{"id":111814,"date":"2020-08-23T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/pentagon-approves-five-us-drone-makers-ahead-of-likely-ban-on-chinas-dji"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:53:01","slug":"pentagon-approves-five-us-drone-makers-ahead-of-likely-ban-on-chinas-dji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/pentagon-approves-five-us-drone-makers-ahead-of-likely-ban-on-chinas-dji","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon approves five US drone makers ahead of likely ban on China\u2019s DJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-approves-five-us-drone-makers-ahead-of-likely-ban-on-chinas-dji.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of a likely ban on the US federal government\u2019s use of Chinese-made quadcopters, including popular DJI drones, the Department of Defense has approved the products of five US-based unmanned air vehicle (UAV) makers for government use.<\/p>\n<p>Those companies are Altavian, Parrot, Skydio, Teal and Vantage Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Small UAVs from these manufacturers have been deemed cyber-secure by the Pentagon \u2013 not vulnerable to backdoor spying that some suspect might be possible from the video cameras and other sensors attached to Chinese-made DJI drones. The US Congress is considering banning the US federal government from using foreign-made drones as part of its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a likely ban on the US federal government\u2019s use of Chinese-made quadcopters, including popular DJI drones, the Department of Defense has approved the products of five US-based unmanned air vehicle (UAV) makers for government use. Those companies are Altavian, Parrot, Skydio, Teal and Vantage Robotics. Small UAVs from these manufacturers have been deemed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}