The Product Directorate for Unmanned Systems Airspace Integration (USAIC) conducted a formal two-week demonstration during the weeks of June 4-8 and June 18-22 with a series of vignettes designed to validate the design and functionality of the Army’s Sense and Avoid technology. “The demonstration was a total success,” said Viva Austin, Product Director for the Army’s USAIC. “Not only were we able to meet or exceed every objective established for the demonstration by flying the system against numerous different DoD concepts and locations, but safely flying a synthetic UAS downtown in Salt Lake City against live traffic, and then against recorded Boston airspace data — that really allowed us to validate that the Phase 2 technology we are fielding to Gray Eagle sites works and is almost ready to go prime time. Both the GBSAA test bed and the full system/concept demonstration turned out to be more successful than we could have hoped for.” The demonstrations included performance of seven live and synthetic vignettes which exhibited the system’s ability to fly in numerous National Airspace System (NAS) environments including Airfield Traffic Patterns, Lateral Transits, Military Operations Areas (MOAs) in Class D, E, and G airspace. Specific objectives of the demonstration […]
U.S. Army Successfuly Demonstrates Ground Based Sense and Avoid System
U.S. Army Successfuly Demonstrates Ground Based Sense and Avoid System
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