By Lauren C. Williams
Feb 10, 2021
The Army is leading the Defense Department s strategy for making platforms and devices to counter small unmanned aerial systems usable by all service members.
In January, the Pentagon released its counter sUAS strategy, highlighting the threats posed by the growing number of small drones to siphon off data and endanger DOD personnel, facilities and assets.
The idea is to make the counter-UAS job agnostic, according to Marc Pelini, division chief for capabilities and requirements for the Pentagon s Army-led Joint Counter Small UAS Office (JCO). I think inherently the Army is really looking hard at making counter-UAS a [military occupational specialty] agnostic platform where . anyone from a cook to a medic to an infantryman, tanker can operate the system, Pelini told reporters on Feb. 2.
By Lauren C. Williams
Feb 05, 2021
The Army is leading the Defense Department s strategy for making platforms and devices to counter small unmanned aerial systems usable by all service members.
In January, the Pentagon released its counter sUAS strategy, highlighting the threats posed by the growing number of small drones to siphon off data and endanger DOD personnel, facilities and assets.
The idea is to make the counter-UAS job agnostic, according to Marc Pelini, division chief for capabilities and requirements for the Pentagon s Army-led Joint Counter Small UAS Office (JCO). I think inherently the Army is really looking hard at making counter-UAS a [military occupational specialty] agnostic platform where . anyone from a cook to a medic to an infantryman, tanker can operate the system, Pelini told reporters on Feb. 2.
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2 Feb 2021
The head of the Pentagon s counter-drone effort wants every soldier from cooks to riflemen trained to fight off swarms of enemy unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, capable of inflicting casualties on combat units.
The Army-led Joint Counter Small UAS Office, or JCO, completed its strategy in early January to combat the growing threat of small UAS being deployed against U.S. forces.
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Theresa Hitchens on February 02, 2021 at 2:28 PM
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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.