
The Trump administration is developing a second set of proposed legislative authorities to allow relevant federal departments and agencies the ability to counter unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in domestic airspace, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tuesday.Last year the government proposed legislation to Congress to provide federal authorities to counter UAS threats, Nielsen said. “We currently lack the authorities needed to counter threats from unmanned aircraft systems,” she said in her prepared remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee.“After extensive…