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Homeland Security

TSA Opens Drone Detection Testbed At Los Angeles International Airport

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 25th, 2022

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TSA Opens Drone Detection Testbed At Los Angeles International Airport

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal Allard (D-Calif.) speaking at the kickoff to TSA's new drone detection testbed at Los Angeles International Airport. Photo: TSA

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Thursday announced the start of operations of a testbed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) designed to evaluate the performance of technologies that can detect, track and identify (DTI) small drones that could interfere with aircraft and airport operations. The new testbed is TSA’s second for drone DTI, the first having opened in Aug. 2021 at Miami International Airport, and is being used to carry out the agency’s authorities to conduct these operations at…

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