A Target Drone System for CUAS Validation and Testing

URSA, an industry leader in UAV forensics and autonomous systems telemetry analysis, will leverage their existing intellectual property and expertise to create a prototype CUAS evaluation platform. This workstream will produce three critical components: a flexible target UAV platform; a instrumentation payload for detecting, recording, and transmitting external effects and onboard telemetry; and a telemetry management and analysis system. The resulting system will enable appropriately trained and equipped military, law enforcement, and civilian organizations to conduct repeatable, verifiable, and well documented CUAS testing in any environment. The work effort will significantly extend URSA’s current telemetry analysis capabilities in two ways: • URSA currently performs retrospective analysis. This project will develop real time analysis capabilities • URSA currently presents a single telemetry stream for analysis. This project will develop multi-thread analysis, enabling investigators to compare multiple heterogenous telemetry and time series streams to each other.