UAS Operations in Degraded and Contested Environments
Focus: Operational resilience, risk management and decision-making when
communications, navigation or supporting systems are degraded.
Target audience: Experienced UAS pilots, mission commanders, operational
planners and training instructors.
Key topics:
• Identification of operational dependencies and vulnerabilities
• Effects of degraded communications and navigation uncertainty
• Contingency planning and safe recovery principles
• Loss-of-link decision-making
• Crew coordination during abnormal situations
• Scenario-based risk assessment and lessons learned

Proposed duration: 5 days (30 hours).

Training method: Classroom instruction, incident case studies and synthetic training
scenarios.
Expected benefit: Improved preparedness for abnormal operating conditions and
more consistent contingency management.