With enemy unmanned aerial systems emerging as a troubling battlefield threat, the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab is partnering with the Pentagon’s innovation arm to develop a promising anti-drone technology.
The lab and the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, have inked a contract with Sensofusion, a UAS countermeasure company, to build out a technology called AIRFENCE, according to an April 25 announcement. The system uses special radio frequency technology to detect, track, and then take control of UAS, in theory giving troops the ability to create a perimeter or establish no-fly zones for small drones.