Friday, August 27, 2021
What is it?
The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) leads and directs joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) doctrine, requirements, materiel and training to establish joint solutions to address current and future small UAS threats.
What are the current and past efforts of the Army?
The JCO was established by the Secretary of the Army, in February 2020, under a 2-Star Director within the Army G-3/5/7 and the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) is assigned as the materiel and acquisition lead for the JCO. Specific accomplishments include:
What continued efforts does the Army have planned?
The JCO will continue to work with the services and interagency stakeholders in developing synchronized, multi-domain C-sUAS solutions. Specific efforts include:
Why is this important to the Army?
Adversary sUAS represent a rapidly proliferating, low cost, high-reward and potentially lethal and damaging capability against U.S. personnel, critical assets and interests.
The Army and the broader DoD must modernize and transform its C-sUAS capabilities to enable the nation to win against adversaries that have already effectively leveraged sUAS technology that places its personnel, critical assets and interests at risk.
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The Army needs to be very attentive to challenges like counter UAS for example.…those are absolutely areas that we need to be working on in terms of developing our capabilities and obviously being able to test our capabilities.
— Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Thursday, May 13, 2021
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