Counter-UAS

Counter-UAS Full Lifecycle Solutions that Keep You Ahead of the Threat

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Uncrewed aircraft systems are proliferating and rapidly evolving across every environment. Countering them requires integrated systems engineering, rigorous testing, and effective execution grounded in real-world lessons learned. SPA is the only organization that brings these capabilities together through a Full Lifecycle C-UAS Solution while strengthening operational readiness through the Red Six Mission Assurance Program.

[ What We Do ]

Full Lifecycle C-UAS Solution

Today, the C-UAS market is filled with technologies that offer different strengths and limitations. There is no silver bullet to this threat, and every environment requires a tailored solution informed by engineering rigor, operational realism, and real-world testing.

SPA delivers a complete approach to counter-UAS analysis, acquisition, deployment, testing, evaluation, and sustainment. By combining digital engineering, live-flight testing, and data-driven analysis, SPA advances mission readiness and strengthens defensive capabilities.

Depending on mission requirements and existing C-UAS capabilities, organizations can leverage tailored elements or a fully integrated Full Lifecycle C-UAS Solution.

Threat-Informed Analysis and Strategy Development

SPA’s Red Six Mission Assurance Program (MAP) continuously monitors the UAS threat landscape and emulates not only the threat of today, but where the threat is headed, empowering organizations to anticipate emerging threats and maintain a decision advantage.
Red Six Mission Assurance Program (MAP)
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SPA’s Red Six Mission Assurance Program (MAP) continuously monitors the UAS threat landscape and emulates not only the threat of today, but where the threat is headed, empowering organizations to anticipate emerging threats and maintain a decision advantage.
Red Six Mission Assurance Program (MAP)

Policy Navigation

SPA charted the course for the first CONUS DOW base to deploy live destructive C-UAS systems. Our experts help organizations navigate policy, authority, and compliance requirements to operationalize layered C-UAS defenses.
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SPA employees meet around a conference table in the HQ building in Alexandria, VA

Policy Navigation

SPA charted the course for the first CONUS DOW base to deploy live destructive C-UAS systems. Our experts help organizations navigate policy, authority, and compliance requirements to operationalize layered C-UAS defenses.

End-to-End Mission Engineering

SPA applies intentional, focused, and agile digital mission engineering to help organizations select the right systems for their unique operating environments. The UAS domain is changing faster than any other physical warfare domain, and mission engineering ensures organizations make informed investment and deployment decisions.
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End-to-End Mission Engineering

SPA applies intentional, focused, and agile digital mission engineering to help organizations select the right systems for their unique operating environments. The UAS domain is changing faster than any other physical warfare domain, and mission engineering ensures organizations make informed investment and deployment decisions.

Acquisition and Deployment Planning

SPA’s Red Six MAP team works alongside your security forces and leverages our AthenaSight digital wargaming environment to select the right systems and develop effective layered defense laydowns.
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SPA AthenaSight tablet - innovative Software and Cloud Solutions for Mission Readiness
SPA’s Red Six MAP team works alongside your security forces and leverages our AthenaSight digital wargaming environment to select the right systems and develop effective layered defense laydowns.
AthenaSight

Test and Evaluation and Operational Red Teaming

SPA’s Red Six MAP pilots bring advanced tactics and representative UAS threats directly to your site to stress-test defenses and security forces before real-world operations expose vulnerabilities. We ensure these tests go beyond simple pass/fail outcomes by using SwarmInsight to analyze operational data, identify capability gaps, and assess performance.
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SPA’s Red Six MAP pilots bring advanced tactics and representative UAS threats directly to your site to stress-test defenses and security forces before real-world operations expose vulnerabilities. We ensure these tests go beyond simple pass/fail outcomes by using SwarmInsight to analyze operational data, identify capability gaps, and assess performance.
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“There is no single solution to every drone threat. A layered defense gives our warfighters the ability to choose the right tool for the right circumstances.”

Brig Gen Ross, Director, JIATF-401

Red Six Mission Assurance Program (MAP)

SPA's Counter-UAS capability and command center
SPA established the Red Six Mission Assurance Program to address the rapidly emerging UAS threat environment. The Red Six MAP, developed through Red Six, an SPA company, is a dedicated group of expert UAS pilots, technologists, and analysts equipped with modeling and simulation tools, virtual training environments, and lab space within the Red Six Mission Assurance Center (MAC) to develop advanced UAS threat emulators. The Red Six MAP continuously monitors the UAS threat landscape and works to anticipate how threats will evolve.

The Red Six MAP provides:

Red team UAS flight testing across Group 1-3 platforms, including jet-powered aircraft and coordinated heterogeneous swarms
Site vulnerability assessments

Monthly UAS threat reports covering global developments, emerging technologies, and their implications for the future threat environment

Tabletop exercise development and hosting

Drone incident response and forensics

Custom UAS solutions

Access to licensed government and private flight test ranges

C-UAS training is a core component of the Red Six Mission Assurance Program, covering counter-drone technologies, Red Team vulnerability assessment methodologies, Red Team best practices, site reconnaissance, threat evolution and trend analysis, and drone incident response.

Red Six Mission Assurance Center (MAC)

Red Six Mission Assurance Center (MAC), we are constantly at work monitoring UAS events and C-UAS technology development

SPA established the Red Six Mission Assurance Center as a physical innovation hub and threat prototyping center focused on advancing threat emulation technologies and operational readiness. The Red Six MAC serves as the headquarters of the Red Six MAP and brings together innovators, engineers, and operators to develop the next generation of advanced threat emulation technologies and systems.

The Red Six MAC combines modern technologies, operational expertise, and development capabilities required to advance UAS threat emulation technologies from concept development through testing and fielding.

Red Six MAC capabilities include:

Advanced prototyping and engineering workspaces

Custom and commercial UAS integration

Large-scale threat emulation platform development
Secure digital engineering, modeling, simulation, and analytics environments

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