Read theMandate

Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.Section 5 › Proposal

No long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, section 5, Sec. 5. Written by .

No long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities

The document says “may notWho acts: Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says

“None of the funds made available for the Department of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act may be used to procure or acquire long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities or to equip any long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 5

Section 219(b). No money for the department, in this Act or any earlier one, may be used to buy a long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities, or to add kinetic capabilities to one it already has.

What the document actually says

“None of the funds made available for the Department of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act may be used to procure or acquire long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities or to equip any long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities.”

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 5
That sentence, in plain words

No money may buy a long range drone that can strike. No money may add that power to one.

What this is about

The word kinetic means it can hit a target. The Coast Guard drones bought here watch and report. This rule covers the whole department.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

Share this page

How to Read This Page

The quotation is the document's own words, exactly as printed, and we check the page number against the Act itself before publishing. The paragraph underneath is our summary, not the document's words. So is the plain English version, which is why it sits beside the quotation rather than replacing it.

All proposals in this section →