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Army Counter-Drone Office Plans New Demonstrations In January To Accelerate Efforts

Army Counter-Drone Office Plans New Demonstrations In January To Accelerate Efforts
Soldiers test launch a surface-to-air Stinger Weapons System. Ukrainian forces have used U.S.-supplied Stinger missiles to destroy Russian small UAS. Photo: Raytheon Technologies.

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…

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