Sailors and civilian mariners launch a Wave Glider Unmanned Surface Vehicle from the fantail of expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) within the Caribbean Sea as an element of the UNITAS U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet Unmanned Integration Campaign. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Conner Foy)
The U.S. Fourth Fleet intends to proceed using unmanned systems in exercises not to only test them out, but work out easy methods to fully operationalize them in motion, in line with the commander.
In April, Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of…