Policy & Regulation
Drone policy and regulation news from UASFeed — FAA rulemaking, BVLOS, Part 108, the DJI debate, export controls, and the rules shaping the uncrewed sky.
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Policy & Regulation
One Line About Drones in Trump's Resilience Strategy — and What It Signals for Part 108
Commercial drones appear exactly once in the White House's June 2026 National Resilience Strategy — in Trump's intro — but the placement, not the prose, is the signal for Part 108 and supply chains.
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The Drone Lobby Storms Capitol Hill: Adversarial-UAS Bans, Counter-UAS Authority, and a $70B FY27 Bet
At AUVSI's June 24 Hill Day, 100+ industry leaders ran 90+ meetings to push procurement bans on adversarial-nation drones, more DHS counter-UAS grants, and permanent Blue/Green UAS pathways — as core DoD C-UAS authority nears its Dec. 31 sunset and FY27 steers $70B+ to drone dominance.
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FAA Breaks Ground on V-PAR, Its First Dedicated eVTOL Test Range, to Solve the Vertiport Integration Problem
The FAA broke ground June 26, 2026 on V-PAR, an ~$8.3M Oklahoma City test range purpose-built to study how eVTOL aircraft fold into the National Airspace System — wake, downwash, RF interference and vertiport procedures.
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NATO and EU Race to Close the Eastern Flank's Drone Gaps as Russian Incursions Surge
Renew Europe says NATO has agreed to accelerate counter-drone initiatives ahead of an Ankara summit, pressing for real detection-to-neutralization capability along the Arctic-to-Black Sea flank as Romania logs most of its wartime drone incursions in 2026 alone.
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FAA Cracks the Door Open: How Part 107/135 Operators Can Get Authorized to Fly Inside World Cup 'No Drone Zones'
The FAA's June 22 NOTAM update confirms certain drone operations may be permitted inside World Cup security airspace with DHS authorization — giving Part 107 and 135 operators a concrete approval path via [email protected] amid $100,000 fines and the new DETER enforcement push.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Misses Trump’s February Deadline on BVLOS Rule as Right-of-Way Fight Stalls Part 108
The FAA has blown past a White House deadline to finalize Part 108, the rule that would replace case-by-case BVLOS waivers with a routine certification pathway — stalled chiefly by a proposed inversion of crewed-aircraft right-of-way precedent that drew more than 1,600 opposing comments.
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Policy & Regulation
Gatwick's 2018 Drone Shutdown: 33 Hours, 140,000 Passengers, and No Confirmed Drone
In December 2018, a reported drone near Gatwick Airport triggered 33 hours of closure, 800 cancelled flights, and 140,000 stranded passengers — but no sensor confirmed a drone was present, no image was ever produced, and the detective who said so was removed from press duties within days.
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New Jersey's 2024 Drone Wave: What Federal Investigators Actually Found
In late 2024, weeks of nightly drone sightings across New Jersey and the Northeast triggered a federal investigation, thousands of public tips, and emergency airspace restrictions—before a four-agency joint statement concluded most reports were misidentified manned aircraft, with no foreign nexus and no national security threat.
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Coast Guard's First Multi-City Counter-UAS Deployment Guards the 2026 FIFA World Cup
The U.S. Coast Guard is running its first-ever simultaneous multi-city domestic counter-drone operation, covering 13 World Cup matches across Boston and San Francisco plus Sail 250 celebrations in four cities, backed by $150 million in C-UAS investment and 140 trained personnel.
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Policy & Regulation
ITAR, MTCR, and the Rules That Gave China a Decade’s Head Start in the Armed-Drone Market
The United States spent nearly two decades applying WMD-era missile controls to modern ISR drones, effectively banning sales to most partners while China and Turkey filled the market. A 2020 speed-based carve-out and a 2025 fighter-aircraft review standard are the belated correction.
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Policy & Regulation
The Sound Standard Drone Delivery Doesn't Have Yet
Drone noise sits in household-appliance decibel territory but is measurably 4–10 dB more annoying than jet aircraft at equal sound pressure. A patchwork of bespoke FAA rulings and an unfulfilled congressional mandate have left communities in Texas and Australia with no effective regulatory recourse.
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Policy & Regulation
From ISM Bands to Part 88: How U.S. Drone Spectrum Regulation Works
Most commercial drones fly on unlicensed ISM spectrum shared with Wi-Fi and baby monitors — a structural problem for BVLOS operations that require aviation-grade, interference-protected command links. Here is how a 2012 ITU allocation became Part 88, and what remains unresolved.
