On March 18, 2021, former Congresswoman Elaine Luria of Virginia criticized the Navy’s then-recently-released Unmanned Campaign Framework as “full of buzzwords and platitude but really short on details.” When promised a classified concept of operations, she added, “I think the biggest question I have [is]… it is a fleet to do what?”
Two and a half years later, the American public – soon to spend half a billion dollars on unmanned vessels – could ask the same thing, the Center for International Maritime Security argues.
