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October 01, 2017

DARPA Seeks Novel Approaches For Detecting And Stopping UAVs

Mobile Force Protection (MFP) Program Invites Input On Sensing And Neutralization Technologies To Defend U.S. Forces Against Quickly Evolving Unmanned Airborne Threats

The rapid evolution of small unmanned air system (sUAS) technologies is fueling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program seeks to develop an integrated system capable of defeating self-guided sUAS (i.e., those that do not rely on a radio or GPS receiver for their operation) attacking a high-value convoy on the move, and recently awarded Phase 1 agreements to start research.

However, The Corps Actually Lost Fewer Aircraft

The U.S. Marine Corps is experiencing Class A aviation accidents, defined as those involving loss of life or damage of over $1 million, can be as much as 670 percent higher than the Class A accident rate for the U.S. Navy, according to analysis from BreakingDefense.com.