DAYTON, Ohio--The U.S. Air Force needs to increase funding to modernize counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS), a service official said this week. "In response to urgent operational needs, we fielded [C-sUAS] gear at many of our most critical bases, but we never got enough funding to modernize that gear, which is now 5-6 years old, almost 7 to 8-year-old technology, let alone explore different phenomenologies in the C-sUAS space," Steven Wert, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's (AFLCMC's…
