A Puma unmanned aircraft is launched during a multinational articulation equipment preparation event.
The Pentagon has completed a novel roadmap for unmanned systems evolution as well as it is expected to live on released later 2 novel undersecretaries sign off on it, a subdivision official said Apr 10. The document was anticipated to live on released concluding year. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Tactical Warfare Systems Jose Gonzalez said he wants it to live on jointly approved past times the undersecretary of defense strength for acquisition as well as sustainment as well as the undersecretary of defense strength for query as well as engineering before it is unveiled. Those 2 positions came into beingness before this twelvemonth every bit the result of a reorganization that dissever upwards the Pentagon's acquisition, engineering as well as logistics office.
The undersecretaries are currently reviewing the document, he said at the National Defense Industrial Association's Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference as well as Exhibition inwards Springfield, Virginia.
The novel unmanned systems roadmap volition live on the starting fourth dimension that the subdivision has released since 2013. The previous version described the Pentagon's plans for autonomous systems from financial years 2013 to 2038. Priorities inwards the former roadmap were driven past times a strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific theater, constraints inwards the military’s budget, as well as the integration of unmanned technologies into the articulation strength structure.
The novel document outlines the necessitate for interoperability alongside systems, Gonzalez said. Closed, proprietary systems come inwards challenging for autonomous platforms to run together, he noted. For this reason, the subdivision is looking to integrate modular, opened upwards architecture systems, he said. Some near-term goals include securing needed information rights as well as retrofitting existing systems, according to Gonzalez’s presentation slides.
The subdivision likewise needs to focus on securing its networks, he noted. Strong collaboration betwixt manufacture as well as regime inwards this expanse is critical, he said.
The roadmap likewise highlights the necessitate for human-machine collaboration, he said. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 major challenge inwards this regard is the difficulty of developing trust betwixt the operator as well as the unmanned platform, according to his presentation slide.
"The seamless integration … betwixt human being as well as machine with this gradual reduction inwards the marking of human command is the vision,” he noted. “It involves trust. It involves the human trusting the machine as well as the machine non truly adding work, [but] rather reducing both physical every bit good every bit cognitive workload.”
As of press time, the Defense Department had non responded to a asking regarding the timeline of the document's release.
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