India, May 1 -- During a testimony before a House panel, a top U.S. Defense official told lawmakers that the military is in a better place now than it was in 2023 regarding dealing with the threat posed by unmanned systems to domestic military installations.
In December 2023, a series of unmanned aerial systems of unknown origin were seen over and around Joint Base Langley-Eustis in southern Virginia. At the time, the Defense Department had little ability to detect, track, characterize, disrupt or defeat those unmanned aerial systems.
While speaking before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's military and foreign affairs subcommittee in Washington earlier this week, Mark Roosevelt Ditlevson, Acting Assistant Secretary of ...