Authorization of Eastern Regional Range Complex for multi-domain operations and robotic autonomous systems training, testing, and experimentation

(a) Authorization The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Secretaries of the military departments, may designate and develop an Eastern Regional Range Complex to serve as a joint training, testing, and experimentation hub for multi-domain operations and robotic autonomous systems, including unmanned aircraft systems and counter-unmanned aircraft systems capabilities, to address growing threats from potential adversaries. (b) Location The Eastern Regional Range Complex shall encompass the territories of the States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, and Alabama. (c) Activities The Eastern Regional Range Complex shall be used— (1) to conduct joint, multi-domain, non-kinetic electromagnetic warfare, cyber and information operations training within live, virtual, and constructive environments, leveraging common networks with access to available spectrum; (2) support integrated multi-domain operations training involving air, land, sea, cyber, and space components; (3) conduct joint service and interagency robotic autonomous system training, experimentation and testing, including the development of tactics, techniques and procedures for unmanned aircraft systems and counter-unmanned aircraft systems; (4) evaluate emerging technologies and prototypes and tactics, techniques and procedures for the operation, detection, defeat, and attribution of robotic autonomous systems in contested cyber and electromagnetic spectrum environments; and (5) facilitate the integration of mature prototype experimentation and live-fire exercises for rapid fielding of capabilities aligned with the Joint Warfighting Concept. (d) Coordination and integration The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that activities conducted at the Eastern Regional Range Complex are coordinated with— (1) the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office. (2) the Joint Staff (J–7); (3) the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; and (4) other entities with functions or missions relevant to the activities carried out at the Complex, which may include— (A) relevant combatant commands and service components: (B) allies and partners of the United States participating in multi-domain operations; (C) the Defense Innovation Unit; (D) State National Guard commands; (E) the Office of Naval Research; and (F) such other key stakeholders as the Secretary determines appropriate. (e) Infrastructure and other resources The Secretary of Defense may— (1) carry out military construction, infrastructure improvements, and technology installation, as necessary, to facilitate the activities described in subsection (b), including through the provision of range instrumentation, telemetry, cyber range integration, and electromagnetic spectrum operations support; and (2) consult with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to recommend spectrum access requirements in support of joint and service training, testing, and experimentation within the Eastern Regional Range Complex and the Western Regional Range Complex, including access to appropriate live environments capable of supporting electromagnetic attack training, experimentation, and testing.

(a) Authorization The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Secretaries of the military departments, may designate and develop an Eastern Regional Range Complex to serve as a joint training, testing, and experimentation hub for multi-domain operations and robotic autonomous systems, including unmanned aircraft systems and counter-unmanned aircraft systems capabilities, to address growing threats from potential adversaries. (b) Location The Eastern Regional Range Complex shall encompass the territories of the States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, and Alabama. (c) Activities The Eastern Regional Range Complex shall be used— (1) to conduct joint, multi-domain, non-kinetic electromagnetic warfare, cyber and information operations training within live, virtual, and constructive environments, leveraging common networks with access to available spectrum; (2) support integrated multi-domain operations training involving air, land, sea, cyber, and space components; (3) conduct joint service and interagency robotic autonomous system training, experimentation and testing, including the development of tactics, techniques and procedures for unmanned aircraft systems and counter-unmanned aircraft systems; (4) evaluate emerging technologies and prototypes and tactics, techniques and procedures for the operation, detection, defeat, and attribution of robotic autonomous systems in contested cyber and electromagnetic spectrum environments; and (5) facilitate the integration of mature prototype experimentation and live-fire exercises for rapid fielding of capabilities aligned with the Joint Warfighting Concept. (d) Coordination and integration The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that activities conducted at the Eastern Regional Range Complex are coordinated with— (1) the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office. (2) the Joint Staff (J–7); (3) the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; and (4) other entities with functions or missions relevant to the activities carried out at the Complex, which may include— (A) relevant combatant commands and service components: (B) allies and partners of the United States participating in multi-domain operations; (C) the Defense Innovation Unit; (D) State National Guard commands; (E) the Office of Naval Research; and (F) such other key stakeholders as the Secretary determines appropriate. (e) Infrastructure and other resources The Secretary of Defense may— (1) carry out military construction, infrastructure improvements, and technology installation, as necessary, to facilitate the activities described in subsection (b), including through the provision of range instrumentation, telemetry, cyber range integration, and electromagnetic spectrum operations support; and (2) consult with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to recommend spectrum access requirements in support of joint and service training, testing, and experimentation within the Eastern Regional Range Complex and the Western Regional Range Complex, including access to appropriate live environments capable of supporting electromagnetic attack training, experimentation, and testing.