Sec. 1082. Counter-unmanned aircraft system readiness
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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of the Joint Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, shall coordinate with the Secretaries of the military departments to identify differences in the interpretation and application of section 130i of title 10, United States Code, among the military departments, including differences with respect to— interpretations of the term covered facility or asset ; the application of modern best practices for counter-unmanned aircraft system to each type of covered facility or asset; and divergent, unrealistic, or unnecessarily limited legal interpretations of the term covered facility or asset .
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Joint Counter Small Unmanned Systems Office shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes a description of each of the following: Differences identified in the application of section 130i of title 10, United States Code, among the military departments. Any resources required to expedite and modernize site evaluations, including electromagnetic spectrum evaluations required for the deployment of counter-unmanned aircraft system defenses and site surveys described in section 1081 of this Act.
Suggestions to improve the role of the United States Northern Command as a synchronizing body for homeland counter-unmanned aircraft systems deployed at covered facilities or assets. The plan of the Director to remedy, without change to underlying law, the differences in legal interpretations identified pursuant to subsection (a)(3). The strategy of the Director for retrofitting and modernizing military installations and depots for testing counter-unmanned aircraft systems and an identification of any policy, legal, or regulatory challenges to carrying out such strategy.
In this section, the terms covered facility or asset and unmanned aircraft system have the meaning given such terms in section 130i of title 10, United States Code.