
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…