Sec. 5206. Unmanned aircraft system
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Chapter 3 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Subject to the availability of appropriations and to subsection (b), the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall establish a land-based unmanned aircraft system program under the control of the Commandant of the Coast Guard. During any fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for the design or construction of the Offshore Patrol Cutter, the Commandant— may not award a contract for design of an unmanned aircraft system for use by the Coast Guard; and may acquire an unmanned aircraft system only if such a system— has been part of a program of record, procured by, or used by, the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security, or a component thereof, before the date on which the Commandant acquires the system; and is acquired by the Commandant through an agreement with such a department or component, unless the unmanned aircraft system can be obtained at less cost through independent contract action.
Paragraph (1)(B) does not apply to small unmanned aircraft. Subsection
(b)does not apply to the design or acquisition of an unmanned aircraft system for which funds for research, development, test, and evaluation have been received from the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security. In this section each of the terms small unmanned aircraft and unmanned aircraft system has the meaning that term has in section 331 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 ( 49 U.S.C. 40101 note). . The analysis at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following: 61. Unmanned aircraft system. . Subsection
(c)of section 564 of title 14, United States Code, is repealed.
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