GA-ASI DAA System Aids FAA-Approved Flight of NASA Unmanned Aircraft

A Detect and Avoid (DAA) avionics system developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA"ASI) was the key technology that enabled an unmanned aircraft flight through the National Airspace System (NAS) after taking off from southern California today. The DAA system installed on Ikhana, a NASA-owned Predator(R) B/MQ-9 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), enabled the UAS to meet the FAA's ["]