Given how quickly drone technology has been evolving, and how slowly legislation has kept up, it was no surprise that regulation emerged as a central theme at the Counter UAS Homeland Security Europe conference.
While the need for the necessary technologies for detection and mitigation was made clear, what really stuck with me was how often the conversation returned to the foundational challenge of keeping policy aligned with innovation.
Across two days of presentations and panels, the theme of legal frameworks governing counter-drone operations kept surfacing. Many speakers felt that legal frameworks are not keeping pace with the threat, and that is a significant problem for those working to safeguard the public.
