Sponsor
Elissa Slotkin
Senator · D-MI
Senator · D-MI
The bill increases visibility into U.S. drone capability gaps and strengthens congressional oversight to guide modernization, at the cost of consuming DoD resources and risking disclosure of sensitive vulnerabilities.
Military planners will gain a clearer, dated assessment of U.S. drone capability gaps, enabling targeted investments to improve force readiness.
Congress will receive an informed, dated report by March 1, 2027, improving legislative oversight and enabling authorization of targeted modernization or procurement.
The report could reveal sensitive vulnerabilities that, if disclosed or inadequately protected, adversaries could exploit and thereby endanger military personnel and capabilities.
Preparing a comprehensive review will consume Defense Department time and resources, potentially delaying other programs and imposing opportunity costs on federal staff.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Requires DoD to review U.S. posture on uncrewed systems across domains, identify gaps/vulnerabilities, and report findings to Congress by March 1, 2027.
Requires the Secretary of Defense to carry out a comprehensive review of U.S. posture for uncrewed systems across air, ground, surface, and undersea domains and their enabling systems. The review must identify capability gaps in U.S. forces and vulnerabilities to foreign uncrewed systems and deliver a report of findings to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2027. The requirement covers all classes of uncrewed vehicles and related enabling technologies, forces DoD to assess strengths and weaknesses, and gives Congress a formal, dated assessment to inform oversight, planning, and future budget or policy decisions.
Official title: Require a drone posture review.
Introduced August 6, 2026 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress August 6, 2026