A trial scheduled for November is to put vendors’ land and air drones to work in a simulated emergency, assessing how well they can stream feeds to and receive direction from a bi-national command centre using commercial 5G networks. The Department of Homeland Security is working with Defence Research and Development Canada on the experiment. (Wired)

Talking point: The key capability the agencies want to test is whether uncrewed vehicles can switch seamlessly between Canadian and American wireless networks, a U.S. government callout to potential participants says. Border security was President Donald Trump’s first big complaint about Canada, before he even began his second term. Canada responded by promising to toughen its own border controls (including with surveillance drones) and proposing to work more closely with U.S. authorities on cross-border crime.