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TARDEC Ground Vehicle Robotics 2018

Published on Apr 25, 2018

What keeps TARDEC's Ground Vehicle Robotics team busy? Check it out!

 

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Article "The Army is preparing to send driverless vehicles into combat"

by Amanda Pisetzner and Elle Reeve
October 18, 2018

 

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Russian-made unmanned aerial systems

Published on May 22, 2019

 

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Article "How Azerbaijan's Drones Show what the Future War Looks Like"

by Seth J. Frantzman
October 7, 2020

 

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First uninhabited Black Hawk flight

Feb 8, 2022

Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s pilots in an S-70™ BLACK HAWK® helicopter flips the optionally piloted cockpit switch from two to zero, exits the aircraft and walks across the runway.

Moments later, the Model A BLACK HAWK aircraft, identifiable by DARPA’s logo and tail number N60-OPV, completes a pre-flight check list, starts its engines, spins up its rotors and takes off with no crew onboard. All of it happens fully autonomously.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

 

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Manta Ray, autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles

 

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Drone Boats: Inside the U.S. Navy’s Latest Unmanned AI Tech

Jan 17, 2023

Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Middle East, established Task Force 59 to rapidly integrate commercially-made drone boats and pair them with artificial intelligence. Over the past year, the task force has helped him get a clearer picture of what’s happening on the water, and now, the Navy says it is rolling out similar efforts in the Indo-Pacific and Central and South America.

I sat down for an exclusive interview with Admiral Cooper during the 5th Fleet’s Digital Horizon exercise in Bahrain to talk about how cutting-edge technologies like AI, drone boats and more are helping the military see from “seabed to space.”

0:00 Meet U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Brad Cooper
0:12 What the Navy’s “Future Fleet” looks like
0:50 Understanding the digital ocean
2:20 Iran’s attempted seizure of drones
5:06 Israel’s participation in Middle East security efforts

"Drone Boats: Inside the U.S. Navy’s Latest Unmanned AI Tech"
Unmanned surface vessels appear to be on the cusp of a technological revolution

by Shelby Holliday
January 16, 2023

 

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Article "Giant Chinese drone-carrying AI ship enters service as research vessel"
The Zhuhaiyun carries dozens of unmanned vessels that can monitor the sea and air
The ship uses artificial intelligence to operate autonomously, but operators can also take over via remote control

by Liu Zhen
January 13, 2023

 

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"The Pentagon is already testing tomorrow’s AI-powered swarm drones, ships"
DOD pulled off unmanned amphibious landings, self-coding drones, and more just in the last year. What's next?

by Patrick Tucker
January 22, 2024

 

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Article "How the West can match Russia in drone innovation"

by Samuel Bendett and Jane Pinelis
January 25, 2024

 

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Article "DIU consults Pentagon policy shop to move Replicator technology at ‘responsible speed’"
Defense Innovation Unit officials are engaging closely with DOD’s policy team regarding the application of Directive 3000.09 for autonomous weapons.

by Brandi Vincent
February 14, 2024

 

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Article "Pentagon stares down "drone swarm" threat"

by Noah Bressner
March 15, 2024

 

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Article "Ex-Google CEO Schmidt Urges US Army to Replace Tanks with Drones"

• Cheap drones have transformed the battlefield, says Schmidt
• He predicts artillery, mortars will eventually be phased out

by Marissa Newman
October 30, 2024