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DARPA Exploring Use of Drone Swarms Under AMASS Program

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DARPA Exploring Use of Drone Swarms Under AMASS Program
In late 2021, DARPA conducted a final field test of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, begun in 2017, at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Two Swarm Systems Integrators – Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Raytheon BBN Technologies – were tasked with designing, developing, and deploying an open architecture for swarm operations in physical and virtual environments (DARPA Image)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the future U.S. use of autonomous drone swarms against high-tech adversaries under the agency's Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms (AMASS) program. Responses to a broad agency announcement (BAA) last November are due Feb. 10. "Today, our peer-state adversaries could invade their neighbors with little warning given their time-distance-mass advantage," the BAA said. "Adversary A2/AD [anti-access/area denial] bubbles with sophisticated air defense, indirect fires, precision weapons, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities…

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