The initial interview with our POC was very eye opening because they were able to tell us what they want in the solution. They are looking for a drone that is able to detect an aerial system to emphasize a threat and counter it. Although there is an Air Force command level legality issue for countering the threat, we should look at both FAA regulated air space and unregulated air space solutions. We had knowledge that the hard kill would be to protect information and privacy on a military level, but we did not realize that it would be prevalent to societies commercial systems. During our interview, some of the questions that we asked could not be answered due to the confidentiality issue in their work. For instance, we will not be given the type of situations that they will be used in, other than the fact that it will be in the US. However, they will provide us with the generalized environments. They encouraged us to go where the “puck” is going as technology continues to rapidly change. In addition, they suggested contacting the students who worked on this issue at Stanford because this will be to our benefit. The technology that we come up with may be able to be innovated into what they currently have, but they won’t be able to give us all of the information they currently have. They informed us that we should not be discouraged by any of these communication issues and that this is not an academic exercise, but rather more of a practical solution.
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