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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2505
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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH31, 2025
Mr. K
EATING(for himself and Mr. WILSONof South Carolina) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned
A BILL
To require the development of strategies and options to pre-
vent 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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Block the Use of 4
Transatlantic Technology in Iranian Made Drones Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6
Congress finds the following: 7
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(1) The Iranian regime has provided financial 1
and material support, including the provision of un-2
manned aircraft systems, to United States adver-3
saries, including terrorist organizations such as 4
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Palestinian Is-5
lamic Jihad, and the Russian Federation as a part 6
of its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. 7
(2) In 2022, the United States established an 8
interagency task force to investigate how United 9
States and Western-made technology has been incor-10
porated into unmanned aircraft systems produced by 11
Iran and take appropriate steps in response. 12
(3) On June 9, 2023, the Department of State, 13
the Department of Justice, the Department of Com-14
merce, and the Department of the Treasury issued 15
a joint advisory to alert persons and businesses glob-16
ally to the threat of Iran’s unmanned aircraft sys-17
tems and the need to take appropriate steps to avoid 18
or prevent any activities that would support the fur-19
ther development of Iran’s unmanned aircraft pro-20
gram. 21
(4) In recent years the United States enacted 22
sanctions targeting— 23
(A) the unmanned aircraft industry and 24
missile industry of Iran; 25
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(B) entities, individuals, and vessels that 1
played a central role in facilitating and financ-2
ing the clandestine sale of Iranian unmanned 3
aerial vehicles; and 4
(C) entities associated with the Iranian de-5
fense ministry’s procurement of critical compo-6
nents for missiles and drones. 7
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 8
It is the sense of Congress that— 9
(1) controlling the end use of dual use tech-10
nology and highly ubiquitous parts thereof in the 11
global market is difficult for manufacturers and gov-12
ernment regulators alike; 13
(2) Iranian-made unmanned aircraft systems 14
play a key role in the Russian Federation’s illegal 15
war of aggression against Ukraine, including attacks 16
on civilian population centers and critical infrastruc-17
ture such as power plants and ports; and 18
(3) the United States, along with the allies and 19
partners of the United States, must ensure that 20
technology designed or produced by United States or 21
using certain United States software, technology, or 22
production equipment, is not used to support the 23
Russian Federation’s war of aggression against 24
Ukraine or used by Hamas to attack Israel, particu-25
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larly in the case of unmanned aircraft systems pro-1
duced by Iran. 2
SEC. 4. STRATEGIES TO PREVENT EXPORT TO IRAN OF 3
CERTAIN TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO UN-4
MANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. 5
(a) D
EPARTMENT OFCOMMERCESTRATEGY.— 6
(1) S
TRATEGY REQUIRED .—The Secretary of 7
Commerce (in consultation with the Secretary of 8
State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of 9
National Intelligence) shall develop a strategy to 10
prevent the illegal export to Iran by United States 11
persons regarding technologies used or that may be 12
used in the design, development, production, or oper-13
ational employment of unmanned aircraft systems by 14
Iran, including the following microelectronics: 15
(A) Microcontrollers. 16
(B) Voltage regulators. 17
(C) Digital signal controllers. 18
(D) GPS modules. 19
(E) Microprocessors. 20
(2) E
LEMENTS.—The strategy under paragraph 21
(1) shall include, at a minimum, the following ele-22
ments: 23
(A) A process for the Secretary of Com-24
merce (in coordination with the Secretaries and 25
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heads specified in paragraph (1)) to proactively 1
identify— 2
(i) current and emerging technologies 3
used or that may be used by Iran in the 4
design, development, production, or oper-5
ational employment of unmanned aircraft 6
systems (including critical components 7
thereof); 8
(ii) United States manufacturers of 9
such technologies; and 10
(iii) foreign manufacturers and 11
proliferators of such technologies. 12
(B) A process for the Secretary of Com-13
merce (in coordination with the Secretaries and 14
heads specified in paragraph (1)) to proactively 15
identify third-party distributors and resellers of 16
the technologies specified in subparagraph 17
(A)(i) that, through the use of intermediaries 18
with no or nominal operations or assets, or 19
through other mechanisms, contrive to cir-20
cumvent export controls for such items with re-21
spect to Iran. 22
(C) A methodology for the Secretary of 23
Commerce to proactively engage the United 24
States manufacturers identified pursuant to the 25
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process under subparagraph (A)(ii), to provide 1
such manufacturers with timely updates to the 2
list of third-party distributors and resellers 3
identified pursuant to the process under sub-4
paragraph (B). 5
(3) S
UBMISSION.—Not later than 60 days after 6
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 7
of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate con-8
gressional committees the strategy under paragraph 9
(1). 10
(4) F
ORM.—The report required by subsection 11
(a)(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 12
portions of the report described in paragraphs (1) 13
and (2) may contain a classified annex, so long as 14
such annex is provided separately from the unclassi-15
fied report. 16
(b) D
EPARTMENT OFSTATESTRATEGY.— 17
(1) S
TRATEGY REQUIRED .—The Secretary of 18
State (in coordination with the Secretary of Com-19
merce, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of 20
National Intelligence) shall develop a strategy to 21
prevent the export to Iran of technologies from the 22
United States and allied and partner countries 23
which are used, or may be used, by Iran in the de-24
sign, development, production, or operational em-25
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ployment of unmanned aircraft systems (including 1
the microelectronics listed in subparagraphs (A) 2
through (F) of subsection (a)(1)). 3
(2) E
LEMENTS.—The strategy under paragraph 4
(1) shall include, at a minimum, the following ele-5
ments: 6
(A) A process for the Secretary of State 7
(in consultation with the relevant Secretaries 8
and heads specified in paragraph (1)) to 9
proactively identify foreign manufacturers of 10
the technologies referred to in such paragraph. 11
(B) A process for the Secretary of State to 12
engage with any ally or partner of the United 13
States regarding technologies which have been 14
incorporated into an unmanned aircraft system 15
produced by Iran, for the purpose of synchro-16
nizing the export control regime of such ally or 17
partner with the United States export controls 18
developed by the Secretary of Commerce pursu-19
ant to the strategy under subsection (a) with 20
respect to such technology. 21
(3) S
UBMISSION.—Not later than 90 days after 22
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 23
of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-24
sional committees the strategy under paragraph (1). 25
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(4) FORM.—The report required by subsection 1
(b)(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 2
portions of the report described in paragraphs (1) 3
and (2) may contain a classified annex, so long as 4
such annex is provided separately from the unclassi-5
fied report. 6
(c) R
EQUIREMENT FOR SECRETARY OFDEFENSETO 7
D
EVELOPRANGE OFOPTIONS.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 9
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 10
of Defense (in coordination with the Secretary of 11
State and the Director of National Intelligence) shall 12
develop a range of options that may be employed by 13
the Armed Forces of the United States to counter 14
or otherwise deny Iran the ability to acquire tech-15
nologies used, or that may be used, in the design, 16
development, production, or operational employment 17
of unmanned aircraft systems by Iran, including the 18
following technologies: 19
(A) Microcontrollers. 20
(B) Voltage regulators. 21
(C) Digital signal controllers. 22
(D) GPS modules. 23
(E) Microprocessors. 24
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(F) Computer Aided Design (CAD) soft-1
ware. 2
(G) Computer numerical control machines. 3
(2) B
RIEFING.—Not later than 45 days after 4
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 5
of Defense shall provide to the appropriate congres-6
sional committees a briefing on the options devel-7
oped under paragraph (1). 8
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 9
In this Act: 10
(1) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -11
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-12
mittees’’ means the following: 13
(A) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 14
Committee on Armed Services, and the Perma-15
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 16
House of Representatives. 17
(B) The Committee on Foreign Relations, 18
the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-19
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 20
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-21
ligence of the Senate. 22
(2) U
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CRAFT SYSTEM.—The terms ‘‘unmanned aircraft’’ 24
and ‘‘unmanned aircraft system’’ have the meanings 25
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given those terms in section 130i of title 10, United 1
States Code. 2
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