Drone incursions over U.S. installations aren’t hypothetical anymore; they’re daily friction. NORAD’s boss told Congress this year that hundreds of incursions have been detected at U.S. military facilities—domestic and overseas—over a recent period , a drumbeat that finally forced a rethink in base defense.

Enter a new quick reaction force (QRF) concept for counter-UAS: flyaway teams built to move fast, plug into a base’s security stack, and start killing drones in minutes. The QRF idea sits alongside the Pentagon’s new interservice counter-drone task force under Army lead (Task Force/Joint Interagency Task Force “401”), which replaces the Joint C-sUAS Office and centralizes buying power, fielding, and TTP (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) standardization.

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