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Kansas To Join North Dakota As Site Of Counter Drone Point Defense Battle Lab

Kansas To Join North Dakota As Site Of Counter Drone Point Defense Battle Lab
Pictured are Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Gen. Michael Guetlein during a briefing on the missile warning operations center of the 10th Space Warning Squadron at Cavalier Space Force Station, N.D. on April 22. Guetlein was then the vice chief of space operations, and is now the direct reporting manager for Golden Dome (U.S. Air Force Photo)

In addition to Grand Forks, N.D., Kansas is to host a counter drone Point Defense Battle Lab, according to Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) and Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kans.). Air Combat Command (ACC) has named Grand Forks as the main site for counter drone development--a project under the Point Defense Task Force and the Pentagon's Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) (Defense Daily, Oct. 15). Grand Forks AFB's 348th Reconnaissance Squadron has operated U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawks by…

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