The World Is Watching: Public Safety UAS and FIFA 2026

As the FIFA 2026 World Cup fast approaches, is our public safety community truly ready for the drone threat? In this episode, Megan Crout sits down with Charles Werner — founder of DRONERESPONDERS and one of the country's leading voices on public safety UAS — to unpack the critical gaps in counter-UAS preparedness. From the absence of a national strategy to the challenge of procuring technology, and more, Werner doesn't sugarcoat the stakes, but leaves us with a clear-eyed roadmap for what comes next.