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Policy & Regulation
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024: What It Mandates for Drones
Public Law 118-63, signed May 16, 2024, mandates a BVLOS rule, rethinks Remote ID, and funds a five-year runway for aerial autonomy. Here is what every operator and developer needs to know.
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Commercial & Delivery
Aerial Triage: How Drones Became Essential to Disaster Response—and Where the Gaps Remain
From mapping Turkey earthquake rubble in 17 seconds to delivering supplies in post-cyclone Vanuatu, drones have proven themselves in disaster response. The harder problems—coordination, authorization timing, data handoffs, and privacy—remain partly unsolved.
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Counter-UAS
Net Capture Systems: The Case for Catching Drones Instead of Destroying Them
Kinetic destruction and RF jamming both carry unacceptable collateral risks in civilian airspace. A new generation of net-capture systems — compressed-air launchers and autonomous interceptor hexacopters — offers a low-debris, forensics-preserving alternative built for populated environments.
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Policy & Regulation
Who Can Legally Shoot Down a Drone in the US — and Why the Answer Is Complicated
Federal aircraft law, the Aircraft Sabotage Act, and overlapping wiretapping statutes mean that almost nobody — not state police, not sheriffs, not private citizens — had clear legal authority to neutralize a rogue drone until Congress began carving out narrow exceptions.
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Counter-UAS
How Drone Detection Actually Works: Radar, RF, EO/IR, and the Fusion Stack
No single sensor can catch every drone. Here is how radar, RF analyzers, electro-optical/infrared cameras, and acoustic arrays each cover different gaps — and why military and federal planners are betting on layered fusion architectures to close them.
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Policy & Regulation
The American Security Drone Act, Explained: What the Federal UAS Ban Actually Covers
The American Security Drone Act of 2023, enacted in the FY2024 NDAA, banned federal procurement and operation of Chinese-made drones — effective December 22, 2025 — extending to every contractor and grant recipient spending federal money, not just agencies.
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Policy & Regulation
Is DJI Banned in the U.S.? A Precise Map of Six Overlapping Restrictions
"DJI is banned" is both true and false depending on which of six distinct legal instruments you mean. This explainer maps each layer — export controls, federal procurement, the DoD blacklist, the FCC Covered List, state laws, and the BVLOS draft rule — with its exact scope and status as of June 2026.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Locks Down 11 Cities for the World Cup as DETER Gets Its First Big Test
Starting today, the FAA has activated overlapping TFRs across 11 US host cities through July 19 — an airspace lockdown without obvious precedent — with penalties reaching $100,000 and the new DETER enforcement program facing its first weeks-long, multi-city deployment.
