Drone Espionage Act

This bill proposes to amend Section 793 of Title 18, United States Code , which pertains to the gathering, transmitting, or losing of defense information. The core objective is to explicitly include video recordings within the scope of materials protected under this federal statute. The legislation achieves this by inserting the term "video," after "photographic negative," wherever it appears in the existing text of Section 793. This modification ensures that the unauthorized capture or transmission of video footage related to national defense is subject to the same legal prohibitions as other forms of sensitive information, thereby modernizing and strengthening national security safeguards.