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The federal government will be further asserting its primacy over UAS rules and regulations and imposing more of them on the recreational sUAS community. That was the message at AUVSI this week from Steven Bradbury, DOT general counsel. (Photo: Mark Huber)
The federal government will be further asserting its primacy over UAS rules and regulations and imposing more of them on the recreational sUAS community. That was the message at AUVSI this week from Steven Bradbury, DOT general counsel. (Photo: Mark Huber)

Speaking at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference in Denver on Tuesday, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) general counsel Steven Bradbury left little doubt that the federal government will be moving quickly to further assert its primacy over UAS rules and regulations and impose more of them on the recreational sUAS community.

During a keynote address, Bradbury assured his audience that DOT’s UAS regulations would be limited in scope “to what is necessary to achieve our safety mission” and then laid out the case for increasing it on the grounds of airspace management, safety, security, and federal preemption.

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