New Pentagon blueprint sees bigger role for robot warfare

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/28/new-pentagon-blueprint-sees-bigger-role-for-robot-warfare/

At a NASCAR racetrack in Miami earlier this month, teams from NASA, Google, and 14 other groups of engineering gurus put cutting-edge robots through some challenging paces.

The aim was to see how well the robots could tackle tasks that may sound simple, but are tricky for nonhumans – including, say, climbing a ladder, unscrewing a hose from a spigot, navigating over rubble, and steering a car.

The contest was dreamed up by the Pentagon’s futuristic experimentation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and senior defense officials were watching it carefully – well aware that the Pentagon is growing increasingly reliant on robotics.

The Defense Department will become even more reliant on such devices in the decades to come. That’s the conclusion of a new blueprint quietly released by the Pentagon this week, which offers some telling clues about the future of unmanned systems – in other words, drones and robots.

i can see two sides to this, one; less loss of life, second what about the benefits those who enlist get college ed. training etc. do they become added to the list of already unemployed and not a republican job in sight in fact the republicans now turn on them because they are unemployed and jobless just like they are doing Americans now. increase in everything the right wing is trying to kill including food stamps to vets.

The study, the Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, is meant to provide the Pentagon with a "technological vision" for the next 25 years – a vision that will be "critical to future success" of theUS military, according to its authors.

"Over the past decade, the qualities and types of unmanned systems acquired by the militarydepartments have grown, and their capabilities have become integral to warfighter operations," the study notes. "The size, sophistication, and cost of the unmanned systems portfolio have grown to rival traditional manned systems."

those past robots how many if any jobs did they cost?  evidently this has been the plan for decades, kill the draft which i thought was a rich kid bail out, to volunteer where the numbers go down and their jobs are taken over by computerized robots, you've seen the movies where this is the"uncovered gov't plan" truth stranger than fiction, yep.