The Coming Domestic Drone Wars

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The Coming Domestic Drone Wars

Thursday, 19 September 2013 14:12
By Candice Bernd, Truthout | News


While progressives in the U.S. have been right to pressure the Obama administration on its use of military drone strikes throughout the Middle East as part of a protracted global war on terror, the lesser-known ongoing integration of drone technology into domestic airspace may prompt a similar public outcry as ubiquitous drone surveillance by law enforcement agencies and corporations becomes the norm over US skies.

In just a couple of years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates, thousands of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could be operating in US skies as the administration continues to integrate drone technology into the National Airspace System (NAS) to comply with a federal law enacted last year.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 mandates that the FAA draw a comprehensive plan to define the standards of operation, certification, registration and other regulations of domestic unmanned systems to accelerate the systems' integration into US skies. Presently, most types of UAVs largely are controlled and used by the U.S. military.

Domestic Commercial Drones

As part of this integration process, the FAA issued restricted category certificates to two private companies in July, allowing them to operate two designs for small drones commercially within U.S. airspace for the first time. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/news/item/18951-the-coming-domestic-drone-wars

[Mnemosyne]

1. Time to buy a good slingshot. nt

[randome]

2. God forbid we have regulations and restrictions on new technology.

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