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The expanding use of armed, unmanned systems is not only changing the face of modern warfare, but is also altering the process of decision-making in combat operations. These systems have been used extensively in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and will continue to be equally relevant — if not more so — as the United States' strategic focus shifts towards the Asia-Pacific region and the high-end...
In his best-selling book, War Made New, military historian Max Boot supports his thesis with historical examples to show how technological-driven “Revolutions in Military Affairs” have transformed warfare and altered the course of history. The U.S. military has embraced a wave of technological change that has constituted a true transformation of the way that military forces will fight in the 21st...
For the ONR-funded Heterogeneous Adaptive Maritime Mobile Expeditionary Robots (HAMMER) project, we work on cooperative autonomy for a fleet of unmanned vehicles working together in the aerial, water surface, and underwater domains. Each of these systems work well independently, but our goal is to integrate their performance into one system of vehicles that can safely perform cooperative tasks. The...
Eight years ago, the then-U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, unveiled the concept of the "Thousand-Ship Navy" as a new taxonomy for international naval cooperation. Embraced by the George W. Bush administration and renamed "The Global Maritime Partnership (GMP) Initiative" this concept was rapidly embraced by the community of nations as a way to secure the...
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