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UAV Countermeasures

Wiretap Act prevents law enforcement With the Department of Justice yet to Fortem also offers the tantalizing
departments from intercepting “wire, clarify what RF information commercial prospect of using its networked True-
oral or electronic” communications with- CUAS detection firms may gather, the View radars in cities to facilitate the air
out a court order. The pen register law company is being careful. traffic management necessary for un-
prevents the use of pen register or “trap “We aren’t going inside the [RF] links manned urban air mobility (UAM).
and trace” devices that trace telephone and de-crypting,” Pitsky explains. “There While that’s a longer term possibility,
calls, including cellular and, putatively, are other [commercial] systems that do the threat from the seven million
drone communications. The restrictions that which is a more overt violation of drones the FAA predicts will be in the
apply to law enforcement, but the code is the [pen register laws] than just capturing air by 2020 cannot be ignored – a lesson
silent on private CUAS operators, creat- back addresses transmitted in the clear.” that Gatwick airport operators learned
ing confusion and potential liability. Dedrone’s VP agrees with Fortem’s CTO in 2018.
“That’s still in the legal court of de- that the delay in crafting clear CUAS reg- “They hadn’t digitized the airspace di-
bate,” Phil Pitsky, VP of US Federal Oper- ulations has the industry on pause. That rectly overhead to have a persistent view
ations for Virginia-based CUAS provider, pause affects potential collateral revenue of a drone,” Timothy Bean asserts. “You
Dedrone acknowledges. Dedrone differs as well. The detection technologies and really need that, especially if it’s going to
from Fortem in that it principally pro- forensics touted by CUAS providers could be replaced by another in 20 minutes.”
vides detection solutions, leaving miti- be rich sources of business intelligence. Counter UAS regulations may be on
gation to its partners. The company also “We expect this data to be extremely hold but there will be no pause in the
sticks primarily to passive detection, valuable,” Fortem’s Adam Robertson al- threat from drones.
pairing AI with RF detection. Pitsky em- lows. Robertson points to extant open This article was written by Eric Tegler,
phasizes that Dedrone monitors the RF source business intelligence gathering Freelance Technical Writer, Fortem Tech-
environment at the “unclassified level”, like hedge funds using satellite imagery nologies (Pleasant Grove, UT). For more in-
scooping signal data but not personal to detect corporate employment levels, formation, visit http://info.hotims.com/
identifiable information (PII). traffic, and more as precedent. 76503-500.

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