The Army will get rid of its current joint counter-drone office to stand up an interagency task force with more authority to go fast, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The memo, dated Aug. 27 , directs the Army secretary to dissolve the service’s five-year-old Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) and to stand up what’s coined as the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) to “better align authorities and resources to rapidly deliver...
