Airports in the United States and Canada need increased funding to deal with rogue drones that enter their airspace, and law enforcement personnel should have the training and authority to intervene to protect the airspace against inappropriate drone activity, a new report says.
The report, released Wednesday by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on UAS Mitigation at Airports, deals with the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), as drones sometimes are known, into airspace shared with manned aircraft, as well as the detection and identification of drones in and around airports and the mitigation of related problems. The task force was commissioned earlier this year by Airports Council International–North America and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
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