U.S.A.F. + U.S. Army Want Sky Warrior In Action—May Not Agree On Every Aspect
From the Strategy Page comes the report that UAVs may soon be true, self-thinking, autonomous craft.
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The Flying Eyeball Evolves From NASA
NASA is developing technologies that will allow lunar landers to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface. This is important because future lunar missions will need this capability to be able to land safely near specific resources that are located in potentially hazardous terrain.
Read MoreLockheed Martin’s ICARUS Handles UAV + UAS Like A Hawk
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has successfully demonstrated the Intelligent Control and Autonomous Re-planning of Unmanned Systems (ICARUS) suite of technologies as part of an exercise conducted from August 12th through 14th. The Edge Command and Control/Hybrid Operations (ECC/HO) week-long exercise was conducted at the Naval Air Station Oceana Dam Neck Annex, Dam Neck, Virginia.
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