Homeland Security Seeks Drone-Killing Technology
Counter-unmanned aerial systems are among the emerging technologies the department wants in the hands of first responders, according to a recent post by Michael Hoffman, executive editor of the Tandem NSI tech blog:
Technology solutions that are able to detect, identify, track and/or defeat Group 1 unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in domestic urban environments. Group 1 UAS are considered under 20 pounds, have a nominal operating altitude of less than 1200 feet and speeds of less than 100 knots.
DHS is soliciting ideas for those and others as part of a plan to hold an “urban operational experimentation” in October, according to the post.
The department isn’t alone, of course.
The U.S. Army wants a new style of weapon designed to stop an imminent threat of terrorists using drones to fly bombs into military and government facilities, as my colleague Matthew Cox reported earlier this year in a story on Military.com...
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