LAS VEGAS--Unmanned systems will face an increasingly hostile operating environment in the years to come and the technology must be developed to counter a range of threats that include jamming and targeting by sophisticated weaponry, Vice Adm. William Burke, the deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, said yesterday. The future awaiting unmanned aerial, surface and undersea vehicles is adversaries seeking to jam signals, cut off communications, and the loss of GPS coordinates, cyber attacks and false signals, Burke…
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