Last week, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) visited North Kingstown, R.I.-based Senesco, which is teaming with autonomous systems company Havoc to bid on the U.S. Navy's Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel program. On Tuesday, Reed said that autonomy should be a feature of all military platforms, in part to reduce cost. "I think, going forward, we have to build every system with the capacity and capability of being autonomous or virtually autonomous," he told the Defense Writers Group. "If we don't do…
