Autonomy at the Tactical Edge Focus Area
Abstract
This focus area explores joint mission capabilities to enhance the lethality of the joint force, reduce the time to make critical decisions, autonomously distribute tasking and orders, and protect warfighters through increased use of intelligent networks, autonomous sensing platforms, and human-machine collaborative systems. Selected projects target key capabilities that enable leap-ahead improvements and intelligent autonomous systems with cost effective investments. These projects leverage advances in high performance computing, autonomy, and machine learning to transfer cognitive burden closer to the point of collection and action. Examples include agile computer vision systems, enhanced capabilities for multiple autonomous systems to cooperatively interact, tools to fuse and infer information from a wide variety of sensors and datasets, autonomous task discrimination and prioritization, autonomous operation in complex terrain, collaborative systems for efficient distribution of contested logistics, data preprocessing to reduce bandwidth requirements for fully integrated command and control, and human-machine collaborative decision making providing faster-than-human response to threats. These projects will also examine common software platforms and modular open architecture systems to reduce development cost, increase collaboration among manned and unmanned platforms, and inform requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- de4ad6a4478ba0dc2baf8d932bd3e5ae