Col. Mark Cobos, head of SMDC's 1st Space Brigade, told Breaking Defense in an Oct. 7 interview that the command and the brigade are already "making progress" in creating allied partnerships — starting with the United Kingdom.
The Army is pushing for companies to integrate lasers on JLTVs, while eyeing a future where ground robots don the directed energy weapons.
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Space & Missile Defense Command has been pushing to make space a formal "military occupation specialty" for enlisted personnel wishing to specialize, and has submitted a proposal to that effort to Army personnel leaders to that effect.
“We are using what we've learned from previous years in the current conflicts to design the type of force we'll need to assure, deter and, if necessary, fight to win on tomorrow's battlefield," said Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey.
The Army is looking for industry ideas, but Ukraine has shown it'll take more than just one tactic.
Advanced capabilities, like lasers and high-power microwave, will have to work in tandem with bullets or jamming to defeat drones threats as they evolve.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Autonomous drones are a "direct attempt to evade" EW countermeasures, according to a top cUAS general.
"Low-collateral effect interceptors" against small drones would be used in "defeating small UAS in urban environments, over sensitive sites, or situations where the rules of engagement would not allow kinetic effects," DoD's solicitation to industry says.
In April, the Yuma, Ariz. test range will host a competition of “low collateral damage” countermeasures designed to stop mini-drones without firing a shot. But can such a restrained approach stop the drone swarms Russia and others are developing?
A parallel joint requirements document will be briefed to industry Oct. 30, Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey, head of the Joint Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems office, says.
The military will consolidate from dozens of different, often-incompatible counter-drone defenses to just seven — with a single common standard for command & control.