DoD Likely To Miss 2021 Deadline For Counter-Drone Weapon
By 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 th...