
As part of government efforts to develop a system to track a burgeoning number of low flying small commercial drones, the Department of Homeland Security is supporting the development of technology that could help distinguish friendly from potentially unfriendly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). With support from the DHS Science and Technology branch, the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing the Urban Counter-UAS Operational Prototype (UCOP), which will be connected to the UAS Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)…