via Defense News:
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3413039&c=FEA&s=COM
...if we overlap the equally compelling requirements of land or maritime forces, then the battlespace becomes extremely complicated.
I believe that new forms or methods will be needed to sustain secure communications in an increasingly busy and complex frequency spectrum. Increasing levels of autonomy will also be vital, with command-and-control messages limited to data bursts designed to transmit mission- essential updates while leaving routine flight management to on-board systems and algorithms.
For the near term, all automatic combat systems will depend upon operator inputs, with true autonomy a long way off. I think it true to say that U.K. experience and exploitation of unmanned air vehicles has really only just begun.
Led me to the very interesting Lakhvinder group:
http://www.lakhvinder.com/whoweare/indepth.html
Sentinel™: Concept & Architecture for the Fundamental Construct of Ambient Intelligence. 2007.
The Sentinel™ is the fundamental functional element of Ambient Intelligence for Territorial Saturation. A Sentinel is a simple, inexpensive, robust and autonomous device designed to perform a simple, well defined and well understood function over a potentially long service life or over a short terminal service life. A Sentinel is an unobtrusive device whether for reasons of Lo Load (LO LoaD: Low Observable, Low Detectable) or for reasons of aesthetics. Whilst the devices, and their individual functions, are very simple and reflexive— the collective Ambient Intelligence performs very complex and useful tasks in an emergent manner. In the context of a functional architecture, Ambient Intelligence refers to the collective of devices existing and operating in a given finite 3-space and to the resulting emergent behavior arising from said collective. In this context the Intelligence of Ambient Intelligence refers to the functional logic, architecture and emergent behavior of the devices and their collective presence. In addition to the Sentinel, a flavor of Sentinel referred to as an Embedded Sentinel, is embedded into existing and off the shelf systems which integrates and allows said systems to participate in an Ambient Intelligence. Thus, existing weapons, effects, remote & autonomous unmanned vehicles, communications and informatics systems may be integrated into Territorial Saturation.
GAWAIN™: Global Autonomous Warfare & Ambient Intelligence Network™. 2007.
A superset of Territorial Saturation, this architectural and operational concept extends Territorial Saturation to include autonomous combat systems including weapons & effects. This expanded work was performed at the request of the US military & intelligence communities and internal exploration. This work is the exclusive intellectual property of Lakhvinder.
HiLLS™: Hunter | Listner | Logistics | Seeker ™. 2007.
A nodal military architecture and paradigm of organization & operations for future autonomous warfare.
source:
The Doctrine of Autonomous War:
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA392771&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
