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The FAA is set to authorize as many as eight industry-financed projects to examine various options for airborne drone identification, according to a notice published in December in the Federal Register. A report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that the goal of the program is to "verify technologies and provide real-world data to hasten broader regulatory steps aimed at significantly expanding commercial uses of unmanned aircraft." The inability of authorities to identify and track drones has been a major hurdle to the integration of UAVs into the National Airspace. The SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organisations, has been selected by Single