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The bill improves federal situational awareness, policy guidance, and potential support for domestic UAS industry to better counter malicious drones, but creates administrative burden and risks exposing sensitive procurement/operational details, potential privacy issues, and possibly higher costs for agencies and taxpayers.
Law enforcement and homeland security agencies will get identified legal, policy, and capability gaps and recommended fixes to better detect and counter malicious UAS, improving public safety and response.
Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments will receive a comprehensive, evidence-based picture of UAS usage and counter-UAS capabilities within a year, informing more coordinated policy, training, and investment decisions.
The study will assess domestic production and procurement barriers and recommend steps to strengthen U.S. and allied UAS manufacturing, which could reduce reliance on adversary-sourced drones and support domestic tech jobs and industry.
If sensitive procurement and usage details are disclosed or inadequately protected, publishing counts and sources of agency UAS purchases could expose operational details and supply-chain vulnerabilities that adversaries could exploit.
Recommendations to prioritize domestic or allied UAS manufacturing and streamline procurement could raise costs for agencies and taxpayers if U.S.-made systems are more expensive than alternatives.
Collecting and reporting operator training, usage frequency, and other operational details may create privacy risks for operators and communities if the report includes granular or identifiable information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires GAO to deliver a report within 1 year on UAS use and counter-UAS systems, with factual data and recommendations on authorities, procurement, and domestic manufacturing.
Requires the Government Accountability Office (Comptroller General) to produce a report within one year on how federal, state, local, and tribal agencies use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and the systems they use to counter UAS. The report must give factual data on purchases, domestic production, deployment, training, policies, and privacy protections, and must include recommendations to improve legal authorities, procurement, domestic/allied manufacturing, and counter-UAS capabilities.
Official title: To require the Comptroller General of the United States to report on the use of unmanned aircraft systems and on systems developed to counter such unmanned aircraft systems by Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Gabriel Vasquez · Last progress December 10, 2025