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Homeland Security

Kennedy Space Center Seeks UAS Detection Services

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, August 10th, 2020

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Kennedy Space Center Seeks UAS Detection Services

A DJI Phantom 4. These recreational drones can be used for illegal activity near airports, borders and be a threat or a nuisance to critical infrastructures. Photo: DJI

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Monday issued a solicitation seeking drone detection services to help it respond to and mitigate incursions from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). “The NASA KSC Flight Operations Office and NASA KSC Protection Services Office has a requirement for unmanned aircraft detection services that can accurately detect and identify unknown Unmanned Aircraft Systems out to a distance of at least 30km, be able to provide rapid and timely information to multiple users for response and mitigations…

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