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Mobile Counter UAS Emerging As Requirement, DHS Official Says

Mobile Counter UAS Emerging As Requirement, DHS Official Says
A DJI Phantom 4. These recreational drones can be used for illegal activity near airports, borders and be a threat or a nuisance to critical infrastructures. Photo: DJI

The Department of Homeland Security of late is hearing from its components that their interest in counter-drone technologies is shifting more toward mobile systems than fixed systems, a department official said on Thursday. This is a requirement that has emerged in the “last few months” and is a shift in “what we had originally been thinking,” which is that “we’d probably be deploying more fixed-site systems,” Shawn McDonald, the program manager for Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) within the DHS…

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