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Airmail

A SkySafe Blog

Drone Intrusion Alert! Now What?

August 1st, 2023 Blog Drone Intrusion Alert! Now What?

They are smuggling illegal narcotics into prisons, surveilling border patrol agents, disrupting sporting events, and wreaking havoc at airports across the country. Organizations across multiple industries are feeling the impacts of malicious drone use, and scrambling to implement detection and airspace management solutions in response. These solutions range from radar to radio frequency-based detection and most offer real-time alerting to the presence of a drone in the organization’s airspace. B...

UAS Magazine's Podcast: The Necessity of Protecting Essential Infrastructure Sites

July 25th, 2023 Blog UAS Magazine's Podcast: The Necessity of Protecting Essential Infrastructure Sites

"That’s why we’ve focused on notification and awareness of what drones are in the area. Because the really important thing in most actual incidents that you’re talking about, whether it be critical infrastructure or even prisons, is the awareness piece. Knowing there’s a drone in the area, understanding what it’s doing, where it’s going, and being able to locate the operator of the drone. Because that’s really where the risk is, a directly malicious operator who’s trying to do something.&qu...

Rogue Drone Tracking for Stadium Safety

July 11th, 2023 Blog Rogue Drone Tracking for Stadium Safety

While drones are doing wonders across multiple industries and sectors, not everyone uses them with good intentions or with complete knowledge of airspace rules and regulations. The latter has become especially true for sporting events in different parts of the world. The National Football League, for instance, counted some 1,400 incursions by drones during flight restrictions over and around stadiums during the 2021-22 season, with two men recently pleading guilty to illegally flying drones over...

Keeping Drones Out of Prison Airspace

July 5th, 2023 Blog Keeping Drones Out of Prison Airspace

With drones accessible to the general public, secure facilities like prisons are encountering skyrocketing cases of contraband, including cell phones, food, drugs, and weapons, from their airspace. This nefarious activity can create perilous situations for those inside and outside the prison walls. A report by the U.S. Department of Justice found that, on average, illegal UAV drops increase by 50% or more annually – a rate that continues to worsen. Beyond delivering drugs to inmates, drones are...

Upcoming Webinar: Stop Contraband Drops

June 27th, 2023 Blog Upcoming Webinar: Stop Contraband Drops

Webinar: Stop Contraband Drops Everything you need to know about the drone threat to correctional facilities and what you can do to stop it. REGISTER NOW Fanning the flames from the sky are criminal drones dropping drugs, cell phones, and weapons into the heart of correctional facilities. According to one source, nearly 10 million consumer drones will be shipped by 2030, which will only increase this already prevalent threat for prisons across the US. Beyond creating a more dangerous environment...

Drone Seizure and Recovery

June 19th, 2023 Blog Drone Seizure and Recovery

Criminal use of drones is driving the need for sophisticated detection and counter-drone systems. Getting this technology into the hands of those who need it most – stadiums, prisons, airports, border patrol, critical infrastructure facilities – is only one piece of the solution. In the Detection -> Mitigation -> Recovery -> Forensic Investigation lifecycle, it is often an organization’s front-line workers who are left to handle the Recovery portion, but with little support or training ...

Drone Defense is Key When it Comes to Perimeter Protection

June 13th, 2023 Blog Drone Defense is Key When it Comes to Perimeter Protection

Those tasked with protecting correctional facilities in 2023 know all too well the threats posed by high-tech RC drones, which have only continued to escalate along with the continually evolving technology behind them. With that in mind, Correctional News tapped the mind of SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan, for his insights on this vital security issue. SkySafe is the lone airspace security technology company to create and operate a comprehensive, city-wide sensor network that allows organizations to de...

SkySafe on the Drone Radio Show

June 6th, 2023 Blog SkySafe on the Drone Radio Show

“It’s funny to me, a lot of people hear about SkySafe or companies like us in the counter-drone business and they think that we’re anti-drone, that we’re against drones. I think it’s the exact opposite. We’re all in this business, and we do the work we do, because we’re genuinely excited about drones and we want them to be used for good things. We want all of the awesome stuff that we can do with drones. But the thing is, to get there we’ve got to have rules of the road. We’ve got to have enforc...

Drones are the New Contraband Smugglers

May 24th, 2023 Blog Drones are the New Contraband Smugglers

Since 2020, more than two million uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), most commonly known as drones, have been registered by law to the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2022, more than 855,000 new registrations have been filed thus far—and this says nothing of the drones that are purchased and never registered. With drones accessible to the general public, secure facilities like jails and prisons are now encountering skyrocketing cases of drones smuggling contraband such as drugs, weapons, ammun...

Webinar: Drone Seizure and Recovery

April 20th, 2023 Blog Webinar: Drone Seizure and Recovery

The first minutes of a response to a drone incident could make or break an investigation. This webinar is designed to inform first responders on what to do in the event of a drone incident. Any mistakes made during an incident response could have major consequences on any subsequent forensics analysis. The steps used in this webinar are derived from INTERPOL's Framework for Responding to a Drone Incident. Steps include assessing the scene, preserving, and documenting, and identifying additional ...

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