Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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have some level of autonomy built in; the committee uses the acronym "AV" to refer to all such autonomous vehicles. While this definition of an AV as an unmanned vehicle with some level of autonomy built in is broad enough to include weapons systems such as torpedoes, mobile mines, and ballistic and cruise missiles, these systems may be mentioned peripherally but are not discussed in this report.
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The current U.S. defense strategy has as primary elements homeland defense, strategic deterrence, and the capability to conduct simultaneous conventional military operations as well as special operations in the war on terror.
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/ Force Service Army, Corps Army/Navy (to Marine Air Army Navy deep provided is AV Type UGV UAV UAV UAV UUV Continued Navy-owned acronyms U.S. of 1.1 Bugs/ Mine a (mini- Hunter is list vehicle)
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Department of Defense Vision for Transformation Beginning with its issuance of Joint Vision 20101 in 1993, the Department of Defense has presented a vision for a future force -- distributed and networked; rapidly deployable; with the capability to "observe, plan, and execute" on time lines within the adversary's decision cycle; and capable of highly effective operations, denoted as precision engagement, providing full-dimensional protection, dominant maneuver, and focused logistics. In 2000, Joint Vision 20202 extended and refined the vision.
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THE PROMISE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES It is the thesis of this report that autonomous vehicles have the potential to contribute significantly to achieving many of the capabilities cited above from Transformation Planning Guidance, and that AVs thus qualify as providing potentially transformational capabilities. As the autonomy level of AVs increases, the number and complexity of the missions that they can perform will increase -- with the added benefit of their being able to perform missions not previously feasible simply owing to the risk involved or to a lack of available human operators.
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Chapter 5 focuses on unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, and Chapter 6 discusses unmanned ground vehicles. Each of these chapters discusses the potential of AVs for naval operations, the operational needs and technology issues, and the opportunities for improved operations.
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