UAV

2010

I am pleased to present the following report, "Concept of Operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Predator 13 Unmanned Aircraft System." This report has been compiled in response to language in Section 544 of I louse Report I 11-298 accompanying the Fiscal Year 2010 Depar/ment of Homeland Securily Appropriations Act (P.L. 111 -83). The report provides a revised Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for unmanned aircratl systems (UAS) in the U.S. national airspace system f()r the purposes of border and maritime security operations, and includes any foreseeable challenges to the CONOPS.

2015

: The use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs), also referred to as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), attracts considerable interest from policymakers, Congress, and the public. This is especially true regarding their use in missions for defense support of civil authorities (DSCA) conducted by the Department of Defense (DoD). Congressional interest in the use of RPAs for domestic missions dates to at least 2003, when Congress directed the President to study and report on RPA use for support of homeland security missions. 1 In its budget for fiscal year (FY) 2006, Congress passed a special appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build a fleet of RPAs in its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component, and such appropriations have continued in nearly every subsequent year. In 2012, however, Congress capped DHS s authorized RPA force at ten aircraft, citing budgetary constraints.2 To date, all large and medium RPAs in DHS remain...

2000

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Procedia Engineering, 2017

Modern public services are nowadays capable of conducting complex operations in case of various natural or man-made hazards. In last decades, the responsibilities of the fire services have been significantly extended from 'ordinary' fire-fighting to complex operations including technical rescue, but also chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear rescue. Therefore this crucial public service is being constantly equipped with the newest and the most efficient solutions aiming at optimization of their primary activity, which saves victims lives. Thanks to INSARAG guidelines, activities of certified heavy urban search and rescue groups (HUSAR) are based on solid foundations: knowledge and experience gained during historical events in last decades. However, rapid technological progress might be beneficial. The article describes the MOBNET system, that is currently under development. There was a research work conducted to gather end-user requirements in purpose to create a tailor-made solution supporting traditional activities of USAR teams. The target group of the system has been extended, as other public services might benefit from the system implementation as well. The system will use combined DCT-EGNSS technology to track victims.

This paper explores the use and evaluates the efficiency of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) along the Southwest Border--the primary area of concern for the flow of illegal contraband and spillover violence from Mexico into the U.S. UAS have been viewed as ineffective, unsafe, and unnecessarily invasive for private citizens. This paper discusses the main challenges and current operational performance of UAS operations along the SWB, on which the efficiency of the UAS program relies. This discussion includes the impact of U.S. UAS deployment at the SWB on U.S.-Mexico relations and U.S. safety and privacy concerns. Additionally, analysis of UAS operational performance utilizes existing data on illegal cross-border activities between Mexico and the U. S.—such as drug trafficking, human smuggling, and firearm trafficking—as well as CBP’s UAS support to other agencies. The paper limits this data to two timeframes: 2001-2005 and 2005-2011. The first range indicates the time period after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. and before the use of UAS along the SWB; the second range indicates the time period during which UAS became operational in cross-border security, confining the available data to 2011 figures. The paper concludes that the evaluation of the UAS program should focus on how efficiently it operates under the guise of CBP and its processes rather than on the amounts of contraband seized or arrests or apprehensions made during UAS missions, because for a platform of this caliber those performance measures seizures are not going to show the full worth of its capabilities. CBP UAS should be integrated with other ISR, monitoring, and detection assets along the SWB rather than operate independently and only for strategic purposes. Further study should focus on the effects of automation, human factors and crew ratio requirements on CBP UAS pilot performance and their impact on the safety of UAS flights along U.S. domestic borders, since most of the existing scholarship has been about military UAS pilots who participated in military operations.

U K Defence Forum Journal , 2006

Both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and remotely piloted vehicles (RPV) have been in military service for over 50 years. Over the past 15 years technological advances have enabled the carriage and employment of sophisticated sensor, communications, laser target designator and electronic warfare (EW) payloads on a variety of UAVs. These enabling technologies, linked to the political need to reduce casualties and achieve information superiority, have led to the wide deployment of operationally proven UAV with relatively little progress with RPV programmes. Projects under development are likely to offer the potential for new and cost-effective capabilities across a number of land, sea and air roles, allied to the possibility of conducting operations in hostile environments without risk to personnel. UAVs are ideal systems to conduct tasks that are dull, dirty or dangerous (known as the D3 roles) - long endurance and therefore monotonous surveillance tasks; work in nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) contaminated areas; or combat sorties against heavily defended targets.