
The Army in early 2023 hopes to conduct demonstrations of systems that can detect and defeat relatively large small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) using kinetic effects and, if successful, may award prototype contracts. The Joint Counter-sUAS Office (JCO) says the upcoming competitive demonstrations will “accelerate attainment” of these C-sUAS capabilities. “The overarching government objective is to rapidly procure production representative, cost-effective detect, track, identify and defeat system(s) for Group 3 sUAS threats for the full threat envelope, including at a…