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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps Lab To Experiment With Sensofusion’s Counter-UAS System

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

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Marine Corps Lab To Experiment With Sensofusion’s Counter-UAS System

The Airfence counter-UAS system.(PRNewsfoto/Sensofusion)

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has awarded a contract to Sensofusion to “further develop” the company’s Airfence system, which is designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems, the Finland-based firm announced April 25.Partnered with the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), the Marine lab will experiment with Airfence and develop tactics, techniques and procedures, Sensofusion said.By picking up radio communications between UAS and their operators, Airfence can automatically detect, find and track UAS and take over their controls, according to…

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