FBI Wants Local Governments to Report Their Anti-Drone Efforts
Published Date: 11/4/2026
Notice
Summary
The FBI wants to collect info from state, local, tribal, and territorial groups about counter-drone efforts to keep skies safer. They’re asking for public feedback on this plan until December 4, 2026, to make sure it’s useful and not too much work. This helps improve how they track and stop unauthorized drones without costing extra money or time.
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State/local agencies must submit C‑UAS filings
State, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement and correctional agencies must submit attestations, plans, notifications, reports, and records through the Federal C‑UAS coordination portal to coordinate and obtain or retain counter‑UAS authority under 6 U.S.C. 124n(a)(2) and 6 CFR/28 CFR part 124. The collection covers accreditation/certification paperwork and some mandatory reports, while a small number of instruments remain voluntary.
Estimated time burden and response counts
The DOJ estimates 1,850 SLTT agencies will respond, creating about 26,205 annual responses and a total estimated annual time burden of 28,689 hours. Individual tasks range from about 5 minutes (feedback on a listed counter‑UAS system) to about 5 hours (initial policy adoption and attestation); a detection and warning operations plan is estimated at about 45 minutes and a mitigation operations plan at about 1 hour.
Move from email forms to secure web portal
The FBI will transition the C‑UAS instruments from the current offline, emailed workflow to a secure web portal expected to go live in the second or third quarter of fiscal year 2027. The portal will host the same data elements, authenticate users via existing federated identity providers, and capture completion timing for future burden estimates.
FBI made specific burden‑reducing and transparency changes
In response to public comment and initial implementation experience, the FBI added a one‑time form training line, split recordkeeping estimates by agency tier, raised the mitigation‑tier figure, provided task‑level bases for estimates, supplied instruments to the commenter, committed to add a State‑law citation field to the Extended Retention Notification, will publish the data schema for each instrument, will extend data reuse to the Post‑Operation Report and Semiannual Summary, and will offer a one‑step no‑activity summary for detection‑tier agencies.
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