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ONR Tests Unmanned Technologies To Help Find Illicit Maritime Cargo

ONR Tests Unmanned Technologies To Help Find Illicit Maritime Cargo
Vessels participate in an ONR SCOUT-sponsored experimentation event at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, at the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay in 2022. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Max Hopkins, Demonstration Assessment Team, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division)

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the SCOUT initiative and recently conducted an experiment to figure out how to better detect illicit maritime cargo and drug-running using unmanned technologies. This test event at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., located by the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, was one of several smaller scenario-based “sprint event” demonstrations of technology capabilities leading up to a main large-scale experimentation in March 2023. During the event, participants undertook simulated drug-running and…

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