Are the cameras considered NDAA compliant?

asafarevich

referring to this camera https://store.opencv.ai/products/oak-1

Brandon

By NDAA do you mean the National Dental Association of America?

If so, we haven't the foggiest.

Luxonis-Karolina

@asafarevich, do you mean National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)?

asafarevich

Luxonis-Karolina yes, thats the one? Not sure where dental association came in.

Luxonis-Karolina

asafarevich good question and I don't immediately know how to answer that. I will circle back.

Brandon

I have no idea what being NDAA compliant means. If you'd like to provide more insight we may be able to help.

But for the sake of 'better safe than sorry' - given that we don't know what it is - please don't use our products.

Thanks,
Brandon

asafarevich

Here is more info on the NDAA compliance. found here
In summary, its compliant as long as the parts don't come from the following companies:

Huawei Technologies Company
ZTE Corporation
Hytera Communications Corporation
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company
Dahua Technology Company
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Luxonis-Lukasz

asafarevich we don't have parts from these companies on our devices

Brandon

asafarevich Ah, perfect, good to know. @Luxonis-Lukasz is right - we don't use any of those components.

PeterMilani

Hi I'm going to bump this topic as NDAA is changing constantly. Currently it is a bit broader than just a couple of companies. For US govt work, typically components, including cameras and AI cannot come from covered countries. Of which China is one.

A more reliable source for NDAA compliance as it relates to Drones is on the DIU website. https://www.diu.mil/blue-uas-policy

Here it states that cameras manufactured in China are not compliant. This causes issues with the Luxonis components as almost everything is manufactured in China. I think the camera chips are also manufactured in china which makes the omnivision camera non-compliant. The on-semi cameras should be okay (they are Taiwanese) as long as the modules are not assembled in China.

It would be very handy if you guys could provide some NDAA compliant offerings as I really like your cameras, but our customers are making NDAA compliance a requirement.

jakaskerl

PeterMilani Here it states that cameras manufactured in China are not compliant. This causes issues with the Luxonis components as almost everything is manufactured in China. I think the camera chips are also manufactured in china which makes the omnivision camera non-compliant. The on-semi cameras should be okay (they are Taiwanese) as long as the modules are not assembled in China.

It would be very handy if you guys could provide some NDAA compliant offerings as I really like your cameras, but our customers are making NDAA compliance a requirement.

Our devices do not use components from restricted vendors, and we’re already producing hardware outside of China (in Taiwan). Therefore, our products are NDAA compliant.

Thanks,
Jaka

PeterMilani

Hi Jaka,

would the OAK Som Pro modules be manufactured in Taiwan?

Are the OV cameras manufactured in Taiwan? It would be good to get an idea of the part numbers that are compliant.

cheers

Peter