Stefanik’s Countering CCP Drones Act Passes Home – sUAS Information

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s laws the Countering CCP Drones Act will add Communist Chinese language drone firm Da-Jiang Improvements (DJI) to the Federal Communications Fee’s (FCC) Coated Record prohibiting new fashions of DJI drones from working on U.S. communications infrastructure. This handed on the Home Flooring with overwhelming unanimous bipartisan help. 

“The Home of Representatives overwhelmingly handed my laws the Countering CCP Drones Act to finish the drone monopoly Communist Chinese language DJI held within the U.S., shield our skies, and construct the U.S. drone industrial base. For years, the U.S. authorities has identified that DJI presents unacceptable financial and nationwide safety dangers however nobody was keen to take the mandatory steps to take away Communist Chinese language spy drones from our skies. That modified at this time,” mentioned Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. “It’s strategically irresponsible to permit Communist China to be our drone manufacturing unit. It’s now important that the Senate embody this laws of their Nationwide Protection Authorization Act.”

In March, Rep. Stefanik’s bipartisan Countering CCP Drones Act was marked upunanimously by the Home Vitality and Commerce Committee. Moreover, the Countering CCP Drones Act is included within the Home-passed Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal Yr 2025.

The U.S. authorities has licensed a number of occasions that DJI presents a respectable nationwide safety threat and there must be actions taken to mitigate these dangers. Including DJI to the Coated Record can be in line with actions taken all through the U.S. Authorities, together with:

• In August 2017, an Intelligence Bulletin from a Division of Homeland Safety Discipline Workplace acknowledged DJI is offering delicate U.S. knowledge to the Chinese language Authorities.
• Within the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal Yr 2020, Congress banned the Division of Protection from buying and utilizing drones and elements manufactured in Communist China.
• In December 2020, the Division of Commerce added DJI to its“Entity Record” for its position in enabling China’s wide-scale human rights abuses.
• In July 2021, the Division of Protection acknowledgedthat DJI methods pose a menace to U.S. nationwide safety and that mitigating the threats posed by DJI is a precedence for the Division. 
• In December 2021, the Division of the Treasury added DJI to its listing of Chinese language Army-Industrial Advanced corporations, resulting from DJI’s help of biometric surveillance and monitoring of ethnic and spiritual minorities in China. 
• In October 2022, DJI was added to the Division of Protection’s 1260H Chinese language Army Firm listing due to DJI’s position in advancing the modernization efforts of the Folks’s Liberation Military. 
• In January 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company and the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched cybersecurity steering which states that Chinese language-manufactured drones pose a big threat to important infrastructure and U.S. nationwide safety. 
• In January 2024, the Division of Protection recertified DJI on its 1260H Chinese language Army Firm listing. 

Congresswoman Stefanik has led initiatives to counter the threats of Chinese language-manufactured drones and construct the U.S. drone industrial base:

• In February 2022, Congresswoman Stefanik first launched the Countering CCP Drones Act.
• In April 2023, Congresswoman Stefanik reintroduced the Countering CCP Drones Act.
• In November 2023, she co-led the American Safety Drone Act and efficiently advocated for its inclusion within the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal Yr 2024. 
• In November 2023, Congresswoman Stefanik co-led a bipartisan letter urging the Biden Administration to analyze CCP-backed drone firm, Autel Robotics.
• In December 2023, Congresswoman Stefanik led a bicameral letter demanding oversight into the Division of Protection’s position in permitting U.S. corporations to export important elements to DJI. 
• In March 2024, Congresswoman Stefanik known as out former Obama Legal professional Common for lobbying on behalf of DJI. 
• In Could 2024, Congresswoman Stefanik launched the Drones for First Responders Act to implement a brand new tariff on Communist Chinese language-controlled drones and use the tariff income to ascertain a brand new grant program to assist first responders, important infrastructure suppliers, and farmers, buy safe drones.
• In Could 2024, Congresswoman Stefanik led a letter urging the Division of Justice to open an investigation into the Drone Advocacy Alliance, which is funded by Communist Chinese language drone firm DJI, for potential violations of the Overseas Brokers Registration Act.
• In September 2024, Congresswoman Stefanik led a letter to USDA and CISA requesting info on their efforts to mitigate the dangers of DJI-manufactured agricultural spray drones to the USA and our agriculture trade. 

Learn the total textual content of the Countering CCP Drones Act right here.