Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations

Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations is the sister book to our seminal textbook, Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Cyber Domain: Protecting USA's Advanced Air Assets, 2nd Edition. (Nichols, et al., 2019) Both books represent a current technological examination of the two sides of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems global environment.Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. The authors have endeavored to...
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Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations is the sister book to our seminal textbook, Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Cyber Domain: Protecting USA's Advanced Air Assets, 2nd Edition. (Nichols, et al., 2019) Both books represent a current technological examination of the two sides of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems global environment.Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations discusses state-of-the-art technology issues facing U.S. C-UAS system researchers / designers / manufacturers / testers.Topics include C-UAS operations as a concept; The Role of Information Technologies; Understanding C-UAS Purpose and Process; Developing a C-UAS Strategy, Goals, Options, Target Analysis, Process Selection, Operational Metrics, Approaches to Countering UAS Activities (First Principles); Planning for Resiliency and Robustness; Surveillance and Reconnaissance; C-UAS Evolving Methods of Interdiction Technologies; UAS Area / Airspace Denial; Non- Kinetic: Military Avionics, EW, CW, DE, SCADA Defenses; Counter C-UAS Operations; When the Other Side Fights Back - Cyberwarfare, Direct Energy Weapons, Acoustics, Integrating C-UAS into Planning; Thinking like the Enemy: Seams in the Zone; and Legal and Administrative Issues.Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations will fully immerse and engage the reader in the cyber-security considerations of this rapidly emerging technology that we know as Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems.