Dan Driscoll is the U.S. Secretary of the Army (in office as of April 2026). He is the senior civilian principal for the Army’s counter-drone procurement posture, including the jiatf-401-marketplace expansion to stateside high-profile events and to state/local/federal law enforcement.
Activity in this vault
- 2026-04-16 — Told the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee that JIATF-401 has booked ~$13M in marketplace sales and is leaning on the marketplace to secure the FIFA World Cup 2026, America 250, and the 2028 LA Summer Olympics. Confirmed state, local, and federal law enforcement can purchase from the marketplace; cited 350 state/local police departments synced at joint-base-myer-henderson-hall (see src-army-counter-drone-marketplace-stateside-2026-04).
- Disclosed that the Army bought 13,000 Merops interceptors at ~$15k/unit in the opening days of operation-epic-fury to defeat Shaheds.
- Named signatory on the Romania marketplace agreement (see src-jiatf-401-marketplace-romania-2026-04).
Related Pages
- jiatf-401-marketplace · jiatf-401 · counter-uas
- operation-epic-fury · merops-interceptor · shahed-drone
- matt-ross · tom-karako · dronebuster
January 2026 — “Dronebuster” town hall criticism
At a January 2026 town hall, border-deployed soldiers asked Driscoll about the handheld counter-UAS jamming weapon Dronebuster; he called it “fucking terrible,” reflecting broader dissatisfaction with fielded counter-drone tools later documented in src-army-heavy-units-counter-drone-gap-2026-07.
Sources
- src-army-counter-drone-marketplace-stateside-2026-04
- src-jiatf-401-marketplace-romania-2026-04
- src-dronexl-perennial-interceptor-doctrine-2026-05 — restates the 13,000-Merops @ ~30K–50K Shahed figure within the cost-curve doctrine argument
- src-army-heavy-units-counter-drone-gap-2026-07 — Jul 16 2026: Dronebuster town-hall criticism resurfaces in Army heavy-units capability-gap coverage