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Drone industry urges prompt release of BVLOS and critical-infrastructure rules
Summary
Industry representatives and the subcommittee pressed the FAA to finish rulemaking on beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights and a petition process for critical infrastructure protections; witnesses said missed statutory deadlines are delaying scaled public-safety and commercial applications.
Representatives of the uncrewed systems industry told the House Aviation Subcommittee that statutory deadlines for rulemaking on key drone authorities have been missed and urged expedited FAA action.
Michael Robbins, president and CEO of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), said parts of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 that direct performance-based rulemaking and BVLOS operations have not been completed on schedule. Robbins told the subcommittee that the BVLOS rulemaking tied to section 930 of the reauthorization is overdue by more than 260 days.
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