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JIDO To Hold Counter-Drone Demo In February

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

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JIDO To Hold Counter-Drone Demo In February

Lisa Swan of the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) speaks at the Defense One Summit Nov. 17 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The U.S. Defense Department’s Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) will sponsor an event early next year to evaluate counter-drone tools and promote industry cooperation in the sector, an agency official said Nov. 17.The “Hard Kill Challenge” will “invite a number of vendors” to demonstrate a “whole slew of different technologies” for destroying and disrupting fixed- and rotor-wing unmanned aerial systems, said Lisa Swan, JIDO’s deputy director of mission support. JIDO wants not only to see the private sector’s latest offerings…

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