
The Army and Navy are on the cusp of fielding unmanned robotic systems in a variety of roles, but for the systems to gain a wide foothold in military operations, the services must establish common hardware and software standards to command and control them.Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, chief of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, said unmanned systems are an ideal example where requirements for open architecture software interfaces will speed integration of future capabilities.“The open-architecture piece, I think is critical,”…