Looking to the future of combat and competition, Navy releases much-anticipated campaign plan on unmanned systems

By Jordan Wolman / March 16, 2021 at 2:16 PM
With an eye on China's huge naval fleet, the future of technology and possible flat defense budgets, the Navy and Marine Corps unveiled a plan today to expeditiously incorporate unmanned systems into the aviation, surface and subsurface fleets to keep up with the dynamic security landscape. The campaign framework released March 16 looks to integrate unmanned systems into naval and joint operations, incentivize rapid development and testing cycles for unmanned systems, scale solutions across platforms and create a capacity-centric approach...

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