US President Donald Trump signed a number of decrees aimed at resuming supersonic air travel and strengthening the competitiveness of the United States in the industry of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) amid the growing influence of China in this area.
According to the White House, within the framework of the new decrees, it is necessary to mitigate the restrictions on the use of UAVs, in particular, permission to use them outside the direct visibility of operators both for commercial purposes and in the field of public security.
The Federal Civil Aviation Department (FAA) is instructed to use artificial intelligence to accelerated processing applications for the operation of drones.
Documents provide for the expansion of the powers of American law enforcement agencies in the fight against the illegal use of drones, as well as the abolition of the prohibition of supersonic flights within the country in 1973. The plans – and testing of electrical aircraft of vertical take -off and landing (Evtol).
Superman passenger flights were suspended in the United States after the CONCORDE aircraft disaster in Paris in 2000, which claimed the life of 113 people.
Trump also signed two separate decrees aimed at strengthening national cybersecurity and protecting the American airspace.
One of them provides for measures to counteract foreign cyberosis and the development of safe digital technologies. According to the White House, the decree also includes changes to the regulatory acts adopted in previous presidential terms.
Another document is aimed at suppressing the activities of transnational criminal groups, including attempts to smuggling drugs across the US border using drones, the transfer of prohibited items to prison and monitoring the work of law enforcement agencies.