House bill HR 2864, the Countering CCP Drones Act (CCCPDA) was introduced into the House earlier this year as a standalone bill by Rep Elise Stefanik (R-NY). The bill was written to place DJI specifically on the FCC Covered Entities list, which would prohibit DJI from obtaining new FCC licensing on future models from DJI. It has been speculated that this bill could be retroactive and allow for the revocation of current FCC licenses for drones already in use in the US. It is not know how the retroactivity would be enforced if enacted. We believe it would basically outlaw DJI drones and the government could then pressure current drone owners to "turn in" their newly unlawful drones. We do not believe the drones would just cease to function. That said, this bill would essentially prohibit DJI from obtaining FCC licenses for future DJI models, meaning the drones would not be able to communicate with the radio controllers needed to operate them.
The effects of this bill go beyond public safety and bleed well into the commercial and hobby drone market. There would no longer be future innovation from DJI, which leads the drone industry in many categories. If this bill were to pass, we believe there would be a staggering fallout in the drone ecosphere due to the fact that, at this time and potentially for years to come, alternatives to DJI from US or allied drone companies are not capable of being produced at scale or the demand that this bill would create. Furthermore, the consumer market would be gutted, as there really isn't a consumer drone manufacturer that produces drones at the scale and capability that DJI does. Once the consumer drone models from DJI are end of life, the ability to purchase consumer drones would be impossible. We do not believe it is feasible for a new company, or an existing enterprise drone manufacturer to begin to create and produce at scale a consumer drone model to compete in the next 5+ years.
In the last two weeks, the language of the CCCPDA was introduced into the House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2025 in the House Armed Services Committee. This is a tactic by the bill sponsor to insert and get a vote on a bill they don't feel confident would make it to the floor for a vote. NDAA must be voted on each year and it's a way to get language enacted into law without it having to stand alone and obtain enough votes to pass. This is the exact same way the language from the American Security Drone Act (ASDA) was enacted into law last year. Whether the language stays in the bill or not is yet to be seen. It is also possible the language stays in, but gets changed or watered down quite a bit.
There is no companion bill to the CCCPDA in the Senate yet, nor has the language been introduced into the Senate NDAA yet. Once that occurs, passing would be in short order, according to our sources. It is rumored recently that Senator Tester (D-MT) may be introducing a companion bill that would also include a FCC ban on drones with technology license by DJI. This language would encompass Anzu Robotics, as they are manufacturing drones and tech license by DJI, although they are an American company and manufacturing in Malaysia, an allied country.
House bill HR 8416, the Drones for First Responders Act (DFR Act), was just recently introduced into the House as another standalone bill by Rep Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and we are told it will run in parallel to the CCCPDA. The bill was place tariffs on any drone imported into the US that has any of the following components manufactured in China:
Flight controller, radio, data transmission device, camera, gimbal, ground control system, operating software, network connectivity hardware, or data storage...
The money generated from the tariffs would fund a grant to assist first responders, farm and agriculture, and critical infrastructure to transition to US made drones. The DFR Act tariffs would start at 30% the first year (DJI is already tariffed at 25%) and would rise by 5% every year for 5 years. The last year would be a $100 tariff plus 50%. Lastly, starting in 2030, there would be an all out ban on the import of Chinese drones.
So far, there has not been much movement on this bill as a standalone and there also has not been any mention of any of this language being introduced into NDAA on either side. No companion bill has been produced for the Senate to date.