The United States Navy is well in the process of developing new platforms that are unmanned, autonomous. Now, the Navy has announced plans to develop an autonomous code standard that will enable more rapid development of autonomous platforms, but also help retrofit legacy platforms with autonomous features.
The code is to be called Unmanned Maritime Autonomous Architecture, UMAA. It is being developed by the Navy’s Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab.
Navy Setting Stage for Influx Of Autonomous Systems
From www.nationaldefensemagazine.org
2022-03-02 00:53:35
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The Navy — which is pursuing an ambitious unmanned systems plan through a mixture of air, surface and underwater platforms — is working to test and mature those autonomy systems through multiple programs.
These include efforts such as new autonomy standards as well as the standing up of its Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab, said Capt. Pete Small, program manager for unmanned maritime systems at Naval Sea Systems Command.
Updating legacy platforms with new autonomy software codes can be an arduous process, he said during a briefing at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference. To combat that, the Navy is developing an autonomy standard for code development called the unmanned maritime autonomy architecture, or UMAA.
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