Ganged Phased-Array Radar System: A Ground-Based Risk Mitigation Strategy for UAS Flight Operations in the National Airspace
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A significant obstacle to the integration of unmanned aircraft (UA) into the National Airspace System (NAS) is the requirement that they incorporate a system (or systems) that reduces the risk of midair collision to a level equivalent to, or lower than, that posed by operations of manned aircraft. As no on-board system presently exists, and the likelihood of such a system being developed and certified within the next decade is extremely remote, this creates a significant impediment to the development of a viable, potentially lucrative, civil unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) market.
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