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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 2296 (Reported in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1542

Sec. 1542. Accelerating development of autonomous agents to defend against cruise missiles and unmanned systems

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The Program Manager shall use all authorities available to the Program Manager to accelerate development of autonomous agents to cost-effectively defend the United States homeland and forward-deployed armed forces against raids of both large cruise missiles and unmanned systems as the Secretary considers appropriate. In this section: The term missile means a ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, hypersonic cruise, or loitering munition. The term Program Manager means the Direct Reporting Program Manager for Golden Dome for America.
The term unmanned system means a remote-operated or autonomous unmanned system of any size maneuvering in land, sea, air, or space that is capable of single attacks, swarm attacks, or sensor and data collection and reconnaissance.
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