
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is urging the Pentagon to speed up efforts to defend against the growing threat posed by hostile unmanned aerial systems.In an Oct. 26 letter to Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Hunter expressed concern about recent incidents involving small UAS flown by non-state actors. On Oct. 2, for instance, an Islamic State UAS armed with explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and wounded two French commandos in Iraq. The…