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White House · Counter-Drone

FEMA's Olympic Counter-Drone Money Gives Host California 46% Less

The White House Olympics task force hosts a counter-drone forum Nov. 9, a week before states apply for FEMA's next $250M. California gets $18.7M.

Haye KestelooOct 265 min read

Elon Musk in a black cap and jacket giving two thumbs up beside President Donald Trump seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, flags behind them

Ukraine

WSJ Says Musk Ordered Ukraine's Starlink Cap. Musk Said POTUS Decides

WSJ sources say Musk ordered the Starshield cap that slowed Ukraine's drones. Musk says the military and POTUS decide. Senators seek a briefing by Nov. 1.

Haye KestelooOct 20

Flat white Starshield satellite terminal on a black hard case beside a tan Humvee draped in camouflage netting on gravel ground

Ukraine

Starshield Cap Hit Ukraine's Interceptors, Not Its Refinery Strikes

Reuters' sources say the Starshield cap that slowed Ukraine's interceptor drones came from the White House. Some drone makers already fly their own links.

Haye KestelooOct 16

Five attendees in suits stand beside an easel sign reading Welcome to the White House, Drone Dominance Event, in a marble-floored Eisenhower Executive Office Building hallway

US Government

White House Drone List: Three Trump-Family Firms In, Ten Winners Out

The White House list for its Drone Dominance event names 40 entries. All three Trump-family drone firms made it. Ten of eleven Gauntlet I winners did not.

Haye KestelooSep 10

Aerial view of the Butler Farm Show grounds after the July 13, 2024 Trump rally, the vantage point Thomas Crooks had and the Secret Service did not

Department of Homeland Security

Secret Service Saw Drones Near Obama and Sanders, Then Came Butler

GAO finds the Secret Service logged drone incidents in 2015, 2016 and 2021, changed no civilian drone policy and never wrote down why. Then came Butler.

Haye KestelooSep 4

White House

DOJ Indicts Rocklin Felon From White House Drone Plot, Not For Drones

A Rocklin felon tied to the UFC Freedom 250 drone plot is indicted on gun and evidence-destruction charges. No conspiracy count, and still no drone.

Haye KestelooAug 29

United States Drone Dominance Program seal showing a bald eagle clutching arrows in front of a globe with three quadcopters above it

US Government

White House Summons 40 Drone Companies As Tariff Deadline And Beijing Loom

The first White House Drone Dominance event packed roughly 40 drone makers into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, two weeks before Section 232 tariffs hit and hours before Beijing demanded their withdrawal.

Haye KestelooAug 20

A DJI Matrice 4T enterprise drone with its thermal and zoom camera payload, the class of thermal-equipped aircraft that falls into the new 100 percent tariff tier.

US Government

Trump Puts 100% Tariffs On Thermal Drones As His Sons' Drone Stocks Rally

Trump's Section 232 drone tariffs start September 3. Thermal aircraft pay 100%, everything else 25%, and two Trump-linked drone stocks jumped on the news.

Haye KestelooAug 15

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