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Autonomous Drones Key to Marine Corps' Future Logistics

· Source: govciomedia.com

In short

The Marine Corps is developing autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to support logistics, reconnaissance and strike missions in distributed and contested environments. The service is shifting away from centralized bases toward austere expeditionary sites, leveraging a common software architecture and modular open systems to enable heterogeneous control and manned-unmanned teaming. The long-term goal includes fielding flexible strike and reconnaissance capabilities under the MUX program.

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Tags: autonomous, drones, military logistics, UAS, defense

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