Jairus Hines has accomplished what many spend their weekends dreaming of: turning a hobby into a career. Hines is an electronics and unmanned systems technician with the Autonomous Systems group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Part of the National Security Sciences Directorate, or NSSD, this group is the most active drone team at the lab. As a result, Hines — who holds an active pilot’s license — works with airborne and waterborne drones, as well as ground-based rovers. In this role, he’s applying “low and slow” drone technology to radiation detection for national security missions.
Hines stands beside the Arktis, a drone-based radiation detection system (credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy),
April 8, 2025 | Originally published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on March 5, 2025
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