UAV autonomy solution spurs Marine Corps to 'cross bins' with mission sets

By Justin Katz / December 15, 2017 at 4:15 PM
A new technology for unmanned aerial cargo vehicles, demonstrated last week, is pushing the Marine Corps to change its thinking about mission sets, according to a service official. "What we found really is we have to cross our bins that we typically think of things in logically," Lt. Col. Dan Schmitt, field testing branch head at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, told reporters Dec. 13 following a technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. Schmitt spoke from the sidelines...

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