Team Guardian Counter commercial UAV threats

Team Guardian Protection against commercial off the shelf dronesNumber of Stakeholders Spoken to: 10Total Number of Stakeholders Spoken to: 82

Activities last week:Identification of capability gaps observedPrototyping a classification solution to demo at the AWG

Project: Countering Asymmetric Drone ActivitiesSponsor: U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG)Military Liaisons: John Cogbill and Scott Maytan

Interview dashboard

Week 5 Total to date

Users 3 17

Buyers 2 23

Experts 5 35

Total 10 82

Engineering Activities

Activities Recap

Fort. Bliss TX

Fort A.P. Hill VA

Product Deployment Workflow (Insight from Battle Drone Defender) - AWG

identify capability gap (“never get

caught by surprise”)

research on bridging gap

(experiments, experts)

DemoMVP

(list of features bridging gap)

Recommendation to REF (RD&E money)

Contract (private industry)

Deployment (provide training and

doctrines for operating new equipment)

Typically does not get into acquisition cycle

Company Own Research Fund

Depending upon urgency

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Guardian: Customer DiscoveryHypothesis:•Low-Altitude UAV Detection and Control system is required•Current capability gap is automatic threat classification Experiments:• Understanding classification gaps• Develop prototype

Results:•Classification is a major problem•Classification of threats is crucial•Required in all integrated system solutions

Actions:• Demo classification prototype• Further develop prototype or prototype different solution depending on

outcome

Get-Keep-Grow Diagram

Demonstrations:-Demo-Day-Desert Challenge- SBIR (C-UAS RFP)- Cold call (for civil application (Later))-Stanford Alumni

Deployment according to customer specifications

Keep

Get Grow

Support, Training, Upgrades to new threat

- civil applications- emerging threats- increase scope of company

Guardian: Mission Model Canvas

Requirements EngineeringUnderstanding of FOB scenarios and capability gaps - Concept definitionSystem design- System and components engineering- Reverse engineering on commercial drones

- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group

- Ground forces

- Commercial drone manufacturers (e.g. DJI)

- Suppliers of DIY drone kits

- Other agencies working on the same problem:

- JIDA

- DHS

- CTTSO

FOBs: Lieutenant and Captain at FOB responsible for protection

FOBs: (1)● Lieutenant/Captain in

charge on FOB protection (Kevin, Dave, Rick)

● Private at guard tower (front line) (Alon)

● Technician in Control Center (?)

Air Force personnel in control center surveilling the air space (2)

Program Manager, concept generator, requirement writer in U.S Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (Steve) (3)

- Effective countering regardless of specific drone- Classify and counter reconnaissance- Bring drone down without crashing- Provide modular solution to escalate the situation proportionally to the threat (sequential)- Gain intelligence while mitigating threat- Scalability for swarms- Low training need, easy to use- Symmetric solution: costs of countering is symmetric to cost of attack- Geolocalizing source of attack

Current focus: classification - identify type of drone, payload and potential threat:

- Autonomous - Scalable (part of a large

air-control system)

- Provide counter-drone capabilities to FOBs within 2 years

- Demonstration day in Florida (mid June)- Testing in AWG- Modification (based on testing results)

After initial contract:- Limited User Assessment- Train field operators by AWG

Fixed:

Variable- Purchase equipment for testing including drones(DJI + Micro)- Purchase jamming equipment and power attenuators

- Access to relevant ground forces to define relevant scenarios- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group to define relevant set of capabilities- Other agencies working on the same problem- Hardware to test

Asymmetric Warfare Group using RDT&E (from REF): single contract from concept to deployment (initial funding - maximum 2-years)

Rapid Equipping Force

SBIR

Beneficiaries

Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs

Buy-In/Support

Deployment

Value PropositionKey Activities

Key Resources

Key Partners

Value Proposition Canvas

Products & Services

- Countering with basic training- Countering regardless of specific

drone- Layered solution, countering

multiple threats posed by commercial drones

Customer Jobs

Protect FOB:frontline

protectionresponsible on a specific section

- Threats( Reconnaisse, weaponized, swarms…)- No easy way to take down next gen UAVs- No existing solution tailored for off-the-shelf drone threat

Private in guard tower

Gains

Pains

Gain Creators

Pain Relievers

- Can react to threat with easy to use equipment - Can act rapidly and efficiently

- Reduce mission irritation from drones- Mitigate threat- Minimal training, easy to use

- Drone counter measure- Drone Classification

Value Proposition Canvas

Products & Services

-Countering without crashing

- Highly autonomous system

-Classification capability- Fast reaction period

Customer Jobs

Protect FOB

- Surveillance- Unresolved threat

Lieutenant/Captain

Gains

Pains

Gain Creators

Pain Relievers

- Focus on mission without worrying about surveillance, or by spending less time on threats posed by commercial drones- Capturing the drone without crashing provides the opportunity to exploit the drone and trace back to origin for further mission

- Reduce mission irritation from drones- Mitigate threat

- Drone counter measure- Drone Classification

Value Proposition Canvas

Products & Services

Gain capability:1. Countering drone without crashing and potentially exploiting data from it2. Scalability: countering swarm of drones3. Classification of drone threats4. Solution can be deployed within 2 years

Customer Jobs

Bridge capability gaps in

asymmetric warfare against

for US forces

- Unresolved emerging threat

Asymmetric warfare group(Program

Manager/Concept Generator/Requirement

Writer…)Gains

Pains

Gain Creators

Pain Relievers

- Provide counter-drone capability to US forces

-Fill in capability gaps between current technologies-Mitigate threat

- Drone counter measure- Drone classification

MVP: Automatic Threat Detection/Classification System

Gain Creators:• Essential component of Low-Altitude UAV Detection

and Control system• Provides a scalable platform to monitor and UAS

activity and defend against threats

CyPhy's LVL 1Carries: unknown object Known to be possessed by local terrorists - Potential Risk !

Acoustic / Visual / Radio analysis leads to three most probable options DJI Phantom 3

Carries: nothing

3DRCarries: camera