A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to assess and report on the feasibility of incorporating open-architecture, unmanned system command and control frameworks into Department of Defense unmanned system operations across all unmanned system tiers and domains, drawing on lessons from allied and partner country systems, and for other purposes.

This bill, titled "A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to assess and report on the feasibility of incorporating open-architecture, unmanned system command and control frameworks into Department of Defense unmanned system operations across all unmanned system tiers and domains, drawing on lessons from allied and partner country systems, and for other purposes," was introduced in the 119th Congress on June 24, 2026. The purpose of the bill is to mandate the Secretary of Defense to evaluate the viability of integrating open-architecture unmanned system command and control frameworks into DoD operations, encompassing various unmanned system categories and operational environments while leveraging foreign systems' experiences.