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Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce Counter Drone Bill To Protect Homeland Assets

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

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Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce Counter Drone Bill To Protect Homeland Assets

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).

A small bipartisan group of Senators on Monday introduced legislation that would give the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice authorities to defeat threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to certain facilities and assets.The bill comes as the two departments are completing work on a proposal to Congress for legislative authorities to disrupt the use of drone threats in the national airspace.“The threats posed by malicious unmanned aircraft are too great to ignore,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of…

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