Army eyeing first Human Machine Integrated Formations in 2027, common controller for robotics

Published on April 18, 2025

WASHINGTON — As the US Army explores how soldiers will use a slew of new ground and aerial drones in combat, it is moving out with a multi-phased plan that aims to field new Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) in 2027, according to service officials. 

“That’s an armor configuration and that’s an infantry configuration,” Lt. Col. Jonathan Judy, the military deputy charged with HMIF, told an audience in Huntsville, Ala. late last month. “HMIF platoons will incorporate both ground and air platforms, payloads and enablers, in addition to the control vehicle that soldiers will operate out of.

“HMIF will bring robotic systems into formations with the goal of having machines, not soldiers, make first contact with the enemy,” he added.

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