{"id":8114,"date":"2026-05-22T00:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/8114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:40:41","slug":"poland-joins-pentagons-counter-drone-marketplace-amid-unexpected-us-deployment-cancellation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/8114\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland joins Pentagon\u2019s counter-drone marketplace amid unexpected US deployment cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as the Army abruptly cancelled<\/a> a planned deployment to Poland earlier this year, the service is continuing to expand military cooperation with the country through the Pentagon\u2019s counter-drone initiative, the Army announced on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The service touts the program as a way to help Washington and its allies<\/a> purchase defense technology faster, as the U.S.-managed marketplace connects partner nations with emerging technology in an attempt to speed up slow procurement systems that have often lagged behind ever-changing threats.<\/p>\n

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Thursday posted a photo on social media with Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of National Defense, Pawe\u0142 Zalewski, as he signed<\/a> a statement of intent to join the initiative. <\/p>\n

Australia and South Korea also agreed to enter the marketplace, the Army said this week, joining the United Kingdom and Romania as participants. <\/p>\n

The platform allows allies access to interoperable capabilities and is run by the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Interagency Task Force 401, which was established in 2025 to streamline counter-drone procurement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis partnership gives our allies and partners direct access to proven counter-drone technologies as we continue to expand the marketplace,\u201d Maj. Matt Mellor, who is the lead acquisitions specialist for the task force, said in a statement. \u201cOur mission includes working with international partners to aggregate demand for counter-drone capabilities,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The news comes as questions linger over the service\u2019s decision to shelve a planned rotational deployment to Poland \u2014 a NATO ally bordering Ukraine and Belarus \u2014 shortly after the U.S. announced it was withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, another NATO ally. <\/p>\n

The changes have sparked condemnation from members of Congress, who have criticized the message such a change in force posture sends to allies amid Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Eve Sampson is a reporter and former Army officer. She has covered conflict across the world, writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as the Army abruptly cancelled a planned deployment to Poland earlier this year, the service is continuing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,6649,6651,813,436,812,6650,437,430,452,6652,9,908],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-army","tag-army-news","tag-australia","tag-circulated-army-times","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-counter-drone","tag-defense-news","tag-dn-dnr","tag-drones","tag-joint-interagency-task-force-401","tag-poland","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}