DARPA just awarded contracts to eight different organizations to work on various aspects of the project: Carnegie Mellon University, Honeywell, Leidos, Pratt & Miller, QinetiQ Inc., Raytheon BBN, Southwest Research Institute, and SRI International.
The question that remains is whether these vehicles are going to have humans inside. The possibility of them being unmanned isn’t mentioned in the press release, but one has to imagine that part of the reason they’re less concerned about these things lacking armor might have to do with the fact that they’ll likely be driverless.
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