Future Force: Impact of Autonomous Systems on the Defense Sector

In two conflict-ridden decades, unmanned combat and reconnaissance systems have gone from being exotic capabilities fielded by a handful of armed forces to ubiquitous staples of military conflicts across the globe by state and non-state actors alike.

We lie on the cusp of a new revolution in unmanned warfare as advances in sensors and artificial intelligence are poised to allow a growing range of uncrewed systems to perform their missions with much more limited direction from their human operators. The fruits of this welling sea change will affect small drones costing just hundreds or thousands of dollars, and aircraft, vessels and armored vehicles costing millions.

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