Navy seeks industry help to develop standards for autonomous vehicle architecture

By Justin Katz / February 20, 2019 at 1:22 PM
The Navy is proposing a series of industry days to discuss the nascent stages of standardizing autonomous vehicle interfaces, with the intent to mandate those standards in future contracts, according to a Feb. 15 request for information . Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems, which is spearheading the initiative, spoke about the Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture earlier this year at the Surface Navy Association symposium in January. "We'd like to be able to have the autonomy architecture...

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