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Drones Flying Near Airports Sparks FAA Detection Technology Evaluation

Monday, May 9th, 2016

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Drones Flying Near Airports Sparks FAA Detection Technology Evaluation

DARPA selected Northrop Grumman Corporation as a Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency’s OFFSET program

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding its efforts to detect unmanned aircraft systems flying dangerously close to airports in the United States.Following a sharp increase over the past two years in reports of small UAS flying close to airports, the FAA on Monday announced an expansion of the Pathfinder Program that is seeking technologies to detect and identify small UAS flying in proximity to manned aircraft around airports and airfields.The agency announced cooperative research and development agreements with sensor…

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