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Your air traffic controllers can now see the drones. Your UAS operators can now see everyone else,\u201d Sawyer told Defense News on the sidelines of a June 25 Defense Innovation Unit drone test in Fairbanks, Alaska. \u201cThat makes it a lot easier to integrate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managing both manned aircraft and unmanned drones operating in the same airspace is a growing challenge for both civil and military air traffic controllers. For the Defense Department, which provides about 20% of the air traffic control services in the United States, solving the problem helps enable its plans to increase its own UAS inventory while also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2023\/11\/15\/pentagon-counter-drone-office-makes-headway-as-services-adopt-new-tech\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2023\/11\/15\/pentagon-counter-drone-office-makes-headway-as-services-adopt-new-tech\/\"> protecting bases and troops from enemy drones<\/a>, Sawyer said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CLUE began development in 2016 at the lab\u2019s information directorate in Rome, New York. In 2022, the service took the system to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for initial testing. Then last year, AFRL \u2014 in partnership with DIU, the Pentagon\u2019s acquisition office and several companies \u2014 integrated several UAS platforms into the uncrewed traffic management system. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diu.mil\/latest\/successful-flight-operations-conducted-between-uncrewed-traffic-management\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.diu.mil\/latest\/successful-flight-operations-conducted-between-uncrewed-traffic-management\">During the demonstration<\/a>, CLUE provided operators with a visual tool to help with air traffic deconfliction, UAS identification and FAA compliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sawyer said the system has shown \u201ca lot of promise\u201d in these demonstrations and tests and DOD plans to install CLUE at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany later this year. 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