Florida has now banned state and native authorities companies from utilizing drones from a “international nation of concern,” which implies that 1000’s of DJI drones being utilized by public security departments can’t be used.
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The ban took impact on Wednesday, April 5 2023. The ban doesn’t impact business and personal drone use.
The Florida regulation is an unfunded mandate, which can power particular person public companies to provide you with the cash to interchange their drone fleets and practice workers on new expertise.
Whereas Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly claimed that Chinese language drone expertise poses a safety threat, a survey by DRONERESPONDERS signifies that greater than 90% of Florida public security companies are at the moment utilizing DJI drones, as is the case throughout the nation.
The ban has met with vital detrimental response as we speak, as customers and stakeholders calculate the worth of {hardware} which can now have to be changed. In line with one native Florida information station, “the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace has grounded 63 drones, bought at a value of $300,000, whereas Miami-Dade police and hearth rescue have needed to floor 41 drones, which value greater than $200,000.”
Florida’s Division of Administration Providers has revealed a brief record of accredited drone suppliers:
Pursuant to part 934.50(7)(b), Florida Statutes, the division hereby offers the next record of accredited producers whose drones could also be bought or in any other case acquired and utilized by a governmental company below part 934.50, Florida Statutes:
- Skydio
- Parrot
- Altavian
- Teal Drones
- Vantage Robotics
The record seems to be based mostly on the Division of Protection’s DIU “Blue sUAS” record, however is a listing of producers reasonably than platforms. The record doesn’t embody all US-manufactured or NDAA compliant drones.
Florida’s ban is the newest transfer within the ongoing conflict on Chinese language drone expertise. Whereas DeSantis specifically has made statements about “spying,” the efforts to restrict authorities publicity to Chinese language expertise, a part of the “Huawei impact”, has been ongoing for a number of years within the U.S. authorities as geopolitical pressures enhance. Whereas DJI has put expertise safeguards into their techniques that permit customers to maintain their knowledge contained to a neighborhood card with out connecting to the web or importing knowledge in any respect, the U.S. authorities’s said concern is an current regulation in China stating that Chinese language authorities companies could request entry to Chinese language-based firm’s knowledge.
The ban doesn’t impact personal firms and business pursuits, it’s only related to Florida state and native authorities companies.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the business drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand new applied sciences.
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