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Navy/USMC

Navy Strives For Interoperability In Unmanned Systems

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, August 10th, 2012

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LAS VEGAS--The Navy is working to develop standards for creating common interfaces to make unmanned systems interoperable to share video and command and control data over a wide array of networks and systems, according to the program executive office for unmanned aviation and weapons PEO (U&W). Capt. Donald Zwick, who heads the common standards and interoperability initiative at PEO (U&W), said unmanned aerial vehicles (UASs) are overly stovepiped and the Pentagon is still trying to adequately identify standards for interoperability.…

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