§2 Report on defense innovation lessons from Russia-Ukraine War
This section directs the Secretary of Defense to submit to the appropriate congressional committees, within 120 days of enactment, a report on lessons from defense innovations in the Russia-Ukraine War. The report must address unmanned aircraft, underwater, ground, and surface vehicle tactics, intelligence collection, logistics, and training; electronic warfare, counter-unmanned systems, and layered air defense; cyber warfare effects on military and civilian systems; command, control, and communications resilience in GPS-denied environments; Ukraine’s decentralized expansion of its defense industrial base for unmanned vehicles and artillery; implications for armor survivability; use of deception, decoys, and camouflage; medical evacuation methods including robotic extractions; and a plan with objectives and timetable to integrate the lessons into U.S. Armed Forces doctrine and training.