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DHS Seeks Expanded C-UAS Authorities As Drone Incidents Rise And Current Law About To Lapse

DHS Seeks Expanded C-UAS Authorities As Drone Incidents Rise And Current Law About To Lapse
A DJI Phantom 4. These recreational drones can be used for illegal activity near airports, borders and be a threat or a nuisance to critical infrastructures. Photo: DJI

The Department of Homeland Security shortly will send Congress a legislative proposal to reauthorize an existing law to expand its limited authorities to detect and counter illegal and potentially dangerous uses of small drones in certain areas amid a sharp rise in incidents and encounters with these small unmanned aircraft, DHS officials said on Thursday. If current law allowing DHS to conduct limited counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) activities expires without a reauthorization, it “would result in significant risk to all…

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