Super Bowl Experimental Radar Aims to Stop Drone Drama at Game
After rogue drone sightings halt flights, startup seeks permission to test tracking system at Sunday’s game
A Bill Gates-funded startup is seeking permission to test a new kind of drone detector at Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots in Atlanta.
Echodyne, a Seattle-based company launched out of Duke University in 2009, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Sunday to operate two experimental radars “in the immediate vicinity” of Mercedes-Benz Stadium to “alert security personnel, including federal officers, of any unidentified drone activity during Super Bowl LIII”.