华盛顿特区 — 官员们周三在向记者的简报会上表示，陆军正处于开发和测试一种可穿戴或轻量化设备的早期阶段，该设备能够提醒士兵有无敌对无人机的存在，且不会显著增加其作战负担。
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Army is in the early stages of developing and testing a wearable or lightweight device that could alert soldiers to the presence of hostile drones without substantially adding to their combat load, officials said in a briefing with reporters on Wednesday.
在本次美国陆军协会年会上，美国陆军战斗能力发展司令部（DEVCOM）C5ISR中心主任贝丝·佩里表示，这种感知技术一直是该中心近期“创新冲刺”的主题。
Speaking at the Association of the United Army’s annual meeting here, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center Director Beth Perry said this kind of sensing tech had been the subject of recent “innovation sprints” within the center.
佩里说：“随着我们在[反无人机系统]领域、无人机领域对威胁进行分类，并了解所有不同平台，它们都有不同的声学特征。”佩里说：“因此，能够对基于士兵的、非常轻量化的感知技术进行一些[工作]，以捕捉‘嘿，你知道的，有架无人机在跟踪你……’这类信息，这是一个非常早期的创新项目。”佩里表示，这种传感器可能会与软件集成以提供识别功能，从而使士兵或单位能够采取行动。
“As we categorize the threat in the [counter-unmanned aerial systems] space, in the drone space, and we understand all of the different platforms, they all have different acoustic signatures,” Petty said. “And so being able to do some [work] on the soldier-based, very lightweight sensing technology that will pick up, hey, you know, there’s a drone following you … that’s a very early innovation project.”Perry said such a sensor might integrate with software to provide identification, which would then allow the soldier or unit to take action.
佩里表示，这种传感器可能会与软件集成以提供识别功能，从而使士兵或单位能够采取行动。
陆军士兵和平台任务装备助理主任贾米·戴维斯表示，这项工作源于士兵们对在可能随时被未被察觉地观察或攻击的战场环境中产生安全感的担忧。
The work comes after a fear soldiers are expressing over developing a level of comfort in a battlespace where they might be unknowingly observed or targeted at any time, said Jami Davis, assistant director for Soldier and Platform Mission Equipment.
戴维斯说：“我认为我们今年从用户社区听到的一个主要诉求是非常基础的东西。”戴维斯说：“他们的首要任务是让士兵知道自己正被无人机系统观察到，对吧？就像我们可以提供一些非常基础的东西，来帮助甚至提升士兵的态势感知。”戴维斯补充道：“在不增加士兵额外携带物品的情况下提供这种态势感知一直是我们的优先事项。”
“I think one of the overarching things we’ve heard from our user community this year is very basic things,” Davis said. “Their priority is the soldier knowing he’s being observed by a UAS, right? Like it’s very basic things that we can provide to help kind of even give our soldiers situational awareness.”Being able to provide that awareness without giving the soldier another thing to carry has been a priority," Davis added.
我们的技术一直在推动……更轻、更小、更集成，以减轻士兵负担并提升能力，”她说。“所以当然，你知道行业里已经有了解决方案。我们的目标真的只是尝试让这些方案变得更好、更小、更轻、更集成，这样战术士兵就不必携带更多独特的、针对特定威胁的装备。”多家国防承包商已经提供了可与其他装备（如无线电）集成的无人机探测解决方案的变体，也可以作为可穿戴设备独立使用，通过射频或声学探测进行检测。
“Our technology is always pushing for … lighter, smaller, more integrated to reduce the soldier load and improve the capability,” she said. “So definitely, you know there are industry solutions out there. Our objective really is just to try and make those better, smaller, lighter, more integrated, so that a tactical soldier doesn’t have to carry more unique, threat-unique equipment.”Multiple defense contractors have offered variants of drone-sensing solutions that integrate with other gear, like radios, or stand alone as a wearable device that detects through RF or acoustic detection.
今年早些时候，《星条旗报》报道称，德国的一名陆军军士也自行改装了一种基于射频的个人无人机探测设备，该设备可放入口袋或袋中，约需120美元成本，一小时即可组装完成。
Earlier this year, Stars and Stripes reported that an Army sergeant in Germany had also improvised his own RF-based personal drone-sensing device that could fit in a pocket or a pouch and be assembled in an hour for about $120.
佩里表示，她目前还不能谈论C5ISR中心开始研发的设备的外形尺寸，或该项目的后续发展方向。
Perry said she couldn’t yet talk about the form factor of the device the C5ISR center started developing or the way forward for the effort.
“这仍然是我们在实验室里进行的工作，我们认为这是为已知威胁提供低[尺寸、重量和功耗]解决方案的一种方式，但尚未经过测试，”她说。“你知道，我们在广泛的技术谱系上工作，从非常早期的技术到更接近实战的技术，而这个特定项目目前仍处于非常早期的阶段。”
“It’s still things that we’re doing in the lab that we see as a way for us to provide a low [size, weight and power] solution for a known threat, but not something that we’ve tested yet,” she said. “You know, we work on the large technology spectrum, things that are very early to things that are closer to the field, and that one in particular is very early.”