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A 100% tariff on thermal drones and a pending FCC rule that spares federal buyers are landing on local police, who mostly fly DJI. One New Jersey sheriff's office puts its deputy kit at $29,427.99, and the National Sheriffs' Association wants the same exemption federal users get.
Read the story →The FCC votes Oct. 29 on rules that would end recognition of every test lab outside the US and 'reciprocal economies' on Dec. 1, 2028. China-based labs tested more than 82% of 2025 applications, so any drone or radio maker certifying through Shenzhen has two years to move.
The FCC will vote Oct. 29 on a draft order that would let drones use 50 MHz of licensed, nationwide 800 MHz cellular spectrum by carving uncrewed aircraft out of a rule that dates to the airplane-phone era. The ban on passengers using phones in flight stays.
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.
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.
An FCC rule effective Oct. 13 bars authorization of devices containing logic-bearing components from Covered List firms like DJI and Autel, and makes online marketplaces show FCC IDs, but it rests on supplier names and applicant attestation.
Beam Global has signed a non-binding LOI to acquire a European drone maker whose product already holds a Department of War Conditional Approval, betting its decade of military battery work can turn the deal into domestic drone manufacturing.
ABZ Innovation tripled its Hungarian drone factory capacity toward 3,500 units a year, but the real story is regulatory: its FCC Covered List exemption now legally depends on the company actually building drones in the United States.
An FCC waiver lets DOT's MNAAP program measure commercial wireless coverage aloft using up to 2,000 GA pilots and 200 UAS at a time through Oct. 1, 2029, with results that could shape UAS spectrum rules.
Commercial UAV Expo's 12th edition drew a record 3,800 professionals to Las Vegas as new Section 232 tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones took effect on the show's closing day.
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.
A Pilot Institute analysis of the FCC's closed comment docket found 3,770 of 3,824 readable filings (98.6%) opposed its plan to ban foreign 'military-grade' drones, with 99.4% calling the proposed thermal/LiDAR/dock/spray/55-lb categories overbroad.
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