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Get The Manned Out Of Unmanned, Northrop Exec. Says

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

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Reducing the manpower required to operate drones is critical for making them more affordable and appealing to the Pentagon at a time when budgets are being cut, a senior Northrop Grumman [NOC] executive said yesterday. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) need to carry systems more capable of sifting through data to scale back the number of humans involved in evaluating information provided by UAVs, said Gerard Dufresne, Northrop Grumman’s vice president and general manager for unmanned systems. “It’s just crazy to…

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