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Why collaboration is no longer optional for the counter-drone effort
Field notes from Counter-UAS Homeland Security Europe. No agency solves the drone problem alone, and the conversations that mattered were about turning cross-sector collaboration into capability rather than another working group.

mrisak7
Oct 16, 20254 min read


Drones and balloons cause wave of panic in Nato countries
Airport closures and airspace incursions across Vilnius, Brussels and beyond exposed how unprepared NATO members remain for cross-border drone activity, and how quickly disruption follows uncertainty.

mrisak7
Oct 6, 20255 min read
Governors warn drone threats pose growing homeland security gap
Testimony to the House Judiciary Committee warned that the United States faces an urgent homeland security gap on drones, with states holding responsibility but lacking the authority and the tools to respond.

mrisak7
Oct 3, 20252 min read
Public Safety Poised to Benefit as Drone Industry Funding Shifts Toward Defense Technology
As drone industry investment tilts toward defense technology, state and local public safety agencies stand to inherit better detection and response tools than they could have specified on their own budgets.

mrisak7
Mar 26, 20251 min read
Mystery Drone Sightings in the U.S. Northeast Spark Calls for Enhanced Detection Systems
Mystery drone sightings across the US Northeast prompted calls for better detection and for local law enforcement to be given both the tools and the authority to make sense of what they were seeing.

Jerry McGee
Dec 26, 20242 min read
DOD Strategy for Countering Unmanned Systems
The Department of Defense's strategy for countering unmanned systems signals a significant shift in how the United States organises drone defense at home, and in what it expects from command and control.

Jerry McGee
Dec 9, 20241 min read
CHINESE GRAD STUDENT CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE FOR DRONE PHOTOS OF US NAVY SHIPYARDS
A Chinese national faces espionage charges over drone photography of US Navy shipyards. A reminder that airspace awareness is a counterintelligence question as much as a physical security one.

Jerry McGee
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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