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Counter-Drone Office Adds CACI, Rafael To Recommended List

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

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Counter-Drone Office Adds CACI, Rafael To Recommended List

Rafael Systems Global Sustainment DRONE DOME system. Photo: Rafael Systems Global Sustainment

The Defense Department’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office (JCO) earlier this month expanded its list of recommended vendor solutions for countering-drones as a service to include offerings from CACI International [CACI] and Rafael Systems Global Sustainment (RSGS). The two companies join three others, Anduril Industries, Black Sage Technologies, and Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC], that the JCO in September recommended to the military services and Combatant Commands for counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) as a service (CaaS). The recommendations follow…

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