Unmanned Systems Technology Overviews for Dummies

Looking for the latest in Unmanned Vehicle technology and don't know where to start?

The best thing to do to get updated is to attend an Unmanned Systems conference:

www.xponential.org

The organizers used to call this conference under the "AUVSI" moniker -- but I guess the marketing folks thought "Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International" was too hard to promote, so now they are calling the conference "Xponential".

AUVSI already happened this year in Georgia last May, so you have lots of time to plan to get to New Orleans next year to hit Xponential the first week of May, 2016.

If you are looking for the best and fastest way to get a crash course on unmanned systems and to immerse yourself in a myriad of vendors and related technology, this is the way to do it.

More overviews for dummies:

*For a quick overview of Aerial Vehicles, check out the blog post below to download a PDF of Armada International's poster.

*Or for those looking to start with U.S. defense systems, the U.S. Navy put together a few concise pages of their latest Aerial, Underwater and Surface drones:

Aerial, Underwater and Surface tabs with brief overviews on each USN drone

Have a favorite resource of your own?  Feel free to ping me and let's add it to the list!

UAV Overview PDF

A useful UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) overview poster from the AUVSI conference (2012 version, but still fairly up to date - compliments of Armada International):

download PDF here

Ethics & Technology, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

For more on the Naval War College: www.USNWC.edu

U.S. Naval War College Provost Dr. Lewis M. Duncan and NWC College of Operational and Strategic Leadership's Dr. Tom E. Creely are teaching a Naval War College graduate course this fall in Ethics & Technology in Newport, Rhode Island.

The list of speakers during the course spans topics covering ethics in cybersecurity (Dr. Chris Demcheck, RADM Grace M. Hopper Chair of Cybersecurity) to drone warfare (Ron Arkin - see "The Ethics of Killer Robots").

Living Under Drones: a case study of drone practices in the context of international human rights and conflict resolution

http://livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stanford-NYU-LIVING-UNDER-DRONES.pdf

An interesting 2012 study from Stanford Law School's IHRCRC and the NYU Global Justice Clinic.  The paper scrutinizes the accuracy of sources documenting drone strike locations and statistics, examines human rights  issues related to drone strikes, and questions the legitimacy of targeted strikes versus traditional just war sovereignty.

(Note:  for international context, The Breaking of Nations (Robert Cooper) is a must read with regard to the risks of continuing to advocate drones as the new military industrial complex paradigm.)




Citation:  International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law, LAW, LIVING  UNDER  DRONES: DEATH, INJURY, AND  TRAUMA TO 
CIVILIANS FROM US DRONE PRACTICES IN PAKISTAN (2012).