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Allows the Department of Defense and Coast Guard to carry out counter-unmanned aircraft system (counter‑UAS) activities outside the United States with expanded authorities and legal exemptions. It narrows which federal criminal statutes apply to those overseas counter‑UAS actions, requires certain delegations of authority inside DoD, creates a nondisclosure exemption for related technologies and procedures, adds specific authorized activities (including protecting specified DoD property and certain emergency response assistance), and updates implementation timelines and definitions.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced May 15, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress May 15, 2025
COUNTER Act
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate