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America’s Drone Reckoning: National Security, Tariffs, and the Urgent Shift to Secure U.S.-Based Solutions

The message is clear: America’s drone future must be secure, sovereign and strategically independent.

Natalia Sokolov

July 29, 2025

Rapidly-shifting tariffs place security leaders in a difficult position when trying to select technology for their organizations.

counterdrone law increases fine and prison sentence in louisiana

A bill in Louisiana would double fines for drones flying over critical infrastructure

June 11, 2021

A bill has reached Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards' desk that would double the fine for drones flying over critical infrastructure.

New Law Increases Penalties for Dropping Contraband from Drones into Prisons

August 9, 2019

Gov. John Carney (DE) signed legislation at Vaughn Correctional Center that increases the penalties for individuals trying to use a drone to drop contraband into any of the state’s prisons.

New FAA Drone App Shows No-Fly Zones

August 2, 2019

The FAA in partnership with Kittyhawk relaunched its B4UFLY mobile application that allows recreational drone flyers know where they can and cannot fly in the national airspace system.

Government Requests New Powers to Address Drone Security Threats

June 8, 2018

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.”

Timeline of Counter-Drone Activity in the U.S. Government

How can enterprise security leaders protect their environments?

Logan Harris

September 1, 2017

There are a number of legislative committees and groups working on counter drone legislation, evaluating existing technology and supporting the development of new technology. Here are some of the major highlights in counter drone research and legislation since the early 2000s.

Legislation Introduced to Limit Drone Surveillance and Facial Recognition

March 21, 2017

Legislation has been introduced to protect individual privacy from the growing number of government and commercial drones in use.

What to Do About Drones? Detect, Identify, Respond

Because of the danger posed by the misuse of UAVs, new technology mitigates potential drone threats.

Logan Harris

October 11, 2016

The FAA projects a 30x growth of commercial drone use to 600,000 over the next year, which could pose a significant threat to physical security and critical infrastructure.

Diane Ritchey

October 1, 2015

As drone popularity, function and capabilities rise, it becomes increasingly apparent that unmanned aerial vehicles will have a hand in transforming campus security.

Retail security professionals are facing an increasingly complex array of security challenges — everything from organized retail crime to evolving cyber-physical threats and public safety concerns.