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In recent months, the Department of Defense has been seeking uniform architecture to control its unmanned aerial vehicle ground control stations. Currently, the UAV stations work on different platforms as a way to save money. Also, the military planners are making a push toward having both the hardware and software architecture operate on the same platform which will reduce costs. Those who currently design the UAV stations purchase commercial, off the shelf products and because of this, consistency in upgrades and repairs has been lacking.
Annually, the unmanned vehicles receive a larger portion of the DOD’s budget because they are less expensive than manned aircraft in both terms of hardware and training and perform virtually all missions that manned aircraft are capable of. The UAV’s, aka flying drones, can locate and destroy the enemy’s bombs and missiles, but one of their more important tasks is to gather and transmit tactical information to ground control stations. The UAV designers that work for the DOD are seeking higher capability from the ground control systems in its high-def infrared images, storage and image processing and video processing. What the designers are seeking is to have the information processed before the images reach the ground.
The overall goal of the DOD is to have the ability to operate more autonomous missions, this would mean the UAV is assigned a mission plan, which is executes while personnel in the ground control station will function as a data collection site. If this occurs, eventually the UAV station will operate much the same as air traffic control, several UAVs will be operating without the need for a central point of control. The ground control stations will be networked and will collect and disseminate the data generated by the multiple UAVs. Interoperability is the driving force behind the need for common architecture and technology standards.