Overview
- Senior leaders met at the White House as the Secretary of the Army and JIATF‑401 convened agencies to tighten whole‑of‑government counter‑UAS coordination.
- Participants backed a JIATF‑401‑led interagency summit later this month to advance policy, technology, operations and intelligence alignment.
- JIATF‑401 is building an online marketplace so DoD, DHS, FBI and other buyers can procure tested, vetted counter‑drone components tailored to their missions.
- The task force is standardizing testing and evaluation across exercises to enable apples‑to‑apples comparisons of vendor systems over time.
- Leaders are drafting domestic deployment guidance, including for military sites and the southern border, with emphasis on non‑kinetic, lower‑collateral options against prevalent Group 1–2 drones, while drawing near‑term funding from O&M, RDT&E and procurement accounts to speed delivery.