The AMASS project involves thousands of drones on the ground, in the air, and under water, working together in “swarms of swarms” to overwhelm enemy defenses.
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February 2, 2023
As part of the new Pentagon project, a fleet of drones in the sky will work autonomously with other drones on land and at sea. Andy Dean Photography/Alamy Stock Photo
A new Department of Defense project envisages automated, coordinated strikes with swarms of many types of drones operating in the air, on the ground and in the water. This idea raises concerns about whether such “flocks of flocks” can be monitored by humans.
Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms (AMASS) is a project of the US defense research agency DARPA. Most of the details are confidential, but…
