{"id":3780,"date":"2026-01-15T22:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:00:34","slug":"new-u-s-counter-drone-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-u-s-counter-drone-office\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. counter drone office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/department-homeland-security-launches-new-office-advance-drone-and-counter-drone\"> Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS) today announced the launch of a new office dedicated to rapidly procuring and deploying drone and counter-drone technologies, marking a major step forward in restoring American airspace sovereignty \u2013 a top priority for the Trump Administration.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason? Safety for FIFA World Cup and the 250th U.S. celebrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funding comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/digital-government\/2026\/01\/defense-law-includes-expanded-counter-drone-authority\/410542\/\">Safer Skies Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act<\/a>, signed by the President in later 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the launch of a new office dedicated to rapidly procuring and deploying drone and counter-drone technologies, marking a major step forward in restoring American airspace sovereignty \u2013 a top priority for the Trump Administration.\u201d The reason? Safety for FIFA World Cup and the 250th U.S. celebrations. Funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}