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Unmanned Systems

Keene Touts SAIC’s Tech Agnostic Counter-Drone System Integration Chops

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 1st, 2022

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Keene Touts SAIC’s Tech Agnostic Counter-Drone System Integration Chops

SAIC CEO Nazzic Keene. Photo: SAIC

This spring, a counter-drone solution that was integrated by Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] through its internally-developed command and control platform “performed extremely well” in testing the Defense Department, leading to recent sales, Nazzic Keene, the company’s CEO, said on Thursday. SAIC’s counter-unmanned aircraft solution (C-UAS) is completely agnostic, bringing together “best available technologies in the areas of directed energy, radar, optics and power management” through the company’s “single pane of glass” Valkyrie operator platform, Keene said during the company’s…

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