Different services of the U.S. military are working on different
solutions providing persistent intelligence surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR) supporting the warfighter with miniature autonomous
vehicles designed for ‘Perch and Stare’ mission profile. One of the
most mature programs, the Shrike
recently unveiled by Aerovironment was developed under Defense Advanced
Research Programs Agency (DARPA) funding to develop a Stealthy
Persistent Perch and Stare (SP2S) capability. But Jim McCormick, a
program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
believes that commercial off-the shelf (COTS) technology harnessed by
the innovation of the ‘crowd’ could yield new capabilities that could
benefit the warfighter even beyond these military funded programs. “we
feel there is more potential there, and the current capability is still
not ready for procurement. We hope that the crowd source will be able to
overcome these barriers.” McCormick said, adding that 93 teams have
already joined, some of them are foreign “Our focus is on innovation,
regardless to where it comes from”. More
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