Border Drone Threat Assessment Act

Key Points

• Congress authorizes 2026 funding for U.S. intelligence work, with most dollar amounts kept in a classified schedule shared inside government.
• It sets one public funding amount: $514,000,000 for the CIA retirement and disability fund for 2026.
• It creates new criminal penalties for entering clearly marked, restricted intelligence-community property without permission (up to 180 days for a first offense, up to 10 years for repeat offenses).
• It gives the CIA new power to detect, disrupt, seize, and even disable drones near certain sensitive facilities, with privacy limits and required briefings to Congress.
• It adds guardrails and reforms across the intelligence community, including rules on security clearances, whistleblower protections, limits on contractors selling location data, and cybersecurity testing for election systems.

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