H.R. 2505

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2505 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 2505

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 9, 2026

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs

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AN ACT

To require the development of strategies and options to prevent the 
export to Iran of certain technologies related to unmanned aircraft 
systems, 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 ``Block the Use of Transatlantic 
Technology in Iranian Made Drones Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) The Iranian regime has provided financial and material 
support, including the provision of unmanned aircraft systems, 
to United States adversaries, including terrorist organizations 
such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Palestinian Islamic 
Jihad, and the Russian Federation as a part of its illegal war 
of aggression against Ukraine.
(2) In 2022, the United States established an interagency 
task force to investigate how United States and Western-made 
technology has been incorporated into unmanned aircraft systems 
produced by Iran and take appropriate steps in response.
(3) On June 9, 2023, the Department of State, the 
Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, and the 
Department of the Treasury issued a joint advisory to alert 
persons and businesses globally to the threat of Iran's 
unmanned aircraft systems and the need to take appropriate 
steps to avoid or prevent any activities that would support the 
further development of Iran's unmanned aircraft program.
(4) In recent years the United States enacted sanctions 
targeting--
(A) the unmanned aircraft industry and missile 
industry of Iran;
(B) entities, individuals, and vessels that played 
a central role in facilitating and financing the 
clandestine sale of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles; 
and
(C) entities associated with the Iranian defense 
ministry's procurement of critical components for 
missiles and drones.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) controlling the end use of dual use technology and 
highly ubiquitous parts thereof in the global market is 
difficult for manufacturers and government regulators alike;
(2) Iranian-made unmanned aircraft systems play a key role 
in the Russian Federation's illegal war of aggression against 
Ukraine, including attacks on civilian population centers and 
critical infrastructure such as power plants and ports; and
(3) the United States, along with the allies and partners 
of the United States, must ensure that technology designed or 
produced by United States or using certain United States 
software, technology, or production equipment, is not used to 
support the Russian Federation's war of aggression against 
Ukraine or used by Hamas to attack Israel, particularly in the 
case of unmanned aircraft systems produced by Iran.

SEC. 4. STRATEGIES TO PREVENT EXPORT TO IRAN OF CERTAIN TECHNOLOGIES 
RELATED TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

(a) Department of Commerce Strategy.--
(1) Strategy required.--The Secretary of Commerce (in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence) shall 
develop a strategy to prevent the illegal export to Iran by 
United States persons regarding technologies used or that may 
be used in the design, development, production, or operational 
employment of unmanned aircraft systems by Iran, including the 
following microelectronics:
(A) Microcontrollers.
(B) Voltage regulators.
(C) Digital signal controllers.
(D) GPS modules.
(E) Microprocessors.
(2) Elements.--The strategy under paragraph (1) shall 
include, at a minimum, the following elements:
(A) A process for the Secretary of Commerce (in 
coordination with the Secretaries and heads specified 
in paragraph (1)) to proactively identify--
(i) current and emerging technologies used 
or that may be used by Iran in the design, 
development, production, or operational 
employment of unmanned aircraft systems 
(including critical components thereof);
(ii) United States manufacturers of such 
technologies; and
(iii) foreign manufacturers and 
proliferators of such technologies.
(B) A process for the Secretary of Commerce (in 
coordination with the Secretaries and heads specified 
in paragraph (1)) to proactively identify third-party 
distributors and resellers of the technologies 
specified in subparagraph (A)(i) that, through the use 
of intermediaries with no or nominal operations or 
assets, or through other mechanisms, contrive to 
circumvent export controls for such items with respect 
to Iran.
(C) A methodology for the Secretary of Commerce to 
proactively engage the United States manufacturers 
identified pursuant to the process under subparagraph 
(A)(ii), to provide such manufacturers with timely 
updates to the list of third-party distributors and 
resellers identified pursuant to the process under 
subparagraph (B).
(3) Submission.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees the strategy 
under paragraph (1).
(4) Form.--The report required by subsection (a)(1) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but portions of the report 
described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may contain a classified 
annex, so long as such annex is provided separately from the 
unclassified report.
(b) Department of State Strategy.--
(1) Strategy required.--The Secretary of State (in 
coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of 
Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence) shall 
develop a strategy to prevent the export to Iran of 
technologies from the United States and allied and partner 
countries which are used, or may be used, by Iran in the 
design, development, production, or operational employment of 
unmanned aircraft systems (including the microelectronics 
listed in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of subsection (a)(1)).
(2) Elements.--The strategy under paragraph (1) shall 
include, at a minimum, the following elements:
(A) A process for the Secretary of State (in 
consultation with the relevant Secretaries and heads 
specified in paragraph (1)) to proactively identify 
foreign manufacturers of the technologies referred to 
in such paragraph.
(B) A process for the Secretary of State to engage 
with any ally or partner of the United States regarding 
technologies which have been incorporated into an 
unmanned aircraft system produced by Iran, for the 
purpose of synchronizing the export control regime of 
such ally or partner with the United States export 
controls developed by the Secretary of Commerce 
pursuant to the strategy under subsection (a) with 
respect to such technology.
(3) Submission.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees the strategy under 
paragraph (1).
(4) Form.--The report required by subsection (b)(1) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but portions of the report 
described in paragraphs (1) and (2) may contain a classified 
annex, so long as such annex is provided separately from the 
unclassified report.
(c) Requirement for Secretary of Defense To Develop Range of 
Options.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense (in 
coordination with the Secretary of State and the Director of 
National Intelligence) shall develop a range of options that 
may be employed by the Armed Forces of the United States to 
counter or otherwise deny Iran the ability to acquire 
technologies used, or that may be used, in the design, 
development, production, or operational employment of unmanned 
aircraft systems by Iran, including the following technologies:
(A) Microcontrollers.
(B) Voltage regulators.
(C) Digital signal controllers.
(D) GPS modules.
(E) Microprocessors.
(F) Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.
(G) Computer numerical control machines.
(2) Briefing.--Not later than 45 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide 
to the appropriate congressional committees a briefing on the 
options developed under paragraph (1).

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
``appropriate congressional committees'' means the following:
(A) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
(B) The Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(2) Unmanned aircraft; unmanned aircraft system.--The terms 
``unmanned aircraft'' and ``unmanned aircraft system'' have the 
meanings given those terms in section 130i of title 10, United 
States Code.

Passed the House of Representatives June 8, 2026.

Attest:

KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

Clerk.