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After Gatwick, Government Agencies Weigh Tracking and Defeat Technology For Small Drones

Friday, January 4th, 2019

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After Gatwick, Government Agencies Weigh Tracking and Defeat Technology For Small Drones

As airports and governments step up their efforts to track unmanned aircraft and deter their disruption of commercial air operations, the FAA is hinting that automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems will not be sufficient to identify such drones. London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports ordered several million dollars of military-grade anti-drone defenses after drones caused three days of disruption at Gatwick last month, the Reuters news agency reported. One solution to such drone disruptions is a "reliable Remote ID or ID…

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