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TSA Plans To Provide Airports With Qualified Products List For Counter-Drone Solutions

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

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TSA Plans To Provide Airports With Qualified Products List For Counter-Drone Solutions

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

Working with its partners in the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration wants to provide a list of qualified products for airports to use in obtaining drone security technologies, David Pekoske, the administrator of TSA, said on Tuesday. Highlighting that the Secret Service and Coast Guard already have experience with counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS), Pekoske said, “We’re trying to take those best examples to be able to provide to airports what we call a qualified products list,…

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