The Pentagon’s latest budget is its largest counter-drone budget ever
By: Kelsey Atherton   1 day ago
As the Pentagon’s latest budget slouches toward Washington, a $716 billion beast waiting to be born, it is time to take a closer look at how the robots in the budget survived the various committees and drafts.
As expected, the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act is a boon for drones, allocating funding for nearly three times as many uncrewed vehicles as in previous years. Most of those new drones are small, cheaper models, which is a trend reflecting in the other big spending increased in this budget: The Pentagon is set to spend almost twice as much on countering other drones in 2019 as it spent on that same in 2018.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2018/07/05/the-pentagons-latest-budget-is-its-largest-counter-drone-budget-ever/
