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1. Team Guardian
Counter commercial UAV threats

2. Team Guardian
Protection against commercial off the shelf drones
Number of Stakeholders Spoken to: 15
Total Number of Stakeholders Spoken to: 72
Activities last week:
A day in the life of a FOB captain, lieutenant and private on guard tower
Deepening of technical and competitive analysis
Funding structure
Organization of Asymmetric Warfare Group
AlonFabian
Han Markus
Communication / Computer
Science / Veteran
Product / Veteran /
Chemistry
Embedded systems
/ Electrical
Engineering
Systems
Engineering /
Mechatronics
Project: Countering Asymmetric Drone Activities
Sponsor: U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG)
Military Liaisons: John Cogbill and Scott Maytan
Interview dashboard
Week 5 Total to
date
Users 3 14
Buyers 7 21
Experts 5 33
Total 15 72

3. Engineering Activities Recap

4. Guardian: Customer Discovery
Hypothesis:
• Classification is a major capability gap
• No Existing system has integrated detection, classification, countermeasure and exploiting
effectively
• Current radar and camera system in the military is not tuned to detect commercial drone
Experiments:
• Interviews with private, lieutenant, captain level in FOBs (Detail Later)
• Interviews with technical experts
• Interviews with AWG leadership on funding
Results:
• Capability gaps can be divided to three:
• Taking down next generation drones
• Identification type of threat (reconnaissance, suicide, swarm)
• Tracing back to operator
• Understanding AWG organizational structure and funding sources (Detail Later)
• Not focusing on GNSS jamming
Actions:
• Focus on four potential solutions: directional EMP, hacking, hunter-drone and sensor
fusing
• Enroll to Stanford UAV 101
• Talk to Airforce about counter-drone protocol

5. A day in the life of a lieutenant
in FOB (COP)
Duty
Supervise All Positions
Make High Level Order /
Link to upper Level
Range(Landmark) Card
Daily Maintenance/
Arrange Life Support
Missions Outside of a
FOB
Battle Drill Training/
Rehearsal
Reaction to
unidentified
vehicle
approaching
Hold Sign Warning Shot
Pointing gun at
the vehicle
Shoot at vehicle
Reaction to Motar
attack
Evacuate
everyone into
shield
Trace the Source/
Launch countering
Motar
Analogy: Reconnaissance
Drone
Analogy: Suicide Drone
Want:
 The ability to shoot down a drone accurately
 The ability to jam the signal in the drone, to cut down the video
and GNSS location
 The ability to catch a drone
 Counter swarm of drones
 Anything which can buy them more time for making a decision
Do not want:
 Single layered, non-flexible solution
Concerns:
 What is the current decision time they can have regarding drones
attack?
 How far can they detect the drone?
 What is the range of the countermeasure?
 Enemies are very adaptive
Factors that can interfere a decision:
 Level of threats
 Position of the FOB (urban or remote)
 Overall safety level of the area
Trace the Source/
Send out counter
squad
Wake Up
Operation Update
Shift Change/ Spot
Check
Check Food Supply
Check Radar/Camera
Scheduled Battle Drill
Rehearsal (Non-daily)
Communication Check
Information update
Plan for other missions
FOB Beneficiary analysis
(Commander Level)

6. A day in the life of a private in
FOB (COP)
Duty
Camp Protection
Low Rank Duties
Section Protection
1st
Level Defense
Warning the rest
when sees threats
Battle Drill Training/
Rehearsal/
Operation
Want:
 Effective weapon (eg. Confetti gun)
 Easy to use, low level training
 A detailed battle drill for drones
Do not want:
 Single layered, non-flexible solution
Concerns:
 How far can they detect the drone?
 What is the range of the countermeasure?
 May need more than one person to operate, one person
shooting confetti gun, the other shoot any drone that pass
through
Factors that can interfere a decision:
 Level of Training/ Experience
 Position of the FOB (urban or remote)
 Overall safety level of the area
 Whether the threat is documented in the battle drill
 Length of guard / Tiredness
Wake Up
Make Shift
4 – 12 hrs Shift
Battle Drill Training
Report Threats
FOB Beneficiary analysis
(Private Level)
End of Shift

7. Product Deployment Workflow (Insight from
Battle Drone Defender) - AWG
Identify capability
gap (“never get
caught by surprise”)
Research on
bridging gap
(experiments,
experts)
Demo
MVP
(list of features
bridging gap)
Recommendation to
REF (RD&E money)
Contract
(private industry)
Deployment
(provide training and
doctrines for operating
new equipment)
Emphasize is on rapid solution:
less than 2-years from demo to deployment Typically does not get into
acquisition cycle
Company’s Own
Research Fund

8. Budget
approved
through REF

9. Organizational structure

10. Guardian: Mission Model Canvas
Requirements Engineering
Understanding of FOB scenarios and
capability gaps
- Concept definition
System design
- System and components engineering
- Reverse engineering on commercial
drones
- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group
- Ground forces
- Commercial drone manufacturers (e.g.
DJI)
- Suppliers of DIY drone kits
- Other agencies working on the same
problem:
- JIDA
- DHS
- CTTSO
FOBs: Lieutenant and Captain at FOB
responsible for protection
FOBs: (1)
● Lieutenant/Captain in charge on
FOB protection (Kevin, Dave,
Rick)
● Private at guard tower (front
line) (Alon)
● Technician in Control Center (?)
Private at guard tower, who is potentially
young, inexperienced and not trained to
use complex equipment
Air Force personnel in control center
surveilling the air space (2)
Program Manager, concept generator,
requirement writer in U.S Army
Asymmetric Warfare Group (Steve) (3)
- Effective countering regardless of
specific drone
- Classify and counter reconnaissance
- Bring drone down without crashing
- Provide modular solution to escalate
the situation proportionally to the threat
(sequential)
- Gain intelligence while mitigating threat
- Scalability for swarms
- Low training need, easy to use
- Symmetric solution: costs of
countering is symmetric to cost of attack
- Geolocalizing source of attack
- Provide counter-drone capabilities to FOBs within 2 years
-Provide proof of concept
-Receive continuous support from sponsors and potential users/buyers
- Demonstration day in Florida (mid
June)
- Testing in AWG
- Modification (based on testing results)
After initial contract:
- Limited User Assessment
- Training field operators by AWG
- Pilot project with one forward
operating base (FOB)
-Generate iterative MVPs with FOB,
potential funders and buyers
- Test and modify MVP and produce
versioned product
- Potentially partner with existing
contractors and integrate our product
into existing systems
Fixed:
Variable
- Purchase equipment for testing including drones(DJI + Micro)
- Purchase jamming equipment and power attenuators
- Access to relevant ground forces to
define relevant scenarios
- U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group
to define relevant set of capabilities
- Other agencies working on the same
problem
- Hardware to test
- Asymmetric Warfare Group using
RDT&E (from REF): single contract from
concept to deployment (initial funding -
maximum 2-years)
- Need implementation by ground
forces/ Help us to iterate, test and
modify our product
- Need certification from AWG before
deploying product
Beneficiaries
Mission Achievement
Mission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Key Partners

11. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
- Countering with basic training
- Countering regardless of specific
drone
- Layered solution, countering multiple
threats posted by commercial drones Customer
Jobs
Guard FOB
Protect FOB:
frontline protection
responsible on a
specific section
- Threats( Reconnaisse,
weaponized, swarms…)
- No easy way to take down
next gen UAVs
- No existing solution tailored
for off-the-shelf drone threat
Private in guard tower
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Can react to threat with easy to use
equipment
- Can act rapidly and efficiently
- Reduce mission irritation from drones
- Mitigate threat
- Minimal training, easy to use
- Drone counter measure
- Drone Classification

12. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
-Countering without crashing
- Highly autonomous system
-Classification capability
- Fast reaction period
Customer
Jobs
Lead mission
Protect FOB
- Surveillance
- Unresolved threat
Lieutenant/Captain
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- Focus on mission without worrying
about surveillance, or by spending
less time on threats posed by
commercial drones
- Capturing the drone without
crashing provides the opportunity to
exploit the drone and trace back to
origin for further mission
- Reduce mission irritation from drones
- Mitigate threat
- Drone counter measure
- Drone Classification

13. Value Proposition Canvas
Products & Services
Gain capability:
1. Countering drone without
crashing and potentially
exploiting data from it
2. Scalability: countering
swarm of drones
3. Classification of drone
threats
4. Solution can be deployed
within 2 years
Customer
Jobs
Create capabilities
for US Army
Bridge capability
gaps in asymmetric
warfare against for
US forces
- Unresolved emerging threat
Asymmetric warfare
group(Program
Manager/Concept
Generator/Requirement
Writer…)
Gains
Pains
Gain Creators
Pain Relievers
- New adequate capability
- Provide counter-drone capability to
US forces
-Fill in capability gaps between current
technologies
-Mitigate threat
- Drone counter measure
- Drone classification

14. Asymmetric Warfare Group within DoD
United States Army
Forces Command
OPERATIONAL
Regions
Special forces
Space and
missile defense
command /
Strategy Cyber
Surface
deployment and
distribution
command
Training &
Doctrine
DESIGN & BUILD
Training &
Doctrine
LOGISTICS