Almost three years ago, the Pentagon's Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) recommended Science Applications International Corp.'s layered counter-drone system as one of three vendor-provided solutions that the services and combatant commands looked at when considering the deployment of counter-UAS-as-a-service at an installation. Since that time, SAIC is still trying to find a contract opportunity with the Army for the system, having run into budget-related challenges in one instance. SAIC’s CUAS system uses the Valkyrie command and control system...
