I used to chair this subcommittee and actually the ranking member and I were on this subcommittee when he chaired it. And we kind of rotated within the the one big beautiful bill. We made a significant new funding available for border security technology, you know, systems at the border. So you wouldn't have to use man as much. You could use force multipliers. The legislative language included in this raised the bar for surveillance technology requiring and defining autonomous capabilities, even the types that have been fielded at scale for years. (04:16–04:24)
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