This event started as trash talk between two contributors to a national security blog. They decided to host a drone “smackdown” to see if one guy’s machine could take down another.
Ben Wittes, architect of the event, is the founder of a national security blog called “Lawfare” and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company.
To a lot of people drones are no laughing matter… The founders of the smackdown say they appreciate these concerns; however, Mr. Wittes stated he thought it was important for the event to, “highlight the degree to which very powerful, very inexpensive robotic technologies are becoming available to anybody who wants them.”
Click the link below to read and listen to National Public Radio’s coverage of the event…
National Security Experts Go Rogue For ‘Drone Smackdown’
Rich Hanson
AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs