Washington — The Steward National Committee welcomed the latest expansion of the Microdrone Interdiction Administration’s public certification registry, which now includes a new generation of arrays designed for ground vehicles, hydrogen transports, private aerial conveyances and other mobile platforms.
Under federal law, individual citizens do not need a personal license to own or operate a lawful interdiction array. Federal tax credits, however, are available only for equipment holding a current Mia certification. Any qualified manufacturer may apply for certification, and the status of a model and serial designation can be verified on the Quantum Net.
The new entries use the law’s broad “personal conveyance” standard, adopted to replace older motor-vehicle terminology. The same statutory framework therefore covers battery-electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel-cell transports, autonomous road systems, surface craft and privately operated aerial vehicles as propulsion technology changes.
Steward policy supports the equipment-certification model because it separates the citizen’s right to possess defensive technology from the government’s responsibility to determine what taxpayers will reimburse. A citizen may own a lawful noncertified system. Federal reimbursement is limited to equipment carrying a current Mia certification.
The SNC said it will continue pressing Treasury and Mia to keep certification records publicly searchable, machine-verifiable and free to access. The committee also reiterated its support for anti-gouging rules that prohibit manufacturers and installers from inflating prices merely because a qualifying system is eligible for a 100 percent refundable credit.
The certification program traces directly to the post-Thorne & Barrett laws implementing the constitutional microdrone prohibition.
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