DRS Provides UAV Operators Counter Adversary Training

DRS Defense Solutions, a developer of advanced electronic systems, has been contracted by the U.S. Navy’s Fleet & Industrial Supply (FISC) in Norfolk to provide counter-adversary training for operators of U.S. unmanned aerial systems.

DRS said its Sentry UAS aircraft is to be used in two service missions, including at the Joint Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence (JUAS COE) at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., as “Threat UAS” vehicles flying against U.S. joint forces.

In addition, DRS Training & Control Systems in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., will provide “contractor owned, contractor operated” services to fly a series of live-fly exercises using its Sentry UAS.

“We are very pleased to have an opportunity to support the JUAS’s role to provide service training programs that enable deploying warfighters to identify and deal with adversarial UAS threats,” says Edwin Epstein, president of DRS Defense Solutions’ Training and Control Systems.

The JUAS COE’s mission is to facilitate the development and integration of common unmanned aircraft system operating standards, capabilities, concepts, technologies, doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures and training. JUAS COE leverages existing combatant command and service initiatives and activities to provide joint integrated solutions and improved interoperability.