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The U.S. Army installed the first Ground-Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) system radar at Ford Hood, Texas, it said on Dec. 15.
Fort Hood has two MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) companies and is one of five installations that are to acquire the system.
This GBSAA is the first of a set of radar procured by the Army to provide a "Sense and Avoid" capability to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the installation.
GMSAA consists of various complex subsystems, including multiple 3-D radar (LSTAR), data fusion, tracker, classifier, separation algorithms, and displays. These were all being designed and developed for the Sense and Avoid system. Because unmanned systems do not have a pilot onboard, they cannot safely navigate in airspace with other traffic, particularly aircraft that are not...