Volume 23
May 2018 Edition
The U.S. Department of Home-
land Security Science (DHS)
and Technology Directorate
(S&T) has been recognized
with Four 2017 ‘ASTORS’ ‘Ex-
cellence in Homeland Securi-
ty’ Platinum Awards by Amer-
ican Security Today (AST), at
the ISC East in New York City.
The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Pro-
gram is organized to recognize the most distinguished
security vendors, and agencies, as the nation continues
S&T is working with NASA and the FAA to even- to respond to escalating threats from home and abroad.
DHS Drone Outlook
tually open up the national airspace to com-
mercial drone traffic using a drone traffic man- The innovative solutions being implemented to
agement system known as Unmanned Aircraft meet those threats has led to tremendous growth in
the field of Homeland Security, and to this awards
Systems Traffic Management system.
program for recognition of the key contributors to
“When the airspace is open for drones, around 2020, our nation’s security.
they are going to be every-
where,” Bennett said.
“They have quite a few issues to
solve beforehand and a lot of
new technology needs to come
out first.”
The Coast Guard is starting
a one-year pilot program
for short-range drone proto-
types, and, currently, S&T is
experimenting and demon-
strating with drones.
“We are getting ready to launch
the use of small drones as a stan-
dard DHS tool by taking advan-
tage of the new test sites,” said Dr. Adam Hutter, NUSTL Director, (at right), Director of National Urban Security Technology
Lab (NUSTL), accepting DHS S&T 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Award at ISC East.
Bennett.
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