I will continue to support policies that strengthen American military readiness, facilitate American technological progress and accelerate American drone power.
Continue to support federal policies that strengthen American military readiness, facilitate technological progress, and accelerate American drone power.
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Griffith said the reconciliation package invested $1.4 billion to expand the American UAS industrial base, that additional federal funds would support UAS technologies, and that he would continue supporting policies strengthening military readiness, technological progress, and drone power.
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Public Law 119-21 includes Defense title provisions for readiness and low-cost weapons production, including $1.4 billion for the small unmanned aerial system industrial base, $120 million for long-endurance unmanned aerial systems, and $145 million for AI enabling one-way attack unmanned aerial systems and naval systems.
Assessments
Griffith made an ongoing federal policy commitment, not a one-time pledge. During his current House term, the cited enacted reconciliation law funded military readiness and unmanned aerial systems programs, including expansion of the UAS industrial base and related drone technologies. Griffith publicly tied his own support and vote to those provisions and continued advocating around counter-UAS and drone readiness policy. Because the relevant federal policy was enacted while he remained in office and his contribution was as a sitting House member supporting the package, this counts as delivered in the same term.