Technical Assessment: Autonomy

Abstract

U.S. and foreign technology and capability development is pushing existing human-machine systems to the edge of their abilities by introducing extreme timescales, high levels of complexity, severe risk to warfighters, and increasing costs. While these trends and the challenges they pose to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) do not appear likely to abate, autonomy has the potential to enable U.S. forces to break out of current limitations by allowing systems to understand the environment, to make decisions, and to act more effectively and with greater independence from humans. In doing so, autonomy can augment or replace humans to enhance performance, to reduce risk to warfighters, and to decrease costs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1010190

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Networks
  • Cost Reductions
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Data Analysis
  • Defense Systems
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development