DJ Smith has worked in the area of Covert Technical/Tactical Surveillance for over 30 years and currently serves as a Senior Technical Surveillance Agent for the Virginia State Police. A few areas of specialty are Title III Intercepts, GPS Installs, Video-Audio Clarification, Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM), Mesh-Node Deployments, Surreptitious Lock Bypass & Safe Penetration including GSA locks & containers, Technical Response to Hostage/Barricade Situations, Cellular Tracking and Geo-locating (DF), Covert Surreptitious Audio/Video deployments, and sUAS & Counter UAS deployment operations.
In the area of sUAS and Counter UAS Operations:
o He is the Unmanned Aerial & Counter UAS Systems Program Coordinator for the Virginia State Police.
o Served on the Federal Aviation Administration Counter UAS aviation rule-making committee.
o Currently serves on the DHS NUSTL Blue UAS assessment for Public Safety.
o 2024 Keynote Presenter on CUAS for SLTT at the World Police Summitt in Dubai.
o Deputy Director/ CUAS SME for Droneresponders Public Safety UAS Alliance.
o Virginia Safe and Secure Commonwealth Sub-Panel dealing with UAS/Counter UAS implementation and legislation.
o (SME) on various technologies for the DHS S&T, Law Enforcement Technology Board (SPAWARS Atlantic & Saver program).
o VSP stakeholder on the Mid-Atlantic UAS Partnership group (Google Wing) at Virginia Tech.
o Served on DHS S&T First Responder Robotic Operational System Test (FFROST) assessment & evaluations of sUAS for Public Safety.
o Annual Presenter or Moderator at the Security Summit in Norway, Global Counter UAS Summit in Washington DC, AUVSI Xponential, Commercial UAV Expo, Homeland Security Conference, Global Military and Defense CUAS Conference, and the National Congress on Counter UAS Technology.
o Serves as a technical advisor to several legislative working groups in Washington working on Legislative Carve-outs for SLTT agencies.
o He is also a licensed part 107 pilot and has been flying sUAS for over 13 years.
