A task force of government and industry stakeholders will be assembled to work out the details of a new requirement to register all unmanned aircraft systems (commonly known as drones) at the time of sale. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, and representatives of various groups concerned with commercial and recreational use of unmanned aircraft, announced the urgent effort to ensure that every drone is linked to a user. Commercial operators are already required to register unmanned aircraft, and federal officials said they can expand that requirement to all drones based on their existing authority and regulations. The task force, Foxx said, "will work on a tight timeline to get this done" by November 20, with the registration requirement to be in place by mid-December. By some estimates, 1 million drones or more may be sold this holiday season. Foxx expects the registration requirement will be retroactive to drones sold prior to December, although that is still to be decided.
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