Dept of Defense task force to consider "unprecedented, perhaps unimagined, degrees of autonomy" in military systems

In this March 29, 2010, memorandum, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Ashton Carter charges a task force with identifying "new opportunities for more aggressive applications of autonomy to U.S. military materiel" and suggests that pervasive autonomy in battlefield systems might hedge against the "net-centricity" of the increasingly networked systems currently being deployed.