Unclassified Version of New Report Predicts Small Drone Threats to Infantry Units, Urges Development of Countermeasures

Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine  March 6, 2018
DoD invested significantly in counter-sUAS technologies, often focusing on detecting radio frequency transmissions by sUASs and/or their operators and jamming the radio frequency command and control links and GPS signals of individual sUASs. However, today’s consumer and customized sUASs can increasingly operate without radio frequency command and control links by using automated target recognition and tracking, obstacle avoidance, and other software-enabled capabilities. A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine emphasizes the need for developing countermeasures against multiple sUASs which could be used much sooner than the Army anticipates… read more.