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A new paper warns that drug networks could sell armed drones and the skills to use them to African armed groups, but its own author calls the drugs-for-drones barter claim an unconfirmed lead. The strongest data still comes from Mexico and Colombia.
Read the story →Laredo's police chief said officers would "take down" drones over the DoubleTree hotel fire, but the FAA's TFR list showed no restriction for the city. Federal rules let local police mitigate drones only after certification, with ATC notice and a 48-hour report, and no one has said whether any Laredo officer is certified.
The FBI says counter-drone personnel are working the Oct. 3-11 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta under the SAFER SKIES Act, but the FAA NOTAMs behind its 4-mile no drone zone apply only two daily windows, about 5:30 am-noon and 4-8 pm Mountain.
Oregon Remote ID maker Zing Drone Solutions is evaluating Wi-Fi/BLE modules from Seoul's NUCODE under a new MOU, but the FCC's foreign-component rule has no ally carve-out, and nobody has said whether a general-purpose radio counts as a drone critical component.
The FBI's Redstone counter-drone school will more than double capacity after 700 World Cup seizures, but with 250 more graduates expected next fiscal year and about 340 metro cities waiting, the only path to local takedown authority remains a bottleneck.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the Covered List drone ban drove $5 billion into U.S. manufacturing, but the agency's own filing counts valuations and five-year pledges alongside cash actually raised.
Utah's Fortem Technologies closed a $50M Series B led by Lockheed Martin, which put in $25M in April, to expand Lindon manufacturing and SkyDome deployments as it cites DHS, Army and World Cup work.
JTF-Southern Border's commander says 95-98% of drone activity on the southern border is reconnaissance supporting human trafficking. The task force logged at least 378 drones in a month, but officials did not explain how they tie the flights to smuggling.
A DHS lab's Blue UAS comparative assessment found three of five approved drones could not hold position at Hudson Yards, with link losses 50 feet from launch. Skydio's X10D scored highest, and Chinese drone results were withheld.
DHS's drone-focused program office has issued an RFI for small UAS that skip the cloud, run AES-256 encrypted links, and meet Blue/Green UAS standards, with industry answers due Oct. 5.
EFF, the ACLU and photojournalism groups tell the D.C. Circuit that the FAA's withdrawn drone flight ban near DHS operations still needs to be formally vacated, arguing the agency could reimpose the restriction that critics say criminalized filming ICE and CBP.
A DOJ-DHS rule now in force lets state and local agencies certify to detect, and eventually disable, unauthorized drones — but as of publication only 61 officers across 46 agencies hold the harder mitigation credential.
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