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Homeland Security

DARPA Demonstrating Progress in sUAS Detection in Urban Environments

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

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DARPA Demonstrating Progress in sUAS Detection in Urban Environments

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An ongoing evaluation of technologies to detect and track small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in dense urban environments for military, and potentially homeland security, applications is making progress as the program enters its next phase, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) official tells HSR. The second phase of Aerial Dragnet concluded in October with five days of testing in Southern California and DARPA and its industry partners are still analyzing the data but so far, the program has shown…

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