[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3103-S3104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5961. Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. McConnell) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        In section 1224(c)(2)(A), strike clauses (ii) and (iii) 
     and insert the following:
       (ii) the tactics, techniques, and procedures that enable 
     successful battlefield employment of offensive and defensive 
     unmanned aerial systems;

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       (iii) best practices with respect to force protection from 
     unmanned aerial systems and the defense of fixed targets from 
     unmanned aerial systems; and
       (iv) the regular transmission of lessons learned in Ukraine 
     to the military forces of--

       (I) Taiwan;
       (II) Australia;
       (III) Japan;
       (IV) the Republic of Korea;
       (V) Thailand;
       (VI) the Philippines;
       (VII) partners in the Indo-Pacific region, including India, 
     New Zealand, and Vietnam; and
       (VIII) member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization, particularly such countries on the eastern 
     flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance, 
     including Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.

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