Pentagon Still Questioning How Smart to Make Its Drone Swarms

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Pentagon Still Questioning How Smart to Make Its Drone Swarms

7 Feb 2019
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk

As the Pentagon moves forward with tests on autonomous drone swarming technology, few doubt that the warfighting concept will work.

But major questions persist, such as how to classify drone swarms and just how smart to make the network that allows hundreds of little autonomous machines to communicate, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

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