FAA to test and evaluate UAS detection and mitigation equipment at airports
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - WANT AD: The FAA is seeking information to help the agency identify drone detection and risk mitigation technologies that can be tested around airports. Specifically, the FAA is requesting white papers from manufacturers, vendors, and integrators of detection and/or mitigation systems describing how their products might support the agency’s drone detection and mitigation research program. Interested parties have 45 days to respond, write Sam Mintz and Stephanie Beasley for Politico. Continue reading original article.
The Intelligent Aerospace take:
August 28, 2020 - The FAA plans to test and evaluate at least 10 technologies or systems. The evaluations are expected to begin later this year and will initially occur at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center, located adjacent to the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey.
After the initial testing and evaluation in New Jersey, the agency expects to expand the effort to four additional U.S. airports. Those selections will be made at a later date.
Interested manufacturers, vendors, and integrators of drone detection and/or mitigation technologies/systems will have 45 days to respond to the FAA’s announcement.More information is available on this web page.Â
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Jamie Whitney, Associate Editor
Intelligent Aerospace
