Pilots days are numbered

GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Pentagon plans to replace flight crews with ‘full-time’ robots


The Pentagon’s research agency tasked with developing breakthrough technologies for national security has come up with a plan for dealing with shrinking budgets: robotic flight crews.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently working on technology that will be able to replace up to five crew members on military aircraft, in effect making the lone human operator a “mission supervisor,” tech magazine Wired reported.

The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) would offer the military a “tailorable, drop-in, removable kit that would enable the addition of high levels of automation into existing aircraft to enable operation with reduced onboard crew,” DARPA said.
 
Larry Gude

Larry Gude

Strung Out
"In other news, The House Budget Committee has recently released a report detailing how out sourcing the Presidency can significantly impact the budget. In a detailed report, it is outlined how a replacement worker from the slums of India can be had for very reasonable rates, will not require any of the regular staff and expense of the White House nor Air Force One nor the enormous entourage that leads and follows a President around as though a rock or sports star. Further, with wireless technology, meetings and other communications can be carried out via secure connection using an Ipod meaning the new worker won't even have to leave the slum. The summary of the report indicates there can be expected to be no noticeable decline in either volume or quality of the Presidential work product. Savings are estimated to be in the tens of billions. When asked if this sort of outsourcing savings might also apply to the House and Senate, questions were refereed to a call center which, interestingly enough, flows through a staffing resources company in New Delhi."

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