August 20, 2020 11:00 am
Teal’s Golden Eagle drone. | Image: Flir
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21376917/drone-us-government-approved-dod-diu-uas-blue-china
The US government cant use DJI drones - but here are five it just approved
Teal’s Golden Eagle drone. | Image: Flir
DJI may be synonymous with “drone,” but after the US Armed Forces, the Pentagon, and the Department of the Interior started banning and grounding Chinese models over spying fears, it created a vacuum in the market for a drone the United States government could trust.
But the US Department of Defense may already be filling that hole. It just wrapped up a program designed to find more palatable drones — one that actually kicked off in November 2018, arguably long before the tensions with China boiled over.
Today, the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit is announcing not one, not two, but five such drones that have been tested, approved, and are now formally available for government use — including two from formerly consumer-focused drone...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21376917/drone-us-government-approved-dod-diu-uas-blue-china
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