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Software issues led to crashes, mishaps in drone boat tests
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Pentagon paused an autonomy software contract with L3Harris
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Navy’s key acquisition program rocked after top admiral fired
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - During a U.S. naval test off the California coast last month, which was designed to showcase the Pentagon’s top autonomous drone boats, one vessel stalled unexpectedly.
As officials scrambled to fix a software glitch, another drone vessel smashed into the idling boat’s starboard side, vaulted over the deck, and crashed back into the water – an incident captured in videos obtained by Reuters.
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That’s because prioritizing ideology above all else including skills and experience when hiring people doesn’t work out that well. China does the same shit but worse but they’ve been doing it longer and better. Even Oppenheimer recognized that the only way to get the most highly skilled people possible was to actually treat them with dignity. Either FUCKING CHANGE, or wait for the corporations to turn their private security into an army and do a coup just to increase profits by 0.01% via lower taxes, or wait for China to bankrupt the US in a massive arms race like the US did to the Soviet Union during the cold war.
I just hope a lot of the bad people who support the current state of things and want it to be worse suffer hardships during all this I guess.