“The Watched Pot Still Boils” – Expeditionary & Survivable C4I
Part 1 of a narrative series illustrating how America’s armed forces might use technology to accomplish their most demanding missions.
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Continued operation in RF environments — whether that's GPS denial or communications disruption — is the number one need for tactical unmanned aerial systems.
Michigan: Arsenal of Democracy for dangerous times
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse
The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.
Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Russia has big ambitions for unmanned systems, said CNA scholar Sam Bendett, but it faces the same technical hurdles as the US — and shares the same concerns about human control.
Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence
The pair of unmanned scout vehicles had enough AI smarts aboard to navigate cross-country, identify “enemy” forces, and open fire – but a human still decides whether to shoot.
Marines Explore Robots & 5G Networks For Future Wars
Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?
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Robots & Puddles: Surprises From Army RCV Test
Experimental Robotic Combat Vehicles are outperforming Army expectations. But soldiers are finding plenty of quirks to fix.
Artillery Seeks Robot Ammo Haulers
Six companies got $150,000 Field Artillery Autonomous Resupply contracts to study everything from exoskeletons that strengthen human ammo handlers to robots that might replace them.
AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame
A simulated infantry platoon, reinforced with drones and ground robots, repeatedly routed defending forces three times its size — without losing a single human soldier. Would this work in real life?
Titan Robot Test-Fires Javelin Anti-Tank Missile
It’s one small test for a robot, one tactical leap for robot-kind.
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Forget The Terminator For Future Army AI: LTG Wesley
DETROIT: The Artificial Intelligence the military needs most is not some kind of killer robot, the Army’s three-star senior futurist told me today. The Army really needs AI to make sense of lots of data, fast, so commanders and quartermasters can send the right forces with the right supplies to the right place on the […]
US Army Pursues Israeli Robots
TARDEC, soon to be part of the new Army Futures Command, is exploring a wide range of Israeli robots. But IAI is already looking into the next generation: "flocks" or swarms of robotic systems that communicate with each other and collaborate to accomplish their mission.
From Google Cars To Robot Tanks: Army RCV
https://youtu.be/BlBOVF9GnM8?t=1m The Google Car and Tesla Autopilot have blazed a trail for the future Army. Both robotics technology and Army thinking have come a long way since 2009, when Defense Secretary Bob Gates cancelled the massive Future Combat Systems program. Where FCS tried to invent new technology on a schedule for 19 different manned and […]
Army Wants 70 Self-Driving Supply Trucks By 2020
The Army is ready for unmanned vehicles but not yet for a completely unmanned convoy. The 2020 iteration is called Expedient Leader-Follower because the Army still wants a human soldier driving the lead vehicle, with up to nine autonomous trucks following in its trail. But Oshkosh and Robotic Research told me they could take the humans out altogether, if the Army wanted.