Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations

"Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies and Operations" is the sister 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.Our C-UAS textbook has as its primary mission to educate and train resources who will enter the UAS / C-UAS field and trust it will act as a call to arms for military and DHS planners. ReferencesNichols, R. K., Ryan, J. J., Mumm, H. C., Lonstein, W. D., Carter, C., & Hood, &. J. (2019). Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Cyber Domain: Protecting USA’s Advanced Air Assets, 2nd Edition. Manhattan, KS: New Prairie Press #27.