🛬Future in Flight🛫
The Department of Energy, through Sandia National Laboratories, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking details on available technologies, approaches, and business models for countering uncrewed aircraft systems (cUAS), commonly known as drones.
📡 The RFI, released on behalf of the National Nuclear Security Administration, emphasizes the need for highly agile and adaptable command and control (C2) systems capable of seamless integration of sensors, effectors, and C2 algorithms from different suppliers.
The goal is to address the evolving threat posed by small UAS and plan for a long-term, next-generation approach to counter the UAS threat. The Department of Energy is particularly interested in systems that can be fully adaptable to different sites, including high-security areas with varying terrains and population densities.
The RFI outlines three critical goals:
1️⃣ Maximizing system performance and extensibility
2️⃣ Fully documenting system decision processes
3️⃣ Ensuring government ownership of the core technical elements of the cUAS system
Data transparency is emphasized, with a core requirement for exposing source code and training data to the government, extending to operations involving sensors capable of handling both raw and processed data. The Department of Energy aims to gather information until the end of January to inform its strategy for countering the security challenges posed by the widespread availability and rapid evolution of small UAS.
Interested in submitting information? Check out the link here for more details ➡️ https://buff.ly/3SfXd7r
📣 Let us know in the comments if you plan to respond and share your thoughts on what security concerns may exist for the future of shared airspace with drones!
UAV Equipment Engineer - Programme Lead at Sellafield Ltd
2moIt was great to see the progress you’ve made with this project, especially in such a small time frame. Looking forward to seeing the final developments on this and for it to become a marketable solution for nuclear and other industries 🤞