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 Washington Examiner through how they believe the Secret Service is approaching the situation.
