COMPARING CUAS TRACK DATA
There are many ways to determine the effectiveness of a CUAS. A common approach is to visually compare a ground...
15 January, 2021
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Defining CUAS EFFECTIVENESSS
Defining CUAS effectiveness should be simple but the effort is complicated by many factors such as use case, intended outcome,...
15 January, 2021
Counter UAS Test and Evaluation Series
CUAS vendors must be able to demonstrate in a quantifiable manner how their systems perform in a variety of environments,...
15 January, 2021
UAV THREATS TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PART 1: THE THREAT IS REAL
The Global Drone Security Network #2 Streamed live on Sep 18, 2020The Global Drone Security Network (GDSN) is the only...
04 November, 2020
UAV Threats to the Oil and Gas Industry PART 4: WHAT CAN WE DO?
The Global Drone Security Network #2 Streamed live on Sep 18, 2020The Global Drone Security Network (GDSN) is the only...
04 November, 2020
UAV THREATS TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PART 2: WHAT IS AT RISK?
The Global Drone Security Network #2 Streamed live on Sep 18, 2020The Global Drone Security Network (GDSN) is the only...
04 November, 2020
UAV THREATS TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PART 3: WHAT ARE OUR CHALLENGES?
The Global Drone Security Network #2 Streamed live on Sep 18, 2020The Global Drone Security Network (GDSN) is the only...
04 November, 2020
UNMANNED-UNCOVERED: Drone Detective | Episode 50
LISTEN HERE EPISODE SUMMARY David Kovar is the CEO and founder of URSA Inc., which stands for Unmanned & Robotics Systems Analysis...
11 February, 2020
News Release
David Kovar brings industry expertise, leadership to CompTIA Drone Advisory Council MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- URSA, Inc. today announced that David...
07 February, 2020
New York Times Article
URSA CEO and Founder David Kovar was tapped by The New York Times to provide expert insight for an article regarding the...
23 December, 2019
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
TuckGO URSA is engaging the TuckGO program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business to explore potential expansion into the Gulf region...
23 December, 2019
URSA-TELEMETRY
06 September, 2019
URSA Test
When testing the effectiveness of a CUAS against a variety of targets, within any environment, you need accurate, defensible data. URSA...
06 September, 2019
Detecting UAV Payload Delivery (The Power of Platform Delivered UAV Forensics)
Digital forensics traditionally operates on the "one investigator, one system, one case" model. Distributed collection and processing solutions certainly exist,...
30 August, 2019
URSA Inc. has been awarded a $1.875M SBIR Phase II contract by AFWERX
URSA Inc. has been awarded a $1.875M SBIR Phase II contract by AFWERX to integrate URSA’s commercially viable UAV forensics...
26 March, 2019
URSA Received Two AFWERX SBIR Phase I Awards
URSA is honored and excited to receive two AFWERX SBIR Phase I awards. The first award is for our 18.2 proposal “Force Protection C-sUAS” that advances...
26 March, 2019
INTRODUCING XRY Drone powered by URSA
Our year long development effort and partnership with MSAB bore fruit this week with the following announcement. We are very...
19 October, 2018
18 October, 2018
Techstars Demo Day
Boston -- Ten Techstars companies, including URSA pitched to hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry experts on Friday, April 20...
02 May, 2018
Techstars to Help Air Force Find Counter-Drone Tech Platforms
Posted By: Jane Edwards The U.S. Air Force has teamed up with technology accelerator Techstars to look for startups with novel platforms that work against...
15 February, 2018
These 10 companies are building ‘counter-drone’ tech in the Air Force accelerator
An unmanned aircraft system is seen on the flight line at Naval Base Ventura County and Sea Range, Point Mugu,...
15 February, 2018
The US Air Force Is Giving Its Anti-Drone Efforts a Silicon Valley Twist
Defense One February 1, 2018 BY PATRICK TUCKER TECHNOLOGY EDITOR A new kind of investor-innovation partnership may help speed emerging technology to...
14 February, 2018
Military Moving Fast to Field Advanced Technology
The U.S. military is committed to moving faster to get high technology into the field, according to several speakers at...
06 February, 2018
sUAS News – the business of drones
MSAB and Kovar & Associates Agree to Partner on Drone Forensics Work By 6 December 2017 MSAB and Kovar & Associates announced today...
25 January, 2018
UAV Experts News
MSAB and Kovar & Associates Partner On Drone Forensics Work MSAB and Kovar & Associates have announced a new partnership agreement to...
25 January, 2018
Geoweb3d UAV Test
14 August, 2017
Why UAV telemetry data is a cyber/physical security risk
UAV lawnmower pattern Image courtesy of Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Director of the University of Vermont Spatial Analysis Laboratory. Appeared in Vol.5 No.5...
09 August, 2017
The Power of UAV Forensics Combined with 3D Modeling
UAV forensics extracts a wealth of valuable data about UAVs, the flights they took, how the operator managed the UAV,...
24 July, 2017
UAV Forensics and Cybersecurity Presentation Collection
We are often asked for copies of the various presentations we've given over the years on UAV forensics and cybersecurity....
11 July, 2017
UAV Forensics for First Responders
See original article published on Paraben UAV Forensics for First Responders By David Kovar & Greg Dominguez 21 June 2017 Unmanned...
29 June, 2017
LISA conference in Boston
David Kovar presented a talk on UAVs, IoT, and Cybersecurity at the LISA conference in Boston on December 7th, 2016. The...
16 June, 2017
Legal Challenges Facing Civilian Counter-UAV Systems
Legal Challenges Facing Civilian Counter-UAV Systems Consumer/commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) sales and operations are increasing rapidly according to sales figures,...
16 June, 2017
– SANS DFIR Summit 2016
UAV Forensic Analysis – Next Gen - SANS DFIR Summit 2016 SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response ...
14 August, 2016
SANS DFIR Summit 2015
Forensic Analysis of sUAS aka Drones - SANS DFIR Summit 2015...
14 August, 2015
Using UAVs for conducting post-tornado damage assessments
On July 17th, 2015, we were asked by the Tazewell County Emergency Management Agency to fly a UAV mission to...
23 July, 2015
Analysis of FAA 333 exemption grants
IT ISN'T ALL ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY
There is a lot of uncertainty in the US UAV market due to lack of data. We do not have accurate sales data, number of hours flown, number of incidents, or even a good definition of what a UAV incident is. However, there is one really good UAV related dataset: Authorizations Granted Via Section 333 Exemptions. This is the FAA's list of exemptions granted to allow commercial UAV operations.
23 June, 2015
Overview of Upcoming UAV Forensics Presentation
I will be presenting on forensic analysis processes and techniques at the following conferences this summer:
BSides NOLA – May 30th, 2015
HTCIA/ISSA in Los Angeles – June 4th, 2015
SANS DFIR Summit in Austin – July 7th & 8th, 2015
HTCIA Orlando – August 30th – September 2nd, 2015
19 April, 2015
Forensic collection of UAVs/drones
Proper forensic analysis of anything starts with proper forensic collection of whatever it is that needs to be analyzed. UAVs are no different. As noted in an earlier post, there are a lot of components in a UAV system - radio controller, ground station, data/video link, and of course the aircraft itself.
28 March, 2015
Cybersecurity and non-military UAVs (aka drones)
Consumer and commercial drones are hot - they are changing the way we farm, they are crashing on the White...
18 March, 2015