> including hot new drone company Skydio, offering a competitive product at a competitive price<p>This honestly looks like a hidden advertisement ...
There are security angles to this that it's the governments job to consider. For example, there is the case of sole source of components from a company or country and there is the case of back doors from countries that are known to spy on the US.<p>I would expect a country like China or Russia to do the same thing with goods designed or manufactured in the US that could have the same kind of impact.
> or any drones with <i>parts manufactured in covered countries</i>, including gimbals or cameras.<p>Is it even possible to build a modern day electronic device that doesn't have capacitors, diodes, resistors, oscillators, memory chips, cpu's, etc., that weren't manufactured in the "covered countries?" Or, are those not considered "parts?"
I do not understand all of a sudden everyone is freaking out about the Federal Register Entity List.<p>The list grew significantly way more in the past than recently. Why the sudden interest, weeping and gnashing of teeth?