Political Quotes

“I would like to note that the Senate authorizes $1.0M for efforts designed to enhance the development of key enabling robotics technologies that will support Army, Navy and Air Force transformational programs. These efforts will leverage and coordinate capabilities that exist in the federal government, industry, academia and not-for-profit entities. The Department of the Army has embarked on a new and ambitious program to develop a Future Combat System (FCS). Robotic and unmanned systems are expected to play a role in the platforms that are developed to support this Objective Force initiative. In addition to FCS, the Air Force and the Navy are pursuing the development of unmanned aircraft and, in the case of the Navy, underwater unmanned platforms. These funds are to be used to begin work and continue work on key robotics technologies that are identified by the Department of Defense and military services as essential to achieving transformational or leap ahead capabilities. Currently, there is no single coordinated service-wide robotics initiative that will support military efforts to transform.”