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DJI, the world’s leading manufacturer of civilian drones, has escalated its dispute with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by filing an appeal in the Ninth Circuit after the FCC placed many DJI products on its “covered list,” which the FCC uses for telecommunications equipment it deems an unacceptable national security risk. DJI says the decision…

In a surprising move, China-based DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer, is not flinching at the prospect of tighter U.S. restrictions on Chinese drone companies. In fact, they’re embracing it.

Currently, the Trump administration is finalizing executive orders that would affect the commercial drone landscape in the U.S., which could be set for a serious…

Next week, the House of Representatives China Committee plans to introduce a bill that would ban the purchase of Chinese-made drones by the U.S. government. This bill is an effort to revamp the prior push for this ban that was derailed by lobbying efforts.

The American Security Drone Act, as it is coined, would not…

This week, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and Tom Cotton (as well as U.S. House of Representatives member Elise Stefanik, who introduced parallel legislation) introduced the Countering CCP Drones Act in an effort to add DJI, a Chinese technology company, to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “Covered List.” The “Covered List” identifies telecommunication equipment…

This week, China-based DJI, the drone industry’s leading manufacturer of drones, issued a public statement regarding the recent reports released by cybersecurity researchers (neither Synacktiv nor GRIMM) about the security of its drones’ control app.

In two reports, the researchers claimed that an app on Google’s Android operating system that powers DJI drones collects large…

This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced more details about its new recreational drone flyer test, which will be an opportunity to educate recreational flyers about the rules of flying a drone in national airspace. An FAA law passed in 2018 requires recreational drone flyers to pass an online aeronautical knowledge and safety test,…

Over only a few years’ time, Washington State Patrol (the Patrol) has built a drone fleet of 111 drones. The Patrol says that it uses these small drones for crash investigations and fatality scenes, and not for surveillance purposes. Detective Sergeant Clint Thomas said that roughly 100 state troopers and detective across the state are…

The U.S. Interior Department (the Interior) authorized government officials to buy drones from DJI Technology (DJI) after a previous warning that the company may act as a channel for Chinese government espionage. However, Mark Bathrick, Director of the Office of Aviation Services, said, “[This authorization is] a very narrow, very specific, very limited authorization. We’re…