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Homeland Security

Justice Department Issues Guidance for Components to Exercise Counter-Drone Authorities

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

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Justice Department Issues Guidance for Components to Exercise Counter-Drone Authorities

Attorney General William Barr. Photo: Justice Department

Attorney General William Barr on April 13 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…

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