U.S. Firms Advance UAS ‘Detect and Avoid’ Capability
Flight tests aimed at proving detect and avoid capability for UAS are to be conducted this year.
Industry and government testers plan to demonstrate a detect-and-avoid suite on NASA’s Ikhana air vehicle later this year. The aircraft will be outfitted with an AESA array of General Atomics due-regard radar
Industry and government testers plan to demonstrate a detect-and-avoid suite on NASA’s Ikhana air vehicle later this year. The aircraft will be outfitted with an AESA array of General Atomics due-regard radar

U.S. government and industry testers plan to begin data-gathering flights later this year using a system that will address perhaps the biggest technological hurdle to widespread use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)–the ability of a remotely piloted vehicle to “detect and avoid” (DAA) other aircraft. At the same time, a special committee convened by standards organization RTCA is working toward delivering DAA equipment standards by July 2016.