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

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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