Drones present an increasingly serious threat to the United States’s national security against both civilians at sporting events and law enforcement, according to drone experts who testified before Congress.
Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee were in rare agreement Tuesday afternoon during a hearing on malicious drones, that unmanned aircraft systems present a plethora of security and safety concerns for Americans.
Lawmakers on the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance also agreed that the U.S. government, particularly Congress, must do more to develop “counter drone” technology or ways to safely take down dangerous drones.
Sgt. Robert Dooley, Florida’s drone and counterdrone coordinator within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, testified that drones “continue to proliferate across recreational, commercial, and malicious domains.”
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