US Marine commandant: fund ‘force design 2030’ or leave the corps in a ‘lurch’. (Breaking Defense) “The Navy has announced new plans for a “purpose-built” facility at its warfare center in Port Hueneme, Calif., dedicated to testing its latest unmanned surface and subsurface vehicles… Small’s office is also spearheading the Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab, a software factory that will be responsible for ensuring the various technologies and capabilities intertwined in the unmanned fleet will operate together seamlessly. Navy starts building hub for surface, subsurface drones. (Space News) “Calvelli worked for 30 years at the National Reconnaissance Office and in September joined the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton to lead the company’s space and intelligence programs… From July 2012 to October 2020, he was the principal deputy director of the NRO.” Funding for one destroyer, one fleet oiler and F-35 upgrades accounted for nearly three quarters of the initiative… Top Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services committees said the Pentagon had “ entirely missed the point” of the PDI.”īiden taps former NRO official Frank Calvelli to run Space Force acquisitions. (Defense News) “By pulling that information together in a consolidated budget display, PDI was meant to increase transparency, identify key Indo-Pacific investments… its first attempt to craft PDI, the Pentagon floundered - doubling down on platform investments at the expense of joint and enabling capabilities. Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now. The video includes footage of about 10 quadcopters circling a target, a hobby-sized model airplane weaving through urban streets, and columns of little four-wheel ground robots lined up on a road… “The swarm systems consist of an extensible game-based architecture that enables the design and integration of swarm tactics.”” You can get a glimpse of this in a video of the latest test (see below) of DARPA’s Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) project, the Pentagon’s bid to use develop autonomous robots that operate in hordes. (1945) “300-Plus Swarm Drones Just Flew In This DARPA Test: One drone armed with a missile or a bomb can take out a tank or a building…. The US military’s future: waves of killer drone swarms.
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