Pentagon weapons evaluators in their latest annual report criticized the Navy's testing of an unmanned undersea vehicle designed for mine countermeasures, saying the environment was too comparable to the conditions the vessels' original creators used when developing classification algorithms. "[T]he testing occurred in areas and environments similar to those in which the system developers trained and tuned Knifefish's [post-mission analysis] classification algorithm," Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Robert Behler's office wrote of the service's testing on Knifefish, a UUV...
