Our Contribution
During the Falcon Peak exercise for counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) hosted by U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), APL presented a new drone-defense system, called Skyward, designed to protect infrastructure and citizens in the homeland as well as U.S. warfighters and interests worldwide. Skyward is a decision-support tool for defense operators that offers a real-time threat assessment and course-of-action recommendation for each drone it detects. At the exercise, APL seamlessly integrated Skyward with commercially available sensors and USNORTHCOM’s drone sensor fusion solution, the Advanced Tactical Hostile Engagement Awareness (ATHENA) toolkit.
