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Officials Lay Out Navy Unmanned Campaign Plan

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

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Officials Lay Out Navy Unmanned Campaign Plan

Boeing and the U.S. Navy conduct the first test flight of the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueler test asset, T-1 on Sept. 19, 2019. (Photo: Boeing)

A Navy official on Tuesday explained the service’s unmanned campaign plan to build a centralized management and leadership of technologies supporting all unmanned platforms. The plan, directed by the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday, essentially is about bringing together unmanned Navy aviation, surface, and undersea programs, “looking at them critically and understanding where we were as a Navy,” Vice Adm. James Kilby, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities, N9 said during the virtual AUVSI…

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