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Pentagon Slashes Red Tape To Prepare For Drone War

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Bureaucrats love bureaucrating. They live for this. Gumming up the works, making people and companies jump through hoops. Making procurement complicated. Even if it blocks the Pentagon from getting what they need to compete

Pentagon seeks to slash red tape for mass drone production

The Trump administration is slashing red tape to quickly equip troops with more small, easily replaced drones in a bid to keep up with the likes of Russia and China, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer told NewsNation’s Kelly Meyer in an exclusive interview.

Emil Michael, the under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said the U.S. is speedily moving to reduce bureaucratic barriers and expand the quantities and types of drones U.S. troops can use to defend American bases, forces and interests.

“You’ve got to cut the red tape out,” when it comes to drone production, he told Kellie Meyer from The Hill’s sister network. “A lot of the regulations around what you could build and how you could build it, and even how you could test it were limited in the last administration.”

Drones are the new frontline of modern conflicts, featuring prominently in Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s conflicts in the Middle East.

Nowhere were drones displayed so mightily that in June with Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb, where Kyiv spent months smuggling hundreds of small drones deep inside Russia for coordinated strike that destroyed upwards of 40 Russian warplanes on five airbases.

Thankfully that didn’t turn into WWIII. The U.S. needs to be prepared for an attack like that, and the U.S. needs to be able to project that type of force, as well as use a drone swarm for defense

But the United States is currently outpaced by Russia and China in military drone use, a gap caused by a dearth in companies approved to make drones for the U.S. military as well as limited equipment and expertise needed to mass-produce drones, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Heritage Foundation.

Only 14 companies currently can make drones for the Defense Department while just one Chinese company, DJI, accounts for 70 percent of all worldwide drone sales and makes millions of drones each year, putting Washington at a disadvantage. U.S. law bars the military from buying Chinese drones.

So, the Pentagon is going to fast-track building drones for military use, particularly for attack. Small ones. Not the big ones. We do great with the big ones, which are usually under direct control by a pilot in a room far away. I guess we’ll see how this turns out.

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