![]() ![]() While drones face new restrictions, another industry is benefitting from new guidelines. The bill would also attach a 10-year prison sentence to the use of drones for delivering drugs or weapons to prisons. The Drone Act would prohibit users from removing drone identification numbers and safety features, such as anti-collision lights, as well as from using drones to transport weapons or interfere with emergency, military, or law enforcement activities. That legislation-simply called the Drone Act of 2023-seeks to limit drone-related crime within the U.S. But it would crack down on unauthorized use of airspace, which is a good thing for the drone industry writ large.Ī few weeks earlier, a similar bill was introduced in the House by two Democrats and two Republicans. Aimed at quashing UAV-related border crossings, such as drug smuggling drones, the rule would not ban foreign technology. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced another protectionist bill, the Protecting the Border from Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act. That legislation would also limit drones at the federal level and recently garnered support from Sen. The Republican-backed bill echoes the sentiment of the bipartisan American Security Drone Act of 2023, introduced in February. Hobbyists and commercial services, however, would be unaffected.Ĭalls to ban DJI and other manufacturers are coming from both sides of the aisle. ![]() agencies, effectively banning the drones from government use. government refuses to do business.Īdding DJI and others to the covered list would prevent the FCC from issuing equipment authorizations to other U.S. Introduced last month by congressional Republicans Elise Stefanik (R-New York) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the Countering CCP Drones Act would add those manufactured in Russia and China-including those from DJI-to the Federal Communications Committee’s covered list, a group of businesses with which the U.S. government really doesn’t trust foreign drones. Here are the key bills, initiatives, and regulatory approvals from the past 30 days: At the Top Welcome to the May edition of Regulatory Roundup, FLYING’s monthly look at the key regulations, laws, and policy proposals making their way through the modern aviation sphere, both in the U.S. Now, around the country, federal and state lawmakers are trying to figure out how to manage it. As federal officials, state lawmakers, and agencies such as the FAA tackle the massive aviation industry, they now must also contend with regulating an entirely new sphere of companies, technologies, safety protocols, and more.Ī new era of aviation-encompassing drones, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), advanced air mobility (AAM), electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), and other new ways to fly- is coming. ![]()
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