August 22nd – 24th, 2018 | Washington, D.C.

COUNTERING THE
DRONE THREAT:
AN OVERVIEW OF THE DOD’S
FY19 C-UAS BUDGET

The increased affordability and availability of recreational drone aircraft has introduced a whole host
of new, unprecedented security concerns for the DOD. Criminal and terrorist organizations have
already started using drones for a wide variety of illegal activity such as spying on law enforcement,
intimidating witnesses, smuggling contraband and dropping explosives. Though, at this time, there
is no easy or quick technological solution for combatting drones, the U.S. military is wasting no time
in developing new counter-UAS technology to better mitigate this threat and has already effectively
deployed drone-jamming equipment to the front lines in Syria and Iraq. Over the next year, the DOD
plans to invest an additional $1.5 billion to the development, testing and application of cutting-edge
counter- UAS systems ranging from handheld weapons, designed to disable small, explosive-laden
unmanned aerial systems, to larger, more sophisticated weapons, capable of defending bases from
large-scale attack. In this infographic, we outline the DOD’s key strategic priorities for combating
malicious commercial drones in 2019.

TOTAL C-UAS DOD

BUDGET FOR FY19
2
1.052
AS LARGE AS THE
$453.9 MILLION
REQUESTED IN FY18

BILLION

468.8
MILLION TOWARDS
583.9
MILLION TOWARDS
PROCUREMENT R&D
ARMY ARMY
$280.8 million is allocated $188.3 million in RDT&E funds
towards the Army’s Indirect for work on the Low-slow-
Fire Protection Family of small Integrated Defense
Systems procurement budget System (LIDS)
to purchase 25 Low-Slow-
Small Integrated Defense
Systems (LIDS).
NAVY
As they’re looking to
purchase two laser units,
NAVY the budget for the Surface
The Navy’s Physical Security Navy Laser Weapon System
Equipment has allocated (SNLWS) increased from
roughly $72 million for $63.3 million to $190.2
C-UAS procurement million.

AIR FORCE MARINES

Air Force’s Physical Security Ground-Based Air Defense
System has allocated Future Weapons System
roughly $72 million to C-UAS has allocated $72 million to
procurement. developing specifically to
counter drones, up from

DARPA
$37 million allocated towards
Mobile Force Protection
and $18.2 million allocated
towards Aerial Dragnet

RECENT ACQUISITIONS
2018
APRIL

The DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit

Experimental (DIUx) inked a $400,000
contract with the airspace security
company Dedrone to develop software
SRC signed a $57.5 million contract
capable of assessing, measuring, and
action to provide counter unmanned
responding to adversarial UAS threats
aerial systems supplies for the U.S.
as they relate to flight operations and
Air Force this April 2018.
base security within the United States.

MARCH

March 2018 The US Navy awarded a

$150m contract for the development,
production and delivery of two high-
power laser weapon systems to be
completed by the fiscal year 2020.

2017
NOVEMBER

Elta was awarded a $39 million

contract action for counter
unmanned aerial system supplies
to support US Strategic Command
joint emergent operational needs.

JULY
The US Army awarded Leonardo
DRS a $16 million contract to
SkySafe inked a $1.5 million contract develop a vehicle-mounted
with the Department of Defense to counter-unmanned aircraft system
provide mobile counter-UAS systems (C-UAS) capability as an urgent
to Naval Special Warfare units for operational need.
protection from drone threats.

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