Raytheon and the FAA have been involved in an effort to identify and engineer new technical standards to enable deconflicted drone flight in a civilian environment.
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Raytheon Intelligence and Space has developed solutions to the diverse and growing cyber threat landscape. The FAA s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), will modernize America s air transportation with interconnected air traffic control, making air travel safer and more efficient than ever. But improved connectivity also increases the danger of cyberattack by giving attackers possible inroads to everything on the network, including aircraft and their subsystems.
There are other new vectors of attack too, from malware embedded in imported electronic components to careless use of USB thumb drives by the plethora of individuals with access to these systems. They can expose operators to threats ranging from criminals trying to lock up systems with ransomware to a full-on assault on our national critical infrastructure by a hostile state.