Organizing & Training for Counter Small UAS Operations

TOPIC SPONSOR: AFSFC

With the most likely/most damaging threat increasing rapidly is coming from Gp 3-sized sUAS capabilities, how should the AF organize and train appropriate operators and leaders (kinetic engagement authorities) to operate more complex C-sUAS/SHORAD-like capabilities in the future?

• Anderson, Maj. Richard, "Exploiting Offensive Use of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS): Learning from Our Adversaries," AF Fellows paper (Department of Homeland Security), 2024, 2 pgs. 
  • Subsequently published in Wild Blue Yonder (August 24, 2024).
• Schumacher, Maj. Benjamin, "Alternative Airpower for Afghanistan: Unmanned Aircraft Systems," ACSC elective paper (Small Wars), 2020, 59 pgs. 
  • Subsequently published as an AU Press Wright Flyer Paper, "Alternative Airpower for Afghanistan: Unmanned Aircraft Systems," (2021)