The memo also shuts down the existing Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, which has been around since February 2020. It will also integrate the department's Replicator 2 efforts. "The JCO had great intentions but struggled to compel the different services and organizations to participate," an Army official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, told Defense One. "Whereas the JIATF will have a lot more ability to coordinate and compel."