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DHS Working Toward Drone Tracking, Mitigation Evaluations Later This Year

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 4th, 2019

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DHS Working Toward Drone Tracking, Mitigation Evaluations Later This Year

The DroneDefender counter-UAS being operated by a U.S. soldier. Photo: Battelle

The Department of Homeland Security is working toward conducting separate series of evaluations later this year of systems that can be used to detect, track, identify, and in some cases, defeat drones flying in areas where they don’t belong. By early this summer, the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate plans to release a Request for Information seeking interested vendors for evaluations of technology that can detect, track and identify small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), ultralight aircraft, and small manned…

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