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The tests are part of a rapid effort by the U.S. government to develop an answer to small drones, which are increasingly being used by terror groups and drug cartels. The staggering demand — hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of funding for research, in contrast to the relatively cheap cost of small consumer drones — has already created a private economy to produce counter-drone technology for the military, involving dozens of aerospace and defense companies. In the current fiscal year, the Defense Department is looking to spend at least $404 million on research and development and ...

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 16, 2021 at 3:03 PM DoD held its first demo of tech to counter small drones April 5-9, 2021 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. WASHINGTON: DoD’s joint office to counter small drones small drones will hold a second set of industry demos and looks likely to invite new participants. “We’re keeping all options on the table,” Army Col. Greg Soulé, director of acquisition & resources at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems Office (JCO), told reporters today. The first demo, held April 5-9 at Yuma Proving Ground, focused on what DoD calls Low Colla...

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...