The U.S. defense drone supply chain looks different than it did eighteen months ago. The FCC added every foreign-made unmanned aircraft and every critical UAS component to the federal Covered List in December, ending new U.S. equipment authorization for DJI, Autel, and the rest of the foreign supply chain in a single move and leaving NDAA-compliant American manufacturers as the only path for new U.S. market authorization. Eight months before that ruling, Dynamic Aerospace Sys