Participants at the Eurocontrol/ACI Europe joint high-level workshop on drone incursion and detection at airports, which took place on 3 and 4 October, agreed to:
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
New Zealand establishes airspace integration trials for new unmanned air vehicles
by Michael Willoughby The New Zealand Government is establishing an airspace integration trials programme to support the safe testing and development of advanced unmanned aircraft
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Gatwick drone-incident police report raises more questions than it answers
By Tony Reeves of Level7 Expertise In a statement released early on 27 September 2019, the Head of Operations Command for Sussex Police in the
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EASA launches tender for study into vulnerability of manned aircraft to drone strikes
The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a tender for a Horizon 2020 Research Project: Vulnerability of Manned Aircraft to Drone Strikes The general objective
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UPS Flight Forward wins FAA’s full approval for drone airline operations
by Michael Willoughby UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward announced yesterday that it had received the US’ government’s first full Part 135 Standard certification to operate
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Poland’s PANSA launches next stage in its nationwide digital UTM programme
On October 1, 2019, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) in Warsaw, presented its “Digital Services for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” strategy to government partners
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SESAR publishes enhanced overview of U-Space concept of operations
Project members of the CORUS (Concept of Operation for EuRopean UTM Systems) project announced on September 30 the finalized version of the first Concept of
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Integrating drone detection systems into airport surveillance networks in Germany “will cost EUR500 million”
Building an integrated drone detection system (DDS) into Germany’s busiest airports will cost around EUR500 million, according to Germany’s air navigation service provider Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS).
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Frequentis, Dimetor partner to speed development of BVLOS operations
Frequentis and Dimetor have announced a partnership to speed the development of beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations. “So far, the use of
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Droneshield delivers wearable C-UAS equipment to Australia’s defence department
Droneshield has announced that it has won the Australian Department of Defence tender for portable unmanned aerial system (drone) detection devices. According to a company
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