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DARPA Launches Development Of Plug-And-Play Counter-Drone System

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017

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DARPA Launches Development Of Plug-And-Play Counter-Drone System

Photo illustration of DARPA's Mobile Force Protection counter-drone system.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has hired three firms to find ways of defeating the small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) that have become one of the most pervasive threats to the military at home and abroad.Three teams – Dynetics Inc., Saab Defense and Security USA and nonprofit development firm SRC Inc. - were recently awarded contracts for Phase 1 of the Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program, which focuses on the challenges sUAS pose to ground and maritime forces.Within…

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