§1827 Management of Existing Inventories of Covered Unmanned Aircraft Systems From Covered Foreign Entities.

Summary

All executive agencies must put any covered unmanned aircraft systems made or assembled by a covered foreign entity into their property accounting records within one year after Dec. 22, 2023. They must do this even if the item was cheap or bought for a specific job because these systems need special monitoring to track what they can do. The Department of Homeland Security, or an official it names, can decide that the inventory information is kept at a classified level. The Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may leave out systems from the full inventory if they are expendable because of mission risk (for example, hard-to-recover items) or are single-use and low cost. None of these requirements apply to any element of the intelligence community.