In a request for information quietly issued late December, the FAA said it wants to find partners to help develop a practical approach to the data sharing required to remotely identify small drones in controlled airspace. The data collected would include a unique identifier for the UAS, tracking information and drone owner and remote pilot identification, according to the FAA’s 2017 report on the remote ID program.
The FAA is seeking remote ID UAS service suppliers (USS) who, at no cost to the government, will participate in workshops; develop position papers, technical requirements, prototype technology demonstrations; and conduct demonstrations with the FAA and with other partners.
The goal, according to the RFI, is to field initial capabilities across one or more private-sector platforms to gain experience, which will then be applied to “enhancing and scaling future capabilities as well as to broadening the user base of the demonstrations.”
Eight participants are expected be selected, and they will develop a technical and legal framework for initial prototyping and testing that will inform a national capability.
Source: GCN
“The FAA is seeking remote ID UAS service suppliers (USS) who, at no cost to the government, will participate in workshops; develop position papers, technical requirements, prototype technology demonstrations; and conduct demonstrations with the FAA and with other partners.”
Funny,
DJI already has this incorporated into their application. All you have to do is fill it out and Opt In by turning it on. I guess this is the rest of the world trying to play catch up? The information is out there and DJI has made the information available, I assume this is the system for both the FAA on an airspace level and the Local Law Enforcement on a local level to be able to access it?
Wow, with the whole federal government freaking out about DJI and the data security issues surrounding them, I wonder who they are going to partner with to gather this info? Maybe they will bypass the 800lb gorilla in the room but if they do they just ignored the largest and most developed remote ID system in existence today for the civilian sector.