Channel 2
Monday, May 5, 2025 2:30 PM (30 Minutes)
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems are an essential part of the Nuclear Security landscape. As unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have grown in popularity, so have the number of drone incidents around Nuclear Facilities. Innovative solutions that detect, track, identify, and mitigate unauthorized or nefarious UAS fill an important security gap in the airspace around Nuclear Facilities. As drones become more affordable, widely adopted, regulated, and deployed, organizations and agencies face new security challenges globally in their airspace. As drones become more sophisticated and the barrier to entry lowers, it is important that counter-UAS solutions are effective. Drones can threaten security in a variety of ways, including:
At the NNSS we deployed a new end-to-end cUAS system that supports detection and mitigations in one easy to use interface with precision, accuracy and reliability. Rogue drones are identified, tracked, and disabled in any environment. We implemented new processes for this new system and did performance testing.
The knowledge or understating that will be gained from my presentation would be the processes and coordination it took to get this system approved by different agencies like the FAA. Also the knowledge of how successful this system has been to use for detecting rogue drones in and around our site.