Counter-UAS
Uncrewed Systems and Counter-UAS Mission Solutions
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Uncrewed aircraft systems are proliferating across contested and non-contested environments. Countering them requires integrated systems engineering, rigorous testing, and effective execution borne from real-world lessons learned and a comprehensive training regimen.
SPA accelerates the C-UAS capability lifecycle through threat monitoring, digital engineering, live threat-representative testing, and data-driven analytics. We define mission requirements, evaluate available technologies, and design integrated C-UAS architectures that enable organizations to anticipate, counter, and defeat evolving threats with speed, agility, and technical innovation. SPA provides objective analysis to inform acquisition decisions.
Integrated C-UAS mission assurance
Protecting national leaders, military installations, and critical infrastructure requires disciplined engineering and operational realism.
SPA executes C-UAS development and evaluation across the systems engineering continuum, including:
- Threat and vulnerability assessments
- Capability-based evaluations and requirements development
- System architecture and digital twin modeling
- Trade space analysis, incorporating modeling and simulation
- Mission wargaming and rehearsal
- Live-flight testing and evaluation
United States Air Force
United States Secret Service
Department of Homeland Security
Modeling and Simulation
- Geotemporal engagement analysis
- Monte Carlo simulations using GCAM and ArcherEye
- Mission rehearsal and wargaming using AthenaSight
- End-to-end mission architecture modeling using ArcherEye
Live Threat-Representative Testing
Through Red Six, an SPA company, SPA executes live-flight testing using world-class FAA-certified pilots and threat-representative drones across Group 1 through Group 3 UAS classes, including jet-powered drones.
Capabilities include:
- Custom test plan development
- Interagency coordination for airspace and spectrum approvals
- Detection, tracking, classification, and defeat analytics
- Integration of flight data into digital models
Post-test analytics deliver statistically rigorous performance assessments that inform milestone decisions and optimize system effectiveness.
Featured Platform: BANZAI
BANZAI is SPA’s high-performance, jet-powered Group 3 UAS designed for realistic advanced UAS and cruise missile threat emulation. It delivers high-speed, recoverable flight operations that enable rapid, repeatable C-UAS testing.
- Jet-powered threat representation
- Affordable and reusable design
- Flexible payload integration
- Operational realism for live-flight evaluation
Operational Readiness
SPA executes rapid C-UAS deployment in complex environments across the United States and overseas.
AthenaSight enables operators to:
- Uncover operational and procedural disconnects before they happen in the real world
- Rehearse missions using validated threat models
- Refine concepts of operation and tactics
- Visualize multi-domain engagements
- Evaluate performance prior to live operations
This closed-loop framework strengthens operational readiness against evolving threats.
Mission Infrastructure
Red Six Mission Assurance Center
At the Red Six Mission Assurance Center (MAC), we are constantly at work monitoring UAS events and C-UAS technology development around the world and putting our findings to practice. The Red Six MAC houses our Threat Innovation Lab and UAS Fabrication Shop. The Threat Innovation Lab is where our engineers and operators work together to ideate and prototype advanced concepts spanning UAS command and control, engine management, flight control systems, autonomy, and aerodynamics. We then apply these innovations to our threat emulation drones that we build in the UAS Fabrication Shop, bringing our clients the toughest threats to ensure that we stay ahead of where our adversaries are going.
Flight test and evaluation ranges
Licensed government and private ranges where SPA conducts threat emulation, live-flight testing, and performance validation.
Digital engineering environments
Secure facilities enabling digital engineering, modeling, simulation, and analytics.
Key contact information
SPA delivers full lifecycle counter-UAS support
C-UAS programmatic support
Real-world testing & post flight analytics
Modeling & Simulation
Streamlined comprehensive, and vertically integrated capability stack
SPA accelerates the C-UAS capability lifecycle through digital engineering, live threat-representative testing, and data-driven analytics. We defines mission requirements, evaluate available technologies, and design integrated C-UAS architectures that enable government organizations to anticipate, counter, and defeat evolving threats with speed, agility, and technical innovation. SPA provides objective analysis to inform acquisition decisions.