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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 5845. Mr. KIM submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title III, insert the
following:
SEC. 3__. STUDY ON READINESS OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES FOR AN UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT SYSTEM ATTACK.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and
development center to conduct an independent study of the
readiness of three covered military installations for an
unmanned aircraft system attack on military personnel and
infrastructure at such installations and the resilience of
such installations to such attack.
(b) Requirements for Study.—In carrying out the study
required under subsection (a) at a covered military
installation, the federally funded research and development
center with which the Secretary has entered into an agreement
to carry out the study at such installation shall—
(1) detail the current capabilities of such installation to
deter an unmanned aircraft system attack and any gap in such
capabilities; and
(2) submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the
Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the
findings with respect to such study.
(c) Elements.—The study required by subsection (a) at each
covered military installation shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of future threats to military
installations from unmanned aircraft systems and other drone-
like warfare.
(2) An identification of counter-unmanned aircraft system
capacities that already exist at the installation.
(3) An identification of the counter-unmanned aircraft
system capacities that are needed at the installation.
(d) Swarm Attack Exercises.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary of Defense shall require
that swarm attack exercises be conducted to assess the
readiness and security of covered military installations
selected for purposes of the study under subsection (a) and
to evaluate the ability of such installations to perform
critical missions during an ongoing unmanned aircraft system
attack.
(2) Exclusion.—A swarm attack exercise conducted under
paragraph (1) may exclude, if technically feasible, housing
areas, commissaries, exchanges, and morale, welfare, and
recreation facilities.
(3) Policy and schedule for exercises.—The Secretary of
Defense shall—
(A) provide a uniform policy for the military departments
and the Defense Agencies with respect to conducting swarm
attack exercises under paragraph (1); and
(B) through fiscal year 2036, establish a schedule of swarm
attack exercises for the military departments and the Defense
Agencies, with each military department and Defense Agency
scheduled to conduct such an exercise on each covered
military installation selected for purposes of the study
under subsection (a) sufficient to allow that military
department or Defense Agency to meet the goals of this
section.
(e) Production of Data.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary of Defense shall require the
Secretary of each military department and the head of each
Defense Agency to conduct monitoring, measuring, and testing
to produce the data necessary to comply with this section.
(2) Provision of data.—Any data produced under paragraph
(1) shall be made available to the Commander of the United
States Northern Command upon request.
(f) Report.—Not later than one year after the commencement
of the study required under subsection (a), the Secretary of
Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the
results of the study.
(g) Covered Military Installation Defined.—In this
section, the term “covered military installation” means a
military installation located in the continental United
States.