Navy, Congress and industry look to challenges and opportunities of unmanned systems

By Jordan Wolman / April 16, 2021 at 11:24 AM
As the Navy moves forward with its new unmanned plan, members of Congress and industry executives are pressing for more details about how the technology will be used as well as how the service plans to manage intellectual property and requirements concerns. The Navy last month released a new unmanned plan that charts a path toward greater integration of unmanned systems into the fleet over the next several decades to better compete with China and Russia. Lt. Gen. Eric Smith,...

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