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DoD Interested In Counter All-Domain UxS Solutions; DHS To Test Kinetic Defeat Of UAS

DoD Interested In Counter All-Domain UxS Solutions; DHS To Test Kinetic Defeat Of UAS
A U.S. Marine assigned to Special Purpose Marine-Air Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, operates a Dronebuster during counter unmanned aircraft systems training at the Baghdad Embassy Compound in Iraq, on Oct. 9, 2020 (U.S. Marine Corps Photo)

The Department of Defense last week is seeking solutions to counter unmanned systems (UxS) operating in all domains including the ability to counter autonomous swarms of uncrewed systems. Separately, the Department of Homeland Security said that it plans to test solutions beginning this summer that employ kinetic means to defeat unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). So far, the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has only evaluated non-kinetic counter-UAS solutions. For the DoD, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense…

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