FAR Sends Foreign UAS IFR to OMB

Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had received an interim final rule from the Federal Acquisition Regulation on “Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); FAR Case 2024-002, Prohibition on Covered Unmanned Aircraft Systems by Covered Foreign Entities”. This rulemaking was not listed in the Fall 2023 Unified Agenda, so there is no specific information on the potential scope of this rulemaking.

This may deal with the requirements of the American Security Drone Act Of 2023 {§1821 of the FY 2024 NDAA (PL 118-31) which prohibits using a GSA SmartPay purchase card to buy any covered unmanned aircraft systems from covered foreign entities.