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Senate Panel Hears About Supply Chain Security Risks From China’s Dominance Of Small Drone Market

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

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Senate Panel Hears About Supply Chain Security Risks From China’s Dominance Of Small Drone Market

The popular quadcopter UAV developed by China's DJI. These recreation drones can be a nuisance or a threat in some areas. Photo: DJI

China’s dominance of the small drone market, particularly in the U.S., raises a slew of risks related to how the technology is used, where the sensor data collected by the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) goes, and the impact on domestic drone manufacturing, a faculty member of the National Defense University’s cyber war college told a Senate panel this week. There is an increasing use of small drones, which refer to UAS weighing less than 55-pounds, toward an “Internet of drones”…

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