A bill to direct the establishment of a public-private wildfire technology deployment and demonstration partnership, and for other purposes.

Bill ID: 119/s/3190
Last Updated: November 18, 2025

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Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]

ID: L000570

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Industry Impact

Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 5 helped.

  • +Defense Contractorsconfidence 0.80

    Section 2(a)(1)(B) includes the Department of Defense as a covered agency, and Section 2(c)(5) authorizes coordination with covered agencies for procurement and technological expertise, which could benefit defense contractors providing wildfire technologies.

  • Section 2(c)(2) includes wildfire modeling and effectiveness algorithms, remote sensing, detection, tracking, and common operating pictures or operational dashboards as key technology priority areas, which aligns with AI and cloud infrastructure capabilities.

  • +Cybersecurityconfidence 0.60

    Section 2(c)(2)(H) includes interoperable commercial data as a key technology priority area, which may involve cybersecurity considerations for data sharing and protection.

  • +Telecommunicationsconfidence 0.60

    Section 2(c)(2)(D) includes dispatch communications as a key technology priority area, which could benefit telecommunications providers offering communication technologies for wildfire response.

  • Section 2(c)(2)(K) includes community resilience and home hardening as a key technology priority area, which may involve construction and engineering services for wildfire mitigation.

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