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Coast Guard Evaluating Detect And Avoid Technologies To Enable Longer-Range UAS Missions

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Coast Guard Evaluating Detect And Avoid Technologies To Enable Longer-Range UAS Missions
Aviation Branch personnel Evan Gross and Taylor Kall from the Coast Guard Research and Development Center prepare an AeroVironment Puma unmanned aircraft system equipped with the Passive Acoustic Non Cooperative Aircraft Collision Avoidance System for launch at Air Station Cape Cod, Massachusetts. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

The Coast Guard is evaluating technologies that would allow unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to operate beyond an operator’s line of sight to clear airspace, enabling the systems to operate at longer ranges and eliminating the need for someone to keep the UAS clear of other aircraft. Last August, the Coast Guard Research and Development Center evaluated detect and avoid technology called Passive Acoustic Non-Cooperative Aircraft Collision Avoidance (PANCAS) on an AeroVironment [AVAV] small catapult-launched Puma UAS to see how far…

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