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Homeland Security

CISA Plans to Use Small UAS for Infrastructure Security Exercises

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 6th, 2019

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CISA Plans to Use Small UAS for Infrastructure Security Exercises

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) plans to use small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in infrastructure security exercises both to record the exercises to improve training and as a potential threat requiring responsive action. A privacy impact statement released by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday says that CISA’s Infrastructure Security Division Soft Targets and Crowded Places Task Force has acquired three U.S.-made sUAS for the exercises. “Aerial photo and video footage of an operational exercise would capture…

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