Gen. Gregory Guillot is a U.S. Air Force general officer who serves as the dual-hatted commander of usnorthcom and norad. Successor to glen-vanherck.
Public positions on drone incursions
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March 2025 (60 Minutes) — Earliest major on-camera acknowledgment: Cold War-era radars cannot detect low-altitude drones; a 90-day assessment put langley-afb at the centerpiece; received coordinating authority in Nov 2024 to cut interagency red tape. Previewed the FAK concept with a one-year fielding goal. “Our hair is on fire here in NORTHCOM, in a controlled way.” (src-60-minutes-drone-swarms-2025)
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March 19, 2026 (SASC testimony) — Disclosed that a NORTHCOM FAK had detected and defeated a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) over an undisclosed “strategic” U.S. military installation in the opening hours of operation-epic-fury (src-northcom-drone-incursion-2026-03). Also responding to Sen. eric-schmitt: year-over-year detections up; defeat rate risen from near-zero to ~25% (src-drone-incursions-epic-fury-2026-03). Pays particular attention to whiteman-afb and coordinates with STRATCOM’s Adm. A. Correll on strategic-base defense. Credits Ukraine lessons — notably operation-spider-web — for the need for layered, multi-medium defeat mechanisms.
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Feb 2025 (cited May 2026) — Per src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05, Guillot’s Congressional figure of 350 drone detections across ~100 U.S. military installations in the prior year is cited as the data backbone for the May 2026 jiatf-401 directed-energy-weapons 5-base pilot. NORTHCOM separately characterized installation drone incursions as “almost daily” in October 2025.