ACERO Act – Wildfire UAS Aerial Response
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-09-14 — Use of Certain Restricted Category Aircraft for the Transport of Firefighters for Wildfire Suppression: cross-connection with restricted-category-aircraft-firefighter-transport: Both address FAA aviation authorities used in wildfire response operations. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-03-25 — Wildfire Aerial Response Safety Act: cross-connection with wildfire-aerial-response-safety-act: Both address UAS operations in the wildfire suppression environment — ACERO enables authorized wildfire UAS response while HR6618 studies unauthorized drone incursions that ground suppression aircraft. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-02-24 — ACERO Act: HR390 (ACERO Act) introduced, authorizing NASA R&D on uncrewed aircraft systems and advanced aviation technologies for wildfire aerial response, including airspace deconfliction and multiagency coordination concepts of operations, with a prohibition on procuring UAS from China-linked entities for the project. (novelty: 3)