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TSA Planning Testbed For Counter Drone Technologies At Airports

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) within the next year hopes to have in place a testbed at a major international airport to begin evaluating different technologies that can be used to detect, track and identify small drones flying near airports and eventually would like to test the ability to mitigate drone threats, agency officials said on Wednesday. The agency is working with Miami International Airport, local police and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish the counter-unmanned aircraft system (CUAS)…

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