Marine Corps chooses Anduril Federal for electronic warfare (EW) for air defense against uncrewed aircraft
QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va. – U.S. Marine Corps air defense experts needed state-of-the art systems to counter small unmanned aircraft to protect deployed Marines and their equipment. They found a solution from the Anduril Federal division of Anduril Industries in Washington.
Officials of the Marine Corps Systems Command at Quantico Marine Base, Va., announced $642.2 million contract to Anduril earlier this month to install the Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft System (I-CsUAS).
Modernized C-sUAS
The Marine Corps requires a modernized C-sUAS capability to counter evolving threats from small uncrewed aircraft by using advanced technologies to detect, track, identify, and defeat small unmanned aerial systems, Marine Corps officials say.
Anduril will develop counter-unmanned capabilities in integrated and networked sensor nodes to protect Marines using conventional weapons or electronic warfare (EW) means to prevent small unmanned aircraft from threatening Marines and their equipment.
These new capabilities will help close an installation security capability gap that exists to day in detection, tracking, identification, and defeat of small unmanned aircraft operating near covered Marine facilities and assets. The sUAS threat poses unique challenges to military installations when compared to those of operational forces, Marine Corps experts explain.
Specifics of I-CsUAS enabling technologies and development plan are considered controlled unclassified information (CUI), and generally are not available to the public.
Questions or concerns
Questions or concerns can be emailed to Marine Corps contacts Shannon Graves at [email protected] or Stasia Baker at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/opp/7f99d46d0f5040ed9691edcf343d9810/view.
For more information contact Anduril Federal online at www.anduril.com/capability/counter-uas, or Marine Corps Systems Command at https://www.marcorsyscom.marines.mil.
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