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Counter Drone Bill Will Open Door for Research, Testing, Deployment

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

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A bipartisan bill introduced last month that would enable the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to begin developing policies, procedures and capabilities for countering threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in limited circumstances in U.S. airspace hopefully will become part of the Senate’s version of an annual defense policy bill, says the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.The Senate has begun consideration of the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Sen.…

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