Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sense & Avoid

549 Pages·2016·5.32 MB·English

NATIONAL CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE:
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS SENSE AND AVOID
Safely Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace
(NAS)

Developing Issues for UAS Sense and Avoid
Team Flying Dragons
John Boesen
Randy Mai
Carrie Padgette
Kara Rittel
Vincent Salerno TL
For Approval: Professor Randall K. Nichols
Agenda
Executive Summary
Terrorist Group: ISIS
Communication
Facts
Issues
Discussion
Critical Control Systems
Facts
Issues
Discussion
Agenda
Navigation
Facts
Issues
Discussion
Payloads
Facts
Issues
Discussion
Agenda
Intelligence
Facts
Issues
Discussion
Glossary
Primary References
Secondary References
Executive Summary
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) most needed tools are in their Sense and
Avoid Systems
Sense and Avoid (SAA) consists of five sections:
Communication
Critical Control Systems
Intelligence
Navigation
Payloads
Each section has vulnerabilities and these vulnerabilities are addressed by Issues
Terrorist Profile of ISIS included
Each section briefly discusses how issues increase risk to UAS SAA
Executive Summary
Issues:
Communication:
Would a technical boost via:
1A - Spoofing GPS satellite communication
1B - Corrupting authentication of ground station communication
signals
1C - Hijacking a UAS by hacking internal ASIC chip communication
1D - ADS-B Spoofing / Jamming
Increase Risk to UAS?
Executive Summary
Issues:
Critical Control Systems:
2A - Would a technical boost to SCADA via a broad range of cyber attacks
increase Risk to UAS SAA Critical Control Systems?
2B - Would a technical boost to SCADA via network specific attacks
increase Risk to UAS SAA systems?
Executive Summary
Issues:
Intelligence:
3A - Would a technical boost via disruption or modification to SCADA
increase Risk to UAS SAA Intelligence?
3B - Would a technical boost via an SQL Injection increase Risk to UAS
SAA Intelligence?
Executive Summary
Issues:
Navigation
4A - Would a technical boost via GPS Spoofing disrupt UAS SAA
Navigational Guidance and cause Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) to fail
if disrupted for an extended length of time and increase UAS SAA Risk?
4B - Would a technical boost via EMP disrupt UAS Magnetometers
causing Navigational failure and increase UAS Risk?
4C - Would a technical boost via increased ground radar energy disrupt
mathematical algorithms to sense passive radar, et. al. and associated
energies to increase Risk on UAS SAA?