Drone-maker DJI has filed an appeal against a lower court ruling that found a U.S. Department of Defense designation of it as a "Chinese Military Company" to be permissible under a U.S. statute.

Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Co., known as DJI, a privately owned manufacturer of consumer and commercial drones, brought a lawsuit against a Department of Defense (DoD) decision to designate it as a "Chinese Military Company" (CMC). In an opinion issued last week, a U.S. district court rejected

In a case involving a U.S. Department of Defense designation of Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Co., commonly known as DJI, as a "Chinese Military Company," DJI has now filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that the court should order this designation be removed.

Last week, Chinese drone maker DJI brought a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Defense for its "military" designation of DJI, putting forward a number of constitutional and Administrative Procedures Act claims.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would restrict the use of drones made by Chinese company Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), with a companion bill recently introduced in the Senate.

Last week, members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party pressed the Biden administration to look into two drone makers with a connection to DJI and to place CATL on a Defense Department blacklist.

At a Congressional hearing yesterday, members of Congress discussed concerns with Chinese practices in the semiconductors, shipbuilding, and drone industries.