Army’s counter-drone task force looks to ‘change the way the department’ thinks

Published October 15, 2025 8:47am ET



A new joint interagency task force in the military that is designed to lead the department’s counter-drone technology is hoping to change how the War Department thinks about autonomous systems.

“One of our goals is to change the way that the department thinks about counter small UAS, that’s a big ask,” Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401, said on Tuesday at the Association of the United States Army’s exposition and conference. “We’ve been established for about six weeks. We’ve got a lot accomplished. So far. We’ve got a lot of work to do.”

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