article_snippet.sent: the UU Navy Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move program, commonly referred to as GBAD, allowing controllers to simply drive the weapon to a target.
article_snippet.sent: We're confident We can bring together all of these pieces in a package that's small enough to be carried on light tactical vehicles and powerful enough to counter these threats,' said Brig.
article_snippet.sent: Gen. Kevin Killea, vice chief of naval research and commanding general, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
article_snippet.sent: We can expect that We adversaries will increasingly use UAVs and We expeditionary forces must deal with that rising threat,' said Col. William Zamagni, acting head of ONR's Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department.
article_snippet.sent: GBAD gives the Marine Corps a capability to counter the UAV threat efficiently, sustainably and organically with austere expeditionary forces. '
article_snippet.sent: GBAD employed in a counter UAV role is just the beginning of GBAD employed in a counter UAV role use and opens myriad other possibilities for future expeditionary forces.'