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Category: Announcement DoD Communities of Interest: Air Platforms Subject: DoD Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy Due Date: N/A Government Organization: U.S. Department of Defense Description: Department of Defense Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy JAN. 7, 2021 This strategy will provide the framework for addressing sUAS hazards and threats in a variety of operating environments, including the U.S. homeland, host nations, and contingency locations. To successfully address the sUAS challenge, stakeholders across the Department will pursue three strategic objectives: • Enhance the Joint Force through innovation and collaboration to protect DoD personnel, assets, and facilities in the homeland, host nations, and contingency locations • Develop materiel and non-materiel solutions that facilitate the safe execution of DoD missions and deny adversaries the ability to impede our objectives • Build and broaden our relationships with allies and partners to protect our interests at home and abroad. Meeting these objectives will require an emphasis on rapid innovation, synchronization of materiel and non-materiel solutions across the Joint Force, and partnerships underpinned by interoperability, integration, and information sharing. MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY Challenges to the Joint Force are more complex and varied than at any other time. Rapid technological change has aided in disrupting the international rules-based order. Small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) were previously viewed as hobbyist toys, but today it is evident that the potential for hazards or threats has the ability to impact the Joint Force. Our initial efforts were intended to meet the immediate needs of Services and combatant commanders. However, as technology and the proliferation of sUAS continue to advance at a pace that challenges the Department’s ability to respond effectively within current paradigms, it is evident that we cannot rely on materiel solutions alone. Instead, we must re-examine how to counter the growing challenges sUAS present to the Joint Force by considering and developing solutions that span the entirety of the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, and Education, Personnel, Facilities—Policy (DOTMLPF-P) spectrum. This strategy provides the framework for addressing sUAS across the spectrum from hazard to threat in the homeland, host nations, and contingency locations. As technology and systems evolve, this strategy will require ongoing assessments to ensure the Department keeps pace. Success will require unity of effort across all of DoD’s stakeholders. The Military Departments, combatant commands, Joint Staff, and other DoD Components will maintain constant vigilance of sUAS and ensure the United States and its allies and partner nations maintain the most effective response. Christopher C. Miller Acting Secretary of Defense |
DoD Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy
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Department of Defense Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy
JAN. 7, 2021
This strategy will provide the framework for addressing sUAS hazards and threats in a variety of operating environments, including the U.S. homeland, host nations, and contingency locations.
Raleigh
Jan 7, 2021