Five Drones Leading the NDAA Charge. By Chris (The Drone Geek) Fravel.

[The Droning Company]

Five Drones Leading the NDAA Charge

 

[Oceanlines]

Chris - I respect your business model and your selling points for NDAA-compliant drones. But I have to take issue with one of the last statements in your piece: "The NDAA has not created a drought of drone technology; it has sparked a boom in secure innovation." While technically debatable, what it HAS created is a drought of AFFORDABLE drone technology for nearly the entirety of small to medium size drone businesses. And that's one of the hardest things to swallow about the NDAA, since it really doesn't do what it's authors say it does. The mere fact that Apple phones aren't the subject of these same bans means that it's NOT in fact, about some hypothetical security risk related to Chinese manufacturing. That's the tough part. As far as the drones in your story, I'd love to be able to hop on the bandwagon, but the financial leap is ridiculously high and I, like most of my small-business colleagues, simply can't make it.