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Navy Plans 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem In Pacific

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

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Navy Plans 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem In Pacific

The formerly DARPA Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program full-scale Sea Hunter demonstration vehicle, used for modeling as a Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MDUSV). (Photo: DARPA)

The U.S. Pacific Fleet plans to conduct an exercise focused on unmanned systems in early 2021, a Navy official confirmed Tuesday. “We’re shooting for early 2021 to be able to run a fleet battle problem that is centered on unmanned. And it will again be on the sea, above the sea, and under the sea as we get to demonstrating how we can align to the INDO-PACOM directives to use experimentation to drive lethality,” Rear Adm. Robert Gaucher, Director of…

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