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We're doing a joint training activity .

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We're calling it an experiment where

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we're involving the North Dakota Air

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National Guard , North Dakota Army ,

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and UND aerospace , and we're coming

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out here and doing joint operations

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where we're basically all learning from

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it , we're all gaining from it , and

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we're all taking it back to make our

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respective operations better . So the

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exercise is really the first iteration

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of putting together . What a lot of

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people are doing individually in North

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Dakota and across the DOD . The North

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Dakota Air National Guard's working on

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a counter UAS perspective , really how

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to get a fine fit , larger UASs

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that are posing a threat to ground

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forces or a loitering munition .

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From the army perspective , UAS is a

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constant threat to them against all

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their maneuver elements as we've seen

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in the war in Ukraine . From UND's

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perspective , the ability to have a

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rich training airspace where they can

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integrate and help solve a lot of

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problems with their UAS . The North

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Dakota National Guard is a premier

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partner in that realm . We developed

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this program as basically a memorandum

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of understanding between the North

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Dakota Air National Guard and the North

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Dakota Army , and the way that really

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benefits us is that we're taking the

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approach of taking all this technology

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that's out there . We have so many

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different tools that we have available ,

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but then figuring out together how do

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we use these most effectively . To

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accomplish the mission that we have to

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do , whether that be a mission that

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would be for the Air National Guard or

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for the Army or for us in disaster

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preparedness and readiness and first

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responder type activities and just

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using the technology and figuring out

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how can we educate the best way , how

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can we train the best way , so when

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people leave and go out into the

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workforce , they can be ready to do the

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job that needs to be done . So really

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what this exercise ends up doing is

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putting together again what a lot of

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units or organizations are doing

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individually and put them in one place

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working together and creating a really

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rich environment . That's good for

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experimentation , learning , and

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readiness . We're doing command post

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operations with our battalion CP , and

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we've been working with UND to

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incorporate counter UAS tactics . Uh ,

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we've been getting , uh , some real

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good , uh , information from the drones .

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It's been a very , uh , collaborative

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effort , um , with UND , uh , the Air

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National Guard , and the Army National

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Guard . Just look at this . This is not

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just a partnership for the 131 and

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people tell him , but , uh , a larger

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and growing partnership between the

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North Dakota National Guard and the

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University of North Dakota and uh

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probably look to the future and adding

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other organizations and , and agencies

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or institutions to that list as well .

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Outside of a domestic operation or

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support to instant awareness and

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assessment in the real world , it's

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tough to find those mission sets where

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we have a shared interest . The UAS

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counter UAS mission set is one now

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where we have a shared interest of

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saying we both need to be ready to

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counter this threat . We happen to have

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one of the leading universities in the

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United States , uh , with UND aerospace ,

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and we have , we just started building

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a relationship with them over the past

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few years in multiple different areas ,

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and this is one where we saw . What

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they were working on coupled with what

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we need to be good at that we could

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work together and create something that

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was really unique what was accomplished

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up at Camp Grafton South could not be

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accomplished by one organization by

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themselves . So when you put it all

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together you create something that

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individually it could not exist . So

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we're hoping to expand it even further

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where we can do additional training

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opportunities , additional experiments

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that we can learn from together and

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then grow that training environment .