Systems and methods are described for a cyber-physical vehicle management system generated by an Integrated Secure Device Manager (ISDM) Authority configured to manage licensing and approval of Cyber-Physical Vehicle (CPV)s, a public/private key pair and a unique ID for the Authority, create a self-signed Authority token signed by the private key, send the Authority token to a plurality of ISDM Node device configured to verify Module device authenticity and in communication with the Authority, store, by each Node, the Authority token, and mark, by each Node, the Authority token as trusted.

A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.

A computer-implementable method employs network signal metadata to train a cognitive learning and inference system to produce an inferred function, wherein the metadata comprises a syntactic structure of at least one network communication protocol. The inferred function is used to map metadata of a detected network signal to a cognitive profile of a transmitter of the detected network signal. The mapping effects intelligent discrimination of the transmitter from at least one other transmitter through corroborative or negating evidentiary observation of properties associated with the metadata of the detected network signal. Information content in the network signal can be determined from the inferred function or the cognitive profile without demodulating the network signal.

A vehicle includes: receiver(s), a timer counting time, memory, and processor(s) configured to: receive a timestamped signal from a fob; compare the timestamp to a time window; reject the timestamp if the timestamp is outside the time window; expand the time window with the counted time; compute the time window as a trigonometric function of the counted time and a predetermined angle.

An apparatus, system, and method for determining the presence of a mobile device located in a predetermined detection zone within a vehicle are disclosed. A detection module receives a communication signal, determines that the communication signal was transmitted by a mobile device located within a predetermined detection zone within a vehicle, and a control module transmits a control signal to the mobile device located within the predetermined detection zone. The system further includes a monitoring logic to monitor a functional system of the vehicle activating the transmission of the control signal by the control module when the monitored functional system is activated and the detection module determines that the communication signal was transmitted by the mobile device located within the predetermined detection zone.

Techniques for determining whether data associated with an autonomous operation of a first unmanned vehicle may be trusted. For example, the first unmanned vehicle may receive an indication related to the data and originating from a second unmanned vehicle over a network. For instance, the indication may indicate that similar data for a similar autonomous operation of the second unmanned vehicle may be untrusted. Based on a level of trust accorded to the indication, the first unmanned vehicle may determine that the data may be untrusted and the autonomous navigation may be directed independently of the data.

Disclosed is a method of detecting spoofing of a traffic alert and collision avoidance system, known as a TCAS, the TCAS having a Mode A, a Mode C and a Mode S for communicating with surrounding aircraft. The method includes: querying a suspected spoofing aircraft via Mode S of the TCAS and receiving a response to this query; deducing from the response at least some data, known as Mode S data, relating to the suspected spoofing aircraft; and validating Mode S data by querying the suspected spoofing aircraft via Mode A or Mode C of the TCAS.

Systems and methods for preventing flight of one or more Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in no-fly zones include receiving one or more no-fly zones each defined as geo-fences with associated coordinates; preventing one or more UAVs from entering the one or more no-fly zones by one or more of: transmitting the geo-fences to the one or more UAVs, transmitting avoidance commands to the one or more UAVs from an avoidance device located at a no-fly zone, and disrupting radio communication to the one or more UAVs from the avoidance device.

A system for disrupting Radio Frequency communication of a plurality of unmanned aircraft. The system comprises: a directional antenna; a transmitter; a drive system connected to the directional antenna and configured to move the directional antenna; and a control system. The control system causes the transmitter to generate a signal waveform configured to disrupt Radio Frequency communication of an unmanned aircraft for emission by the directional antenna, and causes the drive system to move the directional antenna such that each of the plurality of unmanned aircraft is irradiated intermittently by the emitted radiation. Each of the plurality of unmanned aircraft is irradiated for a first period of time and not irradiated for a second period of time, the second period of time is less than or equal to 5 seconds.

A control unit for controlling wireless data transmissions in a mobile communications system provided on board an aircraft, a mobile communications system having a control unit of this type, an associated method for controlling wireless data transmissions in a mobile communications system provided on board an aircraft, and a computer program for carrying out the method. The control unit comprises a generating component for generating a band-limited masking signal for masking terrestrial mobile communications signals in a first frequency band and a combining component for combining the band-limited masking signal and a service signal for the wireless transmission of data in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. The combining component is configured to combine the masking signal and the service signal so that terrestrial mobile communications signals in a third frequency band formed by overlapping of the first and the second frequency band are masked.