Cockrell School Researchers Demonstrate First Successful

• Cockrell School Researchers Demonstrate First Successful "Spoofing" of UAVs - Cockrell School of Engineering

• A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source — a discovery that could factor heavily into the implementation of a new federal mandate to allow thousands of civilian drones into the U.S. airspace by 2015. The experiment was performed on a civilian drone owned by the university.

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