Companies Partner to Tackle Counter-UAS Market Opportunities

Gama Aviation’s Special Mission strategic business unit and Department 13 have announced a formal partnership to deliver tailored solutions in the UK to counter drone threats for vital sectors, including Air Ambulance services, National Security, Policing, and Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The collaboration between Department 13 and Gama Aviation entails joint efforts to capitalize on market prospects within critical UK special mission sectors, necessitating agile airspace management solutions.

Department 13’s SCOUT, ATLASet DART solutions offer cutting-edge non-jamming and non-kinetic UAS detection and counter-UAS capabilities for defense and commercial applications. This innovative technology enables the establishment of secure fixed or mobile perimeters, empowering operators to assume control over target drones or their controllers.

By utilizing non-jamming technologies, friendly aerial systems can safely and consistently utilize airspace, ensuring the integrity of the monitored area is maintained.

Managing Director of Gama Aviation’s Special Mission strategic business unit, Mark Smith, commented, “Department 13 came to our attention following a strategic review of the unmanned aerial system market. The review concluded that the primary opportunity came from contre-UAS, an insight which is sadly being evidenced every day in Ukraine, where UAS are being used extensively. Furthermore, as an aviation company, we understand the kinetic threats that UAS pose to Special Mission operations and infrastructure such as air bases. We also understand that it is simply not practical for airspace to be closed by wide-area jamming techniques. Department 13’s ATLAS et SCOUT systems offer a unique technology that in our view is best suited to the management and protection from threat of airspace surrounding prisons, CNI, military or other national security operations and major events.”

Darren Gillam, CEO of Department 13, commented on the collaboration, “We are very excited and proud to be partnering with Gama Aviation, and the synergistic effect both companies will have in delivering critical C-UAS solutions for the UK. We see this as another example of how two well-regarded companies further embrace the AUKUS relationship.”

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