Uncrewed battle groups? DARPA, admirals offer glimpses of the Navy’s robotic future

“I could imagine the battle group eventually becoming completely autonomous,” said Greg Avicola, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, outlining a vision of a Navy strike force built not around an aircraft carrier, but of a “heterogeneous” mix of robotic assets of varying size, role, and capability. “There’s gonna be a lot of experimentation” in design and operation, Avicola said Tuesday at the AWS Summit in Washington,