USA/Defense. Gilday: New task force will help US Navy speed up unmanned system integration (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Seahawk medium displacement unmanned surface vessel sails by Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem 21, April 21, 2021. UxS IBP 21 integrates manned and unmanned capabilities into challenging operational scenarios to generate warfighting advantages. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy)

Despite significant progress on unmanned systems and manned-unmanned integration in the past year, the U.S. Navy needs to move faster and is establishing a new task force to help, according to the chief of naval operations.

Adm. Mike Gilday has already dubbed Project Overmatch — the Navy’s effort to develop a network to tie together unmanned and manned systems — his No. 2 priority for the fleet, just behind building the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.

Gilday: New task force will help US Navy speed up unmanned system integration (defensenews.com)