
The Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to create a “uniform” department-wide approach to expanding its counter-drone capabilities have been hampered by shortcomings in establishing policies to accomplish this due to a lack of funding to hire the subject matter experts needed to support this effort, a government audit report says. “According to DHS officials, funding for C-UAS expansion unsuccessfully competed with other Department mission priorities for budget resources,” the DHS Inspector General said in a June 29 report. “Consequently, DHS…