EXCLUSIVE - ‘Blue Angels for geeks’: Inside the Navy’s plan to ‘hack’ its own unmanned strategy

In an exclusive interview, the officer in charge of the Navy's research and development enterprise said he wants the upcoming Hack the Machine event to result in real demonstrations for Navy leadership by next year.

'Blue Angels for geeks': Inside the Navy's plan to 'hack' its own unmanned strategy WASHIGNTON: The Navy next week plans to challenge hundreds of outsiders to a series of tests to see if, and how, they can evade, break, or even take over the service's unmanned systems. If it goes well, the service will walk away with its methods ransacked and a whole lot of homework for the admirals to do about shoring up its unmanned strategy before it's called on to face a real adversary. "There is no admiral in the fleet today who's going to go fight with unmanned systems, even in concert with manned platforms, until it is proven to them that they can be effective," Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, chief of naval research and head of the Office of Naval Research, told Breaking Defense in an exclusive Nov. 9 interview.  "One of the things ONR has done throughout its history is proven to senior leadership that new technologies can be used in militarily relevant ways to create effects and that is part of what we're doing." Read more » Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe