
With the clock ticking down on existing counter-drone authorities for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, a bipartisan contingent of senators last Friday introduced a new bill to reauthorize current authorities and expand them to state and local law enforcers, and critical infrastructure entities. The new bill also would grant the Transportation Security Administration, a component of DHS, authorization to protect transportation infrastructure from drone threats, including to detect, track, identify, monitor and mitigate. The Biden administration earlier this…