Maj. Gen. David Stewart, the director of the Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office within the Pentagon, told Congress this week that the small UAS threat has now outpaced the danger that improvised explosive devices once posed to U.S. servicemembers abroad. “The small UAS threat is present and constantly evolving. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine demonstrate how advances in hardware, software and tactics are making drones more autonomous, easily acquired and deadlier,” Stewart told the House Armed Services...
