U.S. Dept. of Defense Releases List of 5 “Trusted” Drone Options

[Colin Parkinson]

This effects civilian and non-operational military drone use on DOD property. A lot of the commercially available drones used by contractors and such were banned for fear of data harvesting by the Chinese. Mapping by drones using LIDAR is becoming a major component of civil infrastructure projects.

Government Approved Drones: U.S. Dept. of Defense Releases List of 5 “Trusted” Drone Options

As a next step to the U.S. government’s ban on Chinese-manufactured drones, including the world’s largest manufacturer, DJI; the U.S. Department of Defense has released a list of governmen

dronelife.com

 

[tomahawk6]

Drone Life or a day in the life of a Pentagon Staff Officer .

 

[Good2Golf]

So a DJI Phantom linked to Huawei 5G is off the list, then?

 

[Navy_Pete]

That's neat; thanks for sharing.

We looked at getting a drone to use it to remotely survey parts of the ships that usually have a number of complications in getting to them (ie up the mast, or inside tanks). Would have been a simple hobbiest one with a video feed, but they are really useful for all kinds of things like that, and are apparently getting used more on really big ships to see if they need to set up scaffolding or rig up rappeling gear to to a closer inspection. Nice to know there are now 'US DoD approved' ones.