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) Lined Checklist prohibiting new fashions of DJI drones from working on U.S. communications infrastructure. This handed on the Home Ground 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., defend 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 as we speak,” mentioned Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. “It’s strategically irresponsible to permit Communist China to be our drone manufacturing facility. It’s now vital 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 means of 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 reliable nationwide safety danger and there must be actions taken to mitigate these dangers. Including DJI to the Lined Checklist could be according to actions taken all through the U.S. Authorities, together with:

• In August 2017, an Intelligence Bulletin from a Division of Homeland Safety Subject Workplace acknowledged DJI is offering delicate U.S. information 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 Checklist” for its function in enabling China’s wide-scale human rights abuses.
• In July 2021, the Division of Protection acknowledgedthat DJI programs pose a risk 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 checklist of Chinese language Army-Industrial Complicated firms, attributable to DJI’s help of biometric surveillance and monitoring of ethnic and non secular minorities in China. 
• In October 2022, DJI was added to the Division of Protection’s 1260H Chinese language Army Firm checklist due to DJI’s function 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 major danger to vital infrastructure and U.S. nationwide safety. 
• In January 2024, the Division of Protection recertified DJI on its 1260H Chinese language Army Firm checklist. 

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 research CCP-backed drone firm, Autel Robotics.
• In December 2023, Congresswoman Stefanik led a bicameral letter demanding oversight into the Division of Protection’s function in permitting U.S. firms to export vital elements to DJI. 
• In March 2024, Congresswoman Stefanik known as out former Obama Lawyer Normal for lobbying on behalf of DJI. 
• In Might 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 determine a brand new grant program to assist first responders, vital infrastructure suppliers, and farmers, buy safe drones.
• In Might 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 International 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 US and our agriculture business. 

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