Hacking Drones
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Like I have said many times, the first time one goes astray and hits something/someone/somewhere then that will end the current craze for a very, very long time, all because of the rush to market.
This accident last week with a manned aircraft killed 7 people on board and 4 people on the ground
ASN Aircraft accident Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M A-2708 Jakarta-Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport (HLP)
iRaven
Last edited by iRaven; 30th June 2012 at 18:32.
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A Fokker F-27 transport plane was destroyed when it crashed in a residential area of Jakarta, Indonesia. All seven crew members were killed, as well as four persons on the ground.
The F-27, operated by the Indonesian Air Force, departed Jakarta-Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport (HLP) on a training flight at 13:10.
The airplane was preparing to land on runway 18 when it crashed about 14:50.
The airplane came down in the Rajawali housing complex, the Indonesian Air Force's housing area, near the airport. Nine houses were destroyed by the ensuing fire.
The F-27, operated by the Indonesian Air Force, departed Jakarta-Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport (HLP) on a training flight at 13:10.
The airplane was preparing to land on runway 18 when it crashed about 14:50.
The airplane came down in the Rajawali housing complex, the Indonesian Air Force's housing area, near the airport. Nine houses were destroyed by the ensuing fire.
LJ
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Never said that LJ. From way up the food chain on this side. Obviously there are other folks out there somewhat concerned, just FYI:
The Office of the Secretary of Defense wants to engage the aerospace engineering community in conversations on how to integrate unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies safely, government databases show.
It is inviting engineers and researchers to present ideas for building a “sense-and-avoid” system that would prevent collisions between drones and other aircraft, according to a solicitation.
The Federal Aviation Administration this year cleared drone aircraft for widespread use in domestic airspace, triggering concerns that they would pose an aviation hazard to military and commercial pilots.
Defense has established a panel of scientists to engage the wider research and engineering community to address the security issues. The panel is requesting informational briefs on how to implement technology, operations procedures and algorithms to build a system that would to help drones avoid crashing into other planes. “OSD recognizes that a key challenge to integrating [unmanned aircraft systems] into the National Airspace System is a means for UAS to sense and avoid other aircraft,” the solicitation reads.
The panel is also interested in metrics to measure the effectiveness of complex sensor systems and the risk of software glitches in computer programs used to command the unmanned planes.
The selected presentations will be made in November at research organization MITRE in McLean, Va. Responses are due August 31. To facilitate conversations, Defense has requested that submissions be unclassified.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense wants to engage the aerospace engineering community in conversations on how to integrate unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies safely, government databases show.
It is inviting engineers and researchers to present ideas for building a “sense-and-avoid” system that would prevent collisions between drones and other aircraft, according to a solicitation.
The Federal Aviation Administration this year cleared drone aircraft for widespread use in domestic airspace, triggering concerns that they would pose an aviation hazard to military and commercial pilots.
Defense has established a panel of scientists to engage the wider research and engineering community to address the security issues. The panel is requesting informational briefs on how to implement technology, operations procedures and algorithms to build a system that would to help drones avoid crashing into other planes. “OSD recognizes that a key challenge to integrating [unmanned aircraft systems] into the National Airspace System is a means for UAS to sense and avoid other aircraft,” the solicitation reads.
The panel is also interested in metrics to measure the effectiveness of complex sensor systems and the risk of software glitches in computer programs used to command the unmanned planes.
The selected presentations will be made in November at research organization MITRE in McLean, Va. Responses are due August 31. To facilitate conversations, Defense has requested that submissions be unclassified.
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This is an indication of how important it is to the manufacturers to be allowed to operate in manned airspace, otherwise it will all wither on the vine:
"The Unmanned Systems Caucus – a Congressional network dedicated to the promotion of drones – is drawing in big lobbying bucks, KPBS reports.
The caucus is chaired by Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., who also chairs the House Armed Services Committee. Its 58 drone caucus members received a total of $2.3 million in contributions from political action committees affiliated with drone manufacturers since 2011, according to data obtained by KPBS from First Street Research Group, a Washington-based company.
Twenty-one members of the drone caucus are from border states, the report notes. These members collected around $1 million in campaign contributions from large aerospace contracts during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, according to campaign finance data collected by the think-tank Center for Responsive Politics.
The top five donors to the drone caucus members from border states from 2010 to 2012 were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and General Dynamics, the report states.
The caucus includes eight members of the House Committee on Appropriations. The committee in May pushed to maintain $278 million in funding for Global Hawk Block 30 drones, which the Pentagon had originally purged in its 2013 budget request, according to a statement".
"The Unmanned Systems Caucus – a Congressional network dedicated to the promotion of drones – is drawing in big lobbying bucks, KPBS reports.
The caucus is chaired by Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., who also chairs the House Armed Services Committee. Its 58 drone caucus members received a total of $2.3 million in contributions from political action committees affiliated with drone manufacturers since 2011, according to data obtained by KPBS from First Street Research Group, a Washington-based company.
Twenty-one members of the drone caucus are from border states, the report notes. These members collected around $1 million in campaign contributions from large aerospace contracts during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, according to campaign finance data collected by the think-tank Center for Responsive Politics.
The top five donors to the drone caucus members from border states from 2010 to 2012 were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and General Dynamics, the report states.
The caucus includes eight members of the House Committee on Appropriations. The committee in May pushed to maintain $278 million in funding for Global Hawk Block 30 drones, which the Pentagon had originally purged in its 2013 budget request, according to a statement".
