Air Force counter-drone lab requests ideas to track and kill small UAS

(Patrick Dawson – Breaking Defense) The Air Force is on the hunt for ways to defend against small drones, posting a pair of Requests for Information for industry — one to spot incoming threats and another to use “kinetic hard-kill” capabilities to take them out. Both RFIs were published on Tuesday by the service’s recently established Point Defense Battle Lab (PDBL), which is tasked with developing counter-small unmanned aerial systems (C-sUAS) technology for base defense. “The USAF established the PDBL to serve as a hub for collaboration, pushing boundaries in C-sUAS capabilities, ensuring the Air Force maintains tactical superiority against evolving threats, and as a key part of the service’s effort to develop and evaluate advanced technologies to defend installations from sUAS threats,” the kinetic hard-kill solicitation reads. – Air Force counter-drone lab requests ideas to track and kill small UAS – Breaking Defense