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The bill increases short-term transparency and oversight of DOD proficiency flights near the capital but does so at modest administrative cost and with a nontrivial risk of revealing operational patterns that could affect security.
Congress, oversight bodies, and the public will get regular, specific data on Department of Defense proficiency flights in the National Capital Region for three years, improving transparency and enabling short-term trend analysis of flight activity.
The Department of Defense will incur administrative burden and modest costs to prepare and submit three detailed reports, imposing work on federal personnel and using agency resources.
Publishing regular activity-level data about proficiency flights could reveal operational patterns that, if misused, might weaken operational security or reveal sensitive information about DOD activity near the capital.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit three annual reports counting DoD proficiency flights in the National Capital Region for the prior 12 months.
Introduced April 9, 2026 by Eugene Simon Vindman · Last progress April 9, 2026
Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the number of Department of Defense proficiency flights that took place in the National Capital Region. The first report must be submitted within one year of enactment and then once a year for two additional years, for a total of three annual reports covering the prior 12-month period each time. The National Capital Region is identified by reference to the existing statutory definition. The reports request counts only (the number of proficiency flights) and do not authorize operational changes or new funding.