The Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office is delivering numerous Army âfirstsâ â including the prototype long range hypersonic weapon, combat-capable lasers, and a ground-launched mid-range fires capability using Navy missiles.
But being first also means not being perfect â which for an engineer, can mean a whole new way of thinking. The RCCTO capabilities arenât aiming to be the enduring Army solutions, but instead experimental prototypes with residual combat capability â something that bridges the âvalley of deathâ between science and technology and programs of record. They give Soldiers a system they can use on the battlefield and give the Army important information to shape future decisions.
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Theresa Hitchens on February 02, 2021 at 2:28 PM
The Army conducted counter-drone training in Iraq in April 2020.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will choose a first round of industry-developed systems for shooting down small drones in early 2022, according to officials at the the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems Office (JCO).
That initial set of capabilities is known as “Low-Collateral Effects Increment No. 1,” JCO Director Army Major Gen. Sean Gainey told reporters in a briefing today. The plan is to figure out what industry has “ready to deliver; ready to get it out to the field, pretty quickly.”
The term “low-collateral effects” refers to counter drone systems that can be employed with few negative consequences for non-enemy aircraft and electronic systems near the field of intercept. Those types of weapons are the first focus in implementing DoD’s strategy to defeat small drones, released in early January.
Pentagon to field low-collateral, counter-drone interceptors in FY22 February 2 The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Threat Systems Management Office push a swarm of 40 drones through a town during the battle of Razish at the National Training Center on May 8, 2019. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON The Pentagon aims to field a low-collateral effects interceptor part of its evolving and enduring solution to countering small drones by fiscal 2022, according to the joint office in charge of the effort. The Defense Department established the Army-led Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Office, or JCO, a little more than a year ago. The office laid out a path for how it will develop a system to counter small unmanned aerial systems, releasing a strategy earlier this month and approving a set of requirements last fall that guides industry to develop technology to plug into a single command-and-control system.