NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, Patuxent River, Md. -- Step inside the Marine Corps' MQ-9 Reaper's ground control station for a closer look at Guardian, defense aviation's new detect-and-avoid system making crewed/uncrewed teaming safer developed by engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).
Guardian tracks manned and unmanned systems across an airspace within a 200 nautical mile radius. The system improves airspace safety using ground-based sensors to communicate with air vehicle operators in ground control stations to provide visual cues for navigation and traffic avoidance maneuvers like turn, ascend, or descend in instances where collisions are imminent–all on a computer screen, similar to...
