Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said recently that funding for unmanned systems will be unchanged and in some cases increased, even as the Pentagon braces for some of its sharpest reductions in spending since the end of the Cold War. Protecting unmanned systems is critical for building a military for the next century and moving beyond the force structure of the 1990s and of the last decade, which was largely determined by fighting two ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Panetta…
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