Author Archives: Martin Walls
More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border
By: William Booth December 21, 2011 This is the semi-covert cutting edge of homeland security, where federal law enforcement authorities are rapidly expanding a military-style unmanned aerial reconnaissance operation along the U.S.-Mexico border — a region that privacy watchdogs say … Continue reading
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INSCT Research Center Student Panel on UAVs & Privacy: On April 6, 2013, four students from the INSCT Research Center formed a panel on domestic use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and privacy at the 2013 Conference on National and International Security … Continue reading
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New RTCA Committee Seeks to Expedite UAS Standards
Standards organization RTCA will establish a new group in the next several weeks to expedite the development of standards that will enable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to fly in unrestricted airspace in the U.S. Continue reading
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Air Force UAVs: The Secret History
Thomas P. Ehrhard, July 2010 Ehrhard tells the fascinating story of its origins as a persistent system to track mobile targets and how the glut of “black world” money in the late Cold War years encouraged cost and requirements growth … Continue reading
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