News Articles with Category: Policy
June 12, 2014 – via Center for a New American Security
“The winner of the robotics revolution will not be who develops this technology first or even who has the best technology, but who figures out how best to use it,”
View Full Story
April 9, 2014 – via Australian Strategic Policy Institute
They’re being considered as key complementary elements to address several operational challenges navies currently face.
View Full Story
December 23, 2013 – via US Department of Defense
The road map describes the challenges of logistics and sustainment, training and international cooperation while providing insight on the strategic planning and policy, capability needs, technology development and operational environments relevant to the spectrum of unmanned systems
View Full Story
October 9, 2013 – via USNI
To encourage free and open exchange of ideas and a vigorous discussion on unmanned maritime systems innovation, the U.S. Naval Institute, with sponsorship from Textron Systems and Bell Helicopter, is hosting the Unmanned Maritime Systems Forum
View Full Story
March 18, 2013 – via US Department of Defense
The US Department of Defense has issued a policy directive on the use of autonomy in Weapons systems
View Full Story
January 18, 2013 – via North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This guidance aims to inform the capability development of Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS), broadening beyond that currently being exploited by UAV into Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and Underwater Surface Vehicles (USV). It covers likely attributes and tasks for MUS, and discusses some of the challenges in developing this capability.
View Full Story
October 11, 2012 – via Inside Defense
The memo calls for the development of new concepts that address how the Navy will maintain its undersea superiority through 2030 despite “adversary efforts, commercial endeavors, fiscal challenges and force structure limitations.” The assessment should consider a range of undersea platforms, systems and unmanned vehicles as well as the networks that connect them
View Full Story
October 2, 2012 – via Science
Oil spill researchers have their preliminary data subpoenaed by BP.
View Full Story
September 4, 2012 – via Fierce Government IT
Despite having a significant and positive impact on U.S. military operations worldwide, unmanned systems are underutilized due to “obstacles” within the Defense Department that are “inhibiting the broad acceptance” of these systems and DoD’s ability to more fully realize their benefits.
View Full Story
March 21, 2012 – via U S Navy
Participants discussed four main issues of unmanned maritime vessels: the status of various types of unmanned vessels, maritime “rules of the road”, maritime zone issues and law of armed conflict issues.
View Full Story
January 6, 2012 – via Defense Daily
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said yesterday that funding for unmanned systems will be unchanged and in some cases increased, even as the Pentagon braces for some of its sharpest reductions in spending since the end of the Cold War.
View Full Story
December 15, 2011 – via Atlantic
Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered this briefing about the ethics of drones at an event hosted by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital arm. It’s a thorough and unnerving survey of what it might mean for the intelligence service to deploy different kinds of robots.
View Full Story
November 2, 2011 – via Wall Street Journal
The world’s vast undersea energy infrastructure—oil and gas platforms, wellheads, pipelines and pumps—is now vulnerable to attack by cheap submarines and unmanned vehicles.
View Full Story
June 9, 2011 – via Armed Forces Journal
Unmanned systems could be casualties of budget pressures
View Full Story
May 25, 2011 – via Wired.com
Adm. Gary Roughead will leave the Navy in September. Until then, he’s got one big, overriding mission: make the seas safe for American lasers and robots.
View Full Story
May 13, 2011 – via The Brookings Institute
A DISCUSSION WITH ADMIRAL GARY ROUGHEAD, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
View Full Story
May 3, 2011 – via ONR
His lecture, “Wired for War: The Science Fiction/Science Reality of Robots, War, and Politics in the 21st Century”, kicked off the Office of Naval Research’s Directorate of Innovation Winter 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecture Series.
View Full Story
April 22, 2011 – via National Academies Press
This study was initiated to assist SOST in planning for the nation’s ocean research infrastructure needs in 2030 by identifying major research questions anticipated to be at the forefront of ocean science in 2030, defining categories of infrastructure that should be included in next-generation planning, providing advice on criteria that could be used to set priorities for asset development or replacement, recommending ways in which the federal agencies could maximize the value of ocean infrastructure investments, and addressing societal issues.
View Full Story
February 4, 2011 – via Aviation Week
As the U.S. Navy refines and deploys several types of unmanned undersea and surface vessels, the service is still in the hunt for more rugged sensors, better propulsion systems and open-architecture host vehicles capable of deploying smaller unmanned systems.
View Full Story
January 26, 2011 – via AUVSI
Yesterday, Reps. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) and Henry Cueller (D-Texas) announced that the former Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Caucus will now be called the Unmanned Systems Caucus.
View Full Story
December 15, 2010 – via Stanford Law School
Related to my work here in robot ethics, the following is an advance look at my paper forthcoming in Journal of Military Ethics:
View Full Story
November 12, 2010 – via Inside Defense
The Navy is hoping to decrease the number of personnel required to operate unmanned aircraft and submarines to a point where one operator could control multiple unmanned vehicles, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughhead.
View Full Story
November 11, 2010 – via National Defense
In response to both real and perceived failures of the Pentagon’s research, development and procurement apparatus, Gates has directed an overhaul of the services’ modernization programs. His orders in a nutshell: They must deliver new equipment within a reasonable timeframe; and they must avoid the temptation of gold-plating and aiming for systems that are excessively complex and thus at risk of never seeing the light of day.
View Full Story
October 25, 2010 – via Inside the Navy
Unmanned underwater vehicles may replace fixed undersea sensor networks and could eventually be weaponized, according to Navy officials, but the service has yet to set up a clear command and control chain to deconflict undersea assets.
View Full Story
October 22, 2010 – via Reuters
A U.N. investigator called on the world body on Friday to set up a panel to study the ethics and legality of unmanned military weapons
View Full Story
September 27, 2010 – via Discover Magazine
In the skies above Afghanistan and along the roadsides of Iraq, unmanned military machines are changing the nature of combat. These robots may soon be making life-or-death decisions themselves.
View Full Story
August 31, 2010 – via White House/ Sect of Commerce
Remarks by the President that will be delivered via videotape tomorrow, August 31, at the Department of Commerce’s Annual Export Controls Update Conference in Washington, D.C.
View Full Story
August 26, 2010 – via National Defense
The Navy wants to deploy robotic underwater vehicles to conduct anti-submarine warfare and counter-mine missions, but its plans are being held up by power problems that limit their endurance.
View Full Story
August 25, 2010 – via Aviation Week
Fiscal constraints will be a major driving factor in the capabilities that the U.S. Navy will seek in unmanned vehicles in the coming years, says the chief of naval operations, Adm. Gary Roughead.
View Full Story
