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Trump Administration Working New Proposals To Counter Domestic UAS Threats

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

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Trump Administration Working New Proposals To Counter Domestic UAS Threats

Kirstjen Nielsen being sworn in as the new DHS Secretary on Dec. 6. Photo: DHS.

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…

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