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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 119 - Fairborn, OH - March 2017
Agenda Location	8 SUBCOMMITTEE C – AVIONICS AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION 8.2 Autonomy DSB Summer Study Results, with focus on flight-critical systems autonomy
Title	Autonomy DSB Summer Study Results, with focus on flight-critical systems autonomy
Presenter	Brent Appleby
Affiliation	Draper
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Abstract	The DSB Summer Study on Autonomy was published on June 2016. This talk summarizes some of the key conclusions from that study with an emphasis on those areas of greater relevance for military air operations. Autonomy delivers significant military value, including opportunities to reduce the number of warfighters in harm’s way, increase the quality and speed of decisions in time-critical operations, and enable new missions that would otherwise be impossible. Autonomy also delivers significant value across a diverse array of global markets. Both enabling technologies and commercial applications are advancing rapidly in response to market opportunities. Autonomy is becoming a ubiquitous enabling capability for products spanning a spectrum from expert advisory systems to autonomous vehicles. Commercial market forces are accelerating progress, providing opportunities for DoD to leverage the investments of others, while also providing substantial capabilities to potential adversaries. This study concluded that DoD must accelerate its exploitation of autonomy—both to realize the potential military value and to remain ahead of adversaries who also will exploit its operational benefits.