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Welcome to your weekly UAS news update, we have four stories for you this week: NDAA Markup, Commercial UAV Workshops, WingtraCloud, and two new courses from Pilot Institute!

Now is the time to make our voices heard in the US Senate.\nThe Senate Armed Services Committee is considering its version of the National Defense Authorization Act.\nThe House\u2019s NDAA bill includes the Countering CCP Drones Act, which would ban DJI Drones.\xa0\nIt\u2019s also important to ensure the Drones for First Responders Act or the Countering CCP Drones Act isn\u2019t included in the bill\u2019s language.\nAs a reminder, the Countering CCP Drones Act plans to ban Chinese drones by revoking to preventing new FCC approvals, which would affect EVERYONE, including public safety agencies.\nThe DFR Act would ban Chinese drones in 5 years after creating an incremental tariff, which would affect everyone, including public safety agencies that would lose financial aid after 5 years and have to pay for expensive drones without subsidies.\nThe Senate will vote on their version of the act next week, between June 11th and June 13th, so the time to act is NOW.\xa0\nPlease visit the DAA\u2019s website to contact your senator!\xa0\n\nhttps://droneadvocacyalliance.com/\n\nNext up, Commercial UAV Expo is around the corner!\nI\u2019ll be on a panel with Desiree Ekstein, Jared, Janacek, Vic Moss, Kenji Sugahara, and Amy T Wiegand discussing Regulations and Compliance, BVLOS, Airspace Management, Remote I, Operations Over People and Vehicles, and more.\xa0\nThe talk is on Tuesday, September 3rd from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM and I hope to see you there!\xa0\n\nhttps://www.expouav.com/session/now-beyond-2024-essentials-for-every-drone-pilot/\n\nLast up, Wingtra released WingtraCLOUD this week!\xa0\nWingtraCLOUD is a new software solution for flight planning, site-based file organization, 3D Planning, and coordinate systems.\xa0\nThe primary goal of the new software is to streamline surveyors' workflows and enable more data capture.\xa0\nIt doesn\u2019t look like WingtraCLOUD currently integrates an image processing system but integrations are available according to Wingtra\u2019s website.\xa0\nWe\u2019ll keep you updated if we see more!\xa0\n\nhttps://wingtra.com/wingtracloud/\n\nLastly, two new courses: LiDAR and Search and Rescue.\n\nHave a great week, and we\u2019ll see you on Monday for the Live!