Navy kicking off pilot program SCOUT 'shortly'

By Audrey Decker / March 8, 2022 at 10:44 AM
The Navy will be kicking off a pilot program called SCOUT in Joint Interagency Task Force South soon, according to a service official. Assistant Chief of Naval Research Capt. Neil Colston said the SCOUT experimentation process is a different type of acquisition effort. The task force is part of U.S. Southern Command. The goal of the program is to solve warfighter-driven problems and rapidly develop technologies, Colston said yesterday during the National Defense Industrial Association’s Pacific Operational Science and Technology...

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