20250501: TAL Hearing: Small UAS and Counter-Small UAS

House Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces

2025-05-01

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Unknown (SPEAKER_06)
Microphone check.  Is that good?  Do you need to keep going?  Is it good?   Check, check, one, two, three.  One, two, three, microphone check.  C-SPAN, microphone check.  One, two, three, one, two, three, microphone check.  Excellent.
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Unknown (SPEAKER_06)
All right, well, we are at 8.59, and I will sound the gavel promptly at 9 a.m.
Tactical Air and Land Forces of the House Armed Services Committee is hereby called to order.  We'll begin our efforts by opening remarks from the chair and the ranking member.  In the interest of time, in the interest of getting to the testimony from our witnesses and questions, I'm going to dispense with my opening remarks, have them entered into the record.  And with that, I yield to Mr. Courtney.  Great.  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  I'm going to do likewise.
I'm going to do likewise.  But again, just for the record, just want to note that I'm just sort of pinch hitting here today for Congressman Norcross, who's on the mend from his setback.  He is watching.  He texted me this morning to say that he's following this on streaming TV and, you know, has read all the materials.  And this is, I think, you know, on day one going to be ready to go in terms of picking up where he left off.  And again, I want to just thank the witnesses for being here.  And with that, I yield back.   Very good.  Well, thanks, Joe.
And, uh, Don, if you're watching, we'll hope you get better soon.  And, uh, we promise that we will, uh, carry on in your stead.  So with that, let's, uh, let's go ahead and begin with, uh, with director Beck and his testimony, director Beck, all yours.
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Mr. Doug Beck
Thank you, sir.  Chairman Whitman, Ranking Member Courtney, and we send our best wishes for a speedy recovery to Ranking Member Norcross.  Members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee today and for all Congress has done to put DIU in a position to help make a difference.  At DIU, we're focused on working with our teammates across the department to deliver the very best commercially derived technology with the focus, speed,   and scale needed to deter major conflict or win if forced to fight.  Nowhere is this imperative clearer than in the case of increasingly agile, lethal, and autonomous unmanned systems.  In Ukraine this past December, I had the opportunity to see firsthand the eye-watering pace of change in UAS and counter-UAS technologies and the tactics, techniques, and procedures employed at the front line in an underground unit spread throughout Kyiv   all evolving constantly in a life-and-death struggle of innovation and counter-innovation.

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