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Civil aviation provides the means of transporting millions of passengers and tons of goods to all corners of the globe. In the U.S. alone, more than 5,000 ...
My previous blog examined the current state of the rogue drone threat in the context of notable incidents perpetrated by criminals across various ...
The commercial drone market experienced major growth in 2022, and this trend is expected to continue as drones become more affordable, accessible, and ...
The start of 2023 has seen drone incidents at prisons happening everywhere, which brings to mind the title of the current movie “ Everything Everywhere ...
Why Study Jammers? As a reminder of why we’re looking at jamming in this series of blogs, it’s clear that many airports either have no C-UAS or ...
The Intersec Expo has been around for more than 20 years, addressing issues facing world-leading emergency services, security, and safety. This year, the ...
In the previous post - Drone Jamming Effectiveness at Airports - we discussed the effectiveness, features, and limitations of jammers. Specifically, we ...
As we get older, it seems that we celebrate the New Year more frequently, doesn’t it? I mean, it feels like the year gets shorter and shorter, even ...
Not a simple issue. As discussed in my previous post ( Types of Jammers ), each type of jammer brings drawbacks and limitations to airport ...
In my last post - The Issues with Jamming Drone Frequencies - we started to dig into why jammers may not be the ideal solution to protect airports from ...
Delivering service is a privilege. As a global professional service team leader, with years of experience, I can say that delivering service is not only ...
In my previous blog post– What is Jamming and How does it Work? , we reviewed “Jamming 101” topics – what are jammers, and how they operate. In ...
In my previous blog – Why Mitigating the Increase in Rogue Drone Activity in the Vicinity of Airports Has Been Such a Hard Nut to Crack – Until Now? ...
There are thousands of drone companies today, some focused on specific vertical industry fields or sectors, others on more horizontal general commercial, ...
A few years ago, it became clear that the coordination and management of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – or drones – was an important and critical ...
D-Fend Solutions was proud to attend and exhibit at this year’s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) convention! AUSA is a well-established and ...
Drone delivery-driven consumer commerce, from giant retailers such as Amazon and Walmart , is becoming a reality. In the US, California, Texas, Ohio and ...
I am a technology guy. I love all aspects of technology and its innovative capabilities. More than ten years ago, I started working with the US Marine ...
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the IDGA Counter-UAS USA Summit in Alexandria, VA. The event featured many impressive speakers, including US ...
The constantly broadening range of Counter-Drone (C-UAS) Detection and Mitigation Technologies available today makes an efficient assessment incredibly ...
I was born and grew up in Brazil. Back then, there was so much hope, and Brazil was often called “The Country of the Future.” (Even though this hopeful ...
While drone incidents at airports have garnered headlines recently, see Ilana Brodesky’s blog The Challenge of Drone Incidents at Airports , there is ...
On July 21, 2022, a drone incident at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, halted flights for about 45 minutes. While this is by far ...
Drone Proliferation: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous In 2020, the total number of consumer drone shipments worldwide was around five million ...
Military forces, airports, borders, and prisons all saw notable dangerous drone incidents While 2022 has seen drones continue to become integrated ...
As drones increasingly become a significant threat around the world, security and safety are imperative. In fact, the Russia-Ukraine war has brought ...
In a previous blog post , I explained the importance of operational flexibility when handling drone threats in today’s society, given different ...
The threat from rogue or nefarious drones is not going anywhere. In fact, as drones continue to evolve, the risks will increase and add further dangers and ...
An entire book can be written about drone accidents and incidents that occur worldwide, either due to careless, inexperienced drone operators, or ...
Last week, I joined some of my colleagues at D-Fend Solutions and attended the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference – SOFIC . It counts as one ...
As drone usage continues to thrive offering a variety of benefits to different sectors around the world, the potential threats caused by rogue drone ...
Although it sounds like a weird question, truth is, there is some logic to it… There are drones, and there are rogue drones. Commercial and DIY drone ...
The BBC reports that last month there were days’ worth of mysterious drones sightings over key sites in Sweden, including three nuclear sites and the ...
Rogue drones smuggling contraband – weapons, drugs, cellphones, etc. – has been an issue for years, but it seems to have significantly spiked in the ...
America’s stalled supply chain has become a problem and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg offered a partial ...
There seems to be some confusion in the counter-drone space about the definitions of “cyber-takeover” and “spoofing.” I have even heard top ...
After blogging about the attempted drone attack on electrical infrastructure in Pennsylvania, I want to turn my attention to another major incident that ...
CNN obtained a U.S. federal law enforcement bulletin that details an attempted drone attack on energy infrastructure in the U.S. in 2020. A drone ...
Drone tracking methods and the associated technology are constantly evolving, but there is an important capability that many security teams are currently ...
The issue of cybersecurity is expanding and evolving in the drone and counter-drone spaces. Traditional cyber concerns in the drone world referred either ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released a Part 139 CertAlert informing Part 139 airport operators that airport emergency plans ...
Drones smuggling contraband into correctional facilities is still a major problem. An Associated Press story notes that following a deadly prison riot at ...
Effectively keeping borders safe from rogue drones has long been a challenging mission . Rogue or unauthorized drones are increasingly used to smuggle ...
Drones pose a major threat, according to a relatively recent article by Major Thomas G. Pledger, an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard, ...
D-Fend Solutions often leads discussions that encompass both detection and mitigation, due to our end-to-end full incident lifecycle capabilities. ...
Many of the traditional counter-small, unmanned aerial systems (C-sUASs) were designed for the battlefield. It seemed natural for military personnel to ...
My previous blog post was intended to help clarify some of the industry confusion around the term “remote ID ready” following the announcement of the ...
A Confusing Conversation There have been many industry discussions recently about remote ID for small, unmanned aerial systems (sUASs), following the ...
Four core concepts are at the heart of D-Fend Solutions’ product development, execution and roadmap: control , safety , focus and ...
Law enforcement personnel in California arrested a man this week that they allege was operating a small, unmanned aerial system (sUAS), or drone, with a ...
An EasyJet plane traveling at 320 miles per hour just after leaving the Manchester, UK airport, nearly collided with a recklessly piloted drone, according ...
As a child, I was fascinated by the poster in science class that showed zoological lifecycles. Seeing how an egg became a tadpole and then a tadpole ...
Misleading claims about the counter-drone space continue to proliferate, particularly regarding radio frequency (RF)-based, takeover technology. There are ...
A scary collision between a Chilean Navy helicopter and an unmanned aerial system (UAS) has once again highlighted the tremendous risk to aircraft posed by ...
I love the song “Jamming” by Bob Marley and the Wailers . It instantly relaxes me and puts a smile on my face, and gets me thinking about a ...
The Counter-Drone Drill blog has officially launched, and the sky is the limit. D-Fend Solutions’ talented team of bloggers is comprised of experts ...
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