Selby: Navy's SCOUT program to complete in-water demo next spring

By Audrey Decker / July 21, 2022 at 2:31 PM
The Navy's SCOUT pilot program, which aims to rapidly develop technologies, will complete an in-water demo next spring. Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby said he will use autonomous, commercial off-the-shelf systems and sensors to help U.S. Southern Command find drug runners. “I'm doing sprints right now with that process, to go find ways to go solve that drug problem. I'm going to do an in-water demo . . . [and] if it works, as I suspect it...

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