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What is NDAA?

In 2019 the US congress passed a law called the H.R.5515 - John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. Every year congress passes an NDAA law. Because the law addresses issues focused on national defense and security, the law usually passes easily with bipartisan support from our two political parties.

The 2019 NDAA law banned the use of electronic equipment provided by specific companies located in China. What’s interesting about the law is that it bans companies rather than countries (a sure sign of globalism), it ignores boarders and focuses on individual entities.

The 2019 NDAA law bans the use of security equipment from Huawei, Dahua, Hikvision and others for use in federal facilities. The main issue was a video chipset produced by Huawei and globally distributed by Dahua, Hikvison and others. The chipset possesses a remote hidden back door which allows unauthorized entities to access the equipment undetected. US government’s main concern is this intentionally concealed security breach could be used for spying by the Chinese government.

NDAA compliant simply means the equipment is not produced or does not contain components provided by the banned companies. Any item on our site listing our NDAA logo is compliant with the law.

Security providers who sell security equipment to the government or to contractors who service the government may be asked to certify that their security systems are NDAA complaint. The equipment supplier is required to provide written certification that the equipment does in fact meet NDAA requirements. This certification places the responsibility of meeting the law squarely on the provider and provides the consumer with written documentation they have met NDAA requirements. This certification is documented using the government provided NDAA-889-Representation Form titled "CONTRACTOR’S CERTIFICATION ON COMPLIANCE WITH NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT (NDAA).

Videopark NDAA Products

Most products of Videopark use Hisilicon solution, because of the NDAA law, videopark also lauched some products to compliance with the NDAA, which includes the 4MP novatek IP camera,  5MP novatek IPC series.