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MD5/Army Futures Command Counter-UAS Hackathon
MD5 is looking for developers, designers, and hackers from the academic, military, and commercial start-up communities to come together for a weekend to explore non-traditional, innovative methods to counter sUAS. The event focuses on four areas:
1) Detection of sUAS operating in waypoint mode (i.e. not actively broadcasting/communicating).
2) Novel Cyber Effects for undetected exploitation of the sUAS system, including the operator.
3) Nullification of the sUAS’s ability to perform its mission without destroying the system.
4) Elimination of a sUAS threat that has defeated all other cyber and electronic warfare counter-measures while minimizing risk to bystanders.
Counter-UAS News from Around the World
Press Release: Blighter to Showcase E-scan Radars and C-UAV System (AUDS) at MSPO 2018
Blighter Surveillance Systems Ltd (www.blighter.com), a British designer and manufacturer of electronic-scanning (E-scan) radars and surveillance solutions, will showcase its range of e-scan micro-Doppler ground radars and the military grade counter-UAV AUDS system at MSPO 2018, an international defence industry exhibition which takes place in Kielce, Poland from 4-7 September 2018.
You Tube: Zerbe 1K [Loitering Munition]
sUAS News: DroneShield joins Information Warfare Research Project Consortium
DroneShield Ltd announced it has been accepted as a member of the Information Warfare Research Project consortium (“IWRP” or the “Consortium”), a consortium focused on advancing information warfare capabilities to enhance United States Navy and United States Marine Corps mission effectiveness.
You Tube: Artillery Rocket System DAISY [Counter-UAS]
sUAS News: A Proposal for Counter UAS Regulation
This article summarises key points from a paper recently published in the New Zealand policy journal Policy Quarterly. The paper sets out the rationale for “Counter UAS” (C-UAS), addresses the legal issues that arise in New Zealand, and proposes a licensing regime to enable the implementation of C-UAS. It is increasingly clear that drones give rise to potentially significant risks that may not be managed well by our existing regulatory framework. A malicious actor could easily fly a drone into the path of an airliner, deliver contraband to prisons, or drop an improvised explosive device over a sports stadium, without ever being at risk of detection by authorities. A significant risk also exists that an individual who is negligent or reckless could also cause harm by flying into the path of an aircraft, or crashing at a public event.
Janes: UAE denies second Yemeni UAV attack on airport
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied a Yemeni rebel claim that it attacked Dubai International Airport with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on 27 August. “Air traffic movement in the UAE is normal with no disruptions; Houthi media claims regarding Dubai International Airport are untrue,” the Dubai Media Office quoted the GCAA as saying. The Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah, popularly known as the Houthis, had released a statement earlier that day saying a Sammad-3 UAV had inflicted heavy losses in a raid on the airport. In a second statement the group said the FlightRadar24 website, which tracks aircraft using their transponders, had confirmed that several flights had been delayed at Dubai.
BBC: ‘Well-organised’ gang flew drones carrying drugs into prisons
A “well-organised” gang used drones to fly drugs and mobile phones into jails, delivering contraband straight to inmates’ windows, a court has heard. Lee Anslow is accused of setting up drone deliveries at prisons around the country, while an inmate at HMP Hewell in Worcestershire. The court heard fake food cans packed with cocaine and Sim cards were found when officers raided his cell. He and four others deny the charges against them at Birmingham Crown Court. Mr Anslow is alleged to have been at the centre of a “spider-web of activity” and is accused, along with three men and a woman, of conspiracy to bring drugs, mobile phones and Sim cards into jails between April 2016 and June 2017.
The Australian: A soldier’s best friend may be a drone
“Defence’s Counter Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) project, Land 19 Phase 7B, has tested and procured a capability on par with the best in the world,’’ Defence says. “This system has been deployed to the Middle East region and is the only project currently within the [department’s] Integrated Investment Program scoped to deliver a C-UAS capability.”
Sky News: Drone flown ‘deliberately’ towards light aircraft
The drone was “flown under the flight path in an attempt to collide with an aircraft”, a report on the incident says. It happened as the PA-31 twin-engined plane was coming in to land at RAF Northolt in west London on 11 June. The pilot “lost sight of” the drone under his plane’s nose, a report from the UK Airprox Board (UKAB) said.
But a recent incident involving a drone in Mid-Michigan is raising concerns over safety. The State Police confiscated one that interfered with a medical helicopter on the scene of an accident. “There are laws concerning these things that apparently people are ignoring, said Rider’s Hobby Shop drone expert, Doug Austin. Doug Austin knows the law when it comes to flying drones. He’s been flying them for more than a decade. “I’ve been flying since 2005. Drones have really, in the last three or four years and because they came in so fast, they became so popular so quickly, they outpaced any rules and regulations and because of that happening people were doing stupid things.”
Reuters: Smugglers use drone to fly drugs over militarized Cyprus frontier
Smugglers attempted to use a drone to fly illegal drugs over the frontier separating Turkish Cypriot northern Cyprus with the rest of the island, one of the most heavily guarded areas in Europe, Turkish Cypriot media reported. Police in Northern Cyprus were questioning a suspect alleged to have taken delivery of narcotics from a drone which had taken off from the Greek Cypriot south of Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, the Turkish Cypriot Kibris newspaper and Turkey’s private DHA agency reported.
Tech Explore: Networked UAV Defense Swarms to defend against malicious drones
A team of researchers at the University of Luxembourg have developed a new feasible and efficient defense system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Their system, outlined in a paper pre-published on arXiv, consists of a defense UAV swarm that can self-organize its defense formation when it detects an intruder, chasing the malicious UAV as a networked swarm.
You Tube: [Zala Aero] REX-1 [Counter-UAS system]
Yonhap News Agency South Korea: S. Korea to strengthen defense against drone attacks
South Korea will strengthen measures to guard against terrorist attacks involving drones, as such small unmanned aircraft have been increasingly used in terror acts around the world, officials said Monday. Concerns about drone attacks flared anew following an apparent assassination attempt on Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro early last month, in which two explosive-carrying drones went off during a military ceremony. On Monday, officials from terror-related ministries and agencies, such as the police, the military and the state intelligence agency, held a regular anti-terrorism meeting and discussed measures to fend off drone attacks, the Office for Government Policy Coordination said.
UAS Vision: Liteye Gets $18M USAF Contract for Counter UAS systems
Liteye Systems has received an $18 million follow on contract for delivery of numerous containerized anti-unmanned aircraft systems, or C-AUDS for short, from the US Air Force. These systems will all deliver in the next 120 days. This is the 5th contract for C-UAS systems and services Liteye has received since the fall of 2016.
Washington Examiner: House votes to create drone czar at DHS
House lawmakers voted Tuesday to require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to create a position for someone to focus solely on drones as the devices relate to national and border security. Under Rep. Scott Perry’s, R-Pa., DHS Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator Act, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen would have to appoint an official to serve as the countering unmanned aircraft systems coordinator. “H.R. 6438 helps protect Americans from potential terrorist attacks as the use of unmanned aircraft and drone technology becomes more prevalent,” Perry said in a statement following the bill’s committee passage. It was approved by voice vote Tuesday night.
You Tube: Western media showed the downed drones of militants in Syria