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Sec. 1542 · S. 2296

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

Division A — Department of Defense authorizations › Title XV — Space activities, strategic programs, and intelligence matters › Subtitle C — Missile defense

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Committee version · Sec. 1542

(a) In general 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. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) Missile The term missile means a ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, hypersonic cruise, or loitering munition. (2) Program Manager The term Program Manager means the Direct Reporting Program Manager for Golden Dome for America. (3) Unmanned system 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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Passed the Senate · Sec. 1542

(a) In general 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. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) Missile The term missile means a ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, hypersonic cruise, or loitering munition. (2) Program Manager The term Program Manager means the Direct Reporting Program Manager for Golden Dome for America. (3) Unmanned system 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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