Government's Drone and Counter-Drone Transformation Strategy Moves Into the Industrial Field... Counter-Drone Expo to Open in Cheongju in December
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'2026 KOREA C-UAS (KOREA C-UAS 2026)' will be held from December 1 to 3 at OSCO in Cheongju.
The expo was planned as an industry event linked to the government's policies to foster the drone and counter-drone industries, and it will be organized as a counter-drone-focused event spanning the military, public, and private sectors.
The exhibition will center on Command & Control, Detection, Identification, and Neutralization, and the 'KOREA C-UAS Summit' will also be held during the same period.
'2026 KOREA C-UAS (KOREA C-UAS 2026)' will be held from December 1 to 3 at OSCO in Cheongju. The expo was planned as an industry event linked to the government's policies to foster the drone and counter-drone industries.
The event is being organized as a counter-drone-focused gathering spanning the military, public, and private sectors. The Anti-Terrorism Center of the Office for Government Policy Coordination is joining as a new organizer, while the Korea Counter-Drone Industry Association and the Korea Defense Information and Communication Association are co-hosting the event. The Army Air Defense School will serve as a special sponsor.
The expo will focus on connecting policy with industrial practice in line with the 'National Drone and Counter-Drone Transformation Promotion Strategy (K-Drone Dominance)' finalized last June. In particular, it will emphasize linking the policy direction announced by the government, based on the implementation framework and public demand plan unveiled at the final briefing on the 'Government Drone and Counter-Drone Integrated TF' chaired by the prime minister on June 4 last year, with military, public, and private-sector sites.
At the time, the government announced plans to establish the 'National Drone and Counter-Drone Strategy Promotion Team,' a pan-government control tower, and to create public demand worth about KRW 2 trillion over the next 5 years. This expo will be held in connection with those measures.
Major initiatives related to the counter-drone industry include building pan-government governance, expanding public demand and integrated procurement, establishing standards, testing and evaluation, and certification systems, integrating research and development (R&D), building a national integrated counter-drone response system, creating a civilian-military industrial cluster, cultivating specialized personnel, and improving regulations.
The expo will be operated in line with these policy directions and is being designed as more than a simple product exhibition. It will serve as a bridge between government policy, adoption plans by demand institutions, and corporate technologies, and will be run as a practical, demand-driven industrial platform.
The exhibition will center on response stages such as Command & Control, Detection, Identification, and Neutralization. This year, a Future·Innovation Tech category has been newly added, expanding the exhibition to include AI-based counter-drone software, semiconductors, batteries, new materials, related core technologies, and components and materials.
A 'military and national critical facility usability consulting' program will be held during the event. The purpose is to connect participating companies with actual demand institutions. Companies will present their technologies and products to experts from the defense policy agencies responsible for protecting military and national critical facilities and from defense research institutions, and the experts will review their potential for on-site use and application in the defense sector.
The 'KOREA C-UAS Summit' will also be held at the same time. The summit will discuss detailed policy and implementation measures based on the government's drone and counter-drone promotion strategy. Officials from the government, military, police, fire services, national critical facilities, industry, academia, and research institutions are expected to take part.
The organizers said they intend to strengthen their role in connecting government policy, military and public demand, and industry technology at a time when drone and counter-drone policy is moving into full swing at the national level. They also said they plan to build an industrial execution platform for linking outstanding technologies to demonstration, adoption, procurement, and exports.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Gyeong-ju
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406743
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