D-Fend Options’ EnforceAir Chosen for FAA’s Airport UAS Detection and Mitigation Analysis Program
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
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Counter-drone detection and takeover know-how chief D-Fend Options has been chosen to participate within the FAA’s Airport UAS Detection and Mitigation Analysis Program, underneath Part 383 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. The corporate’s EnforceAir C-UAS system will undergo preliminary testing at Atlantic Metropolis Worldwide Airport (KACY), with potential extra checks to happen at different airports.
EnforceAir is this system’s first first RF-cyber primarily based superior protocol full takeover UAS detection and mitigation system, and is designed to optimize menace detection and mitigation in airports by means of a counter-drone method enabling close by licensed drones to proceed operations with out affecting navigation or communications techniques, damaging infrastructure, or burdening personnel. The system grants 360 diploma and long-range directional safety and protection, safeguarding airport amenities and takeoff and touchdown airspace corridors.
“EnforceAir’s engagement on this mission-critical FAA program aligns completely with our core mission of main in offering essentially the most superior know-how to beat rogue drone threats in essentially the most delicate environments and airspace, most notably airports, in a managed method that permits protected and uninterrupted operations”, mentioned D-Fend Options Chairman and CEO Zohar Halachmi. “We’re gratified to be chosen for this prestigious and selective program, and we commend the FAA for prioritizing necessities for the most secure types of non-disruptive mitigation know-how that permit for airport operational continuity.”
D-Fend’s participation on this FAA program is a continuation of the corporate’s collaboration with a number of US federal businesses throughout DoD, DHS, and DoJ, in addition to its current suggestion by the DoD’s Joint Counter Small Unmanned Techniques Workplace (JCO).
The Airport UAS Detection and Mitigation Analysis Program permits the FAA to collaborate with main federal departments and businesses to ensure the creation of techniques designed to detect and/or mitigate potential drone threats and guarantee they don’t intervene with protected airport operations.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the industrial drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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