Army Wrestling with Rapidly Changing World of Drones
10/3/2024
By Stew Magnuson
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Col. Nick Ryan, director of the Army Capability Manager for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, has only been on the job since August 2023. That was when the service created the new office to get a handle on how rapidly drone technology was changing.
“I’ve been doing it about a year now, and in that time it has exploded exponentially, and not only in the military, but you can see it and worldwide, internationally — on the business side as well — that unmanned aircraft system is just a huge growth area across every aspect we work,” he said at a recent Association of the United States Army panel discussion on uncrewed aerial systems.
“Everyone in the Army wants something to do with UAS … they want a UAS in their warfighting function to perform some mission on their behalf,” he said.
The office opened when the Army was in a state of flux as far as its own drone programs.
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