Approaches to Realize the Potential of Autonomous Underwater Systems in Concept Development and Experimentation

Mansfield, Thomas; Sobrino, Pilar Caamaño; Viñas, Arnau Carrera; Maglione, Giovanni Luca; Been, Robert; Tremori, Alberto

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14984-0_46

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“…There are also concerns about whether the introduction of these systems could lower the threshold to start a war due to the illusion that war has no cost in the terms of lives (Johansson 2018). This raises the question of trust in unmanned and autonomous systems, both for commanders and operators, which is a challenge when it comes to implementing such systems in the armed forces and operating the existing ones (Ho et al 2011;Johansson 2018;Mansfield et al 2019;Schaefer et al 2019). To build trust in a technical system, the system needs to be considered as being effective, reliable and safe, especially in a military application where a variety of additional concerns are introduced and the knowledge in connecting technical issues to ethical challenges is weak in general and especially weak in relation to military organisations.…”

Section: Military Masmentioning

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Military organisations and emerging technologies – How do unmanned systems find a role in future navies?

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2022

Journal of Military Studies

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Fewer qualified platforms and reduced personnel within the navy are the reality for many nations, although operational requirements might have remained the same or increased over time. At the same time, research is advancing in unmanned and autonomous systems, which have also found application in military use. Therefore, navies need to develop approaches for effective technological transformation. To fulfil this need, this study aims to identify and describe the relevant research from different disciplines and their respective relation to the design of future navies. The study commences with a literature review related to knowledge support for understanding how emerging technologies, such as maritime autonomous systems (MAS), find their place in a military organisation. The findings suggest that the armed forces should be categorised as a sociotechnical system, built of systems-of-systems that together enable capability, and that it is as a capability enforcer that the overall system should be developed. This highlights the importance of structural and organisational changes in making the best use of the technology, as well as in making the sociotechnical system as efficient as possible. Therefore, the armed forces need to be learning organisations, exercising joint planning, where there is room for knowledge sharing and flexibility within the organisation despite different hierarchical layers.

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