By Benjamin Faske, 12th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, TX — It’s a bird, it’s a plane it’s … a drone? Commonly referred to as small unmanned aircraft systems, or sUAS, by the Federal Aviation Administration, these consumer-grade drones have been known to penetrate the airspace around Joint Base San […]
Year: 2023
PES Wind Interview with DeTect’s Senior Biologist Jenny Davenport
Ask the Expert – PES Wind interviews Senior Biologist, Jenny Davenport from DeTect, Inc Avian Monitoring on the Radar – Originally developed for the US Air Force and NASA as a precision bird detection radar system, DeTect’s Avian Radar technology can provide continuous monitoring of bird and bat activity at ranges of three to eight […]
Sharing the skies: Naval aviation training mitigates risk of bird strikes
Ref: Sharing the skies: Naval aviation training mitigates risk of bird strikes | Quarterdeck | militarynews.com News release by Anne Owens, Chief of Naval Air Training. Conclusion: “Changes to the BASH mitigation policy benefit TW-2 strike students and instructor pilots, keeping them safer at their training wing airfield, and also benefit the wing as a […]
Texas A&M Lone Star Center of Excellence in UAS Orders a DeTect HARRIER BVLOS
DeTect, Inc. received an order from the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Lone Star Center of Excellence in UAS (TAMUCC LS) for an initial six-month rental of a mobile HARRIER S200d BVLOS unit. The trailered system is fully self-contained with an extendable 55 ft radar tower and on-board power and computer systems. The units will be […]
DeTect announces production of its largest Surveillance Radar to date
DeTect, Inc. today announced it has produced its largest and longest-range radar – the HARRIER BAR300 – with an extended range for aircraft detection of 30+ nautical miles. The BAR(TM) series radar is an X-band, solid-state air and marine surveillance radar in development by DeTect since 2021 for extended range airspace security, drone operation beyond […]
Choctaw Nation Beyond Program obtains FAA approval for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations
Choctaw Nation Beyond Program obtains FAA approval for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations with uAvionix Installation. Bigfork, MT – uAvionix today announced that the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) Beyond Program received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations using uAvionix SkyLine™ Managed C2 and Detect & Avoid sensors […]
