NEDD Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1762 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1762

To exempt the Secretary of Energy of certain prohibitions with respect 
        to an unmanned aircraft system, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2025

 Mr. Peters (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To exempt the Secretary of Energy of certain prohibitions with respect 
        to an unmanned aircraft system, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Ecosystem Drone Defense Act 
of 2025'' or the ``NEDD Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF ENERGY WITH RESPECT TO COVERED 
              UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS FROM COVERED FOREIGN ENTITIES.

    (a) Exemption From Prohibition on Procurement of Covered Unmanned 
Aircraft Systems From Covered Foreign Entities.--Section 1823(b) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 
118-31; 137 Stat. 692) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by inserting ``Secretary of Energy,'' after ``Secretary of 
State,''.
    (b) Exemption From Prohibition on Operation of Covered Unmanned 
Aircraft Systems From Covered Foreign Entities.--Section 1824(b) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 
118-31; 137 Stat. 693) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by inserting ``Secretary of Energy,'' after ``Secretary of 
State,''.
    (c) Exemption From Prohibition on Use of Federal Funds for 
Procurement and Operation of Covered Unmanned Aircraft Systems From 
Covered Foreign Entities.--Section 1825(b) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 137 Stat. 
694) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting 
``Secretary of Energy,'' after ``Secretary of State,''.
    (d) Granting Secretary of Energy Authority To Determine Usage of 
Classified Tracking.--Section 1827(b) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 137 Stat. 
696) is amended by striking ``the Secretary's designee'' and inserting 
``the Secretary of Energy, as appropriate, or their respective 
designees''.
    (e) Granting Secretary of Energy Accounting Exception.--Section 
1827(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 
(Public Law 118-31; 137 Stat. 696) is amended by inserting ``the 
Department of Energy,'' after ``the Department of Transportation,''.
    (f) Expansion of Secretary of Energy Authority Related to the 
Protection of Certain Nuclear Facilities and Assets From Unmanned 
Aircrafts or Unmanned Aircraft Systems.--Section 4510(e)(1)(C) of the 
Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2661(e)(1)(C)) is amended to read 
as follows:
                    ``(C) owned by the United States or contracted to 
                the United States--
                            ``(i) to store, transport, or use special 
                        nuclear material; or
                            ``(ii) for the research, design, 
                        manufacture, or production of non-nuclear 
                        components for nuclear weapons.''.
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