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Barr Issues Guidance Enabling Justice Department To Exercise Counter-Drone Authorities

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Barr Issues Guidance Enabling Justice Department To Exercise Counter-Drone Authorities
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Attorney General William Barr on Monday issued guidance for the Department of Justice’s use of counter-drone authorities and technologies, clearing the way for seven named components to begin working toward the use of these capabilities. The counter-drone authorities are contained in the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which passed Congress that October and gives DoJ and the Department of Homeland Security legal backing to use technologies to detect, track, identify and mitigate threats from small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)…

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