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DoD Budget Request To Boost Man-Machine Teaming

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

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DoD Budget Request To Boost Man-Machine Teaming

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USAF Gen. Paul Selva (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

The Department of Defense’s upcoming fiscal year 2019 budget request will include “modest” investments to improve man-machine teaming, such as the interaction between a fighter jet and its pilot, a senior military official said Jan. 30.“We haven’t cracked the nut on man-machine teaming yet,” said Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I don’t believe anybody has. The closest we’ve gotten is the extremely high level of information we push to aviators in cockpits.” But…

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