On behalf of the Affiliation for Uncrewed Automobile Techniques Worldwide (AUVSI), Chief Advocacy Officer Michael Robbins issued the next assertion in response to experiences that the Division of Protection will launch a ‘Replicator’ initiative—supported by Protection Innovation Unit Director Doug Beck—to combine uncrewed programs, autonomous platforms and robotics into the drive at scale:
“Help for a robust and safe home autonomous programs business represents a strategic crucial within the new period of strategic international competitors. DoD applications throughout all domains have recognized uncrewed programs as important instruments for strategic deterrence and the way forward for warfare, and we applaud Secretary Hicks for taking daring motion to get these instruments into the fingers of our warfighters.
Along with benefiting the warfighting capabilities of the USA, DoD funding in these platforms will enhance the home industrial base, spurring job creation and superior analysis and improvement.AUVSI strongly helps the introduced objectives of Replicator to beat acquisition challenges and swiftly area succesful, superior instruments. We’re additionally heartened to listen to that the initiative will have interaction DIU and urge DoD to spend money on dual-use industrial and protection programs. AUVSI will proceed to work with the Pentagon and leaders throughout the service branches and Congress to help applications that ship the advantages of autonomy to warfighters.”
AUVSI has collaborated with DIU since September 2022, when the organizations introduced an effort to additional industrial cyber methodologies to construct a shared normal—just like the one used to develop the DIU’s Blue UAS “Cleared Checklist.”
