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Homeland Security

Mobile Counter UAS Requirements Emerging as Requirement, DHS Official Say

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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The Department of Homeland Security of late is getting hearing from its components that their interest in counter-drone technologies is shifting more toward mobile systems than fixed systems, a department official said in late August. This is a requirement that has emerged in the “last few months” and is a shift in “what we had originally been thinking,” which is that “we’d probably be deploying more fixed-site systems,” Shawn McDonald, the program manager for Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) within…

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Army

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