Not rockets and radars, but software: the military revealed how to improve the protection against drones

Without quality software and its introduction into new systems, there can be no question of combating drones, the US Defense Ministry considers. The US Department of Defense wants to improve software to combat drones. This topic was raised during a conference of the National Defense Industrial Association, dedicated to new technologies in the army, details in her editorial column, Loren Williams from Defense One.

According to her, US Ministry of Defense representatives are interested primarily in quality and flexible software that manages autonomous air defense systems.

"Since threats are constantly changing, and different threats are manifested in different forms of factors - say, in the form of swarms of drones - how will your software be adapted to it? How and how can the Marines in the field can update it or adapt to their needs? Stephen Buden, Executive Director of the US Marine Corps Program from land systems.

-Should a military ITIK come to each unit and connect, and then make upgrades? Somewhere in the islands or in difficult combat conditions you can hardly do it. " The Deputy Chief Technical Director of the Joint Command of Special Operations of Gabriel Arrays noted that the developers of any antitrone air defense air defense should first and foremost take care of the flexibility of their software.

"If you want to work with the Ministry of Defense on drones protection, think about the software aspect that manages hardware," said Lieutenant Colonel Arrice. "If there is a new radar, or a new camera, or a new sensor you would like to integrate and Use, you should be able to add it to the current set of software functions, and these changes should not be a complicated or burdensome process.

" Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Arrrice emphasizes that such an approach and flexibility is not limited to the UAV counteraction systems. A similar approach should extend to the combined command and control of all JADC2 domains (the US Department of Defense Program for ensuring uninterrupted communication between systems, services, allies and partners, ed. ). "We need to comprehend and act at all stages of war, in all areas and together with our partners," said Arrais.

"And today we see that a set of difficulties in combating UAVs and the problems we face in this space are in this space today The microcosm of problems and the Jadc2 initiative will also face it. " The lieutenant colonel said that technological companies should be readily shared such things as databases, software interfaces and documentation with API. Only in this case can the Ministry of Defense and developers succeed in real combat.