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House Panel Continues Probe on Counter-Drone Efforts at U.S. Bases

House Panel Continues Probe on Counter-Drone Efforts at U.S. Bases
Pictured are U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Paul Spedero Jr., vice director for operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mark Roosevelt Ditlevson, acting assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's military and foreign affairs panel on April 29.

Last month, Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's military and foreign affairs panel, asked DoD, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Transportation to submit by July 10 a list of documents related to the agencies' counter-drone efforts, including a list of drone flights around military installations since January 2022 and "relevant policies, memoranda, and interagency agreements guiding the detection, identification, tracking, and mitigation of unauthorized unmanned aerial systems over…

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