---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 4105"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "4105"
heading: "Reports on unmanned maritime systems and usage for mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/4105"
units:
  - "Chapter 54 — Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology"
---

# §4105. Reports on unmanned maritime systems and usage for mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

- (a) **In general—** In carrying out this chapter, the [Administrator](/usc/33/4101.md?p=2) shall, not later than one year after December 21, 2018, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the usage of [unmanned maritime systems](/usc/33/4101.md?p=6-A) for the mission of the [Administration](/usc/33/4101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Contents—** Each report submitted under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include, for the period covered by the report, the following:
  - (1) An inventory of current [unmanned maritime systems](/usc/33/4101.md?p=6-A) used by programs of the [Administration](/usc/33/4101.md?p=1), a summary of the data they have returned, and the benefits realized from having such data.
  - (2) A prioritized list of data requirements of the [Administration](/usc/33/4101.md?p=1) that could be met with [unmanned maritime systems](/usc/33/4101.md?p=6-A), and the commercially available [unmanned maritime systems](/usc/33/4101.md?p=6-A) with the operational capabilities to collect such data.
- (c) **Appropriate committees of Congress defined—** In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
  - (1) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and
  - (2) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–394, § 6, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5285.)