reporting requirements through January 1, 2026 (from March 1, 2018); (7) extends the authority's sunset to December 31, 2030 (from December 31, 2026), annual reporting through that date, and GAO review deadline to November 15, 2030 (from November 15, 2026) with a one-year (from 180-day) assessment period; and (8) expands the definition of covered asset to include additional DoD properties and activities (e.g., restricted-access sites under 10 U.S.C. 2672, nuclear/biological/chemical incident response under 10 U.S.C. 282, and time-limited emergency responses) and adds required congressional notifications and the definition of "unified combatant command."