The FCC put the Pentagon's DJI and Autel letters to Congress into the record, and says it did not rely on them

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau released Public Notice DA 26-1106 on October 14. It places into two FCC dockets the letters the Department of War sent to congressional committees under section 1709 of the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. The dockets are ET Docket 26-22, for SZ DJI Technology, and ET Docket 26-23, for Autel Robotics. The redacted, unclassified cover pages go in the public record. The classified letters go in under seal. The notice says the letters came from Michael P. Cadenazzi of the department's Industrial Base Policy office.

Section 1709 gave an appropriate national security agency one year to decide whether communications or video surveillance equipment from DJI and Autel poses an unacceptable risk. If no agency decided in time, the FCC had to add that equipment to the Covered List. When an agency does find an unacceptable risk, the law says it must report to the appropriate congressional committees in unclassified form, with an optional classified annex.