The agency has begun expanding use of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability, which helps to integrate drones into the airspace, providing operators “near real-time airspace authorizations”

The swarm of robots would be used to create a “safety bubble” around the area of operations.

The report has some suggestions for countermeasures, but those are only revealed in a classified version of the document.

The advanced research office is interested in better automatic object recognition algorithms for imagery gathered by drones.

FedScoop takes a deep dive into the emerging technologies that could disrupt federal agencies in 2018.