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Cotton Plugs Bill to Increase COCOM Counter-Drone Authority

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025

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Cotton Plugs Bill to Increase COCOM Counter-Drone Authority

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), said that U.S. adversaries may target the nation’s bases domestically and abroad with attack drones, hidden in and launched from vehicles, as seen recently in Ukrainian and Israeli strikes inside Russia and Iran, respectively. Last month, Cotton and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) co-sponsored S. 1793, the Comprehensive Operations for Unmanned-System Neutralization and Threat Elimination Response Act (COUNTER Act), which would give combatant commanders or other DoD officials…

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