Support and work to pass legislation extending the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative to include assistance and training for Indo-Pacific partners on experimentation, testing, evaluation, and demonstration of asymmetric capabilities such as drones.

Drive cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies and partners on asymmetric operations by extending the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative, which authorizes DoD to provide assistance and training to partners on maritime security, to include experimentation, testing, evaluation and demonstration tests of asymmetric capabilities like drones.

Duckworth highlighted an advanced provision to extend the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative to cover partner training and assistance for asymmetric capabilities including drones.

Duckworth Secures Key Provisions to Strengthen Our National Security and Coordination with Partners in the Indo-Pacific Region
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Duckworth's office said SASC advanced her provisions, including one to extend the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative to cover testing, evaluation and demonstrations of asymmetric capabilities such as drones.

Within the 30-day lookback window, Duckworth publicly identified a committee-advanced FY2027 NDAA provision that closely matches the commitment. This is concrete legislative progress, but not final enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Duckworth Secures Key Provisions to Strengthen Our National Security and Coordination with Partners in the Indo-Pacific Region
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Section 1247 would amend the FY2016 NDAA's Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative to add operational test and evaluation and demonstration of uncrewed systems and asymmetric operational concepts, and extend the authority through December 31, 2031.

The reported Senate FY2027 NDAA text contains the substantive policy change promised: extending and modifying IPMSI to include uncrewed/asymmetric operational testing, evaluation and demonstrations. It had been reported and placed on the Senate calendar, not enacted as of the cited text.

partial same_term A for effort

S. 4784, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, Reported in Senate
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The committee report explains that Section 1247 extends the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative through calendar year 2031 and expands assistance for operational test, evaluation and demonstration of uncrewed systems and asymmetric autonomous concepts.

The Senate Armed Services Committee report independently confirms the purpose and scope of Section 1247, matching the claim's focus on IPMSI assistance/training for asymmetric capabilities such as drones.

partial same_term A for effort

FY27 NDAA Report Language, Committee Filing Version
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SASC announced that the committee voted 18-9 to advance the FY2027 NDAA and that the bill would next go to the Senate floor.

This official committee action shows the relevant provision moved out of committee in the lookback window, but also confirms the legislative process was still incomplete.

partial same_term A for effort

SASC Completes Markup of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
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SASC leadership announced that S. 4784, the FY2027 NDAA, had been filed and linked the bill language and report language.

The filing created the formal Senate vehicle containing Section 1247. This supports a partial status because the provision existed in filed bill text but had not yet become law.

partial same_term A for effort

SASC Chairman Roger Wicker and Ranking Member Jack Reed Announce FY27 NDAA Filing
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