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U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)

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U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)

U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) is a unified combatant command of the U.S. military responsible for defending the homeland. It shares leadership with norad and focuses on defending North America.

Relevance to UAP

  • The FY2026 NDAA mandates aaro brief Congress on all UAP intercept operations conducted by USNORTHCOM and norad since 2004
  • Briefings must include the number, location, and nature of intercepts; procedural details; and all collected data
  • Concerns about unexplained drone and UAP incursions near military installations and critical infrastructure drove these legislative requirements

See src-uap-ndaa-fy2026-intercept-provisions-2025-12 for full legislative details.

March 2026 FAK Drone Defeat

Per src-northcom-drone-incursion-2026-03, Gen. Gregory Guillot disclosed in Senate posture testimony that NORTHCOM’s Flyaway Kit detected and defeated a small drone over a “strategic” U.S. installation in the opening hours of operation-epic-fury. The FAK had been certified at minot-afb in October 2025 during us-stratcom’s Global Thunder exercise. As of March 2026 NORTHCOM held only one FAK, with additional units due Spring 2026 (src-drone-incursions-epic-fury-2026-03). Guillot told Sen. eric-schmitt that detections across U.S. bases are up year-over-year and NORTHCOM’s defeat rate has risen from near zero to ~25%.

See also drone-incursions and the foundational March 2025 60 Minutes piece where Guillot first publicly previewed the FAK concept.

Almost-daily framing (October 2025)

Per src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05, NORTHCOM characterized drone incursions over U.S. military installations as “almost daily” in an October 2025 statement, complementing Guillot’s February 2025 figure of 350 detections at ~100 installations in the prior year. This framing underwrote the May 2026 jiatf-401 directed-energy-weapons 5-base pilot.

See also: norad, aaro, ndaa-uap-provisions, uap-disclosure, gregory-guillot, flyaway-kit, glen-vanherck, langley-afb, barksdale-afb, src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05

Southern border as a C-UAS “sandbox” (May 2026)

At SOF Week in Tampa, Gen. Guillot described the U.S. southern border as “a literal and a figurative sandbox” for counter-drone technology, run through jiatf-401: vendors are invited to demonstrate systems at the border on a buy-if-it-works basis, with “hundreds of systems” already fielded there. He said NORTHCOM is importing lessons from centcom and flagged a capability gap — no portable C-UAS that can follow a patrolling soldier — while noting cartel drones overfly Marines and soldiers “all the time” (src-northcom-southern-border-counter-drone-sandbox-2026-05). The remarks followed an faa/DoD assessment clearing high-energy laser C-UAS for border use.

NORTHCOM UAP records in PURSUE Release 01

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