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Recent NATO reports highlight the rapid progress being made in the development of autonomous underwater systems. In contrast, national reports indicate that their benefits are not being fully realized in a timely manner in operational scenarios. One approach to improve NATO’s adoption of these systems is to provide guidance in the NATO concept development and experimentation process specially aimed at articulating autonomous system behaviors and allowing efficient experimentation with their capabilities. This position paper reviews the latest techniques and approaches for articulating and testing autonomous system capabilities in industry, academia and within NATOs national militaries. Discussed techniques focus on encouraging and developing understanding and trust in the commander and operator stakeholder communities as well improving the efficiency of autonomous system testing. Potential future guidance and the structure of these activities within the existing NATO CD&E framework are presented for further discussion.
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Mansfield, T., Caamaño Sobrino, P., Carrera Viñas, A., Maglione, G.L., Been, R., Tremori, A. (2019). Approaches to Realize the Potential of Autonomous Underwater Systems in Concept Development and Experimentation. In: Mazal, J. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11472. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14984-0_46
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