SENSOR SUITE–UPGRADED


READY FOR TAKEOFF


An unmanned aerial vehicle sits in the back of the NBCRV, ready to take off and fly into a potentially hazardous cloud.


the UAV, which was docked on the back of the NBCRV, and cued it via semiauton- omous and waypoint navigation to go to the edge of the anomaly cloud.


As the UAV, often referred to as “the bird,” reached the front side of the cloud and descended to detection height, it let the cloud pass over it several times over a period of time to collect the sample, allow- ing the bio-sensing payload on the UAV to rapidly detect if a biological agent existed within the cloud, and notify a commander who could immediately make an informed decision, save lives and carry out the mission. Te surveyor within the NBCRV then created and submitted a report with additional information, confirming the


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presence of an unknown (simulated) bioagent.


Te reconnaissance and platform inte- gration team told attendees that if this were happening in a real battlespace, an improved mobile chemical agent detector would also scan for the presence of a chem- ical agent and alert the surveyor within the NBCRV. After the negative confirmation of a chemical threat, the hazard response team established a decontamination site. Te UAV landed far enough away from other military assets and its launch loca- tion so as not to contaminate the area where Soldiers might process this poten- tial biological sample at what was called the “H2” (processing site) or “dirty home.”


Making this demonstration feel even more like something out of “Te Jetsons,” a man-transportable robotic system was substituted for a warfighter to execute reconnaissance of the decontamination site. Once the robotic system cleared the decontamination site, personnel from the dismounted reconnaissance suits kits and outfits (DR SKO) team prepared a decon- tamination line, and remained staged to execute UAV decontamination, bio sample collection and presumptive identification upon their team’s retrieval of the bird and sample. Donning “level A” chemical and biological protective gear, two men approached the UAV, retrieved the dry filter unit for identification of the bioag- ent, performed a quick decontamination


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