Government Requests New Powers to Address Drone Security Threats
The Trump administration urged Congress this week to give it new powers to disable or destroy threatening drones. According to Reuters, written testimony from David Glawe, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, and Hayley Chang, DHS deputy general counsel, said that “terrorist groups overseas use drones to conduct attacks on the battlefield and continue to plot to use them in terrorist attacks elsewhere. This is a very serious, looming threat that we are currently underprepared to confront.”
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation last month to give DHS and the Justice Department authority to “protect buildings and assets when there is an unacceptable security risk to public safety posed by an unmanned aircraft.”