Policy & Regulation
Drone policy and regulation news from UASFeed — FAA rulemaking, BVLOS, Part 108, the DJI debate, export controls, and the rules shaping the uncrewed sky.
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Policy & Regulation
Australia Will Let Some Large Drones Fly Commercially With No Certificate of Airworthiness
From 29 September, CASA can issue any applicable kind of airworthiness certificate to large RPA — and let some of them operate commercially with none at all, subject to a risk assessment and existing operator approvals.
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Reverse Lend-Lease: Kyiv and Washington Reportedly Sign the First Bilateral Framework to Ship Ukrainian Combat Drones Into US Test Ranges
Reported July 21-22: a US-Ukraine statement of intent would let Ukrainian aerial, ground and maritime drones be temporarily exported to America for Pentagon testing — no procurement, no tech transfer, but a direct line into the $1 billion Drone Dominance requirements pipeline.
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Policy & Regulation
FCC Moves to Ban Import and Sale of Foreign 'Military-Grade' Drones Already on Its Covered List
The FCC is seeking comment on prohibiting the import, marketing, and sale of certain foreign military-grade drones on its Covered List, while extending Blue UAS and Buy-America exemptions to 2028 and opening its first equipment-authorization revocation against DJI-linked Odyssey Robot.
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Policy & Regulation
Minneapolis Council Kills Its Skydio Drone-as-First-Responder Pilot Over ICE and Israel Sales
A 6-6 tie sank Minneapolis PD's proposed 75-day Skydio drone trial on July 16, 2026, as council members objected to the company's drone sales to ICE and the Israeli military — a reversal that shows procurement politics now gating public-safety drone adoption.
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Policy & Regulation
US Clears $80.1M Sale of AeroVironment Switchblade 300 Loitering Munitions to Greece
The State Department has approved and DSCA notified a possible $80.1M Foreign Military Sale of 350 Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munitions and 35 fire-control systems to Greece, bound for the Hellenic Special Warfare Command's Evros and Aegean frontier.
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Policy & Regulation
The BVLOS Rule Is at the White House — and Nobody Agrees on Which Rule It Is
The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule reached OIRA on July 10, 2026, and trade press called it a proposed rule moving forward. The live review record says otherwise: Stage — Final Rule. The difference is roughly a year of your operating plans.
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Policy & Regulation
EU and Ukraine Sign 'Drone Deal,' Release €1 Billion to Scale Up Joint Drone Production
Von der Leyen and Zelenskyy signed the first EU-wide Drone Deal in Kyiv on July 15, unlocking €1 billion in fresh funding and 19 founding companies to fuse Ukrainian battlefield know-how with European industrial capacity.
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Policy & Regulation
The FCC Is About to Make DJI Impossible to Buy on Amazon — and Every Wireless Gadget Harder to Fake
The FCC votes July 22, 2026 on a Third Report and Order requiring marketplaces like Amazon to show FCC IDs at checkout and closing a "logic-bearing hardware" loophole that let Covered List components, including DJI's, back into U.S. commerce.
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Policy & Regulation
Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS and DOJ Issue Interim Final Rule Letting State and Local Police Detect, Track and Take Down Drones
A new joint DHS/DOJ interim final rule, effective July 1, 2026, hands state, local, Tribal and territorial police and correctional agencies detection and — for the first time — drone mitigation authority, with public comment open through September 4.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS, DOJ and FCC Finalize SAFER SKIES Act Rules Giving Local Police Counter-Drone Authority
A new Interim Final Rule, effective July 1 and published July 6, 2026, lets trained state, local, Tribal and territorial agencies detect, track, disable or seize drones — backed by FCC spectrum actions and a mandatory FBI training course at Redstone Arsenal.
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Policy & Regulation
Eight Men Indicted in Foiled Plot to Fly Explosive Drones Into White House UFC Event
A federal grand jury in Ohio indicted eight men on terrorism and murder-conspiracy charges over an alleged plot to fly explosive-laden drones into the White House UFC Freedom 250 event and shoot fleeing spectators.
