Exceptions

(a) Cyberspace capabilities The requirements of sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 shall not apply to autonomous or semi-autonomous cyberspace capabilities. (b) Unarmed platforms The requirements of sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 shall not apply to unarmed platforms, whether remotely operated or operated by onboard personnel, and whether autonomous or semi-autonomous. (c) Time-Critical defensive systems In cases where the time available between threat detection and required intercept is insufficient to allow for individual human authorization of each engagement and provided that such operations do not have death or serious bodily harm to any person as a reasonably foreseeable consequence, the requirements of sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 shall not apply to— (1) systems employed exclusively for the defense against incoming munitions, rockets, artillery, mortars, missiles; or (2) unmanned aircraft systems. (d) Other excluded systems The requirements of sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 shall not apply to— (1) unguided munitions; (2) munitions manually guided by the human operator, such as laser- or wire-guided munitions; (3) mines; (4) unexploded explosive ordnance; or (5) autonomous or semi-autonomous systems that are not weapon systems. (e) Identification systems The requirements of sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 shall not apply to a system described in section 3(a)(2) with the sole purpose and outcome of identifying potential targets without further intervention by or communication with a human operator.