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Chip War Author: FCC Ban Succeeds Where Trump Tariffs Failed Against DJI
It was clear that Trump’s tariffs were never going to stop DJI. Now one of the most influential voices in US-China tech competition is making the same argument in the Financial Times. Chris Miller, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist book…
St. Cloud DFR’s 200 Flights Prove BVLOS Works, But at What Cost?
I’ve been tracking Florida’s disastrous DJI drone ban for over a year, and the bill is finally coming due. When we first reported on St. Cloud’s $890,000 Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program last month, the story was about…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr Takes Victory Lap at CES: The Stage Where DJI Built America’s Drone Culture
Two weeks ago, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr signed the order that effectively killed DJI’s future in America. On Thursday, he’ll take the stage at CES 2026, the very show where DJI spent a decade building its brand, for a “fireside…
Wichita Police Drone Tracks Circle K Robbery Suspect
Wichita police arrested a 46 year old man early Friday morning after an armed robbery at a Circle K convenience store, with a Skydio X10 police drone playing a decisive role in locating and capturing the suspect, as reported by…
Police Test Autonomous DFR Drones in Grand Chute
Autonomous drones are no longer a future promise for law enforcement. In Grand Chute, Wisconsin, police are already letting software and sensors arrive before squad cars. Since April 2025, the Grand Chute Police Department has been running a pilot drone…
FCC Foreign Drone Ban Could Hit US Farmers Where It Hurts Most
When the FCC quietly added foreign made drones and components to its Covered List last week, the move was framed as a clean national security win. Chinese manufacturer DJI was effectively frozen out of future approvals, a decision the agency…
US Army’s 10th Mountain Division Goes All In on Attack Drones
The US Army’s 10th Mountain Division has quietly crossed an important line, moving from simply using drones as flying eyes to treating them as frontline weapons, with the formal activation of a brand new unit dedicated entirely to offensive drone…
Blue UAS Architects Predict 2026 Drone Attack, Highlight Pentagon’s Mass Production Gap
The two officials who built the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and helped create the Blue UAS framework are warning that a drone attack on US soil is coming in 2026. Their analysis exposes a fundamental tension in American drone policy:…
Drone Finds Missing Man After 29 Hours in Freezing Cold
A routine afternoon walk in LaGrange, Kentucky turned into a 29 hour fight for survival, and a drone roughly the size of a pizza box ended up being the difference between a recovery and a rescue. On December 20, Oldham…
FCC Banned Foreign Drone Batteries, But China Makes 99% of Them
Yesterday, I wrote about the FCC’s sweeping ban on all foreign-made drones and critical components. Today, the New York Times published an article that exposes a fundamental problem with the administration’s “American drone dominance” strategy: the batteries don’t exist. The FCC’s…
Texas DPS Quietly Built a Border-Scale Drone Fleet
Texas once flirted with the idea of citizens shooting drones out of the sky. Now the state is operating one of the largest law enforcement drone fleets in the country, irony included at no extra charge. Under Governor Greg Abbott’s…
NOAA Trains Drones for Oil Spill First Response
Oil spills do not wait politely for paperwork, daylight, or perfect weather, they move fast, spread faster, and leave responders racing a very messy clock. To tilt that race in their favor, the National Ocean Service Office of Response and…