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Van Ovost: Future of Autonomy for U.S. Transportation Command ‘Wide Open’

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Van Ovost: Future of Autonomy for U.S. Transportation Command ‘Wide Open’
From left, U.S. Transportation Command Commander Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Defense Logistics Agency Logistics Operations Director Rear Adm. Joseph Noble, USTRANSCOM Strategic Plans, Policy and Logistics Director Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics Leigh Method, pose for a photo on June 5, at Scott AFB, Ill. The command held a commemoration ceremony in honor of being named the global bulk fuel single manager for the Defense Department (U.S. Transportation Command Photo)

U.S. Transportation Command will likely leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enable autonomous logistics in the years ahead, U.S. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, the head of the command, said on June 6. "I think the future for autonomous capabilities in logistics is wide open," she told a Brookings Institution virtual forum. "I think about, in the future, do we need to have a crew in an air refueling airplane or an aircraft that's just carrying cargo? The future is…

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