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What "NDAA-compliant drone" actually means
The law behind the label, which components it covers, who has to care, and the mistake buyers make when they treat it as an approved list.
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Guides for the person signing the purchase order.
Each guide is short, carries a date, and names its sources. It answers the question you typed, then tells you what people get wrong when they assume the answer.
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Blue UAS vs NDAA-compliant
Two different things that get used as synonyms. Which one your funding source actually requires.
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The FCC Covered List and foreign drones
What changed on December 22, 2025, what the 2029 waiver covers, and what it does not.
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What a drone-as-first-responder program really costs
Published program budgets, the cost driver nobody prices, and what a small agency can do instead.
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How to buy a drone on a government purchase card
What fits under the $10,000 micro-purchase threshold, what to have in the file, and the one rule not to break.
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Drone bans and tariffs: what changed in 2025 and 2026
The FCC Covered List, the Section 232 drone tariffs that took effect September 3, 2026, and what they do to the price of a foreign fleet.
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Keeping a small drone fleet flying
What breaks, what a repair costs, and how detachable arms and printable parts change the arithmetic.
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PHMSA now allows drones for pipeline right-of-way patrols
What the 2026 rule changed for gas and hazardous liquid operators, the data-quality condition, and what it means for a small operator's patrol budget.
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Powerline and substation inspection by drone
What the aircraft finds, reported per-mile contractor rates, when thermal matters, the line-of-sight rule, and what a co-op pays to own it.
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What drone crop scouting costs, and which aircraft to use
Per-acre service rates, acres per flight for fixed-wing and quadcopter, where manned aircraft still win, and when owning beats hiring.
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Can a gun range shoot drones? What the law says
A drone is an aircraft in federal law and destroying one is a felony. Who trains against drones under an authorization, and what civilian ranges use instead.
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Compliant drone glossary
Sixteen terms a buyer meets in a procurement, one paragraph each: NDAA, Section 889, Blue UAS, Covered List, Part 107 and 108, COA, BVLOS, DFR, governor, C-UAS, micro-purchase.
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State rules on foreign drones for public agencies
Florida, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Texas each built on the federal floor with their own deadlines. What each says, with dates.
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What a Part 107 course actually needs to buy
A working equipment list for a drone training lab, with a price on every line we sell and honest notes on the ones we do not.
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Grants that fund drone programs
By segment: police, sheriff, and fire; schools and colleges; farms. What each program pays for and the compliance condition on all of them.
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Replacing your DJI drone
By segment and by model: what replaces a Mini, Mavic, or Matrice for the job it did, at a published price, and where nothing does yet.
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EnCor Academy: starting a small agency drone program
The steps, the policy outline, the certificate, and the funding sources, in order.
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The Compliant Drone Report
A dated tracker of prices, rules, and deadlines in the compliant small-drone market. Updated when something changes.