The increased affordability and availability of recreational drone aircraft has introduced a whole host of new, unprecedented security concerns for the DoD. Criminal and terrorist organizations have already started using drones for a wide variety of illegal activity such as spying on law enforcement, intimidating witnesses, smuggling contraband and dropping explosives.

As a result, the DoD plans to invest an additional $1.5 billion over the course of 2019 into the development, testing and application of cutting-edge counter- UAS systems ranging from handheld weapons, designed to disable small, explosive-laden unmanned aerial systems, to larger, more sophisticated weapons, capable of defending bases from large-scale attack. In this infographic, we outline the DoD’s

• Key strategic priorities for combating malicious commercial drones in 2019
• Counter drone procurement priorities for the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and DARPA
• Recent C-UAS acquisitions 

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