Street closures and checkpoints cannot protect inauguration from drone attack
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City streets and bridges across Washington, D.C., have been locked down in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, but securing the airspace over the city is a near-impossible task.
Making it an even greater concern is Biden’s outdoor swearing-in ceremony and the potential for large protests across the city. The Secret Service oversees security for the event and identified drones, or small unmanned aerial systems, as a threat to the inauguration. The agency declined to comment on how it will respond to this risk. Half a dozen companies who make technology that can detect and take down rogue drones, including for the government, walked the