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HASC’s Drone Corps Proposal May Disrupt Ongoing Army Efforts, Camarillo Says

HASC’s Drone Corps Proposal May Disrupt Ongoing Army Efforts, Camarillo Says
The Under Secretary of the Army, Hon. Gabe Camarillo, visits U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 2d Cavalry Regiment during exercise Dragoon Ready 23 at 7th Army Training Command’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 1, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Low)

The Army’s no. 2 civilian said Friday a proposal from the House Armed Services Committee to establish a Drone Corps within the service “could take away some focus” and might be counterproductive to moving out on new UAS and counter-drone initiatives.  “[The proposal] is animated, I think, by a recognition that this is a very real threat. It is a problem that the department and the Army, in particular, have to confront. And we…share that urgency and we definitely share…

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