DeTect’s Panama City Florida Headquarters operations offices and manufacturing facility have relocated to its new, expanded facility located at 2817 Highway 77 (Panama City, Florida 32405) and will resume full operations after Hurricane Michael as of January 1. We thank all of our customers for their patience during our recovery period over the past months. Please contact us through […]
Year: 2018
November 1 2018, Update on DeTect Panama City, Florida Operations post Hurricane Michael
DeTect’s Panama City Florida Headquarters operations offices and manufacturing facility have now resumed partial operations after Hurricane Michael and we expect to return to full operations within the next 10-14 days. Please contact us through the main phone line at 850-763-7200 or at contact@detect-inc.com The US DoD AHAS system has resumed full system operation. Please […]
Update on DeTect Panama City, Florida Operations post Hurricane Michael
For US DoD AHAS users, the full system is being brought back on line and should be operational in the next 48 hours. The back-up cloud site has limited capabilities and can be accessed through www.usahas.com or http://usahas.com – the site may load slowly; we are working to improve the load rate. Contact us for […]
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, Wins Precedent-Setting FAA Exemption for BVLOS UAS Operations
Avitas Systems, a GE venture, has announced that it was awarded a significant and precedent-setting permission from the US Federal Aviation Administration to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, or drones) over 55 pounds at low altitudes beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in Loving County, Texas for industrial inspection using a DeTect HARRIER Ground-based Sense-and-Avoid radar system. […]
US Air Force Orders DeTect MERLIN™ Aircraft Birdstrike Avoidance Radar System
Panama City, Florida, USA – September 12, 2018: DeTect, Inc. (www.detect-inc.com) today announced that it has received an order to supply the US Air Force Europe (USAFE) with a MERLIN Aircraft Birdstrike Avoidance Radar system for the Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath base in England. The MERLIN system, originally developed for the USAF, will provide […]
Migratory bats are attracted by red light but not by warm- white light: Implications for the protection of nocturnal migrants
The replacement of conventional lighting with energy- saving light emitting diodes (LED) is a worldwide trend, yet its consequences for animals and ecosystems are poorly understood. Strictly nocturnal animals such as bats are particularly sensitive to artificial light at night (ALAN). Past studies have shown that bats, in general, respond to ALAN according to the […]
FAA Releases Performance Assessment Report on DeTect’s HARRIER™ Aircraft Detection Lighting System (ADLS)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Panama City, Florida – USA July 16, 2018 DeTect, Inc. (www.detect-inc.com) announced today that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released its Performance Assessment Report on the company’s HARRIER ADLS that states that the system met “the performance requirements identified in Chapter 14 of AC 70/7460-1L”. The report is published on […]
DeTect HARRIER™ Ground Based Sense-and-Avoid Radar Installed at the Rozas Aerodrome in Spain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Panama City, Florida – USA April 17, 2018: DeTect, Inc. (www.detect-inc.com) announced today that it has completed commissioning of a HARRIER Ground Based Sense-and-Avoid (GBSAA) radar at the Rozas Aerodrome in Lugo, Spain. The system, supplied to Babcock Mission Critical Services España, will provide beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) for drone and Unmanned […]
DeTect Successfully Demonstrates the HARRIER Drone Surveillance Radar and DroneWatcher System at the US Army Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) in Fort Sill, OK USA
While other counter unmanned aerial vehicle measures are being developed at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX), the creators of the Harrier are here just to show what they have been doing for years. Developers of Harrier say they originally built the systems to protect Air Force bases from birds. The seemingly innocuous creatures created […]