D-Fend Options, the chief in radio frequency (RF), cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone detection and takeover mitigation know-how, introduced its expanded and prolonged participation within the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Unmanned Plane Programs (UAS) Detection and Mitigation Analysis Program, geared toward attaining secure and environment friendly airport and Nationwide Airspace System (NAS) operations. The corporate’s core Counter-UAS system,  EnforceAir, underwent testing at a second airport website, Syracuse Hancock Worldwide Airport (SYR).
EnforceAir was beforehand chosen for participation within the FAA Program at Atlantic Metropolis Worldwide Airport (KACY). This system allows the FAA to work with main federal departments and companies to make sure applied sciences/programs which can be developed, examined, or deployed by federal departments and companies to detect and/or mitigate potential dangers posed by errant or hostile UAS operations don’t adversely impression or intervene with the secure and environment friendly operation of the Nationwide Airspace System (NAS).The analysis additional ensures that EnforceAir doesn’t adversely impression or intervene with secure airport operations, plane navigation, or air site visitors providers. D-Fend Options quickly progressed from preliminary testing at one airport to additional evaluation in a second airport surroundings. Graduating and finishing the second section at one other airport is a serious milestone for program individuals which can be capable of reveal that their product performs as marketed, generated dependable and correct knowledge, and warranted additional analysis in one other operational setting.
“EnforceAir’s fast development from first trials at Atlantic Metropolis to further evaluations at Syracuse on this demanding and important FAA program validates D-Fend’s imaginative and prescient of enabling a flourishing drone-powered society, particularly in aviation, by supporting the expansion of secure and safe drone adoption and integration whereas making use of innovation to defend towards rogue drone threats at airports,” mentioned Zohar Halachmi, Chairman and CEO of D-Fend Options.
This program enlargement follows a sequence of profitable milestones achieved by the corporate in current months, together with enlargement of the US group and the launch of EnforceAir2.
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