Welcome to the first season of the new Aerospace & Defense Technology Podcast.

The guest on this episode is Shaan Shaik, a fellow with the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

In November, Shaik co-authored a 64-page report, "Countering Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems," which outlines the threat posed by small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS). The report assesses the challenging nature of the C-sUAS mission for the Department of Defense with a threat that is "cheap and plentiful" against defenses that are "still emerging and bring significantly higher costs."

Shaik discusses the cost of countering small UAS at air, land and sea, as well as how the concept itself is still evolving.