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Homeland Security

DARPA Showing Progress In Small Drone Detection In Urban Environments

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

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DARPA Showing Progress In Small Drone 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 told Defense Daily last month. 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…

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Space

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Congress

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