Sec. 1055. Report on equipping certain ground combat units with small unmanned aerial systems
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments, submit to the congressional defense committees a report on equipping platoon-sized ground combat formations with covered small unmanned aerial systems. The report submitted pursuant to subsection
(a)shall address the following: The use of covered small unmanned aerial systems in the Ukraine conflict and best practices learned. The potential use of covered small unmanned aerial systems to augment small unit tactics and lethality in the ground combat forces. Procurement challenges, legal restrictions, training shortfalls, operational limitations, or other impediments to fielding covered small unmanned aerial systems at the platoon level. A plan to equip platoon-sized ground combat formations in the close combat force with covered small unmanned aerial systems at a basis of issue deemed appropriate by the relevant secretary, including a proposed timeline and fielding strategy. A plan to equip such other ground combat units with covered small unmanned aerial systems as deemed appropriate by the relevant secretaries. An assessment of appropriate mission allocation between Group 3 unmanned aerial systems, Group 1 unmanned aerial systems, and covered small unmanned aerial systems. In this section, the term covered small unmanned aerial system means a lightweight, low-cost, and commercially available unmanned aerial system or drone able to be quickly deployed for— intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance; conducting offensive strikes; or other functions as deemed appropriate by the relevant secretaries.