To establish a Department of State Domestic Protection Mission relating to unmanned aircraft system and unmanned aircraft.

This bill lets the Department of State set up a “Domestic Protection Mission” to protect people and places from dangerous drones. If a drone is a credible threat to a covered facility or asset, the Secretary of State could allow trained security staff and contractors to detect, track, warn, jam, take control of, seize, or disable or destroy the drone . Drones taken under this authority can be forfeited to the United States.

The Department must test and evaluate equipment first and work closely with the FAA to avoid harming safe airport operations and the national airspace. It must also set rules and guidance and follow privacy protections: any intercepted drone communications must be limited to what’s needed, kept only as long as necessary (no more than 180 days, with narrow exceptions), and not shared outside the Department unless required for law enforcement or by law . Regular briefings to Congress are required, and this authority ends seven years after enactment. The bill also makes clear it does not change the FAA’s legal powers, and allows support and resource-sharing with other agencies when needed .

• Who is affected: State Department security teams; drone operators near covered facilities; people living or traveling near those areas (airspace safety) .
• What changes: Allows detecting, warning, disrupting, seizing, and destroying threat drones; requires testing and FAA coordination; adds privacy limits and record rules; permits forfeiture and interagency support; requires semiannual briefings to Congress .
• When: Authority sunsets seven years after enactment; briefings occur twice a year during that period.