
An expert working for the Navy recently outlined why in wartime unmanned systems will need to make lethal decisions without direct human input. Sam Tangredi, a retired Navy captain and professor and Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, said systems like the Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles used for anti-submarine intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance are controlled remotely from the U.S., “but in a coming conflict with a technological near peer, what's…