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Homeland Security

Despite Delays, DHS S&T Still Eyeing Air Domain Awareness Demos This Year

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020

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Despite Delays, DHS S&T Still Eyeing Air Domain Awareness Demos This Year

Echodyne's EchoGuard radar. Photo: Echodyne

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate currently only sees brief delays to its schedule this year to begin an air domain awareness demonstration on the northern border of the U.S. to assess technologies that can detect, track and identify different size aircraft, including manned and unmanned, a department official said this week. S&T, which is teaming with the Federal Aviation Administration and Defense Department, hopes to begin “dry runs” in June of the detection technologies at…

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