Deputy Director for Acquisition for U.S. Special Operations Command talks about the type of tech SOCOM wants to prioritize right now.
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What piece of technology does SOCOM mean the most right now
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The ability to quickly integrate autonomous behaviors on multiple different platforms and multiple different domains
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without it having to be specifically built for that platform is something that I'd like to see move faster than they are right now
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We've been talking for years about what we used to call, or what some call, collaborative autonomy, being able to do collaborative, special reconnaissance
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But it requires you know a good mix of different systems to be able to operate and talk to each other share data share information so they can both benefit from that shared understanding of the environment and then act on that information that they receiving from the environment And keeping that capability individualized to the specific platforms themselves is not helpful with that And so I think you see different
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companies that can do this for you as long as you're using their algorithms and their
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autonomy stack. You've got some organizations including SOCOM, you know, building our own
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strategy and how we do that but I think it's we're still moving very slowly in
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that area to be able to just pick up something like automated target
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recognition and drop it into whether I'm on a group one or a medium-sized
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unmanned service vessel so they can both use that same algorithm and talk to
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each other and share that information so you can talk to Fixling and they're
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going to tell you something completely different you talk to Maritime they may places completely different but from my lens of seeing that in the entire portfolio, where
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I need the fixed-wing folks talking to the maritime folks talking to the trucks and the
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horses and everything else. So that's kind of where I see it. Fits up questions
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