🇺🇸A federal appeals court ordered reconsideration of DJI’s Pentagon blacklist designation, permitting review of classified records.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered a lower court to reconsider DJI’s inclusion on the Pentagon’s list of “Chinese military companies.” The appellate court found fault with the earlier ruling because it relied only on unclassified information.

The lower court had concluded from public materials that DJI contributed to China’s defense industrial base. The appellate ruling said the lower court may review classified records during reconsideration and use them to decide whether the Defense Department’s designation should stand.

The decision ordered further proceedings rather than removing DJI from the list. The source did not state that the blacklist designation had been vacated or that DJI had received a final judgment in its favor.