Providing security credentials to an unmanned aerial vehicle

A method for wireless communication at a unified data management entity, comprising:

• transmitting, to an access and mobility management function, an indication of a security configuration, the security configuration comprising one or more security credentials to enable communications between a user equipment (UE) associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an unmanned aerial system service supplier;
• receiving, from the access and mobility management function, an acknowledgment message indicating that the UE successfully received the indication of the security configuration;
• and
• transmitting, to the unmanned aerial system service supplier, a message based at least in part on receiving the acknowledgment message, the message indicating the one or more security credentials to be used by the UE for the communications with the unmanned aerial system service supplier.

A method for wireless communication at an unmanned aerial system service supplier, comprising:

• receiving, from a user equipment (UE) associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a registration request comprising registration information corresponding to the UE;
• determining one or more security credentials to enable communications between the UE and the unmanned aerial system service supplier based at least in part on the registration request;
• and
• communicating with the UE based at least in part on the one or more security credentials.

An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a terrestrial cellular network, comprising:

• a processor,
• memory coupled to the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• perform a registration procedure with one or more network functions for communications with an unmanned aerial system service supplier, the one or more network functions comprising an access and mobility management function;
• receive, from a unified data management entity via the access and mobility management function, an indication of a security configuration in a non-access stratum transport message, the security configuration comprising one or more security credentials to enable communications between the UE and the unmanned aerial system service supplier;
• and
• communicate with the unmanned aerial system service supplier based at least in part on the one or more security credentials of the security configuration.